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Often there is confusion between Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization.

The idea behind Online Marketing is to drive targeted traffic to your website, people that are looking specifically for your products or services. There are many options available . . . not all of which are appropriate for every advertiser.

Different types of online marketing include: (By all means this is not a complete list.)

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of making your website more noticeable to search engines with the end purpose of achieving higher rankings within the search engine database.

In short it is the practice of making changes to different portions of a website allowing search engines to better index the content. They want to deliver relevant results to their users and you want to be the relevant results they deliver! 

Everyone knows the names of the big hitters like Google and Yahoo, but there are hundreds of search engines out there, with more being added all the time. Being visible and easy for them to index is vital to your success online!

There is no set formula on how search engines gather information and determine the appropriate rating for websites in their databases. They all have their own proprietary systems. To complicate things further, they change how they gather this information from time to time. This has a tendency to make Search Engine Optimization a very difficult and labor intensive task to accomplish.

Search Engine Optimization is a complicated process that requires staying on top of changes within the industry.

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