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In order to truly optimize online marketing efforts, startup businesses and existing small businesses need to have an integrated marketing approach. Isolated marketing campaigns that have a busy owner at the helm can never be as effective as a fully outsourced search engine marketing campaign that considers and weighs both the needs of small business and their target markets.

A fully integrated small business search market strategy should first develop a complete understanding of the small business’ products, services and markets. This is a process which starts when the small business consulting firm takes the time to gather background information on your business and continues throughout the relationship as the small business consultant asks further questions and learns more about your small business needs. This dialog should exist even if your small business opts to by a la carte services instead of a fully integrated program. The business consultant should help a small business select a la carte services that deliver the most benefit at that time.

The initial consultative step should discuss all the marketing and technical improvements needed to poise the business to receive traffic and conversion of online visitors. During this stage, a baseline assessment will be made to provide a means for comparison and measuring the success of any marketing strategies launched.

The next step is to develop a managed marketing strategy. It should be designed to meet the target cost of customer acquisition and deliver for small business owners a solid return on investment for their marketing dollars. These strategies should be developed collaboratively and use the collective experience of a team of web development experts, paid and organic search marketing experts, professional content writers, and social media strategists. Everything that is developed should be measurable so that it can be tweaked and improved.

Target market research will help small businesses to understand their audiences’ demographics, characteristics and behaviors. What keyword search terms do they use? What websites do they visit? What are they buying? And so on…

When your small business consultant is able to be on top of the latest trends in your market, you will be able to respond accordingly (instead of reacting when it is too late) and be ahead of your competition. Accordingly, a top business consultant will prepare regular reports and measurements about the success of all marketing strategies to keep you informed. Being on top of the latest and best information will help small businesses get the best ROI and forge the way for online marketing success.

So, if you are a small business owner who is feeling overwhelmed with how much there is to do to create a truly effective search engine marketing strategy, you are not alone. Most small business owners are in the same sinking “do-it-yourself” marketing boat. Why do they seem to gravitate toward doing it themselves instead of taking the outsource SEO and other SEM strategies road?

It is very simple. These small businesses incorrectly think that expert small business marketing strategies and implementation is more than they can afford. They will be delighted to realize that the cost of many strategies is much lower than the cost of the traditional yellow page ads or space ads in newspapers. They also fail to consider the cost in terms of lost customers and opportunities due to stale and failed existing marketing strategies. So what stops them from making the switch?

People tend to continue using and doing what they know. The bottom line then is that any small business owner who steps out of “marketing as usual” will be able to take advantage of the huge opportunity that still exists to develop a strong online presence. Will that be you?

Over the last few weeks a lot of website owners may have been wondering about the sudden drop in their website’s rankings on Google. What is going on? There has been no official word from Google. According to an article in SiteProNews, it is not unusual for Google to fool around and make some major adjustments to its algorithm during this time of the year. These changes have come just a few short weeks after Google’s Matt Cutts discussed that Google has made changes to how it treats link juice when there are nofollow links.

Online small business owners can just wait and see but they should also be mapping out other strategies that can build up their sites. There should never be a dependence on one way and one source of getting traffic; even for those who come up on SERP 1. Why? Because diversity is always the best way to protect your interests (the old eggs in one basket phenomenon).

Small businesses should have a nice pay per click campaign under management, Ezine advertising, email marketing, article marketing and social media strategies going on. SEO strategies that target other search engines are important too. Now is a good time to consider ways you can round out your small businesses marketing strategies.