SEO Crucial to Successful Interactive Communications Strategy
The emergence of “Google” as the search engine behemoth and the increased utilization of the Web by an ever-increasing percentage of the consuming public has put increased pressure on Web marketers to improve their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies and executions. The most creative and innovative Web sites, many costing tens of thousands of dollars, are of secondary importance if the objective of the Web strategy is to create awareness and generate “hits.” The Web “crawlers” or “spiders” are very powerful but very stupid when it comes to reading Web sites. They are looking for WORDS and not pictures. The most creative FLASH design means nothing to those spider/crawlers because all they are looking for is the words for which the search is focused. Crawler-based search engines, like Google, “crawl” or “spider” their way through the Web looking for the key word or words the Internet user has entered into the search engine. What is produced is a universe of Web sites usually nu