According to Internet Guru Owen Walcher, Internet Marketing is a lot more than simple Search Engine Optimization, common referred to as SEO.

What is SEO, really? For most, it means coming up first in Search Engines. That is all fine, and having a first page listing on google is worth a lot. But how much more is it worth if you dominate the entire first page of Google results? And can that be lumped into SEO, or is there more to Internet Marketing?

More and more traffic comes to websites vis Social Networks, so you need to have a social network marketing strategy. The biggest advantage to this form of online marketing is that is it viral in nature and based on personal recommendations, so the good word about your business moves fast.  How far it moves depends on the footprint of your network (such as size of your email marketing list), and how fast it moves depends on how excited folks are about your product.

At the end of the day, the best long term approach to creating a sustainable web site is to build quality back links, which is definitely an SEO practice, referred to as off-site optimization. If you are looking to build your brand, business, or online presence, then the SEO and Internet Marketing Services offered by Ask A Friend Publishing will do the trick, at a fraction of the price the big boys want to charge you. No spamming here!

Make sure you follow the right steps in building your online business.  Step one is to have a solid performing, search engine optimized web site.  It always surprises me how many websites are just not tuned to perform well in the search engines. Shame on your web masters, who are telling you everything is OK because your analytics tells you that your traffic is growing – no doubt! but is it growing as fast as the Internet, or your competition? Do you own the entire first page of google results for your primary keywords? What about your competitors keywords?

It is time to step out of the box, and talk to someone who wants to help you grow your business, because we are serial entrepreneurs ourselves, having built and sold many businesses – it is what we do for fun! and profit, of course.

Contact Internet Marketing Expert Owen Walcher about SEO and Online Marketing Services today.

When talking with businesses about their websites, I often hear folks brag about their great placement on Yahoo or Bing, but rarely does anyone brag about being on the first page or first listing of Google.

When I ask them why they are not on Google, they generally look down and say [insert your favorite excuse here] and ask if there is anything I can do about that. If you look a the little picture here, you see that Google now commands almost 70% of the search engine market.  Even if you were all ten listings on the first page of Yahoo and Bing, it might only bring your advertisement to maybe 15% of those looking for your services.

At Ask a Friend Publishing Company, we help local businesses by getting them onto the first page of Google, and get top listings on Google for their local keywords.  If you have a business in [location] and want your website to come up for a given [keyword] as a local listing, then we can help you get there when someone searches for [location keyword] or [keyword location]

For Google, when someone has their location set (if you have a Gmail account and are logged in, you have a location set), it will also show local results. Google Matters Folks, because it is where 70% of those looking for something search.