One of weakest areas of modern tactical marketing is integration of online activity. The finest website and most carefully planned search engine marketing campaign are both significantly hobbled if they aren't tightly interwoven.

Search engine marketing has work to do

Search engine marketing communicates a message and drives action. If a search engine result can pull someone to your website, opportunity to communicate in a targeted fashion is enormous. But that means that your listing in search results and your website have to work together. That link must lure them in and website must present information visitors came for. Now, some people are going to tell you that search engine marketing is a branding vehicle, and that you can't judge its success by its pull. We think that's pure nonsense.

Of all search engine listings we've reviewed very few of them take visitors to a page on their website that contains explicit calls to action (visit, call, learn, contact, etc.) Once a call to action appears, your listings effectiveness must be based on whether that action is taken. From that point on, branding argument becomes branding excuse for search engine marketing that fails.

What should happen is that these visitors should be sent to a unique page on your site, where they are presented with graphical and verbal information that relates directly to message they responded to. It should talk about same specific topic relating to keyword they searched on. And it should itself contain further calls to action (which may be nothing more than links to other equally focused content on your website).

The Web is not a dumping ground

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Compared to older more established sites out there, a brand new site without a network of well established web sites to back it up will need to depend on good quality links pointing to it. This will commence search engine ranking strategy.

See most "grand father" sites out there have already gone through trials and tribulations of getting recognized. Since this is true, they don't always have to depend on "Title" of link pointing to their site, nor do they have to depend on "Title" tag within their site.

Most older sites get ranked for search terms that don't even show up on their listing, this is because search engines already know content is there and is good.

For a newer web site, great search engine rankings rely on those "Titles". This helps search engines to better determine content of site.