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April 20, 2012

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Search Engine Optimization is quickly becoming a key component of all marketing budgets. However, many SEO strategies are poorly executed due to businesses being unaware of the intricacies involved in creating successful campaigns. Marketing professionals need to understand the key components of building a proper strategy before investing in online marketing.

Know Your Target Market

Before doing any type of marketing, it’s essential to develop a profile of your target audience: this will be applied to understand the searching behaviours of your potential clientele. This is an essential step in avoiding the optimization of keywords that will not bring targeted traffic to your website. For example, simply optimizing for the term ‘contractor’ for a commercial contractor in Montreal is problematic because that keyword is simply too ambiguous and far too competitive to ever see results.

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