Search Engine Marketing

Marketing, like most industries, has a lot of jargon. For a bunch of storytellers, we also love an abbreviation. They are effective for condensing your message. Until they aren’t. One set you might find used interchangeably is SEM and PPC. They actually don’t mean the same thing, so we thought for today’s post we would make the distinction and give you an idea of when to use each one.

Business growth is important for both small and large organizations, and growth only happens when a company puts its brand in front of the right audience. That is why businesses invest heavily in marketing strategies that speak the language of the target customer; that appeal to the beliefs and interests of the ideal client. These days, marketers are going a step further to include direct marketing campaigns to their marketing strategies.

In the flood of extra Internet traffic that occurred this year, how many businesses became pushed out and ignored? Like many of this year’s issues, the browsing habits of 2020 aren't a new phenomenon, but rather a trend that’s been building for years. The trend in question: businesses that optimize for local search traffic.