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Due to increasing digitalization, companies are increasingly shifting their marketing activities to the Internet. Customers and prospects are looking for information, products, and services. Search engines bring all market participants together. They are the hub of the web, as they make the searcher's job much easier. Major search providers such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo provide a comprehensive market overview for the topic being searched. No one has to leave their home to find the information they need. Most people search the Internet first when they have a specific need. This makes the web a so-called pull medium. Users search for our product or service. They obtain detailed information and then make their decision. Users only notice providers that appear in the search results of Google and other search engines.<\/p>\n

Why is search engine marketing the most important online marketing channel?<\/h1>\n

Online marketing enables a different approach compared to traditional marketing measures. In so-called push marketing, advertisers distribute their messages unsolicited. A prime example is TV advertising. Since this type of advertising also reaches people who are not part of the target audience, it leads to wastage. On the internet, however, users actively search for topics of interest and often already have purchase intent. Accordingly, advertising in search engines serves as a valuable signal that users are happy to receive. As a result, advertising is not intrusive. This helps minimize wastage. We need to be present where users are searching for our product or service. That\u2019s why every company wants to appear as high as possible in the search results\u2014ideally in first place. Unfortunately, competition is fierce in many industries, and space in the results is limited. It is therefore essential to do everything possible to rank as high as possible. There are two approaches to this: search engine optimization<\/a> and search engine advertising<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two sides of the same coin<\/h2>\n

Both approaches aim to make a homepage or online shop more visible on the internet. With search engine optimization, we optimize our website so that it is easy to read and index. The website is aligned with search engine guidelines and user experience. The main focus here is on user expectations. Google and other search engines want to deliver exactly what the user is looking for. Strictly speaking, it is optimization for the search engine. It consists of a series of measures both within and outside the website. The search engine lists the results according to their relevance to the search queries entered. The search robots comb through the index and evaluate the websites according to many different criteria. Google takes up to 200 aspects into account.<\/p>\n

SEO consists of the following three areas of optimization:<\/p>\n