Posted by randfish The search engine optimization process can sometimes be mistaken for a singular, sprint-to-the-finish project, when in fact, it’s more like a marathon. Searchers rarely ever convert on the first click and thus, SEO campaigns that merely target a few popular keywords and call the task finished may be fooling themselves. I made this handy chart to help illustrate the issue: In my example, the hotel could miss out on dramatic opportunities for optimizing the path of discovery, investigation, brand research and conversion rate optimization by simply targeting “dubrovnik hotels” and ignoring the rest of the process. A comprehensive Internet marketer is going to approach this problem the same way a user approaches the process – by delivering value in every step of the chain.

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