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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Ways In Which You Can Persuade The Top Management Of Your Company To Invest More In SEO

By Adie Smith


There are several ways in which you, as a company webmaster, can persuade the top management of your company to invest more in SEO (Search Engine optimization). It is highly possible that members of your company's top brass view SEO as something that should be contained within the IT budget only. Yet search engine optimization is, more often than not, an activity whose impact is felt beyond the IT department. It is more encompassing, impacting the organization's overall image and visibility. Should top management insist that SEO be financed within the IT budget only, that shouldn't be a problem. However, there is a need for the IT budget to be increased accordingly.

In order to convince the company's top management to give search engine optimization a chance, you should first introduce them fully to the concept. Don't assume that they know: people who have no interests in Internet marketing don't usually have knowledge of how these things work. When you're explaining to them, remember that they are not really as well-versed as you are when it comes to industry jargon. Use layman's terms instead. Using jargon would actually confuse top management even more because they don't really speak the same language as you do. Once they understand what search engine optimization is, you can proceed to make attempts to make them invest more in it. Let us look into the different ways that we can actually accomplish that.

The first step you should take towards the road to persuasion would be to demonstrate to them how your organization's credibility could be vastly improved by SEO. Those who are doing online searches for various information and products online would naturally go for the top names returned by the search engine because they think it's the best. This is the case even for more sophisticated people who know better about how these things work. It looks like something working in their subconscious. More investment means search engine optimization, which would then improve the company credibility greatly. That could even translate to heightened credibility of the company.

The second point would be to demonstrate to the top management how much your company will be able to save more if it does invest more on SEO. In the long run, expenditures would be lesser if the company invests more on SEO beforehand. Make your top management see this. Instead of continuing to spend on pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimization would already have successfully kept your company's website at the top of the search results.

Demonstrating to top management how enhanced SEO would be very helpful in increasing the company's sales and bottomline would also be very persuasive and make them agree to increase the company's investment on SEO. Better operational results as shown by facts and figures would prove to be far more convincing, and the top management will have an easier time agreeing to invest more on search engine optimization for the company.




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