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Business owners are often under the impression that the customers they need will magically find and flock to their website without having to do any form of digital marketing. If only it were that easy! Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of several forms of digital marketing that businesses can use to drive targeted traffic to their websites. SEO includes various tactics designed to bring 'organic' or 'natural' traffic to a website, versus SEM, where you pay a fee each time someone clicks one of your ads. But how do you attract the attention of the web surfers who are looking for the types of goods and services you sell? The goal is to move your website up the search engine rankings for major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. When your business appears on the first page of the search results for carefully selected keyword terms, you're in...

In today's world, where people of all ages, worldwide, are online, a website is one of the best ways to advertise your business. As many people soon discover, however, the challenge is getting prospective customers to your site. One of the online marketing tactics businesses use to drive traffic to their websites is Pay-Per-Click or PPC Advertising. PPC Advertising at a Glance With PPC, you pay a fee each time a person clicks one of your ads that are positioned in places like search engine results pages, Facebook and many other channels. Google AdWords is the most popular platform for PPC, most likely because the ads are positioned in the Google search results, where people figure the largest number of prospective customers will see them. When a PPC campaign is executed well, the fee you pay for a click is small compared to the upside of delivering a paying customer...

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, falls under the Search Marketing umbrella along with SEO. To put it simply, SEM is a way to buy traffic. You pay for ads that appear in the search engine's results, which puts your business in front of people who are searching for information, products and/or services that are in line with your ads' targeted terms. Sounds pretty great, doesn't it? Well, SEM can be awesome, if you know what you're doing. If you don't, it can be a pretty costly way to drive a whole lot of tire kickers - not paying customers - to your website. When it comes to digital marketing, whether you're doing SEM, SEO, email newsletters or any other type, the key to achieving the results you want and need is to either be an expert in the online marketing field, or to hire someone who is. But, first, here's...

Ah, yes, the age old question of how long it's going to take before you're the proud owner of an awesome Saltmedia website! Well, the amount of time it takes to create a website design that's perfectly tailored to a company and fully executed on the web depends on a few key factors, such as the complexity of the site and the customer. Laying the Foundation Like Rome, Saltmedia websites aren't built in a day, but lucky for you, they typically take about 45 to 90 days, on average. Whenever we build a site, our web developers start with an in-depth discovery meeting - we want to know everything there is to know about what it is that you do, what your goals are for the future and the challenges you face. Creating a Custom Website From here, we create a strategy for a website that will not only look...

Choosing who it is that will design and build your website is a pretty big decision. Pick the wrong website designers and you could wind up with a costly and largely ineffective web presence, but select the right team and your business will be armed with the most important marketing tool, today. In 2016, these are the questions you should be asking any company that you're thinking about hiring for web design services. Will my website be built in Canada, by your team, or will it be outsourced overseas? Believe it or not, many 'Canadian' web design companies outsource their work, making it much more difficult to follow up if you have issues or need to make changes to your site in the future. Do you have an actual web developer on staff? Sometimes, companies that sell web design services really only employ graphic designers or a couple of basement...