With the increase in different forms of chat media will search engine marketing and optimisation of internet sites become out of date?
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Recent changes in the way we communicate through the Internet have been less about habitual broadcast media and more about interactive, two way contact. As this type of communication grows it will undoubtedly affect the way search engines run and by default the process of Online Marketing.
Historic media “broadcasts” a message to the planned audience, whether it is in the form of a tabloid or an commercial (physical or digital) which exposes the reader, listener or watcher to a message. The communication is one way and the intended audience is advised of something, in fact “talked at”.
Accepted methods of Online Marketing carried out by the marketing fraternity and more recently the relatively new idea of Search Engine Optimisation companies (SEO Company) are targeted at the way that Google (predominantly) accesses web pages. This is a kind of broadcast media not too dissimilar to a newspaper albeit with digital trickery to make the experience more fascinating.
Is this all about to alter? Are the accepted Search Engine Placement services about to become less helpful? Assuming the internet continues to grow along the same lines as it has for the last ten years, we can expect to see the use of the web becoming more embedded in our day to day real time lives. It will develop into more of a delivery platform as opposed to an information resource, a concierge as opposed to a librarian. If we are using the net in real time that bond will become two way and transactional, broadcast methods will offer a one-dimentional experience and become a thing of the past.
Once a buyer can engage with the seller of the product or service through two way communication simply reading a website will be less than satisfying. At this point customary Search Engine Placement services become obsolete and Online Marketing becomes about making connections not appreciating content.
The astute Search Engine Optimization Company will be looking at how that conversation can take place in an atmosphere that is so swarming with information. Ideally, a buyer is exposed to a seller (or a number of sellers) in an situation where he can actively interrogate and compare their offering, ask for detail and maybe even tailor the product or service to his requirement before he makes the conclusion to buy.
Instead of offering website optimisation for a static broadcast, online marketing may be about promoting relations and may take place on Twitter, chatrooms, forums even within games where product placement is already starting to happen.