Erin Sparks Edge of the Web Radio
Riding the Wave of Intention Marketing to Grow Business
Ardor SEO’s Kris Reid spoke to Erin Sparks and Tom Brodbeck of the Edge of the Web Radio podcast about SEO driving revenue, Intention Marketing, and other interesting topics.
With both parties familiar with digital marketing and SEO, episode 189 was an exchange of expertise and business ideas that entrepreneurs in the real and virtual marketplace will find invaluable.
What will you learn from this podcast?
♦ Strategies for owning and operating an agency overseas
♦ Challenges and perks of offshore businesses
♦ SEO as a revenue driver
♦ Intention marketing as the way to create a consumer path to sales
♦ SEO in the intention realm
So put on your earphones and push that play button to get a good listen to these vital topics.
What is Edge of the Web Radio?
This is a weekly digital marketing podcast hosted by Site Strategics’ Erin Sparks and Tom Brodbeck.
The show covers a wide range of Internet Marketing topics, including SEO, SEM, Conversion Rate Optimisation, and so much more.
Site Strategics is an internet marketing and website development firm based in Indianapolis. It specialises in SEO using a range of customised strategies, including SEO, content marketing, pay-per-click (PPC), and graphic design.
You can listen to their podcasts on Google Play, iTunes, iHeart Radio, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and TuneIn. They also provide a regular feed on YouTube.
Who is Kris Reid?
Founder of Ardor SEO and Ardor Media Factory, Kris Reid is known as the Coolest Guy in SEO. After graduating from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane as a software engineer, he worked in finance until the global financial crisis hit and he lost his job.
He stumbled upon SEO and discovered the crucial role of backlinks in search.
He developed a system to build and track backlinks and started selling them to SEO companies. This gave birth to a media factory that pumps out good quality content and builds links to help rank a site.
Kris started Ardor SEO a little over 6 years ago with offices in the Philippines and Phnom Penh.
What excites him about the SEO industry is that it’s never ending. Unfortunately, the barrier of entry is so low that just about anyone can call themselves SEOs and tarnish the rest of the legitimate ones.
Book a call with Kris to know more.
Ready to dive into the deep end?
Starting an agency overseas has its perks…
Low cost of living that allows for competitive pricing. With an office in the Philippines, Kris can confidently say, “No western company can beat us on price.”
Moreover, the Philippines is one of the non-English speaking countries with the best level of English.
But it has its downsides too…
Different time zones throw a challenge in time management and communication can be a problem. Kris admits that communicating mostly through email makes him forget he’s dealing with people.
But there are strategies that can turn things around and on track.
On SEO and Intention Marketing
Keywords still matter…
But it’s not the end all and be all. In fact, Erin considers them “not the factor of success. It is literally the stepping stone to the success, which is the transaction with a consumer.”
Kris backs this up by saying that focusing too much on keywords will make you lose sight of what’s really driving revenue through SEO—delivering the solution that clients are looking for.
The complete SEO process starts with a keyword search and ends with what you can offer through that keyword. When a visitor reaches your sight what can they expect from it? What do you want them to do to satisfy their search?
Intention marketing is the new playing field…
The SEO as an industry is evolving and it’s beginning to realise that the rankings and the traffic are not the important things. What matters is giving people what they want.
This can be done by creating a consumer pathway that will lead them to their goal through content.
Live chat is your friend in the intention realm…
It personalised customer interaction. The simple knowledge that they are talking to an actual person or that there is someone behind the website humanises it. It also clears the popular belief that a website is nothing more than a brochure.
The problem with some website owners…
Is that they diagnose themselves, and this is something that impedes digital marketers and SEO specialists from doing their job. There are cases when they don’t divulge all of the details and the history of their experience with digital marketing and makes success in search elusive.
…but there are Quick Wins that Ardor SEO offers
It all starts with a comprehensive audit to identify the biggest issues that can easily give a good boost when fixed. No fancy tools needed either.
If you want to learn more, listen to the entire podcast on Edge of the Web Radio. You can also access it through iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher.
You can also watch the video of the full interview on YouTube.
