Comments on: The Snowball Effect (Plus: 3 Other Reasons To Focus on Organic Search Marketing) http://www.hotelmarketingstrategies.com/the-snowball-effect/ Internet Marketing Ideas for Your Hotel Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Katie Clapp http://www.hotelmarketingstrategies.com/the-snowball-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2671 Katie Clapp Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:20:17 +0000 http://www.hotelmarketingstrategies.com/?p=171#comment-2671 Very true, Mike; it is hard to stay in a top-spot. I also agree that it takes a lot of time and effort, which certainly have value, but I don't think it necessarily takes a lot of money. If your website knows its audience and creates better content, more consistently, and with more reader/blogger interaction than the other sites trying to reach your audience, you naturally increase the odds of getting linked to. Getting to and staying at the top takes a lot of patience, commitment, experimentation and adaptation, but it's worth it, if you're passionate enough about your business/site to see it through. And if you're not passionate enough about what you're doing to put in the necessary work, maybe you could tweak your business and target-audience until you are? Good luck, Mike! Katie Very true, Mike; it is hard to stay in a top-spot.

I also agree that it takes a lot of time and effort, which certainly have value, but I don’t think it necessarily takes a lot of money.

If your website knows its audience and creates better content, more consistently, and with more reader/blogger interaction than the other sites trying to reach your audience, you naturally increase the odds of getting linked to.

Getting to and staying at the top takes a lot of patience, commitment, experimentation and adaptation, but it’s worth it, if you’re passionate enough about your business/site to see it through.

And if you’re not passionate enough about what you’re doing to put in the necessary work, maybe you could tweak your business and target-audience until you are?

Good luck, Mike!

Katie

]]> By: Mike http://www.hotelmarketingstrategies.com/the-snowball-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2667 Mike Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:21:49 +0000 http://www.hotelmarketingstrategies.com/?p=171#comment-2667 Well, it is quite darn hard to get your site listed in top 10 or even top 30. Ok maybe you get it listed but then keeping it there. You need all these incoming links from other sites to keep your site up and for that you need to spend a lot of time and money and effort to accomplish. Also finding sites where you could link to your site is pretty darn hard also. So yea, it is easy to hire someone doing optimization but the results are so so now that EVERYONE is doing the same thing. Well, it is quite darn hard to get your site listed in top 10 or even top 30. Ok maybe you get it listed but then keeping it there. You need all these incoming links from other sites to keep your site up and for that you need to spend a lot of time and money and effort to accomplish. Also finding sites where you could link to your site is pretty darn hard also. So yea, it is easy to hire someone doing optimization but the results are so so now that EVERYONE is doing the same thing.

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