SEO/SEM/SMM Guru Joins xod Media

Allan Pollett, an author and award winner has joined xod Media to head our Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Social Media Marketing (SMM) division. Allan has already proved his worth by ranking lost web search onto first page rankings in one week.

June 10, 2010

HST savings passed onto xod clients

xod Media is passing the HST savings onto it's customers. All monthly subscribers of xod Media hosting won't see an increase in their hosting plans. Our prices will be reduced by 8% off the current rate as HST will be blended into the final price.

April 12, 2010

Jeffrey Cheung Joins xod Media

xod Media is excited to announce Jeffrey Cheung of Fresh Creative has joined xod Media as lead Creative Director. Jeff brings a world of experience from web design, multimedia, print and overall art direction. Welcome Jeff.

January 20, 2010

Internet Usage Stats

As of September 2009, there are 252,908,000 internet users in North America. It is estimated 12.5% of those have some form of disability. Thanks to http://www.internetworldstats.com/

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Choosing Keywords in your Marketing Campaign

Search engines are great tools and can drive a lot of traffic to your website, but you have to use them actively. In order for potential visitors to find your website, it must show up when they do a search. "Signs" (keywords) point a roadmap to your website. It is very important the keywords you choose must be suitable. The actual content on your website should contain the words that people would be typing in to a search engine. The relevance of the page is based on how similar the wording is to the words that people are searching for.

Find out which words people are searching for and be very specific in the use of those words. Your site is more relevant when people perform a search if your keywords are more specific. The whole marketing strategy should be based upon the keywords used. Choose them incorrectly and your target audience may never find you.

Finding the keywords about your product that people are searching for can be tricky. Take care with the words that you use because, unlike you, they don't know as much about the product so they may use different words when typing in to find you. Online tools can help to find keywords relevant to your niche. Good keyword services available from companies like xod Media; http://www.xodmedia.com. The results of these tools are well-founded as they are based on actual searches being done by the people looking for your product or service.

Your keywords list must be evaluated as to its potential effectiveness. Do a quick search for the keyword and evaluate its popularity by seeing how many results appear. The aforesaid services will also aid you at this. You want to become relevant for more popular search terms that are more likely to be entered into the search engines. Principally, it is significant that you put yourself in the place of the consumer and set up your website so that someone who doesn't know anything about you will be able to find you.

xod Media is a business marketing company operating out of Markham, Ontario, serving the Toronto, Markham, Richmond Hill and York region markets. They specialize is search engine optimization, creating logos, web sites, print media and creating identities which catch people's eye. Visit them at http://www.xodmedia.com.