What can a search marketing professional in Madagascar do for you?

Running a balanced search marketing campaign can potentially be a lot of fun. It can also be very frustrating.

In this post I will try to give you inspiration with new and fresh approaches to have fun while working on it.

Managing a good search marketing campaign is not always easy when you need to come up with ideas to market your company. A well managed search marketing campaign captures the target market’s attention. You need to keep the audiences fascinated by the story, and they will continue to read if done right.

Is there any difference when using a search marketing professional in Madagascar compared to working with this inhouse?

Should you hire specialists from a search marketing professional in Madagascar or can one just as well use someone at the house to take care of search marketing in the firm?The questions you need to ask yourself needs to be addressed in a thoughtful way. Here, I will try to discuss some of the things you should be aware of before deciding whether a search marketing professional can be useful or whether it is better using internal staff in the company at the local branch office in Madagascar.

Use of internal employees in Madagascar to manage projects outsourced to the search marketing professional

Often, people in the Madagascar-department can have broader knowledge of what is going on locally than what one would expect from a search marketing professional far away or what the people at the headquarters of your firm have detailed knowledge about. However, this does not necessarily mean that it is good use of resources to engage internal human resources locally in relation to the search marketing professional. Below I will highlight some of the things that need to be considered.

The project you are thinking of setting out to a search marketing professional can be time consuming and difficult to learn, but it can be well worth the time and resources

Putting the work out to a search marketing professional can certainly pay off, but it is still important that there are available resources that can handle this in a proper way on the part of the inhouse staff. If you already have limited resources, the project will almost guaranteed not get enough attention and dedication from internal staff without adequate resources dedicated to handling the project. The search marketing professional knows that these things are time-consuming and are knowledge-intensive, so they have dedicated the resources necessary to handle the project properly and professionally. It has always been clear to me that it is you who know your product and your market best, so if you have the resources needed, it is definitely the best thing to do it yourself. This is something that must be carefully considered before making a decision on how to proceed with search marketing.

Good search marketing tools

There are some things you need to be aware of when using a search marketing professional – whether this is handled by local staff in Madagascar, or centrally at the head office. Below is a handy checklist of things you need to think about, as well as the best tools you can use for either free or commercial tools where free alternatives are not available or significantly inferior to the commercial ones.

Majestic.com

Majestic SEO is the world’s largest link index. Use this tool to find out everything of interest about links to your own pages and what your competitors locally in Madagascar are doing, or what national and international competitors are up to. Links to your website and subpages are crucial to your search engine rankings, so this is important to keep tabs on.

Google Alerts

To be on top of things, it is important to know what happens as early as possible. Google Alerts sends you an email every time someone mentions the words and phrases you specify. This can be anything from trademarks that are important to you, people of interest or general words and phrases that are important to your business. You can have alerts for all employees, freelancers you use, your trademarks including websites you run and words and phrases you focus on. All of this gives you a good overview of what is being talked about that matters internally. Google’s notification is free to use and helps you to be early in terms of being on top of what your competitors in Madagascar are doing, potential public relations disasters in the form of negative reviews and much else useful.

Ranks.nl

Ranks.nl has a number of professional SEO tools that I can really recommend. One of the tools I use most is Page Analyzer. With this tool, you can check keyword density on each subpage of your domain to optimize for keywords or phrases. If the search marketing professional you are planning to use is at all professional, they probably use the tools available from ranks.nl – or similar tools extensively.

Need help deciding whether to use a search marketing professional or manage the project yourself?

Do you need to discuss what a search marketing professional should do? Do you need someone to throw ball with? Feel free to contact me. Contact information can be found in the menu. We never charge before agreed from both sides.

Questions or comments?

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