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What exactly is a SESP? It is something that we call the “Search
Engine Strategy Plan“. In today’s hectic world of the internet, with
billions of other websites and millions of competitors worldwide, to get noticed above the rest takes some serious planning. Without a strategy plan, you are just floundering wildly in the search engine seas, hoping that someone, somewhere might locate you. Search Engine Optimisation (or Search Engine Submission for that matter) is not rocket science. Nor should it take a phD or Degree in Computer Science. The simplicity of it all is hard work, research, setting goals and objectives and experimentation. As with anything, with the correct plan in place, you can achieve the results you require, and excel at that item.
Just like you would not launch a business without a business plan, nor build a
house without a blueprint, you should not plan a web marketing strategy without
first creating an SESP - (your Search Engine Strategy Plan). It is
surprisingly easy to work out a SESP. You need to first plan exactly what you
want to achieve with Search Engines. Is ranking for prime or common
keywords or keyword phrases that attracts a complete (and often unqualified)
audience, and getting complete blanket coverage important to your website, or
would you prefer to get higher ranking with alternative and defined
phrasing that attracts a more qualified customer that you know will be a quality
customer and will increase your actual conversion rates of the products or
services you are selling. What search engines are most important to your
website? What countries are you targeting? Are their specific industry
directories that would be important for your gain of qualified traffic and
leads? Plan it carefully. Plan it well. Do not rush into it. Plan before
executing! Let me say it again to make it hit home. Plan!

More column inches have been written about how to please the search engines and persuade them to bestow favour on your website than almost any other internet-related topic. But as far as I know no-one has previously tried to understand their gender: do they behave more like a man, or more like a woman? Understand their gender can surely help us to gain a better insight into how to appeal to them.
MSN is very clear: MSN is a man. Everything about MSN is straightforward: do the right thing and you will be recognized. Follow the advice of the experts and you will surely rank highly on MSN as long as your competitors are less diligent in this respect than you. Good content, relevant titles, keyword-related metatags, loads of quality inbound links, varied keyword anchor-text, a good smattering of deep links and a #1 ranking will be your reward. I have gained #1 positions on MSN for moderately competitive keywords within a week of trying. What you see is what you get with MSN: he is a man.

You’ve labored, sweated and poured lotsa love into designing and building your website. And phewee…ain’t it just the prettiest thing for sore eyes! But just as in real life–so does it go for the online world–beauty will only get you so far. So you’ve got to put that site to work! And how do you do that? Get it out there…put it right in the bulls eye of the search engines! That’s the way you’re going to get traffic to your site. And just in case you don’t know, traffic (specifically targeted traffic) is the life blood of any internet business.