Comments on: Reader Poll: Most SEO Friendly Industries

By: Search Engine Marketing Implications for Real Estate

Search Engine Marketing Implications for Real Estate — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:30:44 +0000

[...] The internet has become an indispensable consumer tool for researching real estate, one of the most highly charged personal purchasing decisions. Intuitively, most people would think the real estate industry would note the fact that all their clients are online doing this research… Online Marketing Blog conducted a recent poll in which its readers concluded that real estate was the #2 internet marketing savvy industry after the internet industry itself… however, the real truth is very few brokers and agents understand internet marketing beyond placing online ads for their listings. Why? [...]

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:09:23 +0000

Ah, the misfortune of a flawed poll. I really appreciate the feedback though, because this question/poll will return in our upcoming TopRank Search Marketing Survey.

By: Ammon Johns

Ammon Johns — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:04:04 +0000

Where’s Travel?!?

I don’t know any SEO company without at least one of the following sector clients active at all times:
Travel
Financial Services (Loans and Insurance)
Auto/Car Dealer

I’m leaving P/P/C off that list because not all companies I know will take those clients, but all the ones that take them have them, of course.

Travel was the first sector that I ever got so many poorly thought-out requests for help with that I resorted to email filtering, not P/P/C. That was still back in the ’90s, and its not gotten any less active.

I think ‘Health and Beauty’ may also make the list of almost every SEO company too, even excluding the ‘Adult’ sector of that vertical.

By: Nacho de Ramon

Nacho de Ramon — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:30:21 +0000

To me is also travel missing

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:37:36 +0000

The hospitality and travel industry is extremely open to SeoThink. We work with a number of large independent hotels who are committed to having the same level of analytic transparency as the larger “Flag” hotel chain corporations. Health and hospitals seem further behind for the most part. As a rule it seems to get harder the harsher the regulatory environment.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:20:59 +0000

Agree with Kent, how about hospitality/travel industry?

By: Barry Hurd

Barry Hurd — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:00:54 +0000

Isn’t the Adult industry the most search engine aware? I have ran across entire legions of marketers looking at every creative way to get into search engines.

By: Kent Schnepp

Kent Schnepp — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:17:40 +0000

Lee -

How about adding hospitality?

By: Drew Stauffer

Drew Stauffer — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:08:51 +0000

Great angle using MBL.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:08:50 +0000

Lee, Not that you need it, but I’ll back you up on the spam issue. Sending a one time message to a community of which you are apart of that serves a common goal, shouldn’t be considered spam. Wikipedia uses the word “indiscriminately” to describe spam, and your message is very specific and delivered to a specific group of people with whom you have an established relationship, albeit via an electronic forum.

Don’t ask why I get on these tangents, but as a professional marketing who uses email, I am very quick to correct those who don’t understand what does and does not qualify as spam as I have been falsely accused of spam on occasion. Truth be told, I have helped draft anti-spam legislation, so that would be quite the irony for me to turn around and spam.

ok, back to my holiday workload

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:55:23 +0000

Duly noted: Internet should be excluded for better representation of other industries and no drugs next time.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:54:09 +0000

Mike, I just noticed the feature in MBL that allows you to send a single message to an entire community today and decided to test it.

I’m not so sure joining a community and then getting an email from the community site qualifies as spamming, but if it does in your book I am sorry about that.

Part of the value of being a part in the TopRankBlog MBL community is participation in reader polls from time to time. If getting a ping about that kind of participation is of no interest to you, then the TopRankBlog MBL community might not be a good fit.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:49:57 +0000

I agree Rob and Tom, multiple choice would have been better. The poll plugin we use doesn’t support that though. If Survey Gizmo is a WP plugin, I’ll certainly check it out.

By: robwatts

robwatts — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:11:46 +0000

Hard call Lee, I think lots are ‘getting it’ these days, some more than others, multiple choice would have been good

By: Sujan Patel

Sujan Patel — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:15:34 +0000

Go Health Industry

By: Tom Crandall

Tom Crandall — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:03:07 +0000

Lee,

Great way to leverage your MyBlogLog community. I wish you could allow for multiple choices–are you using Survey Gizmo?

By: SEO Charlotte

SEO Charlotte — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:00:29 +0000

The poll leads me to believe even more so that Real Estate Agents and Auto Dealers are big losers here….

With Real Estate Agents I have been building high ranking blogs and then flipping them to the more “savvy Realtor”

Seems to be the only way to give them a good deal without cheating…

By: PPCBlogger

PPCBlogger — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:57:03 +0000

I left internet out of it… seems a bit of a cop out.

Insurance all the way.

By: Stevestuff

Stevestuff — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:50:34 +0000

2 EZ – internet, naturally – I got it right

By: WilliamC

WilliamC — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:23:28 +0000

Your poll seems to be missing the most savvy industry. Adult.