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Meta Tag Optimization And Other Quick Tips
While meta tag optimization is not quite so important these days in terms of helping you achieve or help in your search engine rankings I still do believe that you should keep optimizing you pages on your web site in the same manner that we have learned in the past.There certainly aren't any indicators in the way that Google views your websites which would penalize you for still utilizing and this optimization method. The meta description tag still carries quite a lot of merit and of course as always we have to keep doing in depth keyword research to give us the competing edge when it comes to attracting targeted website traffic and finding out which market you can compete in without masses of competition.With that being said, we cannot forget about the importance these days of LSI and SILO structure websites. This is most important in my mind. But, I'm just going to give some quick tips in meta tag optimizationnet are 90% bogus junk…a diamond in the rough (in the forum of a good lead) occurs about once every 20 leads. That’s roughly $400 to get to that good lead – not to mention the biggest expense, labor and time spent on the other 19 leads.

Where are these companies going wrong, then, with their lead generation? Why don’t these leads turn into clients? This article will attempt to address these questions.

Interested in knowing which “insurance lead” generating companies I am talking about? Just type in “life insurance leads”, “health insurance leads”, “mortgage leads” on google, yahoo, or MSN…they are DOMINATING the rankings!

The first problem is the way that these companies are generating leads. Some are using pay per click (PPC), some use aggressive (technical) techniques to get ranking in a “natural search” and some pay other webmasters to generate leads and send them to the lead company. NONE of them really know much about the Insurance Business…only how to generate leads.

Pay Per Click – There are several companies like adwords.google.com and www.overture.com that will place your link at the top of the page instantly if you’re willing to outbid other pay per click participants. On Google, the going price for the key word “life insurance” is about $20/click! The lead generating website will then take that lead and farm it out to about 4 different insurance agents. All of which will pay roughly $20 for that lead apiece. So the $20 investment there that was made for that click is multiplied by 4 = $80! And what does the client get? 4 agents calling them and trying to outbid each other. All using a variety of tactics, sometimes shady, sometimes legitimate, and sometimes downright outrageous…but that’s another story!

Aggressive (Technical) Techniques - Another way that these lead generating websites get their site noticed is by getting ranked highly in natural searches. A natural search result is the links and description of a particula

t? Just type in “life insurance leads”, “health insurance leads”, “mortgage leads” on google, yahoo, or MSN…they are DOMINATING the rankings!

The first problem is the way that these companies are generating leads. Some are using pay per click (PPC), some use aggressive (technical) techniques to get ranking in a “natural search” and some pay other webmasters to generate leads and send them to the lead company. NONE of them really know much about the Insurance Business…only how to generate leads.

Pay Per Click – There are several companies like adwords.google.com and www.overture.com that will place your link at the top of the page instantly if you’re willing to outbid other pay per click participants. On Google, the going price for the key word “life insurance” is about $20/click! The lead generating website will then take that lead and farm it out to about 4 different insurance agents. All of which will pay roughly $20 for that lead apiece. So the $20 investment there that was made for that click is multiplied by 4 = $80! And what does the client get? 4 agents calling them and trying to outbid each other. All using a variety of tactics, sometimes shady, sometimes legitimate, and sometimes downright outrageous…but that’s another story!

Aggressive (Technical) Techniques - Another way that these lead generating websites get their site noticed is by getting ranked highly in natural searches. A natural search result is the links and description of a particula

leads.

Pay Per Click – There are several companies like adwords.google.com and www.overture.com that will place your link at the top of the page instantly if you’re willing to outbid other pay per click participants. On Google, the going price for the key word “life insurance” is about $20/click! The lead generating website will then take that lead and farm it out to about 4 different insurance agents. All of which will pay roughly $20 for that lead apiece. So the $20 investment there that was made for that click is multiplied by 4 = $80! And what does the client get? 4 agents calling them and trying to outbid each other. All using a variety of tactics, sometimes shady, sometimes legitimate, and sometimes downright outrageous…but that’s another story!

Aggressive (Technical) Techniques - Another way that these lead generating websites get their site noticed is by getting ranked highly in natural searches. A natural search result is the links and description of a particula

t was made for that click is multiplied by 4 = $80! And what does the client get? 4 agents calling them and trying to outbid each other. All using a variety of tactics, sometimes shady, sometimes legitimate, and sometimes downright outrageous…but that’s another story!

Aggressive (Technical) Techniques - Another way that these lead generating websites get their site noticed is by getting ranked highly in natural searches. A natural search result is the links and description of a particular website that is found past the pay per click sites, about 4 sites down. Go to google.com and type in “life insurance quote”. The first 3-5 sites are pay per click, then under that you find the natural search results. Google, msn, yahoo, and the like are getting better at weeding out the spam here, but it still persists and will probably always persist as long as there are SEO (search engine optimization) experts that are getting paid! What I’m getting at here is that these lead generating websites are getting to the top of natural searches NOT by knowing all there is to know about insurance – but by being really really good at technical stuff like SEO, link exchange, and artificial means of gaining prominence.

Lead Brokering - The third and most shady way that these sites are getting these leads to sell is via other websites. Other websites that have prominence and “traffic” can get onboard with companies (commission affiliate brokers) that sell leads at wholesale prices to these lead generation companies. Why is this shady? Because these leads are generated by whatever means possible…SPAM, HACKING into other peoples sites and redirecting them to the affiliate site, buying of dead .coms and redirecting those visitors to the affiliate area, and on and on.

Roughly 1 tenth of the sites that are at the top of a search for any given term know anything about insurance or have any content of value for the consumer!

Another problem with the leads is that they are not screened well (although many companies boast that they screen the leads very well – which, in my experience is just not true!). In my research, 90% of the leads from these Internet Lead Companies either left bogus contact information, they were not truly interested in obtaining insurance, they simply wanted a “quote”, or would apply only to say “nahh, I can’t afford it” when the policy came in (as applied for!). This is where the most waste comes in…manpower. Even with meticulous follow-up, t