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Tired and frankly a bit thirsty too, I was sitting at a bar near my office and overheard an interesting conversation on the topic of SEO between two guys sitting adjacent to me. Since I did not know their names, let us just call them “first” and “second” guy. Well, it seems the first guy refurbishes diesel fuel injectors. He had just started his workshop a few months back and had now also paid some Indian company $250 to setup a website. Purpose of the website was to facilitate prospective customers to send defective fuel injectors to him and he would repair them and send them back to the customer. Fees to be paid online. Apparently, brand-new fuel injectors are very expensive. Problem it seems was that despite the website being online for over a month, he had so far not received even a single query. To which, the second guy who I assume had some IT background, asked “did you do a search engine optimization”. “I need to get the search engine optimized?” asked the first guy. I realized ...

Just to clarify, the term ‘Digital Marketing’ refers to anything done online or TV that helps your business grow. It may be new product images or discount sale announcements posted on social media or, active online advertisements. Anything in the digital space that helps drive traffic to your website(s) is digital marketing. There are two ways to market your online Business; Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ), and digital marketing. The former is called “organic”. It is time consuming to implement and the results accrue over a period of time but they last for a couple of months at least. The latter, is instantaneous and depending on how and where it is done, it can cost you almost nothing. For e.g. you post a cleverly done “50% discount sale” on your Facebook page and the product you are selling is popular. Your post (depending on number of followers or whether put in a group), could lead to instant sales. It has cost you nothing. In reality however, the above scene is...