Let's dive into how Search Box Optimization (SBO) works and how it can help Small and Medium Businesses (SMB's), consultants and professionals alike improve visibility and exposure on search engines using the Autocomplete feature in the search box to attract more customers.
Search Box Optimization (SBO) is the process of positioning your brand or business in the drop down lists of the most ubiquitous of search boxes! Yes, imagine being ‘suggested’ by Google's all-powerful search engine during a potential clients search query. This could be an absolute game changer for any small or medium business looking to attract more leads, phone calls, walk-in traffic and clients.
Although Google controlled an almost unassailable 92% of all search traffic, Microsoft’s Bing search engine saw explosive growth of users traffic with the clever integration of ChatGPT into Bings search experience. The result was a more interactive, positive & friendly user experience that saw an unprecedented decline to 85.6% of users for Google; and a rapid increase to 7.6% of users for Bing.
Autocomplete suggests keyword categories, places, products, services and what is trending to search users as soon as they begin to type in a search engines search box.
Google defines Autocomplete as “a feature for predicting the rest of a query a user is typing, which can improve the user search experience…. It can also improve the search response quality and thus create higher revenue by providing well-formatted queries.”
The autocomplete appears to effectively complete a user’s thoughts by finding the “right” keyword before they actually finish typing and this has proven to be extremely helpful for example with helping to prevent typing errors especially for hard-to-spell search terms; and in saving user’s time.
As a Digital Marketing Specialist, it is my experience and opinion that SBO provides the best bang for your buck because of the following simple reasons:
Cost Effective
You can save money on expensive pay-per-click campaigns and SEO. You will own the entire first page of search results.
It gives your business an unfair Competitive Advantage
Every time a person types in the keyword phrase you choose, they will see you before they see any of your competition.
It provides your business with unparalleled Exclusivity in either local or national search.
You will be the only company listed for the keyword phrase that you choose. We never sell a keyword phrase twice.
According to Google, the Autocomplete is a feature within Google Search that makes it faster to complete searches that users start to type. This automated algorithmic system generates predictions that help people save time by allowing them to quickly complete a search they already intended to conduct.
As mentioned above and contrary to popular belief, the Autocomplete actually provides predictions and not suggestions to search queries by analyzing billions of data points that enable it to come up with the best predictions of relevant keywords based on the most common and or trending Google searches. The fact that Google is able to number crunch such a huge pool of data and do so seamlessly makes it appear as though the Autocomplete is suggesting rather than predicting query answers in the search box.
An interesting statistic from Google is that 75% of search users choose their answers from the selection offered by Googles autocomplete feature because and these answers helps users save as much as 25% of the time they would has otherwise spent had they completed their search queries on their own.
Google is able to achieve such a time savings for search users with just a few keystrokes and a click of the mouse; all while skipping the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s) which means essentially that business owners are able to painlessly bypass their competition by appearing in the autocomplete before the SERP’s are displayed! This is a big plus for any business owner constantly having to pay more for PPC or SEO particularly in niches that are highly competitive!
To take full and proper advantage of SBO will depend on whether or not your business is positioned to demonstrate the authority, expertise and social proof potential clients demand so that they are comfortably enough to know, like and trust your business and take the decision to become customers and ultimately loyal clients because you provided a solution for a problem that they were actively looking to solve.
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So, if you are a business owner, consultant or professional in a highly competitive niche, and you have a digital marketing budget; but are worried about the diminishing returns in terms of leads, phone calls or clients you have been getting lately, especially with heightened competition and changing consumer habits due to the economy among others; then it may be worthwhile taking a closer look at SBO and how it just might be the solution to your current challenges, frustrations or problems attracting your perfect leads and clients; and beating the pants off your competition at a fraction of the cost of traditional SEO or PPC marketing!
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As a new technology, Autocomplete-Optimization is many times compared to what the market knows as search engine optimization, or SEO. However, when examining search results, there is little similarity. Think of Autocomplete-Optimization as SEO on steroids. The differences are vast and will allow a business to dominate their market and their industry.
In order to get you into the auto-complete, we need to establish authority for the keyword phrase. The time that it takes can vary depending upon the competitiveness of the keyword phrase, but look for the keyword phrases to start showing up in Bing within 30-40 days, and Google 90+ days.
Google tells us that 71% of all users engage in the auto-complete. Over 91% of users look at the auto-complete, but 71% of the people actually use the auto-complete. When a user looks for your product or service and they see you suggested in the auto-complete, it tends to give the them increased confidence in your company brand. Of, course, when the user clicks on your business in the auto-complete, every organic listing will display your business, not your competition. Our customers experience a spike in business.
Yes, we do. Your business can appear in every organic listing on the first page of Google and Bing. Autocomplete-Optimization will also enhance your overall online presence and authority for each search engine. Autocomplete-Optimization will give your business consistency in results and monthly costs.
Absolutely! Consumers use search engines like Bing and Google because they have a need or a want. When they begin their search they are a prospect. When they click onto a listing for your business, they become a qualified lead.
We bring you leads from Yelp, BBB, YouTube, blogs, press releases, aggregate sites like YP.com, DexKnows, Merchant Circle and others. Because Autocomplete-Optimization brings all of this content to the first page of Bing, Google, and soon Yahoo, users will find your website pages, too.
Yes we do. Although we cannot track your phone calls or in-person business visits, we can and do track the increased traffic to your website.
Total Autocomplete-Optimization will produce regular reports to show you the additional traffic we drive to your business, no matter the source. Our product, Autocomplete-Optimization, is at the forefront of online search technology and will give your business the advantage you deserve.
No. Autocomplete-Optimization gives your business much more. More presence and exposure online, more spots on the first page of Google, Bing, and Yahoo, more click-throughs to your website and, ultimately, more revenue. For a more in-depth comparison of Autocomplete-Optimization to SEO, click here.
Bottom line - would you rather appear once on the first page of a search engine, or ten times? Autocomplete-Optimization can give your business ten.
Yes. In order to get your keyword phrases to show up as a suggestions in the auto-complete box, we need to build authority. To do this, we will create YouTube videos for you, press-releases and/or blogs, post to directory listings and post to social media. This is work that will be very beneficial for your organic rankings as a whole also, but we do this so Google and Bing will add you as a suggested company in the auto-complete.
We do not. In order to influence the auto complete, Google looks to see what is currently trending, so our process works down the lines of social influences, to gain authority for the website and to build social awareness, and do it in such a way that meets Google’s algorithm standards for determining what to suggest in the auto-complete. This social media trending work that we do is very specific to getting Google to start suggesting the company in the auto-complete. So we do some things similar to SEO, but specifically tailored towards influencing the indicators that Google looks at to determine what to put in the auto-suggest, which is mostly social trending.
Once a keyword phrase is sold, it is no longer available. To test if the keyword phrase that you want is still available, just go to Google or Bing and type in the keyword phrase. If the auto-completes box shows any companyname after the keyword phrase in the suggestion box, the keyword phrase is taken. If not, then the keyword phrase is likely still available. There may be times when the keyword phrase has been purchased, but not yet appearing in the auto-complete. Contact us today to get started on your business evolution.
In our Autocomplete-Optimization program, there are no fees other than the monthly cost. We have no hidden costs - your monthly cost is locked in when you submit your order.
We sell keyword phrases for local and national businesses. A local keyword phrases means that you have a location designation in the phrase. For instance, "garage door repair Los Angeles" would be a local keyword phrase, whereas "garage door repair" would be a national keyword phrase. When you purchase a national keyword phrase, you should be able to assist customers across the country. National keyword phrases are great for franchise businesses, but local keywords drive customers to the local business. To submit a request for a proposal for your business click here for local and here for national programs.
National keyword phrases get thousands and even ten's of thousands of searches per month. A national mortgage bank may want to purchase "home loans" and other related searches. They will receive inquiries from every State and need to be able to service those customers.
The price for keyword phrases is based on the competitiveness of the keyword phrase. The work involved in getting a national keyword phrase will be dependent on many factors, so we price the national keyword phrases individually.