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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Dollars for the Taking

LIMRA just published a great new report on Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Most of the findings catalog how life insurance companies use various SEO techniques (mildly interesting) but LIMRA also gives the reader specific advice on what they can do to improve their company website like (I'm only listing a couple so they don't get made at me for giving away the farm):
  • Keep the customer in mind. Content is king. Web site content that is fresh and relevant is likely to increase your rankings in search engines and will provide potential customers with the information they are searching for.
  • Use text whenever possible. Don’t hide the words on your Web site in images, flash, java script,or AJAX-based content that search engines may have a hard time viewing. By focusing on text based content, you’ll benefit from having keyword-rich content on your pages.
  • Don’t disregard description and keyword tags. These tags can be used to help keep content organized, well-thought-out, and pertinent to the topic.
A good read at limra.com -- LIMRA membership required : (
Dollars for the Taking -- Use Effective Search Engine Optimization to Drive Customers to Your Web Site

Some other LIMRA titles you might be interested in include:

Optimizing Opportunities With Online Consumers (2007)

Catching the E-Marketing Wave: E-Marketing Company Practices (2006)

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Jim Sharkey
Life-long life insurance marketer -- 28 years of Home Office Marketing assignments with Equitable of NY (now AXA), Prudential (Newark), Liberty Life (RBC Insurance) in Greenville, SC and now AAA Life Insurance. Background in market research, database marketing, led generation and direct marketing programs, product development, business development and eMarketing. Lead the team that built and managed the original Prudential.com website --version one isn't available but here's what version 2 looked like -- designed by CKS Interactive in Cupertino -- http://web.archive.org/web/19970508063614/http://www.prudential.com/ ) (95-96); built one of the first fully automated online Term Insurance products -- RBCExpressTerm.com.
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