Google’s T-Mobile Ad On Why To Do SEO

My mobile phone company in the UK is T-Mobile, and I had to laugh when I was flipping through the latest in-house magazine I got from them. Apparently, as the headline of an advertorial tells me, "Search Engine Optimisation vital to enable business to compete online." And to learn more, I’m told to check out […]

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T-Mobile Pitches Google SEO

My mobile phone company in the UK is T-Mobile, and I had to laugh when I was flipping through the latest in-house magazine I got from them. Apparently, as the headline of an advertorial tells me, "Search Engine Optimisation vital to enable business to compete online." And to learn more, I’m told to check out the Google UK business area that
features prominently (though not solely) AdWords.

Really, I was most intrigued by the text of the ad. Here are some pullouts:

Why not ask your web designers or content management team if your site is getting the best from Search Engine Optimisation.

Maybe because someone who does SEO might understand SEO better?

You can improve your ratings in web searches by making sure that your site and its contents are search-friendly. For example, keywords relating to your business should appear regularly in the content, titles and in your ‘meta’ data — the tags and labels inserted into the HTML code.

OK, it doesn’t explicitly says to use the meta keywords tag — which Google doesn’t use — but it gets kind of close :)

Overall, it’s not a bad ad. Just kind of funny to see Google pushing SEO, rather that AdWords.


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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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