{"id":1386,"date":"2009-07-20T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:44:16","slug":"internet-marketing-reaches-billions-of-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/internet-marketing-reaches-billions-of-consumers.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Marketing Reaches Billions of Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet marketing reaches billions of consumers according to the world Internet usage statistics reported for March 2009. More than one and a half billion people are regular users of the Internet around the globe today.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually only 23.8% of the global population, but the number is growing on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>In North America alone approximately 251.3 million people are surfing the Internet daily. This number is simply too large for businesses to ignore the advertising potential connected to Internet marketing.<\/p>\n<h3>Internet Advertising<\/h3>\n<p>Internet advertising packages are available through Houston\u2019s top search engine optimization company, Directory One. Learn more about our Internet marketing services by clicking on the links in this article.<\/p>\n<p>Getting ahead of the millions of websites listed on major search engines is not always an easy feat. Advancing while following the necessary guidelines to avoid being de-indexed by the search engines for methods that are unscrupulous is also extremely important to know how to do.<\/p>\n<p>Many unfortunate would-be successful businesses are duped into paying large sums of money to various SEO companies that would claim to get them high placement on search engine pages within a few days.<\/p>\n<p>While it is possible through skill and experience to receive a high ranking on-line in a relatively expedient manner, sometimes even just a few days, the majority of those boasting these guarantees are conning na\u00efve businesses into practices that quickly get the major search engines to drop them off the radar.<\/p>\n<p>This means disaster for companies who depend upon being found on-line through keyword searches for keeping their business afloat and even thriving.<\/p>\n<h3>Reach Millions of Consumers<\/h3>\n<p>Reach millions of consumers by contacting Directory One at 713-465-0051 and choose an Internet advertising package that is perfect for helping your business to thrive through on-line leads.<\/p>\n<p>Directory One offers many different search engine marketing services including SEO website design, web hosting, domain name registration, educational consulting services, content development, press release services, Spanish marketing, video production and optimization and more.<\/p>\n<p>Give your company the ability to compete today by calling Directory One!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet marketing reaches billions of consumers according to the world Internet usage statistics reported for March 2009. More than one and a half billion people are regular users of the Internet around the globe today. This is actually only 23.8% of the global population, but the number is growing on a daily basis. In North America alone approximately 251.3 million people are surfing the Internet daily. This number is simply too large for businesses to ignore the advertising potential connected to Internet marketing. Internet Advertising Internet advertising packages are available through Houston\u2019s top search engine optimization company, Directory One. Learn more about our Internet marketing services by clicking on the links in this article. Getting ahead of the millions of websites listed on major search engines is not always an easy feat. Advancing while following the necessary guidelines to avoid being de-indexed by the search engines for methods that are unscrupulous is also extremely important to know how to do. Many unfortunate would-be successful businesses are duped into paying large sums of money to various SEO companies that would claim to get them high placement on search engine pages within a few days. While it is possible through skill and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-marketing","tag-houston-search-engine-optimization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Internet Marketing Reaches Billions of Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Internet marketing is a must when over half a billion people are online each day. 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