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Many companies consider paid advertising with google and yahoo these days. For many companies paying five dollars a click is just not affordable anymore. There is another way: you could setup a web marketing campaign. Many web design companies offer SEO and web marketing services. Instead of spending all your marketing money on Pay-per-Click advertisement these companies concentrate on distributing small ads web classifieds along with articles to blogs and include links to your website. These ads not only attract actual readers they also attract search engines that register the link going to your website. This way your website gets higher ranking and as a result more qualified traffic through organic search results.

The leading search engines, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, use crawlers to find pages for their algorithmic search results. Pages that are linked from other search engine indexed pages do not need to be submitted because they are found automatically. Some search engines, notably Yahoo!, operate a paid submission service that guarantee crawling for either a set fee or cost per click.

Search engine crawlers may look at a number of different factors when crawling a site. Not every page is indexed by the search engines. Distance of pages from the root directory of a site may also be a factor in whether or not pages get crawled.

Another thing that will help your ranking is constantly changing content on your site. High-End web deign companies offer content management systems for your site. Using the system you can update your site content on the fly and is is as easy as editing a word document.

A Content Management System (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to:

* Allow for large number of people to contribute to and share stored data
* Control access to data, based on user roles. User roles are used to define each use as to what information they can view or edit
* Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data
* Reduce repetitive duplicate input
* Improve the ease of report writing
* Improve communication between users

In a CMS, data can be defined as almost anything – documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, etc. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, and publishing documentation. Content that is controlled is industry-specific. (Entertainment content differs from the design of a fighter jet). There are various terms for systems (related processes) that do this. Examples include: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management (and others). Synchronization of intermediate steps, and collation into a final product are common goals of each.
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* 1 Types of CMS
* 2 Enterprise content management systems
* 3 Web content management systems
* 4 See also
* 5 References

[edit] Types of CMS

There are six main categories of CMS, with their respective domains of use:

* Enterprise CMS (ECMS)
* Web CMS (WCMS)
* Document Management System (DMS)
* Mobile Content Management System
* Component content management system
* Media Content Management System

[edit] Enterprise content management systems
Main article: Enterprise content management

An Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is concerned with content, documents, details, and records related to the organizational processes of an enterprise. The purpose is to manage the organization’s unstructured information content, with all its diversity of format and location.
[edit] Web content management systems
Main article: Web content management system

A ‘Web Content Management’ (WCM) system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular, allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.