Unfortunately, many wide accepted online business marketing guides do not distinguish very well between ppc ads and organic search engine optimization. On one side, pay per click internet marketing involves the appearance of relevant ads on the sponsored links of the search results lists. Online advertisers pay a certain amount of money, defined as ppc bid, if any only if one of the visitors clicked on your ad.
On the other hand, SEO is a legal process of marketing your affiliate website by analyzing and modifying it to make your website search engine friendly aims to target the top search engine position. This process aims to dramatically improve the visibility of your business in the organic results obtained when a user tries to find information relevant to your website.
Are you Ready to Skyrocket Your Success using 6 Factors?
1. The first key to succeed in online marketing is to invest a reasonable time and effort to choose good keywords, which do not involve high competition and at the same time searched by the users in often enough. Otherwise, without ppc optimization, your business marketing campaign will be too expensive to achieve any profits for you.
2. Your second key element is to periodically enrich your pay per click internet marketing campaign with quite huge list of keywords and the sky is your limit. Be careful, do not do it like crazy! Here again, choose the keywords that enjoy decent demand and do not suffer form high competition.
3. The third element in your campaign to drive targeted traffic to your website is to properly choose the text of your ad. This alone can either skyrocket your sales, or simply destroy all your efforts. Make the objective of your ad quite clear and as much specific as usual so that only targeted visitors would click your ad.
4. The fourth key factor to conduct a smart pay per click internet marketing is to apply a consistent monitoring plan to your cost per click. Keep in mind that the search results in huge search engines like Google would appear too on other search engines like ask.com
5. The fifth and one of the most essential keys to succeed is to not only monitoring your cost per click, but also the analysis of the visitors behavior can produce invaluable knowledge about consumer motivation, habits, and trends. Expert monitoring and consumer analysis is essential to your overall online business needs.
6. The last key factor can dramatically increase your profits using pay per click internet marketing. It is in deed amazing to see the highest bid is $1.2 and the next highest bid is $0.75. The guy who bids for $1.2 per click could also bid for the same keyword with $0.8 and he would have got the top position as well in addition to saving $0.4 per click. So, do not bid much more than you have to.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
New search engine marketing report looks at PPC technology
A new report exploring the market for paid search bid management technology has been published by Econsultancy.
The marketing resource's study suggested that the market is becoming more competitive as search marketing uptake continues to rise in the UK.
Some of the trends explored in the publication include the growing focus on making the most of pay per click services amid the economic downturn and the need for a balance between automation and manual optimisation when it comes to bid management.
One benefit of bid management technology is its capability to make marketing campaigns more efficient, particularly when a large organisation needs to manage ads for thousands of keywords, Econsultancy suggested.
"This market will continue to prosper because online advertisers can use pay per click optimisation software to make their budgets stretch even further in a tougher economic climate," the report said.
Online marketers spent £981 million on pay per click services in the first six months of last year, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau.
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The marketing resource's study suggested that the market is becoming more competitive as search marketing uptake continues to rise in the UK.
Some of the trends explored in the publication include the growing focus on making the most of pay per click services amid the economic downturn and the need for a balance between automation and manual optimisation when it comes to bid management.
One benefit of bid management technology is its capability to make marketing campaigns more efficient, particularly when a large organisation needs to manage ads for thousands of keywords, Econsultancy suggested.
"This market will continue to prosper because online advertisers can use pay per click optimisation software to make their budgets stretch even further in a tougher economic climate," the report said.
Online marketers spent £981 million on pay per click services in the first six months of last year, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
4 Reasons Why PPC Is The Best Online Marketing Channel
PPC is one of the most profitable advertising and marketing channels. This view is shared by most online marketers, who in 2007, according to Marketing Sherpa, ranked PPC and email marketing as the two channels with the highest ROI.
1. Pay Per Click Yields a High Return on Investment
If you had to choose one, PPC or email, which would it be? Email marketing works best with house (not purchased) lists. Those take time to build, and one major way to build them is via PPC. Unless you have a strong house list and don’t want new customers, PPC is better.
We just went through the year-end agency/client review process of what did and didn’t work in 2008. We assessed the ROI of each marketing channel and helped them plan their 2009 budgets accordingly.
One of our biggest clients is planning a six to seven-figure AdWords spend in 2009. This is because their ROI from AdWords was, on average, five times stronger than other online advertising and marketing channels. In 2008 we helped this company increase its revenues by 36% in a vertical hurt by our recessionary economy.
2. Pay Per Click Gives You Instant Targeted Traffic
We frequently recommend PPC for new websites. SEO has long-term benefits and is a great investment in your site’s future value, but the big bottom-line results take months or years. PPC gets immediate traffic and can help generate significant sales within weeks. We recommend both strategies in parallel because of their complimentary pros and cons.
3. Pay Per Click Helps You Find Problems With Your Offering, Promos, or Website
As soon as you have traffic, you can see what your site does and doesn’t do well. At what rate is it converting sales or leads? If highly targeted traffic converts poorly, you need conversion optimization or a usability reassessment. Sometimes an uncaught programming error or design oversight obstructs critical site functionality. Noticeable lack of conversions or low conversion rate spurs PPC managers to investigate what’s wrong.
The disadvantage of starting a site with SEO but without PPC is that traffic can take months to ramp up to significant levels. If you have a usability or conversion problem in those first three to six months, you may not have enough data to detect it or to fix it quickly with conversion optimization.
4. Pay Per Click Brands Your Company While Selling Its Offerings
Some of our clients occasionally ask about branding with PPC. I won’t belittle branding because it really is an important strategy and discipline.
Sometimes what clients mean by branding is simply increasing their exposure to new prospects. Whenever I hear “We also want to do some branding,” I ask “What do you mean by branding? What are your ultimate goals? Leads? Sales? Email list building?” After three to six months of PPC, if the client doesn’t have the leads or sales that bring in the revenue, branding won’t seem like such a good idea anymore. If you went along just to make them happy or avoid the work of educating them, you won’t look so smart or effective at this point and you may lose the client.
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1. Pay Per Click Yields a High Return on Investment
If you had to choose one, PPC or email, which would it be? Email marketing works best with house (not purchased) lists. Those take time to build, and one major way to build them is via PPC. Unless you have a strong house list and don’t want new customers, PPC is better.
We just went through the year-end agency/client review process of what did and didn’t work in 2008. We assessed the ROI of each marketing channel and helped them plan their 2009 budgets accordingly.
One of our biggest clients is planning a six to seven-figure AdWords spend in 2009. This is because their ROI from AdWords was, on average, five times stronger than other online advertising and marketing channels. In 2008 we helped this company increase its revenues by 36% in a vertical hurt by our recessionary economy.
2. Pay Per Click Gives You Instant Targeted Traffic
We frequently recommend PPC for new websites. SEO has long-term benefits and is a great investment in your site’s future value, but the big bottom-line results take months or years. PPC gets immediate traffic and can help generate significant sales within weeks. We recommend both strategies in parallel because of their complimentary pros and cons.
3. Pay Per Click Helps You Find Problems With Your Offering, Promos, or Website
As soon as you have traffic, you can see what your site does and doesn’t do well. At what rate is it converting sales or leads? If highly targeted traffic converts poorly, you need conversion optimization or a usability reassessment. Sometimes an uncaught programming error or design oversight obstructs critical site functionality. Noticeable lack of conversions or low conversion rate spurs PPC managers to investigate what’s wrong.
The disadvantage of starting a site with SEO but without PPC is that traffic can take months to ramp up to significant levels. If you have a usability or conversion problem in those first three to six months, you may not have enough data to detect it or to fix it quickly with conversion optimization.
4. Pay Per Click Brands Your Company While Selling Its Offerings
Some of our clients occasionally ask about branding with PPC. I won’t belittle branding because it really is an important strategy and discipline.
Sometimes what clients mean by branding is simply increasing their exposure to new prospects. Whenever I hear “We also want to do some branding,” I ask “What do you mean by branding? What are your ultimate goals? Leads? Sales? Email list building?” After three to six months of PPC, if the client doesn’t have the leads or sales that bring in the revenue, branding won’t seem like such a good idea anymore. If you went along just to make them happy or avoid the work of educating them, you won’t look so smart or effective at this point and you may lose the client.
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Pay Per Click Optimization VS. Search Engine Optimization
A little over a decade ago Search Engine Optimization was still in the embryo stage, it did not even have a name yet. Some people happily wandered around the Internet and are excited at the interesting things they could find, while others became increasingly frustrated at wasting time in trying to find what they were looking for.
Now SEO is ‘the’ buzzword on everyone’s lips and over time Pay per click Optimization came along to fight for a piece of this lucrative business that has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. For the man on the street it can be bewildering when you want to promote your own website as you can easily be drowned under the mountain of conflicting advice thrown to you constantly.
Pay per Click is fast and hot
To understand why PPC and SEO both work, you must understand how they work. Basically you sign up for the service and you pay x-amount every time someone clicks on your site. This is the ‘push’ method; your site is pushed to the top of the search listings, so people see it straight away. This is the ideal way to go if you want to promote your website very fast for a limited time period for you will burn money fast.
The trick is to convert those website hits into paying customers that in turn generate income for you, otherwise you will be paying for thousands of clicks that bring in no money. PPC is excellent if you need to promote a campaign fast, have a promotion that is going to last only for a limited period of time or for those businesses that are seasonal, so they have to get the word out fast, get their customers interested in the minimum of time, thereby generate their own income before the season is over.
Search Engine Optimization the steadily growing tree
Natural Search Engine Optimization is most definitely alive and growing. Going with this means that your ranking depends on the pulling together of certain criteria, the type of website you have, the content of your website and your marketing strategy.
You want your website to appear on the first two pages when someone does a search. Search Engine Optimization works through what is called the ‘pull’ method; people come look for you, you don’t push your product into their faces. Above all, you get this ranking for free. It takes time to build natural SEO, but you lay a solid foundation that will keep on growing in time.
What website owners must remember is that searchers are not stupid, they know sponsored sites involve money and often they mistrust that. They also know that a free ranked website is placed in that spot because for instance Google deemed them worthy of that place and this is something most people can identify with. It is really up to each website owner; do they want to push and go in like a fast burning rocket, or do they want to go in free, build their rating slowly on a strong foundation, in the end it comes down to your circumstances, needs and budget.
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Now SEO is ‘the’ buzzword on everyone’s lips and over time Pay per click Optimization came along to fight for a piece of this lucrative business that has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. For the man on the street it can be bewildering when you want to promote your own website as you can easily be drowned under the mountain of conflicting advice thrown to you constantly.
Pay per Click is fast and hot
To understand why PPC and SEO both work, you must understand how they work. Basically you sign up for the service and you pay x-amount every time someone clicks on your site. This is the ‘push’ method; your site is pushed to the top of the search listings, so people see it straight away. This is the ideal way to go if you want to promote your website very fast for a limited time period for you will burn money fast.
The trick is to convert those website hits into paying customers that in turn generate income for you, otherwise you will be paying for thousands of clicks that bring in no money. PPC is excellent if you need to promote a campaign fast, have a promotion that is going to last only for a limited period of time or for those businesses that are seasonal, so they have to get the word out fast, get their customers interested in the minimum of time, thereby generate their own income before the season is over.
Search Engine Optimization the steadily growing tree
Natural Search Engine Optimization is most definitely alive and growing. Going with this means that your ranking depends on the pulling together of certain criteria, the type of website you have, the content of your website and your marketing strategy.
You want your website to appear on the first two pages when someone does a search. Search Engine Optimization works through what is called the ‘pull’ method; people come look for you, you don’t push your product into their faces. Above all, you get this ranking for free. It takes time to build natural SEO, but you lay a solid foundation that will keep on growing in time.
What website owners must remember is that searchers are not stupid, they know sponsored sites involve money and often they mistrust that. They also know that a free ranked website is placed in that spot because for instance Google deemed them worthy of that place and this is something most people can identify with. It is really up to each website owner; do they want to push and go in like a fast burning rocket, or do they want to go in free, build their rating slowly on a strong foundation, in the end it comes down to your circumstances, needs and budget.
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Friday, December 19, 2008
11 Internet Marketing Trends To Ignore in 2009
Analytics. Yeah, you heard me. I love analytics. But they're gonna flop big-time in 2009 when everyone looks at everyone else and says "Holy crap. There's no standards!" If a pageview on Google Analytics isn't a pageview in Omniture, how the hell can anyone compare anything? Look for 2010 to be the Year of the Standards, and for someone to make millions of dollars talking about "Analytics 2.0". At which point I'll take out a contract on their worthless lives.
Vertical Search. I hate to kick that dead dog again, but it sucked in 2007, it sucked in 2008, and it'll continue to suck wind in 2009, assuming anyone actually bothers to try and start another vertical search service.
Google Searchwiki. Actually, this service will do well. But spammers will abuse it. After 1 million people bury the #1 listing for "bailout" and it throws Google's results on their ear, Google will implement new, undocumented policies that render Searchwiki utterly random.
Mobile Advertising. Someone else called this a trend, saying it'll "flourish". I love the StrangeCorp blog, but flourish? I don't think so. Maybe among us snobby elites, but it takes more than 10,000 to make a serious advertising market.
The average web user will continue to refuse to even sniff curiously at RSS.
Internet Explorer 8. Everyone's talking about it. I don't care. Google Chrome and FireFox will continue to take big bites out of IE, which will be released on December 31 2009 so Microsoft can keep their promise.
Content marketing. 2008 was the Year of Crappy Content. Everyone who thought they could write slapped together an ebook (cough) and threw it on the web for sale. 2009 will be The Year We Go Broke, when we realize spending 4 days to write a 30 page booklet that earns a total of $300 a month isn't worth it.
Social Media Conferences. In 2008 these things sprang up like zits on my forehead when I was 14. In 2009 layoffs, travel costs and the utter horror of air travel in the US will thin things out a bit.
Nofollow. The concept of pagerank sculpting will die a horrific death when Matt Cutts reveals it never existed, and he was just messing with us.
Twitter monetization. OK, I'm addicted to Twitter, I admit it. But how the hell will Twitter make money?
Yahoo!'s Downfall. Further indication the world has gone insane: The banking system has collapsed, the Big 3 are bankrupt, we lost 500,000 jobs in November 2008, and we're bitching about Yahoo!'s "decline". Why are we mourning the 'failure' of the #2 search company on the planet? A company that is profitable?!
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Vertical Search. I hate to kick that dead dog again, but it sucked in 2007, it sucked in 2008, and it'll continue to suck wind in 2009, assuming anyone actually bothers to try and start another vertical search service.
Google Searchwiki. Actually, this service will do well. But spammers will abuse it. After 1 million people bury the #1 listing for "bailout" and it throws Google's results on their ear, Google will implement new, undocumented policies that render Searchwiki utterly random.
Mobile Advertising. Someone else called this a trend, saying it'll "flourish". I love the StrangeCorp blog, but flourish? I don't think so. Maybe among us snobby elites, but it takes more than 10,000 to make a serious advertising market.
The average web user will continue to refuse to even sniff curiously at RSS.
Internet Explorer 8. Everyone's talking about it. I don't care. Google Chrome and FireFox will continue to take big bites out of IE, which will be released on December 31 2009 so Microsoft can keep their promise.
Content marketing. 2008 was the Year of Crappy Content. Everyone who thought they could write slapped together an ebook (cough) and threw it on the web for sale. 2009 will be The Year We Go Broke, when we realize spending 4 days to write a 30 page booklet that earns a total of $300 a month isn't worth it.
Social Media Conferences. In 2008 these things sprang up like zits on my forehead when I was 14. In 2009 layoffs, travel costs and the utter horror of air travel in the US will thin things out a bit.
Nofollow. The concept of pagerank sculpting will die a horrific death when Matt Cutts reveals it never existed, and he was just messing with us.
Twitter monetization. OK, I'm addicted to Twitter, I admit it. But how the hell will Twitter make money?
Yahoo!'s Downfall. Further indication the world has gone insane: The banking system has collapsed, the Big 3 are bankrupt, we lost 500,000 jobs in November 2008, and we're bitching about Yahoo!'s "decline". Why are we mourning the 'failure' of the #2 search company on the planet? A company that is profitable?!
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Use Different Keyword Types for PPC Success
These basic principles apply to most of the PPC programs out there, but today I’ll talk specifically about Google AdWords. With Google AdWords there are 4 types of keywords you can bid on. Different keywords types have different features so it’s very important that you understand the difference between them and how they can impact your PPC campaign. So here they are:
Broad Match
Sadly, this is the one that a lot of people are probably doing without even knowing it. If you just have the keyword phrase typed in normally on your keyword list, you’re doing a broad match. Let’s say for example that you’re bidding on the phrase apple developing online courses Your ad will show up whenever a searcher types in apple ipod, blue apple ipod, i want an ipod that’s blue, etc. Any phrase that has those two words in it will bring up your ad. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily, but you don’t know for sure unless you test it and find out if it’s doing you any good.
Phrase Match
To do a phrase match, you just have to put the phrase inside of quotation marks. So sticking with our last example it would be “apple ipod”. Now in order for your site to show up those two words developing online courses to be together. So in this example your ad would show up for apple ipod, blue apple ipod, but not for I want an ipod that’s blue because the two words are not together in the phrase. You’ll need to test these phrase types to see if they work for you or not as well.
Exact Match
To do an exact match, put the phrase inside square brackets like this: [apple ipod]. This will only allow your ad to show up on the phrase apple ipod. This is a third match type you’ll want to test with.
Negative Match
This is how you exclude words from your list. Maybe you don’t sell blue apple ipods. If so, then just add -blue to your list and you won’t show up for phrases with that word.
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Broad Match
Sadly, this is the one that a lot of people are probably doing without even knowing it. If you just have the keyword phrase typed in normally on your keyword list, you’re doing a broad match. Let’s say for example that you’re bidding on the phrase apple developing online courses Your ad will show up whenever a searcher types in apple ipod, blue apple ipod, i want an ipod that’s blue, etc. Any phrase that has those two words in it will bring up your ad. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily, but you don’t know for sure unless you test it and find out if it’s doing you any good.
Phrase Match
To do a phrase match, you just have to put the phrase inside of quotation marks. So sticking with our last example it would be “apple ipod”. Now in order for your site to show up those two words developing online courses to be together. So in this example your ad would show up for apple ipod, blue apple ipod, but not for I want an ipod that’s blue because the two words are not together in the phrase. You’ll need to test these phrase types to see if they work for you or not as well.
Exact Match
To do an exact match, put the phrase inside square brackets like this: [apple ipod]. This will only allow your ad to show up on the phrase apple ipod. This is a third match type you’ll want to test with.
Negative Match
This is how you exclude words from your list. Maybe you don’t sell blue apple ipods. If so, then just add -blue to your list and you won’t show up for phrases with that word.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Top 10 Reasons for PPC & SEO Synergy
As we dig deeper to assess the precise impact of these synergies, we’d love your thoughts on how paid and natural search affect each other. Here’s the list:
1. Unified reporting
Having the results of paid and natural work reported in the same place helps us understand the relationship between the two better and think about a user’s complete search journey, rather than paid or natural in isolation.
2. Ad copy optimisation
Where successful copy executions reveal themselves in paid search, that learning can be transferred immediately to site optimisation for natural rankings.
3. Landing page strategy
Paid search people think about landing pages almost exclusively in terms of conversion. SEO people think about landing pages almost exclusively in terms of search engine ranking. By combining the two approaches, you should end up with the perfect landing page – one that ranks highly AND converts.
4. Management efficiency
Quite simply, if the client has their entire search strategy in one place, they only have to deal with one agency. This saves a lot of time and money in terms of communication, project management, results reporting, account management and much more.
5. Search user experience
If the same agency works on paid and natural then the user is more likely to see the same search ‘face’ whether they’re looking at organic or sponsored results. For example, ad copy, landing pages, and keyword strategy. This equates to a unified brand experience throughout their search journey
6. Risk mitigation
If a site or page, for whatever reason, drops off the organic search results (e.g. a Google algorithm update), the PPC team can immediately fill the gap until the SEO is adjusted to suit.
7. Cannibalisation
The effect of owning PPC terms where natural results already rank highly differs completely according to the brand, site, product, ranking position, competition and many other factors. When paid and natural are in the same place, these effects can be understood and accounted for.
8. Traffic forecasting
PPC search ads are a reliable and usable way of forecasting how optimising against a particular keyword might perform in terms of traffic and conversions. So wherever a natural search optimisation (NSO) forecast is needed, paid search can act as a reliable predictor.
9. Performance-sharing
The results of natural and paid campaigns contain lessons for both. Transferring the lessons from one to the other is much easier when they are housed in the same business.
10. Long-tail strategy
Often, while natural is focused on the big traffic-driving keywords, they are too expensive in PPC. At the same time, PPC can be used to drive traffic from the ‘long tail’ of keywords – e.g. misspellings – which are not usually picked up through organic search. Filling the gaps of the other is much easier when natural and paid are run in the same place.
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1. Unified reporting
Having the results of paid and natural work reported in the same place helps us understand the relationship between the two better and think about a user’s complete search journey, rather than paid or natural in isolation.
2. Ad copy optimisation
Where successful copy executions reveal themselves in paid search, that learning can be transferred immediately to site optimisation for natural rankings.
3. Landing page strategy
Paid search people think about landing pages almost exclusively in terms of conversion. SEO people think about landing pages almost exclusively in terms of search engine ranking. By combining the two approaches, you should end up with the perfect landing page – one that ranks highly AND converts.
4. Management efficiency
Quite simply, if the client has their entire search strategy in one place, they only have to deal with one agency. This saves a lot of time and money in terms of communication, project management, results reporting, account management and much more.
5. Search user experience
If the same agency works on paid and natural then the user is more likely to see the same search ‘face’ whether they’re looking at organic or sponsored results. For example, ad copy, landing pages, and keyword strategy. This equates to a unified brand experience throughout their search journey
6. Risk mitigation
If a site or page, for whatever reason, drops off the organic search results (e.g. a Google algorithm update), the PPC team can immediately fill the gap until the SEO is adjusted to suit.
7. Cannibalisation
The effect of owning PPC terms where natural results already rank highly differs completely according to the brand, site, product, ranking position, competition and many other factors. When paid and natural are in the same place, these effects can be understood and accounted for.
8. Traffic forecasting
PPC search ads are a reliable and usable way of forecasting how optimising against a particular keyword might perform in terms of traffic and conversions. So wherever a natural search optimisation (NSO) forecast is needed, paid search can act as a reliable predictor.
9. Performance-sharing
The results of natural and paid campaigns contain lessons for both. Transferring the lessons from one to the other is much easier when they are housed in the same business.
10. Long-tail strategy
Often, while natural is focused on the big traffic-driving keywords, they are too expensive in PPC. At the same time, PPC can be used to drive traffic from the ‘long tail’ of keywords – e.g. misspellings – which are not usually picked up through organic search. Filling the gaps of the other is much easier when natural and paid are run in the same place.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Tips for online marketing
1. A professional looking Web site is a necessity for small businesses. Trying to cut costs on a Web site could mean reduced business. A Web site is a representation of your business.
2. If your Web site doesn’t show up on the first two pages on a Google search of keywords related to your business you’re in a bad position. Better search engine optimization practices will provide a better opportunity for consumers to spot your site over others.
3. E-mail marketing such as e-newsletters, coupons and sales notices are an effective tool if done carefully. Overwhelming the consumer with too many e-mails may cause them to treat such offers as junk mail.
4. Blogging can be good for business. The more opportunities you have to allow people to find you, the better. Sites such as blogger.com offer free blogging services.
5. Be your own publisher. Add more content to your Web site such as articles and newsletters. This is an effective way to engage the consumer.
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2. If your Web site doesn’t show up on the first two pages on a Google search of keywords related to your business you’re in a bad position. Better search engine optimization practices will provide a better opportunity for consumers to spot your site over others.
3. E-mail marketing such as e-newsletters, coupons and sales notices are an effective tool if done carefully. Overwhelming the consumer with too many e-mails may cause them to treat such offers as junk mail.
4. Blogging can be good for business. The more opportunities you have to allow people to find you, the better. Sites such as blogger.com offer free blogging services.
5. Be your own publisher. Add more content to your Web site such as articles and newsletters. This is an effective way to engage the consumer.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
What is Internet Marketing and how does it work ?
The Internet has brought abounding altered allowances to marketing, one of which getting lower costs for the administration of advice and media to a all-around audience. The alternate attributes of Internet marketing, both in agreement of accouterment burning acknowledgment and eliciting responses, is a altered superior of the medium. Internet business is sometimes advised to accept a broader ambit because it refers to agenda media such as the Internet, e-mail, and wireless media; however, Internet business aswell includes administration of agenda chump abstracts and cyberbanking chump accord administration (ECRM) systems.
Internet business ties calm artistic and abstruse aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising, and sales. Internet business does not artlessly entail architecture or announcement a website, nor does it beggarly agreement a banderole ad on accession website. Effective Internet business requires a absolute action that synergizes a accustomed company’s business archetypal and sales goals with its website action and appearance, absorption on its ambition bazaar through able best of commercial type, media, and design.
Internet business aswell refers to the adjustment of media forth altered stages of the chump assurance aeon through seek engine business (SEM), seek engine enhancement (SEO), banderole ads on specific websites, e-mail marketing, and Web 2.0 strategies. In 2008 The New York Times alive with comScore appear an antecedent appraisal to quantify the user abstracts calm by ample Internet-based companies. Counting four types of interactions with aggregation websites in accession to the hits from advertisements served from commercial networks, the authors begin the abeyant for accession advancement of 2,500 pieces of abstracts on boilerplate per user per month.
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Internet business ties calm artistic and abstruse aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising, and sales. Internet business does not artlessly entail architecture or announcement a website, nor does it beggarly agreement a banderole ad on accession website. Effective Internet business requires a absolute action that synergizes a accustomed company’s business archetypal and sales goals with its website action and appearance, absorption on its ambition bazaar through able best of commercial type, media, and design.
Internet business aswell refers to the adjustment of media forth altered stages of the chump assurance aeon through seek engine business (SEM), seek engine enhancement (SEO), banderole ads on specific websites, e-mail marketing, and Web 2.0 strategies. In 2008 The New York Times alive with comScore appear an antecedent appraisal to quantify the user abstracts calm by ample Internet-based companies. Counting four types of interactions with aggregation websites in accession to the hits from advertisements served from commercial networks, the authors begin the abeyant for accession advancement of 2,500 pieces of abstracts on boilerplate per user per month.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
How to Optimize Video Content for SEO: 7 Tactics to Improve Your Rankings
Web users love online video. A summer report from comScore shows that U.S. residents watched more than 11 billion online videos in May 2008. And 52% of those viewers reported taking some action after watching, such as looking for more information or making a direct purchase, according to our 2009 Search Marketing Benchmark Guide.
Derek Fulford, Manager, Search Marketing, Weather.com, achieved an impressive 275% increase in daily views when his team optimized for search a series of archived online videos for one division of their organization.
If your site employs online video, you can borrow Fulford’s tactics to ensure that your content is indexed by search engines and shows up when users enter relevant keywords.
“For us especially, being a publisher site with revenue dependent on ad sales, video is something advertisers are familiar with,” says Fulford. “Our sales team is effective at selling video ads, so the more video we can generate and the more views we achieve, the more ads we can sell.”
Based on the success of that first campaign, Fulford’s team is now working to create a standard video SEO protocol for all of Weather.com’s video content. Flash-based players can make search-engine indexing more difficult. But Fulford found that many techniques used to optimize text-based content can be adapted to the video environment.
Fulford’s top seven tactics for improving search visibility for video content, include educating video production teams on front-end SEO, employing keyword targeting strategies, surrounding online video with tags, user comments, and other text-based content.
Tactic #1. Educate your video production team on SEO basics
Many critical steps in optimizing videos happen when files are created and placed onto Web pages. So, marketers must work closely with their video production team to ensure they understand the basics of SEO. In larger organizations, video production may be handled by a separate division.
To avoid confusion, Fulford recommends engaging in a formal SEO training process with any video production team. Key elements should include:
- Hosting an “SEO 101” training session with the video team. This session can introduce video producers to key concepts, such as:
o Identifying keywords for video titles and file names
o Tagging options
o Creating keyword-rich text descriptions of video content
- Planning a follow-up “SEO refresher” course or a more advanced training session several months after the team has begun employing SEO basics.
- Meeting with individual team members who’ve shown interest or requested deeper training on SEO topics.
- Writing a one-page, SEO-basics document that the team can take away from sessions to use as a resource during their day-to-day production duties.
Fulford stresses that even after conducting such training marketers should double-check new video files to ensure proper SEO techniques are being used.
“You can’t expect the video team to do everything, so you have to review their work.”
Tactic #2. Conduct research to ID relevant keywords for searches
As with all SEO campaigns, optimizing video content begins with identifying relevant keywords. Here are a few essentials:
- Identify a specific theme for video keywords.
Web pages may contain multiple content sections and navigation links that you can target for search engines. But video content tends to be shorter and more tightly focused.
For example, Weather.com features dozens of videos on hurricanes. Rather than choosing a generic search term such as “Hurricane,” the team identifies storms by a specific name or location, such as “Hurricane Ike” or “Hurricane Ike Houston.”
- Use keyword research tools to supplement your keyword list.
Once you’ve identified a major theme, keyword research tools, such as Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery, can identify popular terms, highly competitive terms, and useful synonyms that Web users are likely to type into a search engine.
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Derek Fulford, Manager, Search Marketing, Weather.com, achieved an impressive 275% increase in daily views when his team optimized for search a series of archived online videos for one division of their organization.
If your site employs online video, you can borrow Fulford’s tactics to ensure that your content is indexed by search engines and shows up when users enter relevant keywords.
“For us especially, being a publisher site with revenue dependent on ad sales, video is something advertisers are familiar with,” says Fulford. “Our sales team is effective at selling video ads, so the more video we can generate and the more views we achieve, the more ads we can sell.”
Based on the success of that first campaign, Fulford’s team is now working to create a standard video SEO protocol for all of Weather.com’s video content. Flash-based players can make search-engine indexing more difficult. But Fulford found that many techniques used to optimize text-based content can be adapted to the video environment.
Fulford’s top seven tactics for improving search visibility for video content, include educating video production teams on front-end SEO, employing keyword targeting strategies, surrounding online video with tags, user comments, and other text-based content.
Tactic #1. Educate your video production team on SEO basics
Many critical steps in optimizing videos happen when files are created and placed onto Web pages. So, marketers must work closely with their video production team to ensure they understand the basics of SEO. In larger organizations, video production may be handled by a separate division.
To avoid confusion, Fulford recommends engaging in a formal SEO training process with any video production team. Key elements should include:
- Hosting an “SEO 101” training session with the video team. This session can introduce video producers to key concepts, such as:
o Identifying keywords for video titles and file names
o Tagging options
o Creating keyword-rich text descriptions of video content
- Planning a follow-up “SEO refresher” course or a more advanced training session several months after the team has begun employing SEO basics.
- Meeting with individual team members who’ve shown interest or requested deeper training on SEO topics.
- Writing a one-page, SEO-basics document that the team can take away from sessions to use as a resource during their day-to-day production duties.
Fulford stresses that even after conducting such training marketers should double-check new video files to ensure proper SEO techniques are being used.
“You can’t expect the video team to do everything, so you have to review their work.”
Tactic #2. Conduct research to ID relevant keywords for searches
As with all SEO campaigns, optimizing video content begins with identifying relevant keywords. Here are a few essentials:
- Identify a specific theme for video keywords.
Web pages may contain multiple content sections and navigation links that you can target for search engines. But video content tends to be shorter and more tightly focused.
For example, Weather.com features dozens of videos on hurricanes. Rather than choosing a generic search term such as “Hurricane,” the team identifies storms by a specific name or location, such as “Hurricane Ike” or “Hurricane Ike Houston.”
- Use keyword research tools to supplement your keyword list.
Once you’ve identified a major theme, keyword research tools, such as Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery, can identify popular terms, highly competitive terms, and useful synonyms that Web users are likely to type into a search engine.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Investing In Pay Per Click Marketing
Generating traffic to your site can be a problem but pay per click can provide a very cost effective solution. The reason for this is how superior it is against almost every other type of advertising. Quite often the reason people don’t use pay per click is because they just don’t understand it; this article should provide sufficient information to make things clearer.
Essentially, when you decide that you want to try this kind of advertising, you will create a small ad referring to your site that will be put up on a larger site that many people frequently look at. If someone likes your ad text they will click on your link and be redirected to your site and provide they stay for more than ten seconds, you will pay the hosting site some money as thanks. The sites that provide you with hosting when it comes to this sort of advertisement are usually big with a large amount of traffic and will have some relationship to the product or services that you are trying to put across. For many people the benefit of only paying when the service is used i.
Rather than paying for a month’s worth of advertisements that might bring you no clients, here, you will only pay when people notice the advertisement and then go on to your site. There have been stories about company’s competitors carrying out dirty tricks by continually clicking on their link in an effort increase their advertising costs but thankfully that is not something that occurs very often. When you use pay per click marketing, you will benefit from using directed and targeted marketing. This means that people browsing the site where your advert is placed are already interested in what it is you are offering.
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Essentially, when you decide that you want to try this kind of advertising, you will create a small ad referring to your site that will be put up on a larger site that many people frequently look at. If someone likes your ad text they will click on your link and be redirected to your site and provide they stay for more than ten seconds, you will pay the hosting site some money as thanks. The sites that provide you with hosting when it comes to this sort of advertisement are usually big with a large amount of traffic and will have some relationship to the product or services that you are trying to put across. For many people the benefit of only paying when the service is used i.
Rather than paying for a month’s worth of advertisements that might bring you no clients, here, you will only pay when people notice the advertisement and then go on to your site. There have been stories about company’s competitors carrying out dirty tricks by continually clicking on their link in an effort increase their advertising costs but thankfully that is not something that occurs very often. When you use pay per click marketing, you will benefit from using directed and targeted marketing. This means that people browsing the site where your advert is placed are already interested in what it is you are offering.
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