Posts Tagged ‘SEO’

Adwords Top Tips: Create Your Own Adwords Miracle!

search engine | Posted by Sanjiv
Jul 13 2010

Are you looking to learn how to optimize your ads, increase click through rate, reduce advertising costs and maximize return on investment in one go? The following tips will help you in achieving those aims.

Keeping Track On Your ROI (Return on investment)

This is one statistic that you really need to know. You need to know where your conversions are coming from on a keyword level. Detailed knowledge on this will seriously reduce your advertising costs which into increases your overall profit. Google now provides a useful service from within your Adwords account called ‘Analytics’ which will provide with this vital information.

How to Improve ROI?

Conversion rates will need to be improved. This can be achieved by:

Traffic Quality – One of the major mistakes that new adword users make is bidding on to general a term. You need to narrow down your keywords. For example, instead of bidding on ‘sports car’ you may do better to try ‘red convertible sports car’. If you can attract more targeted traffic you will have a better chance of converting them into actual sales.

Ad Copy – Try some simple split testing. Test the same ad, but with different headlines. Make sure you click the ‘show ads equally’ option within your account. This will be an ongoing process that will forces you to gradually write better performing ads.

Landing page – Do you have your own landing page?

If you are only direct linking to the merchants page then this will not apply to you, although landing page is something that you should be looking into. If you do have a landing page you will need to constantly monitor and update. Are people clicking through to your merchant? If not then work must be done on the landing page to remedy this. Try improving your page headline, write better reviews, make links stand out more etc. Maybe you could offer them something free? The point of a landing page is to pre-sell the product to them before they even get to your link!

Pay Per Click Ad Program

search engine | Posted by Sanjiv
May 22 2010

Pay per click advertisements are very cheap if you compare to other advertisement methods on the web. You have to pay only if a visitor clicks on your advertisement and visits to your website or your affiliates website. The benefit of pay per click advertisements is that you need not own a website which is a perfect way for home business owners to earn money online with a limited budget.

The main benefit of pay per click advertisements is you pay only for the ad which have been clicked. Pay per click internet advertising is based on your advertisements according to the bidding you have done on the keywords. Obviously, ads which pay more are of higher ranking.

Google adwords, Yahoo search marketing and Bing Toolbox are some of the most pay per click progras on the internet.

Another benefit of Pay per click program is that you can continuously monitor the progress of your ads, manage your keywords, change the keyword bidding process, monitor the daily budget, set the daily budget for your ad program. When your daily budget gets over, your ads will not display on that particular day. This is manageable any number of times and any time you want. If you feel your ad are not generating the revenue, you can hold the ad or can also stop it permanently.

You must know your competitors before you launch a pay per click advertisement program. To understand your competitors gives a good idea to create your own ad. List out keywords with which you want to link your product. For getting a list of keywords you may signup with Wordtracker free keyword suggestion tool.  You can also get the KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index) here which will allow you to determine the niche keyword and not get lost in a sea of keywords. This is a very effective tool to determine the competition of the keywords and gives you a good idea as to which keywords to bid for to get targeted audience to click your ads at an economical price.

The Pay per Click advertising allows you to test market your future campaigns. If you intend to launch a full fledged website , Pay per Click advertising allows you to test the waters. You can analyse your keywords and find out which works for you best You can also test viability of the products for which you are an affiliate of.

Pay per Click advertising not only helps you in earning money but can also be a very effective marketing and information tool for your future businesses.

10 Important Rules for Internet Marketing

Internet Business | Posted by Sanjiv
Nov 19 2009

Anybody who is into Internet marketing needs to understand the basic rules for this type that is totally different from usual marketing done in companies. People in this field also need to know that these rules keep changing with time, so they have to keep themselves updated.

The managers need to have enough knowledge about these rules in order to allocate budget properly. He/she should be aware of the limitations each tool have regarding ROI.

Remember, Internet marketing is a two-way marketing tool encouraging customers to communicate & is totally different from traditional marketing that merely delivers the company’s message to the customers. As Internet changes the way we communicate with our customers, it also provides us with a long list of tools to choose from. The most commonly used ones are email marketing, PPC advertising, banner advertising, link popularity, lead generation, article marketing, search engine optimization, online press releases, tapping blogs, contextual text advertising, text link advertising, pop-ups & pop-unders, etc.

Generally, it’s wise to keep the 10 following rules to succeed:

  1. Use a variety of techniques:
    Don’t put all your eggs in one basket & never go for only one technique at a time. Make a list of all those techniques that suit your marketing objective. Just to get started & to understand the trend, you can research about what your competitors are doing on the Internet.
  2. Invest a small amount in every tool when you first use it:
    As a general rule, don’t put a lot of money in a tool that you have not used before. This also applies to off-line marketing tools.
  3. Be persistent in Internet marketing:
    Do Internet marketing as a regularly as possible. With each passing day, it’s becoming more difficult to get the traffic attracted, as the competition is getting more & more tough.
  4. Use these Internet marketing tools to build relationship with your customers:
    Don’t forget to follow-up after every contact with your customer. This can be done by just sending thank you cards to your customers or sending season’s greetings so that they know you remember & care for them.
  5. See Internet marketing as a long-time effort:
    Don’t expect changes overnight. Remember, you might not succeed the first time you use a particular Internet marketing tool. This doesn’t mean that you should not use that technique ever again. Keep learning from your mistakes & you’ll succeed.
  6. Test your tool:
    Always test the tool before a visitor lands on that page so that the required changes are made on time.
  7. Never restrict your marketing to Internet only:
    Doing marketing on Internet doesn’t mean that you stop marketing off-line. Keep using those traditional marketing methods side by side.
  8. Keep learning new Internet marketing techniques:
    Always be on a lookout to know at once of the new techniques coming up.
  9. Be different from others:
    You can’t attract your target market unless you do it in a unique way. Try to be different from competitors. Don’t be a follower, be a leader.
  10. Measure your result:
    Your marketing campaign doesn’t end till you track & measure the result produced by running it. Each Internet marketing tool requires a different method of measuring its success. Have a thorough knowledge of these ways even before putting your hands in any tool.

Website Launch Tips For Small Businesses

Website Development | Posted by Sanjiv
Aug 27 2009

Intended Audience: Small Business Owners/webmasters and anyone new to the world of web design and search engine optimization (SEO) particularly those working with small businesses, organizations and sole traders.

When launching a new website there are a number of key issues to address in order to get your new website off to a good start and get it indexed by the search engines particularly Google.

Create a Sitemap

A sitemap file is used to inform the search engines about the content of your website in terms of the number of web pages, their names, and the priority of each page and the frequency of change. There are a number of online sitemap generators that you can use to create a sitemap though always check before submitting your sitemap to Google that it is complete and contains all the web pages that you want indexed.

Create a robots.txt

A robots.txt informs search engines about which content you do not want indexed by the search engines. For example most websites do not want their images or documents directories indexed by Google and a robots.txt file can be used to prevent their indexing.

Install a Google Map on your website

Most small business will have a requirement for an interactive location map on their website for one or more of their locations. Websites that use the Google Maps Application Programming Interface (API) tend to be indexed more quickly than websites that do not use this facility.

Note: All of the above items should be completed prior to your website going live.

Add Your Website URL to Google

As soon as your website is live then you should submit your website URL to Google to let them know the website is ready for crawling and indexing. You should also add your website URL to Bing and Yahoo at this time. Instructions to add your website URL to the above search engines can be easily found on each search engine.

Utilise Website Monitoring Tools

Once your website goes live it is very important to monitor its progress closely during the early weeks to ensure it gets indexed and there are no content issues. Tools such as Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer are useful in this regard and will allow you to ascertain which web pages have been indexed, display backlinks, uncover content errors etc.

Obtain Relevant Links

Good quality relevant links are also important.

5 Questions to Ask Your Web Developer Before Outsourcing Your Work

Website Development | Posted by Sanjiv
Aug 27 2009

Choosing a web developer can be difficult, especially when you are not familiar with the intricacies of the internet, search engines and web standards. A web developer is equipped with a larger range of skills than that of a web designer. Along with designing, he/she can handle generally XTML coding, graphic layout, creating databases, programming and testing web standards. Often web developers give a good presentation and convince you of giving a good output. But they may not be able to meet the standards you expect when they get down to work. So it is better to be vigilant about choosing a web developer. Here are some question you should ask the web developer that ca help you in making the right choice.

  • Is he a “web developer” or “web application developer”?

Many people claim they are web developers and all they know ASP.NET. They believe they can build a websites by using juts that. Don’t buy that. To build a good website, knowledge about XHTML, SEO and web standard compliance are all essential skills. 

  • Does he/she test the websites for their compliance with web standards?

Web standards are guidelines for creating websites that are compatible on a variety of browsers. Make sure the web developer is familiar with this practice. If the website does not work on multiple browsers, users may get annoyed and may not take the trouble to try looking up your website on other browsers.

  • Is he/she familiar with building SEO friendly websites?

It is important that the person knows about SEO standards so that he can make your website SEO friendly. 

  • What is the experience the person has?

It is not enough that the developer has a lot of experience. Check if he/she has relevant experience so that a website that matches your expectations can be built. 

  • Are the person’s communication skills good?

This is not directly related to web development, but is very important in getting the person to understand your requirements so that it can be executed properly.