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April 23, 2013, 4:47 am

Things to Do in Online Marketing Today

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

The changes in marketing happen almost constantly, and it is important for any online marketer to be able to see and understand these changes, and then to be able to implement them into their own plan. The things that you learn here should be able to help you to get a better handle on your marketing. Whether you are writing about a VPN service or you are writing about video game controllers, it’s all about connecting with the audience.

Segmentation of Audience is Key

In the old days, many online marketers would take the shotgun approach to marketing, firing their marketing message at as many people as possible. It was difficult to tell what really worked and what didn’t work with this method. Today, rather than using that method, it makes far more sense to segment the audience into different groups. Proper onsite analytics can actually help you to do this.

When you are able to separate and segment your audience, you will find that you are able to have smaller batches of potential customers, and you will then be able to target your marketing message directly for those customers. Instead of using the shotgun approach, this is more of a laser beam approach, and it works wonders.

You will find that this has some other added benefits as well. Not only are you going to be getting a better response from those to whom you send your marketing materials, but also you are not going to be angering thousands of others who received your marketing message and who have no interest in what you are offering.

Connect with the People

One of the problems that many companies large and small face is that people merely see them as a company, a shell. They do not see the people who are working at the company and who make it what it is. Instead of having that façade between you and the customer, it’s time to get out and put a public face on your company. Thanks to the power of social networking and the web, you can do that quite easily.

Be authentic in your interactions with people online. When you are able to establish more of a personal connection with them, you will find that they are likely to be more receptive to marketing, as long as you do not push your marketing too aggressively. You will also find that when you are able to connect, it will make creating your marketing materials easier, since you will know what the people really want. Marketing something that people already want is going to be far easier than trying to convince them to buy something they don’t even know they might need!

Utilize Multimedia Techniques for Marketing

While you always want to have good, high quality content and persuasive copywriting on your site, you can’t ignore all of the other types of content that can make a difference to your marketing today. Consider the power of photos on your site. You should have photos of products, your building, employees… anything that will help to give people a better idea of who you are and what you do. Add these photos to all of your social networking sites as well. You should do the same with video. All of these things help you market, and they help to make you more accessible to your audience.

Learn How to Engage with Your Audience Using Social Networks

As you can see, marketing today is really about making a connection with your audience on a personal level. You want to have loyal customers who truly love your products and who will tell everyone else about you and what you offer.

Melissa Tyler enjoys writing reviews of the best VPN  providers at VPNTen.com. She loves to write posts about VPN security, safety technology and anonymously browsing.

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April 12, 2013, 4:32 am

Tips and Tricks for Beginners to Track Online Marketing Campaigns

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

There is an old rule that says that you can’t manage what you can’t measure. This holds very true and apt for marketing campaigns also. Without tracking online marketing campaigns it is like playing dart blindfolded. Instead of just going in for a marketing campaign with some amount of money involved, and then praying for it to work or assuming so, it is better to track your campaign. This will also give you an insight to the strength and weaknesses of the campaign and you can always have the option of going back to the drawing board and come up with a much more effective marketing plan or strategy. Here are some tips and tricks to track your online marketing campaign.

While talking about online marketing campaigns every kind of promotional campaigns are being taken into account, it may be an affiliate linked shared on some social networking site, or promo of an e-book or even a tweet promoting a simple article. The best way to do is use GA or Google Analytics in a diligent and proper way. This is the most convenient and effective tool in tracking your online marketing campaigns. It is probably the best and the most important aspect, it is free.

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1. Campaign URL tagging:                                                                                                                  

This one is really easy as you can use the URL Builder tool from Google. The steps are extremely straight forward and using the page you can build URLs easily and then share on in different medium like emails referrals.

The first step that is involved is entering the URL you want to promote. Next fill up the three fields that contain information for Google Analytics to gather and display as reports.

· Campaign Source: this is used to identify the source from where the traffic is being generated. The sources can be Google, Twitter, Newsletters, referrals and many more. This will give you a fair idea about which of the marketing campaigns is generating traffic and unique visitors. This can help you identify the weal ones and modify them and strengthen the strong ones also.

· Campaign Medium: this field allows you Google analytics to display and inform about the medium used by visitors. The medium can be organic, pay per click, emails, referrals and so on. This will give you a deeper insight to the source of traffic and effect of the online marketing campaign you are pursuing.

· Campaign Name: this field should contain name or names that can be easily identifiable to you. It will help you assess the different campaign results in details and work accordingly for deeper analysis.

· Campaign term and campaign content are optional fields and they are mainly used for AdWords testing. After filling up the fields press the button to Generate URL. The URL generated can be used for marketing campaigns. You can also opt for shortening the URL and hide campaign parameters also.

2. Using tracking URL:

The tracking URL is essential to track the online marketing campaigns. They will help you with all the essential details about calculating number of visits, leads and customer generated. This will always help you understand the strength of the online marketing campaigns as well as the weaknesses. This insight will always help you to design better and stronger campaigns at marginal cost. It is always better to have each campaign tracked by separate tracking URL for detailed and exact reports for each campaign.

3. Check Analytics regularly:

After all the hard work is done that is creating landing page and tracking URL, you can relax and check the analytics platform for in-depth analysis and information from time to time; use traffic Sources>sources>campaigns to look into the detailed reports in Google analytics. Other softwares will have similar pathways to display detailed results of your tracking URL and help you understand the online marketing campaign’s progress.

The final word:

The online marketing campaign can be monitored by Google Analytics free of cost and in detail. You can also integrate Google Webmaster Tools to do the same and the results can be excellent and deliver in-depth knowledge about the marketing campaigns success. You can also opt for some other software that act the same way, but Google Analytics comes for free. But remember one thing that the campaign may use a number of ways to promote, but knowing your niche market and consumers still holds the key. And to make your marketing campaign a success, content still acts as the major driving force.

About The Author: Diana is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes to Hydroxycut

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April 10, 2013, 4:59 am

How to Scale the Power of Your Online Marketing Strategies

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

Online marketing is an ever growing avenue and one can benefit from the same. To effectively scale up your online marketing endeavor is the need of the hour. The same is imperative, considering the boom in the market.

1.) Have an effective web design

Having an effective web design is the need of the hour. Your customers will be attracted to the online venture if the web design is an alluring lot. Make sure that the web design is simple enough for an average user to comprehend. Additionally, ensure that all the imperative details that one might require are visible with ease. If you are able to present an alluring web design to your possible customers, you will be firmly on the path to success and people will wish to check out your online venture.

2.) Effective use of email marketing

Email marketing is another valuable way of scaling your online operations. Choose the list of potential customers through various mediums available and prioritize on when to send them publicity material. There is no need to flood their mailbox with regular mails. You can consider sending a promotional message, every week. Ensure that every email marketing message you send to your regular and new customers every week is unique. Repeating the content or the idea is not a good practice and can cause some harm to your venture. Make the message crisp, unique and attractive enough so that it catches the attention of the user.

If you are able to ensure the same things will work out pretty smoothly in your favor and you will be able to make a mark for yourself in minimal possible time.

3.) Publish online press release

The idea of having online press release is a new concept that has emerged over the last few years. Try this strategy and publish online press releases on a regular basis. With new ideas and concepts being shared with users and readers every month, you are sure to get noticed. Once you are able to establish a niche for yourself, these online press releases will act as a booster for you and take your endeavor to a new high.

4.) Blogging and interacting

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Blogging is a great option when it comes to sharing your ideas online. The same can be used for promoting your online business. Create a blog in your niche area and contribute your ideas to the same effectively. You are sure to get noticed and your business venture will also receive a boost. If in case, you do not wish to have your own blog, the idea of guest blogging can be tried. This is a viable way of promoting your venture and you can explore the same for realizing the worth of your venture.

5.) Run promotional events on your website

For making your online venture, a successful endeavor, you need to try every viable method under the sun. Running promotional events on your website is one such idea that needs to be considered. You can think of starting some monthly contests, wherein the participants are rewarded adequately for their endeavor. Create a quiz competition on your various services or products and give some freebies to the winners. These can be in form of free eBooks, discount coupons and other accessories that might be of use to the readers.

6.) Hire the services of an internet marketing consultant

With the advent of online services, a new niche career option has crept up. This is the concept of internet marketing consultant. You can hire one on freelance basis for promoting your ideas and concepts. These consultants besides being SEO experts know all the tricks that can make your venture a successful lot. Ensure that you connect with them and make full use of their abilities. Your venture will turn into a commercially viable entity and you will be able to realize the potential of your venture to its best abilities.

7.) Try the social media route

Social media has emerged as a winning commodity. Be it Facebook, Twitter or You Tube, all are being used for promoting various business ventures. You too can benefit from the same in numerous ways. Create a Facebook page for your online venture and connect with users and readers across the globe. Twitter too can be used for effectively communicating the message. Follow people on Twitter and ensure that they are able to connect with your ideas and though process.

Follow the above listed tips and you will emerge a winner in the competitive online world.

About The Author: Diana is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes to Hydroxycut

February 15, 2013, 6:22 am

Tips to Keep Balance in Consumer Concerns in Internet Marketing

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

The advent of internet has revolutionized our lives. A range of products are available online and that too at competitive prices. Internet marketing gives an opportunity to the customer and the service provider alike to make use of technology and have the desired product or service with minimal hassles.

However, ensuring that customers remain attuned to your service or product, you need to ensure that as a service provider, you cater to the interests of your customer segment in a concerned way without going overboard.

The best strategy to adopt is to have an honest approach and develop a personal connection with the customers. Below are listed some tips that will help you maintain a discrete balance between customer interests and your business prospects.

1.) Offer a range of products

Internet marketing is a vast field. Each business segment has online presence. This in itself makes the task of internet marketers, a tough task to handle. To emerge victorious in such a competitive scenario, one needs to offer a range of products, even if catering to a particular niche segment.

This will help you attract customers from a diverse section of society who might be looking for a product of a particular type. As more people connect with your online venture, maintaining a balance on customer concerns will get easier.

2.) Connect with your customers

With more people going in for online mode of shopping, the need of the hour is to develop an engaging dialogue with the potential customers. This will not only help you understand the mind of the customer but will develop a passionate bond between you and the potential customer segment.

Give a wide range of options and connect with the customers. Options as payment on delivery return policy for products in case they feel dissatisfied and genuine discounts for regular customers are a great way of connecting with customers.

3.) Offer discounts but do not go overboard

If one scans the wide category of online websites that are into internet marketing, chances are bright that you may come across distinct websites. Some of these offers up to 80 percent discount on certain range of products. The same may be available for a higher price at another website. This creates confusion in the mind of the customer who might eventually decide against opting for shopping through internet.

Learn from such experiences and be honest with your customers. They are smart indeed and know the worth of a product or service that is being advertised. There is no need of going overboard and offering discounts just to attract customers. If you persist with quality and offer great products, customers will check out your website, even though the prices may be on the higher side.

4.) Invite ideas from customers

Having a dedicated customer base is great news for any business establishment in internet marketing. However, the competition is intense and you might need to get innovative to attract new customers. Invite ideas from customers as this will help you prioritize the services that need to be provided via the medium of internet marketing and content management.

Not only will your business increase but the customers will also feel interested in your online venture as they will be able to get their desired range of product or service, at the touch of a button.

5.) Do not offer half hearted information

As an internet marketer, offer genuine information about the category of service or product you are offering. Do not offer half hearted information to the customer. The product or service being highlighted should have adequate information displayed online. In case, you offer limited information on a product and it turns out to be of limited use for the customer, you stand to loose worthy business that might be waiting for you.

The best course of action to persist is to offer authentic information to the customers. This will help you build a trusted fan following and increase business, something you are always looking for.

6.) Connect through social media

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Use social media to its advantage. Offer information on your range of products through social media websites as Facebook and Twitter. Create a Facebook page and connect with potential customers. Invite comments from customers and page visitors. Youngsters usually offer genuine suggestions that will help you take the business forward. Do not get offended by critical suggestions, as implementing the same will only help you better the business prospects.

Maintaining a judicious balance between customer needs and your business interests is essential for success. Follow the above listed tips and reap the benefits.

About The Author: Diana is a writer. She loves writing, traveling and playing games. She contributes for Betaout.com

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July 27, 2012, 7:27 am

Original Content, Duplicate Content, SEO, and Google

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

It’s unfortunate, but thanks to the accessibility of the Internet, plagiarism has never been easier. In order to combat this trend and protect your intellectual property from being stolen, Google has come up with an algorithm commonly referred to as Panda. Google’s Panda (as opposed to Google’s PageRank) is the algorithm responsible for making the creation of unique and quality content a bigger determining factor for improving a given website’s search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP) rankings. This development happened mostly because stealing content has become a rampant issue due to the high demand for it.

Scammer Techniques in Stealing Content and How to Combat Them

Even if you do come up with original content, there are scammers and spammers out there who may copy your content and change the time stamp on their webpage in order to trick Google into believing that you stole your own content from them instead of the other way around. It’s an extremely frustrating dilemma for sure. Nevertheless, there are ways around this plagiaristic problem before or after your content has already been stolen by these opportunistic cyber criminals that want to make a quick buck at your own expense. If you want Google to make sure that you’re the one who wrote your content, then you should notify the website that you have a new article or page as you publish it.

You can do this by creating links to your new article via tweeting about it, putting it on Facebook, or having your friends and loved ones link it around for you, which will help Google immediately identify your new content as originating from you even before those deceitful plagiarizers can pilfer your content from right under your nose. Google has a tendency to crawl those popular pages before going through your website. Once the search engine sees those links to your new article, then that’s the time it’s notified of the need to crawl your own site. If your article has already been stolen, you should send a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice on the perpetrator who has filched your intellectual property from you.

Google Actually Punishes Excessive Use of Duplicate Content

The DMCA was specifically developed in order to protect your copyrighted digital content or products from being stolen by others, so you might as well make good use of this copyright protection for the sake of your website’s SEO wellbeing. At any rate, rest assured that duplicate content is something Google, Bing, and Yahoo frowns upon, because even though people can get away with a limited amount of duplicate content, too much of it will cause their page to not rank well on the SERP. Duplicate content can only get a trickle of traffic in comparison to original content, even if it’s popular or trending content that people are looking for.

On that note, all webmasters… and not just the ones who regularly get content stolen from them… should always come up with original content on every page in order to get the full support of search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo. More to the point, any page on your website that you consider crucial (like the front page, main page, or landing page of the product you’re selling) should contain original content every time. You should altogether avoid putting in a significant amount of duplicate content on pages that count if you want to gain as much search engine traffic on them as possible.

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April 12, 2012, 10:05 am

Getting the Best Online Marketing Company for Your Online Businesses

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

Thanks to the advent of the worldwide web, it’s now possible to gain an international following (online) without paying an arm and a leg for it. Online marketing is the wave of the future, and many companies big or small are now taking full advantage of the until-recently unimaginable invention known as the Internet. However, this brave new frontier in marketing and promotion shouldn’t be handled by amateurs alone despite its ease of use. In order to truly utilize the full potential of online marketing, SMBs (small to medium businesses) need to depend on the expertise of the best online marketing company they could possibly find.

Online Marketing is the Future of Advertising and Promotion

Online marketing companies know best when it comes to handling issues like SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PPC (Pay per Click) Advertisements, and anything else that’ll help a company’s website gain Internet visibility. An online marketing company that’s worthwhile should be flexible, adaptable, and versatile seasoned veterans who’ve seen it all, done it all, and are prepared to become vanguards in whatever new trend that emerges in the infinite realm of the information superhighway. Moreover, an Internet marketing firm should constantly be abreast in the latest technological breakthroughs and SEO techniques in order to give their clients a competitive edge in online popularity.

The future of a business will depend on the competency of the online marketing company it hires because nowadays consumers are more easily influenced by Internet marketing than they are of traditional advertising methods like print ads, posters, television commercials, and so forth. What’s more, marketing through SEO and PPC is a lot more affordable than making your own million dollar ad, especially if you’re a small-time startup company who could barely afford to run a website. Instead of wasting billions on advertising agencies, your dollars will be better spent on getting the best online marketing company you can get your hands on.

Your Rules of Thumb When Choosing an Online Marketing Company

With that said, you should choose wisely when it comes to finding the Internet marketing firm that best suits you. Listed below are some of the tips, tricks, recommendations, advice, and guidelines you can use to search the most suitable, affordable, and comprehensive online marketing company out there:

  • SEM Research: Search Engine Marketing research is a must for any online marketing company that’s deserving of your time, money, and attention. After all, search engines are forever adjusting their algorithms and employing new means of spam removal, so past techniques that proved useful before may be considered as useless nowadays in light of all the updates that Google, Yahoo, and Bing do with their respective search engines.
  • Double-Check Their Client Experience: Even if an online marketing company you fancy has years and years of seasoned experience, it wouldn’t matter much if they have little to no experience dealing with your company’s particular industry. Ask them about their past clients and pick the company that has experience helping a firm like yours, whether you’re a law firm, a textile company, a game developer for mobile phones, and so forth.
  • Extended SEO Campaigns: As another rule of thumb, an online marketing company that performs extended SEO campaigns is more likely to help you than one with limited experience in that area. More to the point, extended SEO campaigns should be the bread and butter of topnotch Internet marketing firms because a vast majority of your web visibility will be determined by how well their SEO operations and strategies go.

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March 20, 2012, 8:43 am

Choosing the Right Online Marketing Company

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

There’s no company that’s worth its salt that doesn’t want to expand its business further and wider. All companies want to grow and flourish in their respective field. They all want to sell more products and services, become household names, and have loyal customers that will (metaphorically) follow them to the ends of the earth. This is the reason why companies spend thousands, even millions, of dollars on marketing and advertising. However, because of the advancements in technology we have at present, every business can now advertise their wares without any additional costs (or at least at a reduced, cost-effective price).

The Magic of Internet Marketing and the Online Marketing Company

Internet marketing has opened new doors to many companies, especially SMBs (small to medium businesses) who would otherwise not be able to afford promotions as wide and far reaching as those found in the worldwide web. Indeed, online marketing is the wave of the future, so it’s only natural for you to choose the best online marketing company out there in order to take full advantage of this so-called brave new frontier in marketing and promotions. Thanks to the online marketing company, businesses can now do global transactions instead of just local ones, which wouldn’t have been possible in the past unless your corporation is already a multinational conglomerate of sorts.

As long as you have a steady, working Internet connection and you’re with an online marketing company to back you up, the sky is the limit. As a rule of thumb, the best online marketing company out there should be capable of providing your company with the proper information regarding SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PPC (Pay Per Click), social network marketing (using Facebook, Twitter, and Google+), and the like. They should be well-versed in everything related to Internet marketing, but they shouldn’t be the type of organization that keeps you in the dark as well. In order for you to approve of some of their online marketing schemes, they should be willing to walk you through the entire process and inform you the ins and outs of online marketing.

Internet Marketing Strategies is the Online Marketing Company’s Bread and Butter

Furthermore, an online marketing company that’s worth its salt should be vigilant when it comes to new emerging advancements. It should never be left in the dust and it should always be on the cutting-edge of technology. If businesses could come up with their own Internet marketing strategies, they would do so, but the fact of the matter is that they aren’t experts in coming up or even applying these myriad of methods. That’s the reason why they have to depend on an online marketing company in order to ensure every last online marketing decision they make is a sound one.

A good online marketing company should forever be conducting research on the next big thing on the Internet. It is their duty to increase your corporation’s web presence using a myriad of online marketing tactics they’ve discovered and implemented through years and years of experience. To be more specific, an online marketing company should be responsible in handling your SEO (guaranteeing top five rankings on Google’s SERP), PPC services, web copywriting, social media marketing, topnotch link building with zero spam, video marketing, viral marketing, online media, and online marketing consultation.

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August 21, 2008, 7:01 pm

What can you expect from a search engine optimization campaign

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

As the search marketing industry is getting increasingly competitive, below are some tips to help you understand your current position in the market and what to expect.

Implementing an effective and robust search engine optimization campaign is one of the most efficient ways to drive targeted but also massive volume of traffic. However, there are a lot of misconceptions about search engine placements and what to expect from your employee or company who handles your search engine optimization efforts. As the search engine marketing industry is getting increasingly competitive, it’s almost becoming impossible to rank high for various competitive terms. Before you make calculations on what to expect you have to make an initial situational analysis of your website. This includes your current Google Page Rank. To check your Google Page Rank score, (which is Google’s measurement of how important your website is in their eyes), you can download the toolbar here http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html Once you have installed this on your computer, you can check what page rank your website have (a scale from 0-10). The higher score your website have, the better. If your website page rank is very low (such as 0-2) you really need to get some quality links from websites with a High Page Rank.

One way to do this is to purchase links on website which possess a high Google Page Rank. However, be very careful as Google now actively tracks down on websites who actively purchase text link for the purpose of boosting their page rank score. If the site where you purchase a link from is very open about selling links, please stay away from them as Google may have red flagged this website already. Linking from them will just boost your spam score in Google and could cause your current positions to slip and prevent your optimized keywords from appearing in the top results.

Another important initial analysis of your website is to determine how many links are pointing to your website. A quick way to check how many websites link to yours and your competitor’s websites is to install the Firefox Extensions on your browser (Firefox). When you search for one of your keywords in Google, you can view much valuable information such as how many links are pointing to yours and your competitor’s site, age of domain, Alexa Rank, Directory listings such as DMOZ, Yahoo Directory and BOTW and much more. If your competitors have lots of links pointing to their websites, this tells you that you really need to work on your link popularity. However, quantity of links is not the most important anymore but the quality is what Google is looking after nowadays. One great way of building one way links quickly is article syndications. If you write highly quality articles, many websites would like to add your information source on their websites. However, you need to implement a RSS feed on your website before. So to summarize, if your website have a low Google page rank and if your site is not linked up well, do not expect immediate results. It is impossible to say how long it will take to gain measurable results but a ballpark figure would be around 6 months depending on your industry.

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November 14, 2004, 5:11 pm

Discover 5 Hot Strategies of Generating Massive Visitors and Sales to your Website

Posted By: Johan Hedin
Category: Website Promotion

Are you one of these guys who got hooked on selling online but nothing happens? As you read on, you will discover how to maximize your profits online with the five most up-to-date Internet marketing strategies for your online business. But first, there are two important facts you need to know before you even get started. First, ensure your website conversion-ratio is high. This means you need to know how many orders you get per 100 clicks. For instance, if you receive 100 clicks and get 2 orders, this means your conversion ratio is 2%. Without knowing how you convert, you could be wasting lot of money on advertising and nothing or very little will happen on your website. Later on, you will find out how you can improve this on your website. Once your website conversion is high, start generating massive and targeted visitors to your website using the four strategies below.

The first strategy is to optimize your website in natural search engines (akaorganic search) and get top placements in google, yahoo, msn, aol etc. The key here is to focus on around 1-3 keyword phrases per page. The keywords obviously need to be popular and targeted for optimal results. You can check a keyword’s popularity and competition by going to www.overture.com or www.wordtracker.com and type in a keyword term to see how many searches there have been per month for a particular keyword. Once you have determined which keywords you want to optimize for, it is time to implement those keyword phrases on strategic places on your website. The most important places are the title tag, headlines, and words on your website, alt tags and links tags. Some search engines still consider the meta-tags, which are the keyword and the description tags. You also need to build a link campaign for your website because search engines love websites who have many websites pointing to them. But a word of caution, make sure to exchange links with websites who have good rankings themselves in the search engines, are related to your website category, and have a high google page rank. Every website has a google page rank from 0-10 where ten is the best and zero is the lowest. Ensure to exchange links only with websites with a high google page rank, which will help to get a high pr and top placements with google.

The second strategy is to utilize affiliate marketing. This has become one of the most attractive advertising methods because you only pay when websites send you visitors that generate an order/sign up. This means free traffic and you pay the affiliate partner a commission that will be tracked by a third party. The key to a successful affiliate marketing campaign is to locate and recruit top affiliates (a.k.a super affiliates) who can generate hundreds and even thousand of orders per month from their websites. In return you have to provide the affiliate with a decent commission or he/she will go elsewhere.

The third strategy is to utilize multiple auto responders. Most of your website visitors will come to your website and never to return. But with multiple auto responders you will be able to get then back again to your website for those that were interested but never signed up. Implement a place on your website where they can enter their e-mail address and name in return for five free reports automatically sent to them on a topic that would be interesting to your target audience.

In the free reports, include useful information about the topic you decide to use, links to your company website, promotions, and other call to action links that would give the user a chance to come back again. You will be surprised how many will do this and sign up on your website, which is why some of the most successful Internet marketers are still using this effective marketing tool. You can set the free report to be sent out in intervals at set dates and it’s all automatic and free, so it will save you lots of time and advertising cost. So for instance, the user who requested the free report would receive automatic reports on day one, day four, day eight, day twelve and day eighteen or whatever dates you set.

The fourth strategy is to use Pay Per Click search engines. Because natural search engines can be very time consuming, the PPC engines have grown tremendously in popularity the past years because you get immediate results (top placements appear immediately) compared to the natural search where it can take weeks and months to appear in the top. The PPC works like an auction, so the more you pay per click the higher your ranking will be in Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Google etc. However, you will only be charged when someone clicks your listing. The key to PPC engines is to find popular keyword terms but with little competition. Also, it is crucial to implement strategies to ensure only potential customers will click on your listing. One example is to use your price to screen out the general visitors that won’t sign up. For instance, by stating prices starting at 2000 baht, you ensure only potential prospects who are willing to pay 2000 baht will click on your listing.

Lastly, as important as generating traffic is to your website, you continually need to work on your website conversion to maximum results. By making an a/b split run test you test which web page (a or b) performs the best. One example is to make a “web page a” where the price is to set to a certain price and “web page b” which is identical but with a different price. You would then rotate these web pages and you will soon discover which performs the best. Then continue with the best performing piece and make another test. This time you could do another price point test or anything else that you think could make a difference. However, only make one change at the time or else you will never know which change made your website perform better or worse.