Your web site marketing strategy is the essential factor that determines
the success or failure of a business web site. This is true whether your
web site is an extension of an offline business, or you run an
completely online business. Web site marketing is unlike any marketing
you may have done using other media.
However, marketing your web site on the internet shares many common core
marketing foundations that underlie your marketing efforts regardless of
the media you use. I am a strong believer that for a small business, all
marketing should be based on the old direct marketing mantra of
attention, interest, desire, and action. In this article I am going to
discuss those aspects in terms of how they are crucial in marketing your
web site on the internet.
Regardless of the media you choose, nothing will ever happen if you
don't attract the attention of prospective buyers. This is one of the
very basic tenets of successful marketing. On the internet, this concept
is evaluated by the traffic that you receive on your web site. But there
are a lot of factors that affect how much traffic you get, and only part
of it is the actual content of your web site. There are two ways you can
get attention in any media: you can earn it or you can buy it.
All the major search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.) show up two
different types of results when a customer uses them.
The most relevant results based on the search algorithms used by the
engine are called 'free' or 'organic' since they are the natural result
of running a search.
The second type of result are actually paid advertisements, and they can
be very difficult to distinguish from the results that are actually
relevant to you query.
It is important to keep in mind that no matter how good the engine, the
results are still hit or miss. It is a computer program sorting web
pages based on mathematical formulae, not live people helping you select
the best results, so as a person hoping to be indexed, you must be
willing to put the time and effort into checking how you rank on the
major engines and tuning your word choice to optimize that. If you can't
make it onto the first (or second at the very least) page of results,
your traffic will drop dramatically! Most people don't bother to wade
through the hits on the pages after that. Even second-page ranking will
hurt your ability to attract new users.
One of the most effective ways to increase internet traffic is buying
some form of advertising. One of the most pervasive forms is banner
advertising. Originally, these were very popular forms of advertising,
but as they became more prevalent, their effectiveness waned. They can
still be effective as long as you have a clear marketing strategy and
are able to track your advertising statistics.
Text advertisements are probably the most common form of internet
advertising today. Google has paved the way, and if done correctly, your
internet traffic can multiply quickly by using Google ads. MSN and Yahoo
also offer text advertisements on their sites. One downside to text
advertising is that the cost can add up fairly quickly, depending on how
many hits you receive for your ad. Each time a searcher clicks on your
text ad, the provider charges you a set amount. Another way to increase
traffic to your site is to buy traffic from someone who has an e-mail
contact list or has a lot of traffic on their site already.
Any approach to publicizing your website or portal must begin with the
aim of grabbing attention of the web surfers and internet addicts. To
grab attention, you must deliver your message to surfers on websites
they frequently visit. You can publicize your website by doing the hard
work yourself or by availing expert help, or a mix of both.
Doing it yourself means you will have to commit your time, energy and
money. It might sound daunting but ultimately proves to be cheaper as
well. Availing expert help can get your results without eating your
time. To set the cash registers ringing, it is suggested that you
develop your own mix of both ways suited to your own needs and
resources.
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