Friday, May 30, 2008

Email Marketing The Secret of Subscription Landing Pages

Subscription Landing Pages are helpful in getting more visitors to subscribe to your email newsletter.

Collecting opt- in list is the most important aspect of email marketing. To bring this into effect, website designers place the subscription button on every page in the website. This is a good technique of gaining user email ids. And a yet another compelling technique of attaining these email ids is through creating attractive landing pages.

Why I support subscription landing pages is because they have a compelling nature and are useful in getting them to sign up for the website newsletter. But the important thing about your subscription landing page is the message that you show. It is not always that the users are willing to subscribe to your newsletter. A lot of it depends on the nature of the text. If the text is attractive enough, or if it is playful in order to make the user feel that this is an important part of website browsing, your task is accomplished.

Tell your visitors why you want them to join the subscription. Let it sound as their benefit than your profit. If possible you can also provide them with a preview example of an already running newsletter, which should necessarily contain good information. If these are well received by the user, they will definitely join your website.

These little features are important to get users compelled to click on the Subscribe Me Now! Button. There are a number of websites I know, who have made use of this compelling landing page fundamental and are doing great business in email marketing.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Community Website Development- Whats the Big Difference?

Since the advent of the multiple feature Community Websites, the popularity of dating sites have reduced. What is the big difference between them?

Just a couple of years ago, people were crazy about dating online and making new friends. They used to spend most of their time online chatting and visiting one community after another. Today those dating sites are no more popular. They do not have too many registrations neither do they have active members. Guess where all these people have gone? Some have probably grown old enough for dating, and the rest along with the newer generation have now joined the community website craze.

In my eyes community website development is actually an improvised, idealized, broadened, more polished and refined form of dating websites. They are actually an excellent combination of a number of different features that have been clubbed together to form a single platform for different purposes.

The community websites, are a place where you can not only make new friends, but also trace older ones. They give you an opportunity to meet your frieds and also their friends so that you can expand your group or network. You can promote your business, make business contacts, share videos, files, photos, make forums, discuss on various issues, play games, send private messages, and so many more things.

Community website devlopment too needs a lot of different approaches and designing, which ideally cannot be handled by just any website developer. It requires an excellent knowledge in the functioning of community websites and the exclusive feature each one of it carries.

What I gather from all this is that the dating websites have actually not abandoned, they have just evolved into a better version the community sites. And why not? Community websites are definitely a better place to be in.


Monday, May 26, 2008

Search Engine Marketing Needs Blogs

Blogs help in the process of search engine marketing making it easier to promote and market a product.

As you are getting deeper into search engine marketing, you must be using different ways of promoting and branding your website online. I can add to your list. Here we are talking about Blogging. Yes the act of blogging is now classified as one of the important mediums of marketing a website. Lets take a look at how Blogs are helpful in the search engine marketing process of our websites.

Blogs are an easy way to build a brand name. All you need to do is create a blog on the web and keep adding good and quality content into it regularly. Content as it is is considered to be a great SEO tool.

Your blog will be extremely popular if it carries good content and moreover, it will attract a lot of visitors from the search engine too. It is infact a free medium of earning good traffic to the websites not only from the search engines, but also from social media websites, and even other blog sites.

Blogs are an excellent way of bridging the gap between you and your customers. People these days are extremely open to interactive techniques. They will love to interact with you through your blog and shall also comment on your blog posts if it is on a matter of their concern. This makes search engine marketing easier as the end users come very close to the marketer and is already comfortable enough with them.

Another factor about blogs that make it so popular is that they are an informal way of marketing the websites. Once you have created a blog, it is not necessary that you always place relevant and professional content in the site. As a matter of fact you are free to post anything in your blog from personal experience to the latest trend in search engine marketing and freely add your views and comments on it.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Social Media the Reigning Phase of Online Marketing

Social media is the reigning phase of Online marketing. It is also being called 'communication marketing.' Check my comments on it.

The gap in the marketing of brands Online is now being bridged by Social Media. While I was doing this little assignment on social media as communication marketing, I came across really thoughtful ideas on how the gap that was existing so far between the marketers and the customers is now being bridged by social media and its chain of tools, which seems to be a never ending list with additions made almost everyday.

Social Media has helped to bring the marketers and the customers on an equal platform, where they can openly talk and discuss on various topics. The primary reason for the growth of this Online marketing technique is that it is necessarily informal and relaxed form of writing. Users are free to comment on issues and discuss pitfalls openly. Moreover, marketers invite such discussions as it does not only make them aware of their drawbacks but at the same time also acts as a promotional tool, since users actually visit their websites.

Social media as a conversation marketing medium is changing the way marketing has been conducted so far. It is bringing both the marketers and the customers to light, making Online marketing more interactive than it ever was.

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Web Analytics: The Power of Knowing it all

Use web analytics quality data it understand what is going on in your website and also why this is happening.

All you web users who thought that there is no spy behind you to track your path on the web, Be Ware! Website owners know everything about you. Where are you coming from, what all you did on a website and from where and in how long you left the website. But of course, all this is possible only if the website is being tracked by a Web Analytics report which can generate individual performance of a user in your website.

The data that the web analytics reports can produce are simply enormous. In simple words, just think of an angle in which you wish to have your data ready and the analytics report shall present it to you. Yes, it is indeed so flexible. The benefits of web analytics can be understood only if the the web masters have the right approach to using these datas. These are of great help in tracking how your search engine marketing campaign is moving.

While I was going through a blog written by Avinash Kaushik the famous web analytics blogger, I came across a very interesting phrase written by him. (I take your permission Mr. Avinash to quote the phrase here in my blog.) He says. “...qualitative data is crucially important ”

What exactly do you mean by quality data? The difference between using web analysis for quantity data and quality data is similar to having the knowledge of what exactly happened and why it all happened. Most datas will only tell you what happened in your website without giving too much insight into why it actually occurred. But a quality data if carefully scrutinized will tell you why it happened too.

In order t make optimum use of your web analysis datas to enhance your in search engine marketing strategy it is necessary that you combine the quantity data with quality data and do a comprehensive study of both to find the actual status of your website.

Web Analytics should be adopted as a continuous process for all those who are into Online marketing or search engine marketing in order to make sure that they show you the pathway to make your website the most beneficial and profitable earning source.


Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Google A helping Aid to Disaster Struck Victims

Google provides links to help the Myanmar disaster struck victims through the home page.

Ever since the news of the Disaster that struck Myanmar recently hit the news channels, the world has been glued to the TV screens to learn more vistims, their families and the relief that is reaching them. Google the SEM service provider has done a nobel deed by adding a special link in their home page, which is going to support the Cyclone victims of Myanmar.

The link opens into a page which has two option. Donations can either be given to UNICEF, world's leading international children's organization. The social home is collecting aids from across the globe to provide nutrition, clean water, protection and emergency response to save lives. The donation given by you through Google Checkout will reach the UNICEF fund in US, to support emergency relief efforts being taken for children suffering in Myanmar.

Google has also tied up with Direct relief a non-sectarian, non-governmental and entirely private fund raising program, which provides all services in a non-discriminatory manner, without considering the political affiliation, religious belief, or ethnic identity of the affected place and victims. Funds added by you in this box will go directly to the victims aids and not to any fundraising or administration.

Hat's off to Google the world leading SEM services provider. A noble step indeed, Hope more people think like this, so that for once, we can shift our attention from just business to a more humanitarian cause.


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Thursday, May 1, 2008

The Future of Image Search: Google's Version

Google Scientists predict that Google can now predict what is inside an image and rank it accordingly, without any human effort. How true is this?

In a paper presented by two Google scientists on “Page rank for product image searches”, the scientists claim that Google has already decided the future of image searches. Soon it shall launch its image page rank feature, where without any human intervention, the search engine will be able to read what is within and hence rank its credibility.

Google's new image search will rank images all on its own, analyzing its subject and content. This technique will apparently remove its alt text dependency which had been using so far, to read behind an image. This indeed is a commendable job, and if the paper really clicks through, it will be a yet another great step towards technology updates and very soon no human mechanism will be required to study the image description through meta data.

All content analysis hence forth will be conducted by the computers which will read the description behind the images before the Google image searching algorithm crawls the website and adds page ranks to them.

This invention as a matter of fact is a good news to all SEOs who now do not need to worry about excessive images being stuffed in the webpages, which will go unread by the search engines. So far so good. The idea does sound interesting to learn. But the truth will come out only when it is in practice. If it succeeds it would definitely be a great step towards development. Yes, SEOs now need to pull up their socks and learn some graphic designing skills too.

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