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09 Jun 10 How to Promote your Website?

Well, building a website is no big deal nowadays. What makes Jack’s website turn out to be the ‘talk of the town’, draw maximum traffic, millions of followers and lead the whole category is actually a big deal! And this big deal is possible with an effective marketing promotion. Web marketing is very important in today’s age. Just mastering a few small tips could make you a winner too.

13 ways to promote your website

  1. The foremost important thing is the content of your website. No marketing can draw in traffic to a poor website for very long time. Content has to be interesting and visitor arresting.
  2. Get a good position in the search engines and web directories. That’s the key to success. Use meta tags, use appropriate keywords to earn clicks. Search engine placement, positioning, ranking will facilitate your website’s popularity. Your goal should be to be listed in the first page of Google’s search results.
  3. Get a domain name and pay for the hosting. It will add credibility to your work. Don’t opt for too long url. Go for a relevant name, easy to spell and remember. All these will help you score better in search result.
  4. Try to build incoming links. Find relevant sites which are not direct competitors. Approach them, requesting exchange of links. Start linking to them to draw their interest in your business. Link building, paying for links and link swapping will help you draw maximum number of visitors.
  5. Get into PPC that’s pay per click advertising – Google Adwords and Yahoo search marketing to generate traffic.
  6. Try email signature – a footer which appears at the bottom of your email communication automatically. Besides your name it can include url of your website or blog and your work in brief.
  7. Join forums related to your domain. Actively participate there, put suggestions, comments. Don’t spam but whenever required promote your web url there.
  8. News letters can be great tool of promotion. Start writing newsletters and sending to email addresses in your database. Every month pick a special topic and relate to your task and write something which adds value to others lives. You can send special deals, offers, contest information, update notices or share just a piece of news.
  9. Start writing genuine articles and post on different article sites.
  10. Gather ‘opt in’ email addresses and also send email requests to prospective customers. Send regular email to already roped in people; who have been actively looking forward to your communication, besides targeting new email receivers who can be future clients.
  11. Get into offline advertising too. You could flash your web url against buses, cars, billboards, t-shirts, letterheads, business cards, envelopes.
  12. Besides link exchange try banner ads exchange too. Though swapping banners with other sites bring less qualified traffic than targeted banner ads, but they also cost you much less.
  13. Pay commissions to associates who send visitors to your page.

Web marketing will seem easy tool for you to climb the ladder fast and lead the rest in the business.

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07 Nov 09 Why the Heck Should I Look at Traffic Stat?

Well, if you think everyone look at their traffic log then you are sadly mistaken. Not everyone and every company that owns a website is web savvy. Most of the people do not understand the importance of analyzing website usage statistics. In this post, my goal is to help them understand how critical it is for the success of their business that website traffic log is analyzed.

Reason 1: To know from where the traffic is coming and why

Is it Google or Yahoo or Bing that is sending you the maximum traffic? Or is it the social media sites like Facebook or twitter? Is Digg or StumbleUpon working for you or not? What kind of posts or articles is getting more traffic? Is your effort to get qualified sales lead paying off well or not? These are some of the questions you need to answer in order to make an informed decision about the course of action for your website.

Reason 2: To Track the website usage behavior

The information you get out of your website stat does not just tell you about how many people visited your site and from where. It also tells you about the visitors’ behavior: what they did, which pages they visited, which element got most attention and which caused them to leave, etc. You can use this data to fix the pages that cause the visitors to leave, and use more of the elements that interest visitors.

Reason 3: To know how effective your marketing is

You need to know how effective the dollar you spent on marketing are, and for that you will need to analyze the data. Use Google Analytics or any other analysis tool to figure out which keyword and which search engine is fetching you more traffic. When you are buying keywords from programs like Google Adwords then this information will save you money. This information will also help you drop the useless keywords and purchase the ones that work.

Reason 4: To know what visitors like and what they don’t

The analysis of traffic data will also tell you what is the common entry point to your website and what works as an exit gate. This knowledge will help you amplify the things that work and remove the page from where maximum people leave.

Reason 5: To know the problem in your site

Web monitoring and analysis tools will also tell you which browser, operating system, screen resolution, and color depth your visitor’s computer has. This information will help you understand how your visitors see your website. You can use this knowledge to tweak the site accordingly.

Reason 6: You will get to know your faceless visitors

Every marketer wishes to know its target audience in and out, and it is the privilege of online marketers that they can know their audience if they wish to by analyzing the traffic log of their websites. The understanding of your visitors will help you target your marketing effort much better.

There are many analysis and monitoring tool that you can use, but my personal favorite is Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools.

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