02 Jul 10 5 Online Marketing Tips for Small Business
Starting a small business may seem easy, but given the limited resources and constricted budget, marketing becomes a daunting task. Online marketing comes to the rescue of small businesses where investment is minimal and the scope of spreading the brand name is immense. Read on to find a few tips to market a small business online.
Upload Business Website
If you are starting up a small business then first and foremost get a website made dedicated for your business. Provide detailed title and explicit description of the products or services on the website. Do not forget to include relevant keywords wherever necessary for ‘Search Engine Optimization’.
Use Article Marketing Strategy
Post articles related to your business, ambition, dream, services provided, etc., on article marketing websites. In the resource box, at the end, you can link the article to your website. Once again keywords hold the key to your online marketing strategy.
You can also publish press release articles online to market your business.
Blog and Link the Website
Blogging is the best way to interact with your existing and prospective customers. You can have a blog dedicated to your business concept and off-and-on post relevant posts to attract customer response. This blog can be again linked back to your website.
Frequent Twitter and Facebook Fanpage
Perseverance is essential to carry on in small business. You need to use all possible ways to market the business efficiently and effectively. Twitter and Facebook Fanpage come handy in increasing the customer base and internet traffic to your website.
Submit to Link Building
By submitting your website link to niche web directories and search engines you enable extra link generation. Quality inbound links influence your business website and the search engines prefer it too.
Proactive online marketing strategy is imperative after a clear understanding of the customer requirement to sustain a small business. Sheer hard work alone is insufficient without implementing clever marketing tactics to bloom your small business into a successful venture with a strong customer base.
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08 Dec 09 What is PPC advertising?
PPC advertising stands for pay per Click advertising. It is a popular form of promotion on the Internet. Marketer uses this advertising tool to spread the word about its product and services. Like SEO (search engine optimization) PPC also depends upon keywords, but unlike SEO, the traffic that a PPC campaign brings is not organic. It is paid-for traffic, which can both be good and bad depending upon the goal of the website.
PPC advertising companies do not charge the advertisers based on page view or advertisement display, as the name implied, it is charged based on the clicks advertisement receives from the visitors. The more users will click the ad the more advertisers will have to pay to the PPC companies. The revenue is further divided between the publisher where the ad was clicked and PPC companies. Google Adwords, Yahoo Search, Microsoft Adcenter, Ad brite, etc., are the major player in the market.
PPC adverts appear as a sponsored links in the SERP (search engine result pages). These as are generally placed on top of organic result as well as on the left side of the SERP. Marketers have to buy a keyword or set of keywords to make the advertisement appears in the search result or on publishers’ website that has enrolled in the program run by the PPC companies.
The success of campaign depends upon the following five things:
- How tightly focused the keyword is.
- How prominent the listing is
- How well optimized the landing page is. (A landing page is the page on the other side of the advertisement link placed in the advert.
- How well the PPC campaign has been created, and
- How much deal one got in buying the keywords for the campaign
Bidding for the most attractive keywords and getting the juiciest position in the search engine is at the core any PPC campaign.
3 Steps of a PPC campaign
Step 1: The advertiser bid on the relevant keywords
Step 2: The advert is published. The location and frequency of the ad is determined by the search engine depending upon the price paid by the advertiser for the keywords.
Step 3: The advertiser pays the PPC companies as soon as someone clicks. The advertiser has to pay only for the valid clicks. Money charged for the invalid clicks are credited back to its account. If it does not happen, the advertiser can ask for the refund.
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