by Justin Harrison
The constantly changing nature of the net means that marketing has to take a multi-pronged approach to have any effectiveness online. You have to use methods of marketing that have been shown to work, and you have to spread your eggs out among many baskets so that when one thing crashes down you’re still ahead of the game. Here are three of the most commonly used and effective methods for marketing online.
SEO Optimization Let us look at the Search Engine optimization, wherein the first page optimization has a strong usage with higher percentage of clicks. I t has become highly competitive to have the first page. Determining key words have become scarce as they were all almost exhaustive.
Every section of the Web page needs to be included with the keyword phrase in an effective manner. Selection of a keyword phrase is the prime task for one to make the search engine optimization work effectively. For a quick starter marketing strategy, this first page listing would be the right methodology.
A lot of web developers use common keywords like ?golf clubs?. If you instead come up with a more specific keyword or phrase like ?golf clubs in Chicago? or ?handcrafted golf clubs,? it will make your chances better. There are several free tools available that list the popularity of keywords and show how much they appear in the search engines each month. Using these will help you customize your Web page because you will be aware of how popular the keyword phrase is each month. For example, if your keyword appears on the search engine?s first page listing, but still only shows up in 100 searches each month, the traffic to your site would still be pretty limited.
Once you’ve gotten the basics of keyword usage down, it’s time to move on to link exchanges. Many search engines will rank your site based on what other sites link to it, and what sites you link to in turn. Also keep in mind that the overall quality of linking sites matters more than simply getting as many links as possible.
You can get people to link to you in a variety of ways. Simply asking the webmaster is one obvious (and probably free) method. Another is to outright buy a link, which is a service offered by some sites. It can be worth it to buy a link until you get popular and then let it go, once you’ve had time to build things up.
To repeat, quality matters! A single link from a very high quality site is worth hundreds of links from poor sites. Do research on the reputations for various sites before getting links from them.
Page Rank in the vicinity of 5 and above yield good results. PR of the backlink is also a required qualification. Beware of spam links and better to rely on major link providers such as Yahoo or DMOZ which are worth its value.
Blogs, As mentioned earlier, consumer created media is a key factor in the development of the Internet. This fact can be shown by taking a look at the mammoth effect blogs had during the last Presidential campaign. A majority of most online searches include blogs on the first page of their listing. Blogs are important for many reasons. One is because they usually contain information people want. For example, more than 50 percent of the purchases customers make on the Internet were preceded by a search for additional information. In many cases, the information they needed was available on a blog. Plus, blogs give them the chance to read someone else?s opinion on something and people are usually extremely interested in comparing opinions on the items they are interested in.
Blogs need to be updated periodically, as the updation alone plays the major role in getting prime slot in a search result. Bloggers submit articles to Blog . Hubs make money by their updation and the blogger gets a back link.
As time goes by and many other bloggers and Webmasters go to article hubs for new information, these stories can be sent all over the Internet to many sites. When this happens, it creates even more back links to your blog or site, and gets you a large amount of pre-qualified free traffic.
These are just the three biggest and most effective marketing techniques that you can use. There’s other ones out there as well, if you want to be really thorough. Auto-responder e-mails, pay per click ads, and other such things are all up for grabs, and you have nothing to lose by taking advantage of them.
Choose the option of going for back link directories followed by visiting hubs for blogs .People are more interested in opinions rather than sales advertisement which are available in plenty with blogs. Get those customers into your fold and retain them for ever.
About the Author:
Justin Harrison is an internationally recognised
Internet Marketing Expert and entrepreneur who has built up multiple 7 figure online business and consults to some of leading online brands including Amazon, BBC, AIG and many others.