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Moving My Blog Permanently!

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:25:00 +0000

Greetings!

Just to let you know, I've moved my blog from this place to http://www.Shivarkar.com
Will keep posting on SEO, SEM, Social Media, Mobile, Web Analytics and related Internet Marketing experiments and observations.

Thanks for your follow!
Pravin

How The Top Performing Brands Are Growing Fans On Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Everyone looking for the Formula - How do the top performing brands become the top performers? Let me tell you for sure, They do not do magic and they are not born famous. In this article you will read how they have become what they are and how even you can achieve what they have:

1.    First and foremost it is essential to determine the key audiences which form the major communities of Facebook. There are three major audiences:

•    Joiners: they form the major percentage of audiences which can go as high as 83%. These people just join your community. Their participation ends here. Once they have joined, they forget about your community and do not put in any effort to promote it. Therefore as much as they look like they are vast in numbers, here’s a number-zero. That is what they are accountable for and you should not pay attention to them much.

•    Sharers: These people, though low in numbers (15%), they are much more active than the joiners and should be paid more attention. They share your posts, participate in your campaigns and make more and more people aware of your existence. The “friends of friends” metric is reached by them.

•    Advocates: these people are very low in number comparatively (1.5 %), but do not go into the numbers as these people make you who you are. They have the ability to make or break you. They do the sharers’ work and also convince other communities to join you.

2.    Constantly offer various ways to make your fans engage. This is possible by holding various campaigns, competitions and giving away free gifts. Maybe initially it will seem like a waste but later this stuff will make your brand gold.

3.    Tell them constantly which posts to follow, which links to follow and what questions to answer. This way the audience will know how to promote your brand in ways it will actually matter.

4.    It is really important to know which posts should be posted when. If you post extremely important stuff in a time where it does not matter at all (like posting about woolens in summers), your effort will go to a waste and people will stop looking forward to anything else you have to offer.

5.    People will not share as many advertisements and promotions as they will share a quiz especially the one which is more related to them for eg. A personality quiz. People want to hear about themselves and know about themselves. This makes them feel personal and special.

6.    Don’t just stick with Facebook. The more social media outlets, the better. Try Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Myspace, Youtube, Tumbir, Pinterest and even a blog. It is never enough. Your brand growth will take place in multiples if you use all of them. So there is basically no reason for you to avoid them.

Now that you know, how the top performing brands became who they are, follow all the tips religiously and smartly and your brand will surely gain the popularity it deserves.

8 Ways to Develop Newsworthy Content & Earn Trust

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

In today’s Internet age, “likes” on Facebook and “tweets” on Twitter determine a post’s popularity or even existence. If you want people to acknowledge your post, you have to write stuff which is like-worthy or tweet-worthy. So in order to make that happen, you have to make sure that your content is newsworthy as in the content which is worthy of making news.
Here a few ways you can achieve this:

1.    Facts: People want to hear about the latest happenings in society instead of what has happened ten years ago. Therefore in order to hold people’s interests, try posting stuff which contains latest information and update it accordingly.

2.    Opinion: Try to give your opinion on the important events in the society. This way the people who support your opinion will obviously notice you but the good part is that is the people who don’t support it will also notice you and give their opinion etc. making your post popular.

3.    Only popularity matters: Sometimes it is best to not care about the type of popularity you are receiving whether negative or positive. As long as your post is gaining fame, you shouldn’t worry about negative publicity. Be controversial. People love that. But be sure to post something of relevance.

4.    Innovation: be original in your approach. If you are innovative about your product and mix it up with current trends and info, other people will also post about it.

5.    Timing: certain issues should only be discussed when they are hot. Talk about taxes in May and budget in August. You should know when to post what as people will look forward to the posting about that topic.

6.    Interesting Information: Make your post interesting. First of all try to choose topics which are interesting in themselves so that whatever you write becomes interesting. In case you have decided to write on something seemingly boring, try to make it interesting by using comparisons, sarcasm or anything else which suits your style. The most important aspect will always be people wanting to read it and actually have enough patience to go through it.

7.    Using Videos: this is not possible in all of the circumstances but try to use it as often as you can. If even one person likes it and shares, it will spread like wildfire and will be more talked about than just words. You can be much more innovative through this and this way there is no limit to what you can achieve.

8.    Pictures: Uploading and sharing pictures is also a grand idea since people’s eyes will automatically go to the picture before the words. They are more comprehensive and this way even a layman will be able to comprehend what you are posting about. As they say “A picture is worth a thousand words” and so it will be if properly used.

These short tips if implemented with the Marketing Sense can make your approach talk of the time and get those “likes” and “tweets” you always wanted along with the Trust for your Brand.

9 Social Media Marketing Pointers To Change Your Business

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

If you have a business, you would like to change or improve or even start, today you will learn about a few social media marketing pointers for changing your business.

1.    You should always make sure that your page, blog or website is always up to date. Nobody will want to visit it unless it provides the current information about your business. Whether you have started some new business, a new discount of some kind, promotion or coupon, verify that it is mentioned on the website, blog or page.

2.    Many Facebook apps are available which provide you the opportunity of holding many contests. Nothing excites people for winning something in return for nothing. This way you can have a win-win situation in which both you and the customer is happy. In these contests however, you have to make sure your brand is visible enough for the customer to register it in his mind. If you won’t have a lingering effect on their psyche, everything will be a waste.

3.    Using of social media outlets is very essential. You can be rest assured that it is never enough. Though Facebook is the most popular, it won’t hurt to use Twitter, Myspace or Google + too as all it will do is earn you profits.

4.    Be yourself, show yourself. Follow this rule and you will not be disappointed. Just because of the fact that you are a businessperson, you don’t have to act all corporate. As a matter of fact, people will support you more if they can identify a face and a human touch behind your business.

5.    Listen to your customers. They are just laymen. They are taking time to invest in your page and being on social media. Their opinions can make you improve and make you better and different from the rest. Read their comments, look at their posts and on top of everything else take action on what you learn.

6.    Be patient. Yes it is hard to keep it when you are getting no offers, the social media marketing take time but once people start recognizing you, you won’t complain.

7.    Have a schedule. Make a time table. Keep a note of when you are going to post stuff and do it accordingly. Do not keep any work pending and slowly but effectively you will get the popularity you deserve.

8.    Online media keeps going through a change and is a dynamic entity. In order to survive here, you must change too. Do not cling to old methods just because of their comfort. New companies are entering everyday and it is a fact that you will not be able to compete with all of them. Be humble and do not overdo anything. Just post great content and you won’t go wrong.

9.    Collaborate with your competition and they won’t remain competitors anymore. Come up with ways by which both brands can benefit. You will get noticed more as now you would have become a bigger company.

Latest Google Adwords Update for Managing large scale account changes

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:54:00 +0000

Google making adwords faster, simplier and easy to manage large scale account changes, here is what all the paid search marketing professional get with the latest update

Keywords	Search and replace text in the keyword or destination URL Append text to the keyword or destination URL Set new bids, including increasing to first page or top of page CPC Increase or decrease bids Change keyword match types Add/remove labels
Ads	Search and replace text in the ad or URL Append text to the ad or URL Change the capitalization of the text Add/remove labels
Ad Groups	Increase or decrease bids Set new bids Add/remove labels
Campaigns	Increase or decrease budgets Set new budgets Add/remove labels

View the complete Google Official Adwords Update

Grow your Business with Social Media Now!

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:00:00 +0000

One of the biggest challenges that a small business faces is choosing the best medium of advertisement for their services and products. There are traditional mediums like television and radio that can be used to advertise the products or services. But the price of advertising in such platforms is very high. So it is not possible for the small businesses to afford that cost. A great many small businesses do not succeed and close down due to this reason. Many of them even quit the business. The main factor behind this is they fail to promote their brand properly and find it very difficult to attract customers. But the advent of social media has simply changed the whole business game. Now medium sized as well as small businesses have the opportunity to promote their products and reach the potential customers with the help of social media platforms.

You will see many instances where medium sized and small businesses have been outperformed consistently by their large sized competitors. They are able to do so because they have the capability of spending huge sum of money on advertising. If you take into account the overall budgets of big organizations you will come to know that the marketing budgets form a significant part. They go for relentless and continuous advertisements on radios and television channels. This brings them to a much advantageous position and none of the other competitors in the business can challenge them. This helps them to secure a very established position in the market. But social media has become a tool using which the medium and also the small businesses can compete with their bigger counterparts. You can already realize hoe social media has established its impact as a marketing medium.

Many people are unable to define the term social media properly. But most of the people are aware that social media is going to have an impact on their life in the near future in one way or the other. Social media is a technological term. It includes forums, online communities, social voting, blogs and social bookmarks. Before a small business goes to use social media it should clearly define its target market. It should also define its objectives clearly. The use of social media for the brand promotion depends a lot on the type of services and products the company is offering. You should understand that social media cannot be used by everyone to fix their problems. In case your business is suffering a downfall, social media is not the right tool to solve your problem. But it can help you to make a good marketing plan. If you think that your business is suffering due to problems in other areas, then try to get them right first.

You can use the top social networking sites to accomplish your marketing plans. Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and Facebook are among the most famous platforms that can help you build a good audience and reach out your products to more and more potential customers.

Get Killer Market Insights Through Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

There are many online promotion strategies that are being adopted by the marketers to promote their brands. The best among them is the internet marketing network. It is an online community where you can connect with other people in the market who share the same thought as you. Social networking websites provide you the perfect stage where you can form a relationship that is symbiotic in nature by linking up with others. This is a true fact because social market has become a global phenomenon in the present time.

Blogging can help you generate huge volume of sales leads. This will help you greatly in making money online. You can do this by following a very simple approach. You have to just join some of the major social networking sites. Then you have to create own community of online business internet marketing. You can also follow the network of your business rival to connect with the people in your niche. To get involved into each and every major conversation taking place in the social media websites is the secret behind online business marketing. To do this you have to post comments in the blogs that are operated by people in your niche, answer the emails, respond to every direct tweet and get involved in each and every tweet debate. Just doing all this is not enough. You should make sure that the contributions made by you are insightful. This will help you get loyal followers. If you have a good following or fan base then you remain assured that you will get comments from people in your blog posts. They will also tweet your posts. As a result your content will keep spreading. This will keep on increasing your fans and making money online will become a child's play.

Social marketing is being adopted by more and more small businesses. If you don't have good insights about this highly popular platform, you can destroy your chances of getting successful. Each and ever social networking platform has its own features. For instance the audience of LinkedIn is more affluent and mature. So if you choose Likedin as a marketing platform your strategies would be much different from those you adopt when you go for marketing in Facebook. You should always remember that the users of Facebook are less affluent and younger. You should not jump into social marketing just because your competitors in the market did. You should consider the psycho-graphics and demographics of social media sites just like you would have considered when you had gone for other marketing mediums. You can consider the following strategies to enjoy the benefits of this growing and powerful medium.

    You should use multiple mediums like video and infographics to reach your audience. This is because the users of social media websites are plugged into various multimedia outlets.
    Most of the firms use the same message on different social media platforms. This is a great mistake. You should always try to tailor your message.
    Social media is not a place where you can sell. You should use the platform to convince the audience that your product or service can make their lives better.

Following the steps blended with your own strategies can help you build a strong market using social media.

Get Biggest Ratio of Visitors through Effective Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

To draw more and more visitors to your website you can adopt some very attractive and interesting methods. Not only adopting the methods will do, you have to even see that they works effectively. The first thing that you can do to accomplish this is bring in bogging directories that are fresh and of varied types. You can also introduce RSS Submission sites that are interesting. Most importantly include those that are working for your blog feeds. The best RSS Submission sites and blog directories increase their circulation through social networking sites. You can also use automated websites to increase your viewers. If you join social networking sites you are able to not only increase your feeds but also go about socialization or extending socialization.

If you want to bring more comprehensive and interesting lists you can go for the more niche social networking sites. This will greatly benefit your circulation. Most of the marketing policies that work on the internet are based on networking. You can use this tool in a fruitful way. Social networking can be used effectively to increase your visitors without bringing in too much effort. You can take the help of sites like Install and Stumble. They are high class bookmaking sites, just Google!. They have toolbars that are really helpful in forming connecting tools and active networking.

You can also participate actively in niche forums and blogging forums. If you participate in certain forums, it can bring about forms and activities that can manage different provisions related to direct blogging. You can submit them in active article directories. You can also provide a list of article directories. They would be sorted on the basis of ranks of pages. You can also keep provisions so that your visitors can comment directly. You can ink your visitor's comments to the article directories to ensure that the circulation is higher. This makes finding your ink, page or website easy. If you comment on blogs of other people your work will get exposed to other bloggers as they will come to read your work. This will increase interaction and provide some dynamo to the blogging facility. If you reply to comments and interact with bloggers you are actually working with networking. This increases trust for you among the visitors. It will also help you in bringing a human value to the service or product you are marketing.

You can acknowledge other bloggers by linking their sites with yours. It will help you to link with inbound links that are coming towards other bloggers. You can always find those bloggers who are also interested in the type of work you are circulating. It is somewhat similar to workers with same mind set keeping tab with each other. You can use it very effectively and in a full fledged manner without any difficulty. The above mentioned methods can really help you to attract more visitors to your blog.

Facebook Makes You Grow Hit Among Internet & Mobile Audience

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Facebook may be well termed as the mother of all social networking sites. It has somewhere near about more than 300 million customers according to the last count. It is expected that the number of Facebook users will grow rapidly at the exponential rate. You can adopt a great way to increase and engage your audience with the help of Facebook. To do this you can simply create a Facebook fan page. The Facebook fan page enables the user to connect and interact with the brand that they love. If you have a fan page that has sufficient amount of good quality content, then it will surely bring about improvement in your status. If the page is easy to navigate through then your value will be created. It is very easy to create a fan page. You have to just open the website of Facebook and follow some simple steps. Once you are done with all the steps, your fan page is ready.

Advantages of Fan Page Creation

The creation of a fan page has many advantages. The foremost advantage is that it will enhance your status as an expert in the relevant field. You can use the fan page in a great way to make your fans or customers aware about what is actually your brand are going through. Facebook doesn't pose any limitation on how many people you can mail simultaneously from your fan page. There is a great feature known as the update fans feature which can be used to send a message automatically to all your fans. The key for success is building trust among the people that follow you and your brand. Fan page can help you out to achieve this. Fan page allows the people to put their opinions. This is a very good way to build trust. If you do not where to go then starting a Facebook fan page can be a bit difficult task. This is not a very difficult task if you know the link to go to the fan page.

What you can do with the Fan Page?

Once you have created your fan page you should plan the next phase of action. You can do lot many things to increase the page's functionality. The simplest thing is to start a discussion. It will allow the users to actively participate in those discussions that are already running in your fan page. This is really a great idea. At the people are discussing about a topic that really interests them, they are also seeing your brand constantly. There is a discussion tab at the top of your fan page. If you click it a new window will open. You will be able to see the title and the comment section. If you want to talk about an idea that is controversial, then discussions are a great way. You can tactfully put different topics for discussion. This will help you to gauge the power of your network. You can also keep yourself updated with the latest concerns and ideas. You should be very open when you discuss. You can also ask your fans what they want to talk about on your fan page. This help you pay attention to your fans and get the benefits. You can get great response from your audience and eventually attract fresh fans.

Engaging Closely with Customers through Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Online destinations are developing at a very rapid space. This has enabled the common people to share information and communicate with their friends and families in a much more interactive manner. Not only the mass, but also the professionals are using social media as a platform to connect to other business associates as well as the customers. This has been acting as a driving force that is behind web 2.0. One of the hottest and most discussed technical terms these days is the social media. It has given organizations, both small and large to distribute content that is of very high quality. By the adoption of social media platform the organizations and companies can create communities and also opportunities that are entirely new. This will increase the chances of collaboration between the business organization and its customers.

Wikipedia is one of the most recognized and trusted information resources on the web. According to this highly esteemed website social media marketing is describes the effective use of social networking, blogs, online communities, or any other form of the internet that is collaborative in nature that is helping in building public relations, sales, marketing and giving much better customer service. The social media marketing tools that have become very common these days are Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, StumbleUpon, Digg and Flickr. There are also many other independent blogs that work on different subject matters. If we consider the term social media keeping in mind the context of internet marketing then it is actually the collection of different properties of the web whose content is not published by the direct employees of the property but by the users. For instance most of the videos that can be viewed in YouTube are not published by its employees.

So that you can capitalize the emerging trend in a well defined manner, you have to first develop a Social Media Marketing that is comprehensive in nature for your business. You can take the advantage of the current trends of media by developing and implementing a carefully planned social media strategy should be adopted. This can be well used to accomplish different types of objectives. It can include the action to broaden the reach of your service or product. To can also build a platform which can act as a place of interactive communication between your business and customers? Social media marketing can change the different prospects of your business like operations, management and communications. You can get extraordinary outcomes by applying the minimal effort. You can make an effective plan to increase the site traffic and awareness of your brand.

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter has fan pages for many organizations and companies around the world. There are also many companies in Europe and rest of the world who have only just started to incorporate the concept of social media marketing in their business. Companies are now gradually realizing that social media platform can really help them to build a strong customer base.

Which is the Best PPC Platform – Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

There are many platforms on the internet that allow network marketers to use PPC or “Pay Per Click” as a marketing tool. These platforms help them to reach a greater audience. Each platform has its own benefits. The four biggest platforms where a person can carry out PPC campaigning are Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter. One should keep in mind that all these platforms are very much similar but have different set of audiences. Of all the platforms Facebook and Twitter are the latest. Facebook list the sponsored ads on profile page of the people who have an account. Whenever a person clicks on any add it is displayed on the wall of all the people who are friends with that person. Thus a company that does PPC campaigning in Facebook can reach audience in an exponential manner.

Most of the people who use the internet are aware of Google Ad Words. Companies fight shoulder to shoulder with each other to make a place in Google’s Paid listings. They can spend any amount of money to make an appearance there. Whenever someone clicks on a Google Ads, the client has to pay a certain amount to the affiliate. Thus Google gives a certain share of the income received from the customer to the affiliate. One of the most common features of Google Ad words is PPC. Here you have to pay money per click. This much cheaper than many other forms of advertising and most effective as well.

Google is just behind the Facebook now in the Alexa ranking, but yet Facebook is the second choice after Google to carry out PPC campaigning. Using Facebook you can create good traffic for your website and generate sales and leads. You can use Facebook for the advertisement of any product and will see you business increasing in multiples in no time. You may create a fan page and then you have to supply the product information and upload a picture. In the next step you have to create your Facebook Adverts which is just a click away, and then you decide how much you are going to spend in a day for your ads to flash. You may easily choose the demographics of the target audience for your adverts.

LinkedIn enables you to target your PPC campaigning demographically as well. You can target a specific age group, profession, industry or geographical region. It has the feature of both CPM and CPC advertisements. Whenever you go for PPC campaign in LinkedIn you should keep in mind to super target your advertisement. Twitter is also gaining immense popularity throughout the world. It is a micro-blogging site and also has social networking features. It can also effectively used for PPC campaigning.

It has been seen that Google and Facebook has a larger audience than any other site. But before investing on a PPC campaign you should keep some factors in mind. You should consider the return on investment. It has been observed that Google Ad Words has the highest return on investment when compared to any other PPC platform. It also has a large distribution network and Facebook is closely following it. If you go with Google Ad Words your ads will be shown on the search results of Google search result page. So it is better to choose the best PPC platform depending on your need and target audience.

Virtual Platform: Playing Important Role through Various Social Media Platforms

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Social media platforms can act as a very powerful tool to promote a product or service. Not only can this people residing in different parts of the world share precious information, ideas and thoughts with each other. Social media is faster than any other form of communication. It has a very far reaching effect. As it operates on the internet, it is sometimes referred to as a virtual platform.

Most of the people wonder why they need a social media platform or tool that is most effective. If you don't use a social media platform that is effective, your business or marketing campaign won't work well. One of the greatest features of social media is that it is capable of spreading your business like wild fire. Many people fail to use the far reaching powers of this wonderful platform in an effective manner. But virtual platform plays a very important role in expanding a business.

Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin are some of the most popular social media & networking sites. They not only help people connect to their friends and other people, but also help them to build a strong relationship with their target audience. Due to this reason companies and businesses organizations have started using this virtual platform to reach greater number of customers and expand their businesses.

Some ways by which a person or organization can use this virtual platform effectively:

•    It should be always remembered that things not going to work if someone simply opens up an account in a social network platform. The business or person has to continuously keep on posting information about the product or service. This will help retain the audience. Their mind will be also occupied with the thought of the product or service. If the audience does not get new content regularly, they will start luring away. If the marketer does not have time to do all this things, he can employ a social media consultant or even employ someone to do it for him.
•    The next thing that should be done to use the virtual platform effectively is to increase the number of followers. Adding new and fresh contents is not everything. If the network has fewer followers the results will degrade soon. The results are directly dependent on the number of followers.
•    The social media account for personal and business purpose should be always separate. No one wants to share personal information with strangers. On the other hand a business account should be accessible by the public in order to gain maximum exposure. The businesses account should be always given a professional look.
•    It is necessary to visit the business page daily. This can done using some tools like Hoot suite or Tweet Deck. These tools help a person manage several accounts simultaneously. One of the greatest advantages of using these tools is that there is no need of signing in and signing out several times. This will help the person in saving a lot of valuable time and use it in a better way.

Why Social Media is Need Of The Hour

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 05:30:00 +0000

Social Media has become a most popular “technical jargon” these days. The combination word connects Social life with media (marketing), which includes activities and technologies that enable the people to share their ideas and experiences with each other. People also get a lot of information from these social media sites. The actual meaning that lies behind the term is that “It is a systematic process of integrating social interaction with technology”. It also involves words, audio, pictures and video which are constructed in a proper manner. This can be appropriately termed as UGC or user generated content. The audio and video that are found in YouTube is an example of user generated content.

Social Media exists in various forms. It includes videos, images, blogs, online forums and wikis. Some of the technologies that lie behind social media are listed below:

•    Social Networks             (Facebook, Google Plus)
•    Blogging                (Word Press, Blogger, Tumblr)
•    Micro Blogging            (Twitter, Google Buzz)
•    Photo sharing                (Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr)
•    Instant Messengers            (Yahoo, G talk, MSN, Whatapp, BBM)
•    Video sharing                (YouTube, Metacafe )

The list can take few pages if we mention each and every portal of Social Media will be a big one if every technology is mentioned. The list of applications of social media will also be a big one. Facebook and MySpace are social networking sites, Flickr is used for sharing photos while YouTube enables a person to share videos effectively and Twitter facilitates networking and micro-blogging.

Social Media Marketing (SMM)

Another term that occupies a significant part of Social Media is Social Media Marketing. It uses the power of social media network to promote a service, content or product. One thing that makes SMM different from traditional marketing is that the marketer has to participate in a conversation with the audience. Social media can help you make a strong position in the marketplace if used effectively.

Many marketing professionals are not much aware about social media marketing because they are unable to control the social networks. If a person masters the basics of SMM, he can use its power for corporate branding or reputation management.

Why is social media becoming so popular?

Social media enables a person to reach out and connect to a large number of people with the help of technology. New features are added to social media everyday making it more and more powerful. It can help a start up business to reach a vast audience in no time. The cost incurred in doing the publicity is also very nominal.

Some factors that one must keep in mind while using social media to reach target audience:

•    One should always remember that the web is all about people. One should understand the preference, behavior and language of the people. One should keep an eye on the favorite online hangouts of the people.
•    Before going for social media marketing one must clearly decide whether he/she is going for testing the product or its marketing. One should clearly define the motive behind the actions.
•    One should also make an idea about the outcomes and what target he is looking forward to achieve.
•    One should also make sure about the technology he is going to use for the social media marketing.

Million Dollar Question: PPC v/s SEO – Which is better?

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

PPC is the acronym for “Pay Per Click”. It is type of search engine marketing tool which has gained immense popularity recently. This has given rise to a debate - Which is a better option, SEO or PPC? Which one of them will yield better search results? Some of the experts of the web suggest that a combination of both the techniques should be used to get good results. The webmasters who are new to online marketing techniques suffer from a lot of confusion. A lot of questions go on in their mind and most of them are still unanswered. To answers the questions correctly, we should take a look at the pros and cons of both of the techniques.

The advantages and disadvantages of Search Engine Optimization are:
The most attractive thing about SEO is that you don't have to pay a single penny from your pocket in order to get listed in search result pages. The search engine does not charge you anything when you carry out SEO. To improve the quality of your website and get it optimized you have to simply follow some techniques, which can be done in many ways. The most important thing is to use good quality and informative content in the web pages of your website. If user comes on your website and spends time to read the genuine information, the value of your webpage increases. And once Google thinks that this web page is providing relevant information with some keyword, your website will be ranked high. The search engine spiders will also find it easy to scan through the website. The results will last for a very long period. The website will appear at the top of search engine results for a longer amount of time in the future.

Now talking about the negative side of SEO, the SEO techniques are very time consuming. There are many search engines that use a set of filters. These filters take such parameters like age of the website and age of the domain into consideration while carrying out the optimization process. So you have to wait patiently before you start seeing the actual results.

Pros and cons of PPC:

PPC is a new technique that is being adopted by most of the webmasters involved in online marketing if they want to get fast results. PPC is a bidding system, where you have to bid against other websites which are of similar type and are running PPC campaign. Like this you can get to the top of search page results that shows paid listings. For example you have a website for “e-books”. You have to place your bid for the keyword “e-book” so that your website appears on the top of the search result whenever someone searches using that particular keyword. Your relative position on the page will be decided depending on the amount you are willing to pay with respect to your fellow bidders. One thing you should keep in mind is that PPC campaigns are very tough to maintain.

So it is wise to carry out PPC for a very short time period and continue with SEO at the back end. Adopting both the strategies will help you get good results in the long run.

Insights of Social Media Platforms

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

One of the hottest domains of the internet these days is the social media. These social networks are being used by affiliate marketers who operate online, use the social media effectively and extensively to promote their products and services. The big companies and organizations also use social networking to create awareness about the brand among the people. According to a study conducted by Nielson Research, social networking has been found to be the most popular activity over the internet. Its popularity is increasing exponentially and the reason behind is more and more people who are getting addicted to social networking.

You will be surprised to know that the social media has become most popular online activity and most popular Social Network Facebook has been ranked number 1 in terms of users leaving Google at 2nd rank now. It has been also found that almost two third of the total internet users visit social networking sites regularly. With the help of these social networking sites they can interact with people from all across the world. They can take part in conversations. People can also take part in projects in association with people who live in very far off places. Even the geographical presence of a person is no more a bar. This has established social media as a very important and powerful marketing tool. A person can use its far reaching effects to reach a greater number of audiences. One can showcase his product to anyone who is using social networking services.

Online marketers have started to interact with the customers through blogs or through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. It has been seen that they can manage their business in a much better way using these internet tools. They can also build a better brand reputation and awareness and the relationship with the target audience also becomes stronger. The users of a particular product or service get the chance to place their views. This increases interaction between the customer and the marketer. The person who has launched the product can use the suggestions and views to improve the quality of the product or service he is offering. In this way customer satisfaction increases. It is an amazing fact that the most of the social media users like to build a relationship with the businesses of their choice. A study conducted by Cone research and insights shows that about 85% of people who are using social media like to engage themselves actively with the businesses they like.

It is very evident that social media has gained such immense popularity within a short period of time. Most of the social media sites did not even exist 10 years ago. Then how did they become prominent so quickly? If you look at the history of online marketing, you will see that social networks are in existence for a long time. The existence of social networks dates back to the 1970's. It allowed people to exchange their thoughts and ideas. These platforms were known as usenets. These services existed even before the conception of search engines like Yahoo or Google. Thus social media is a huge development as it allows people to share information, ideas and thoughts.

Why User Relevancy Optimization (URO) Is The Way To Go

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Business has to stay on top in the search engine in order to survive however; being significant in the market takes a lot of hard work. Search engine optimization is the greatest machinery for your business to be relevant. In an online business, it is not only necessary that your product or the services are in demand by consumers. You must also be able to let the market know that you have this particular product and be able to reach them. SEO is the only possible way to reach your target market however, the question of optimizing for engines vs optimizing for user has always been debated upon. Some says that you should create the content for users and not for search engine.

Every websites faced with problem on how to get the attention of users among the many websites that are offering the same product and services. How will a website ranks higher in the search engine? Even if the website is new, it would need the help of search engines. Once the website is on the higher ranking, the chances of getting more visitors are very high. But then, there is always a nagging question on whether the SEO will focus on the user or in the search engine. What is user focus vs search boot focus is the usual problem that is faced by owners of website if they want to gain more traffic. Based on Google News, websites are always faced with this kind of problem. Many websites are classed by relevance but then news relevance is not doing well in the web. From the reviews made on SEO, a website gains more traffic if the site is made in such a way that it answers the needs of the users.

The search engine optimization professionals with expertise on the techniques on how to improve the position of the websites in the search engine know the importance of conversions over traffic. A website that has more relevance to the needs of the user has more visitors. Once a website possesses a good review, creates positive signals and social mentions, the site has greater chances of attracting more visitors.

The algorithms of the search engine are very sophisticated nowadays. There are so many factors that need to be considered. Since the competition is very stiff, SEO is the only tool so that there will be lots of traffic from the users. Relevant keywords play a very important role for the success of a website. Employing the online marketing experts that will undertake the search engine optimization would be a great help to any website.

Search pros, are the experienced guys in monitoring the relevance of seo for the purpose of making the business successful, getting leads and ultimately the 'profits' and ROI that every organization looks for.

Knowing The Client Requirements – Way To Pitch For SEO Projects

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Gathering exact client requirements is one of the vivacious portions of victorious projects. Although requirements were acknowledged to be much necessary in developing applications, it seems that a lot are still taking it for granted and not giving importance to it in a way that there are still no further or deeper elucidations on how these needs were actually needed. There were no progressions or methods developed to help innovate the process. Furthermore, Tech geeks/giants are commonly attributing it all on the clients who are also victims in this since they were not properly briefed on how this stuff works, and through this, even the most willing customer to undergo several processes to achieve success would still have to undergo deeper researches and additional loads instead of putting all of their time and effort all in the business. People from the industry of technology development should be responsible of being straight forward in specifying client requirements.

Aside from considering the resource availability, one business must as well have an in house expertise that will be responsible for explaining things and standing up or speaking legally for your business. These experts should be of enough knowledge on how they can defend their products from many questions and clarifications from the population. They must be trained well and are responsible enough to develop numbers and numbers of ways to be able to make reliable answers especially for the claims.

However, if triumph is the one you want to attain, then one of the paths you must go through with is the perfect SEO approach for achieving success. There are actually SEO game plans which may help a client make it up to victory. Sometimes it is on how you create the website for your business and on how you simply make it structured. Keywords and key phrases are also the secrets into a victorious business on the web. You basically need to put up good and useful key words and phrases which are easy to be searched and you would have to make certain that you put these keys on the proper places, or else, if these things would lack or exaggerate, there will be a tendency that you and your business will suffer from failure.

There are many ways on how you could improve and be of success on your business, however, you also need to be on hands and you must extend your range into a broader one to be able to achieve your goals. Being able to discover more ideas and techniques would not be a harm so you must try doing several things and crack on with different tactics.

Clustered Sitemaps: An Ultimate SEO Growth Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Most of us rely on the internet in searching for various things. It could be for school homework, projects, work related stuffs, or even just for personal purposes. Every single research idea has been made easier for us to catch because the sitemap does its job, and it aids us for stress-free web browsing.
On the other hand, many of still do not have any idea of what sitemap is. A number of individuals were still bugged by the questions “what is a sitemap?”, “what does a sitemap do?” or “Is a sitemap really essential for the SEO or Search Engine Optimization?” Well, all those questions will be answered in this article for further information about deeper facts about how we could have an easy access to several kinds of information about anything through the sitemap.

Sitemaps are actually the gradient of different topics and every researchable subject uploaded on the web which can be accessed by anyone. It makes exploring through the web and looking for certain information tranquil for us. To be more specific in giving us the idea that we need to look for, there are two types of sitemap; the HTML and XML sitemaps. HTML sitemap helps us to search the websites which contains the topics that we need to see. It is in bulleted form, so it will be so much easier to locate something that we are looking for. However, XML sitemap is much more convenient to use and far more helpful for the growth of search engine. This layout assists us to have a better experience in crawling on the websites effectively. URLs can be detected with XML, and the search engine can be more aware on different links of the webpage through this outline.

Google is one of the biggest search engines in the Web world, and we must admit, numerous people are in all fact giving all their trust in Google search. Nevertheless, if you are one of those who wants to share your knowledge about something, then Google has already came up to a certain solution to provide you with a laid-back process of imparting your thought through the net, and it is via Google webmaster tools and submission. Here, you would simply make a sitemap in an acknowledged organization ad you are good to go in submitting it in Google through Google webmaster tools where you need to sign up first to be a member. You basically have to provide them with a complete data – wherein you will be guided by Google – and the search engine will be able to identify your URL. Furthermore, it will be easier to get accessed with if you are going to submit the specific link.

At this instant that you already know the importance of sitemaps in getting deep pages indexed, then there will be no hindrance for you to be able to convey information to many folks around the globe, and it will be a lot easier for you to put to web all of the things you would want the world to know and discover – from facts to your own self’s opinions.

From Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A new tool to disavow links

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:37:00 +0000

A solution for those who are bugged by irrelevant results in SERPs. Webmasteres who dont wish to see some of the links in Google index can use this tool effectively.

Please not that its a one way route and you may loose the page if dropped and you cannot add it in future.
All the Best!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A new tool to disavow links: Webmaster level: Advanced Today we’re introducing a tool that enables you to disavow links to your site. If you’ve been notified of a manua...

How SEO can help in solving Traffic - Quality Scalability Issues

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

A lot of web users (including webmasters and online marketers themselves)– if not all – at the present are hanging on all their researches, leisure pursuit and even jobs through online accesses. And what hinders us from having a laid back entrée to all our web-dependent purposes is the lagging and the slow undertaking of opening a certain website. This makes each of web users get fed up and be pissed off and blame it all on our internet provider. What we do not actually know is that there is more problem than what meets our eyes.

There are various applications which were born and are still being developed. Furthermore, these applications were in point of fact made up with frontend and backend limitations. The frontend is the one that is visible to us manipulators which actually shows the flexibility in user interface while the backend is the one which makes it work and which is more complex and complicated to deal with. It is the one at work behind the scene which is responsible for manipulating, developing and delivering the data of the applications to be seen by our naked eyes.

It may seem so easy for users to say that the whole kit and caboodle will be fine after a while, but as for programmers assigned to dose the teething troubles, it is more than just the server bandwidth and one of the eyed solutions is performance tests and system monitoring in consistent basis. However, that may not be all that is necessary to fix everything for the reason that the backend contains programs of huge extent which are not easy to get done with. It comprises with very sensitive data which are really vital in your application or business’ life. There could be a lot of experts who have interacted into this kind of problems, but please be reminded that there is no exact similarity between two or more things and circumstances at all times. This means that you cannot depend on how they have reached their way to find out the solution and be capable of succeeding with the tricky process.

However, you do not have to face this kind of situation if you will be able to avoid the problem. The SEO or the Search Engine Optimization is being observed to bring out the key or prevent scalability issue through sitemaps and via help of Google updates. Google, as what other search engines like Yahoo and MSN do, also created a solution to keep an eye to the stability of your website or application. They have come up with an easy to use service where you do not have to do anything but check it, because the system will be the one to make an update based on the changes or development that they have perceived.

Thus Proved: SEO Is Not Just Content

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

This post exists aiming to crack the myth that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is just about content and marketing of the content. Those who are advocating content marketing and believe SEO is all about text, images on the website and pages are thinking Wrong!

When you have an online business, your purpose is to make a profit, if possible big profit. However, if your website is not attracting the traffic that you want, then it is time that you take a closer look and study your search engine optimization. This could be the perfect time to have the SEO checklist with your SEO service company. Search engine optimization is not all about the content of the website. A website also needs the right marketing strategies. A website should not only be confined to its content and then optimized using relevant keywords.

In order for a website to have the more visitors, they should also include the other marketing strategies such as onpage and offpage SEO terms, article submission that is done manually as well as linking and pagerank. When you own an internet business, you must be able to point the target audience that you want for your website. You must tell this to the SEO experts who are writing the website contents for you. Be aware of what is happening around you. As a website owner you must be aware of the latest trends in the internet. This is the best way of making your name in the social media while at the same time improve your ranking in the search engine. Whatever the purpose of your website, you maybe writer of a blog site or the purpose of your website is to sell products or services, you must be in sync with what is happening around the world. You should never be left behind because people are always looking for something new.

Online marketing is not only about writing SEO articles. You also need the help of niche directories for they will also help gain more traffic for your website. You cannot do this alone if you are not an expert in this kind of things. You should hire the experts or web development service provider that are also experts in URL and codes. They must have wide experience on the usability and conversions. Usability is of great importance in driving traffic for this is measured on the ease of using the website. In simple words, this will answer why someone would like to visit your site or if they can find the information they are searching in the internet. The secret to success here is to provide the users with the information they and provide this to them in the shortest possible time.

Likewise, a good SEO service provider should be able to provide the website with the current trends, news, tools and even strategies that will lead to the success of the website. Once you have the advantage of the biggest resources of conversion optimization, the path to success is within arm’s reach.

Why keyword To Page Relevancy Is Important

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:29:00 +0000

If you would want to be like the blooming populations who are making money through a snap on their keyboards, then there are some fundamental things you need to know prior to doing it. Being a blogger or a writer for website contents, then you have to be familiar with some things and take note about certain ideas. It is easy to write and tap the spaces on your keyboard if you have great ideas, but no matter how amazing your idea is, that would still be in no use if nobody is going to read it. To help you in succeeding with your goal to speak your mind and impart your knowledge, you need to be acquainted with the fact that one of the most important stuffs that your post must be equipped of is the keyword.

Well, I have already come up with answers to some basic questions before you could possibly put them to words. But if in this instance, you feel like there’s no need for you to know a lot, and then you may stop scrolling. However, if you are willing to be a more effective blogger or web writer, then you certainly need to keep scrolling to have knowledge about the pre-requisites in achieving your aims.

What are Keywords?

If you would want to have a lot of visitors on your page, then you must come up with the best keyword possible which targets the most likely researched topic on the web. This shall be submitted on the Google webmaster tools to enable the search engines to absorb it and show it to the web visitors.

How to optimize for keywords?

People who are already experienced in this kind of activity have already mastered what to do or what to use as a keyword for their posts. However, most of them are still having a difficult time in coming up with the best, since they have millions and millions of competitors. In this case, numbers of people are even making researches and creating surveys to be able to know

which one really works. Sometimes, we think that we may look and sound brilliant when we use words which are unique, and which are not cliché. We think that deeper words mean better post, but that is just not the case. With website-related posts and blogs, often times, less is actually more. Less complicated words would mean more readers especially if you are trying to impart knowledge and facts. You always have to consider many factors such as the individuals from other country who may read your posts.

What is “relevancy of keywords”?

Keyword relevancy is the parallelism of your keywords with regards to the content of your post. You need to stay on track on what you really want to convey. The keywords that you may use must define the most significant message of your post. However, you still need to make a blissful flow of your post through the optimal keyword density in which you should limit the usage of the word that you are about to use. Some say it should only be 2% to 5% of the post because anything more than that will be considered a spam.

What are the benefits of having keyword relevancy?
Nirvana stage of optimization is:
Ideal keywords, ideal ad copy (if you wish to have contextual ads), landing page with relevant content.If this state is achieved, best ROI (Return on Investment) is guaranteed.

Every marketer (SEO, SEM, Social, Display) tries to reach the best proxmity to relvancy and all the best online marketing practices are designed around the same idea.

5 Ways to Check If Your Web Strategy Is Relevant

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:18:00 +0000

In today’s world, social media is working effectively as campaign or marketing tool. Nowadays, more people are drawn to the internet in search of products and services. Selling online and e-commerce is the trend inmost businesses. Online shopping is the biggest change in the history of social behavior that is why more people are drawn to this idea and make e-commerce as another source of income. With the right knowledge on how to gain website presence and your organizational vision, your online business could become popular.It would certainly be another source of income for you.

In order to reach your business goals when your business is online first, you have to search in the internet for relevant information and statistics that will help you in your business. Look for the trend or forecast done by the professionals on some companies that are similar to yours. Get the feel on how the market behaves on business like yours. Additionally, search the checkpoints for more guidelines from the web content. This has
a review site wherein you can check if the website or page has been satisfactory, not satisfactory or it should not be applied at all.

Make a roadmap if you are thinking of selling a product. You can start by searching in the internet about the product you have plans of selling. Develop short term and long term goals if you plan on launching your own business. This will show you if you will be able to reach a consensus on the needs required from you. Search in the internet and look at some websites that will attract you. Take note of the features that caught your
attention and be true to yourself if you will be enticed to buy from them. Record all the valuable features that attract you so that you can adapt this on your site.

Marketing mix which is composed of four marketing techniques such as product, price place and promotion are crucial in targeting the market. However if you are offering the same product, you can alter this to attract the attention of your market by brand revolution. The practice of branding the products would provide you a clear vision of where your business is going. Your vision in your business maybe short, as long as it is memorable and captures the heart of the public, the future of your business would be long live.

The last thing is to look for the marketplaces where they often sell sites like yours. Online businesses are sold on the e-commerce sites .From there, look for the business area that you prefer, what they offer and their selling points to their customers.

Live Blogging: Unique Tool for Social Media Promotion.

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Live Blogging is solely keeping posted or creating articles about a certain on-going event. This is to keep the readers on track on what is actually taking place on a specific occasion. When done right, this technique could latch numerous bibliophiles and folks who want to be kept informed on an explicit juncture.

One of the man oeuvres that marketers foresee is the use of social media promotion. Technology is undoubtedly on the rise as days, weeks, months and years go by. Social media is not only about Facebook and twitter alone, nonetheless, there are still new other media that are being and will be given birth to. People are consistently trying to seek more than a few conducts on how to stay linked with each other. There is no hesitation as well that humanity these days are always being kept dispatched when it comes to the social media trends.

Many others are also clutching this opportunity to start a living. With a simple “retweet” and “repost”, information can be disseminated into a million of users in a very little time and effort. In addition, it is also one of the low-cost ways and means of publicizing a certain product. It is gripping into an industry with unrestricted marketing campaigns without anything to lose no matter what or how the public react.

Most of the people these days –either from rural or urban areas- are so much into Facebook and twitter, and here is where the marketers actually focus themselves more. Twitter and Facebook Promotions are only few of the leading media which could promote a certain product. Twitter allows a promoter to be very much specific about the campaigns and could be spread widely onto millions to billions of people just over and done with a “retweet” button. Hash tags may as well lead your promotion into a trending topic, and people around the world or the country could easily be familiar with it. On the other hand, Facebook could give you a far-reaching means to endorse your product. It allows you to post videos which would enable you to show your product further, and in a clearer view. It would as well enable you to display or demonstrate ways on how consumers could use the product. Marketers could as well spread the info about the products through sharing and tagging.

With the relentlessly refining technology, it has become so easy to access the internet no matter where you are and what you do. For this reason, bloggers could post photos of daily events wherein they could take photos when they’ve tried to use a certain product, and they’ve loved the result. They’ll put their analysis on blog and be able to inform people how useful the product was in no time. And acknowledge it or not, it’s already an advertisement without even breaking a sweat or spending any cent from a company’s pocket.

Google Testing option to block selected domains

noreply@blogger.com (Online Marketing Consultant) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:09:00 +0000

Try this out, search for something in google, click on a result site, click the back button and come back to search.... You may be lucky to see a new option that Google is selectively testing

Block all website name here results

There is already a buzz around Google's latest Exact Match Domains (EMD) updates.

This seems to be a parallel test in progress pushed quietly :)