Monday, January 9, 2012

Importance of Customer Support in SEO

The SEO world is a very competitive segment, as companies are trying to outperform each other. Apart from ranking the site, offer a strategy that can add value to his business, make sure to aim for excellence at all times.

The customer might set his mind for keywords that are very competitive but explain him in details about how the quality keywords can bring him sales.

Target the keyword that can bring conversions rather than just traffic because ultimately the client is looking for sales.

Take time to learn about his business and plan a strategy and build a work process that can help him grow down the line for 3 months and further.   

At all time make sure you communicate every update to the client and take his updates before going a head, this ways you can get him involved with the project and also to have track of all the updates.

This ways you can keep retain a positive relation with the client, at all times.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Importance of Goal Setting in Online Marketing Business

If we have not defined a destination in Online Marketing than how can we ever know if we are going in the right direction?

Online Marketing its is a journey, as is life. Our goals define the destination. Our plans and daily tasks are all about the journey.

Goal setting in Online Marketing is all about knowing the start point, the destination and the route. When ever we set goals, the only way to know if we are targeting the right keywords is by tracking the progress on a map through monitoring the website analytics. 

Setting up Goals in Online Marketing provides long-term vision and short-term motivation and focuses on acquiring knowledge and helps in planning resources. By setting clearly defined goals you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals.

If you set a precise goal in Online Marketing by putting in dates, efforts and time invested such that the achievement can be measured, then you know the exact goal to be achieved, and can take complete satisfaction from having completely achieved it.

SEO Tips for eCommerce Websites to Improve Search Rankings

SEO for eCommerce sites should employ a different strategy. Find some of the very important areas I would recommend while optimizing eCommerce websites.

Avoid Manufacturer Descriptions
To the possible extent try to avoid copying the product description from the manufacturer’s website and in some way to make it unique.

Title Tags 
Make sure they are entirely unique by optimizing the title tag by adding additional relevant keywords to the title tag along with the product name. At the end you can always add site name to create brand value.

Description Tags 
Put up some product info along with some few sales words that will help the visitor to click your site link in the SERP’s

Keyword Tags 
Never stuff keywords into meta tags, and do not add any keywords that are not relevant to the product page. Add the brand name, product specifications, synonyms, product variations along with some sale related keywords to achieve our goal of ranking the page for specific product related keywords.

Product Reviews
A great source to have user generated content is by allowing customers to write review about the products they’ve purchased or comment on one’s they haven’t.

Avoid Session IDs 
Unfortunately, this creates an infinite amount of duplicate content for the SE’s to crawl. Try to identify alternate means of identify a visitor by avoiding session IDs to ensure that the site content of the site is not duplicated. Optimize Images Every image on the site should be optimized to make sure they pop up in image SERP’s search results. This can be done by giving alt text with the product and brand name. Create Brand

Landing Pages
If your eCommerce site offers branded products, than try to make customized mini stores or landing pages for branded products.

Site Navigation 
As ecommerce sites and business directories have volumes of pages make sure to avoid duplication of pages in navigation. Do not try to depend on a single navigation system, particularly the top navigation. Instead offer the visitor with footer navigation with normal hyperlinks

Product Tagging
Add tags to all the products to help in improving internal search results. Add all the possible tags for each product and brand names. Importantly see to that the search results are not indexed by search engines.

Site Navigation 
Avoid JavaScript or css based navigation structures that don’t allow spiders through. If you’re stuck with one, at least duplicate your navigation in the footer of every page with normal hyperlinks. In additional, don’t rely on form based navigation such as drop down lists since the SEs can’t follow