Monday, April 25, 2011

What Is Online Marketing?


Online marketing or Internet-based marketing can be defined as the use of the internet and related digital technologies to achieve marketing objectives .It is a combination of activities and analysis used to increase website traffic and search engine rankings.
    Online Marketing includes promoting a company, individual, website or product through Internet.
    Simply put, online marketing refers to marketing/advertising done over the internet.

Methods of online marketing:

  Personal Marketing: This is marketing at personal level and includes telling your network and friends, making a business card etc.
  Article Marketing: Article marketing implies writing articles and submitting them to web article directories.
  Forum Marketing: Forum is a place where people gather and discuss their problems, strategies etc. Most of the forums allow a link back to your website in your signature text which would appear below the post you make.
  Search Engine Marketing: Search engine optimization is the process by which you try to build your site and content so as to rank them well in the search engines.
  Pay Per Click Advertising: This is a paid service where you pay the service provider every time your link is clicked.
  Link Exchange: In this a website places a link for other website in exchange for its link on that site.
  Paid Link: It refers to purchase placement of your website link on other website.
  Classified Advertising: You can advertise your website on Classifieds websites on the web like Craigslist.com. Both paid and free services are available.
  Press Releases: Here, you build a press release for your website and submit it to one or more press release sites like prweb.com. Press releases are done to create awareness among the web visitors and are displayed on various news channels or sites on the net. Both free and paid submissions are available.
  RSS Marketing: RSS stands for really simple Syndication. People can subscribe to RSS feeds and can view the content of the website via their RSS reader. By this people are enabled to receive the content directly on their desktop.
  Blog Marketing: Here you create a blog on any blogging platform like Word press or blogger and publish new posts on a regular basis.  You also make comments on other blogs. You can put your website link while commenting. It is a popular method of increasing inbound links.
  Social Bookmarking: This is done through various online bookmarking sites available over the net. You can display these bookmarking buttons on your site or blog and people may submit the link for bookmarking if they like your site.
  Video Marketing: Here you can upload a video on the sites like YouTube or Metacafe.etc. People would watch and make comments and probably visit your site.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Search Engine Ideology


   To understand the seo process you must know about the architecture of search engines. Search engine contains the following components:
Spider+Crawler+Indexer component group might be implemented as a single program that downloads web pages, analyzes them and then uses their links to find new resources.

   Spider. This program downloads web pages just like a web browser. The difference is that a browser displays the information presented on each page (text, graphics, etc.) while a spider does not have any visual components and works directly with the underlying HTML code of the page.

   Crawler. This program finds all links on each page. Its task is to determine where the spider should go either by evaluating the links or according to a predefined list of addresses. The crawler follows these links and tries to find documents not already known to the search engine.

   Indexer. This component parses each page and analyzes the various elements, such as text, headers, structural or stylistic features, special HTML tags, etc.

   Database. This is the storage area for the data that the search engine downloads and analyzes. Sometimes it is called the index of the search engine.

   Results Engine. The results engine ranks pages. It determines which pages best match a user's query and in what order the pages should be listed. This is done according to the ranking algorithms of the search engine.

   Web server. The search engine web server usually contains a HTML page with an input field where the user can specify the search query he or she is interested in. The web server is also responsible for displaying search results to the user in the form of an HTML page.

Spider+Crawler+Indexer component group might be implemented as a single program that downloads web pages, analyzes them and then uses their links to find new resources.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Some Common Mistakes In SEO


There are some common mistakes which we include in our SEO process, avoid these mistakes to effectively run your SEO campaign.

Graphic header

   Very often sites are designed with a graphic header. Often, we see an image of the company logo occupying the full-page width. Do not do it! The upper part of a page is a very valuable place where you should insert your most important keywords for best seo.
In case of a graphic image, that prime position is wasted since search engines cannot make use of images. If you must present a logo, the best way is to use a hybrid approach – place the graphic logo at the top of each page and size it so that it does not occupy its entire width. Use a text header to make up the rest of the width.

Script navigation

   Sometimes scripts are used for site navigation. As a seo, you should understand that search engines cannot read or execute scripts. Thus, a link specified with the help of a script will not be available to the search engine, the search robot will not follow it and so parts of your site will not be indexed. If you use site navigation scripts then you must provide regular HTML duplicates to make them visible to everyone – your human visitors and the search robots.

Session identifier

   Some sites use session identifiers. This means that each visitor gets a unique parameter (&session_id=) when he or she arrives at the site. This ID is added to the address of each page visited on the site. Session IDs help site owners to collect useful statistics, including information about visitors' behavior. However, from the point of view of a search robot, a page with a new address is a brand new page. This means that, each time the search robot comes to such a site, it will get a new session identifier and will consider the pages as new ones whenever it visits them.  If you are interested in seo for your site, I recommend that you avoid session identifiers if possible.

Redirects
   Redirects make site analysis more difficult for search robots, with resulting adverse effects on seo. Do not use redirects unless there is a clear reason for doing so.

Hidden text, a deceptive seo method

   The last two issues are not really mistakes but deliberate attempts to deceive search engines using illicit seo methods. Hidden text (when the text color coincides with the background color, for example) allows site owners to cram a page with their desired keywords without affecting page logic or visual layout. Such text is invisible to human visitors but will be seen by search robots. The use of such deceptive optimization methods may result in banning of the site. It could be excluded from the index (database) of the search engine.     This is another deceptive seo technique. Search engines consider the use of tiny, almost invisible, graphic image links just one pixel wide and high as an attempt at deception, which may lead to a site ban. 

Monday, April 4, 2011

SEO Services to Get You Sales through More Website Hits


A lot of work is going on in the field of search engine optimization. SEO services company India executives work towards making a website rank higher when search is made using specific keywords on a search engine. The question one may ask is why is this needed at all? Nothing is done without a reason. 

Internet being a web of millions and millions of pages, just launching a website does not guarantee hits. For a business relying heavily on online promotion and business generation, revenues won’t just come with the business going online. This is because when a person searches for something relevant using a keyword, multiple results come and websites not well optimized will see themselves being listed on pages far behind in number from the first few. These are unlikely to get hits. This may happen in the rare case of nothing worthwhile being present on the first few pages. Websites that get listed on the first page get maximum number of hits. This is where Indian SEO services come into the picture.

One may opt for sponsored listings wherein one would pay for getting the top listing on the first page for the relevant keywords. An effective, long term and stable solution would be to work on the content and optimize the website so as to by itself rank higher in search engine result pages. For this purpose services of SEO Company may be used.


SEO services  are taking up work for websites of clients from around the world. SEO services have been giving results through efficient SEO techniques. There is no magic wand to do this but one needs to toil hard for finding the right keywords and then the content needs to be optimized keeping in mind the relevant keywords. This is just one of the methodologies employed. A number of techniques are available for increasing traffic to a website in real terms. Paid listing also being one technique is not a permanent solution. It may be a once in a while strategy to get more hits but the importance of a long term plan for the same cannot be ignored at all. 

SEO services company India, having worked with many clients has the skilled manpower and technical know how to get hits for the website as specified. Very often that is the main thing that is required. Later, it is the product that has to appeal to the customer. If the product is good, revenues will come.