Sunday, 1 December 2013

Basic And Effective Online Marketing Techniques

By Dan Vlady


Internet marketing can work wonders for your online business, no matter what you're selling. This article will look at some helpful tactics that can boost your results.

One of the most critical aspects of marketing you need to get right is targeting the right crowd of people, or the right audience. There are a number of things to get right if you want to see conversions from your traffic. This might sound simple but can be a very complicated process if you don't know what you're doing. If you want to really go all out, then build an email list and follow-up with your visitors who have opted into your list. Now, it can get really annoying if you simply collect email addresses on your site and bombard your prospects with email messages asking them to buy your product. The most profitable thing to do with your email list to provide them something that will help them - give them excellent value with your content. They are a warm list of prospects because they joined your mailing list, so just be patient with them and establish a little more trust. It's a proven fact that a person needs to be exposed to an offer at least 7 times to reach to a buying decision. So that gives you plenty of time to communicate with them in some way by offering solid content. But do keep in mind that over the years, people are used to seeing certain things, and now perhaps the attraction for an ecourse is less than before. Video is obviously huge, so that is another vehicle for presenting your content. Your course can be 5 to 7 days long, where your basic aim is to show the prospect that you know how to deliver value, and when you can do so much for free, what all will they get when they pay? Once you can do this, and you do it right, then you will experience the power of a responsive list. If you don't know, then you'll need to use an autoresponder - Aweber will work just fine.

Our next strategy for you is SEO, or search engine optimization. No, this isn't a re-hash of SEO information, but rather we want to discuss a particular method you can use. Ok, so what we want to talk about are those keywords that are not as popular, in other words they don't have high monthly search volumes.

Ok, so what's so special about them? First, they do not have a lot of competition, and that makes them much easier to rank for. And secondly, they will have a decent search volume but not as high as the popular keywords. These phrases are commonly called long tail phrases because of the number of words in them, about 3 or 4. These search terms tend to be more targeted than those containing only one, or maybe even two words. The cool thing about these particular keyword phrases is they have a more narrower focus and intent with the surfer. This strategy can take you a long way because once you have your site optimized for a bunch of keywords; soon you'll see collective traffic coming in from all of them. You can eventually be receiving tons of targeted traffic without doing PPC advertising. Correct keyword research is really important here, so be sure you know how to choose the best keyword phrases.

Another method used by many marketers is to build small blogs at blogger.com and other places because they can rank well for the longer tail keyword phrases. At that point, what is done is people send traffic elsewhere to be monetized with links or banners on the small niche blogs. Since the search engines see these sites as authority sites, your free blogs will be able to rank easily when compared to your own web pages.




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