Some simple facts about websites
and how they work
Beauty and brains go well together and the same goes for web-sites!
There is no point in paying a grahpic designer a monstrous sum of money
for a beautiful web-site
and then have it languishing in cyberspace all lost and lonely. What
you need is the brains behind a web-site and that means it must be
properly constructed and marketed which takes
special know-how. (Of course it doesn't hurt to have it well designed
as well).
Traditional
Marketing
You
will need to market in the good old fashioned way to let people know
you exist. That means brochures, business cards,
advertisments in certain media and your web-site address needs to be
displayed on
all your advertising material.
Online
Marketing
You
will also
need to market online and the best way to do this is to entice the
search engines such as Google, Yahoo and others to your site because
about 90% of your traffic will come from these sites. The search
engines are constantly changing their "crawling" methods, in fact the
only thing one can be sure of is that they will
change their modus operandi. Their reason for changing the algorithims
is to stay ahead of the search engine pack but because they keep their
methods secret the online marketers have a full time job trying to keep
up with them!
There are
two ways of online marketing: Free Listings and Paid Listings.
Free
Listings
This
is the most popular way of online marketing and, of course, the most
competitive. Everyone wants to pop up in the top ten in Google
listings. Of course it isn't very easy to be in the top ten since there
are literally millions of web-sites out there wanting to be in the top
ten. However, with the correct marketing you should be able to feature,
if not in the top ten then at least where you will be found by
potential clients. Your web-site designer should know how to construct
the site correctly from the beginning and thereafter the site should be
marketed and constantly updated. Off page factors
are essential factors in getting your site noticed by the crawlers and
these include relevant links coming to your site with your keywords in
the anchor text. The links are important because they tell the crawlers
that your site is important enough for other sites to link to.
Pay
per click listings
These
are an excellent way of getting people to your site. Google offers a
wonderful service with their Adwords and since you only pay per "click"
it is an efficient way of advertising. There is much more to tell -
contact us to learn more. This will be a lifetime skill for you.
WE CAN DO
YOUR WEBSITE AND WEB MARKETING
FOR YOU OR WE CAN TEACH YOU TO DO IT YOURSELF.
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