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Archive for October, 2009

Web Marketing Secret : Make a Website Simple to Visitors

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

When it comes to creating a website there are so many “grand ideas” that we want to work into its design. I find myself guilty of this. The saying, “make a website simple to visitors” is something that we all know and must fight the urge to do otherwise. It’s a big web marketing secret that a simple website makes it easier on visitors to get the information or product that they need. Let’s examine how this plays with usability when a person visits the site.

The first consideration is thinking about how much time there is to catch a reader’s interest. We could all come up with number from 4-10 seconds and can argue more or less time and make a defensible position. Though the amount of time might be considered subjective, one truth that stands out is the large amount of content on the internet. Thus, your website’s content is competing with many other websites’ content. Now if you make it hard to use or hard to get to the content, there is a strong chance that readers are alienated causing visitors to leave a website prematurely. Scott Monty provided this diagram in his blog that highlights how simplicity has worked for two very large companies. This diagram should be inspirational when considering your own site design.

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Capturing Internet Searchers: Hope is Not a Strategy

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Business owners, it seems you’ve done your part to capture customers from the internet, or have you? It never ceases to amaze me how many business owners and even marketing personnel invest time and money creating a web presence with the “hope” people will visit their site and sales will be made. Well hope is not a strategy despite the good feeling you get deep down inside. Quite simply you need to let the search engines know who you are, where you are, and most importantly what you offer. Failure to do this will result is a waste of time, money, and future earnings. The feeling of hope will eventually fade to worry as your competitors pass you by.

The biggest misconception I see when talking with prospective clients is their assumption that the website designer and programmer who built and coded their site took care of the part that gets them identified and eventually ranked by the search engines, not so! The second misconception I encounter is “My site looks great, we’re all good here”. A good looking website that never gets visited is like a newspaper that never makes it past the newsstand, both were never seen and the advertising message within was not realized. Additionally, the untrained eye never takes into consideration what “looking good” really entails from a searches point of view including appropriate on page text and placement of valuable elements from a human eye and a search engine crawlers perspective.

A real internet marketing strategy includes a (SEO) search engine optimization professional that aligns the message describing the service and or product you provide with potential buyers on the internet. This type of “connection” we profess at Ideate Media is the most valuable marketing and advertising dollar you can spend. Unlike any other marketing effort, getting in front of and capturing organic internet searchers intentionally looking for what you sell offers perhaps the highest ROI out there today. As with any advertising medium you must be ready to make a clear and strong impression with your web page after searchers go to your site.

The SEO and web marketing professionals at Ideate Media Web Marketing Solutions rely on much more than the hope most website owners do, rather a proven strategy to make the necessary analysis and changes needed to climb in the ranks of Google, Yahoo, and Bing who together are responsible for the vast majority of organic search results nationwide. We align your website with valuable organic searches and stress a realistic time frame for attaining first page placement and adjust that expectation based on current position and competition level. There is simply not a quick fix, and people running a proper SEO campaign should be glad there isn’t as they would eventually be victim to it themselves. The right time to take the next step to gaining a strong foothold on a top organic ranking was yesterday, and since we can’t go back that leaves us with today. Now is the time to join the other business owners who have set out to capture more of the available market share with Ideate Media Web Marketing Solutions.

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