Optimum Keyword Placement is science. It is not as simple as putting keywords here and there on your website. You’ll need to know where and how to place them on your site correctly, to give your website the potential of a high page ranking.
So you have worked out a list of targeted keywords for your niche market. You now have to correctly use these keywords on your website to gain any value from them. Optimum Keyword Placement is a science. It is not as simple as putting keywords here and there on your website. You’ll need to know where and how to place them on your site properly...
Top 5 Local Search Optimisation Tips
Local consumers are using a range of online websites and tools to find the services and products they require. Search Engines are aware of this and have further refined their Algorithms to account for local search.
Local Search Optimisation
Search Optimisation for Local Search offers business owners an effective method to increase awareness of your business to local customers. Increasingly local businesses are obtaining reasonable rankings for more generic keywords in the local search results of the major Search Engines. These results of course do not happen by themselves, implementing a Local...
What’s the Difference between Remarketing and Retargeting?
One of the most significant sources of confusion is the difference between retargeting and remarketing.
When cookies are utilised to present advertisements to users who have previously in a product, service, or brand, the terms remarketing and retargeting are frequently used. Google refers to this practice as remarketing in AdWords. However, is there a distinction between the two terms?
There is a debate among experts about whether remarketing and retargeting are the same thing. Does remarketing encompass other marketing practices like email marketing and direct mail, or is retargeting simply...
Build Your List, Grow Your Business
More and more business people are realising that if they get serious about building their email marketing lists, they can grow their business.
Building your list is even more important in a tough economic environment. Your list is your pre-qualified target audience and with GDPR now in force, it is even more crucial that you build your list from genuine and consenting contacts. They know you and your products and services, and they’ve bought from you in the past. They’re an easier sell and a source of referrals. That’s why e-mail marketing is still the most effective tool in...
Breaking Your Email Lists into Segments
In marketing segmentation, the total market is divided into submarkets that share characteristics that cause each group to share distinct needs.
If done properly each segment will respond in a similar fashion to a given marketing strategy. When applied to email marketing this concept will allow you to build relationships with your subscribers so you can then send targeted mailings that are relevant to each group of subscribers. By treating your subscribers as distinct groups with distinct needs your email campaigns will yield higher response rates. You will not only get more results from your...
Analog vs. Digital Printing
There’s a significant transformation in the printing process when comparing analogue to digital print processes. In analogue printing the points of control are typically quite flexible:
You choose and modify – enlarge, substrate, distance to the substrate, light source, exposure duration and filtration (globally and locally), chemistry dilution, temperature, duration of immersion, and agitation (again globally and locally). Frequently, prints are further enhanced after printing.
When printing digitally, the points of control are comparatively inflexible. You choose to modify (but...
A Beginner’s Guide to Blogging and SEO
You’ve heard that blogging can heighten visibility of your website within Google. But how and where to start? Firstly, ask yourself what you want to achieve, then how can your blog deliver the results you hope to accomplish.
Benefits of Blogging
Firstly, blogs can provide a specific place to add fresh content to your website, so that visitors keep coming back for more. A blog can prompt you to keep adding fresh content.
Secondly, with a blog you are able to place linkbait as well as flexibility. Flexibility means being perhaps more creative by writing articles that people enjoy reading...
5 Ways to Encourage Employee Excellence
Did you know, that the vast majority of small businesses are one-man shows?
And, it’s no wonder. Managing employees can be a challenge. You’ve undoubtedly heard many horror stories about late, rude, or lazy employees. But, just because those are the stories that get circulated, doesn’t mean all (or even most) employees are inadequate.
Good management often makes all the difference between having poor, satisfactory, and phenomenal employees. Here are some ideas for encouraging employee excellence:
Build a culture of productivity. From the moment you first interview a candidate,...
Email Campaigns – Managing Customer Expectations
Load and send? Batch and blast? Direct marketing concepts are ancient history in the modern email environment. Today’s email marketers must navigate their way through a complicated landscape of shifting customer expectations, challenging new technologies, evolving government regulations and other issues old-school direct marketers never had to face.
The below tips will help get you started on the road to success with your email campaigns.
1. Permission is not optional
When you send unsolicited email, you hurt your brand, your campaign and your sender reputation. Don’t use “stealth”...