Friday 15 April 2011

Things to Know Before Creating an Internet Marketing Plan for Online Business

We do take a look in the market and also collect the stats of an industry before starting a business, whether we are going to do a small business or a large one. Same goes with online business that before starting it, it is very important to have a reasonable amount of knowledge about it which will make your online business more successful and profitable. One thing which can really help you in running a very successful online business is internet marketing.

There are few things which you need to know about Internet marketing for your online business.If you are looking forward to starting Internet marketing for small business then you will need to understand the importance of researching keywords and creating content around them. Always remember the following term “Content is King”. Once the content is created then you will need to optimize it around the keywords in each section of the web page.


Links are important to Internet marketing for online business because they help to increase search engine rankings. Most Internet marketers are extremely obsessed with getting links, but I would advise taking a slow and steady course of action. This means do not spend 8 hours a day trying to get links and an hour working on content, actually it would be better to do the opposite. Keep your web site and its content the priority of your online business, a great site with great content will get the best links for while not even trying in the long run.

Of course everyone wants to speed up the link building process and in the beginning it is very important to get some links. There many ways to build links to website and submitting your website link into web directories is the most basic and the easiest method. These links are not the best links, but they are the easiest. All you need to do is to use your favorite search engine and begin hunting down free directories. Every time you add a new page of optimized content go and search out a few of these free online directories to submit the page to. There are also many other ways of getting links like article submissions, blogging, social bookmarking, link exchanges, guest postings, forums participation, blog commenting etc.

A very important thing to keep in mind always is to avoid software, link farms or any other spam technique. Search engines are smart and they can penalize your site or even ban it in result of these techniques. You should keep your approach as natural as possible and should not try to fool search engines for higher ranking because there are more chances that it will backfire.

These tips should help with any Internet marketing for small business venture. Try to keep your internet marketing plan simple so it can be done easily and timely and not look for rapid results. The process should be slow and steady and eventually you will start getting your desired results. Just keep adding new pages to the site that have been researched through keywords and get links into those pages in the methods mentioned above.


   Video Search Engine Optimization

Video Search Engine Optimization is one of the recent advancements in the field of SEO and will be one of the hottest SEO and internet marketing trends in 2011 as it has become a need with the evolution of Universal search result as Google started showing the videos and images in the organic results.

Today we can find millions of videos on the Internet but every video cannot appear on the first page of Google. It is necessary to optimize a video in right way to get a high position or first page placement in Google and other search engines. Here are some of the best ways that can help you getting higher rankings in search engines.


1. The video must be relevant and informative, so that it conveys the exact message that you want people to know about and it should be short in length as people want to watch the video that conveys the message fully in short time. An ideal video length would be around 5 to 6 minutes.

2. Another important thing is to choose a right thumbnail which should be an eye catchy one that should attract more and more people to see the video.

3. Using your keywords is almost the most important part of any of the SEO strategy and it is same for video SEO too. Using keywords in title and description would proof very effective in getting you higher position on search engines.

4. Enable the options for the users that allow them to access the embed code of video, so that they can put your video into their site and blog.

5. Upload your video in the important video sharing sites like Youtube and DailyMotion and also share video in social networking sites like FaceBook and Twitter that will definitely help in getting you very good traffic to your video in very little time.


Running an SEO and Internet Marketing Blog

Over the last few years, there are many things that have become top ways of making money through internet and blogging one of these. People often hear many things about blogging and want to start blogging themselves but most of them are not entirely sure where they should start and if you are one of these people then the best way to start blogging would be to create an SEO and internet marketing blog. It may not seems to be a straight forward thing for those who don’t have much knowledge about SEO and internet marketing, but if you are just a regular user of internet and participate is social networking websites like facebook  and twitter then this thing would not be very difficult for you to do. SEO and internet marketing is actually not a rocket science and not very difficult to learn but the key for you to set your mind to it and learn from the best. The number of internet users is increasing with every passing day and there are a big percentage of users who visits SEO and internet marketing websites and blogs daily.

There are two options of creating a blog, either, you can create a blog on a free service like blogger.com or wordpress.com or pay for hosting then upload the a cms “Content Management System” to your sever. If you would prefer to use one of the many free services then you should keep few things in mind that with using these free services that at any time the service can take your blog down for any reason. You can avoid this by purchasing hosting and also when you purchase hosting you remove all the limits that you get when you set up a free blog. Once you have your blog up write a couple of posts writing something about your blog.


Now when you have a place where you can share your articles, videos, images and such things start making a little bit of money you will need to become a well respected expert within the internet marketing world. There are several great places out there which have an unlimited amount of information for those who like to learn more about SEO and internet marketing. One of the best ways is to visit and participate in many webmaster forums like forums.digitalpoint.com, seochat.com, v7n.com/forums and many more. These webmaster forums have thousands of users who can help you in almost all areas of SEO and internet marketing. You can ask anything on these platforms and more often than not you will get your answer. You can also visit some of the best existed SEO and internet marketing blogs like seomoz.com and searcengineland.com, that will definitely be helpful for you in getting great knowledge and help you keep updated with the latest trends in the industry and obviously you can search about anything on search engines.


Interenet Marketing Trends for 2011


There is no doubt that internet marketing is going to be a major source for businesses to get connected to their customers in 2011. Last year we saw a little recovery from the financial crisis which virtually the whole world faced few years ago and social media played a major part in this recovery as businesses can now share the relevant information through these search engines to a large amount of people who are part of these social media websites. More than half of people in America use social media and they feel more connected to their friends and relatives as well as use this as a part of their business advertising to grow their businesses.

When we discuss internet marketing then we surely have to discuss about its most important part too that is "Search Engine Optimization". Content really is the oxygen of a website and back links are the back bone and without working on these two things there is almost impossible to get great benefit from a website and the best thing about online advertising is its affordability factor which has a big factor of its ever increasing popularity.

There are also great chances of a comeback of direct marketing as it becomes easier for marketers to know what their potential customers need. This meaningful data can result in a better marketing campaign with quality leads.

Blogging will also be a big part of marketing strategies for businesses as fresh content proved to be an important part in reaching the top positions of search engines.


Video marketing was ignored by most of the businesses last year as most businesses focused on providing their customers the information that they can read but some creative businesses already started utilizing video to market their goods and services. As it proves to be effective in reaching potential customers, more businesses are expected to join in this marketing strategy. Integrating interactive videos on websites and sharing them in social networking sites can result in a really good traffic to a website.

PPC advertising was also one of the top ten internet marketing and SEO strategies last year and is expected to continue to be successful through this year too as it continues to produce leads to the website for those that utilize it.

There are also some other strategies which can be used to increase traffic like email marketing, mobile marketing, newsletters etc.

2 comments:

  1. Very good information provide for online business.Really this information beneficial for us.Internet Marketing

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  2. Wow, its great Blog. The Internet has brought media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet marketing in terms of providing instant response and eliciting responses, is a unique quality of the medium.

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