Posts Tagged ‘ Search Engine ’


Website Promotion : How you can do that

February 17, 2010 | Posted by LUV | 3 Comments

Currently, many businesses use their websites as a main channel to do their business. Some companies providing services may allow their customers to send inquiries or make appointments too see them via their websites. Alternatively, most companies selling physical products allow their customers to buy their goods via their websites. Therefore, we can see that websites are very important for online business. Let’s think about yours. Your website may look so cool, be working properly but it will be useless if nobody knows that you have a website so one of important processes is website promotion. Todays I would like to give you some ideas how you can promote your website.

- Search Engine : As I said before that Search Engines have been increasingly used by Internet users when they are looking for something so if you really want to promote your website, you should make your site available in at least first three search result pages by probably doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising. There are two main choices for you. The first one is you may do it in-house or by yourself or the second one is you hire online marketing company who has experiences and knowledge do it for you.

- Adserving : Adserving is also very effective for website promotion since bascially with Adserving, your ads, which can be text ads, image ads, banners or video ads, will be displayed in other websites whose contents are related to your website’s. This can also help you increase your brand awareness since for example you can add your business logo or trademark in your banner.

- Affiliate Program : Also, you may let other people help you promote your website or even sell your products by creating the affiliate program. It depends on you about how and how much you will pay them. For instance, you may pay them per lead / sale. Normally, these people have their own websites or blogs and they place your ads into their websites / blogs to bring visitors to your site.

- Blog : Blog is a good place to publish your articles related to your business since sometimes your customers are not just looking for your products, they may be looking for additional information like product manual, tips to use your products or news related to your products. Therefore, publishing and updating this kind of information can keep customers to come to your site. Also, if information in your blog is shared, probably by RSS feed or social bookmark, it can increaes your website visibility as well.

- Offline Media / Advertising : If you are advertising your business via some offline media like television, radio, billboard, newspaper or magazine, don’t forget to include your website URL.

- Paper Materials : If you always provide paper materials like business card, leaflet, brochure, folder, etc to your customers, don’t forget to add your website URL in these materials.

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Invisible Contents

February 17, 2010 | Posted by LUV | No Comments

Do you know that Search Engine actually sees things differently from people do, especially the contents in your website? Contents that can be read or viewed by people or users may be invisible to Search Engine. If you want your website or web pages to be ranked with your desired keywords, you have to let Search Engine see your contents to determine what your website is about. Therefore today I would like to tell something that can make your contents invisible.

- Flash : Currently, more websites are totally built by Flash since Flash can make your website more enticing and interactive with users quite well. I can see a lot of these websites in interior design business. Although, Flash can make your website very cool in users’ sights, it is not search engine friendly since Search Engine cannot see the contents in such these websites. I heard someone said that now Google can read the contents in Flash but it is not 100% confirmed. Indeed, you can have some Flash elements in your websites but what you should not do is making your website entirely Flash.

- IFrame : IFrame is normally implemented for displaying the same content in multiple HTML pages or making web pages fit with the required size. Although, using Iframe can make your website easier to maintain since for example if you want to edit the special promotion displayed in every web page, you just edit it in one place instead of editing it in every web page, Iframe can also make your contents invisible to Search Engine. You may consider using something else like include file instead.

- JavaScript : JavaScript can be used to displayed various contents. For instance, I have seen some webmasters use JavaScript to display News fed from other sources in their websites so News will be automatically updated according to the original sources. However, these news are not viewable by Search Engine since they are displayed by using JavaScript so in this case webmasters may consider using RSSParser to display the fed News.

- Images : Some webmasters publish contents in their websites as images and I am not sure why they did that. This is probably because they already have some paper based materials like fact sheets, brochures, leaflets that contain the information about their organizations so they may just scan these papers and put them in their websites. With this, the contents can be read by users but Search Engines. Some of them may say they can put the contents displayed as images in Alt Tag since Search Engine can read contents in this Tag. However, Alt Tag is supposed to use to describe the image not the website. Moreover, you should not put too many words in Alt Tag.

If you want to know how Search Engine see your websites, you can find many tools by searching in Google with keyword ‘Spider Simulator’.

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