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WEB MARKETING

Web marketing

The Internet is a complementary medium to traditional marketing such as printed media, radio, television, posters, etc. Web marketing is the science of using the Internet as a marketing medium. The most important issue is to help potential customers find your site. There are various combinations of activities that we, together with our customers, engage in to market your site.

Meta tags

This aspect of web technology really only applies to external websites. Meta tags are hidden words that are used within your website to help search engines and portals understand what your website is about. We can advise on creation and management - here are some tips about meta tags.

Search engine/portal management

Part of the web marketing process is search engine/portal submission. For Search Engines to be an integral part of your marketing strategy you must first ensure that your web site design and content meet certain criteria to ensure acceptance into the search engines. Due to the millions of pages now on the Internet it has become important to keep up to date on how search engines are evolving. The days of filling your meta tags with as many keywords as you could think of have gone.

All search engines are are becoming selective, they want to provide the highest quality search results for their customers. Therefore, if your site says nothing new and you have not paid particular attention to site design, meta information, text content and positioning, page links and frame tricks your site will be rejected or if accepted it will languish in the realms of obscurity never to be found by any search query.

All the search engines are for ever changing the way they index sites. They also regularly clean up their database, some once a month some quarterly. At this point your site may be removed without any notice. Therefore, regular submissions will ensure continued positioning within the Search Engine databases, with greater chance of being found and improving your sites ranking.

There are two ways to do this - you could spend time a lot of time doing it yourself or you could pay a company to do it.

We provide a range of services to manage the process. You could pay an online company such as Global Promote (opens in new window). If you want to manage the process yourself here is a starting point of useful search engine submission page links.

What Makes A Person Want To Come Back To Your Site?

A recent survey of 990 online users asked what makes them come back to a website. The ratings were based from 0 to 100% with the higher the percentage, the more important the issue.

Ease Of Use/Navigation: 74%
Fast Download Time: 65%
Regularly Updated Information: 58%
Quality Of Content: 57%
Organisation Of Content: 40%
Access To Customer Service: 40%
Quantity Of Content: 30%
Search Engine At The Site: 25%
Front Page Layout: 20%
Fun: 19%
Look And Feel Of The Site: 18%
Inclusion Of Animated Graphics: 9%


Interestingly, if your site is an online store, then the two most important factor to your visitors are:

Easy Order Processing: 68%
Security Procedures: 65%

More complex requirements

If you have more complex requirement or very specific target markets then you need to talk to us.

Off line marketing

Even if our customers have done everything they need online they need to do even more off line. Here are some off-line marketing tips which will help ensure your website message gets out.

Want to know more?

Remember, web marketing is complementary to traditional marketing. If you would like to discuss more about web marketing please call or email.

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