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Viral Marketing - Creating the Perfect Indirect Marketing Effect

Every web professional will agree with the fact that viral marketing increases online sales. But recently, this term seems to be popping up almost everywhere. So, what exactly is viral marketing? The simplest way to understand the very concept of viral marketing is to think of it as a mainstream form of networking. So let's set the facts straight. Your contacts know about your products, services and website. However, your ultimate hope is that they pass on all that valuable information to their friends, family members and colleagues. Unfortunately, success is not defined on the basis of hope. Thus you need to be more pro-active when it comes to conducting your online promotional campaigns. So how does one master the art of being pro-active without being to forceful or too pushy? By implementing effective viral marketing techniques, you basically provide an incentive to your website visitors. This incentive, in turn functions as a 'free messenger or carrier'. This means that...

Attracting Repeat Targeted Traffic

Traffic is crucial for all as we all know it, but your online business doesn’t need just any traffic; it needs only targeted web traffic. This is how you survive on the web but if you want to dominate the market, you need to bring back the targeted traffic again and again. It is not possible to run an online business if you solely depend on new customers every day. Changing targeted traffic into real buyers is a more challenging feat than welcoming repeat traffic. You really need to focus on attracting your loyal customers more than investing time and effort into drawing in new ones. Since, you have already built a close relationship with the old customers it is more likely that they will make another purchase. There are some crucial steps you have to take to entice online targeted traffic to become repeat customers: 1.Make An Impression: It is very important to make a great impression. Your website must be designed in such ways that people should remember it, it should be enough to ma...

Viral Marketing - Start Buzzing

Viral marketing may be defined as any online marketing technique that induces users or websites to pass on an indirect marketing message to other users or sites, thus creating a potentially exponential growth in the messages effect and visibility. One example of a successful viral marketing campaign is Hotmail. A company that's now owned by Microsoft often promotes its own advertiser's and service messages, in every users email notes. No matter what people say about viral marketing, we cannot deny the fact that these types of campaigns generate a huge amount of brand awareness and buzz, whether they are carried out offline or online. Here are some basic handy tips that will most definitely help you out in your viral marketing campaign. They are: 1.Giveaways - Don't we all just love things that are free? The word 'Free' itself makes everyone happy. The giveaway model always works. But more importantly it works well both on the online commercial platform and off it. 2...

The Principles of Viral Marketing

Viral marketing can be described as a strategy that is used to spread information by word of mouth. It encourages individuals to pass on marketing messages to other people. This helps in creating potential for growth in a message's growth and influence. This strategy has the advantage of multiplying rapidly. It is also referred to as “creating a buzz”, “network marketing”, “leveraging the media”, etc. A classic example of successful marketing campaign will be Hotmail. This is the first free email service. The strategy they used was very simple. They started by dishing out free email accounts and services. Then they attached an advertisement for a free email service along with their URL. The people who received mails and messages from the already existing Hotmail users found out about their service and eventually started signing up for themselves. However you do it, it is important to remember the following principles for effective viral marketing. All these campaigns need not inclu...

A Three Step Formula for an Effective Keyword Research

Professional keyword research is important because it helps you understand the search terms that are used by the customers who are interested in buying your products or use your services. Also it helps you identify which of these keywords have more competition in the Internet arena. A good research will also help you realize if there are any opportunities that let you utilize keywords that are less popular and help in boosting the growth of relevant traffic. 1.The First Step: This is the step that requires you to brainstorm all the search terms that have potential. You can do this by browsing through the content present on your site. You can also come up with a term or a key phrase that best describes the product that you are offering. Next, formulate a list that contains all the probable search terms your users can key in while looking up your product. You can also take insights from your competitors' web sites. If they rank high, you can always incorporate their techniques for en...

Most Effective Link Building Strategies

Link building can be really difficult if you don't know how to go about it. A lot of hard work is involved and there are many pitfalls on the way to achieving the perfect link. The main strategy to be kept in mind is that if one page is relevant to your keyword, the site will be relevant for you. Make sure you get a link there. The following strategies will help you get that perfect link: 1.Analyzing competition always helps. Your competitors rank above you only because of their links. Therefore, it is good to know which web sites link to your competitor’s web sites and the anchor text that they are using. This will help you link these web sites as another link source. 2.For good ranking, it is always important to find relevancy between your web sites and the web sites of those companies that are being ranked for your keyword. If a web page is linked to a top ranking web site, chances are that even your web site will be ranked high if it gets a backlink from the web page. 3.A good ...