June 13, 2009

6 Tips for a Sure Measure of Your SEO Success

Posted by : Ash Mehta

As a business owner you spent a considerable amount of time and effort on search engine optimising your website. But how do you guarantee whether this investment is really paying off? Are you thoroughly confident that the surge in performance is due to your SEO efforts or evidence of a corollary marketing campaign? While there are several ways to stay competitive by assessing the returns on your SEO spend, I have outlined below 6 key tips that enable you to measure whether the time and money spent on your website’s optimization campaign are working well for you. Read the end of this entry …

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June 5, 2009

Online Reputation Management (ORM) – A Proactive, not Reactive Process

Posted by : Ash Mehta

Unlike traditional media, the online world moves at dizzying speeds as information travels instantly across time and geographical boundaries. While this bodes well for marketers who spend time and effort to improve their visibility on search results, it can transform into a double-edged sword when the search results are negative. As an increasing number of unhappy customers, ex-employees and nasty competitors take advantage of the quick and easy online forums, blogs and message boards to vent their frustration on companies and individuals they are unhappy with.

Why Online Reputation Management (ORM) is Important

Your customers are no longer passive receptors of the information you disseminate to them through your website. However, with perceptive online marketing you can convert critics and disgruntled customers into your advocates and evangelists. While most customers make purchases offline, they take advantage of the internet to make purchasing decisions based on online research and reviews of customers who’ve used your products and services. Hence, it is very important to ensure that you have an ORM process in place to protect and advance your online reputation. Read the end of this entry …

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January 13, 2009

Planning an E-Commerce Business

Posted by : Ash Mehta
Filed under : e-Commerce

A job gives a fixed monthly income. In today’s world everyone wants to Earn More, Earn Big! It has become all the more possible due to the Internet Revolution. You just need a website to get started and establish an online business. Some of the fundamentals for conducting an online business are explained below:

@ Unique Product: Your product should have an edge over other products of the same line. It should be innovative with some special features, better utility, and most importantly affordable. It can soon become hot in the market if it is adapted by different stratas of the society. If people realize why your product is unique it will be successful. Read the end of this entry …

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December 22, 2008

How to Target your Niche Audience in 3 Easy Steps

Posted by : Ash Mehta

The online shopping experience is not very different from the real world one. In the real world, on a general shopping outing one encounters a wide variety of shop owners pitching their wares in unique and creative ways. From roadside vendors displaying their colourful wares and vying with one another to pitch them by yelling out loud in markets, to quaint shops displaying enticing products outside and shop billboards ranging from the mundane to the weird and funny beckoning you to enter. The online world offers an equally compelling call to action trying it’s best to target a specific, niche audience in the process. Read the end of this entry …

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December 11, 2008

Role of a Press Release

Posted by : Ash Mehta
Filed under : News & Updates

A Press Release is a public relations tool in the hands of small and big businesses. Most companies take out a Press Release when they want to share the information or news with the media and general public. Usually the news is of commercial nature. For instance; a Press Release issued at the launch of a new company, a new product, a new website, software upgrades, winning awards, company merger etc. It has been used as a Public Relations tool for over a hundred years to provide first hand information to the journalists and public. Read the end of this entry …

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November 9, 2008

The Right SEO Strategy – The Big Thing about Small Businesses

Posted by : Ash Mehta

Do you think you’re the small fry competing with the big fish for eyeballs and stand no great chance? Well, granted you may be small, but the good news is you can think big, really big armoured with the right SEO strategy. I believe, as a small business you have several advantages over large businesses – so let’s just focus on them. Read the end of this entry …

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November 1, 2008

Smart SEO Strategies to Combat Global Recession

Posted by : Ash Mehta

Financial downturns do tend to get businesses down, more so for search marketers as marketing budgets are the prime targets for cost-cutting measures. However, instead of cost-cutting, it makes sense to ensure that our marketing investments earn high returns.

It is in our interest to ride the wave of optimism despite the current global financial meltdown that’s trying its damndest best to turn us into pessimists.

We should take a lateral view of our SEO strategies and demonstrate the clear value that can be derived through them. For instance, unprecedented but regular shifts in ranking algorithms by major engines are passé for most of us; however it’s time we took a closer look at the shift in the search audience’s criteria during a downturn and in general. Read the end of this entry …

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October 25, 2008

5 Concise Steps to Convert eCommerce Website Prospects to Customers

Posted by : Ash Mehta

Man, you’ve done some great SEO, your eCommerce website is ranking high on major search engines and traffic leading to your website keeps increasing. But is this considerable traffic and top ranking leading to increased sales through your website? If it is, then you’re doing a pretty good job of converting prospects to customers; if not, then your ranking to conversion ratio is low and you might just have figure out how to capitalise on your high search engine rankings. Read the end of this entry …

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October 19, 2008

Effectively measuring your website success is much more than mere statistics!

Posted by : Ash Mehta

Until recently, website effectiveness was measured through increased traffic and Google PageRanks. The greater the number of hits your website received implied that it was attracting visitors and therefore successful. This method of measuring web traffic and ranking status has undergone a drastic change in today’s business environment; as marketing and web-savvy business professionals incorporate analytics tools to quantify their websites strengths and weaknesses. But before we get into the nitty-gritty of the latest web measurement parameters let us look at what constitutes a website’s success. Read the end of this entry …

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October 12, 2008

A-E basics of SEO eCommerce website creation

Posted by : Ash Mehta

In my past posts, I have touched upon the importance of optimising eCommerce websites to attract search engines and users. As the main objective of any eCommerce website is to attract visitors to purchase products or services. Thus every eCommerce site should be created bearing this objective in mind. This time round, I’d like to focus on the necessity of conducting a thorough research and analysis while creating an eCommerce site. Read the end of this entry …

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