Website Marketing: What You Ought To Know Before Getting Started (Part 4)
Part 4 of 4. As such, your overall website marketing strategy looks like this. First, build a website of several pages, linking them together. Next, choose a domain name and a web host. Finally, place the website on the host and link it with the domain name. When all these steps are performed, a user can type your business’s memorable domain name into their address bar and learn all about your offerings.
When a customer does this, they view your site’s pages, images and other multimedia content in their browsers. This content, stored on the web hosting company’s computers, is delivered up via the web servers which they run and maintain on your behalf.
More often than not, the web browser or ?user agent? is one of the commonly available Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. The user navigates between pages and content on your and other sites by clicking on hyperlinks. If the link includes the domain, users can ?surf the web? by connecting to sites and resources hosted worldwide.
With such a vast wealth of information from which to choose, finding a specific site can be a challenge. You can of course type a domain name into the address bar, but this helps little if you aren’t sure which domain to type. You may also wish to find websites on a specific topic rather than navigating to them individually by name.
It was this problem which search engines were created to address. Many such engines exist, of which Google, Yahoo! And Bing (formerly MSN Live) are the most influential. Because many users turn to these three engines for their online search needs, many webmasters make them key players in their website marketing strategies. Inclusion in all of these engines generates a great deal of free traffic which, in turn, translates into profit.
Additionally, consider using email to market your Website and business. Email is “a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over the internet. Email predates the Internet [and was a crucial technology in its creation.
Email was quickly extended and became a highly useful tool for the online marketers because it costs nothing to send. Plus, an auto-responder system only costs a few bucks a month and makes it’s very easy to build a list of current or potential clients. When you have a list like this, you can then email them automatically with special offers, send them a newsletter and keep you at the top of their mind.
And maintaining customer mindshare is crucial to your business’s success. Our free weekly newsletter (please sign up if you haven’t already) is sent out to many current and potential clients, each of whom are likely to either recommend us to anyone seeking a web design or SEM company, or to forward it on to anyone interested in same. While 40% of our traffic originates from the three major search engines listed previously, the vast majority comes from links and recommendations generated by others, often due to the regular newsletter’s role in maintaining mindshare. Be sure to check out Parts 1-3.
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