Archive for April, 2010
The rewarding power of Social Media Marketing (SMM)
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Social media marketing refers to the use of social media to propagate the business messages across a large number of target users. It is not concealed from anybody that social media has emerged as a powerful tool in the hands of organizations to promote their online business in a more productive manner.
Social Media Channels Social
networking sites or Social Bookmarking sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Flickr, Digg, Reddit, etc are the effective and credible social media channels which are utilized by companies to generate traffic and increase the visibility of their online business.
How does SMM work?
SMM works on the principle of generating links to the website through primary and referral traffic. An online business does that by associating itself with various social networking sites and actively participating in their activities to reach its customers. As social media accounts for high credulity, users follow the links given on them. This helps the business to drive traffic to its official website. An organization can develop a fruitful connection with social media networks through content, images, videos or audio clips. As users visit the social channels regularly to find information of their interest, there is strong possibility of them visiting a company’s website if it displays the relevant information. In this the company’s purpose of gaining visitors is fulfilled. The visitor may turn into a customer thus meeting the desired goal of an online business. Thus SMM presents an easy and effective means to promoting online business.
Benefits of Social Media Marketing
- Helps in Generating back links
- As it increases the quantity of links, it helps the website to achieve a high search engine ranking
- Attracts targeted users/traffic to the site
- Is useful in Branding and Image building
- Creates favorable attitude towards the company
- An organization can collect valuable feedback by being actively involved in various activities like discussions, blogs, online debates, etc.
- Is highly cost effective if compared to other means of marketing
With multiple benefits and easy approach, SMM is something that a business organization must make use of to remain competitive as well as gain profits.
Link Wheel
Thursday, April 1st, 2010The SEO technique of Link wheel is quickly gaining popularity as a means of developing back links to a site and obtaining a high search engine ranking through the use of an optimized article written for a single specific keyword.
The Concept
It is an effective way wherein 6 independent 2.0 websites, each with high PageRank are interlinked as well as linked to your site thus forming a wheel. Each of these sites are called Spokes, linking back to your site with focus on one keyword or phrase, increase the likeability of search engines towards that particular keyword or phrase.
How does it Work?
You create an Article for your website keeping the entire concentration on a single keyword and optimize it for 6 independent sites. You post or add the optimized Article to these sites and create two links with each of them. One link coming to your site and the other going to the next spoke. Any page on your site is called a Hub Page. This is how a link wheel is created which can be expanded with each spoke linking outside the link wheel and forming new links. As the Link Wheel gets larger, the website gets quality and diverse back links which helps it catch the eyes of search engines.
Link Wheel is a useful method by which websites can create favorable results for them in terms of link building and ranking.
