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Articles for the ‘Search’ Category

Digital Infocard – We Love Organic SEO & You Should Too!

Digital Infocard - Organic SEO

We Love Organic SEO & Here’s Why You Should Too!

- Organic SEO is critical for search engine queries

- 70% of clicks on the first page are on organic links

- The top 3 Links on Google account for 60% of organic clicks

- 75% of the people who search don’t go past the first page of search results

- Average CTR for paid search in 2010 was 2%, although Google makes almost 99% of it’s income from PPC Ads i.e. Google AdWords

Digital Infocard – Searching for Information

Digital Infocard for 12-09-2011 - The World of Search

In Search of Information…

- The Internet is the largest “virtual” country with a population of 2 billion

- Worldwide searches per month on Google = 88 billion

- 57% of the world’s population searches DAILY

- Every other query is for a product or service

- 20% of searches are for LOCAL businesses

What Does Google Have That Facebook Doesn’t?

google-vs-facebookContext. That’s what Google has that Facebook doesn’t. Allow me to indulge.

Although both feature self-serve models for creating, managing, distributing and targeting ads to audiences in multiple formats and of various demographics across distributed geos, Search Ads i.e. Google AdWords tends to still fare better over Facebook Ads.

The average click-through rate (CTR) for Facebook ads in 2010 was 0.051%, or about one click-through for every 2,000 ad impressions (source: IT World). The CTR for Google AdWords was 0.09% in 2010, a slight decline from 0.1% in 2009 (source: Google). The exceptions to this CTR for Google AdWords was in China where it was a whopping 0.64%!

There are several factors (format, size, content itself, demographic, gender etc.) for what’s behind those numbers but one of them is “context”.

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Custom Landing Pages are utilized to complement and enhance the performance of your marketing efforts like Direct Mail, Email Marketing, Telemarketing, QR Codes, Banner Ads and PPC. They can also be used to support traditional mass-media marketing channels like TV (think infomercials) and Radio Ads. A landing page allows you to selectively target and profile your audience while offering them customized and targeted offers. They are an optimal touch point for your prospect and optimized landing pages have been proven to boost conversion rates by up to 50%. CLPs can be used as a vehicle for event registration, product surveys, or to promote and sell real estate. Read more about the 7 Habits of Building Highly Effective Landing Pages.

Marketing Automation focuses on demand and lead generation with targeted marketing programs to drive awareness and interest in a company's products and/or services and nurture leads from first interest through to sale. To develop a strategic marketing plan, a fully automated marketing automation platform is designed to develop, manage and analyze campaigns, enable audience and customer segmentation, lead qualification, lead scoring and lead nurture. Distributed Marketing, a discipline that encompasses automation of internal marketing processes, is one way to enable marketing automation across your channel, partners, dealers, franchisees, etc. This type of system dramatically increases the organization's ability to deliver personalized content to relevant entities or individuals at appropriate times.

Email marketing is a very powerful customer engagement tool which is extremely cost-effective and effective, if done right. Email marketing is often reported as second only to search marketing as the most effective online marketing tactic. (MarketingSherpa, January 21, 2009). An effective email marketing strategy involves 3 things: Improved Deliverability, Better Open Rates and Increased Click-through Rates. Use the following design and content guidelines to Create an effective email marketing campaign and follow this 7 step checklist to avoid spam filters and cater to different flavors of email clients.

eBusiness methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with vendors, suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the requirements of their customers. eBusiness involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: purchasing, order processing, logistics, customer service, cooperating with business partners, etc. Special technical standards and/or APIs meant for eBusiness facilitate the exchange of data between companies.