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The impression your site gives visitors

posted on: August 18th, 2009

First impressions count; that is simple fact. Your website represents you and your business on the Internet. This is why people pay web designers a hefty fee to design websites for them that wow their site traffic. You need to appeal to your site traffic within your target group to make them stay on your website and become customers.  Effective web design is important to your business success. There are factors that can make or break your online profile that are not always glaringly obvious to a website owner. Unfortunately these factors scream to all visitors that you are negligent and have a can’t-be-asked attitude. So have a look at your website and if you are guilty of any of these, it is time to start fixing the problems. Your business success depends on this. Time for change You lose prospective clients immediately if your website has poor loading time or there are browser compatibility problems. If they do get to your website and your website is unorganised and confusing, they will leave. Your site navigation must be smooth and easy for when visitors battle to get to web pages, they will go away. Web pages must be short and concise. People do not want to scroll through endless paragraphs of text trying to find information. Web content must have excellent value for your visitors and poor content, especially content fraught with bad grammar and spelling mistakes shows negligence. Tables and frames if used, must be done perfect and be appropriate. People notice all the little things on a website that points out that a website is not well designed. Look critically at your website design and ask yourself whether you will want to do business on a site like this or not?

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Is local and global targeting in tandem possible?

posted on: August 7th, 2009

It is not an unusual question for companies to ask whether it is possible to market globally and locally at the same time. Yes, it is quite possible to do this, but this has to be done effectively for it to be successful. It is also not advisable to try and do this on the same web page. Many companies that trade nationally do their SEO targeting locally as a campaign. This by no means mean that they stop their global and national marketing campaigns. Instead, they integrate the local marketing into their overall internet marketing strategy. It may sound complicated or impossible, but if you go about it logically, it works well. Take it step by step The first thing to do is to select the target keywords for your local level marketing. Secondly you have to select those target markets that you wish to explore. Next comes the building of landing pages. You have to build a landing page for each market you had selected. You need to use a set of keywords for each of those pages. Then you market those pages to drive your targeted traffic to those landing pages. It sounds straight forward, but it will take skill to do this successfully. On one hand, you will compete at the global level for specific keywords. On the other hand, you will do so for the local market that you are targeting. Doing global and local targeting simultaneously takes time, expert knowledge and money, which is why most companies prefer to bring in a reputable internet marketing agency to devise and implement effective strategies for them.

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