Sunday, January 11, 2015

Tips to improve your SEM campaign

With search engines going through changes ever so frequently, it has become increasingly hard to keep up with the changes in order to stay on top of the search rankings. Here are a few tips to help stay ahead of the game as far as Search Engine Marketing is (SEM) concerned-
  1. Get to know your customers
Learn as much as you can about your client base. Who are they? What do they expect from you, and how can you improve your services to comply with their requirements. The client requirements keeps changing with the changing markets, and it is imperative the you are in tune with their needs in order to serve them better.
  1. Know your competitors
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster”- Sun Tzu.
This quote by the famous war strategist/ philosopher  Sun Tzu is quite apt in regards to the marketing battle field as well. keeping a keen eye on your competitors will give e you a good idea of where they are heading, and how you can better prepare yourself to match/ surpass their plans. After all, marketing is designed to attract the most clients, and clients automatically gravitate towards the best products in the market.
  1. Research the market
This point goes hand in hand with the previous point. Continually studying the markets will give you a leverage about the changing face of the markets. Keeping up with these changes will help sustain your business and deign a marketing strategy which addresses these issues. If possible employ the services of a reliable marketing company to help with the research.
  1. Plan ahead
Have a solid goal and a reliable pat to reach your goals before launching an online marketing program. Take time to chalk out the goals and ways to incorporate these game strategies into your marketing plans. Being very specific about your requirements and plan accordingly. Knowing what needs to be done is half the battle won, and preparing yourself effectively will solve the remaining issues.
  1. Stick to using ethical SEO practices
Although black hat principles seem lucrative at first, they can land you in serious trouble, and may even get you blacklisted. So it is best to stick to using ethical SEO practices to get the desired results. It is possible to achieve your goals ethically if you employ the right strategies.

4 things to keep in mind when employing SEO techniques

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can grossly improve your online presence- but only if done right. Adopting frivolous ways to increase visibility online can have disastrous results, which could drastically affect your ranking. Here are five things to keep in mind when you employ SEO techniques to your website-
  1. Black hat techniques are a one way ticket to SEO hell
You would never cheat your clients and customers with fake/ substandard products and services would you? Of course not! The would result in losing your credibility in the market, losing existing clients, bad press and losing out on the possibility of getting new clients as well. This is pretty much what black hat SEO techniques are- deceptive methods used to bait innocent audience. Using black hat techniques can result in your website getting blacklisted by Google, not to mention all the bad reputation it generates.
  1. People, web searches, smart- stupid
People use a smart- stupid way when using search engine searches. In fact the most effective way to get appropriate search results is to cut out all the fluff and stick to the important points. Constructing sentences do not contribute to the quality of searches, but key words do. Hence investing time and resources on researching appropriate keywords, and using appropriate variants can prove to be beneficial.
  1. Panda grows and evolves
Google is known to update its algorithms Such as Panda, and crawl bots at regular intervals. However, only the major updates are announced, but regular- smaller updates happen as and when required, without much hue and cry. The summation of these smaller updates can snowball into a huge difference, and you will have to tweak and update your website to accommodate these changes.
  1. Content over everything else. Always
A fantastic SEO can fail miserably if your content is not up to par. SEO works on two levels- good presentation and good content. It must comply with the requirements of the Google algorithms and at the same time cater to the human requirements of comprehendible content. The content must comply with the guidelines of basic grammar, and should provide just the right amount of information structured in an appealing way to keep the visitor engaged. The amount of time a visitor spends on your site also affects your Google ranking, which makes having good content on your site a no brainer.

At Webtree Media Solutions, we keep the above points in mind for all our projects, which makes us one of the most reliable search engine optimization service provider in Bahrain.

The Future of Online Business

Gone are the days when you had to step out of the house to do your shopping. The growth of the internet, especially the advent online shopping portals have forever changed the ways business transactions happen on a daily basis. People can now buy anything from the comfort of their homes, and have the goods delivered to their doorstep.

The two most important things an online store must focus on are- a user friendly design and a seamless online payment. These two factors are instrumental in setting up an opinionated thought in your clients minds. The idea of a good e- commerce web site is to have recurring customers, and to get new customers as time passes.

Finding a good e-commerce website design in Bahrain is a fairly tedious job, since the market is quite new. It is for this very reason that you are encouraged to hire professionals with experience in such fields, in order to have a bankable, well-designed site by your side.

E-commerce is one of the safest methods of business transactions, and is a well-established method world over. Certain features on these sites such as product promotions, special deals for loyal customers and informing about the deals on a real-time basis give e- commerce sites an edge over regular shopping methods.