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The Website Marketing Strategy that Never Fails
Developing a successful web site takes more than simply building a web site with an active URL. Instead, it takes a marketing strategy that takes into account every avenue and angle so as to handle everything and make the site as lucrative as possible. Unfortunately, many web businesses fail because they fail to take into account many of the following topics. If you want your web business to succeed, which I’m sure you do, then consider the following marketing strategy in order to capture more visitors and have a successful online business.
1. Clearly Defined Goals
You must have clear, well defined goals so you know where you want your web site to go. Once you have developed goals, which you can update and change at any time, then you will be able to develop a plan to get you where you want to go.
2. Plan
Once you have developed some goals it is time to work on a step by step plan to help you achieve your goals, even if it is through baby steps. Remember, if you change your goals in any way, you will need to modify your plan. Also, make sure you are up to date on your plan and if what you are doing is not working, you should re-modify your plan again.
3. Design a Web Site or Update Your Current Site
Now you know where you are going and how to get there, a web page should certainly be developed. Of course, if you already have a website, you will need to update it and redesign it so it helps you meet your goals. When designing a website, however, do not assume that a professional knows how to make a website successful for you and your target market. Instead, stay up to date on your market and what appeals to them. This is your business and it is your responsibility to know what is going on.
4. Make the visitor identify with the site
You want to make sure the visitor identifies with your site, and since
you will probably be trying to attract as many visitors as possible you will want to have a diverse site that will appeal to the masses not the minority.
5. Search Engine Results
Search engine results are huge for your web page and ultimately your bottom line. So, one of your main goals should be to have your web page returned as a high result, in the first two pages if at all possible. This is achievable through market research, use of a diverse selection of keywords, and constant updating.
6. Design
Now that you have your website and many visitors, you want the design to be conducive to online shopping or whatever the focus of your site is. If it is easy, clear and well laid out you will have a better chance of making the visitor a customer. If the visitor has a hard time navigating, they will leave and go to the next search result. You don’t have much time to impress a visitor, so make it easy to start with.
7. Be Persuasive
Here is another important point for your website. Make sure your copy is persuasive. You can write it or have a professional write it, but if you want someone to buy your products you will need to persuade them as to why. Give them the information in an easy yet persuasive format.
8. Stay Up to Date
Always stay up to date and never let a week pass by that you do not do some market research, check your website in search results standings, or add some new information to your site. The reason for this is you are in competition with thousands of other web sites and always want to be on top with something fresh and new to offer return visitors.
About the Author
Michael Turner reveals step-by-step how you can increase search engine traffic in his free 7 part mini-series. Grab it now at http://www.powertraffictactics.com/
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