Internet Marketing and eCommerce Expert – Nigel Burke's Blog

I talk to a lot of business owners that have websites and many of them ask me how they can increase their online business.

I ask them what are their goals of their websites? They usually reply with the same comment – To increase sales.

But what are they doing to promote and market the website? What tracking to they have in place? What changes have been done to improve the site?

So today I am going to describe a couple of points that can get websites back on track and increase their return on their website.

Identify The Goals & Purpose of the Website
You need to determine what purpose is for the website. Is it to increase brand awareness? Provide information and to get customers in the door?

Have you set measurable goals for your website? You need to define what success is for your website and work out ways to reach those goals within a certain time frame.

Optimize your website for search engine visibility
Can a search engine read the content of your website? Is it being indexed? What keywords are your targeting?

I see a lot of websites that are poorly optimised for search engines which is the number 1 source for traffic. People are searching for your product and services but your competition is getting the business – not you because your website does not come up in the natural search results.

Website Marketing
Are you advertising online? Are you tracking where the leads are coming from? Do you know your acquistion costs for a customer?

The Internet is an amazing tool for business. You can set advertising budgets to the dollar, you can see exactly where customers are finding you to the words they enter into a search engine to find you, and track visitor trends.

There is no other tool like having a website performing well for you.

What value to do you provide to your visitors?
If a customer were to visitor your website today, what are they going to walk away with? Only sales material or will they leave smarter?

The sell, sell, sell techniques worked in 2001 but visitors want more. They want to know what’s available and how they will benefit from using your product or service. There is a global marketplace that we are in today – there is a lot of competition.

Demonstrate that you are an expert and give customers value by visiting your website.

Get involved with social media
Become familiar with social media ettiquet and start a blog, a Facebook group, comment on other blogs, start a wiki for your industry.

The main message here is to just get involved in social media but play nicely.

Conclusion
Get your website to be a market leader in information. People will link to your site and you will get more traffic. This traffic will convert into customers.

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