Archive for September, 2008
Brand New Impressive How To Do Keyword Research
Today, Doing proper keyword research is very important. It is your first vital step for building your online business.Â
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What people are searching for? You can find out what people want on the…
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Brand New Internet Eff Launches Net Neutrality Tool
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has introduced a new tool that allows users to find out if their ISPs are throttling their P2P files.
The new "Switzerland Tool" will reveal if a user’s network connection has any restrictions on it from ISPs.
New Network Success With Adsense!
Admin wrote: Like with anything else in life…The more you use Google Adsense, the more you’ll learn from your mistakes. But why wait till then - why not learn and benefit from the mistakes of others?……
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Open Source 5 Engaging Ways To Engage Your Audience
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How engaged a customer is with your website will determine whether they can be persuaded to buy, comment, download or submit their information for you to follow up on. Customer engagement goes beyond just getting the customer’s attention, you must keep their attention. This can be done by providing your visitors near immediate gratification.
To do that you have to first know who your audience is, know what they seek and then also know their purpose for being on your site. Knowing all this then lets you work toward meeting the needs of your target audience. But it also means taking things a step further and building a relationship with them. The ability to build a relationship with your visitors can be crucial to driving them through the persuasion process. Relationship building starts the moment the visitor hits the website.
Getting attention
Every page of your site is a landing page. From the moment visitors land on that first page you need to grab their attention. This doesn’t require any gimmicks, but it does require the ability to organize your information in a compelling and visually friendly way.
Reassurance
Each page of your site must continue to assure your visitors that they are where they need to be to get the information they came looking for. Placement and words used in page headings, contextual links, bullet points, etc. can all be used to reassure your visitors that you have the information they need without much more than a quick glance.
What’s in it for them?
If your visitors can’t immediately figure out “What’s in it for me?” then you will quickly lose their interest. Your visitors need to quickly find resolutions to the questions, product information, benefits and ultimately the question of why they should buy from you. If this information cannot be addressed on each page, provide obvious links to the pages that do.
SEO vs. usability
On-page SEO should enhance, rather than distract from, the visitor’s engagement on the site. If your copy is poorly developed because you’re trying too hard to insert keywords into the text, then your visitors will be pulled away from, rather than engaged in, the message. Good SEO considers users, not just search engines.
Textual links
Textual links should be used as frequently as necessary to provide a customer-engaged navigation path. Contextual links, as opposed to standard navigation elements, allow visitors to click through finding the information that most interests them without forcing them to think about where they want to go next. Provide the path and they will follow.When you don’t engage your visitors by providing them the information they want in a way that speaks to their wants and needs, then you’re mostly just speaking at users rather than to customers. You want your visitors to have a personal experience as they interact with your website. Make them feel as if you developed the site just for them.
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