Authors: dimitriszotos

SEO Engineer, Online Marketing Specialist

Over the last few years, Mobile Marketing has become an essential part of the promotional strategy. As a result optimizing your website for mobile devices is now very important since more and more users tend to access the internet via their Smartphones, tablets or mobile devices. In this article we will discuss why mobile optimization [...]

Crisis (from the Greek word “krisis” – judgment) is an unstable period that has a starting and ending point followed by conditions of high stress that usually occur along with multiple events and possible risks for the organization’s sustainability or reputation. From communication point of view, a crisis can be described by 3 phases: the [...]

Social media have become an integral part of tourism marketing; they have revolutionized the industry and they have replaced a large part of the traditional communication. This article discusses the most essential practices of social media marketing in tourism & travel industry and explains how they can help you promote your business, increase brand awareness, [...]

Guides, reports and presentations can be useful tools in order to build an effective social media strategy of highly ROI. But, what if we attempt to extract the essence of the main Do’s and Don’ts that a Social Media Strategist should print and keep in a major place at office?

Bloggers and webmasters often learn about SEO out of necessity. Is it possible that SEOs can also learn about blogging out of necessity? In this article Chris Burns explains why Guest Blogging is the response of SEOs to the recent algorithmic updates of Google and he discusses how it can become a powerful tool for [...]

Few days ago Google has updated the PageRank Toolbar values. The update took place on November 8th and this is the fifth one in 2011. We remind you that the last minor update took place in the middle of September while the most recent major one was on 19th of July.

A Key Performance Indicator or KPI refers to a set of measurements reflecting the performance or success of an organization in terms of progress of its goals. In this article we present the most important website KPIs from online marketing perspective and we discuss how to monitor them in Google Analytics.

Google updates the PageRank Toolbar values for the forth time this year! The previous 2 updates took place on 19th of July and on 27th of June. It is not clear yet how many websites have been affected by the update, but it seems that this time the changes are much less aggressive comparing to [...]

A/B and multivariate testing (MVT) are used to help website owners determine the most effective marketing strategies for their products. Changes to business websites are made based on quantitative testing results, rather than gut-feelings or design bias. In this article Rebecca Jones explains how hypotheses can be tested on real customers resulting in actual numbers [...]

On 18th of July, Google has updated once again the PageRank Toolbar values. We remind you that the previous update took place only 3 weeks ago, on 27th of June. From what we see, several websites were affected by this new update and many webmasters started to complain that their PageRank values dropped by 1 [...]

Few years ago Google has launched the official Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel trying to help and get in touch with Webmasters and Web professionals. In this channel Matt Cutts and other Software Engineers posted hundreds of video tutorials and answered numerous questions of SEOs and Online Marketers.

The last few years Social Media Marketing became more and more popular since many businesses felt obliged to build their own campaigns and explore this new form of marketing. After a while, many companies considered social media a promising new channel that can help them connect with their customers while others considered it another internet [...]

Mobile marketing is a promising new type of marketing strategy that can help you reach a wildly untapped audience for your product or service. Nevertheless designing and developing a solid Mobile campaign is not an easy task since it requires time and effort. In this article Mariana Fang Lin lists the most common Mobile Marketing [...]

Nowadays while technology has become a part of everyday life it is essential to consider the wide range of devices that enable users to access internet. Consequently flexibility is a key to success of online businesses.

If you wish to increase the online visibility and the traffic of your website you basically have 2 options: You can use the free channels and you can invest money on advertising. As we have explained in previous articles the free channels can bring lots of traffic to your website but they require lots of [...]

Protecting the reputation of a brand has become a difficult task. Internet has made it possible for customers to talk directly both to the companies and to their audience by using social networks and other online channels. As a result negative comments for a particular brand can affect the online reputation of the company and [...]

The design of a website is one of the most important key success factors and it does not only affect the user experience, but also the SEO campaign. In this article we will discuss the subject of SEO friendly design and we give 30 tips that will help web designers and web developers to build [...]

E-mail marketing is a cost effective marketing tool that aims on building long term relationships with your customers. With clear objectives and messages, e-mail marketing can effectively support your marketing efforts on and off line with a relatively low budget. As the objectives can vary depending on the industry and the audience, we decided to [...]

As Facebook Fan Pages are considered a healthy starting point for social media engagement, more and more companies are searching for the best practices to adopt in order to build up the desired profile.

Search Engines have 2 mainly goals: to deliver satisfying results responding to users’ expressed needs (search queries) and to meet these needs filtered to people’s physical location. Consequently optimizing the online presence of your business for both web and local search results will take you one step forward against your market competitors.

As the year comes to a close, we share with you our insights related to the Internet & Online Marketing trends of 2011. We examine closely the most important trends from the SEO industry to Social Media & Location Based Marketing and from Mobile Marketing to Email Marketing and Budget Allocation. Of course there is [...]

On December 9th, the biggest European Internet conference, LeWeb, has successfully been completed. Since we had the opportunity to attend the event, in this article we will share with you our views, our thoughts and the highlights of the conference.

In order to create a successful SEO campaign, you need to have a good understanding of the way that people search, predict what keywords they will use for a given query and have a good knowledge of the market and of the industry. Modeling the way that people search can be considered as the holy [...]

This week the free Online Marketing Lesson of StayOnSearch is about Social Media. The course starts by explaining why Social Media networks have been heavily evolved the last few years and afterwards it focuses on the most popular social media networks (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn) that can be used in order to increase the [...]

Assume that visitors are arriving at a landing page of your website, what’s their next step? How do they interact before leaving that page? In this article we focus on how to use the 2 advanced tracking options that Google Analytics provides: the Event Tracking and the Virtual Pageview. Both are useful, but it is [...]

Are you wondering what is the best way to create an effective keyword list? Following up a previous article “Keyword Research: The Core of your SEO Strategy», this week we will focus on a real world example, we will discuss the actual needs and we will put the theory into practice.

The third lesson of the free 10-week Internet Marketing course of StayOnSearch, focuses on Paid Search and it discusses the use of Pay-Per-Click Strategies in order to Drive Relevant Traffic to a website. The course starts with the basics, analyzing how a PPC account is structured and what are the main parts (Account, Campaigns, Ad [...]

This week, we are focusing on the strategic part of the ppc campaigns as a form of internet advertising. The decision making related to the duration of the internet advertising can vary depending on different factors linked to the objectives and the circumstances. On this post we will put forward some of them to assist [...]

The Social Campaigns should be designed according to the organization’s objectives. In this article we will share with you the actions and the goals of a real life example that can help you understand how social media can be used in order to promote your brand. The subject of this case study is the social [...]

Companies get more involved day by day in Social Media networks in order to stay up-to-date and to reach their target audience effectively.  In this article, we discuss some practices that should be avoided and we suggest alternatives that can help you plan and execute successfully your Social Media Campaigns.