Marketing

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 [...]

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?

On Tuesday 18th of October, Google announced that within the next weeks, all the logged-in users that use Google search will automatically be redirected on the SSL version of the website. As they mention on their article “Making Search more secure” this new feature targets on protecting the privacy of the users and on making [...]

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.

Improving the Online Marketing presence of an Ecommerce website is usually a very challenging task. This is because the Online Marketers & SEO Professionals have to optimize the website in order to achieve better rankings on Search Engines, they must improve the user experience, they have to use all the available channels to promote the [...]

Few weeks ago ComScore released some figures which suggest that the Bing & Yahoo alliance has increased its marketshare to 30.5% in the US which is almost half of the marketshare of Google. Moreover Bing has signed a deal with Baidu, a very popular Chinese Search Engine, to power its SERPs for English queries. This [...]

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 [...]

One of the most common mistakes that companies make while designing their Social Media Marketing campaigns is that they fail to choose carefully the online channels that suit best their businesses. As a result they end up investing time, money and effort on networks that can’t help them promote their business and this makes them [...]

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 [...]

It’s a common knowledge that higher rankings lead to increased probabilities of having our pages clicked by the users. Nevertheless the position of the result by itself is not the only factor that affects the Click Through Rate (CTR). Most users take into account several things before selecting the most relevant page of the search [...]

The first thing that most people think when they want to boost their online sales is to increase their website traffic. Thus they focus on getting more links, achieving better Search Engine Rankings, investing more on advertising, sending more emails and newsletters, finding more affiliates, becoming more active on Social Media and using other ways [...]

Most SEO Professionals and Online Marketers would agree that the creation of high quality content & services is the basic ingredient for a successful SEO & Online Marketing campaign. Still though just by providing great content & services and by optimizing your pages for the targeted keywords, it does not automatically lead to the increase [...]

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 [...]

Wordpress is currently the most popular weblog software in the world since millions of bloggers use it to power up either their blogs or their dynamic websites. One of the reasons why this platform became so successful is because blog owners are able to find a large variety of plugins to extend the functionalities of [...]

The design of a Website heavily affects the Sales and the Image of a company and at the same time it might positively or negatively affect the SEO campaign. Developing an impressive and SEO compatible Web Design can help you improve your conversion rates, increase your sales and improve your placement in Search Engine Results. [...]

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.

Today we have an interview with Dixon Jones, Marketing Director of MajesticSEO. In this interesting interview we discuss about the new backlink analysis features of Majestic, the importance of backlinks in SEO and the future of Search Engine Marketing.

As we discussed on the previous blog post “The new Google +1 button and the Effects on SEO”, the Google +1 button has a lot of similarities with Facebook like. Indeed the idea behind the +1 button is not new to the average user since the bookmark buttons have flooded the web for quite many [...]

Google has recently announced the release of a new social button called “+1” (plus one). Similarly to Facebook like button, the new +1 button will allow users to bookmark and share the cool websites, pages, advertisements and search results that they find on the web.

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 [...]

Email Marketing is an important tool for Online Marketers and if it is used correctly it can help you boost your business. In this guest article M. Sufi discusses the current E-mail Marketing trends and he describes in detail the Best Practices and tools that you can use to improve your email campaigns.

Today we have an interview with Chris Burns, co-founder of SERPd. In this interesting interview we will start with questions concerning the new fast growing SEO/Online Marketing community that was launched few months ago and then we will continue with hot questions concerning the recent changes and the future of Search Engine Marketing.

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 [...]

Building website traffic is of crucial importance for any business, nevertheless this process requires a lot of time, effort and of course know-how. While there are a lot of traffic building methods out there, in this article M. Sufi recommends the ones that have a solid proven track record of providing long-term success.

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 [...]

Today’s blogosphere counts several millions active blogs offering a great variety of topics and content. The wonderful aspect of a blog creation is that anyone who has a particular hobby, knowledge, passion or a business to promote, can easily do it.