MoreVisibility is pleased to host an upcoming workshop on October 2nd in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the Sheraton Airport Hotel.
Members of the Google team will participate in the workshop and be available afterward for individual consultations with attendees on their AdWords or Analytics accounts.
As a Google Analytics Certified Partner, MoreVisibility has helped numerous companies to ensure their website data is accurate and thorough. By attending this workshop, you will learn various tactics to collect and analyze web data better.
During this workshop we will cover:
Register now and request your one-on-one account review for better Analytics intelligence on your web data!
Relatively speaking, Google’s +1 button is a new feature in search. However, it has already begun to affect searches in a big way. So much so, people have been trying to make, sadly, an unscrupulous business out of it.
Lately, sites have been springing up that offer to sell +1’s for your website. For a fee, you can get any where from 50 to several thousand unique clicks for the +1 button on your site – a practice which goes directly against Google’s quality guidelines. In the biz, its something we refer to as “back hat SEO.”
While tactics like this may be tempting, and can even provide some short term benefit, they can become detrimental or disastrous in the long run. In the case of buying +1’s for your site, there can be a number of ill-effects.
You may receive a penalization at a later date – Google prides itself on providing quality search results, and it doesn’t take kindly to those who try to game the system. If future algorithms can detect your purchased +1’s, you will have wasted your money and seriously harmed your website’s ranking in Google search.
It’s a spamming technique, and lowers quality – Consider what the +1 button is: a relevancy indicator to enhance social search. By paying a few hundred unrelated, non-relevant users to +1 your site, you can hurt your ranking in the long term and obscure your brand’s overall message to consumers.
It can mess up your analytics – The “audience report” in Google Analytics tells you the demographic and geographic information about users who’ve +1’d the pages on your site. It’s a great way to learn about your audience so you can cater to them better. Paying for a large amount of unnatural +1’s will skew this data and ruin your chances to find and target your actual, converting audience.
All of these negative aspects have the potential to harm your site. For long term success, you should always follow the best practices guidelines and stick to “white hat” SEO techniques.
I haven’t tallied the number of holiday shopping promotions I’ve received via email over the past few weeks, but it seems like many more than in past years. Companies know that consumers have a limited amount of funds that they are going to spend somewhere, so they are pulling out all of the stops early to grab as much of the pie as possible.
The connection I want to highlight in this blog post is that in order to be able to market to prospects (very inexpensively) through email marketing, an investment needs to be made to create the database in the first place. SEO, SEM and Social Media can each play a vital role in developing your list.
Obviously it’s preferred to convert a high percentage of your paid search leads into customers, but it’s equally important to build a database of folks that you can remarket to later on.
Begin investing in your database in a methodical way. Figure out the response rates and average order size you realize from your email blasts and then figure out how large the list needs to grow to in order to attain your sales objectives for 2011 and beyond. Next, determine which marketing channels are most cost effective for your business and begin to grow your list. None of this is easy, but it’s the best way to secure your long term success.
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