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Farhan Fawzer

October 22, 2013

Improve your Conversion Rate with new online marketing techniques

You may be excited about the idea of starting to market your business online. In fact, you may have a lot of things running through your head right now. You may be thinking of various things including your web page’s color, design and so on. You simply cannot contain your excitement. But sometimes you may not realize the most essential things about marketing your business online; thus not targeting the right audience in the world of online marketing of your business and the next thing you know you’ll wake up one day flat broke with nothing to show for your efforts.

It is easy sometimes to worry about getting traffic onto your website without considering conversion rate from existing traffic. For getting optimum results from your search engine marketing campaigns it is very important to optimise site for higher conversions. For most online traders, a 2-4% conversion rate is considered about the industry average. But for some, a 25% conversion rate is perfectly reasonable because of the type of service or product being offered. Here are some ways to improve the conversion rate getting good results from search engine marketing efforts.

Conversion rate is the number of purchases of a product/service, subscriptions or sign ups from visitors. Some website owners only focus on the amount of traffic to the site when in fact there are some problems with their site that if solved would have a positive effect on their conversion rate without major expenses. Think of an instance where, instead of focusing on building traffic, you could double your sales from the traffic of your existing customers. Increasing conversion rate from 2% to 4% will double your profits. Improving the conversion rate on a website from its existing traffic is the best way to increase sales and profits in the quickest possible way.

To be successful in this Digital Marketing era, you must take adequate efforts and time learning what can lead you to success. Get as much as new online marketing information you can and take time to study them before you use of them for your website’s and company’s growth. The more knowledge and experience you can possess, the quicker you will reach your goals. Often the best online marketing techniques will come to you suddenly, but evolves out of all the information you might know. Do not let your business be deserted by others, make it stand out by utilizing proper online marketing strategies. Loads of new information is available throughout the web; just type in on Google and you will find what you are looking for.

Farhan is a leading SEO Consultant from Sri Lanka focuses mainly on Conversion Rate Optimization by working closely with his clients. As an Online Marketing Expert he provides a range of Digital Marketing solutions in Sri Lanka.

Farhan Fawzer

October 2, 2013

Tips to Improve your SEO Link Building Strategy

Link building is one of the most efficient SEO strategies for both increasing the number of visitors to a website and improving the rankings of a website in organic search results.

Competitor analysis

Once you have identified your main competitors based on the niche you are operating in and on using the same keywords, you can easily find out which are the websites linking to them. Chances are the sites linking to your competitors will also be interested in linking to you, provided you are just as good as competition or even better. Competitor analysis is a very important factor in SEO.

However, some links might come from directories and sponsored links. In this case you can simply submit your own website to those directories or invest part of your budget in sponsored links.

Creating top quality content

Remember “Content is King” The uniqueness and quality of your content is essential in building an effective link building strategy. Most powerful way to get others to link to your website is by creating high quality content.

Social Media Platforms for LinkBuilding

Social media sites are powerful not only for promotion, but also for your link building strategy. They are great for both click-through traffic and helping your search engine rankings.

Search engines have been offering reasonable amount of importance to social media sites and links coming from them. For example, if you set up a Twitter profile and begin “tweeting” the Googlebot is more likely to crawl it sooner. It is therefore, a great way to get your sites indexed in the search engines such as Google, or let the search engines know when you add fresh content to your blog or website.

Blogs & Feed directories for Link Building

A very efficient way to get more links back to your website is to submit your site to all relevant RSS feed and blog directories.

Directory submissions

Submitting your site to related web directories is an easy way of getting links back. The links aren’t usually very good quality, but it’s a good place to start. Ensure the directory is relevant and related to your website.

Article Writing & Submission

Getting backlinks from article sites is one strategy that needs to be included for successful link building. One example of article site that is highly used at the moment is ezinearticles.com. You can submit your own articles with links either inside your article or at the bottom of the article in what’s called an “Author Bio”. Apart from getting a link back from the particular article site you are posting on, you may end up getting many backlinks if your article is picked up by other websites from there. That is because according to the rules of the article sites the website owners can take your article from the article site and publish it on their own site, so long as they retain the Author’s links.

Forums & Community links

Interacting in public forums and communities can be a great way to get links back to your site. Forums and blogs are hosting a large number of visitors, most of them trying to post their link while engaging in conversations or leaving comments. Not all forums are willing to except link, but as long as you are not spamming, most of them will.

However, a large number of forums and blogs have a “nofollow” tag on their links, which effectively blocks the search engine spiders from counting the link as a vote.

Donations to charity

Since charity websites are a good place to get links from and usually have a good PR (PageRank) are generally good to have link from. In exchange for a donation most charity websites will probably be happy to offer you a link from one of their main pages.

We can help you with the above SEO Link Building Strategies with our expertise in SEO. Let us know if you’d like to have a SEO Quote absolutely free of charge.

Farhan Fawzer

July 4, 2013

Planning an SEO project

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) projects need good planning to obtain the best results and needs to be considered during, and incorporated into, all stages of a website development or redevelopment of the project. For example, the site architecture (including the selection of a content management system or CMS), the marketing plan (including branding concepts), and much more are impacted.

How SEO projects start

• Putting together an SEO plan
• Performing a technical SEO audit of a site
• Setting a baseline for measuring results and progress

These are the things you want to do at the very beginning of your SEO efforts for any website.

Farhan Fawzer

March 22, 2013

WordPress Security Tip

WordPress will by default name the administrator user account as admin. If you haven’t made any changes while installing WordPress, that is probably what you will use to log in.

WordPress Tips

The issue with this is evident: if someone wanted to gain access to your blog, all they would need to do is to keep using the “admin” user name with a number of passwords combinations. This is called brute force attack, and with automated tools it works quite often.

Whenever installing WordPress from scratch, therefore, remember to use some other name instead of admin for the administrator user account. If you already have WordPress installed, the fix is very simple. Just create a new user and set it as administrator. Then log in with that new user and delete the “admin” user. Don’t worry if you have many posts written by the user, WordPress will ask whether you want to delete them or re-assign them to a new user (choose the latter obviously).

As for choosing the new user name, make sure that it is not similar to the name you display publicly on your blog. If you sign your posts as John Doe, for instance, naming the administrator user as “john” or “johndoe” wouldn’t help. You need something that others won’t be able to guess easily.

Need assistance regarding SEO for WordPress Do not hesitate to get in touch with me.

Farhan Fawzer

January 12, 2013

Essential SEO tips to succeed online

Nowadays, many web surfers use search engines to find about websites that cater to their need. They also have a tendency to have a search engine as their home page for easy access. This is one of the many reasons as to why you need to have search engine optimisation for your website.

Search Engine Optimisation or SEO will not be a strange term if you are engaged in online marketing. It helps your website to gain a better ranking on the search engines. In SEO there are two types; internal SEO and External SEO. Whilst building your website your developer and web designer would focus on internal SEO. However if your site is not hitting the external SEO then you would not be having a successful online business.

In order for you to reach external SEO there are five essential tips that you would need to use; backlinks, avoiding link spamming, linking profiles, .gov links and forums. The next few paragraphs would explain you how these tips can boost your external SEO.

Back links

Back links are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks and inward links. You may have good backlinks and at times bad backlinks. Search Engines prefer to have good backlinks as it helps your website to get a good ranking in the search engines.

Avoid link spamming

Though link spamming gives a boost to your website initially it can put your site in to the Google Sandbox, which will not push your site on top of the search engines. Therefore when you backlink you should avoid automatic backlink generators to you website.

Linking profiles

Adding the links for your main homepage on social networking profiles (Googleplus), pages (Facebook) and various blogs could optimise results in search engines. This too should be done sensibly to avoid spamming.

.gov links

.gov and .edu are links that google would give the highest preference when ranking your website. Therefore if you can get your website linked with one of these sites your ranking would be doubled. As the value of a .gov or .edu link equals to 10 or even 20 normal links from blogs and forums.

Forums

Being a part of a forum can provide you the opportunity to post quality content and add links to your target website. However you should be mindful not to spam the forum as they are strict with the information that is shared on their forums. Should your content grab the attention of the readers, it would also bring in clients through the links that you have posted, and will boost the ranking of your website.

SEO is essential for you to gain top online visibility, popularity and page rank and the tips given above would definitely assist you in achieving it. You might also need to put up SEO contents created on specific keywords, phrasings to reach the top rankings and should be done prior to creating your web page. If your website is still not on the first pages of the search engine results, it is high time you start off with your SEO activities.