Thursday 12 May 2016

Digital marketing Basics

In this dynamic world, the internet is mostly used by most people for business and non business purposes. This has a great impact in marketing. Most businesses spend more on digital marketing than on traditional marketing.







The advantages of online marketing are very significant. Most businesses have embarked on this strategy. If you want to succeed, you must understand how the internet can work for you.
The following are some of the concepts you must understand before starting your digital marketing:

·       Affiliate marketing. This is where you pay a commission to an affiliate any time they give you a sale or lead. They can be publishers of different websites related to your business. For example if a web user clicks on an advert or link, on the affiliates website. And be directed to a related page on your own website. The link has an ID of that affiliate so that it can be tracked. If the click results to a lead or sale, you pay the affiliate. The price is predetermined, and always a percentage of the final sale price.

·        Natural search. It is the most important concept but hard to master. Its results are listings that appear in search engines. This is because they are relevant to search terms entered by users. This is different from the paid search results. Natural search is the most cost effective way of generating leads. But also it can be time consuming and complicated, and it can take long to see its results. Paid search results.  With paid search, you can increase the performance of your site by using the SEOtechniques. It involves optimizing the words in your site that are heavily used. The SEO can help your site to appear closer to the top of the results.

·        Pay per click technique. Describes any user who visits your website for which you have paid. For example, the sponsored results at the top and to the right of Google sites are pay per click adverts and some of the banner adverts on price comparison websites. This involves an advertiser bidding on each click. You can compete with other business advertisers bidding on the same keywords. The bidding process is instant because it is automated.

·       Enhanced targeting. With digital marketing you can target your actions down to the minute level. You can allow your adverts to be seen by people of a specific region, or a particular age. Also by using pay per click and banner adverts, you can only target sites that are likely to be viewed by interested and potential customers of your services and products.

·       Analysis. Effective analysis leads to success in online marketing campaigns. It involves looking at the volumes and sources of traffic to your website, as well as the clicks and the amount you are paying for each on pay per click campaign. Also the conversion rates. Affiliate marketing and pay per click can help you with the tools to enable you track and understand the analysis. There are some software that can enable you to track your natural search and other traffic sources.