Web Marketing: Types Of Advertising To Reach Your Market Online
By: Santoshi Chhajed
Web marketing is an effective means of generating traffic to increase revenue from your business online. Web marketing is highly targeted & measurable. You can easily reach your targeted crowd based on geography, areas of interest & the content of the website.
Below are the most popular types of web marketing to increase the brand awareness & sales online:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): To increase targeted traffic to your website, SEO is an important step of marketing on the web. Website optimization is done by adding relevant keywords & meta tags to make your website more search engine friendly. When a user types a specific keyword in search bar, he will find your site on top of the search results (SERPs). Thus, this helps you to attract the right customers.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM): If you want instant result & you are ready to pay for that, then SEM is the best way to bring more targeted traffic to your web site. It is also known as Pay Per Click. In this model, you select keywords that get high search volume and are high on commercial intent, create ads related to those keywords, and start advertising through the various programs available online (Google AdWords, for example). PPC is performance-based i.e. you only pay when someone clicks on your ad.
Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate marketing is one of the best channels to get more businesses online. In this process a company hires other companies or websites known as affiliates & entrusts them with the responsibility of marketing their product or service. An affiliate is a 3rd party which sells your product or promotes your service in exchange for a commission. The affiliates use different strategies to drive a traffic flow directly to the official business site where the sale takes place. They may use the banners or logos of the company in the website, or simply a text link. When the visitor clicks on that particular link, they are redirected to the sponsor's website. Many companies pay affiliates up to 75% commission for generating a sale. However, the commission can differ from product to product.
Banner Advertising: Banner Advertising is the oldest way of online advertising. In banner advertising, "Banners" are used to highlight the products or services to get attention of the visitor. By clicking on it the visitor will be taken to your website or landing page where you can provide details of your business. Usually you have to pay on the basis of banner views or impressions. But sometimes you only pay when the user clicks on your banner. Another way of banner advertising is banner exchange. In this, you display the ad of another website in exchange of your ad being displayed on that website. In order to post your banners, you may contact individual websites where you want your banner on, or simply get in touch with an Online Advertising Network.
E-mail Marketing: In this process, you can send your advertisements & information about latest products & updates in the emails to the list of your targeted customer. There are many web applications that provide services to maintain the subscriber database as well as allow personalized newsletters to be sent. Email marketing is effective when you already have a list of targeted customers established.
As compared to traditional methods of marketing, web marketing is most cost-effective. No matter which marketing strategy you use for web marketing, make sure it helps in your ROI.
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