Future trends of Internet marketing

Future trends of Internet marketing

Today, over 75% of website traffic comes through organic search results and 85% of people trust search engines for fulfilling their primary business needs. Even though people are inclining towards social networking websites, but Social networking websites are more or less served as taking second opinion, feedback for the products. Search engines still rule the internet industry in terms of finding products and services to satisfy their business and personal needs. Let us find out what will be the future internet marketing trends.

Search engine optimization:

Websites with fresh content and relevant links will still rule the internet but the search results will get more personalized and area specific. Already search engines algorithms have started paying attention to the geo-location, publication-date, past behavior, mobile device browsers and media content. Google has already launched innovations like real-time search and Social Search. So publishers and brands are expected to deliver more personalized, most comprehensive, fresh and relevant content to get indexed in search engines.

So testing keywords, content and links in mobile websites, local content and social media is a wise move to generate leads in the internet marketing industry.

PPC / Paid search:

The motive behind paid search advertising is to get instant traffic to the website and first page visibility for selected keywords. As Search engines will remain primary mean of getting information people will click on the relevant ads. And the PPC costs will remain reasonable. Mobile technology could be used in PPC platforms as a massive advantage. Big players don’t mind paying money for running PPC campaign if they’ll get good returns, PPC investment is also a good decision but be wise while choosing your keywords since your money is directly involved in that. I suggest you to take the advice of PPC expert before investing.

Email marketing

The future of E-mail marketing is also bright as now email providers have started integrating social media along with email. Google buzz, which integrates videos, photos, link with real time communication, is already introduced. Google buzz which is an addition to social features in Gmail is creating buzz everywhere. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most. It builds easy to use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately. So in the upcoming years try to invest in these newly integrated email applications to generate leads and recurring customers.

Social media networking:

Lots of eyeballs are fixed on social media networking nowadays, so investing wisely in social media would be a good decision. Google has already started paying attention to social networking websites like twitter, facebook, linkedin etc. by indexing them in search results. Social media networking is in its initial stage, it has yet to evolve, and many a things are yet to come like Social networking websites will give more importance to interactivity and features like (RSS,Wiki,...) to the users, with the help of Web2.0. So future of internet marketing is going to be effected mostly by social media networking. Brand your websites with the help of these social networking websites. Observe carefully your fan pages in facebook and find out the customers who are diligently following you. Try to use these social media websites to get repeated and referral business from your clients. Also social networking websites are an effective way to take feedback of your product or services.
In short the future of social media networking is very bright, it is upto you how do you use them in the interest of your business.

Mobile Marketing

According to Wikipedia Mobile Marketing is a set of practices that enables organizations to communicate and engage with their audience in an interactive and relevant manner through any mobile device or network.
Nowadays many people are carry handsets like iPhone and the Google Android phone capable of rich, mobile commerce providing a rich environment for the convergence of mobility and the Web. So the latest trend in internet marketing is shifted towards providing low-cost mobile marketing solutions like mobile websites, mobile email marketing, mobile text messaging, mobile application development and area specific marketing.
These smart phones are opening new channels like SMS, mobile pages, online sales collateral, and virtual couponing or money mobile technology, which will simplify the reach to the targeted audience/ customer.

Blogging:

Blogging will remain there as a good investment in the internet industry for the new bloggers as well as for the established bloggers. As search engines loves fresh content and blogging is a way to update your website periodically with fresh and unique content so blogging will help driving visitors to your website in the upcoming years also. So try to convert prospects into customers by writing quality content for your website. Even many good article submitting directories are encouraging their members to submit quality articles to their directories and in return they are rewarding the customer with increased traffic, improved credibility and additional sales, which is a great reward to bloggers.

Corporate Video:

It is said that a picture is worth than thousand words, now you can imagine the impact which a video creates as compared to simple text. The main advantage of using online video is that it is interactive, so creates more impact on the viewer and makes it easily memorable. It can be easily shared with anyone and it is not expensive also to create. All these features of corporate video make it widely accessible. As YouTube is becoming the easiest way to generate targeted and continuous traffic to your website, it is a good idea to invest some time in low cost video marketing in the upcoming years. But be wise to invest in video promotion as however effective be the video is, it takes time to get loaded on the system and you can’t scan the video whereas text can be easily scanned and converted into digital format to create webpages.

Summary:

There could be many other internet marketing trends which can develop in the upcoming years. I suggest you should give some time to consumers as they take time to get adjusted with new trends. Try to attract new customers and don’t forget to concentrate on the repeated customers as well. Try to improve your brand by listening to the customers and engage them by taking their constant feedback.

Social media could be used effectively to market your brand reputation, so monitor constantly the invaluable feedback gathered from the conversations based on social media. Google caffeine’s real time search is also something which one should consider with respect to social media marketing.
Inbound marketing through social networking websites is going to be an added value to your brand name, Invest your time wisely in sharing information via blogs, articles, and participating in discussions, answering questions, all these are the ways you can all add value to your social media profile.


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future internet marketing trends.

Growing to the peak - Internet marketing Strategies

The primary goal of any marketing strategy is to increase the company’s public existence so that the company’s business is promoted. Internet marketing is no less but its approach is little different and it target customers across the globe.
Many a times people think that by just buying a domain name and constructing a nice website will drive internet traffic, but that is not true. There are many other factors which are necessary to make yourself prove in this competitive world. Especially now it’s the time of recession and everyone is thinking ten times before purchasing a new product or services, but at this time if we will think that we can hire a low cost SEO company to optimize our website then that will be the silliest mistake which we will do, since internet marketing is the cheapest way of all the other marketing strategies and only by choosing the right internet marketing firm you can increase your website traffic and in turn your business.
In order to successfully market any business or product the marketer should have a firm idea of what they are doing and why they are doing it in order to estimate the response received and make adjustments as necessary. What is the unique product / service they provide which makes them special or what is their main motive behind doing that particular business. So the selection of keywords plays a very crucial role to optimize your website, which can only be done with the help of a good internet marketing company which uses ethical search optimization techniques.
There are several other ways to increase website traffic on your website. Some of them are listed below:
• email marketing
• social networking
• branding your website
• WOMM( Word Of Mouth Marketing)
• SEO
• PPC
• Backlinking
• Newsletters/ ezines
• Micro blogging
• Macro blogging
• User generated content
• Directory listing
• Listing in DMOZ

Email marketing:

It can be very effective tool if used properly. An extensive study should be performed before preparing a mailing list, so that only appropriate clients are picked. The email should be personalized so that the receiver should have a nice feeling. The list for which we are targeting email marketing should be prepared in such a way that we are not spammed. Remember having a bad name for once is remembered more than having good name, so we should be very cautious. In brief internet marketing can be proved a very economical way to market any business only when used appropriately.



Social Networking:

The introduction of the Internet, and especially the World Wide Web, has allowed people to meet new friends and acquaintances across the globe. By the advent of Social networking reaching to the masses has become very simple. The social marketing phenomenon has reached more people than any other marketing strategy in an amazing way, just you need to join the social network, put up the start up pages that correspond to the business and don’t forget to include the link of your company’s website. There are many social networking websites like linkedin, facebook, Myspace etc…

Branding of the website:
Your business's website will be many people's first impression of your company, products and services. As a result, your site represents a critical component of your branding strategy: It communicates who you are, what you offer and what you promise (your brand) through its content, organization and appearance (the look and feel).
WOMM( Word Of Mouth Marketing):
WOMM’ has got nothing to do with propaganda, advocacy or advertisement. In the marketing world conversation plays an integral part. And these new media sites focus on conversation as their integral part. For better or for worse people talk about products, events etc no one can stop that.
In this day and age, if you don’t have your own website for your business, it’s almost as if you do not exist. Recent studies have found that people are more likely to look up a business online than in the Yellow Pages or other traditional “old-school” ways.
Link building is the process of getting other web sites to place a link to your web site on their own web site.
SEO
Search engine optimization is the process of analyzing a web site and modifying it to enable search engines to read, understand, and index it correctly.
The objective of search engine optimization is to increase web visitor counts by ranking very high in the results of searches using the most appropriate keywords describing the content of your site.

PPC
Pay-per-Click (PPC) Advertising is a feature that is now being offered by the major search engines. Through a competitive bidding process, you can buy a favorable position on the search engine results for specific keyword search phrases that you choose. You pay for results only on a “per click” basis, hence the name Pay per Click Advertising. The twin advantages of PPC advertising are immediate visibility and strategic placement.

Newsletters

Newsletters have massive potential to promote your business, sell your products, inform your potential customers, and retain existing customers. They can increase affiliate sales, market new products, or keep your customers informed of changes.
Newsletter can be an extremely powerful Internet marketing tool. Readers love to get something for nothing, especially information. By reducing the amount of advertising and increasing the amount of genuinely useful and informative newsletter content it is possible to build an email list that will continue to purchase from you for years to come. Newsletter design and newsletter content are equally important, both giving you the opportunity to maximize the effect of your marketing campaigns and subsequently make you more money.

Macro blogging

Macro blogging or Blogging is rapidly becoming a popular way to promote your on-line marketing. Each blog entry you make should include a hyperlink to your business site and should also include tags associated with the blog topic (which can also be connected with your business opportunity).
Every blog post has tags and all of the tags are keywords associated to the topic of your blog and thus your business, so your blog can enhance your search engine ranking. This is free advertising to your website. Every blog is accompanied by feedback and comments (user generated content) about that blog. Either positive or negative comments both are beneficial to you. The more visits to your site, the more you are marketing your business and gaining credibility.

Micro blogging
Micro blogging is an innovative way of blogging, this type refers to short written texts of about 140 words that is published online and viewed by all or to a restricted few. Most uniquely, the brief blogs, in the form of messages, can be imparted even through a number of means such as instant messaging, email, text messaging, MP3 and of course on the web.
In fact, the business world, micro blogging way to best suit the client-based interaction. This can be done in a number of effective and useful ways. For example, with this particular technique, the companies can keep in touch with their clients, informing them with the constant developments. In this way, the companies can also declare discounts and offers to the blog readers across the web. At times, customers may prefer to talk to any particular staff of their choice. Micro blogging makes the job easier to know whether the staff is available online or not get a more honest feedback Besides these, there are many other applications of the very concept of the ultra micro blogging that is already taking the business and social world by storm.
How will writing macro blogs help you improve your business?
When you put your content related to your business opportunity on Twitter and other micro blogging sites like Pownce, Tumblr, and Jaiku, Google’s spiders follow…your pages will get indexed…your websites will rank…and you’ll make more business.
User generated content (UGC)
It is the content that users (or consumers) write and submit online and can be
• Product reviews (e.g. Amazon.com)
• Service reviews (e.g. Google Local)
• Seller reviews (e.g. ebay)
• Blog comments
• News comments
• Forum posts or comments
• Video/Audio and Photo sharing sites (e.g. YouTube and Flickr)
• Social networking sites comments or posts (e.g. Twitter, SecondLife, Facebook)
• Wikis
• Composite review sites (e.g. ConsumerReport.org)

Why UGCs are important in internet marketing?
There are several reasons. They are:
• Consumers are relying more and more on UGC.
• Marketers are relying more and more on UGC
• UGC Influences Offline Commerce
• Not only positive but Negative Reviews are also actually of interest
• Negative reviews provide helpful feedback to consumers and R&D
• Negative Reviews provide authenticity
• Positive Reviews Outweigh Negatives

If you sell products and services, and if you have a web site, make sure you allow for reviews. If your products are great to mediocre, you should get far more positive than negative feedback, and a resultant positive impact on sales and revenue.
Therefore, make sure you enable and allow feedback, optimize your review pages, and get traction for them in the search results by supporting brand evangelists, and answering detractor issues promptly and diplomatically.

Affiliates networks
Building your online business with an affiliate network allows you to reach affiliates and customers across the globe. You are able to market your products across the globe. This is very favorable for search engine optimization.
Affiliate network marketing is a combination of network marketing and affiliate marketing. This type of marketing involves selling of products and services to consumers through a wide network of independent distributors.
After you sell the products or services to distributors, they in turn can sell to other marketers. You earn commissions for your sales. Additionally, you also earn for sales through marketers under you to a certain extent. This is affiliate networking and marketing.
Backlinkings

Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query
A search engine considers the content of the sites to determine the QUALITY of a link. When inbound links to your site come from other sites, and those sites have content related to your site, these inbound links are considered more relevant to your site. If inbound links are found on sites with unrelated content, they are considered less relevant. The higher the relevance of inbound links, the greater is their quality. Ideally backlinks are web pages with high PageRank, with content like yours and that already link to other web pages.
Reciprocal links: if you enter a link exchange program with the so called bad neighbors and you link to them, this can be disastrous to your SEO efforts.
Paid links:
Paid links certainly have their place. For a lot of sites, this place has proven to be in an SEO campaign. Care should be taken when buying text links for SEO, that the link is a genuinely powerful addition to your marketing campaign without relying on it to improve your search engine ranking. Check page popularity and relevance, link placement, and ensure that the link cost and results offer a good enough ROI to justify the purchase of the link in the first place. Paid links could provide you with good traffic if you find the right ones at the right price.

Directory listing
To enhance the search engine rankings, it is important to list your website in various directories; it also helps your website to come in the top search engine results of all major search engine results like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
The higher the PR of the directory, the more benefit you will get to get your directory listed in that directory. Directories are useful to the user in that if a user wanted to find a site under a particular topic, it would be easy to go to the appropriate category and choose from the selection of links. All links in a web directory are well-categorized and meaningfully sorted out.

Listing in Dmoz (Open Directory Project)
Now owned by Time Warner, the Open Directory Project, is the single most important and powerful of all the directories edited by humans. The results from this high-quality directory are also carried directly by Google (where they are listed in a different order, according to Google Page Rank). There are numerous advantages of submitting your directory to DMOZ, and I can't think of a single drawback.
It may take many months to secure a listing, and there is no guarantee that your site will be listed at all. Google takes DMOZ listings very seriously, and in fact they even make it known that if you've had difficulty getting listed in Google, one of the best ways of remedying that is to get your site listed with the Open Directory Project.
Directory submissions, unlike search engine submissions, are reviewed by human beings and undergo a great deal of scrutiny by the editors reviewing them. It is important that your website is submitted correctly in order to obtain the listings you need.
Listings in DMOZ (Open Directory Project) and the Yahoo! Directory can be very helpful for boosting your site in the search engines. Google, Yahoo and MSN view websites listed in these directories as more important than those which are not.

The future of internet marketing
As more people join up with digital riot, e-commerce continues to grow. Still, one can’t help but acknowledge Internet users are becoming more refined, particularly as a younger generation moves into adulthood.
Specially in this time of recession one cant avoid internet marketing as it’s the cheapest and most effective way of marketing which target people across the globe. The future of internet marketing looks very promising.
Happy internet marketing!!!