Build Your Site For All Internet Users
The one thing that makes people hit the red 'x' on their web browser faster than a fire in the kitchen is a slow loading web page. Most people have an expectation of quick delivery of information and when you build a website, no matter how great it looks, if it takes more than three seconds for something to show up, you are done.
There are so many new technologies that make building fancy and great looking websites easier than ever. Including a podcast on your site can provide insightful information, but if it takes too long for the podcast to load, no one is going to see it. Additionally, do not forget that not everyone has a broadband connection and if your sight is designed around only broadband users, you will miss out on a significant segment of internet users.
Many online marketing gurus tout the use of flash sites to enhance the appearance of a sight. However, one thing to remember is that not only do many phone line connections take forever to download a sight, search engines hardly ever index a site based on its graphical appeal. Most search engines look for quality content and text, not graphics and even test links get more attention than graphical links. You can speed up the process as well as improve your rankings on search engines by essentially keeping it simple.
If your primary source of business comes from online sales, then online marketing only makes sense. Marketing in other medias might attract some business but marketing offline will lose the small segment of society that does not have a computer or do not make purchases online. Likewise, if you do not sell online, then online marketing will only have limited appeal to web users?
Online marketing will also require some extra effort on the business owner's part as most search engines look for fresh content on a regular basis. There is no way of knowing when a search engine spider is going to show up at your door and look around to see if anything new has been added. If your site continues to stagnate in the eyes of these spiders, any search engine results ranking you may have achieved will begin to slip. Additionally, if you try to full the search engines, it could end up getting your site eliminated all together.
The best way to consider your efforts at internet marketing is once the site is built and enhanced to attract the spiders' attention, forget about the spiders and focus on attracting the human users. Spiders have never bought anything online. Although they are needed to help people find you, making the sight human-friendly will result in much more sales revenue.
Some companies put too much emphasis on search engine and not enough on the human users. This can also backfire in the search engine rankings by resulting is less traffic to your site as well as too few link backs to your site due to a lack of useful information. Internet marketing almost requires you to build and maintain your site with internet users in mind.
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