SEO Internet Marketing

Archive for June, 2007

How to get more subscriber to email newsletter

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Show help and earn new subscriber

Positioning newsletter subscription link beneath the site search button will fulfill visitor’s perceived experience and convince them to subscribe. Also a Customer service link in same place will increase visitor trust on your site, so they can give personal email address to sign for newsletter.
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Entertaining the customer at Page footer

Web page footer cannot be ignored. Survey found that most of the internet customers tend to scroll down to seek the company address, more info and contact us information. So Placing a link for newsletter subscriptions at page footer will get more response.


Popup to sign up

Popup is not evil as perceived by many. Although they have sullied reputation, they can be tested on the landing page if potential subscriber or first page of the marketing site. Trying many different pop up format is very important for success.


“Cash only promotion”

Display of Free add-on promotions will provide extra incentive for the subscriber to join the newsletter. Means more audience and revenue.

Email format to remind your Brand

Newsletter subscribers relate the email format with Brand name. So, Customer may not recognize your newsletter email in case of any format changes. Use the same email template for newsletter; also send them in rotating schedule. Including one or two new or specific promotion or benefit of being your subscriber will prevent the existing subscriber
from trashing the newsletter without reading.

Yahoo! Pricing will be based on quality traffic from content websites.

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Today I received email from Yahoo Search Marketing Blog, that they are introducing new quality based pricing for traffics generated through it’s content network.

Their new algorithm of pricing will be monitoring the click traffic from each content provider and conversion ratio. No idea about how yahoo going to determine the quality of traffic? If it’s related to conversion or time spent, or number of pages visited or all have no idea.

Yahoo Quality Based Pricing Questions and Answer may through some lights.

As per my experience most of the clicks I get through yahoo search marketing is not genuine. So far the conversion rate is 6% where Google directed clicks generate 20-30% of sales.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Meet up Video

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Steve and Bill Gates

21st Century most successful and inspiring technologists Bill Gates and Steve jobs are sharing their past and future ideas. I always wonder whether they found the IT or IT found them. They both have many things in common, like both love technology also their last name end with “s”.

In future, Gates focused on occupying the desktop PC space through technological innovation (of course by copying other’s idea and invention… :)). Steve Jobs wanted to breed sleek and lovely gadgets such as iPod and iPhone. In common both are building their dream around internet services through Rich Client application.

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Together at D

Bill Gates and Steve Meeting in full text