Monday, January 23. 2012
Learn the facts before you install analytics tools
By: Elliot Harmon
Your website is a place where people – potential supporters, volunteers, and beneficiaries learn about your organization, but it’s also a place where you learn about them. Using various web statistics and analytics tools, you can learn how people are finding your website, where visitors are located geographically, and what parts of your site they’re visiting. You can judge the impact of a particular fundraising letter or ad campaign by finding out how many times the message resulted in an online donation, a newsletter signup, or any other desired action. Used thoughtfully, website statistics can inform website design choices, help you make your website more user-friendly and navigable, and influence your overall communications and marketing strategy.
But is your visitors’ information being used by others? What responsibility do you have to explain to your site’s users what information they’re giving away by visiting your site and to whom? In this article, we’ll explore some privacy issues surrounding web analytics and other website tools. Since Google Analytics (GA) is the most prominent third-party analytics tool on the market, we’ll pay particular attention to it, but the recommendations we offer apply to other third-party services too.
We’ll offer some tips on crafting a privacy policy that explains to your site’s users how you and others will use any information they provide. Having a clear, readable privacy policy is a great idea even if you don’t use GA or a similar service. We can’t decide for you whether to use a third-party web analytics service, but we can help you make a thoughtful decision and take necessary steps to educate your website’s visitors.
This article is intended for readers who are already familiar with the basics of site statistics. If you’ve never thought about utilizing statistics on your nonprofit’s website, start with Idealware’s A Few Good Web Analytics Tools .
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Monday, January 2. 2012
By: seoalan
Now days with growth of search engines rising. Webmasters feel getting top rated in Google is the ultimate thing. Its spreading like Gold Rush. Everyone wants to get a piece of gold. Looking at this many Search Engine Optimization companies have bubbled up. And the number is increasing as you read this article.
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Monday, December 19. 2011
By: John Mahoney
You have your own website, now what? In order to succeed online, you will need website promotion so your site would be visible to everyone connected to the Internet. It is a common belief that all websites are searchable by search engines. It’s not as simple as it seems. Website promotion entails a lot of work.
Continue reading "The Do-it-Yourself Website Promotion Tricks"
Monday, December 12. 2011
A new consumer phenomenon is called "tagging" or "folksonomies" (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away content under tags, but, even better, share it with others by filing it under a global taxonomy that they created.
Continue reading ""Folksonomies" - a New Viral Marketing Tool"
Monday, November 14. 2011
By: Henal Patel
Nowadays, many SEO friendly websites offer tailored and easy to understand online marketing techniques. What’s great about this is that you can customize the strategies that work for you, eliminating the ones that don’t or else you are not interested in. Sound good? Of course it is! You are in control of your destiny and in the fate of your company. But the good thing is that it doesn’t take a huge commitment of time, money, or effort, but can be done in an easy cost-effective way.
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Monday, October 31. 2011
By: Nidhi Gupta
HTML Problems Can Prevent Indexing
This is a common problem. Your web designer has created a beautiful page with nice graphics and great Flash animations. Unfortunately, it seems that search engines won’t list your website no matter what you do.
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Monday, October 17. 2011
By: rhdjapan@yahoo.com
Who is the best Yahoo or Google? John say he loves to search on Google only, Mary’s vote goes to Yahoo. What about you? You love both! Me too If you search both Google and Yahoo simultaneously you will be surely come out with some innovative results that you have never before. The results will be something more than that exactly you are looking for.
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Monday, October 10. 2011
By: rhdjapan@yahoo.com
Search engines are the most valuable discovery of this century acting as a bridge between millions of web pages and web users. It is really impossible to imagine web world without search engines. Millions of web pages will be converted into a chaotic disordered jungle without search engines. Useful websites may be hidden from the users and what information received will be of no use. Search engines work non stop to gather valuable information underlying in the million of web pages scattered on the internet.
Continue reading "Search Engines: Understand in a Better Way"
Monday, September 26. 2011
While there are a lot of ways to bring additional traffic to your website, manual traffic exchanges are one great choice. This is a great way to bring additional traffic to your site, and as we all know, more traffic means more sales or advertising revenues. If you have previously done this by hand, requesting links from individuals or businesses, you can save yourself time with manual traffic exchanges.
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Monday, August 29. 2011
By: Michael Fleischner
Do you want to secure a top ranking in search engine result pages(SERP)? I think every one is going to answer - Yes. And a very common belief is that add lot of most searched keywords in the meta tags of your web pages and see your site skyrocketing. But it feels highly frustrating when this magic proves of no avail. Remember, meta tags alone don't do a magic in getting better placed in the search pages. These meta tags sure help you to describe your web pages to a search engine and gain a better place in its results. But at the same time they help search engine too to prevent indexing of improper web pages. Which may have good weight keywords in their meta tags but having no relationship with the contents of the page.
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Monday, August 22. 2011
We all hear a lot of buzz about search engine optimization. A quick Google search on "SEO" yields 110 million pages. If you want to know the "top 10 SEO Tips," there are over 43 million pages with the answers.
But too many people put too many eggs in their SEO basket. Site owners give SEO, particularly PageRank, far too much significance, thinking high PageRank alone will mean sales and fearing low PageRank will doom them to failure.
Continue reading "SEO versus Usability"
Monday, May 9. 2011
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process by which webmasters and online business owners get their websites to rank highly in SERPs (search engine results pages) for keyword phrases that are both heavily searched for and related to their industry or niche. Two of the biggest types of SEO work are keyword optimization and link-building (increasing the number of incoming links to a website or specific page).
Here are a few SEO tips to keep in mind when thinking about keyword optimization for a new website or online business:
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Monday, April 18. 2011
Who do you turn to, to make your social media marketing plan work? There is nowhere else to go but to ask social media consultants. A lot of people have realized how massively important social network marketing is but some of them do not seem to mind the expertise of social media consultants. They tend to work on their marketing through social media on their own ending up putting up something that does not really work.
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Monday, April 4. 2011
By: Hans Lodder
Forrester Research has executed a web-site check on 6 Canadian banks. The results were very bad. The most common short comings were misplaced content and functionality, inefficient task flows, illegible text and poor use of space.
According to Forrester researcher Ron Rogowski:
“To improve the on-line customer experience, Canadian banks need to prioritize fixing problems with known solutions, focus on scenario design, and differentiate the brand experience”.
The Forrester website check reminded me to a question I recently got: When do you know a website is optimal? The real consultancy answer to that is simple: When the site fits your goals.
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Monday, October 18. 2010
by: Manish Agarwal
Each people concentrate on content from the site and also on the style & design of the site. This is good for increase the popularity of the site. But if they look from the sarch engine optimization view, many points in the web site design may be left or forget.
The designer must remember that the search engines are just programs that need view many things in the site to be able to top rank of the site. These factors are good for the search engines, the site may rank high. On the contrary, if certain factors are bad in view of the search engine, the site rank low although the human visitor may see it well.
From the above, we see that the designer must consider the human visitors and the search engine optimization factors. SEO India are given the main elements that will make the search engines love the web site and make it search engine optimized.
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