Saturday, January 19, 2013

An online store, such a bittersweet promise…


When you decided to get an online store, you only thought that you needed a website. You went to meet with a web designer and he/she shows you a large choice of websites. Each one was more colorful, more elegant and more beautiful the previous one. Such a hard choice, but finally one month later, you were ready to set free your baby on the World Wide Web. You showed every one around you how nice the site was and everyone agreed it was simply convenience in a piece of art. No doubt that your great items could not find any better shelf to sit and that your visitors will appreciate their clicks. Pure satisfaction.

Tic tac, tic tac… No one is knocking at your website… Google Analytics displays a very sad flatline. Traffic, zero… Doctor, what’s wrong with my site? The diagnostic is simple, your website is suffering from online invisibility.  Damn, this sounds very bad… Well, no, not quite bad your site is still outstanding. This is a little like if you would go with your most beautiful cocktail dress, your breathtaking hair style and your blinking make up to a cocktail party where you know no one. You have the potential to be the light of the night but everyone is wondering who you are! What you need is someone to introduce you. Your website needs the same and this is called Internet Marketing.


There are few options for your site to shine on the web: Social Media Marketing, Pay Per Click (PPC) Campaign or Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In the first case, you ask a marketing agency to talk to people about your site. In the second case, you ask a PPC manager to set up a financial arrangement with Google in order to display your site. Finally, in the third case, you ask a SEO CompanyIndia to work on your website and around it to become a reference in the domain so Google puts it very high in its result page. The best choice? Pros and cons with each one but you surely know the pros you want and the cons you can handle.