Here is an overview of how digital marketing could be understood easily, a artificial intelligence based answer.
Digital marketing is the use of online platforms and channels to promote a brand, product, or service. It involves creating and distributing content that engages and attracts potential customers, as well as measuring and optimizing the performance of the campaigns. Some of the common digital marketing strategies include:
– Search engine optimization (SEO): improving the visibility and ranking of a website on search engines like Google or Bing.
– Search Engine Marketing (SEM): It is advertising with search engines like google ads and the most commonly used technique is Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising which refers to the placing ads on search engines. This technique can also be used on other websites that charge a fee each time a user clicks on them.
– Social media marketing (SMM): using social networks like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to build a community, share content, and interact with the audience.
– Email marketing: sending personalized and targeted messages to subscribers or leads via email.
– Content marketing: creating and distributing valuable and relevant content such as blogs, videos, podcasts, or ebooks to educate and entertain the audience.
– Influencer marketing: collaborating with influential people or celebrities who have a large and loyal following on social media or other platforms to endorse or recommend a brand, product, or service.
Google search console provides variety of features to analyze our website performance. A canonical tag is an onsite SEO aspect that tells search engines the page is having similar content to another page and that which one is the master page.
The syntax for this code is as below:
<link rel=”canonical” href=”here comes URL of similar content page”>
This tag is placed in the code of the respective page (either page from the similar ones). Apparently there is no harm of having this notification in your google search console however, if you unnecessarily add pages of the similar content would affect your search ranking. Hence you’d be deprived of potential traffic that was meant to conversions.
Google search engine also identifies similar content pages and stores/indexes only the parent version of the page. That’s the reason you see few pages are indexed and rest duplicate aren’t.
Here is example of how you see this notification in your google search console.
How to Fix?
Just after the report seen in the image above, you’ll find reasons why your pages weren’t indexed. Simply select on the link “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” and it’ll get you to the list of page with canonical tags/duplicate content.
You may proceed and fix the issue by having unique content pages with no duplicate throughout your website pages. Once done you may validate in the google search control and you’ll see no further notifications any such.
The image below is a reference where you can see “Validate Fix” button that you can click once your resolve the issue.
There can be multiple reasons behind why your pages are not indexed, like:
Alternate page with proper canonical tag
Duplicate where google choose different url to index than the user
On site SEO or on page Search engine optimization is a process of optimizing your website for search engine ranking.
There is no complex theory but an understanding of how we can make the things compatible to real life examples. The more we’ll understand real life scenarios of search queries, the best we’ll be playing in our SEO tactics.
Here is a quick guide to boost the possibilities of your website ranking in search engines through specific keywords.
• Title
First of all your title inside the header must be optimized with upto 80 characters at max. And then your major keyword must also be included in the title and the title tag.
• Description
Description tag inside the head must be placed and optimized with maximum 150 characters along with the inclusion of core keywords same as in the title tag.
• Content.
Your content on the page or inside the body, must also be worthwhile to have to the point and detailed information of what people are looking for. It must also be filled with the keyword you used for title and the description tags. Be sure to not to over stuff or flood the content with repetition of keywords.
• Page.
Then comes the turn of your page loading time while the people start browsing for it. A recommended time is less than a second but as we understand speed of the network at user end differs, also nowadays more and more additions are made on the pages including sliders, animations, tickers and so on, the delays could be expected but still must not exceed 2-5 seconds at full load.
if it is a landing inner page, then we can expect a swift load not exceeding than a second is highly favorite to search engines.
• URL.
Your Universal Resource Locator refers to your domain name and the address of your specific page. A recommended practice is to have your core keyword inside your main URL (Domain name i.e WebHostingProposal.com contains the keyword “web hosting” that refers to their main business.) Or at least create a landing page (inner page) that should include your keyword inside the URL. For example if your business is brand clothing and your main domain name is Shop4Ease.com which doesn’t include any term regarding brands except the word shop, so you can create a inner page with your brand’s name like shop4ease.com/clothing/nike, this would refer to both keywords you are dealing business in like “Clothing” and the brand “Nike”
• H1, H2, H3 tags.
Same refers to your heading tage h1, 2, 3 those have significant values to search engines, so must have at least one H1 heading of your core keyword and same with H2 or H3.
• Meta tags
Meta tags are the keys to draw search engine’s attention, as we discussed on the top, title tags, description tags, and the keywords tag are most prominent those must include your keywords.
• Images
Images on your site must always be kept as lighter as possible, try using jpg, jpeg formats instead of png, tiff, gif etc those hold a heavy weight and disliked by search engine bots. Then your images should also have alt tag, title and description tag too.
• Permalinks
Your permalinks mean your inner page addresses or inner pages urls. These must always be kept optimized with keywords and informative titles those could possibly refer to search queries.
• Placement in meta tag
As discussed before, meta tags are placed in header and must be optimized as discussed above.
• Title Length/ post title length
Title of the website and urls should be short, specific to what you are going to write about. Too long titles aren’t liked by the search engines.
• Keyword Stuffing in Description
Same goes with description which should be concise and to the point with a single keyword, no repetition etc.
• Page Load Time
Page load time as discussed above, for home page 1-3 seconds or 5 seconds at max depending upon use of sliders and animations, but for inner pages it should be less than a second.
• Sitemap
Sitemap should also be incorporated with the site. It shows a structure of your website in a more convenient way to search engines.
• Robots file
Robots file tells search engines about your site, it should also be there in.
• Google Analytics
Create account with google for the analytics of your site visitors and other functionalities.
• Final SEO Score
Always keep an eye open for overall SEO score since seo is not a one time effort, it is a regular process to keep the website favorite to search engines.
Amazon is a huge marketplace hence a potential source for online shopping businesses.
From the last few years, Amazon has widen up its span and geographical covering in both sellers and buyers aspects.
Before we discuss major pillars of the Amazon business we would first learn two basic concepts of the Amazon relations.
1. FBA (Fulfilment By Amazon)
This relationship means Amazon would be taking care of storing your product inventory, and shipping them to buyers address once ordered.
2. FBM (Fulfilment by Merchant)
This method tells us that the seller would be responsible to store inventory of their products and shipping them to customers as the orders receive.
3. Amazon (Itself)
Products that Amazon owns and sells on its own behalf.
So, the most commonly used and hassle free method is FBA where sellers only learn certain techniques to find product of sales potential and sell them through Amazon with small Amazon processing charges.
We shall now learn how exactly we can do this business and can acquire skills for a successful Amazon associates.
PRODUCT HUNTING / PRODUCT RESEARCH
PRODUCT HUNTING
TOOLS for Product Hunting Jungle Scout (how many people selling and what is best selling) Tells competition of product
Merchant Words (Keywords people searching to find product) How much search is intact by the people
Helium10 (keywords ranking of competitors) competitors are ranked on what keywords
Viral Launch Also for keywords
If you don’t have any tools, then the best way is to open amazon website and select your target country. Then in the search bar, search for any keywords for example leather jackets. You’ll see a list of leather jackets will be displayed which will help you to see how many people are searching for this keyword, how many people selling this product etc.
Now you can also get to know the sellers stock and the daily sales through following procedure:
open top 10 products (from same product but each from different seller) in new link.
Add to cart each sellers prodct and place quantity as 999 (max allowed limit). Once you’ll place the figure 999, the amazon bot will tell you how many pcs the sellers left with them.
Note down all the stock details.
Repeat same procedure daily and for a week period. This will let you know howmany products are sold everyday, for example if you get to know quantity 500 by first day and 400 by second day from same seller and for same product. Means 100 pcs were sold and this way you can get an average figure of the entire week for each seller. This way you can see the sales potential of the product as well as top 10 sellers average sale.
Also see the number of reviews against each prodct of each seller.
Also cross check whether the product in the search result is same for all ten sellers?
Also the price consistancy and variation from seller to seller so that you can set your own price. THIS ENTIRE PRODCEDURE WILL LET YOU KNOW WHETHER THE PRODUCT IS WORTH SELLING OR NOT. AND THIS PROCEDURE IDENTIFIES WHETHER THE PRODUCT IS “PATENT” OR NOT.
The most effective and crucial part in business promotions, is the competitor analysis. If you know your competitors, their products/services, their prices, their existence, capability and scalability, you can make a decent move in your business establishment and success. In fact, a true and wiser SWOT Analysis can make the things easy to go.
First step is to identify who your competitors are?
Find out what services and products your competitors offer.
Make a thorough Research on your competitors’ sales techniques and their results.
Find out your competitors’ pricing, as well as any discounts/perks and promotions on regular price.
Ensure to be competitive or at least meeting your competitive delivery/shipping costs.
Where online entities are concerns, take note of the content strategy your competitors intact with.
Try seeking information about the technology stacks your competitors using.
Learn the visitor’s engagement level on your competitor’s content.
Try observing their tactics through which they promote the content.
Be sure to know their social media presence and activeness by frequently visiting their platforms.
SWOT Analysis is a superb approach to learn your own as well as their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Hope this would address most of your analytical concerns you could do for your business promotion and competitor analysis.
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Learning how to run a wordpress website on your computer is quite easier, i shall guide you step by step all the necessary steps.
You’d be able to enjoy your worpdress website running on your local computer in five simple steps:
Downloading Xampp Server
Downloading Latest WordPress package
Configuring Xampp Server
Configuring WordPress
Configuring Website on your WordPress
DOWNLOAD XAMPP SERVER
You can download xampp server right from your browser with your internet connection, I shall suggest downloading from sourceforge.org.
Once the download is complete, locate the file in the downloads and try saving it in your software section of any drive.
Now double click the xampp file and follow the steps on the popped up dialog box to configure your xampp server. You can keep the default settings/configurations intact and press the “next” button to proceed with installation.
sooner your xampp server would be installed depending upon speed of your internet.
Configuring Xampp Server
(a) Go to the opened dialog box of the xampp server that you see after xampp installation and start apache and mysql server.
(b) Click on the admin button next to MySql start button to create your database. You’ll be taken to the borwser window with MySql configuration page.
(c) Click on the database tab from the opened window and name the database (you can keep the name as “wordpress” or whatever you wish you see as your website name but in running and with no space. In my case, I put it as bsdigital.
Click the “Create” button next to the name and your database would now be created.
DOWNLOAD WORDPRESS
Now it the time to download wordpress package, you can do it easily and directly from wordpress.org. Here is the link for your assistance: https://www.wordpress.org/download/
From the given two options, select “Download and install it yourself”. The download would complete sooner depending upon your internet speed.
Extract your compressed wordpress file on the same place and once extracted, name the file whatever name your kept for your database (Like I shall put it as “bsdigital” because I created my database in the same name. Now copy the folder.
Now go to your “C” drive where you installed your xampp server and open the xampp folder.
Locate and open the “htdoc” folder from xampp folder.
Now paste your wordpress folder here (like I copied my “bsdigital” folder and pasted here).
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Photoshop is one the most proficient image editing and graphics designing software. It provides numerous tools to make and shape the images as per our requisites. Today, we see the website or the business worth well with the image and video presentations and PS helps to make it possible depending upon our skills and hands on practices.
Open a new file to create your transparent blur effect image, I created 1000×1000 dimension blank layer. You may name it a transparent blur function and save.
2. Apply a background image by copying and pasting on the same layer.
3. Select the image layer and go to layer menu to create a duplicate layer. You can do this by pressing cntrl+J as well.
4. Select the duplicate layer and go to filter menu to select blur-> Gaussian Blur..
This will blur the layer and will display a prompt dialogue to select the radios. You may vary the value of radios as per your choice.
5. Make the blur image invisible by clicking on the “eye” beside the layer.
6. Select the first image layer again and draw a rectangle box.
I created something like below:
7. Select the blur image layer (it will go visible automatically) and press cntrl+G.
This will show up something like below:
8. Now double click the rectangle mask to open blending options and check the inner glow.
it will show up like this:
9. You can now write anything on the created transparent blur mask.
Few tips to setting up a website from scratch and selecting domain name with SEO approach. If you already have a website, you may follow steps after domain is setup.
Selecting a Domain Name:
Domain name plays important role in search engine indexing against organic search from users and makes SEO efforts easy to implement to get on the top SERP (Search Engine Result Pages). So, before you select a domain for your blog or website, try including the keyword of your product or services you are going to target. For example, if you are planning to setup a website or blog to sell or promote jackets, you may try registering domain name that contains the word “jacket or jackets” i.e cowboyjacketsonline dot com or ladiesjackets dot com etc. You may use shopping, online shopping also with your product if your site is an ecommerce website.
Now you can see your domain itself promoting your brand and working as a keyword against numerous user-defined enquiries in search engines.
Creating SEO-Oriented Website Structure (Basic):
If you have a little knowledge of html and css, you may go to your “header” file from the hosting control panel. Here you need to add some meta tags and the title tag for your website. Title tag should contain between 50 and 70 characters in a good SEO practices. Then two meta tags have to be significantly inserted and these include meta “keyword” and meta “description” tags. In best SEO approach, your description should contain no more than 150 characters and the same you may use for keywords writing.
Selecting Keywords:
Keywords are the words which best describe your product or services and are the words which people generally search in the search engines like google, yahoo, bing etc. It is always good to create a keywords package that reveal your product or services. You may use Google Keyword Planner to select appropriate keywords and to see the competition as well. You can also see complete bidding values if you are interested in googleAdwords after your have selected targeted regions of your choice.
Developing SEO-Oriented Website Content:
After you have selected a domain name for your website, it’s time to follow SEO approach to setup your website on your hosting. You may select any of the CMS for your blog or website including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal OR you may have a private engine to run your website. After your engine is installed (you have setup your website) you are now required to put content on your website. Keep in mind, content is the key power to your SEO and overall indexing after domain name. So it’s better to have the content pre-written for your main page (home page) either yourself or from a professional content writer. Your content should speak about your product or services uniquely and in a way that stimulates visitors to turn into customers. Be sure to avoid any duplicate content and the repetition of similar words.
Adding Posts or Articles to your Blog:
If your website is a blog, it is better to you have some articles pre-written which you may post one by one after 3 to 5 days delay in each. Remember, the more unique and informative useful articles you have on your blog, the more indexing and promotion you’ll get for your blog. Try writing articles with the minimum length of 300-500 words but better if you could include more length but always avoid copied content.
Backlink Creation for Indexing:
Google and other seach engines like yahoo, bing etc automatically index web pages however it may take some time, but to get your web pages indexed quickly you may use backlinking techniques in which you may put comments under relevant blog posts of other websites or you may create forum profiles and can participate in discussion leaving your link back to your own website. If you don’t have a time to do this at yourself, you may hire services from any service providers like us “The Media Annexes“. Always remember, your irrelevant or improper backlinks may lead to google penalties where you may lose your indexing for longer time.
Backlinking for Promotion:
After you have seen that your web pages are all getting indexed in all major search engines, you may now proceed to get your web pages promoted against certain keywords of your business. You can either do it yourself or may get is done from any SEO service providers like us – >> The Media Annexes for instant and strategic link building. A very careful selection of websites and blogs is required keeping in mind the relevancy of content, authority and the search engine ranking as well in order to get on the tops of SERPS.
Note:It is always recommended not to perform crucial link building if your website domain is fresh and its rather better to do it gradually to avoid any indexing loss or penalties from search engines.
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Are you affected from penguin or panda before? OR If you have not looked back to the links coming to your pages, it’s really time to revert and check if it was done appropriately.
The time is to evaluate your linking with all recent SEO trends to make your pages saved from any google penalties. If you have used some link building services far before, you are really on the risk of failure sooner or later because the trends have now been changed and you need to clean up your bad backlinks before they make and severe affects.
Make your back links crystal clear and always care for the relevancy of the content on the site/pages linking to your pages. Moreover, the pages linking to you should not be linked from pages irrelevant to their content because if they are penalized, sooner you might get the same consequences.
