A good website will work for you, presenting your image and marketing message to potential customers. An effective website will enhance your marketing strategy and be of benefit to your company’s growth and operation. Regardless of how simple or complex your needs, Comstar works with you to define an internet marketing strategy that integrates with your total marketing efforts. Developing …
Marketing Starts and Ends With Statistics (Are You Getting the Traffic You Think You Are?)
To understand how your website fits into your overall marketing efforts you need to understand how people are finding and using your website. Comstar offers a comprehensive web statistics package that pulls from our own web server log files and can provide you with the information you need. Success on the web means getting people to do what you want …
Why Black Hat SEO is a bad choice
I learned long ago that the web development world is really the ‘wild west’ of the 21st century. It can be a fun place to build and design but it is also filled with the good the bad and the ugly. Web professionals that develop online assists for companies are in an environment of constant change. Here at Comstar, we …
Organic Search Engine Optimization by Comstar: The Keystone of Internet Marketing
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the first step to getting internet traffic to your website. This is a process which modifies your site to include the best-practice components that will make your site more visible to the various search engines. Search engines constantly change their rules trying to produce better and better results. While this improves the searcher’s experience …
Using the Power of Natural Language in Calls-to-Action
Human language is probably the most challenging aspect for we humans. We have cultivated our own speech into our own way of communicating in our own area of the world: Spanish, French, English, Portuguese etc. You who are in website development, sales and computer programmers understand the power of language and how it can affect you personally and your business. …
The Dislike Button: Social Nightmare or Marketing Dream
The Facebook ‘dislike’ button has been a long time request by many fans of social media. Some think that the dislike button will be toxic to our relationships. Others fear it will be abused, leading to to bullying and fostering of further negativity. “It seems that we have been become so fragile that any sign of negativity — even …
Squeeze Your Web Presence to Get More Out of It!
While I was squeezing some fresh orange juice the other day it struck me that if I could just squeeze a website, the way you can juice an orange, and gets leads to drip out, I could rule the world. Then I realized, world domination aside, that there is no “one ring to rule them all” when it comes to …
Your Landing Page One and Done? Not So Fast!
A landing page is a great tool and focal point for your online marketing efforts. Once you setup and monitor meaningful metrics for your landing page, don’t be afraid to make changes and then measure the results of those changes. Sometimes changing the on-page content is needed. Perhaps your landing page copy needs tweaking or the addition of a photo …
Measuring Traffic and the Success of a Landing Page
With a landing page created and a strategy for driving traffic to it deployed, you are now ready to receive visitors looking for what your landing page offers and convert them into leads for your business. But, how do you know if it’s working? You can go with the wet-finger-in-the-wind approach and “feel” it’s working when you start getting more …
Building Traffic to Your Landing Page
There are probably a dozen distinct actions you can take to get people to visit a landing page, but the foremost of these is to be found at the top of the major search engine results pages (SERPs). You probably already know that Google is the “gold standard” when it comes to being found on the internet and that being …