One of the best means of getting leads from your website is an online form that can be completed by visitors who want to take you up on what your website offers or find out more about your business. As lead generation goes, those that come from a well-conceived online form are typically pretty solid, providing the information your sales …
Time to Evaluate Your Web Presence?
It’s nearly 2016. Do you know where your website is? No, really, do you know where it is hosted? Do you know where your domain registration is or when it expires or who will get notified about it? Do you know where your dns is hosted? Or your email? They may not be all in the same place, but it …
Mobile-Friendly Means More Website Traffic on Mobile Devices
Since Google announced Mobile-geddon in April of this year we’ve been keeping our eye on some of the clients’ website traffic whose SEO programs we manage at Comstar. Some of them have already made the move to a responsive, mobile-friendly website design, while others have not. Six months ago Google let the world know that it was going to reward …
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 …
Google Doesn’t Care About Keywords, Why Should You?
You may have heard something similar to “Google places very little value on meta tag keywords now” and many successful websites don’t even have keyword meta tags. While this is true, for the most part, keywords are still the most valuable tool you have in bringing search engine recognition and good rankings to your website. While Google and other major …
Leads, Conversions & Sales From My Website: Fact or Fiction?
Isn’t the real question, when it comes to your company website – “does my website create income for my business”? Well, how many leads does your website produce every month? How many sales? Not sure? Go ahead, take a few minutes to check on it. It’s OK… I’ll wait. [insert theme from Jeopardy here] Now that you have a number, …
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 …