By Hostway

Looking for a quick and inexpensive way to boost sales? Add a coupon to your email marketing campaign. A November 2009 report by the credit bureau Experian showed that 80 percent of marketing emails that include a coupon had a higher transaction-to-click rate than those without. This held true whether the emails were sent to a segmented group or full email list. Read the rest of this entry »

By Hostway

Getting a journalist to write about your business is an excellent way to promote your brand for free. But most small businesses aren’t making it easy for journalists to write about them. Read the rest of this entry »

By Tinu AbayomiPaul

First, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage.

A standard social media campaign helps spread the word about you and encourages other people to as well.

An explosive social media campaign has inherent viral exposure, inspires community-driven communication, helps make the Web a better place and even brings joy to people, however fleeting.

When you share in social media, if your goal is just to get more people to see your links, you’re on the right track, but at the same time, you’re limiting your potential. You may think that getting explosive results from social media will take more time, energy and money, but this doesn’t have to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »

By Hostway

You’ve been collecting customer email addresses for a while, but haven’t quite made the time to design your first customer newsletter. The good news is that it’s not very hard to get started. We’ll walk you through the process of designing your newsletter. Read the rest of this entry »

By Hostway

How can you turn new innovations, grand openings, volunteer work and charitable contributions into links to your Web site? Writing press releases with embedded links and distributing them across the newswires can give you a number of high-quality links to help your search engine ranking. Read the rest of this entry »

By Tom Shivers

Can my site rank better with a keyword-rich domain name? Sure.

Can my site rank better without a keyword in the domain name at all? Absolutely.

I get questions (or assumptions) like this regularly. Actually, there are many other things going on behind the scenes that impact rank, and the domain name is rarely a significant factor. Read the rest of this entry »

By Hostway

A pay per click (PPC) campaign can help drive traffic to your Web site, especially if you don’t have top organic search engine rankings. Pay per click is a business model that requires advertisers to choose keywords, create ads to display on the search engine results pages and pay a set amount every time someone clicks on their ads. Read the rest of this entry »

By Hostway

Social bookmarking sites offer a free way to drive traffic to and raise awareness of your Web site. Social bookmarking is a way for people to save links to Web pages they like in the cloud and access them from any Internet connection. It also allows users to share bookmarked pages with each other, increasing its value to users and making it more attractive to marketers looking to gain traction with a viral marketing campaign. Read the rest of this entry »

By Bill Platt

Everyday it seems, people are asking me about the optimum number of inbound links they need to acquire for their Web site in order to rank well in Google. Read the rest of this entry »

By Jason O’Connor

If your business Web site doesn’t have a blog, get one. A blog, if done right, can act as a direct and indirect mechanism that brings large amounts of qualified visitors to your site, many of whom may become customers. Read the rest of this entry »