If you have ever authored a blog or owned a website, then chances are that you’ve received some sort of commentary via the contact form on your site. Typically, the form will require the person’s name and email address…but have you ever wished that you could receive more information from your contact forms- information that would actually tell you a little more about how people are finding you?
Best Contact Form May Quite Possibly be “the best”
Best Contact Form was developed in order to better analyze converting traffic versus simply analyzing all traffic. For those of you out there who own a business and have an active website, this is great news because Best Contact Form helps you by gathering valuable marketing data based on people submitting contact forms on your website. Now, you can know exactly where your target audience is coming from, the time of day that they seem most likely to visit your website as well as a plethora of other information!
What Can Best Contact Form Tell You?
Some of the neat things that you can find out from these forms include (but are not limited to):
- Which keywords visitors used to find your web site
- Which search engine they used
- Whether the link used was organic or PPC based
- The landing page on tour web site
- The full referrer (without truncation)
- The geographic location, plotted on a map
- The person’s web browser information
- The person’s operating system
- The person’s screen resolution
- Which keywords are converting into sales
- The date and time each form was submitted
In addition, all submissions are automatically archived and can be exported to CSV; and all of the contact forms also have the option for built-in SPAM protection as well. What’s not to like about that? Visit the Best Contact Form website to read up on more of the features and benefits that it has to offer; or, for those who want something more visual, you can watch the video to see how it all works.
Clay Sinclair, co-founder of Best Contact Form, is a friend of David Williams of Create Business Growth.
February 18 2010 | Affiliate and Internet Marketing and Internet Related and Reviews (non-paid) | No Comments »
…Internet traffic, that is.
When you own a business, you naturally want things to succeed. This is why many small (and larger) business owners have turned towards the Internet in recent years. Like so many of us, they realize that most people spend a considerable amount of time on the Internet. Why, the Internet is everywhere you go! From coffee shoppes to cell phones that have Internet access as a feature, it seems as if we simply cannot escape it, and invariably, we become addicted to “surfing”.
Keeping all of this in mind, business owners are becoming more and more Internet savvy and are counting their lucky stars after they’ve realized how much money can be saved by turning to various forms of online marketing to help drive traffic to their business’ website. The following are five simple examples of this.
5 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Site
- Blogging-Blogging is a more relaxed, fun and personal way to get in touch with your target market. It puts you into direct contact with the consumer, allowing for feedback, advice and other information through insightful often well-thought out blog posts that vary between 150-350 words typically. Blogging can also help with search engine traffic because it helps to add content to your already established website.
- Link Exchanges- A link exchange is a great way to keep in touch with other people within your niche market. Not only this, but the more link exchange relationships that you form, the more your business gets seen by other people on other sites, which can increase your popularity.
- RSS Directory Submissions- RSS directory submissions are great because they allow you to submit your RSS feed to a select network of people within your industry. This helps you to reel in a more focused group of visitors to your site who are actually interested in what you have to say/sell/offer.
- Social Networking- Social media and social networking are ALL THE CRAZE because they are super effective when used properly. It’s no longer about your kid creating a Myspace page so that he or she can chat it up with friends and gossip. Rather, social networking (from a business perspective) is about creating a profile for your business on a few social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and then keeping these profiles strictly for business-related items. You’d be amazed at how many business owners have experienced success from the creation of Facebook Fan pages and large numbers of Twitter followers. Try it out!
- Pay-Per-Click (PPC)- For a nominal fee (depending on the company’s objectives), business owners can pay to display their website’s name along with a brief description when a person types a term that is relevant to that particular business into a search engine. PPC is typically a great (and fairly quick) way of getting advertising results. However, for it to be effective, you should have a clear understanding of what the main keywords in your industry are as well as how much is in the budget for PPC. For this reason, it is usually a good idea to find someone who specializes in PPC and is certified to help you out.
January 18 2010 | Business Building and Business Networking and General Business Issues | 3 Comments »
I had been spending some time on Twitter recently when it struck me how many “Internet marketing experts” there were out there. I couldn’t help but wonder, “Since when did Internet marketing become the new college major?” With so many people all vying for each other’s attention and business, it is often difficult to tell one marketer from another. To further prove my thinking, I spent some time going around and visiting some Internet marketing blogs. The messages all seemed to be the same:
- Brand yourself
- Network with others via Social Media
- Study SEO and know your keywords to get better ratings in Google
What Sets Internet Marketers Apart?
Sometimes Internet marketing can feel like being pushed into a crowded room in which everyone is talking about the same thing in only very slightly different ways. At the end of the day, everyone’s trying to make a few bucks based on what they know and are able to successfully convey to whoever will buy it. So, what sets the great marketers apart from the rest of the crowd? I’ve been able to make a few observations on this subject:
- Quality; Not Quantity: There are some people that you will see on every single social networking site available. They’ll tend to have a fairly decent following, but at the end of the day what does their site look like? Is the quality of what they have to say really worth it?
- Quality Time: How often do you set aside time to actually read (not skim) other people’s blogs? What about the few readers or people that you have on your own blog who leave comments? Do you write back to them or respond on their blogs?
- Quality Site: You should think of your website or blog as you would your home. Would you want to invite people over if it was a mess? Keeping that in mind, the layout of your site should be friendly, clean and highly navigable. A lot of people will go crazy with banner ads, etc. and while that may be a source of revenue- you need to keep your readers in mind and know that that might turn some of them off to what you have to say.
What do you think? In your opinion, what sets Internet marketers apart?
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March 30 2009 | Business Building and General Business Issues and Internet Marketing | No Comments »
