A good web marketing solution should provide successful and measurable results for all types of businesses that require an online presence. Here are some of the criteria needed for a successful web marketing platform:

First, owning a website is not simply a matter of pulling together five pages of flashy graphics. The website remains useless if it does not connect with your target market or fails to meet search engine optimization. When you own a website, the first thing you need to do is to develop content. This means you need to put together a variety of content including text, photo, video and audio, and these need to be search engine optimized so that your website is categorized and ranked by Google, Yahoo and Bing. At the same time, content needs to be compelling so that you reach your goal of moving your target market into conversion, referring to sales and profit.

Second, you need to consider the web marketing aspect. Finding the right marketing mix for your business is important because no two businesses are alike, and what works for one may not work for the other. You need to know which marketing solutions will work best for your business. Is it search engine optimization, e-mail marketing, social media, PPC management, or a combination of all?

Third, you need web analytics to measure your website’s health and success to see if you are making conversions that

would bring you the reasonable ROI (Return On Investment).

A solid web marketing solution provides you with all these strategies to ensure the success of your business online. Complimenting your offline success in business with a dynamic web presence is the smart way of growing your business. The proven strategy should take into consideration your target market to customize solutions that will work best for your market and help you generate leads and sales.

Fourth, consider all the techniques and strategies, and perform those that are more suitable for your business and marketing budget, while paying close attention to your time frame, such as how fast you want to see results.

And fifth, you need to have a reliable server to for example, one that hosting that gives you the confidence to save your files in a safe place and provide you with the best technical and customer support. Unfortunately some people don’t take web hosting very seriously, and suffer greatly because of it.

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By Vadood Khosroshahi

Co-founder Web Marketing Solutions

February 29, 2012