After you’ve made your masterpiece of a website, the next
thing to do is get people there. And then you’ll want to convert them
to assets such as lists, leads, sales and donations. Business marketing
promotion online consists of five basic elements. All require some
level of online marketing expertise that professional fundraisers
offer. One excellent online marketing professional and non profit
consultant you may want to contact is Pathmaker Marketing LLC.
The
five elements of a complete business marketing online promotion plan,
particularly as it relates to search engine marketing, are outlined
below.
Blogging to win organic search
Many
people have blogs, but you need one that is a workhorse to help you
achieve your business objectives. Pathmaker Marketing uses a Premier Blogging Service that leverages each of your blog posts into several others. It’s
keyword-oriented, meaning you identify the keywords that best relate to
what you do, whittle those down to the ones that will be the easiest to
get you into a top 10 ranking in search engines, and then really focus
on blog posts that use your keywords. The advantage of the tool
Pathmaker Marketing uses is that it automatically posts to several of
your keyword blogs, giving you more content in your blog and more links
back to your website. This makes your site easier for search engines to
find. No other blogging tool works as hard for you as this one.
Link Building
Getting
websites to link back to yours is essential for getting search engines
to list you in the top 10 results on keywords that relate to you. You
want national links, authoritative links, "deep" links and local links.
It’s a manual process of submitting your site to directories, getting
yourself into sites like Wikipedia and finding other websites to link
to you. Pathmaker Marketing offers fundraising services that will help
you build your links efficiently.
Social & Professional Media
There’s
more to having a social media account that works for you than simply
opening up an account in Facebook, Linkedin or some other professional
site. You need to open the account appropriately so you can develop
business content and link backs to your website. If you don’t set it up
right, you could get limited value from your social and professional
networds. Once you have the account set up properly, then you can
increase the number of links back to your website, and you can auto
flow blog posts through these account. It all adds up to increased
visibility.
Pay Per Click Advertising
This
is a good way to jump start your website's traffic. You advertise on
sites like Google using your keywords. You develop dedicated landing
pages for these keyword ads so that people see the appropriate content
when they click on a specific ad. Dedicated landing pages also help you
measure how well your ad is working for you. And they give you a way to
collect the information you need to build your email list and get sales
or donations. You only pay for these ads when someone clicks on your ad.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
This
involves having the right content on specific pages so that when
someone does a search using one of your keywords, they get directed to
your page. You should optimize many pages on your site using different
keywords. Pathmaker Marketing uses a tool that helps measure how
effective your content is for a specific keyword.
