We all know, Facebook Page for an organization or an individual  is probably the best medium for connecting with its existing and prospective customers, past employees and future associates. However, one thing that not many of us are aware of is the fact that Facebook Profile is also capable of ranking (and ranking high) in the Search Engines, next to your website or blog page (thus promoting the brand/products/services/organization etc). Hence if you are looking for business promotion then it is necessary for you to optimize your Facebook Page for Search Engine Optimization.

So today, we will discuss some tips and tricks which will help you in optimizing your Facebook Page to get it right with SEO, have a look below:

a- Make a Custom URL- Facebook now allows us to create a customized Facebook URL and so we must make the best use of it to reap its benefits. Hence make sure to create a customized/custom URL for your brand’s/organizations’/products’/services’ Facebook page. If you had earlier  created an URL which has random words then now you can also customize it to create a more relevant and suitable URL which will help Facebook users in finding your profile easily while conducting searches.

b- Add content snippets with redirect link- Always remember, your Facebook page or account is not just a platform for social interaction, but is also a knowledge repository for many. An information hub which helps people in getting relevant information about you/your organization/brand/services etc. Hence, it is advisable for you to put some information in form of content. This content could be of your blog post, articles, press releases or lines from your web page…etc However, do not put the entire content. The best way is to put one or two lines, some keywords, gist and there you can place a redirect link, which when clicked will take the visitor to that blog, article, press release or web page etc. This will also act as the source of inbound link and additional traffic to your web page.

c- Pay equal respect to every section- When it comes to Facebook; it is not only your wall that matters… besides your wall, you also need to pay attention to other aspects like Info Tab etc. Info Tab is the best place to provide your company description, address and add links. The Description Area on Facebook is also a very important place for Keywords and hence it can be considered as the master area for Meta Tags.

The above mentioned will also help you with your local SEO efforts!

Note: Above mentioned are some of the easiest ways of optimizing a Facebook Page for SEO; however we have a lot more in store to offer you…

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Hence if you are thinking of using the mobile technology as a medium for your business promotion and marketing, then a few strategies which you need to follow to get desired results and maximum visibility are mentioned below, have a look-

- The first thing you need to keep in mind is, no mobile technology will help you in escalating your business for good, until you get your mobile website designed and developed for the purpose. Hence having a mobile website is no more a choice but a mandate. For those who are new to the term- Mobile Site or Mobile Website, let’s first understand what is a mobile website- “The Mobile Web refers to the use of Internet-connected applications, or browser-based access to the Internet from a mobile device, such as a smart-phone or tablet computer, connected to a wireless network (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Web)”

Get the best DIS_Device Independent Strategy:-

As we know, now-a-days search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing etc) determines the PR (page rank) of a web page after considering numerous factors with respect to mobile browsers. Such factors are- websites’ performance on a mobile based browser, usability, downloading speed and screen rendering etc. This makes it perfectly clear that a search optimized website which efficiently encloses functionality and important content from the main sites will rank higher in results than a website that is just reformatted to fit in a mobile screen.

Hence, it is very important for businesses to get a device independent strategy that efficiently supports mobile OS.

Execute SEO Practices (traditional search engine optimization) on Mobile Platform:-

- Use of related Keywords in Title and Body- use of keywords in title and body makes the content more clear and focused which is good because mobile searches are mostly specific, short and crisp.

- Never miss out on Page Titles & Page Descriptions- these are the first elements which help the mobile browsers in understanding the gist of the page and in deciding…whether it should show in the results or not. Adding, make sure your page titles are similar to search terms used by maximum searchers.

- Web Page Coding- as we know, we have a wide variety of Operating Systems which are so-called supported by mobile browsers. Hence it is necessary for you to choose the best suiting coding like HTML Coding. This coding format is recommended because mobile browsers decipher HTML codes easily to arbitrate search relevancy.

Mobile Search… 5 Years – from Now

Actively increasing number of mobile purchase (urban & rural area) coupled with tremendous growth in mobile technologies, indicate that in coming times or say 5 years-from now, mobile/mobile search will be fundamental in driving huge website traffic to businesses (or, it may even overshadow the desktop-traffic). And for this, organizations should assimilate latest coding languages like HTML5 etc in their SEO practices to achieve improved usability and superior performance, leading to increased page ranks.

For more information, please visit: http://www.google.co.in/

The management of Magnon on its special birthday (it marks competition of a decade and beginning of another decade) wholeheartedly congratulated and thanked its employees and customers and attributed the momentous success of Magnon Solutions to them, requesting them to continue with their support and faith in the organization. The day was also celebrated with a delightful snacks-party in the evening and was followed by a grand birthday celebration at Pind Balluchi.

Magnon Facts –

‘One of the most powerful Corporate Growth Stories in NCR’
– The Week

‘Magnon Solutions, a Web solutions’ provider…is now an established entity in the knowledge industry with over 900 clients across 14 countries’
– Times of India

‘Magnon Solutions, an Internet applications major…’
– The Hindustan Times

‘Magnon Solutions… recognizes the need of bringing the Net in sync with the existing businesses of clients’
– National Herald

‘Enviable industry support from companies like McKinsey, Price water House Coopers, Allahabad Bank right from the outset…’
– Business Age

‘Vineet Bajpai has an impressive success story. Magnon Solutions has chalked up over 700 clients in just 6 years’
- CNBC TV 18 (2006 Figures)

‘A young firm raring to go places…’
– Money Control.Com

Recognitions-

Ranked by ‘The Smart Techie‘ magazine amongst Top 25 most promising Internet Companies in India, (March’ 10 Issue)

The Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad profiles Magnon Solutions and Magnon International as Case Study of Enterprise Building.

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Having said all of the above, it cannot be missed that Social Media is never as simple and easy as it may seem to many. It is rather a time-taking activity which includes many long and systematic processes and moreover, it requires continuous effort. And never to forget, Social Media is very expensive! Because of these reasons, it is advised that one should never take their social media campaign for granted. Moreover, one should make it a practice to monitor their Social Media campaign on a regular basis. This not only helps in keeping a check on the running of the campaign, but also helps in improving its over all performance.

So, if you too want to start monitoring your Social Media Campaign but are unaware of the ways of doing it, then here are the tips for you…! however, the first thing you need remember is that ‘for  monitoring any type of campaign, it is very necessary for the person conducting the campaign to be clear with the four basic questions’…below mentioned are the same :-

*- What are the products/services being promoted through the campaign
*- What is the main motive of the campaign
*- Who all are the target group of your campaign
*- What is the expected result of the campaign

For example, if you have a website selling ladies footwear and now you want to start a campaign to create more & more awareness about your website so that maximum number of people comes to your site and buys footwear from there, then on the basis of the above mentioned questions here are the points to be taken in consideration before you start planning and organizing the campaign:-

*- Your products are- foot wears
*- Campaign objective is- to create awareness and gain publicity
*- Target Audience is – females of all ages
*- Expected result is – brand promotion and increased sales

So whenever you are thinking of launching a social media campaign make sure to go about it and prepare and monitor it  according to the above  mentioned questions and be sure of getting better results.

Want to strategize an innovative & successful Social Media Campaign for your or your clients’ business… Please contact us to allow our consultants to speak to you. 

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Website’s Compatibility with numerous popular browsers- Always remember, web compatibility with the browsers is the basic key to the success of the website. Because no one would like to visit and spend time on a website that is not compatible to the browser they are using, and is inconvenient-to-use, extra time-taking and causes irritation to the users. And this way, you might be loosing on quality leads.

Easy and Smooth Navigation- User-friendly navigation of a website is another important factor which plays a leading role in enabling visitors to spend more time on the website and go through it in a detailed manner. This is because a website which does not have a friendly-navigation, will never be able to retain the interest of the visitors. Rather it will distract them and the user will ultimately choose to move away instead of spending more time on an uneasy thing.

Make the best use of re-direction facility- Never ever compromise on the re-direction facility. Use it wherever necessary because it helps you present desirable and adequate information to the user at a relevant stage and it also saves the time of the visitor. Having said this, you must also never go over-board with it and use it only when it is genuinely required because excessive use of it makes the web page heavy.

Meaningful Relevant and Eye Catchy tag lines- Tag lines are first element that catches the attention the viewers and provides them the gist of the entire web page. So make sure the tag lines being used on your website are relevant to the information on the web page, are meaning and also attractive enough to catch the attention of the viewers.

Call-to-Action- Use call-to-action buttons on every page that talks about about your specialty and service offerings. This will stimulate users to put a query which will act as a business lead for you and will help you increase sales.

Allow user participation- Allowing user participation on your website will help you establish your brand identity, keep users aware of latest developments within your company and have their feedbacks. You can do this with the help of regular news posting, videos, live chat, discussions etc. However, do not add excessive and unwanted elements like images etc to your website. Remember, sober things always leave a long-lasting impact.

Try the above mentioned and if you need more information, feel free to get in touch with our consultants.

For more information, please visit: http://www.magnonsolutions.com/

Organic search gives long time and life time results however, paid search results are quick and temporary, which means as long as you spend money on the campaign your ads will appear in the SERPs and the moment you stop, it will also disappear.

The basic difference between organic search and paid search are in the form of:

Position of appearance- organic search results appear on the right hand side of the page, just below the search box & above organic results. They have yellow background.

Duration of results- organic results are slow but life-time results which means once they start appearing, they continue to show for quite a long period of time. Paid search are quick in showing results but they quickly disappear too.

Trust level- in case of trust level, it can be said that they are moderate in case of organic search but it is less in case of paid-search as these result quickly goes off (the moment you stop campaigning)

Difficultly in achieving top positions- acquiring top positions in organic search requires lot of continuous effort but can be achieved relatively easily in paid search (first and foremost, it is the matter of the amount of money you spend).

Traffic volumes- Though traffic volume depends on the position of various keywords in organic search however, in the case of paid search the traffic is high for important keywords.

Advantages and disadvantages of organic search and paid search!

Organic Search (advantages):

- They do not charge any money
- They are natural results, thus more reliable
- These results take time to appear but are long lasting
- It has been observed that they are more appreciated than the paid search results, thus more clicked

PPC (advantages):

- Results come quickly
- The more money you spend, the higher ranking you are likely to get
- It has ability to assess most preferred keywords for organic searches
- It has the ability to connect audience to more targeted landing page

Organic Search (disadvantages):

- It is a time taking process
- At times it can be a costly affair because rate per hour of SEO can be expensive
- High ranking & visibility of every web-page in SERPs is very difficult.

PPC (disadvantages):

- It consumes lot of money
- The click scheme involved in it is very common

Organic search or Paid Search; which is more suitable!

Though both the methods have its own advantages and disadvantages and are beneficial for online marketing in their own right, but it is widely believed that Organic Search is far more effective in the long run as it delivers life time results. On the other hand PPC; which is extremely costly can be beneficial only for a small period of time. Never-the-less it is also highly effective because it helps to target the niche audience, as soon as one wants.

So if you too are thinking of promoting your business by any of the above mentioned methods, then it is necessary to say that you should first properly analyze your nature of business, budget and every other aspect and only then decide on the method you would follow. This will not only ensure good results but will also keep you on the safer side.

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Social media optimization can simply be explained as a newer medium of business promotion & branding, which aims at inviting targeted potential customers to the website with the help of online discussions, debates and many more user-engaging activities (and hence showing them their business-product-services etc). Although Social Media Optimization emerged as a form of cyber socialization and online information gathering but now-a-days it is primarily used for business promotion, branding and expansion. Over the years SMO has turned out to be one of the most widely accepted forms of business promotion which allows people to meet new members online i.e. on the forums, listen & voice different opinions and in the due time promote their business.

Well, now that we are clear about social media optimization, let’s move on and understand what Return On Investment in SMO is !

In the last few years, it has been observed that social media optimization has been hugely successful in providing numerous business opportunities to online business owners and for this reason now-a-days most of the businesses find participating in social networking activities mandatory. However, very few of them have realized that conducting social media campaign and participating in media activities can be a business expense which is in the form of time. However, for the companies who hire media experts and professionals for conducting SMO campaigns, the expense can also be in the form of money.

Moreover, you will find it very strange that according to a survey conducted by marketer.com it has been found that almost 80% of the online business owners have never even calculated the amount of money that goes in conducting social networking campaigns and their ROI on social media optimization. The most common reason for this is that people think, checking Return On Investment on social media optimization is almost impossible as there is no such method by which it can be calculated. This belief is wrong because even Geoff Ramsey, eMarketer CEO once stated “marketers believe that measuring true ROI for social media is difficult,” but this belief is relatively wrong because there are many metrics available with which it can be easily measured.

So the question is, if the companies want to measure their ROI on SMO, then how should they do it?

So here are a few tips which will help you in doing so !

- One of the most common methods is to simply calculate the amount of traffic that your website is receiving from different social media networks.

- Use the simple formula which is ROI = (x-y)/y – here x is final value and y is starting value. For example if your investment value is $ 20 and what you have got back is $ 60 then your ROI on SMO will be: (60 – 20) / 20 = 2 times your initial investment. Though in financial sense ROI is calculated completely in the form of dollars and cents but the capital can refer any form of investment – monetary or not.

- Metrics tool- It is accepted that ROI ? metrics but when it comes to ROI on SMO you can rely on the metrics like traffic counts, social media followers and fans, comments etc. Here, the main idea is not to go by the numbers but to identify what is the reaction of people, what are they ending up with and are they agreeing to what you are saying?

- Google Analytics- it is a free option for the measurement of ROI, but one should never go by the free tag because it can really provide a strong baseline for checking numerous factors like backlinks, users’ activity and many more.

- PostRank analytics- it is a bunch of tools which help in measuring social engagement on other platforms and services. The only good thing about it is that, instead raw numbers you can get to see compliments and comments from other sites that contribute to your statistics. It is also a powerful tool for checking the sentiment analysis.

You can also use tangible metrics form like:

- Number of increased visitors
- Number of returning visitors
- Number of page views
- Average time spent on the site
- Total amount of Adsense revenue &

Intangible metrics forms like:

- Customer satisfaction
- Improved communication with the members and customers
- Quality reviews
- Increased sales and quick brand perception

The above mentioned are some of the easiest ways by which you can measure your ROI on social media optimization.

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In simple language ‘GIP’ can be explained as a simple application which acts as the addition to the Google Instant Makeover and gives to the user, the benefit of getting a preview of the website while rolling the mouse over the search results and much before opening any particular site. In other words it can also be said that Google Instant Preview is an add-on which gives a graphic representation of the web-page in reference to the keywords or in accordance to the highlighted word or group of words within the search query. And with the facility, the addition-to-the Google enables search-engine-users to immediately compare the search results and thus save time (it helps them in saving time because the user does not have to open each and every site to see what they are looking for, is there or not…).

Now moving on lets discuss the already much discussed topic… “Does Google Instant Preview” affect search engine optimization of a website at all…? There has been much discussion and debate over the above mentioned topic however, still not many are aware of what has been the outcome of all of those, so let’s understand now:

See, it is very clear that with the help of the add-on, people will not have to open as many links as they used to when the instant-preview option was not available. Hence the number of websites, people generally open while browsing will naturally get reduced, as searchers will be able to see what the site is all about and whether it is helpful for them or not. Now…, this also meas that the webmasters/search engine optimizers will have to ensure that their website is performing its best in every ways, whether it is about giving information with the help contents, graphic representations or imagery displays etc. It is also important that the content of the website is based on most relevant keywords according to the theme of the site (as they help in getting traffic) and moreover, the website regularly updated so that it doesn’t give an impression of stagnation to the online searcher. Even the Meta descriptions which play a very important role in the process of SEO should be made highly relevant and the over all look and feel of the website should be attractive enough to catch the attention of the users.

Thus, we come to believe that as a matter of fact, every addition or change in Google have some consequences on the SEO mechanism and Google Instant Preview is no exception however, it will not make that huge of a difference, provided one takes the necessary precautionary steps in advance.

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So let’s understand:

‘Social Media can be best defined as a platform/channel which allows people to communicate (share thoughts, opinion, information, knowledge etc) with other members present on the forum, thereby fulfilling their agenda of joining the forum which could be anything- advertising, entertainment or spreading awareness for any cause’. Some common examples of popular social media in present times include Facebook, Twitter & Linkedin. Now let’s understand what is Social Media Campaign-: ‘Any campaign that is conducted on one or more social networking platforms backed by a motive is called a Social Media Campaign‘.

Monitoring Social Media Campaign-

No matter how big or small a SMC is, it is imperative for the webmaster to keep a track of the campaign on regular basis, thereby monitoring its ROI to business. However, what needs to be checked-on, primarily depends on the goal & agenda of the campaign which could differ from business to business; for example spreading awareness, promotion of website, products or services, accelerating traffic, getting customers out of visitors etc.

Campaigns running on social networking platform, can be best tracked with the help of Analytics packages like Google Analytics, Omniture SiteCatalyst and many more. These tools should be interfaced with the website to give information such as site traffic trends, referral origins, and click paths of online visitors throughout the site. Apart from using website analytics, one can also choose from several tools that are specially designed for tracking social media campaigns. Examples- HootSuite, for Twitter helps in tracking statistics, SocialToo is for tracking follows etc. If you want to use Bookmarks as a part of your campaign and want to keep a tab of how readers are sharing your wrtite-ups then PostRank is the tool for you. For tracking campaigns running on Facebook, Facebook insights is one of the best options. There are also many other free tools like Addictomatic etc which can help you in monitoring your campaign across numerous networking sites.

However before using, please ensure the tool you are about to use will give you the best desired results.

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This is because, Google Page Rank depends heavily upon the number of backlinks your web pages have and also because at many occasions Google has clearly stated that the outgoing links on the web pages does not have any direct influence on the page rank. And so, instead of giving links to many other prominent sites, one must pay more attention in getting links form them. However, when we say ‘getting links’ which means ‘backlinks’, it means getting them from quality sites i.e. sites that have high page rank from Google.

However, many times it becomes difficult for webmasters to get backlinks for their sites when they do not choose to give links to other sites. If this is the situation with you too, then there is a solution…If at all you cannot do without giving link to others then make sure you are linking your site to sites and are genuine, reputed and has high page rank and not to any other site that comes your way. It is very necessary because if a site gets banned due to its unethical practices and has a link of your site on it, then your site will also get in their network and this may increase the possibilities of getting you into a bad reputation.

Thus it is advisable that instead of cutting down on the number of outgoing links, ensure that you link your site with only trustworthy ones. And in case if it becomes necessary for you to link with someone you don’t know much about, then never ever forget to use no-follow tags; which helps in giving the crawlers necessary signal.

And most importantly, remember linking to sites will neither influence not affect your page rank till you are sure about whom you are linking to.

Thus, it is never the numbers but always the quality that works!

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