Month: October 2007

Mr Jay Estaris, head of Skyefire Consulting, discussed Web Analytics Best Practices. The strategies in measuring the performance of your site include counting page views, counting impression, and page taggers.

Even when a company’s website is on the top, a company needs to further measure and manage their site. They need to know where their visitors came from, and so on..

He also discussed the types of web analytics software like logfile analyzers, page taggers and hybrid. He also cited the pros and cons of each.

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Mr Andrian Lee, the director of Philippine and Emerging Markets, Asia Pay, discussed Perfect Check Out. Mr Lee quoted “The power of search is negated by the absence of online fulfillment.”

He clearly emphasized that for a perfect checkout to happen, your customers need to shop and that your site must be shopping cart enabled. Perfect checkout has many advantages, some of these are, perfect checkout creates an eMarketing Relationships, sets up more sales and more..

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Mr Marc Macalua, a veteran Internet Marketer and the founder of SEO Philippines, discussed Landing Page Optimization (LPO). There are reasons why LPO matters: every click leads to a landing page, it is easy to clck but hard to convert, and clicks cost money.

Mr Macalua also gave tips about making great landing pages. Some of these were, to choose a good url/host, work on layout, form design and more..

As a summary of Mr Macalua’s presentation, you must convince visitors to stay to your site, convince your visitor to accept your offer/services, and provide friction-free way to accept your services, through easy fill out forms.

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Mr Regnard Raquedan, user group manager of Adobe User Group Philippines discussed redesigning your website, when, what and how?

His first advice was to redesign your website ONLY when there is a need for it. He discussed the parts of a site that may need the redesign. Among these are the homepage, the page layout, navigation, and the page elements.

The basic framework that should be in mind when planning on redesigning your site are: first analyze, define your audience/users, then define and evaluate.

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During the second day of SEMCON 2007, October 10, 2007, Mr. MJ Choi, Senior sales Manager of Yahoo! South East Asia shared actual case studies involving campaigns that were ran on Yahoo like KFC and Kellog’s Special K.

Online banner ads, and perfect “call to action” links are some of the valuable tips Mr. Choi shared. Different approaches to search marketing was also discussed, one is the Display and Search Approach.

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Hans Koch discussed Google Adwords. He shared a lot of sites, such as whosclickingwho.com, to know about who clicks on the Google ads.

He also discussed the keyword matching options. The broad match, the “phrase match”, the exact match and the negative keyword match in Google adwords.

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Elymar “Jozzua” Apao was the next speaker, he discussed mainly about the link building tactics, tools and techniques. The objectives are, to earn income, be seen on search engines, be on the first page and be number one.

To achieve these objectives, your site must get links, use keywords for hyperlinks, do link building, do press release and more.

He shared a lot of SEO tools references to know more about link building and how to find relevant links.

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Mr. Todd Malicoat of stuntdbl.com shared his top strategies in making it to Digg. He also talked about other social networks and how they bring PR juice to your websites.

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Michael Turner, another speaker for the SEMCON 2007, discussed on how to identify competition. To do this, you can check Google search engine result pages, check “allinanchor” search engine result pages for your main keyterm, compare above results, check top competitors at MSN or Yahoo.

He also discussed about “Digg.com” on how it will help you market online through making a lot of friends. Socialize and digg the stories of your friends. Submit good stories and earn reputation.

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Riza Sanchez was the next speaker, she discussed about the advanced link building strategies, and the benefits of link building. Link building strategies are buzz marketing, link baiting, offline social networking, and competitor analysis.

She also discussed the black, white and “pink” hat techniques of SEO. Pink hat technique uses the feminine side of promoting or link building.

Ms. Riza Sanchez emphasized the importance of “consistency” in off the page optimization.

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