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Abstract
Opravil, T. New Trends in Internet Marketing. Diploma Thesis. Brno, 2011.
This Diploma thesis is dealing with Internet Marketing trends. The theoretical
part comprises some history, current new trends and types of Internet Marketing.
The practical part is devoted to prospect of realization of marketing propagation
for specic marketing project, by using internet marketing tools and its consequent
evaluation.
Abstrakt
Opravil, T. Nov trendy v internetovm marketingu. Diplomov prce. Brno, 2011.
Tato diplomov prce se zabv trendy v oblasti internetovho marketingu.
Teoretick st zahrnuje historii, souasn nov trendy a typy internetovho marketingu. Praktick st je vnovna realizaci marketingov propagace pro konkrtn
marketingov projekt vyuitm nstroj internetovho marketingu a jejich nsledn
evaluace.
CONTENTS
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Objectives and Methodology
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2.1 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3 Current situation
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3.2.1
Marketing Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.2
3.3 Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3.1
Domain name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3.2
Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3.3
Copywriting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3.4
Microsites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
E-mail Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.4.3
Viral Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Banner Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.6.2
Contextual Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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Friendly URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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Like Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Like Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.2 Microsites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
8.3 Online Video Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
8.4 Mobile Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
9 Evaluation of the internet marketing tools used
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11 References
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Appendix
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INTRODUCTION
Introduction
When speaking about the term Internet Marketing, at rst we should clearly
explain both words this term consists of.
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks. It is a
network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business,
and government networks. Internet works thanks to combination of a range of
technologies and it is the biggest source of information mankind has ever had for
its disposal. Internet also laid the foundations of more information channels than
people has created until the 20th century. (Phillips, 2003).
The term Marketing has many denitions. One of the most well known denition
says that Marketing is the social process by which individuals and groups obtain
what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with
others. (Kotler, Keller, 2007).
By connecting these two elds We can apply marketing principles within the
internet area. This can be done mainly by creating a web pages, internet advertising, and also marketing research on the internet, electronic commerce etc. However
internet marketing demands a little bit dierent approach in certain aspects than
traditional marketing. (Blakov, 2005).
To make a more specic explanation of internet marketing, let us have a look
at one of its denition that according to my opinion works very well. Marketing on
the internet represents the utilization of internet services for executing or supporting
of marketing activities of the company. (Stuchlk, Dvoek, 2000).
Having goods and services marketed on the internet seems entirely natural to us
nowadays, but actually internet marketing is a relatively new phenomenon. Internet
itself is a very young medium that allowed us to do things that might never have
been imagined before. Internet developed from purely scientic use as a data and
information exchange tool to public use as a publishing and marketing medium.
When the early public internet rst started in the late 1980s, and more of the public
began to access it, many companies began to realize that they could utilize the
internet to provide information to potential customers. The rst examples of internet
marketing were simply text web sites. These web sites were very basic and simple
with no pictures nor graphics. As the internet started to develop in 1990s, more and
INTRODUCTION
more companies realized that they had a global audience of potential customers.
Websites were becoming more complex. They contained pictures of products and
graphics with intention to keep the customer interested.
Compared to our standards today, these rst web sites might seem archaic.
However, they served their purpose as people began to turn to the internet for information about companies and what they had to oer. If customer wanted to buy
something, they would call the company on a phone number provided by the website.
During the 1990s, with the spread of faster internet connections, image availability,
and then video availability, the marketing strategies evolved into more than just selling information products. Also the technology developed, so that companies could
sell their products right from their website. E-commerce began to grow very quickly
since the time when methods to securely provide credit card numbers became available. Consumers could now order products right from their home without a need
to going anywhere.
There was also an increased use of the internet as a tool of advertising. Companies began to place ads on other web sites to promote their products. Nowadays
from pay per click (PPC) advertisements benet both the company which has goods/services to sell and also webmasters of the websites. Aliate programs also
started to be very popular. They allow webmasters to advertise products on their
website, and if a customer purchases the item, then the webmaster gets certain
percentage of the sale. (Aranda, 2007).
There are people selling domain names, advertising space, software applications,
web solutions, and many other products and services. Companies like Google, Yahoo and MSN emerged and then evolved into providing advertising that any size of
website could take advantage of and make money from. (Internet Marketing Guide,
2009). Companies could reach customers all over the world. Some companies also
use internet as a primary source of advertising. Companies have developed innovative advertising programs, sometimes referred to as viral marketing. Viral marketing
tries to market the product or services through word of mouth. Some viral marketing
plans even use computer games in order to promote a particular product in funny
way.
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The aim of this work is to create a marketing project for a company with application
of modern internet marketing tools. Theoretical part will deal with evaluation, development of internet marketing, and advertising in general, describing dierent tools
of internet marketing. The practical part will deal with selecting internet marketing
tools for the real marketing project, application of these tools and techniques for a
real project, and its consequent evaluation.
2.2
Methodology
Methods used for elaboration this thesis will be specied in theoretical and practical
parts of this thesis, mainly in chapter 5. In the theoretical part, I will focus mainly
to an analysis of internet marketing trends in general, evaluation of nowadays approaches to internet marketing and current internet marketing tools. Further we
will discuss dierent internet marketing tools and approaches in detail, and choose
a structure of internet marketing tools for the project.
The practical part will deal with application of certain selected internet marketing tools on a real marketing project - e-shop.
For analysis of results Google Analytics analytical tool was used, because it has
deep statistics including demographics data, user friendly user interface, can also
track sales, which is very important for electronic store and last but not least is
oered completely free of charge.
CURRENT SITUATION
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Current situation
Simply speaking internet marketing, also referred to as online-marketing, webmarketing, e-marketing, or i-marketing, is the marketing of products or services
over the Internet.
In fact, internet marketing includes the use of a company web site in conjunction
with online promotional techniques, such as banner advertising, search engines, PPC
advertising, e-mail and links or services from other web sites to acquire new customers.
Many people can think, that internet marketing is just a website with its content, but it is much more complex. Internet marketing is interconnection among the
site portal, search engines, partners sites, blogs, other site linkings, B2B partners,
customers, outsource partners and much more. Simplied process of rst time visitor
to the business website is showed on this picture:
Pic. 1: E-Marketing is more than just your website (CPC Computer Consultants, 2008)
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General information
Tab. 1: World internet usage and population statistics (Internet World Stats, 2010)
World Regions
Population
Internet Users
Internet Users
Penetration %
Growth
Users
2010 Est.
Latest Data
Population
2000-2010
of Table
Africa
1,013,779,050
4,514,400
110,931,700
10.9 %
2,357 %
5.6 %
Asia
3,834,792,852
114,304,000
825,094,396
21.5 %
621.8 %
42.0 %
Europe
813,319,511
105,096,093
475,069,448
58.4 %
352.0 %
24.2 %
Middle East
212,336,924
3,284,800
63,240,946
29.8 %
1,825.3 %
3.2 %
North America
344,124,450
108,096,800
266,224,500
77.4 %
146.3 %
13.5 %
Lat. America/Caribbean
592,556,972
18,068,919
204,689,836
34.5 %
1,032.8 %
10.4 %
Oceania/Australia
34,700,201
7,620,480
21,263,990
61.3 %
179.0 %
1.1 %
WORLD TOTAL
6,845,609,960
360,985,492
1,966,514,816
28.7 %
444.8 %
100.0 %
From this statistics of global internet usage, we can see that the amount of
internet users increased more than ve times since the last decade (from 361 mil. in
2000 to more than 1.9 billions in 2010).
The highest penetration of internet users in population has North America
(77.4%), followed by Australia (61.3% and Europe (58.4%).
It is also interesting to see the total worlds growth of internet users from 2000
to 2010 which is 444.8%. This trend is likely to continue in future.
All these data shows great potential in internet as a media, and as a tool for
marketing strategies and tactics.
We can see from the Tab. 2, that spending for advertisement in all media was
growing in past four years, however in newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, cinema
and outdoor, the growth is not as signicant as compared to the internet. Spending
for advertisement on the internet more than doubled in past four years. Internet
advertising overtook radio and also magazines advertising by its 11.5% share in
2010 and the trend is still rising.
3.1
General information
The key element of marketing beside the customer is one part of marketing mix
is called promotion. Certainly communication, which is part of promotion, runs
through all the elds of marketing. Flawless communication is absolutely necessary
for successful marketing. Internet makes this communication among customers much
easier, than it ever was before. Traditional marketing uses all the traditional com-
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General information
Tab. 2: Global Spending and Share of Ad Send by Medium 2006-2010 (in Millions
of USD) (Marketingcharts, 2010)
2006
Newspapers
Magazines
TV
Radio
Cinema
Outdoor
Internet
123.031
2007
2008
124.047 127.366
2009
2010
130.955 134.829
29.0%
27.8%
26.8%
26.1%
25.4%
52.959
54.393
56.427
58.518
60.588
12.5%
12.2%
11.9%
11.7%
11.4%
160.356
168.359 180.335
189.110 198.894
37.8%
37.7%
37.9%
37.7%
37.5%
35.347
36.472
37.782
39.437
41.032
8.3%
8.2%
7.9%
7.9%
7.7%
1.870
1.984
2.180
2.414
2.691
0.4%
0.4%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
23.516
25.126
27.145
29.099
31.249
5.5%
5.6%
5.7%
5.8%
5.9%
27.185
35.999
44.583
51.963
60.888
6.4%
8.1%
9.4%
10.4%
11.5%
munication media such as questionnaires, leaets, post, telephone, mass media etc.
Internet oers all the possibilities of communication like traditional media, but often
much more eectively. By using internet you can not only address a person, but you
can address thousands of people with the same interest at one time and communicate
with them. Modern and successful marketing has to be familiar with the internet,
calculate with it, and use the possibilities it oers. Internet can get along without
marketing - modern marketing can not get along without the internet. (Stuchlk,
Dvoek, 2000).
We will discuss specic current internet marketing tools more in details later in
this section.
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3.2
3.2.1
Marketing Mix
Marketing mix constitutes all the activities a rm takes to aect its products demand. By one of the most well known denitions: Marketing mix is a set of marketing tools, that rm uses to reach the marketing goals on the specied market.
(Kotler, Keller, 2007).
Marketing mix consists of 4Ps (sometimes also used 5Ps or 6Ps) which are:
Product - a tangible object or an intangible service, that is mass produced or
manufactured on a large scale with a specic volume of units.
Price - is the amount a customer pays for the product. The business may increase
or decrease the price of product if other stores have the same product.
Place - represents the location, where a product can be purchased. It is often
referred to as the distribution channel. It can include any physical store, as well
as virtual stores on the Internet.
Promotion - represents all of the communications that a marketer may use
in the marketplace. Promotion has four distinct elements: advertising, public
relations, personal selling and sales promotion.
Many elements of traditional marketing easily reects on Internet marketing.
We can show this reection on marketing mix of 4Ps. For example in terms of
promotion we can show these reections: (Mohammed et al., 2003).
Tab. 3: Traditional marketing reection to Internet marketing
Traditional Marketing Internet Marketing
Broadcast advertising
Banner ads
Direct mail
Press releases
Promotions
Online events
Networking
Chat rooms/listserv
Word of mouth
Viral marketing
Kotler also came with the theory, that the marketing mix should be rather
expressed from the point of view of the customer, and named it 4Cs (also extended
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to 7Cs). The concept of looking at the marketing mix from the viewpoint of customer
also suits better for our internet marketing characteristics.
Consumer Wants and Needs instead of products rst, we need to nd what
the customer wants and then create the product, service, or solution.
Cost to Satisfy instead of price, we should rather think like the customer does.
Customers ask the question, What will it cost me to be satised and get what
I need. The customer will pay a fair price for a fair deal.
Convenience to Buy instead of place, the more important question is, how and
where does the customer want to purchase? This question is getting tougher
to answer with increasingly segmented consumer markets, the worldwide web,
and the global economy.
Communication instead of promotion, we need to ask the customer questions
and listen.
3.2.2
Internet changed the way and speed we communicate and brought the greatest strategic advantage of internet marketing, compared to traditional forms of marketing.
As I mention already in the previous section, it is very important for the company
nowadays to ask questions and listen to the customers.
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This picture shows the movement from traditional marketing to marketing over
the internet, when customer is more integrated into the communication process, and
there is a better space for feedbacks.
Another strategic advantages of internet marketing:
Create new sources of competitive advantage.
More direct distribution model.
Modify the supply chain.
Invent new business models.
Target underserved segments.
Lower price barrier.
New delivery methods to reduce capital expenditure and pricing.
Create more ecient marketplace.
Traditional industry supply chain usually consists of:
Production.
Service provider.
Various resellers.
End user.
The rst item accompains the production value based in creation of the product
by transforming inputs into outputs. The rest two items before reaching the end
consumer of the product are just commerce based value increasers, where every
intermediary in this chain adds some incremental value to the product.
With the usage of internet marketing it is far easier to remove some ineciencies
and intermediaries from the value chain. For example production factory can have
its own online shop used for marketing its products to the end users. By omitting
some intermediaries, the producer can benet from higher income and consumer
from lower price.
Old 4Ps had almost no feedback loop, higher risk of innovation and guessing
market. By integrating internet marketing tools, we get innovative 4Ps that capture
customer interactions, create huge value and reduce risk.
3.3
Website
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Website
Nowadays, we can nd the link of a corporate web site presentation more often than
a telephone contact or regular address. It can be seen on billboards, TV advertisements, e-mails or discussion forums. Web presentation is thus an indivisible part of
every rms marketing activities.
A website (sometimes written as web site) can be perceived as collection of
related web pages, texts, images, videos, and other digital media that can be found
on a specic dened Uniform Resource Locator (URL). This website is hosted on
a webserver, accessible via global network internet, or at least private Local Area
Network (LAN) and showed to guests via so called web browsers. Website is mainly
used for providing information, marketing communication, advertising products and
services, or the company itself.
Website is usually perceived as the main tool of internet marketing. All the
other tools usually try to promote the website and bring more visitors to the web
presentation. That is why the website should contain all the necessary information
for the visitors to convert into customers.
3.3.1
Domain name
Keywords
Keywords are the words people type into a search box, when they are looking for
something online. Search engines use these typed keywords to decide which web
pages to deliver in the results pages. That is why the selection of right keywords is
essential part of internet marketing strategy, and building of a web presentation.
If we use the keywords people are searching for within the web presentation,
page titles, descriptions and links, then we will score well in search engine results
and more people will nd our site. The language you use will be appropriate to
your audience. And as any seasoned direct marketer will tell you, speak to people
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in their own language and they will be more likely to buy from you. (McGan,
2010).
3.3.3
Copywriting
Term copywriting refers to content writing on websites with main objective of the
achievement of higher rankings in search engines. This practice involves the strategic
placement and right repetition of pre selected keywords, and keyword phrases on
web pages for search engine optimization (SEO), but still writing in a manner that
human readers consider normal and well readable.
Key points of good copywriting according to (McGan, 2010):
From the keyword lists you have chosen for your site, pick a primary and a
secondary keyword that you will want to rank well for with the article.
Write the title of the article making sure that you include the primary keyword
in the title.
Write the description tag using both the primary and secondary keywords.
Write the rst paragraph which should be a summary of the overall article and
should include both primary and secondary keywords.
Map out the structure of the article, writing headings and subheading that each
contain keywords.
Think about the internal and external links that you might point people to.
The linking text should be keyword rich.
3.3.4
Microsites
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(beyond increasing product sales), may include providing editorial content and keywords allowing for greater chances of higher search engine results by search engine
optimization.
Because of that narrower focus, these small web sites can be used as hubs for a
specic marketing campaign. They are more easily optimized for search engines, and
if their content is good enough, can drive word-of-mouth or viral marketing through
linking and pass-along. (Quinton, 2007)
3.4
Direct marketing is a form of advertising, that reaches its audience without using
traditional formal channels of advertising, such as TV, newspapers or radio. The
advantage of direct marketing online is that the message is delivered straight to the
customer. In the online world businesses communicate straight to the consumers
with advertising techniques such as e-mail, newsletters, by using viral marketing
techniques, instant messages and also by mobile communication. Online direct marketing requires well prepared copywriting text that is able to sell, and a database of
potential customers.
3.4.1
E-mail Marketing
E-mail marketing is a subsection of direct marketing, which uses e-mail as a communication tool to deliver the commercial message to the potential customers. The
advantage of this marketing method is easily measurable ROI (Return on Investment), which can be very high, when the e-mail marketing is well done. Another
thing that speaks for the e-mail marketing is the fact that most of internet users
check their e-mail at least several times a week, usually every single day. Important
is also the fact, that if the recipient of the e-mail likes the message, he/she can easily
forward the message to their friends, which already falls within the sphere of viral
marketing that will be explained later. Last but not least the cost for sending one
e-mail is usually much less than sending a propagation leaet by a regular post mail.
As a disadvantage can be perceived the fact, that people are ooded by lot of
spam every day and they get used to not to pay too much attention to such e-mails,
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and also the fact, that even if the message is not a spam, some e-mail servers can
analyze the message as spam and lter it.
List of rules that is good to follow to avoid being called a SPAMer (B2B Lead,
2010):
Make sure your entire physical address is at the bottom of your marketing
emails.
Make sure you oer your recipients a way to unsubscribe from your mailing list.
Ensure HTML content complies with standards.
Stagger your mailings.
Choose subject lines carefully.
Carefully track unsubscribes, bouncebacks and opt-ins.
Make it easy for the recipient to get in touch with you.
Use email service provider for more automation.
Make sure you are not using a spam buzz words.
Use Capitalization sparingly.
Minimize use of click here or click below.
Watch your punctuation.
Use simple HTML, No Javascript.
Use web-safe colors only.
Reduce use of large fonts and characters.
Avoid remove in unsubscribe language.
Keep le size under 70K.
3.4.2
Newsletter
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Viral Marketing
3.5
3.6
Online Advertising
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Lobbying - making inuences and lobbying for support or reduction of legal and
regulatory restrictions.
Within the internet environment can be held mainly rst three activities, lobbying will still remain mostly for personal contact. Online PR has advantage over the
traditional PR in the possibility of great and fast two way communication on the
internet.
Companies running an online business can develop online public relations
through publishing PR articles in online PR catalogues, press releases in online
media, by sharing videos or music containing commercial message or advertisement,
or by participating in various discussion forums concerning the related topic or products.
3.6
Online Advertising
The main goal of online advertising as well as regular advertising is to aect the
buying behaviour of customers. The online advertising is however much more interactive. (Stuchlk, Dvoek, 2000). Online advertising uses mainly the internet and
world wide web to deliver marketing messages to attract customers. Examples of
online advertising will be shown in next sections.
3.6.1
Banner Ads
Banner advertising was the rst type of advertising ever on the Internet. A banner
can promote a product, service or special oer similar way as a regular billboard. The
advantage of a banner is that after clicking on it, the customer is redirected directly
to the landing page of that product, service or oer where more detail information
is provided, or where the customer can directly make a purchase.
3.6.2
Contextual Advertising
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content. This type of advertising is very popular due to the possibility to target
according to customers interests.
3.7
3.7
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There are four most common ways how online advertising (regardless of its type)
is purchased (Alexandrou, 2007):
CPI (Cost Per Impression) is when advertisers pay for exposure of their message
to a specic audience.
CPM (Cost Per Mile) also referred to as Cost Per Thousand (CPT). This means
that the advertisers pay for a thousand impressions.
CPC (Cost Per Click) is also well known as Pay Per Click (PPC). Advertisers
pay each time a user clicks on their listing, and is redirected to their website.
They do not actually pay for the listing itself, but only when the listing is clicked
on. Under the Pay per click pricing system, advertisers pay for the right to be
listed under a series of target key words, that direct relevant trac to their
website, and pay only when someone clicks on their listing, which links directly
to the landing page of the project/product/service or special oer. CPC diers
from CPI and CPM that the advertisers pay only when the user clicks on the
advertisement.
CPA (Cost Per Action) sometimes also called Cost Per Lead (CPL). CPA denes
how much revenue a publisher of advertising receives when a user clicks an
advertisement on his website and then completes a certain action. For example,
a publisher may place a banner or text link from an advertiser on his website.
When a user clicks the link, is then directed to the advertisers website. The user
might then be asked to ll out a form or take a survey. If he completes the form
or survey, the action has been completed, and the advertiser pays the publisher
a certain amount based on the CPA. The cost-per-action (CPA) model is at
the other end of the spectrum from the cost per impressions models (CPM),
with the cost per click (CPC) model somewhere in the middle. In a CPA model,
the publisher is taking most of the advertising risk, as their commissions are
dependent on good conversion rates from the advertisers creative units and
website.
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Google AdWords is and automated auction system using the Pay Per Click (PPC)
revenue model, which was described above. Basically you write an Ad and choose relevant keywords to this ad. These keywords will then be triggered by people
searching these keywords in the Googles search engine.
All these searches of all people to the relevant keyword and all the ads with this
related keyword or phrase are put into an auction. The order of ads on the search
results page is then calculated according to the quality of the ad, and also on the
maximum amount you are willing to spend for a potential customers single click on
this ad. After clicking on the ad, the interested customer is then redirected to the
landing page.
Creating a campaign in AdWords system is pretty easy task, but creating a
successful campaign requires a lot of experimentation, no matter if you are an experienced marketer or a marketing novice (Google, 2009).
3.8
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a method for building or modifying of websites to be suitable for automated processing by search engines and their spiders
which take care of indexing pages. (Wikipedia, 2011). The aim of search engine optimization is getting higher ranking and thus better position for particular key words
in the search engine organic search results. The goal of more lucrative positions
in search engines is then higher amounts of targeted website guests and potential
customers in case of commercial project.
The search engine downloads in particular time periods the content of the website, which is then analyzed, indexed, and stored in its database. The exact algorithms for analyzing websites are kept secretly. Simply speaking the search engine
algorithm should sort the results according to the extent of particular websites
searcher expectation.
Even though the title refers to optimization for search engines, we should still
remember that the web page content is made primarily for people - visitors, who are
the main consumers of the content, and who are just using search engines to nd
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the desired website or information. Thus the optimization should not be tweaked
only for search engines robots without thinking of the visitors. (Google, 2010).
SEO can be divided to two basic parts:
On-page SEO concentrates on page content and a structure of the website (e. g.
menu or navigation). It accompains for example content writing, title tags,
META tags, headlines, sitemap, alt image attributes and keywords placement.
O-page SEO focuses more on the sites relationship with other sites. The focus
of o-page optimization lies in link building. This can be done through directory
submissions, articles writing, direct link exchanges, PR articles etc.
Both on-page and o-page SEO techniques are essential for successful SEO and
achieving a better rank in search engines. When speaking about search engines, in
the Czech environment number 1 is Seznam.cz, number 2 belongs to Google.com
search engine.
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subscription program, Webstats PRO, that will give you a full history and more
extensive tools.
Google Analytics is arguably the most popular analytics package available for
individual site owners. Google Analytics (or plain old GA) allows you to
dig down deep into your stats to see breakdowns of individual regions, states/provinces, cities and numerous other items to better identify your site visitors. The wealth of data available is admirably balanced by a well-executed
user interface, but it can still be overwhelming. The package integrates with
AdWords and has ecommerce-specic tools to track sales.
ShinyStat was initially designed to monitor visits to Italian web sites. Now it is
available to sites all over the world, and oers software packages for the individual user, the professional user who needs to track marketing, and a business
owner who needs to monitor sales and ROI. There is also a level of service for
ISPs to install and include with their hosting accounts.
SiteMeter has a free version for smaller bloggers with up to 100,000 monthly
visitors that oers all of the usual tools a webmaster can expect such as tracking
referrals, visit durations and so on. If you are launching a larger site and need
more tools, there is a paid version based on your volume of visitors.
StatCounter might have a rather plain interface, but it deftly handles multiauthor blogs, allowing you to easily assign unique codes to each author. While
it is free and does work, you have to click on a link to see each analytic result
on a separate page. Despite its unpolished looks, the site does oer you clearly
readable stats on things such as keywords, trac sources, and other useful
information.
W3Counter comes in a free and paid version. With a free W3Counter account,
you can track up to 5,000 page views a day across 10 websites and see all of
the usual stats. In addition, you get a bonus that you can share your stats with
anyone you like via widgets for your blog or an API that lets you build new
tools. For sites with higher trac, you can go for the Pro account that allows
you to track up to 1 million views a month.
W3Perl diers from other analytics packages in that it does not just measure
web trac, but also can parse the log les of email and RSS to measure just
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about anything you choose. You can set up the administration interface for web
access and gain real-time stats from there.
Webalizer is written in C, which means that it is extremely fast and portable,
and is a favorite choice of people who host their own servers. Many web hosts
have this analytics package pre-installed for your use inside of their control
panel. Webalizer does not allow you to dive terribly in-depth into your data
like some other packages, but it provides an excellent overview.
Woopra is currently in a closed beta test, but it oers you a wealth of data for
those who can get in. Real-time data are streamed from your site that appear on
a map letting you graphically see where readers are coming from, what keywords
brought them in, and referring sites. Woopra oers you a unique ability to open
up a chat window with visitors of your choice as they browse your site. An
unusual feature of this service is that the data is presented to you in a desktop
application. WordPress users can install a plugin that lets them see this data
in the dashboard of their blog.
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New Trends
Thanks to the quick spread of social networks in recent years, new ways of
marketing products/services or brands emerged.
Interesting content can be shared online via social networks like Facebook or
Twitter very quickly and spread awareness of your products/services or brand
name. This new trend is called Social Media Marketing and is also well known
as Social Media Optimization (SMO).
Another modern internet marketing tool is Online Video Marketing. This method of promotion starts to be very popular for product and services promotions
as well as commercial videos.
Last eld which is nowadays also on rise and signicant is called Mobile Marketing. This eld begun to be important, as the number of smart phone users
rises worldwide, and also mobile broadband internet connection becomes more
spread.
All these new approaches to internet marketing will be described in detail in
next chapters of this paper.
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JECT
Practical part of my diploma thesis shows how to apply specic marketing tools
to a real project. By choosing the right structure of marketing tools I want to
demonstrate, how we can support an internet project or website. The main aim
of such support is increasing website number of visitor and in case of commercial
project also to increase number of sales or prot.
4.1
To demonstrate the portfolio of internet marketing tools that can support a web
based project, I have built an e-shop www.hotstyle.cz, which was created during
rst half of year 2010 for the reason of this diploma thesis.
Hotstyle is an electronic store which focuses on new trends in fashion and beauty
for modern girls and women of the 21st century. The e-shop oers for its customers
mainly so called clip in hair extensions from a real human hair, for extending (prolonging) of their former length hair style. Hotstyle oers these special hair extensions
sets in dierent lengths from fty to seventy centimeters for extending hair, clip in
fringes for changing a hair style, crazy color locks of hair for hair diversication,
special curl formers for fast curling, etc.
The preview of the main page of the e-shop can be seen in Appendix E of this
work.
Because this method of hair extending is not as well known as the former
methods, part of the e-shop is also detailed information about this method, manuals
how to put the extensions on and how to put o, how to take care about extensions,
how to create specic hair styles from these hair extensions, there are linked video
demonstrations and many demonstrative pictures. Another part belongs to a FAQ
combined with discussion forum.
The main target group of Hotstyle are women from 15 to 45 years, so all of the
marketing eorts will be aimed to this group of audience.
For analysis of how specic marketing tools aected number of website visitors,
customers and sales I will use data from 1st July 2010 to 31. January 2011.
At the very beginning of this project it was necessary to choose appropriate domain
name, choose a platform of an e-shop that is well-arranged, create a graphical design,
logo, etc. When creating a graphical design, it is necessary to take into consideration
the target group. As was mentioned already above, the target group is women 15-45
years, that is why the design is made in fashion style and violet, pink and white
colors are used.
The rst and most important internet marketing tool is a website, in our case an
electronic shop. Without this tool, it would not be possible to realize this marketing
project at all, thus the use of a website is inevitable. When I was creating a website,
the most important factors for me were:
User friendliness
Interesting quality content
Appearance
Although a website itself belongs also among internet marketing tools, I will
focus in this paper primarily on the consequent internet marketing tools used to
promote this web project (e-shop).
First of all search engine optimization was used, because compared to the other
forms of marketing it is widely considered as most ecient tool. This view is supported also by multi-business owner James Boulay in his article All In One SEO: An
Ecient Internet Marketing Tool for Your On-Page SEO Strategy and SEO Blog
(Boulay, 2011). The eectiveness lies in the fact that creating content respecting
SEO techniques does not cost relatively anything, the user is usually searching for
a specic keyword of a product and last but not least that SEO works in the long
term.
In the rst phase of the project after the whole e-shop is prepared and design
created, it needs to be lled by its content. Already during this phase it is good
to remember basic SEO techniques that are used for on-page search engine optimization. These techniques are described in details in following practical part of this
paper.
When the structure and content of electronic store is added and the on-page
SEO factors are successfully used, is the right time to start with o-page optimization
which together with on-page optimization helps us to get better positions in search
results. Catalogue registrations and link exchanges were used, because these are the
simplest and most ecient techniques for building back links.
Many marketers also believe, that the quality of a content of the website itself
together with the appropriate keywords used is the most signicant criteria for search
engines to be able to deliver your content to the users who search for it.
It is also good to remember, that SEO is a long term work and you never
precisely know when you see the results.
After nishing basic on-page and o-page optimization, it would be great to
use a marketing tool that can be applied rather quickly and works immediately. For
this reason we have several options:
Banner advertising
Context advertising
Search engine marketing
Banner advertising is one of the oldest types of internet advertising. Compared
to the other possibilities, it is in majority cases more expensive, oers less targeting
options and nowadays is rather substituted by newer forms of advertising. For our
reasons is much more suitable to use both context advertising and search engine
marketing which can be both targeted to relevant keywords, its performance can be
exactly measured and PPC model is used, so we pay only for visitors really coming,
not only for impressions.
That is why I suggested to use a targeted campaign in Google Adwords advertising systems which comprises both SEM and context advertising to start being
visible in search engines immediately, already before the SEO starts to show its full
results.
In todays global world linked by social networks, it is worth to use its viral
strength to promote the e-shop products basically for free via its network. There is
not only Facebook, but also Twitter, Myspace and another platforms, but Facebook
has the highest number of users among all these servers globally and also in the
Czech Republic. Current number of Czech users as well as age statistics can be seen
on the picture below.
When there is a content that attracts attention and encourages readers to share
it with their social networks, which I am sure there is on the shop, the message
about our products can be easily shared by people who like it among their friends.
A corporate message spreads from user to user, and most probably even resonates
because it is coming from a trusted source, as opposed to the brand or company
itself.
Social Media Marketing is also known as Social Media Optimization (SMO) and
benets by providing an additional channel for customer awareness of our products
and reputation online. Key factors that ensure its success are its relevance to the
customer, the value it provides them with and the strength of the foundation on
which it is built. Often i.e. like button and a Facebook Page is used for SMO.
Because it is quite time demanding to regularly update a facebook page and
current information are always on the website of e-shop. I decided to use like button
and like box, which both provide viral marketing strength by oering our customers
the chance to share our content on their facebook proles.
Microsite, also sometimes referred to as Minisite is made as a supplementary
internet marketing tool with the aim to promote the main site of the e-shop. The
reason why microsite was chosen for promoting the main page is, that there is no
other simple tool, that can provide optimized page for a specic topic, that cannot
be covered by the main e-shop page.
The next supplementary internet marketing tool used to promote the project
is Online Video Marketing. This marketing tools belong to the relatively recently
introduced modern approaches and starts to be used more and more for commercial
videos and product promotion. It can be used for increasing awareness of a particular
product, as well as of the whole brand itself. It is said that a picture is worth thousand
words. Video must be then worth even much more words. For the products that I
try to promote by the internet marketing, this tool ts very well, because customers
want to see interactive content, which online video provides in comparison to online
text.
Last marketing tool used for this project is called Mobile Marketing. However
mobile marketing does not belong particularly to internet marketing tools portfolio,
it is very close to it and nowadays, when the spread of smart phones among people
rises, many companies start to invest to be visible on mobile devices. According to
my opinion, the signicance of mobile marketing will rise in future several years
many times, thus it is convenient to have the website prepared.
So the nal structure of internet marketing tools used for the project is:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Social Media Marketing (Viral Marketing)
Microsites
Online Video Marketing
Mobile Marketing
From variety of analytical tools described in previous chapter, I tested all of
them and chose Google Analytics, because it has all the data statistics that is needed
for the project, very simple and most user friendly interface from all tested tools
according to my opinion, has special analytical tools for tracking sales which is very
useful for e-shops, and what is also important it is completely free. There is no
wonder Google Analytics is the most popular analytical tool worldwide.
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Search engine optimization is often about making small modications and changes
of the website, which might seem like just a very little improvements, but when they
are combined with another optimizations, it could have a noticeable impact on the
website performance in organic search engine results. In following sections I want to
demonstrate what factors were optimized in case of on-page SEO and o-page SEO
within the marketing project.
It is important to mention that SEO aects only organic search results and
not sponsored (paid) results such as Google AdWords or Sklik. The aection of
sponsored search results will be covered in next chapter.
6.1
The following sections will show specic methods that were used on this project
when talking about on-page SEO.
6.1.1
The <title> tag should be placed within the head part of the HTML document.
Optimally it should be created for each page of the project websites. The title must
be written in a way that eectively displays the topic of the content of the page.
This title tag displays both users and search engines robots what is the topic of
particular page and what they can expect. The title content will usually show in the
rst line in search results page, thus it is very important. For a main landing page
with product of hair extensions of 70cm length, the page title will look like:
<title>Clip hair extensions 70cm</title>
6.1.2
As well as the <title> tag, also meta tag was placed within the head part of the
HTML document. Ideal situation is again, when we create a meta tag description
for each web page of the project. This description gives search engines a summary
of what the page is about. As a title tag we used only few most relevant words or a
phrase, but for a description it is good to use a whole sentence, or a short paragraph
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of text. The page description should be written in a way that informs, and also
makes users interested when they see this description in the search engine results
page. A good practice is also to use unique meta description of every single page.
<meta name=description= content=Clip hair extension is an easy and fast
way how to extend your hair style. We oer a variety of colors for a discount
price.>
6.1.3
Heading tags have six sizes based on their hierarchical order. Text that is within tags
<h1>heading1</h1> is the most important text, which is also usually depicted by
highest size within the visible website while text within tags <h6>heading6</h6>
has least importance from all six headings. These multiple headings are used to
create a natural hierarchical structure of the website content, and again makes it
easier for the visitors to navigate through the webpage content.
The most important information using the relevant keywords should be tagged
within <h1> for getting the best result for SEO. We should avoid swapping from
one heading tag size to another in the wrong hierarchical order. It will be better
shown on an example how the hierarchical structure of heading was used within the
scope of the project.
<h1>Hair extensions</h1>
<h2>Length 50cm</h2>
<h3>Light colors</h3>
<h3>Dark colors</h3>
6.1.4
Friendly URLs
Creating descriptive categories and product pages can not only help keeping the
website better organized, but can also result in better ranking of the website by
search engines robots. It is much better to use friendly URLs than strange looking
URLs, that show unrecognizable parameters that a visitor nor search engine robot
can provide better insight, what the specic website is about. If the URL contains
relevant words, it provides users and search engines with more relevant information
about the page. URLs are also displayed as a part of search result in most of search
engines.
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http://www.hotstyle.cz/slozka3/102548/45/m/zikddk.html =
http://www.hotstyle.cz/kartac-na-prodlouzene-vlasy/
6.1.5
The navigation on the website was done as naturally owing hierarchy. That makes
it easier for users to go from general content and topics to more specic content and
topics they want to nd on the website. For navigation rather text should be used,
because text is easier for search engines to index than a Flash or JavaScript drop
down menus, animations or pictures would be.
Here is an example of simple navigation structure following the natural hierarchy of websites:
http://www.hotstyle.cz/clip-in-ony-100-lidske-vlasy/ =
http://www.hotstyle.cz/clip-in-ona-100-lidske-vlasy/svetle-odstiny/
6.1.6
To optimize the use of images within the project it a good to use descriptive lename
and alt attribute of each image. The alt attribute allows us to dene alternative text
if the image cannot be displayed for any reason. Optimizing lenames of images
makes it easier for image search project like Google Image Search or Seznam Image
Search, to better understand and classify these images.
6.2
As far as talking about methods that were used on this project for o-page SEO, I
can say that all the o-page eorts were basically put into increasing backlinks with
an incentive to increase the value of the e-shop website itself.
Eective promoting the content of this project leads to faster discovery by
search engines, visitors and in long term it might increase the rating or the website
in search engine result pages. For getting a relevant backlings I used exchange of
backlings with partner websites, e-shops and sites covering similar topics who agreed
on this both party benecial aid. The e-shop was also registered manually into cca
300 free catalogues and around 100 PR article pages for getting another backlinks.
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In this chapter I would like to describe how the internet marketing tool SEM was
used to promote the Hotstyle project. There was created a campaign in Googles
AdWords.
Googles AdWords system was chosen, because Google is the leader on the
market with online advertising and it has sophisticated statistical and best analytical
tools for webmasters that can be utilized.
7.1
Campaigns Keywords
Choosing the right keywords is the root of the whole campaign. It depends mainly
on keywords chosen if we reach the right target group of customers or not. If the
potential customer is making search for our product, she will nd us more quickly if
the right keywords are chosen for the advertising campaign. The keywords should be
well themed and relevant to the product we sell. For Hotstyle project were chosen
main keywords:
hair extensions, extending hair, clip in hair, clip in hair extensions, hair extensions sale, clip in, hair for prolonging, long hair, hair, human hair.
For keywords there are two categories which can be used to put the keyword in
and utilize the matching style of the specic keyword.
Broad Match, which shows the ad whenever the keyword or relevant variation
of the keyword is searched for. This is the default option for each keyword.
Negative Match, which prevents from showing ad when this specic keyword or
phrase is searched for.
It will be better explained by example. When the product I am creating a
marketing campaign for is made from human hair, I want to prevent the ad showing
when somebody is searching for synthetic hair extensions, thus I use negative match
for a keyword synthetic hair.
7.2
Campaigns Ads
To get the best results from the campaign, the ad should be directly related to the
keywords chosen in previous part. It is more likely that a customer searching for
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particular product will click on the ad that is directly related to this product. The
customers choose just according to the text in the ad on which they click, and thus
which website they visit, so there should be paid an extra emphasis to the text of
the ad.
When creating an ad, it is sometimes convenient to create several versions
and test which version is more successful and choose this version for the ongoing
campaign. The most successful campaign can be found in campaigns statistics by
the value of Clickthrough Rate (CTR). It is a ration of number of clicks over all the
impressions. Basically the higher the better.
Components of an ad are:
Headline - The rst line on the ad, which works as a link to the website.
Lines of text - These lines are used for description of the product, service or
benets of the oer.
Display URL - The URL of the promoting website.
Destination URL - This URL is not shown in the ad. It is a landing page, where
will the visitor arrive after clicking the ad.
There was an ad created to promote the Hotstyle e-shop:
Headline: Long Hair within 5 minutes
Lines of text: 100% pure clip in human hair. Special oer 50cm extensions for
1590CZK
Display URL: www.hotstyle.cz
Destination URL: http://www.hotstyle.cz/clipin50/
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8.1
Social media marketing also known as social media optimization (SMO) provides an
additional customer support channel and easy and trusted customer feedback channel. Social media marketing usually tries to create content that attracts attention
and encourages readers to share it through their social networks. It also servers as
a relatively inexpensive platform for companies to implement their marketing campaigns. Popular social media platforms are: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube,
MySpace etc.
Creating interesting and useful content will most likely inuence the website
more than any of the other factors. Users interested in specic topic are able to
recognize good content when they see it. These users might want to share this
content also with their friends. This could be done through:
Blog posts
Emails
Forums
Social Media Services
Other means
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Organic or word-of-mouth recommendations helps build the websites reputation among users. That is why I want to show how we can use some of social
media marketing techniques to provide users the chance to share the content with
their friends, and which can also increase the reputation of the e-shop itself.
The most ecient and simple method how to promote the website and let users
share the content with other users is by using Facebook Social Plugins. Social plugins
let you see what your friends have liked, commented on, or shared on sites across
the web. (Facebook, 2011)
Here is a list of current Facebooks social media plugins:
Like Button
Activity Feed
Recommendations
Like Box
Login Button
Registration
Facepile
Comments
Live Stream
The whole list including pictures and descriptions is attached in appendix B of
this paper.
For this project I have chosen Like button and Like box, that suits the best our
needs and can signicantly help to improve the performance of the e-shop.
8.1.1
Like Button
The Like button will be used for the main page of the e-shop for giving users an
opportunity to share the content with their friends on Facebook. When the user
clicks on the like button on the main page of the e-shop, a message appears in the
users friends news feed with a link back to the Hotstyle e-shop.
For creating the like button, the Facebooks congurator was used. The URL
was chosen to the main page http://www.hotstyle.cz, layout style chosen to boxcount
without showing faces under the button.
Here is the HTML source code that is used for input to the upper right part of
the Hotstyle e-shop website:
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The result is then interpreted and depicted on the website in such form:
How the like button looks on the main page of the website is depicted in appendix C.
8.1.2
Like Box
The Like Box is another social plugin, that will help us to attract customers to
share their like experience and stay informed from the news feed. It is actually very
similar tool to like box with the dierent look and with possibility to show a little
bit of news feed from the Facebook page.
HTML source code of Like Box created for the project website can be seen here:
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8.2
Microsites
There was created a special microsite (sometimes also referred to as minisite) for
promotional reasons. The aim of this microsite is to focus on one specic topic, that
is not that well covered by the main e-shop, which is hair extending.
This microsite comprises information primarily about hair extending and it
has a link to the main e-shop for potential customers, who want to know more
information about the products. There was created a special subdomain with used
relevant keywords on the URL: http://prodluzovani-vlasu.hotstyle.cz/
It is much easier to target customers to a website which focuses on one topic
only, by SEO, than to a site that is more general. Thus microsite is a great marketing
tool that will do this job. Preview of the microsite website is depicted in Appendix
F.
8.3
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It is said that picture is worth a thousand words, how many words does a 30-second
online video worth? Until recently, spreading your message with video was limited to
the television screen. Online video presents a great opportunity for small business
marketing. The main advantage of using online video is that it is interactive, so
creates more impact on the viewer and makes it easily memorable. It can be easily
shared with anyone and it is not expensive also to create. All these features of online
video make it widely accessible. As YouTube is becoming the easiest way to generate
targeted and continuous trac to a corporate website, it is a good idea to invest
some time in low cost video marketing in the upcoming years.
Online Video Marketing is a sphere which is denitely on rise. The consumption
of online video has is still increasing. In November 2008, 146 million Americans
watched videos online, streaming a total of 12.6 billion video clips, or nearly double
the number they streamed just 20 months ago. (Helft, 2009).
Making a simple video and placing it online is rather inexpensive and it has the
advantage, that the video will stay online forever. When once posted, people can
nd the video also in several years. That is why I created a simple video presenting
the e-shops products and e-shop itself, stressing the main advantages and showing
a backlink to the main page of the e-shop.
This video presentation was then uploaded to two main online video servers
(from point of view in the Czech Republic) Youtube and Stream.
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8.4
Mobile Marketing
Mobile marketing is all about marketing to people through their mobile phones and
smart phone devices. Small businesses have not penetrated this market with mobile
customers much yet, which brings the great opportunity to take advantage of it in
the near future.
Demand is increasing dramatically for mobile applications and mobile web
browsing due to wider adoption of devices like the iPhone and other smart phones with Google Android OS. As more people adopt these phones and features in
the near future, the potential for small business start providing location-based marketing services and applications, mobile e-mail marketing, mobile websites etc. will
increase rapidly.
Like I already mentioned, smartphones are getting much more spread among
the people and they all want to remain connected to their favourite websites even on
the go. Thus there emerges a need to adjust the website design to a so called mobile
version of website. Although in the Czech Republic the percentage of people using
smartphones with broadband internet is denitely much less than for example in
the United States, it is slowly increasing and it is handy to be prepared. Mobile
interfaces are usually smaller so there must be adjusted dimensions of the website.
8.4
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The picture below depicts the mobile version of the e-shop Hotstyle how it is shown
on iPhone.
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For the evaluation of how successfully internet marketing tools were used for promoting the e-shop Hotstyle, I will use data from 1st of July 2010 when st marketing
tools were used until 31st of January 2011. This means there will be used data of 7
months.
The success will be measured in respect to the number of visitors and also
number of sales at the beginning of the period, then during application of internet
marketing tools and at the end of surveyed period. The numbers will be always
grouped and displayed by whole months.
As I mentioned already during the describing of SEO in previous chapters of
this paper, the search engine optimization (mainly optimization of o-page factors)
is a long term process which does not show its full strength immediately, but during
the time.
This can be proved by the statistics of number of visits from search engines in
each month from Pic. 13. We can see, that at the beginning of optimization phase,
there were only 4,836 visits in July 2010. The trend was then each month rising
of visits from search engines. The only exception was surprisingly December, which
can be explained by higher consumer sensitivity to advertisements than to organic
search. The traced trend continued then again in January 2011 with over 18,000
visits from search engines. When we compare situation at the beginning in July
to the situation in January, we can see almost four times increase in organic visits
thanks mainly to search engine optimization used. The total number of visitors from
search engines in examined period was 69,774.
Another interesting thing we can see from the statistics is a pie chart showing
percentage share of search engines used by visitors. Seznam was used by 50.23% of
visitors, while Google was used just by 48.94% of visitors. Percentage share of the
rest of search engines is insignicant.
From the next graph on Pic. 14, we can see how many visitors were brought
to the landing page from the AdWords campaign in each month. The average trend
of success of the ad campaign is also upward coming from 2,069 visits in July 2010
to 7,558 visits in January 2011. The overall number of visitors from campaign was
28,912.
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The number of likes obtained by Like Button and Like Box also grew from 5
in July 2010 to the total of 186 in January 2011 by increasing trend. However it is
not possible to measure the exact number of visitors that came from Facebook walls
of users, where was the link to the e-shop showed by liking the page, the trend
can be estimated from the direct trac to the website.
From Pic. 15 we can see that the direct trac at the beginning of examining
period was 794 visitors and at the end of examining period it reached 1,969 visitor.
This makes 2.5 times increase in direct trac. The overall direct trac was 11,051
visits.
There is also no statistical data for measuring the exact impact of online video
marketing technique, but as well as in the case of like button, we can assume from
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the trend of direct trac, that also online video marketing aected the growth of
the number of visits, that went directly to the main website. This hypothesis can
be supported by the exact counts of how many times was the video watched. In
case of online video stored at Youtube it was 3,223 and Stream 1,961 on the date of
January 31.
The microsite brought altogether 799 visits in the examined period as we can
see from Pic. 16. Started at 64 visits in July 2010 and ending with 179 visits in
January 2011 with increasing trend. In 7 months the monthly number of visitors
from this referral site has almost tripled.
Very interesting is also to see the rapid growth of using mobile devices to access
the e-shops website, which is displayed on Pic. 17. From 19 visits in July 2010 to
179 visits in January 2011 makes unbelievable growth of more than 9 times within
7 months time period and it makes 565 visits in total for the whole period.
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Under the graph we can also see individual shares of variety of mobile devices
used.
Regarding number of sales for each month can be seen on Pic. 18. There were
170 sales in July 2010 slowly growing up to 366 sales in January 2011. Total increase
in sales in examined period was little bit over 215%.
Summed up there was an overall growth of visits from 7,782 in July 2010 to
28,129 in January 2011, which makes over 360% growth in number of visits in 7
month using internet marketing techniques.
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At the beginning of this work we discussed the relatively new medium of internet,
which allowed us to do things that would never be imagined before. One of such
things was having goods and services marketed on the world wide web. In those
times the start of internet marketing began by simple text web sites. This paper
shows the huge recent development of internet marketing in comparison with the
beginning of internet utilization of marketing just few decades ago.
Fast development in the sphere of internet marketing can be explained by the
very fast increasing number of internet users. In last decade the internet population
increased more than ve times.
Nowadays, companies are able to reach customers all over the world. There
emerged new trends in internet marketing such as viral marketing or online video
marketing. Many companies utilize internet as the primary source of advertising.
First part of this work was devoted to internet marketing in general. Second
part of this work dealt with internet marketing tools such as online direct marketing, online advertising, online public relations, or search engine optimization. Each
marketing tool was described and main strengths showed.
The main goal of this work was to apply modern internet marketing approaches
to a real marketing project. There was created an electronic store which has target
group of modern girls and women interesting in beauty and fashion.
Internet marketing tools used to promote the e-shop were mainly search engine
optimization and search engine marketing, supported by social media marketing,
microsite, online video marketing and mobile marketing.
I wanted to show, how selected marketing tools can help to promote specic webbased project. For evaluation of how successful the promotion by internet marketing
techniques was, the data from July 1 2010 till January 31 2011 were used.
All the accurate data from evaluation can be seen on the graphs and tables in
previous part of this work. We can see the increasing number of both generic visits
from search engines, direct trac supported by viral and online video marketing,
and accesses from mobile devices, as well as from non-generic created campaign.
The overall growth of visits in monitored period was over 360% and the total
number of sales growth reached 215%
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From the data, we can see the positive impact of internet marketing tools used
for this project, in respect to both number of visits of the website, as well as the
total number of sales. Some of the internet marketing techniques used develop over
the time, and from the positive trend in graphs we can assume the upward slope of
trend will continue even further.
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