Usability and Your Internet Marketing Strategy

Website owners know the importance of marketing their website online in order to receive more targeted traffic through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), but oftentimes, usability is not even factored in to the equation.

Unfortunately, when all of your internet marketing efforts still don’t seem to be increasing sales or leads, or not as expected, a usability check is called for. Usability is critical. If the experience is not as easy and clear as possible for the user, they will go elsewhere to buy.

Cre8PC ’s article, Web Site Usability: The Cult of the Critically Obessedis a great example of how “pretty” websites don’t always equate to increased sales. This sad, but true, fact is not always taken well by the designers or business owners, but  when it comes to the bottom line, holistic internet marketing is about more than just a pretty face.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Live
  • Reddit
  • scuttle
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • TwitThis
  • Yahoo! Buzz

Technorati Tags: , , , ,

This entry was posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm and is filed under Internet Marketing, Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Usability and Your Internet Marketing Strategy”

  1. Posts about Website traffic as of May 22, 2009 | Ebusiness Blog Says:

    [...] content that will bring them more traffic (and thus more advertising revenue). In other words Usability and Your Internet Marketing Strategy – holisticinternetmarketing.com 05/22/2009 Website owners know the importance of marketing their [...]

  2. How to Earn Money from Home - Without Pulling Your Hair | homecenterjob.com Says:

    [...] Usability and Your Internet Marketing Strategy | Holistic Internet … [...]

  3. Kathy Baka Says:

    Kathy Baka on Usability and Your Internet Marketing Strategy | Holistic Internet Marketing It looks both of us think in same way ..great post (lets be friends on twitter http://twitter.com/kathybaka )If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.Napoleon Hill

  4. free ppc ads Says:

    free ppc ads…

    Although there are wide discrepancies over what percentage of search each company gets, Google receives between four to twenty times more search traffic than Microsoft and three to five times more search traffic than Yahoo, combined and assuming no mar…

  5. Ben Says:

    I’ve been browsing through your site, and it is very interesting and very informative. I enjoed reading it thanks for posting :)

Leave a Reply