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The Advantages of Segmentation

April 11th, 2010 No Comments

I would argue that understanding how you can split your market into different segments is crucial ………..

The typical American buys precisely one book a year. Ouch.

Of course, this isn’t true, because when it comes to books, there is no typical American. There are a lot of Americans who buy zero books for pleasure each year. And then there are people like me who buy 400. The average is irrelevant.

When you can’t figure out the best way to treat all your customers, the best way to price things, the best thing to offer, realize that the problem is almost always this: you’re trying to treat everyone the same. Don’t. Break them into groups with similar attributes, and suddenly the path becomes a lot more clear.

Seth Godin

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Social media and Selling Children’s Clothes Online

March 22nd, 2010 No Comments

When I started KSBKids I knew little about building a website, the children’s clothes market, SEO etc. To say I knew little is probably exaggerating ………. I knew nothing, absolutely nothing.mal13 Social media and Selling Childrens Clothes Online

It has been a learning process beyond belief.  I have days where I feel as it I have mastered a lot, but also many days when I realise I know so very little indeed about websites and SEO.

Who would have thought that I would ever become so fascinated with SEO and Social Media as I am today…….

I am a strong believe that “One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again”. 

Consequently:

  • I have a strategy, but I don’t wait until I have the perfect plan
  • I adopt a trial and error approach
  • I am honest, – I think my customers appreciate it.  Yes it runs counter to what we have been taught for decades … you could even argue it defies the idea of being professional.

I would even argue that avoiding experimenting with the social web is a greater risk than experimenting with it and failing!  The B2B centre at Warwick has been instrumental in my learning process and my understanding of operating online. I simply cannot recommend them enough …. these guys know their stuff!

I came across following article on their website about how to use social media in the real world – it is worth a read. Enjoy.

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Starting an online business: Consider your linking strategy

March 17th, 2010 No Comments

Reciprocal linking is without doubt one of the most disputed subjects in the SEO community. They can greatly contribute to your link network and also damage it pretty seriously.

Google is getting better in finding and demoting low quality link exchanges.s08roseredicon Starting an online business: Consider your linking strategy When building links consider the links relevance. 

It takes time to find and initiate quality link exchanges opportunities, keeping the relevancy level high will empower your sites position in that niche’s organic listings.

Still, keep in mind that it takes time to build a presence online and brand yourself. The good news is you build a solid foundation for selling your product or service. I often struggle with the time factor in building links for my children’s clothing  site, – and let us face it there is always so much to do.

Build relevancy for your website by extensively using targeted keywords as anchor texts. If you can obtain a one way back link the better.

s08greywhiteicon Starting an online business: Consider your linking strategyMore than anything you just need to get on with it and persevere.

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25 Women That Rock Social Media

March 10th, 2010 No Comments

There’s so many power players in the social media and SEO world. So many “gurus”.  Many of the articles, blogs etc I read are often written by men. Please do not think I am on a ”feminist” mission here, - I just stumpled across this article and thought it was worth a mention.

So here is a link to the article featuring 25 women that  “rock” social web. As I said I am not on a feminist mission, just a SEO chick in the making, who read the article with great interest …. did I mention it is written by a man (he, he).

As I work hard to increase my knowledge of SEO, in the hope that www.ksbkids.com will continue to improve its position for children’s clothes, I can only hope that I one day will master just a small franction of what these ladies do.badge 25 Women That Rock Social Media

For childrens clothes, including stripy and plain children’s tops and t-shirts Please visit us on www.ksbkids.com As always we welcome feedback, comments and ideas.

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Backlink and link building

March 9th, 2010 1 Comment

Malene KSBKids

SEO and children's website

Anyone working online knows the importance of online marketing and SEO. Just as I think I am a little wiser I get surprised with how much I still have to learn …. I thrive on learning so this is indeed not a problem.

As Piet Hein once wrote “The greatest knowledge of all, is knowing that you know nothing at all”.

In my quest for building my SEO knowledge I came a cross this list of 10 steps to a productive backlink strategy …. worth a read. You may already have all 10 points cover, but here you go ……

The 10 Steps to a Productive Backlink Network

1. Assess your strong points with which you’ll approach potential link partners

2. Decide the keywords you’ll be using as anchor text

Naturally you’ll want to use as much money keywords in anchor texts as you can. But be wary, as Google puts these money keywords under extreme scrutiny and it’s constantly looking of artificial links having such keywords as the anchor text.

Don’t create the impression you’re spamming your way up to number one in the SERPs with highly competitive keyword phrases like online marketing, mlm leads and network marketing.

Again, it’s nothing wrong with using high converting keywords in hyperlink, only be sure to alternate between competitive and medium quality keyword phrases; Avoid being associated by Google with very competitive keywords if you’re traffic stats and site authority doesn’t reflect that.

3. Analyze the top-ten competitors

Extract the most valuable keywords and keyword phrases, run a search in Google and jotdown the top-ten players for each of one.

Next, analyze each competitor and take note of their strong and weak points both in terms of On-Page and Off-Page Factors. For a thorough report on your competition, I suggest you use programs like SEOElite (focused on Off-Page Factors) or Market Samurai (offers valuable competitor insites for each keyword you target).

A free tool to use which provides information about your competitor’s linking partners is Yahoo! Site Explorer. More details are found in the following section.

4. Find potential backlink partners

A complete walkthrough can be found in the 4-Step Guide to Building Backlinks with Solid Link Partnerships.

5. Contact potential backlink partners

When initiating contact for obtaining a backlink, make sure your approach is personal and points out concrete benefits for the other party.

Don’t contact webmasters before you’ve reviewed their site thoroughly and you are able to make factual comments about its content pages.

Provide in your initial email, the link and anchor text you want them to use without formating it. If they agree on a reciprocal link, make a gesture of goodwill and be the first who inserts the link on the webpage. If they delay in returning the service, keep their backlink until your next website inspection.

6. Build artificial backlinks using submission sites

Consult these 20 Guidelines for Building Backlinks with Submission Sites for a comprehensive procedure on this topic.

7. Increase the value of your existing backlinks

There is no point on having multiple backlinksin the same webpage. Instead focus on increasing the value of your existing linkspointing to your website;

> Take for example an article you’ve submitted to an article directory. Bookmark that content page on different bookmarking sites, present it to different linking partners for website submission, reference it on forums and blog comments. By doing all this you’ve increased its authority which ultimately benefits the webpage you backlinked on it.

> Lets say you’ve submitted your website to a submission directory. Reference that directory in your future content pages and posts on different platforms by backlinking to it. Build a link that goes to the section, or webpage your website is listed in. By doing this both parties benefit – the directory’s webpage and your own webpage by being listed there.

These are just two examples of how to get more authority or PR with the same backlinks pointing to your website.

8. Have backlinks placed on the right spot

Don’t just reserve your backlink on a webpage with PR8, when on that page there are another 100 outbound links.

Keep in mind to place all of your backlinks (if possible) in the body text that’s also relevant for the anchor text. Avoid getting backlinksin footers and siderbars as they don’t carry much weight.

Look for building links that are long lasting because the older a backlink the more SEO juice it provides to your website. Related to this, avoid paid links if you can’t sustain this practice long term.

9. Use internal linking throughout your website

As your webpages gain PR and popularity, they will act like floating devices for your website in SERPs. For this to happen you need to consistently and coherently interconnect all of your webpages.

I’ve already put together an Internal Linking Strategy you can freely use with your site.

10. Undertake periodical inspections of your website’s backlink network

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Page Speed part of the user experience

February 7th, 2010 No Comments

As always I am keen to improve KSBKids’ ranking for children’s clothes.

In terms of SEO, Google is hinting at using Page Speed score in its ranking algorithm. Matt Cutt’s states: “If you have two sites that are equally relevant, same backlinks, everything else is the same, you’d probably prefer the one that’s a little bit faster, so page speed can in theory be an interesting idea to try out for a factor in scoring different websites. But, absolutely, relevance is the primary component, and we have over 200 signals in our scoring to try to return the most relevant, the most useful, the most accurate search result that we can find. So, that’s not going to change.”

So although Google takes page speed into account (relevance still being the primary component) it is certainly a  crucial aspect in providing a pleasant user experience.  It ensures that a visitor’s ”limited” attention span and time are spent on content and not wasted waiting for images to load. Studies have shown that users will not tolerate more than a 4 second load time. If your site fails to offer a quick response, your users will leave.

Mark Bonnet from the B2B centre at Warwick Business Schoolhas pointed out to me that 2 of the major speed analysis tools are YSlow and Google’s Page Speed.

On this rather damp Sunday morning I came across GTmetrix, a free tool to help measure the speed of pages. It’s a handy, easy to use tool that provides a Page Speed Score using both Yslow and Google and it even highlights the factors that affect the speed. Have a look at it!

My problem now is carrying out their recommendations. I may well be a SEO Chick in the making, but programmer I am not!  I have learned of factors that may help to get KSBKids to rank better for children’s clothes. And the way I look at it, even if it does not achieve much with regard to ranking, if we can improve the user experience then that in itself is a great achievement!

Children's Clothes - Stripy Long Sleeve Tops

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SEO Chicks?

February 4th, 2010 No Comments

For any girls out there working on SEO for websites, I saw this and just thought it was rather fun. Ohhh yes I have ordered one ……… hope to be able to qualify to wear it one day. But it made me smile.

So as I am working away to improve the SEO in the hope that KSBKids will rank higher for children’s clothes I will indeed be wearing my t-shirt.

seochick SEO Chicks?

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Everything you need to know about SEO…….

February 2nd, 2010 No Comments

There is always something new to learn about SEO and often I indeed have to go back and refresh “old” information …. I put this down to information overload and old age (well, I am approaching my 40s sooner than I would like).

Anyway, to refresh your knowledge about meta descriptions etc this article was recommended to me by Mark from Yellow Zombie who provides Web Design and Search Marketing Services.  

Everything you need to know about SEO…….

So to get KSBKids to rank a little higher when searching for Children’s Clothes  I will bear their recommendations in mind.

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Website Improvement & the B2B centre at Warwick Business School

February 1st, 2010 No Comments

We continuously strive to improve  the user experience. It is easy to get a “little stuck” and assume visitors will “use” the site and navigate round it in a certain way.

 

We also constantly undertake activities that will improve our page listing,  – we all aim to appear within the first few pages, but how do you really succeed?  We sell children’s clothes, - but what should we do to make sure we appear on one of the first few pages when the user is searching for children’s clothes. It is an ever changing battlefield and it can indeed be hard to know where to focus resources best.

 

At KSBKids we have been extremely lucky to work with the B2B centre at Warwick Business School. Especially Mark Bonnett who also runs Yellow Zombie, a web design and search marketing company based in Warwickshire, has provided valuable support and guidance.
Currently, we may not appear among the top sites when search for children’s clothes or Scandinavian & Danish children’s clothes
online ……… but when we get there much will be owed to Mark. 

 

I will continue to keep you updated of our efforts.
b2b centre Website Improvement & the B2B centre at Warwick Business School
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Facebook for Business

September 2nd, 2009 No Comments

I strongly believe that online marketing strategies which are anchored in engaging with your target community through great content and building authentic relationships is the way forward.

The opportunities provided by sites such as facebook are undeniable.  As with any social media tool, marketers have an opportunity to use Facebook to expand their online footprint and engage with customers directly. 

Creating a Facebook fan page is fairly straight forward, but getting it to work for you will take time, dedication, and planning. Don’t expect to create a page and instantly have a huge fan base. I soon learnt this will not happen!

Build good content, make it easy to share, and let people know about it, and over-time the community should grow.  The more content you create and the more you engage with your Fans, the more people you will be able to reach on a more regular basis.

For me it is about being real, authentic and transparent.  I sell children’s tops, primarily lots of bright, colourful stripy tops and t-shirts. These are primarily purchased by mothers.  Facebook allows me to target ads to very specific demographics, – the impact of ads ends up being far broader than what you actually pay for.

53% Facebook users have kids. My target market clearly spends time on Facebook. It may not be a relevant site for all companies, but for me it clearly is. My task over the next year or so is to;

  • Create brand awareness
  • Build my online profile
  • Drive visitors to our website, fan page and blog
  • Keep customers informed
  • Engage with customers and fans
  • Conduct market research

Eventually I hope my facebook strategy will enable me to reap the benefit from viral marketing.  The opportunities are undeniable.

Following site are good reference points, – they know their stuff and is worth a read!

http://mashable.com/2009/04/01/optimize-facebook-page/

http://www.hubspot.com/facebook-for-business-marketing-hub/

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