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Cost-Effective website using blogs and widget
2008-04-12 09:33:00
Lets say you have purchased your domain name and have decided to host your website. The fundamental question you face is, what hosting package do you opt for? Is it worth paying for the monthly or quarterly hosting package? If so, what will be your ROI. Lots of users typically opt for the default starter page to test the market for their business before signing up for a package. This option works for a few businesses. What about the rest? they end up in a catch 22 situation waiting endlessly for their first customer .I would also like to talk about website analytics. Do analytic tools really add value? My take is these tools cannot offer much value unless the user clearly understands the significance of site metrics that these tools provide. For eg; time spent on a site or no of hits or page views could mean anything. Time spent on a site could mean either that site navigation is complex or the site is interesting. The more the site pages, higher the permutation and combination of p...
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Local Search
2008-04-12 09:31:00
today iam going to talk about local search. I would certainly agree with most observations that this is a tough market to crack given the specialization. Moreover, monetization is difficult in a segmented market as advertisers are going to be reluctant to spend unless they see significant ROI whch is tough since a local search engine can never attain critical mass leave alone attracting enough users . However, if specialization in vertical search can be successfully leveraged by horizontal search engines such as google or yahoo, we have a model where local search can benefit customers, advertisers and publishers by delivering scale as well as segmentation. So lets begin with how local search could be defined. Unlike generic search (google), local search typically involves a user who is looking for information to make a decision. Something like a car buyer who wants to buy a car but is not very sure as to what car he wants to buy. So the user's decision could be influenced by a sea...
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