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Leveraging the Web - The way ahead
Dr. Arpan Kumar Kar
Faculty – Indian Institute of Management
Introduction
Theoretical frameworks
Digital Branding
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Understanding digital marketing
Corporate strategy
Marketing strategy
Enhancing Managing
offering consumer
awareness information
(E.G. web visibility)
Advertising and
Promotion channels
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The 7S framework for Digital Marketing (Waterman et al.; McKinsey)
Strategy: Does the strategy fit with the vision and mission of your organization?
Shared values: Does the strategy go hand in hand with the shared values of not only your target customer
segment but also of that of the implementers?
Structure: Does your organizational structure support adaptations to changes in environment in response to
your campaign?
Skill: Do you have the suitable skilled workforce to design the campaign successfully?
Staff: Are your staff equipped to implement your strategy (location wise, access to technical resources)
Style: Does the campaign thematically fit with the style of your other campaigns?
Systems: Do you have systems in place to carry out the campaign? Is there support for your advertising
campaigns and marketing plans?
Systems: The development of specific processes, procedures or information systems to support digital marketing
•Campaign planning approach-integration and managing content quality
•Managing/sharing customer information through a unified reporting of digital marketing effectiveness
•In-house vs. external best-of-breed vs. external integrated technology solutions
Staff: A combination staff with varied domain experience such as IT, Marketing, use of external consultants.
•Insourcing vs. outsourcing
•Achieving senior management buy-in/involvement with digital marketing
•Staff recruitment and retention, virtual teams, staff development and training
Skills: Distinctive capabilities of key staff, but can be interpreted as specific skill-sets of team members
•Staff skills in specific areas like project management, content management, specific e-marketing approaches
Super-Ordinate goals: The guiding concepts to build the digital marketing organization’s culture
•Improving the perception of the importance/effectiveness of digital marketing among senior managers and staff
Game Theory
• A mathematical concept that analyzes how strategic interactions between individuals, or agents, produce outcomes based on
the agents' choices
• Companies use this information to guide their decisions in how best to communicate their products' value to consumers
Network Theory
• Study of relationships between people and elements through social network analysis for learning about patterns that develop
within social networks and how they influence behavior
• Digital marketing channels allow marketers to listen to what consumers are saying
• They allow marketers to leverage the power of influential users to spread messages throughout their networks.
• Allow identification of users with the most influence across a number of differentiated networks.
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Understanding Branding
Brand : A name, logo or symbol to enable an entity identify an offering uniquely
Resonance
Relationship and level of identification with the brand offerings
Salience
Brand awareness / cognition based on feedback
No single model has been holistic enough or sufficient to capture all the drivers
• Popular brand evaluation models are Aaker, Moran, Young & Rubicam, Inter-brand, Brand Finance etc
• Popular measures for evaluating brand equity are Differentiation, Satisfaction, Loyalty, Perceived Quality,
Leadership or Popularity, Perceived Value, Brand Personality, Organizational Associations, Market Share,
Brand Awareness, Distribution Coverage, Relative Market Price, Durability, Relevance, Esteem, Knowledge
Presented Brand
Core
Brand awareness
External
Brand
Communications Equity
Brand meaning
Customer Network
Experiences
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Comparison with traditional Market Research
• Direct tools
• Online Questionnaires and E-Mails
• Indirect tools
• Data collected anonymously from Web Surfing Behavior (e.g. Proactive
reactions to regular/subliminal advertising on the web)
• Unstructured data analysis of E-Mail exchanges
• Unstructured data analysis of Online Communicating Platforms
• Social network analysis
• Anonymous demographic data (E.G. Alexa, Quantcast, Google Analytics)
• Data collected from “Free” offerings (questionable yet popular tactic)
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Web Analytics and Tools
• A tool for business and market research to determine and improve upon
the effectiveness of a web site by enabling a digital marketing strategy
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Digital Promotion Channels
Popular pricing schemes for the advertiser are Cost-per-click , Cost-per-view, Cost-per-
lead/Call, Cost-per-sale, Fixed cost
Exchanging banners/links/meta-press with partner sites directly or through a third party (E.G.
LinkExchange)
Paid review articles are priced based on Page rank, Alexa rank, Google Index, E-Mail
subscriber count and Views/Day from target audience for the website.
Other criteria for deciding the price of promotional content are number of do-follow / no-
follow back-links in the content, key-word density and total words in content.
Specialized advertisement agencies facilitate contacts with advertiser and publisher, for a
small fee (fixed/percentage of transaction) (E.G. ValueClick, AdSmart)
Auction based pricing models where a third party platform provides infrastructure for
auctions based on the publishers choice of pricing scheme (E.G. BitVertize)
• Identifying the website which will provide targeted segment from visits
• Deciding the type of banner, the position on the site
Issues for the • Deciding the content of banner vis-à-vis website layout
Advertiser to
deliberate
Floating advertisements
• High visitor dissent
• Slower page loading, hence anti-SEO measure for the publisher
• High clicks but low conversion rate from click
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Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
staying up
to date
market keyword
research research
adjusting
Search Engine Optimization on -page
was first used by John Audette optimization
(Multimedia Marketing Group)
in 1997, heralding the birth of
the Digital Marketing era
viral
site structure
marketing
schematic
brand link building
building
1. Google: 900,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1 - Compete Rank | 1 - Quantcast Rank | 1 - Alexa Rank.
2. Bing :165,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 13 - Compete Rank | 16 - Quantcast Rank | 22 - Alexa Rank.
3. Yahoo! Search: 160,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *8* - Compete Rank | *28* - Quantcast Rank | NA - Alexa Rank.
4. Ask: 125,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 11 - Compete Rank | 14 - Quantcast Rank | 52 - Alexa Rank.
5. Aol Search: 33,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *336* - Compete Rank | *240* - Quantcast Rank | NA - Alexa Rank.
6. MyWebSearch: 19,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *65* - Compete Rank | 409 - Quantcast Rank | 225 - Alexa Rank.
7. Lycos: 4,300,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 837 - Compete Rank | 347 - Quantcast Rank | 2,097 - Alexa Rank.
8. Dogpile: 2,900,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 700 - Compete Rank | 876 - Quantcast Rank | 3,545 - Alexa Rank.
9. WebCrawler: 2,700,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 128 - Compete Rank | 1,281 - Quantcast Rank | 4,507 - Alexa Rank
10. Info: 2,600,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 371 - Compete Rank | 286 - Quantcast Rank | 5,283 - Alexa Rank
Reports by searchenginewatch.com
Most search engines rank your site by sending out a spider to inspect the site
• The spider reads the META tags, determines the relevance of the Web page’s information
and keywords and ranks the site according to that visit’s findings
• Meta tags are also used as snippets by SEs as website / webpage description
• Meta tag for web-pages ideally should belong to the website meta-tag classification
• Meta tags should not be repetitive
Search engines prioritize pages based on the number of back-links to the page
• No-Follow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink
should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index.
• Normal links are automatically Do-follow
• Blogging platforms are mostly No-Follow to reduce spamming comments
• Google accepts only Do-Follow links, while most other SEs accepts all back-links
• Relevance of the back-links to the page is also important
• Link building improves Page Rank / SERPs
The SERP consists of a list of links to web pages with text snippets
High number of quality back-links increase SERP rank
Quality is determined by relevance, indexing, and SERP rank of the linked pages
High SERP rank gets you higher revenue from advertising (Needs SERP Reports)
• Introduced in Feb 2011, to weed out “content farms” and low quality sites
• Based on an AI algorithm which looks for similarities between websites
people found to be high quality and low quality, based on surfing behavior
• Probable usage of Image Analysis with Text Analysis to identify original
content
• High importance to content recency
• A high percentage of duplicate content. This might apply both to a page or a complete site
• A low amount of original content on a page or site
• A high percentage of pages with a low amount of original content
• A high amount of inappropriate adverts, especially high on the page
• Page content and page title tag not matching the search queries a page does well for
• Unnatural language on a page including over-optimization of SEO
• High bounce rate on page or site
• Low visit time on pages or site, less than 30 seconds
• Low percentage of users returning to a site, without search
• Low click-through percentage from Google’s results pages (for page or site)
• High percentage of boilerplate content (similar static content)
• Low or no quality inbound links to a page or site (by count or percentage)
• Low or no mentions or links to a page or site in social media and from other sites.
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