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Competent promotion of a website in the Internet requires taking into account a lot of factors that influence on the result of this promotion. The first thing you should take into account is the preferences of the target audience of your site. According to the definition given by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, target audience of the site is a specific group of people within the target market at which the marketing message is aimed at. In other words, it is the circle of visitors who are interested in the information, goods or services presented on the website. Target visitors know exactly what information they want to get, what good they are going to buy and what service they need to order.
Determining of this target audience is the main task at the beginning of promotion campaign of any website. Let us take a closer look at the ways of determining the target audience of a website.
In the general case one can single out the following methods of determining the target audience of a site:
- use of statistical information provided by special research companies that are professionally engaged in such issues;
- carrying out of the polls among the target audience of your site using the questionnaire forms or registration on the site;
- analysis of the information provided by the counter of your site and search queries in popular search engines.
Each of the above-mentioned methods has its own advantages and disadvantages. For instance, if you choose to address to processional research companies, you will probably face the main nuisance – high cost of their services. On the other hand, you will receive the fullest and competently analyzed information about your target audience. At the same time, determining of the target audience yourself is, on the one hand, completely free of charge; on the other hand, it will not always help to reveal the real picture.
So what are the main parameters of the target audience of a site? Irrespective of the way of determining you choose, these parameters may be the following:
- age;
- gender;
- education;
- sphere of activity;
- income level;
- frequency of Internet use;
- type of Internet connection;
- etc.
Thorough analysis of this information will help to “draw” the portrait of a typical representative of the target audience of your site. If you have such portrait at your disposal, you can choose the methods of website promotion more purposefully. Thus you will attract more and more new visitors to your website and new clients for your company.
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