Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Short Article on Search Engine Optimization




Today, I’m going to give you a quick look about a hot topic in the Digital Marketing. Nowadays people are using search engines when finding any kind of product/service or web site through internet.  There are billions of web sites for one particular product/service. So how is that product, going to be the popular and first in the search. In that time, Search Engine Optimization comes in to practice.

What is Search Engine Optimization…..???




Search engine optimization (SEO) involves designing,writing, and coding a website in a way that helps to improve the volume and quality of traffic to that website from people using search engines.More visits to the web site may translate into a higher number of customers for the business. Search traffic therefore contributes significantly to online marketing success and business growth.


There are two types of search results


  •      Organic Search
  •      Paid Search(PPC/CPC)



You can see clearly in this image how the organic search and paid search are appearing in Google search result.





In this blog post I’m only talking about the SEO related with the organic search. When we are talking about organic search, it is a free thing.  To get a good ranking in organic search result there are few things that company should have to consider. If that web site contains fresh, authoritative, and keyword-relevant content may rank high for specific keywords at no cost. Mainly, some factors contributing to high search ranking can be shown as follows. We should also have to consider these when doing SEO.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Check the usability of www.cinnamonhotels.com using 25-point Website Usability Checklist.



Hello everyone,   Web usability is about designing and structuring the web site so site visitors complete company’s goals for them quickly and efficiently. Usable web site can reap huge benefits to the web site and to the company. For check the web usability, I selected the official web site of the Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts.

Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts are one of a major star hotel chain in Sri Lanka. Let’s evaluate this web site according to following criteria. You all are free to check the usability of this web site and give your opinion on this blog post.

                                          www.cinnamonhotels.com