Internet marketing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Internet marketing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Internet marketing, also known as web marketing, online marketing, webvertising, or e-marketing, is referred to as the marketing (generally promotion) of products or services over the Internet. iMarketing is used as an abbreviated form for Internet Marketing.^{[citation needed]}
Internet marketing is considered to be broad in scope^{[citation needed]} because it not only refers to marketing on the Internet, but also includes marketing done via e-mail and wireless media. Digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems are also often grouped together under internet marketing.^[1]
Internet marketing ties together the creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising and sales.^[2] Internet marketing also refers to the placement of media along many different stages of the customer engagement cycle through search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), banner ads on specific websites, email marketing, mobile advertising, and Web 2.0 strategies.^{[citation needed]}
In 2008, The New York Times, working with comScore, published an initial estimate to quantify the user data collected by large Internet-based companies. Counting four types of interactions with company websites in addition to the hits from advertisements served from advertising networks, the authors found that the potential for collecting data was up to 2,500 times per user per month.^[3]

Types of Internet marketing

Internet marketing is broadly divided in to the following^[4] types:

• Display advertising: the use of web banners or banner ads placed on a third-party website to drive traffic to a company's own website and increase product awareness.^[4]
• Search engine marketing (SEM): a form of marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) through the use of either paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion, or through the use of free search engine optimization techniques.^[5]
• Search engine optimization (SEO): the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results.^[6]
• Social media marketing: the process of gaining traffic or attention through social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.^[7]
• Email marketing: involves directly marketing a commercial message to a group of people using electronic mail.^[8]
• Referral marketing: a method of promoting products or services to new customers through referrals, usually word of mouth.^[9]
• Affiliate marketing: a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.^[10]
• Inbound marketing: involves creating and freely sharing informative content as a means of converting prospects into customers and customers into repeat buyers.^[11]