INT participated in Internet World 2008: A few photographs

Filed under: News @ Indus, Photo Gallery — Anindya at 9:44 pm on Friday, May 2, 2008

Indus Net Technologies has recently participated at Internet World 2008, Earl’s Court, London between 29th April and 1st May. It’s a success. Thanks to all of you who visited us there. Here are a photographs from the event.

We will post more (in details) about the event soon. Stay tuned!

 

Template Kingdom launches affiliate program

Filed under: News @ Indus — Abhishek Rungta at 5:39 pm on Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Template Kingdom.com has today launched its affiliate program for promoting website templates. Simply register online to get accessto your affiliate code!

20% lifetime commission. We register the client who is sent by you to our website. The moment he registers, we attach your name along with him (even if he is downloading a free template). Now whenever and whatever purchase he makes, you make 20% of it! So you have lifetime recurring revenues. 

Every registered user is our affiliate. You simply need to register (remember: registration does not cost a dime and is complete in less than 10 seconds) and you can start promoting our program. Include our link in your emails, website, blog or anything that you can think of! 

You can send a visitor on ANY PAGE at TemplateKingdom.com. This means you need not land him on the home page. If your site gets visitors who are interested in photography, you might like to land up the visitor on a category page which shows him photography related templates or may be which let him download a free photography related template (if any).Thus, it can help you achieve better conversion and thus more revenues.

Personalized technical and marketing support for each and every affiliate to help you get started and make the most of the opportunity. We will even design specialized banners to suit your website audience. So get in touch with us about your special needs.

So, go ahead, signup and start making money!

 

Indus Net Technologies powers Think Digit!

Filed under: News @ Indus, Portfolio — Abhishek Rungta at 4:18 pm on Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Recently, Indus Net Technologies was contracted to develop a supporting website for the most popular technology magazine in India - Digit.

The website http://www.thinkdigit.com/ was delivered on time with several innovative features. The highlights of the project was:

  • An exhaustive product review section, where you can read reviews about Laptops & PCs, Mobiles & PDAs, MP3 Players, Digital Cameras, Audio Devices, TVs, CPUs & Motherboards, etc.
     
  • A very active forum where you can interact with tech savvy people and get answers to all your questions!
  • Three interesting sections have been added in form of Bloggers Park (a list of interesting tech blogs), Videos (Interesting videos about technology) and Digital Marketplace (where you can sell / buy any digital product / service).

You can also place an order and subscribe to the magazine online. 

The site has a fresh new clutterfree Web2.0 design, which is fast to load and includes social media features like tags and social bookmarking links to make life eaier for you.

Our sincire thanks to Mr. Sundeep Tibrewal for his technical inputs and ideas!

Indus Net Technologies specialize in developing high quality websites which are powered by custom developed content management system. If you know of someone who needs a similar solution or consultancy, feel free to direct them to our corporate website - http://www.indusnet.co.in/.

 

Proper use of ‘meta description’ tag for SEO

Filed under: Internet Marketing — Abhishek Rungta at 12:41 pm on Monday, March 31, 2008

‘META DESCRIPTION’ tag lost its shine after the emergence of off-page factors (like link popularity) for rankings in SERPS. In fact it lost its purpose to a great extent when Google started using contextual content from within the page as the description of the URL in its SERPS.

However in an interesting turn of events, ‘META DESCRIPTION’ is back in business!

Most search engines, including Google are now using the ‘META DESCRIPTION’ content as the description of the URL in their SERPS. The page ’TITLE’ is now being shown as the listing title with ‘META DESCRIPTION’ as the description of the URL. If you compare it with Google AdWords, you can consider the ‘TITLE’ as the Headline and ‘META DESCRIPTION’ as the Description. Therefore, you must use it to outline your strength, your unique selling proposition and if possible your offer.

Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal mentioned cited this interesting Meta Description used by NextStudent.com in his article,

Looking for federal or private student loans for School? Get up to 40k Fast: Call 877-680-9879. Student loan consolidation? Call 800-299-4639. NextStudent- College Funding Made Simple.

You can also include your phone number (as cited in the above advertisement - description) for the prospect who is in a hurry! May be you will end up prospecting without having the visitor hit your website! In fact, with the latest version of IE and the FireFox plugins, the phone numbers listed in this description become hot-links, which a visitor can simply click and get connected on a voice call through Skype. And you can close a sale! :)

And yes, many SEO specialists believe that higher CTR on your SERPS listing (due to improved ‘TITLE’ and ‘META DESCRIPTION’) can help you further improve your rankings.

BTW, I forgot to mention that some expert copywriters may like to even put in their headlines and teasers to pre-sell the product / services!

Lisa Ditlefsen says:

Basically if you think about it the meta description tag is your FREE ad! If you have experience in running a pay per click campaign I’m sure you have put a lot of thought into what the PPC ad says. The ad is what distinguish you from all the other PPC ads right? So why should it be any different in the organic SERPs? The title tag is your free headline and the meta description tag is your FREE ad, this is where you have a chance to ad hook someone in. How many times have you searched for something, got to the results and been put off by the description, it can’t possibly be what you were looking for!!?

May be people do not give so much importance to this FREE ad, because it is FREE! It is never late. Give proper attention to your website ‘META DESCRIPTION’ tags and turn your organic traffic to a highly targeted FREE traffic.

 

Free web templates from TemplateKingdom.com

Filed under: News @ Indus, Web design — Abhishek Rungta at 12:03 am on Sunday, March 30, 2008

TemplateKingdom 2.0, an Indus Net Technologies venture has recently put up a free web template section on its website.

This section will list templates which are available for free download. Each template will include full source files, W3C validated HTML code and CSS files for instant use. To download these templates, you simply need to register at TemplateKingdom.com.

Registration is absolutely free and takes less than 10 seconds! Once you are registered, you can download these templates from your member’s area.

Please note that all FREE templates are under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. You are free to download and use these templates in any way as you wish as long as you give a link back as credit to TemplateKingdom.com

 

Press Coverage: Indus Net Technologies among leading IT SMEs in Kolkata

Filed under: News @ Indus — Abhishek Rungta at 2:16 pm on Saturday, March 29, 2008

On 26th March 2008, Times of India ran a story about growing IT SME segment in Kolkata based on a survey done by Duns & Bradstreet.

The complete release can also be read online at their website here: http://www.dnb.co.in/news/City%20IT%20to%20top%20in%20SME%20growth.html

(Click on the image to see an enlarged version)

 

Does expensive keywords on Pay-per-click search engines pay off?

Filed under: Internet Marketing — Abhishek Rungta at 8:26 pm on Monday, March 24, 2008

The bids on AdWords are soaring to new heights everyday. Some advertisers are even shelling out up to $10 per click. So, naturally the question arises - Is this complete madness or is there any logic behind such aggressive advertising?

To me, it does make some sense to bid aggressively if you have the right strategy in place. And if you are bidding for the right keyword. It does not make sense to bid for “web design” if you offer web design service in Texas! In that case your keyword should be “web design texas”.

Considering, you have done enough research, let us consider two scenarios:

1) Every client you acquire, on an average spends $15000 with you in a year. In this case, you do not mind spending 10% of the revenue as customer acquisition cost. Therefore you can comfortably bid $10 per click (provided you have a site which can convert 1 out of 150 visitors). Thus, looking at a lifetime value of a customer makes it a good investment.

2) If you have mastered the art of persuasion (or have hired a master of persuasion), and have come up with a website with converts well (visitor > customer conversion), every visitor you are driving to your website is equivalent to revenue :) . So go ahead, rock the boat and bid out all your competitors. You will get more customers and will also have lower customer acquisition cost. What more do you want?

So, expensive keywords bidding do work, if they are backed with high lifetime customer value and/or higher conversion on the website. And yes, those Internet marketing experts are not insane! In fact most of them are very smart.

So bid smartly!

And, if you need help, contact our SEO team. Reach them at info@submit2please.com!

 

How can an attractive design get more traffic?

Filed under: Internet Marketing, Web design — Abhishek Rungta at 3:51 pm on Saturday, March 22, 2008

Attractive designs do get attention. It can also get good visitor-customer conversion if some best-practices are followed. But the question is - how can attractive designs get traffic to your website?

They can! or,
They can at least help your site in getting good traffic.

Here is a simple technique posted by Daniel on his blog.

  • Design an attractive web site. Or get it designed through one of the many web design agencies around. Make sure that the site is coded in XHMTL/CSS2.
  • Now, submit these websites to several CSS galleries which has sprung all over the Internet. If your design is decent enough, you will surely get accepted. However, if your design is outstanding, you may get featured sending in hundreds of visitors!
  • Now, design enthusiasts may not be your target audience (BTW, if they are, then you have struck a goldmine). Still, you get multiple listings and they link to your website, which ultimately helps you in getting better link-popularity and therefore higher rankings in search engines. In my opinion, you should not miss any opportunity to improve your link-popularity.
  • Here are some links to the “List of CSS galleries”

Now, if it looks like a daunting task (frankly speaking, it is!), do not give up.

Indus Net Technologies has a special service to help you focus on your core business and take care of different kind of manual submission (including CSS gallery submission) for a small fees. It is called Submit2Please.

Contact one of our sales representative / your account manager at Indus Net Technologies to get started. Or drop us a line at info@submit2please.com

 

Hire-A-Designer among “50 Outstanding Favicons!”

Filed under: News @ Indus, Web design — Abhishek Rungta at 3:14 pm on Saturday, March 22, 2008

When it comes to design, size does not matter - creativity does. In fact many times, small is beautiful.

The Indus Net Technologies’ web design team has proven themselves yet again with a relevant, memorable and creative favicon for their website - Hire-A-Designer. It has been recently shortlisted as “50 Outstanding Favicons” by Smashing Magazine.

Check it out here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/21/favicon-episode-6-black-abstract-and-hand-drawing/

Favicons may be a small part of a website, but it goes a long way in creating its brand identity among website visitors who have very short attention span. And yes, these favicons do stand out when a person reviews his “Favourites” or “Bookmarks”, making it a good marketing tool.

Congratulations to the design team!

 

Template Kingdom 2.0

Filed under: Products @ Indus, News @ Indus, Portfolio — Abhishek Rungta at 1:19 pm on Friday, March 21, 2008

Dear Friends,

TemplateKingdom 2.0 is right here.

Come, buy the ready-made web site template that best suit your next project.

All our templates are quality checked and are designed by top-quality creative professionals (including 100+ in-house designers). You can use every template for your projects as many times as you wish. We have given special attention to make the designs user-friendly so that they can be used for practical projects.

Salient features of Template Kingdom 2.0

  • Lower prices
  • You can discuss specific templates and design
  • Members area to download free templates as we make them available
  • 80% of our template collection can be downloaded instantly (remaining 20% within 24 hours)

Many more exciting features are coming up soon:

  • Tagging for ease of search
  • Reseller license (so that you can resell the templates and make money). Normal licenses can be upgraded later by paying the difference.
  • Active Blog with tips / resources on using the templates
  • Several new types & categories of templates

So keep tuned in and if you want to join hands with us, feel free to write back to me! I will love to work out JVs with enterprising entrepreneurs. We are open to ideas - so write to us.

Regards
Abhishek Rungta
Founder / CEO
Indus Net Technologies

P.S.: The site is in its BETA version, but it can take orders. If you encounter a problem, please feel free to write to us. We will be obliged.

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