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What is con­ver­sion rate op­tim­isa­tion (CRO)?

Con­ver­sion op­tim­isa­tion turns existing traffic into more enquiries, sign-ups and sales. It goes beyond A/B tests, CTAs and load times to cover mobile user flows, per­son­al­ised content, and live or AI chat at the right moment. Remove friction from the con­ver­sion path, and you'll…

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What is lead gen­er­a­tion and how does it work?

Suc­cess­ful lead gen­er­a­tion helps you attract qualified prospects, build the found­a­tion for long-term customer re­la­tion­ships and support sus­tain­able business growth well into the long term. This article explains which strategies and channels are most effective and how AI-powered…

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How can you optimise your Facebook shop with AI?

Using AI to support your Facebook shop makes it easier to create and optimise sales content. AI helps you write clear product de­scrip­tions, develop targeted offers and plan effective campaign setups. This article explains how to use AI for Facebook sales, improve your shop…

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What is a bot and how does it work?

What is a bot and what is it used for? Bots automate digital tasks, from crawling websites for search engines and re­spond­ing through chatbots to carrying out complex processes as AI agents. Learn about the different types of bots, how they work and the benefits and risks of using…

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How to define your target audience in 5 steps

If you want your marketing to be suc­cess­ful, you need to un­der­stand and define your target audiences. This helps you create clearer messages, focus your marketing activ­it­ies and achieve better results. But what exactly are target audiences, why are they important for busi­nesses…

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What is a target audience and what types are there?

If you want your marketing to be suc­cess­ful, you need a clearly defined target audience. Knowing who you want to reach helps you create clearer messages, choose more effective marketing activ­it­ies and achieve better results. But what exactly is a target audience, what does it…

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Working as a team: How teamwork leads to success

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Marketing and ad­vert­ising are often used in­ter­change­ably, but the terms have distinct meanings. Marketing en­com­passes a wide range of strategies, processes and activ­it­ies designed to promote and sell a brand, product or service. Ad­vert­ising, by contrast, is one specific area of…

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How to sell online for a suc­cess­ful internet business

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Online marketing

The IONOS Guide to Online Marketing: tips and expertise for all

There are many options and strategies for marketing content, products, and services online. In addition to tra­di­tion­al outlets (like banners or videos), e-commerce also lends itself par­tic­u­larly well to gen­er­at­ing customer attention: methods like search engine, affiliate, and social media marketing are all part and parcel of a good online marketing mix. In our guide on the topic, we’ve compiled important in­form­a­tion on the basics of online marketing and have also included plenty of expert-level tips.

Who should use our Online Marketing Guide?

From beginners to ex­per­i­enced pro­fes­sion­als, this guide offers in­di­vidu­als of all com­pet­ency levels relevant tips for suc­cess­ful online marketing. And online marketing basics are just as much a part of this guide as expert-level topics (‘Cloaking–an SEO blackout’ or ‘Canvas fin­ger­print­ing–web tracking without Cookies’). Readers looking to set up e-commerce platforms or become online marketers stand to gain a lot with this content. Small and mid sized companies aiming to enter the online market or expand their marketing skills will also find useful resources here (e.g. ‘Creating a business plan for your online store’, ‘8 tips for suc­cess­ful online store marketing’, or ‘Suc­cess­ful social media marketing’).

How the guide is struc­tured

The articles are divided into four different sub­cat­egor­ies. Under ‘Online sales’, you’ll find texts on how to construct and operate an online shop. In addition to the fun­da­ment­als of online marketing, there’s a lot of in­form­a­tion on how to upgrade your web store located in this section. The sub­cat­egory, ‘Social media’ provides tips on how to win over customers and create campaigns within today’s con­ven­tion­al social media networks. Here, you can find out how to execute different strategies in varying levels of com­plex­ity. Under the keyword, ‘Social media marketing’, there are articles on search engine op­tim­isa­tion (SEO), search engine ad­vert­ising (SEA) as well as useful online marketing tips for relevant tools and tech­niques. The fourth and final sub­cat­egory, ‘Web analytics’, covers different ap­proaches and tools for gathering data on visitor behavior and how to create web stat­ist­ics (e.g. with Google Analytics). IONOS’s Online Marketing Guide is a one-stop shop for clear and com­pre­hens­ive in­form­a­tion on online business and online marketing.