Website is becoming a basic requirement for all companies. People are busy, most of them don't have time to meet you and sit down hearing you to introduce your company for your new potential clients. Giving a simple website URL for your potential clients is the best way to introduce youself. The web has evolved so much in recent years and there are so many different kinds of websites you can create.
This article will briefly tell you the difference of each type of websites.
Sales driven landing page
The best use of a landing page is not what it is, but what is can do. Your landing pages should provide a customized sales pitch for the visitor. The best way to do this is consider where the person has come from, and who they are. By providing a good match, your chances of engaging the visitor goes up, as should your conversion rate.
Well crafted landing pages almost always sport better conversion rates than simply dumping people into the home page of your site. It makes sense. When you drop people into the homepage of your site, it’s akin to asking them to fend for themselves. They arrive and spend a couple seconds before giving up and hitting their back button to move on to you competitor.
Give the same visitors exactly what they were looking for and you will have a captive audience. Be careful not to provide too many distractions in the form of links, or you are likely to lose them before they read your entire message.
You should create targeted landing pages anytime you can control where people will be coming from, and your goal is a specific transaction such as sales, registrations, sign-ups, etc. This is particularly true if you are paying for the traffic, with banner ads, sponsor links, or pay-per-click.
Business/Economy with content management system (CMS)
Most company web sites have just a few pages of information on the business, its services and clients. These are more like "online brochures". The inchol.com is running on our CMS which is perfectly fit into this type.
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E-commerce
Though the web is primarily used for communication, information sharing and search, many companies have set up shops online. In fact, some companies like the popular Amazon don't have brick-and-mortar shops - the entire buying and selling takes place online. Online shops are not restricted to selling tangible products; they can also provide services and a good example of this would be travel and matrimony web sites.
E-commerce website may or may not provide payment gateway to process payments. Some websites are just for collecting orders and handle payment offline. On the other hand, you can integrate payment gateways, like PayPal, Google Checkout or Authorize.NET in your online shopping mall and process the orders and receive funds.
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Social Networking
The new mantra on the web is social networking. These web sites can be classified as Web 2.0 sites but their sheer number and popular demands we have a separate category. Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn, Twitter have been the rage past couple of years. From helping you locate schoolmates and past colleagues to "microblogging" (whatever that means), these web sites have a whole array of utilities and features with more being "invented" and added each day.
Dating web sites have grown over the years and now offer services quite similar to those of social networking (the idea is basically the same) hence they are a good fit in this category.
Forums
Forum types of web sites serve as platforms and promote interactions amongst the users. Unless specifically blocked and requiring a special invitation, you can join any forum on the web. Most forums cater to a specific industry or a field. So, for example, you will find forums on web design and development, banking and finance, biotechnology etc.
Forums on web sites, typically, contain categories that further narrow down the subject. Registered users can post questions or start a topic which other users can reply or add to. A lot of valuable information and knowledge exists in online forums and it's good to join and actively participate in online discussions with people that share the same interests.
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Arts/Entertainment
As internet speeds have increased and more and more people are using broadband connections, the importance of Arts/Entertainment types of web sites has grown. People use this type of website to share images, music and video (entire movies).
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