An online survey is one of the key online marketing tools to analyze the emerging trends in the business. You can also launch & use it effectively if you are clear about two concerns—(a) Prime objective of conducting a survey and (b) Using the survey results to best possible use.

Together, let us have a glance at of some of the benefits of an online survey:

Brand Recognition Recall

If you’ve recently launched your brand online & wish to reach out to your target market, an online survey is a good tool that you can make use of. You can easily paint the picture of your brand in the minds of customers if you manage to engage them in participating in your survey & giving them a chance to pitch their opinion about a particular aspect. We recommend you to avoid keeping too many product-related questions in your survey.

On the other hand if your product is already an established one, we advise you to include more questions related to your product as the participants would be mostly from your existing user base & they are well aware of your products & services.

Brand Visibility through Viral Marketing

You also know that freebies are always welcomed by users. So, if your survey has a value-added reward or tempting monetary offer associated with it, your brand can create a real buzz in the market through word-of-mouth publicity. Hence, the brand visibility gets improved manifold. So, now is the time for you to invest in online surveys.

Changes in Users’ Behavior Pattern

A properly conducted online survey helps you get the right pulse of your target audiences by bringing out how satisfied/dissatisfied they’re with your brand, their preferences etc. This will help you study the changing behavior patterns of your customers from time to time. You can analyze these patterns closely & come up with a better product strategy.

Action-oriented Customer Feedback

No more speculations, no more vague planning for positioning your product in the market! You can  come to know about the expectations, satisfaction level etc. of your target market through these surveys. This action-oriented customer feedback may help you come up with some interesting major product development.

Press/Media Coverage

We advise you to keep a decent length of your online survey, and draw inferences from the same carefully since these will help you make it apt for any press/media coverage. Based on your survey, you may go for both offline as well as online press releases so that your brand gets mentioned at maximal places. The questions listed in your survey must be wisely framed, and should be as crisp as possible.

Know where to host your Online Survey?

You can create and host your online survey on our platform using applications such as Advanced Poll.

It’s human tendency to get enticed by pictures. People love to share pictures with friends, family, and colleagues, and image galleries are a popular feature of any community-focused web site.

“…..words & pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone”—William Albert Allard

If you complement the content of your website with pictures, it enhances the impact of your website manifold. You can easily build user retention and drive traffic with easy to edit and manage image gallery with the help of Image Gallery Applications.

With Image Gallery Applications, you can:

• Upload and share images with friends, family, and colleagues
• Manage image galleries and edit photos quickly and easily
• Build traffic, increase readership and user retention
• Customize the image gallery as per your exact needs

Let us give you an overview of some highly customizable Image Gallery applications we have in store for you at LimeDomains.

Coppermine

Coppermine, an easy-to-use, multi-lingual web-picture gallery script, offers full multimedia support and handy features like thumbnail creation, and also privacy control with user & group management. LimeDomains currently supports version 1.4.21 of Coppermine.

Some of the features of Coppermine are:

• Its all features are compatible with web interface.
• It features user management, and organizes them into multiple groups.
• It has multimedia capabilities & offers multi-picture upload facility.
• It allows image rotation & offers image caption, title & user-defined fields for all images
• Some popular plugins: Master Template, Timeline, Calendar etc.

ZenPhoto

ZenPhoto, an online gallery application designed to be ‘a simpler web photo album’, helps in dynamic image processing, creation of folder-based albums, simple image management, online uploads, editable titles and descriptions powered by AJAX etc. LimeDomains currently supports version 1.2.1 of ZenPhoto.

Some of the features of Zenphoto are:

• It helps in the creation of dynamic albums.
• It’s highly customizable with preset themes.
• It’s highly flexible with EXIF & IPTC support for images.
• It has spam filter options & watermarks.
• Some popular plugins: Slideshow_Flash, Zenphoto Sitemap etc.

Gallery

Gallery, an easy-to-configure, intuitive web based photo album organizer, helps you to blend photo management effortlessly into your own website whether it’s a small personal site or a big community site. LimeDomains currently supports version 2.3 of Gallery.

Some of the features of Gallery are:

• It helps in easy administration of multiple photo albums.
• It offers auto-image rotation, RSS publishing, numerous images/albums.
• It offers Mirroring albums using which users can mirror their albums on any desired remote server.
• It has a lot of customization options, attractive themes etc.
• It can be integrated easily into varied CMS.

Get started with adding these image editing and gallery management tools to your web site—all at LimeDomains.

Speaking about blogging applications, these are flexible & easy-to-use software which empower you to publish the content of your website with just the click of mouse, and enhance the efficiency of bloggers like you by helping in saving a lot of your valuable time and energy.

With blogging applications, you can:

• Share your thoughts and connect with a global audience.
• Build your online presence and improve search engine rankings.
• Personalize your blog with free themes and widgets.
• Get statistics, trackbacks, comments etc. about your blogs instantly.

To give you an overview of what blogging software we have in store for you, let us take on you on a journey of our repository of blogging applications, which best address your web needs and can be easily installed in a single click.

WordPress

WordPress, the most popular free blogging platform focusing completely on usability, web standards and aesthetics, gets your blog up & running in a few minutes time. LimeDomains currently support version 2.8.5 of WordPress.

Some of the popular plug-ins on WordPress are:

All in One SEO Pack –This plug-in provides SEO integration, and automatically optimizes post titles and keywords for search engines besides generating META tags automatically. It also helps you avoid the typical duplicate content, and fine tune page navigational links.

Automatic SEO Links – This plug-in is an efficient keyword promoter, and helps you save a lot of your valuable time. It enables you select a word/phrase for the automatic linking, and set anchor text in a ‘nofollow’ format or otherwise. It makes your site interlinking better, and allows you to control external links with custom keywords.

Google XML Sitemaps – This plug-in helps you create a XML sitemap for major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. for better indexing of your blog. This enables search engine bots to crawl through the entire structure of your website, and retrieve it successfully.

HeadSpace2 – This powerful plug-in helps you manage a broad range of meta-data & SEO tasks such as tagging of posts, creation of custom titles & descriptions for better SERPs. It also helps you add particular JavaScript & CSS to pages.

Meta Robots WordPress plugin – This plug-in allows you to add robot metadata, index, follow, nofollow, noindex, link attributes to pages. Using this plug-in, you can also prevent indexing of your login page.

LifeType

LifeType, an open source blogging platform with multiple user support & a built-in WYSIWYG editor, supports podcasting, automatic thumbnail generation, bulk file upload, a file browser and custom descriptions for each file through its administration interface. LimeDomains currently supports version 1.2.8 of LifeType.

Some of the popular plug-ins on LifeType are:

Copy Article – This powerful plug-in allows you to copy an already existing article into a new one by adding extra functionality to the ‘Edit Posts’ page. It gets enabled as soon it gets listed in the ‘Plugin Centre’ page, and does not have configuration options.

Validate Trackback—This plug-in catches almost all spam trackbacks, in which the spammer mentions URL for a non-blog HTML page. In short, it offers validation of trackbacks for preventing spam trackback.

Gallery Images —This plug-in enables you to retrieve the latest image(s)/random image(s) in the database, and display it at any location in the blog. Also, this plug-in can display images from a certain album, as & when required.

Related Posts—This plug-in creates a list of related articles for each post.

Comment Notification—This plug-in enables you to send a message/notification to your Google/MSN/Yahoo account whenever any visitor comments on your write-ups/blog posts.

Geeklog

Geeklog, a full-featured CMS empowering you to manage dynamic web content, has a built-in support for comments, trackbacks, multiple syndication formats, spam protection and more . This blog engine has a great suite of highly customizable plug-ins, which are added from time to time by the developer community. LimeDomains currently supports version 1.5.1 of Geeklog.

Some of the popular plug-ins on Geeklog are:

Paypal plugin—This plug-in enables you to have a list of online products, and then accept payments via PayPal.

SocialShare plug-in—This plug-in empowers you to add links of different social networking websites and icons at the end of each of your posts. You can enable/disable any of the preinstalled shared links or even create your own.

Autosave plugin v1.0.3—This plug-in helps you to automatically save an article or any static page,

Metatags plugin v1.0.3 —This plug-in enables you to put ‘keywords’ and ‘description’ meta tags in articles and static pages.

NavMan plugin—This plug-in helps you to install and manage navigation such as the site header menus. It also offers autotag support.

b2evolution

b2evolution, a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system, is inclusive of all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions. LimeDomains currently supports version 2.4.5 of b2evolution.

AdSense plugin—This plug-in enables you to insert AdSense ads into your blog post, and monetize it effectively. It also ensures that you do not display too many AdSense ads on your page.

Dailybooth plugin—This plugin helps you to mention the size and optional title above the latest image that you’ve uploaded. It also helps you to specify an optional bit of digital text below the image to link to your page.

Autoblog plugin—This plugin helps anyone, who installs b2evolution create a new blog, and the corresponding category in which it would be posted.

Footnotes plugin—This plugin facilitates you to add informative remarks in the footer without disturbing/playing with any aspect of the main text of your post. You can add smilies in your post and galleries in your post.

Sample Rendered plugin —This plugin helps you search for content placed in a post, and replace it with some other text.

Get started with these powerful blogging applications, which will power your entire site at LimeDomains.

Start blogging today!