11 Feb 2010 08:33 am
It's interesting to know that even through all the hype about Bing being launched recently and Google being the best search engine in the world. Search Engines like Ask.com are still thriving and in my opinion have a very good sponsored listing platform. Although I have not yet tried the PPC with Ask.com program, it sounds very promising.
Ask have been around since 1996 and their headquarters is currently in sunny California, USA. They seems to have a current worth of $1.8 billion according to wikipedia.
So is it time to give their advertising platform a try just for kicks? I say why not, Ask.com sponsored listings are giving away a $50 credit promo discount coupon for anyone that advertisers during 2010.
Ask.com claim they pull in 73 million unique visitors per month. Ask also suggests that their PPC rates are the lowest out of all the other major search engines. Although I agree Google PPC is becoming far too costly, it only makes sense to give the cheaper ones a try.
Quite enticing I must say!
What I have always liked about Ask is their creative angles. Their home page always has some dynamic approach. Although their results are not as accurate as some search engines, their sponsored listing displays are always quite accurate and more to the point and flowing with the main results. Sometimes I would click on a sponsored listing without even knowing it was sponsored. This is great for advertisers and better bang for your buck.
Has anyone recently used their sponsored listing platform? If so what did you think of it? And was it profitable for you?
02 Feb 2010 10:44 am
First of all, I'm not really experienced on email marketing. But what I do know is that this kind of promotional method has been already practiced by mostly affiliate and online marketers, which they collect active e-mails from their trusted clients or from membership sites like social networks, social media, forums, blogs, etc.
Email marketing is one of the easiest methods to promote a product, service or offer. Even affiliate and CPA products you promote from the vendor are also applicable. If you are just email your family and friends just for nothing, why don't you try using email as your online source of income? I heard that there are some email marketing platforms like Aweber which is truly professional and it helps you generate sales of the fixed messaging and professional way of promoting the product, service or offer.
Right now I don't have any potential contacts who came from US, UK, Canada and Australia. I prefer to market my services and offers to them, but it's a challenging and expensive process. The easiest way to do email marketing is through gathering emails of the members in any membership sites through their contact information. It's really hard to convince them through internet promotions, but it's going to be potential than I thought.
Email marketing helps our business grow over and over again, only if you do it the right way. The more professional we are, the more we gain traffic, hits and sales or lead conversions for just an email. Anything can happen, as any portals like emails can be a good source of money. Imagine that if you blast this to over hundreds of ad exchange and list building sites, or to millions of emails worldwide, who knows? You could make tons of cash from your affiliate programs by promoting it the right way. It's never been late to do this in order to earn money, as I got to try email marketing as soon as possible.
27 Jan 2010 09:18 am
Yesterday, it was already set that me and my friend will going to have a joint business of our own, and that is related to the internet. This is what I call a link building service.
I thought that my plan was only a mystery since my dream business is to be implemented months ago. But this is already for real guys. I'm totally blessed and I'm thrilled with excitement. If I have already launched this business earlier than now, can I market this business using online marketing?
I would say yes! But how can we market this business online?
* E-commerce for my link building are not possible. Link buiilding services don't have any products but only services. We can make a simple WordPress blog of it about the events happening in our link building service business.
* Use huge ad networks like Google Adsense, Adbrite, CasaleMedia, Tribal Fusion and so on to keep our blog alive and to gain more revenue.
* Purchase high quality SEO services from top ranked individuals like GSeo and other companies at a reasonable price.
All business like my link building service can be used for online marketing and will earn lots of revenue from it. By the way, link building services are fast growing because of the greater demand of those who like to boost their website's traffic and backlinks. This is going to be big guys! I hope the customers and orders will be flowing very soon!
21 Jan 2010 02:22 am
Lots and lots of people right now are finding lots of free items on the internet right now, and the owners of the websites are getting more benefits by giving away freebies to their customers. Why do they have great benefits than those who are doing eCommerce for those who want to buy cheap and expensive items?
I came across some of the latest freebie sites online, and I check their status through Page Rank, Alexa, backlinks and link popularity and it was very outstanding. They are applying some of their online marketing tactics just to send freebies and stuff to their customers worldwide, but why are they doing this? What benefits are they after with?
* Traffic - millions of people are downloading and sharing freebies and stuff with other ones, so freebie sites are totally big and can generate about 100K to 1 million visitors a month, or even more. They want to increase their popularity in the internet right now, when it comes to freebies.
* Ad revenue - programs like Google, MSN, Yahoo have their own ad networks. Adbrite, Chitika and Kontera are also paying per thousand views daily. Meaning if your freebie site has 100K or 1million views monthly, more revenue will come in to your ad network balance.
* Backlinks - it can be done through organic SEO, SEM or any link building methods that can provide link juice to some do-follow sites. Building backlinks on do-follow sites may increase or boost your PR, Alexa and traffic, while no-follow only relies on traffic.
I think freebies could be a big market. But where could we get these freebies and what are they?
* eBooks
* Software
* Wallpapers
* Music files
* Scripts
* PLR articles
These are called digital products. We can give them away for free only if the product gives you rights to do it once you avail it. Tangible products are not possible to be given away through internet, but only on direct marketing. Intangible digital products are the things we can do online marketing either free or paid.
18 Jan 2010 09:52 am
Are you struggling in gaining more traffic and revenue for your own site? Does other pay-per-click advertising like Clicksor, Clickbooth, AdClickMedia and other programs give you less revenue and not enough hits and revenue to your site? We'll there's one program that might actually fit your needs in online advertising, and the program that I'm talking about is one of the trusted contextual advertising network in the internet right now. That's right, I'm talking about a program called Text Link Ads.
This is where famous affiliate programs like PepperJam are relying on their web trafficking strategy, and they have been very successful to it since they launched their website years ago. They post their own testimonial on the affiliate network itself, which more and more people are getting successful to them, thanks to the contextual advertising of Text Link Ads.
There are three types of members in the Text Link Ads program, and these are:
Advertisers - these are types of members which focuses on advertising their sites and gaining huge amount of traffic and unique visitors to their website.
Publishers - these are types of members which focuses on generating revenue on the ads they published on their blog. You may only apply if you have your own blog or website, and you can earn money through promoting the advertiser's ad which depends on the niche of your website and the traffic you're generating. You will earn a percentage of the clicks generated by the advertiser, depends on how much amount did they set for contextual advertising.
Agencies - these are types of members or group, exclusive as premium, which can supplement full time SEO services with advertisements from Text Link Ads, full access to over 40,000 publisher sites, receive competitive advantage that comes with professional recognition from Text Link Ads, and many more.
Take note that you can apply both as publisher and advertiser in one account at the same time. If you want to become successful in contextual advertising, don't hesitate to try Text Link Ads. It's for your own good to advertise and make money, and for sure you will not fail here.
06 Jan 2010 02:29 am
It's already a brand new level for me and for all of the SEO. The trends are at stake and it's going to be big this year. Online marketing is one of the reasons why more and more firms are successful to market their products online. So it wakes me up to build a plan of my own to do online marketing. I'm now building a method of myself by starting a blog last year and added some services, affiliate program and forum.
But what about the products that I want to market? Since I have no product, I have lots of alternatives to choose from. But it all starts with my services as a link builder. It deals with building lots of do-follow links to many do-follow sites like forums, blogs, social bookmarks and Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo and Hubpages. I can market my own services to any of these sites, even thousands of them. Only thing that matters, is when I will use keywords properly, it will determine if I did go up to the standings on the SERPS. SEO is the main thing, and I need it to be serious as possible.
In order to be a real deal of online marketing, you have to build your own brand and it must be unique. Don't make yourself a second rated service provider, think you are the best. Don't go down below, just look up and say "I am the best". But for sure, it all starts with learning seriously on SEO and online marketing. I bet that we need this in order for our business to be successful. It's really obvious how online marketers sometimes fail, due to some high competitions with other huge companies. It's because they don't study well, on how the market is to be targeted.
The real deal for me is to become one of the best and popular online marketers today, even I am young. There are some teenagers who are already starting to get involved in online marketing, which they want to make history for their family and for the world as well. Success is always coming and we need to be serious in terms of SEO and online marketing. Just think positive guys, as it is the way I am thinking right now for my own business.
22 Dec 2009 01:44 am
What comes into your mind when you want to promote yourself to others? Are you getting touched on what you're doing right now to promote your products, services and offers to customers worldwide? Think about your market strategy on when it comes to basics, you need to formulate a plan for yourself to promote it, and bring your "A" game to it. If you want to promote our products by simply getting yourself crazy in walking around the park, malls, recreational places, schools, or even visiting your old and new friends out there to share something what you want to promote them. The purpose of promoting yourself, is to make them attracted personally on what you're doing.
They think that you're some kind of a crazy man. Hell no! You're not a crazy man like no other, unless your behavior is unexplainable. You are doing this by yourself to increase your chances for them to buy your product or having interest in your service, and make them as your customers. In this way, you can make money by yourself without using the internet through the practice of direct sales. Is it possible? Of course it does. It was being practiced by some firms like direct selling, MLM companies, and other traditional companies. It was more like a marketing strategy that you are offering for them, in order to be bought and to earn some money by yourself, or by your company.
I think it would be better if you promote it by yourself, and not from under a company that you're working for. Why? If you are doing it for a company, the firm itself will earn more income but you will only be given a minimum wage or a revenue share by your firm. However, if you want to earn and keep 100% of the earnings, don't work for them like a crap dog. Employ yourself through your own actions and keep on motivating yourself daily, on going out and share something to random individuals, along with SEO.
Now what about the "A" game that we're talking about? You must be vigilant or energetic on what you're doing. If you have eBooks with Master Reseller Rights or reprint rights, you can print it and introduce it to your customer professionally. But do you know who arr you targeting with? If you think that customer has no interest in your eBook, better not force him and find someone else which you may feel that the eBook you are selling is needed for him. The same thing goes with the other products, and you must know who you are targeting for self-promotions.
Promoting yourself needs lots of skills, which you are applying on what you have learned in your business or marketing course........unless if you're a nurse, engineer or teacher, it's going to be a tough market ever had to deal with. No matter who they are, or where they come from or in what profession, regardless of those who's brains are "out of this world", just bring your "A" game to them, to self-promote your own to increase sales and revenue.
18 Dec 2009 09:10 pm
The internet has openly converted our world a surprising enterprise. It becomes one of the most important things for firms to expand their market and target consumers. If you're engaged to online marketing maybe a risk for people who wish to be involved with this unique business. To ensure that most of your target consumers will acquire your products. Consider the best products that you have right now, will definitely capture the consumer's needs and interests. It means that we need to identify who these people are, their location and financial level in the society in a specific way. Having a strong marketing knowledge and skill, will let you to achieve your goals in internet marketing.
At this present time, you can use various solutions on internet marketing, that are being offered by companies which can be your ultimate tool for support to your consumers. This solution may be composed of e-mail marketing, SEO or web page creation. Since we need to maximize our daily or monthly return profit, we need to choose greater solutions for internet marketing that will help us achieve our goals. These internet marketing techniques will not cost you much, since they are very self-explanatory, thus, learned easily.
E-mail marketing is one of the common solutions of online marketing. It's an effective way of communicating and interacting with your consumers without worrying your costs, driving them to visit your website and check out your amazing products and services. It may be either in a form of article marketing, leading them to various forums or newsletters. A newsletter has a great advantage of expanding your leads until you can have a bulk list of emails when you have more signups.
Another great solution of internet marketing is through website itself. It's a good promotion strategy to apply, since you can display all the necessary information for your targeted consumers with SEO. Websites may capture their interest and be completed every transaction, to inquire payments take place. All the correspondence that can be done online must be properly facilitated through the features of your website.
Another example of a solution to internet marketing is what we call search engine optimization, or the SEO as its acronym. It's a type of service for your website that you can make use of in order to raise the number of visitors to your site. Once a consumer or a visitor uses a search engine like Google, your website will rank high in the list of searches. In return, it will increase your site's traffic and backlinks, depending on the keyword and the competition level you choose.
If we consider these solutions to online marketing, there are different firms who are offering software products, which contains one or all of these solutions. It would be a great opportunity to try any of these solutions that can match your financial capability and your expected return profit without overspending it.
16 Dec 2009 11:26 am
If your new website is brand new, you are keen to start making some sales! How can you make sales if you volumes of traffic to your website are not high? There are challenges which most customers or clients are setting up a new business to generate traffic to their website. There are four important steps you must follow, in order to start generating more traffic..
1. You must have distinctive content. Search engine robots are looking on all websites regularly, while others are searching for sites with fresh contents. Therefore, it is important for you to have high quality contents which will index your website quickly by various search engines.
2. Keywords must be optimized on your website. It is important that relevant keywords and phrases that are relevant are present in any topic on your web page and to be posted on your website. It might increase your website rankings on various search engines, which means your website will rank higher than ever, when people type keywords or keyphrases that matches your topic on various search engines. You get plenty of visitors to your website by the search engines. When the check out your website, high quality contents will make people spend their precious time on your website and to check out a number of the products or services you offer on your site.
3. If your website is brand new, submission to various search engines are a must. Submitting your URL to various search engines is an important step to get more visitors, and your website will be visible from any search engine you submitted. Having your own URL on various search engines means when the customers are looking for such information that relates to your niche on these search engines, your website might be included in the results.
4. Exchange links with other websites having a high page rank (PR). Exchanging links is truly an effective way to drive traffic, and to improve its rankings. You will get more traffic coming to your website through other websites that you have exchanged with.
If we follow these tips, you will realize that the increase of your website traffic and generating lots of unique visitors to visit your new website is so easy. All you need to do is to follow these guidelines which you will soon experience an increase in traffic to your website. It also means a lot of leads, sales and revenue for your net business to be generated soon!
13 Dec 2009 08:39 pm
If we're talking about the aggressive internet marketing, it means a an advanced marketing and promotion that exceeds many expectations of a businessman. Firms need lots of internet marketing. Will it be possible for the cost to be low? You can still avail of internet marketing, if you just look hard enough. Be true to yourself and to know what's going on in the online industry. Here are some of the following questions that helps you, if the website you choose has to do the marketing.
1. Does the company offer free website design?
Even if you know your HTML, it is still more advisable if a professional team does it for you. Some internet marketing sites offer free web design to make sure that your site's needs are met. It's a must that marketing is integrated to the web design. If the company requires you to pay more than fifty bucks for the web design, then so much for straight-forward internet marketing. Find somewhere else and move on!
2. How many keywords does your website cater to?
Having too many keywords or key phrases to focus on will make your page ranking drop. Creating smaller web pages with content that emphasizes only a few keywords will serve internet marketing endeavor much better than anyone else.
3. How search engine-compatible is your website?
Internet marketing is coined "aggressive" only if you're 100% sure that it is compatible to search engine. There are about three major search engines online like Yahoo, Google and Bing, and your site has to work accordingly with them. Find out if your internet marketing site is expert on search engine optimization.
4. Do you know your competitors?
If your aggressive internet marketing is affordable, it pushes your business forward by determining your competitors. Analysis and uation of the competition is mandatory to figure out your shortcomings and advantages over them. When this feature is excluded from your internet marketing plan, you're getting a great deal.
5. How efficient is your monthly online marketing plan?
Usually, you're asked to pay a monthly fee for the marketing plan. For a marketing plan to be efficient, it must zero in on the following things: webpage development, link exchanges, web content, updates and technical support. Of course, also included are the standard SEO, competition analysis and keyword density.
If you've procured the right answers for the previous questions, then you can finally say: "Now that's low cost aggressive internet marketing." We have to be always aggressive, because it's one solution that every webmaster will be successful at this point.
