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You’ve probably heard a lot of talk about pay-per-click search engines lately.
The principle is pretty simple. Firstly, you open an account with the search engine. Once you have an account you can bid on relevant keywords to get a high ranking in the results when those keywords are searched for. You only pay when your listing is clicked.
You’re being lied to.
Everywhere you turn someone’s pushing down your throat the belief that the secret to earning big money online is to drive tons of traffic to your site.
Bring those visitors back for more, applauding you and saying BRAVO! They will create a buzz about your great site, bookmark it, and send you many new visitors. These visitors are your personal marketing force. Give them reasons to return!
If you are an affiliate or are thinking of becoming an affiliate in an affiliate program you probably have seen some statistics like these in the affiliate sign-up information:
You’ve heard it before. You need to get traffic to your site. Promote, promote, promote. Thats what you get from all the promoters and marketers on line. Is this really true? You want to market online. So you have built your site and submitted it to the search engines. You have placed classifieds and FFA’s. You are continually promoting, and this is good. You DO want to bring traffic to your site. But it needs to be targeted traffic. What does that mean? It simply means that all the traffic you bring to your site should be potential customers. But everyone is a potential customer, you say. Wrong. You want to pull new traffic from those people who are already interested in what you are selling. However, all this new traffic to your site isn’t worth anything unless they:
In the age of Internet and mobile phones, the world moves and changes faster than ever before. Trying to keep up with the latest developments related to one’s area of expertise or favorite hobby can be an overwhelming task. To manage it, we are turning to newspapers, TV stations and yes, web sites, to provide us with everything we need to know.
1. Publish your visitor’s comments or questions that you receive via e-mail. Include your response for each comment. Just get their legal permission first.
Writing articles and having them published on other websites or in ezines is a popular way of promoting your site. Including a good signature line with each article will spark the readers’ interest, resulting in more visits to your website.
Some education is essential to enlighten you about this form of interactive marketing. Directories aren’t Search Engines; they are web sites or information portals which use analysts on staff to review submissions from companies who want to be listed in their Directory. Yahoo would be the penultimate example of this type of a portal. But there are literally thousands of other sites that group and list web sites based on their analysis criteria. Here are some tips garnered from years of providing these services to our clients.
1) RING IN YOUR VISITORS
Join a web ring. A web ring is a group of web sites on a similar subject agreeing to link together. To find a web ring to join type keywords “web rings” into your search engine of choice.
