Posts Tagged ‘internet marketing’

Tips To Keyword Efficiency

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Internet marketing is fast becoming the advertising method of choice of small businesses. They get maximum exposure and internet traffic from prospective purchasers and customers. In fact, according to ISP Interland, small home businesses and medium scale companies (SMBs) are getting returns that are significantly higher because of their online marketing strategy. Also, more than half of business owners are saying that the increase in their monthly revenues are due to online purchases. Aside from this, most of their offline sales are due to the influence of their websites and online marketing.

However, it is surprising that not all are using search engine optimization when in recent years, search engines are essential tools for buyers. Instead of companies and businesses looking for clients online, it is the buyers that are looking for worthy purchases on the internet. Studies and surveys show that over two-thirds of SMBs’ online and offline sales are fueled by online researches. It is therefore crucial for SMBs’ products, services, and company names to appear in these searches. Visibility in search engines is part of a good and efficient internet marketing plan, but merely appearing on these searches. What these SMBs need are effective keywords that draw customers in and not just visitors.

Visibility in search engines is effectively linked to credibility and brand awareness. Sally Falkow, an online marketing specialist suggests that optimizing press releases gives SMBs excellent visibility and keep them on the consumers’ radar. Falkow provides another useful tip: giving these releases “news” appeal gives them credibility. Aside from these general tips from a specialist, there are other guides that SMBs rely on in internet marketing.

Researching and testing keywords is an effective way to find the most popular combinations. Sites like WordTracker and Overture help in selecting keywords. Internet marketing optimization benefits from the use of phrases rather than a single word as keyword. Jill Whalen, search consultant for High Rankings, says that more specific keywords draw and attract real customers and not just people who are browsing around. It is also important to mix general terms and specific words as keywords; this way, SMBs draw in all prospective clients. It is also a good idea to include the company name and title tags as part of the keywords. The use of jargon is also a good idea especially if the SMBs’ products are industry-specific. Linking keyworded articles to other articles or sites is also an effective strategy. Lastly, it is vital that SMBs be honest about the service and product that they offer to avoid disappointed buyers. It is one thing to advertise a product and a completely different thing to exaggerate about its features.

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Blog Today – Advertise for Free

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Internet Marketing is an amazing career for any Entrepreneur. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can literally be making money within hours with virtually no start up capital.

The trick is knowing where to advertise for little or no money. Over the last 8 years I have mastered the art of seeking out little known nooks and crannies that provide excellent exposure for free.

One such source is the blog. A blog is an online diary. It is incredibly simple to update and maintain. You don’t need a web host so there is no start up costs. You can pick up a blog for free by doing a search on Google for blogs. Once you have your blog start writing on it everyday. Pick topics specific to the product you are trying to market and write. Write everyday.

To gain additional free traffic to your blog visit a pinging service like Pingoat. These services will submit your blog to hundreds of feeds. If you are diligent at writing and pinging your blog will see traffic.

Get your blog listed in blog directories. Start submitting to as many blog directories as you can find. Again a quick search at Google will get you a significant list of directories to work with. The more directories you are listed in the more traffic you will receive if you write quality information on your blog.

Blog on other sites. Search for blogs relevant to your topic. Submit comments to those blogs. Be sure your comments are valid not just junk to get your name on the blog. Nobody wants to read junk. The more valid your comments the more valid the traffic you will receive from your efforts.

Charity Adams, CEO Mom is and 8 year veteran of Internet Marketing. Visit Charity’s
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Advertisements – Varieties and Forms Reviewed

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

From the psychological point of view advertisements may be classified according to their general purpose or intention and also according to the particular tasks which they set themselves. Thus we may have the three following types, according to the task attempted:

  1. Classified Advertisement. Takes initial attention, interest, and memory for granted, and merely seeks to direct the response.
  2. Publicity Advertisement. Takes for granted the elements of persuasion, decision, and response, and merely tries to accomplish the tasks which the Classified Advertisement explicitly ignores – namely, to attract and hold attention, and to fix an impression in the reader’s mind.
  3. Complete Advertisement. Attempts to perform all the various tasks of an appeal. These are, in their logical order:
    • to attract initial attention;
    • to hold attention in an interesting way;
    • to bring about an association or impression which will have permanence or memory value;
    • to convince, persuade, or induce;
    • to suggest and lead to specific response

Still differently classified, according to the psychological mechanism they employ or invoke, advertisements may be classified as follows:

  1. Reflex Appeals. Directed in a mechanical way toward the simple reflexes, such as bright flashing lights, moving objects, alternating signs, curious noises, etc. These do not attempt to sell goods, nor usually even to set up any kind of mental association. They are merely devices for getting the eye or ear of the casual visitor directed toward some other appeal, more strictly an advertisement.
  2. Short Circuit Appeals. Concentrated appeals to one or more specific instincts, feelings, emotions, or ideals of the reader. The attempt here is to influence by simple suggestion; argument and deliberation are avoided, no mention is made of rival products, but some strong feeling is played upon. This short circuit, “human-nature” may be either through reading matter, picture, or arrangement.
  3. Long Circuit Appeal. So-called “reason-why ” copy, which argues, deliberately invites comparison and argumentation, weighing of selling points and advantages. This will usually take the form of text, although other devices may also be frequently employed.
  4. Rationalization Appeal. This fourth type has special psychological interest and is based on a principle which is only recently showing itself in the field of advertising. One of the striking tendencies of human kings is to act, judge, believe, or vote on strictly instinctive, emotional grounds, and then, after the act is committed, to try to justify or defend it by intellectual and logical reasons. Thus we believe in immortality because we prefer it, want it, and have an instinctive and emotional yearning for it. Then having formulated our belief on these purely non-rational grounds, we search and search for arguments which we can give to our neighbors in justification of our belief. We would like them to think that we ourselves believe on the grounds of the logical arguments. But in our heart of hearts we know that we first believed, and only when our belief was challenged did we search for logical proofs or reasons.

Donald “DonOmite” Hammond has been a freelance webdesigner and programmer for over 10 years. He has done marketing of himself and his products as well as customers’ products on their websites.

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Effective Internet Marketing Tools that Profit

Friday, March 21st, 2008

If you own a web site yourself or know someone that does, you are probably familiar with the importance of internet marketing tools. The site may have a professional design, quality product or service, great content and functionality, but if the right internet marketing strategies are not utilized, your site may not be attracting the key to real success, highly targeted traffic. Getting a lot of consistent traffic has very little to do with the web site itself, but rather how the sites owner or webmaster choose to advertise the site. There are hundreds even thousands of sites competing on the web today, so you must use the most effective internet marketing tools to achieve targeted results.

There are many different internet marketing tools that can be used effectively, all of which are designed to increase your web sites traffic. Simply put, you must find a way to get people to your site. Put yourself in the “shoes” of your prospective visitors and clients. “Where do they go to do web searches?” is a key question that must be answered and can be quite simple to answer, the search engine. The webs most popular sites are search engines and portals, therefore, you should focus your internet marketing efforts to the search engine.

When surfers browse search engines, they will be more inclined to view a site placed high on the search engine, as opposed to a site with poor search engine placement. With that in mind, you must use the correct internet marketing tools to build a strong (high) search engine ranking. This is where the term Search Engine Optimization is derived from. SEO, as it is called commonly, is a set of methods and tactics aimed at improving your search engine ranking and the visibility of your site in search engine results.

Search engines index sites in several ways, one of which is by looking at the keyword density of the web site, or the sites content. Content alone, is one of the most valuable internet marketing tools to utilize. If your site has excellent relevant keywords aimed towards achieving a high search engine ranking, as well as providing valuable information, you can expect a high search engine position. But because of the high competition of web sites using the same internet marketing methods, you must continuously find new and better ways of attracting targeted traffic.

Today, one of the most popular and effective internet marketing tools is the use of Pay Per Click advertising. This method involves bidding for a particular keyword in a specific search engine, the search engine then compares the bids of all the merchants for that specific keyword, and the highest bid gets the top placement for that specific keyword search. For example, if you bid $.75 and a competitor bids $.73, you will be awarded the higher position. This internet marketing tool is being utilized by thousands of web sites on hundreds of PPC search engines. Google Adwords, Yahoo Overture, and the new MSN Adcenter are the three most popular sites who offer pay per click ad services today.

Content and pay per click advertising are just two of many internet marketing tools that you can utilize to improve your search engine optimization and achieve high web site traffic. There are literally hundreds of other techniques and methods, both free and paid, that you can use successfully to increase your sites visitors and profits. Internet marketing tools are the true key to SEO and generating profits in the highly-competitive online business battlefront that we call the Internet.

James Bradley has been involved in internet marketing and affiliate marketing for over 4 years. He has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine. http://www.supermoneymakingsecrets.com

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