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Using Pay Per Click Advertising

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Pay per click is a great way to advertise your web site and products on the internet.  It is however, very competitive.  You will want to use Pay per click, PPC, along with SEO, search engine optimization to increase traffic to you site.  The two of these together are the main things that can make or break an online business.   

Using SEO to get your site at the top of the search engine takes time, but a PPC advertising campaign can be set up in no time.  PPC is really pretty simple.  It is offered by various search engines including Google and Yahoo.  It is a system where you pay a pre set bid amount time some “clicks” on the link in your ad.

If you have a good sales page that converts well, these clicks can add up to real sales.  Even if you do not get a sale from the person who clicked through, the additional traffic will help move your site with traditional SEO.   A successful PPC campaign will take some research.  First of all, you have to choose your key words or phrases.  This will take a little research.  Next be sure to set up a mechanism for analyzing your campaign.  If you are using Google PPC you can use their tools to choose keywords as well as analyze the campaign.  It is important to see which keywords are resulting in sales and which ones are just costing you money.  It is also a good idea to start off small.  When you are sure your campaign is working the way you want you can increase your budget.

Article Marketing – Where To Submit Your Articles

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

article-marketingOne of the most asked questions about marketing your site is how to get relevant and cheap or even free links. The answer is article marketing. But wait- before you go and start hitting every article marketing site on the web understand that not all sites actually allow the right kind of links.

For example many of the article sites online use no follow links. This means that the search engines don’t give any credit to the link. Yes – people can still click through but one of the main reasons that people submit articles is to get the link popularity as well as the anchor text from that site. If you submit your article to a site that uses no follow links then ultimately you only get the marketing from the actual click through – if there are any from the article that you wrote.

If you choose the correct sites to market your articles through then you will get all the advantages of the click throughs as well as the anchor text (used to rank your site higher for that specific keyword), link popularity (which is used to give your site more clout) and then a host of other benefits that are too c0mplex to get into here. When it comes to top rankings on Google or even Bing (since they will be supplying Yahoo results here shortly) then you have to understand that relevance, content and link anchor text are all very important. But make sure that the sites that you are article marketing through actually allow follow links.