http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ Affiliate Marketing & PPC Forum en-US Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:45:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.thumoney.com/forum/search.php http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/tactics-for-maximum-adsense-profit#post-65 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:42:15 +0000 nicknite86 65@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>As many marketers know, adsense can be one of the most enticing sources for website revenue. Here’s a few ways to maximize upon the possible profit: </p> <p>1.) A tracker Software<br /> This is a big tip in regards to increasing Adsense profit, because the installation of an adsense click tracking software does a few vital things for your website.<br /> a.) the software will track the IP addresses from which the users click to whichever adverstisements they click on, and thus stores this info for future analysis.<br /> b.) tracks vicious hits, and reports them to Google.<br /> c.) the click of advertising sites, IP users, the advertisements address, and the clicking on time.<br /> 2.) Invalid Clicks and Malicious Clicks<br /> As mentioned in the first strategy, having an adsense tracker can trace vicious hits, such as the clicking on an ad for a particular IP. To prevent your Adsense account from being suspended, it would be vital to promptly report these clicks, and thus tracking them will be of the upmost importance.<br /> 3.) Color-Matching/ Number &amp; Color/Adsense Location<br /> The third strategy for maximizing profit in Adsense would be the location of your Adsense. Adsense could be placed on several advertisements to increase your advertising exposure. Of course, the proper location would make a big difference in relation to the users attention and thus the click through rate. For example, the largest pieces should be placed as advertismenets in three blocks and one link advertising, with the advertising being placed on the top of the page in order to get a higher hit rate.<br /> In regards to Color-Matching, it is psychologically tested that a consumer; in this case user, will be more responsive when the colors match in order to form a sort of branding pattern in their mind. For example, McDonalds uses red and yellow, in their sign, in their straws, and in many of their campaign advertisments. Thus, on your website, the background color and text color to the overall color of the site should match, and at the same time it would improve the quality of your user’s browsing experience while enhancing the hits upon your site.<br /> 4.) Preventing Through Rules<br /> Preventing an account suspension is of course vital to increasing longevity and revenue through time. Thus, this goes into following the rules of Google Adsense, and that consists of not clicking on your own adsense advertising, and not changing the Adsense code. There are many other rules to follow that will insure the avoidance of having your account banned but these are two general ones that if followed can keep your extra or full time income around longer.<br /> 5.) Evidence for Longevity<br /> Lastly, providing your proof to remain innocent. The main reason for tracking your data through Adsense software in the first place is to provide your statistical data in case of an anomaly in regards to advertising hits. By tracking your data, you can always promptly notify Google officials by submitting this data and thus keeping your innocence as an Adsense advertiser.</p> <p>In short, there are many guidelines to follow and strategies to implement to maximize your Adsense income. As Google has countered many marketers through Google Adwords throughout the years through its slapping of campaigns, it is always a good thing to stay on Google’s good side. Being more effective in Adsense entails attaining and continuing a good relationship with Google. Doing so, will not only ensure longevity as an advertiser but increase the opportunity to maximize Adsense income in the present and future too. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/plan-ahead-for-marketing-success#post-63 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:08:45 +0000 nicknite86 63@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Planning for your Internet Marketing process is vital as to the benefits that will derive from your hard work. In fact, planning is crucial if you are going to have any kind of benefits deriving from Internet Marketing at all. Big businesses and vast corporations have their marketing plans and can hire dozens of people to analyze the global market and present reports on telling exactly where their business is, who their competitors are, and what they are doing, how they need to do it, and how much it will cost for how long. </p> <p>Although hiring twenty or more people may not be possible for a one-man operation; such as running a internet business from home, it does share the main concept of planning ahead, and that is outlying as to where your business stands and what you need to do to be/stay successful.</p> <p>A business plan could sound intimidating. Having an army of marketing gurus though to establish a plan for an Internet Marketing process isn’t necessary. All an internet marketing plan needs is common sense and a bit of business intelligence, and these two traits can be attained through some education and experience.</p> <p>A good strategy is a technique called “micro level planning”, and it’s a technique that will ultimately allow you to know exactly where you are and where you wish to go from your current business status. </p> <p>Now, the best way to start doing “micro level planning” is to ask yourself a simple question. You can ask any question you may see appropriate, but one generic one could be: “Why am I marketing on the Internet anyway? Is it to increase public awareness? To increase my sales? Or is it to Build a Community?” Then after asking these questions and noting them down it would be a good idea to note down how much of your marketing efforts will be online and how much time will you intend to spend on each of these tasks.</p> <p>Secondly, another technique is in making a checklist of things that you would like to include in your business that can in turn help the process. For example, what strategies would you implement? Is it using Newsletters, Articles, Viral Marketing, Banners, Contests, or even Forums?</p> <p>Other questions you can ask are: “What type of analysis will this marketing be subjected to? What is the ROI that I can expect and how am I going to monitor this? What is the annual budget I’m working with, and how will this budget be divided among the various marketing strategies I have chosen?”</p> <p>In addition, to these techniques of planning your business, also its important to keep in mind the effectiveness of timelines and deadlines. These are equally important because they help to set milestones and due dates for completing certain actions, which can otherwise stretch out for more than wanted if not organized. Not having these two items will signify a risk in falling behind or getting boggled down with confusion within your Internet Marketing plan. So it’s vital to keep note for dates and times on activities, either big or small. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/without-your-very-own-website#post-53 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:16:33 +0000 nicknite86 53@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Affiliate marketing is a business model in which one could start without a website. It is mostly a myth that a website is completely needed in order to be successful online. Therefore, promoting affiliate products or services can be done through alternative strategies that can generate free traffic and leads, which will in time, translate into profit.</p> <p>Marketing affiliate links or products with free tactics can range through a variety of methods in the Affiliate Marketing business model. All free methods can be highly valuable if incorporated strategically into an online business.</p> <p>Email Marketing- </p> <p>Promoting affiliate links using email can be extremely effective to a list. Having a list of many people who are potential customers; or being apart of a membership site, both allow you to use email marketing as a means of promotion. Through this way of marketing you can email these people an affiliate link which will divert them to an affiliate site. If they follow your affiliate link and purchase the product/service, you will get a commission.</p> <p>Article Marketing-</p> <p>Submitting an article to a directory and getting highly targeted traffic to an article on a specific niche is common. However, many article directories have stopped allowing authors to put an affiliate link in the author’s signature area. The goal with article marketing is to find directories which will allow you to place affiliate links so you can proceed to build highly targeted traffic to the affiliate programs you’re promoting and then eventually convert this traffic into profit.</p> <p>Yahoo Answers- </p> <p>Marketing in Yahoo Answers consists of finding people who are asking related questions to your product, and then promoting your affiliate link through your answer. However, simply pushing the affiliate link will not be effective enough to make a sale, but providing a good and valuable answer in addition to asking the asker to visit the affiliate site. This tactic will dramatically increase the chances of making commissions and attaining leads through Yahoo Answers.</p> <p>Ebook Marketing-</p> <p>Viral ebook marketing is another form of marketing that can promote your affiliate programs. Viral marketing is where you can create an ebook which explains certain information which can be valuable for the readers and make them want to share this information with their friends by passing the ebook around. Within this viral ebook strategy the author leaves affiliate links at strategic locations in the ebook content, and as the readers click the links they will be taken to the appropriate affiliate sales page. The entire concept of viral marketing lays in the fact that the more this ebook is passed around the better the chances are for making sales.</p> <p>These are only some of the methods that can be used in generating traffic to certain affiliate programs using affiliate links. If done properly, these methods; such as article marketing, ebook marketing, and email marketing, can provide highly targeted traffic to these programs for possibly many years, or as long as the links remain active. There are various other methods that can generate traffic and without having “your very own website”. The tactic of not having to have your own website will make the goal of becoming a successful internet marketer easier to attain; especially if one is just starting out. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/versatile-video-marketing-tactics#post-52 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:50:28 +0000 nicknite86 52@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>A few tools have been as expansive and effective as video. When it comes to marketing online, video can be a great way to captivate people and can be extremely enticing, especially when done right. </p> <p>One site that has revolutionized the internet is Youtube, and it definitely has brought sweeping changes in the way people perform online activities. Affiliate marketing and internet marketing in general has changed a lot due to Youtube as well. </p> <p>Many affiliate marketers in recent years have used Youtube and have experienced astounded success. Unfortunately, marketers who haven’t taken advantage of the versatility and expansive nature of Youtube are those who may think making videos is a complex science. In fact, making videos is an easy process. In addition to the countless amounts of people and audience you can attract using video marketing it can also pave the way to massive fame and add lots of profit and leads.</p> <p>Using creativity to integrate Youtube videos into other forms of communication can add extra value to your list and/or audience. Simple creative tactics can increase the effectiveness of using video. </p> <p>1.) Adding a Twist-<br /> On a newsletter it can be exciting for your audience and subscribers if you add a video and make something different from the usual articles you may have created. Thus, linking a newsletter to a “How to Video” could possibly lead to better clickthroughs.<br /> 2.) Video To Blog-<br /> People who already like your blog will possibly tune in more since now video is an added value. This may also lead to existing clients, and casual visitors to spend more time on the blog by learning through the video. The conclusion to this technique is that the more people will spend on the blog the higher chance for converting them into customers.<br /> 3.) PPC Ads to Video-<br /> Linking PPC ads to a Youtube video directly will be an extremely effective marketing strategy. The fact is that everyone likes free content that can help them learn something new or something exciting, or is just interesting and educative. So linking PPC ads to video marketing is great in sharing a product or service benefits.<br /> 4.) Video to Chat Rooms-<br /> Linking videos to Chat Rooms, forums, or any online message boards can let visitors not only to read the message, but to also see and hear the message as well. </p> <p>Ultimately, video marketing is effective because it captures multiple senses in people, and thus it creates an urge in them. When someone sees a live video they tend to trust it more since it creates an image in their mind, and since humans are visual and think in mostly pictures this is a great tactic. Video creates trust, and next time when people need information they will already trust you and will want to contact you directly. In addition, the power of Youtube can be the leverage needed in catapulting a marketing business into massive success by getting a product, business, or service out to hundreds of millions of people. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/powerful-elements-in-list-building#post-49 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:19:15 +0000 nicknite86 49@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>These two well known principles are the main ingredients to any list, and without them you can find that list building is not as “smooth” going as you may want. So understanding these principles is key to making an effective and successful list that could last for years.</p> <p>Powerful Elements in List Building:</p> <p>1.) Free Giveaways- Giving away useful information in free products such as e-books, videos, reports, discounts, and prizes is a tested method for building solid relationships with your visitors and customers. This is seen time and again with offline companies and especially franchises that will have special sales, hold major events, or give away prizes. In fact, giving away free items is the quickest way to build a list because people are looking for value…and something free.</p> <p>Although giving things away for free is the sure-fire way of attracting more visitors and contacts, many marketers have objected to this act simply because they fear it might attract the “wrong kind” of subscriber or customer. Often this refers to “tire-kickers” or people that will never buy anything because they are looking for a “free meal”. </p> <p>Attracting “tire-kickers” has more to do with the nature of your gift and the kind of contacts you’re building. For example, if giving away guides to buying the best and latest gadgets or the fastest cars, then this will definitely attract the “buying customers” if done right. The solution to attracting the right customer is to tweak methods by adjusting the marketing to incorporate free elements appropriately.</p> <p>2.) Value- Any list should include the offering of a valuable relationship between the expert and the subscriber. Subscribers join lists because they are looking for information in a subject they have enthusiasm for, are studying, or have a career in. In short, they are looking for benefits, and so in order to keep subscribers the key is to provide these benefits in the best way possible. An easy way to identify these benefits is to make a list of what someone would want to receive when joining a list, or you could put yourself in the subscribers shoes. </p> <p>For example, what benefits would be the most enticing?:</p> <p>- receiving important information</p> <p>- getting special &amp; valuable content</p> <p>- getting to participate in forums with like-minded people</p> <p>- receiving workshops/training videos</p> <p>- getting updates and timely announcements</p> <p>Whatever the benefits may be its important to make them the main selling points when building a list.</p> <p>Besides the two elements of ‘Value’ and ‘Free Giveaways’ there is also a psychological reason to people joining lists.</p> <p>The fact is that people like to feel included and want to become emotionally involved in their interests with like-minded individuals. This factor is great to keep in mind when building a list since including a comment box or forum in relation to your list can add to its success. </p> <p>Ultimately, addressing these elements can possibly ensure a loyal list of contacts for years to come. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/preventing-%e2%80%9cthe-slap%e2%80%9d-101#post-48 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:20:54 +0000 nicknite86 48@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Throughout recent years, more and more marketers are getting slapped by Google Adwords. Various reasons can be attributed to this action. One major way to prevent Google from slapping your account is by increasing your quality score.</p> <p>Are there other ways to bypass Google Adwords or prevent its slap?</p> <p>Yes.</p> <p>There are ten ways that are extremely effective and have helped my PPC activities.</p> <p>1- Make sure your site has a Google Sitemap<br /> 2- Always use the appropriate keywords &amp; meta tags<br /> 3- Build your site on a blogging platform; like Wordpress. This avoids needing to hire an admin since the account area enables you to take charge of the content.<br /> 4- Having pages on your site that include pages such as the home page; which is critical, the about page, and the contact page.<br /> 5- Register a good domain name, one that is not too “salesy”.<br /> 6- Attach affiliate links to a resources or a contact page.<br /> 7- Include an opt-in form, and be clear about what you are offering in this form. Put it in a clear location that can effectively attract visitors to enter their info<br /> 8- Have outbound links, links to other articles and/or sites.<br /> 9- Include back links w/ high ranking on your sites from social media sites such as Digg, Facebook, and Twitter.<br /> 10- Do not talk about money on your site. Money claims; especially the “cheesy” ones, is a great way to alert Google and have them slap your account.</p> <p>What are great Alternatives to Google Adwords?</p> <p>Great alternatives to Adwords have been Bing PPC and Facebook Advertising. Facebook Advertising targets the interests of your target audience, rather than a certain keyword, and has also surpassed Google in regards to traffic, offering a much more expansive way to market a product, business, or service. </p> <p>Google Adwords can either make or break marketing activities, the key is recognizing what Google wants on a site or avoiding Adwords altogether. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/3-methods-to-easy-marketing#post-47 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:49:10 +0000 nicknite86 47@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Internet Marketing is not overly complicated, and its possible to succeed online with limited knowledge about how Internet Marketing works. Some simple Internet marketing strategies that can be implemented in any business, venture, or means of promotion are:</p> <p>1.) Message Boards/Forums-</p> <p>Participating in industry related message boards is one of the easiest ways that you can promote a business, product, or service. Message boards are sites that provide you with a forum of a common interest. For example, if you are promoting a business related to Golfing, then you can do a search on a search engine for Golfing Forums and then proceed to promote your business on these forums. Thus, in promoting your product/service/business you will be aiming at an expansive target audience, willing to discuss Golfing or whatever industry you are involved in. In marketing through message boards it is important to recognize that you can subtly promote your business through what is called a ‘Forum Signature’, in which you can be providing an outlet for fellow users to browse what you have to offer or what your business is about. By providing useful commentary on the message boards you will be providing value, and in turn this expansive target audience can convert into potential customers via the link in your signature.</p> <p>2.) SEO Consulting Firm-</p> <p> A firm with SEO experience could be incredibly helpful to overall business goals. The entire concept of SEO alone can be complex; especially if you are new to the concept of Internet Marketing itself, and knowing how to properly implement the most effective SEO strategies can take years to master. Although the term “Consulting Firm” can sound intimidating and overwhelming the process is actually quite simple because it consists of interviewing candidates and selecting the most qualified one. That is all there is to it, and in fact it can be done quickly and can immediately have a significant impact on website traffic, because in online business if you have high search engine rankings this will typically translate into improved web traffic. Massive amounts of Web traffic through high search engine rankings is possible because Internet users trust the search engines, and use it as an everyday means to attain wanted information. Thus the most relevant websites for a particular term are the ones that Internet users trust and will most likely visit.<br /> 3.) Outsourcing Internet Marketing?<br /> A business owner can focus on his/her strengths and outsource the rest in order to focus on priority tasks to become much more productive. By hiring a consulting firm to take care of executing Internet Marketing strategies, you can get a lot more done in less time, and focus on higher level activities such as product creation, building JV partner relationships, and copywriting. If done properly the outsourcing of Internet Marketing tasks can almost ensure success in the long run.</p> <p>In short, simple Internet Marketing methods that do not require an abundance of knowledge are most often the timeless techniques that are always effective in promoting a business, product, or service. 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This is usually one of the most important factors in deciding to promote a certain product.</p> <p>However, the far most important basis for choosing a clickbank affiliate product is the conversion rate. The conversion rate simply implies to how many visitors out of a certain number buy the product. So for example, if 2 out of every 200 visitors to a sales page buys the product, then ultimately you end up having a 2% conversion rate.</p> <p>The question that can be nagging though is how do you find what the conversion rate for a product is? Well by looking at products in the Clickbank market, you can identify certain key aspects.</p> <p>1.) “Gravity”&amp; it’s Significance : As mentioned before, the gravity is the measure to how many affiliates are promoting a product. Every clickbank product is marked by a “gravity” number, which is often on the far right, under the product title. This “Gravity” number represents how well the clickbank product is converting for affiliates. Therefore, the higher the gravity number, the better the product is converting. Also, it is important to avoid extremely high gravity numbers as these indicate an extremely high competition, so aiming for a gravity number of (example) 71.43 to 125.22 would be a good idea. This would mean the product has proven itself but the competition is low enough to still succeed in. As well, attempt to find a refund rate that is lower than 3% or 2% as this will also increase the chances of not getting refunds and keeping profit.</p> <p>2.) Merchant’s Sales Copy: Questions to keep in mind is how good is the sales copy? Will it convert as much as you would like? Are the colors annoying, or are they subtle and engaging enough to make sales and get the point across? Overall, its important to have an idea of the sales page as to whether it will attract attention from the buyers perspective.<br /> 3.) Other Key factors in deciding if a Clickbank Product is a great fit:</p> <p>a.) Make sure the $/Sale is greater than $20. If this number is lower than that it will be tough to profit from techniques such as Google Adwords or other paid advertising.<br /> b.) As mentioned before shoot for gravity that is anywhere between 50 or 70 between 100 to 120. Anything lower than these numbers would indicate that this certain product isn’t popular enough and will not sell well. 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Another activity would be writing good content for your site, such as seen in article marketing. In addition, you can submit to social bookmarking sites or article directories that will get more traffic. What this will end up doing is getting the search engines to indirectly index your and as a side effect rank you high with the possibility of much more search engine traffic coming.</p> <p>2.) Rush to get High PR but Not Search Engine Traffic</p> <p>Many are excited to get High PR, but the reality is that PR is not equivalent to search engine traffic at all. If you have a high PR site but are not targeting to a right set of keywords for seo, you will not get get the expectations you want in terms of search engine traffic. Therefore, a right seo mindset for PR is developed from people linking to your site. If web pages with a PR5 link to you, you should be able to get a PR4. And this is all that it means. A high PR page will get indexed more regularly than sites below but that is the only true benefit from high PR, thus not meaning you will get more search engine traffic to your site.</p> <p>One of the best ways to get high search engine traffic is to forget about high PR as it will come slowly once you add links that point to your site. Focusing in on writing more articles, and posting valuable unique content to your blog daily with a low competition long tail keyword will have the search engines satisfied; or in other words search engines love this and will rank you a higher position.</p> <p>PR 101- What PR signifies is Page Rank, and this is what Google and other search engines generally apply to each page on the web. Search Engines such as Google also apply a score between 0 and 10 to PR (page rank). Thus, new pages will typically have a page rank of 0. On a yearly basis, search engines update page rank approximately 4 times.</p> <p>3.) Not needing SEO, already ranked high For My Name</p> <p>Many people consider that having a specific phrase ranked high in the search engine is enough to not need SEO. For example; “Breaking the bank with Billy”. Being ranked high for specific phrases is a good thing but the fact is that the number of people searching for this specific phrase is extremely low, if any. This is why it is wise to do SEO, and to aim for much more common phrases, such as “making money online fast”, since this would be a higher aim for searchers online.</p> <p>Overall, the heart of SEO is (or should be) to target keyword phrases that have lower competition. It is possible to rank high without high PR by building more internal &amp; external links to your pages and by daily updating blog or website content. 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It is possible to send out your first email and then get orders in the inbox in minutes. Email marketing is pretty much the fastest and amazing out of all marketing methods when you use it correctly.</p> <p>Testing-<br /> Marketing emails will usually have to be tested. Testing is a typical part of any kind of marketing. With email marketing the testing is much faster since the process of email marketing is sped up anyways, and so testing various emails will be faster.</p> <p>Affordable-<br /> When doing email marketing not much money has to be spent. All that is needed is a computer, internet, and time to write an email. Email marketing in general is free although you will have to pay for other things in order to do so.</p> <p>Response- Another amazing part about email marketing is the ability to get responses in almost light speed; basically minutes. The reason is that the individual on the receiving end will receive the email and then make a decision. 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Therefore, an entrepreneur could easily become plagued by the common stresses and anxieties; that if left untreated can plunge a business into ruin, and ultimately lose focus of the direction toward success. Taking a look at the business world it is evident that many corporations outsource entire departments of manufacturing, technology, and engineering to other countries; such as India or Japan, so that the company can cut back, save money, and focus on the main business. Outsourcing can be great in this scenario. However, it is also great that the idea of outsourcing is not solely limited to companies and corporations. In regards to Internet Marketing, there are many ways to outsource tasks too; those that may be holding you back from the main goal. Working on low level activities in your business, rather than overseeing your business as a whole can actually cause your business to stagnate rather than explode into major success. </p> <p>In the world of Internet Marketing every entrepreneur inevitably faces a variety of problems and challenges. The first of all these problems is identifying all the steps that are involved in successfully starting an online business. After this it would be important to determine which steps are necessary to achieving success, and which don’t add a lot of value to your effort. The final step is settling on the right order to take on those steps.</p> <p>Of course, that is just the beginning. Then you realize that there are many things you need to know to actually create or execute each of these important steps. In the face of pressure you end up not knowing how and possibly becoming frustrated. What now? The choices are actually simple. </p> <p>1.) You can either stop and learn how to perform all the work yourself<br /> 2.) You can quit your Online efforts because too many problems are arising<br /> 3.) You can locate outsource support so that they can perform the tasks for you</p> <p>Outsourcing is a great way to relieve yourself of these already mentioned low level activities so that you can focus on the “big picture”. Using this tactic to accomplish critical tasks has been done for years in the offline business world, so logically; it can be as effective and make life easier in the online business world. Unfortunately, many new Internet Marketers haven’t even heard of Outsourcing or do not know it’s possible in online business.</p> <p>Key points to recognize for Outsourcing:</p> <p>Like many things, you should do your due diligence and research before choosing a place or person to outsource to. In fact, there are a variety of ways to contact qualified candidates for outsourcing your work. Using these resources and advertising for the specifics that you need can increase your level of success in Outsourcing. Ultimately, being crystal clear in communication when advertising for outsourcing, and to your newly found employee, will be essential if you want to successfully reach milestones and achieve every detail in the activities you do not want to do. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/ppc-advertising-vs-seo#post-39 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:13:58 +0000 nicknite86 39@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>There are two ways to get traffic to any site. You can either get traffic to your website for free, such as SEO or you can use paid advertising; PPC (pay-per-click).</p> <p>Often, there is a debate and constant warring between which strategy will be the best strategy to implement in exposing your site to the masses.</p> <p>In actuality, Internet Marketing is a numbers game, and so the more targeted traffic you can get to your website, the more you will convert, and the more money you’ll make. </p> <p>So which strategy is the best, free or paid?</p> <p>Search Engine Optimization:</p> <p>Free marketing strategies; such as SEO, are just as good as paid marketing, if not better. For example, when the majority of people go searching for information online, they go to Google or any other search engine and type in a phrase; such as “How to Cook and Clean”. The results they get back are divided into two parts, and that is Organic and Paid advertising. These differences are usually easy to identify. The organic results are listed on the left hand side and are listed 1-10 through a series of pages, while the paid are listed on the far right hand side. </p> <p>When doing a search people will often decide which way is best to resolve their dilemma or situation, and most often people tend to use the free results. Thus, this is enough to indicate that if you want to get highly targeted and free traffic to your website it would be a good idea to get into the Organic results. However, many things are involved, including getting backlinks to your site, making sure you have the right keyword density, and optimizing your site. The downside to Search Engine Optimization is that in order to get your website ranked high, it can be very time consuming. This is a reason why many marketers choose to skip SEO and use Pay-Per-Click with Google Adwords, Bing, or Yahoo Overture.</p> <p>PAY PER CLICK (PPC): </p> <p>In short, Pay-Per-Click is when you tell Google; or any other company, how much you want to be charged every time your advertisement is clicked. The higher the amount that you set to be charged will often determine how high your website will rank in the search engines. On the other hand, if you set a low amount then your PPC may not give you good results.</p> <p>The “pros” of PPC marketing is that it takes a small amount of time to get up and running, but the “con” is that you can not just set up a campaign and expect to make tons of money. PPC is a science and should be implemented with strategy, therefore doing the homework is crucial because if you don’t choose the right keywords and/or charges you could end up losing tons of money and FAST. So PPC takes skill, learning, and possibly experience to succeed.</p> <p>In short, SEO is a great way for beginners to get a site ranked high in organic results. SEO may be frustrating but once you succeed with SEO the benefits are great. This is also true with PPC, but there is much more risk involved since your success is dependent on your money and skill. Overall, it’s necessary to research both SEO and PPC as much as possible before leaning upon either. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/tactics-for-blog-traffic#post-37 Fri, 28 May 2010 21:52:56 +0000 nicknite86 37@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Blogging; if you know how to do it right, can be a great experience. Unfortunately the majority of people getting online to begin blogging fall into the common frustration of seeing low traffic numbers when they check their stats. Why is this the case? Ultimately it is because getting traffic to a blog is a science, like many other strategies implemented in marketing products and services. There are four ways that can help in achieving more traffic at a quicker rate. Two of the ways to produce an abundant traffic stream consists of writing and promoting your subject and/or niche in other sites, and another strategy to reeling in this traffic is a traditional business tactic in attaining a base of customers; or in regards to blogs, followers.</p> <p>1.) Write Captivating Articles - </p> <p>Article marketing is one of the best ways to attain traffic as it is almost always free and can allow a marketer to express their interests in any desired niche. If you submit articles to directories you are not only getting a steady stream of readers, but you are also building backlinks to your blog site. An example is EzineArticles.com, as it is has its own readership of people looking for topics that you may just be blogging about. Therefore, if you write an article and submit it to a directory a person will not only read your article but also be enticed to visit your blog.</p> <p>2.) Reasons to Re-Visit-</p> <p>Giving people a reason to go back is seen all throughout commercial businesses. For example, stores and restaurants will hold special sales, events, and offers to keep customers coming back for more of what they love; but this time with a lower price or “buy one get one free” offer. This exact formula can also be replicated in your blogging techniques. The idea to keep people coming back over and over can be lucrative and the best way to do this is to create special events and offers. For example, you can give away a new prize each week to new subscribers to your list. In addition, you can also run contests for people who leave comments on your blog posts. In short, making your blog “a place to be” will attract more people as your subscribers may even tell their friends.</p> <p>3.) Doing Keyword Research- </p> <p>Rather than throwing up blogs and expecting traffic it would be wiser to research the keyword data to find terms that are getting a lot of searches. In addition, attaining keywords that have low competition would be a greater choice as it will make your blog easier to rank.</p> <p>4.) Link Baiting-</p> <p>The idea behind creating link baits is stirring enough controversy through your post that you can produce strong emotional reactions by people in order for them to comment and link to your blog post. For example, if a hot new electronic product; like the iPad, just recently came out on the market and everyone is raving about it, you can explain why you don’t like it to your readers in a way that will give you strong emotional responses automatically.</p> <p>In short, these are four ways that can be solid; if used appropriately, in bringing in more traffic and attaining a base of avid readers. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/hi-nick-online-marketer#post-36 Tue, 11 May 2010 12:48:05 +0000 nicknite86 36@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>My goal is to give you all info on how to market and become successful online.</p> <p>How to not only get traffic but to get sales to whatever your promoting. </p> <p>Free Marketing Tips 101.</p> <p>Thanks for having me here.</p> <p>-Nick B. </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/affiliate-marketing-vs-dropshipping#post-35 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:56:11 +0000 billyuan007 35@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Don't know anyone tried promoting dropshipping products(cellphone, shoes etc.), from my own experience I used to use Adwords to promote affiliate products with great success, but later I found with dropshipping I can make much much more money, does anyone have good suggestion on what dropshipping products to promote and we can discuss? </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/how-to-select-keywords-on-content-network#post-32 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:48:21 +0000 Yanming 32@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Hi Thumoney,<br /> I'm from China and learning Google AdWords.<br /> I want to ask a question about select keywords on content network.<br /> As you know, I always using index Baidu besides Google keywords tool. But I don't know how to orgnize these keywords for focus on a theme.<br /> Hoping your reply.<br /> THANKS! </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/media-buys#post-21 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:21:37 +0000 ludders 21@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>How affective is media buys as it is something I am just enquiring about? What time of media should I look at buying? And How much money should I be looking at spending? </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/your-experiences-with-different-ppc-networks#post-3 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:13:04 +0000 Thumoney 3@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>Which PPC engines do you use with success?</p> <p>I personally use the obvious Google Adwords continuously and Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft Adcenter regulary.</p> <p>I had good experiences with Looksmart as well as Miva. The traffic levels are much lower of course, but the cost / conversion ratio is mostly better than Adwords.</p> <p>Which PPC networks are you using? </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/affiliate-exhibitions#post-20 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:01:07 +0000 ludders 20@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>I am in London andall I hear about is exhibitions in other countries, mainly america. Does anyone know of any in london? </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/experiences-with-social-media-advertising-facebook-etc#post-5 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:17:51 +0000 Thumoney 5@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>What are your experiences with Social Media Ads like Facebook Ads or Myspace Ads?</p> <p>One general problem I hear a lot is the fact that it is hard to get your ads approved and be in line with the guidelines, for instance on Facebook Ads.</p> <p>Other than that I had and heard mostly good experiences? </p> <p>What's your take on that? </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/which-affiliate-networks-are-you-using#post-2 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:56:31 +0000 Thumoney 2@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>I personally started out with AzoogleAds (Epic Advertising) and it's still my largest network. The offers are really good, especially the exclusive ones.</p> <p>I'm also with NeverBlue and Hydra and both are good, although I miss the conversion pixel tracking on Hydra, but they are working on it. This is one very important tool and both AzoogleAds and NeverBlue offer Conversion Pixel Tracking so in PPC campaigns you can see which keywords converted into leads.</p> <p>Which Networks are you using and where do you have to most success? </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/you-questions-for-ppc-advertising#post-4 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:14:53 +0000 Thumoney 4@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>I will regulary post about PPC advertising on Thumoney.com.</p> <p>What are your greatest problems you want to solve?<br /> What are your questions regarding PPC (Adwords and PPC in general)?</p> <p>Give me your questions and I will answer them for you! :) </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/in-which-niche-are-you-doing-affiliate-marketing#post-6 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:26:28 +0000 Thumoney 6@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>There are a lot of different niches in affiliate marketing:</p> <p>dating, internet marketing, self-improvement, health, diet, beauty, finance (forex) etc.</p> <p>I personally like the self-improvement, internet marketing and health diets the most. It may change but those are the niches I had the most success with and I know well personally :)</p> <p>What do you prefer? </p> http://www.thumoney.com/forum/topic/your-first-topic#post-1 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:28:21 +0000 Thumoney 1@http://www.thumoney.com/forum/ <p>I like to welcome everybody to the forums here on Thumoney.com! :)</p> <p>It's still very fresh and empty, but I'm committed to fill it with valuable postings and answers to your postings and questions, so please make a quick register (top right) and then shoot! :)</p> <p>I hope to provide really good postings here, away from the general Internet Marketing forums which are great but it's not that easy to find real value there anymore. I want to be a bit more focussed and give out real insights so participants of the forum can improve their affiliate and ppc game.</p> <p>I'm looking forward to the discussions ...</p> <p>Thumoney </p>