Website promotion is vital whether or not it is your website or your lens on Squidoo. Once your lens or website becomes live, then you need to attract traffic, in what is a highly competitive market. Without traffic you are not going to make any sales. Click on your keywords in Google and you will see several million websites. The key to success is getting yours to appear on the first page.
One way to do that is PPC or pay per click advertising and whilst that method undoubtedly works, PPC is extremely expensive and an unsustainable option for most newbies. PPC means that you pay every time someone clicks on your advertisement. That means that if you have 2,000 clicks a day and only four sales then you way out of pocket. That scenario is perfectly possible PPC is a massive potential to lose money if you do not know what you are doing.
Free website links to increase your Internet traffic come in two forms one way links and reciprocal links. One way linking is best for sites with quality and unique content, such as the BBC. Of course the search engines give a higher priority to one way links. However did you know that if you have a squidoo page it increases your rankings if you send traffic out of your website. If you are thinking of using one way links then link to a page that you are going to make money from, such as Amazon. Amazon was the first company to track advertisers and pay them a fee for promoting Amazon products. Click here to join their affiliate programme.
One of the best ways to make your website popular is to post new and relevant content, specifically information your customers want to read. Increase your profile by joining forums' in your niche. For instance if your niche market is cats the type in "cats" + "forum" and that will give you a million and a half answers in Google. Introduce yourself and ask advice and answer topics, on the forums. That does not give you leave to spam everyone, but their is room to advertise your website by including the URL of your website, or Squidoo lens in your signature.
If you post off topic items, just to advertise you will likely get your posts deleted, use your noodle, take the Tortoise and the Hare approach, rather than the Bull in A China Shop Approach. Offer value in your posts and you will gain a good reputation and get free exposure for your website. For a classic example of inappropriate marketing click here
Online quality directories are a great source of one way relevant links for your site, however they charge a review fee - Yahoo directory charges $299 annually. There are many free directories. Avoid them like the plague. Don't send out mixed messages about your business. The free directories are terrible, they have terrible links of dubious quality and to link to them tells your customers you do not care about your business.
Article publishing is an exciting option to promote your website, bum marketing meets your web site. That means that you write boatloads of articles and get them published in free directories. This type of free directory is great as it emphasises quality articles and best of all Google loves most of them. Aim to write at least an article a day when you begin that is thirty, a month. When I say write boatloads of articles that is exactly what bum marketing means. Create a separate blog and link to your directory from within the posts increases the potential for traffic.
Reciprocal linking is known as "reciprocal link", "link swaps", "link exchanges" and "link partners" or it is often mispelt as "reciprical links". You research your niche and find webmaster with a similar theme, contact the webmaster and ask for a reciprocal link. For reciprocal links to work they must be from quality websites, establishing reciprocal links should be part of your marketing strategy rather than your whole marketing strategy. of course it goes without saying that the sites should complement yours rather than be in competition. There is no sense in sending a potential customer to your competitors'. It can be a frustrating job to establish quality back links which is why reciprocal linking should only be a part of your strategy.
Reciprocal linking for cats would links to website that sell cat litter trays, or explain how to get your cat to use a cat litter tray. Behavioural sites for cats is another idea. Have a look at some of hte bigger sites in your niche and investigate your links.
On a daily basis you will be bombarded with new offers, new ways to make money, remember to stay focused. It is easy to wander off and investigate what works for others. Remember this is your marketing campaign and not someone else's, if you spend money on someone else's campaign your are not focusing on yours.
Make sure you have researched your niche and done more than scratched the surface. Check that you do not have a fishing trip, then be patient. Internet marketing does develop an impetus of its own. When you start you do not see any results for weeks, (yes I know there are many claims that you can earn thousands in days), the reality is that newbies often don't. They have to be patient and watch their business grow, what starts as a trickle, can bel ike the River Ganges it starts small and then gushes into one of the most powerful of the Indian rivers, nourishing thousands of miles until it spills out in the Ganges basin a long way away from where it began.
The key is to remain patient and focused, aware that if you work at it, tweak your campaigns you will earn money online. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who waste their resources chasing mega income. Now that mega income is very possible, in fact it is impossible to be half successful at Internet Marketing you either fail or succeed. The key is to stay at it long enough, and work your way through your business plan.
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