Internet Marketing and Advertising

Advertising is an ongoing process that is designed for sustainable results over time. However, when your ad contains a coupon, a special time-limited offer or other inducement to act immediately, you can get measurable results almost at once – provided your offer, timing and media selection were right and you had already established a rapport with your audience.

Remember that a single ad does not an advertising program make! Each individual advertising exposure, whatever response it generates, contributes to a residual result that will eventually show up at your bottom line: name recognition, reputation and trust. Establish a method to determine how customers found you and keep track of the results. Some companies routinely ask, “How did you hear about us?” of every new customer who phones or visits. Others have a “Referred by” box filled in on each invoice. Whatever system you use, unless you’ve done a coupon promotion and can simply count the number of coupons redeemed, tracking is the only way you can assess how effectively your advertising is working. Tracking tells you which ads or media bring inquiries and which bring sales – a key distinction. If you track by invoice, you can also determine how much revenue each ad dollar is producing.

Most important, tracking helps you decide how to readjust your advertising program periodically to make your budget work its hardest. You’ll know when to discontinue certain media and publications and when to pump more money into others. You’ll also be able to see which Yellow Pages directories and headings pull hardest for you. And you’ll know when results are dropping off from previously good sources, signaling that it’s time to give them a rest. In the end, advertising is a trial-and-error process. You may need to spend several years trying out various advertising options and assessing results to know the target markets and media mix that work best for you.

To gauge long-term results, go back to your original benchmark. Were you successful in attaining the goals you set up? Now look at the specific advertising vehicles you employed. Which media were most effective in a quantifiable way – not for a specific ad but during your overall campaign – in terms of response versus cost expended? Which offers worked best? What pricing levels brought in the biggest sales? Did you see steeper upward curves during certain times of the year? Armed with this analysis, you can fine-tune your overall advertising program, and its individual components, for the next year or years. The value of advertising – as a complement to other promotional efforts – justifies it as an integral part of your marketing strategy. And yes, it does get easier as you test, refine, re-evaluate and measure over time.

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The Importance Of Off-Page Factors:

The off-page factors for making a website rank well in the search engines are equally, probably even more important than the on-page factors.
This is because the off-page factors are like a representative opinion of the rest of the websites on the internet.

So if loads of websites recommend yours as a good site, google will think, “hmm, quite a few websites recommend this site, so it deserves a boost in rankings”. This results in you getting higher in the search engines.

The Links Effect:

If a website links to yours, normally it means that they like you. It’s not necessarily you that they like, but your content.

However this could be quite the opposite, loads of people might hate something on your website, but still link to it to show other people the part they don’t like and encourage them to also hate it.

Luckily Google doesn’t care either way. A link is a link and you score points for it, whether its saying “xyz.com sucks click here to see” or “This is the best site on the planet, click here to see it.”

Another thing that will give you points, is if the site linking to yours uses your keywords in the link text. This will lead google to believe that your site is more relevant to your keywords, as another site is basically telling google that “xyz.com is related to the search term ‘blue widgets’”, if the link text is “blue widgets”.

Bad links:

Yes there is such a thing as a bad link.
If you go around spamming websites, posting your link and spamming blog comments, your pretty much wasting your time. This is because the blogs and websites that you’re spamming are likely to be completely unrelated to yours. Therefore, that link will probably not hold much value at all. You could argue that every little helps, which is true, but if you spend 2 minutes a time, spamming 1000 blogs you’ll have 1000 links, which is great, but how long do you think it will take the annoyed blog and website owners to delete your links. I’ll tell you, it’ll be seconds after they see it. You would have wasted all that time, gotten nothing back from it and you would have tarnished your name and credibility and would have annoyed a lot of people on the way.
So not exactly the best method of getting links in the world.

Submission:

Okay, so that is inbound (i.e. links going to your website), what about websites that you link to? This is where you have to be selective. Don’t just link to any old websites, if you link to a “bad neighborhoods” google penalizes you. If you link to a site that has shady search engine optimization practices, like hidden text and such, google will think you have similar practices, as when you link to a site, you’re saying you support it.

Submit your website to as many relevant directories as you can. This will provide you with high quality, relevant links to your website. This will not only score you points for good links, but it will also get search engines to crawl your pages more often as you’re providing the search engines mroe avenues to find you. This means that the changes you make to your site will be reflected in the search engines much quicker, meaning you can tweak your content to get better rankings much more frequently.
I plan to make a whole page of directories for you to submit to very soon.

If you run a blog, start an RSS feed, if you don’t know how to do this I’ll be writing a separate article about it soon. It’s very easy to start and update an RSS feed. Don’t be fooled into thinking you have to buy some software to make one. You can, but it’s not necessary. My RSS feeds are made by my own hand and they work just fine. Once you’ve created an RSS feed you need to submit it to feed directories (I’ll make a list of these in a separate article). Now you just need to update your RSS feed whenever you add a new article.

Now you need to use the most powerful way of getting high quality links to your site. Writing and submitting articles to article directories. You wouldn’t believe how great this is for your search engine rankings. I wont go into too much detail here as there’s a lot to cover, so I’ll go into depth on that topic in another article. But you have to do it. If you write a high quality and informative article, without sounding salesey, and you submit it to an article directory, it’s very likely that a good few websites will take that article and permanently stick it on their website. This gives you one more avenue for the search engines to find and spider your website. This means more visitors to your website and hopefully more sales/advertising revenue or newsletter subscribers.
This can take a while to do i.e. writing high quality articles and then submitting them to directories, but is more than worth it.

Right that’s the basics to help you hit the ground running, I’ll delve deeper into each point in separate articles to make them easier to read.

Stephen Warren is the creator of http://www.makeagreatsite.com
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As a consumer, you probably have been in contact with different forms of advertising. Like most people, you have grown tired of the usual advertisements and commercials that seem to assail you anywhere you turn.

While you watch your favorite program or listen to the radio, you are bombarded by an array of commercials in the process. If you surf the Internet, you will find an incessant flow of advertisements from pop up windows to big flashing site banners. Reading the daily newspaper also seems to shower you with different products and services available on the market. For most people, however, these advertisements do not achieve recall and do not stick in the minds of their intended audiences. There is suddenly a need for innovative forms of advertising and promotions to recapture the public’s attention.

One of the more unique ways to advertise your company, event, product, or service is to use advertising balloons. These are big blimps usually mounted on top of a building. Advertising balloons are used mainly by companies so as to attract and bring in customers and patrons. They are mostly mounted outside or on top of a company’s building so as to ensure a great range of visibility and reach. These advertising balloons come in different shapes, sizes, colors and hues, and designs. They also hold advertisements and promotions, and they could be customized as per the company’s preferences.

Using advertising balloons is a huge advantage for businesses and companies. Compared to using and renting a billboard space, they allow companies to save more. The simple reason behind this is that utilizing advertising balloons means that there would be no billboard fees, rental fees, or advertisement fees to pay. The companies would only have to spend for the advertising balloon itself, and they would not have to worry about any other expenditures.

Since most of these advertising balloons are used outdoors, they are made from sturdy material so as to withstand different conditions. They can, however, also be used indoors. Some of these are ready for immediate delivery, but most require several days or weeks of notice before they could be actually delivered.

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