I have written a couple of articles about Advertising, and what a real
headache it can be. Lately I have been asked how I earn a profit using
only free advertising. So I thought I should share some of my insights
with others who are still struggling financially online.
First of all I want to point out that if you have the resources to
do Pay Per Click, by all means do so. This is the best way to get
clients to your website. But as the old saying goes “Do not put
all your eggs in one basket”.
Free advertising is an excellent way to get “your feet
wet” with online marketing. Just don’t expect huge success
right away. There are a lot of people out there using this form of
advertising. You have to keep on top of it every day, every hour. On
some advertising sites, the ads rotate faster than you can put them on
the site. If you can afford it, purchase a good program for submitting
your ads on a rotation. These are especially helpful if you don’t
have hours to spend in front of the computer.
FORUMS
The use of online forums is growing daily. These are a good source
of information, and a great spot to advertise your products. The people
on forums are there because they believe in online marketing. They are
a captured audience. When you are on forums, make sure you follow their
rules. You cannot go on most forums and just start advertising on every
thread, this gets very annoying for everyone involved and will in some
cases get you banned from the forum. So be sure and read the rules
before you post. Also ask questions, answer questions, and always make
sure your website address is in your signature. You will meet some
great people and get ideas for advertising on most every forum you
join. It is a wonderful source for free advertising.
ARTICLE WRITING
Who knew when you were taking high school grammar, that one-day you
would actually put some of what you learned to use. I certainly never
thought of it, to me it was just a requirement to graduate and move on
with my life. I hated this particular course: but I am digressing.
Articles are a main stay of any online business. If you look up any
topic on the Internet, you will find someone who has put his or her
thoughts on “paper” and published it worldwide. The
Internet has become a writers dream. You can write about anything and
everything. There is no limitation; only your imagination. Write some
useful articles about your business. Write some articles about your
products.
I recently wrote an article about Data Entry, which is one of the
products I sell, I received several hits to my website from that one
article.
Publish your articles on any and all ezines. Again, there are programs
available that will do this for you, but you can do it on your own.
Make a list of different article websites and publish. Some article
websites want only original material, so with one article change the
title and opening sentence, just change things around in the article so
that the same wording is not on every site. Most article sites,
however, will publish the same articles; it is only a few that require
you to do this.
FREE ADVERTISING SITES
Remember with any free advertising site, yours is not the only ad for
online business. There will be quite a few. Make your ad unique; offer
something the others aren’t offering. In one short sentence you
have to capture the audience attention. Why should they buy from you
and not your competitor? You have a very short time to get people to
look at your website, and hopefully purchase.
With these types of free advertising sites, you have to keep on top of
where your ad located on the site.. Daily I check each of my ads on
each site I have put an ad on to see where it is placed. If it is off
the first page, I resubmit my ad.
Make sure when using free advertising sites that you are putting your
ads in the correct category. On some sites you can use Business
Opportunities, Work At Home, Jobs, Employment. If the ad sites let you,
use all these categories to advertise your business. That brings you
total for the one site up to at least 4 ads at one time.
Now that you have the basics of how I use free advertising, you are
probably wondering how I found over 200 forums, ezines, and free
advertising sites.
It is really simple. #1 Go to every search engine and type in Free
Advertising Sites, ezines, and business forums bookmark every site. Go
to the next search engine and look for ones that were not in the first
search engine and so forth. #2 Once you have done your search, go to
your bookmarks and make separate folders for forums, advertising sites,
and ezines, and separate what you have saved.
Another good source for finding new sites are forums. As I said before
people on forums are very generous in sharing ideas. They are also a
great source for finding other advertising sites.
In closing I would like to point out that free advertising takes time,
patience, and tenacity. The more you advertise the more your site will
get picked up in the search engines for ranking.
About The Author
marketing since September, 2004. For more information visit her
directory of Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities at Home Work For You http://www.hmewrk4u.com
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Distributed by Hasan Shrek, independence blogger. Also run online business , matrix, internet marketing solution , online store script .
Beside he is writing some others blogs for notebook computer , computer training , computer software and personal computer
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