Thursday, September 4, 2008

Strategic Internet Marketing Can Dramatically Increase Your Sales

By Anthony Chambers


The Internet has grown into an important vessel for making money worldwide. Just about every business owner that can profit from this huge network of worldwide computer users, is trying to do so. In almost every corner of the world, small and large business proprietors are jumping online by the millions because of the huge potential for cashing in on these users. These web users represent a huge market for these businesses. You can use this flurry of economic activities to your benefit. By improving your knowledge of strategic Internet marketing right now, you can set your business at the very front of this global trend.

But as Internet usage flourishes with a reported user-base of almost 1.5 billion people worldwide, so does the competition for sales. Squido.com, a fairly new Web 2.0 type of free web page building system already has over 600,000 web pages online, and growing every day. How do you compete for your share of this growing market? Let us discover how you can fine-tune your own marketing strategies to take your rightful place at the top of the Internet marketing heap.

One great tool you can use in any strategic Internet marketing toolbox is to place great text ads on popular websites that your target market may visit. By placing an ad on one of these websites, you can tap into an already existing traffic source almost immediately. Inevitably, visitors to these websites will click on your link and visit your website.

Should you decide to deploy this simple marketing strategy of buying text ads from popular websites, there are some basic things you should look out for. You really want to ensure that you get the best value for your advertising money. You should check the number of external links coming into that website. A good place to do this is at marketleap.com. Also, you should look at the website's Google rank to see if the website is considered an authority site. At the very least, the website should be ranked higher than yours.

Consider reciprocal linking too. Several of my own websites have achieved the rank they have because of my decision earlier on, to pursue a strategy of reciprocal linking. Since placing ads on other sites will cost you money, it may not be a viable option for some start-up websites. However, reciprocal link is usually free, and can be done either manually or through automated scripts. check out link2me.com for a manual system that works.

A good strategic marketing policy to pursue is to provide helpful links on your websites that seek to give free information to your visitors. I find myself looking up Mike's marketing tools from time to time because the guy has so many helpful links on his website. People will bookmark your website even without your asking them and by doing so, they end up visiting your website over and over again. This is similar to making a statement that your site's content is important enough to have other people visiting you often.

Pay-per-click (PPC) is also a good strategic marketing technique to use for immediate results. If you use PPC marketing, You will only need to pay for the ads if your link is clicked. If you decide to use this method of advertisement, make sure that you are using services that set limits on daily expenses. There are also services that help you find the best and most effective keywords as well as monitor the PPC results.

The most fascinating aspect of PPC marketing of course, is the fact that you get almost immediate feedback about what you are advertising. This means that you can change either your product or your marketing, in order to correct anything that is not working for you. Finally, one of the biggest secrets to success in PPc marketing, is to ensure that your landing page is relevant to your keywords and your ad. This one factor alone will profoundly affect your success or failure.

If you have your own website, you will want to ensure that you create useful content for it. Keyword density is important to search engine placement buy many website designers with limited SEO knowledge have been guilty of overkill. By stuffing useless information into their websites, or stupidly repeating keywords they have effectively ensured that fewer search engines will list their websites. A good policy to follow is to make your website human friendly as well as search engine friendly.

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