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Byron
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 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: What advice would you give for Internet Marketing? |
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What advice do you have for someone like myself who is Disabled. I would like to expand my business through Internet Marketing. All words of wisdom will be read. Thanks Byron
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Gobala Krishnan
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Location: Malaysia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Byron,
What business do you currently own?
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csmarketing
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Well it a hard field, I would try to target it more. The Whole Truth helped me when I was doing research on internet marketing. Internet Marketing is to general IMO just like Affiliate Marketing there are too many already in it. good luck.
Michelle
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Jaison
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Location: North Plains, Or
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: It's hard |
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Define your market and use meta tags. You might want to try your local business association and link up with them.
Ebay is a good.
JN
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parttime
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rewsearch, research, and more research!!!
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RBS21
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject: How To Market What? |
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Hello Byron;
Not sure how to answer because not sure what it is you are selling.
By visiting, what I believe is your website (in your signature block) I am only assuming you are selling some type of candles??? I, and probably many others, won't provide my information in your online form until I know what it is for. Your website doesn't tell me anything.
Remember that it is a big step from selling offline to online....online your market is the world! Make sure you're ready.
Anyway Byron, how about a little more information about your product.
To Your Continued Success;
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garymchugh2002
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:59 pm Post subject: Best advice for long term traffic |
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Best advice I can give you is exchange links and lots of them. Try and avoid the sites that hide their link sections right at the bottom of the page, they will bring you very little traffic, those sites are only interested in search engine rankings not sharing traffic with you.
I have 14 sites in total ALL of them with good traffic. As an example one of my smaller sites is generating some 250,000 page views a month, it has no advertising budget as such. Those visits come from quality links on other sites, which of course I reciprocate by making my link section easy to find for a leaving visitor and well organized when they get there.
Linking is one of the oldest methods of creating traffic and if done properly and consistently it WILL bring your site long term traffic no matter where you are on the search engines.
Hope That Helps
Gary
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32paul521
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:48 am Post subject: Agreed..but |
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garymchugh2002 talked about links, but the most important point is niche -aim for a target market- To do some research on which market check out this free piece of software:
http://Goodkeywords.com
it tells you what people are searching for- use it to build ideas on where you want to focus.
Hope this helps
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garymchugh2002
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:15 pm Post subject: the most important point is niche -aim for a target market- |
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| Quote: | | garymchugh2002 talked about links, but the most important point is niche -aim for a target market- To do some research on which market check out this free piece of software: |
I agree and disagree with this comment. Yes putting your site in front of a target audience is important. Example if you have a dating site go list yourself on dating portals and directories and exchange links with them. However do not exclusively do so.
I am a surfer and on a dating site (to continue that example) it is the third dating site I have visited that night, and for tonight I have had enough of dating. I am also a great fan of football, I go to your link section to see what is there all I see are dating sites.
You on the other hand have a great football site, however you did not exchange links with the above dating site because your promotion was targeted promotion only. Where do I go? Back to a big search engine to find a football site. If your site is not in the top 10 of the search engine results chances are I will not visit.
You should always balance your promotion methods. Sure target the kewords of your page for search engines and give your site the best chance of being found in a search. BUT DO NOT RELY ON SEARCH ENGINE TRAFFIC. You are weakening your long term traffic plans.
The reason I gave a dating site as an example is that one of my 14 sites is a dating site. One of the best link exchanges I made on that site is with a site aimed at Nurses. Hardly hyper targeted advertising, but nurses don't get a lot of time for dating so an online site is an effective way of meeting people for them. By the same token many nurses because they are looking for dating will visit my site, when done they will probably have a look at the link section because I promote it and see "ooh a nurses portal" so they visit.
One of the biggest problems with advice being given to webmasters when it comes to traffic creation, is that it is incomplete and unbalanced.
Look at how any big company advertises a service or product. Do Nike advertise their running shoes only in sports magazines?? NO Do credit card companies only advertise in finance related newspapers or magazines? NO They put their product or service in front of as many people as possible. On the TV in national newspapers, on the sides of busses, on billboards on the radio. Are they being told they must advertise only to a targeted audience?? NO So what makes you think this is good advice for a web business???
First set up your site properly as suggested. Get the meta tags and keywords set up correctly. Then as I said previously exchange QUALITY links with sites that are willing to show their link section not bury it down the bottom of the page. Offer them the same exposure in return, and exchange links with any quality link partner that meets your linking policy.
Obviously if you have a family oriented site you need to avoid linking to adult sites, but link to all sorts of sites. If you don't believe what i am saying, monitor yourself or your family, how many different genres of site do they visit in a week? Do they spend all week on dating sites and nothing else??
The advantage to linking for traffic is not only do you get visits from people interested in your product or service, irrespective of your search engine position, but here's a killer. Search engines crawl the web, if you have quality links all over the place, they will find and index your site. If the current advice of many "gurus" is correct this will also improve your page rank and positioning, without focussing on it.
Again as an example I will mention my dating site, it features very well in Google, Yahoo and other big search engines, do I submit it each month for indexing, NO I DONT.
As an experiment when I opened my joke site I didn't submit it at all to ANY search engine. That site also does well in Google and Yahoo and other major search engines. That joke site this month so far has had 147,831 page views, of which just under 4000 page views came from search engines. Remember it was NEVER submitted to search engines, It has NO advertising budget. What it does have is quality links with many different genres of websites.
As my previous post recommended, exchange quality links, put your site in front of as many people as possible, don't limit your promotion.
Gary
http://www.honestlinks.net
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veerdee
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:51 am Post subject: You Need A Mentor! |
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The answer of most failure in internet business is very simple?
They Lack A Mentor And They Don?t Have A GOOD Marketing System!
you need a training, detailed one what you have to do from the 1st day.
and hopefully, I'm in a business with a great teamwork.
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