Search Engine Marketing Articles

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Jackie Lee @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 11:13 PM

If you are trying to make money online with your own website, you probably know the best free traffic comes from Google. What you might not know is how to get your site to show up in Google's search results. The best way is building backlinks to your site. Here are 5 ways you can build quality backlinks to your site and move up the search engine results page. Forums Forums are a great way to build backlinks. It works like this: you find a forum on a topic related to your site... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Karel Viljoen @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 9:46 PM

CPA, short for "cost per action" or "cost per acquisition" provides affiliate marketers another great way to make money on the internet. CPA affiliate programs pay a commission for each sale or other specified action you manage to effect. Unlike most affiliate marketing models, an affiliate need not necessarily bring in a sale in order to be paid a commission with a CPA program. CPA ads are only paid for by the advertiser when a specific action occurs. This action can be s... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Richard Taylor @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 7:38 PM

So here's the scenario: You've spent hundreds of dollars on various marketing ebooks and courses, you've spent months implementing lots of the different methods you've read about. Yet still you're only achieving small amounts of traffic to your site on a daily basis. Does this scenario sound familiar? Are you still millions of miles away from generating hundreds or even thousands of visitors to your sites every day? Here are two reasons why the above sce... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Bill Protresi @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 1:12 AM

Article selling is cool, but there are more methods by which you can make it in the arena of affiliate marketing. These are 5 mega-impressive but simple-to-implement practices that will help ensure your victory in this world. 1. Viral marketing via news creations. Formulate an eBook which will give important news on the topic related to the affiliate item you will be advertising. Either formulate a novel creation, or get a PLR of an existing eBook. Populate the leafs thereof wit... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Terry Stanfield @ Thursday, 28th August 2008 @ 10:10 PM

It is very important to have your site indexed by the major search engines and ordered to be found in the search results. In this article we're going to discuss three ways to have your site indexed, get into the search engines database that are safe and will not get you banned by the search engines. Have another website (that is already indexed) link to your site. Once a site is indexed or put into the search engines database, the search engine spiders go out to those pages an... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Bill Protresi @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008 @ 11:24 PM

Many affiliate advertisers think that selling a product that is being vendored by thousands- if not millions- of their fellow colleagues will make matters much more grueling for them. After all, they will be contending for the same patron. They will be promoting the same item. And the need for the product is never endless. This, on the other hand, is the incorrect mentality. Even if you will be contending with 10 million associates, you can still be on top. How? Al... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Jackie Lee @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008 @ 3:42 PM

The most important piece of the puzzle when it comes to making money online is doing good keyword research. This is the piece that so many people miss, don't understand, or just fail to do. This is the key between failing and making money online. When you are doing keyword research you want to look for these 3 things in a good keyword. 1. People are actually searching for your keyword 2. Competition but not too much competition 3. Someway to monetize the keywor... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Terry Stanfield @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 10:19 PM

Have you thought about using internet video marketing to increase web site traffic? Internet video marketing is a very trendy form of web advertising right now and many companies are using a combination of search engine optimization and internet video marketing to increase traffic and increase their customer base. These days customers want more than just a slick ad. If you want to draw customers to your website the best way is to combine some web advertising with a fun and informational ... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Sameep Shah @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 5:29 PM

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is the way by which people manipulate the text on their websites with the intent to raise their site in the search engines. Typically a web writer or site owner will look for the most commonly searched for phrases in their niche and then create copy that is tailor written with those keywords and key phrases in mind. Search Engine Optimization is a great way to get new visitors to take a chance and visit your site based, simply, on where it places amon... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Jeff Alderson @ Friday, 22nd August 2008 @ 9:06 PM

With traffic soaring on social media sites like Squidoo, it makes good sense to leverage Squidoo, so you can tap into this massive traffic source. Google absolutely loves Squidoo. I have seen Squidoo lenses rank in the top 10 in Google for many keywords. It's not hard to imagine that Squidoo lenses rank in the top 10 for thousands or even hundreds of thousands of keywords. Since lenses are simple to set up and are 100% free, you should Squidoo, and Squidoo often. Lenses take o... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Garey Simmons @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 7:29 PM

The Internet has evolved into an important marketing tool for every product and service. In todays world, many people first make the decision to start an online business, then consider what items to offer through that venture. And they can take a number of approaches in doing this; the options are not limited to merchandise alone. Merchants who choose to sell a selection of products use their websites as online catalogue and order-taking centers. Software, books and music are among the mo... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Garey Simmons @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 7:27 PM

Free Internet advertising through classified ads is a valuable means for promoting your products and services to thousands online. Most free classified ads websites allow you to facilitate marketing with features like classified ads submitter forms. Features like this give free internet advertising a fast way of placing your products or services online. These ads are accessible 24/7, providing a free, effective forum for business promotion. No downloads come with these ads, and no sign-up... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Garey Simmons @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 6:40 PM

Renowned for its dual ability to save money and reach consumers beyond typically set territories, Internet banner advertising has captured the World Wide Web. Banner advertising played a major role in market trafficking throughout the scape of the Internet; many people and corporations have invested in this inexpensive advertising method. Some use it to achieve financial success; others simply don't know how to use it to their advantage. With your cheap Internet banner advertisemen... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Jerry Work @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 11:47 AM

Most beginning online advertisers are very confused about the difference between SERP ("search engine results page") ads and content network ads. The major search engines blend the two together so well that they seem to be the same thing, unless you really pay attention. Search engine results pages are what most people think of when talking about pay per click marketing. Ads are displayed based on the search terms used by searchers. When users search for terms that are the same o... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Jack Deal @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 9:32 AM

It's easy. Just type your subject in quotes in Google's search box. This is one of the quickest and easiest ways to test your search marketing efforts. Each week you can track which of your search marketing efforts is paying off and which isn't doing so well. The results may surprise you. For instance, you might be surprised to see your Craigslist ad showing up surprisingly high in your Googleprint. Placing an ad on Craigslist not only gets your name out but also g... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Garey Simmons @ Sunday, 17th August 2008 @ 7:38 PM

A frequently used but just as frequently misunderstood term, ecommerce is the abbreviated term for Electronic Commerce - the transaction or exchange of goods or services through a digital network. Billions upon billions of dollars have been generated through ecommerce in the past decade. While the revenue generated is impressive for a relatively novel phenomenon, even more impressive is the manner in which ecommerce has transformed the national landscape of business; both from the viewpo... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Steve Johnson @ Thursday, 14th August 2008 @ 11:23 PM

While everyone thinks that they can get better traffic results with SEO and SEM for their websites, this is just one facet where you can utilize these marketing tools. You can also use SEM for blogs. And for those who are wary about using a blog for personal or even commercial use, with SEM you can double the amount of traffic that finds your blog, therefore doubling the amount of traffic you will get to your website. Although huge amounts of traffic do no necessarily equate to more busi... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Randy Zlobec @ Sunday, 10th August 2008 @ 10:13 PM

Social media optimization (SMO) is an online technique for getting yourself and your online business a high profile and lots of traffic by maximizing your use of social networking online. Social media optimization includes using social bookmarking websites for your articles and content, using RSS feeds, blogging, and sharing "tagged" photographs on Flickr or videos on places such as Video Jug or YouTube. Social media optimization is an offshoot of SEO marketing techniques, ... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Randy Zlobec @ Sunday, 10th August 2008 @ 9:49 PM

I ran across a respected website where they were talking about "Destination Marketing" where by implementing a model where the website that a person lands on when clicking through a search result becomes the end of their search - in other words, a resource that fits all of their needs and is essentially the first and last website they will need to surf to in order to get their questions answered and their problems solved. In the past it has been all about attaining the top 10 posi... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Marketing | By Jack Deal @ Tuesday, 5th August 2008 @ 11:50 AM

Throughout the depressing news on oil, foreclosures, credit, jobs and stocks; there has been little attention paid to search technology, which is quietly changing our sense of community and the way we do business. Several trends suggest local search is not just a fad but a tsunami. Each day more and more local searches conducted. Yahoo estimates their local searches have grown by 76% in just 12 months. This spike in use is partly due to users becoming more skilled at using... more...