Thursday, October 9, 2008

Internet Marketing Essentials

By Gilbert Hernandez

Internet marketing is the act of taking a product and advertising using the internet. There are many different tactics used to market products on the internet. They range from pay per click campaigns to search engine optimization.

Pay per click, or PPC for short, is one of the fastest and most effective methods for marketing a product. The most poular PPC site is Google AdWords. Those are the advertisements you see all over the internet. The most noticeable place is when you search for something on Google and off to the right hand side of the results are thos ads.

Those ads are a result of someone paying a premium to have their ad show up whenever a search for a certain word or phrase occurs. If you are an internet marketer you must do some research to find out which keywords will get you the best results at the best price in order to sell your product profitably.

The other type of internet marketing is the art of creating a site that gets noticed by the search engines and shows up for free when someone searches for a relevant keyword phrase. In Google those are the results that come up on the left side of the screen. It takes more time to get a site to show up here.

SEO traffic is free. It takes a lot more time to get done but you can't beat the price. It is more work in the beginning but requires little maintenance once accomplished. PPC requires more upfront capital and more attention along the way.

Two important parts of SEO is the offsite and the onsite optimization. Tweaking them a little here and there are what SEO experts must do to mantain their valuable ranking. Both are important to the sites success.

When you optimize your site with a certain keyword that is on site optimization. It involves using the word enough times in the right spots to get the page noticed by the search engines. If you put it in too many places the search engines look at it as spam and ignore your site. Off site optimization uses other people's sites to gain rank.

The more sites that link to yours the more credibility you have with the search engines as an important site in your particular niche. It is also wise to have the back links embedded into the keyword that you want your site to be ranked and known for. This is called using anchor text.

To become effective in internet marketing it is essential to learn both SEO and PPC. You can find experts all over the internet who can teach you how to master both types of marketing. There are also proffessionals who are already good at these who can do a great job for you.

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