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8/20/2008

Pay Per Click Advertising Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank

Filed under: — Richard @ 2:38 am

By Terry Leslie

Pay per click advertising has quickly evolved into some of the most efficient and effective methods of bringing traffic to your website. Building a home based business isn’t easy, and the more tools that you can get with as little cost as possible is not impossible. In fact it is highly likely. With pay per click advertising expected to hit a record high of $8 billion, it is no wonder that many new or fledgling home based business might be a little intimidating and scary to use.

Pay per click advertising is designed to let users know that you have the exact information that they are looking for by matching keywords with tags. It is really very simple in concept. Providing vital information for the user is actually one of the most overlooked yet important keys to creating a strong pay per click campaign. Most users simply skip over websites that only offer product if they are in need of both product and information. Just like we often ask a question or two when we walk into a brick and mortar shop, we often want our questions answered before purchasing online, especially since we can’t pick up the product, look at it, inspect it, and decide if it is exactly what we are looking for.

Pay per click traffic is by far some of the best traffic your website can possibly see. The users who end up on your website this way ended up there because they were looking for you, what you have to offer, and are usually ready or almost ready to make a purchase to satisfy a need. Using pay per click methods ensures that you will receive the quality traffic that leads to profits.

While the bidding process that pay per click sites use can definitely lead to extraordinary amounts of money spent on advertising, there is enough evidence that proves that pay per click traffic makes purchases. You want the top slot, but you might not have the revenue available. Shifting your keywords can often give you a better price on your pay per click advertising while bringing you closer to the top. You might not get the top slot, but you are more likely to get much closer to the top by trying out less frequently used keywords.

Of course, this means, you may decide, that you will also get fewer clicks. This si true but remember that the traffic is exceptional and already looking to spend money on the site that has provided them with the information. Thus, a few fewer clicks can be worth the better traffic with a credit card in hand.

The pay per click advertising campaigns that many home based businesses run to effectively bring in the appropriate traffic requires some tweaking from day to day. You can’t just set and forget this system because your keywords may change based on the information you are making available on your website, you might end up with a higher advertising budget, and you need to constantly cultivate the pay per click program to make sure you are receiving the best and most comprehensive search results with your selections.

From there, you can take a few moments and create methods of email collection by asking users to sign up for something else. The possibilities are endless when it comes to pay per click campaigns.

Follow up with your account regularly. You must have an open account with a pay per click search engine result campaign for your home based business. However, you may not reach your goal every day or you may surpass it. Either way, understanding where you are with your account can really help you get on board.

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8/18/2008

Should I Use Article Marketing As My Blog Traffic Strategy?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Richard @ 2:03 pm

By Alex Liu

Article marketing is a common traffic strategy most blogger used. Basically, it’s about writing an article and submit it to article directories. When people read your article and click on the link to your blog, you get traffic! However, this traffic strategy looks like a lot of work needed. Some bloggers need hours to write an article and submit to the article directories.

So, is it worth the effort and time?

Yes, it does. Article marketing are not just another traffic strategy for bloggers. It provides the following bonus benefits to blogger:

1.Contents for blog. After writing an article, you can rewrite it in a conversational style for your blog. Contents are very valuable. Instead of creating content for traffic, edit a bit and you’ll provide values to your blog readers as well.
2.Search engine optimization (SEO). Most of you might already know that blogs have extra advantages when it comes to ranking in the search engines. Google love blogs because it provides lots of fresh content to its users. With article marketing, you can easily create lots of high quality one-way backlinks too. SEO is a good source for automated traffic.
3.Passive traffic ’streams’. Most bloggers don’t know that article marketing could be used to get passive traffic over a long time. When you submit your articles to popular article directories, your article will not viewed by others only on the day it is published. Even your articles are few months old, people could search your articles from the search engines. If you have submitted 100 articles, you might be getting traffic everyday on autopilot.

And the best thing to know is that you don’t need hours to come out with an article. It might probably take you 30 minutes. And I know there’re some professional article marketers who are only spending 7 minutes per article. Let’s start with getting it done in 30 minutes first.

1. Understanding

The first step is to understand who are the visitors and what they want to read first. “What kind of visitors would you want to have at your blog?”, “What are they interested to know and read?” These are very important information before you start writing. With these information, you could easily attract the visitors you want. You could also create compelling titles and pull out content easily.

2. Writing

After knowing what your targeted visitors want to read, pick one of it. Create a compelling title with words such as “How to”, “Secrets” or “Tips”. Type “Opening”, “Point 1″, “Point 2″ until “Point X” and “Closing” at different paragraphs in your writing software. Lastly, write the an opening that is a summary of the whole article without the points. Write the points and explain it with more sentences or with examples. Remember to finish your closing by calling them into action.

3. Submitting

Submit it to the top article directories which is EzineArticles.com. You might heard of article auto submission services and software and you heard that it can submit to hundreds of article directories. If you are interested in getting traffic for long term, I believe it is enough for just one of it. If you are just interested in to build hundreds of backlinks for SEO, using those service is a good option.

If you use this method and continue improving your skill for months, you’ll be getting lots of traffic for your blog and able to create more articles in a shorter period of time. To improve your traffic from articles, always track how much traffic you are getting from each articles. EzineArticles.com do provide you such information for each of their authors. Remember, never forget to read more about writing better articles.

About The Author

Alex Liu is a full-time blogger who used and tested more than 10 different traffic strategies for all his 5 blogs. To grab your list of 103 Blog Traffic Strategies and to receive more tips about free blog traffic, visit http://blogtrafficgeek.com

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