Online advertising

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(I’ve just brought this post over from my other blog as I’m changing the theme over there (lynda-hill.com). It was written in October 2008.

Yesterday I mentioned a new business opportunity called Succeed In 30 Days. Now I’m not going to go into that right now, but what I would like to do is mention how it has opened my eyes to a whole new way of advertising online.

The advertising needn’t be for businesses either; you can advertise anything and everything as long as it’s ‘legal, decent and honest’.

I’ve been using Pay Per Click for my business so far – which is another phrase for ‘Google Adwords’ and Yahoo Search. PPC is quite complicated to set up (until you learn how) and it can prove very expensive. A strange statistic is that Amit Mehta, one of the top Super Affiliate Marketers in the world is making $2.4 million a year right now – BUT – he’s paying anything from $5,000 per DAY on Google Adwords. Am I missing something? Simple statistical analysis makes me wonder if it’s worthwhile!

They say you have to pay money to make money and I understand that. I’m quite happy to pay my advertising fees, but sometimes setting up the right Keywords can be very complex – I won’t go into that now, other than to say that there’s a brand new program Pay Per Click Classroom 2.0 which has just been released (and it’s not expensive either). BTW, that’s not my affiliate link; I’ve decided not to join this time round as I have other projects I want to complete right now. I did learn a great deal just from watching the three pre-launch videos though. I digress.

The reason for this Blogpost is to mention the other advertising methods recommended by the Succeed In 30 Days program -and I’ll throw in a third as well.

Sometimes we see something but it doesn’t actually mean much. Then along comes someone else who says exactly the same thing and the penny drops!

Wealthy Affiliate University, of which I am a member, mentioned the first method, but I thought nothing of it. It’s USFreeAds.com. It’s an online classified ad system. Frankly I was amazed. The free option lets you run 2 ads at a time, but for the princely sum of $10 – PER YEAR – you can run up to 25 ads concurrently. These ads last 40 days and each one will automatically renew if you want it to. There is a lot moreof course, but I’ll leave it to you whether you click through.

The second method I’d heard about but hadn’t considered yet. It’s a means of getting an ad distributed via safelists to ezine readers. For $12.50 I set up an ad to go out to 100,000 readers. What’s good about safelists is that they have double opt-in subscribers – which means people want to get them. So you can be reasonably sure the ads will be seen. You just need to decide how much you want to pay. The program I was pointed to for this purpose is MBPAdvertising.com. Go check it out.

And what’s the third method?

It’s something I haven’t used for years because you can waste a lot of time surfing! It’s called TrafficSwarm and you can sign up for free. The idea behind it is that you view – ‘surf’ – the advertisers pages and earn credits, usually between 1 and 5, for each page you view. You need to stay on the page for 20 seconds before you click for the next one. As these credits build up you can use them to advertise your own site or sites. If you sign up (and pay) for the Pro version you get better deals. I think I must have done that years ago. I’d completely forgotten about TrafficSwarm, but I hadn’t closed my account, so imagine my surprise when they wouldn’t let me register a new account! The upshot is that I paid $40 to top up my account by 2,000 credits and they gave me 2,200 for being a Pro member. So far I have 5 of my websites being advertised.

So, there you are. Three different forms of advertising.

USFreeAds.com – for mainly classifieds

MBPAdvertising.com – for ezine ads, banner ads etc

TrafficSwarm – ad rotator for targeted readers

None of them is particularly expensive which is why I am more than happy to recommend them to you.

Let’s see what I come up with in my next Blogpost.

‘Bye for now

–Lynda

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