Which Internet Marketing techniques work for you?
For those who are new to this blog you might like to take part in the regular reader poll in the right hand side bar. For those that have been before, here’s the results to the most recent poll where I asked:
Which of the following internet marketing techniques are the most successful for you?
Answers: Affiliate marketing, Articles / PLR, Adverts (inc AdSense), Joint ventures, eZines, Blogging, SEO, or other.
Before I summarise the results I’d like to thank all of those who took part. It wasn’t a huge turnout this time around, but none the less you can still take a little value out of the answers. So here goes.
50% use blogging successfully as part of their internet marketing mix.
Not surprising really as most blog readers are bloggers themselves. Great to see how important blogs are in the internet marketing mix though.
20% have some form of advertising in their marketing mix, either Adsense or others.
I think it is fair to say that Adsense is the most popular blog monetisation tactic, at least until bloggers / internet marketers move onto a range of other tactics, such as article / bum marketing or PLR marketing (which came in a 10%.)
20% Also employ search engine optimisation (SEO) tactics as part of their marketing.
The survey didn’t ask in any detail what this includes but there are a variety of options for you to consider.
10% Use articles or PLR marketing.
It’s no secret that article marketing is a great way to drive traffic to your site and to increase your rankings. PLR stands for Private Label rights, which is essentially when you buy an existing ebook and rebrand the content as your own. Again this is not a new tactic but interesting none the less.
Nobody voted for joint ventures, affiliate marketing, or ezines.
Although perhaps due to the size of the sample this is not actually not that surprising. The other choices are clearly the most popular forms of marketing and making money online.
So as an internet marketer what can you take away from this?
First of all get your blog working and attracting traffic as they are a great platform on which to develop your internet business. In terms of costs of setting up a website, a blog has to be the cheapest available option there is - in some cases it’s even free. If you want more advice on this, check out Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind programme.
Secondly you should add AdSense to you blog / websites as soon as you can. It’s clearly a good way to make some money. You’re not going to get rich overnight with AdSense, but you should start to see a trickle of money fairly quickly.
The third point is to consider search engine optimisation tactics. I’m not going to go into great detail on what you can do here as I’m certainly no expert. Get yourself over to Aaron Wall’s site and pick up a copy of his SEO Book.
The final recommendation is to do a lot more than the first three steps. If you stop at that i.e. setting up a blog, adding AdSense and doing some SEO, you won’t get very far at all. The internet is full of opportunity and you’ll need to work hard to capitalise on what’s out there.
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A blog can be a very effective tool for an existing business to utilize to generate business in the offline world. I have one blog that I run for a local business, it’s sole goal is to generate business for their shop and it must be earning money because they keep paying me.