Using Different Websites When Marketing Online

This is one of the most crucial steps when webmasters are trying to increase traffic or make money online is making sure not to overuse the same form of marketing over and over.  This article will go over many different types and styles of internet marketing making sure that after using one form you will have many more in your arsenal.  One thing is certain when marketing online and that is there is no one perfect way to run an internet marketing campaign you must find what works for your website and use it.  You should also be willing to explore and use other different forms of internet marketing which you may not be as comfortable with.  A good example of this is a SEO (search engine optimization) expert who decided to further develop their traffic generation and customer base by moving into social marketing.  Now learning either SEO or SMO (social marketing optimization) will take a decent amount of time usually around 6 months just to get the hang of it, but after you begin understanding the different forms of marketing gaining traffic and income from your websites will become much easier.

The first step of increasing the scope of your internet marketing is knowing about the different forms of marketing available to the average person.  First and foremost I would like to say you can accomplish the same as any major company online.  In fact the majority of major keywords is not taken over by big companies, but single people who have marketed their websites correctly.  You can without any money put your website on top of Google for major keywords.  A couple good cases is walmart.com and ford.com who have a page rank of seven.  This is possible on a much smaller scale one good example of a blog that has risen past these major billion dollar companies is seomoz.com a small team of developers and seo experts brought a blog from a page rank of zero to a page rank of eight.  SEO is a major way of marketing and when done correctly it can bring you hundreds to thousands of visitors daily.  This will be one of the most important techniques you can learn.  Google and other major search engines are vital in any marketing campaign and when you are beginning a website learning how to optimize for these major search engines using webmaster forums such as the v7n community as well as seo blogs such as seomoz is important.

A few other marketing techniques you should know include social marketing which is using websites such as twitter, facebook, and digg for traffic generation and overall branding.  Video marketing has also become one of the fastest growing forms of internet marketing.  Anyone with a twenty dollar web cam is able to post a video on one of the biggest websites on the web (you tube).  If you become well liked by the millions of people visiting you tube it is possible to make video creation your full time job.  Learning how to build a brand and make it viral can also be a very helpful step when trying to make money online free.  If people know your brand and share it with others then your website will become viral and traffic will be the least of your worries.  Building a brand is much easier said than done so take plenty of time to learn everything you can about branding.  Offline marketing is my least favorite, but as you see commercials for walmart and bill boards for your local grocery store it still has some advantages.  The two biggest ways to market offline that seem realistic for a sole webmaster would be creating business cards and putting up fliers.  Personally though I believe that the biggest focus for any internet marketer should be SEO learning how to place their website on top of Google for the keywords that fit their website best.