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Let’s take a look at what you’ve learned so far: search engine strategies, building links, and promoting your website through traditional media and emails. While search engines, emails and linking strategies are usually free, traditional media needs a special budget. If you have a good budget for website promotion, here are some online strategies you might want to consider: 5. Online Paid Advertising Strategies If you want your online business to bring you rapid results, you need to employ paid advertising strategies. The most popular paid advertising solution is PPC – pay per click. You can buy PPC advertising from Yahoo or Google. Your ads will appear in the sponsored results. The position of the ad within the sponsored results depends on how much you pay for a particular keyword phrase in comparison to other companies. This is a tricky investment though: you should first learn how to use PPC, unless you want to pay more than this advertising solution is really worth. You could also use CPM (cost per thousand views) Business - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under business/finance/loan/mortgage category Computers - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under computer hardware/software/peripheral category Internet - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under webhosting/webdesign/internet marketing category Software - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under software category Web Design - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under web design/development category Web Hosting - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under web hosting category Web Promotion - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under search engine optimization/internet marketing category Web Resources - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under other web category Recreation - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under travel/hotel/cruise category Casino - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online gambling/poker/blackjack/roulette category Health - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online pharmacy/hospital/health category Shopping - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under online shopping/gift category Miscellaneous - Click the link on the left to visit our partner sites under all other categories Buy text ads: some companies offer you the possibility of buying advertising space in their newsletters. The best approach is text links. Choose companies that you know having a large target audience. Check your web stats to see how much traffic and real revenue this paid advertising strategy brings. You could also purchase banner ads, but, statistics show, they don’t work as well as they once did. Build up an affiliate program. This is known as PPA – pay per action. That’s how you build a network of resellers who will get a percentage of your wins by promoting your products. What you need to do is: determine how much you are willing to pay in commissions and how you are going to manage the program. If you are online business savvy you may know how to set up the technical details. If not, choose a company.
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