Internet Marketing Mecca - The Ins and Outs of Internet Marketing

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Friday, 23 January 2009
By Art Gib Internet marketing allows businesses to use the Internet more as a way to approach their customers on a warm playing field than such an "in your face" and cold way as a newspaper or magazine article. Internet marketing includes such avenues as search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, affiliate marketing, email campaigns, banner advertising, website content, partner relationships, and more. When Internet marketing was first becoming a big avenue for businesses to pursue, they would spend thousands of dollars on banner advertisements and, oddly enough, those advertisements converted well into sales. Now, however, banner advertisements are seen mostly as noise and are ignored. There are the occasional banner advertisements that convert into sales well but for the most part, they are a thing of the past. The real push with Internet marketing for a while has been search engine marketing or search engine optimization. This is where the website is optimized so that it will rank well on the search engine for keywords that are directly related to the keywords that the company's customers will use to search for the company. If the website is optimized well, it will rank within the top four or five places on the search engine for the relevant keywords. When this happens, the customers will find the website and visit it. Since they went out and searched for the website, they will be "hot" customers or the type of customer the company is looking for. Conversion with this type of customer should be easier thus reducing the cost of marketing. Internet marketing is also easier to track and it is possible to review the return on investment much easier than with a print marketing campaign. With print campaigns there was very little that could be known definitively about whether or not a campaign was successful. It was more of a guessing game than an actual understanding of what was happening once a campaign was launched. There was the launch of the campaign, the increase in visits to a store, which could also have come from some other force happening simultaneously like a mention on a TV show, and then the assumption was made that the campaign was a success because the visits to the store increased. When there were multiple campaigns running at the same time, i.e. the radio and TV, then there was no way of knowing which campaign the one responsible for the results. Internet marketing is different. Each activity can be tracked and the results calculated. This helps in understanding what activities money should be spent on again the next go around. Orangesoda.com (http://www.orangesoda.com) is an internet marketing company. Art Gib is a freelance writer. Internet Marketing Share Your Opinion. (0 posts) Tag it:
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