Internet marketing is the process of promoting your business online. Internet marketing normally consists of:
1. Your website: what you say about yourself, how you say it, and how you present it.
2. Online Classified ads: using websites like craigslist and kiji can be highly effective. We reccomend them to many of our web design and online marketing customers who are looking to achieve the maximum number of sales from their online marketing efforts.
3. Pay Per Click Advertising: pay per click advertisement programs provide people with a fantastic way to get featured on the 1st page of Google, Yahoo, and MSN straight away. The fantastic thing about pay per click advertisements is that they charge you based on the number of actual clicks that they drive to your website. For example, you may run a web design service and pay $.15 per time someone clicks on a link that goes to your website. The fantastic thing about pay per click is that you only pay for results. When you buy an image link or banner on many websites, you pay a certain amount, say $80 per month regardless of whether or not it works.
4. Organic Search Engine Optimization: rankings on search engines are largely determined by the number of links that you have pointing to your website. Lots of relevant links from quality websites will increase your rankings. For example, if you are trying to promote a web design service, you will do well by adding your website to web design directories, Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other noteworthy sites. In our experience, you will see greater results if you add your links manually (not using an automated program) and we strongly advise against using automated tools for that reason along with a variety of other reasons.
In summary, I hope this article gives you some new thoughts about how to promote your business online.