After selecting a product/service to promote, the next big challenge is to find people interested in that product/service. There are several methods you can use to market your product online.
Create a Website
You can promote your product by creating a webpage for it that you will optimize for the search engines and promote using different internet marketing methods, such as article marketing, social media marketing, and paid advertisements. Page optimization involves describing your product in at least 400 words and using “keywords.” Keywords are words that people use to find the product you are selling, and they can be found with the help of tools, such as Google AdWords: Keyword Tool and Wordtracker. The primary keyword should appear in the title of your article and a few times in the article body.
Article Marketing
Article marketing is mainly done through article directories. The idea is to inform the readers about the usefulness of the product and encourage them to follow the link provided to purchase or learn more about it. The inclusion of keywords in the article (title and body) is also important to enable people to find your article. You do not have to write a separate article for each directory. When submitting the article, you should carefully select the category, sub-category (if applicable), and keywords.
Video Marketing
Creating videos about your product can also help you find buyers. Google, the leading search engine, directly indexes videos, so your video can show up in the search results besides the text results. In the video, you should inform the viewer about the product and how they can get. You can provide your affiliate link in the video description and ask the viewers through the video to click that link to get the product. A good way of saving time when creating videos is to simply narrate the points mentioned in the article submitted to the article directory.
Slide Sharing
Slide sharing is a simple affiliate marketing technique. All you have to do is present the article you have written for article directory submission in the form of slides. You can use a tool like MS Power Point to create the slides. Slideshare.net is a site where you can upload you slides for free.
Social Media Marketing
Social media is widely used for product promotion these days. Promotion on sites such as Twitter and Plurk can bring traffic to your target site. Social bookmarking sites, such as Digg, Delcicious, and Diigo, can also be used for promotions.
Paid Advertising
Paid advertising in the form of pay-per-click advertising is used by many affiliates for internet marketing. All of the top search engines display per-per-click ads. Google AdWords is the most popular pay-per-click program. It allows you to bid on ad positions related to a keyword and make your ads appear in specific regions, if you like. Paid advertising enables you to display your site besides the top search results, without promoting it through other means or search engine optimizing it.
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