Free And Paid Advertising On The Internet
Advertising is available in abundance on board the Internet. There's plenty of free advertising as well as advertising that you need to pay for. The irony is that some of the so called paid advertising services charge you a fee to give you lists of effective free advertising sites and another fee to show you how to operate them yet and another fee to operate them for you!
The paid advertising services include search traffic where they use software and other methods to make your website visible on the Internet to those who search online for whatever it is that you are selling on your website. However lots of free advertising services have the option to upgrade your membership that may result in more advertising services for you.
If you are a raw beginner and have time to play around with, you might as well experiment with some free online advertising. Some of the free advertising services that are available online that I have used are ...
Splash Pages - A Very Important Tool For Every Online Marketer
A splash page is a one page website that loads very fast. It is also referred to as a squeeze page and it is of vital importance for Internet marketers as this site is what you will be advertising online. It is on this page that you will be expressing your very brief opinion of the product or service that you are marketing followed by the URL that points to the product or service that you are representing as an affiliate.
Very often the creator of the product or service will have, in the affiliates' section, pre-writen phrases that he would recommend that you use in your splash page. These are called "TEASERS!" Whatever the teaser is, it will be powerful enough to entice suckers viewers to click on the link of the affiliate URL that will take him straight to the sales page. The sales page will do the rest! Remember when a sale is made you receive the commission. That's the best part of it all, right?
Create Splash Pages
EasyHits4U
Click Voyager
So, if you join all the three sites shown above you get to create a total of nine splash pages totally free of charge, and mind you they are all fast loading. There are tutorial within the sites itself which would help you create your splash pages. You could also learn how to add your ffiliate links or whatever product or service you want to promote.
Hey! Check these two sites out before you launch your advetising campaigns ... Click on the text below.
01 Leads Leap
02 Herculist
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Quite apart from that, you also get free advertising from these sites. Since these are also traffic exchange sites, you could advertise anything legit via these very sites using their surfing systems. You could advertise your splash pages as well here via the traffic exchange method In addition you could also place banner ads as well as text ads free of charge.
You could forward any splash page from any of the two afore mentioned sites to any other site, and not necessarily advertise it on the site from which you created it. You could also submit your splash pages to classified advertising sites and to safelists.
Classified Advertising Sites On The Internet
There are hundreds of them and almost all of them are free to use. You could also targets your ads geographically on many of the classified advertising sites online. However, in all of them there is also a paid option which either allows you to post more ads more frequently or it enables one post to be visible worldwide or to more cities than permitted by the free ad option. Classified ads do get thousands of visitors and your content, heading, and the images you utilize could make a difference. Do a Google search for classified ad sites and join a few and start posting your ads.
All About Traffic Exchange Sites
A traffic exchange is actually a site which requires members to view web pages posted by other members. In exchange the site displays that member's site to other members. There is something a traffic ratio. If the ratio stands at 2:1, that means for every two sites that you view, your site is shown to one member in some other part of the world. In other words you receive one credit for viewing one ad. Two credits earned by you would suffice to enable your page to be visible to one other member.
Once you enroll with a traffic exchange site and log in, in the member's area you will find a button that says "surf." When you click on that button websites posted by the other members appear on the screen, and a timer is activated simultaneously. The site remains on the screen for a few seconds, after which a tiny image or a number will appear on the surf bar on which you need to click to indicate to the software that you have viewed the site that was displayed. You have thus earned one credit. The number of credits you will need to earn in order that your site be shown once to a random member varies from site to site. So does the timer.
Right below I have recommended three traffic exchange sites that enables free members to create spash pages at zero cost. Once you join them to create your splash pages, you can also use them to advertise your sites free of charge. As stated earlier, you need to earn advertising credits to have your advertisements displayed.
All traffic exchange sites, also know as surfing programs have options to upgrade. An upgraded member enjoys greater benefits. For example at the site called Create Splash Pages. an upgraded member can create 100 splash pages for his use. Upgraded members also have the advantage of better surfing ratios.
What Are Safelists?
A safelist is an e-mail marketing site. It is also like a traffic exchange but the difference is that members, instead of viewing web pages, need to read emails sent by other members in order to earn credits that can be spent to send mail to other members. When signing up you will need to have two seperate g-mail accounts. One to receive mail sent out by other members, and the other to receive updates from admin. When signing up you have to accept their terms and conditions in which you agree to receive mail from other members.
The mail you will receive is actually sent to you by the system and will it will appear in your inbox in the form of a hyperlinked text. Clicking on the text will activate a timer while showing you the text of the email you have received. The URL of the website advertised by the member whose e-mail you are reading will of course be wrapped in the text. So credits you earn with this kind of action will determine the number of people to whom you can send an email to.
You actually submit the text of your e-mail along with the URL that you want to promote, to the site and the site accepts your mail and queues it to be sent to the appropriate number of members. So you actually receive mail from other members via the site and the site forwards your e-mail to other members. All you need to do is enroll, clcik on the emails that you receive, earn credits thus, and start sending out your offers via the site using the credits you have earned. Upgraded members of course enjoy more facilities and that of course varies from site to site.
Twitter? Yes Twitter
If you already have a Twitter account, well and good. If you don't and if you are interested in joining you can do so for the purpose of advertising your splash pages without any cost. Simply join Twitter and start following people. At the time of writing, a new member can follow up to 400 acounts every day. [ https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-follow-limit ]
Some will follow you back and those who do will be able to see your tweets. When you have a reasonable number of followers start tweeting the URL of your splash pages. Of course Twitter has a help section from which you can learn the limitations on your activities. Check it out before commencing. It would also be wise to cloak or shorthen your splash page's URL via the popular URL shortener known as "bitly." ... [ https://bitly.com/ ]
Advertising On FaceBook
If you already have a FaceBook account, you need to join their various groups. Once you log in, you will find some icons at the top of the page. Hover over each one of them and click on the one that points to "groups." There you will find various groups associated with various interests. Find appropriate ones and join them. There are costs involved.
Appropriate ones are the ones that tally with the topic discussed on your splash page. As an example, I would say it would be unwise to promote the sale of cat food to a group that is interested in mind sciences. Join as many groups as you can after checking out the limitations on the number you can join each day.
The wisest and most effective way of doing this is to make a post with a invitation to all those who are interested in whatever it is that you are trying to sell online, to inbox you. Do not place any links in the post. Those who are interested will inbox you and you respond. When they do, start off by describing the product and then giving them the URL of your splash page, and not the direct sales link. That way you will be also able to strike up a relationship with some members.
What Next?
Of course there are various other free advertising methods on the Internet, and I am presenting only the ones that I have used and have faith in. Some of these methods are effective some time and are not, the rest of the time. However, there are no guarantees that certain advertising methods will work, be it paid advertising or otherwise. It's up to you to experiment and strike a balance.
Good luck to you!
