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The point of any advertising campaign is to return more money than was invested. If advertising costs more than the profits the advertising creates and has no potential to increase, than the wrong forms of advertising are being utilized. Advertising has the distinct benefit of attracting visitors to a website with very minimal effort. Advertising compliments SEO practices. Whereas SEO works in the long term, advertising can initially attract visitors and provide large and broad visibility.

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The word “blog” is a shortened form of the phrase “web log.” A blog is a website that uses an array of time-stamped and categorized “posts”, generally placed in date order, to allow users to read a wide variety of articles and other informational posts. Most Internet users are probably already familiar with many blogs already, or have at least heard about them. Google’s official blog is a free blog maintained by a free blogging site called Blogger, owned by Google, and is one of the most-read blogs on the Web. Clearly, just because a blog is simple and free to create doesn’t mean that blog can’t generate visitors.

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Aside from increased visibility and the ability to pay only for users who actually view a website, PPC has several other unique benefits.

Rapid results: Organic SEO practices can take some time to yield results because an improvement in ranking will not occur until after the search engine spiders crawl the website again. A PPC campaign, on the other hand, can be implemented very quickly. One the keywords have been bid on and the arrangements with the hosting site have been finalized, a PPC campaign will be instantly up and running.

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Getting Started

Everyone’s an expert at something, and an area that one has some knowledge about is a good place to start when deciding to join an affiliate marketing program. Potential affiliates should start with something they at least partially understand, or something with which they have some expertise. Starting “close to home” has several advantages. First affiliates have the incentive to work harder on their money-making pursuits, because they’re working with topics that interest them. Second, their own experiences can really add a lot of depth to web content. Third, as they continue working on their marketing plans, they’ll have to do more research and learning. Learning about something they love will keep them motivated and focused.

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Imagine for a second that Mandy has a moderately successful online business. Her business is doing okay, but she wishes she could bring in more business and more sales. Mandy would like to expand, get bigger office space, and perhaps even some additional storage space for her shipping needs, but unfortunately, she doesn’t have the cash coming in to pay for these extras. Her online advertising and marketing programs have gone well, and they are bringing in more customers, but she want to take her business to the next level.

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