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I want to welcome you to my "Articles Make Money Blog". I hope you enjoy reading my articles, as much as I did researching them.

I know as time goes on you will pick up some good pointers that will help you succeed with your articles and where to submit them.

Thanks and happy reading.
Dody

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8/21/07

Banner Advertisements

Copyright © Dolores Davis


When you are trying to make money off of the articles on your
website, it is important to effectively promote your site so that
you will attract customers and they can see just what a good,
quality site you have. There are several ways so market and
promote your website, one of them being though banner
advertisements.

What Banner Ads Can Do For You
Banner ads can help bring visitors from others sites to your own.
Although monthly fees can be expensive to advertise on high
traffic sites, in the end it may be cheaper and/or a faster way
to start seeing significant revenue from your website efforts,
rather than waiting for SEO techniques to bring your own site to
the top of search engine results. Aside from paying to advertise
on someone else’s site, there are also free banner exchanges to
choose from. We will look at the pros and cons of each banner
advertising method below.

Free Banner Exchanges
Free banner exchanges are when you and other sites exchange each
others banners. Their banner will go on your site and your banner
will go one their site. Although this option is free, there are
two main problems with it. First, if you want your banner on a
significant number of sites, it will mean cluttering your own
site up with these banners. This could even shoot you in the foot
if you run an affiliate website because, instead of clicking on
your affiliate links, your visitors may be clicking on your
banner exchange links. Secondly, you have to be really careful
about the types of sites that you exchange banners with. Some
sites like to gather a lot of banners so that they can be a
directory or portal site and not have to have any real content.
These “banner farms” or “link farms” will do nothing positive
for your site and, in the meantime, you will be bringing them
potential traffic.

Paid Banner Ads
As we saw above, paid banner ads cost money, but they will
eventually pay off if you choose the right ones. You need to
ensure that the site produces the amount of traffic that they
say and that they have your ad placed in a way that invites
visitors to click without being too pushy. You also want to
choose a site that does not house too many other banners on the
same page as yours or that there are no competitor links on the
same page.

All in all, banner ads can end up being profitable for your
site if you go about it the right way. If you do decide to check
out banner advertisement as a marketing avenue, be sure to keep
the above tips in mind.



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About the Author:

Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:

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8/3/07

Articles Are The Quickest Way To Your Customers Wallet

Copyright © Dolores Davis


One way of promoting your website and product can be achieved
for free. As an additional bonus, this “free” method can boost
your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income.

Articles. One of the easiest ways to promote your website in
order to generate traffic and increase your earnings.

How does this work?
Write articles relating to your website and submit them to “free
content” submission sites. Easy to do, takes little time and can
increase your website traffic, sales and of course, your income.

How can article writing boost traffic and income?
The article on the free content site contains a link to your own
website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to
click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. Having them
on the free content sites is also making these articles available
to other webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their
site.

If they do, your article will include a link back to your site.
And anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on
the link to visit your site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and
more of them are appearing on different websites, the total
number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines
are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites
so they can determine the importance of a certain site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more importance
search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your
website’s placement in the search results.

If your site is into promoting a product or service, the links
that your articles have achieved will mean more potential
customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through, you
never know if they might be in need of what you are offering
in the future.

There are also those who already have specific things they need
on their mind but cannot decide yet between the many choices
online. Chances are, they may stumble upon one of your articles,
gets interested by the contents you wrote, go to your site and
became enticed by your promotions. See how easy that is?

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index
published articles. They also index any article that is written
about your own website’s topic. So once someone searches for
that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may
even show the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to
your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

It is no wonder why many webmasters are suddenly reviving their
old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about
their site than doing other means of promotion.

Getting their site known is easier if they have articles
increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for
visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now
taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search
engines through your articles is one way of letting them know
about you and your business.

The good thing with articles is that you can write about things
that people would want to know about. This can be achieved in
the lightest mood but professional manner, with a little
not-so-obvious sales pitch added.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent
on writing one article and submitting to free content site. In
the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more
sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is
happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously
had.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles,
fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and
wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention
and interest that people are giving your website and your products
or services.

Try writing some articles and you will be assured of the sudden
surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you
know it, you will be doubling and even tripling your earnings.

Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.


(Feel free to use this article online and in your email
newsletters as long as you leave it intact and do not
alter it in anyway. The by-line and biography must
remain in the article.)


About the Author:

Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:

http://pageswirl.com/rotate.php?user=dodie