Making Money with the Top Search Engines
by Mark Bellinger
Published on this site: August 2nd, 2005 - See
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With so many internet and home business opportunities on the
world wide web nowadays it is very confusing as to know which
ones are scams and which are not.
However, even though I am sure that most of the money making
schemes advertised have their merits, it would give the entrepreneur
great peace of mind to know that he was building an internet
business in conjunction with a credible and high profile corporate.
Credibility is a vital component of doing business on the
Internet and I am sure that you would agree that credibility
would give any "Internet Business Opportunity" the
ability to convince you that it was all above board and a
genuinely sound opportunity.
Well there are such opportunities and you do not even have
to have a website to capitalize on them and to build a successful
online business.
This is how it works.
Some of the top search engines have pay per click programs
that essentially show small text advertisements to the right
of their many search engine results (and in other places for
that matter - for instance Google shows them on websites whose
publishers have signed up to display them).
These advertisements have been paid for by advertisers who
are participating in the respective search engine's pay per
click program and are displayed and ranked according to the
keywords they have selected and how much they have been willing
to bid for them.
Now for the important part.
The power of this marketing strategy is such that with a
well driven pay per click campaign, huge amounts of traffic
can be driven to a particular site almost immediately.
For those of you who know, many sites have huge hours invested
in them to improve their search engine rankings and to generate
traffic and after years (in most cases) don't come close to
the amount of traffic that a Google Adwords campaign, for
example, can generate overnight.
This type of campaign can have your text ads displayed in
both the search engine results pages as well as one appropriate
websites all over the internet. Therefore the reach of your
advertising would be immense.
This means that you can set up a Google Adwords campaign
and drive traffic to your affiliates' sites (with your affiliate
id in the url of course) and receive the commissions for all
the sales that have been generated by the traffic driven through
your adwords.
This all sounds great, but what's in it for you if you don't
even have a website?
Well, if you are affiliated to a site/s or company where
you earn commission on sales, your commissions will skyrocket
with an Adwords campaign aimed at your affiliates' sites.
One word of caution.
You could waste your money and become disillusioned by embarking
blindly on your pay per click campaign.
Therefore, it is highly recommended to read up on how to
maximize your earnings & not to spend money unwisely and
research carefully as to how much to bid on specific keywords
and what keywords would work best for you.
Mark Bellinger is an Internet Entrepreneur and creator
of the following websites; http://www.income.za.net
http://www.internetbusiness.co.za
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