The Choice Is Yours

There is much more in common with Internet marketing, online advertising, and Web branding then most realize. The interaction between each of these terms for your B2B, Business to business or B2C, Business to consumer company; as it relates to promoting your business on the Internet is quite involved. As the Web continues to grow at break neck speeds, with millions of web pages added daily from all countries around the world, and the addition of other domain names with various dots (.com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, .pro, .biz, .info, .name, .us, .ws, and other country extensions;) is it any wonder that your B2B or B2C business website has to compete in the Global Market Place for market space in the search engine results pages?

There certainly are ways of optimizing the website to help for the search engine results pages, along with establishing quality links from sites that are related to your industry or field of expertise, but that is not the entire answer for expanding your business market reach.

The Power of Online Advertising

The power of Online advertising can be parlayed to your advantage in more ways than one. With the addition of the massive amount of websites on a daily basis, which makes it more difficult for web pages to rank high for all of your B2B or B2C keywords, actually creates an excellent advertising media outlet for marketing your company on the Web. The reason is, large numbers of websites are utilizing Google AdSense programs within their websites.

For those that are not familiar with Google AdSense, the program provides a means of monetizing a website by providing an advertising media outlet for the keywords within the host website. Google serves Ads related to certain keywords. The algorithm matches the site up with the appropriate and best related ads. This is where the power of online advertising comes in.

Imagine, your company ad can be viewed on hundreds or thousands of websites all around the world. This is in addition to the ad being displayed for keywords you bid on for the search results pages on the right side of Google Search. Just think, people are searching for the products or services your company provides and within as little as 15 minutes you can start your online advertising campaign targeting a select group of individuals, readers, and searchers.

Advertising can be targeted to a very narrow product line or a broadly encompassing branded business type. More than one advertising campaign can be run at the same time. You set the advertising budget. It can be as little or as much as you desire. Advertising campaigns can be started or paused anytime desired.

Ads can be in the form of text or graphic image ads with various sizes for displaying on other websites.

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You have to laugh at this one

1000 people were asked the question, "Do you like advertisements?"

900 people said they did not like advertisements. (some used much stronger words)

99 people said they did not pay attention to advertisers.

1 person said they loved advertisements and wanted to see more.

Let's get serious

The survey is fictitious. But, I would venture to say that very few people, if really asked the question, would say they love advertisements and want to see more.

Everyone advertises. Even if your small business is a local business, you at least place your phone number in the yellow pages. If you really hate advertising then you should never talk about your business, ask for referrals, send out direct mailings, have a link to your website in an email, give out your business cards, design flyers and brochures, and never advertise in the newspaper, on television and radio, or the Web.

Forget about the fact that huge percentages of consumers and businesses are searching for products and services online everyday. Forget about the fact that buyers and purchasing managers are using the Internet to find items online. Also forget the fact that engineers are searching and doing research into all types of products, software solutions, hardware components, chemical and manufacturing processes, and a host of other technology items. Also, go-ahead and ignore the fact that consumers are heading to the Internet in droves to research just about everything before they buy.

Do you use Google, Yahoo, or MSN to search for a Realtor, Doctor, Lawyer, Dentist, Carpenter, House Cleaner, CPA, and Accountants? Millions of people are in fact using the search engines to find these professional people. Should we say to these professional people that they should not advertise online because, "we don't like advertising."

As I have stated before, marketing and advertising concepts are becoming more integrated with one another. For an example of how advertising is becoming intricately linked in a website, visit www.apple.com. Displayed all over their site are advertisements about their iPods, iTunes, Macs, iPhoto, iCards, and other manufacturers' software and hardware related products. So the question becomes, which part of the Apple website is advertising, and which part is marketing? Is the fact that they advertise a negative? Hardly... Advertising on their website is quite the positive. If you are a Mac or iPod owner you are much more likely to return to the Apple website to see what else is available.

Search advertising is much the same. Imagine that a person types in keywords for "you name it," and low and behold all the pages related to "you name it" show up in the results. In addition to the search results are also displayed advertisements related to the same keywords. Is not the advertisement providing a integral marketing service by placing buyers with sellers? The search engines are in fact providing a marketing service for people using search. Don't forget that the results page is a website page. The simple fact is most people do not click on the ads. But, once again this is not a negative aspect of the ads but is quite the positive. Typically when an individual is seeking something that can not be found in the natural results they are then inclined to click on the ad.

There is another type of Web searcher that could be classified as the browser. Browsers are individuals that are really not searching for anything in particular, but may be reading information on a website. They may have a favorite news, sports, pet information, or humor columnist, and go to a particular website on a regular basis. Many of these websites provide an additional marketing service of advertisements within the site itself. These sites provide a valuable service for their readership. It is a four way win win relationship. The advertiser wins when someone clicks on the ad that they are interested in, the online provider of the ad networking software wins with a payment for the ad feed, the website hosting the ad wins with a percentage of the payment, and the browser wins when they click on an ad that they are interested in.

The simple fact is we are blanketed by advertisements all the time. While very few of us would ever admit that we like advertisements; the bottom line is they work. The online advertising model is one that continues to evolve, but if you think about it, online advertising is the one that makes the most sense.

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Online Advertising For Everyone

Imagine targeting a selected group of potential buyers that are already searching for the keywords that are represented by your service or business. With Google AdWords campaigns, an advertiser can create an online advertising campaign targeted directly to certain market segments, websites, and searched for terms in global, national, international, individual countries, or local markets. There simply is no other way to hit all the possible searched for terms, in the search engines, without running online advertising campaigns. Yes, it is very important to develop a B2B or B2C website through SEO, (Search Engine Optimization) for the natural searched for terms but while developing the website a business can start generating on line sales using online advertising campaigns.

Google AdWords provides several different types of advertising campaigns. For example a B2B or B2C business can target searched for terms, and have a text advertisement show up on the right side of the Google Search results pages. An option to also display the AdWords text ad in a website that is a type of Affiliate partner with Google; in which content websites display advertising feeds through Google AdSense. Another type of campaign can be specific site targeting. For example if a business wanted to target their ads to a specific site or a group of websites, the advertiser could specifically target those sites. In the case of displaying an ad on content sites, an advertisement can be in the form of text or a graphic image. Graphic image ads typically go through an approval process before they would begin to be displayed on other content sites.

Advertisers usually pay for ads in one of two ways. The PPC, (Pay Per Click) model signifies that an advertiser would pay whenever a reader clicks on the ad. The advertiser would set a highest bid level they would be willing to pay, along with a advertisement budget of a not to exceed amount for a daily or monthly basis. The advertiser would then be competing against other advertisers using the same keywords and phrases. If the keywords are in an industry where very little advertising is taking place online then the price per click would be low. If the industry is more competitive then the place of the ad would be based on an algorithm of the content of the landing page (linked to page of the ad), the keywords in the ad itself, and the other advertisers competing for the same keywords. The other form of payment is with the CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) model. In the CPM program, an advertiser sets the cost per thousand impressions that they are willing to pay instead of a cost per click.

Oh, one very important point that I almost forgot to mention, your AdWords' campaign can be up and running in a matter of minutes and the ads can start showing up with the keyword search terms in no time flat. You can start taking sales orders today.

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The Key to Online Success Is The Keywords In Your Business

Building your B2B, B2C, or C2C business online revolves around the keywords you choose to place in your website. Assuming an Internet reader is going to know what the business is about can have dire consequences because that is the wrong assumption. In actuality, a person may never read what is on a website because it may never be found online. Search Engines need to be able to catalog the content of a website. If there is very little in the way of keywords content for a particular industry, the search engines will at best place the website at the tail end or near the bottom of all the other websites in a particular industry category.

In essence a website needs to advertise to the search engines. The Key words need to be included in the body text. As search engine companies have improved their search algorithms; the necessity to develop a website with proper context, syntax, writing style, sentence structure, and a host of other SEO variables (Search Engine Optimization) has become of greater importance for Webmasters, Editors, and Content Managers.

Next we will talk about Online advertising campaigns using Google AdWords.

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The Internet really is the final frontier.

The future of advertising has changed drastically with the addition of the Internet as a media outlet. This has had a profound affect on all other forms of advertising; from radio, television, newspapers, technical trade journals, direct marketing advertising, and even catalogs and sponsors.

Companies can have the power to make a difference in the world around them. Combining a dedication to hard work, excellence, and a never give up attitude for any company today; while taking advantage of the powerful online tools can help propel a business in the 21st century.

This blog is actually intended to be a B2B and B2C business journal of online ads related to Professional Web Services. The differences between Internet Marketing, Online Advertising, and Web Branding are becoming blurred and a mixture of all three entities are intertwined with one another. Marketing a company on the Internet requires developing an advertising eye online. Both marketing and advertising will ultimately affect the brand of a company on the Web. This will in turn affect the sales that a company generates.

For those companies that feel like there is no need to have an Internet presence, or that the Web is nothing more than a place to have social interaction, or blogs are nothing more than personal journals, will be in for a rude awakening.

The time to start on your B2B or B2C Internet marketing, online advertising, and web branding is now. Don't wait till it's too late.

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