5 Digital Advertising Techniques That Produce Results

by / ⠀Startup Advice / April 22, 2013

How to See Digital Marketing ResultsThere are many effective digital advertising strategies and techniques, and by using the most effective digital marketing strategies, a website owner can easily drive a large amount of targeted traffic to their website.

Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization, also known as SEO, is one of the best digital marketing techniques for promoting any website, and in addition, SEO can be an excellent long-term strategy.

SEO involves optimizing a website’s design and content in order to drive the website to the top of the search engine results pages, or the “SERPs,” for targeted keywords. A website owner can use many effective SEO strategies as components of a complete and comprehensive SEO campaign, and some of these strategies include high quality link building, consistently building new backlinks, using web 2.0 pages, using on-page SEO strategies and submitting a website to many different web directories.

Social Media Optimization

Social media optimization, also known as “SMO,” is a marketing strategy that harnesses the power of social media networks. Millions of people log onto various social media networks everyday, and as a result, a website or a business that has a strong presence on many different social media networks can easily reach millions of potential customers.

A website owner should create a page or a profile on many different social media networks, and when creating a page or a profile, the website owner should add a large amount of important details about their website or their business. In addition, the website owner should consistently post new content on their profiles in order to keep social media users interested and engaged in the content that the website offers.

Buying Banner Ads

There are many websites that allow the owners of other websites to purchase banner ads, and usually, a website owner can purchase banner ads that will be placed on a website for a day or for several months.

Banner ads are still very effective marketing tools, and a website owner should focus on placing banner ads on websites that have content that is related to their own website.

A Blog

A blog is a very effective tool for attracting a large amount of readers and visitors. A website owner should create a blog that is relevant to the content of their website, and they should create new blog posts consistently in order to attract many new visitors and many new readers.

Pay-Per-Click Marketing

Pay-per-click, also known as “PPC,” marketing involves paying a certain amount of money for each targeted click that a website receives. A website owner can easily drive hundreds or even thousands of visitors to any website by using PPC marketing even if the website had no traffic previously.

When launching a PPC marketing campaign, a website owner should focus on certain keywords and keyword phrases in order to drive targeted traffic to the website.

In addition to generating more clicks for a website, a PPC marketing campaign will place ads for the website on hundreds or thousands of other webpages, and as a result, many people that view the ads are likely to type the name of the company or the name of the website into the search engines in order to find out more information.

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About The Author

Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson is Co-Founder of Under30Experiences, a travel company for young people ages 21-35. He is the original Co-founder of Under30CEO (Acquired 2016). Matt is the Host of the Live Different Podcast and has 50+ Five Star iTunes Ratings on Health, Fitness, Business and Travel. He brings a unique, uncensored approach to his interviews and writing. His work is published on Under30CEO.com, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Huffington Post, Reuters, and many others. Matt hosts yoga and fitness retreats in his free time and buys all his food from an organic farm in the jungle of Costa Rica where he lives. He is a shareholder of the Green Bay Packers.

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