Comments on: Losing Money with Free Advertising http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising tips & reviews Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:20:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20806 admin Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:56:27 +0000 http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20806 <p>You're wrong, Jeremy.</p> <p>Poor quality backlinks don't help too much your search engine rankings. Search engines are not dumb but quite clever.</p> <p>Example of poor quality backlink: a link to a cars website placed on a health website. Search engines don't value too much unrelated links. Example of good quality backlink: a link to a cars website placed on Mercedes website.</p> <p>As Google staff explained many times (Matt Cutts did it last time a few weeks ago), the backlinks are like votes but not all votes are equal. A vote from a related website is valuable. A vote from an unrelated website is almost worthless. The CONTEXT matters a lot. Placing tons of links everywhere, on unrelated websites is a waste of time. I recommend you to listen to Matt Cutts lecture on SEO @ WordCamp San Francisco 2009.</p> <p>Untargeted advertising IS a waste of time from both perspectives: direct traffic and backlinks. When you'll learn more about internet marketing & SEO, you'll understand it.</p> <p>One single backlink from a related website may value more than tens of backlinks from unrelated websites. To get the tens of backlinks you spent time, and that was a WASTE of TIME (instead of writing ONE comment, you wrote TENS of comments) - that's poor time management ;-)</p> You’re wrong, Jeremy.

Poor quality backlinks don’t help too much your search engine rankings. Search engines are not dumb but quite clever.

Example of poor quality backlink: a link to a cars website placed on a health website. Search engines don’t value too much unrelated links. Example of good quality backlink: a link to a cars website placed on Mercedes website.

As Google staff explained many times (Matt Cutts did it last time a few weeks ago), the backlinks are like votes but not all votes are equal. A vote from a related website is valuable. A vote from an unrelated website is almost worthless. The CONTEXT matters a lot. Placing tons of links everywhere, on unrelated websites is a waste of time. I recommend you to listen to Matt Cutts lecture on SEO @ WordCamp San Francisco 2009.

Untargeted advertising IS a waste of time from both perspectives: direct traffic and backlinks. When you’ll learn more about internet marketing & SEO, you’ll understand it.

One single backlink from a related website may value more than tens of backlinks from unrelated websites. To get the tens of backlinks you spent time, and that was a WASTE of TIME (instead of writing ONE comment, you wrote TENS of comments) – that’s poor time management ;-)

]]> By: Jeremy @ Metal Briefcase http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20758 Jeremy @ Metal Briefcase Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:08:35 +0000 http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20758 <p>In my opinion, I think it may be rash to say that untargeted advertising is a waste of time. That may be true if all you are interested in is direct traffic. Anytime you are building links to your site, you are potentially helping search engine rankings. Also those links will stay up on those sites indefinitely. So someone might find one of your posts years later and still click thru. Plus you are helping build a brand by getting your company/website name in front of lots of people.</p> <p>Sure tracking helps, but it is not always necessary. Sometimes you just know that certain marketing efforts will pay off. It isn't even always possible to measure the benefits of some marketing.</p> In my opinion, I think it may be rash to say that untargeted advertising is a waste of time. That may be true if all you are interested in is direct traffic. Anytime you are building links to your site, you are potentially helping search engine rankings. Also those links will stay up on those sites indefinitely. So someone might find one of your posts years later and still click thru. Plus you are helping build a brand by getting your company/website name in front of lots of people.

Sure tracking helps, but it is not always necessary. Sometimes you just know that certain marketing efforts will pay off. It isn’t even always possible to measure the benefits of some marketing.

]]> By: admin http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20540 admin Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:55:24 +0000 http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20540 You're perfectly right, Linda. Advertising without tracking the results = blind advertising = waste of money (and/or waste of time which actually is loss of income = again waste of money) You’re perfectly right, Linda.

Advertising without tracking the results = blind advertising = waste of money (and/or waste of time which actually is loss of income = again waste of money)

]]> By: Linda Stacy http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20539 Linda Stacy Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:40:30 +0000 http://www.ezineads.info/free-advertising/losing-money-with-free-advertising#comment-20539 This article illuminates one often overlooked key to successful marketing - tracking. If you don't know how many clicks your forum signature gets, you don't know whether it's worth it or not. I think too many people use valuable time posting free advertising without ever knowing what type of return they're getting. This article illuminates one often overlooked key to successful marketing – tracking. If you don’t know how many clicks your forum signature gets, you don’t know whether it’s worth it or not. I think too many people use valuable time posting free advertising without ever knowing what type of return they’re getting.

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