If you’re a serious online marketer with your own website or websites, or you promote affiliate marketing programs, you know how expensive PPC (pay-per-click) advertising can be. If you’re in a very competitive market, you know first hand how very expensive this can be. Your $1 and $5 clicks add up very quickly, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you will lose a lot of money to your competition, and to the PPC companies you’re advertising through, like Google AdWords.

There are other online advertising options open to you other than just PPC. There are traffic exchange websites that allow marketers to earn credits to have their websites advertised to a whole community of many thousands of users within the exchange. Webmasters earn credits to have their websites and promotions added into the rotation while surfing through other websites within the traffic exchange system. Also, most of the newer click exchange websites allow you to purchase hundreds or thousand of hits for fractions of a penny, so you don’t have to spend a lot of time surfing. Some also have games to keep you occupied and amused while earning credits. Some allow you to sell or trade your credits for cash. Many of the newer traffic exchange sites are truly a huge benefit for online marketers today.

Another huge benefit for website owners from traffic exchange systems is the number of back links they receive for their websites. The more popular these click exchange sites become, the higher their page rank becomes in popular search engines. When your website URLs are in the website rotation, your click count increases, and search engines start to rank your website higher on the free search engine chain. You not only attract new visitors to your website each and every day from the exchange, but you have the ability to get your website higher in the free search engine listings.

One of the absolute best ways to get free, or very cheap, targeted traffic today is by using traffic exchange website. Having a large community of users, clicking through websites and advertisements to earn credits is a powerful way to get targeted traffic to your website. Having the ability to generate more free traffic, and options to purchase clicks for fractions of a penny, or cash in credits for cash, are just some of the benefits why these traffic exchange sites are so popular today and their popularity is growing by the day. All website traffic is not created equally. Traffic is one thing, but targeted traffic is king! These traffic exchange website deliver targeted traffic by visitors who are interested in what you have to offer.

Nothing will replace good old PPC advertising, but when you compliment PPC with click exchanges, just watch your visitors increase by the hundreds, if not thousands each and every month, and watch your sales increase as well. And isn’t this what it’s all about? So do all you can to increase your targeted traffic, and you will increase your odds of converting your visitors into paying customers. And that’s the name of the game my friend.

Copyright 2005 East Tech LLC

Andrew Daigle is owner and creator of many websites from DXInOne Free Training Site and Forum at http://www.dxout.com, to Google AdWords Training at http://www.adwording.com and Free Traffic Exchange at http://www.trumptraffic.com

Would you give a long haired computer nerd $100.00 as an
‘investment’ in some new software they are working on ?

Well a friend was asked this exact question 20 years
ago but was too busy with other things so passed it up.

Bill Gates was that long haired computer nerd !

What would you have done?

Being in the right place at the right time does not happen
very often, so how do you know which company or product
to promote online with your Work at Home Business?

Bill Gates and Microsoft are prime examples of timing.
Being in the right place at the right time with the right product.

Over the last few months I have been researching a number of
new Internet based technologies. Today I received a newsletter
covering topics and sessions covered in a recent ‘Search Engine
Strategies conference in Chicago’. As a marketer you should
keep up with marketing developments and as search engines are
a major source of promoting a website, learning from the experts
is a must.

Many of the top marketers invest heavily in Pay-Per-Click
advertising so knowing the latest trends and using this knowledge
to your advantage is a must.

One of the speakers talked about trends and developments
in conjunction with search engines and new technologies.

One of the JupiterResearch experts said, “Generally there is a rule
that many things reach a critical mass when adoption or usage exceeds
twenty percent. With most of the U.S. still on dial-up, for example,
there’s little motivation for webmasters to create either content or
advertisements that require faster connections”.

2. “The twenty percent critical mass rule says that the impetus
to create more demanding content will only surface when the
broadband or high speed connection usage is great enough, after
which time better content will impel more people to adopt broadband
to create the snowball effect”.

Point one is currently relevant to advertising that is user friendly
for dialup connections, i.e. quick loading pages etc..

Point two is very interesting as the speaker went on to say
that Broadband in the U.S. now exceeds thirty percent.

I am not an expert on technology but as surely as Bill Gates
knew he had a product with potential, I believe that ‘ItsYourNet’
has the right products at the right time too.

If Broadband is about to explode or snow ball in usage, what
would happen if WiFi was the same price or even cheaper!

You would choose the WiFi (Wireless Internet Connection)
as you would be able to use a laptop or new hand held computer
anywhere, plus you would not be tied to a telephone company
paying line charges and bandwidth as most people do on Dial-up.

ItsYourNet has an association with a new WiFi product that
will become available in 2005, plus its current range of Internet
services it provides, this is a winning combination in my book.

As ItsYourNet is currently providing a range of Internet services
at very competitive pricing, there is all likelihood that ItsYourNet
is in the right place at the right time with the right products.

ItsYourNet has been in the planning for 3 years and unofficially
went online in November 2004 and will have its ‘Grand Opening`
on Saturday the 1st of January 2005.

Bill Gates asked for a one hundred dollar investment, ItsYourNet
is not asking you for one red cent to become an affiliated member.

What does this mean?

You can promote the ItsYourNet product range without any fee’s
or you can become a customer. The third option is to become a
Free affiliated member of ItsYourNet to receive your own site
and ID number then to purchase from your ItsYourNet site ID
so you receive the reseller commission for selling yourself a
service!

ItsYourNet provides many free resources for its members
and unsurpassed marketing training.

ItsYourNet currently provides Dial-up, Hosting, become your
own ISP service and 3D.

3D ?

Yes a 3D Virtual Reality World online. You can build almost
anything in 3D. ItsYourNet even has a 3D shopping Mall.

The 3D Mall is open for you to ‘Walk Around In’ a number
of stores and kiosks have already been rented and will be opening
in January.

Now is your chance to be in at the Grand Opening of ItsYourNet.
Are you a person with vision, can you see the possibilities?

Like the old saying goes ‘The early bird gets the worms’
http://www.ItsYourNet.com/go/10534pg

If my friend was to have the option to go back in time
to invest her one hundred dollars, would she?

You bet she would.

Many opportunities in this life are missed because we are so busy
looking and planning that we can`t see the forest for the trees.

ItsYourNet has the potential, do you have the vision?

‘Its Your Net - Will You Profit By It’

PETER GREEN.
Editor of ~ The INDEX ~ ezine
Your Free Weekly Internet Marketing News,
Ideas, Resources and Sources Ezine.
Editor@Internet-Income-Index.com
http://www.internet-income-index.com

If you are really interested in conducting a successful, effective email campaign, you need to personalize your messages.

One solution is Mail It Safe, a new email messaging solution that sends confidential, critical email with automatic personalization (the recipients first name). Secondarily, Mail It Safe also tracks your emails, with real-time reporting of when your email was opened, how long it was read, as well as any attachments.

You can only use it for a maximum of 50 email addresses, a spam precaution.

The other solution to automatic personalization is to use an autoresponder. A good one is: isoresponder.com, you can review
at: http://www.ad-alyzer.com/727/737813459265

But don’t overdo it…as with anything, you can overdo a good thing and it will bite you in the butt :o)

If you have opt in subscribers, many times they either don’t give you their first name in the signup form or email link, or a fictitious one. So instead of your email message looking like:

Hi Bob,

It might look like, “Hi Reader” or “Hi Prospect”

Another point is to not put the first name in subject line. It looks too phony and hypy. Especially if you say, “Hi Bob” in the subject line, they will think its from family or friends and will be angry when they find out its not.

Use personalization, but be careful.

Dan Farrell is the publisher of “Effective Email Marketing…Do’s & Don’ts”. You can get a free copy
with a free Mail It Safe Trial.

For a limited time, Dan is offering a free trial of Mail It Safe! This software sends secure, encrypted email with real time tracking. Know if and how long your email was read.

Go to: http://www.email-it-secure.com/free_trial.htm

Notebooks seem to be the current popular thing this year. I am concerned that like last year we will have delays getting our hands on the latest technology too. Laptop Computers have been a growing industry year on year for a number of years now and it look set to be that way. Companies are trying to structure the technology cycles but that doesn’t prevent anyone from arriving and advancing things.

There seems to be a lot more selection and availability of gaming laptops these days. Also with the growing competiton and fast paced technology shifts, portables don’t hold their price for too long. The performance of gaming laptops has greatly improved and its really a viable means of gaming. Speed to one side, also worthy of a mention is the radically sleek case designs we are seeing these days. Gaming speed between notebooks and desktops should always be in favour of desktops though, clearly because desktops are always going to be bigger and more powerful. I do not give it too long before we see ultra light gaming laptops on the shelves.

Despite the fact that the market share is controlled by brands marketing via retail outlets I think the direct model and custom built laptops will always be around. Sometimes with larger brands the quality of the main components is not upto scratch. By being able to take away some extras from the spec you can truly save cash on parts you don’t intend to use. If you will be doing greater amounts of intensive activities on your laptop then those prebuilt systems will most likely not give all the functionality and speed you require. Custom built laptops cater for everybody regardless of their precise needs. You can hunt down of manufacturers who sell direct so there are a lot of alternatives too. Once again an additional point to custom notebooks.

The upcoming mobile technology will be amazing. Except from what has already been mentioned UMPC’s are another massive sector seeing a rise this year. Clearly this will be something huge in up and coming markets. I would like to see a larger version of these low cost ultra mobiles. I think it could be a massive success. If we overlook processing speed I’m sure we would witness those variants of laptops today. We are seeing thinner gaming laptops now and it seems this will keep on going. I really don’t know what to expect aside from those concepts spoken of. Some Manufacturer is designing a product to be unique in a crowed market.