Internet Advertising Schemes to Avoid

Internet Advertising Schemes to AvoidThe real scam behind these FFA sites is that you
For those of you who have Home Businesses on thehave to provide your email address in order to submit
Internet, you know by now that you have to develop ato them. These email addresses are a free for all for
steady stream of traffic to your website in order towhoever wants to use them. Your inbox is then
produce enough sales to grow and substantiate yourbombarded with hundreds if not thousands of junk
business. Bottom line...no traffic = no sales. No sales =emails each day of people wanting you to join their
failed business.opportunity.
During my two years on the Internet, I have tried manyThe next advertising method that produces less than
forms of advertising that have been less thandesired results is the surf for clicks programs. While
successful. I am writing this article to all the "newbies"these are not half as bad as the FFA sites, they are
out there who flock to these forms of advertisingabout 99% ineffective.
because they are easy and free, and after theseBasically, the way the surf for clicks programs work is
advertising methods have produced none of thethat you are required to view various websites for a
desired results, they leave with a feeling that theyshort period of time, for every website that you view,
have been scammed and that the Internet is not theyou will earn a credit. If you look at ten websites and
virtual marketplace that everyone has raved about.earn 10 credits, your website will in-turn be shown to
In reality, the Internet is the virtual marketplace of thesomeone else 10 times.
future and is producing mind-boggling sales for theLet's look at this surf for clicks logically. Who are you
entrepreneurs who are pursuing effective advertisingadvertising to? You are advertising to other network
methods.marketers and Internet business owners. If they
The first form of advertising that leaves the worstalready have a business, then how many do you think
taste in my mouth is called FFA advertising (Free forwill sign up for yours? What are they looking for?
All). In my opinion, FFA sites prey on "newbies",They are looking to get traffic, the same as you...they
promising that they will put their ad on thousands ofare NOT looking to sign up for another program or
websites, often supplying the newbies with automatedpurchase a product.
software so they can accomplish this with one click ofYou must understand that you need to put your
the button.opportunity in front of the general public. Where does
Then their ad is placed on thousands of different FFA85% of all the Internet traffic come from? It comes
sites at one time. What they don't tell you is that thesefrom the Search Engines.
pages your ad is placed on are never seen by theGetting a listing in the search engines is also "targeted
general public, because they aren't listed in any searchtraffic". Meaning that someone has to input a keyword
engines, directories, or any of the mainstream trafficcombination that is associated with your website, and
locations.when your site is displayed, its because your site is
To add insult to injury, while you're using the automatedspecifically targeted to what they are looking for.
software to place your ad on a thousand FFA pages,When this happens for you, you truly will be successful
millions of other newbies are doing the same thing.in your business.
There isn't enough room on these FFA pages for allThere are many other forms of advertising on the
the incoming submissions, so your ad may be on theseinternet that produce poor results, but these are the
FFA pages for 30 minutes max, and is then dropped.two biggest hitters that come to mind.