Internet Marketing without Google??

I think there are another way of social media, email marketing, advertising. For social media, you need to build your own community for targeted users. For email marketing may have been a lot of guidance in this forum. Advertising: you advertise on the website had a high PR (traffic was guaranteed). This my simple opinion.

Regard

There are a lot more ways than google to make money. For example:

People who already have a list, they can keep selling to those customers without google.

Other sources:
Fanpages
Twitter
Blogging, and using videos
advertising your site on a well targeted newspaper / magazine ( can be expensive)

Free yellow page listings
squidoo
scribd
the list can go on and on about other tools you can use besides google.

However, Google is the search giant, so that is where everyone will focus. Makes sense. And all the google "updates" will make it harder for people with auto-blogs, and easier for people who generate original content. Content is still king in IM, just like on day 1. But we want to spin the content, auto-mate it, auto-blog it, and suddenly your site is a robot, and people can pick up on that really quick.

You can't just judge any situation by imagining it not being there. If Google had nor appeared and grew to the beast it is today then marketers would have already found and used the methods that work.

Marketers have existed long before Google and will continue to do so long after Google has gone (everything goes eventually -Romans, Ancient Greeks, Ancient Egypt, Rover - all Empires fall eventually).

I used to sell computer programs on bulletin boards years ago and games programs at the local computer clubs. It wasn't that hard to sell then either, even though there were probably only a few thousand personal computers in the world and most of them you had to build yourself.


So if Google didn't exist we'd all be using some other method to sell. Actually many would not even have started and so your competition would probably be considerably lower and you might even have made more money!

Also experienced marketers are doing quite well in some of the most hotly competitive niches right now without using Google or any other search engine. It is only one of thousands of onfline/offline marketing techniques.

Hmmm, i wonder who your talking about, lol
You guys are great, i will try these methods when i learn more about them.


Lea

It will take some re-adjusting but we will adapt. There is always a way to get done what we need.

My best bet will be Facebook (which includes all the referral and word of mouth), mobile marketing and some JV. My guess is more people are depending less on Google so if this does happen, we are not going to be caught too off guard!

bulls**t

Google is responsible for just 3% of all internet traffic... I'm one of those people who actually wish all search engines would go away.

What is Google?

Then how did people find the search engines without search engines?

Correct!

If you're doing Local internet marketing and have your own products than Craigslist would also be a good source.

In my opinion I do not think Internet Marketing would die!

Here is a few but strong reasons as to why:

1/ Internet Marketing existed way before Google did!
2/ Another search engine would just take its place! I remember the time before Google - do you? Yes Google is a mighty beast now! But there are other online areas for us IM's to make money online! Amazon for instance - it has a buyer based search engine! Besides like I said, another would just takes its place, Bing, Altavista, Yahoo! They're all big - just not as big as Google
3/ Social Media still works - independently of Google!
4/ Forums exists - they can also be found via other means than Google!
5/ Need more reasons? Not a problem! Just look around this thread and I'm sure you get the picture!

Without a search engine, internet would be chaotic!

Yes, the OP's question is actually quite large and complex if one were to really delve into it. Partly because many of the means other than the search engines for driving traffic, such as websites themselves via banner ads, etc., wouldn't have the traffic that they do because A) most of them wouldn't exist and B) those that did wouldn't be found because most sites are primarily found via SE traffic.

So to dumb it (or me) down and not complicate it with paradoxes, traffic would (and is) be driven by things like email marketing, social media (PPC and other means), and banner/text ads on sites themselves.

Marketing is a lot of things, one of which is a numbers game. Untargeted traffic isn't junk, it's just more difficult to convert to specific offers. It's all a matter of taking what's available and directing it at what it will best work with.

For instance, if I wanted to drive 50 prospects to a high end luxury item daily one way to do this would be with email marketing. The leads could come from newsletters, magazines, and other sources where they already exist and I could purchase them. Or alternatively, I could purchase cheaper and less converting leads via banner ads/PPC on sites or social media and have a funnel in place to get it down to the most qualified 50 leads per day. They might not purchase that day, but I could develop a relationship with them via email marketing or social media and some percentage would purchase down the road.

Yes, things would be drastically different without G, but a lot of marketers currently make little of their 7 figure / year incomes off of anything related to Google.