How About OTHER Aspects of Internet Marketing? Not JUST SEO

by GGpaul
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So,

I've been part of this online marketing game for a couple years now. My question for you folks is simply this:

Do YOU have a website where you focus on OTHER ASPECTS of online marketing? Paid traffic, media buys, e-mail marketing, SEO, social media, etc?

Or are you still focused on JUST SEO and just ranking keywords get links and that's it?

Just curious.
#aspects #internet #marketing #seo
  • Profile picture of the author AdsensePro
    Originally Posted by GGpaul View Post

    So,

    I've been part of this online marketing game for a couple years now. My question for you folks is simply this:

    Do YOU have a website where you focus on OTHER ASPECTS of online marketing? Paid traffic, media buys, e-mail marketing, SEO, social media, etc?

    Or are you still focused on JUST SEO and just ranking keywords get links and that's it?

    Just curious.
    SEO is the best way for sustainable earnings. But, the other ways also working well for monetizing sites or affiliates. But, you should have a map on your earnings when you're going to invest for CPC..or something paying ads. Social Media are also a great source to earn. And it depends on you what type of service you're proving (to have a website). Thank You!
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  • Profile picture of the author thelawlessone
    If you are focused just on SEO, you will eventually get burned. You should never keep all of your eggs in one basket. Diversify!
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I target same niche forums but that's as far as I go for social.

    The good thing about same niche forums is, If you have a good product/site & you help people on those same niche forums, they'll usually end up building free links on related forums/sites/blogs. Most people interested in a niche belong to multiple forums (forum members help other forum members (share links)).

    IMO traffic sources (besides SEO) mostly depends on the niche. Go where the traffic hangs out.

    One of the things I do is target people that buy a popular niche software (dedicated forum), I also own the software. What I do is create niche files to help get people started a lot faster than what they can do on their own (there's a software learning curve). My files are the traffic lure for people that are proven buyers of a same niche software. It's sort of like Apple sells ipads & other people have wallpaper sites for ipads. So If someone had an ipad wallpaper site they could sell ipad accessories, the wallpaper would be the traffic lure.
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  • Profile picture of the author online only
    No man,

    SEO is just the starting ground. FREE traffic, yummie...

    Once you have "the" money, you can start buying laser targeted media buys, run Adwords campaigns, tweak your landingpages etc..

    Here's what I do usually:

    1) Find a keyword/niche, rank it on Google and see if it generates good income (if it doesn't perform well as expected, I just sell it for 10-12x monthly and move on...)
    2) If it generates good passive income, I go into Adwords and try to make more... (invest the money that I've made through SEO)
    3) IF Adwords (PPC) turns out successful, I go into media buys..
    4) ... scale

    The sad thing about my "marketing strategy" is that I don't build much connections at all. All my income is purely through ranking, tweaking and scaling. I don't build any brand(s), I don't participate on social media and I don't build a list.

    Yet, it's lucrative enough to keep doing it... Eventually, I'll sell my "niche sites", no doubt about it, but when.. I dno.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Oilman
    Marketing works best for prospects who have...

    A Desperate Need
    or
    An Irrational Passion

    Irrational Passion marketing works great to use all avenues of marketing. Branding, facebook, social media, building a list, etc.

    However, if you sell stuff that targets a desperate need, nothing better in the world works better than SEO and PPC because you're selling a product that someone is already looking for. Its water in a desert. This converts better than anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author ViralMediaBoost
    To start i normally just do SEO since it will increase traffic as my site grows, i don't focus on anything else really.
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    • Profile picture of the author AmazonGuy
      This is what I have done on a 14 months project that is at 300K+ pageviews a month.

      1. Run a giveaway to attract people with a rule to like your page and subscribe to your email newletter to enter the comp. As soon as you have around 1K people create an rss feed email newsletter that goes out weekly or monthly.

      2. See whats going on with the big sites around your niche. What content they are creating and what's getting more traction.

      3. Reverse engineer a few of their marketing tricks (Where they have their rss feeds, where they get traffic from etc ) I took a very big steep hill in my niche but I am actually doing a small marketing version of what The Verge does and a few other tricks big boy tech blogs are doing.

      4. Build up your social profiles (G+,facebook,twitter etc) the more content you produce the easier it will be. You will have to have share buttons that people in your niche use promenantly on your site.

      5. Start pumping out content on a regular basis and try to be first in your niche if its not evergreen. You should be passionate about it not just to earn money. Market the hell out of each piece from the sources you found above.

      6. Hit the reddit homepage for one day (Thats around 200K uniques) just for those that don't know. This will take some time but you will get a shitload of links from very very strong sites in your niche. Reddit is just an example but thats the top of the range in terms of traffic imo.

      7. Outreach to youtubers that have huge subcriber lists in your niche . This will need some outstanding content and don't sent an email more then once.If you prefer start talking with people in your niche before asking for favors. You never now who might be the influencer that will get your site out to the world.

      8. Rinse-Repeat the whole process then A/B test when you have enough traffic.

      9. You will rank alot easier for ANYTHING in your niche.

      10. Bank the profits


      Btw keywords are irrelevant for this as referral traffic is alot bigger than anything keywords can give you at the start especially when you are in a mildly competitive niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    That's another thing. Do people ever get burnt out just trying to RANK? Focusing on links, focusing on keyword research, and that's it?

    I have a personal blog. And when it's time to promote my site I get EXCITED about promoting it. One because it's a niche that I love. And with it being a personal blog, I strongly feel it can reach out to tons of readers/bloggers/etc.

    I just feel burnt out when I focus on a product review site and also that I have a lot of limitations. I just feel like it can't be promoted. UNLESS, I go all out like IGN or some sort but I feel a personal blog wouldn't be as TIME consuming compared to something like that. I may be wrong who knows.

    But yeah, I get more excited, and I have more fun when I focus on promoting my site in different ways. I like to change things up. And it's all about getting multiple streams of visitors and income .
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Media buys and social especially for the new year. truth is if you start/run a business expecting to do any Whitehat seo it would be something you love or are committed to

      email? Ewwww

      No thanks.People on the main board look down their noses at SEO but that whole MMO list building thing gets me looking down my nose.

      To be honest the name SEO will probably have to be replaced soon. It now involves almost everything. When you think that any kind of promotion can lead to a link then SEO can stretch to social, media buys, offline - all of it.
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      • Profile picture of the author AmazonGuy
        but that whole MMO list building
        If its gathering emails not buying or swapping its legit imo.

        That means they allow you to email r*pe them but the whole point is to get people to amplify your message - ripple effect style.

        SEO is mastering alot more then high pr links, blog comments and on onpage seo ofcourse you don't want your pages noindex-nofollow that is .

        Getting your users engaged , getting higher ctr's with viral headlines both in search and social (add media buys to that aswell) is also SEO in away.

        A/B test the shit out of everything your doing rinse repeat rinse repeat .
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      • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post


        To be honest the name SEO will probably have to be replaced soon. It now involves almost everything. When you think that any kind of promotion can lead to a link then SEO can stretch to social, media buys, offline - all of it.
        This is true. I don't think I've done any SEO the past weeks at work. It's been "online marketing" as a whole lol. So many things that needs to be addressed. It's like everything needs to work together. And I REALLY don't want to work with Public Relations but I have to. Why not? It's a bunch of people that just love to talk about themselves. Go figure. Fashion industry zzzzzz.
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    • Profile picture of the author rschmitz
      Straight SEO unless I plan on building a brand/large site.
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