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It is clearly evident throughout the Web how companies use social media sites for their marketing campaigns. One need only browse through a social site about a product or company and there is a huge probability that there would be a profile present that promotes and markets that product.

Using social sites to create relationships with the online community and promoting brands has long been a marketing strategy. Many companies have achieved success through social media. However, there are still those who have doubts as to whether social media sites can really boost sales or just a waste of time and effort.

There may be other marketing strategies that can be more effective than using social media sites, but they are not necessarily synonymous with social media. Besides, just like any other marketing strategy, there is no guarantee that the consumers are going to take your message and accept your product.

There are people skeptical enough to think that the cost is equal to the level of quality. When social media sites like Facebook and MySpace offer cheap to no fee on advertisements, one can only guess whether or not fruitful results would come out of it.

The general answer to this would be that if the social media companies would charge more for the advertisements, they wouldn’t be able to sell advertising.

Using social media sites doesn’t also confine you to use only this strategy.

This is not necessarily so. We could say that the main purpose of the social sites is to foster recognition and consideration among the consumers. Talking about a product or brand on the social sites may not always fit well for every company. Some might foster negative comments and this is not something a company wants.

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Pay for Performance online marketing is a marketing strategy wherein you’ll only pay for a particular response or conversion. It’s entirely based on the performance and results, and most importantly your goals concerning your return on investment.

Here are three types of Pay for Performance marketing:

1. Affiliate Marketing

With affiliate marketing, you can choose your desired conversion and the rate or fee that you want to pay. Affiliate marketing is actually one of the original pay for performance strategies, wherein you get to offer an attractive affiliate program to publishers and not overpaying and hurting your ROI.

2. Pay Per Action Online Advertising

Pay per click advertising was believed to be a pay per action advertisement. This is not entirely correct because the advertiser is responsible for the conversion. However, there are PPC models and search advertising strategies that generates high ROI possibilities, and these are safe advertising choices when concerned about your ROI.

3. Lead Generation Programs

Lead generation programs offer advertisers qualified prospects for a “per prospect” fee. It will be the advertiser provider that will promote the business and the fees are charged for a genuine inquiry. The key here is that the providers deliver quality leads and this is what counts for pay for performance marketing.

Unlike other online marketing strategies, pay for performance marketing delves into tactics wherein effective results are expected. Online marketing usually does not give an assurance on good results. But at a time where recession is just at the corner and small businesses have it hard, pay for performance online marketing should not be thrown aside.

Who says that online marketing only needs online strategies to boost some traffic? Marketing on the internet doesn’t necessarily mean that you stay on the internet to market your site. You can also maximize your online presence by using offline advertisements like offset posters and word-of-mouth advertising!

Pushing In Traffic: To be on the top result of the search engines, your website has to have a high rank. In order to have a high rank, you need a significant amount of traffic. With offline advertising and offset posters, you can give a push in generating more traffic to your website.

Directing the Users: The online community will also be made aware of your website using offline marketing strategies. For example, through word-of-mouth, they’d get word about this site that offers something that piqued their interest. Even a little offline advertising will certainly give the online community an idea about your website.

Tapping Those Who Are Mostly Offline: Online marketing mainly markets to people who are online. So what of those who don’t really like browsing the Web that much? You may have customers out there who are not really into online shopping or surfing. To get their attention, you can use posters or cards to tell them about your website. Reaching those who are not online will require offline promotions.

Depending solely on online marketing strategies may not be enough to get to the top search results unless you market your website constantly and aggressively. Getting help with offline advertisements certainly couldn’t hurt and will even help increase your website’s traffic. And it’s not even that expensive to invest in offline advertising from time to time.

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SEO knows no boundaries. While business and companies expand their markets to foreign places and markets, the key factors in SEO remains the key factors in marketing on a global scale. Whether on your territory or across the global borders, there are things in search engine marketing that just holds true to their purpose.

Content: This is still a big factor for websites. Whether or not it is searched on Google, Yahoo!, Baidu, or other engines, unique and crawlable content is still a dominant factor. Text and tags are still great points to focus on, while Flash and AJAX remain not too friendly on the search engines.

Keywords: Having keywords on the pages and content also remains to be relevant. Make sure, though, that you do a market research on each different place you’re in. There are places wherein they use another term for something your original market is using. For example, some countries may use “softdrink” while other countries prefer the word “soda.” It’s a matter of knowing which keyword is more appropriate to use in a specific market.

Social Sites and Link Building: Links are still needed. That is a fact that will not change for the search engines in general. However, in link building on a global scale, it is important to determine which domains are popular in each specific place and adhere to it. Optimizing through the most used and popular social sites in a specific place can help gain popularity for your site or business among that local market.

Diplomatic Relations

When dealing with the global market, there will be some changes in the way you market your company. This is because specific markets will have their own distinct characteristics and you will have to bend and develop new strategies to implement your business.

This is better achieved through diplomatic relations and building a great partnership with each market. Working with the locals of a country will enable you to foster a great working relationship with the people and understand how to market to them effectively. Having global partners can help in overcoming language and communication barriers and assist in making more effective marketing campaigns.

1. General Electric - Country: U.S., Overall score: 8.24, Rank among Electronics: 1

2. Toyota Motor - Country: Japan, Overall score: 7.18, Rank among Motor Vehicles: 2

3. Procter & Gamble - Country: U.S., Overall score: 8.36, Rank among Household and Personal Products : 1

4. Johnson & Johnson - Country: U.S., Overall score: 7.53, Rank among Pharmaceuticals: 2

5. Apple - Country: U.S., Overall score: 7.45, Rank among Computers: 2

6. Berkshire Hathaway - Country: U.S., Overall score: 8.28, Rank among Insurance: Property and Casualty: 1

7. FedEx - Country: U.S., Overall score: 8.41, Rank among Delivery : 1

8. Microsoft - Country: U.S., Overall score: 7.03, Rank among Computers: 3

9. BMW - Country: Germany, Overall score: 7.38, Rank among Motor Vehicles: 1

10 PepsiCo - Country: U.S., Overall score: 7.62, Rank among Consumer Food Products: 2

Source: Fortune

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One of the trends that are taking hold in the present marketing industry is online video advertising. This would explain why there there are websites and directories creating video spaces for those users who opt to advertise with videos in the different sites. Youtube is still the most watched video portal online, but many sites are taking advantage of the growing success of video marketing, too.

It seems, though, that optimizing video content has become challenging. This is obvious because search engines crawl for text content more than videos and images. Site owners make it harder when they don’t fully utilize optimization and advertise their video content. Take a look at IYP (Internet Yellow Pages), which is not very successful with promoting their video content. This is because they do not optimize the videos and leave the marketing to the users. Looking at this from a marketer’s point of view, it is clearly a missed opportunity for IYP when it comes to search engine marketing.

Here are some tips from Search Engine Land on optimizing video content:

As stated above, search engines still prioritize crawling over text content more than video content. Websites dealing with video content must optimize the web pages with the title and description of the videos, along with tags. Site maps and directories can also come in handy. Basically, you optimize the page as you would any normal web page with text content.

RSS feeds are a great help for better exposure to the search engine crawlers. New sites can start off with a single video RSS fee for all their video content. They can put it in categories and make specialty feeds when the videos have become numerous and popular.

Automated distribution is a great strategy for search engine marketing. This would especially be helpful for videos because every popular video submission sites are still free.

Include “video” as an indexable tag to the pages to help improve upon the quality of the search results. The search engines will be able to crawl for this keyword and optimize on the video content.

Helping to educate and inform the users on search engine marketing and social marketing also helps not only the users but the site as well. Through this, users can be motivated to distribute and promote video content on search engines social media sites. This way, not only will the users be able to learn, they’ll also be able to refer to the site and help promote it.