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When a new prospect makes the decision to take up a Work At Home Income Opportunity, that is made so freely available on the worldwide web today, much confusion can set in concerning what needs to be done first. Because it is so easy to implement, they may turn to an Adwords campaign. Without understanding adwords thoroughly, a new online business owner may run into a number of difficulties. What keywords are the best for advertising? How much is it going to cost? This author has struggled with adwords quite a bit as well as with the cheaper pay per click advertising sites. Luck did not follow, only an empty wallet. The amount of money spent becomes an issue fairly quickly and then the business owner may start thinking of alternative methods of advertising that may save them a lot of money. A great deal of discussion occurs in business forums concerning how much should be spent on an advertising budget. The subject of this article is to present tried and true advertising methods that will provide the business owner with permanent, long term advertising that costs nothing! Here are 4 FREE ways of advertising for your Work At Home Income Opportunity:

Work At Home Income Opportunity Articles: Find keywords that can compete against. Determine a set of keywords that draw about 10 million entries in Google that also have about 30 searches a day in Overture for the first attempt. Submit an article to an Article Directory using these keywords. In a few weeks it is very possible to find the article in the #1 spot for those keywords in Google if you submit the article to an article directory that has a high enough pr and you use your keywords effectively. This exercise will help you understand how keywords work in the search engines.

Work At Home Income Opportunity Blogging: Host your blog on your own web host if you are using blogger. Theoretically, this removes the “problem” flag from Blogger.com and you can post almost anything. Join a blog feeder like Feedburner.com which gives a blog wider exposure through RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Write your own articles for your blog. You can use the same articles that you submit to the article directories without problem. You own the article, you can do anything with it you want as long as it is original content. You can also use article services like Niche Articles for your blog. Hint – Do not use sources like Niche Articles when you submit to the Article Directories, you will get suspended. They are not original content and are likely to show up all over the web because a great number of authors ignore the original content policies set up by article directories. Only use these “club articles” in your blog after hosting the blog on your own web host server. Choose articles for your blog that are based on the keywords used in your own articles and on your webpage. Always include a link back to your webpage in your article and blog submissions. This creates a number of permanent back links to your webpage which will help your link popularity and your pr ranking.

Work At Home Income Opportunity Webpage: Then turn your attention to your webpage. Again, incorporate keywords into your webpage. When developing a linking strategy, use the keywords in the link title and link body to the webpage you are submitting. This includes submissions to the many free directories available on the worldwide web. You have to learn something about SEO(search engine optimization). Before long, with all the backlinks from articles, blogging, and linking, your webpage will probably show up in MSN or Google for the keywords used. If your web host has an analyzer, you will notice your keywords showing up in the search phrases. Your website is getting traffic!

Work At Home Income Opportunity Forum: Posting to any forum ends up in the search engines as well. The idea for this article was first published as a post to a forum. The link back to your webpage in the signature file will act just like an article, blog, or a link. It will boost your link popularity and your pr rank.

The slow methodical way is the best strategy for long term permanent growth in popularity for a webpage. If done properly, and with quality as well as quantity, increases in traffic can be seen in as little as six to eight weeks. As the pr of your web page increases, your webpage should crawl up to the number one spot for your keywords. The advantage is the traffic will only go away if the Work At Home Income Opportunity owner stops using these methods of free advertising!

Introduction to Contextual Advertising

Recently, advertisers have come to realize the large potential of the Internet as a media when it comes to advertisements. Advertisers are especially interested in using contextual advertising since it delivers targeted ads to a more receptive target audience.

Contextual advertising is a type of online advertising used mostly for content-based websites. With contextual advertising a program or system automatically scans a webpage’s content for specific keywords or search strings and based on the results then returns targeted ads based on the page’s content.

Types of Contextual Advertising

There are three types of contextual advertising: the pop-up or pop-under ads, in-text contextual advertising, and inline contextual advertising. Many are familiar with pop-up ads because they have been around for quite sometime. Gator actually uses this kind of contextual advertising wherein a window with relevant a relevant ad for some product or service pops up while a user is reading a webpage. Pop-up ads are however considered to be not that effective for advertising since most users find them very irritating and so make use of pop-up blockers to disable the ads. The ads therefore don’t get seen by people and in cases where they get through pop-up blockers they are usually simply closed without really being noticed. In-text contextual advertising, offered by companies like VibrantMedia, is considered to be less irritating. They are ads that appear as special hyperlinks linking to actual contextual ads and are found throughout the entire article being read. They are not ostentatious at all since they are completely user activated and leaves to the users the choice of whether to click on the links to view the entire ads or not. The third kind of contextual advertising is called inline advertising. This type of advertising is the one used by Google’s AdSense and Overture’s ContentMatch. With inline advertising targeted ads are placed on the right side of the page under the label “Sponsored Links”. This type of advertising isn’t intrusive and webpage owners get paid on a per click basis. Advertisers who want to be top of the list need only to pay at a higher per click rate to be on top.

Contextual Advertising in its Early Days

Although it was only recently made popular by Google’s AdSense, contextual advertising has been around for a longer time. It has actually been around since 2001 when eZula released its TopText product. Gator also had a king of contextual advertising going on for a long time. Publishers and other website owners, however, were not happy with eZula and Gator’s model for contextual advertising since eZula and Gator reaped the profits without the publishers earning anything from the ads. The release of Google AdSense, however, changed all that when they offered webpage owners a percentage of what the advertiser’s paid them. Advertisers on the other were happy as well since they only had to pay Google depending on the number of clicks made on their ads. This is very beneficial for advertisers since they only have to pay for the actual traffic routed to their site by the advertisements.

Another issue surrounding contextual advertising that sparked the ire of web surfers this time is the software that came with the contextual ads. The software used to be able to search for specific search strings were actually installed locally on the surfers’ computers without their consent or even their knowledge. Such software, called spyware, not only violated the surfers’ sense of privacy but caused their computers to behave erratically as well or at least slowed down the computers’ performance since the programs ran on the background without the surfers’ knowledge.

Although there were contextual advertisers that drew the ire of both publishers and surfers alike there were also some like Industry Brains, http://About.com, and Applied Semantics who had their own models of contextual ads, which were viable and sparked no controversy. They have actually been around for sometime now their model seems to be working for them. Google, although relatively new compared to these companies who deal with contextual advertising, actually gained popularity faster and was able to spread the concept of contextual advertising to the world due to its stature as the number one search engine in web search at the moment. Because of Google’s AdSense contextual advertising boomed and more and more people are getting into it and are reaping the benefits.

Who Can Benefit from Contextual Advertising

As mentioned earlier, publishers and web page owners who were once unhappy with eZula’s model for contextual advertising became more receptive towards contextual advertising when Google’s AdSense came out. Google’s Adsense, Overture’s Content Match, and other second tier search engines like FindWhat and Kanoodle offer pay per click contextual advertising that benefit both webpage owners and advertisers alike.

Contextual advertising is very beneficial for all kinds of content-based sites like news and publisher sites as well as sites of small businesses and even personal blogs. However for your website to maximize your profit from the contextual ads on your site your site’s content should be of good quality, meaning that it should be rich, relevant, and updated on a regular basis. A site with poor content and that uses contextual ads would most likely point its target audience to another site that is of better quality. If this happens then your visitors will most likely return to your competitor’s site rather than your own site causing you to lose profit. News sites and publishers would most probably have no problem in delivering relevant and updated content but this can be a challenge to small businesses and personal websites. The use of content management systems (CMS) could help such cases, but even with a good CMS extra effort is required to ensure that the content is of good quality.

A good way you to increase the can of earning money from contextual advertising is by having a search engine in your site. Google’s Adsense and Overture both list contextual ads on their search results page. With a search engine in your site the chance of visitors clicking on an ad will increase and so will your profit.