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Blogging: Free Internet Marketing Method

Aug 28

Posted by DrGPT in Web Sites & Blogs | No Comments

It’s been many years since blogging had been initially introduced. But it’s just recently that it has been considered as one of the addicting fads. Many teenagers have resorted to blogging as an outlet for their emotions, a little online nook where they can blurt out whatever just bugs them or whatever makes them feel elated. Savvy marketers have discovered that blogging is one of the best Internet marketing methods that won’t cost you a cent.

What exactly is blogging? Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for business reasons.

Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way to boost the visibility of your products and services. Here are a few ways to boost your internet advertising with the help of a blog:

Make your clients or customers abreast on your website’s alterations. Your new products, referral, and affiliate websites could also be announced through your blog.
Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than search able information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web, right?
Air your opinions, advice or reviews on specific services or products that are related to your business. Publishing is a very easy process with blogging.
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What is a GPT Site?

Aug 26

Posted by DrGPT in Advice for the Novice | No Comments

A GPT or “Get Paid To” site (sometime called a “free paid survey” or “offer” site) pays its registered members rather substantially to perform specific online tasks such as responding to a simple survey, completing a free trial offer, ordering products & services you may already be seeking, visiting sponsor’s web sites, viewing advertisements, signing up for newsletters, and such.

GPT sites are an excellent source of easy spare-time money. These sites will definitely give you a healthy boost of income proportional to the time and effort you put into them. Many, including myself, have made GPT sites their full-time job replacement allowing you to be your own boss while paying the rent and all of life’s expenses with money to spare (though getting to this stage requires much devotion, time, attention, and the wisdom that comes over time in exploring and getting an expert feel for how these sites operate.)

Many of the trial and purchase offers are for products and services you would normally buy – Only at GPT sites they pay you an incentive to try or buy them through their sponsors. It’s almost like shopping at a steep VIP discount. Their sponsors pay them for the marketing exposure and they pay you for your time and consideration – it’s really that simple.

By giving your opinion and through your feedback on the free paid surveys the GPT site sponsors (many are large well known corporations) gain valuable insight into a potential customer’s thought process that assists them in making improvements and getting a feel for a potential new product’s probable initial reception. GPT sites are valuable resources for sponsors to do informal cost-effective market research at a moments notice without a lot of lead time, preparation, and personnel resources used.

The vast majority of legitimate GPT sites will never ask you for any sort of registration fee. If a site does ask you for money up front (rare, but they are still out there) then I would advise you to leave that site and place it in your “something’s fishy about this site” category. There are, however, many free to join GPT sites that offer optional membership upgrades that offer benefits such as free referral credits, increased referral percentage structure, advertising package discounts, and exclusive offers – I would advise you to get a feel for the site for a while (several weeks) before/if you opt to pay for an optional upgrade.

Now please don’t confuse the GPT sites (sometimes referred to as PTSU “Paid To Sign Up” sites) with your standard extremely low paying PTC (Paid To Click), PTP (Paid To Post), or PTR (Paid To Read ) sites that are generally a big monotonous unhappy waste of time – and usually only offer fractions of a penny per action. These are definitely not the GPT sites I speak of.

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How to Maximize Your Online Referral Link Marketing Efforts

Aug 26

Posted by DrGPT in Advice for the Novice, Referral Advice | No Comments

Coming from an information technology / web site development background and having discovered the wealth that can be earned several years ago from marketing incentive / reward / get paid to / paid survey (GPT) sites such as GreedyClicks. I have discovered several simple and little-known strategies, tips, and tricks for maximizing online marketing efforts:

1. Many search engines and indices (plural for index) will allow you to submit your whole referral or affiliate link (though most wont.) Most notably Google and MSN Live Search ( I knew someone that got his referral link for another site posted on the FIRST PAGE of Google and made a killing in referrals!) One quick way to test a search provider if you have been promoting your referral links for some time would be to do a search for your username (usually present at the end of your referral link) and see what the results show. Look for your own referral links listed in the search results. If your referral link shows in its entirety then you know to add that search provider to your list for periodically submitting all of your raw referral or affiliate links directly.

2. Buy or earn yourself a snappy new domain name and have it redirect (the whole domain) to your referral or affiliate link (you don’t even need hosting – just use domain forwarding.) Then promote your new domain to the search engines, indices, forums, and blogs. It helps not having the obvious referral link look. Cheap domain names start at just $1.99 or can be FREE if you know where to look (below):

DomainLagoon | HostingLagoon | URLSavings | AnotherFree | URLFreedom

3. Choose a referral banner that doesn’t give up the whole site URL (or edit/make your own.) Many people will (for some reason) choose to type in the URL manually if they have the benefit of knowing it rather that clicking upon an obvious referral link. Leave them guessing a bit (make it a bit of a mystery) as to what site the banner is speaking of. When speaking of sites in text, refer to them in a way that doesn’t obviously or intuitively disclose the URL (for example, if I was writing about www.GreedyClicks.com, I would say “Greedy Clicks” rather than “GreedyClicks”, or “GreedyClicks.com”.

4. Start blogging about your referral sites / links at Blogger. Blogger is Google based and I’ve found is your best chance at a popular blog with a great Google rank. I’ve noticed that Google regularly favors their own blogs based on their own blog site interface (and it doesn’t hurt to promote this blog to other search engines and indices as well.) Blogger will also host your blog for free seamlessly on your own domain. Another good blog site with max exposure is the eBay based blog. Make an eBay blog and promote it as well.

5. Regularly do a search, as if you knew nothing at all about the subject of the type sites you are promoting. See what pops up. Notice the first site on the list. Notice what they are doing right? …and what you may be doing wrong? (meta tags, keywords, description, etc.) Notice keywords, etc. Improve the quality, quantity, and newness of your textual content regularly. Be honest and open, don’t resort to superlatives and hype wording like “Go to this site and make $500 in an hour” and “fire your boss” (a big turn off and one of the reasons why people may leave your site early.) Morph your site into a closer rendition of the top site and re-submit (another step up the ladder?) …just common sense.

6. If you run your own referral sites… do your homework on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques (freely available all over the web.) Learn about the proper use of META TAGS, robots.txt, and sitemap files. If you are going to do it, do it right! Oh, and don’t use “frames” when building your site (they are not search engine/index friendly – don’t shoot yourself in the foot.)

7. Purchase professional web site promotional services and/or software that will automate your site submission efforts. Don’t get fooled by software / services that say they will promote your site(s) to 30,000 search engines, etc. Chances are 95% of those sites will be Free For All (FFA) sites which likely no human ever looks at (at one time FFA sites increased your “link popularity” – which mattered then – but all respectable search engines and indices have learned to ignore the FFA sites now – seeing their obvious abuse and non-consequence.) Anyways, what’s the point? Most FFA sites want you to manually confirm your entry nowadays (want 80 or 90 emails to respond to personally – go ahead and submit to useless FFA sites.)

8. Be persistent, but DON’T SPAM the search engines/indices. A good interval for me (with good luck) has been to submit at least once a month (but NOT more.) A lot of engines/indices will quickly add you to their trashcan if you bug them more (not a good place to be.)

9. Join a link exchange network (thousands out there.) This may help significantly depending upon the quality (interest generated – staying power) of your own site (compared to others in the network.)

10. Take over an already popular web site domain that has expired (get them cheap if you know where to look) and post your referral links / banners there. Enjoy instant popularity with the twist of people not knowing what hit them once they’ve arrived.

11. Think of a unique niche of people that might appreciate the product, service, or site you are promoting and post to forums covering that niche. …for example, people with some sort of social anxiety (such as agoraphobia, etc.) or other homebound people might want to learn about online money making from home sites , etc. Post to social forums covering that niche topic.

12. Double or triple the impact of your message forum posts by promoting your posts to the search engines and indices as well… Yes, after writing posts to a particular forum I always try to go back, gather the “permalink”s (or URLs) of the specific posts I wrote in notepad and spend a bit of time afterwards adding them to the search providers to crawl.

Below is a Partial List of Links to Popular Search Engine and Index URL Free Submission Pages

Add your URL to Google

Submit to Yahoo!

Add your URL to Alexa Web Search

MSN Live Search URL Submission

Submit your Site to Jayde

Free Multi-Add URL Online – ineedhits