People love free stuff and there’s a huge online industry built on the internet user’s desire to win something or get something for nothing. Use the giveaway or contest to help you with several areas of online business.  You can use this to your advantage in internet marketing in several ways.

What Should You Give Away?

A free report, a gadget, even something small like a gift card or a free book can help you in several ways including: increasing subscribers, generating traffic, building a mailing list and increasing your SEO.

Subscribers and SEO and Mailing Lists-Oh My!

You can do the above in several ways including asking people to write about you on their blog with a link or referring others to your site. They can also write in comments on your blog as well as do social bookmarking to tell others about your contests.You can even really utilise the contest entry by building a mailing list and starting to build an autoresponder series. Use names of contest entries to try to sell other products or services of yours (do be sure you offer an opt-out link.).

In terms of building a following and getting attention, the small investment you make in a giveaway can result in your making more money online overall.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Have you jumped on the blog memes bandwagon yet? A blog meme is a viral game where you generate links and interesting conversations through asking others to participate. A meme might help you in a few ways including:

• Generating traffic
• Generating backlinks to your site
• Enticing new blog members
• Making online friends

A popular meme that has been coasting through cyberspace for ages is the four things meme. It might say to name 4 jobs you’ve done in your life, 4 cities you’ve lived in, 4 places you’ve had a holiday and 4 indulgences you couldn’t live without. At the end, you’d pass the meme onto four people by identifying their blogs and suggest they link back to you in their post. If you start a meme, there’s a good chance that everyone who participates will link back to your post. It can be great fun in a viral way and if you find other memes and hop onto them by self-nomination and linking back to the original post, you can make new friends.

The Meme Payoff

The backlinks will be present, you’ll probably get new visitors and you might even get permanent subscribers or people to buy whatever you’re selling online.

A meme might seem like a time waster if you get invited to participate in too many but participating some selective ones could be helpful in terms of pleasing your subscribers who are kind enough to link to you and comment on your blog.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008