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If there's a way to advertise, market, publicize, or promote your business inexpensively, you will find it here. Our latest articles are listed below. Click on a headline to view the whole article. Also, check out our articles pages for our fabulous indexes of past articles.

How To Online Advertise

Gone are the days were you are compelled to take the car, the bus, a train and suffer the ignominy as other people do, to get something that you need.
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by kapsco1
First Published: July 27, 2011

Google Marketing

Many so called Google marketing advertisers do not expect you to ask them many questions, if any.
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by kapsco1
First Published: July 27, 2011

My Interlinking Epiphany Regarding Link Reputation

I've been posting on various forums lately how important interlinking is for link reputation. I've known about this for years, but I've also ignored it (to my personal cost).
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: July 10, 2011

Affordable Online Ads

For an advertiser, one of the most difficult and challenging things to do is to find affordable online ads for his or her business or venture.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: July 04, 2011
Last Modified: July 06, 2011

Cheap Web Advertising, Part 7 | Conclusion | IMDB, Ask, BBC, Tumblr and Go

We've reached the end of our examination of the 50 most popular websites in the world, analyzing them in terms of whether they provide good cheap web advertising opportunities.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 30, 2011
Last Modified: July 09, 2011

Cheap Web Advertising, Part 6 | Flickr, Craigslist, and Apple

This installment of the Cheap Web Advertising series of articles pays special attention to Craigslist and Flickr, both of which can be effective in your cheap web advertising plan. There's also a real good share from an Apple employee.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 30, 2011

Cheap Web Advertising, Part 5 | Wordpress, Ebay, Microsoft, and PayPal

This installment in the cheap web advertising series includes a couple of the most important tools in any online marketer's toolbelt
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 30, 2011

Cheap Web Advertising, Part 4 | Twitter, MSN, LinkedIn, and Amazon

Three of these four offer great cheap web advertising opportunities, as part of our series of articles on the subject
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 30, 2011
Last Modified: July 09, 2011

Cheap Web Advertising, Part 3 | Blogger, Wikipedia, and Live.com

We continue our series of articles on cheap web advertising opportunities online.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 30, 2011

Cheap Web Advertising, Part 2 | The Top 50 Most Popular Websites in the World

Let's take a look at the 50 most popular websites in the world to see if any of them offer us the cheap web advertising opportunities we want.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 30, 2011

Cheap Web Advertising, Part 1

This article is an overview of the various kinds of cheap web advertising you should consider doing if money is tight or even non-existent and you have something you are trying to sell online.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 30, 2011

Relevance in Keyword Advertising

Getting back to the question of relevance in keyword advertising for a Google Adwords search, there are a couple of patterns that appear fairly often, so let me mention them here.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 23, 2011

Adwords Keyword Advertising

Adwords advertisers often find themselves shut out from certain keywords or being charged huge amounts of PPC (pay-per-click) bid rates for certain keywords without understanding why or what can be done about it. Here's how to handle that situation.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 23, 2011

The Origins of Keyword Advertising

Keywords have evolved to mean more than just a single word. A keyword these days is also the equivalent of a “keyword phrase”, a series of words that, when taken together, create their own, unique meaning.
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by Walt Thiessen
First Published: June 23, 2011

Marketing a Small Business

The idea to start marketing a small business of my own perhaps began when summer loomed before me along with my dreadful need to find work. The idea of working for someone else and constantly risking being laid-off at the next financial crisis, as my mother continually suffered, followed by filling out forms at the unemployment office, jumping through all the ridiculous hoops they require which never really help you land a job, so you have to jump just to get that almighty, insufficiently small, unemployment paycheck while you try to squeeze in time to follow better paths to finding work, just turned my stomach and threw me into depression.
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by PJ Thiessen
First Published: June 19, 2011
Last Modified: July 10, 2011

Small Business Internet Marketing

Creating a simple and effective website will promote your business in a succinct, compelling and visual fashion. It should answer potential customers' needs in only a few seconds and should include a welcoming home page with the bare essentials.
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by jrskate207
First Published: June 17, 2011
Last Modified: July 27, 2011

Advertise On Google

No matter what your budget is, it is a great time to advertise on Google. You can create your own ads and the keywords. Then when someone uses Google and types in those words to search, they will see your ad next to the search results.
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by nattyj03
First Published: June 17, 2011
Last Modified: July 27, 2011

Search Engine Advertising

Have you ever noticed that when you type in something to search, there are advertisements that come up along the side of the results page. This is called search engine advertising.
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by pyro998
First Published: June 10, 2011
Last Modified: July 16, 2011

The Popularity Of Ad Websites

The daunting task of marketing your own venture continues to be made less difficult by the growth of ad websites on the web.
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by goalsnow
First Published: June 10, 2011

Online Advertising Business

Making money on the internet is not that difficult, as long as you know what you are doing. The easiest form to make an income online is having an online advertising business.
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by Frank Amptmeijer
First Published: June 10, 2011

Advertising For Small Businesses

Staying local is a key factor in advertising for small businesses. The business is likely connected to a need as expressed by the immediate community.
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by lieutenantword
First Published: June 10, 2011
Last Modified: July 16, 2011

Take Control Of Your Email Advertising

Email advertising is still effective because email is still popular. We seem to be more and more communicating through the social media networks as Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. But we use email for our more serious work.
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by Frank Amptmeijer
First Published: June 06, 2011

Free Online Classified Ads

There are many classified ad sites out there on the web. Free online classified ads websites are generally separated into two types.
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by jrskate207
First Published: June 06, 2011

Online Marketing Services

Online marketing services, also known as digital marketing, web marketing, internet marketing, search marketing, or e-marketing, is the marketing, or promotion, of products or services over the Internet.
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by jrskate207
First Published: June 05, 2011
Last Modified: July 27, 2011

Taking the Pain Out of Online Marketing

There are three main criteria that search engines now use to decide which sites get ranked where.

Content The content of your site. Content is king, and the more text you have on your site that provides details related to your site's topic, the more likely the search engines will look favorably on you.
Backlinks The heart of the Google revolution was the recognition that it's what other sites think of your site that counts the most. Backlinks (links from other sites to your site) are a key component of all search engine algorithms these days.
Internal Linking Structure How your site is linked also makes a big difference. The better your site's linking structure, the better your site will do.

Of course, many factors go into search engine decisions about how to rank which sites, but these three criteria count highly by the estimation of most SEO experts. Use the links in the top left of the black column to explore the ways Dirt Cheap Advertising can help your site.