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Social Media Optimization (SMO)
23 Apr 2010 3:57 AM by Kv Gautam in Social Media Optimization (SMO)
Revenue sharing programs between a merchant and a website owner are called affiliate marketing programs. Website owners will sign up with the merchant. This allows the website owner to place ads for the merchant on their website. In exchange, the merchant will pay the website owner a portion of the revenue generated. This concept is called revenue sharing; paying commission for referring business.

One of the most common types of affiliate marketing is pay per click ads. The largest company participating in pay per click is Google and their AdSense program. The code for the ad will scan the web page for keywords. The ad that is displayed will then be associated with the web content of the website. A downside to this process is web pages that have poor keyword density may show ads that are not related to the content of their website.

Pay per click is designed for organic clicking. The ads are geared towards the subject matter of the website in hopes of enticing the reader to click the link to the associated website for further information. A problem with pay per click affiliate marketing is click fraud. Click fraud is clicking on your own website links or when other individuals excessively click on your links. This is monitored by Google and can result in your account being terminated.

Pay per lead affiliate sales marketing is when a referred individual registers on the affiliate’s website, the referring website will receive a pre-determined amount of compensation.

Pay per sale affiliate marketing is when the website owner gets a percentage of the sale price of every sale generated from their website traffic. A large company for pay per sale affiliate marketing is Amazon. An individual on your website clicks on the link to an Amazon ad and purchases the item through Amazon, the website owner will get a portion of the sale.

Affiliate marketing is an excellent way to make passive income. All an individual needs is to sign up for an account and to have an existing website. Some affiliate marketing programs require that the website be established and have several pages of quality content. These affiliate programs will require an application and approval process before you can place their ads on your website.

There are benefits to the merchant in affiliate marketing as well. The advertising for their business on popular websites will increase their site’s traffic and sales. The cost associated with pay per click ads will vary based on the keyword popularity and competition. In addition, affiliate marketing merchants must content with fraudulent clicks and purchases.
17 Apr 2009 8:52 AM by Kv Gautam in Social Media Optimization (SMO)
Social media includes all web communities or websites that help people network with each other or share stuff. There are so many social networking, video and picture sharing websites that help promote more interaction and interactivity between various groups of people. Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Orkut, Digg, Flickr, etc are part of the online social media.

Social media has become powerful in the wake of its huge popularity among the online users, especially young users. It has become very much important for various websites to promote themselves among these social media sites. Any website offering its products or services can reach millions of users easily using these social media sites. As young users are a force to reckon with in the market, optimizing any website for these social media platforms has become very important.

It is often seen that any video with viral effect is seen by millions within a week on some video sharing website. If done properly any group creation on a social network can work wonders for the marketing and branding of a product. Promoting a website or its products or services on a social media platform is a bit different from traditional advertising. It is more interactive. It lets users submit their opinion on the product.

A website can be promoted in social media in various ways. A community of the site on social network can be created and maintained with proper interactivity between the community members. Some interesting videos with viral potential can be submitted in a video sharing website that can also help in branding and creating awareness. Interesting articles can be submitted in social bookmarking websites for attracting users' attention.

There are some firms offering professional social media optimization for your website. You can take their services to gain better exposure for your brand on social media.
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