Two Useless Internet Marketing Techniques That Will Leave You Flat Out Broke - Internet Marketing Australia

In our quest to successfully market our products and services online, there are many unscrupulous individuals out there promoting useless internet marketing techniques that will leave the unsuspecting marketer broke and in debt if they continue to apply these techniques. To be successful in marketing your products and services online, it is imperative that sound strategies and techniques are followed. Otherwise, the unsuspecting marketer will find him or herself "spinning their wheels" so to speak.

There are two useless internet marketing techniques that I would like to bring attention to. Don't be misled by promises of success and a steady flow of cash into your bank account. The only flow of cash from following these techniques involves the flowing of cash from your bank account to the person promoting these techniques.

The first technique is the "guaranteed traffic" technique. With this technique, the company promises that you will get 10,000 visitors to your web site or some other very large number. The pitch is with all of these visitors to your web site, even if a small portion makes a purchase, you will make a lot of money. You may have seen this advertised on Ebay or somewhere else on the internet.

Here's how the guaranteed traffic technique works.

The company that offers this technique places a pop-up or pop-under ad on a high traffic web site that the company owns. Anytime someone visits that high traffic web site, your web site is also visited. The problem is, the web site may be about makeup and your web site may be about golf products. The visitors are not targeted, so the traffic is a complete waste. Even if the visitor isn't blocking your web site with a pop-up blocker, as soon as they see your web site, they are going to click on the close button in their browser and not even look at your web site.

While you could theoretically make sales from guaranteed traffic, the amount of traffic that you would need to purchase is so massive that based on the price these companies charge, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible for you to be able to turn a profit.

The second technique is the "Guaranteed #1 Search Engine Position" technique. With this technique, the company promises that using their secret Search Engine Optimization SEO strategies you will get a #1 search engine position in Google, Yahoo! or any of the other major search engines that are available on the internet. This may sound good, but it's not what you think.

Here's how the guaranteed #1 search engine position technique works.

The company creates a web site that is optimized for a search engine term that there isn't a lot of competition around. Once that web site gets loaded on the internet and indexed in the search engines, you now have a #1 position for that keyword or phrase.

The problem is, no one is searching for the key word or phrase that you are getting optimized for so it's completely useless. Who cares if you are #1 on the search engines for a keyword that no one on the internet is searching for? You aren't going to make any money that way.

So avoid these two useless internet marketing techniques and instead learn some sound marketing principles, strategies and techniques so you can improve the bottom line for your company and enjoy massive success in your business.