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Every online marketer can tell you that any product or service which is not seen won’t become profitable any time soon. Therefore marketing your sites, services or products is an absolute must if you are going to succeed online.

Below you will find ten tips and pointers that will help you gain maximum effect from your online marketing efforts. They are listed in no particular order, yet all are equal in importance. Combined they represent your total arsenal of tools for online marketing.

1. Advertising

The most well known way to market your service or product online. Basically advertising spots are purchased on other sites from where their visitors will click through to yours. This is the oldest means of online marketing, but properly used it can still be very effective. In order to obtain ad spots site owners could be contacted privately, but you could also purchase ad space from one of the many advertising agencies online, like Clicksor and Quadabra.

2. Advertorials

A relatively new but effective means for advertising your product. Basically a popular blog will write a post about your site, service or product along with a link to it. From their people click through which generates traffic to your site and ultimately sales. Purchasing advertorials is mostly done on the appropriate webmaster forums.

3. Splash pages

Splash pages basically are one page websites containing some sales text and a link to your site. When using splash pages when has to think in terms of tens and hundreds of them in order for it to be effective. Companies offering free hosting are perfect for this online marketing technique.

4. Mailing lists

After regular banner advertising the oldest way of online marketing. Basically you collect emails from your website or purchase mailing lists and simply start mailing all people on the list with your news, updates and special offers. The larger the mailing list, the more profitable email marketing will become.

5. Article marketing

Using article marketing as a means to promote your site or service works the same as it does for improving search engine rankings. Basically you write up an article related to, or about your service or product and submit it to all the article directories. In this articles 2 links go to your site or product page and from there traffic will trickle in.

6. Mini sites

Mini sites are a lot like splash pages, but instead of just one page they are small web sites that usually consist out of five web pages. On those pages you market your products and services and link to it. Mini pages get indexed better by search engines and could therefore be seen as the successor of the splash page. For mini sites also goes that free hosting is perfectly suited to host them, because you will need a lot of them to use this technique successfully.

7. Blogs

Blogs are almost the same as the mini sites concept, with the difference being that with blogs you can keep adding new posts continuously. This makes blogs true search engine magnets that produce the best results compared to similar techniques for online marketing. Because you will need lots of blogs to use this technique successfully, using  free blog hosting is recommended.

8. Forums

Posting on forums relevant to your site, service or product is also a very effective means of getting your ads out there. Most forums will allow you have a signature link, which is added below every post you make. This is a way to get hundreds or even thousands of text links out there really fast.

9. Social media

Making proper use of the popular social media sites, like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit is a must in today’s online marketing game. Be sure to post all your news and updates there, where other can see it and come to your page to have a closer look. Like forums this is a very effective fast way to get traffic going to any location you choose.

10. Email links

One of the most overlooked marketing techniques in existence. Most email clients allow you to add a signature to all th emails you send out. Use it to place a link to your service or product. After time this builds up, as mails get forwarded, shown to others and chances are you are sending email to more people then you would think.

Don’t go overboard!

As they say overkill is never a good thing. Don’t spam the forums with 100 posts in an hour, don’t start emailing everyone for the sake of mailing just to show your signature, don’t create hundred splash pages per day. Behaviour like that will get you banned pretty much everywhere in a hurry! Instead, build up your empire slowly but steadily: Every day a splash page, every day ten forum posts, you get the idea. Take your time and you won’t have any problems growing your network and with it your sales.

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Hi, I'm Shathyan Raja who is a passionate part time Blogger and Online Marketer. I have been blogging for more than 1 year and I love to write on Android, Gadgets, and also in SEO, Marketing and Blogging. You can connect with me on Facebook and Google+.

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