Advertisers and search engine optimization campaigns are focused on getting the most bang for the buck. To organize your effort, you need to know which search engines have the biggest pieces of the traffic pie.
Subjective Numbers
Ask anyone in the Internet game and they will definitively tell you which search engine is the best. Of course, this often correlates to the actual search engine they use. I once had a person present me with a long winded, yet passionate, diatribe about why AllTheWeb.com was better than Google, MSN and…Yahoo! If I only had a brain, I would surely see that AllTheWeb.com would become the dominant search engine. This I was told with great conviction and more than a few people nodded their heads around us.
Since I was in a particularly bad mood that evening, I hipped the person into the fact that Yahoo provides all the search results on AllTheWeb.com! I even had to pull the site up and show my “teacher” the truth of the matter. So much for making friends!
Many people fall in love with a particular search engine, which is fine. I do it myself. That doesn’t mean the search engine in question is the biggest, baddest or best! Subjective views are, well, subjective. Follow them in lieu of objective facts and you run the risk of making huge mistakes.
Objective Numbers
There are two types of results you can look at when calculating search engine traffic percentages. The first represents the total traffic covered by a search engine across all sites it provides results to. The second, which we cover here, refers to only the percentage of searches actually on the engine itself. For instance, Google provides results for AOL. In these figures, the AOL searches are NOT included in Google’s totals.
For the first half of 2005, the objective numbers were:
1. Google: 47 percent
2. Yahoo: 22 percent
3. MSN: 12 percent
4. AOL: 5 percent
5. Others: 14 percent
Short, sweet and to the point. Google is clearly eating the biggest piece of the pie. If Google buys AOL, it will grow even more. Conversely, if MSN buys AOL, it will move closer to Yahoo.
When it comes to your marketing, Google is clearly the beast you should focus on. It controls more traffic than Yahoo and MSN combined.
Rapidshare is more popular than any other file sharing sites for its innovative and free usage. The problem however is there that you can not search Rapidshare extensively as the data is almost too much, changing fast and extremely wide spread. Interestingly there are some options to find links that are quite useful via this site quite easily too, by searching the sites exclusively designed to provide the share links. Here are top ten sites for Rapidshare link submission.
The Rapidshare link submission can be done on any site that allows the submission of signature. It will be your choice to use the forum, article site or just blogs to submit these links. The site with better PR definitely keep the links to minimum or keep them relevant but forums can be quite handy as there are always some discussion being active about Rapidshare in anyone.
FilesPump is quite interning site what can allow you to perform variety of functions. There are great ideas you can do in here like link submission, search and even manipulation of viewing of results. You can easily find mideafire, 4share, Magaupload searches here as well. The site does require registration but you can do it in just few minutes, to help you save your related information quite easily.
Rapidshare-search-engine.com is yet another quite useful site. This site has more than 12,728,227, quite handy links, and ways to use them. The fun part of using this is that you can see the detailed view of files being shared here as well. The problems of deleted links is often there with Rapidshare links also, this site automatically updates and lets you know if the link is alive or not too.
RapidManiac site has given the files in seven categories that make it quite useful even if you have not used rapid share experience before. With more then 20,593,209 files for you to browse this archive is quite impressive. CD/DVD, Music, Pictures, and Software can be easily found here with just giving just the verification code, no need to be registered here.
FilesTube, Rapid Library, Rapidshare Data, KvAz, and Files Bay are among the other popular sites that are quite useful in link submission of Rapidshare too. These are options of the free download is offered in most of them, but the fast download is often attached to purchase. Gappon, Avun, are also good sites for link submission regarding rapid share too.
This article is written specifically to outline the process of how to sell an ebook online without spending a single penny. For someone who really wants to get into making money online the cost of setting up a website and a whole marketing system can be a huge deterrent. Well I’m here to tell you it can be done and you never ever have to spend any money to do it.
The tools you’ll need are RapidShare ebook storage, your word processor, Paint.net and any Web 2.0 site that you like.
The first step in the process is to open up your word processor and begin writing your ebook. This can take anywhere from a day to months depending on the scope and length of your ebook and also on your time and dedication. This is the initial stage of your ebook marketing process but it is not the most important stage. Once you have a completed ebook in your hands you can move on the next step on the ebook marketing timeline. You’ll want to sign up to RapidShare ebook storage and upload your ebook with them. They will give you a coded url that links directly to your ebook. You won’t be able to memorize or remember the link so you’ll need to copy and paste it somewhere on your computer. You could even save the link as a bookmark for use later when you need the URL. However you decide to do it, just remember where you put the link.
Next in the ebook marketing process is designing a marketable ebook cover. You can read more on this topic at Ebook Cover Tutorial dot com and get some free training on the subject. Suffice it to say that I have written numerous articles on that topic alone. The training is free and the software is free. Using Paint.net you can get yourself a very nice ebook cover design and create a salable ecover for your ebook. The nicer it is the better your book will sell. Don’t underestimate the importance of this step. If you just put up any old ebook cover you will not have the success you want. The design of your ecover is one of the single most important parts of the ebook marketing process.
Once you have designed your ecover or ebook cover you’ll need to design a sales page and write your sales copy. The best way to do this is to just research your competition and see what they are doing. Look at the design of their site. Read their copy. How is their sales funnel structured? Are they direct selling or using a free report or newsletter? Once you’ve figured all this out you can start designing your sales page. I would recommend just using your word processor to create your layout and sales presentation. If you will be using a video sales presentation you can just host it on YouTube and copy the embed code. If you are using graphics and text only then most word processors can handle the job.
Now that you have the exact layout of your sales page where are you going to put it so people can see it? This is where Web 2.0 sites can be very helpful. Sites such as Hubpages, Squidoo, WordPress and others already have page rank. You’ll want to sign up for a free account and create your sales page. If you put your sales page on one of these sites chances are you’ll be indexed much faster than if you just hosted your own site. You will also want to create an ebook marketing plan to get people to that sales page. Just posting it on those sites is not enough.
On your sales page you’ll want to have your graphics, testimonials and sales copy. You’ll also want to have a link to your payment system. You can use PayPal, Paydot.com or anything else you like. When you set up your merchant account you’ll point the payment completion link to the RapidShare ebook URL that you were provided. You’ll want to follow up with your customers with an email response of some sort. You will also want to collect their name and email account for future marketing.