Archive for January, 2007
This article aims to provide readers with an overview of the very basics of information retrieval. Understanding these principles can help you to optimise your website content for the search engines and also help you to analyse search engine algorithm changes. However, the details in this article are not intended to describe how modern search engines work, as they use many additional factors, including link analysis.
Information retrieval (IR) is the science of searching for documents / within documents. Information retrieval techniques form some of the most fundamental elements of web search engine technology. This article will discuss information retrieval in the context of search engines.
Indexes
It is unrealistic to remotely access documents in real-time when performing a search, as it would be exceptionally slow and unreliable. Therefore a local index is created, which for search engines is done by a crawler (aka spider). Thus, when you perform a search you are not actually searching the web, but are searching a version of the web as seen and stored by the crawler at some point in the past.
The index would not usually contain the whole document (this may, however, be stored in a separate document cache), but stores a representation of the terms relevant to the document that is quickly and easily searchable. There are various stages to this process (not all systems will include all of these stages):
1. Document
This is the document in its raw format with all text, structure and formatting.
2. Structure Analysis
Recognising headings, paragraphs, titles, bold text, lists, …, etc.
3. Lexical Analysis
Converting the characters in the document into a list of words. This process may include analysing digits, hyphens, punctuation and the case of letters. Proper Noun Analysis can use the case and format of words/phrases to identify important information such as names, places, dates and organisations.
4. Stopwords Removal
The removal of words which occur very often and provide no ability to discriminate between documents. For example: “the”, “it”, “is”. However, it can be seen that some search engines leave these words in the index and remove them at the user query level. This allows “+word” queries to be performed.
5. Stemming
This is a conflation procedure which reduces variations of a word into a single root. For example, both “worked” and “working” may be reduced to “work”. The Porter Stemming Algorithm can be used to perform stemming.
After these processes have been performed we have a list of index terms for this particular document.
Index Term Weighting
We now need to calculate to what degree a term is relevant to a particular document. The following is an example of a weighting scheme:
* Index Term Frequency
This is the frequency of a term inside a document. The frequency is usually normalised within the particular document:
TermFrequency(term, document) = (no. occurrences of term in document) / (no. occurrence of term with max occurrences in document)
* Inverse Document Frequency
The inverse of the frequency of a term between all the documents in the set. Terms that appear in many documents are not very useful as they do not allow us to discriminate between documents.
IDF(term) = log([no. documents in collection] / [no. documents in collection containing term])
* Weight
This is the actual index term weight for a particular term in a particular document:
Weight(term, document) = TermFrequency(term, document) * IDF(term)
Other items may be a factor in deciding weight, such as: the terms position in the document, whether it was in the title, whether it was bold, whether it was in a list, …, etc.
Reverse Index
We now have a list of terms (with their weights) for a given document. However, a list of documents that contain a particular word would be much more useful, rather than a list of words for a particular document. This is called a reverse index.
For example, if we had the following three documents:
1. This is a file about website search engine optimisation
2. A website design tutorial file
3. A file about bespoke software design and development
Then the index terms for each document may be as follows (weights would be in parentheses):
1. file(?), website(?), search(?), engine(?), optimisation(?)
2. website(?), design(?), tutorial(?), file(?)
3. file(?), bespoke(?), software(?), design(?), development(?)
However, the reverse index would be:
file: document1(?), document2(?), docuement3(?)
website: document1(?), document2(?)
search: document1(?)
engine: document1(?)
optimisation: document1(?)
design: document2(?), document3(?)
tutorial: document2(?)
bespoke: document3(?)
software: document3(?)
development: document3(?)
The reverse index then allows us to easily find the relevant documents for a particular word.
Similarity Matching
This is the process for computing the relevance of a document to a particular query. It can comprise:
* Query Term Weighting
Applies weights to each term in a query. For example, terms at the beginning of a query may be weighted more heavily.
* Similarity Coefficient
Uses the query term weights and document term weights to compute the similarity between a query and a document. The similarity could be calculated using the vector space model and calculating the cosine coefficient (this will not be discussed here).
Refreshing the Index
Documents can continually change, therefore the index needs to be continually refreshed. The crawler needs to decide how often to reindex particular documents, based on how often they are updated. If a document is not updated very often, then reindexing it very often would be a waste of resources. However, documents that are always changing need to be continually reindexed as they may no longer be relevant to terms they are currently indexed for.
Measuring Accuracy of IR Systems
Two of the simplest ways to assess the accuracy of a basic information retrieval system are Precision and Recall. These are calculated using the number of relevant documents and the number of retrieved documents (the documents perceived to be relevant by the system), the documents actually returned to the user are where these two sets of document overlap.
* Precision
Ratio of no. relevant documents returned to the total number of documents retrieved - i.e. the number of documents returned that are relevant.
* Recall
Ratio of no. relevant documents returned to the total number of relevant documents - i.e. the number of relevant documents that are returned.
The documents actually returned from the retrieved documents set will be decided using some form of ranking mechanism (discussion of this is beyond the scope of this article).
Generally, there is a compromise between precision and recall, as increasing the number of documents retrieved is likely to also increase the number of irrelevant documents in the set of retrieved documents.
Web Search Engines
Web search engines (such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN) usually combine information retrieval techniques with link structure analysis, as well as many other unknown techniques. Obviously, the above techniques are very easily spammed, so any useful search engine would need to try to filter out spamming where possible.
About the Author: Michael Hawthornthwaite works at Acid Computer Services (Manchester) who specialize in web design, web development and bespoke software development.
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Business to business marketing – Internet style – is not a new concept. As a matter of fact, the idea of having two or more businesses help to promote one another is a tried and true idea that has resulted in numerous profits for those involved. Savvy business owners and operators understand theinherent value brought to their establishment by business to business
marketing; Internet sites offer another dimension that will permit these business owners to continue their networking efforts in the virtual worldthat the ‘Net provides.
For example, a brick and mortar company - such as a dog grooming business – will be able to benefit from displaying advertisements at the local veterinarian offices. Dog owners are most likely to consider taking theiranimals for a professional grooming to such an establishment, especially if
it comes recommended by their local vet. Conversely, the clients of the dog grooming business will be most likely those who need a veterinarian for their pets, and they may trust the vet recommended by the dog groomer whoalready has an established relationship with them. The same concept applies
to business to business marketing; Internet simply adds a new dimension to the transaction.
For example, the local dog groomer as well as the veterinarian may both have websites. This will permit for further business to business marketing, Internet style. Since the services provided by the dog groomer and veterinarian only tangentially overlap, they are not in competition with one another, but instead will be able to market business to business in thetruest sense of the term. Yet if the dog groomer wants to take the business
further on the ‘Net, the business to business marketing Internet connection will need to be made with other entities such as dog fancy magazines, animalshelters, and other groups that are not in competition with one another.
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If you are ready to go global with your home based business, internet
service provider speeds and limitations will need to be considered. In a
world where dial up service used to the norm, new technologies have
mushroomed. For your business, internet service provider overhauls to their own technology have resulted in amazing advantages that may be had for little if any money. As a matter of fact, many an ISP now bundles a large number of attractive services specifically tailored to the needs of a
web-based business - internet service provider advertisements are very
specific on these offerings – and these cost very little more than
residential services.
Sure, you might wonder what this has to do with success on the ‘Net. For a home based client a business internet service provider used to be the dialup access. A modem was connected to a telephone line and the computer, and this meant that unless you had another independent telephone line, your connection would be busy. Telephone orders could not get through. The speed of the connection was slow, and downloads were dreaded because the time was measured in minutes, not seconds. Delays are experienced simply because connections are notorious to drop suddenly.
Fast forward to today’s business internet service provider; these days
business is done at the speed of digital data transmissions, and downloads
take place in fractions of seconds. Connections are always open, and customers and business owners can interact in real time. This means that
your ISP can actively help you not only in gaining new business but also in
doing business much more productively! Your business will gain a reputation for being approachable; you will receive the internet rep of being eager to serve your customers and quick to respond to questions and concerns. In short, whom you choose as your internet service provider will have a big influence on the success of your home based business.
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Bringing profits of your business home - Internet marketing work is one of the terms used – is not as hard as it may sound. While advertising used to be the kind of skill best left to the professionals and big advertising agencies, with the advent of the internet and the ease with which almost everyone can now access the global marketplace, for those who call business home, internet marketing work is a quite lucrative sideline. Others have taken it as their own home based business altogether.
The proper term is affiliate. While these affiliates do not actually sell a product or organize sales rallies and presentations, they do work hard to further someone else’s business; home internet marketing work is quite possibly the least expensive way of cashing in on the internet by any affiliate. Generally speaking, affiliates will own websites, run portals, or have editor access to large sites where they are permitted to place ads and run promotions. Some may be hobbyists that are running a site that deals with their hobby and they are willing to sell products that pertain to this hobby. Others are bloggers who are open to selling a wide variety of products via affiliate links.
Many affiliate programs hosted by big companies take into consideration that to bring profits from business home, internet marketing work must be given to as many affiliates as are willing to participate! Consider for example the power a portal holds. This kind of site is loved by the search engines since it fits the profile with respect to the search terms. At the same time, it is a veritable cornucopia of advertising opportunities for companies willing to spend the money. Thus, if you are a business in need of advertising help, or a webmaster looking for a way to bring profits of a lucrative side business home, internet marketing work is an important route to consider.
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If you are ready to bring profits from your business home, internet
marketing promotion success is a definite must. After all, if you are not
able to creatively turn web browsers into visitors to your site – who may
then become buyers – you will fail to generate profits for your business
home; internet marketing promotion is essentially the way to go when you
want to reap the most profits. Yet have you ever wondered how to create and
then run a successful advertising campaign that will not only generate a lot
of sales, but that will permit you to bring the profits of your business
home - internet marketing promotion is after all somewhat costly at times –
rather than putting them into the pockets of professional advertisers?
Perhaps the key to successfully spreading the word of your business home -
internet marketing, promotion sales, and even contests are only some of the
ways to do it – is to allocate a certain portion of your budget for one two
high power advertisements with online giants, and an equal chunk for placing
ads with a large number of affiliates who will place your ads on their
pages. The latter is just as effective as the former, especially considering
that many of the webmasters have their own loyal following of friends and
families who want to see their sites succeed.
By relying heavily on the smaller affiliates you will not only be able to
bring earnings from your business home, internet marketing promotion ideas
will actually put your name into the forefront of those who are looking for
your products! After all, with small affiliates you will be able to work
together to generate powerful and highly creative marketing campaigns,
whereas your creativity will be seriously hampered with the corporate giants
who are far less flexible; therefore, smaller is indeed better!
By Michael Fleischner (c) 2007
Syndicating your own website content is a great way to provide
information to your readers with little or no effort. Using RSS,
your updated content is delivered to individuals who have
subscribed to your feed automatically. In this article, I’ll
briefly explain RSS and show you how to syndicate your own
website content - even if you know very little about RSS feeds.
RSS Defined
According to Wikipedia, RSS is a simple XML-based
system that allows users to subscribe to their favorite
websites. Using RSS, webmasters can put their content into a
standardized format, which can be viewed and organized through
RSS-aware software or automatically conveyed as new content on
another website.
A program known as a feed reader or aggregator can check a list
of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles
that it finds. It is common to find web feeds on major websites
and many smaller ones. Some websites let people choose between
RSS or Atom formatted web feeds.
Feeds are typically linked with the word “Subscribe”, an orange
rectangle (http://www.sitepronews.com/images3/feed16×16.gif), or
with the letters RSS (http://www.sitepronews.com/images3/rss.gif)
or XML (http://www.sitepronews.com/images3/xml.gif)
Many news aggregators publish subscription buttons for use on
Web pages to simplify the process of adding news feeds.
Choosing the Content you want to Syndicate
Okay, so you’re interested in syndication but aren’t exactly
sure what you should be syndicating. There’s really no hard and
fast rule here. Howerver, keep in mind that anything you plan
to syndicate via RSS should be unique, of value to a given
audience, and something that gets updated on a regular basis.
Some individuals syndicate their content by placing an RSS feed
on their home page. As the website is updated, and a new feed is
produced, content is sent directly to subscribers. Others choose
to provide a feed of specific content pages on their site. The
choice is yours.
So How do you Create an RSS Feed?
All RSS feeds are written using a code type called XML. If
you’re not familiar with XML, don’t let that scare you off.
I’ll provide the specific code you need and instructions on
what to do with it.
To begin, you’ll need to create an RSS file that contains a
Title, Description, and Link URL. This information will be used
by the RSS reader when individuals subscribe to your RSS feed.
Follow these simple steps.
1. Go to your “Start Menu” in the lower left-hand corner of your
computer screen. Click on “All Programs” and navigate to
Accessories. There you’ll find an option called “Notepad”.
Notepad is a simple text editor that you will use to develop
your RSS script.
2. Write the RSS script which contains information about your
website or content page and information about the content you’ll
be syndicating. To do so, copy the following into Notepad.
Replace the bold content with your own site’s information.
<<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″ ?>
<rss version=”0.91″>
This RSS feed should be viewed using an RSS Reader or RSS
Aggregator. Firefox users click the Subscribe to feed icon.
Feed URL: http://www.marketingscoop.com/
<channel>
<title>Marketing Articles
<link>http://www.marketingscoop.com/articles.htm
<description>Marketing articles covering a variety of marketing
topics
<language>en-us
<copyright>MarketingScoop.com
<item>
<title>How to market your small business
<link>http://www.marketingscoop.com/market-small-business.htm
<description>If you own a small business, you probably don’t
have a lot to spend on marketing. These simple techniques will
help you generate more referrals than you can handle.
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
That’s it. As noted above, be sure to use the Title of your
website and article, links, and descriptions. When your done,
save your file by selecting File, Save as, from the top bar in
the Notepad window. Warning: name your file with a .xml
extension but save as text. (example:
http://www.marketingscoop.com/rssfeed.xml).
Be sure not to use any ampersands or quotes in your code as this
may cause an error. XML requires ampersands to be replaced in
the code with “&” and quotes with “” whatever is
included in your quotes” The best advice I can give is just
don’t include quotes or ampersands and you won’t have any coding
issues.
3. Save, Upload, and Validate your .xml code. After saving your
RSS file via notepad, the next step is to upload your .xml file
to your web server. This file should be placed in the same
directory as your homepage or the directory of the page you’ve
selected to syndicate.
Now that we’ve created and uploaded your RSS feed, we must
validate it. By doing so, we know that the feed is active and
will work when individuals subscribe. To validate your feed,
visit http://validator.w3.org/feed/ and enter your feed URL. The
URL of your feed is simply the URL of the .xml file you just
uploaded to your server. So, if your file was saved to your
website’s main directory and was called “rssfeed”, then simply
enter your website’s URL, followed by /rssfeeds.xml. Once
validated, your RSS feed is ready to be syndicated.
4. Place your RSS code on your website. The best way to do this
is to copy the RSS button ((http://www.sitepronews.com/images3/rss.gif))
and include a link to the RSS feed you just created. You can
grab the RSS or XML image by simply visiting a website like
MarketingScoop.com and right mouse clicking the image. Save the
image (give it a name like RSS.gif) and copy it onto your server.
The code should look like this:
<a href=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/rssfeed.xml”>
<img border=”0″ src=”images/rss.gif” alt=”rss feed for my
website” width=”36″ height=”14″>
Be sure to replace the information above with your own feed link
and image link.
5. Subscribe to your own feed. After you’ve uploaded all of your
pages to your live site or testing server, open Internet
Explorer and click on your own RSS button. You should be taken
to a dialogue box that asks if you’d like to subscribe to your
feed. Subscribe and confirm that the feed has been added to your
list of RSS feeds (it should appear in a dialogue box on the
left hand side of the page).
Note: If you’re using Firefox, you will only receive a text page
when clicking on your RSS button. Those using the firefox
browsers can click on a small icon that resides on their browser
nav bar to add your feed. Additionally the text file contains
your feed URL which can also be used.
6. Ping aggregators to let them know that you’ve created an RSS
feed. In order to let the world wide web know that your feed is
up and running, you must give them a Ping. This is very easy to
do - just go to http://pingomatic.com/ and choose the
appropriate sites to inform. Select blog related sites if you’re
a blog and non-blog related sites for other content. Complete
the information and Ping.
Another site you should Ping is Yahoo! Simply visit the Yahoo!
RSS submit page at
http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php and add your
feed URL. This will let the big boys know that your syndicating.
A final note. Whenever you want to syndicate new content, you
will need to update your .xml file with a link to the content
and a revised description. Once you’ve done so, upload the
file to your server, replacing the existing .xml file and the
code will do the rest.
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Michael Fleischner is a marketing expert
(http://www.marketingscoop.com) with more than 12 years marketing
experience. He has appeared on The Today Show, Bloomberg Radio,
and other major media. For more free marketing articles
(http://www.marketingscoop.com/articles.htm) like this one, visit
http://www.marketingscoop.com.
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When concept of multi-level marketing was first introduced in the United States more than 60 years ago, a lot of people were skeptical of the scheme. There were many people who said back them that the system is not viable and will just vanish into thin air after a few years. Yet, 60 years later, the MLM concept is still very much used by people all over the globe. The MLM concept has evolved over time and has been adopted by people who are working online. In fact, in our present time, a business home internet marketing MLM is considered one of the most lucrative online businesses. There are many people who are engaged in business home internet marketing MLM who are doing so well in their business that they are able to quit their day job and spend more time with their family while running their own online business.
Is it safe to engage in a business home internet marketing MLM? Safe is actually a relative word. Although there are many reliable companies online that are offering real opportunities, there are also those who are just out there to scam some innocent people. To avoid being victims of those people who are just out there to steal your hard earned money, you should make sure that you only deal with reputable companies that are offering real business home internet marketing MLM opportunities.
How can one be sure that he or she is dealing with the right companies? If you want to make sure that you are dealing with the right companies, you should first make are research on the track record of the company. A company offering business home internet marketing MLM for more than ten years could be one of the best options for you. Note that if a company has existed for more than ten years, there is a big possibility that that company is already stable and their systems of operations are already up and running very well. Moreover, unlike those companies, which are just starting out, companies that have existed for more than ten years have already built some goodwill with their clients and would like to protect that good reputation that they have built over the years so these companies are less likely to do scam you and destroy their good name name.
How much money do you need to invest to get started in an MLM internet marketing? The amount of money that you will to invest in an online business would depend largely on the type of business that you want to engage into. When it comes to MLM business, the amount of investment would depend on the prices of the products that you will market. In most cases, you will not need to buy initial stocks but you will need to invest some small amount of money to get register and get your starter kit.
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There are many types of businesses that you can engage online. If you are one of those people who have special skills that you can offer to clients online, you can have a profit business online. Note that there are some any people all over the world nowadays that are earning good money online by offering services such as those “business consultant internet marketing small business”. In fact, some of those most successful online companies are those that are offering consultancy services such as those “business consultant internet marketing small business”.
If you are one of those people who would like to set a business consult internet marketing small business, you should first conduct your own study of the market before you set up your company. Although there is a big demand for this type of business, it is always prudent to study what you are up against before you start investing money, effort and resources into your business. You should always bear in mind that an informed decision is very important in any endeavor. You simply cannot trust everything to luck so make sure that you do you study first before you start setting up your “business consultant internet marketing small business”.
After conducting your study and finding out that there is still a lot of room for another player is this field, you may not start planning how to set up your company. The first thing that you will need to do is to make a business plan. A business plan is very important in all types of business endeavors because this will serve as a guide towards achieving your goals. You must always bean in mind that a good business plan could be a big determining factor for the success of your business.
How does one go about preparing a business plan? When preparing a business plan, you should first identify the things that you will do to do set up your business. List down everything that you need to do and then determine how much time you will need to accomplish such task and how much money you will need to complete that task. For instance, if you are going to set up a website, you should note in your business plan when is your target date for starting the construction of the website and when do you expect to have everything done. Furthermore, you should also note in your business plan the resources need for setting up the website and how much it will cost your company to have everything up and running.
If you have some business partners that could help you set up your business, you should also make sure that they have role to play in your business plan. You should be able to determine the task of your partners and how they can contribute to the success of the business.
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Have you been entertaining the though of getting a second job to augment the family income? If the income that you get from your present job is not enough to keep you and your family comfortable, you might want to consider setting up a business focusing on the internet. The good thing about setting up a business focusing on the internet is that there are many online businesses that are lucrative and can give you that much needed extra income. In fact, there are many people who ventured into an online business on a part time basis but later on quite their day job to focus on their business when the business started bringing in considerable amount of money. There are some people who have made it big through their online businesses and you could be one of them if you spend enough time and effort on your business.
Starting out your business focusing on the internet is not really that difficult. It you have computer, a fast internet connection and some working knowledge on computer applications, you can already venture into an online business by searching for a business that best suits your present resources and skills. You don’t really need to have some elaborate knowledge on software and internet applications to get started. As long as you know the basics about computer applications, you can already get started.Getting started with your business
At the beginning, you can work on your online on a part time business. Keep your day job for the time being since you will not really earn much during the first few months of your business focusing on the internet. You will need to invest some time and a lot of effort on your online business before you can earn enough money support your family so better keep that day job and work on your business during the evenings after the kids have gone to bed and the house in quite. You can put in a few hours at night to set up your website and work on the systems that you will use to run your online business.
If your spouse is interested in doing business online, you may also involve him or her in the business. Setting up a business all by yourself can be a bit lonely and frustrating at times so the presence of your spouse could really help you keep things together. According to experts, entrepreneurs who are setting up their business alone is more likely to give up easily that those entrepreneurs that have partners to help them set up their businesses. Furthermore, involving your spouse in your online business can help you too spend more time together. Instead of the two of you doing different task after your kids have gone to sleep, you can work together on your online business and support in each other.
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Make no mistakes about it; working at home is a serious undertaking that will need your concentration. If you are thinking that working at home is easy, you are in for some big surprises. There are a lot of people who are working at home who would swear that they are putting more time and effort into their home business than what they used to do while they had an 8 to 5 job in the office.
One of the biggest challenges that you will face when you work in the comforts of your home while taking care of your kids is to get the full cooperation of your family. Building a home Internet business and working at home, you will need the full cooperation of the entire family. If you have kids, you must let your kids understand that you are working and that you are not available to play with them all the time. Although having you at home and being able to play with you at all may be difficult for your young kids to understand in the beginning, they will soon get used to the idea that you are working at home and cannot be disturbed during certain times of the day.
Building a home Internet business is a big task that would need your time and concentration. There are many factors that you will need to consider when you are thinking of building a home Internet business. First, you will need to set up your own systems. Building a home Internet business is just like setting up a regular business where you will need to put systems in place so that you can work more efficiently. If you are putting up an e-store, the first thing that you will need to set up is your procurement systems. Although you may not be required to keep inventories of the goods you are selling, you must have ready access to the products in case somebody will place an order online.
Aside from the procurement system, you will need to set up a system on how your customer can take orders and pay for their orders. There are many turnkey software that you can use for taking orders and receiving payments from customers so you will not really have much problems in this area. Just make sure that you get one of that reliable software so that you will not have any troubles tracing your sales.
Another thing that you will need to set up is your delivery system. Your customer will judge your services by the efficiency of your delivery system so make sure that you get a good courier as partner. If you are planning of catering to clients all over the world, you should set up a very reliable delivery system so that you will not end up losing some goods along the way.
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit:
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Savvy advertising - business internet marketing depends on it – is the key to a successful internet business. Considering how many competitors are vying for your customer’s credit card number, it is not surprising that advertising, business internet marketing, and online promoting have become buzz words that every entrepreneur who took a home based business to the ‘Net has become familiar with. Stellar goods and services are not enough to attract customers and clients, but spreading the word of where these can be had is just as important.
In the earlier days of advertising, business internet marketing took the
form of banner ads. Many of these banner ads sought to attract customers by being brighter and more colorful than the competition. This soon translated into neon green banner ads that would make your eyes ache. Soon this color war was not enough, and movement was added to the banners. Thus, banner ad advertising - business internet marketing at its worst in some cases – got a bad reputation and many a webmaster took down many of the more obnoxious ads. Clearly, this left merchants clamoring for other avenues of advertising their wares and services.
Those who were ad savvy toned down their banner ads to be tastefully
constructed and pleasing to the eye. Rather than going for shock value they enlisted the help of affiliates to spread the word about their products. Additionally, these internet entrepreneurs looked to other media to spread the word of their wares, and quickly these leaps of faith paid off. Print ads are now routinely taken out for online businesses, and in many cases a website takes the place of a telephone number. Savvy advertising - business internet marketing at its best – has once again reclaimed the world wide market place and made it a friendly place for consumers and a competitive environment for merchants.
