How Much Should You Automate Your Web Site Promotion?
How Much Should You Automate Your Web Site Promotion
?If you're involved in net marketing, or promoting your own sites, you are in all probability aware of the increase in automated computer software being made available lately. Before you fall for the hype and excitement and promises of assured success, sit back and think before you begin spending your money.
Foremost, think about the expense. Some of these "do everything to promote your website all over the internet" computer programmes have pretty hefty monthly costs. You would want to be already successful and making money to afford some of them, you probably wouldn't want it in that case. To start with, you might not have this money available and you might not want to spend money until you are in reality making some.
I'm going to tell you straight off, I don't like paying monthly fees to use software. I would much rather pay an one off fee to use the software system. Whether it's for life-time use or simply for one year.
Let's face it, how long is it before the software program becomes outdated anyway. With monthly fees, if you dont get it to work for you, you're still paying for it month after month while you are still trying to get to grips with it.
With an one off payment, you're not rushed into getting things going before the next monthly payment is due.
As far as I'm concerned, recurring monthly payments are great for the individuals marketing the software system and the associates marketing it.
The first thing you need to do before purchasing any computer software is to research the online forums for discussions by people using it.
Are there any problems with the software system, does it function correctly, is it being fixed, is it being updated regularly.
Now we've got money out of the way, we need to look at what we can actually automatize. Software is available to automatize any of your web promotion tasks. If its not, there is computer software availble for you to make your own. You can do things such as creating accounts and having the e-mails automatically confirmed for you.
Posting to article directories, bookmarking websites, making RSS feeds and pinging them and submitting them to RSS feed directories are commonplace tasks that are easily done.
Thats great. The trouble is that some of the computer software doesn't let you choose or see where your content is being published, it simply gets done. What you can sometimes discover is that, because you dont pick your categories manually, your content gets posted to the incorrect categories, such as general, misc, or business. This can cause your submissions to get dropped or refused. You might also find out your accounts are being banned without you even knowing it. In the worst example, you are stopped from ever creating another account with them.
Rather than utilise one certain software application that fully automates all of your internet marketing, you should use a mix of manual, semi automatic and fully automated techniques. This will reduce the trackable footmarks that everyone else is leaving.
Think of it like this, if one thousand people or more use the same software system leaving its marks all over the net, how long is it before the likes of Google find it and devalue that content.
Ideally, you want to look at utilizing a mixture of manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic procedures that suit your needs. Try not to bank on one piece of computer software to do all your work for you. Find what's best done manually, what things can be done with small fundamental interaction from you, and what can be left to run wholly unattended.
Finally, if you decide to try free software, some of it has been around rather a few years and has not been updated and is no longer supported. You can find out some of the web sites they submit to now contain viruses. Always make sure you use good and up to date anti-virus software before running any new programs on your computer.
Ultimately, any purchases you make is up to you, just make sure you've done your research.