What if we told you that you could make thousands of dollars a week without investing any money for internet advertising or search engine marketing?

What if I told that we could get you top placement for any keyword terms on any of the search engines for less than $100?

You may have received email from “SEO marketers” stating that Google, Yahoo, MSN and others were sending them hundreds of new customers every week at no cost! They send you unsolicited emails with subject lines like, “Make Money On Google…While You’re Sleeping…Or Get top placement on Yahoo and Google for nothing?

I certainly hope you let those go into your junk email bin, because these SEO marketing claims are ridiculous and the sources are clearly not credible.  Search engine optimization and internet advertising takes a lot of content, relevant links and careful planning and execution.  To achieve high ranking search engine rankings, you have to provide quality original content with accurate meta-tags and extremely good timing.  Yes SEO can be done, but it doesn’t happen overnight and it certainly is not free.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion for the third quarter of 2008, representing an 11% increase over the same period in 2007. While double-digit annual growth continues, the quarter-to-quarter curve remains relatively flat compared to recent past performance. The Q3 2008 figures, published in the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, are 2% higher than the Q2 2008 results. Set against strong economic headwinds in the U.S. economy, Q3 2008’s $5.9 billion represents nonetheless the second-highest quarter results ever. For the first nine months of 2008, revenues totaled $17.3 billion, up from $15.2 billion in the same period a year ago and surpassing the record set in the first nine months of 2007 by nearly 14 percent.

The growth of interactive advertising that we’ve been experiencing over the past few years has stabilized due in large part to the difficult current economic climate,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the IAB. “Interactive advertising continues to be the most measurable and cost-effective way to reach consumers, and we see more and more marketers seeking to harness its power.”

David Silverman, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, added that, “a weakening economy will continue to be a challenge to all forms of advertising-supported media. However, the Internet should be better poised to withstand the storm given its ability to combine performance-based advertising along with broad-based branding.” Search marketing continues to be the primary focus for internet advertising. Read the complete article >