Well we know everyone is busy concentrating on doing well on search engines like Google and the ocassional Yahoo! fan, but what about the smaller search engines? Is it worth spending time getting your website on the smaller search engines?

Well actually a lot of smaller search engines get their results from Google, so you may find you’re already indexed on these. If not however, submitting is a good idea. The more attention your site gets from anywhere is good because you are generating awareness, even if it is a few extra visitors on your site. Also, you never know, these smaller search engines could become the next Google!

However, some people aren’t use whether its actually worth the time. Little traffic can come from them, and think of how many small search engines there is. Some people may be too lazy to submit for these if they aren’t going to get results. You may be one of them.

In conclusion, you should submit to these because if you have a lot of free time, you can submit to them yourself and get that extra bit of traffic, whereas if you don’t have much free time, you can find a lot of services on the internet where companies will submit your website to, eg. 100,000 search engines for about $50 or so. Either way, you can still get your website on them. Everyone wants some more traffic here and there anyway.

Email Advertising can be an interesting way to advertise your website or product. Mass emails can get a lot of traffic to it, and maybe even more sales. However, is it good to use it?

Email Advertising is good in the way that in can be sent to so many people in such a short amount of time. If sent out to a lot of people at once, it can be a quick way to get a lot of traffic short-term. If you send out the email to a targetted audience related to your content, then you may find more sales too, which could make a lot more money than you more-than-likely spent on sending the email out in the first place.

However, there are a few negatives of doing it. Firstly, there is a good chance that your email will just get buried underneath all of the other emails everyone else has and not give you much traffic at all, therefore being a waste of time. Moreover, you need to be careful who you send emails too. If you send out emails to people who haven’t opted in to receive the emails, you may be in a bit of trouble. Finally, some websites struggle to find emails about their niches. Although niches like proxies do well due to massive amounts of newsletters for it, some more unpopular niches can struggle to receive traffic from the newsletters they do send out.

In conclusion, email advertising should be used for popular niches such as proxies where there is a lot of interest and newsletters, whereas I recommend staying away from it for the less popular niches or else you may end up wasting your money, or your time.

Some use domain parking because they make decent money from it, while some people use it because they cannot be bothered to run the website, so they use it just so the website loads up. But the question still remains - Is it worth parking your empty domains or should you take the time to make a website for it?

If you don’t know what Domain Parking is, its where you don’t have a website running, so its just an empty domain, and then a Parking Company places a page on that empty website with a lot of advertisements on it. When people click on these advertisements, the domain parking company pays you. It is slightly like a PPC program.

The positives is that its really easy and quick to setup. You can have it all ready in 10 - 15 minutes maybe, and if the domain is popular and gets a lot of traffic per day, some people can actually make more money from parking the domain than they could just parking it. The ads are normally in decent positions on the page it displays so it can often give a nice amount of clicks.

However, for websites that don’t get much popularity and traffic per day, they can struggle to make any money at all. Also, webmasters WILL NOT click the ads on your page, so be careful on what type of website you’re parking because Domain Parking is so popular on the internet, a lot of people are getting sick of seeing these same pages over and over again.

In conclusion, I recommend staying away from Domain Parking because if you take the time to create the website and manage it, you’ll normally see more rewards than you do from just parking the domain. Although if you don’t have enough time and the domain gets a lot of traffic, I don’t see why you shouldn’t use it for the extra money.