Can't Earn Money With Bad Advertising

If you have started earning money online, you will eventually need to use some kind of advertising whether its for getting referrals, marketing a product, or getting traffic to your blog or website. When I first started out, I was just finding ways to earn extra money online and when I did start making money, I ran into a new problem. I had to advertise.

No matter what you do, if you want to start earning money online, you have to know how to advertise. I will give you a list of the 5 worst methods used to advertise. This is based on my opinion and experience with the only exception of 1 method.

1. Spamming: This is the worst and most inconsiderate way of advertising. It only hurts you in the end because people will notice you as a spammer. Many spammers leave there referral or affiliate link around anywhere and don't contribute to anything else. This is the method I don't have experience in because I don't spam.
2. Traffic Exchanges: This is one of the first methods I used to try to generate leads. I do not recommend traffic exchanges as a way to advertise. There is a couple that are OK, but I wouldn't use the rest. If you think about it, most of the people that sign up for these sites are there to advertise. You look at a page for 15 seconds and sometime less just to earn credits for your site to be seen. Many people are just waiting on the timer to wind down, while doing something else, like I did. Its not a good method.
3. PTC Sites: This is a good way to earn money online but when it comes to advertising, you better rethink this. I did a trial with one of the ptc sites (paid-to-click). I paid 5 dollars to place an ad. Those credits got used up within 30 minutes and I seen no results. There are a couple that do provide good results such as clixsense, but as far as this method of advertising goes, I wouldn't waste my money.
4. Pop-Up Ads: I hate to arrive on a site and the first thing I see is an annoying pop-up ad trying to sell me something. It doesn't even give me enough time to read over the site. This will usually send the visitor the other way and me too.
5. Free Advertising Forums: Some people have some success this way, but I don't know how they do it. I think this is the same with traffic exchanges. Why post on a forum where its mainly advertisements. People are only there to post ads. There are not that many people that will actually be interested in what you have to offer. I had little results from this too.

This is the list of bad advertising in my opinion. Some people can have good outcome with this but there are way better methods of advertising than those methods stated above. I will be writing about that in my next post. If you want to earn money online, you will eventually come across having to advertise something.

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