Comments on: Nine Easy Steps to Monetizing Social Networking with Targeted Advertising

By: Joey @ Kids Iron Man costume

Joey @ Kids Iron Man costume — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:43:01 +0000

Good article. I agree with you that the most important thing is that an offer is targeted to a potential buyer. There’s absolutely no good in sending 1 million visitors to a page if they are absolutely not interesting in the product. If people are able to target their customers well then conversions will increase and their entire advertising campaign will have more chance of success.
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By: Peter@Radio Advertising Tips

Peter@Radio Advertising Tips — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:14:07 +0000

This is a nice blog with very informative articles! Thanks for sharing the ideas. I learned a lot from here. Anyway, just to share on one of the most overlooked ways to drive traffic to your website. Try offline advertising. For example, I’ve had great luck with postcards, display ads, classified ads and recently radio advertising, which I am finding very interesting for driving qualified leads to my business.

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gail fine — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:28:59 +0000

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By: GrowMap @ Social Media Marketing

GrowMap @ Social Media Marketing — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:07:45 +0000

Even today they still are not targeting their advertising or making it easy for Internet users to locate what they are most interested in.
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Best of GrowMap: Our Pillar Foundation Content | GROWMAP.COM — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:55:35 +0000

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By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:24:38 +0000

Welcome Ronan,

I agree that as Social Media sites are currently structured that advertising on them is never going to be as effective as search. There is no reason, though, that they can not provide their own search function along with their own ads.

When you can easily search for and find recommendations and reviews from your peers on Social Networking sites and advertisers can position their ads on the results of those searches in exactly the same way AdWords works today users will stay on their favorite Social Networking site instead of switching to a search engine.

There is also one kind of contextual ad that can convert even better than search. That is placing ads for a specific product next to a review or recommendation of that specific product – especially when it is is new and not widely available or it is being heavily advertised.

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By: ronan@luxury travel

ronan@luxury travel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:32:40 +0000

Definitley agree with the general theme of the post, but can no way believe that win 3 (”Social Networking services become as profitable as Google AdWords.”) is realistic. In my years of experience in online advertising, straight AdWords (i.e. search only, no contextual matcheing) offers the biggest ROI, and facebook one of the worst. Users are specifically in a “looking for product/info” when using search engines, whereas they’re performing a differnet function when using social media sites…

My two cents worth
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:15:11 +0000

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By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:25:40 +0000

Hi Kate,

Ads displayed in forums would be considered content ads and those will never convert as well as search ads. In the first case you get curiosity clicks and in the second someone is actively searching for a specific product or service.

They could convert well IF the topic being discussed in the forum is how to buy something or what specific solutions are most viable AND the ads were displayed in the thread, triggered by a system that uses semantic search to insert related ads at the appropriate points in the discussion.

I have not yet seen a system like that; however, I have recently seen a semantic search called TipTop that pulls accurate related information from Twitter.

What forums, blogs, and Social Networks must do is create optimum opportunities for adds. For example, they could write posts announcing new products in their niche and feature ads for that product within or in close proximity to those posts. That will convert well – possibly even at a higher rate than search.
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By: Kate@buy to let mortgage

Kate@buy to let mortgage — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:43:23 +0000

I also believe that advertisements should be relevant to the audience, otherwise they will be ignored and annoy visitors. However, we have noticed that adverts don’t perform well on forum, they tend to be ignored, people are reading topics, write replies, but they are not very interested in adverts.