There is a story about a son and father going out fishing. The father bets that he can catch more fish than his son, and being a competitive family the son took up the bet with no hesitation. After a whole day of fishing, the father and son returns, the father caught 50 fish, and the son only caught 28. The son was confused by this, so he asked his father how he did it, the father simply replied, “I always have more than one hook on my line every time I fish, this way I always have a higher chance of catching more than one fish every time I cast my line out”.

Now this father son life lesson can actually be applied to marketing as well! I know so many people who have never actually thought of applying this principle to marketing, internet marketing, affiliate marketing and pretty much anything, but by doing this you can gain so many more leads!  

In basic terms the more places you market your website, the more traffic you will gain. You have to remember, not everyone in your market will hang out in the same place, there are many people who visit only one social networking website such as Twitter and not on others such as Facebook, so you need to expand your reach. This is the same case for search engines, people who use Google may never use Yahoo! and vice versa.

These are just four places you should start to market your website.

First of all which most of you should already be marketing on is Facebook

Was originally created for teens and young adults all around the world, but not anymore. Adults and business are taking over the world of Facebook with over 500 million unique accounts and more and more created every day, Facebook is vital for gaining those leads that are hiding from you for internet marketing!

Secondly is Twitter

The blue bird of marketing... Twitter harvests a large potential of leads. Twitter is where you have 140 characters to express yourself and gain the traffic you want, even though Twitter has had such a large growth, even up to 1500% a month sometimes, it has actually in the last month started to level off its growth. This is not to say that it still isn’t a traffic generating machine!

Thirdly we have Google

Google is one of the most well known search engines.... ever! Google gets an intense amount of traffic, and when I say intense, I mean page views in the MILLIONS. Get listen on Google this is very important for gaining for traffic! Google may take a while to list your website, but if there are other sites already linking to your website, then it will take as quick as a day!

Lastly we have Yahoo! and newly we have Bing!

Yahoo! is one that many people actually forget about, being too obsessed with Google which between you and me I’ve done it too! Another quite new search engine you should submit your website too is Bing! You have to remember that many people are loyal to search engines, so you need to reach those who would never think about using Google.

Now you need to do this as soon as you can, don’t wait to submit or talk about your site because it is just wasted time and therefore wasted money! Go do it now, it’ll take about an hour to set up properly but the benefits are to die for.

Start casting those lines, the more lines you have, the more fish you can potentially catch. Remember that people who you’re trying to attract to your niche will not always be waiting in one position. Just like how a fishermen will try different spots most times they go fishing, you need to try different places too! As well as this I’m going to repeat the need for good content, more fish will come the better the bait is.

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