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In this article I would like to compare banner advertising to other forms of advertising. Many years ago banner advertising was a very popular form of advertising. As I remember if you visited a website then you would see flashy banners all over the place. However, this did not last long as the banners became ineffective and people started ignoring them. If you got a click through rate of 0.5% you would be very lucky.

I think that it is for this reason banner adverts are not that popular even today. Let us look at the other forms of media and why they may be a better option than banner advertising.

In my opinion the 4 most popular forms of advertising are the following:

1) Search Engine Positioning

This generates highly targeted leads. Unfortunately it requires a lot of work to get a website to rank well in the search engines. So for people new to internet marketing this may be too complicated. One of the main things that you need to do to get a website to rank well in the search engines is that you need to have many quality links to your website. This is a very tedious process.

2) Email Marketing

This is a very good way to advertise your business. Once you place your solo advert in a targeted ezine you will start receiving targeted traffic to your website. The only disadvantage is that with the recent increase in spam it is becoming more difficult to get people to open your emails.

3) Ppc Advertising

This type of advertising is a really quick way to get very targeted traffic to your website. Unfortunately with the increase in competition it is becoming very difficult to make a profit as the price per click has become prohibitive for competitive search terms.

4) Article Marketing

This is one of the newer forms of marketing. It is really popular because it is a free and very cheap way for anybody to start their internet business. The big disadvantage with this method is that takes a lot of time to write articles.

Overall I personally do feel that the ways listed above are much better ways to promote your business. However, internet millionaire Ryan Deiss once revealed that his most profitable advertising is using banners. The way he does this is that he finds sites suitable for his products and then negotiates banner advertising well below the premium rates you would be paying with advertising networks individually with the site owner.

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Mark Abrahams is a full time internet marketer who has helped others to earn a living online.

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