How to advertise or market restaurants online?

How is the best way to get Internet exposure for a group of restaurants to be seen and advertised online?

Need internet marketing campaign ideas or suggestions for ways to advertise or gain exposure to surrounding communities that restaurants are in or near.

How can these restaurants be marketed online to people inexpensively but effectively?

Do you know anything about SEO? (Search Engine Optimisation)

Try the two links in my sources. One is a beginners guide to SEO, what it is and how to do it from probably the best SEO company online. They are so good they charge $1,000 an hour.

Now, read the second link about Internet Marketing. It is another beginners guide, this time a textbook you can download from Quirk - another fantastic eMarketing company. It covers copy writing, web design, email campaigns, link campaigns etc. It's designed for beginners, so it may be ideal for you.

Source(s):

1 http://www.seomoz.org/article/bg1
#2 http://www.quirk.biz/emarketingtextbook/…

I'd also like to point out the answer below has been pasted from another question. It's actually my answer to this question: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind… so ignore them!!

Affiliate Marketing in a Nutshell

What exactly is affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is the single fastest growth industry on the Internet. It’s also true that affiliate marketing is one of the fastest and most creative ways to make money and have a career on the Internet.

Simply put, affiliate marketing is selling products on a commission basis. You own a business that advertises and sells products for other companies. You may have a product of your own to begin with or not. The things that a successful affiliate marketer must have are:

1. Your website is the jumping off point of all your marketing efforts. So the first step in any successful affiliate marketing business is building a good, credible and professional looking website. You must build a user-friendly website, which will attract your prospects and motivate them to click on the links to the products and services you are promoting and make a purchase. There are companies whose business is building websites that you can hire to build one for you.

2. You must find products to sell, you must be able to determine whether there is a demand for those products and if people will actually buy them. You may either have your own original product or products that are made by others. Which ever way you go, you must believe in the products.

3. It will be necessary for you to become an adept advertiser and be able to tell whether the advertising you are paying for is producing more income for you than the advertising is costing you.

4. It is necessary that you have good mathematical skills. You will need to be able to track your sales and determine profit, as well as, see to it that your suppliers are paid in full and on time.

5. You need the full and unwavering support of your family so that you can devote the time and energy necessary to launch your affiliate marketing business.

Hildogo

Marketing Expert

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