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Most of us who have started an online website have experienced disappointment of some shape or form during our promotion. The first time your new website goes live, expectations are usually high but it doesn’t take long to discover not many people are beating down the door. So, is it possible to purchase traffic in a meaningful way to guarantee Internet success? Here’s a personal account of my experiences marketing online.

With countless services promising they can deliver high quality, targeted traffic to your websitefor a price of course. Do they work? The obvious answer is that some do and some don’t and, as you expand your promotional plans, you are bound to experience both scenarios. They key is not be discouraged when you encounter an idea that does not work.

One example is the press release. Many online sites accept press releases, sometimes for a fee and sometimes for free. The key is to make sure you have a newsworthy story and don’t expect to submit a press release every day and get the same exposure. For example, the first press release we sent out for DateAGolfer.com receives a lot of great exposure. It was included on Yahoo News, and as a result our hits went from virtually nothing to 1100 unique visitors a day. Needless to say, we thought this was going to be easy but the key here was that we had a unique idea that caught the attention of some media. As with most things though, our hits quickly dropped off as we became yesterday’s news and life goes on.

One of the most popular options on the Internet is pay-per-click advertising. Search engines like Google and Yahoo offer reasonably priced text ads based on the keywords searchers use to find things online. By bidding on keywords, the idea is that people who are looking for what you offer are the ones who will see your ad. The most popular keywords are usually the most expensive and you need to track what you are spending and balance that with what you earn from your ad campaign.

Another option is purchased pure traffic. This usually works by having a site drive a guaranteed number of unique visitors to your site and this is done in most cases through redirecting traffic from parked domain names. For example, if the theme you choose is golf and a visitor goes to a golf domain that is not being used, they can be redirected to your site. While the sellers of this service claim this is highly targeted traffic, it usually results in visitors who did not want to go to your site in the first place and quickly move on. In our experience, this is a complete waste of money although they do deliver the visitors they promise and your hit counter will quickly rise.

So can you buy your way to Internet glory? You probably can if you have deep enough pockets. For the rest of us, it takes a lot of hard, persistent work. The more you get your name out there, the better. If you can do something each and every day, you can get to the promised land. Just keep at it.

Mike Wyman is co-creator of the online dating website for golfers, DateAGolfer.com and PuttingForPar.com, a golf website specializing in personalized ball markers where you can receive a free rescue wood custom made to your game when you sign up our free newsletter.

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Many of us can judge the roll of a golf ball better than we can judge its flight.

If this is the case with you, perhaps you will choose to pitch the ball onto the edge of the green and let it roll up to the pin.

So, which club should we use for such a stroke saving shot?

The rule is that the further we are from the edge of the green, the more a golf club with loft is needed.
This means that if you are say twenty five yards form the edge of the green, you will use an eight or nine iron.
Conversely, if you are four or five yards from the edge of the green, you will use a five or six iron.

Have you ever tried putting with a three iron.

This shot is for when the ball is two or three feet from the green, and you have to go through some rough grass.
Putting with a three iron seems to negate the effect of the grass and the ball is not slowed by it at all. It is like putting from that distance on the green.

Try using a three or five wood from further off th e green. it the golf ball as though you are putting from that distance and you will be very pleased with the result.
I save a lot of shots thaos way.

The idea of these shots is to hit the ball so that it lands on the beginning of the green and runs up to the hole.
The grip to use is one of three - some use the orthodox grip, others use the putting grip, while others use the cross handed grip where the left hand is placed below the right in right handed players.

Bill Maitland is a thinking, inventive golf guru.
He thought out and developed simple techniques and tips which enabled him to lower his handicap from 25 to 18, then from 18 to 15, and finally from 15 to 12.
He is a passionate golfer, and delights in helping others with their game should they want his help.
To learn about his tips and simple techniques,

Visit Online Golfers Handbook

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Bunker play is a necessary and often frightening aspect of a round of golf.
On your usual golf course what are the bunkers like?

There are those with good fluffy sand that is quite deep and there are those with not so fluffy sand but still sand and those with almost hard pan just deep to a find sprinkling of sand.

On this last bunker type, the sand iron has a tendency to bounce off the hard surface and cause you to duff your shot.
As already stated in a recent article, the object is to get out of the bunker and onto the green taking only one shot.
One can not carry several sand irons to play each type of bunker, so the answer is to compromise.

The thing that makes a sand iron bounce to a greater or lesser degree when it makes contact with the sand is the width and the depth of the flange.

A sand iron with a wide and deep flange will bounce on contact with the sand. The ideal type for that deep fluffy sand because it will stay shallow and not knife under the ball as much.

Conversely, a narrow and shallow flange will not bounce as much and will dig into the sand and tend to stop. Certainly not what you want in fluffy sand but ideal for the hard pan type of bunker.

So, what do you do?

Firstly, you have to know what type of base most of the bunkers have on your home course. If the sand is all fluffy and deep, lucky you.

On my course, there are a lot of hard pan type bunkers.

Then, you go to your professional and ask him to order a sand iron with a medium depth and width of flange.
This will be useful in all types of bunkers.

Don’t forget that the lob wedge is pretty useful out of a bunker.
Practice is needed though to see how it will perform with various swings and ball positions.

Particularly useful for the buried or poached egg lie.

The drill is to hit down onto the edge of the poached egg (the sand ridge around the ball) and do not follow through.
The ball should fly up in the air and out of the bunker. It will not be a very long shot however.

You may like the lob wedge for this, or your pitching wedge. The sand wedge may do too, but the flange could get in the way.
As usual, practice and trial and error is the only way to tell.

However, the shot is played in the way described above.

Bill Maitland is a thinking, inventive golf guru.
He thought out and developed simple techniques and tips which enabled him to lower his handicap from 25 to 18, then from 18 to 15, and finally from 15 to 12.
He is a passionate golfer, and delights in helping others with their game should they want his help.
Author of GOLF TIPS.
An e-Book that takes you step by step to being the best golfer that you can possibly be.
To learn about his tips and simple techniques
And see his book
visit
Online Golfers Handbook.

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