Digital Marketing – 5 Types of Internet Marketing

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Last Updated on April 30, 2019

Digital Marketing is quite a vast term containing a whole lot of categories and subcategories. In this modern world of internet, we often hear the word digital marketing and start thinking like we actually know what it is. This actually limits the unending opportunities of the digital world that can help our business grow at an amazing pace.

Just ask yourself, do you really know what digital marketing is?

No?

No worries! I’ve written this blog post to discuss the nuts and bolts of digital marketing. We’ll discuss its definition, types, and the channels that are best suited for your business. Let’s get started! 🙂

What is Digital Marketing?

Digital marketing refers to the process of marketing your products, services or brand using digital devices.

Remember, digital marketing is not something that can be done on the internet only. It can happen online as well as offline. Digital marketing is an “umbrella” term that includes several different marketing techniques. There is actually a slight difference between digital marketing and internet/online marketing.

The major online digital marketing channels are search engines, social media, emails, and websites. Whereas, the offline digital marketing channels are TV, radio, and phones. You need to implement both forms of marketing for creating an effective marketing strategy for your business.

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Internet Marketing

Internet marketing, also known as online marketing, is a subset of digital marketing. This kind of marketing requires a live internet connection to work. For example, if you are running an ad campaign on Facebook, you are actually doing online marketing or in broader terms digital marketing.

In reality, the difference between digital and internet marketing is a mere technicality. The majority of digital marketing techniques revolve around online marketing tactics which is why both the terms are used as an alternative of each other most of the times.

Types of Internet Marketing

The 5 different types of internet marketing include:

  1. Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
  2. Social Media Marketing (SMM)
  3. Email Marketing
  4. Affiliate Marketing
  5. Influencer Marketing

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Let’s have a detailed look at them below:

1. Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

It is one of the most popular and primary types of online marketing that helps businesses in gaining exposure and multiplying their profits.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is the process of getting traffic, exposure, and visibility for your product, service, or brand through search engines using paid and unpaid techniques.

SEM is divided into 2 groups:

  1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Unpaid SEM
  2. Pay-Per-Click (PPC): Paid SEM

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a. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

It is the process of increasing ranking and getting traffic to your website organically through search engines. SEO is all about using the right tactics to get a higher position in the “unpaid” search results of the search engine result pages (SERP).

If you want to know more about Search Engine Optimization and the best SEO techniques, here’s the detailed SEO Guide for you:

b. Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising is the method of getting targeted traffic to your website by paying a certain price to the publisher (search engines) each time your ad is clicked.

Read more about PPC Advertising here:

2. Social Media Marketing

Social media has become a crucial part of digital marketing these days. It has introduced a lot of advancements in the field of digital marketing. Social Media Marketing (SMM) helps businesses in getting exposure and optimizing the image of their brand.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Snapchat are some of the most popular social media platforms that are used for marketing different brands, products, or services.

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There are different methods of promoting your products on different social media platforms. It is essential to choose the right platform for marketing your business so that you can target the right audience.

Creating engaging content and sharing it in the right manner is the foundation of social media marketing campaigns.

Social Media Ads are the latest advancement in the field of social media marketing that businesses are using to grow and reach the targeted audience for effective results.

Different types of social media ads include:

  • Photo Ads
  • Video Ads
  • Text Ads
  • Dynamic Ads
  • Slideshows
  • Carousel

3. Email Marketing

Email marketing is one of the oldest types of digital marketing that provides highly satisfied and fruitful results. Out of all the forms of digital marketing, it provides the highest ROI which is why it is used widely by the marketers.

It is basically a personalized approach where you communicate directly to the online users to achieve a certain goal such as promoting downloads, getting website visits, generating sales, or getting leads.

The major goal of email marketing is to deliver the message of your business to consumers. For this purpose, you create active email marketing campaigns and explore how the users are interacting with the emails you are sending.

Major components of email marketing include:

  • Newsletters
  • Announcements
  • Marketing Offers
  • Event Invitations

4. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is the type of internet marketing where you get a commission for marketing the products or services of another company. While working as an affiliate, you search for the products of your interest, promote them, and earn a commission for each sale. Your performance is tracked via affiliate links.

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Nowadays, affiliate marketing is becoming a quite popular way of earning money from home as it provides you the flexibility to market the products of your own choice from the comfort of your place and in the way you want.

There are three parties involved in affiliate marketing:

  • Product Creator or Merchant
  • Advertiser or Affiliate
  • Consumer

The affiliates get paid in various different ways which are:

  • Pay Per Click (PPC)
  • Pay Per Sale (PPS)
  • Pay Per Lead (PPL)

5. Influencer Marketing

The idea of influencer marketing came from the concept of a celebrity teaming up with a company to market a product through a video or a television ad.

In influencer marketing, unlike celebrities, common people with a large following become influencers. They can be anyone and anywhere in the world. Their huge following on the web and social media make them influential.

An influencer can be a popular blogger who creates engaging content, a photographer on Instagram, a student on Snapchat, or a human resource manager on LinkedIn. Different companies or brands look for the influencers that are easily recognized by hundreds and thousands of common people for reaching their target audience and market the product/service.

For becoming an influencer, you need to:

  • Identify your niche
  • Choose a social media channel
  • Develop an appropriate content strategy
  • Share your content
  • Grow the network
  • Engage with your followers
  • Evaluate the progress
  • Stay consistent

Alright, that was all about the basics of digital marketing. I’ll discuss each topic with more detail in the coming blog posts. For now, if you have any queries, feel free to ask in comments. 🙂

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Hey Guys! I am Ayesha aka Ash - a blogger by heart and mind - actually, a self-taught blogger! :D Plus, I am a Professional Content Specialist, SEO Manager, and CS Graduate. I have been successfully providing my services on different freelancing platforms for the last few years. I started my career by writing content for different top-notch blogs and learned a lot with the passage of time. In this journey, I somewhere found my passion for blogging and that's how the idea of this blog came into existence. On this blog, I share all of my learnings, experiences and some tried & tested tips to build a successful career online. I am working for building an empire of my own and wish the same for you all too. I believe in sharing my knowledge with others because it is the kind of investment that gives the best interest as it makes you immortal. Just go where your passion is and never look back. Remember, people start believing the impossible when they see you living it. So, if you can dream it, you surely can do it. Let's learn and work together for turning our dreams into a reality! :)

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