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Feb 4, 2013

xod Media/Oasis presents Website Best Practices

xod Media was invited by Small Business Solver to give a presentation on website best practices. The video goes over website basics such as target market, researching competition, basic page design, keyword research, social media and content management systems. 1 hour chock full of good stuff. Watch the Website Best Practices video here

Dec 21, 2012

xod Media/Oasis Health Food Drive Collects 416 Lbs

Our annual food drive was a great success. xod Media and Oasis Health put on a great event collecting 416 Lbs for the local food drive; too bad 50 lbs was expired. Please remember these are real people who need help. Great donations included toilet paper, paper towels, cat and dog food, plus many other everyday items we never think of. Thanks to our many clients and friends who made this possible.

April 12, 2012

Web Hosting Size Space Increase

What's better than 50 GB of web space? 100 GB of web space. We've doubled the size of our corporate hosting package from 50GB to 100 GB. And while we're added, we doubled the transfer limit from 500 GB to 1,000 GB / month. All at no additional cost.

Dec 6, 2011

xod Media Food Drive Event and Social Event is a smash

What a great event this was. Not only was it a great event, we collected 330 LBS of food for the York Region Food Bank. Thanks to all who came and enjoyed the holiday season with us while dropping off food for people in need. Special thanks to Snap Markam for showcasing the event in their papers.

Nov 15, 2011

xod Media Food Drive Event and Social Event

Come join us on Dec 4th for our annual food drive and social event. Special invitations are sent to all our clients, friends and family. If you'd like to join us, please drop us a line.

September 6, 2011

xod Media is back to school...well kinda

After closing our offices for August, our staff had a much needed break. Walking in the doors in September was just like going back to school. Bright and shiny faces, new clothes, batteries recharged and we're ready for homework from our teachers...err, I mean projects from our clients. A+ everyone.

July 12, 2011

xod Media Goes Fishing

It's good to be a staffer at xod Media. Why? Because we're giving our staff the month of August off. That's right, xod Media is taking the month of August off. We still have a group of people who prefer to answer phones and work on projects, so you won't be complete left alone.

April 27, 2011

CMS Videos are Live

Our videos on how to use our Content Management System Videos are ready. Our new CMS is super easy to use. Log in, navigate to your page, edit, save, done. Go to the overview video and playground

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Using pay per click advertising is the system of choice for many internet based companies to receive large amounts of traffic to their web site in a short space of time. Although there are a variety of marketing methods that are successful on the internet, this one is still the most effective. Quite often the reason people don't use pay per click is because they just don't understand it; this article should provide sufficient information to make things clearer.

All that happens here is an advert (some text with a url link), often in blocks of two or more, is placed on various other web sites that are popular and receive large numbers of visitors. If someone likes your ad text they will click on your link and be redirected to your site and provide they stay for more than ten seconds, you will pay the hosting site some money as thanks. The sites that provide you with hosting when it comes to this sort of advertisement are usually big with a large amount of traffic and will have some relationship to the product or services that you are trying to put across. However this is not the only advantage because you only pay for the advertising when it is used, which means if someone doesn't visit your site through the link you do not pay.

With other types of advertising you pay in advance but there is no assurance that anyone will bother taking any notice of it but it has still cost anyway. In the early days it was often said that a competitor would try to deplete their competitors advertising budget by clicking on their link until they used it up but this rarely happens these days. From a business viewpoint, pay per click marketing is extremely effective at targeting the exact market the business wants. This means that people browsing the site where your advert is placed are already interested in what it is you are offering.

By now most people have experienced the Google Adwords pay per click system which has grown dramatically in recent years. All you need to do is decide which keyword term or phrase you want and that will create your advert when people use that term. Next to the natural search results, you'll find that your ad shows up along the top or on the sidebar.

These instant results cannot be beaten in any other advertising medium and it is that attracts pay per click customers. This is a very fast way to learn if you have used the correct wording for a particular advert and it is cost effective as well. For speed, efficiency and cost, pay per click search marketing is superior to just about every other method of advertising and that is why companies continue to use it.

You can also use a company like xod Media and have them generate a list of keywords specific to your web site. Using this purchased list of current keywords in your advertisements ensures the right adwords are being purchased / bid on and more importantly attracting the specific, targeted clients.

xod Media is a business marketing company operating out of Markham, Ontario, serving the Toronto, Markham, Richmond Hill and York region markets. They specialize is search engine optimization, creating logos, web sites, print media and creating identities which catch people's eye. Visit them at http://www.xodmedia.com.

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