The Key Elements to Internet Marketing A DIY Guide

 The Key Elements to Internet Marketing A DIY Guide

So you have a website, and you want to increase your traffic to sell your product. There are thousands of the websites just like yours, so how will you be seen? There are basically 3 options. You can pay some company thousands of dollars to market your site for you; you can hire someone full time to do the marketing for you; or you can do the marketing yourself. This guide will give you the basic knowledge you need to market your website successfully at your own pace.

First, you need to have realistic expectations. Web sites do not get in the top 10 in search engines over night. There is a lot of hard work that needs to be put into a site for it to rank high. I would grab a pen and paper and write down your main competitors. Then I would use the Google Toolbar to check their pagerank and incoming links to see how they rank. The higher the pagerank and more links pointing to your site, the higher your site will be in the search engines. Once you see how many links are pointing to their site and how good their pagerank is, you have an idea how much work is needed to get your site listed.

Link trading is the process in which you will get these links pointing to your site. You need to contact other similar, good ranked pages and tell them how trading links will benefit both sites, and then link to them, and in exchange they will link to you. The more pages linking to you the better, but remember quality, relevant high pagerank sites is what your looking for, you want your link to be on a pagerank 2 site as least, preferably 3+. Managing your link exchange program takes time, some software on the market can do this for you, some of the software is good, some bad. I would recommend adding the links to your site manually to start, until you get a better understanding of the SEO world.

Articles are another good method to establish links to your site. Unlike a regular link exchange which is just a sentence with a link, publishing an article you wrote will give other websites quality content about your business / products and also link back to your site. Most article sites do not require a link back to them, so when your link is published search engines count that link better then a standard link exchange because you are not linking back.

One-way links is just that, a link to your site, but in return you do not link back. Articles are great one-way links, but so are directories! There are numerous directories on the internet ranging from shopping to home improvement. You can go to these sites, and either for free, or a small fee you can submit your site to them. Having your site listed in the major directories benefits your site in 2 ways. First, you get a link back to your site, increasing your link popularity, and second, people searching the directories for your product may see your site and buy from you.

As you can see, getting your site listed in the major search engines will take some time to do, you need to manage a link exchange program, submit your article to publishers and directories, and maintain your current website, but remember if you take your time, and establish your presence steadily over time, then your website will begin climbing in the search engines, and you will begin to enjoy the benefits of increased traffic.

So You Want To Start An Affiliate Internet Marketing Business?

So You Want To Start An Affiliate Internet Marketing Business?

Do you wish you could work from anywhere in the world on your own terms? Would you like to have a business that runs on auto pilot for you? Do you want a business where you don't have to go door to door, cold call people, or work your so called warm list? If you answered yes to all of those questions then you are on the right track. You can build your online business so you don't even have to talk to anyone period if you don't want to.

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To be quite honest with you, it was only about 5 years ago that I actually learned how to even turn a computer on. Don't laugh; its true. If someone told me I was going to have a successful Internet Marketing business in the future I would have laughed at them.

I still don't have a clue how to build a website. And frankly the technical stuff doesn't interest me. You do not have to be an expert to have your own online business. Just get someone else to do it for you like I did.

Things you need to know before you start

The fastest way to get to the top is to role model someone else who is already doing what you want to do. Follow the recipe as it is called. If someone else is doing something and you do exactly what they are doing then you will have the same results. If you try and bake a cake and miss half of the ingredients you will not have very good results.

You could try and reinvent the wheel like some people and spend a lot of youre hard earned dollars. Believe me you will spend a lot as there is a lot of fluff out there.

You are probably wondering how you go about finding someone that is successful in the Internet Marketing business. For starters, don't waste your time with people trying to push their products on you. Most of it is just garbage that only gives you bits and pieces of the puzzle. You wouldn't want someone to give you the tools to build the house but not the actual plans would you?

Find the right people to help you

Find someone who will build you your own site exactly like their own, will give you a how to guide to success, and will actually support you through the process. Trust me if you are new like I was you will have tons of questions.

There are lots of people out there who will build you a site for free. Now keep in mind everything won't be free. You should expect the fact that you will have to pay to register and host your own domain name. The person who is building your website should have a list of affiliate companies they are already using to make money online. Some of the affiliate companies charge to become members and some don't. My advice is when you join them is not to upgrade anything right away until you actually start referring people. Use the money you make off of your profits to pay for the upgrade as this will also increase your profits.

One Last Reminder

When building any business dont expect to have things happen overnight. You will have to work at it a few hours every week. In an online business you build up your client list first and then let it do the work for you. Oh and the most important part; don't wait until you learn everything. Take Action Now! Motion beats meditation any day of the week.

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CommentLuv Enabled Blogs

I'm sure you've heard the terms "backlink" and "content is king" if you are a blogger or if you are thinking about becoming a blogger.  Obviously, in order for a blog to be successful, people have to be aware of it's existence and that just doesn't happen all by itself.  Firstly and most importantly, what is written on your blog needs to be as unique as possible.  That means you either write content yourself, pay someone to write content for you, or a very attractive third option is to invite guest bloggers to write content in exchange for putting their own links in their content.  The more unique content you have on your blog, the better your chances of getting ranked higher in the major search engines. But, ranking high isn't the only way to get traffic to your blog.

I very handy way to drive traffic to your blog is to look for CommentLuv enabled blogs that are DoFollow blogs.  If you find blogs that are relevant to the content you already have on your site, you can make a comment on these blogs.  CommentLuv enabled blogs will allow you to link one of the posts from your blog to the comment, which can drive readers of that blog's comments section to your blog.  If you're going to write comment, don't be mundane about it.  Actually read the post that you are commenting on make some worthwhile comment.  Don't just say something like "great blog."  That isn't helping either the blog owner or you.

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There are other comment sections in other types of blogs that will allow you to enter your site URL, but that isn't as specific as being able to pick out one particular link.  The best driver of traffic to your site is to comment on sites that are ranked on the first page of Google, Bing, Yahoo! or Ask.com.  Commenting on first page blogs will help generate traffic faster to your site, because you have the chance to have more eyes upon you. 

If you have a WordPress blog, CommentLuv is a free plug-in, and I recommend that you had it to your site so commenters on your site can take advantage of the commenting features as well.  If someone who has a highly ranked blog comments on your site, this also helps your site to get better rankings.