Internet marketing is the business of both advertising and selling goods and services over the Internet. As an Internet marketer yourself, you will be responsible for bringing together potential customers with a service or company that will fit their needs through different Internet avenues. Whether the product being offered is a pair of sneakers or a new car, you are helping others connect with the products they are searching for.
With trillions of dollars spent online each year, it’s clear that the Internet isn’t going anywhere and more and more businesses and services will become primarily web?based. With a few clicks, you can often find exactly what you’re looking for. The convenience and multitude of information provided by the Internet is incomparable. That’s why you need to be a part of this industry and begin your Internet marketing career.
Every day millions of people hit the web to find products and information. And starting a business is no longer about location, location, location. Now – the world is your marketplace and everyone from a third grader to a millionaire is a potential customer or site visitor. Anywhere people can access the Internet, people can potentially visit your site. One day you could eventually have over 1 billion visitors. And there are no store hours. Day and night your product or service is available and you can earn money while you sleep. If you’re bringing the value people are looking for, you’ll see the results!
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Many people credit me as the first make money online blogger. There were lots of IM before me but for whatever reason I seem to get a lot of credit. Whatever…. Either way the most common question I get is if you had to start over tomorrow what would you do. Well I can tell you how I got here and I notice its becoming a trend with others:
- You fell into your niche after trying and failing and one day started raking in the cash. (for me it was ringtones)
- You notice all these “Gurus” online talking about how to make money online but they seem out of date.
- You start your own blog under a anonymous name and start to call out these gurus. You call the products they sell scams and what not.
- You start to write guides on what is working for you and start to get a following.
- You come out of your shell and start speaking at conferences. (for me this was about 4 years ago.)
- Your original niche where you made all your money starts to die off so you start to leverage your blog following into building a REAL product.
- You start to write your own ebooks and guides (which I used to make fun of people for doing).
- You are now a guru and people attack you and call you a scam without knowing you at all. They also attack your audience saying anyone who listens to you is *sheep*
- You talk about how your blog was never supposed to be your thing and it all just kind of happened because you like what you do Read more…
One of the most frequent questions I get is how to monetize websites that have mostly foreign traffic. Some networks will have some offers but there has never been a network that was focused on specifically international traffic…. until now.
Globalizer has the most complete selection of international offers that we have ever seen. Whether its:
- Sweepstakes
- Music
- Ringtones
- Personalized Video
- Search Toolbars
- Baby/Family Related Deals
There is a good chance Globalizer has something for you in a country you are targeting.
Why do I think Globalizer is a good choice, well besides the fact that this is a smaller network, that is actively involved with their publishers. And Mark and his team ALL have run affiliate networks, done media buying for well known properties (PCH.com, eMusic, RocketProfit, Traffix, FreeLotto and others) and have been Super Affiliates themselves. This is not your average affiliate network. Read more…
There are many myths floating around Google in particular and SEO in general. Given here are the Google related myths as per the John Mueller’s “Frightening Webmastering Myths” presentation at “Tricks and Treats” webmaster event.
- Duplicate content will penalize your site. [Don’t worry too much about duplicates on/from your own site. But be reasonable while using content from other sites]
- Mixing HTML/XHTML will break verification
- Getting listed in 1000s of search engines and directories is important. [search engines can find you, no need for submitting to directories]
- Participating in AdWords, AdSense or Analytics will help or harm your site. [They won’t]
- If a keyword is important, it’s important to repeat it in important locations on important pages so that the page looks more important to important search engines. [Write only with your readers in mind]
- Using XML Sitemaps will make your site drop. [It doesn’t]
- PageRank is dead / PageRank is everything! [Its not dead, but is also not everything, there are 200 more factors]
- Resubmitting your site regularly is vital. [Not required]
- Once your site ranks high, don’t touch it. [People need fresh content also]
- Valid (X)HTML will make your site rank higher. [No]
- # Using “disallow” in your robots.txt will remove your site/page from the index.
- The more links the better.
- The only important goal when making a website is getting it listed first in search results.
- It’s best to let old URLs return 404 so that the new structure is naturally discovered.
- Using “Index, Follow” in robots meta tags is important.
- Hosting your site on a shared IP address will cause your rankings to drop.
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I am in a hurry today, but I will leave you guys with a quick and juicy tip. As far as linkbuilding goes, every small bit helps, right? If that is the case, there is one Google service that you can use to grab an easy PR10 backlink: Google Profiles.
You just need to fill the information that they ask about yourself, include the URL of your website, add some pictures and bingo, one more backlink. As long as you add enough information, your profile will be displayed in Google’s search results, and it should count as a normal backlink because Google does not use the nofollow attribute on the website links.
This service is also useful if you are not worried with building links, because it gives you an opportunity to create a profile page and possibly to get it ranked for your name on the first page of results. So what are you waiting for?
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