Internet Marketing Information-Should I Pay If It’s Free?
Very good question. Why should you pay for absolutely any internet marketing material that you can find for free? Well let’s think about this.
Why should you pay for information on how to write articles, or how to optimize your website, or how to do keyword research, or how to do niche marketing? You can just about find all the information you need on how to do all of this just by searching online and maybe visiting your local library.
Just Plain Lazy
But the thing is that you won’t do it. People are inherently lazy (and I am certainly including myself). It takes time and the knowledge of what to look for to find the answers. If you’ve never done it then how do you know what to look for? Well there is your second major hurdle. The first hurdle was just being lazy!
Your third major hurdle is that information will be gathered in bits and pieces so you will have to put it together like a puzzle. Even if you manage to finally put the puzzle together, how will you know what works and what doesn’t? Information changes quickly on the internet and unless you’ve found the information at one of the more frequently updated sites, there’s a possibility that it is already outdated.
Learning Curve Greatly Reduced
The reason that you pay for free information is that you are buying your way out of a learning curve. You are leaving the research and how to put the puzzle together up to someone else who already has experience on the subject.
So the next time you come across some information that you feel you should not pay for, because you can find the answers for free, think about all that you will have to do to make sense of anything you will find.
Insider Secrets
Usually when you purchase information products their will be some “insider information” included. This would be stuff that you probably would never have uncovered until you were well into the testing phase. You do test don’t you?
That’s another thing too, people don’t readily disclose their insider secrets for free. It will always be at a premium price. And think about it. Why should they? They’ve probably invested time and money into learning what they know, so why should they give it away to you.?
Now let me make this clear. I am not saying that you should pay for everything that comes bundled in a book because some people can sell you crap just to sell it. But what I am saying is to be open minded and flexible on the idea of paying for free information.
Traffic Generation-How Does a Brand New Website Get It?
Traffic generation is always a hot topic of conversation in the internet marketing industry, especially amongst the people that have been marketing for a while. Usually they talk about advanced methods of which you, if you have a brand new website, can’t exactly capitalize on yet. Heck, your website hasn’t even been indexed nor have you gotten one visitor yet!
Traffic Strategies Have Evolved
Well for one thing, the tactics nowadays are dramatically different than what it was even just a few years ago. I remember when people would just stuff keywords on their websites in such a way that the content was unreadable. But search engines gave them lots of credit for it that resulted in massive traffic. These were those made for adsense sites. I guess people made a killing out of that. I never did…guess I just wasn’t crafty enough.
Today search engines have become very sophisticated. They are able to tell how well your website is by the content and backlinks for example. It takes a bit of know-how to effectively implement the best seo strategies for traffic generation.
Free Information Is Available
You can find a great majority of the information for free at places like SEOmoz, SEOBook and BlogSEO.
You can put on your learning cap and dive deep into these sites because you are going learn a lot! Take what you have learned and apply it to article marketing. Article marketing is the best way to start generating some traffic to your website without spending much if any money. Another tactic you can use is to comment on some of the top blogs in your niche. A lot of blogs let you put links back to your website.
But you better make sure your comments are “worthy and valuable” to the conversation at hand!
However, you are still going to be on a big long learning curve. I don’t say that to discourage you at all. But just for you to keep in mind that with anything that you don’t know much about that it will take time to learn. So don’t expect that once you implement a few of the strategies, somehow overnight that you will rank on page #1 of the SERP’s (search engine results pages).
More sites of interest:
| Massive Website Traffic: Succeeding By Taking It A Bit At A Time … – If you’ve been reading my articles you’ll be in no doubt that you need to take massive actions in order to get massive results in your website traffic campaign.
Blog Basics for Beginners: Backlinks – 3 Ways to Boost Your Web … – Also, make sure to use PingOMatic to let all the social networking sites know that you have new content. Conclusion There are a billion ways to boost web traffic. If you feel disappointed about the rate at which your blogs are growing … Tips on How to Choose a Good Domain Name for Your Website Or Business … – Before you rush out and choose your domain name or name your website, you might want to consider the following points. Naming your site after your domain may seem obvious to some of you, but … |
The Twitter Blog Design Evolution
The Twitter Blog Design Evolution has arrived. I found this great post on Mashable about How Twitter Will Change Blog Design In 2009.
Mashable is certainly someone to listen to in the Web 2.0 and Social Networking arena. If you are not incorporating Twitter in your marketing plans, perhaps you should think twice about that.
Online Content Writing-How To Keep Up With The Demands
Online content writing can be a challenge. In an online business the main method of communication is via the written word almost 100% of the time.
You don’t have to be a professional writer nor an English scholar to take part, but you do have to write a LOT.
As I said, this can become overwhelming at times especially in the beginning stages of your new business. However, it doesn’t have to be that way.
There are many successful people who have already been down that path and have found ways to overcome this dilemma.
Here are some content writing tips directly from the experts that you can immediately implement in your business.
- ProBlogger wrote an excellent post that teaches you How To Write Fast so that you can free up more time. Everybody wants more free time…right?
- Entheos wrote a must read post on Website Content Writing, because writing on the web is a little different than writing for print. Haven’t you landed on a website before and couldn’t read a darn thing because the layout was horrible? Read this post and you’ll avoid that train wreck.
- Copyblogger wrote an awesome post on How To Write Magnetic Headlines. Headlines are what drive people to read or not to read your words. Go take a peak at the jewels he’s giving you.
Make Money Even If You’re Broke-Part 2
For those of you who read my post yesterday, 6 Ways To Make Money Online Even If You Are Dead Broke, which are the basics that you should learn anyway, and still have some concerns or confusion over what you should do…..this is a follow up video series that will add more clarity to the information you read.
Step 1-Learn Basic SEO
Robin Good is outside in a park filming this video. I don’t understand why he does this, but it really doesn’t matter because he gives excellent advice on beginner SEO.
SEO – SEM Search Engine Optimization – Beginner’s Guide
Want to learn want SEO-SEM Search engine optimization and search engine marketing are all about? Robin Good introduces you in simple, non-technical words to the world of SEO and explains to you why it is so important to understand and apply search engine optimization techniques to your site and blog content. For more info: http://www.masternewmedia.org
Have One Strong Focus – SEO – SEM Beginner’s Guide
Robin Good explains how important it is to have a major focus on one specific topic-theme if you are interested in getting lots of exposure and visibility from major search engines. Search engines send so-called spiders through every site to read the content of the site and understand better its theme focus. This is why the more focussed and specific your site is the easier it is for the major search engines to recommend it against relevant queries. For more info: http://www.masternewmedia.org
How To Write Great Titles – SEO – SEM Beginner’s Guide
Robin Good suggests to give lots of importance to how posts and article titles are chosen. The use of descriptive and essential titles that clearly spell out the focus of your content appear to be the most effective and successful ones. For more info read also: “How To Write Great Web Titles”: http://tinyurl.com/79wmu
Step 2-Keyword Research
SEO Keyword Research Basics
from http://www.seobook.com Tips on how to do keyword research for search engine optimization to help ensure your site ranks well in search engines like Google.
Step 3-Join Clickbank
How to Register a ClickBank Account
Step 4-Find Clickbank Product To Promote
How To Choose and Promote the Right Affiliate Product on Clickbank.
Step-5-Start A Blog
Settting up a Google Blogger Blog Part 1 of 2
This video by the ICE Marketing Group, LLC goes over how to set up a blog using the Google Blogger system. This is part one of two.
Basic Set up of a Blogger Blog Part 2 of 2
This video by the ICE Marketing Group, LLC goes over how to set up a blog using the Google Blogger system. This is part two of two.
Step 6-Promote Your Product
Article Marketing Tutorial – Bum Marketing Method
Top 3 Ways to Increase Search Engine Ranking - FREE Marketing Tips from Andre at ICSuccess.ws
And there you have it! Got any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
Enjoy!
More sites of interest:
| Do-It-Yourself SEO – A Beginner’s Checklist | How to get High Page … – There have always been do-it-yourselfers succeeding at web promotion and search engine optimization. In fact, many of the established businesses offering web.
» Beginner SEO/SEM: You’re Worth More Than That - Will Hanke is a leading Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert in the Saint Louis area. If your company needs Internet Marketing or just a website redesign that brings traffic, Will is your man. Beginners’ Guide to Keyword and Competition Research | Noob … – There are no hard and fast values here, it’s all down to your own SEO skill. Knowing how effective your competition’s SEO work is takes you one step closer to beating them with your own link building campaigns. … Toms Home Business Blog » Blog Archive » How To Find Top ClickBank … – Learn how you can make more money from home with your own online home based business. Bricktown Tom can teach you the secrets of making money online with my extensive free internet marketing course software. Find out how to make money … Use ClickBank And Generate More Commissions Than Adsense | Good … - As you know several streams of income an integral part of Internet Marketing. If it were not for auto pilot commissions we would not make half as much from the. |
6 Easy Steps to Make Money Online Even If You Are Dead Broke!
How do I get started? I’m dead broke!
First of all, are you really serious or are you being led by the nose from something you’ve read about getting rich overnight? If it’s the latter, then this article ain’t for you.
Okay, so if you are dead broke, busted, disgusted and you really want to make some money online, here are 6 easy steps you can do without spending one single penny:
Learn Basic SEO (search engine optimization) Techniques
Head on over to Cre8siteforums and read up on starting the SEO process and also a quick start guide to SEO. Then check out SEOmoz Beginners guide to SEO. After reading these you should know the very basics so that you can implement some of these strategies from the beginning.
Keyword Research
Wordtracker, one of the most popular keyword research tools, has a free service that you can use to dig up some keywords. Google has a free keyword tool also, so visit them and more than likely you will discover different keywords between the both of these.
Join Clickbank
Clickbank is an online retailer that specializes in digital products (ebooks, games, software, etc,) that you can buy and download immediately after purchase. They also have a free affiliate program that you can join and promote their products to make commissions.
Find A Good Product To Promote
Clickbank Marketplace is an excellent place to find products that are in high demand and that you can promote for up to 75% commissions. Search Clickbank’s Marketplace for quality products that don’t have a high refund rate. Look at the sales page and make sure that it is something that you don’t mind associating your name with because you are in the beginnings of making a reputation for yourself.
Start A Blog
Now that you have some understanding of SEO, keyword research skills and have a product to promote, you’ve got to get the word out. Having a blog is the quickest and easiest way to get your message out over the internet. Blogs are great for the novice because all you need are some basic computer skills and you can set up and design your blog in less than a half hour. So head over to Google’s Blogger and setup your free blog. There are directions and tutorials on the home page to help you along.
Start Promoting
Start writing articles for publication, look into bum marketing, find a forum and post nothing but quality information and use your signature for promotion of your product if the forum allows this.
Following these 6 steps will get you give you a basic understanding of online marketing and help you learn the skill-set that is required for long term success to making money online.
Here’s a list of more sites that offer some great tips that you can pick up on….
| Viral Advertising – Three Easy Tips! … Can you feel the Viral Advertising starting to work for you..? Let’s Refocus! I am just going to go straight into some good Viral Advertising tips.
Long Tail Keyword Research – A Step By Step Guide - Today we’ve got a question about long tail keyword research from Kelvin Tan. Here’s his question: I would like to ask some question about selection of. Unbiased Guidebook to Tricks For Keyword Anchor Text – You may say, “But the keyword research tools tell me this is how people are searching”, and while there may be truth in that statement, what that tool is not telling you is that this is not what Google’s spiders are looking for. … Keyword Research Strategy Flowchart : SEO Book.com – Cool flowchart highlighting the keyword research process. Hope you like it and find it valuable! Beginner’s Guide to SEO: Quickie Dos and Don’ts – Beginner’s Guide to SEO: Quickie Dos and Don’ts. by Nick on December 20, 2008. by Stoney deGeyter. Many SEO newbies, or new businesses starting out online, come to SEO blogs such as this looking for some quick and easy solution that … How Blogging Can Help You with SEO – A Beginner’s Guide : Blogger … – How Blogging Can Help You with SEO – A Beginner’s Guide. December 17, 2008 by bloggerbible. Filed under: Blog SEO · blog seo. Jason Develvis asked: Blogging is fun and easy to do, and you may be interested in learning how blogging can … |
Unconventional Traffic Strategies
Here is a free report that will teach some unconventional methods to drive traffic to your sites. Some of the tactics you may have some knowledge of, but not the details to make it work effectively. So take about 15 minutes to read this report and put some of these strategies into place.
Traffic Strategies is a give-away, so feel free to give it away too.
Enjoy!
