How I Make Money Online: My Internet Marketing Story and Guide

How I got started in online marketing and how you can too. Resources and more forthcoming. Please, if you’re interested at all in internet marketing bookmark this lens and keep coming back. I will try to make this one of the best “FREE” resources online.

Remember this before continuing, some of what I am going to tell you requires NO PURCHASE OR MONEY, so don’t let the programs and offers out there fool you. This can be done for free.

Feel free to re-post any information on this article, as long as you link back to it. That’s all I ask.

Thank you for stopping by, and I honestly hope that this lens has helped you out.

Good luck!

P.S. – One of the biggest reasons that I’ve made this lens is for my friends and acquaintances that wanted to know what I’m doing online and how I’m making money from internet marketing. I’ve spent too much time repeating information to people who offer to help and end up proving to only have a mild curiosity that I’m just basically sick of repeating myself.

A Friend and Affiliate Marketer: My Story

Late November 2009,

I was working for a well-known company for $24 a night. Three-hour night shifts forty-five minutes from home for something like $8 an hour. I came out $8 after gas (I was driving a full-size truck that actually got somewhat decent gas mileage). The warehouse in which I was working just so happened to be very close to a Taco Bell.

It wasn’t pretty.

I was 21. Still living with my mother and had nothing better to do during the winter months than to watch TV or get on the internet. However, I would sometimes stop at a relatives house to watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on Thursdays.

One night, I stopped in he had a blank sheet of paper in front of him and was typing random sentences into Google and writing down search results. I had not idea what he was doing. He began telling me about how a friend of his (more of an acquaintance of mine) was making pretty serious money online (upwards of $1,500.00 a month).

I couldn’t believe it. I immediately thought that he was going to give me this spiel about how it wasn’t a pyramid scheme and it was perfectly legal and so on.

Well, he did. And, I told him, “Man, you do realize you’re getting pulled in hook, line, and sinker to a pyramid scheme, right?”

He explained to me that this wasn’t a pyramid scheme. I was still pretty skeptical. I mean everything he said screamed SCAM and PYRAMID SCHEME. So, I just sat and listened and decided to do my homework later when he wasn’t around.

It took around two weeks of me reading everything I could find online about the type of “business” this was and the program that his friend had recommended. Turns out, it was real (or for everything I read, it seemed to be).

One night, I was bored and just browsing more of the same online, still reading and debating, I decided to check out the program’s website. To sign up it was around $40.00 and I figured that I had blown my money in far worse ways (scratch-offs, poker games, horse races, fast-food rip-offs, alcohol).

So, I decided to whip out my credit card and let the dice fall as they may. I didn’t have anything to lose and it seemed if his friend was being genuine that I may have everything to gain. And, I did know quite a bit about the guy and he was pretty big into religion, had a steady job with a local business, and worked in a family-owned store. He also hung around a good crowd of guys that I knew better than him, so I wasn’t going in totally blind.

Long story short, almost two years later I’m paying my rent with my “online money” or the money that I make from affiliate programs. Sometimes the money is better and sometimes it’s not, but I’m consistently making my rent every month at the very least.

The program that I bought into (thinking that it was probably nothing but a scam) was WealthyAffiliate.com and I haven’t regretted my decision at all. If you do decide to put down a little money for anything affiliate marketing related, this is where to lay it down. I recommend this to the beginner or intermediate 100%. Also, the biggest resource on the website is the forum.

Yes, that is a sales link. If you sign up through that link I do get paid. I’m not going to lie to you. The way I see it, if you are going to make a living online because of something that I introduced you to or persuaded you to sign up for, then you shouldn’t mind that I’m making a little bit out of it.

P.S. – The price of the full membership of the website has went up, but they’re introducing two separate packages: Gold and Platinum. If you’re a dedicated person and can manage to put thirty minutes or more a day into it, you can make quite a bit of money while you sleep or work at your day job until you can do it full-time.

It takes persistence and determination. Most importantly it takes more than reading, it takes ACTION.

Recommended Programs, Websites, and Resources

Wealthy Affiliate – The only place to learn how to be an affiliate marketer and not be ripped off.
 
Clickbank.com – Lots of products to promote that people love to buy. Some products seems “scammy” and those will be a harder sell, go for those with the more professional looking websites. If you think something smells fishy, then the person landing on their page will probably be thinking the same thing.
 
*Also, there are products on Clickbank that I wouldn’t promote. Some of them do seem to be overpriced or have very little helpful information.
 
PotPieGirl’s One Week Marketing – She’s very helpful and one of the best internet marketers around!
 
 
These two below can be found by a simple Google search:
Google Keyword Tool – Do your research here.
Google Trends – See what’s hot.

Affiliate Marketing: Article Marketing, Pay-Per-Click, and Making Money Online

Due to the widespread popularity of the Internet, many online users depend on search engines for acquiring information regarding products and services offered by different businesses. So it is important to have websites that can be easily located by the search engines. Optimizing websites for better placement on search engines is thus immensely significant.

Boost Your Website Rankings

To thrive in online business, your website has to be appropriately optimized. Improved traffic to most of the websites is based on the search engine results. Through search engine optimization techniques it is possible to achieve better response from internet users who are searching for your products and services. To optimize the website for better placement on search engines it is necessary to have quality and pertinent website content and targeted keywords so as to create a connection to your products and services, when a user conducts a search through the search engines.

Website optimization is a complex process and utilizes a number of techniques to achieve positive results for your website. These include among other procedures:

• Development of Meta tags

• Optimization of HTML codes

• Creation of reciprocal links

• Submission to search engines

• Directory submission

• Article submission

• Blog creation

• Pay per click advertising

• Regular monitoring and maintenance of reports

To improve your website ranking, it is best to avail of the assistance of search engine optimization service providers. There are a number of companies in the industry offering superior natural SEO services within the allotted time and at affordable service charges.

Acquire Long-term Effects through Minimum Investment

Through search engine optimization process, it is possible to improve your return on investment (ROI). In addition, your website can maintain a top position on popular search engines and enjoy improved traffic for a long-term without making additional investments.

With many of the business owners depending on the cyberspace to market their products and services, website optimization process is gaining more and more importance on a daily basis.

Website Optimization – As an effective and reputable professional SEO firm, Viral SEO Services offers a gamut of search engine placement and optimization solutions for achieving your long-term online marketing goals.

Optimizing Websites For Better Placement On Search Engines

Writing articles, submiting your information up to the web and publication of your writings are getting more popular every day. If you don’t write and post to blogs, forums, and message boards or send out informative emails on a regular basis, you’re missing a tremendous opportunity to promote your business opportunity.

As we’ve discussed in some of our recent writings, you learn to write by writing. Writing from the heart with good relevant information has contributed to the success of many online businesses. We live in an information-based society, so it makes a lot of sense to take advantage of this form of communication. This type of medium is one of the most effective techniques of converting a prospect into a buyer.

Within your arsenal of marketing tools most of us have some form of program that helps us to distribute our information much easier than the methods used a couple of years ago. There are submitters you can find online that will really make the chore of publishing more tolerable. Do a Google search and see the various types of programs being offered regarding submitters. A good submitter is worth its weight in gold. This writer is not endorsing any particular program being offered. This is merely a suggestion of one way to make your submission process quicker and to more users, thus giving your opportunity more exposure.

We talk a lot about optimization. However, there are other aspects of article marketing that we need to consider.

• Branding….There is only one reason that anyone writes and publishs articles, and that is to keep our audience informed about you and your business opportunities. If we want to become well known personally, or our get our business name recognized as a household icon, then branding become essential in our marketing efforts.

• Lead Generation….We all know that without people to talk to, we will never be able sell our products or services. There are many options we can pursue in the never ending saga of lead generation. Do some research regarding this subject and find the best source of lead generation for your particular business opportunity.

• Promotion…..There are countless people who know how to build a website, however, they don’t have a clue on how to promote their business. This is a process that you can learn and is becoming more and more important that you learn as much as you can about this process, and implement this knowledge into the marketing strategies regarding your product or service.

If your information is not laser focused regarding the three issues discussed above, you will definitely fail in your marketing efforts. By writing good relevant content in your website as well as your writings your reading audience will respond by staying in your site longer which gives your reader more time to make a positive choice of purchasing your services.

The links that can be generated with article marketing is astounding. We all know that the search engines put an incredible amount of weight on the amount of links, back links and cross linking that they find when the robots spider our web sites. By aggressively promoting your articles you will experience a natural magnet effect of drawing good quality links pointing to your site which the search engines will reward you with higher page ranking.

In your article marketing it is imperative to use keywords and keyword phrases, however, don’t overdo this part of the process. Use the ratio of 5-7% that we’ve discussed before should be adhered to. This will help you to avoid being charged with keyword stuffing by the search engines. Many search engines are so set on this ratio; they will ban your site if you violate their guidelines.

Getting your writings picked up by publishers will give you a substantial boost in your reading audience. The bigger the audience the more links you will accumulate. The search engines love links and in turn will rank your site accordingly. Not all publishers are going to pick up your work, so don’t get discouraged. Just keep on writing those articles and sooner or later a major publisher will pick up your work.

Article directories have guidelines to follow. Most of them are very particular on following their format so don’t try to push the envelope too far or they won’t publish many of your articles or ban you altogether. Do your research on any topic of interest and write from the heart. You might even consider using a ghost writer to write some of your articles if you develop writers block. Make sure you have the exclusive rights to publish that article by having something in writing giving you authorization to publish.

You can double, triple the number of sites you can submit to by writing articles that the publishers want to share with other directories. All it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience overnight. Write the articles that publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This also means you have to obey the standard guidelines, spell checks, researching on a good topic and even hiring a writer to produce a good content on your behalf.

Your audience is going to be diverse in their interest, so you must write accordingly. If you want to target a specific type of audience then do your research and write your article more specifically than you would write for a general audience. The more you write the more you will learn to distinguish how to construct your article formats for maximum effectiveness.

“Let’s Build Your Business Together”

Larry L Miller SEM/SEO Consulting

Larry L Miller – SEM/SEO Consultant who specializes in promoting clients to “Top Positions on Google” and other leading search engines. Mr. Miller is the promotions director for BLM Traders the leader in Automated Marketing Systems. Private Line: 321-594-4405, Skype: larrylmiller121

Article Marketing

There are many ways, a person can get traffic to their websites and Article Marketing is one of them. Today, I am going to discuss about article marketing and its benefit.

Some people think that Article marketing is not gonna help them in any way and it’s a dead snake now and the other part is that you need to be a perfect writer to attract people to your website.

Now, the question comes, if the Article Marketing is a dead snake and I am afraid writing than how could it help me get visitors to my site.

The very first thing I would like to share with you about me is that I am not a perfect write and never thought that I will be writing articles like this. But today, I am doing this. Writing Articles to help people understand what exactly is Internet Marketing and its benefit. Article Marketing is a part of Internet Marketing via which we get visitors or in other words we get traffic to our website.

So, if I can write an article than I believe that anyone can do this. Not a BIG deal… and even today, it’s not a dead snake. It works. The only thing is that it should be unique and should interest people reading this.

I will tell you how to write an article easy way but first, we need to understand what actually is an article?

In simple words, Article is nothing more than your thoughts. People writing Articles, knows about the topic and then just write their thoughts on a piece of paper or on a notepad and make that an Article. So, whatever is their in your mind regarding the subject, write that on a piece of paper.

Thanks,
Shaishav Sood

Article Marketing — Are You Afraid Of Writing?

With technological advancement, web 2.0 web applications are being developed every day and static websites are no longer just simply static, they are either migrated to dynamic websites using PHP, ASP, JSP and other programming languages to provide customized contents to users and also rich interaction or static websites are made more interactive by adding elements like flash banners to impart very interactive look to your website. These dynamic websites have provided user interaction by providing interface for users, eBay online auction store, Amazon book store; Yahoo stores are live examples which let users do real time shopping by creating accounts online, place orders, check their account status and swipe cards for payment – everything is secure online. Ecommerce storefront development, portal development, b2b osCommerce development have mobilized are life and making everything possible over internet.

Now coming to these dynamic websites visibility, these web sites should be search engine friendly but it is really difficult to make these dynamic websites search engine friendly.

What led to need of creating dynamic websites???

With growing need to sell products and services online for global reach and visibility in very short span of time websites are developed and internet proved the best tool for promotion of your business. Selling services through static websites is not a hard nut to crack but coming to selling thousands of products online developers started finding difficulty. Dynamic websites are web sites whose web pages are generated on fly and provide interactive experience to users. Web pages have interactive navigation and generated on demand in comparison to static websites where web pages navigation are just hyperlink based. Static websites are easily indexable by major search engines but dynamic websites are not easily indexed by search engines. With the point to sell products online, ecommerce storefront are developed providing user interactive interface, this virtual online store provides real time shopping interface to its customers. It is not easy to develop a static website to promote thousands of products and manage those pages, as this requires creating unique pages for every product.

These dynamic websites to create interactivity use either server side scripting or client side scripting languages. Dynamic web pages are created on fly, many web pages really do not exist on the server, on demand they are created when a user generates a query and if the site is database driven, query string is manipulated and then this string pulls the web page from the database and they do not physically exist and thus are not indexed by search engine. It is not really easy to index these websites, but there are few important ways to optimize these websites for search engines.

URL Rewriting: Dynamic web pages URLs are query strings with delimiters like question mark; also these URLs are very long and have encoded variables generated by scripting languages. These links are generated and modified by scripting language by adding a session id to the generated URLs to keep away users from blocking the cookies, these session ids are unique for every visit of Google. Still many search engines do not index these dynamic web pages, the search engine spider get lost in loops. You need to manually rewrite these URLs by removing special characters, symbols and variables like – ?!= these. Some open source content management systems have modules for URL rewriting. Example: Joomla generates search engine friendly URLs and provides page caching mechanism. CGI/Perl script is another way for getting your site indexed by search engines. Query part of dynamically generated URLs is assigned variable that returns a search engine friendly URLs that are easily indexed by search engine crawlers.

Creating a static site map for your dynamic website: Make sure that your websites’ dynamically generated all web pages are linked to the static sitemap page and submit this static web page to search engines and directories.

Other is URL re-write module will help your dynamic website to be indexed by search engines but again it depends on the server your website is hosted. For Apache server mod-rewrite scripting module helps to modify your URL in search engine friendly format. For IIS windows based server ISAP rewrite program is used.

Turning off link appendage, PHP.ini file, will instruct server to turn off user session id and only switch on cookies session id (session.use_trans_sid and turn on session.use_only_cookies). This can also be achieved by writing .HTACCESS file and adding “php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off” and php_flag session.use_only_cookies On.

Most important what I want to discuss with you about ecommerce websites are server authentication. .htpasswd and .htaccess are two files that will let you password protect your web pages on server and keep your information safe and secure.

.htpasswd file should be placed anywhere other that directory of the website and its path is defined as /etc/apache2/.htpasswd as it is used to keep user login and password of website’s users.

.htaccess file contains access information of the website users and their rights and are placed in the root of website directory.

Now let me come to some of the most important issues – the speed of loading and low overhead for a dynamic web page. Load balancing, bandwidth management, security, encryption are some of the other important issues which we need to consider before creating a dynamic website.

On demand constructed web pages take more response time and also server has to take extra at the time of on-demand page generation. Performance and scalability are most important issues that have risen with these dynamic websites. It is also calculated that server-side latency accounts for 40 percent of the total page delivery time experienced by end users.

To speed up dynamic web pages construction at server side we need to consider dynamic page pre-generation, fragment caching and code caching.

Rakhi Chowdhary, is a SEO copywriter, SEO executive, SEO
Strategist, at an open source web development company India. Open source
development India offers custom website development, custom web design solutions, application migration solutionsstatic website migration services,
application migration solutions.

Optimizing Dynamic Websites

Article marketing techniques can differ from internet marketer to internet marketer. In this article, I’ll share top 6 Article Marketing Strategies To Maintain Profitable Article Promotion. 

1.    Massive Submission 

Massive submission is one of the most popular article marketing techniques nowadays. In general, one original and tens or hundreds of spinned articles are being used in this case. It is at your choice to do this yourself using article submission software or buy massive article distribution service. 

2.    Submission to top list 

Most internet marketing gurus prefer this article marketing promotion: submission of each and every article to top 10 or15 article marketing directories. In this case, you should choose highest traffic and highest pagerank sites to get maximum from your article promotion. 

3.    Manual Submission  

Manual submission is recommended by many experienced internet marketers as one of the most effective article marketing techniques. They mostly implement manual submission without any help if software.   

4.    Submission to 1 or 2 sites only. 

Some article marketers prefer submission of their articles only to one or two article marketing directories. The main reason for that is saving time and gaining a few, but more quality backlinks. Especially Do-follow, PR6 Ezinearticles is the number one site for every internet marketer. 

5.    More articles, more sales 

Some article marketers are people who are trying to get maximum results from any work, including article distribution. Therefore they attack top directories with tens of articles every single day to win over their competitors. I know even one internet marketer who himself is writing 101 articles per day and then submit them to top 10 directories to increase his affiliate and adsense income.  

6.    Maximum Leverage of Article Marketing 

Another group of article marketers apply “complex approach” article marketing techniques trying to “squeeze” maximum benefit from each and every article.

They use each article for: 

Creating short reports Creating video Forum marketing Yahoo answers marketing Creating e-book And much more. 

Conclusion:  

It is your own decision either to use only one or two from these 6 article marketing techniques or combine all of them for maximum profitable article promotion.

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Article Marketing Techniques – Top 6 Article Marketing Strategies You Should Try To Maintain Profitable Article Promotion

In this article you are going to find out why Seo Pressor is the best blogging software for optimizing a blog.

SEO Pressor is a WordPress plugin that’s the best blogging software for optimizing a blog. This proven plugin has been tried and tested and the results have shown dramatic first page Google results on multiple sites. So what’s their secret to creating the best blogging software?

The key is on-page search engine optimization. Websites are dead in the water without proper on-page seo. This is a huge key that you don’t want to miss. A lot of website owners focus on fancy web site graphics and improving their copywriting skills but all of that hard work is wasted without proper on-page search engine optimization. Without it, no one will ever see their website.

So what are the factors that go into optimizing a blog the right way? Have you ever heard of the terms H1, H2, and H3 tags, keyword density, no-follow, and alt tags? Well if you haven’t, these are just a few of the important keys to blog optimization. Other factors include placement of your keyword in the first and last sentence of your article, font decoration, internal page linking, and image analyzation

Are you confused yet? Is your head spinning? Don’t worry! SEO Pressor will take care of all of these headaches for you with the simple install of this WordPress plugin.

Just think about all of pain and agony you’d have to put into reviewing every single page on your website just to make sure all of these checkpoints are done. If you even miss just one of these steps, Google will penalize your site and the chances of your page showing in the search engines will be slim.

Lucien Bechard is an Internet Marketing Consultant that Specializes in Social Media Marketing Strategies, SEO, and Personal Branding Techniques.

Seo Pressor Is Best Blogging Software for Optimizing a Blog

If you are new to article marketing and you don’t know where to start this would be a good place to start. The first thing you want to do is, decide what you want to right about for instance you want to right about “gardening”. Once you decide what you want to right about you need to come up with some keywords that is relevant to your article about gardening.

Once you have your keywords you need to see if your keywords have traffic and how you can do that is by using google free keyword tool or a paid tool like market samurai. What you want to focus on is the competition, local searches and global searches. You want to make sure that you don’t pick the keywords with high competition because you will have a hard time getting on the first page of google.

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Article Marketing: Newbies

Article writing has always been a fascinating field. It is an effective internet marketing medium that lets a product or a website be known by its general public. Of all the internet marketing tools, article marketing has been proven to be one of the most effective. Article writing simply has the ability to make a product known by its target market in just a matter of minutes. Even more powerful for the article writer is the recognition that comes over time as more and more articles are written, published and read.

So, for article writing beginners who want to learn the basics of the trade, here are some of the frequently asked questions:

What is article marketing?

Article marketing is the process of producing neutral and informative articles that will be published to the web.

What is the purpose of article marketing?

It is used to stir the interest of targeted audiences on a specific topic.  It does not mention any specific name of a product but it contains details that will be useful to the target audience.

Do you want to learn more about how to use articles to generate targeted traffic to your website? I have just completed a brand new free guide. Download it free here: ArticlePower.net

Article Marketing For Dummies