Hello there internet marketing newbies. I have come to realize that perhaps this blog’s content only remotely makes sense to partially-seasoned internet maketers and web masters. That being said, this post is to get you newbies up to speed.
I started internet marketing, or back then what I called ‘makin websites’, about two years ago. When I created my first website, emeraldbeats.com (no longer exists) , a site to sell instrumental beats, I thought I was going to wake up the next day a millionaire. I spent hours and hours on graphics, layout, theme, etc, only later to realize no one was coming to my website, not now, not soon, not ever, and no matter how pretty I made the site, that wasn’t going to change. And I learned my first very important lesson: People do not automatically come to webpages. Now, as trivial as that sounds, many people simply do not understand this. You could reinvent facebook, or something 20x better than facebook, but no one will visit the site without proper link building and promotion. Period.
Okay, so…I had spent over 500 hours coding nonsense javascript to make my site “interactive” and pretty, sacrificed my sophmore grades in chemical engineering, only to find that it all was worth nothing. I started surfing some highly profitable adult niche sites, and found that many of these sites simply looked like donkey crap. I mean, some sites making over a grand a day simply look like some 6 year old’s artwork – no offense to 6 year olds.
So… A site that looks like crap, no javascript, no css, no theme, just black text, blue links, and some pictures makes over a grand a day ( by the way you can check website value with http://www.websiteoutlook.com however, this is extreemly inaccurate, use tools like alexa.com compete.com and quantcast.com to gauge a websites traffic – from there it is actually very hard to determine how much they are making) so….WTF, I thought to myself. There must be some other special ingredient to being successfull at making money online! And , there is, it is called traffic!
Okay, so I realize that traffic is the only thing that matters ( pretty much, for our newie internet marketing purposes ) – so how did I get traffic in my early days? Well, do a google search using (“links:http://www.compeditorwebsite.com”) and find who was linking to my competition, then I would try to build a link to my site! Now, while I did do this for like 2 weeks straight, staying up until the wee hours of the morning every night, it was close to unbearably boring and tedious. However, after 2 weeks of link building for about 4 hours a day, a reached a steady traffic flow of about 1000 unique visitors a day. Needless to say, sales started to role in, and the work didn’t seem so bad.
Then, I began to ponder how I could automate my work, to achieve a similar result in less time. That brought me to purchasing a variety of automatic link building softwares – some which work very well, some which do not. ( I will go over which software is best in future post – stay tuned) For the most part, automatic link building software is usefull, but only to a point, and only if you know how to use it correctly. Now, sales were rolling in, and I was loving it, but of course, like any greedy webmaster, I wanted more!
Okay, but I have gone on a tanget. That is my story, hopefully you can learn something from it. But here is my advise to you young internet marketing padawan learner -
1) Start with only one website (Choose to make content about something that interests you – perhaps yoga or fly fishing)
2) Build links to your website using dofollow diver – google search do follow diver, the rest is pretty straight forward – leave comments that include a hyperlink to your site on relevent blog posts
3) Find affiliate programs that are relevant to your site – clickbank, clickbooth, etc
4) Install google analytics on your site – not that hard, just do it
After that, just monitor traffic and see if you can make some sales for a targeted product on your page. Making ten dollars a day online is not hard – let me repeat – making ten dollars a day online is not hard – making 100 dollars a day online is not THAT hard, and if you work hard enough 1000 dollars per day from internet marketing is not out of reach for anyone. Good luck making money online – Miles Smith over and out