Internet Guide

This is a guide to internet marketing and I’ll be breaking this article into two sections.

The first section will give you an overview of what you are trying to accomplish, you’ll need to keep this in mind before you start.

The next section will give you a technical plan of action, this is what you’ll actually need to do to see success.

Having both of these in place is putting yourself on the path of victory, whatever that means to you.

So here is the high level overview. I like to imagine Google as a giant stream of traffic. People enter a phrase, a keyword, and Google brings them to a page which displays possible exits for them.

These exits are all labeled (website titles) and the water goes down a particular path. This stands for people choosing the website that best fits there needs when they search.

You want people to go down your path, so getting listed for a keyword and having a catchy title is your primary starting goal.

So on the technical side of things building say a Squidoo lens, very easy and free to do, gives you a listing in Google. Adding a catchy title to your Squidoo lens (keyword specific) starts grabbing you some of that juicy traffic.

You need traffic in internet marketing or you literally can’t do anything. If you aren’t willing to pay Google to try and send you traffic, your best bet is getting listed in the search engines with a catchy title. I recommend Squidoo because Google already favors it, Hubpages is another website that you can use which Google favors.

So go out and create a listing right now, do it for fun. Pick your favorite activity and make a Squidoo lens or Hugpage on it, you have nothing to lose do this for the practice.

So back to the high level overview, next you are sending people from your site to a sales page they are interested in.

The technical side of this is as simple as adding links throughout your Squidoo lens and telling people to click on them. If you want to practice this step, sign up to Clickbank.com. Try and find a product (e-book) that fits your Squidoo lens, get your affiliate link from Clickbank (free), and tell people on your lens to click that link.

The more traffic you can get to click that link, the greater your potential profit. This means you are doing your job well, it takes a lot of time to learn to bring traffic from Google to a vendor elegantly.

Now if you can create these pathways and start gaining traffic, you’ll be a successful internet marketer in no time!