First steps as an Internet Marketer

There is no way round it.  If you upset Google in some way you will pay for it by having your blog or website downgraded potentially to the equivalent of outer Siberia.   Here are some of the things for  which Google could penalise your site. Buying links to your website This was once a sure fire way to increase traffic to your site.  Google looks for which sites link to your site and the more links the higher you are rated.  Well that was once but not any more.  Low rated sites linking to your site will have the opposite effect to the one desired.  Good links from high value sites are always good, anything else is bad.  Don't ever buy links! Article Spinning Writing good quality articles is what Google wants, isn't it?  Yes that is true, but unfortunately there was once a time when Google could not tell whether an article on one website was the same as an article on potentially numerous other article spinning sites.  The idea behind article spinning was to write a good

Google have been monetising websites with AdWords since 2000 and with AdSense since 2003. AdWords enable you to advertise on the Google search engine in possibly a more preferential position than you would have normally achieved through your own website's ranking.  AdSense on the other hand provides AdWords advertisers with the ability to place banner ads on your website.  This should normally be relevant to the kind of website you own and these ads are placed according to algorithms created by Google.   Because of this, there is also the possibility that the ads displayed may not always have a relevancy to your particular market.  They are just targeted at the user's personal interests based on their internet usage. If your are interested in setting up an AdSense account you will need a gmail account and be over 18.  As AdSense is promoted on websites you need to have at least a WordPress or Google Blogger account.  Again, bear in mind that you  do  need to have a realisti

Getting high rankings in the search engines is going to be more of a challenge since Google  decided that article marketing, blog postings and similar back link strategies are not as highly rated as they were previously. So this leaves many would be marketers with a dilemma in that if they use new methods which work today will they find themselves penalized tomorrow by the likes of Bing, Yahoo and Google when new evaluations of SEO are introduced.  After all, article marketing, creating back links via Hubpages and (Squidoo before they went into liquidation) were all fairly standard methods proposed by most SEO strategists in the past. Yet now with new algorithms being developed by the search engines many of these methods will no longer produce the goods when it comes to ranking well and therefore getting visitors to your site.  In fact there is every possibility that the opposite effect may occur where these very strategies could now harm your carefully crafted SEO strategies.

Time is something that is a most important factor when considering starting up an internet marketing business.  For instance, could you realistically achieve a reasonable income if you were only able to devote 20 minutes per day to the task?  20 minutes per day equates to approximately 10 hours a month.  This isn't an enormous amount of time for any business so is it a feasible target? Perhaps the secret to success in internet marketing is in the timing as it is in most things in life even if it is only 20 minutes per day.  So if you are interested in creating an internet marketing business but see time as an issue, ie you cannot afford to spend more than 20 minutes a day as long as you persevere you may achieve your ambitions. If you spend your 20 minutes in researching something about which you are passionate you are more likely to succeed.  Bear in mind that you may have to continue for several years before seeing your online business succeeding.  Don't believe any hype