Internet Marketing Continued

This is my second post about some of my personal experiences while getting into internet marketing.I am trying to give both good and bad points that may be helpful to someone else.

I subscribed to a lot of newsletters and read a lot of articles. Some of the newsletters were a farce and only wanted your email address to add to their mailing list or trade it away.

One subscription from a well know "guru?", over a 3 month period, consisted of 2 reference book ads with an explanation that he hadn't been able to write lately because his job on the internet had made it possible for him to take so much vacation. It seemed that talking about his vacation was an obsession. I don't think that he could believe that he was successful or he was using this as a selling point for his information. Needless to say, I cancelled this subscription immediately.

I also discovered that the best thing that you can do when you subscribe to newsletters is to start a free email account Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. just for this simple fact that you may start getting a lot of spam and junk mail and will not want to cancel your main mail account. All internet marketers may be created equal but just like anyone else, there not all honest and looking out for your wellbeing.

If your are planning to build a website for the purpose of affilliate marketing, decide what your main product is going to be and research different existing websites and check out the different approaches that each take. Read their articles and what information that they have provided. Always consider a website that sells a product or service that your you posess some about. This helps considerably when you start adding information or articles. If you write some of your own articles, you can post them in various article directories. You get credit for them and can add a link back to your site from them. These incoming links help your site ranking.

If your don't already have a Google tool bar you may want to consider downloading one for free and check the page ranks of various sites and compare their ranking to the information that they provide.

Thanks for reading this post and I will continue to post about this same subject in my next writing. Maybe I will bring up a point that you haven't thought of.

C. Oxford