Newbies - You've arrived at El Dorado

I'm putting this out here in the hope it might help a newbie (just like me) who wants to make money on the internet (also just like me)

My back history is like so many newbies. I first bought something on IM a couple of years ago. Never really did anything with it but deluded myself I was an "Internet Marketer".

Eventually signed up for Bum Marketing and followed the basic principle. Found myself a niche around a clickbank product, built a blogger blog and put some articles up. Struggled (probably by overthinking some of them). To be honest I think some of my approach was a bit half assed because I was in the "I'm going to make $'000's by doing jack s**t" mindset. But it made me a small amount of money. I got giddy when I received my first Clickbank check about a year after I put the niche together and hadn't touched it for about 8 months.

This blog still gets traffic (and the very occasional sale) from one article that drives most of the traffic and has had about 5000 views. Originally I was annoyed but then flattered when some jack ass basically stole the article and did a really poor spinning job for his own article site.

Anyway I was reading this forum the other day and I stumbled upon a thread that Alex Sol contributed to and there was a small tale of how he got going in the game. It was very similar to my story although the main difference was there was regular passive income coming in.

It got me rethinking about what I had done. Basically I had stopped doing what I was doing around my first niche because I somehow thought it wasn't working.

Call it what you will but at the same time I was thinking about this something dropped into my in box from a marketer whose list I subscribe to. It was all free and it basically mapped out what had started Alex going and making money.

So I took it and ran with it.

Now this isn't (well not yet) a thread about how little newbie me made a stack of cash - more a lesson of sticking at something and making it work.

I took the idea I had been given and decided I was going my efforts on this one niche.

I took what I had learned from the Warrior Forum and did my keyword research by searching this forum for threads showing what links to use.

I built a blogger blog around a longtail keyword which I leanred about on this forum and didn't cost me a penny.

I wasn't able to get the keyword immediately but I learned about using hyphens from this forum.

I then created an article. Actually I rewrote the article (I had been given permission to do so) and posted to Ezine articles. This I also learned from this forum.

I decided at this point I was going to concentrate my efforts on this one niche and give it a go.

My first article in this niche was accepted.

I posted a couple of blog entries and created links within the body of my text to the affiliate product I was promoting. I also added a links module to my blog to promote the article.

I set my blog up so that each article could have it's own page - I learned this from this forum.

I then went to Digg and put the link in to each of the posts. Plus I pinged each post as I created it.

There's more to tell you but I wanted to show you right away that as a newbie there's so much information on here to get you going and things you can be doing to take action right now that don't take a lot of time.

I'll add the other things that I've been doing over the last two weeks and hopefully I'll have some success to share with you.

But please do learn from this forum and please please please, take action and stick at one thing for at least a month.