New to Internet Marketing - avoid these beginner's mistakes (add your mistakes)

Pretty much everything in the list above. I am trying to stay focused on list building but now getting into the High Traffic Academy hype. Ran my first campaign on Adknowledged for $50.00 and didn't make a dime. I had 938 clicks and not one sale. I did everything according to the instructor's directions.

This is good advice but when you are completely new how do you know what plan to follow? You do need to do some research on the different types of businesses that can be operated from the internet.

And sometimes that will entail buying stuff to learn about these different types of businesses. You just need to do your due diligence when thinking about purchasing any product. Is the seller trustworthy? Do they have good reviews? Always do a search for any seller you intend to buy from as this will give you a better picture of the type of person they are.

Of course you can get the information for free by searching for it but that isn't always the best use of your time. If someone has already compiled the information you need then spending a few dollars to get it can be more beneficial than spending the time sifting through dozens or sometimes hundreds of websites to compile the same information.

In the end it is best if you have a basic idea of what you want to do before spending any money. Reading for free here on the forum is a good way to get a feel for that.

Jay

Too many niches too early on. Choose one niche and dominate it. Use your learned strategies to dominate other niches once you feel your niche is too easy or you get too comfortable.

Hey newbee321,

You could always, put a signature link back to your landing page
on your forum profile..

Set up some tracking on it,
then test a few different signature versions,
find the one that is generating the most clicks..

Then take your link and join other forums,
post "value" comments in the forums on posts that
are getting a lot of traffic..

Hope that helps Ya some..

Wow thanks for all the nice words.. Just saw it now

1 - Get away from losers and those with low expectations
2 - Realize the value in List Building
3 - Locate programs that pay immediately
4 - Complete 1 project at a time.

As far as Get Rich products I would say buy buy buy. It's all a learning process and you will learn reading the copy what people want.

SEO - Stick to the more traditional methods first, blogging, social marketing, article writing, word of mouth, forum marketing, etc, also hit some of the newer social networks like Google+ and LinkedIn.

As far as buying products and services to sell or use. Roll with the Gurus who give you a well rounded education. As far as reviews take them lightly most reviews are often done by friends, folks who have idolized the seller for awhile, and those who got free copies of the products.

There's a lot of things to consider concerning a review. If they review the free product most likely they are a veteran so products and concepts may be easier for them to grasp. Some think it's ok to have to go in and edit php files after paying 100 bucks, I Don't, I think its shoddy programming. I'm still waiting on these guys to show me where these fb plugins are bringing in paying customers. Sure you can get people from fb to your site, but are they paying customers, show me the numbers and then I will buy. Oh, thinking of wso's would someone pm the guy that doesn't know the difference between mrr and plr that's selling articles so he can stop wasting his money lol.

Let me give you an example...

Keyword "dog training" has:

24000 in broad match
10000 in phrase match
8800 in exact match

If Jay writes "dog training" he will hopefully see your site as the #1 spot.

If Jay writes "dog training for dummies" it's a phrase match, but Google will probably choose another site than yours, if somebody is targeting "dog training for dummies" exact match.

I know it's possibly to rank lots of related keywords, but if the competition is medium or high, those phrase match keywords will be hard to rank for; You need to mention them in your articles and also do some SEO (with the keyword phrases as anchor text).

Imagine Kristian buys the domain "dogtrainingfordummies.com", names the title of the site "Dog Training For Dummies", mention it two times in the meta description and afterwards creates some good backlinks to his site with the keyword as achor text. This keyword phrase can only be outranked if your site has high authority in Googles eyes like Wikepedia or something..

I know the above is not the case everytime, I just want you to know how it works. It's hundred times wiser to target an exact keyword as you can laser target the SEO. I always only use "exact match".