New to internet marketing....need some advice

Hi and welcome Bruce!

Your question is tough to answer. It really depends what you would like to get into. I don't know where you at right now but it sounds like you are writing article after article and you're getting sick of it.

I think what you should do now is actually promote your articles. This way you can get them to rank higher and they will get views consistently.

So to answer your question you might want to move on to learn about creating quality backlinks, where to get them and how to promote your articles.

Once you know how to promote them you can use the same techniques to build backlinks to your money site or blog or whatever you want to do down the road.

I hope I could help.

Cheers,

Mario
Make It Happen!

@yellowboy : you are right i am really sick of writing articles....i was thinking of outsourcing my articles.....and try out something new like affiliate marketing, blogs or maybe tryout ebay...any advice?

Aricles, SEO, backlinks, and paid search. Learn SEM and start small. If you can mater ROI even on a $20 budget, you can grow it exponentially.

i used only one time in my life affiliated marketing. and that is for friends finder. i did so much hard work and when it came to pay....i was given promises and never paid. so i left idea of doing affiliated marketing... if you are new just give time to read about sites, reviews and then make a choice ..

Hey Bruce,

Just take all the time you have and WORK WORK WORK!

I can't stress how important it is that you're always doing something.

I'm a keen on blogging! :-) Follow your passion and/or interest.

Marian

Try some video marketing. Get a camera (flip mino HD) and just start jabbering, upload to youtube with the right keywords and ask people to visit your blog/website/whatever.

Works for me, really well!

- Chris

@ marain : even i am really keen on blogging

thanks for the advice guys....affiliate marketing or blogging will be the next venture for me....wish me success

I wonder whether it would add value to this discussion when I point out the difference between revenue models and traffic generation methods.

Some of the revenue models are:

- Selling own products (or products you have rights to) as a vendor
- Promoting other people's products as an affiliate and earn commissions
- Publishing free contents as an online publisher or a blogger and earn advertising fees (own advertising program or third party advertising programs such as AdSense)
- Publishing paid content as a membership site owner and earn subscription fee.
- Providing service for fee (such as writing articles and programming)

Some of the traffic generation methods are:

- SEO
- PPC
- Backlinks
- Article marketing
- List building and email marketing

Most traffic generation methods require a list of keyword phrases and therefore keyword research is a must regardless of the traffic generation method that you choose.

Back to OP, when you mentioned article marketing, do you do it as a traffic generation method or a revenue model. I assume it's the former (please correct me if I'm wrong).

IMO, PPC might be less time consuming compared to article marketing. But PPC is a paid method while article marketing can be free (without considering time spent) unless you outsource the writing part of it.

BTW, I also think that affiliate marketing is a suitable revenue model for a newbie. You don't have to worry about product creation, product fulfillment, and customer service among other things.

Regardless of the revenue model that you decided to focus on, you still need to drive traffic to your own website or the vendor's website.

I am also fairly new here but I would like to say that forums and blogs aren't near so time consuming and can be very powerful marketing methods.

Hi Bruce,

With article, you could include a link in your resource box to point to another website (yours or one you're affiliated with). People whom visited your article page might click on that link and being redirected to the corresponding website.

That website might be promoting your own product or other people's product. If there's the case, I'd regard article marketing as a traffic generation method.

In your case, how do you make use of article marketing as a revenue model? If you don't mind to share a bit.

Hi Bruce,

What is easy money?? lol

work is play play is work until you separate them//

Clint S.