Newbie Looking for Internet Marketing Plan Guidance

You need to first figure out which keywords you are targeting. Go for something easy first. This will accomplish two things, generate a small amount of traffic/income so your IM bills are taking care of themselves, and build up your confidence so you can tackle tougher keywords.

Take your time and develop a solid strategy and then duplicate it and add to it.

Best of luck!

Hi, i had a look at your site and it looks nice, you need to establish what keywords your market uses. something like watch tv for free or free movies online. Once you have your keywords start searching for related blog comments and join in on online discussions.

Build your backlinks with your keywords inmind.

Try and keep your articles organial.

Hi Anna,

I'm also a newbie at internet marketing although been looking at it for a year or so.

I found a free online course called 'The Challenge' run by a guy called Ed Dale, this is a fantastic course for newbies and has learnt me loads, best of all when they say free they mean FREE.

Check it out at challenge.co

Good luck and don't give up

I'll try and give a very basic overview of steps to take...

1. Find a market that's in need of a solution desprately. Don't stick with the main (mostly highly competative) market, but find a specific sub-niche. This will make it a lot easier to promote a wide range of products targeted on the main niche and several other sub-niches at a later stage. Research this market and take part in it, so you understand what their issues are and what "language" they speak.

2. Keyword research - find specific keywords for your sub-niche by searching for keywords for the main niche. Make a list of 5 keywords of your sub-niche and 3-5 of the main niche. Use your main keyword (phrase) twice in the website title and also in the desription. Don't bother too much with meta keywords...you can do that later. Also put your main keyword in most (not all) of your main page paragraphs and use related keywords spread accross your content, which is part of "theme writing" and will make a big difference.

3. Find the true purpose of your website...how exactly you want to help your targeted prospects (and a purpose is NOT a goal). Build your website content around your chosen sub-niche. Make sure it's quality content and use your keywords and related keywords wisely. Mind you...don't add tons of content right away. It's better to add content slower in the beginning...1-3 posts in the first 3 days, 2-5 posts in the next 3 days, then 1 post every day or 2 for a week or 2. Believe me...that's enough and you won't waste a lot of content you can use later on.

4. Use general methods to spread backlinks with your main keyword as anchor text. Tip: freetrafficsystem.com, build a blog network of related blogs on the free blog websites (blogger.com, wordpress.com, etc.), unique articles to the biggest article sites. Also install following WP plugins: Web Traffic Genius Pro, Onlywire Autoposter, All in One SEO, TF Social Share (contains Google +1 button). Whatever other method you use...

5. Offer free reports with valuable content...information they want to know about. Write REAL forum posts and reply to others who ask questions, etc.. Everything you communicate to your market in any way will build credibility. Make sure your content sounds from the haert, because people with specific desires know a phoney when they see one... Marketing is mainly showing who you are and what you stand for... a main concept you need to apply in all your communication to your market. Sort of a thin red line people will recognize after reading your stuff a few times.

It'll take some effort and time, but if you want to achieve something you have to act...simple truth in any business.

Never....NEVER build your website or online business around a product you want to promote. It's be a waste of your efforts. It's still one of the biggest mistakes most internet marketers make. Research the market thoroughly and then find the appropriate products your could promote or review, that resonates with your market's desires.

I'm getting out of hand...I don't want to write another ebook on this here... :-)
It's quite temting to go into further detail, but that would take too much of my time.

Does this answer your question ?

Andre

=So target some low or medium competitive keywords,build quality backlinks behind them on a regular basis,get higher ranking in Google and get high organic traffic.

=Limited budget? Use Fiverr to get your jobs done (But dont try to get 1k backlinks for $5 in 7 days even...thats can harm your site)

I think that many of the warriors above have done an awesome job. Again I think it is important to keep in mind that it takes some time to get ranked. There was a service called traffic bug - that might help get you listed in searches quickly.

Also video ranks well if you can put some of that on your site as well as frequesnt updates and pings.

Anna,

At the bottom of the home page there is an error message, part of it which states "this website cannot be found", so you may want to address that as it will have some impact.

Secondly, before you do any keyword reseach, back linking, article marketing, etc. Here as some questions you definitely should ask (if you haven't already):

Who is my target audience?

Where do they hang out?

Who is my competition?

How do THEY reach their target audience?

Where does my competition advertise?

How do I monetize my website?

How does my website differ from the likes of Hulu.com and other potential
competitors?

RoD

Hi Anna,

I second what Rod says. I don't think your web site talks to your target audience and converts them to long term followers and buyers.

Here is a link to my free 300+ page "Internet Marketing 101" ecourse that can help you with this and some traffic ideas.

After you go through the ecourse, you should give some thought to finding the right mentor to help you. A mentor can lead you past obstacles and save you a lot of time and money.

set a low goal at first, if have the hang of it then you can level up to a higher goal

Hi Anna,

I think your site at watchtvshowsonlinenow.com is very well designed.

You may want to consider how it speaks to your target audience. A person who searches for watch tv shows online now, probably wants it now, and is expecting to see something he can click that shows a video immediately.

Recommendation - Have a video they can click and watch immediately. This keeps their interest and then go on to check out whatever you are selling. Search on google "watch tv forums" and find out what people are talking about and what they want to see on your site.

Quick Tip

Go to SPYFU.COM and put in your competitor site URL. and then you will be able to find out what keywords they are targetting. These are probably the buying keywords and you can start to research on which of them has a reasonable number of views (3,000 to 10,000) and low competition (not so many competing sites, not with wikipedia in number 1 position).

If you want free backlink builders, you can consider imautomator.com or socialmonkee.

Otherwise why not create another site with the same content targeting a different keyword?

Hi Anna,

Welcome to the forum. Getting started is a challenge, that is for sure, however, if you follow a proven plan and stay focused like a laser beam, you will succeed.

I have been online for less than a year, and in October, 2011, I earned $18,000.

I have two resources for you and both are free.

The first is my blog and the second is my membership site. Both links are right down in my signature, and like I said, both are free.

Please feel free to PM me if you need anything else.

Cheers,
Trent

PS: Be sure to check out my bio on the about page of my blog. I think you'll find some items there to help establish my credibility.