Please read: confused Internet marketer

Hello!

My ambitions about Internet marketing are So apparent to me, and I really love the business. I am very motivated to work with it and I don't give up. But I have registered on the greatest marketing forum online, in hope to get some advice from you guys - who have understood the system more than I have.

I have been learning Internet marketing for about a year now. I've learned some techniques and topped google for low competition keywords (less than 2000 exact global monthly searches). I learned that from a online course that I very much admire. But I believe that recent changes is google's algorithm have changed the value of the guide; or perhaps it is just that I'm trying to rank for higher competition keywords.

So guys, I'm going to tell you what I'm doing to promote my affiliate websites and how I create them:


I check google competition for intitle PNK, and what domains are available. Usually i purchase domains with .com, .net, or .org extensions - with the PNK and the suffix of either 'review', 'reviewed' or 'reviews'.

I post the website to social bookmark websites, to blog directories, rss directories, and create the wordpress based website (with a SEO plugin) with about 3 articles - and a fourth review article.

I've been registering on high profile websites and creating profile backlinks using the PNK as a keyword. I usually created about 100 of those each month using packets online.



That strategy has been able to get some of my websites to #1 in google; however I have learned a lot about Internet marketing that I didn't know then. So here is what I know when I'm writing this and please correct me if I'm wrong:

• Profile backlinks, even high PR, are not considered quality links in comparison to other SEO methods.
• Article marketing has been reduced in efficiency by google's new algorithm.
  Backlinks are not worth anything unless indexed - BL2BL is used for that (Backlink energizer and blog commenting with backlinks urls).
• Link wheels should consist of about 5-6 web 2.0 properties at most, or risk google website ban.

I've learned that software is essential for SEO, and I am using:

• Backlink energizer
• Scrapebox
• Sick marketing
• 10 private proxies
• Decaptcha
• The best spinner
• PADsubmitter
• SEOQuake

I've come to understand the importance of that list just some weeks ago, and I invested in them. But I haven't mastered them; I would love to be able to know exactly what wizards to use in SM in conjunction with scrapebox for example. And it seems that SM has great potential but that I haven't comprehended how to use it with scraping tools, despite watching the tutorials and reading the instructions & reading forums.


I have learned the following SEO methods very recently, about 2-3 weeks ago:

• Trying to get better at scrapebox + SM. Yesterday I received 20 working backlinks out of about 1500 scraped.
• Using the built in article submitter in SM.
• Using the build in RSS/bookmark/directory submitter in SM for all keywords that I want to rank for.
• Using the build in profile submitter in SM with the free packets and trying to get more links through scrapebox.
• Scrapebox - blog commenter for backlinks energizing.
• A backlink energizer cluster with about 1500 backlinks for indexing, mostly profile links.
• Despite the things I've heard about article marketing, I created a articles at ezine and articlebase - but they are not always allowed because the articles are PLR and spun.
• I created a hubpage with a spun article
• Did some posting of PAD's both via the software and the directories

Okay guys, I think I've summed my SEO knowledge up in a even more confusing post than I am confused. But I hope that your glances will capture the important pieces and give me advice on how I can improve.

My biggest questions to you are: would the methods I've listed scale with the amounts posted and be competitive even for more popular keywords that 10 000 searches/month? What would you add to my SEO strategies and what would you change in them?



God bless ya'll