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If you are serious about setting up a successful Internet Marketing business then you should seriously consider buying your own Search engine optimization tool.

This will greatly help you build links and optimize your site for the search engines. Search engine marketing is the most rewarding endeavor I engage in because the traffic I gain from it is 100% free.

I use Brad Callen’s SEO Elite for all my search engine tasks and it helps me gain high search engine ranking for highly competitive keyword terms.

Remember I am involved in Internet marketing, which is one of the most competitive markets, yet I can still get top positions. I do this by using Brad’s SEO Tool to build links with different keyword terms.

It is better to target the less competitive ‘long tail’ keyword phrases. This will ensure that you have a better chance of getting to the top of Google. The traffic from these low traffic search terms soon adds up.

If you use SEO Elite regularly and chart your progress you will find that your rankings will soar.

Better rankings = More Visitors = More Sales!

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Internet Marketing - Maintain Focus!

Henry’s Problem:

I have been messing with the internet for 5 plus years. I have spent a ton of money, and I have made nothing. I found one program that was doing well and I was up $1800.00 and it just disappeared from the screen.

But anyway I am still plugging along. I find it almost impossible to recruit. Everyone says go to your friends. Well my friends all think that I am a nut. I am about to believe them.

Mal Answers:

This is one of the most common dilemmas faced by newcomers online and one that I myself had a big problem with.

When I first came online in 1998 I spent $1000s on info products and online tools, not really knowing what I was doing. I also joined close to 100 different affiliate programs.

The first thing you MUST do when deciding to enter into a home based business is research the company you are about to put your time and effort into. After all, like any business, you WILL be spending money, if you are really serious about making a go of it online. You don’t want to invest in something that may not be there two or three months down the line.

It is a fact that the vast majority of businesses fail within the firt 3 years of starting. So it makes sense to join an online business that has been going for at least 3 years. You can check out the history of a site at the Wayback Archive. This will show you a sites’ history and from that you can gather how long the business has been running.

You will also find that many of the successful internet marketers are promoting many of the same programs. Visit the online forums to find out what they are. A good place to start is the Warrior forum.

Also, if there is a scam artist at work you can be sure to read about it at the numerous discussion forums.

This does not mean that all companies starting off are NO GO areas. If the person starting the business or selling a product has a proven track record online then it may be worth the risk to get involved. This is just a general guide. I still get burnt occasionally no matter how much care I have taken.

Another big problem with getting started online is focusing your attention in too many directions. This is a sure way to make little to no money online. Whatever internet marketing resources you DO have, should be focused in one direction.

For instance, if you decide to make money from Google Adsense then spend your days setting up websites to make money in this area. No point making a decision to try out an online moneymaking strategy and then go in a totally different direction the next day or the next week.

To make it online you must be focused and persistent. It can take a few months of focused work to bring good profits from any strategy. Most people give up before they get anywhere near succeeding.

Once you are making a profit from one strategy then move on to another. As your resources and contacts grow, you will find it takes less time and effort to get into a profitable position with each venture.

If there is a big group of people making money in a certain area then YOU can do it too. Find out EXACTLY what they are doing and stick at it!

I have NEVER approached friends or family members in order to build my business, nor would I want to, especially when starting out. How embarrassing! You want people to put their faith and money in a project that you cannot even work yourself yet?

The whole point of working online is that I don’t have to convince my friends and family to invest in my business or recommended products/services. I don’t need to tell you how big the net is and how many people are online.

There are loads of resources on this site to help you find those people and send them back to your websites.

Unless you have a very large family , I suggest you focus on the people online, not offline.

Please send your questions to questions@malkeenan.com. I have set up a special folder to specifically answer all your questions. Maybe not right away, but they will be answered on this blog in time.

Tags: internet marketing, starting up a home business, home business research, internet marketing questions

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My Wife is on the Payroll

I’ve been busy this week writing loads of articles. I even have my wife writing them for me and I’ve given her three sites to work with, in different niches.

I have close to 80 sites online now in various niche markets. They have been making me a few dollars but I haven’t really marketed them ’til this week.

Over this past few days I have been writing and rewriting around 20 articles for some of my sites. I plan to continue to do this over the coming weeks.

I have a couple of accounts at different article submission services - Submit Your Article and Article Marketer. If I didn’t use these there is no way I could get my work done.

I have been using Private Label articles, which I have extensively rewritten. No point in submitting them as they are as they won’t pass the filters at the article databases.

Private Label Article are articles that someone else has written on different topics that I have bought the rights to use as my own. You can get these quite cheaply online for a few dollars. The downside is that many other people have bought them. That’s ok though, as I plan to rewrite any that I use. They are also great for coming up with new ideas to write about.

How did my wife get in on it? Well, I had never thought of asking her before, but the other day she said she would be happy to write articles and that was that. She has been writing them on niches she in interested in plus I was able to give her loads of PLR articles to work with. I printed these off. She now has enough material to write a book or two

Have you though about bringing your own family members into your internet business?

If you haven’t read my Internet Marketing concept article I wrote yesterday it is here. This is good stuff for those who don’t really understand what this internet marketing business is all about.

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What is the Whole Internet Marketing Concept?

This is a very long post so you may want to print it out.

Helen Asks:

I dont think I understand this whole concept, could you narrow it down for
me? What exactly do I have to do and why? Do I have to pay for anything?
How will I make money out of this? If I do make money is it you that
puts it in an account for me? How does this all work?

Mal Keenan Answers:

This is a very good question as the majority of newcomers arriving at a site like mine, detailing Internet Marketing strategies, haven’t really got a clue what it’s all about.

Let us break the question down as there are a lot of questions:

What exactly do I have to do and why?

That depends on what you want to achieve. Working from home online can be something you do part-time to make a few extra dollars, or as a full-time endeavour as it is for me.

If you want to make extra income then you would need to take action. I wouldn’t expect anyone to do that without at least some info. It’s important to remember though that you could continue to read online for the rest of your life and never take a step forward.

The simplest thing you can do to get started is register a domain name(This is your business name, ie. malkeenan.com) and hosting account(This is the web server that hosts your website). You can get a domain name for around $8 per year and domain hosting for as little as $5 per month.

Once you have a website then you need to add some content. If you set a website up based on your interests then it will be easy to write content for this. Plus, you can find loads of content online with publishing rights that allow you to post it on your site.

How will I make money out of this?

There are literally 100s of legitimate ways to make money online and 1000s of different companies. For instance, you’ve heard of Google, right? Well Google will pay you dollars for putting their advertisers’ ads on your site and it doesn’t matter what the site is about.

So, if you were to set a site up and write about your favourite hobby you could put Google ads on it. You get paid every time someone clicks on the link on your site. Google matches the ads to the content on your site, so that more people click through. So online advertisers pay Google for ad space and Google give you a % of that revenue, if you put their ads on your site. Google’s partner program is Google Adsense, if you want to find out more about this.

Another way you can get started is in ‘affiliate marketing’. I am an affiliate marketer. That means I sell other people products and they pay me a % of whatever I sell. The product or service owners take care of the product delivery and aftersales support. All I have to do is refer visitors to a special site they set up for me, identical to their own sales page, BUT tagged with my affiliate ID.

That way, they can track sales referred by me. They send me a check each month for all the sales I make. Some affiliate programs will give me as much as 75% of the total sale just for referring people to their sales page.

Most companies that sell products online have an affiliate program. Amazon.com have one of the biggest. You can find affiliate programs for products relating to 1000s of different topics. So you can set a site up on anything you like and sell other peoples’ products from this site for a commission.

Once you have progressed online you may want to create your own product but I wouldn’t worry about that yet. It is also possible to sell resale right products. These are products that product owners have given you or sold you the rights to sell. Many of the products I sell are resale rights products.

I have never created my own product for sale yet I make a full-time income from home and $1000s per month.

Do I have to pay for anything?

You could make money online without spending a cent BUT, what you don’t spend in cash you will pay in time. For instance, if you had a site you could write an article and submit it to many article databases by hand in order to promote it. This would work! You would get exposure for your site and if you do it often enough you would get lots of search engine visitors. I prefer to pay $37 per month for a service called Submit Your Article that will send to 100s of databases for me. Understand?

Affiliate programs will also give you a website free of charge with which you can promote their products. You could promote this site all over the net though and if the company goes bust all your work will be in vain. That’s why I always recommend you get your own site. You can still promote affiliate products but you will promote your own business primarily and any sales of the affiliate products will come through your own site.

I personally would not recommend anyone to go the free route. Online business, like any business requires investment. So, I ask you, would you expect to setup a business offline without spending money? Well, online business is similar although the startup investment is much, much lower.

I am deliberately not going to recommend anything in these questions and answers but you can find loads of info on this and my other sites on everything I refer to.

If I do make money is it you that puts it in an account for me?

If you do make money through ‘affiliate marketing’(discussed above), then the product owners of the products or services you sell will send you a check at the end of every month or sooner. Some product owners also pay through Paypal.com, which is an online bank account. With Paypal you get paid to the online account and then can transfer the money to your own bank account. Other companies, usually just the very large ones will pay straight to your bank account.

Any money I make through Google Adsense(also mentioned above) is paid straight to my bank account by Google.

If you were selling your own products or services you can set up order links through Paypal.com which will allow people to pay you straight to this account. Other options are Clickbank.com which take orders from your sales and then pass the money onto you, after taking a small %.

How Does all This Work?

Well I believe I have explained that above. It’s a start anyhow.

If you have further questions please send them to mal@[REMOVETHIS]malkeenan.com and I will try to answer them in the near future. In the meantime there are loads of links on this site and my other sites with all the info you need.

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