In general, I feel like there is a lot of good information about what kinds of things a person needs to do to drive traffic to his or her site. I think that there is plenty of emphasis on the importance of capturing names and building a list. I think that more and more the word is getting out about “Squidoo,” social networking, audio and video all as ways to build credibility, and to help people get the chance to get to know the real you better. Let’s not forget article writing with rich keyword content. The list of ways that can be worked in combination is quite lengthy.
Actually, now that I have listed a few, and think about the fact that most people are in the early stages of learning about all these things, I think it is probably more accurate to say that most people know about one or maybe two of these things. But this article is not about that, this article is about the well kept secret of how much of each of these things it takes to start to really have an impact and start to see some results.
I think that the common misconception of most people is that if I buy this course and do the 5 things that it tells me, “Bang!” I will start to have success with my home based Internet marketing business online. So they get the free web site setup with a domain name they came up with, they register it with the search engines under the 10 keywords that the author of their course, suggests, maybe they setup a MySpace account, and they figure out how to setup a link back to their new website, and finally, they pay the $100 to get 10,000 guaranteed visitors to their site.
As skeptical as I was this is among the first steps that I took, maybe adding getting some pay per click ads out. And then I just thought I would sit back and see what happened. I think the first day, I made $90.00. I thought wow, this might be it. I think that I had one more sale in the next 4 to 5 weeks before I shut down the site and decided to try something else.
Ok so what is the secret you might ask? Volume! Volume? That’s right volume! If I would have setup a budget for my pay per click and did my own research on keywords, and found some bargain or niche keywords that I could have tracked and ran for a good while, If I would have found 5 sites that can drive guaranteed visitors to my site instead of one, If I would have not only opened up a My Space but 15 to 30 other social network accounts, and build real profiles, and posted articles, and regularly reached out to others on these sites to build my friends list, and finally wrote 30 to 50 articles and posted them on a carefully selected Article Directory or two, then I would have started to see some results.
I think the best kept dirty little secret with regards to home based Internet marketing online is that you have to do all of the techniques in volumes enough to actually have an impact on the Internet. It all goes back to what I have said in the past, and that is that business is competition. So, if, for example, you are not writing more and better articles and selecting better keywords than the vast majority of marketers out there, you are not going to win your share of the business.
I am going to write in a lot more detail about each one of the above techniques, and share with you what seems most effective and, what doesn’t seem to work. But first, I have to get 30 to 50 articles written for Ezinearticles.com, with the best 30 key words that I can find so that I can start to really get my share and so I can tell you definitively how effective this will be for you. Ad a zero or two to the amount of times you thought you were going to try something, and then I think you will have a good start, but only a start.
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