Internet Marketing For Newbies

BestRealSpyGear.com went live 11/07/08. To promote the site I did the following:

• I bookmarked the site on 16 Web 2.0 sites using OnlyWire
• I posted BRSG (Best Real Spy Gear) on Google , Yahoo and MSN’s WebMaster tools along with my sitemap.
• I started submitting to directories using Directory Submitter and I continue doing this every day (around 10 per day) for several weeks.

Well, I’m happy to say I got BayRSS plugin to work. The last remaining issue (with my host provider not BayRSS) was resolved this morning. I use HostGator and their new security policy kept the bidnow.php file from working. I sent them a service ticket and they made the changes I needed.

Here’s a copy of their email to me:

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The issue was that one of our newly added Mod_Security rules on the server was blocking the manner in which your script operates.

I have whitelisted your domain for this rule and you should no longer see any issues.

If you need other domains whitelisted for the bidnow script, just let us know!
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So, if you install this plugin and you get a 404 error when clicking on the auction link, just send support a ticket and they will take care of it.

Well, sort of . This is the affiliate site I’ve mentioned in several post. I’m still working on the auction section of the site but hope to have it up by tonight. I purchased BayRSS WP plugin for the auction area and it’s proven to be a challenge. The plugin itself is pretty nice in that it will do what I need it to do. However, the learning curve for this plugin is pretty steep, mainly because of the poor documentation that comes with it. I find myself flipping between the doc’s and the forum to figure out how to use the tags (plugin is tag driven).

Real Spy Gear was the name I was after but as luck would have it that domain name was taken, thus, BestRealSpyGear.com . Real Spy Gear is one of my keywords so I wanted to work it into the domain for the site. The site handles spy gear (duh) as well as Self Defense non-lethal weapons (stun guns, mace, etc..) and products to help protect your home.

To monetize the site I used three affiliate suppliers that will handle all the orders. I’m also using  clickbank, adsense, eBay and at some point  I’ll add Amazon to the mix. Over the weekend I’ll spend some time promoting the site. I’ll do a separate post on how I went about it.

I bought a ebook that I’m still reading and so far it seems to be pretty good. Once I’ve finished reading it, I’ll write a post on it and give you my opinion on it.

Till next time…

Recently there was/is a 12 ring bout between Google and BANS. Well, we’re in the 10 round and since the ref is also Google, I think it’s going to be obvious who is going to win.

What am I talking about??

When BANS first came out, it was great! It was a great product and everyone made money. Then allot more people got started using BANS, so to make our sites stand out we modified our templates to look different then everyone else’s and started adding content pages. This worked well for awhile, then…

Google changed the way they looked at web sites and started de-indexing what they considered “thin sites”. A BANS site is considered a thin site to Google and started de-indexing (de-indexing is when your site is REMOVED from Google Search Engine also known as the Google Slap) them.

Then some of us started to change the way we went about it. We started building WordPress blogs, full of original content and linking to our BANS store. Google seems to like the way we are going about it but there are some major pit falls.

1. You can’t put up 100 BANS stores anymore Can you imagine posting to 100 blogs a day?
2. Posting original content to your blog takes time, allot of time
3. Because of the posting time factor you can only put up as many as you can handle in a week 3 - 10 sites.
4. And lets not forget, you need to be working on your other streams of income, affilate marketing, VRE, etc…

UPDATE:

I started to wright this post last week. In that time Google has de-indexed one of my BANS/WP sites. That’s where the blog is in a folder NOT the root directory. I’m pulling the plug on any new BANS sites and will only be posting to the sites that are still indexed once or twice a month. I’m in a wait a see mode, I don’t want to spend any more time on a project that might be de-indexed at any moment.

I’m going to spend my time on my other projects. One is up and running as I build it, www.ExtensiveInfo.com and I’m also building a affiliate site that won’t be accessible online until I get more of it completed.

I’ll be using this area to post on each of these sites as I build them. ExtensiveInfo.com is a VRE/PLR site (Virtual Real Estate / Public Label Rights) and as I said above, the other is an affiliate site. More on this in our next post.

As I mentioned in my last post I’m working on a new WordPress affiliate site, offering products from several different venders. This is a new type of website for me, so what I thought I’d do is post here what I’m doing so you can follow along and hopefully show you some new things and give you some ideas for your own project.

I want to get the site approximately 50% done before I go live with it so I’ll need to set up the domain for no-indexing to keep me out of the search engines until I’m ready to go live. I’ll post a video on how to set up your domain for no-indexing tomorrow.

I installed WP on the domain and also created an index.htm file and uploaded it to the root directory. This way if you type in the domain name you will see the index.htm page and not WP. When I’m ready to go live all I’ll need to do is remove this file and WordPress will come up by default.

I uploaded the following plugins:
alinks
all in one seo pack
cforms
Google sitemap generator
adsense deluxe
privacy policy

I’ll be uploading a few more plugins later today.

I uploaded a theme template. I usually don’t like dark background themes but for this site I think it’s a good fit. I’ll have to play with it a little and see how ads, banners, pictures, etc… look with this background. I may wind up replacing the theme if I’m not happy with the look.

If your looking to get into IM (Internet Marketing), you have some choices to make. Below is what I would recommend for newbies.

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I ran a across this FREE eBook the other day and found it most informative. Not only will it give you some great information on “How To Sell Any Product” but if you chose, you can turn around and start making money right away with what they show you.

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- Preselling with articles
- Autoresponders and follow up campaigns
- Ad tracking
- Affiliate marketing
- ClickBank
- Viral marketing
- PDF book creation
- Ebook rebranding
- Creating niche sites
- Resale rights

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