My current assignment with Wealthy Affiliates is to write and submit an article to Ezine or one of the article directories. This morning at 2:30 am, I was laying in bed wide-a-wake and thought why not get up and get some work done. On my to do list was fixing some links in ChuckyTrader.com and writing my first article. After fixing the links I started on the article.
What to write about? One reason I started my blogs, besides be told to, was to capture my activities as I started this new adventure of internet marketing. So I went back to them and started reviewing what I had written. My first blogs were posted under the label of "beginner" and I thought, that is exactly what you are, so my title "The Beginner -- Internet marketing". This article is basically my background, the move to Internet Marketing, and what I have learned so far.
In my family, my wife is the one that understands the English language and phasing so I had her review it. My draft is now a red draft of corrections for me to make before submission. I am first going to submit to Ezine and see what happens. I have tried to follow their guidelines, but as beginner probably will have some corrections to make. We will see... Maybe on the next blog I will have the results and a link to the document.
Later...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Trying to maintain direction
As of the 10th blog, I am dropping the blog number. Will stay with date and title.
As I get into week 2 of the Wealthy Affiliate lessons the more I realize what I don't know in internet marketing. If you look at Thursday's blog you will see the outcome "
Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketing". This goes through the basics of internet marketing and a video on how internet marketing works. This section is fairly straight forward.
Then you get into the affiliate networks. If you are going to sell as the middle man, these are the type of companies that you need to sign up with. The top affiliate networks are: Clickbank.com Linkshare.com, CJ.com, Shareasale.com, and Performics.com. Also in this section you learn about "Pay-Per_Sale" (most common these days), "Pay-Per-Lead", and "Pay-Per-Click" (least common). I studied up on Clickbank.com, signed up with them, and spent some time going over the products. Wealthy Affiliates has a Clickbank tool that makes looking at the different products for sale much easier. One of the affiliate links that you get with Wealthy Affliates is a link to themselves for new members to sign up where you get credit for the sign up.
I am now getting into one of the more difficult parts of the lessons, for me, and that is article writing. First I worried about what do you write about. Then I worried about how to imbed the appropriate keywords. I guess it is just the negatism of the personality showing through. My wife says for the first article to write about myself. I guess that makes sense. So I believe that is the approach I will take. Wealthy Affiliates gives you a checklist to follow and I have another document that also goes over it so should be ok. I am still a little confused on the requirements when it comes to imbedding links, etc., in the articles. I am sure this will clear up as I try to submit. Like anything else, sometimes it is best to forge ahead and see what happens. I need the article to reference keywords in the ChuckyTrader web site so may have to make some changes there.
As I get into week 2 of the Wealthy Affiliate lessons the more I realize what I don't know in internet marketing. If you look at Thursday's blog you will see the outcome "
Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketing". This goes through the basics of internet marketing and a video on how internet marketing works. This section is fairly straight forward.Then you get into the affiliate networks. If you are going to sell as the middle man, these are the type of companies that you need to sign up with. The top affiliate networks are: Clickbank.com Linkshare.com, CJ.com, Shareasale.com, and Performics.com. Also in this section you learn about "Pay-Per_Sale" (most common these days), "Pay-Per-Lead", and "Pay-Per-Click" (least common). I studied up on Clickbank.com, signed up with them, and spent some time going over the products. Wealthy Affiliates has a Clickbank tool that makes looking at the different products for sale much easier. One of the affiliate links that you get with Wealthy Affliates is a link to themselves for new members to sign up where you get credit for the sign up.
I am now getting into one of the more difficult parts of the lessons, for me, and that is article writing. First I worried about what do you write about. Then I worried about how to imbed the appropriate keywords. I guess it is just the negatism of the personality showing through. My wife says for the first article to write about myself. I guess that makes sense. So I believe that is the approach I will take. Wealthy Affiliates gives you a checklist to follow and I have another document that also goes over it so should be ok. I am still a little confused on the requirements when it comes to imbedding links, etc., in the articles. I am sure this will clear up as I try to submit. Like anything else, sometimes it is best to forge ahead and see what happens. I need the article to reference keywords in the ChuckyTrader web site so may have to make some changes there.
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