When I joined my first affiliate programs, I did everything wrong: I joined under lazy uplines, I used Traffic Exchange websites and free safe-lists to promote it, yielding poor results. One of the lessons I learned from the start, was to find the right sponsor or mentor. I found mine and signed up under her. I did mistakes still, especially one that a lot of fresh marketers still do …

My biggest mistake was promoting GDI (Global Domains International). Even though it is a solid affiliate company rewarding their users for their efforts, you have to both work smart and hard to achieve good results with it. With no results and no sign-ups, other than those from my sponsor, my frustration was mounting. I was told that, writing articles works well for traffic, and as my endeavor into the minefields of PPC advertising left me flat broke, I wrote my first article ever, on ACME People Search and GDI, and submitted it to a directory. With the help of a few back-links, my article climbed to the top-three positions on Google’s first page in few days and pulled in several new referrals in my ACME People Search account, one of whom also signed up in my GDI downline. I realized by then that, submitting articles to promote ACME People Search works much better than promoting GDI alone.

In addition to the new sign-ups, I earned $25 with that article, which is still sending traffic to my sign-up page. Imagine what you can achieve with 10 articles, 20, 50 … This is powerful!

Where to start when writing articles: Research the keywords you want to use for your articles, write a new unique article, publish it on your website or blog and index it. Use an article spinner: Easy Article Rewriter (free) and spin five to ten different versions of your article, submit to the top article directories using your anchor keyword (i.e. “How to sail a boat”). Build new back-links to your articles from websites, blogs, forum signatures e.t.c. on a regular basis, and your links will receive free “laser-targeted” traffic when done right. For more SEO information and tools, I suggest that you sign up for free with SEO Book.

About ACME People Search:

People Search is free to join and has multiple income streams. Tissa Godavitarne, the creator of the People Search engine, adds $125 to your People Search affiliate account when you complete the three steps in your account. To avoid any misunderstandings: Tissa’s money is a reward for those with a genuine desire to earn money with ACME People Search, and it requires that you sign up for a paid affiliate program in step two. Those who are not serious about making money online should not bother in the first place, but it is perfect for those who are. I recommend that you choose GDI in step Two, because at only $10/mo for a membership it is affordable, and it is much easier to build your GDI downline using ACME People Search. Setting up your People Search engine is an easy and straight-forward process.

Tissa is a strong believer in teaching others how to educate themselves, and ACME People Search together with GDI, is one of the most rewarding affiliate programs today, with its multiple income streams. Both have their own support forums. Tissa’s ACME forum offers a nice bonus for the most helpful members, and he puts emphasis on helping others. With ACME People Search and GDI, or as I like to call it: “The power of two and Internet Marketing”, you can learn and earn from the beginning and at no risk. Watch the video below for an introduction by Tissa:

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Click here to sign up with ACME People Search

With this in mind, this article will attempt to share 5 basic strategies to help new internet marketers get started launching their own successful internet marketing campaign.

We will look at various techniques like creating a website, placing banner ads, publishing ezines, orchestrating an email marketing campaign and optimizing your website for search engines.

Emails:

New Internet Marketers should always start with the basics and you can’t get more basic than marketing with emails.

Email marketing campaigns form the foundation of successful online marketing. Email marketing essentially

involves sending out emails to a group of individuals who may be interested in your products and services.

Care should be taken in sending out these emails to avoid sending emails which are unsolicited and will be viewed as spam. One precaution is to only email prospects who have requested to be updated concerning your products and services.

Another way to do this is to provide value in the emails as opposed to just including advertisements.

This can be done by offering relevant advice in your emails and other useful information which may be of interest to the recipients of the email.

Ezine Publishing:

For the new Internet Marketer another very effective marketing strategy is to publish an Ezine.

Publishing Ezines takes online marketing into a whole new realm.

Ezines (Electronic Magazines) are essentially emails containing useful information to the recipient, including tips, articles,

reports, surveys and relevant advertising focused on making life easier for the prospect.

The importance of these Ezines is that they can be used as marketing tools which are not viewed by the recipients as blatant advertising.

One way to do this is to incorporate links or other soft sale approaches into the copy of the Ezine.

However, care should be taken to keep these references minimal so the Ezine is not viewed as spam.

Banner Advertising:

Banner advertising is another popular marketing method which helps expose your

business to the Cyber Community. Banner ads are advertisements which typically appear along the top or bottom of a website but it may also include smaller ads in other locations.

Banner ads typically include graphics and text which entice Internet users to click on the advertisement. Once a user clicks on the ad, they are directed to your website.

These ads can be very effective when placed on popular websites where they’ll be view by lots of people who may have an interest in your product or service.

Creating a Website:

For new Internet Marketers one of the most basic steps for starting an Internet Marketing campaign is to create a website.If you don’t have a website or have a poorly designed website you should consider creating or re-designing a website to adequately market your products.

If you do not have experience in web design, there are a number of software packages which make it simple for those with no design experience to create a functional website.

However, you may

want to consider using a professional webmaster to design an effective website that’s suitable to your particular line of products and services. He can also help you include more advanced features on your website.

Optimizing Your Website:

Finally, using search engine optimization to enhance the effectiveness of your web presence is vital to your online marketing success.

Search engines rank websites according to quality and relevance for particular search terms.

Many Internet users appreciate the effort by search engines and use these search engines to find the best websites on a particular subject. This means the Internet users are likely to only visit websites which rank well with search engines.

So, if your website is not high ranking, you are not likely to generate a great deal of traffic from Internet users who use search engines to find relevant websites.

Top ranking websites are likely to obtain the most traffic from search engines and all websites falling on the first page of the search engine results will likely enjoy some degree of success in improving their traffic.

So, there it is, 5 essential methods of online marketing for new internet marketers.