There are many online marketers who ignored these principles and paid dearly for that by quitting their business early, adding to the statistics of about 95 percent failure rate for new startup online business. It would be ashamed if you were to let this happen to you too especially if you have spent so much time and effort on your new found business. This article will help you understand just what it takes to achieve success and know what kind of obstacles you have to overcome before getting there.

The First Principle: Patience

It’s probably not your best virtue but for the success of your business, you do need lots of patience. Finding success and generating a regular online income do not happen overnight. Building a business from scratch takes time just as in any other businesses too including the traditional ones. Knowing this helps in your mental strength and learning process as you won’t lose interest at the slightest onset of disappointments and setbacks in your Internet Marketing journey. The road to success is never a smooth one.

The Second and Third Principles: Persistence and Perseverance

Many marketers lose heart at the slightest kind of difficulty. They complain about all the laborious tasks they need to do and when they don’t see any positive results, they simply abandon the work they have been taught to do. Many of these marketers started an online business with the wrong mindset that it is easy and making money is a forgone conclusion. If you have such thinking, you have to change your mindset immediately and expect to work really hard before seeing any positive results.

The Fourth Principle: Prepare Your Website For the Search Engines

As an online business owner, you are expected to learn some basic search engine optimization skills. Then apply this knowledge continuously in getting your website well optimized, more relevant, and friendly to both the human visitor and the Google bots. You will learn too that getting free organic traffic is vital to your business because without traffic, there can be no sales. Proper SEO helps you rank high in the search engines so as to maximize your website traffic.

The Fifth Principle:  Write Articles

The fifth principle is learning to publish many articles. Writing and publishing articles both for your website as well as external article directories is one of the most effective ways to increase traffic to your website. It also generates lots of one-way incoming backlinks to your website which in turn helps you rank higher in the search engines and thereby giving you even more traffic.

Well quite frankly, it’s not good enough to be just on page 1, unless you are in the top 3 positions in Google. Let’s just look at some important search engine statistics to determine some startling discovery. These statistics show that 90 percent of searchers don’t go beyond the first page, with 42 percent searchers click on position 1, 12.5 percent on position 2 and a mere 8 percent click on position 2. So if you do the math right if your website does not rank on the first 3 positions in Google, you are losing website traffic, yeah more than 60 percent to be exact.

Well if your website is not highly ranked in Google there are many things you can do to boost your rankings, although it does take some time to make this happen.

Title Tag

Putting your keyword in the title tag of your home page is an important factor in helping you rank higher in the search engines. Occasionally I do see many websites who prefer to use their company name in the title tag but hopefully they know what they are doing. As far as I know there are 2 ways why people do this. Either they are more concerned about promoting their brand name or company name so that takes priority over ranking high on their main keywords or they simply made a mistake.

URL

Many SEO experts and other marketers who own hundreds of domains are convinced that having your keyword in the domain helps to boost your ranking for that particular keyword. This is even more evident in people who know how to find a profitable niche . They do so by targeting smaller niches using the exact keyword phrase as their domain name. You can choose to use your brand name or company name in your domain but you have to remember this makes your job at ranking in the top 3 positions much harder.

Age of Domain

Does domain age carry more weight in helping a website to rank higher in Google and other search engines? This has been debated for many years by many marketers who will swear by their interesting theories. Well don’t bet on Google to bare it all here but from my frequent visits to forums there seems to be more people convinced domain age matters. Their strongest arguments: Well- established websites have very old domains, so reverse engineering suggests having an older domain helps to make a well established site and Google loves that. Another argument is that the all familiar Google Sandbox affects new websites more than the older ones. In fact most marketers give it 6 months before you are free of getting the dreaded Sandbox.

Here is how backlinks relate to making money online. Search engines, like Google, pride themselves on providing relevant search results for users. Users use search engines to search for topics that they want to know more about. These topics that are entered into the search engines are called keywords or keyword phrases.

When building backlinks, you want to use specific keywords that you want your website to rank for as the hyperlinked text of the link. Keywords or words used in this manner are called anchor text. The key to make money online is to build as many links as possible with your keywords as the anchor text. The more links you have, the higher your website will rank in search engines for those given keywords.

If you do your keyword research correctly, once your affiliate website is ranking well for the keywords you want, you’ll start to receive targeted traffic and eventually bring in affiliate sales.

You may be wondering how you can build these one-way backlinks to make money online. Here are some of the more common methods:

• Article Marketing – Link to your site within Bio box
• Web 2.0 Marketing (similar to article marketing)
• Forum Posting – Link to your site in your signature
• Blog Commenting – Link to your site using the form provided on each blog
• Social Bookmarking – Bookmark blog posts to social sites
• Profile Links – Build high Page Rank backlinks
• And many more – Get creative!

Building links to your site should be a long-term and consistent process that never stops. Go for quality backlinks more so than quantity. The better quality links you can get, the better. Keep doing this, and you’ll be well on your way to making money online with your affiliate marketing website.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet Marketing Coach and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: Affiliate Marketing Training.

Why is One Way Link Better?

Most search engines consider a website who receives a one-way link as a vote of confidence from the other website and for Google, is almost certainly used in their algorithm for search engine ranking calculations.

How do you get One Way Incoming Links

For your website to follow a natural link structure you do not have to ask anyone to link to you much like a quality website like Wikipedia in which many people would have no second thoughts about linking to it. Under what circumstances would one-way Incoming Links take place for you and when would online marketers be willing to link to other websites? Well this is my favorite method: Guest Posting.

Guest Posting

It’s an open secret that obtaining backlinks from authority sites to your website can give a tremendous boost to your search engine ranking, which then translates to more traffic and sales. The benefit of guest posting on such a website far exceeds the one to two hours of work you take to write your post.

You may not realize the full potential of the power of guest posting especially if it is on a well-established A-list blogger, until your blog post gets published. The one-way link that the blog owner gives the guest poster is good, but don’t underestimate the full potential that goes beyond this. Just visualize the thousands of Twitter followers who will tweet your post and bookmark it to hundreds of social networking sites and you will know how viral your one-way linking can become. All that you need is just to write a great blog post with a compelling title to make this happen.

While the average blogger may not have too many opportunities to guest post on many A-list bloggers, nevertheless the benefits of guest posting are quite obvious with both bloggers gaining from the mutual arrangement. Besides the one-way links, it is also a terrific traffic generation method in getting many new visitors to your website.

When it comes to getting high rankings in the search engines for your keywords, one of the most important and powerful things you can do is get highly relevant links to your website from .edu and .gov domains (non relevant links work very well too, I see plenty of sites still ranking in the top 3 for highly competitive keywords).

Getting educational institutions and government domains is a must do because Google, Yahoo, Msn and other search engines trust these links a LOT more than they trust links from any other kind of website.

Getting these links is not an easy task though. Mark Ling has recorded a short video showing you how its done:

Click Here To Watch The Video

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