Internet Marketing For Newbies Review

This is my Squidoo review for internet marketers. If you’re just starting out and really confused about how to begin internet marketing, you might be feeling overwhelmed right now. There is so much to learn about Internet Marketing. In fact, just trying to decide what type of internet marketing to do can be confusing.

There’s affiliate marketing (which is what I do), product creation, and some other stuff that I don’t really understand. Then there are the types of marketing your going to use – will you use PPC (pay per click), bum marketing (also called article marketing), website creation, and again, some other stuff that I don’t understand.

When I first started doing Internet Marketing I started with SiteBuild It (SBI) doing website creation. I wasn’t very good at it because I didn’t really understand keyword research. (Here’s a very important tip – even if you think you understand keyword research, ask someone to look over your keyword research results just to make sure you’re doing it right. In fact, if you want to email me 3 of your top keywords, I’ll take a look at them and let you know if you’re on the tracks or missing the train.) Anyway, with SBI I thought it “wasn’t working” (it was really me that wasn’t working) so i tried something else.

I tried Squidoo next because that sounded easy enough. And it actually is. So here’s my short Squidoo review from my own experience using Own Week Marketing (OWM) – created by a stay at home mom who calls herself PotPie Girl. (She’s also a member of Wealthy Affiliate and I was able to ask her questions on the forums when I was stuck on something in OWM.) You don’t need to buy a guide to help you learn Squidoo but if you want to make money using Squidoo as an internet marketing tool, then you might want to consider it. There is a free ebook you can download on Squidoo call The Squidoo Guide.

One Week Marketing Guide

One Week Marketing taught me a lot about how to get my Squidoo lenses to rank high in search results. Its called One Week Marketing because you should be able to create a Squidoo lens in one week and then move on to the next lens, with the idea of having lots of lenses up and earning money for you. You can also download another free ebook called the Dam Way that walks you through how to start in article marketing.

So if you make 52 “lens campaigns” (one each week for the next year), and each campaign makes an average of $10 a week, you’ll makes about  $27,040 per year. (52 lens campaigns online x $10 ea per week = $520/week. $520 per week x 52 weeks.) Now some of those lens campaigns won’t make any money and others will make more then $10 a week. There are some people making a living with Internet Marketing with just Squidoo lenses.

I know this was supposed to be a Squidoo review and turned into a One Week Marketing review instead, but if you’re serious about earning a living online then you need some type of system and a plan of action. And that’s whats OWM gives you, a day-by-day plan of action.

This was a really easy way for me to learn more about other aspects of internet marketing. And making Squidoo lens is fun! If you haven’t tried it yet, I hope you will do so. Its like building a little newspaper on your favorite topic using nothing but online tools. No need to pay for domain names, web hosting, etc etc. Its all free and just waiting for people to take advantage of it.

This is part two of Wealthy Affiliate Testimonials MyTwo Cents. If you haven’t read the first part please do so before reading this. In part one I talked about why I love Wealthy Affiliate’s Keyword Research Tool. In this part I’ll talk about why I also love the Rapid Writer Tool and how its closely linked with the keyword research tool, and actually makes your keyword research much more in depth and quickly.

Wealthy Affiliate’s Rapid Writer is designed to do many things. This first thing its designed to do is help you write articles while checking your keyword density (you know how you’re supposed to have 1 – 2 % of your main keyword sprinkled throughout the article). This tool makes it so easy for you, the density checker is right there on the page keeping track for you. See in the image that my word count is 141 and my keyword is used only once so far (I’m just starting the article) which gives me a keyword density of 0.7%. How easy is that!!!

Wealthy Affiliate's keyword density tool

Take this blog post for example, my keyword is “Wealthy Affiliate Testimonials” and its supposed to be used in this article at a 1-2% density so the search engines will know what this article is about. (If you’re new to Internet Marketing, don’t let this lingo scare you off. It’s not rocket science or physics.) Wealthy Affiliate makes all that stuff really easy.

Before I joined Wealthy Affiliate I was  guestimating the number of words when writing, and i’d end up with an article that was about 800 words long, with too few keywords. I was manually counting my keywords, finding out my word count online, and then doing some math to figure out the keyword density. And I’m really bad at math. Now I don’t have to worry about that stuff, it’s all done for me with WA’s Rapid Writer. It’s worth its weight in gold (and this is just a tiny, tiny portion of what WA gives its members!)

The second thing that Wealthy Affiliate’s Rapid Writer is designed to do is spin your article into a bunch of other articles so you can submit multiples articles to directors, each different from each other. I don’t use that much right now, but I probably will in the future.

But the other thing I want to talk about is the keyword research tools WITHIN Rapid Writer. This is different from the Keyword Research Tool I talked about earlier. Once you have your keyword and you create an article box to begin writing, you will have access to another research tool bar. In the image below, you can see that I have “Wealthy Affiliate” as my keyword as an example. Again, it give me the “Quoted Results” for Google, Yahoo, and Live. It also give me the “Broad Results” but nobody pays attention to those. And at the far right under Power Score” it tells me whether I should start writing or whether this keyword is going to be tough. So every time I write an article with a keyword, say for instance  ” wealthy affiliate testimonials ” it will let me know if I should really bother.

Wealthy Affiliate's Article Editor keyword research

Then below those figures, it also give me (AND THIS ROCKS!) a list of the top article submission sites and how many articles are on each of those sites using that keyword. So for “wealthy affiliate” there are 4 ads  on freeads.com using that keyword, and nothing on any of the other big article sites!!! That means you should jump on those sites and write some articles using that keyword cuz its wide open!!!! Did I say I love Wealthy Affiliate lately? And Carson, ooh la la!!!