If you want to succeed in internet marketing, making online friends can help you. Once you make online friends, it can get you some great results such as:

• Get you new leads
• Get you help in the social sphere
• Help You sell more stuff
• Get help with problems

Get new leads when you stay in touch in online water coolers or make friends with someone who’ll pass along helpful info.  This can also apply when you’re in a jam. Maybe you’ve got some online friends with technical skills that can talk you through that problem. Get help in the social sphere when you need a great article Digged or Stumble’d or want someone to write a helpful review or testimonial for you and sell more stuff because your online friends can help you do that by talking about you as the “Go-To Guy/Gal” in a particular area of expertise.

How Do You Make Online Friends?

The web can be a little bit cliquish but the cliques are not impenetrable. Here are five tips to help you get started:

1. Find blogs in your niche and comment on them, blog roll them and post on your social networking sites how great they are. The website owners will take notice of you
2. Be helpful in online community forums in your niche for newbies. You can find some great protegees who will happily promote you
3. Sign up for all the social tools you can and befriend people who are either in your target audience or in your peer group (preferably BOTH if it’s suitable for that application)
4. Do something philanthropic online and do a giveaway to get some attention.
5. Join an entrepreneurial group. There are groups online dedicated to helping each other build their businesses. Some groups are available on group sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN and there are paid memberships sites such as StomperNet, Internet Entrepreneur Club or Universal Wealth Creation as well that help people and some even offer conventions.

Over time, a bit of socializing can bring you some profitable dividends and if you can find some friends in high places you can definitely make more of an impact online and become sought after as an online friend to others as well.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

If you have a site you’re trying to optimise for search engines that’s a blog, one of the greatest ways you can optimize it is to give it some link love. Consider putting up some or even all of the following types of links into every blog post you write. Here are three types of link love and why they’re good for your SEO:

Link to Yourself

Why give someone nothing else to look at on your site? Link in posts to other posts that are related to the topic at hand.  That way, when your visitor is done reading, they’ll find something else to look at. The longer they’re on your site, the more likely they’ll buy something or subscribe.

Link to Others

Linking to other sites in your niche does at least two things.  First, it shows search engines that you are relevant to your topic because of the linking between sites. The other site might allow track backs which will show as links and comments on their blog posts and this could also result in people blogrolling you, visiting your site and linking to you in their posts as well. Wherever possible link to sites with as good or better a page rank as you.

Link to an Authority

If you link to a site that has a high page rank on your site, this does several things. It helps with your page relevancy and can pull your own site rankings up.  It also helps readers understand what something means.  For instance, linking to Wikipedia is considered linking to an authority.  When you do it, tell the link to open in a new page so that a visitor checking the definition of a term won’t leave your website and not find their way back easily.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

With Thanksgiving in the U.S people around the world might be considering what they’re thankful for.  In internet marketing, there are a lot of things to be thankful for.  Let’s look at a few of them:

Google

Google lets us earn, lets us be found and puts a world of free information at our fingertips.  Yay Google! It really did change the way the internet works and the free available Google tools make being an internet entrepreneur even more profitable.

Social Marketing

Social marketing tools are free to use and help us spread the word about our product or service. They also let us mentor and be mentored to. Tools like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, Digg and other social tools can make our online pursuits much easier to do well at.

The Blogosphere

We can blog to be found, to find information and to sell products and services.  Whether you use a free hosted blog, a revenue shared blog or create a blog of your own, this is a great tool for SEO, for social marketing and for internet marketing.

Regardless of what you’re thankful for, cheers to your health, safety and success.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

If you’re an affiliate who’s been making money online by selling other people’s products for a while, you might realise that there’s big money available if you can launch a successful product of your own. This isn’t an easy feat and there’s a great of time, effort and money involved in promoting your own product but if it’s something you’d like to do, there are many ways to go about it.  Today’s post looks at whether or not to sell your electronic product yourself or get help from other affiliates.

Sell  It Yourself

If you want to work hard and reap all the rewards, you can set up your own e-commerce site with a shopping cart and sell the product yourself. Whether you’re doing an e-book or a membership site, this is a doable solution but one that will require an investment of time, money and resources. You do get all the rewards but the journey will require a bit more of you because you’re on your own with every step of the journey.

Get Affiliates To Sell For You

Just as you’ve sold products and earned commission from publishers, you could decide to go this route for yourself and try to attract those interested in affiliate marketing. Hopefully you’ll get some old pros as well as some newbies!  You can list your product on a site like ClickBank or for a low fee through a site like E-Junkie and get affiliates to help you sell. While you share in the commission you’ve also got people putting efforts into selling for you.

It’s a win-win situation for you because you only pay commission on items sold.  If you’ve got a product that really sells it can run practically on autopilot for you. Other people pay money to get the word out for you through setting up websites, investing in search engine optimisation and through pay per click ad campaigns. While there is often a set-up fee for you to get going and commission is shared, this can provide a great return on investment that allows you to reach a wider audience.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

If you’re new to internet marketing and want to learn more about exploring search engine optimisation, you might not know where to start.  Here are two starting points that you can look at as a starting point. You’ll find a wealth of information online to help you do these things on your own.

On Page SEO

On page SEO refers to things you do on your website to optimize it for search engines.  These things could be your headers, meta tags, site map and content optimization with keywords.

Off Page SEO

Off page SEO refers to performing actions in cyberspace to improve your website’s optimization.  Such actions could include:  commenting on other blogs, getting text links posted on other sites, pointing to your website in forum links and social bookmarking.

The above basic tasks are a great way to get your feet wet with search engine optimization. The more the search engines find your site friendly and relevant the more visitors you’ll get.

You’ll find a wealth of free information online to help you maximise your website’s potential for productive traffic. Read blogs, ebooks, forums and websites that focus on search engine marketing for great tips to help you get started.  Watching your site’s traffic and page rank rise can be like watching an exciting horse race.  A little bit of effort and research on your part can definitely bring you dividends!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008