Internet Marketing

You're on the internet. You want to sell something. You're an internet marketer, it's as simple as that. However, although internet marketing has long been tarred by the brush of Get Rich Quick schemes, there are some very legitimate ways to earn money on the web.

I created this part of the site because I felt strongly that having been a full-time PRO on the net for the last few years, there wasn't a comprehensive overview of the internet marketing phenomenon.

In fact, there was quite a bit of misinformation and rather a lot of hype, so I've attempted to break the basic components down by guiding you to the very best resources while throwing in little bits of my experiences.

Even when you find the right information, however, it can still be confusing in that there is such a cross-over between the various types of internet marketing, that it can become very confusing.

So, with the risk of appearing pedantic, I've tried to stress the differences, and provide a reasonably comprehensive intro to the main components of internet marketing...

Affiliate Marketing 

Affiliate Marketing involves promoting a company's products and gaining a commission. It's perhaps the oldest and most established form of internet marketing and you can do it by:

• recommending products on forums
• sending emails (SPAM Marketing?)
• reviewing products on blogs or websites
• advertising on Adwords
• and possibly even more ways 

Mostly though, Affiliate Marketing is at its purest in the creation of a Niche website that provides great content (see below) you'll find two great intros to Affiliate Marketing by two real PROS:

• Rosalind Gardner's Super Affiliate Handbook. a very good introduction to Affiliate Marketing by one of internet marketing's first superstars  

Then, an intro to:

• Amazon. Many webmasters deal exclusively in creating sites for Amazon's wide range of products
• Clickbank, the home of digital INFO products on the web, which frequently offers a 50% commission for every sale and sometimes, even more

Plus:

• Build a Niche Store An interesting way to use eBay's RSS feeds

Niche Marketing

Niche Marketing involves the creation of a website around a particular subject. It may be monetized by:

• its own product
• Affiliate Marketing or, as is often found these days...
• ...exclusively via Google Adsense 

Adsense would hardly seem to belong in Niche Marketing, it's the way for millions of websites around the world to gain some well-earned cash. I had strongly felt that perhaps I shouldn't have Adsense in this section and instead place it in the more general "Websites".  However, there's no doubt that it's Niche Marketers who've done the most research as to how to maximize Adsense earnings, with 3 products, in particular, worth looking at:

• Michael Cheney's Adsense Videos the best how-to guide around
• Adsense Gold a tracking script that provides you with excellent feedback on your Adsense pages, far better than the Google stats
• Keyword Explosion, a database of Adwords Keywords that are briilliant for using as a base to create Adsense pages

...so in the end I believed that Adsense should have its home here.