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Don’t Make this Crucial Link Building Mistake

With all of the different Internet Marketing business models out there and all of the different variations therein, it’s nearly impossible for me to provide tips that are going to help EVERY person who reads my advice. What one person is doing will be at least slightly different than another and completely different than another and all three could very well be working on a profitable model.

There are many ways to make money online. That’s just how it is and once you get through the information overload and develop the knowledge that allows you to understand and separate each model, you start to realize that’s actually a good thing.

However, with all of that considered, there is ONE thing that almost all online business models require and that is TRAFFIC! And where do we find one of the biggest traffic sources online? Yep, search engines, primarily Google. And what is the primary thing that they look at in order rank a page? Yep, links.

Link Building is one of the first things many of us learn about when we start working online because we want as much of that free search engine traffic as possible.

So we find services that do it for us. We submit to link directories. We comment on blog posts. We submit to bookmarking sites etc. etc. and we start to see links coming in. But doing all of this over and over, day after day gets to be pretty time consuming and we get tired of it pretty quickly. So over time we reduce our link building to a few sources, then eventually down to only one or two.

THAT is the mistake! I just read a blog post on this exact topic from someone in this business who I have alot of respect for, Lynn Terry. The post is titled Effective Link Building: One Major Ingredient and I highly recommend you give it a good read. It explains why it’s so important to diversify your link building and offers a good example of how you could promote a good piece of content in order to set it up for success.

Of course this is one of the many things I go over in “The Ultimate Link Building Report” as well. So if you are one of the few who haven’t picked up a copy of that I urge you to do so now (special price through that link.)

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Does Google REALLY Prefer WordPress over Static Sites?

The car in that image is my dream car: a Jet Black Porsch Carerra GT. If I had a dollar for every person who has said “Google prefers blogs over static sites” I would be driving that car Unfortunately I don’t

It’s one of the biggest misconception in Internet Marketing. The simple fact is that Google does not rank any site over any other based on the platform in which it is run on. To understand why Google would never do this, we have to think about the goal of Google the Company. Google has one main goal, to [...] Continue Reading…

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Do you Suffer from “The Herd” Mentality?

I would say that about 95% or more of those who try to make money online have “The Herd” Mentality. When I first got into Internet Marketing about 5 years ago I frequently visited and took part in discussions over at the Warrior Forum. Back then I was a part of a private forum inside the Warrior Forum. I forget the exact name, but it was something like “The Herd Mentality” and it was basically supposed to be a place where “elite” marketers could basically talk about “elite” stuff lol

It was a JOKE! 99% of the people in that [...] Continue Reading…

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phpBay Pro Review & Discount – 8 Months later

If you were following me towards the end of last year (08) you may remember a product review I did for something called “phpBay Pro.”

I had just started my Geocaching blog at that time and was looking for monetization ideas. Since there are alot of different Geocaching items on eBay, I figured I would give phpBay Pro a shot and 8 months later I can say I’m glad I did.

(If you don’t know, it’s a product that allows you to easily set up small “stores” on your site that sell eBay products. It’s very easy to set up. [...] Continue Reading…

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What is “Ethical Internet Marketing” Anyway?

I’m sure you’ve noticed that the subtitle of this blog is “Making Money Through Ethical Marketing.” And I’ve gotten alot of comments and questions about that over the years. I’ve even gotten criticism about it.

For instance, a while back I received an email from a very angry customer who had just downloaded one of my free reports. This person had opted-in to receive the report and then, just like everyone else, he was offered a special discount on one of my products. At the end of that page there is a link to bypass the special offer and [...] Continue Reading…

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The Personal Side of Josh Spaulding – Good and Bad

Sometimes it’s good to get your mind off of Internet Marketing and just take a break. And although I can’t force that upon you, I can give you some info that has nothing to do with Internet Marketing for once.

Today I’m going to talk about me, as a person. In response to one of the questions I asked in a survey I sent out to my list a few weeks ago asking what I can do to build more trust, many people requested that I talk more about myself outside of IM. You asked and I listened. I’m not [...] Continue Reading…

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I’ve Failed over and over again, that is why I Succeed!

One of the best and most frequent pieces of advice I offer to those who are trying to succeed at something, whether it’s Internet Marketing or something else, is to accept failure and understand that failure is part of success.

You will not find success with anything worth doing without first finding failure. In many cases you will fail multiple times. These failures are what prevent most people from being successful. Only a small percentage of people keep going when they fail. Those are the successful ones!

A few days ago I came across a blog post from Michelle Adams, who [...] Continue Reading…

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5 Ways to Find Good Topics to Write about Online

There are many different “road blocks” that come up along the way no matter what “model” you adopt or how long you’ve been working online. Usually each model or technique presents it’s own set of road blocks or issues that need figured out. But there is one that seems to come up over and over again for almost everyone, no matter how long they’ve been working online and no matter what it is they do online.

“Writers Block!”

I get it, you get it and everyone else who writes anything, whether online or offline, gets it too. It just sucks, doesn’t [...] Continue Reading…

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“The Content Chef” Review – Make Money Writing Online

As you may know, I got started online as a content writer. With VERY little knowledge of any kind of marketing, no tech skills… nothing, it seemed like the best way to make some cash online and it was!

I made quite a bit of money writing articles for others, but it did take some trial and error and I could have definitely started making money with my writing much quicker than I did.

So today I’m doing a review of a product by Courtney Ramirez, who I’ve worked with several times in the past, called “The Content Chef” which is [...] Continue Reading…

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The Primary Source of Internet Marketing Confusion

Between email, support tickets, my Private Internet Marketing Forum and blog comments I receive multiple (sometimes 100+) questions on a daily basis. These questions obviously vary, but there are a few that I get every single day that are very similar. These are questions that are derived from confusion and this confusion comes from one thing – People who work online for months, even years, and still don’t succeed can usually attribute their failure to not picking a model and sticking with it!

BUT, it’s not as easy as saying “OK, I’m going to do affiliate marketing, that’s my model.”

Did [...] Continue Reading…

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