Internet Marketing Newbies Ask Questions And I Answer
This is an interesting email I’ve got from one of my list subscribers (an Internet Marketing newbie as it seems), a member of my online audience as I prefer to call them all – my friends.
I have decided to make it public (only after asking for permission, of course…)
I am doing this because I think it would be profitable for many other people to see the answers too – as the questions may be common struggles of Internet Marketing newbies (and savvy, all alike) when it comes to some strategies and tactics the regular GURUs (the guys you may be getting emails from daily) won’t disclose, normally.
I also encourage you to join the conversation and ask your own questions (if any) but more important, to encourage yourself the ones who would need help online. I’ll do my best to answer properly and timely on my own.
I was thinking in the beginning to make this a forum, but decided not to. The reason is I want the blog to be public and have more exposure to SEs (that would stand for Search Engines) so that even other people – maybe searching for answers online – may find this content and easily jump IN, too.
So, let’s get started. Here’s the email I’ve got:
Hi there Steve,
As requested – LOL – I am answering one of your emails. And perhaps you can help me out here. I am going to trust you here with some info and trust you won’t use it.
I am an Internet Marketing newbie of sorts, and I have lots of questions and a heap of information overload and a hard drive full of E- books etc etc.
My experience with IM is an almost empty site that I paid dearly for (made for me) was more or less left to my own devices to fill it with blog, ads etc. Wasn’t told anything about an autoresponder or how to make a list, in other words a dismal failure I did make it an online shopping site, did some paid and free ads, to no avail. Well I guess you get the picture. I also paid dearly for some advertising by email through this group and got nowhere.
Anyway, my first question is: – I would like to set up a website for IM, and I have a particular business name (*****’* *** IM) (after my 9th grandson of 4 months of age) for it that I would like to use, but can I or should I, or should I use the name of a niche for it? The niche is G******** ( I would then call it G******** Revised) – can I use that on there or should I run with IM stuff?
I mean everyone touts you should have a niche. I had a blog on WordPress but that’s not getting any traffic either, the problem is you get told so much but not what you are supposed to be doing. How was I supposed to know you should have website with the blog on it to drive traffic to, and I’m not very good at blogging. As you can see I have learnt a little along the way, but way not enough, and I don’t want to waste anymore money that I really don’t have.
You see I am a disability pensioner and my hubby is also one with major heart complaints etc, so every penny is turned over 100 times before it is given out. Can you help me out here with some information I need?
Most gratefully,
Jannie K
{published with author’s permission}
PS: You write good English for a Romanian, LOL
Hi, Jannie!
Thanks for writing back to me as I asked… Not many people do it, although it’s FREE – LOL (maybe one of the few things that remained really so!)
You have learned a few things, indeed. Let me help you focus.
Here is a quote I plan to use on one of my next products:
“The only thing that prevents you from making $7.000 tomorrow online (IF today you’ve made $7 already) is…. TRAFFIC!”
We, as IMers, are in fact traffic brokers. Please keep that in mind!
There are so many different sources of traffic. The so called free traffic from SEs (but in fact it still costs either time or money to get it, no matter what) and the paid traffic from advertisers, coming in so many different flavors again: PPC, PPV, PPP, etc…
Bottom line is this – choose something you would like/love to do online, be passionate about it and then start working on the skills that you will need for making that a business that would fill your life with joy.
IM business is just a business like all the other. You invest money into it, by paying people to work for you (outsourcing), buying tools and other technical stuff to help and automate tasks and chores when you can, getting instruction and education on the necessary topics, etc… to be able, after that, to enjoy the benefits of the business owner: the profit.
The differences between an offline business and an online one are the market share you can reach online (theoretically far bigger than offline) and the very low startup costs.
The Internet millionaires you read about though, may have been started small, but right now they have armies of employees paid to help them run their businesses as in fact they are only the facade, the brand.
On the other hand, if you set attainable goals for yourself, you can still do it alone, or with very little help. But you need to focus instead of spreading thin on all topics at hand and all the new shiny launches happening on IM.
Stop buying products all around, BUT never stop buying relevant info and software tools that are going to help you on your particular chosen area of interest.
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Now, to come to the point in particular. The business name offline won’t help attract much traffic from the other way of the globe anyway, so it is more logical to make it memorable in a brand-style way.
For a website, though… as long as you’re not WordPress or such a brand that would make people look after you by your name… you should choose something that people are already looking for, so to stand a chance to get found in the future whenever they search for it. This is good SEO. I am an SEO passionate and probably you know that already (and I guess it shows, too…)
If you are more interested into paid traffic, I’m not much of an expert though… we could always chat about it, but I wouldn’t be so helpful as I could be regarding free organic traffic.
IF you are interested on SEO, on the other hand, basically you should start with the good domain name for your online presence. I can really help you here, indeed. Having a blog is a MUST to help you drive traffic to the money site you built or any affiliate offers.
If you don’t like to write yourself for the blog, there are two other options: outsource it OR build an automated blog(s).
No matter what kind of traffic you’d be using, building a list simply means to leverage the time and/or money already spent, to recycle the traffic you’ve got in the past, time and time again… Smart move!
Again, depending on your budget, there will be here a few alternatives: third party autoresponder or self hosted solution.
I can help you with advice on both types. I hope I could help you with these.
___________________________
Now, before we go further into it, let me ask your permission to make this (editing the personal info, of course) into a post on my http://TipsAndTricks.im Blog where you may choose to comment anonymously or if you want a link back to your blog as a guest post writer we could also arrange that, but it would mean you’d need to reveal your identity and website address and topic… It’s up to you.
I would like to involve other people with the same problems into the conversation.
May I?
Thanks!
PS
Hmmm… regarding my English… I know I still have to improve, but thank you! 【ツ】
Steve Lorenzo SEOVirtuoso
Free SEO Video Tips
Dear Steve,
Thank you so much for writing back to me, it was very interesting to read. I checked out your blog, and wow, you are impressive!
I hear what you are saying but am still not clear in my head as to the answer to my problem. Maybe I was not clear with my question which is still: -
A) Do I make 1 website with a blog on it, like yours, or
B) Do I have a website and a separate blog website to go with it???
The paid for website I have that I mentioned last time is set up without WordPress and it cannot be put on either, I tried. Do you think I should go ahead and get my money back on that site and start again with a new one?
Question >
Do I have to actually register my domain name as a business legally before I go ahead and get one? (In case I make money online LOL)
I am interested in free organic traffic, SEO and Internet Marketing PLR products, making my own product etc.
Question >
Do I have to buy licenses for PLR product with master resell rights?
Question >
How do i make an optin box on a blog or web page and connect it to an auto responder?
You can put the question on your tips & tricks that’s ok, and I don’t mind revealing my identity, but my old web page is not up & running – under reconstruction or will take it down & start again, so there’s no web page yet to link back to unfortunately unless you wait with it till you answer my questions and I get one up and running.
Question >
On the Warrior Forum, can you change your login name – I put in in as W********** with an avatar of w**** ****** – and wouldn’t mind changing it to my own pic and name for business purposes.
Ok. That’s it for today, hope you don’t mind helping (Oh and I did buy your friend in Poland’s download) and I haven’t bought anything before that in ages (you said don’t buy anything more, LOL) because the stuff I have is all free on my PC.
Hope to hear from you soon, and my best regards to you and your family from me and mine,
Now…this will go on like this. For each question (or related set of questions) I will get, I’ll try to write a separate blog post to help you all with more focused answers. There will be jumping links inside the main answer to each of those blog posts, so whenever you will want to pursue a topic deeper, just click on those links and jump to the next page and so forth…
Let’s start the FUN!
Steve Lorenzo SEOVirtuoso
Free SEO Video Tips
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WP Robot Plugin | WordPress Autoblogging Plugin
WP Robot Plugin is the state-of-the-art ultimate autoblogged content builder. It uses aggregated content from various sources like article directories, YouTube videos, ClickBank ads, Amazon products and eBay auctions, RSS feeds, etc… helping you build a fully automated blog with drip feed content in the blink of an eye!
Now just imagine the following autoblogging scenario:
- You start by searching a good topic / niche for your affiliate blog
- Second, you run your keyword research, to spot the best money making keywords
- Next, you continue to search deeper, to find the easy traffic getting long tail keywords for your blog
- Lastly, you pick the shorter high traffic keywords, yet having high competition too… hmmmm….
- Now, with everything prepared, you install your WordPress blog script on your self hosted domain and….
….well, now things tend to become complicated. ![]()
You need to add content to your blog
(of course, you tweak the script, add plugins and all the necessary cool stuff before that) –
"Content is king!", right?
If content is KING, let me introduce you to its QUEEN (WP Robot Plugin)
WP Robot Plugin – effortlessly, this plugin adds content automatically in the background (on your behalf), all day and night. WP Robot plugin scraped content from all the important content sources around the Internet.
This is the real Internet Marketer's dream:
"Work Smarter, Not Harder!"
Right now its developers are running a promotion, where you can get the WP Robot FULL version discounted, for $51 less than normal… BUT guys…
Wait!
WP Robot Plugin Discount Coupon Code
I have a surprise for you – I have a coupon code that can lower the price even further ($40 less) that I keep for my subscribers only.
Signup for the WP Robot coupon code and you will soon get it in your Inbox – don't worry, I won't send too many emails, but usually as many free offers and coupon codes as I can find. Trust me, it's worth hundreds of dollars per month.
Now, you may get a copy of the WP Robot Plugin discounted by the owners
(click here: WP Robot Plugin discounted)
Or (with a twist), even less expensive using the WP Robot Plugin Coupon Code I have for you on the list here:
Thank YOU for asking for our
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WP Robot Plugin | Autoblogging WordPress Plugin
Review by Steve Lorenzo SEOVirtuoso
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Rank Tracker Keyword Ranking WP Plugin
Keyword search engine ranking check is a bit less common notion than usual keyword research everybody claims to do when starting to write online, but I have discovered traffic bringing keywords that were valuable for my website simply by investigating the way people landed on my pages with a keyword search engine ranking tool rank tracker or another…
However, the time involved in doing that could have been spent better doing more profitable things.
So I was recently looking into automation – seeking some sort of SEO software or SEO script that would help my keyword research, revealing the long tailed keywords that would bring organic traffic from the search engines.
As I am also very deeply interested in using WordPress for all types of tasks it was quite natural to look into finding a WP SEO tweaked theme or rather a WP SEO plugin for my purpose.
My quest brought me to this interesting website where I found the best of two worlds:
- As you may know already, Google is ranking pages, actually, on one hand…
- While on the other hand, I was interested more in finding the hidden long tail keywords that would bring traffic but also help for better search engine ranking in the end…
So, to sum it up…
» Google Rank Tracker WP Plugin «
…will add to its database
(and show them directly on your WordPress Dashboard afterward), the specific search strings that people are typing into the search boxes to arrive at certain pages on your blog that contain those particular keyphrases.
As a result, you are able to see NOT what you theoretically believe would increase page rank and exposure, BUT in fact, you’ll discover exactly those keywords that you could use to write a new blog post about, without much competition (you already rank well as long as you had visitors through them.)
Nevertheless, just a slight change that would improve or update page rank positioning even with a single step up, could mean doubling the traffic you already get.
That is MOST INVALUABLE!…
…Intel directly from the front line…
…and the beauty of its setup is
that it sends email notifications too
(if you want.)
Instead of using a page rank tool or web application for rank checker, this Rank Tracker WP plugin runs directly on your blog and secretly sends emails to you (the admin) only, keeping all your valuable secrets away from the prying eyes of the competition.
I have already used this keyword rank tracker tool on a few of my blogs BUT I’m in the process of adding the…
Rank Tracker WP Plugin
(click ^^^ to visit web site)
…to all my blogs now.
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Robo Form Fillers
The Fundamental First Step
Ever To Be Taken By A Newbie
IMer (Internet Marketer)
That Usually Nobody Tells You About -
The Best Password Manager
Form Fillers and Password Manager Software solutions are the most overlooked yet some of the most important tools for an Internet Marketer’s tool belt nowadays.
Indeed…if you have already explored a while around the net, you have obviously been driven to so numerous opportunities popping-up there, all of them so exciting…luring you into becoming their
- user, or
- affiliate, or
- member…
well, whatever they call it.
BUT…
…you’d need an elephant’s memory to remember all that stuff, wouldn’t you?
Therefore, I will proudly point out my advice for you…
(as there are so few others to tip you on that on the Internet)
…to closely consider these facts first:
- in order to surf safely, you need to carefully protect yourself, whenever possible, behind
- firewalls,
- anonymity,
- even fake IDs eventually;
- for testing purposes you might need more than one
- e-mail, or
- nickname, or
- screen-name, or
- username,
- etc…
ultimately more than only one virtual identity;
- in order to remain focused, you need
- to be very well organized,
- to keep your bookmarks categorized and properly named just as YOU wish;
- you will have to subscribe to
- many newsletters,
- e-zines,
- services,
- systems,
- membership sites and
- clubs and so on, forever…
- all of them with their own username and password;
- from time to time, you will need to make payments online,
- using your credit cards
(they all have their own code and expiry date and CVV) or - even through a service like PayPal, or…
- using your credit cards
If you run a regular offline business you’ll have your secretary and sometimes even more other people like your… say…
…accountant, to take care of these.
But online, especially for a typical work-at-home or Internet marketing type of business, you will be alone.
Therefore, YOU must be, then, your own secretary, right?
You will have to remember those www addresses you were surfing a while ago, which hopefully you’ve probably bookmarked somewhere – hmmm… but where, exactly? - and by the way…when you find those:
“Oh, Lord, what was the user and password I’ve set then?”
And if you happen to be just a trifle paranoid about security, just as I am…
(for good reason, believe me)
…especially when you are sitting in front of a different computer than your own home one, but not only – say…
…traveling and using an Internet Cafe, or…
…being still employed and having the urge to cheat on your employer’s schedule for you, by trying to surf a little bit more from work (not on my advice!), or…
…sharing the computer with your kids (they have the dangerous habit of downloading tons of improperly checked stuff from the net)
In all these cases and many, many more, you wouldn’t dare to type in your precious secret user names and passwords, credit card information or whatever other “delicate” stuff.
(that is, if you remember them, in the first place…)
Because nasty people invented the keyloggers.
Even your boss may use such – or other even worse, maybe – piece of spy software.
YES – They are used to spy on you!
Whenever you press a key on your keyboard it will be collected in a special secret file called log (hence the name: keylogger)
The next step is to send it to the evil guy through your connection and there you are: all your sensible data is now in the hands of someone else.
Generally, in order to keep track of ones activities, memberships, favorite pages, etc… people use to bookmark them in their browsers, which comes in handy, but usually without the corresponding usernames and passwords for easy access.
So, they face a few possible ”solutions” widely spread amongst millions and millions of other users:
- write down on paper and keep them safe
(rarely effective – soon you’ll lose it; and someone else might find it)
- write down on sticky notes and “glue” them on their monitor
(often – but… figure out for yourself why it’s wrong)
- create a general purpose nickname with a common-to-all password and stick to it
(lazy AND dangerous habit)
But there is hope!
A special software called password manager will solve all that and even more…
The name is not complete, though, because it does not only:
- memorize and keep track of your passwords, in conjunction with the appropriate usernames, plus
- bookmarks the corresponding login pages, and even
- bookmarks actually any page you wish in a customizable free manner
(you may create folders for categories and assign the bookmarks accordingly)
- let you create multiple identities for various purposes over the net, each of them crammed with whatever you might imagine as a matter of data:
- your first/sur/nick names;
- preferred e/snail mail address;
- business identity (name, address);
- bank details (name, addresses);
- bank account details;
- guess… card account details, sure;
- the list goes on and on and on…
all of them ready to be inserted into any possible fields you might encounter on your “surfing expeditions”.
Hmmm…
That’s right folks; it’s a form filler, too!
This is a powerful feature, because:
- once memorized first time, it will insert all the necessary data with only one click of the mouse; thus, any keylogger will be “blinded” by that, registering a single meaningless click instead of all your precious, private information;
- plus, once a login page is correctly bookmarked at its first encounter, it will also prevent you from being lured unconsciously into any phishing site later on.
Now, some people accused me at this point that I’m trying to sell it instead of reviewing it. But how can I help it?
It’s even better than I’ve already told you:
- one of its best features is portability (you may take it with you on your flash stick and thus, all your “sensibles” will be kept safe in your pocket; it will also autorun from there, no install needed, no traces left on the guest computer);
- another plus is that it will flawlessly work “in tandem” with another piece of useful software from the same producer (it’s really not me!!!
) to backup your data, to prevent you from losing it in case of theft, loss, break, etc… of your flash stick;

- but of course it may also backup whatever else you may wish, either on your hard drive, or on your… YES! You guessed: the same flash stick.
- the final touch I kept untold till now:
- forget the scrap of paper with passwords AND
- forget the sticky note on your monitor BUT
- KEEP your beloved
ONE-GOOD-FOR-ALL password handy, because it will become from now on…
THE PASSWORD
Why is that so?
Because while all your data will be kept safely (encrypted) by this software, away from foreign eyes, in order to access it you will need a master password to unlock it, which you will have to provide:
- every time you’ll plugin the flash stick into its slot, or, if you wish, even
- at regularly scheduled moments or,
- triggered by specific events; hopefully preventing this way other people from “peeking” in case that you accidentally forget to unplug the device when you leave the computer.
You may use whatever passwords
- you can imagine
(no matter how fancy and difficult to remember they might be), or - use the built-in facility to pick powerful, random generated passwords, even customized according to any site’s requirements
(such as preferred min/max length, accepted symbols, characters, etc…)
Then forget about them completely and concentrate onto your only, single
MASTER PASSWORD.
For tips and tricks on how to achieve the right complexity while still being able to remember it later, you may read more on my blog here.
So, what could there be more to say about this MASTER PIECE?
Well, a ton of other cool features on the producer’s site, which I’m already too exhausted to continue to tell you about, apart from only one more:
Even though in order to use it fully featured, you will have to pay a small onetime fee (which I recommend not for making money out of it, but simply because it’s worth it), if you intend to take it only for personal use, then…
IT’S FREE!
…both of them
(the password manager and the backup synchronizer) actually.
If it were on me, I would simply call them together:
A COMPLETE SOLUTION
NOW, HERE…
…YOU May DOWNLOAD The FREE:
Roboform Password Manager and Online Form Filler

&
GoodSync Backup Synchronizer

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