Top 5 Major Mistakes of Newbie Internet Marketers

Biggest Mistakes of Newbie Internet Marketers

A newbie Internet marketer without question, typically will make the following two mistakes automatically: 1) Not choosing a niche market to stick with it and 2) Not using keyword research as a general guide to construct their articles (or build their blog/website) and effectively use keyword phrases in the title and throughout the article...

Above and beyond losing focus or not concentrating ones efforts on a niche market which one is familiar with or where one can quickly gain a certain level of "expert" knowledge in order to write a substantial number of problem solving articles, a newbie affiliate marketer will also make the following major mistakes...

1. Following the latest greatest shiny object

Affiliate marketing is a business where you can make money, but beware that you will have to work for it...No matter how many people try to sell you a "magic button" or promise you that they "will do all of the work for you", I implore you to think about it logically...If it were truly a "magic button" that would make you rich beyond your wildest dreams overnight, would they share it with you???...Instead of following the herds of wishful thinkers that want easy money with no work, I advise you to use your head and save your money for investing in your business after you actually have a business to invest in...FREE and effective tips and tricks of the internet marketing trade can be found at Pat Flynn, Erica Stone and Ana Hoffman's websites...

2. Not knowing what's in your contract/affiliate agreement to make more money with Internet marketing

Newbie affiliate marketers tend to make fatal business decisions which limit/restrict their potential income streams...Rumor has it that "cloaking" your affiliate links will decrease your commissions/sales earned through both Amazon and ClickBank...There are many different opinions and recommendations on the subject...I think it is better to be safe than sorry, so avoid cloaking your affiliate links for those two affiliate programs and be sure to read the "fine print" for any other affiliate programs to make sure you are not in violation...I for one originally liked the idea of using Bitly to track clicks/traffic sources, but have since decided to discontinue using Bitly altogether...Also be aware that certain data from Amazon cannot be published on your site without using their Product Advertising API...A violation/breach of contract could be detrimental to your online internet marketing business...Also, AdSense Ads have restrictions on how many per page and placement within the page so beware of this too...

3. Not being organized in your approach to grow your online business

• You must have a plan...
• You must have a focus/niche market...
• You must test and track your marketing efforts to see what is working...
• You must capture and grow your list of like minded people that are interested in what you have to share so that you have the option of marketing your latest beneficial offer/product to them in the future...

 4. Mis-educating yourself about how to make extra money online and grow your business

   The best free resources for coming up to speed, in content creation, traffic generation and making sales, that I recommend are from the folks that i mentioned above...You can read their blogs and subscribe/opt-in to their email subscription lists so that you can receive their latest and greatest FREE tips, tricks and recommendations...While the best motivational book that I have read is "The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime"...




 5. Inaction or not enough of the right kind of action

   First of all if you do nothing, you will get nothing...Therefore you must take action...But what should you do and when???...Or how should you spend your time???...Having been at this for a while now, the word on the street is that you should spend most of your time promoting your website, your affiliate offer, your product or your brand...Say for instance that you decide to write an eBook (this is your digital product), you should take no more than two weeks to complete it and have it ready to market and sell for profits...After your product is completed, then the majority of your time and effort should be spent marketing your product...At the top of your sales funnel is where you should plan and execute a killer landing page, where you include a heart wrenching title that crystallizes the benefit that your product exudes in solving the problem of your potential buyer...A properly designed, well-written landing page with the best possible layout is critical to converting your traffic from visitors to buyers...So you will have to dedicate some time and effort in implementing a high-conversion landing page to make more money through product sales...





After your product is complete and your landing page is complete, you should spend 20% of your time on product development/refinement, 20% of your time on motivational education and 60% of your time promoting your product/offer...

Get started today on growing your online business by taking action...JUST DO IT!!!...

Have you have found this article about the biggest blunders or major mistakes that newbie internet marketers make to be beneficial???...


WAHM Shelley... :)

P.S. CLICK HERE to check out my new blog!!!

My Alexa Traffic Rank Is REALLY Getting Better, Yippee!!!

Work Hard To Build Your Business And It Will Pay Off!!!

WAHM Shelley has been busy as a beaver focusing daily on SEO and traffic generation methods and I really think it's starting to pay off...WooHoo!!!...My global Alexa Traffic Rank for WAHM-Shelley.blogspot.com was 23,412,958 on November 17, 2011 and now twelve days later it is 15,276,239...Yippee!!!...

For those of you that are unaware a higher Alexa Traffic Rank (lower number) indicates the popularity of your website...Both it's popularity with search engines and within the country (in my case, it is within the U.S.)...Some say that when you install the Alexa Toolbar your Alexa Traffic Rank will increase as well...But some people also say that when they have multiple sites their lower ranked site will get more traffic than their higher ranked site...

I have noticed a regular steady increase in traffic over the past few weeks for both of my blogs that I have been working on: This Crazy Life !!! and The Ultimate WAHM Experience...I've been writing what I consider to be high quality unique content in posts/articles on both of my blogs and at revenue sharing websites...Although I must admit that since I have spent a lot of time tweaking little things that are not readily visible to the average visitor, it's taken time away from my article marketing... I am hoping that soon I can have both blogs optimized so that I can focus on writing more informative articles (i.e. article marketing) and building niche websites (i.e. niche marketing)...FYI, posting high quality unique articles on revenue sharing websites will not only help you earn more money, but you will get backlinks too...

This is really a worthwhile journey, because I like the daily challenges of figuring things out and sharing them here at my WAHM Shelley blog to help you start or build your internet marketing business...I know I have a while to go til I reach the point where, I feel as though, I have arrived with these two starter blogs, but I'll just keep working every day that I can to build my online business by generating more organic FREE traffic, so that I can make more money...

If you have some kudos you'd like to share about how you've used SEO to build the Alexa Traffic Rank of your blog/website, please do so below in the comments, because we'd like to visit your website to check it out and make some thoughtful comments...Thanks for stopping by...Y'all come back now ya hear!!!

Black Friday's Best For Blog Building Top 6 List WE 11/25/2011

Black Friday 2011 is coming to a close, but thankfully there's Cyber Monday!!!...So the Black Friday week's deals are still plentiful this year...Well speaking of deals, WAHM Shelley has uncovered some great tools for you to use to build your online business...This week we have six terrific tools for you to use to make more money with your website or blog...

The first three finds are actually top lists from best-reviewer.com...For those of you that haven't heard about best-reviewer yet, it is another great revenue sharing website...James Colin, best-reviewer's webmaster, gives 100% of the Google Adsense revenue profits to you, the reviewer that posts a top list from three to twenty items long...

Well anyway social media marketing is becoming increasingly more important for all marketers whether they are article marketers, affiliate marketers, internet marketers or even network marketers (also known as MLM, multi-level marketers)...And the three top lists from best-reviewer include tools or apps that you can use for your social media marketing efforts...Namely they are:

• Top 15 List Of Best Facebook Applications
• Top 10 Twitter Applications You Must Know !
• Top 10 Free Video Editing Online Tools And Software

So, jump on those tools to get more mileage out of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube or whatever video sharing website that you choose...And of course you can always post videos on your own website or blog or even in articles that you publish on revenue sharing websites too...

Speaking of publishers, the next find for this week is Zimbio...And straight from the website itself it says,

"Zimbio is an interactive magazine publisher focused on entertainment, style, current events, and other pop culture topics.  Zimbio.com, one of the fastest growing web publications and one of the 10 most popular magazines on the web, is now read by over 20 million people each month."

... Since Zimbio is FREE to join, I don't think you can go wrong writing articles and publishing them at Zimbio...The best thing that I truly love about Zimbio is that you can syndicate your blog posts directly to Zimbio, quickly and easily...These services should be really good for generating more traffic from backlinks to your website...

Next up is Pingomatic, a backlink generating FREE tool...You can read more about it for yourself right on their website...But here's a snipet: 

"What is this?

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated."

...So there ya have it...

Last but not least for you Tweeters out there, is TrueTwit a SPAM eliminating tool to automatically validate real tweeters from automated "bot" tweeters...That's crazy sounding right...You need an automated tool to shield you from other peoples automated tools..Oh well, that's just how the cookie crumbles these days...Because all of the Guru internet marketers will tell you that once you have a system that works well for you, the next thing that you must do is find a way to automate it so that you can spend your time and
energy on creative tasks that automated systems can not produce...

Well that's a wrap for this week's best business building bargains...Now get on out there and start your online business if you haven't taken any action yet or grow, grow, grow your business to make more money online...Don't forget to stop by next week for the latest traffic generating tools you can use...

Is Maximum Leverage Inner Circle a Scam???

Is Daegan Smith a master scam artist???

Well if he is, he's scammed some of the best internet marketers in the business...He's shared the stage and consulted some of the biggest online marketers around...He's been dubbed "The King of Never Calling a Single Lead"...And his students and clients sing his praises all over the internet and at exclusive conferences where serious action takers come together to grow their business the fast and furious way...

You can briefly check him out here in this video clip of internet marketing gurus from the Live The Dream Conference...Check out how Brian Fanale introduced him...He really gave him props... Such accolades... Quiet as it's been kept, Daegan Smith is the man...The man that's helped dozens of internet marketers and network marketers make their dreams come true...He details and shares what he knows and what he does to make millions of dollars online...

The best thing about this little review that I am writing here is that you can test-drive Daegan's methods with this FREE 8 part DVD ""Winning In The Online Home Business Arena"...That's right check out a taste of his money making system for FREE...CLICK HERE now to start generating more leads and making more money than you thought were possible...

Why would you NOT choose to view the FREE videos that will show you how to make more money with your MLM, network marketing, internet marketing or online business???

• You have a never-ending list of warm market (i.e. friends and family) that are willing to support your business growth...

• You already know everything that you need to know about making more money...

• You are already making as much money as possible...

• Even though you know that Daegan Smith has made a fortune with this information, you would rather do it on your own and learn from your own mistakes and waste more time and money in the process...

• Even though you know many people have and will take advantage of this FREE offer and have and will have great success, you are willing to take your chances...

• You prefer the pains and hardships of struggling on your own instead of plugging into a proven system with a leader among leaders...

Take the plunge and plug into Daegan Smith's Maximum Leverage Inner Circle with a FREE test drive and use the FREE tips that show you how to get more FREE leads and make MORE MONEY with your business...CLICK HERE for your FREE videos today!!!...

6 Great Making Money Tools for WE 11/18/2011

Make More Money Online With These Business Building Tools!!!

WAHM Shelley is my name and making money is my game!!!...How do you like that rap???...Yeah, I know it's kinda corny...Well anyway, on to this week's finds...They include a new MLM opportunity for cellphones, two FREE automaters to leverage your time, an invaluable FREE eBook, FREE social media training and last but not least a revenue sharing website which you will absolutely love...

1) - Listwire FREE autoresponder - If you don't know by now, automating email communication with your contacts is essential to leverage your time so that you can spend more time on tasks that require your attention for quality control...Once you establish the best content for your correspondence based on keyword research, you will use your high-powered copywriting skills to educate your target audience and move them further along in your cash flow funnel so that they will convert easily when you present them with a problem solving opportunity/product...Cha-ching!!!



2) - FREE Twitter Tool: SocialOomph  - Boost your productivity by scheduling tasks on Twitter such as thanking followers that follow you and keeping an eye on your Twitter statistics...

3) - FREE eBook: Google Switch  - A 136 page eBook where David Schwind and Jim Yaghi first fill you in on their background, including their struggles to make money through internet marketing all the way to their "Ah-Ha" moments where everything started clicking for them...They detail eight FREE traffic generation methods and then give you blueprints for you to apply to your social media campaigns, SEO, etc...

4) - FREE Facebook Marketing Training  - Let The Facebook Marketing Queen show you how in six months she built her business to 6-figures...With over 800,000,000 active users on Facebook, you need to tap into this social media network to grow your business...Learn how to make money with Facebook today!!!...

5) - Sign up for a FREE Wizzley account  to profit from this revenue sharing website...Simply use keyword research to write high-quality unique articles which inspire readers so that you can make money online... Article marketing at its finest... Wizzley loads fast and your articles pubished there may even rank high through Google Search, because from what I understand Wizzley is a highly SEO optimized site that is super easy to use...Sign up today to make extra money now and build a residual passive income for your future...

6) - Cash Texts is in its infancy stage...But just so you will know, it is an MLM opportunity that will allow you to make money with your cellphone...Don't delay, be the first one amongst your friends to get signed up so that you can make money from them receiving text messages too!!!

That'll do ya for this week...Please be sure to check back next week for some great FREE business building tools...Hey why don't you leave a comment below to let me know if you find these posts beneficial to your online business for making more money online...

Top 8 FREE Business Building Resources for Your Blog WE 11/11/11 !!!

Make More Money online for FREE !!!

This week's resources/tools/websites which you can use to build your business are really wonderful...They include a few revenue sharing websites, a couple of FREE tools that you can use while you're drafting up your killer articles or posts, for your new online internet marketing business, a banging membership site that you will find to be invaluable for building your online marketing business and a tool that will help you track your social media marketing efforts...All in all, I am hoping that not only will this weekly update of FREEBIE must-haves will not only help you not only make more money online, but also help you to build a true residual passive income online...

The first three finds for this week are terrific for developing your content in your article marketing empire... Numbers 4, 5 and 8 are some of the best revenue sharing websites around...So, without further ado here's the "Top 8 List" for this week...


1) Before you begin writing your article or posts or even before you begin a new niche marketing venture, you must know what the keywords are that will pay you more money or convert your traffic from browsers to customers...That's where The Keyword Academy comes in...Even though the membership is reasonably priced, they offer you a FREE 30-Day trial of their system...They truly are teaching people how to make money online...The Keyword Academy provides a checklist for your first 100 hours of work with their blueprint system... The "First 100 HOurs" is what you will use to succeed at selecting keywords and building websites for your targeted niche...Their goal is to help as many people as they can to earn $1000 per month...Will you be next???...

2) The Google AdWords Tool is FREE to use, but you will need to sign up for a FREE account...The Keyword Academy  will teach you how to use this tool to select the keywords and keyword phrases that will help you make more money online...

3) FREE Word and Character Counter:  Just copy and paste your draft post or article into this tool from notepad and click either the "calculate words" or "calculate characters" button to find out if you have reached your goal...FYI, it is typically recommended to have your article lengths be at least 400-500 words long...

4) Best-Reviewer.com is one of the coolest AdSense revenue sharing websites around...James Colin has come up with a true gem with this one...You simply come up with your top ten (or so) list of things that you want to talk about and write a quick article about it...It is genius because from what I understand Google and perhaps the other search engines LOVE "Top Lists"...So you can expect a lot of traffic coming to Best-Reviewer.com for no other reason than this...So you just have to be crafty in selecting your topic or niche that you want to talk about and then be even more selective in choosing the right keywords and keyword phrases to get noticed by the search engines, to get more traffic and hence earn more money through ads on your "Top List"... So now just spring back up to the number one resource for this week for more on choosing the best keywords...

5) YouSayToo is really the best thing that's happened to my blogs this week, because just as they say it has increased traffic to my blogs...You consolidate your blogs there and you get more exposure and more money through revenue sharing from AdSense and Amazon Associates to boot...The best part for me is that I didn't have to go there and come up with new original content for YouSayToo, they just automatically feed directly from my blogs all the new posts as soon as they are published...Isn't that cool?...

6) Get your FREE Amazon Associates affiliate account here...Not only can you earn money through revenue sharing sites like InfoBarrel and YouSayToo, but you can build out your own stores and pick and choose to sell anything from the vast selection of products that are available on Amazon.com including: books, DVDs, toys, electronics, kitchen tools, food and spices, jewelry and much, much more...

7) Bitly is a great little tool that you will use for Twitter or anywhere that you like, and the basic account is FREE to use...It's easy to use too...You just sign up for your FREE account and then paste your long URLs into the box that says "Shorten your links and share from here" and then click the "Shorten" button...And then not only will your URL be shortened, but it will also be logged into your history link list where it will be tracked so that you will know exactly how many times it was clicked...It's convenient to use this tool to shorten your URL for the Twitter service because they only allow 140 characters...

8) Squidoo...need I say more...Well, I actually did already and if you missed it go here...


And that's a wrap for this week's Top 8 Business Building FREEBIES...Come back next week for another list of the top business building freebies...Have fun and make more money online with Shelley!!!

Squidoo Review...My new love !!!

Squidoo the "popular publishing platform and community" totally rocks !!!

Newbie that I am to internet marketing, I am going through all the bumps and bruises of starting a new online business...But with Squidoo, a revenue sharing website, I feel as though I have dug up pure gold...Yippee!!!...I'm the first to admit that I'm a lover not a fighter, but what's not to love about Squidoo...

Here are my Top 10 Facts and Figures About Squidoo for you to gnaw on:

1. They've been live on the internet since 2006...
2. As of October 2010 one million people visit Squidoo every day...
3. It's FREE to join Squidoo...No experience or website is required...
4. Not only can you get targeted traffic to your blog/website/offer...you can make extra money online with them too...
5. You can earn extra money from Amazon and eBay directly from your lenses (webpages) that you post there...
6. Many lensmasters (article contributors) earn more than $10,000 per year from creating great lenses...
7. You can choose to have your earnings paid to you in cash or donated to charity...
8. Squidoo has given over $500,000 for charities worldwide...
9. You can choose to be paid cash via paypal when your balance in your account reaches $1, $5, $10, $15, $20 or $50...Now, that's convenient to not have to wait for a particular day of the month...
10. You have creative freedom to write about any variety of topics like your favorite recipes, your favorite restaurants, your best vacation, your new car, how to commute from Montclair, NJ to Manhattan, how to install wordpress on your blog, your favorite authors/books, the best way to skin a fish, why your cat loves to take bath, your most memorable teacher, Mrs McDaniel that dressed like she just stepped out of time capsule from the early 70s, your list of Top 10 Pinky and the Brain episodes...you name it!!!...I think you get the picture (just don't make your content spammy)...

Squidoo is definitely my find of the week...No experience is necessary to make money with Squidoo and you don't even have to have a blog/website of your own... Do me a favor and visit my first ever lens here...And if you are interested in joining the Squidoo community click here!!!...And if you already are a member of Squidoo please make a comment and "Like" my lens while you are there...While you're here let us know if you've ever used Squidoo and what results you've gotten in the comments below...

Best FREE Resources for Blogs WE 11/4/2011 !!!

More FREE Stuff to Help You Make More Money Online

Once again the FREEBIE seeker comes through with some killer FREE resources to help all of you WAHMs out there find more ways how to make money online, without spending money...Without further ado here's this week's great list of notable resources...

1) InfoBarrel  ====>>>>  Join InfoBarrel for FREE to write articles and make money too!!!

2) Google's Adsense   ====>>>>  Although this may not be news, necessarily...But sign up for FREE to connect your Adsense account to InfoBarrel to get paid more money faster!!!

3) Chitika   ====>>>>  Another PPC opportunity...Sign up for FREE and link your Chitika ID to InfoBarrel to  get paid even faster !!!

4) Amazon's Affiliate Program   ====>>>>  Also, this is not necessarily new information...But if you don't already have a FREE Amazon Associates account get one today...And make sure you have your affiliate ID  handy when you sign up for InfoBarrel to make even more money!!!

5) Clickbank Success Forum   ====>>>>  Signup for tons of FREE information about how to make more money with Clickbank!!!

That wraps up this week's top five list of FREE resources that will help you make money online...Don't forget to leave a comment below to let us know how these resources have helped you build your business or share with us your top three list of FREE resources that are helping you make more money online...Thanks for dropping by!!!

"Smart Passive Income" is the way we all should work it!!!

SmartPassiveIncome.com Review

Well, I can tell you what this review is quite overdue...I have been busy, busy, busy as usual working on my online ventures of course...Learning how to be an online marketer and raising a family will just about lead you to be "cross-eyed and crazy"...By the end of the day I am soooo done you can just stick a fork in me...Now on to the review for the rest of you WAHMs out there...

Pat Flynn of SmartPassiveIncome.com has a site that is chock full of great FREE tidbits...And the thing I like most about his site is that he seems to give honest how-to details on how to do lots of online marketing...He has videos that show you how to build your business...And he has podcasts, sometimes co-hosted by (or interviewing) big names in internet marketing... The podcast sound quality is great (you know he's using a slammin microphone)...He even does a monthly income report as proof positive that his methods are working for him...If you want to start at one place to learn practical ways of how to make money online by increasing your traffic, you can't go wrong with SmartPassiveIncome.com...

As I type this, Pat and his family are in Los Angeles gearing up for the Blog World Expo...So look for him...He'll be sportin his "HELLO My Name Is PAT" red backpack, so I'm sure you won't miss him...Now before I forget, if you are interested in niche marketing you have to check out his page How to Build a Niche Site...On that page you will find links to the challenge that Pat participated in, which has been coined the Niche Site Duel...He shows step-by-step how his niche site was built so you will see his plan, missteps, execution and accomplishments...Don't miss it!!!

Build a Business...Using SBI! is How To Build It !!!

Building a Profitable Business Online is What Ordinary People Have Done and YOU CAN TOO!!!

Real people build real businesses and so can you...If you are asking "How?"...SiteBuildIt! is how to do it...

More Traffic: 8 Ways to Attract Followers on Twitter...

I was tweeted an article today from Melinda Emerson (aka @smallbizlady)...The article from her Succeed as Your Own Boss website details eight basic points to remember when trying to gain a following in Twitter that hopefully will be a means for generating some FREE traffic to your website and thus helping your business make money...How to generate free traffic is a hot topic these days, among internet marketers, mainly because of the large numbers of active users on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter...So, it definitely should be of paramount importance to be a savvy social media marketer...Inbound traffic to your website will be the entrance point for marketing to prospects through your Google mail (gmail) account via an autoresponder...Your social media marketing campaign should grow your business by fueling the engine that makes deposits into your Paypal account (provided you have one of course)...Cha-ching...The eight ways to attract followers on twitter are as follows:

1. Use usernames which match your name or business service or other social networking sites.
2. Make sure your bio gives a good reason for people to follow you.
3. Be part of the conversation.
4. Always look to add value.
5. Follow people from within your industry niche and geographic area.
6. The best way to get referrals is to give them.
7. Connect your blog and social networks to your Twitter profile.
8. Purchase banner ads.

Read the details of the eight ways to attract followers here.

Melinda Emerson is a Veteran Entrepreneur, Small Business Expert and Social Media Coach who hosts #smallbizchat on Twitter. #Smallbizchat is the trusted Twitter resource to discuss everything entrepreneurs need to know about launching and running a profitable small business. Melinda’s first book, Be Your Own Boss! How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business 12 Months or Less! is scheduled to be released by Adams Media in early 2010.

For tips to start or grow your small business subscribe to Melinda Emerson’s blog http://www.succeedasyourownboss.com