Golden Rule No.1: Begin with Market Research to Select a Niche Market

The essence of keyword research is this:

• determine that there is at least 20,000 and above searches each month on Google for your niche market;
• ideally, the number of search results such be less than the number of searches. Although this is rare, its worthwhile finding such “gold mine” niches;
• determine whether the “competition” is beatable. Analyze existing niche products and adword advertisers in your niche.

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One of my favorite features of Internet marketing is the ability to get really good quality traffic data for analysis. Because the process flow of every sale (or non-sale) happens online, you can track it.

One of my favorite tools for tracking the conversions of my squeeze pages and sales pages is Google Analytics. To be precise, I like using the “Funnel Visualization” filter. It allows you to visually see how many people enter your landing page for example, and you can know where they come from. See the diagram below as an example. You can see if they take action to move onto the next page or exit the page. If they exit, you know where they go to as well. The best part is, its FREE!

This tool really allows you to analyze your site and make improvements if necessary. To learn more about setting up Goal Settings in your Google Analytics, use this link: Setting Up Goals in Google Analytics

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I’ve been hard at work to complete my next Internet project. Introducing…

The “IM” is short for “Internet Marketing” and “Buzz” because you get paid by cutting and pasting a few lines of code to share the videos for free!

This site will officially launch on April 25, 2008. If you want a SNEAK PEAK and get a head start promoting the affiliate program - visit this link:

IMVIDEOBUZZ BACKSTAGE PASS

On the face of it, this is a simple membership site. The lead in offer is this:

However, the MAIN product is actually over 315 detailed Camtasia videos of almost everything you need to learn about Internet Marketing! Pretty awesome eh?

But on this post, I wanted to share what I believe is the MOST powerful feature of this project. The main feature is the “Affiliate Promo Tools”! This project allows ANYONE to make money online by giving away FREE Internet Marketing videos. I pay MORE than 50% commission on all levels of purchase - the front end, mid-end and back-end offers. This is a rabid niche and you can easily find people who want video tutorials online.

What I spent the MOST time on in this project is the affiliate promotion tools. I’ve not seen any other site that offers more resources, tools and tutorials for this kind of membership site. Just going through that section is an eye-opener for anyone who wants to know how else to promote online. You must see it.

Register to check it out today. If you are interested to get a JV Pass, let me know too.

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Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social video sharing websites:

1. First step is to create a video that is relevant to your target market group. Its getting really easy to produce video content these days. You can either use a WebCam and record a video directly from YouTube’s site or use free software like CamStudio to record your desktop computer screen while you talk over the recording.
2. Write a detailed description and keyword tags about your video and how your video is useful to others. Think in terms of your viewers. What kind of description will be inviting for the reader to visit your site?
3. Add your affiliate link/ website address into the description bar. To make the link clickable in Youtube, make sure you include the “http://”. For example add “http://yourdomain.com” in your description. Alternatively, you can add a URL link as a text title on your video. This can be done easily with Windows Movie Maker (free with Windows) or Apple iMovie (free with Macs).
4. Search for and add friends with similar interest (do not SPAM others). Join groups with common video topic interests and genuinely interact with others.
5. Encourage others to view your video. Embed in on your blog, invite others to view and rate. The more people who view your video, the higher it gets ranked by the video sharing service. You can even try and rank higher by encouraging video comments and other awards/ ranking systems given by the video sharing service. (e.g. most viewed, most commented, most favorited, most linked..etc)

Here’s a massive list of social video sharing sites ranked by Alexa Ranking and includes Google Page Rank information:

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Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social bookmarking websites:

1. First step is to create a bookmark with your affiliate link. You can safely assume that each bookmark you create will be seen by at least 10 to 100 people initially. So do the math, creating 50 bookmarks on the sites below could get you 500 to 5,000 links/ visitors and beyond for free!
2. Write a detailed description about how your site is useful to others. Think in terms of your viewers. What kind of description will be inviting for the reader to visit your site?
3. Search for and add friends with similar interest (do not SPAM others). Join groups with common bookmarking interests and genuinely interact with others.
4. Use many and yet relevant “tags” for each post. Other people using the bookmarking site will search for content based on tags, titles and description
5. Encourage others to bookmark your link. The more people bookmark or rank your link, the higher it gets ranked by the bookmarking service.

Here’s a massive list of social networking sites ranked by Alexa Ranking and includes Google Page Rank information:

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