RickyRobi's Internet Marketing Review

I thought I would share a great video talking about how to make money online. This video was posted in my Internet Business Models class that I am taking for my Internet Marketing degree by my instructor.

This isn’t the same old video you have seen a billion times. David Heinemeier Hansson shares some ideas that we don’t often hear of online about starting up a business online. Once you hear it, you realize it is all common sense, so why don’t we hear more of these kind of ideas?

There is some language that may offend some people.

If you have trouble with viewing the video on this blog, you can click the link below to go directly to the video.

David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08

Please share your thoughts on the video. What did you think?

Make Money On Your Articles - Photo Courtesy of iprole

I want to share my favorite article submission sites. I only use two article submission sites right now and they aren’t the traditional places I see most bloggers refer others to such as Ezine Articles.

With these article publishing sites that I recommend, you have a bit more control over what you do with it and they are more like mini sites. You can even add affiliate links to the information you publish to these sites. They also have modules for you to add, so you can refer someone to other resources that you can make a commission from if they purchase something after clicking through.

The two sites I prefer are:
1. Squidoo
2. HubPages

I have tried others, but I either had to pay to use all the good features, or they made it hard or impossible to add any links to the articles. Squidoo and HubPages both have great communities that are very helpful and supportive. They also have revenue sharing for their members. The royalties that you can earn come from the ads on the site. They will share the revenue from those ads with the publishers, which is way cool.

Those are my referral links that you can use to sign up and start creating articles. I could possibly get a commission if you use those links.

Have you has experience with HubPages and Squidoo?

Let me know if it’s worked for you.

What is Article Marketing?

Ok, great question folks. I’m glad you asked. Article marketing is is the concept of submitting an article (it doesn’t have to be long) to different sites that will either publish the information for you or allow you to publish the article to yourself.

What are Backlinks?

Oooh! Another great question. Backlinks are links on one site that lead back to your blog or website.

Back to the main programming.

Article marketing is another way to get links of your blog or website out there on the great big web directing traffic (hopefully) back to your site. This will help generate traffic for your website in two ways.

1. People clicking the links.
2. SEO – search engines ranking your site higher with more links going to your site.

Remember that the more quality and relevant sites that you have your links on, the better Google will rank you and the more likely you will get organic traffic from searches people will do on the search engines looking for information you have.

A Word of Caution!

You shouldn’t go out and post links on as many sites as you can find all at once just to have a bunch of back links. It doesn’t work this way. This is spamming and will get you on the bad side of the search engines. Not to mention it will turnoff any potential visitors.

Again, back to our regular programming.

Do some research and find an article submission site that you would like to use. You do want to use more than one site. That way your information will show up across the web and someone searching for that type of information (and the search engines) will see you as having more authority.

I recommend starting with one site, then when you get familiar with it you can branch out to another. While you are getting familiar with the site, you are also getting familiar with the community on that site. (If you use one that has a community.) When you are involved in the community, you are building relationships with others that will help you along in your journey. They will also visit your site and may keep coming back if they find it interesting.

Since you want the articles to be relevant to your topic, you can talk about your product, service. I write an article about similar information to what I have on my blog. I will write my blog post, and then I go and write a companion piece to the post with a link in the article to my blog. I will choose a small part of the post that I can expand on and instead of maybe writing another post I just create an article. In the article I will add relevant links by choosing words in the article that would be relevant to the blog post and make them a link leading to the post.

You can check out an example from my blog post last week about getting traffic from bookmarking sites and the article I wrote on HubPages about automated bookmarking tools.

How do you use article submission to get traffic to your sites?