The Internet Marketing Tools that Make Money for You

Internet marketing is a good way make a living online. Through Internet marketing, you can promote affiliate products, sell freelance service or market your website; and in return you can make even more money than you make from your job. But Internet marketing has more competition so you need to be more creative and hardworking.

There are various tools for Internet marketing. These are the tools that can help you market your products successfully. Below are some of the Internet marketing tools available today:

Blog
Blog is one of the powerful Internet marketing tools that most of the online marketers are suggesting these days. Blogging will not cost you anything and it can potentially generate targeted traffic to your page for long term. Starting a blog is free using the blogging platforms like Blogger and Wordpress. Then you can introduce yourself, let other know what you are doing and start posting useful and interesting content that your targeted prospects are interest on. Keep updating your blog with good content to build traffic and creditability.

Once you have blogging for some time, your readers and visitors would have known you and you may then write blog posts about your products or write reviews on the affiliate products that you want to promote to your blog visitors.

Article
Articles are another great way to get exposure for anything that you want to market online. The process of using articles to market your online business isn’t complicated. You start by writing informative articles or ‘how to’ articles that are relevant to your product or business, include your website link in author bio of each of your articles and submit them to online publishing websites.

Your articles mustn’t be written like sale pitches because the online publishing websites and article directories will not accept them. Make your articles easy to read, straight to the point and give some value to the readers. This will make the readers interested to click on your website link to find out more good information from you or know about your offer once they have finished reading your article.

Forum
Whatever product or service you are trying to sell online, there will be forums that are discussing topics related to what you are offering. The forums might not talk about products but what they are discussing and posting have a relation to what you are selling. For instance, say you are promoting online games and they are forums that discuss about how to play online games, the strategies they can use and so on. These forums certainly related to your products. The members of the forums are your potential customers. The question is how to direct these potential customers your site to buy your game products?

Participation is the answer. Joining and participating discussion in the related forums will enable you to establish an image in the forum communities. The key to building a good image in the communities is to contribute useful and valuable information that the members are looking for. Always be helpful in the forums and sharing good tips will gradually build up your name.

Add your website links in the signature line. Since you are providing valuable information frequently in the communities, the members who read you messages will see your link in your signature and probably follow your link to check out what you are offering or to get more useful information from you. So another free targeted traffic source to your business website.

BlinkWeb

This posting is specifically for some of my clients who want a domain name (custom website) but not the technical steps of building a custom website (domain) from scratch.

Blink is the middle ground between having individual websites and a domain / custom website. With Blink you can place multiple websites on one domain website using Blink (free) services. Here’s how.

Step 1
Go to www.BlinkWeb.com & register for a new account

Step 2
Click on home & than Create A New Site


Step 3
What kind of website do you want to create?
Step 4
Create a title for your website












After you click Next you will see this window














Than a new window will pop up and a video will give you basic How To instructions





Step 5
Add your personal content to the website







Step 6
To create a link, click on the green globe like ball on the toolbar. This will bring up a new window. In that window click on website. Enter the www address and click on OK.













Step 7
When you are done click on Save & Review.
The first time you do this you will see this window

• Choose Option 1 if you want a free website
• Choose Option 2 ONLY if you want a custom domain name that IS NOT free.
• Option 3 will download your website to your computer.

>>>>>>I choose -- Option 1 – Free


Choose a subdomain.

What is a subdomain?
A subdomain is an easy way to create a memorable Web site using an existing domain.

Example

Existing domain is www . blinkweb . com
Subdomain is www.cooking.example.com

After clicking Next you will see this