Internet Marketing - The Tortoise And The Hare

Want to know the secret to successful online marketing? It's not what you might think!

The secret is simply to do the things that are proven to work. Don't only do them once, do them again and again and again. It's not rocket science.

So if it's that easy why do so many people fail to make any money online?

Simply because thay cannot wait, and I am as guilty as the next guy in that respect.

We see screenshots of amazing earnings followed by a sales pitch promising to show us the secrets to achieving that success! So in the hope that our path to overnight success is a just a couple of clicks away, we spend our $97, or $197, or $497 and start on a completely different path to the one we were on when we woke up that morning.

Usually, it'a path that sends us on a totally new route in a new direction. So how can you expect to get to your target destination if you constantly keep changing direction? Remember the tortoise and the hare story? Sometimes travelling slowly down the right constant path will get you where you want to go faster than rushing around like a mad hare!

To that end, here are the proven strategies that you need to follow:

1. Niche Research
2. Thorough Keyword Research
3. Build a small Niche Site around your research
4. Get links to your site, then get more links to your site
5. Repeat the process for another site

In a nutshell that is all you need to do, but you need to do it over and over again. All you really need to understand is basic seo and apply it.

I've had all my success online to date following that strategy. When I've strayed and used PPC marketing or Social bookmarking I've had little to no success.

Find profitable niches, do your keyword research thoroughly, create content around your keywords, optimise your pages and then concentrate on getting links, lots and lots of links. It's simple, it's boring, but it works!

The only money I'd advise anyone to spend on internet marketing are on the following:

1. A professional keyword research tool 2. An automated article distribution service 3. Membership to a blog network 4. A content outsourcing service

A decent keyword research tool is essential if you're to find keywords that will bring you free traffic. An article distribution service and blog network membership will give you the ability to easily get hundreds of targeted backlinks to your new sites over time.

Choose the right keywords and you can guarantee ranking highly every time! As you start to make money, spend it on outsourcing to speed up the building of your niche empire.

Then, just keep repeating the process. Do the niche and keyword research yourself, and outsource as many of the content creation and link building tasks as soon as you can afford to. You'll be amazed how quickly you can grow your monthly revenues!