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Internet Marketing
By Greg Arnold

You just spent two hours learning how to use your “easy to use” web page builder.  You found all the fancy gadgets it has to offer and you’ve used every one of them.  For good measure you’ve thrown in a couple googly-eyed animations to attract attention.  Now you’re ready to become wealthy as an internet marketer. 

You excitedly send all your friends to your site, knowing they will praise your web mastery and sign-up for your program.  One by one they look it over and DON'T call you.  The next day you call them.  If they have caller-ID, they don’t answer the phone.  If not, they, in the kindest way possible tell you they just aren’t interested.  You ask them what they thought of the website....“Did I like the website?  Aghhhhmmmm, well,…..YES HUN, I'LL Be RIGHT THERE…..I’ve got to go, I’ll talk to you later (I've got to get caller-ID installed).” 

This happened to me too.  We all go through this.  It only took me two years from there to get to the stage were I understood what I wanted from the Internet, and then two more to learn how to get it.  In this Greg’s MLM Tips Newsletter, I am going to help you shorten that journey.  Here are a couple things to consider when venturing into web MLM marketing. 

1. While you can hire people to build a pretty good looking web page for you for fairly low dollars ($200 or less), chances are, because they don’t know flip about MLM, your page won’t sell anything.
2. 60% of the web pages on the Internet aren’t indexed in any search engines.  Of the ones that are, 99.999% of them aren’t indexed high enough to bring in any business.

 Knowing these two things in advance can save you a lot of time.  Most would-be Internet marketers never really get beyond these two things.  If you successfully build or have built a site that sells and then manage to get it listed in the top 30 (better yet the top 10) listings on Google, you are going to become a successful online marketer.  Google, www.google.com controls over 35% of the total search traffic in the world with over 250 million searches a day.  Many top search engines use rules similar enough to Google's that a high ranking on Google will also mean high rankings elsewhere. 

SO here is the first thing you must do.  Learn to build professional looking web pages or find a web builder you can work very closely with so the content of your pages will effectively sell your products and opportunity.  There are many online classes you can take and many websites out there that can give you great tips.  I know this may look like a huge task, and it is.  However, if you want to be really good, you must pay the price.  That price will either involve your time or your money. 

The second thing you must do is learn to play by Google’s rules better than your competitors.  Believe me this is the best advice I have given you so far or will give you in the rest of this article.  I have pages of my own and that I have build for others that control as many as 7 out of the first 10 spots on Google in the keywords we targeted.  These sites bring in a steady stream of highly motivated and interested prospects every day.  Most offers I have seen on the Internet that promise you high search rankings, simply don’t deliver.  If you spend the time to learn how to play by the rules better than your competitors, you will win the search race most of the time. 

Third, once you have built a professional page that sells and you have it ranked where you want on Google, start building feeder sites.  What do I mean by this?  Feeder sites are websites that are industry related that you put up as a service to your fellow networkers.  These sites also bring a steady stream of traffic to your main site.  A feeder site may be a leads generation site that anyone can use but it carries ads and links back to your main site.  It might be a top ten listings site that, of course, lists your opportunity as the #1 rated opportunity.  It might be a safelist site, or a classified ads site or many other possibilities.  If you use your imagination you can come up with lots of ideas for feeder sites to increase traffic to your main site.   Yes you may have to invest in some software and programmer time.

Fourth, develop your own newsletter.  Newsletters build your name on the internet, and they build sales for you over time.  Again, you may have to develop some writing skills.  Do it!  This isn’t a game of instant wealth and success.  This is a business that you get better at over time.  Newsletters with thousands of subscribers dramatically effect your bottom line.  The more industry serving they are, the greater your subscriber list will be.  Again all this takes time, but it is worth it. 

Last but not least….Start now, don’t wait until next Thursday or next year to start getting better.  If it takes you four years to learn how to be an effective Internet marketer, just do it.  There are millions and millions of new people joining the Internet each year.  So what if it takes you some time to learn to be great.  I am writing to tell you, it is worth the effort.  You can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars over he rest of your life by learning these skills.  You don’t have to go back to college to learn them, but you do have to become a student of the Internet.  Is there more to learn after this?  Yes there is, but start with the basics.  As you gain experience, many more wonderful and profitable things will be revealed to you.  

Greg Arnold is the author of “The Multi-Level Mangler In King Arthur’s Court.”  He built an organization of over 11,000 distributors and $30,000 per month income in less than a year.  In addition to his networking activities, Greg consults with MLM companies and is a world class speaker and trainer.  Greg has also built web selling systems for some of the top network marketers in the industry who are now enjoying top spots on the world's top search engines.  Greg can be contacted at greg@greg-arnold.com