Don't Fail With Internet Marketing, Web Marketing Failure Guide, Success Tips

Due to the lack of proper and user-friendly information, we paid a higher price than we should have had we had the benefit of the information that we're now giving you. As an affiliate marketeer, and a "newbie" ourselves in this area of the Internet, we learned some expensive lessons - some we already knew and are just passing on.

DON'T: Promote Sites on PPC engines that have Pop-Up windows.

We were interested in creating Pay-Per-Click ads to drive traffic to an affiliate page. We created our list of keyword phrases (takes time). We spent more time creating test ads that would rotate on the PPC search engines. All was well for a couple of days. We made one sale. Then the ads were pulled by the editorial staff of the PPC company. We had spent time and MONEY in vain.

DON'T: Try to market sites by using Craig's List.

I bought a $400 program that supposedly allowed me to list ads on Craig's List across the country, multiple times, ongoing, automatically. I was asked for up-sells on a regular basis. The forums were no help. They do not want to give away their secrets. Craig's List consistently pulled my ads and my time and money was wasted, leaving me very frustrated.

DON'T: Leave your hop-link or affiliate link exposed to public view.

Savvy Internet people will substitute their own userID for yours and take away commissions you would have received. Ignorance is costly. Our sales improved tremendously after we discovered we needed to hide our affiliate identity. But it took awhile before we discovered this secret, costing us time and money.

We found the Stealth Cloaker to be an excellent program to convert our affiliate links to more "acceptable" reader links. It's easy and very efffective!!

DON'T: Use free Internet hosting.

Banner ads will be put on free hosting sites that will mark you as an amateur. You will have no control over the ads shown on your site. Get your own domain name (www) through a reputable hosting company.

I highly recommend SiteSell.com - it is a full-bodied hosting company that also incorporates step-by-step effective web design for the novice. Follow their steps and they'll deliver a profitable web business.

DON'T: Build your keyword list from your website.

Choose your targeted keywords first and then build your website content around them. Wordtracker is a subscription based site that actually reveals statistics on keywords searched for on the Internet.

This is your base and should be your starting point. Failure to do this will result in low click-through rate and a lower quality score with Google and Yahoo.