Carlo Selorio’s Internet Entrepreneur’s Journey

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 All successful Internet marketers understand that they must be constantly focused on growing their online business. While making passive income is certainly a goal to strive for, it just doesn’t happen overnight and doesn’t happen at all for many Internet marketers. That’s because trends are constantly changing and in order to be successful, you and your site must change with them. For example, you’ve likely heard the term Search Engine Optimization or SEO, which simply means making sure the search engines find your site by optimizing your site so that it ranks as high in the search engine results as possible.  While SEO is important, it certainly isn’t the only aspect of marketing to be concerned with and besides, just because your site is optimized this month, doesn’t mean it will be next month.

Driving traffic to your site or your blog is another phrase every Internet marketer is concerned about, and rightly so. But you must go further than that. What is this "traffic" going to do once they get to your site? Are you targeting your traffic or are you just trying to drive any old traffic to your site? The point is, unless you are working toward driving targeted traffic to your site, you can have a traffic jam on your website and still make no sales. For example, if you are selling specialty dog food and your visitors are looking for dollhouses, how long do you think they will spend at your site? Less than 2 seconds, which is all it takes to click the big red X or press the back button on their browser.

It’s important for you to know who your target audience is before you try to sell to them. Who is your product meant for and how will you find these people? If you’re selling specialty dog food, your target audience is obviously dog owners. Don’t stop there though. What kind of dog do they own? Is this the kind of dog food owners buy to pamper their pooches or is it the kind of dog food their dogs need to eat in order to stay healthy? See what I mean?  You absolutely must know who you are marketing to BEFORE you start marketing. Once you know your target audience, you’ll know where to find them.

Once you find them, treat them like royalty. Over promise and over deliver are two things I always tell people. Always deliver more than you promise and give them more than they ever expect. This is how you keep a customer for life. Competition is keen and if you don’t give your customers what they want, someone else will. Most businesses depend on repeat customers in order to succeed. Give your customers a reason to come back and you’ll build a loyal customer base. Growing an online business takes time, but with a little effort, no, make that a LOT of effort, you can build the online business of your dreams!
 

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I’ve been missing in action since I’ve been focusing more on building my own network of Blogs, helping out with the house duties and taking care of Baby Ethan.

I’ve been recommending Simpleology for sometime now, I still think its the best course on how to get things done faster and smarter be it running your own business, getting more productive at work or just improve in yourself, its still hands down the best course to do.. plus its free!

For those that don’t believe that Mark Joyner is a personal friend of mine, I’ve spent time chatting about business, life and over all well being about yourself with Mark. I’ve even interviewed him about product creation last year.

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Photo by Mazda6(TOR) Its been awhile now since I’ve updated my blog with having baby Ethan born, I’ve decided that its best to take care of him and let me wife rest after going through 18 hours of labour and then having to through Ceasarian Section. I’ve also been slowly releasing niche blogs and will build up my own network of blogs since I’ve finally found a place to get top notch writers.

Ready for the tips to getting your site listed in google…

Getting listed on Google can be real tough sometimes, than it can also be fairly simple if you know the way to go about it. We are going to give you three simple ways to enhance your changes of getting listed on Google in as fast as time that is possible. just like anything many variables can affect this, but for the most part these three tips will give you a head up on your competition.

Google refers more traffic to sites than any other search engine out their. this means getting listed and listed high can mean a boatload of traffic to your web site and fairly quickly. First thing first their are no guarantees that Google will list your site even with these three tips. in fact many pages never ever get listed with Google for various reasons.

Step 1

The first and easiest way to get listed is to submit directory to them. It’s a pretty simple process by just going to their web site and clicking on the link. Google’s robots will crawl your site, but their is no guarantee when your site will be indexed if it’s indexed at all. it’s just how the process of how Google works.

Step 2

Grab a link from a Google site already indexed will also make is a lot easier to get listed on Google. Sites that are already listed with your links on it means Google will crawl those links which means they will head to your site as well. Actually this is Google preferred way to index site. This means it’s probably the easiest way to get listed quickly. o0f course the source of your link also has something to do with that too. Make sure you get your link listed on good sites and getting listed will be a lot easier. You can either pay a webmaster to put your links on their site but strictly speaking, google has banned a lot of sites from selling pagerank, so beware not to break google’s rules when you are paying for links.

Step 3

One of the other ways and my third tips is go to the Yahoo directory and the Open directory project. The main reason you submit to these directories is they have a contract that anything listed in them gets indexed by Google. This means no matter what your site will be listed. These are the three easiest ways to get your site listed and probably the quickest way too. Getting listed in Google takes time so don’t fret if your not listed right away. If you follow these simple rules than you will have no problem in getting listed. The key is to remember it takes time and don’t get discourage.

Google is one of the most important search engines that you need if you want lots of organic traffic(not paying for it). Getting listed is key to getting more traffic and having people find your site or blog. Follow these tips and you should see inclusion in Google in no time. Don’t forget that content is king and have plenty for the search engines to look over. This is a key that many people forget about and it hurts their rankings. Google is the Cadillac of search engines so treat them right and they will treat you right with more traffic to your sites and blogs.

To your Success,

Carlo Selorio

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Aaron Wall Blogging DoshDosh Internet Marketing Maki SEO Speed Linking Saturday

I missed last weeks Speed Linking Saturday because I didn’t have access to the internet doing a lot of running around for our first baby(I think today is day - fingers cross). This week will only be three great links that I really enjoyed reading. I the posts that I collected is focused more on SEO and how to go about it properly.

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Aaron Wall the creator of SEOBook put together a nice post along side Giovanna Wall that can help all bloggers utilize SEO properly. http://www.seobook.com/bloggers

Novice SEO talks about helping your SEO by Multi Site Network… http://noviceseo.com/boost-your-seo-with-a-multi-site-network/

I interviewed Maki last week and posted it in this blog a few days ago. I thought that this post will really help everyone who procrastinate trying to be perfect their work. http://www.doshdosh.com/why-you-shouldnt-be-a-perfectionist/

Have a great weekend and hopefully I’ll give you the good news about our baby!

Cheers,

Carlo Selorio

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I’ve been busy lately going to a few hospitals with my wife two days overdue since our baby still hasn’t come out. Thankfully, everything is ok and as planned we’re still hoping for a natural delivery. I’ll post my interview podcast with Yaro Starak in a few days since I’m having problems with editing the audio and time constraints with our baby.

Are you ready for my tips to profit with a blog???

Blogs are one form that can do many different things and that includes making yourself some money with Internet marketing. Their are various ways to do this and were going to look at three of the most popular ways to make a profit with your blog. Affiliate programs are probably the most popular way to make profit on the Internet. An affiliate program is where you sell someone else’s product and in return you can get anywhere from 50-70 percent of the selling price in return. Most of these affiliate programs pay once a month or twice monthly. Some of these products will consist of e-books, software and membership sites. Their are many different ways to promote them with a blog. One of the most popular ways is through a review of the product. As people become familiar with your Internet marketing blog they value your opinion and will be more likely to buy from you than anyone else.

Pay per click advertising is another way to drive traffic to your blog and make sales from it. Pay per click is where you put so much money in an account and bid on keywords associated with your ads. When people click on these keywords of your ads then money is taken from your account. Each click gives you a visitor who is interested in what you have to sell. These are targeted visitors which means they are more likely to buy from you. Another part of pay per click advertising is Adsense. Adsense is where you are paid for visitors who come to your blog and click on ads that our on your blog. Using either option can drive a lot of traffic to your site and make you a good chuck of money.

Sponsored and Banner advertising to your blog is probably the most stable and profitable blog that can be passive recurring income. There are authority bloggers like John Chow who has made over $27,000US in November. You can see John Chow’s November Income here. John actually breaks down dissects and categorically shows you where he earned his money. Once you get the traffic and readership in your blog, I’m sure you can comfortably live off your blog.

Now if you want to create long term profit with your blog than search engine optimization is the best way to go about it. This means you will be using search engines and placement of your blogs to get them the best possible position on them. Traffic is the lifeblood of your blog so spending time on search engine optimization will probably be the best investment you will ever make. The more work you put into it the more you will get out of it. Their are many ways to make money with a blog, but if your in for the long run than search engine optimization is something you should study and learn as much as you can. Believe me in the long run it will be worth all the time and money you spend on it.

As you can see blogs can make you money if you go about it properly. The key is to take your time and learn as much as possible. Many blogs make their owners thousands of dollars a month. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it can happen. Follow a proven plan and your Blog could be the next big thing that people are talking about. Blogs are the future so embrace it and make some good money at it.

To your Success,

Carlo Selorio

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