Internet Marketing for Beginners

Affiliate marketing has become extremely popular over the past several years. This growth has been plagued at times by affiliate link theft. Link theft occurs when a fellow affiliate marketer deletes the part of the link that identifies you as the affiliate and replaces it with their own affiliate ID.

To stop this potential loss of profit, affiliate marketers must find a way to hide their affiliate ID. To do this, most marketers employ the help of a software script that allows them to cloak, or hide, their affiliate link.

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The latest Internet craze is web 2.0 style social media websites. Surfers are looking for the next great web site that allows them to network with their friends. Likewise, Internet marketers and webmasters are hoping to create the next MySpace or YouTube style site.

But there’s a problem. How can you compete with the nine-hundred pound gorillas that are scattered across the web? They already have a large following that provides them with tons of traffic every day. No one will even notice an exact copy of those web sites, let alone visit them.

The answer is to create a smaller version of the site to cater to a specific niche market. Yes, that is where social media is heading now. Niche social media sites are sprouting up everywhere and in every market.

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While article submission isn’t anything new to the world of SEO, many people STILL don’t do it… and for good reason. It takes an extremely long time to do manually.

I had tried article submission at one point, but after I finally found a few article directories to submit my articles to, and then after manually copying and pasting my information into the required textboxes on each submission site, I quickly got tired of the whole process.

Then I found Article Submitter.

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You probably know that web directory submission is a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website.

There are thousands of web directories across the internet. Some are free to submit to but others, like Yahoo, only accept paid submissions. Paying to be included in web directories can be very expensive. If you don’t have a large marketing budget, where could you go to find the free ones?

Problem solved!

Directory Submitter is a great new directory submission software created by Brad Callen’s company, Bryxen Software, Inc.

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