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So You Screwed Up: Now Take Advantage Of It To Build Your Internet Business

There’s probably not a single successful internet marketer or online business owner who didn’t screw up somewhere along the line with one or more of their online marketing initiatives.

But what marks out a successful internet marketer from a loser is how you respond to failure.

How do you respond when you find that the advertising campaign you just invested a few hundred dollars in produces no results?

What do you do when the 150 affiliates who you added to your team do nothing?

What do you do when the program you have been promoted suddenly morphs into something else, or simply goes belly up?

Here is a 5-step response strategy to help you respond to failure and handle the stuff that goes wrong with your Internet marketing business…

1. Face up to your own mistakes honestly, but don’t brand yourself a “failure”. You may not even be the problem. A failure is someone who and gives up after making just one or two mistakes. Don’t allow yourself to join their ranks.

2. Regard any of your screw-ups as wonderful opportunities to learn something new! Cheerfully admit your mistakes and invest your emotional energy in learning from the process and benefiting from it.

3. Study what went wrong. How did the screw-up occur? Was it carelessness, lack of research, or was it due to circumstances out of your control?

4. Seek a solution, or shelve the project and go back to the drawing board. Ask yourself what you can do to prevent it happening again

5. Squeeze out further benefit from the screw-up by teaching others how to avoid it. Since you have direct experience you will be able to speak with authority and this will enhance your impact as an Internet marketing coach.

You can also write an e-book of make a video course in which you teach others how to avoid all the dreadful mistakes you have made in your progress towards online marketing success.

Viewed properly, the mistakes you make as an internet marketer offer you excellent occasions for making a great leap forward with your Internet business. Do not miss the boat by branding yourself as a failure. Instead, learn to use the techniques that Olympic athletes use to turn the power of belief into a motivator for generating success out of mistakes, failures and unpromising circumstances.

Making Use of Domain Authority to Explode Your Earnings

If you have an already strong domain that carries some authority with Google, then you can make use of that domain authority to either boost newer sites that you own, or leverage the domain’s authority to make money for you by ranking for more and more keywords. So what is domain authority? Well, I’ll get to that in a moment. The first point is pretty well known to most people, since it merely involves linking to other sites you own to give them some keyword authority. But its the second point that is more interesting, if you have the time and energy to put in some work as it can bring some unexpected rewards.

Some domains are niche specific thanks to their URL and the way you’ve already built them. Some are more general, and its these that can be pure gold, if you work them right.

Now, this method involves article writing, or outsourcing if you can afford it, but you will want to edit any outsourced articles to make sure they are good quality. Then you create a few categories that you want to target that encompass a related collection of keywords that bring in fairly high CPC from Adwords if you are targeting PPC, or high traffic with low competition (there are still some of those) if you are targeting affiliate products. Set up your articles within the categories and use good strong keyword relevant URLs to describe each article.

That means you don’t go and call them yourdomain.com/article1.htm or similar. You want maximum on-site SEO here, so if you are targeting the health/fitess niche and your article is about high protein diets, then call it yourdomain.com/high-protein-diets/ and use a sub-folder with that name (high-protein-diets) uploaded to your server with the article in a file called index.htm or index.php if you prefer to use php includes and all the other good labor saving stuff.

It helps to build a header file for each article so that you can replace the site name in the title tag with the title of the article, as well as the h1 tag. These are small things, but all go to creating an article that is fully on-site SEO’d for its main keywords (which you will also include in the text of the article). Google is changing to give more weight to that side of things so it is in your interests to create the strongest articles you can on your authority domain.

The next step is to send some links to the article from places that also carry some domain authority weight, such as social media, press releases, article directories, other blogs, etc… Once your article ranks in the SERPs and starts bringing in search traffic, put up your ads. You can do this faster on an authority domain than you would on a new blog because the domain’s authority will keep it from being slapped, and if you are using Adsense, then you will get relevant ads almost immediately as long as your article is perfectly optimized for your keywords. Now you see why it is so important to get that on-site SEO just right?

Whether you target PPC or affiliate products, as long as you get the traffic by choosing good keywords, you will make money from each article you put up and promote correctly. The domain’s authority will ensure your article ranks well, so don’t stop at one article, get writing and put a ton of them up. Just make them high quality, long, and full of relevant, useful information.

The more articles you create on that domain with links to the article, the more authority you give it, making it ever stronger as you go. The same thing works for targeted domains too. You just write a ton of articles targeting all the long tails in its niche for the same effect. And the best part is that you own the domain so you get to keep 100% of the revenue it generates! Is that cool or is that COOL?!

Is Your Home Based Business Going to Crumble Soon?

Everyone likes to think their business is solid as a rock, I know I do! However, sit back and think about yours for a minute. Is it REALLY as solid as you think it is or could it be gone in an instant?

It’s very difficult for us to realistically look at our own business models and determine if it’s solid or not. That’s why I am writing this post, I’m going to force you to take a good hard and long look at your home business model. Hopefully, after you do that, you will have a pretty good idea of whether or not your home based business is built on a solid foundation or if it’s on the verge of crumbling to the ground.

The best way to do this is with an example…

If you’ve been an internet marketer long enough then you surely remember the “Made for Adsense” (MFA) sites of the past. If you don’t know or remember then just imagine crappy looking sites with a bunch of low quality content on them around a particular topic with the sole intent of getting clicks to their Adsense ads. Internet marketers were making an absolute killing with them for a few years! Then, something tragic happened…

Google decided that all these sites were basically worthless and put an end to them. They got removed from the index and all of the income they were producing for marketers dried up overnight. And I won’t even mention how many people completely lost their Adsense accounts forever. A lot of online home business owners never recovered from that event. It was devastating to thousands of people.

Okay, let’s take a closer look at this business model to show why it wasn’t solid. What did it depend on? It was built on the Google Adsense program… A third party site. In this case, the internet marketer had no control over the program itself, in particular, the Terms of Service of that program. If Google changed the rules, which they did, it could have adversely affected the income of each online home business owner, and it did. In fact, these changes in policy may have been the biggest disaster in terms of adverse effects on home business owners in the history of making money online up to this point. Another similar home based business killer was when eBay banned the sale of digital products.

Do you see what the point is here? I know it’s impossible to predict the future, but you need to look at your home business model and see how much of it is within YOUR control and how much of it is being controlled by a 3rd party site like Google or eBay or Amazon. If more of it is being controlled by other sites, then you have a business model that could fall down around you at any minute.

Once you recognize this, you can then take steps to correct the problem. That might mean you need to come up with a whole new home based business model to ensure you have an indestructible business. Or at the very least it is always a good idea to diversify your business and not have all your money coming from one type of model. You should have multiple income streams.

If you don’t do this then all you can do is hope for the best. But in the ever-changing internet marketing world, I wouldn’t count on anything!

Free Home Business Training or Paid?

Should you find free home business training or pay for the information? This is a debate among internet marketers that will probably go on forever. Which side are you on? Do you think it’s better to pay for your home business training or get it for free? Before you answer that question, you need to know some of the pros and cons of each and that’s exactly what I am going to cover in this post.

It’s not a question of deciding whether or not to pay for something just to save money. There’s a lot more to it than that. Below I have given you a little bit of information about each so you can decide which direction you want to go in, or combine them. There’s no reason why you can’t get some home business training for free and also pay for some of it. Anyway, let’s look a little deeper into this debate…

If you ask 100 people the question, “Which is better, paid or free education” you’ll probably get a split right down the middle on the answers. Nobody can really say what the best road to take is. The reason is probably because there are some big problems with both methods.

For example, let’s start with free home business training. One of the biggest problems with it is knowing where to get it. You can’t just go to a random website and find the latest and greatest information on starting and building a successful home business. You have to go out and really do some searching for the information. That means going to forums, search engines, blogs, or wherever else and getting as much information as you can. You’ll find it all over the place.

And therein lays the problem… There’s no order to this information. It’s kind of like going to a restaurant without getting a menu or a waiter to ask. Unless you go to each table, you really don’t know what they have or what’s good. And of course going around to all the tables is a very time consuming process. Now, imagine if there was a menu that said, “Pick of the day” where you could pick out the chef’s suggestion and a waiter to ask whether it’s really good or not. That would not only save you a lot of time but it would also probably land you a good meal without taking much of a risk.

Having said that, there is never a guarantee that the home business training you pay for is going to be a good one either. There are plenty of crappy ebooks, courses and membership sites out there. And that’s the problem with going the paid route. Sure, you can ask for a refund in most cases, but in the meantime, you’ve wasted all that time going through the lousy material and now you’re back to square one looking for another paid source. Plus, you might not get a refund, and you’d be out of the money that you didn’t really have to spend in the first place.

And then, of course, some paid home business training is very expensive. Even if every internet marketer in the world says it’s the best thing since sliced bread, there may be a very good chance that you just can’t afford it. Then what do you do? And then what would you do if you found out that the same information was out there for free… Provided you could find it?

As you can see, there is no perfect solution here. Learning anything, whether it’s for free or not, comes with a price tag attached to it… You either pay your time, your money, or both.

Ultimately, finding home business training, free or paid, comes down to what’s most important to YOU!