The best place for an absolute beginner internet marketer to start building his or her internet marketing empire would be to build a really basic blog. There are many things that you will learn as part of the blogging process. The things you learn while blogging will apply directly to your internet marketing business and to building niche websites.
You will develop your writing skills by running your own blog. The best way to become a better writer and better communicator is by writing a lot. The more you write, the quicker your skills develop. You will learn some minor technical aspects of this business as well as much of the terminology that gets used.
If you don’t have the ability to host your own blog just yet, then just sign up for a free one over at Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad or Live Journal. If you have no idea what to blog about then just build your blog around your little local community. Tell the world all about your favorite places to eat. Tell visitors to your area where they should go and what they should do while they are in town. That should give you plenty to write about for a while.
Once you have your blog up and running, go find other people’s blogs and leave comments on them. By leaving comments you will engage and make friends with other people online. If you find one blog particularly interesting, then subscribe to the feed for the blog so that you are notified whenever a new blog post is written on that website.
Read about what other people do online with their blogs. That will open your eyes to various opportunities. Just be very skeptical if you start reading about how someone claims to be getting rich with their blog. Most of those people are full of you know what. Skip over those blogs. Stick to reading ones that seem truly believable and trustworthy. If it sounds too good to be true then it is.
Learn about commenting. Learn about Captchas. Learn about widgets, plugins, headers and footers. All of these little details come into play later on as you really dig into internet marketing. Learn about No Follow links versus Do Follow links. Learn how to get comments approved and how to avoid getting yourself put into an Akismet spam filter.
There is so much you will learn by running your own blog that it just makes sense to get your feet wet that way. Plus, this blog will come in handy when you begin creating your money sites. You may decide to write a post about what you are doing. You will learn about hyperlinks and what the word anchor means in relation to links. Learning everything you possibly can about links is essential to success in this business. You will need a very thorough understanding of links to be successful here.
Not all links are created equal. There are high quality links and low quality links. You will need to find out how to get links. You will need to start compiling a list of resources that you can use once you start building your money sites.
Another reason for a true beginner to start with a free blog is because you might screw it up. If you do screw it up royally, you can just abandon it and forget about it. Then the only thing you have lost is your time. You can chalk it up to a learning experience, which is what you should be doing with just about everything for the first year you are in this business. If you actually get the blog to earn some page rank then it becomes a really useful tool in your arsenal of internet marketing weapons.
I can think of no better place for a beginner internet marketer to start than to start with a free blog from one of the major sites that were mentioned. It just makes the most sense. Use it to learn from. Experiment with it. If you screw it up then start over with a second blog. As time goes on you will get better and better at it. Eventually you will see how you can use these blogs in many ways to help you generate steady income and also to help expand your little internet marketing empire.
