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If you are a network marketer or an internet marketer then it is in your best interest to learn how to run your business online successfully. Unfortunately there are many, many marketers that try to follow what every affiliate programs tell them to do… which isn’t necessarily bad, but it’s generic. They are telling the same thing to every marketer that signs up. The banners are the same, the links are the same… if they offer you a site, the site is the same.

You need to stand out and educate yourself about marketing and your industry. You can be the leader of your industry no matter what industry you are in. The most important thing you can do right now is learn how to work the internet. This means that it’s time for you to educate yourself on building a website, what SEO is, the importance of backlinks, and promoting yourself through articles.

First, you need a website. It doesn’t matter if the programs you joined offered you a website, you need one of your own. There are two reasons for this:

1. Anyone who is anyone has a website and a domain. There are a number of free places that you can go and build a website. Get a domain, even if all you use at this time is www.yourname.com. This brings in the second reason, internet presence.

2. Internet presence – no one is going to give that to you, you have to go after it. You want people to know you, not your products. People aren’t going to do business with you because of the product you are selling, they are going to do business with you because of you.

So you have the website, now you need to spend some time and learn about SEO. That stands for search engine optimization. The content that you are going to put on your site needs to be not only what your potential customers are looking for, but what the search engines are looking for. This usually has to do with keyword density. Spending an hour or so finding what are the hot keywords for your industry and then making sure they are strategically placed throughout your website is essential.

This is where article writing and content come into play. It is in those articles where you are going to address issues that pertain to your products and talk about them as if you are an expert. You not only want people to visit your site, you want them to read the content and go “Hey, this person really knows what they are talking about,” and click they are either joining your mailing list, asking about the business opportunity or buying a product.

Now you need to market yourself and your site. The best way to do this is through back links. This is when other people are linking to your site because of the quality of information you have to offer. You can use free software like Comment Kahuna that will do a search for you of all the sites that match the keywords you are looking for and help you post a comment on those sites with a link to your site.

Granted this is simple a brief overview of what it is you need to educate yourself on if you really want to be a successful marketer. Create a strong internet presence.