The most common Internet marketing mistake new bloggers make is trying to copy other successful bloggers and work on single aspect of marketing of those successful bloggers. There is no harm in copying the formula of success from successful bloggers but looking at only one aspect of it may not give you the right picture.
People try to reverse engineer the links and keywords of the successful blogger in the niche using Google and then try to get rank for those keywords using those links. Soon they realize that those links are not very easy to get and those keywords are not the kind of keywords they can rank for and conclude that blogging is not right for them. I have seen this happen time and again for so many bloggers especially Indian bloggers.
I have seen many people try to copy Problogger or CopyBlogger or any other such great bloggers and fail miserably because they try to reverse engineer those blogs based on Google only. They try to find number of back links or the keywords that drive traffic for those blogs or may be article count those blogs have and tend to forget the most important thing which is the amount of time those bloggers have spent building relationships and helping others.
Next time you think about becoming like an authority blogger in your niche, try to focus on all aspects of marketing and not only Google. Focus on building relationship with your readers and help them.
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Shabbir! I’m somewhat good at marketing and selling stuff online through eBay. Now I would like to take up this task as a full time business. Any idea on how to get business leads in india market?
Btw, the website is brand new. I don’t wanna add a lot of stuffs since net is filled with infos. I just wanna pose a clean website. How does the website look? Any suggestion?
Leads you can get online by multiple methods. Couple of them that is at the top of my head are.
Website design means something is easy to navigate with some good colors that suits your eye and that should be all you need.
oh thats a nice way though. But i’m thinking about those business people who don’t generally browse still have a physical business for which they may need internet marketing. I’ve given a classified ads for 3 days. And planning to go pamphlets way. Lets see how the result is.
Would love to see the result. I think it is difficult to quantify the ROI with such a promotion though.
That was my assumption too. But my friend has got some big web dev projects through this method though it was not a all success story.
Article writing is obviously the most preferred way, but it may take sometime to write and generate traffic. Hence I keep that for a long term plan by slowly building articles. Purchased articles are mostly a spinned ones or its written in a way thats understandable only for americans. This is only my experience. I’ve to explore other ways for this or hafta spend time writing my own.
Is not PPC an expensive method unless you have a website that ensure traffics are converted into customers? As i’m riding in a tight budget, i’m afraid to try methods. However your suggestions will be definitely tried now or later. If time and space provides, have a look at my site @ http://www.talk2seo.com and tell me if it is worth for PPC.
Karthic, No your site needs lot of work before it can be ready for PPC because you don’t have a landing page for conversion and also you are providing services which is very competitive niche for online marketing.
Thanks for the look, Shabbir. Thats why i’m going for paper ads for short time till site is completely ready for web ads.
Thanks Shabbir for emailing me personally this article and I confess that I am culprit of such copy paste job. I did realize that there is something that is not working for me that works for others and when I talked with Shabbir I realized what was it. I think this should help others as well.
The pleasure is all mine Buddy.