A friend of mine, about to get married sent a joke to me entitled “Desperately seeking technical support” totaling 8 Issues. It talked about losing his bachelorhood, girlfriends issues, past relationships. I thought for a moment if they could relate to the challenges of our home internet business in which we always seek answers too. I decided to take up this challenge. Here is his joke (in blue) and my answers (in black)

8 Top Internet Marketing Tips For Your Home Internet Business

Internet MarketingTip #1- Get a Good Web Host

If you are running an Internet Marketing website and have recently changed to another hosting account like Hostgator from your existing account like Hos4Profit, the very first thing you will experience is that after setting up your site on HostGator, neither FireFox or Chrome worked on either of their editors and may just have to contend with using the much hated Internet Explorer. If you are still adamant about changing to Hostgator, you should keep both hosting accounts for the time being. Then when you are satisfied with the performance of Hostgator, then cancel Host4Profit. A note of caution, before shutting down Host4Profit make sure you have completed the files transfer to your new host or you will lose your online marketing website completely. That’s even worse than a system crash!

While the merits of changing hosts maybe justified, do remember to make relative comparisons and not just because one host charges $25 while another $7.95 per month. There is a “limit” to the number of domains a server can handle. Do you know that Host4Profit put no more than 250 accounts (full or multiple) on a server? HostGator I heard put thousands of accounts on a single server in order to off set the costs. Personally I think having thousands of clients on a single server may well lead to slower processing.

Internet Marketing Tip #2 - Choose Good Affiliate Programs

There are just too many affiliate programs out there that allow you to pick the most suitable one to promote. It is important to find one that is of good quality product, which ultimately pays good commission, with a good refund policy. Our recommendation is to choose affiliate programs which are relevant to each other so that the customer may eventually buy more than one product from you on your same website. Many new internet marketers make the mistake of choosing the wrong affiliate program or those that do not compliment one another. Another mistake that some bloggers make is they expect instant commission from affiliate programs to the extent of hopping from one affiliate program to another to find the best performance. You really need to first understand how the affiliate program works, the market conditions and demand for this product to have a good chance of making money from affiliate programs.

Internet Marketing Tip #3-Good Make Money Online Tip

Well after many months of not making money on the new affiliate product that I bought, I checked with my forum buddies as to what may be the reason for the poor sales conversion. After a few rounds of discussion, I eventually found what may be the cause of my problem. The issue was not the affiliate product but the way I promoted it. I had made the mistake of doing cold sale that is pushing too hard on this new product. As soon as I stopped all my aggressive online promotions, I had a sale.

Internet Marketing Tip #4-Avoid Too Good To Be True Schemes

I came across what sounded like a good affiliate program that requires me to pay only $1.00 upfront fee to join. Sounds really good I thought. After one month I had a shock when I realized that my credit card was billed $50.00 by this affiliate company. I found out that this was due to my not reading the fine prints when I joined the affiliate program. If I had, I would have realized that it’s $1.00 for a month long trial period and subsequent months the company will charge me $50.00 unless I opted out. After many exchanges of email with this affiliate company I got my money back. The lesson I learned: If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I then found one excellent free affiliate program called SFI Marketing Group and before long upgraded to Executive Affiliate status.

Internet Marketing Tip #5- Always Back-up Files

I found out about one good threaded comment plugin called Brian’s Threaded Comments Plugin. As threaded comments feature is good at attracting more comments on your blog, I installed it on my blog. Somehow during the installation process, something went completely wrong and that fateful night I made history by having hacked my own blog. Host4Profit recovered my blog within 4 hours, giving their top service something for me to rave about. Well naturally, once bitten and twice shy I had this plugin removed and subsequently found and installed Disquos which also had the threaded comment feature.

Internet Marketing Tip #6-User FireFox Internet Browser

Between Internet Explorer and Firefox, which do you prefer? For me and for most of my friends, it’s Firefox of course. From my experience I’ve found that internet Explorer does not welcome many changes that I make on my blog. For me particularly I’m constantly having problems with loading image files on my sidebar. They somehow break the sidebar too often. I’ve learned to reduce such changes to a minimum to avoid wasting time on fixing such problems in Internet Explorer.

Internet Marketing Tip #7-Google Adsense Alternative

A year ago I had my Google Adsense account suspended by Google just barely after 2 months. The brief reason given as ‘your account prove a risk to other users’ without offering a better explanation or suggesting what ways I should take to eradicate the risk to users, totally frustrated me till this day. Well just one month ago I found an alternative to Google Adsense. I joined as a free member but after one day when I learned that a paid member stands to earn more affiliate commission, I upgraded my CBadPro account to a paid account. That was a good decision as I’ve since had a few sales as well as paid affiliate members who have joined under me.

Internet Marketing Tip #8-Beware The Google Ban

I’ve always followed the Google Webmaster Guidelines all the time and applying only white hat SEO as apposed to Black Hat SEO. You definitely don’t want to get the Google Ban and lose page rank, Serps and everything that you’ve worked so hard for. You really don’t think you’ll get away with trying to game the system and trying to achieve results too fast too soon do you?

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