Internet Marketing, Advertising, Search Marketing, Web Promotion, Web Linking Services... But what do you do first?

As a web site owner and with so many services and aspects involved with internet marketing, you may have asked yourself what should you do first? In our professional opinion... here are the first steps of what you should do:

1. Make SURE that you do all the things that were mentioned on the first page of this tour.

2. Add something to your web site that encourages people to join your email list. You will want to have this in place so that all your future advertising has the added benefit of helping you to build your opt-in email list as well as generating sales for your business. Your opt-in email list gives you a second, third and fourth chance and even more chances to sell to those people.

3. Get your site linked and indexed in the search engines. Use a professional search engine submission service by someone that knows what they are doing. Most simple submission software and search engine submission web sites DO NOT work very well to get the job done. You must be sure to be submitting into the primary databases of the main search engines to get your site included and indexed. Most submission software and free submission sites just email your web site info to the search engines and then expect them to include your web page. That requires the search engine to do the extra work to include your site - which may or may not get done. The professionals know that you need to register your web site data straight into the search engines main and primary database themselves to make sure that a web site is included and indexed.

Being properly linked in the search engines is perhaps the single most important step in launching your internet business. Active buyers visit a search engine and perform a search for the type of products and services they are needing at that moment. (How successful you are in the search engines depend on how well your web site has been coded with your content and keywords.)

Search engines are a friend to your business. They can send you a steady supply of targeted valuable customers without you having to pay for advertising services to get those customers. (One thing to remember though is that search engines are highly competative so if your web site is not ranking well you may have to get your web traffic another way. Affiliate sites have a particularily difficult time getting traffic from the search engines because they are basically duplicate web sites and the search engines will not index exact duplicate sites)