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Hi Slim49z,
To echo what has already been said, don't be discouraged by lack of results. As long as you are taking massive and consistent action the results will come.
Unfortunately, the majority of people who buy internet marketing ebooks never get past the point of getting ready to get started. You have to just live with the fact that you don't have all of the answers yet. But you don't need all the answers to make money or to get started.
Start with what you know you can do, and keep doing it. There are tons of simple things you can do to get going and learn along the way. Start a blog, it's free and fool-proof at blogger.com. Write some content ... every day at first. Put Adsense or affiliate links on your blog.
Get traffic to your blog. Create a signature in your profile for this forum with a link to your blog in it. Sign up for trafficswarm.com and get free traffic. Submit your blog link to the search engines and directories.
If you are still struggling to find a niche to begin targeting, go to Wordtracker.com and sign up for their weekly Top 300 Keywords email. It's free. The latest one arrived in my inbox half an hour ago.
#2 on the list is "Game cheats for PS2" with 4760 searches in the last 48 hours. "PS2 game cheats" is at #10.
#4 is "music lyrics". 4394 searches in 48 hours. And "Lyrics" appears in keyphrases at #28 and #71 too.
There's bound to be a niche in there somewhere, or at least some inspiration.
There are loads of musician, bands and celebrity names in the list too. Why not start a fan site for one of your favourites?
It's too easy to fall into the trap of believing that you have to promote other internet marketing products or schemes to make money on the internet. The competition in that sector is massive, maybe too much if you're just starting out. Find a less competitive niche to start on, there are plenty out there.
Another thing to try is to pick a site that you know is making money and use it as a model to follow. I did this just recently by using one of Holly's sites as my model. I built mine around a completely different niche, but followed Holly's example. It's a really simple 10 page site.
My site is just two months old but is already listed in Google (all the site's pages), MSN, Yahoo, Netscape, Ask Jeeves, Alexa and several directories too. It is getting natural traffic from the search engines for over 60 relevant keyphrases and is already ranking as high as #4 in Google for my main keyphrase, against half a million other sites. I even outrank the affiliate program I am promoting for that keyphrase! It is also making adsense income daily. There are several more lucrative keyphrases I am looking to rank better for so I am still writing content for the site.
For now, take a hard look at what you are doing on a daily basis that is helping to move you forward. Get out of the "learn, learn, learn" cycle and into a "work, work, analyze, amend" pattern. Keep doing something positive every day and keep coming back here for help and inspiration. That way, by the time the gaps in your knowledge fill in you'll already be making good money.
-Mark.
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