Well good news and bad news.

First the good news (I always like to hear good news first)

No longer am I languishing on page 4 or 5. I am happy to report that for a couple of my keywords the Internet Marketing Newbie Diary is on page 1 of Google ready and waiting to be a resource for all of those newbies out there searching for good information.

Here’s what happens when I type my keyword into the Google search box

See down here at result no. 8 on page 1

Visitor rates are gradually increasing (it’s good to know that someone is actually reading my stuff)

Bad news – no optins yet for my free report “10 Newbie Mistakes to Avoid” but that will happen all in good time.

I have started working on an affiliate site and I have something on page 1 of Google for that keyword too.

All in all a good weeks work!

There are 3 basics things that you need to know – each is a big topic in it itself but if you focus on the fact that you just have to learn 3 things then you won’t hit the overwhelm button (we could also call this the eject button)

I have already hinted at the 3 things but here they are again:

The 3 Basics of Internet Marketing

1. Traffic

2.  Database

3.  Conversion

Once you have mastered these 3 internet marketing basics you will definitely not be an internet marketing newbie.

1. Traffic

Traffic is the name given to the visitors to your website.

Imagine an advertising billboard on the roadside. The number of people driving by who see your advertisement depends on which roadside your billboard is on. Read more »