There’s not much worse than spending a ton of time building a site, getting ready to drive the traffic and not being able to be found. It seems that Google is becoming more and more a pain in the ass when it comes to indexing your site. With the recent crack down on “review” sites and those that are pushing products with less than “stellar” reputations, it has become increasingly harder to get your site indexed in a decent amount of time.

Here’s a few tips to help:

1. Don’t Put Affiliate Links On It Until It’s Indexed
Of course you are going to have a way to make some money from your site, but hold off on putting those affiliate links on it until it gets indexed. Google prides itself on “user experience” so the last thing they want to see from a new page is someone trying to push their “user” towards a paid product.  Give off the impression that your giving good content and you’ll get indexed faster.

2. Cloak Your Affiliate Links
I used to think that it didn’t matter if you cloaked your links or not. The only people who even know what an affiliate link is are other affiliate marketers. However, it seems like Google has decided to crack down on these links being shown blatantly in websites.  You can do a simple redirect inside your hosting account or you can use something like tinyurl.com to cloak the link. Always cloak through your hosting if you can as it will look like an actual link rather than a cloaking service.

3. Have A Terms Of Service And A Privacy Policy Page
Pain in the ass to have to create these two pages for each site?  Yep, but it’s what lets Google know that your a legit site. They have recently placed a good amount of weight on this so it’s best you comply. You don’t have to go crazy with these two pages on your site. Just a simple run of the mill template will do.

4. Submit Your Rss Feeds To These Three First
There are hundreds of rss aggregators, but the three that usually get the best results are Goldenfeed.com, Feedagg.com and Feedage.com. One of those three usually show up in a few hours.

5. Social Bookmark At Digg And Propeller
Social bookmarking always helps, but I’ve found Digg and Propeller to be the two that will get you indexed the fastest.  Social bookmark your site at these two places and then ping the urls of the bookmarks at Pingoat.com

6. Yahoo Answers
Answer a question in yahoo answers with your link in the resource box. Then take the url of the question and ping it over at Pingoat.com.

While I can’t guarantee that this will get you indexed overnight, it will drastically speed up the process. Most times, as long as your site has any type of decent content on it, you should be indexed within 24-48 hours of doing these 6 things.

While it may seem new or hard at first, you can succeed with internet marketing given you have a great desire to learn.

Sometimes you might find yourself doing things that are counterproductive to your internet marketing success. It’s important to pay attention to these things below and to make sure you don’t fall victim to them.

1. Only download FR.EE products.

You don’t want to have to pay for anything if you can get it for free, right?  Even if you have to spend a lot of time finding the free information. This is a quick way to get information overload and to completely derail your success. Somethings are worth paying for. You just have to decide which ones are right for you.

2. Start off jumping right into the internet marketing niche as your niche of choice.

There is a way to do this, but promoting the latest “flash in the pan program” is not the way. Don’t do this! There is nothing worse than someone trying to get someone else to buy a make money online program when they have not made a dime themselves.

3. Spend a lot of time on forums.

You know you can learn a lot on forums. There’s so much information, but you’ll never be able to read it all. Forums are one of the biggest time wasters you will come accross.

4. Have plenty of ideas and starts, but don’t complete anything.

This is the second biggest downfall of anyone trying to work online. They start things, give it a couple days and decide it doesn’t work. Then they start something else and repeat the process. This leads to a “this is such a scam” attitude and they quit.

5. Jump around to different business models quickly and often.

You tried one method of making money online (for one whole week) and it didn’t work, so now you’re trying another one that’s going to be just the thing.

Obviously I’m being very tongue-in-cheek here, but did you feel just a little uncomfortable regarding some of them?

Turn this around and…

Download only quality information even if it’s not free as it can save you time searching and be exactly what you need right now.

Think about positioning yourself as an expert in a niche you are an expert in and go after the profits there first.

Learning from forums is fine, but you don’t have to read everything.  Limit your time on forums and don’t mistake reading forums as taking action.

Abandon your goal of complete perfection and get your product out there already.  You can’t make any money from it if you don’t go live with it.  You can continue to tweak it even if it is already on the market.

Swallow your excuses. Many a marketer have come from very poor odds and gone on to successfully make mo.ney on the Internet.

BUILD A BUSINESS!!!!  I cannot stress this point enough. You can flounder around and make some money by being someone elses affiliate, but if you do that, your subject to the rules and changes they want to make.  Who’s to say that they don’t one day just pull their product down completely?  Now all the work you have done was worthless!

Build something you own, something you can control, something that if you work at it and build upon it, will bring you a return that you would have never thought possible.  BUILD A BUSINESS!!!!