Obviously this is one of those ‘too good to be true’ moments, but seriously – you can get exposure in the world’s top media, and it is completely free to boot.

We all know the sheer power of Press releases, and how they can be syndicated across thousands of websites overnight if you have a very popular niche, and we know that the power of articles is not to be sniffed at for their SEO properties, and traffic harnessing power. The only problem is, you are competing daily against all of your competitors – which may run into the thousands.

Every time you upload an article or a press release, you are going up against these competitors and their websites, trying your best to get a slice of the action from Google traffic.

Whilst trying to make life really easy for us, and to make us lots of money, Google are usually a little off the mark, and end up hindering us with progress.

They can’t help it – and they do mean well. The problem is, their tools are usually flawed by actual practical use. For example, the Google Adwords Keyword tool is awesome, but also has similar looking tools like the Search Based tool and Adwords sandbox etc. Why confuse things in this way?

Also, whilst we are on the subject of Google confusing matters – why don’t they have built in tools for Adwords campaigns, instead of leaving it to part time coders who knock out these little tools whilst sat in their bedrooms playing Warcraft?

Content is King – and there is no denying that the power in Internet Marketing lies with those who are able to write effective content for their sites, and those who can write compelling presell articles which engage the reader enough to click the affiliate links within. Before now, anybody who couldn’t write articles or blog content had to outsource this task to professional writers, which could easily eat into profits.

What is worse, is people often purchase content spinning software for either a monthly fee, or a big one-off payment, and then end up churning out articles that might not necessarily make sense to the reader. A 60% article may get you past Google’s unique content algorithm, but the visitor to your site knows the difference between a well written article and a spun article.

Ezine articles is a phenominally powerful place to advertise your websites, and affiliate products. With millions of daily views, the site is so powerful that Google will often rank their pages higher than fully equipped websites that are supposedly authority sites. You can also find articles on just about any subject, that are both well written, and quite detailed.

This is usually down to Ezine’s fairly strict policy, and well educated editors. Article marketing can explode your SEO methods, and is great for any kind of niche. But have you been doing it all wrong?

The first thing you need to understand with this method, is that it is very simple to do, and anyone can do it. Secondly, you also need to know that you will never need to write another article as long as you use this method. Also, to my knowledge, nobody else is selling or marketing this method – so you have got a very good little trick to add to your arsenal for free!

If you have never explored the benefits of a blog competition, then now really is the time.

I have started seeing more and more of my competition and colleagues using this tactic to reel in new visitors on a DAILY basis, and it is now becoming a viral thing.

The thing with a competition is – you need people to enter it. Not only that – you need something to give away. So let’s take some case studies, and see if we can’t cover some good niches.

Google Insights is a very underused tool indeed. It is very rare that you will see it mentioned on major internet marketing forums, and yet it provides a wealth of information. To get the best from it, you need to be signed into your Google account, and thats pretty much the only stipulation preventing you from using it to full effect.

There are a few tricks you can use to leverage Google Insights, and with the information you gather, you can start putting content on your sight that is going to get you dedicated readership. Your first step is to start searching for your niche keywords. Visit http://www.google.com/insights/search/# and you will see various search options at the top, enabling you to enter a search term, then Filter by year etc.

Facebook has had a meteoric rise in popularity with internet marketing, and there are now ebooks abound for tapping into it’s many ways of advertising and increasing traffic to your sites and products.

One of the best ways, as always, is PPC on Facebook. You can expect to see thousands of geo and demographically targeted visitors hitting your page for much less than Google Adwords or similar PPC methods.

In fact, if done right, Facebook advertising can be one of the most cost effective paid advertising methods available to you and when you consider that Facebook has over 150 Million "Active" users, that is a huge potential pool of prospects for your business.

The worst thing any new internet marketer will ever face is the blank-page feeling when it comes time to build your first site – and you haven’t got a CLUE what niche to attack. Sure, every guide always throws together a quick ‘niche hunting’ step by step for good measure, but how do you find the main niche?

What usually happens, is you will read a guide that tells you how to build quick autoblogs for example, and at the end, or in the step by step for niche hunting, they will say – “...now look at the most popular niches, and drill down to a long tail keyword”. Something like that.

Well, how do you come up with the main niche, without it being already over-run with Google Sniper or Clickbump sites? The truth is, you can’t. However, that being said, you don’t necessarily have to worry about those niche sites – only the good ones, who will plug away at backlinks and authority blog posts for pagerank link juice etc. There’s plenty of room for everyone in a niche if you hit the right keyword, and your competition isn’t all professional web developers.

The title itself is a little cryptic, and that has mainly to do with the fact that apps are still in their infancy as far as the mainstream internet marketers are concerned. If you are not sure of what an app is, or what it could do for your business, then this article will shed some light on the whole subject for you.

Occasionally we are faced with a dilemma in business. We are faced with a choice of learn or don’t earn. Diversification means your business is never stagnant, and will always reach new clients. These clients may currently reside in different markets – but you can certainly tap in at will.

An often overlooked service in Social Media is Ning.com. As social platforms go, this site is pretty incredible, and is used by internet marketers to full effect, because it is so targeted and easy to advertise your products and services – in a very clandestine way.

Whilst not a free service, they do offer a very clever twist on social marketing. Ning has over 300,000 active networks, and each network can contain thousands of users. The networks are run by individuals who provide media rich mini-sites, which can feature anything from Facebook integration to streaming media.