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Technology is mandatory for any online marketing small business, but often beginning internet marketers don’t have a good knowledge of the technologies required or how it will impact their establishment.

The following ten suggestions should help you get properly launched. As much as you possibly can, you should try to create systems and processes that work together seamlessly, and are up all of the time to take care of customers and prospects.

Develop an automated system if you want to make your work easy and your checking account healthy.

1. Computer & Printer

If you’re going to do internet marketing, you’ll need a computer - preferably one of your own, either a desktop version or a laptop. You’ll need one with a lot of memory and speed. A broadband connection is faster than dial-up. You’ll also need a printer. If you can, get both with wireless capabilities.

2. Your Unique Domain Name

Be certain to obtain a website name that belongs to you, so that you can make a start~start} to establish your own brand. Moreover, many providers will not allow you to reference an affiliate website, but only a website name that you personally own. A good domain name will be concise (30 characters or less), meaningful when either heard or seen, and representative of your product or service. The most popular names end in “.com” and such names are ideal for many internet marketing businesses, provided they’re available.

3. Communications

One more indispensable tool is communications, including an Internet Service Provider and a phone - either land-line, cellular, or VOIP, with or without headset. It ought to have both local and long distance features, and if you intend to hold meetings for your downline, the ability to handle conference calls. If you’re going to do workshops, etc., you’ll almost certainly want to invest in a teleconferencing service that can carry many, perhaps hundreds or even a thousand, callers simultaneously.

4. Web Hosting Service

You’ll want a web host to provide a “home” for your website. There are many web hosting companies available to help small businesses and affilaite businesses. Their offerings do differ, as do their costs, so be sure to comparison shop before purchasing.

5. Systems & Info Security

You’ll also require good safety measures for your systems and information. This can take the form of physical security, plus software such as firewalls, and security programs like McAfee or Norton.

6. Systems & Info Backup/Restore Programs

Another necessity is for backup of your locally resident applications and info. Regardless of the best security programs you might be able to implement, there will likely come a circumstance when you experience a system crash, with either partial or complete loss of info and crucial applications. Consequently you will also need a rigorous backup and restore capability.

7. Goods

You’ll require one or more products to sell - products that you have developed yourself, or ones that have been created by one or more third parties. If you create your own products, then you’ll also have to worry about all the associated back office capabilities. If you get your products from others, then you’ll have to worry about supply relationship management, order fulfillments, customer satisfaction and proper payment.

8. Affiliate Program Network

If you’re intending to advertise numerous affiliate products, you’ll doubtless also want to join one or more Affilate Program Networks (APNs), such as ClickBank, CJ, or LinkShare, etc. to handle your commissions, sales statistics, and other back office functions for you.

9. Web 2.0 Capabilities

The Web is constantly changing, so if you want to succeed in today’s online world, you’ll want websites and services that support blogging and interactive communities (i.e., ones that use Web 2.0 to enable a whole host of interaction, using the web as the network platform).

10. Technical Support

And finally - another frequently overlooked necessity - is the need for dependable technical support - for both your local hardware and software, but even more importantly, for any of your customer-facing websites and product systems.

If these go down and you are unable to get quick technical support from any/all your vendors, the resulting downtime can impact your advertising campaigns, you can lose or annoy potential buyers, and ultimately, your income will suffer (and your brand, as well).

Technology is the lifeblood of an online business, and Murphy’s Law being what it is, you ought to plan for the ultimate downtime and system crashes that take place as well. Using all these essential technologies will help the success of your online business.

I’m taking my own advice and working my own internet marketing enterprise. I encourage you, too, to take control of your future and your financial security by starting an affiliate marketing operation.  Get the FREE MaxPro Report and CD to discover how.

It is a well known fact in the world of webmasters that you need lots of links in order to rank well in the search engine results pages. But no all links are worth the same, you can have 3000 links and rank higher than someone with 20,000 if your links are from sites of a better quality.

There are many things that affect how much a given link is worth but the main one that holds the most weight is the Page Rank or PR that Google has assigned the page youre receiving the link from.

Every page that Google can see will receive a Page Rank (PR) from 0-10, 0 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. This will not happen immediately because PR is only reviewed once every 6 months or so. Achieving a PR of 10 is almost impossible unless you have a very large, very popular corporate website, like apple.com, but even that is only a PR 9. Some pages have a PR of n/a and this can mean several things, one that the page is younger than 6 months and Google hasnt ranked it yet, or because its an unimportant page deep in a site, or because Google has detected something it doesnt like on that site and blacklisted it.

So what is there to gain from a good PR? Well, if your site receives a link from a high PR site like a PR 7 or 8, then it will massively more beneficial than a link from a PR 1 or 2 site. In essence, what PR is, is how valuable and genuine Google considers the content of your page to be on a scale of 0-10. Each link counts as a vote for the integrity of the page it is linking to, and so if a PR 8 page votes for you then Google concludes that your page must be of high value, because a high value site says it is, and it will therefore push you further up the results rankings.

A common misconception in the SEO world is that Google PR directly helps you get higher in the results rankings. The truth is it doesnt. It is extremely valuable however because once you start achieving good PR, people will want links from you, and because the link you will be giving them is of high quality, you can request a high quality link back.

When you first start trying to get some PR for your site, you will be faced with what is almost a catch 22 situation in that the main way in which PR is achieved, is by getting quality links. However, people will be unwilling to give you and quality links until you have some PR to give them a quality link back. So to start with, it is rather a long process.

A good way to start your campaign for high quality links is to find sites like yours, not necessarily theme related (although this does help) but sites that are relatively new and are eager to get links. These sites will be a good starting point for your linking because in six months to a years time these sites will have some PR (probably no more than 2 or 3 but thats still well worth having) and so in the long term will be highly beneficial to your sites search engine rankings, and your PR, meaning you can start exchanging links with higher and higher PR sites.

There are other things that are taken into account when Google calculates your PR. Obviously nobody knows all of them except the people who develop the system, otherwise everyone would manipulate it to give them good PR, but what we do know is that sites that are regularly updated with fresh new content hold far more sway with Google and other search engines than sites that are left for long periods of time.

The reasoning behind this is that if a site has fresh new content every week or every fortnight or so, then the information will be the most up to date and relevant to modern times as opposed to a site that has had the same content on it for a year. Google wants to give people the best, most up to date information related to what they are looking for. If you bear this in mind when starting a PR campaign, along with the correct linking methods, you cant go far wrong.