Internet Marketing: How to Do It?

 Again I am getting frustrated!  Seems to be a thing with me.  I really don’t know what is important at this point.  I have been told to blog with more than one site, write and submit articles to article sites, get onto Answers.yahoo and answer lots of questions, go to MyBlogLog and visit many sites and add many contacts and communities, visit social networks and etc, etc, etc.  Oh, and then check back with them all and answer emails and messages. 

This does not leave many hours in the day.  If I did everything else that I was advised to do, I could not sleep.  Oh, and then there is the learning curve.  Each one of these new things that I have tried is all Greek to me.  I still am not too sure about social networks.  I never got that one straight.  I have tried many things that I have had to write to support with questions, and then I find that they take days to get back to me, if they do.     

I know how to advise where my blogs are, but as far as MyBlogLog, I have no idea how to direct someone there.  I know that on my blog there is a link, View Entire Community, but I did not know what it was for the longest time.  (Again, I am definitely not a geek; so many others know what it is.)    

My main goal is to market my business, to get traffic to my site and get some sales generated.  I know that I have good products; I just need people to see it.  Once they get to the site, they will be interested.  It has something for everyone.  

I also want to start an affiliate business, but I have a large learning curve there!   I keep trying to understand it, but it does not seem to want to sink in.   

But at times I thing maybe there is an easier way to do this! 

Article Writing and the Frustrations of Posting Them

I was advised that a good way to market myself was to write articles.  I submitted an article to an article site and all of a sudden I was blocked and could not get on.  They advised me that my email address was no good.  I finally got that straightened out (I though) and the site was again blocked to me.  It took forever to get anyone to respond to me.  I had to change email addresses so that they could get to me, as my provider evidently is blocking them completely from getting through. 

When I got a response, they said  I was blocked because my article was like one on a blog and that I had copied it, it was not my work.  (It was my blog!)  I responded back to them but I still have not heard back.  Consequently, I am still blocked from submitting any more articles. 

I am so new at all of this that is is frustrating, as I am trying to do things right. 

I see that MyBlogLog wants the site verified, so I am going to do that, so that I do not have any problems with that.  I hope soon that I understand all of these technicalities.  It said to enter this as raw HTML so here it is:

<a href=”http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/marketingonthenet/” mce_href=”http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/marketingonthenet/” rel=”2886c17d3acac0405fd49407c71b5b391b413813″>Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification</a>