3 easy steps to make money on the internet (39)

edmcmurray — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:28:08 CDT

To answer your question whether it is possible to make money on the internet, have a look the strategies mentioned below

No, it is not necessary to be a rocket scientist to make money on the internet.
You could go the route of data entry jobs or submitting your personal opinions in online surveys, but these are time-consuming and do not have growth potential.
You would also be at the mercy of the companies you deal with.

With an initial dose of information gathering and some hard work, it is completely possible to make money online all by yourself.

The basis of it all is to market your own or other people's products on a website.
Technically, you do not even have to own your own website, but it is advisable if you would like to make this a long-term business.

The 3 steps to making money online revolve around research, putting your plan into action and then tweaking your results for optimal profitability.

1. Info-gathering
Whether you will market products with your own website or without one, you will need to spend some time researching the market (or niche in seo-speak) that you wish to represent.
Your research will be focused on finding products for which there is sufficient demand, that will sell easily and if you will be marketing other people's products, you will need to determine which companies offer the most attractive affiliate commissions and terms.
This will allow you to put together a plan of action.

2. Actioning your plan
This is the active part of marketing you products.
Now you have the option of building your own website or marketing your affiliate links directly without referring to your own website.
If you do decide on your own site, you can do it yourself if you know a little bit of HTML, but if you don't there are easy tools on the internet which help you build a website using user-friendly software.

Once you are ready to start marketing, you will need to attract web traffic to your website or affiliate links as these are your potential customers.
The more traffic, the more potential for online earnings.

3. Evaluate and fine tune.
Now that your site gets traffic, you need to analyze your results.
This will give you insight into what works and what does not.
By testing different marketing techniques and on site components, you will be able to optimize your bottom-line.

The best part of all this is that once you have a successful business model, you can repeat it.
The next site will take much less time and effort because you do not need to learn everything again.

This means that even if your initial project is not raking in thousands of dollars per month, even a modest profit per month is a blueprint for creating similar projects which will undoubtedly be more profitable as your skills in research and marketing improve with experience.

The revenue from your site is earned passively once you have gone through the 3 steps mentioned above.

The first site will not be profitable considering the time and effort you have put in, but the second one might and you will no longer be dependent on employers to earn additional income.

The magic lies in the fact that your site is repeatable.

So start right away and start researching.

The best free ebook to flesh out how to make money on the internet is Ken Evoy's Affiliate Masters Course

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edmcmurray — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:30:52 CDT

Back-linking

One of the most important aspects of increasing your Google Page Rank
The search engines still believe that back-links are an important factor in assessing your site, so until that changes, we still have to work at generating valuable back-links.

Fortunately we are no longer stuck with boring directory submissions as the only alternative.

Internet marketers have started using the methods below to diversify their strategies.

Be inspired by these methods to come up with more ways to build those all-important back-links.

* Free directories
They are still valid and are still useful in acquiring back-links.
To save yourself time when submitting to any of the thousands of site submission directories, use automated submission software.

* Organic back-links
As your site's stature grows, you will automatically receive organic back-links from other web masters.
This will take time as your site grows and the content becomes more valuable.

* Forums and comment boxes
Find relevant forums, guest books and blog comment boxes, leave a good comment and you have an instant back-link.
Remember to put your URL in your signature.

* Submitting articles to article directories
This method is becoming more popular as evidence shows that it is a valid way to increase your site's visibility to the search engines.

* Blog Platforms
By creating a free account with one of the blog hosting providers, you can set up your own blog in 5 minutes.
Create content in your blog which relates to your site and make liberal use of links back to you main site.

* Free software directories
A little-known and therefore very valuable method: make software available for your visitors to download.
It is not that hard, there are tools out there which will help you do this.
Make it available on your site for download, then submit this information to hundreds of software download directories which will automatically link back to your site.
You can think of a handy little software utility for any niche !

* Bookmark sites
Create yourself accounts with all the large, popular social Bookmarking sites and list your site's pages together with related bookmarks.

* Produce a Google knol
Guaranteed back-links as no-one can edit your entries.

* Real Simple Syndication (RSS)
Create a blog on your own site, publish an RSS feed for it and spread the word using a service like Feedburner which advertises your blog to hundreds of RSS aggregators.

* Videos
By editing your video's description box on YouTube, you have just created yet another back-link.

These strategies make up a killer back-link arsenal, now you need to spend some time investigating each topic.

To avoid information overload, it is best to put together a back-link strategy and stick to it while implementing it.

If your back-links are relevant to your site, you will not be penalized using any of the methods mentioned above.

The search engines will show your more love and you will watch your traffic grow.

For more free SEO tips by Ed McMurray, go to http://www.free-internet-marketing-tips.info

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