If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s possible to make a good living with internet marketing, wonder no more.  If you can create 20 websites, you can make $146,000 per year.  It may not be as easy as one, two, three, but it’s definitely possible.  Let’s break it down and find out what it really takes to make money online. Read more

The internet marketing process.

No hype.  No BS.  No onslaught of overwhelming information.

Just substance and a clear, concise explanation.
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Google Instant is an easier, faster, more efficient way to search.  Google gives you instant search results before you even finish typing.  Suggesting ideas while typing in search queries is nothing new, but Google takes it a step further and actually shows you the results as you type.

If you are involved in the world of internet marketing, you might be wondering how this will affect your campaigns.  It’s too early to determine all the implications but there is one thing that is very obvious.  You need to focus on your keyword phrases and suggested keyword phrases.  If you are targeting a keyword phrase and Google Instant suggests similar keyword phrases before your keyword phrase comes up, you should take that into consideration.  In other words, choose your keywords wisely.

If you use Dreamweaver and you’re trying to center a background image with CSS, it’s easier than you think.  Once you know where to go, controlling the CSS background position can open up new ideas for sales pages, squeeze pages, or any other website you want to create.

Let’s say you are passionate about a subject that happens to be a very competitive market on the internet.  Or, you’re not interested in creating a hundred niche websites about various topics that you could care less about.  Perhaps you own a business and you want to market your website on the internet in a very competitive market.  Whatever the case may be, there is hope for you and your website.

NICHE VS. NON-NICHE WEBSITE

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Being successful in internet marketing takes many skills.  One crucial skill is the ability to stay organized.  Good organizational skills are important in any profession but even more so in internet marketing because in many cases, your efforts today don’t always pay off immediately.  It takes discipline to work every day for a month or more, knowing that your work might not bring in revenue for another month or so.

Being organized also means spending time on the things that matter most; things that will bring in revenue.  You can tweak your website for two weeks straight, but that’s not going to generate traffic and you won’t be making any money.  Good organizational skills help internet marketers stay focused and efficient. Read more

I wouldn’t call myself a search engine optimization (SEO) expert.  I don’t study Google’s algorithms on a daily basis.  I don’t even calculate my keyword density, for those who know what that is.  But, I do know the basics and I know how to get a website to the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing.  If you’re interested in getting free website traffic, consider these SEO tips. Read more

There are billions of dollars being spent online every year.  If you want to join the ranks of those making money online, then you need to get traffic to your website and you need to monetize that traffic.  Monetize simply means to convert into money.

If you have 1,000 visitors to your website every day, but you’re not selling anything, and you’re not advertising anything, then you won’t make money.  If you want to make money with your website, you might want to implement some of the battle-tested techniques below.
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Whether you have a brick and mortar business, or a single website online, getting traffic to your website is extremely important.  If you don’t have visitors to your website, you can’t make money online.  In fact, many internet startups focus on building traffic first, and figure out how to monetize the website later.  Facebook and Twitter are two high profile examples.  Regardless of which business model you use, here are some methods to get targeted traffic to your website.

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