Saturday 14 February 2009

Make Money Online Basics

Welcome back to this cool blog that is here to help you learn how to make money online using a variety of methods but most of them all boiling down to one, which is essentially search engine optimization, or SEO.

Now, I'll touch upon SEO briefly here along with some other important aspects of knowing how to make money online as I'll expand upon them in future posts in this blog. So what is SEO exactly? Well, it comes in two parts, which is on-site SEO and off-site SEO and can be briefly explained as follows:

On-site SEO is the process of making your website or blog as search engine friendly as possible in o4rder to assist it to rank highly in the search engines index. This is also known as the SERPs, or Search Engine Results Pages and you'll see this acronym used quite frquently by Internet marketers.

Off-site SEO is the process of obtaining relevant links pointing to your website or blog, or its internal pages. This is the greater part of SEO and it is by the number and also by the relevance of inward bound links that the search engines will rank your website or blog.

All this SEO is necessary because you will need to attract traffic to your site in order to convert it into money. There have been countless blog posts on the subject as to why you should be working towards attracting search engine traffic and not social traffic if you want to make money online with your site. I won'¡t expand on that right here, but suffice it to say this is one piece of advice that you sghould heed.

Once you are attracting traffic to your site, you then need ways to convert that traffic into money on your pocket. You do that in a number of ways, and this process is commonly called monetization.

Monetization is made possible by one of several options available for your site. These include Adsense (Pay Per Click or PPC advertising) or similar, affiliate marketing (selling other people's products or services for commission), generating leads for commission, or selling your own products of services.

I'll also look at and expand upon each of these monetization options in a future post. What all this boils down to is the fact that you can actually successfully run your own home business using websites and blogs that you have created and populated yourself by working on them to attract the right kind of traffic and then converting that traffic into a viable income.

See you again soon!

Terry,
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