Make Money Online

Make Money Online

When I built my first website four years ago I really didn't have a clue what I was doing. I was just learning HTML, just started to understand about FTP for uploading files to my host and putting a form together seemed awfully complicated. But it's amazing how quick you start picking these things up. What seemed like such a challenge soon became second nature. In fact, it was all rather easy.

I tried many ways to earn online. Last I found blogging is the best way to earn on internet. I found wordpress is good choice to start blogging. It's simple, free, open source. Tutorial and support available on internet easily. Initially it was tough but we can eaily manage the same.

With adsense, affiliate marketing earning comes easily. Offcourse initially it was hard to get traffic. Getting links to your site, which is what you need to rank well particularly in Google, is not easy these days. Google are clamping down on people who purchase links, press release links don't seem to count for much, article links aren't worth all that much either...and I could go on. The goal posts have been moved and carrying out a thorough SEO/ SEM campaign is hugely time consuming and results can take months to show up.

Apart from kicking off my SEO/ SEM campaign I also spend a bit of money on pay-per-click advertising. These are the "sponsored link" ads that appear in search engine results and as "Ads by Google" on third-party websites.

Pay-per-click (PPC) enables you to generate instant traffic to your website without waiting for the search engines to index and rank your website. In fact, after setting up your PPC campaign you can start generating traffic to it pretty much instantly. Some cynics would say that the search engines have made SEO harder for us so that we spend some money on their PPC campaigns. Not me, any proper business would do well to focus efforts on both as both have their individual merits.

One of the main benefits of a PPC campaign is that Google, for example, provides you with some truly excellent tools to monitor and fine tune your traffic and expenditure. It's a fantastic system for generating traffic, for example, to affiliate products. If you're not sure what this means, as an affiliate you basically promote someone else's product and you get a commission if you make a sale. It's actually one of the oldest and still one of the best systems for generating an income online.