It might not sound like it is actually possible to make any money online without the most important and vital ingredient which is traffic
. If you have been online for any length of time you will know very well that the only thing that all the billions of different websites all have in common is that they are trying to sell you something.
The process of making money online can be quite complex and anyone that says you just have to purchase some fancy software and it can all be done with the push of a button is simply lying to you. The step by step process which takes place when anyone gets success online is the following.
The first step is to get a domain and hosting for a specific niche market. The days are long gone when you could just start a website that was titled "insurance" or "weight-loss" and get ranked on Google. These days you need keyword research to isolate a "long-tail" keyword.
After you have done that you purchase a website and hosting and fill it up with high quality content. Then you need to create a squeeze page in order to capture the email address of any and all visitors to your website. Then you need to get an auto-responder that will send out the emails for you.
If this sounds like a chore then you should know that is only the beginning as the most difficult part is without a doubt getting noticed by the big boys like Google, Yahoo and Bing. The only way to do this effectively is to get high quality verified backlinks.
Getting any backlinks to your website takes time and patience and the usual way to do this is to post a comment on some "do-follow" forums and blogs. But doing this means that you not only have to sign up and keep record of these memberships but also to make an enticing and relevant comment that will get people who read it to click on your link.
This is without a doubt the most complicated and time consuming practice if you do not have the money to pay someone to do it for you. In fact if you do it by yourself you will need to make sure that your website is constantly getting updated as it needs to be kept up to date if you want get noticed.
Advertising and getting noticed online is all about getting a page rank (PR) that is better than page three. It is only by achieving this that you will get any free traffic when someone enters the specific keywords that you have created a website or blog for.