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How To Make Money Online

How many times have you paid to receive information on how to make money online but later realized it was a total waste of your time and money.

There are a lot of ways that anyone can use to make money online, but there are also a lot of scams out there that guarantee your financial success but the only person making money is the one who sold you the plan.

You can do a Google search for the term, "How To Make Money Online" and it will return over 174 million websites with information on how to make money online and unfortunately the ones that will supposedly show you how for a fee will be no help at all. You might as well throw your money out the window.

There are 3 major keys to making any online business succeed and they are:

1) A product that meets a need 2) Good quality targeted traffic to that website 3) A good landing page that will convert visitors into buyers

Of the three things listed above, the hardest one of all is getting the targeted traffic.

You could pay for hits to your website that will rack up the visits on your hits counter, but the hits aren't from targeted visitors they won't do you any good because they won't buy your product.

Targeted visitors are visits from people who are specifically looking for what you have to offer. So if you are selling an ebook on how to loose weight, you want visits from people who are looking for a way to loose weight. They would be targeted visitors.

Getting random hits anyone is a waste of time and money if you are paying for them. For example, you pay for 5000 hits to your website then most of them will see your website as a pop up or pop under from another website that they visited. So if they aren't looking for a way to lose weight they aren't even going to look at your product.

No matter what niche your are promoting, you need targeted traffic. If you are selling bicycle parts you don't want to pay for traffic that is looking for a cake recipe, you want people who are looking for bicycle parts to visit your site.

The best way to get that kind of traffic if you have the money to pay for it is with PPC (Pay Per Click) That's where you bid on certain keywords and key phrases. Say you are bidding $.50 on the phrase "How To Make Money Online." When ever someone typed in that phrase in the search engine and they saw your ad, you would pay $.50 every time someone clicked on your link in that ad.

Another great way to get targeted traffic which is absolutely free is by writing and submitting articles. This is called Article Marketing.

There are a lot of article directories that allow you to submit your articles for free and you can have a link at the bottom that leads to your website. You will not only get traffic from people who read your article on the article directory's website, but publishers may use your article for their ezines and newsletter. And webmasters may also use your article for content on their website and when anyone uses your article for a website, ezine or newsletter thay must leave your link in the article.

Over time, one article can bring in a lot of traffic that can last for years to come. The key to success with article marketing though, is not just one article but hundreds of them.

If one article could bring you only 10 targeted visitors a month think what would happen if you wrote one article a day for a year for a total of 365 articles. At 10 visitors a month per article (which is being very conservative) you would be getting 3,650 targeted visitors a month.

If you wrote and submitted 2 articles a day for a year, at 10 visitors a month each you would be getting 7300 targeted visitors a month. And if you were paying $.50 a click for these visitors via PPC, your monthly cost would be $3,650.00

So no matter which online business you want to promote, targeted traffic is a must.

How ever you choose to get that traffic is up to you but it won't come by itself. You either have to pay for it or you have to work for it.