Traffic Tips for Beginners

As you have all noticed, I have taken a break from explaining my experience of making money online. This is not because my experience has stopped, nor because I have no advice to give you. It is in fact because I have been so busy finding out about new methods that I have had not choice but to make 'short n sweet' posts.

A very useful way of making money online is by bringing more traffic to your website/blog. This can be done a number of different ways, all off which should be utilised.

1. Get higher ranked in the search engines.
2. Have your site listed in the main directories.
3. Have your site listed in niche directories.
4. Publicise your site in forums e.g. Mylot.
5. Publicise your site in free classified ads, e.g. Vivastreet.
6. Have your site jam-packed with useful, original content.
7. By getting links to your site displayed on other sites of prominence.

Number 1.(debatably the most important) can be achieved by using the other methods. This is because each link to your site acts as a 'vote' in the all-seeing eyes of the search engine. You can go about gathering links by browsing blogs and requesting link exchanges to blogs that are related to yours, have a high quality of content and (hopefully) have a higher level of web traffic than you. This method, although rewarding (as you develop a more personal relationship with your fellow bloggers) can be very slow, and ineffective.

Untimatly, it all comes down the OC (like everything in the world...) ORIGINAL CONTENT. If you content is good enough you will find people coming back for more, and if its REALLY good they will tell their friends and you will have to spend less time completeing the tedious other methods.

I will be explaining more about the other key ways in the near future, so stay tuned!

Instant Money Online

As you all know from my previous posts, there are many different possible ways to make money online. Perhaps by surveys, paid-to-read emails and a whole range of affiliate programs. Although some of these do have potential, they are riddled with the danger of being scams, or simply paying small amounts. The advantage of these methods is that they are free, providing you choose wisely, and so the worst thing that the company could take from you is time and effort, but not your money.

Another possible route is by blogging, the 'blogosphere' has now amassed over many thousands of blogs, where little people from all over the world are all looking to make money online the modern way. They are all at different stages along the learning curve of blogging for money, but some of them have been stuck in the same place for sometime. They may have run out of ideas or given up, but this is just separating the wheat from the chaff, (although I do encourage you all not to give up). I believe blogging is a more long-term method than allot of people realise. Many people think if they just quickly throw together a page and shove a load of ads on it the money will just start rolling in. However, the more experienced of us know that is not the case. To be successful a blog must be ALIVE. It must be regularly updated with original content, to keep people coming back for more, which will gradually build up its reader base.

It may seem like I am denouncing every method available, including blogging, but I assure you I am not. I like the fact that blogging takes involvement, and can provide a useful service to people.

The important thing is, DONT put all your eggs in one basket. I myself am a member of AGLOCO, Bestcashrewards and Mylot as well as being a blogger. After all, as Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work".