to those sites aren't used, or the site with the link goes down, then the link becomes invalid - and the SE stops noticing it (loosely speaking)! I was now very disillusioned, and decided to take a long break!

Almost two months went by before I gathered the courage to have another go - after all, I'd spent a lot of time getting this far, and it was an ambition to make it a success - pride wouldn't let me give up until I'd exhausted all available avenue's!

I'd always enjoyed writing, and had written a couple of articles in this time, one on the subject of the new Google AdWords program which was taking the internet by storm. I'd noticed that many people were advertising affiliate programs through AdWords, and Google has a policy regarding this . . . so a simple Article was submitted to several "Article" sites for the intention of simply informing advertisers of the policy (which few of us seem to read)! Checking my "Stats" again, I found almost two hundred sites linking to mine, amongst which were the Article Submission sites where my Google Article had been placed . . . . . also I'd answered a JV (Joint Venture) scheme with another IM (Internet marketer), and actually had several people sign-up to my opt-in newsletter which I'd written months before. The links worked before (for a short time) when I'd "tweeked" my site, and now I had links pointing to my s

Ever wondered if all the hype about earning millions of dollars on the Internet is actually true?

Let me tell you what happened to me!

Some time ago, I decided to enter the world of the online entrepreneur, by resourcing how, or even 'if' it was possible to make money online. The results were varied and plentiful! Sites were popping up everywhere on a daily basis, selling everything to help the new Internet marketer (IM) - e-Book compiling software, affiliate cloaking software, offers to help you earn big money by subscribing to "this" site or by sending your customers to "that" site, the variety of "Get Rich Quick" schemes was almost overwhelming!

I decided to try it out for myself, after all . . . . it was easy money eh? I downloaded several free eBooks on individual subjects, and undertook endless hours of searches using the web's best search engines - (not always the one's we go to first)!

Months later, tired and eye-sore from looking at my computer screen for hours on end, I had enough material to write my very first eBook. This was how the "experts" recommended that we novices make our living online - selling information! It was a huge task - much bigger than I'd first thought. I spent weeks writing the eBook, then converting it to a user friendly format, and even longer as a novice website builder, actually building my very first site. Finally when it was finished, I started the marketing!

This is where my article really starts: Resourcing and writing the eBook was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, building a website was also an ambition, and finally I'd realised both!

Now to work - getting people to my site to buy the book! Hour after hour, day after day, week after week - I pursued all that I'd read - putting my site name in the signature of my emails - that's great if you regularly send out plenty of emails to people outside of your family, but Uncle John was getting sick of me pushing my site, especially as he'd already got a copy of my eBook to proof read! Advertising on the freebie pages, submitting my site to the search engines - manually, signing-up for Traffic, by subscribing to free service sites - (I did everything they asked of me, copied their code into my web pages, added the traffic tracking pages to my site etc. etc.) . . . and waited!

Nothing . . . . not a sausage! Diddly squit ! Nicht!

Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. Thus getting it seen by more people searching for products/information like mine - and so bringing in those oh so beautiful sales, I needed so badly!

I painstakingly spent hours working through the "information", eventually completing the tweeking process in about five days, then I uploaded the new pages to my hosting server - days, weeks went by . . . . you guessed it - nothing! I HAD to be doing something wrong!

All this time, I'd been posting on some of the better forums on the web, constantly trying to find other information about how to market my site. For no reason other than curiosity, I had the urge to check where my site was ranking in Google's Engine. When I'd first done this, the following week after uploading my site, I had two listings - both from other pages in my site - no good at all! This time - WOW! - more than twenty listings - when I checked further, they were all from the forum sites!

This is where things started to come together in my head!

So by posting my "signature" (containing my web site domain-name) on these forum sites, Google had "seen" them, and now they were appearing as links to my site! I went back to the SEO eBook - behold the section on the importance of linking to your site. Although I'd made all the physical changes to my site's html code (and the eBook stated that this was indeed a worthwhile and good thing to do) - the most important factor in driving traffic to my site, was by getting others to link to it! This, in the eyes of the search engines (especially Google) indicated it's importance or relevance to my subject matter, and subsequently it's "ranking" would get better & better, and it would start to appear closer to the top of the searches. If I managed to convince owners of sites "Relevant" to mine, to link to me, then that was even better! - peer links are the best you can get!

Building (reciprocal) links is a time consuming job, and I'd advise using special software to undertake the task, but slowly and surely the site was getting traffic! Excitedly - and I heard about affiliate management services such as Clickbank or PayDotCom - I signed up for a Clickbank account so that as the traffic built steadily, I could also have affiliates selling my eBook via the CB site.

Then it all stopped again - traffic went down, and the site was getting less than two visitors a day! Clickbank stopped listing my site in it's marketplace due to lack of interest! What I'd failed to understand was that the SE's continually check the sites they index (using their own "spider" software), and if the links to those sites aren't used, or the site with the link goes down, then the link becomes invalid - and the SE stops noticing it (loosely speaking)! I was now very disillusioned, and decided to take a long break!

Almost two months went by before I gathered the courage to have another go - after all, I'd spent a lot of time getting this far, and it was an ambition to make it a success - pride wouldn't let me give up until I'd exhausted all available avenue's!

I'd always enjoyed writing, and had written a couple of articles in this time, one on the subject of the new Google AdWords program which was taking the internet by storm. I'd noticed that many people were advertising affiliate programs through AdWords, and Google has a policy regarding this . . . so a simple Article was submitted to several "Article" sites for the intention of simply informing advertisers of the policy (which few of us seem to read)! Checking my "Stats" again, I found almost two hundred sites linking to mine, amongst which were the Article Submission sites where my Google Article had been placed . . . . . also I'd answered a JV (Joint Venture) scheme with another IM (Internet marketer), and actually had several people sign-up to my opt-in newsletter which I'd written months before. The links worked before (for a short time) when I'd "tweeked" my site, and now I had links pointing to my s

ly when it was finished, I started the marketing!

This is where my article really starts: Resourcing and writing the eBook was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, building a website was also an ambition, and finally I'd realised both!

Now to work - getting people to my site to buy the book! Hour after hour, day after day, week after week - I pursued all that I'd read - putting my site name in the signature of my emails - that's great if you regularly send out plenty of emails to people outside of your family, but Uncle John was getting sick of me pushing my site, especially as he'd already got a copy of my eBook to proof read! Advertising on the freebie pages, submitting my site to the search engines - manually, signing-up for Traffic, by subscribing to free service sites - (I did everything they asked of me, copied their code into my web pages, added the traffic tracking pages to my site etc. etc.) . . . and waited!

Nothing . . . . not a sausage! Diddly squit ! Nicht!

Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. Thus getting it seen by more people searching for products/information like mine - and so bringing in those oh so beautiful sales, I needed so badly!

I painstakingly spent hours working through the "information", eventually completing the tweeking process in about five days, then I uploaded the new pages to my hosting server - days, weeks went by . . . . you guessed it - nothing! I HAD to be doing something wrong!

All this time, I'd been posting on some of the better forums on the web, constantly trying to find other information about how to market my site. For no reason other than curiosity, I had the urge to check where my site was ranking in Google's Engine. When I'd first done this, the following week after uploading my site, I had two listings - both from other pages in my site - no good at all! This time - WOW! - more than twenty listings - when I checked further, they were all from the forum sites!

This is where things started to come together in my head!

So by posting my "signature" (containing my web site domain-name) on these forum sites, Google had "seen" them, and now they were appearing as links to my site! I went back to the SEO eBook - behold the section on the importance of linking to your site. Although I'd made all the physical changes to my site's html code (and the eBook stated that this was indeed a worthwhile and good thing to do) - the most important factor in driving traffic to my site, was by getting others to link to it! This, in the eyes of the search engines (especially Google) indicated it's importance or relevance to my subject matter, and subsequently it's "ranking" would get better & better, and it would start to appear closer to the top of the searches. If I managed to convince owners of sites "Relevant" to mine, to link to me, then that was even better! - peer links are the best you can get!

Building (reciprocal) links is a time consuming job, and I'd advise using special software to undertake the task, but slowly and surely the site was getting traffic! Excitedly - and I heard about affiliate management services such as Clickbank or PayDotCom - I signed up for a Clickbank account so that as the traffic built steadily, I could also have affiliates selling my eBook via the CB site.

Then it all stopped again - traffic went down, and the site was getting less than two visitors a day! Clickbank stopped listing my site in it's marketplace due to lack of interest! What I'd failed to understand was that the SE's continually check the sites they index (using their own "spider" software), and if the links to those sites aren't used, or the site with the link goes down, then the link becomes invalid - and the SE stops noticing it (loosely speaking)! I was now very disillusioned, and decided to take a long break!

Almost two months went by before I gathered the courage to have another go - after all, I'd spent a lot of time getting this far, and it was an ambition to make it a success - pride wouldn't let me give up until I'd exhausted all available avenue's!

I'd always enjoyed writing, and had written a couple of articles in this time, one on the subject of the new Google AdWords program which was taking the internet by storm. I'd noticed that many people were advertising affiliate programs through AdWords, and Google has a policy regarding this . . . so a simple Article was submitted to several "Article" sites for the intention of simply informing advertisers of the policy (which few of us seem to read)! Checking my "Stats" again, I found almost two hundred sites linking to mine, amongst which were the Article Submission sites where my Google Article had been placed . . . . . also I'd answered a JV (Joint Venture) scheme with another IM (Internet marketer), and actually had several people sign-up to my opt-in newsletter which I'd written months before. The links worked before (for a short time) when I'd "tweeked" my site, and now I had links pointing to my s

ation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. Thus getting it seen by more people searching for products/information like mine - and so bringing in those oh so beautiful sales, I needed so badly!

I painstakingly spent hours working through the "information", eventually completing the tweeking process in about five days, then I uploaded the new pages to my hosting server - days, weeks went by . . . . you guessed it - nothing! I HAD to be doing something wrong!

All this time, I'd been posting on some of the better forums on the web, constantly trying to find other information about how to market my site. For no reason other than curiosity, I had the urge to check where my site was ranking in Google's Engine. When I'd first done this, the following week after uploading my site, I had two listings - both from other pages in my site - no good at all! This time - WOW! - more than twenty listings - when I checked further, they were all from the forum sites!

This is where things started to come together in my head!

So by posting my "signature" (containing my web site domain-name) on these forum sites, Google had "seen" them, and now they were appearing as links to my site! I went back to the SEO eBook - behold the section on the importance of linking to your site. Although I'd made all the physical changes to my site's html code (and the eBook stated that this was indeed a worthwhile and good thing to do) - the most important factor in driving traffic to my site, was by getting others to link to it! This, in the eyes of the search engines (especially Google) indicated it's importance or relevance to my subject matter, and subsequently it's "ranking" would get better & better, and it would start to appear closer to the top of the searches. If I managed to convince owners of sites "Relevant" to mine, to link to me, then that was even better! - peer links are the best you can get!

Building (reciprocal) links is a time consuming job, and I'd advise using special software to undertake the task, but slowly and surely the site was getting traffic! Excitedly - and I heard about affiliate management services such as Clickbank or PayDotCom - I signed up for a Clickbank account so that as the traffic built steadily, I could also have affiliates selling my eBook via the CB site.

Then it all stopped again - traffic went down, and the site was getting less than two visitors a day! Clickbank stopped listing my site in it's marketplace due to lack of interest! What I'd failed to understand was that the SE's continually check the sites they index (using their own "spider" software), and if the links to those sites aren't used, or the site with the link goes down, then the link becomes invalid - and the SE stops noticing it (loosely speaking)! I was now very disillusioned, and decided to take a long break!

Almost two months went by before I gathered the courage to have another go - after all, I'd spent a lot of time getting this far, and it was an ambition to make it a success - pride wouldn't let me give up until I'd exhausted all available avenue's!

I'd always enjoyed writing, and had written a couple of articles in this time, one on the subject of the new Google AdWords program which was taking the internet by storm. I'd noticed that many people were advertising affiliate programs through AdWords, and Google has a policy regarding this . . . so a simple Article was submitted to several "Article" sites for the intention of simply informing advertisers of the policy (which few of us seem to read)! Checking my "Stats" again, I found almost two hundred sites linking to mine, amongst which were the Article Submission sites where my Google Article had been placed . . . . . also I'd answered a JV (Joint Venture) scheme with another IM (Internet marketer), and actually had several people sign-up to my opt-in newsletter which I'd written months before. The links worked before (for a short time) when I'd "tweeked" my site, and now I had links pointing to my s

importance of linking to your site. Although I'd made all the physical changes to my site's html code (and the eBook stated that this was indeed a worthwhile and good thing to do) - the most important factor in driving traffic to my site, was by getting others to link to it! This, in the eyes of the search engines (especially Google) indicated it's importance or relevance to my subject matter, and subsequently it's "ranking" would get better & better, and it would start to appear closer to the top of the searches. If I managed to convince owners of sites "Relevant" to mine, to link to me, then that was even better! - peer links are the best you can get!

Building (reciprocal) links is a time consuming job, and I'd advise using special software to undertake the task, but slowly and surely the site was getting traffic! Excitedly - and I heard about affiliate management services such as Clickbank or PayDotCom - I signed up for a Clickbank account so that as the traffic built steadily, I could also have affiliates selling my eBook via the CB site.

Then it all stopped again - traffic went down, and the site was getting less than two visitors a day! Clickbank stopped listing my site in it's marketplace due to lack of interest! What I'd failed to understand was that the SE's continually check the sites they index (using their own "spider" software), and if the links to those sites aren't used, or the site with the link goes down, then the link becomes invalid - and the SE stops noticing it (loosely speaking)! I was now very disillusioned, and decided to take a long break!

Almost two months went by before I gathered the courage to have another go - after all, I'd spent a lot of time getting this far, and it was an ambition to make it a success - pride wouldn't let me give up until I'd exhausted all available avenue's!

I'd always enjoyed writing, and had written a couple of articles in this time, one on the subject of the new Google AdWords program which was taking the internet by storm. I'd noticed that many people were advertising affiliate programs through AdWords, and Google has a policy regarding this . . . so a simple Article was submitted to several "Article" sites for the intention of simply informing advertisers of the policy (which few of us seem to read)! Checking my "Stats" again, I found almost two hundred sites linking to mine, amongst which were the Article Submission sites where my Google Article had been placed . . . . . also I'd answered a JV (Joint Venture) scheme with another IM (Internet marketer), and actually had several people sign-up to my opt-in newsletter which I'd written months before. The links worked before (for a short time) when I'd "tweeked" my site, and now I had links pointing to my s

to those sites aren't used, or the site with the link goes down, then the link becomes invalid - and the SE stops noticing it (loosely speaking)! I was now very disillusioned, and decided to take a long break!

Almost two months went by before I gathered the courage to have another go - after all, I'd spent a lot of time getting this far, and it was an ambition to make it a success - pride wouldn't let me give up until I'd exhausted all available avenue's!

I'd always enjoyed writing, and had written a couple of articles in this time, one on the subject of the new Google AdWords program which was taking the internet by storm. I'd noticed that many people were advertising affiliate programs through AdWords, and Google has a policy regarding this . . . so a simple Article was submitted to several "Article" sites for the intention of simply informing advertisers of the policy (which few of us seem to read)! Checking my "Stats" again, I found almost two hundred sites linking to mine, amongst which were the Article Submission sites where my Google Article had been placed . . . . . also I'd answered a JV (Joint Venture) scheme with another IM (Internet marketer), and actually had several people sign-up to my opt-in newsletter which I'd written months before. The links worked before (for a short time) when I'd "tweeked" my site, and now I had links pointing to my site once again - I'd started to make a few sales too! This was it - the clue I'd been looking for!

After months of work, hours of trying to get to the bottom of the puzzle, endless sleepless nights, and all the rubbish which I'd subscribed to in the hope someone would let me into the secret of how to get my site noticed - I'd found the answer!

Links, links and more links!

It takes time to write your eBook, it takes time to get the web site just how you want it, but all that hard work is worth nothing if you can't drive traffic to your site - after all, it's a numbers game - no more, no less - and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! The only way you'll make sales is by driving huge amounts of traffic to your site! This is why it's so important to get your site's name to as many other sites as possible. It's not just about asking for reciprocal links, but it helps! It's not just about getting your domain-name into the forums, but it helps! It's not even just about getting your domain-name onto the first page of the Search Engine's . . . . but it helps! I've found that by writing Articles - relevant to the content of my web site, that I keep the links "live", and therefore the SE's keep indexing my site!

It's not about any particular one of the above . . . . but then again, it's about all of them . . . . . manage your product (website) properly, and you'll reap the rewards . . . . keep chipping away at it, week by week, and the links will come! Write Articles, ask for reciprocal links, and get that signature on the bottom of your emails! These are just some of the ways you can "Make Money on the Internet" . . . . it is FACT . . . . the fiction is the thought that you can get rich quick by doing very little work . . . . . after all, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it - right?

Final Note: If you're not a writer, then search for e-writers (article writers) they don't charge huge amount of money and the pay-back from the links you'll receive is well worth the outlay!