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Introduction

There are basically three ways to make money online. Each is distinguished by the method you use to bring visitors to your website. The choices are:

1. Offer your readers a chance to make lots of money with little or no effort,
2. Set up a niche marketing site and fool the search engines into ranking your web page highly, by means of "Search Engine Optimization" (SEO), or
3. Create a "content rich" website that over-delivers precisely the kind of information for which your readers are searching.

Consider the first option. In this instance you are suggesting that your reader should be well rewarded for giving her customers something that costs her no effort. How much real value can such a product have? At best, you are inviting her to join you in scamming her readers, just as you are scamming her.

It is true that there are a lot of very desperate folks out there who will buy a "pig in a poke" business deal in hopes of solving their financial problems overnight. Do you want to make money by contributing to their woes? If so, you will have to go elsewhere to learn how to do it. I won't be a party to such dealings. I urge you to reconsider.

The second option, niche marketing with SEO is viable, but it has a downside - some distinct disadvantages.

The Downside of SEO

Let us take a look at those disadvantages. For starters, the search engines keep changing how they rank websites - they become ever more sophisticated in how they judge the quality of any particular website. Their objective is always to present the user with the best information possible about whatever topic is entered as the user's keywords

When you focus on the ranking process using SEO you get ever further from the core purpose - providing quality information. The result, too often, is that you are not using your time and efforts well - and too often also, as the search engines get better your ranking suffers. Not the best plan.

Remember, the search engines, at least the big three (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) have enormous resources at their disposal, and hire legions of experts to keep improving their algorithms -the mathematical formulas that compute the scores that determine the rankings.

The long and the short of it is that you can never keep up with them. I suggest that you don't even try.

A Better Way to Make Money Online

Instead stay focused on the quality and quantity of the information that you provide your website visitors. If this is truly your focus, your ranking will get better and better as the search engines evolve. Maintaining this focus is the best of all ways to make money online. When you afford your readers lots of great information on the subject of their interest, they will come to trust what you have to say, and ultimately they will buy what you have to offer. It's that simple - not always easy - but simple.

So what resources do you need to pursue this simple way to make money online? Ideally you will have at your disposal:

• Reliable web hosting,
• Capable online tools to do your market research - to determine which markets constitute potentially profitable niches,
• Detailed step-by-step instructions to design websites that please both the search engines and your website's visitors,
• Website construction tools that enable someone with your level of skills to build a well-designed professional-quality website,
• Immediate feedback on the quality of each web page that you create, and guidance in editing the work that you have done to maximize its effectiveness,
• Traffic generation tools that successfully get your website noticed by searchers and search engines alike - thereby continuously improving your ranking and your visibility to potential customers,
• Detailed guidance that enables you to "pre-sell" your visitors effectively, by demonstrating your ability and willingness to provide them with top-notch information of the kind they are seeking,
• Excellent sales and presentation models to guide you through all aspects of monetizing your website profitably,
• In depth information on every phase of developing your online business - not just your website, and...
• Online forums in which you can ask questions concerning every step of the online business-building process - and get meaningful answers from a cadre of successful online entrepreneurs - whom you can actually contact and talk with.

Where To Find These Resources

Whether you are a beginner, a novice, an experienced online marketer, or a professional webmaster, you owe it to yourself to have all of these resources at hand. That may seem like a tall order, but the resources exist and cost far less than you probably expect. In fact, many are available for free. Come to my website, where I can show you these resources and explain in detail how you can acquire them.

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If I had time I could probably come up with over a hundred ways to make Money on the Internet. Who knows, maybe even more than that. There certainly are many different ways to make money online today. Let's take a look at 15 ways to make Money on the Internet that anyone can do a little bit of hard work.

1. Write and sell articles and get paid for them. There are webmasters willing to pay you for content if you are a good writer.

2. Start a blog of your own and monetize it with Google AdSense ads. Then write blog articles and submit them via social bookmarking.

3. Build an opt in list and sell products to it. Use an autoresponder to automate the process and make even more money with email marketing.

4. Join an affiliate program and sell products with your own affiliate website.

5. Use forum marketing and create a signature file with a link to your own money making website.

6. Get paid to post in forums for other webmasters. There are people willing to pay you to do this for them.

7. Get paid to post comments on other people's blogs. Other bloggers like to do this because it creates valuable back links to blogs of their own and they are willing to pay you to do it for them because they do not have the time.

8. Set up your own consulting business. If you have an area of expertise there are people willing to pay you for your knowledge.

9. Sell banner advertising to your website if you have one that gets traffic.

10. Sell text Link ads. Join Textlinkbrokers.com and let them sell the ads for you for a commission.

11. Set up auto responders and pre-program messages for people.

12. Create your own info products and sell them online.

13. Use private label right products and rework them to make them unique. Then sell them keep 100% of the profits.

14. Build websites for people.

15. Become an Internet marketing broker. For example, rather than building a website, find the customers and sell the website building for a price to a sub contractor. The difference between what you are paid and what your pay your sub is your profit.

As we said there are many ways to make Money on the Internet today. You are really only limited by your talent, and your imagination. The key is to get started doing something rather than just sitting by on the sidelines watching everyone else raking in all the profits.

David Ogden is the editor for http://www.at-home-business-world.com a resource website with great information about home business opportunities without all of the "Sales Hype." For more ideas, resources, and tools to help you start, manage and grow your home business subscribe to At Home Biz News