Simple Sites For Making Money Online

First you will want to use a keyword research tool, like Google AdWords Keyword Tool (it is free), to find out which phrases about your topic are getting a lot of searches. Just enter you subject keyword, type in the image challenge, and click "Get Keyword Ideas". It may take a few minutes to get the results. Once you have the results page, you can click on the heading to sort by search volume. You will probably want to pick the phrases (keywords) that get at least 30,000 searches a month for your target keywords. If you pick phrase with less search volume you may not be able to get enough visitors to your website, even if you rank good in the search engines. Of course if you plan on have hundreds of pages on your site, you can pick lower volume keywords for the inner pages.

Once you have picked the keywords you want target, you will need to figure out how you plan to monetize your site. You can use AdSense (as mentioned above) or a similar ad program that pay you each time a visitor clicks an advertisement. There are also a lot of affiliate programs and offers to can advertise on your site that usually pay much better, but typically only pay when someone makes a purchase. Amazon, eBay, and many other popular sites have these types of programs. You can use CPA (cost-per-action) networks to find programs that will pay you when one of your website visitors fill out an offer for a free gift card, mortgage application or other type of similar offer. Some people choose to create their own product to sell on their website. This can be a physical product or a simple eBook on your subject.

Another option is a full blown ecommerce store. This can be a lot more work than the options listed above, as you will be processing orders and handling customer service issues. A similar way to do the same thing is an Amazon A store. They will let you build your own store (of their products) on their site and you get paid a commission anytime someone makes a purchase. You can pick and sort the items pretty much anyway you want to. You can place the store on your site with an iFrame. They have instructions on their website showing how to do this.

Once to have your site build you will need to get traffic. A good way to get started in by submitting you site to 50 or so free directories. Latter you can submit your site to the Yahoo directory but with the annual fee, it is usually a little bit too expensive in the beginning. Some other good methods for getting free traffic is writing and submitting articles to the different article directories, and bookmarking your site at several of the popular social bookmarking sites. If you do a web search for "free traffic" you will find several good ideas on this subject.

For more ideas about how to get started with your own website, you may want to check out Simple Sites Big Profits by Marcus Campbell for some how to instructions about how to make money online.

One of the easiest ways to get started online is to build your own Squidoo Len. It is completely free and is a very easy-to-use (and good) platform for a beginner. There is probably a "sign up" button or link somewhere on this page. Once you create an account, you can have a Lens (web-page) live on the Internet in a matter of minutes and then come back, and continue to update it at your convenience. If your lens is interesting and brings visitors, you can even make a few bucks because they will share the revenue resulting from the page with you.