There are so many success stories you will hear about businesses making it good in the internet. The troubling thing is, there are maybe a tenfold or even a hundredfold of stories contradictory to theirs. Many have unsuccessfully launched a business enterprise that is internet based but only a handful shall succeed.

Is this through luck? That is even more remote. It takes good business sense and a lot of help and team effort. Most importantly, it is the eagerness to succeed and the determination to learn and the willingness to invest in a lot of hard work and some money.

The Very Basic

Like Neo, traffic is “The One”. Without traffic, all your effort would just go to waste. Every business needs customers, without them you wouldn’t have anyone to sell your products to. In the internet world traffic is the walk in customer. The more traffic you have the more people would be able to sell your products to.

Read the rest of this entry »

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

Read the rest of this entry »

Getting a position 1 to 7 on the first page of a search engine search query is what all webmasters and blobmasters want. Page 2, 3 etc etc is a waste of space. Infact I have laughed my b_lls off after reading an ebook published and sold by some big name SEO guru spruking that you will make money from your site if it comes within the first 20 search results.

B_llsh_t! You will not make any decent money if a link to your website doesn’t fill anyone of the positions from one to seven. I have tested this and position one obviously gets most of the traffic, but postions 3,4 and 7 get the most conversions. I guess position one will get curious looks, while position 2 is bypassed because people think that position 2 will be the same as position one.

Read the rest of this entry »