If you're like me, you're probably scratching your head trying to find a way to make more money online. The fact of the matter is that to truly be successful at anything, it is going to take patience, determination and a bit of creativity to beat out your competitors and earn a proper livable income online.
Many people don't have a clue about how to create a website and market it successfully so that it receives a large quantity of targeted traffic. The term search engine optimization may be foreign to you but it is a term you will have to study in much detail if you aren't trying to buy your web traffic everyday.
If you know a little about search engine optimization, you probably understand that to truly move up in the search engines, it is going to take a large quantity of high quality backlinks pointing to your website. Google looks at these links and then gives your website more credibility and a higher ranking due to your popularity and visibility on the web.
What is a backlink?
To make things quite clear, a backlink is a weblink that connects some form of website or digital media to another website or online digital media. Basically these links can be obtained in many different shapes of forms, some people pay for links, others arrange trades or find websites that offer links for free. We will discuss Page Rank in future articles, something that is dirrectly affected by the quantity and quality of links you have pointing towards your website. Some of the most popular ways to get links include creating content and distributing that content on free article websites. This works great for both parties because the article directory gets free content and you get a free high quality backlink.
The following are a list of free websites where you can obtain a link that points to your website. Don't forget to use anchor text in your link that tells Google what yout website is about. For example, I would use the term make money online to point to my website, Make Money Online Mike :
http://www.goarticles.com
http://article-niche.com/
http://articles4content.com/
http://blogtelecast.com
http://dir.salon.com/
http://news.collectors.org/
http://superpublisher.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.article-buzz.com/
http://www.articlecentral.com
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.articlecube.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://www.article-directory.net
http://www.article-directory.net/
http://www.article-emporium.com
http://www.articlefever.com/
http://www.article-hangout.com/
http://www.articletogo.com/
http://www.articleworld.net/
http://www.certificate.net/wwio/
http://www.content-articles.com/
http://www.directorygold.com/
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.free-articles-zone.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.impactarticles.com/
http://www.internethomebusinessarticles.com
http://www.isnare.com/
http://www.jogena.com/articles/articleform.htm
http://www.magportal.com/
http://www.newarticlesonline.com/
http://www.niche-article-directory.com/
http://www.site-reference.com
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/marketing-article-directory.html
http://www.stickysauce.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/
http://www.webarticles.com/
In addition to finding ways to obtain social traffic, the people most successful with internet marketing are constantly building up their SEO efforts in an attempt to capitalize on the free web traffic provided by Google.
Natural search engine traffic is unbeatable if you are trying to market and sell a product online. Making money online with backlinks and search engine optimization is a sure fire strategy but should be incorporated with other methods when attempting to generate income from the web.
