The Internet......The New Wild West

In the beginning the Internet was just a network of nerds trading information and occasionally , well lets just call it adult jpegs!

Since people began making money from the Internet it has become the new wild west. People keep moving out west with the promise of gold and riches, but few actually succeed.

Lets face it. The reason you started a website and have any interest in SEO is to make money online. I have been doing this for 2 years now, albeit at a slow pace, but so far the only money I've made with Google AdSense has kept my hosting fee's afloat. Yet whenever I surf the net I read websites and ads about how you can make or how others have made a ton of cash.

Of course there are legit ways to make money online. Google AdSense has made a lot of people a small amount of money. Sites like elance.com and getafreelancer allow professionals to offer their services at a price. Sites like eBay and Craigslist have also allowed people to make some coin with their garbage.

But how do you make money from your website. Thats a question I ask myself everyday. I do know this. First of all you need to offer the public something and it has to be rich in content. In the Internet content is king. This will not only attract visitors who will click your ads or buy your products, but it will also make for great link building.

Bloggers are always using other peoples content. If your content is good, than people will link to that information and you will gain not only visitors, but links and hopefully some pagerank. If you forget about the money side of things and focus on content, in theory the money will come naturally.