To Make Money Online there are no short cuts. You sound like someone who is genuinely commited to doing some work to get there. As you asked for some guidence here is a short outline of what is necessary to be successful online:
Whether you are looking to make Money Online or you want to promote an existing off-line business online the same principles apply.
Any form of business online involves Internet Marketing.
The principles behind Internet Marketing are very simple.
Basically there are two aspects to internet marketing.
Firstly you need to establish an online presence in the form of a website.
Secondly you need to optimize your website so that people will be directed to your website via the search engines.
Creating a Website.
You have two choices
1] Hire a website developer to create your website.
2] Develop your own website.
Note: If you hire a website developer make sure they are going to develop an optimized site for you. The greatest looking site is no good to you if people can’t find it! There is a big difference between a website designer and a website developer.
Important factors to consider when developing your own website.
On page optimization.
• Search engines do not recognize images, flash objects or audio as content.
• Search engines will penalize you for duplicate content and reward you for original content.
• Link all the pages of your website to your home page.
• Avoid more than two levels in your navigation – search engine spiders usually won’t travel to the third level.
• Avoid dark colours – dark colours are slow to load.
• Add a pertinent title and description to all your pages within the Meta tags.
• Make sure that the keywords within your page description are repeated within the page content at least three times but do not exceed 60% of the words within the content.
• Create an “opt in” page on your site to enable customer communication in the future via RSS or email.
• Select a suitable domain name.
• Select reliable, upgradeable hosting. Also ensure that the hosting company has compatible extensions for your applications installed on the server.
Off Page Optimization.
Search engines will rank your sites according to the amount of other authority sites that vote for your site. When an authority site links to your site it is counted as one vote.
When your site links out to another site the search engines deduct one vote.
Therefore understandably webmasters are reluctant to link to any site that does not link back to them.
The best way to get one way links back to your own site is to write and submit articles with a link pointing back to your site. Comments in blogs and forums which allow signatures are also a good source.
This is a lot of work but well worth the effort. Once your site shows up within the first page of the major search engines you will get lots of organic traffic to your site. This avoids the heavy costs of advertising your site on the internet or running email marketing campaigns.
What Can You Promote On Your Website?
The short answer is anything you want.
You can create and sell your own products.
You can sell your own or other people’s services or a membership which provides a service.
You can monetize your site with Google Ads or other ads.
There are millions of other people’s products you can sell via your website for a commission.
Important Note: Many companies provide marketing sites for their products and will pay you a commission if you make a sale by sending people to their site. This is fine as long as you do the promotion via your own site.
Sending people directly to other company sites via email campaigns or advertising means you are spending all your resources building someone else’s business not your own business. By promoting individual products in this manner your costs in time and money will be higher than your profits.
WARNING: Any one who requests money from you for the privilege to promote THEIR business online is a scammer!
• MyScribeWeb.com membership provides the resources for all of the above – including all the code for a ready made fully customizable, monetized website.
• MyScribeWeb.com membership also provides Writers/Authors with the facility to place manuscript examples online for publishers to view. This is done via the profile pages which are hosted by MyScribeWeb.com. Resources are also available for Writers who want to “Publish On Demand” or Self Publish.
Hope this helps you to get started on the right track.
