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There are many different ways you can make money online and one of the best is creating an online business. This is much simpler than you may think it consists of creating a presence, marketing the presence, and earning money from the traffic that arrives. The first thing you should do is begin creating presences. This is difficult in the beginning, but after a while of creating new content and publishing it online you will find it easier and easier. Creating the presence is only the first step of an online business next comes internet marketing and is far more difficult and time consuming. This is what will separate you from the rest of the websites within your niche. A quality internet marketing campaign should be set up for the long term and only consist of whitehat methods. Do not fall for easy black hat techniques which focus on tricking the search engines. These techniques will usually end up getting your website banned. The final step of online business is monetizing the traffic that comes to your presence.

Creating content should be the focus of your online business. This will be the greatest source of visitor satisfaction, incoming links, and traffic generation. There are many free places you can go to publish content the first being your own presences. Use free resources such as blogger.com, squidoo.com, and wordpress.com to publish content on a frequent basis. Once you have the content published use external resources such as article directories to market the article further and link back to the websites which have monetization links. This will help them begin ranking higher in the major search engines which will generate more traffic and a higher income for your online business. Create content that is within a general niche. This will lead to you becoming known as an expert within your niche and webmasters as well as your audience taking your presence and content more seriously.

Driving traffic to a presence will take much work. This is the hardest part about being a webmaster, but if you are one of the lucky few who are able to master search engine optimization and rank first in Google for competitive keyterms making money will not be nearly as difficult. Search out Google for basic free SEO tutorials to get started. Once you get the basics down use article directories, blogs, and forums to fine tune your skills. The more time you spend learning about search engine optimization the more success you will have when implementing it into your online business. If you are not sure where to begin link building I recommend using linkmarket.net for link exchanges, article directories which you can find by searching for "list of article directories", and submitting to the free directories at directorycritic.com. These resources will give you access to thousands and thousands of free one way keyword optimized links.

Monetization will also be an important part of creating an income for your online business. There are many resources online which include affiliate marketing, ppc publishing, and selling your own products.