There are many millions of websites as we all know and the aim of most is to make money for the owners. The way to the money is obviously to get your site in front of the maximum number of potential buyers of your products as possible. However, many of those who have tried know only too well it's not as easy as it sounds.

One of the problems with even getting started, is that there is almost too much information. Now, I know that sounds odd, I mean how can that be a problem? Perhaps I should say, the huge abundance of information can be confusing.

If you are new the internet, I'm sure you will have been here, eyes glazed over, hunch backed over the keyboard, (how many of you just straightened up!) Hand wizzing the mouse around, clicking everywhere, surfing among the sharks waiting to pounce on any unsuspecting newbies. Millions of pop ups and adverts '“ '˜increase traffic, free adverts here, submit your site to every search engine on the planet instantly with one click' etc, etc'¦ too much confusion and information overload!

So what do you do? Well, one thing I would say is, don't let all the hype and flashing signs confuse you so much you just want to give up. I understand that sometimes it's a whole maze of flash, banners, pop ups, jazzy graphics and signs. A bit like a mini Las Vegas, but in spite of it all there is a very simple way to get started.

If you have just started in this business, maybe you have just bought a domain name and not even got a website yet, this is going to be an eye opener. I'm sure many of you will have either managed to design a website yourself, or if not, have used one of the many companies who advertise online to do it for you. There are many options from very cheap to extremely expensive. I actually had my website made, fully set up and ready to go completely for free. I will tell you the way I got started later in this article.

However, don't give up because it really can be well worth the little bit of effort in the begining. The wonderful thing about having a good well connected website, is that it's always there working for you, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and no matter what you are doing, once it is established it can make you money - lot's of it!

Okay so many of you reading will fall into four main categories.

You may have a website already and want to get plenty of visitors

You have a product or service that you want to sell and are thinking of getting a website to advertise it.

You don't have a website at the moment, think you would like one, but even if you did you wouldn't know how to make money with it.

You don't have a website, don't want one, but still want to make some money.

Well the good news is, no matter where you are above, I can give you some great information right now on what to do. Yes you read the last point correctly, you can make money on the internet, even if you don't have a website! I will explain how to do that as well later.

If you already have a website, fantastic and welcome to the club! Those of you newbie night owls who have recently started your websites, take a break now, yes you need it, get up from your chair, rub your eyes, have a good stretch'¦ argh! Grab a drink and come back in 5 minutes and all will be revealed '“ I'll still be here!

Okay here goes'¦ We all know that one of the best ways to get hits on our sites is to get the highest possible ranking on the search engines. This has to be one of the cheapest as well, because once there and highly ranked, you know you will be receiving plenty of traffic and can relax, the cost is zero and the orders should roll in.

So how can you do that?

Obviously you need to have a good product but of course you know that. If your site is highly placed enough you could pretty much sell most things, but it's better if you have a good product or service as well'“ you will find trying to sell life size maps of the world don't sell too well, postage is high and folding them can be a nightmare!

You may or may not know that search engines like websites that have plenty of links pointing to them, the more links you have going to your site, the higher the rating you are likely to have with the search engine. So you need to try and get your website mentioned about on the internet as much as you can. In addition, you really want those other websites where your site is mentioned to be as high as possible on the search engines as well.

Something else worth pointing out is that although there are thousands of different search engines about, you'd be wise to concentrate your initial efforts on the most popular first. Why? Well think about it logically, which search engine springs to mind first for you? Will you go to LittleknownJoesearch.com or AltaVista, Yahoo, Google etc. If that's what you think of first, that's what most others will think as well.

The traditional way in which to get listed on a search engine is to submit your website and then wait for it to be approved and eventually one day, up it pops. How long it takes between doing a free submission and your site actually showing can be a matter of many months. So the traditional way is not going to normally give you instant results.

However, there is a great free and easy way to get submitted within a very short time. It took me just a few days to appear on the first page of Google and MSN and under a week to reach the number one spot on both. It's basically like sneaking in the back door, jumping the queue to the front and then not paying either!

Now, before you think I am about to tell you some devious and illegal method, don't worry, it's perfectly acceptable and is being used all the time by the top internet players. Believe it or not how to do this is right in front of your eyes'¦

Have you got it yet? All you have to do is write a simple article and then submit it to an ezine. There are thousands and thousands of online magazines, just like the one you are reading now. Make sure the ezine is a popular one, and if possible is involved in some way with the subject matter of your article and website. Check it has a good number of readers and make sure it is listed on the top search engines in which you want to appear.

For example, my website address is: www.Passive-Profits.com The article that took my site to the top of Google so quickly was called, Relaxed & Lucrative Living With Passive Profits. Try it now and you will see what I mean. Just go to Google and type in the words, passive profits. You will not need to put these in speech marks, just type them in alone and click on go. You will see that my article and website is shown at the number one spot out of a possible '500

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