Often times people set out to work at home with great ambition, and the best of intentions. For instance, they reserve their web address, come up with a niche based product or service to sell, create a website, find the best hosting solutions, and secure a means of accepting payments. After all of this, they are distraught when nobody is purchasing their products or services. What could they be missing?
Unfortunately, the problem is website traffic, and the fact that they are not getting much, if any of it. If people do not see your website, they cannot buy your product or service, and your sales will suffer. The truth is that online traffic is the biggest obstacle to those who set out to make money online.
Prior to 1998, all your really had to do was to submit your website to the search engines, and you would get indexed and start receiving traffic. Then Google came along and changed the game. Google was the first search engine to start looking at the amount of quality one way links pointing at a particular website's relevance, using a fairly complex algorithm.
Over the past decade, the complexion of the Internet has changed. Not only have the search engines become more and more complex, and less and less predictable, the number of work at home websites vying Internet traffic traffic has skyrocketed, thus increasing the competition. The evolution of search engine filters have made sure that the right audience sees the right message. This is to ensure that you do not disturb people who do not want your ads. Traffic providers such as Bing, Yahoo, and Google have spent millions of dollars so that they can decipher junk content from real content, even if us humans cannot.
One of the best things about the Internet is that anyone with unrestricted Internet access can view any website from anywhere in the world. However, while there are approximately 6 billion people on the planet Earth, with about 1 billion of these people using the Internet, most websites have very little traffic, and make $20 to $50 a month. This is not the best news to anyone who want to make money online.
We know that the problem is website traffic, or the lack thereof. What do we need to do to fix the problem?
One thing that I can assure you of is that there is no secret, automatic traffic source, as some may claim. In order to get traffic to your website, you need to be proactive. You must take the myriad of traffic generating techniques, and put all of them into your advertising portfolio. These include, but are not limited to, forum posting, article directory submission, search engine optimization, and affiliate marketing. You must rely exclusively on the search engines to provide traffic for you. Doing so would be neglecting approximately 90% of the traffic which is available to you.
A commitment to work at home is just that, a commitment. In order to experience success, you have to be in it for the long haul, and money cannot be your sole motivator. Furthermore, you need to keep track of which marketing methods work, and which should be scrapped. It take a fairly large time commitment to make money online. However, those who are currently working at home and making money online have already put in this commitment and are now reaping the benefits. What you do today will shape your tomorrow. Just remember that if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Your drive and determination will separate you from the pack. - 31394
Unfortunately, the problem is website traffic, and the fact that they are not getting much, if any of it. If people do not see your website, they cannot buy your product or service, and your sales will suffer. The truth is that online traffic is the biggest obstacle to those who set out to make money online.
Prior to 1998, all your really had to do was to submit your website to the search engines, and you would get indexed and start receiving traffic. Then Google came along and changed the game. Google was the first search engine to start looking at the amount of quality one way links pointing at a particular website's relevance, using a fairly complex algorithm.
Over the past decade, the complexion of the Internet has changed. Not only have the search engines become more and more complex, and less and less predictable, the number of work at home websites vying Internet traffic traffic has skyrocketed, thus increasing the competition. The evolution of search engine filters have made sure that the right audience sees the right message. This is to ensure that you do not disturb people who do not want your ads. Traffic providers such as Bing, Yahoo, and Google have spent millions of dollars so that they can decipher junk content from real content, even if us humans cannot.
One of the best things about the Internet is that anyone with unrestricted Internet access can view any website from anywhere in the world. However, while there are approximately 6 billion people on the planet Earth, with about 1 billion of these people using the Internet, most websites have very little traffic, and make $20 to $50 a month. This is not the best news to anyone who want to make money online.
We know that the problem is website traffic, or the lack thereof. What do we need to do to fix the problem?
One thing that I can assure you of is that there is no secret, automatic traffic source, as some may claim. In order to get traffic to your website, you need to be proactive. You must take the myriad of traffic generating techniques, and put all of them into your advertising portfolio. These include, but are not limited to, forum posting, article directory submission, search engine optimization, and affiliate marketing. You must rely exclusively on the search engines to provide traffic for you. Doing so would be neglecting approximately 90% of the traffic which is available to you.
A commitment to work at home is just that, a commitment. In order to experience success, you have to be in it for the long haul, and money cannot be your sole motivator. Furthermore, you need to keep track of which marketing methods work, and which should be scrapped. It take a fairly large time commitment to make money online. However, those who are currently working at home and making money online have already put in this commitment and are now reaping the benefits. What you do today will shape your tomorrow. Just remember that if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Your drive and determination will separate you from the pack. - 31394
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Website visitors are essential for those of us who work at home, in order to make money online, we need to do what others are not doing, or at least do it better.
