subject: Article Marketing To Make Money Online Instead of Blogs? [print this page] Article Marketing To Make Money Online Instead of Blogs?
What if you spent a lot of time, even money, building a website that attracted no one? It's not unusual for a budding online entrepreneur to start of his or her efforts to make money writing on the Internet by setting up a website. If you come from a technology background you are used to setting up servers and networks. Your professional background screamed "build a website" to make money online. Before you charge down that path, perhaps you should take baby steps and try article marketing to make money online.
Sure, you can spend your first year figuring out bits and pieces of coding HTML and becoming competent using Microsoft Frontpage, NUV or similar product. Then there are the graphics, flash intros, logos, banners, blinking signs, running kitties and similar 'eye candy' (or eye pain depending on your vantage point.) You'll spend the vast majority of your time dealing with these technical aspects and not so much time creating content.
Sure, in the first 6 months of your online apprenticeship you manage to create a website full of... stuff. All the gizmo things that you thought were cool. Your busy little website is not going anywhere fast in the rankings because it is too lean on content. Content drives sales by attracting traffic through search engine ranking.
You see, even though you thought the Internet was all about making money, it really is a Big Information Highway. Have you met anyone lately that doesn't turn to Google to look up something - or did they run off to the library to do research?
Now, don't get me wrong, you can make plenty of money online, but that has really never been the overall purpose of the web. It is all about getting information out to the world.
