Monetize Your Site

I have been following some tips from a major Internet marketer. In today’s ‘lesson’ he talked about buying a website and boosting the average daily income from an average of about $10 to around $30 in the first month of ownership. He talks about the importance of keywords and targeted traffic. Using the right keywords is very important, and providing backlinks using those keywords is the ‘key’ to search engine traffic. Search engine traffic is some of the best traffic that you can have to a site. That traffic is looking for the information that you are providing on the site and it is free.

There may be a bit more to this story, though. As a proven Internet marketer this gentleman may have access to some CPM ads to which the hopeful marketer does not have access. I do not know that this is the case. Having a good stream of targeted traffic is definitely the way to making a steady income from the Internet. Getting this traffic for free by understanding and using keywords is the way to have a high return on investment.

Another good point of this lesson is that you are considering buying an existing site you must look at the source of the existing traffic to that site. A seller may be able to get high traffic counts to a site, particularly in the short term, by paid advertising or social bookmarking. The social bookmarking traffic is likely to be very poorly targeted and the paid ad campaign may be designed to pull a lot of traffic by using keywords that are not well supported by the site.