Why do most people fail online? Why do they never make any money? Its because they think about money first and about their customers last. They create a few pages, stuff them with affiliate links and ads and then they wait for the money to roll in — usually they wait forever.
Here is a simple formula to build a successful money-making online business:
* Carefully research several niches before choosing a theme for your site. You should be passionate about the subject and there must be a hungry market for it.
* Start building valuable content for both, your site visitors and the search engines.
* Build more content, distribute articles, participate in targeted forums… this allows you to establish yourself as the expert in your field, to win the trust of your audience and to attract free, targeted traffic from the search engines.
* Add new marketing strategies. Publish an e-zine to build your customer base, to establishes yourself as the expert in your niche, to gain trust…
* Once you have a site of at least 40 content pages with at least 50 unique visitors per day, start monetizing: Add affiliate links, Google AdSense,...