Making money online isn?t an exact science and how much you actually make will depend on a lot of factors depending on what you are trying to make money from. However, most people that are trying to make money online will have a website that sells a product or service. A lot of people set up their websites expecting hundreds and thousands of visitors to flood to their website and start buying what they are offering. Even if you don?t have anything to sell and you are just relying on people clicking on ads on your site, you will need a lot of visitors. This is where SEO comes in. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is one of the main ways to gain visitors to your website. There are a number of techniques for optimizing your website for the search engines and here are a few of them: Make sure you have great content: This is the most important one of them all. Whether you are selling something or blogging about something, you need to have content that people will love. This will of course be great for the end user but Google and other search engines also know great content when they see it and will rank you higher. Get good backlinks: One of the main ways that Google can tell whether your site is good or not is by the number (and quality) of backlinks that you have. These are basically links from other relevant sites on the internet which act as a vote of confidence for Google. There is a lot to learn about this area but basically, you should be spending a couple of hours a week doing this. Have a good on site structure: There are countless websites on the internet that lose the interest of visitors and search engines by having a poor design and structure. This is extremely important and if you don?t know how to do this, you should refer to an SEO company or do some research. There is a lot to learn about SEO so if you don?t have the time, it is best to refer to an expert.
