OK, here it is, my Tip for the fastest way to make money online. I will assume that you have a website or that you’re using a free website service such as Squidoo or HubPages. Having your own site and domain is much better of course. Let’s forget product for the time being, because this tip is relevant regardless of product. Drive 200 Visitors/Day To Your Sales Page Don’t Miss This! Drive 200 visitors/day to your Sales page. Not your squeeze page, but your sales page. This works for any market, assuming you’re in a decent niche. Lack of traffic is the “Achilles Heal” for every new online marketer. Without a steady stream of traffic, your product won’t matter. You’ve got to get live people, with money, to your sales page in consistent numbers every single day.

Working as an affiliate can be a way to make a lot of money fast since companies need a quick turnaround and constantly need marketing content as an edge above their competition. A company may have you displaying another company’s logo or banner your website. Every time a logo is downloaded you will be paid a percentage for the advertising space. Additionally, as an affiliate you can sell products or services or even write up information such as reviews. You will be paid fast for every click that is brought to the site that will bring in more projected traffic.

What I’m about to say will sound self-serving but I really don’t care because it’s the truth. You can either try to learn what to do by visiting thousands of websites and downloading tons of free ebooks or you can make money online fast by investing in real cutting edge information and leave your competition in the dust. There are tons of free resources available online. Most are just re-hashed information that won’t help you make money fast. If anything, these outdated resources only waste your time and exacerbate your frustration. What you really need is a Proven System with step-by-step instructions and then you need to take action.

If a consumer signs up for a deal such as mortgage consultation that was directed from your site you generate a commission or percentage of the sale. This can be a fast way to make money since you are essentially just placing an image or company information on your site and simply. It requires little work but a fast way to make money since you are working with another company.

Whether it’s an investment of cold cash or sweat equity, you have to invest in your business. The landscape of Internet Marketing is changing rapidly. What worked a few months ago is obsolete today. Current trends make it extremely difficult if not impossible for the individualist to compete with internet gurus whose campaigns like the machines of the industrial revolution crush the artisan.

Wake up! Realize that your success is not predicated on the latest fad product, guru launch, newest software or the likes. It’s based on your knowledge of the business, developing a system, testing the results, tweaking the system to drain every dollar you can out of the market and innovation.

Getting high quality traffic with Google Adwords begins with optimization of the campaign ad. Though it may sound difficult to manage for the new and less experienced marketers, it only requires making sense of the campaign’s basic principles. Many affiliate marketers and Adwords experts get astounding results with their ads because they know the techniques involved in maximizing their Adwords campaign. But you don’t have to acquire special skills and aptitude to bring out a set of keywords and copy that will work with your targeted market. It takes recognition that setting up a campaign is not a one-time project nor something that allows people to simply ‘wait’ for results to take place.

There are several ways, according to Perry Marshall, author of ‘The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords’ to track down, monitor, and evaluate the performance of your campaigns. This will eventually enable you to modify your strategies accordingly. Getting started with Google Adwords is now easier as Adwords experts provide useful strategies and techniques meant to turn your ad campaign into a resounding success. The process involved now becomes simpler.

So, how do you begin with it? First, come up with landing pages that are rich in content. This means that your pages provide your visitors or readers with the information they need after clicking your ad, have the right keywords and key phrases, and that it reflects what is specifically ‘featured’ in your campaign. With this in mind, you make it easier for Google Adwords to include your page in its search results. Moreover, it helps minimize the keywords cost-per-click.

Next, make sure to remove all the ‘negative keywords’ or those that invite unnecessary traffic to your site. You do not want to attract a different kind of market. To illustrate this, if your business involves selling of gardening tools and publications on gardening - naturally, you would not want to magnet people who want ‘free tips on gardening’ or ‘events in gardening’ since they are not the ones included in your site. With the help of Google Adwords Keywords Selector Tool, you can remove the words ‘free’ and ‘events’ to reach only your targeted market and generate the results you intended to achieve.

You’ll also want to read your competitor’s ads regularly. Making sure your ad stands apart from the competition is essential for a successful campaign; if your ad sounds or looks too similar to your competitor’s ad campaign, you could be missing a large portion of qualified traffic.

Brainstorm some creative ad copy ideas and think of unique angles to present similar information; make sure to use action-oriented words in your headline, and capitalize all the main words in your copy for a high-impact presentation. Monitoring your competition’s ads regularly gives you another advantage; this strategy can help you drill down which keywords may be performing better than others.

Lastly, remember that Google Adwords Campaign’s optimization is a dynamic process. It can provide you with quality click-through rates in your niche than your competitors. Get the results you want by using these simple strategies and by ensuring that your Google Adwords Campaign is doing well.

Squidoo is the world’s most popular site for creating an easy to build single page about things you are interested in. Books, blogs, online shops, your business or whatever.

This single page is called a Lens. Lenses are interactive, and can contain photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links.

A popular way to get found more on the web. Squidoo is in the top 500 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 250 most viewed in the United States.

Squidoo is a free way to earn money for your charity. Squidoo has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charity to date.

Squidoo has more than 700,000 pages, or Lens, and has been reviewed by the New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing and sites and papers around the world. Since its debut, Squidoo has been profiled in CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, and The Washington Post.

Squidoo is simple, free and easy. A lens can be treated much like a blog, except it is on a single subject, and can contain links to other external sites. Click here to visit my Lens

Users creating lenses are called lensmasters and can be anyone who wants to present information on a subject they care about. Squidoo is a great way to get targeted free traffic. Pages can achieve built-in popularity due to their association with thousands of other lens pages. Click here to visit my Squidoo Lens

Word of mouth at your fingertips. Squidoo is something you should have if you care about getting the word out about your business or charity.

Sometimes as a webmaster I feel a little overwhelmed with the number of options I have when it comes to marketing my website.

First off, there are web directories.  What I like about them is that they are free (at least most of them are).  this is great when you are just starting out and have no budget.  The “bad” thing about web directories is that it takes time for your listings to be approved, but what do you expect for something that is free?

My favorite of the free online marketing options is article submissions.  Basically, you write a short article (500-700 words) and submit them to article directories.  It can take a little time for them to be approved, but once they are, it can have a viral effect.  You see, other webmasters are looking for quality content for their sites, and they could use your article on their site.  They leave a backlink in the credits of the article, and that can help your site to get some traffic.

I know I only covered two types of Internet marketing, but it is a start.

I just recently setup my first website and I am pretty proud of myself.  It is nothing extravagant, but it will make a world of difference in my attempt to sell chain mail jewelry.

I have had some success offline with my business, but I thought that it was time to take it to a different level.  I hired a website design firm to help with the site setup and the experience has been great so far.

Now that I have the site up, it is time for me to learn Internet marketing.  I have downloaded some e-books on the subject and have joined some forums related to marketing a site.  It is nice to know that the forums will provide a support mechanism for me should I run into any problems, as I don’t have any friends that are building online businesses like I am doing.

Looks like the first chapter of the book I am starting to read is about the search engines.  I should really get back to learning how to market - the sooner I learn what to do, the sooner I can make some money.

One of the most overlooked keys to success online is traffic.  Most websites teach you how to create that beautiful masterpiece of a site, but they just don’t show you how to market the site properly.  So, what you end up with is a website that looks and works great, but that no one ever sees.

For any new website owner that I have the opportunity to meet, I try to stress to them that they need to promote their site before they can expect to get any sales or visitors.  Even something as casual as listing your site in a business directory can make a big difference - each link counts.

Instead of waiting for free link directory submissions to be approved, quite often I suggest using a link bid directory - quite often you can have instant approval and get a back link to your site quicker than you can blink your eye.

But traffic is not an overnight success - website marketing is something that has to be worked at.  Just make sure that when you are looking at your pretty site, you are not forgetting to market it too - it would be sad if no one were to see your masterpiece.

With a little bit of extra money in my pocket this month, I thought that I could maybe splurge a bit and promote some of my sites.  But, I just didn’t want to go overboard and spend all my money.

So, what I was looking for was some paid link directories that were affordable and that would get me the biggest bang for my buck.   They all look the same (visually), but they are all worth submitting to (based on my early results).  Here are some that I found:

• One Web Directory is a web directory that gives you a backlink for life for less than two bucks.  They are cheap and quick to approve your links (less than 24 hours for me).
• Web Directory One sure sounds similar to the one above.  Looks and sounds aside, it was another good two dollar investment.
• Lastly, I would suggest that you submit your site to the Best Web Directory.  With a name like that, you can expect the site to do very well.

Most of the time when I am promoting my sites, I like to promote them on older, established sites.  Search engines tend to weigh domain age when calculating the link value from a site.

Age aside, I also look for sites that have some good backlinks to them.  Check out the four sites that I submitted some of mine to today:

• Directory Dave was the first site that I found.  It does have some decent backlinks and a cheap price, so I thought that it would be a good place to start.
• I was drawn to the template at Directory of Sites.  It was simple and one of my favorite colors: orange!  That aside, it looked like a good inexpensive place to list my sites.
• The Iron Trace Web Directory seemed to have some solid backlinks to it.  Though it was similar looking to one of the above ones, looks have nothing to do with search engine ranking.  I really have no complaints about the price either.
• The Mitefind Paid Link Directory is the oldest of the bunch here - at just over 7 years.  Price wise, it is still cheap, and a different design to look at.  I bet the links submitted here will get picked up first.

Sometimes it can be hard to promote a website on a shoe string budget.  I have done it, and to be honest, most of the time, things didn’t go as well as I had thought.  But, when I did find a good place to list my site (that actually sent me traffic) I was always careful to note what it was for future use.

Check out the three following web directories that you should be submitting you site to for free:

• 4169 - Free Link Directory is one of my favorite places to submit my site to.  It seems to get approved quickly (at the time of this writing) and search engines tend to pickup on my link from there quickly too.
• The Best Damn Links Page just has a really cool name and it is hard to pass it up.  But for me, it is another site that your listing gets picked up super fast, resulting in more traffic to my site.
• Tower Promote Link Directory is a golden oldie.  I think it is the oldest site of the bunch - which means that search engines see it with a little more authority.  My links are indexed fast and I can usually see a difference in my rankings in just a couple of days.