If you’re brand new to website ownership, your site is launched and you’re not getting any visitors or website traffic… It’s time to tell the search engines your website exists. These numbers are not exact by any means, but depending on your market, 40-60% of all search engine traffic that is sent by any website will come from Google. Yahoo will send another 30-40% and MSN will follow closely behind Yahoo. There are a number of smaller search engines that both humans and the search engine robots use to create listings and links, but these are the big three. Perhaps the easiest...

It’s time to switch things up a bit on makemoneywithyourideas.com. For the next few weeks I’ll be talking about website traffic; getting qualified and targeted visitors to your online business and a few tricks to website promotion. You know, whether you’re building your site for advertising revenue (you create content and your advertisers pay space to be ’seen’ on your content), you’re building your site for affiliate revenue (you promote other people’s products or services for a commission), or you’re building your site to make sales of your products...

This is funny, and made me feel a little ‘old’. The email author wants to promote free products, using a one page website (that is simply a subscribe here form) and use a feed to do so. Promoting A One Page Website with An RSS Feed – Ask Laura (October 22, 2005) Maam, is it possible to use rss feed to promote some freebies? My site is

Confused About Which You Should Use? – Ask Laura (12/22-23/04) A customer isn’t sure whether or not to use a blog or an rss feed for his marketing website. It takes some time to hash out the details on his target market, the website he wants to promote, his marketing objectives, and his available time. Hello Laura: I am looking for more enlightenment please! I have followed your advice and started an RSS feed. I followed it again and learned from Rick Butts on (using free) blogs (to gain rank and positioning). But now I am not sure when to use RSS or Blog and how best to tie the two...

This email writer is asking how to make money online with free articles and a Google Adsense account. Although this may have been a great way to make some decent cash a few years ago – too many competitors exist now and the work getting any site established in the search engines using duplicate content is very difficult. Earning With Adsense and Free Articles – Ask Laura (May 22, 2006) Hi Laura, I have a question that never has been answered clearly by others so I thought maybe you might be able to enlighten me. My daughter and I are working together …edited location… and...