“My website is ready and I’ve spent thousands of dollars on it, but I’m not making any money!” I’ve heard it a hundred times or more… Learn How to Start Marketing Your Website – Ask Laura (July 2007) After spending all that money for a custom designed site, or forking over cash for a turnkey website in a hot market, you realize that just because you’ve built it (or had it built), doesn’t mean they’ll come (the customers). So now you’re taking the next step which is to learn about marketing and advertising your website or online...

Submitting your website to search engine directories is an on-going task that should be revisited bi-annually at least – no matter how well established or aged the site may be. If your site is new, set aside 20 minutes per week to submit to a few more directories. Most of the directories I’ll point you to are reviewed by actual humans so take care with your submissions and make sure your site is in top shape before you submit it. If you can afford the time and care, your website will see plenty of traffic for years to come. If you’re short on time don’t buy into software...

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 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...

Not Making Money Online – Ask Laura (06/06) Gerry is asking about a WordPress script that I promoted a few months back over at Smartzville – see the free how-to set up an online store with WordPress and merchant datafeed videos here – although I’ve had decent success with my online stores, a few others have not. The clues to the differences lie below… ********* Hi Laura I’ve had some WordPress Datafeed stores set up for over 2 months now and they haven’t been indexed by any search engines (although they have been visited). I thought these blogs were search...