You can make money online. It is that simple. If you are seeking to supplement your income or are looking for a full income opportunity, you can find a way online. You can have the time and freedom you dream about and it is easier than you think.

Maybe you have already figured out a way to make money online. Maybe it is in form of a website. You may have already created a great looking website full of outstanding content, but now what? Where do you go from here? Where are all your visitors?

You have put a lot of time into building a really great site. You have thought of everything. It is well organized, full of information, cool features and above all it is user friendly. All this work is pointless without traffic.

Word of mouth can work somewhat, but there is a better internet marketing structure marketing strategy. This is article marketing. Article marketing is using well written articles on topics related to your site content or niche, implementing keywords in the article body and publishing them to online directories.

The first step in article marketing is to establish yourself as an expert in your niche. You do this by writing articles about topics that you are knowledgeable about. You want to create a reader base that will turn to you when they are looking for information on your topic.

Implementing keywords is how users will find you in a search. Keywords are tricky. You want to use relevant keywords enough that the search engines will pick them up. If you use them too much, your site will be seen as a spam site.

You articles should be kept fresh and updated. In order to be an expert, you must be up to date on what is going on. If your information is old, you will loose your readeras interest. Remember to include a couple links that will bring readers to your site. Do not overload the article with links. A simple author box with 2 links at the end of the article is efficient.

Working from home is as simple as turning on your computer. You can live your dream of becoming financially independent and free of the boss man. You can stay at home with your family and let your website do the work for you.

By now I think most people in the world know about blogs.

What most don’t know as there is a great income to be made as well for free.

Rob Benwell is only a mere 24 years old and has already made several million dollars. Early in 2006 he shared his secrets with the world in his highly successful Blogging To The Bank ebook and has made making money online a whole lot easier for everyone.

Just over two years after the success of his first book and over 20,000 copies sold of it and the 2007 2.0 update he is now releasing his third version of Blogging to the Bank helping to wet our appetites and keep the fat bucks rolling in.

I got this book as soon as I could and it covers quite a lot of new information and techniques to adapt your blog to the new demands of the major search engines. Many of the techniques in the old book are now dated and don’t work so well. This is why Blogging To The Bank 3.0 is a godsend.

Also this guy doesn’t consider himself to be a guru?, he’s just a normal guy who wants to help the little guys out. I find this a nice change as he doesn’t talk down to you like most of the other guys do. He explains everything in a nice simple manor so everyone can understand.

Saying that when he goes off on one, it may take a few reads until you get it but when you do it’s just shear genius. Some of the topics in my opinion could have been covered a little more, then others went into great detail. You also get his 5 Blogging Commandments For 2009 that you must follow to give you blogs the greatest success in 2009 and keep them future proofed. This should be printed out and put on the wall of every online marketer without a doubt! His book starts off with market research (so that you are making the most of your time) to building your blogging empire. Everything is covered in this new outing that helps bloggers withtodays online issues regarding making the all mighty search engines happy.

Final Verdict: if you are out there in the blogging world and want to make money the easy way then I highly recommend Blogging To The Bank 3.0.

Why work harder than you need to as the new techniques are there ready for you to simply implement.

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I”ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc? experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a guru? (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of, well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven?t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from, scratch?, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

You know that you have expertise in your field, and that expertise should be drawing in customers. But how can you convince people of your expertise? For some consumers, ads touting the virtues of your company will suffice. Other consumers need more convincing. Writing informational articles is a great way to reach these consumers.

A well-written and well-researched document that discusses your business and its products speaks to a different demographic of consumers than most ads do. Consumers who prefer to do their own research and become knowledgeable on a topic before making purchases will respond well to this form of advertising.

When writing, keep in mind your target audience. Ensure that the article is not just full of jargon and blatant advertising, but instead include facts and information that a discerning consumer will appreciate. The goal is to let the consumer feel empowered by the information to make an informed decision to choose your product.

After youave completed your article, there are many places on the web you may consider storing your document. The list is quite extensive, however you must keep in mind that many sites have rules that listed documents must comply to.

First, make sure you read all the directions. Look in particular for restrictions on length and formatting. Find out if the site allows links or whether they need pain text only. With a few small changes, you should be able to use the same document on several different sites for maximum exposure.

An alternative to spending the time doing the legwork and research on writing is to instead hire an internet marketing company to do the work for you. Such companies can take the details of your company and produce well-written documents that follow the rules of the document websites.

An effective way to promote and earn money from your articles is through the use of an internet marketing affiliate program. When you join such a program, for a nominal fee others will post links to your articles, thereby sending more traffic your way.

Although it’s a relatively new marketing paradigm, many businesses have already found that publishing articles is an effective way to market their businesses worldwide. All you have to do is use the expertise that you already have in your field, and follow the guidelines that given here for writing, listing and promoting your articles. Soon you’ll be on your way to higher sales!