Thousands of hopeful Internet marketers fail to make any money online because they get lost with all the strategies and the hundreds of options available. They will start a project, only to shelve it for the latest plan or fad. They start on the right track but get distracted with all the new information and then lose their way.

You need discipline to get over this common problem and then you’ll beat it, then you can focus on finishing projects and make serious money online.

The best way to make serious money through Internet marketing is to come up with a structured and detailed plan of action. Once you know what you’re doing, it’s much easier to stay focused and reach your goals.

Have you made a real plan? a step by step plan of how you’re going to reach your goals, not a rough guide, but a clear detailed plan, if you have, well done! If you haven’t, plan one out today.

If you can’t put the effort in so that you rank high in the search engines and receive your share of that free traffic, can you still survive?

Yes, it is still possible to survive, there are a number of different ways to get traffic to your site. You can use PPC, (pay per click) or social book marking sites or similar web 2.0 methods. Generally it’s going to cost you as you’ll need to do a lot of advertising to get a good number of visitors to your site.

This is why most people try for the SEO option of getting a high search engine ranking, in the long run, it can work out a lot cheaper if you do it right.

Quality content and good backlinks.

People think you can put any old PLR content on a website or blog template and make loads of cash with three adsense blocks on each page. The truth is, that this wont make you a penny.

If you use PLR content without rewriting it, then it’s probably out on the web already and the search engines know about it, Google will know what you’re trying to do and you’ll be punished.

Quality Pays, visitors will know instantly if you upload trash and disappear as soon as your page loads. If you rewrite your articles and content and construct a good looking website or blog, then you have more of a chance that your visitors might stay, read your content and click on your ads, and pay you another visit some time.

If you’re after Virtual Real Estate, then a good site to visit is Sitepoint. You’ll find well established sites for sale here along with sites only just been created.

You could try eBay, but most of these seem to be templates from people trying to make some quick cash.

If you’d like to build a portfolio of well established websites, then keep an eye on Sitepoint.

They’re closing the doors to this real soon, so hopefully this is still available by the time you read it.

If you want 90% of the work done for you in building virtual real estate then this is for you. You receive a package once a month on a niche and the website is ready to upload to your own hosting. You will need to purchase a domain name and follow the tips I’m going to give you further down. Take a look at this niche in a box. Like I said before most of the work is done for you and if you put the packages together under one domain name you can make a super silo full of content which Google loves.

One tip I will give you is rewrite the articles that come with the package before you upload them to your website. You don’t need to rewrite all the articles before you upload them, just a couple articles for each section. There’s usually 15 sections per package or 15 mini websites put another way. This will make your content unique and as you add each months package to your domain, so you will be adding fresh content, which will drive more visitors to your site, generating more clicks on adsense.

You’ll need to purchase a domain name like helpfulguides.com or something along those lines.

For more details visit niche in a box

Internet Marketing is time consuming, with plenty of Article writing, website building and SEO work, you’ll find it hard to do it all on your own.

Most of this work I get someone else to do, I spend all my time creating my sites as I like them, if I need any help in building sites, then I use a freelancer to help me, I also use freelancers to write and rewrite articles. I use a freelancer for directory submission, all of this saves me hours of time and for very little cost if you know where to look.

Open up Google, type in ‘digitalpoint’ (without the quotes) you’ll need the forum section where you’ll find everything to make your internet marketing life a helluva lot easier.

From the Digital Point Forum page, scroll down to Buy, Sell or Trade and you’ll then find the services section.

Now save this page to your favorites!!!

Off page inbound links are the best way to improve your search engine ranking. But do not forget about good SEO on your web pages, this still helps, unfortunately there’s loads of rumours, so here’s two methods you must avoid.

1, Keyword stuffing, using the same keyword through-out your site, over and over again, keywords should be used naturally.

2, Filling your meta tags with keywords, this use to work years ago, but now the search engines hardly take any notice of them.

We have just opened a new section about Virtual Real Estate, you will find information on classified ads, ebay, PPC, CRM, Craigslist, Joint Ventures, Freelancing, website building and a whole lot more.

If you haven’t started looking into virtual real estate, with the way the financial markets are now, it a good time to start.

You can purchase a domain name for around $8 – 9 and hosting can be bought for as low as $2 a month.

A good place to buy your domain names is namecheap.com or godaddy.com and for hosting try hostgator or Servage they will give you a whopping 510 GB webspace and 5010 GB Data Transfer. Enough for over 500 websites.

Until next time, take a look at our Virtual Real Estate Section

In this post I will give you two excellent programs to add ebay auctions to your website, or to create a website from scratch.

The first one is called phpBay Pro if you click on the next link you’ll see the script working, golf products this is the wordpress version of the script.

First thing you do is add wordpress to your website, if you have a good host, then you will already have the option in your control panel. Once it’s up and running, login via the admin area and add the phpBay Pro script to the plugin folder, I usually do this by ftp then activate it in the admin section of wordpress and then you’re ready to add a short piece of code to the post section in the admin area.

You need to setup the categories your require and once you’ve added the script to the post and selected the categories it will list those ebay auctions.

The script you add to the post section looks like this [phpbay]game, 100, 72493, nintendo[/phpbay] game is the word which it picks out of the title, 100 is how many auctions it will show, the 72493 number is the ebay category that the game word will be selected from. The nintendo is the word not to show in the auctions, there are many variations to the above, but with this little bit of script you can easily built a superb looking website selling things off of ebay.

The second script is called ‘Build A Niche Store‘ I will write up a post soon on how this script works.

A company well worth signing up for as an affiliate is eBay, they have brought their affiliate network in house over the last 12 months. You can find it by searching for ‘eBay Partner Network’ via the search engines, it’s the first result in Google, in my next post I will be sharing a couple of very good programs to use to add ebay auctions to your site.

If you already have a website already, then you can easily add ebay auctions to that site and earn when someone joins ebay or bids on an auction after coming through your site.

I have about 12 ebay sites making good money, you need to do your homework by choosing a good niche, select a good domain name and once you’ve built your site use article marketing and backlinks to bring visitors to your site.

My next post will talk about a couple of programs which you can use to build quality ebay sites.