Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? Have you wondered what it would be like to get up every morning and be in control of your financial destiny without having to depend on a job? Perhaps you enjoy your job and you simply want to start a part-time business from home to supplement your income but the problem is you have very little extra money to invest in a new venture.

Building niche sites is all the rage these days. <br><br> The basic strategy is very simple. Find a niche market that isn't oversaturated. Develop a list of related keywords people are searching on. Then write an article optimized for each one of your keywords. Once you have your articles, upload them to your site. Monitize your site with affiliate links and Adsense.

Nowadays, more and more people are becoming a home based business owner. If you make a search on 'home based business' at Yahoo, it returned a total of 51,000,000. No, I didn't put any extra zeros. It's 51 million! Most of them are promoting business opportunities and others provide home based business information.

Affiliate programs are a great way to earn extra money or even a good living if you do things right. But unfortunately, there are alot of people out there that know this and will do everything they can to swindle you into selling their products while not having to pay you a dime. There are some merchants that view affiliates as a source of free traffic and free marketing.

Link popularity is the number of relevant quality inbound links pointing to your website. Most major search engines use link popularity as part of their algorithm which helps to determine the relevance of your website.

1. Get a high Page Rank in Search Engines. It is important to optimize your website for best results: <br><br> Title Meta Tags should include your website's top keywords. For example, if you have a Hawaii travel site it should include the keywords: Hawaii travel <br><br> Description Meta Tags should also include the same keywords <br><br> Keyword Meta Tags should include your keywords in various forms, but not more than 5 times, otherwise; the search engines will penalize you for spam. For example; cheap Hawaii travel, airfare to Hawaii, Hawaii hotels, cheap travel, Hawaii vacations, <br><br> Use the Alt tags of images to emphasize your keywords. For example, a picture of palm tree could be alt="Hawaii travel plan" <br><br> Submit to search engines monthly, but not more than that, unless you make major changes to content. Be economical, buy and use your own software to submit to search engines. For example, Advanced Site Submitter software submits to the main 66 search engines.( see http://www.webmastersprofitpak.net) <br><br> Be sure to include a paragraph about your website which includes your key words towards the top of your website's home (index page) <br><br> 2. Join Online Forums<br> ...<br> ...<br>

Google announced in January 2005 significant changes in their popular AdWords Pay-per-Click System (PPC). In future only unique URLs per page will be displayed. If several advertisers uses the same URL (i.e affiliates of the same program), only the one with the best Ad will be displayed.

A newsletter can be a wonderful, economical way to communicate with prospects, customers, employees or distributors. Just follow these ten easy steps for newsletter success.

Yes, you can make money with an adult pay per click affiliate program. I know because I get checks every month in excess of a thousand dollars. These type of affiliate programs have a bad rap for not paying webmasters and accusing them of cheating. Stick with trusted sponsors and follow the affiliate guidelines and terms of the sponsor and you will make money.

There are those that get on the computer one night and find that all of their Web pages have disappeared from Google. While, others are still in the search engine index, but don't rank high for nothing, not even for their Web site's name. It's a Web site owners worst nightmare, getting kicked out of the search engines.