Overloaded With Info... Where to Start?

Regularly add original quality content, yea you will have to spend time off site getting links too, but not until you have well over 10 pages of content. A young site has to keep paddling to maintain search ranking, ranking for subtantial established sites sticks better.
Developing faster, better quality writing abilities may be as important as some technical skills. Since the last Google (Panda) update, unoriginal content is not as effective.

There are as many ways to make a living online, as there are members of this forum. Everyone does it slightly differently. What works for someone else won't always work for you.

That being said, there are general principles, which are always the same.

You can setup a website as :-
- a squeeze page to get subscribers to a list
- a product review site
- an authority site
- a mix of all three

you can drive people to your site with :-
- SEO
- Banner advertising
- PPC advertising
- all sorts of other advertising
- social media
- lot of other ways

you can earn money from your site with :-
- clickbank products
- adsense revenue
- Amazon products
- your own product
- your own service
- CPA offers

You can not have a website at all, and drive traffic to CPA offers etc, with advertising and other means.

This is only scratching the surface, but gives an idea of the possibilities out there. The trick for those just starting is to pick one which suits your personality and lifestyle, and run with it, until it works!

If you have no money, and some time available, then SEO to a website may suit very well, as you can do a lot of the work yourself.

If you have some starting money, you may like to learn PPC advertising, which will take a lot of your money to learn, but can be very profitable.

Something which helped me after years of struggling, was finding someone who had a successful model, and who was earning what I wanted to earn. I bought their course, and stuck to it. Guess what, it worked!

I had blown a lot of money on my education in the mean time, and it would have been easy to give it up, but there are so many helpful, supportive people here on the forum, that show that success is only just around the corner..

Good Luck with it, anything is possible!

Out of all the information that you have overloaded yourself on, what interests you. Only you can decide what is the best match for your interests and skills. Once you make that decision, learn everything you can about that method and "crush it"

Take your time and try not to snap up the next big thing just because its warapped up nicely with a shiny launch via clickbank and 100s of affiliates ramming it down your throat.

There is alot of info online and on here, enough to make your head spin so my best advice is defo take your time with everything.

A great way to start is with a nice looking squeeze page in a niche that interests you and build traffic to it via manual link building, use the warrior for hire section and fiverr for traffic help if you need it, I have a list in the gaming niche as i enjoy the xbox and playing online and have been building it for over 2 years now.

The next step is develop a site around the list your building as you will already have a targeted following when your site launches.

This way you see results by having people sign up to your list, not necessarily finacial right away but it gives you some groundwork to build from, then monetize the site and market to your list with offers or just recommend they pay you a visit.

There are many different ways people market products or there own, but stick to a niche you actually have an interest in that way its easier to stay on course and not just see dollar signs.

Good luck.

Within my IM course, I teach all what you need to know to succeed online using methods I developped within the last 11 years, however like another poster said, we all have different methods and one will work for someone and not someone else, and as another member posted, once you like the business model, stick with it to death! Only focus on the method you prefer most where you may actually have some talent wouldn't hurt either.

Bernard St-Pierre

One of the things us SEO people forget is the fact that quality is king. Things go viral because people like the content and are willing to share it. You might want to just focus on one at a time, just go for it

Hey EdFriedrich, my advice is to get around with the successful peoples. You might be need an accountability buddy or set up a mastermind group around 3 - 4 persons.

My advice is to find something that you can easily start off with and focus on that. Minimize your time on the forum and make yourself work rather than browse or else you will get bogged down by too much information and you will take no action.

Ed....

You have a lot of things going for you. Having a budget of any AMOUNT is fantastic. Pick one method, one strategy, and stick to it for at least a month. Do a little research before you make your selection. But after you have decided on it, give it your all.

Stay focused. Take lots of action And you'll do fine.

JoeMack

Hey Ed,

I would strongly urge you to start building an email list. This will ensure you can get traffic to new products and sites you are promoting for FREE. Also know that it is much easier to sell to someone who has already bought from you, than it is to sell to someone new. So after you have a list of people who know you, like you, and trust you, it is much easier to monetize that list. You have to build a relationship with your list and over deliver value with what you are giving away or selling. Try using PLR products to build your list and monetize it. Build a squeeze page and give away something of value for free. There are lots of reasons to build a list. It is what all the highly effective marketers do. I think too many people, especially newbies overlook this vital step. You can also use affiliate products from clickbank to monetize your list. And don't forget to have a follow up series of emails ready to go to send out to your list when they sign up. Also make a buyers list. Also use an autoresponder to manage your list. Hope this will help you!

Peace and Love,

Anthony Spencer