Online Marketing

Submit your website to Search Engines
Submitting your site to the search engines that really matter is a fairly easy process. Be sure to follow their instructions. Some Search Engines request that you submit only your Home Page URL rather than every one of your pages. Failure to follow the instructions can result in lowered rankings or even in being blacklisted from a Search Engine. DMOZ (Directory Mozilla/Open Directory Project) A DMOZ listing is "Critical" because it will get you on other partner sites. (AOL, Netscape, Google, Lycos, DirectHit, HotBot and hundreds of others): http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
Here are the submission URLs for the rest of the Big Boys.
Google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
It may take up to a month for your site to show up on Google. Since Google also uses DMOZ as a guide to its indexing efforts, submission to DMOZ might speed that up a little. Submit your website to both.
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com Just click on the link at the bottom of the page, Suggest a site.
MSN:
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2

Infopreneurs and Information Publishing
Publish what you know and love, then monetize it. Create a website about information then blend it with some affiliate programs and sign up for Google
Adsense. You could add thousands of dollars per month to your online niche business by combining these 2 methods, along with others, all together.

Service Business
Offer a service related to your niche. Build a client base, whether clients are local (ie: clowns for kids birthday parties) global (ie: JAVA Software Developer). You could also, start a completely new service business.

Write An Ebook
There are probably thousands of people that would love to know your secrets or tips you've discovered over time, about your hobby or expertise. Why not write an Ebook and create a website around it. With proper research and education on how to write sales copy, you could be well on your way to a great product that sells like crazy.

E-goods Creators and Sellers
Are you a programmer (You could hire one) with an idea for a much needed niche-software program? Maybe you already have an idea for an E-book? Maybe your a photographer with collections of E-photos. The E-photo sales market is booming and still growing. Anything can be digitized today. Sell it!

Hard Goods Creators and Sellers
Are you a small business or a craftswoman that creates and retails your own hard goods (i.e. products that you can actually touch and that you can ship? Put up your own store online and sell direct with Store sites like eBay. No products of your own, you can still get your own Ebay Store , by being sourced from hundreds of manufacturers that drop-ship for you. No need for you to hold inventory or pick-pack-and-ship.

Become an Affiliate
Add hundreds to thousands of dollars per month to your diversified monetization plan, without having a product of your own. No warehousing, packaging, shipping, etc. You can join affilate programs that can pay you per click or offer their products, links, banners etc. and add them to your website pages to make a commission. If you do sell a product of your own, you can still add other merchants products to your pages by simply choosing merchants that complement your product line. The following affiliate programs all offer banner/text and link ads. You can add only merchants of your own choice, that will help monetize your monthly income. Click on any of them if you are interested in learning how to be an affiliate for them.

Internet Auction Sellers
Put eBay auctions to work for you. Use Ebay as a supplemental source of income to auction a product that relates to your theme. Especially useful for local businesses or vendors that sell hard goods and even for service-sellers who want to start an online auction business.

Existing Online Businesses and E-commerce Sites
Do you already have an existing online business or e-commerce site? Do you need an ongoing stream of free, targeted traffic that is motivated and interested in buying from you? If any of the above ideas sound exciting to you, don't overlook the SiteSell.com system of online marketing. It's truly the easiest, fastest and surest way to get started. This is a system that offers a proven concept of pre-selling. SiteSell provides all the tools and education you need to develop your online business, all from the free support of individuals that are already successful. Sitesell doesn't throw a bunch of products at you and leave you on your own. It's a system of teaching you the basics of online marketing, offering you the tools to get started and the follow up you need. There are successful business owners that are there to guide you and answer questions. It comes with a 100% guarantee that you will succeed with your Home Based Business or you get your money back. I would not even consider or recommend buying anything online without a guarantee.

Writing Classified Ads
You can post your classified ads on free ad websites. Create a short, attention grabbing ad that can create an income stream. You can link the ads to your personal website or directly to your affiliates website that you are promoting. Make sure to read the Terms of Service and usage before you post your ads. You don't want to violate the rules and get banned from posting on their website.

Writing Product Reviews
This is a great way to start making money online if you are in the process of developing your website or writing an e-book and you want to generate a decent income in the meantime. Promote a review for your affilate products and post your reviews in Newsgroups, Forums, Article websites and in your Blog.

Write a Newsletter for Email Marketing
Create a bi-monthly or monthly newsletter announcing that you have added new products to your website or have made some changes that you think they would be interested in looking at. Gather all your email addresses and ask your friends for their friends email addresses so you can create your own mailing list for your newsletter and announcements.

These are just some helpful hints on how to get out there and be seen. It is very important to use some of these methods to produce visitor traffic and income. Remember, if nobody can find you, you will not be seen or heard.