I’ve been writing for a long time, since I was a teenager. Much of that writing has been mercenary, i.e. for money. I like being paid to write, because it’s always fun to be paid to do something you enjoy. Now, I’ve talked about article marketing before, and there are many ebooks out there that discuss the topic, especially lately with the rise of “bum marketing”. (The ebook I recommend for article marketing is Secret Article Profits. Don’t forget to download Brad Callen’s free article submitter software to help distribute your articles.) But bum marketing is about indirectly making money by writing. What about directly making money from writing?

There’s a saying that goes “Do what you love, and the money will follow”. The more invested in what you’re writing about, as Chuck says, the better the end result. That’s good advice for anything you do online.

When I first made a “real website” by buying my own domain (Blogging the Internet), I started to tinker with various content management programs to build my site, and later learned that blogging is the easiest way. Now I’m sticking to it.

But at first I was one of the million newbie webmasters who are lured to the “get rich quick” paranoia” that abound in the internet and also tried my best looking for internet programs that will take me to that paranoia. I was utilizing various pre-hosted sites (my favorite is Freehostia in doing the test-and-try website building trying to find my own niche on the cyberspace and the same time hoping that I will earn somehow through it.

I will guide you through how to get search engine traffic to your site. Getting traffic through search engine optimization on your website is one of the best and free methods. It’s also one of the major and targeted ways of getting online traffic.

For getting search engine traffic and rank in major search engines, first you have to do on page optimization of your pages, in other words creating proper Html structure of your site pages. This is one of the basic and most important techniques in search engine optimization. For optimizing your pages for search engines, the following points are very important.