The Internet is flooded with questionable tools for making money. I know, because I’ve looked. Everyone is trying to convince you that you’ll be an overnight millionaire if only you buy their e-book for $49.99!

In my searches I’ve found a few sources of valuable information. One of them is Ken Evoy. He’s created a wealth of resources to help you build a real business on the web - not some free clone website, but a real resource that turns browsers into buyers.

If you have a website, odds are you are always looking for new ways to bring in traffic and get relevant links to your site. Writing articles can give you the following benefits:

• 1000’s of potential promoters distributing your content
• Relevant links to your website
• Stature as an expert in your topic area
• Fast listings in major search engines

The Article Writing Process

The process is simple. Write a short article that is related to the content on your website. You can excerpt something you have already created for your site or generate something new (which you can then put on your website.)

If you are running a website of your own, there are a number of very useful online resources that I’ve come across for improving search engine listings, uncovering the relationships between your site and others, and evaluating the value of keywords and key phrases to help you focus your site’s content.

Here’s my list of handy web marketing Go-To links:

Google Links

http://www.google.com/webmasters/ - Find out lots of details about how Google sees your site, such as:

• Info about Links to your Site
• Info about pages that have your site’s url
• Current Google Cache of your Site

When I started my online marketing experiment last month I spent a lot of time researching the best ways to promote the websites I was developing. My expectations were that I would create a website (www.ColossalTV.com), promote it through various channels like search engines, an Adwords campaign, link exchanges, comments on newsgroups and the like. Gradually the traffic would build and I would start getting clicks on my Adsense ads.