Never in the history of the Internet has there been as large an opportunity to make money online then there is at present. In addition, establishing a business on the internet has never been easier to do.
When we started our online business eleven years ago, the only way to get free traffic was to be ranked on the first page of Google. The only other alternative was to pay to get prospects by advertising on Google.
Our two top keywords cost twelve-dollars and fifteen-dollars respectively, using pay per click advertising. It would not take too long to use up thousands of dollars advertising on Google. One hundred clicks would cost twelve-hundred dollars to fifteen-hundred dollars which was a lot of money for a new business just getting started online. For that reason, we worked hard at SEO, landed on the first page of Google within 6 months (which was unheard of at the time) and we’ve ranked in 2nd to 4th position for our keywords ever sense. Today, it is not uncommon to hear of an online business to rank on the first page of Google within days, but it was highly unusual to get there in 6 months when we started marketing online.
Ranking on Google is not nearly as important as it once was because of the multitude of other paths one can find your website on the internet. {They can stumble upon you through blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, cheap advertising, and a verity of other paths.}
In fact, at a Jeff Johnson seminar I attended (Jeff is an amazing internet-marketing guru), Jeff started from scratch to promote a popular digital camcorder, and achieved ranking on the first page of Google for the top keywords to sell that camcorder by the last day of a three-day seminar. You can find some of his very useful videos on YouTube.
Today, there are social networking sites like Facebook, that didn’t exist ten years ago, that get search volumes similar to Google. Why is that significant to your business? You want to be on Facebook, or you will miss a massive market.
Several years ago, if you were going to have an online business, you needed the technical expertise to make a website. Today, you can create a blog on Blogger.com or Squidoo.com and not know anything about HTML programming. It only takes a day to create a marketing page, monetize it and start marketing.
Only a fraction of the world’s population was online eleven years ago. Now there are 1.73-trillion people on the Internet. This means that one out of every four people in the world is online. This is a massive market, no matter how you slice it.
It is my opinion that there has never been a better time to make money online by starting an internet business than there is today. The only question is: Will you take advantage of this enormous opportunity and claim your share of the market?