Is it possible? Can you run a legitimate online business - one that actually makes money - without selling a product or service? Absolutely!

For years, people have assumed that the idea of doing business online is too technical and that it would require a huge investment and learning curve.

That’s simply no longer the case. Now anyone can succeed online because the technical part has been taken out of the equation. In addition, you can earn substantial income selling other people’s products and services.

You may still be leery of such claims, assuming that companies only want to buy ads on the really big, heavily trafficked sites, right? There can be no real hope for a smaller site to be a legitimate online business, right? Wrong!

Now there are advertising programs through the major search engines, where they’ll put small text ads on your website, and you earn a commission every time someone clicks them.

The advertisers pay per-click rather than a set amount of money up-front; that way it doesn’t matter how heavily trafficked the site is. If no one visits the site and clicks the ad, the advertisers don’t have to pay anything.

This means anyone can start a legitimate online business and, assuming they can bring in some traffic, they will make money through these ad programs.

A perfect example is Blake, a Canadian man who has a site called Building-Muscle101.com. His site has dozens of useful articles about weight training, putting on muscle weight, and other health-related topics.

Blake doesn’t any of his own products at the moment. However, he does provide highly useful information, which is freeing shared with his readers. He makes money - a steady, regular stream of secondary income - through the search engines’ advertising programs and various affiliate programs.

He’s able to do this because his site is fairly well trafficked. Even if only 1 percent of visitors ever click on his strategically placed text links, that 1 percent adds up when you’re getting several thousand visitors a day.

Of course, getting people to visit your site can be the hard part, and it’s why so many people fail to get a legitimate online business off the ground. Luckily, Blake discovered a tool that helps with that: “Site Build It!”, from SiteSell.com.

SBI walks you through the entire process of building a site, so that even someone with no web-programming experience can do it. All you have to do is focus on providing good quality content.

But that’s not all: SBI also shows you how to optimize your site’s content so that it shows up near the top of the list when people search for key words related to your site. That brings in more visitors, which in turn leads to more income for you.

So making money on the Internet is not just for huge companies and merchandisers. Even with a site that is purely informational, you can make a very nice income.

» Paul - Career-Tests-Guide.com
Discover how to make money online with affiliate and advertising programs. Build a website the shares your special interest, that passion in you life that you have yet to fully pursue.

» Bruce - African-Safari-Journals.com
Want to make real money online? You can do just that, and it does not have to be a huge undertaking. When you focus on a subject you love, you will fully enjoy the process.

» Roy - Fitness-Programs-for-Life.com
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