There are countless ways to earn money online, that is most often the problem. You can quite easily find yourself switching from one program to another, buying up every new fangled system that the gurus are selling you!

And quess what, they are making a mint, telling you how they are making so much money overnight!

So would you like to make some money online? Well, it is possible to earn money on the internet, however it will not happen overnight.

It will take some work to get a presence on the internet and drive traffic to your website, so that you can earn commissions from your affiliate links.

Have you been struggling for weeks, months or perhaps even years to make some money online, but you are still confused by all the technical stuff.

And no matter what you try you do not seem to be able to drive traffic to your website. Maybe your website does not look all that good and you may well be losing sales because of that!

And the worst of it all is that you have no one you can discuss your struggles with and who can give you advice to improve your situation. That is one of the biggest downfalls of internet marketing, you are basically on your own. You have to wade through all the techniques and figure out which system works best for You.

Here is some advice, from my years of struggling to make money online.

Go back to basics, and in internet marketing the most basic is article marketing. Find some keywords, relevant to your website content, which have relatively few searches per month, say under 500. There are a few keyword research tools available, the easiest is to use Google Keyword Tool.

The reason for using keywords with such low search volumes is that they tend to have far less competition than broad search terms. Write articles using those keywords, just Do Not keyword stuff your articles, and submit them to one of the article directories, such as Street Articles or Ezine Articles, there are plenty to choose from. Once you have done that, it is a case of Rinse and Repeat. In other words do it all again.

If you have put up a website, and are struggling to drive traffic to it. The simplest method is to make use of article marketing to get people to take a look at your website and possibly make that sale!

One of the most important things to keep in mind while you write and submit articles, is that you are writing for real people, people like you, who happen to be looking for an answer to a question or for a product to give to their child for his or her birthday, so be sure to provide them with the best information and content that you can.