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1. The easiest thing to do, without investing money, is to get yourself a blog and start writing about interesting things. You can monetize it with Adsense.
2. If you have some good experience with websites, you can join Sitepoint or Digitalpoint Marketplace and buy a couple of websites that have potential. Make them better, like better content, more backlinks, better design, then sell them for profit.
3. Use affiliate programs. Build a website dedicated to some niche and review products. Join affiliate programs like Amazon and get commissions for each product sold through your site. Amazon is good to start but you should search programs that offer higher commissions.
4. Online Stocks and Forex trading are a good option if you have the knowledge to do them.


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So you got a new site up. Everyone keeps telling that if you put valuable information, people will eventually link to your website. That’s true, but you can do more than just wait. The following simple things will help you get your site indexed by search engines and will also help you get some decent traffic.

• Ask your friends who own websites to put a link to yours. Try not to return them the service or at least avoid reciprocal linking. So if they insist, try to link to a third website.
• Submit to a few free directories like: DMOZ, Pegasus Directory and other that you find when you search google for “free directory”. It’s pointless to make a list here, since many of them turn to paid directories over time. If you got some cash to spend with this, you can go for a directory submission service.
• Use Google Adwords to get some extra traffic, choose the right bids to fit your budget
• Submit to a few paid directories. Look carefully before spending your money: how well the design is, how old the directory is, how clean, what’s the pagerank, etc.
• If you write on some forums, put your site in your signature or at least in your homepage field
• If you participate on blogs or social networks, always leave your website in the homepage/URL field, but never do it in a spammy way.

The global financial crisis may be the end for many businesses. During the recession we see companies getting closed and employees getting fired, but the current economic crisis is mainly about the emotions and the lack of creativity of investors. You don’t have to be in this situation.

Take care of your business and be very creative. One of the best ways to keep your business working is to promote it on the Internet. It is an easy way to attract customers from all around the world.
During the economic crisis you can make more money online than before. Take online stores like Amazon or Ebay as a point of reference for your business and learn the essentials and the strategies on how to do online business during the crisis or you will end up wasting money instead of making it.

Always remember that a virtual shopping site has much lower costs than a real store. You can have almost no costs if you start as an affiliate, you don’t even have to intermediate shipping or payments, all you have to do is to keep some targeted traffic coming to your site.