By Sylvia White

Do you know how to Make Money Online?  Your options are unlimited there are thousands of Online Business Opportunities just waiting for you to sign up and get started BUT that is the problem!

Online marketing used to be quite a simple matter but with thousands of websites springing up daily it is now a challenge. The visitors to your website are now more choosy and don't sign on the dotted line unless you present them with something that they can't refuse.

Offering a free e-book used to be all the incentive you needed but now the internet is swamped with them and they are not as effective as they used to be.

It is the same with newsletters every one has the same idea but how many give you new and interesting information that is worth the reading.

Adsense has gone the same way, every website you look at  is swamped with Google ads and even they are losing their appeal to the discerning public.

I want to make money online but how ?

You  have to compete, face the challenge.  If your website is down in the dumps don't sit there waiting for the visitors to return do a complete turn a round and change your website content. check all those websites that are on top of the searches and see what makes them tick.

If you have Adsense ads on it move them around or change the colour until people begin to notice them.  If you have a business opportunities website change the opportunities until you find something that works.

Does your website look attractive ?  No not pretty! try and look at it from a visitors point of view, if you landed on that website would it attract you and make you want to stay to check out the ads ?

Writing articles is the all time favourite for when you submit your article to the different forums it is hoped that hundreds of people will place your article on their website that way you get hundreds of links and hopefully more traffic.

Traffic is the answer to making money, the more traffic the more chance of visitors clicking on your ads and of course more chance of them buying what you are selling.

Take advantage of the seasonal trends if it is the middle of Summer no one is interested in what to give their kids for Christmas think outdoor living, holidays, seasonal clothes, sun preparations.

Of course it depends on what countries you are specifically aiming for as well,  if your audience is worldwide then it doesn't matter what you sell as the UK may be in the middle of a heat wave but Australia is in the middle of their winter.

Something different is what everyone is looking for so if you can come up with an entirely new product or an unheard of business  you could hit the jackpot.

Spend some quality time on your own, forget the PC grab a pen and paper and start jotting down anything that comes into your head,  words short sentences just higgledy nonsense  about anything. let yourself wander as you write, it is amazing what is in your mind and what comes to the surface.

Forget time it is not important this is your quality time.

When you have finished go through all that you have written and it is possible something will spring out and hit you and make you wonder why you never thought of it before.

Most people don't set out intentionally to think up ideas they are something that suddenly pops into their mind from nowhere, writing or jotting down words can quite often trigger something off in your mind.

The word MONEY is a figurehead to every one so write that one word at the top of the page and go on from there.

You may see a program that someone else has thought up, study it carefully and see if there is some way of improving on it,  give it a different outlook and make sure that your improvements in the program are quite clear to others it must have your stamp on it.

It is quite true that Google Adwords can conjure up a large amount of money in a short span of time, also you can start earning within fifteen minutes of placing the ad. You must have a product or a program to advertise and it is not just a case of putting it on and hoping for the best it needs a bit of preparation to make sure that the public can find your product or program by using  keywords that are searched often.

Another quick fix for money are traffic surf programs but they are risky, you can make a lot of money on the other hand you can lose a lot if you pick a scam program. If these type of programs interest you then visit the surf traffic forums first to find out which programs are paying and if possible how long they have been running.

With most of these programs people place a certain amount of money possibly with a  a good return in a matter of ten or fourteen days, when they make their large profit they will then cut and run without reinvesting so this weakens the programs position.

The ten or fourteen day programs will be lucky if they last out more than a month due to the none re-investors but saying all that a lot of people are still making a living with it.

There are a few long term programs that are worth considering I am in two of these myself and I am quite happy with them, of course the returns are not so high but they beat the banks and most investment companies.

If you like doing lotteries there are dozens of free lotteries on the Internet you never know you might get lucky !

There is also a bingo game at Gamesville that pays out $4.999 it lasts about four or five weeks before its won and then there is just the one winner but its a chance to make Money.

We all know that money is very hard to come by but if we don't try we will never have any so persevere and eventually you may get lucky.

Sylvia White is an Author and Webmaster of http://www.sylviawh.co.uk  & http://www.sylviawh.co.uk/blog