GOOGLE ADWORDS

From my experience one of the best ways to promote your website is via Google Adwords.

Google Adwords help to connect you with new targetted customers at the precise time when they are looking for the products and services you offer.

With Google Adwords you create your own ads then choose keywords which help match up your product and services to your potential audience.

The amazing thing about Google Adwords is that you only have to pay when someone actually clicks on your ad. It's is not an accident that search engine advertising such as Google Adwords has become the world's fastest growing advertising market.

It works because it can rapidly generate new business and increase brand awareness.

For anyone who is really interested in increasing their website traffic (who isn't?) online advertising such as Google Adwords is the way to go - you can target internet users searching for goods and services that specifically relate to your site.

GOOGLE ADSENSE

One of the easist ways to start generating regular income from your website is to simply ad Google Adsense to your pages.

With Google Adsense ads on your pages whenever someone visits your website and clicks on one of the Google Ads displays - you will get paid.

Although you need lots of traffic beofre you start to earn substantial income from Adsense it will help defray your hosting costs and help balance the costs of using Google Adwords to help promote your website.

WARNING. Please don't fall for the trap of purchasing any duplicated "Adsense Ready" website packages.

One of the many problems associated with Adsense Ready duplicated website packages is that lots of people will end up with identical sites and search engines, in particular Google, do not like duplicate sites which are often dropped from searches altogether.

If people cant find your site you will have little traffic and consequently little chance of making money out of people clicking on your Adsense ads.

Really, the people most likely to make money out of Adsense Ready websites are the merchants promoting them.

Also, you should not be building pages simply to make money out of Adsense.

Instead you should look at adding Adsense to pages that already have good content.

You should concentrate on building your pages for your readers, then optimising them for the Seach Engines.

That way you are more likely to attract readers who are interested in your content and therefore may be interested in your Adsense ads.