How to use free articles properly:

You have to be careful using free content. You don't want someone coming to your web site, reading the article and clicking away to the author's web site. There are four things you want to do:

1. Put the link to the author at the very bottom of the article. You can make the linking type a little smaller than the article, but to be fair you can't make it too small. For example if the article is in 12 point type you could put the link in 10 point type.

2. Make sure all of your navigation links appear on the same page as the article. If you can set them to repeat at the bottom of the article again, that is even better.

3. Give the reader a reason to explore your web site. At the top and again at the bottom or the article write a benefit statement of a description of your content and what you do.

4. Give away something for free --eBook, report, links to special sites, etc. Make them click to another page to get what ever you are giving --even better, have them give you their name and email address to access it.

5. Try out The Article System --How to create an instant content-rich web site and make money from Google AdSense and affiliate banners.

Use articles to make affiliate income:

Most affiliate programs offer free articles that you can post on your web site. When people read the article and click to the promoter's web site, you earn a commission if they purchase the item being promoted. When you are grabbing articles from the various free articles site, visit the author's web site and determine if they have an affiliate program. If they do, be sure and sign up for it.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Search Engines:

The top three are Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Miva. Learning the ins and outs of PPC can be tricky. You can spend a lot of money needlessly if you don't do it right. There are two steps I recommend:

1. Start with MIVA until you are getting good results as they are a lot cheaper than Yahoo and Google. A popular key word that costs 30-cents per click on Google or Yahoo can often be had for 5 or 10 cents on Miva. You won't get as much traffic, but that is OK. Once the keywords are producing profits for you on Miva --just take the same campaign to Yahoo first --refine it again and then move on to Google, which is the most expensive but will eventually get you the best results.

2. Limit your campaign budget to $10 a day until you are getting profitable results. Even then, increase it slowly.

3. Test - Test - Test !!!

4. An excellet software tool is the ClickAD Equalizer --It helps you find the most profitble keywords in minutes and shows you exactly how to test them before comitting to a budget.

4. Read the best selling book, Google Cash by Chris Carpenter. I have personally used the techniques in this book to earn over $8,000 a month selling both physical products at www.ezauctiontools.com and my books here on the www.skipmcgrath.com web site.

A recommendation:

Prosperity and Profits is simply one of the best programs that will teach you how to make money using the techniques discussed here and once you become a member they also have one of the best and easiest to use affiliate programs for making money availble on the web today.