How To Make Money Online: Be Systematic Generating Traffic Using CPC

The one single internet marketing skill that is BY FAR the most important, is generating traffic.

A lousy product that has tons of traffic, will almost always make more money than a good product with little or no traffic.

Websites that have mediocre or "average" sales copy and a TON of traffic, will almost always make more money than a fantastic website that contains perfect copy, with no reader audience.

The plain truth is that if you have a lot of traffic to your website, you can make money by accident!

The trick is to be systematic when generating traffic. Here's an example.

The search term "web hosting" is currently a HOT long tail keyword that is extremely difficult to rank for.

You could get traffic right away for this keyword phrase by actually bidding in Google AdWords on the term "web hosting", but it would cost you about $15.50 per click and the competition is brisk, to put it mildly.

Depending on your estimated return, there is a real potential for actually losing money bidding in Google AdWords for this particular keyword phrase.

There is a little traffic secret you can use that increases your odds of making money using Google AdWords, that is called geo specific keyword searching.

Going back to the web hosting example; there are 1,830,000 monthly local searches using the keyword "web hosting" and about 3,350,000 globally. That's a lot of competition!

By being systematic generating traffic using a geo specific keyword such as "Florida web hosting"; the monthly local searches drop to 5,400 and the monthly global searches drop to 6,600.

Although the cost per click in this particular example drops to only $12.96; the traffic that is generated, is targeted and very specific to the Florida area. These prospects are much more inclined to purchase than the people who are making the general "web hosting" search.

Generating traffic using geo specific keyword searches, generally provides more bang for the buck and a greater net profit than generating traffic using general keywords.

Usually the more geo specific the keyword; the less your competition and the cost per click.

Geo specific searches are not limited to just States, they are often more lucrative when focusing on cities, geographical areas, cities in other countries, and even streets in some instances.

You can make more money online by being systematic generating traffic using CPC.