Seo

Seo stands for Search Engine Optimization. This means you optimize your website in the search engines. Google,Yahoo,MSN, Bing etc... are Search Engines. So you are optimizing your website in these Search Engines. By the way 60% of people use Google. Yhe rest of the search engines share the 40% Yahoo takes up around 16%. So we really focus on Google and every other Search engine follows suit.

Getting Traffic

Now you need to get traffic to your site...this is the challenging part. There is SEO,PPC,Email Marketing, Article Marketing... These make up the sales funnel.It takes time to do SEO but it can pay off in the end.

Niches

You need to start off with a good niche. A niche is a market, A niche is actually a market within a market. For example dog is a market and dog houses is a niche. When you find a good niche you can begin to make money online. You don't want anything that people aren't buying in. You can make up niches but it takes too long. I would rather let a person do that and when it's successful I will out market him.