4. Submit to top search engine directories – many of top directories have good link popularity that can be passed on to your site. They also have specific category pages that are related to nature of your site. The major directories include The Open Directory, Yahoo and Zeal.

The Open Directory is one of largest that is still free, however it can take months or even years to get listed. If you become an editor for Zeal you can get your site listed free. Yahoo costs $299.00/year to be included. It is worth it if you can afford it.

Here’s a couple of articles on how to properly submit your site to search engine directories:

http://www.searchrank.com/resources/art007.htm http://www.searchrank.com/resources/art015.htm

5. Submit to specialty search engine directories – you may wonder why I haven’t mentioned submitting to major search engines. When you work on building link popularity of your site, it automatically places you in main search engines. Once you have submitted your site to main directories, find specialized directories related to your business. Here’s a good resource:

http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156351

You can also research link partners of your competitors’ sites by entering your favorite keyword in search engines. Once you have found a number of top ranked sites, download Google toolbar and check their back links. This can save you a lot of time researching other areas to find quality links.

Once your site been indexed by search engines and included in directories, focus on adding more content and continue building your link popularity. This will help you to maintain and/or increase rankings with result of gaining more traffic to your new web site.

Let's summarize: 1.) You purchase e-books and info products for secrets that will tell you how to make money on web. 2.) You don't do anything with information, because you don't have skills or thousands of dollars. 3.) You buy whatever guy sells you on backend because that first e-book you read was great (and your hoping this one will give you missing pieces).

How do you get out of cycle? 1.) Admit that you have wasted a lot of time and money on something that doesn't work for you since you don't have skills required. 2.) Decide if you want to learn skills required to create a niche website, e-book, or info product. If you DON'T want to learn all that stuff, decide to have someone make it for you. There are companies like Stmadeveloper that will help you make those ideas a reality for less than some of those info products you wasted your money on. 3.) Give up, recognize fact that you aren't ever going to do anything on-line to make money. Just stop doing cycle..... you are smarter than that and they are preying on your hope.

There is really only one true secret to making money on web. Get a space of your own, make it valuable to others, make it "sell," and promote it through effective methods.

Good luck on your journey.