If you are an Internet entrepreneur, your reason for setting up a website is to make money. And you would probably like to make lots and lots of money from the comfort and convenience of your own home. But to get that money, you must have targeted traffic.

Targeted traffic means visitors to your website who have a very high probability of already being interested in buying the products or services you offer.

The key to success for your online Internet business is link building. This may sound like a bold statement, but it's true.

You see, search engines like Google have webcrawlers that scour the 'Net indexing websites, and they reward websites that have a lot of links pointing to them from other websites. The more times a website is linked to online, the more the webcrawler assumes that website must be important to those searching for its relevant keyword phrases.

You've probably heard the nightmare stories about the too-good-to-be-true "opportunities" that are offered by people who swear up and down that you can make lots of money by selling things on Craigslist. People that try this out usually fail after wasting a lot of time, and thus they give up.

But you shouldn't give up so easily, for in fact you can make good money selling things on Craigslist.

There are many ways to make money online. If you have spent any time on the Internet than I am sure that you have noticed an abundance of offers to make money in your spare time. It is impossible to succeed at all of them or even test all of them. However, there is a way to make a nice chuck of change each month by taking part in online surveys.

Online surveys will not make you rich, but can bring in that extra income that you have been looking for.

With traffic soaring on social media sites like Squidoo, it makes good sense to leverage Squidoo, so you can tap into this massive traffic source.

Google absolutely loves Squidoo. I have seen Squidoo lenses rank in the top 10 in Google for many keywords. It's not hard to imagine that Squidoo lenses rank in the top 10 for thousands or even hundreds of thousands of keywords.

Even if you have the best looking website in the world, if you don't get it out there where people can see it and find it, it is not going to do you a bit of good. This is why it is so important that work to get a top search engine ranking for your primary keywords.

The problem is that so many webmasters are looking for quick fixes instead of working to build a website that will provide long term results and the top search engine rankings that they are looking for.