Basic Steps of SEO

• Submit your website to DMOZ.ORG. DMOZ is the 'mother' of Internet Directores
• Submit your website to the major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN. All the major search engines allow you to submit your site so they can start adding your pages into their search index.
• Solicit links from other websites to your website. When a site links to your site, it's like a 'vote' that your website has good content. Search engines take into account how many other sites link to your site when deciding what to list in the SERPs. Links from other sites also make it easier for search engines to find your website
• Read and learn! There are entire books, websites and forums dedicated to making websites "search engine friendly". Two good sources are www.webmasterworld.com and www.digitalpoint.com

Advertise Your Website or Blog

Most advertising is going to cost you money, so for beginners I recommend BlogRush. BlogRush is a free advertising system based on pageview-credits. Basically this means the more times someone views your website or blog, the more times your blog is displayed on the internet on other sites or blogs. All you do is sign up for a free account, and paste a small bit of code on your blog or web-site. This code will display a "Live from the Blogosphere" section that displays links to other sites and blogs related to yours (look to the left for an example). Other sites in the BlogRush network will display your website in this same section on their website. For more information go to www.BlogRush.com
Paid AdvertisingGot your website all setup but want to bring even more visitors FAST? Then paid-advertising might be the best option.

The fun part: Make MONEY on the internet with your website!

The two common ways to make money with your website are selling products or selling advertising. We will focus on selling advertising since it's easy, and ANY website can do it.
Google AdSense

Google's AdSense has revolutionized the way people make money on the Internet and is by far the easiest way to make money online. Now virtually any website can make money, with virtually no limits to what you can earn! Google Adsense automatically delivers "targeted" text ads to your website giving your readers what they are looking for. For example: If you have a website about how to make money on the Internet, Google Adsense will display advertisements about creating websites, making money on the internet, or web hosting solutions.
Google Adsense is FREE and easy to use!

Signing up for Google Adsense is absolutely free and takes only a few minutes. Simply fill out a form online to create your account and you're done. After your account is created, simply copy & paste your ad-code onto your website and start making money online! It is literally that easy! Of course how well you do and how much money you make depends on many factors, mainly the amount of traffic & visitors that come to your website. A website that gets a #1 or #2 search result in Google or Yahoo can easily get many thousands of visitors per day, and earn thousands of dollars per month.
After building your website make it easy to find

The key to making money with your website is traffic. The more people that come to your website, the more money you can make with affiliate advertisers. They key to getting people to your website is Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimazation (SEO) is the process of getting your website into search engines (such as Yahoo and Google) and getting it listed at the top of the search engine results pages (SERPs). If you build a website about Widgets, you want to be sure that anyone searching on Yahoo or Google for "Widgets" sees your webpage at the number one position, and not somebody else's webpage.