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Several years ago, I started an online business. I made just enough money with that business to reclaim my online investments and to keep me interested in doing business online.

In the course of tweaking my websites, I learned a great deal about Search Engine Optimizations.

A couple of years ago, I had a personal financial collapse. It had nothing to do with my online businesses. But, I pulled out of everything so we could pull ourselves out of disaster. You can read a little about that here.

This year in january of 2006 I started playing with getting online again. I was chatting with a programmer online about his work. He mentioned his online experience with games. I went to a site where game programmers got together. It seemed there was a chance to make good money programming and selling games through affiliate programs and online publishers.

I used to mess around with games programming quite a bit, just for fun. So, I started writing a game.

Well, I’m not a person who wants to spend a year of effort in something without testing the market first. So, I thought I would find a game publisher and join as an affiliate. I had used Google Adwords before. So, I was able to get up and running right away.

I knew the power of offering free things from my marketing before. So, I looked for a Free Game and online Game source that was totally free.

I also knew exactly what I wanted in a web host. I wanted unlimited bandwidth if I could find it, free domain parking, free domain name, and free sub-domains. Well, 999 gigabytes of bandwidth turns out to be impossible for me to use in a month, so that was as good as unlimited bandwidth to me–plus 50 gigs of storage. I found everything I needed plus an extremely easy setup console and 24/7 toll free support at BlueHost.com It’s absolutely the best host I have ever used. This blog was an easy few clicks to setup. It was all automated. They have every kind of site you could imagine just a few clicks to setup. I highly recommend them.

So, then I setup my free games and online games site from gamehouse.com.

It was a snap.

I started using adwords for traffic. After I tweaked my ads, I was able to turn a profit advertising gamehouse.com, free games, online games, download games, etc.

So, I kept programming my own free game with more levels available. Also, I was thinking about how to place links to more free games, and to my gamehouse.com site inside the free version of my game. This would make it viral. All the while, I was looking for more effective ways to advertise.

That’s when I came across information about the success bloggers were having with traffic to their websites. Naturally there were plenty of new sources for income that this kind of free traffic made available. That’s when I started this site you’re reading right now. I just started typing original content I thought others would like.

BANG! The first month there were over 11,000 pages read. I couldn’t believe it. That was absolutely free, not a penny spent on traffic.

And, that’s when my old page optimization knowledge kicked in. I’ve been seeing most of my articles listing on the first or second page in the major search engines. I still can’t believe it. But it’s true. Every time the search engines visit my pages and update, I’m amazed at the new searches that find my site.

Now, I’m scrambling to find the best ads and advertisers for the blog as well as the free games and online games. There’s so many ways to make money online now. It’s hard to believe.

This time around, I have every confidence of being able to retire with this in a couple of years.

It’s really fun this time. And, writing articles for traffic instead of paying for traffic makes for an incredible ROI. And the beauty of this, is each article is a new way to be found in a search. I’m ranging anywhere from 5 to 300 visitors per day per article. Write it once, get traffic forever! I love it.

Regards.

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