But it's hard to tell hype from the real deal. I did a search on "make money online" and "making money online", and much of the information out there is just promoting various infoproducts, mostly about Internet marketing. I see why people sometimes ask, "Is anyone making money online besides Internet marketing experts?"

So I put together a list of business opportunities with legitimate companies that:

• Pay cash, not just points towards rewards or a chance to win money
• Don't require you to have your own Web domain or your own products
• Don't involve any hard-selling
• Aren't just promoting more Internet marketing
• Give a good return on your time investment

Keywords are terms or phrases that you enter into a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to find what you are looking for on the internet.

Researching keywords and/or phrases is a vitally important part of making your website or blog optimized so that it can be found and hopefully be found on the first page of websites brought up through that search.  This optimization is better known as SEO (search engine optimization).

Finding sales oriented keywords or phrases can be a challenge for some people. You want to drive the maximum qualified users to increase your sales online but just how do you go about doing this?

It is very tricky to select the right keywords for your website or blog and yet still be optimized for the search engines to find your site but it is a necessary evil that has to be done if you are going to be working on the internet.

There are many options that you can use both free and paid in order to do your keyword and/or phrase search.

One such keyword tool is the Google Keyword Tool located at >>> Google Keyword Tool

Be sure to try and select keywords that clearly targets your business and products to get traffic to your site. There are some blogs and websites that get very high levels of traffic from general keywords but they might not end up being sales.  High traffic with no sales means you need to do more keyword research.

Make a list of your services, products and topics and then proceed in finding the keywords or phrases that are the best match. If you have had a website or a blog online for a little while you can see what keywords or phrases have already started bringing the traffic in and expand on those keywords if you are using Google Analytics.

You can set up Google Analytics from your WordPress blog plugin area or >>> Google Analytics. This is another must have free Google tool.

Today, most internet users are aware of how the search engines work and they most generally will always look for the better products, prices and locations, etc. Therefore, be sure to use keywords for all terms for each product, price or location, etc.