In this world there are many talented and gifted people who are never recognised, and nowhere is this more acute than on the great world wide web. While for most the Internet is a huge and apparently endless source of information and services in which you can find anything you want, many don't realise that there is content and services that don't get a fair hearing and so are kept from them.

Its fair to say that the very people who could contribute greatly to this vast chasm with their unique sites and interesting facts are prevented from doing so by the very thing that makes the web seem so worldly wise, the search engines. No business or service can ever continue if no-one knows where it is, and so promoting your website is of course as important if not more so than the act of creating it in the first place.

So, consider average Joe. Who goes to work everyday earning a crust and paying his bills with nothing much left to spare. There are affordable, and even free web hosting packages, but that's not enough to get listed in search engines for the keywords that will draw in most traffic, and hence revenue. A seemingly endless task of marketing your niche site is ahead but if its an affordable method you are looking for, there isn't much available.

Writing articles such as this one is in my experience one of the best options, a well worded account of some subject relevant or otherwise is likely to appear often and be viewed at least initially more frequently than your site in the results pages of the most commonly used engines.

Posting in forums is another option, and indeed can result in significant hits but you should beware some of the pitfalls. In these forums there are potentially thousands of visitors for your site, but there are also many rival website owners who simply don't want you there. These will often result in degrading and offensive posts designed only to prevent others from taking you seriously. You can argue your case while refraining from being drawn into a personal battle which would turn people away, and indeed you should, but the fact is if you have something that others think will be attractive, they will discredit it in favour of their own site.

Its a dog eat dog world out there, a true saying if ever there was one, but nowhere is this more true than in the cyber world you are in now. No one is safe, no genuine opportunity will be left unhindered. But in the case of money making sites or systems this is simply an area of cyberspace which you could consider almost apocalyptic when it comes to competitors reactions.

For this reason many would be success stories are given up on before they are given a chance, after the 9-5 job, abuse from someone you don't even know, and who knows even less about your creation is often too much to endure. But if you do have an idea for a website/service, promote it, market it, and DON'T GIVE UP!