You've been spending as much time as it is humanly possible to do giving almost all to your online venture into internet marketing but yet to no avail.

Just imagine how that would feel - getting out of bed when you wanted to instead of being at the beck and call of your job. Having the freedom to do things that you want to do because now you have the time to do it. Having the money - make lots of money fast - and flexibility to travel when and where you want.

Right now these are all dreams with no real substance.

And right now you are working round the clock - day job, and "night job" on the internet, trying to break free from the slog by building a career in internet marketing. Its hard work indeed - is there light at the end of the tunnel yet? Are your original goals almost in reach?

You tried reciprocal linking to other websites with a similar theme to your own site but its taking so much time and effort and yet the results don't seem any different than before. Still your website is not to be seen in any of the major search engines top 500 search results, let alone the first page! Even if it were in the top 500 results, what's the point if its still not got a first page ranking? No one will ever see it. No first page position equals no traffic, which in turn equals no income.

There are countless times I have thought "why is it I have bought so many products on the internet but never actually made a single cent, let alone make lots of money fast"?! That is with the exception being ebay. Not to say you should go and invest in selling stuff on ebay - I have never been successful doing that either, really.

Do you sometimes feel like you are banging your head against a brick wall? If only it was as easy as all those emails have been promising it is and continue to promise! But then if it was everyone would be doing internet marketing.

The fact is, it is very difficult to get going in internet marketing, let alone to make lots of money fast. I know it is as I have been personally trying to make my income purely internet-based now for almost a year without much success at all. I've set up the websites - one after the other - and then wondered where all the traffic was that was "promised" to me.

A bit naive I know but I had always thought it was as easy as getting some decent keywords and doing my marketing around the keywords alone. So, as it turns out its not as much about that now as it was pre-2005. I remember reading Cory Rudl's Internet Marketing Tips, I think back in late 2002 or early 2003 and although I did not fully understand it at the time, I thought it would be straight-forward enough to research some keywords and try to put together a simple website of some kind. I didn't even get to the stage of researching the keywords as my attempts at constructing a website were pretty abysmal to say the least!

Now though things have changed, the goal posts have been moved far from where they once were. Its not the case of getting some keywords, building a website and the traffic floods in. Competition for internet marketing is so, so much stiffer now than ever before. Sure - building a website or blog is much easier than previously but its not about just grabbing keywords and hey presto! So, how to go about getting traffic to your website? How to make lots of money fast from your internet marketing pursuits? Anyone for beating adwords?