After 4 years of doing business over the internet i can safely say that the most important thing in internet marketing (or making money on internet) is to learn how to drive traffic to a web object (most likely a web page).

Your sales letter is important, your product is important (and funny how most of the time product quality is less important than sales pages quality) but without traffic everything is worthless.

This is the first piece of advice and, also, the most important : learn first how to drive traffic to something and only after that invest heavily in other aspects : product, websites, programs (software).

If you look around and read all those ebooks floating around you will see that all internet marketing methods and strategies suddenly hit the same squeeze point : driving traffic to a squeeze page for list building, driving traffic to a website for clicks, and so on.

If you visit some guru's blog or site (applies for this site to) do a search for "website traffic" and read. If you manage to get a hold on some ideas for generating website traffic you are 75% done.

Sales pages : you can copy models from top selling products. Websites : there are many CMS (wordpress, joomla) with thousands of free templates.You can test and try (but ofc for that you need ... REAL traffic, so back to the most important thing eh :D ?).

For every problem in internet marketing there is a 100% chance to find a method that always work.

The only thing that is not guaranteed is that you will be able to drive traffic to your money making place.

Learn how to drive traffic first. Once you master that you can make money from anything.

But how to learn to drive traffic to your website ? Information overload - a common mistake for many new internet marketing beginners - can be avoided if you focus your initial learning curve to learning how to drive traffic.

Look for free ebooks about how to drive traffic. From 50 forum threads open those with "traffic" in the title.

You will slowly learn about the common ways to get traffic :

• search engine traffic
• pay per click traffic
• forum traffic
• article traffic
• social bookmarking traffic
• social communities traffic
• blog commenting traffic
• and more

Do you want to make money in internet marketing ? Start your learning process with "website traffic".

Where to learn about website traffic ?

• free : webmaster forums and internet marketing forums (Warrior Forum and DigitalPoint Forum)
• free : free ebooks (even here at Imguru i have some website traffic ebooks free for download)
• paid : website traffic courses. Usually most of them are crap but a few are very good. You can recognize the good website traffic guides by looking at their sales page : just reading the content of the course is, in itself, a website traffic mini course. If you learn something by reading the sales page than you can bet that the course is good. Here is the best website traffic guide as of 09 April 2010.