There are 1001 ways to build a profitable online business. You might have tried a few and failed, cos you do not know the real secret to building a profitable online business that makes real money for you.

Before you begin, you need to do a market research. Some may do a research using google keyword tool to check which keywords have high traffic and low competition. However, I do not encourage to do this first. It will be a waste of time and effort.

Instead of doing research using google keyword tool, go to Clickbank.com and find the most popular products. There are 23 categories to choose from in Clickbank.com.

The 23 categories are:
1) Arts & Entertainment
2) Betting
3) Business/Investing
4) Computers/Internet
5) Cooking, Food and Wine
6) E business and E marketing
7) Employment and Jobs
8) Fiction
9) Games
10) Green Products
11) Health and Fitness
12) Higher Education
13) Home and Garden
14) Languages
15) Mobile
16) Parenting and Families
17) Politics/Current Events
18) Reference
19) Self Help
20) Software & Services
21) Spirituality, New Age and Alternative Beliefs
22) Sports
23) Travel

Select a category that you have passion in or you are good at. Search the results by popularity. What this means is Clickbank will list the products that are popular at the present moment. All you need to do is to sign up with Clickbank which is free. Get your affiliate link and start promoting it using PPC.

Once you have confirmed what product to promote, go to google keyword tool and find the keywords that google think that are related to the web site. You need to know one thing; Google hates direct linking and Google only allows one URL to be displayed on the search page.

One alternative is to buy a domain name that is very similar to the web site URL, and forward it to the web site URL. For example, the web site URL you want to promote is http://guygetsgirl.com, buy a domain name like http://guygetsgirlpro.com, and then forward http://guygetsgirlpro.com to http://guygetsgirl.com.

When someone types http://guygetsgirlpro.com, he/she will see http://guygetsgirl.com web site.

You may even go to keywordspy.com to find out what keywords are used to drive traffic to the site.

The purpose of promoting the clickbank product is not to make money, but to check and see if the product is really selling well in the market.

All you need is just to breakeven. Once you confirm the product is selling well in the market, you may consider buying a few of the products and find out what is lacking, and come up with a better product and a stronger marketing strategy.

Clickbank is a place for selling digital products. If you want to sell physical products, you may go to Commission Junction. Commission Junction is a place for selling physical products. If you want to sell health products, you may go to markethealth.com.

Know what niche you want to enter, and then do some affiliating and see if the product is selling well in the market and then start to create your own product.