Far too often, we as webmasters get bogged down with information overload. I'm guilty of it, you're guilty of it, and we're all guilty of it. I've been doing business online in the website development sector for close to 10 years now. I've made a substantial sum of money making websites dedicated to adsense revenue and affiliate marketing, and one thing has held true over the course of time: the tools to make money have only gotten BETTER over time.

This isn't an article about which tool is better, or whether I should sell you on something. Instead, I'm telling you to do something with your tools. Anything. All of the information is there for you to go after a niche and do something with it. I'll give you a brief starter pickup to do something. Ready? Go!

1) Pick out a niche- any niche. Ask your wife, girlfriend, brother or mom what they're interested in purchasing in the next month or two. Or what they have purchased recently
2) Fire up the keyword tool of choice that you use. If you're a beginner, you're probably using Googles keyword tool. Which is MORE than fine...but limited. Enter in the name of the product or service that the person told you about.
3) Concentrate on the long tail keywords or phrases.
4) Now, if you're using a keyword tool program, focus on those keywords that have over 10,000 searches in Google every month AND have a low rate of competition. Use your KEI/RS scores wisely!
5) Go to godaddy.com and find yourself a dot com, net or org with those keywords. Any combination of hyphen or no hyphen- the choice is yours
6) Build that site. 10-15 pages of content. Use menu links that contain the keyword phrases
7) Add adsense or affiliate ads
8) Add a sitemap generator and do on page search engine optimization
9) Promote that site through forum signature links, yahoo answers, article marketing, and social bookmarking
10) Rinse and repeat

There it is. The 10 step no nonsense guide to making money using your keyword tools. Don't believe, well, you don't have to, BUT, this all works for me. And it has been for many years. Now, you can work hard and smart or just work smart. Working smart means outsourcing one of those 10 steps so that you can move quickly because the name of the game is getting those new sites online, indexed and ready for promotion.

Personally, I enjoy using wordpress as my default base of operations. I can install it, add a custom template and have a site up in less than ½ hour. Assuming I had the content already created that is. But that's my point- you can move fast by having others work for you. You'll have to pay out some money, but the returns are worth it in the long run. You just need to focus on your seed keywords and your longtail keywords.

The key to using your keyword tools is to use them. Period. The more sites you make, the more sites you can analyze for traffic and visitors. Which keywords are working on your pages, which ones are not? That's where a good keyword analyzer comes into play. Think about it for a second: how else will you know whether your keywords are generating traffic or revenue unless you can use a keyword analyzer to see what's working? You can't. That's why you need to work smart!