Is Internet Marketing Dead, Can You Still Make Internet Income?

Once again with the changes within Google we have had a wave of devastating forecasts from the scare mongers and doom and gloom merchants predicting the end of internet marketing and the inability of making any internet income.It seems every few months over the last decade someone else comes to the fore carrying the banner of the deprived internet marketer proclaiming that some particular method of making money online is dead or dying.The strange thing is there are still masses of people out there dedicating their time to actually making a living online and not reading or writing about it, knowing that being in the internet marketing part of this big industry is a great place to be, and they are achieving a respectable income too.This article will discuss if it is still possible to make real internet income.Is it still possible to make a living online?If you step back and look at the big picture you will see the World Wide Web is constantly in flux, it has been and still is ever changing. So we find conducting business online is also changing, what worked brilliantly yesterday may probably not work at all today.Have a look back at 2002 or 2003, for instance. AdSense websites were all over the place; many people were making money hand over fist by taking a niche article creating thousands of pages for their site, taking keywords scraped from search engine listings, and surround the whole site with AdSense.At the time it was great and lasted a couple of years as Google had no way of telling which sites were rubbish and which weren’t, so they sent the traffic anyway.Some people who were well financed made what would be thought of as fortunes to the average marketer, just from the clicks on the ads generated from all the free traffic.When the wiz kids at Google saw what was going on, they screamed scam, and immediately went to work and found a way to block the offending sites.Virtually overnight many owners of AdSense websites saw their internet income plummet by as much as 95% and more.And true to form the deprived marketer’s banner was lifted again and articles appeared saying internet marketing had died.Of course it hadn’t, just one less than genuine and legitimate method of earning money online was consigned to the World Wide Webs recycle bin, but the whole concept of making internet income was sill alive and kicking.The few People who built their website with common sense, filling pages with rich content and using white hat principles, not like those using scraped and automated sites, are still out there earning from AdSense and have been for years after the ‘fly by nights’ have been long forgotten, as they went on to the next big thing “making large amounts of money from unfathomable levels of traffic”, which was Article Marketing.If you have been around for some time you will remember the article marketing rage. As the duckers and divers quickly found that Google was not concerned about the length of an article, it could be 100 words or 2000 words it just had to be keyword rich.So, if you remember, or if you weren’t around, I’m sure you can imagine what sort of articles where being offered up and submitted. Yes that’s right, the sort of short, wishy-washy poor information ones.Now with Google once again changing their algorithm and making a stand by weeding out this scantily compiled bum fodder we see the deprived internet marketer’s banner being lifted once again and hear the desperate cries and wails that article marketing is dead and works no more, article marketing as a traffic generator is finished.No, it isn’t. Bad article marketing is finished, and may I say for the good of us all, as we can benefit from the change.If you are around long enough on the internet you will experience change.As with anything online these changes or shifts are rather frequent. This is due in no small part to the fanatical; make a million today operators who are constantly trying to come up with new ideas. As we know the internet has basically a herd mentality and thousands of internet marketers rush to copy any idea that they think will make money instantly, just like so many sheep.So it is we find the internet saturated with copies and badly thought out strategies applied to the new idea. Unfortunately most of these brilliant new strategies involve some form of gaming the search engines, and once again we find the search engines filtering out all that dross.Followed closely by much wailing and banner flying of the me-too boys who have been piling into the latest money making scam.If only they’d realized it is far better to plod along with good, old-fashioned, tried and tested ways. Sure, it’s not the latest thing, but for creating an internet income it works, and works year in year out.The bottom line is, Internet marketing and the ability to make internet income is here to stay. If anything, as the Worlds total of internet users as of December 31st 2011, is a staggering 20112,267,233,742 and growing, it can only get bigger and better each year.For some of those who wish to jump on the latest and greatest scam idea or latest trend, if lady luck is with them, they may make a return for a short time.But inevitably will find that they have to reinvent themselves as their own brand of internet marketing will keep on dying.But for those marketers that adopt common-sense website building with white hat techniques and understand that good content, honest business practices combined with high ethics will be the only ones around long enough to build a sustainable online business.The World Wide Web is growing bigger and bigger as we speak. Internet Marketing is not dead but very much alive and in fact is more capable then ever before of giving anybody with the determination to succeed and the willingness to work hard an internet income.