How I Made $10,000,000 Online Through SEO and Internet Marketing

Today, I’m going to share with you my 15-year journey of making money online.

I wasn’t a particularly successful student in school, but I’ve loved computers since childhood. During high school, I started creating digital music, beats, flash games, and animations using software I taught myself. I shared them with my friends. While these creative skills helped form a foundation for me, you don’t actually need such extras to make money online. I just want to tell my story to inspire you—and share a few extra tips along the way.

Eventually, high school ended. I had no job. I had no money. The year was 2011, and I was 18. One day, while sitting around, I discovered affiliate marketing. ClickBank is one of the world’s largest affiliate and digital product networks. All you have to do is click the “Promote” button on a product and start marketing it using your own affiliate ID. When someone makes a purchase, you earn a commission.

So how did I market those products? I started by purchasing a .com domain and hosting, and I launched my first website. I promoted some products from ClickBank. But then I realized I needed to work on getting my site to rank on Google. Although I shared my website links on various platforms and social media, I needed to attract a relevant, targeted audience from Google.

That’s when I discovered what people call Google SEO—Search Engine Optimization. I built my website as a WordPress blog. I wrote articles and created content for each product, adding relevant images, H1, H2, H3 titles, and the affiliate links. The site was ready. Instead of focusing on the homepage, I started doing SEO for the subpages with the actual products.

I created backlinks—links from other sites pointing to mine. I shared my site’s URLs on social bookmarking sites, ping services, forum profiles, blog comments, and in content on Web 2.0 micro-sites. My sites started to rank fast. Thousands of visitors came in, clicked on my affiliate links, made purchases, and I earned money. I received my first commissions and a check arrived from the company. I had gotten my first payment—I was so happy.

For years, I marketed products this way, made sales, and earned commissions. The system worked like this:

1. For example, users would search “how to lose weight” on Google, and one of my articles would show up on the first page. They’d click it and visit my website.
2. After reading my post about how to lose weight, they would be convinced to click the affiliate link to a product (like an e-book). They’d be redirected to the official sales page, and once they made a purchase via PayPal or credit card, the money would start accumulating in my ClickBank account.
3. Once I passed a certain threshold, I could receive the money as a check or direct transfer to my bank. ClickBank allows you to set that payment threshold yourself.

Later on, while managing my sites, social media marketing, and SEO, I became fascinated by the automation tools and bots I used. I wanted to develop my own versions, so I started learning programming.

I taught myself HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, and C#. Then I began building my own projects—Twitter marketing software, Instagram tools, SEO utilities—and launched my own websites and products, which I marketed and sold.

So, my online income journey went in this order: affiliate marketing → building websites and landing pages → SEO → social media marketing → email marketing → and eventually developing and selling marketing software.

And now it’s 2025. We’re living in an era defined by artificial intelligence. You can create code, visuals, content—whatever you want—with AI. If I could do all this back in the day with so few resources, just imagine what you can achieve in this new world of cloud-based AI technology. Believe in yourself and go for it!