Online social networking is a big part of making money online for your online business. Online social networking is one area that is the same as with off line businesses. To gain strength and support for your online business you need support from other people who have online businesses.

After struggling to make money online, outside of paid online surveys and writing content for content sites, it finally dawned on me that I also needed a network of online friends to help me make money online. Since building up my online network of like minded online business people my income has started to improve. This has been a huge eye opener for me.

I don't know why I over looked this fact. I have had brick and mortar businesses and I knew it was important to network with other business people in our community as well as networking in areas where our potential customers were at. In order to get business recommendations from other merchants and people from the area they need to know who you are and what your business is all about.

It behoves me why this crucial part of making money online escaped me. Today I have a much larger group of online business people who know who I am and what my business is about. I have several different types of businesses online and I also have an online social network for each type of business. My business would not grow as quickly without these people.

Online networking works here on HubPages as well to make money online. The more fans you have the more your opportunity to get your Hubs viewed and rated on HunPages. The higher your rating, the better chance of being seen in Google and also to get link juice back to your Hub.