Yes, you can make a solid income online but you need to follow a game plan, have patience and really put in the work that needs to be done.  Once you have the website up and running you need to make sure it is optimized and is a “clean” site with not too make bells and whistles.  You would be surprised how many plain sites are making a ton of money because of what they offer and not how great their site looks. 

If you are not getting the web traffic you want you need to evaluate what steps you have taken to get that traffic.  Is your site optimized for the best keywords with not too much competition?  Are you using social bookmarking to attract visitors?  You can get a ton of free traffic with Facebook and Twitter if you use them correctly.

Make sure your sales page is well written and converts.  Nothing worse than a poorly written sales page to sink an online business.  If you can’t write a good sales page them either hire someone to write one for you or use one of the instant sales letters.  The key is to test your results and tweak different parts of your sales letter such as the headline, body, length and call to action.  Try using a video sales letter, which are converting better than a lot of long sales letters right now. 

The key in getting the success is not just sitting idly by and waiting for traffic and sales.   You have to keep promoting your site and make sure you have solid content on your site.  Google will reward your site with better ranking and traffic if you provide good content that Google deems relevant and informative to what your site is about. 

Start now and start testing different areas of your site to see if you can make improvements and add some good, relevant content to your site or perhaps some videos.  The more you do the better the results you will achieve.