THE TRICKS AND WAYS TO EARN MORE MONEY FROM GOOGLE!
Fact number 1: Kids in high school are making thousands of dollars every month with Adsense.
Fact number 2: Housewives, retirees, mom and dads, who are just staying at home and have never made a dime on the internet have created full-time incomes by simply placing Adsense ads on their web site or blog.
These are just some of the super Adsense earners. You may have already heard about their story for they are among the few who are on their way to making millions worth of cash just by promoting Adsense sites.
Anyone, any age and gender can become money generating Adsense publishers as long as they what it takes. How does one go about this Internet advertising?
Writing articles for Adsense is the way to do it. Using the right keywords in your articles and having Google ads on a certain site has become the most profitable way of marketing that anybody can get into. No experience and level of education needed. If you are not using this strategy, or may not be aware of it in the first place, chances are you may be losing thousands of dollars worth of extra income and still do not know it yet.
This is one of the many reasons why writing original quality content articles is now the latest in marketing buzz. Content and links. When combined together becomes a really powerful tool to a successful web site and richer individuals. Many internet marketing professionals are already aware of the value of an original quality content and how using keywords can drive targeted traffic into their sites from the search engines.
So why don’t all these web site owners write and submit their own articles if that is what is important?
The simple and understandable answer is that it takes time to write articles, submit them and get targeted traffic to their websites. That is why they get the services of those who can spares sometime to write the articles that would cater to their site purpose but still turn out as a good quality and unique piece of work.
To get into the Adsense marketing business and start earning some good cash, ask yourself. Did you enjoy writing when you were in school? If you answer yes to this question, you already have an initial advantage over most internet marketing business owners that wants to make money online and doing it at home.
With the boom in the Adsense market comes the need for sites to want fresh, quality and original keyword rich content. This way, web site owners can have a steady supply of articles with the proper keywords that they relate to their site contents. The result of this is seen in the sites page rank when indexed by the search engines. Which, in turn, gets more Adsense ads to show above, below or next to the article on their website with targeted traffic.
What do people have to do?
Write quality and original content, keyword or phrase rich articles with links to your website in the resource box. Then build a website or web page with targeted keyword or phrase rich original content for the targeted traffic that originates from the articles you wrote. Finally, you will have a Google Adsense ads that are targeted to your keyword or phrase rich original content site where visitors will get to visit when they come looking for information.
A win-win situation if you think more about it. A favor for persons looking for quality content and information. For the persons writing the original content articles. And the person with the quality original content rich website. Of course, the search engines and its advertisers are getting targeted traffic and sales but so what? As long as you are getting something in your favor, it does not really matter what the others are getting for themselves.
So who else wants to start earning money with Adsense. You. Everyone. Anybody. Internet marketing has many opportunities wide open for this people. Writing articles and using Adsense for your kind of internet marketing strategy is one sure way of getting a piece of that action and cash.
Better not be left behind the many making millions already.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Tips To Help You Get The Most From Adsense
I would imagine that most Hubbers know what Adsense is, so rather than bore you with a long and unnecessary description of Adsense I will keep it short. Google Adsense is an advertising network that can potentially monetize your website by serving up contextual ads directly to your WebPages. All that is required to get up and running is to include a unique Google Adsense publisher code into the HTML of your pages. Potential earnings can range from a few dollars to several hundred dollars every month.
Google have some great Adsense tutorials so if you are new to Adsense I suggest you read those first and familiarise yourself with the workings and terminology of Adsense. So, if you don’t know how to set up and position ad units or work with ad formats, start by working through Google’s Adsense Resources.
https://www.google.com/adsense/adsense-resources
Once you have added your Adsense code, Google will serve relevant ads to your pages. Even if you have read the information over at Google’s Adsense Resources there is no guarantee you will earn anything that could be considered an income.
So this is where the hard work begins, we are going to be looking at selecting topics to write about, ensuring that your pages are sufficiently self descriptive to ensure that relevant ads are displayed, measuring competition for the keywords you are targeting and getting search engine positions in order to drive traffic to your Adsense pages.
Topical Events and Hot Topics
Websites like HubPages are great places to write about topical events. Topical Events such as the recent US election are much searched for and documents that make reference to topical events receive a boost in their rankings. I suspect that some Hubbers who published articles about the election noticed an increase to their Adsense income.
Topical events may also become hot topics; the US election was both Topical and a hot topic. For the sake of clarity topical means current and newsworthy, a hot topic is current, newsworthy and heavily searched for online. Search engines are very quick at spotting hot topics by analysing search trends. A good example of this happened when concern over the Avian Flu epidemic was at its height. Pages that made reference to Avian Flu were deemed topical, even pages that had been around for years before the epidemic became a hot topic saw an increase in rankings.
Writing articles about hot topics and posting them on trusted sites like Hubpages can get your pages spidered quickly and achieve better rankings than your own website, if you have one, thus increasing your true earning potential.
Here are a few Ideas that are just screaming out for hubs to be written:
* I am thinking of buying a new car, should I buy from the big three?
* Should the heads of the big three keep their jobs?
* What is the greater evil, bailing out the big three to preserve jobs and the status quo or listening to free market forces and let them wither?
Gaining the Indirect Edge
You may have noticed a flaw in my original plan, that is, if you want to promote your own site it would involve waiting around for hot topics that have a direct impact on your business or the buying decisions of your target customers. Not so, you could for example write a piece talking about how your product or service can help your customers survive the current economic downturn.
Harnessing the power of blogs
If you have a blog associated to your site and registered you feed with Feedburner (now owned by Google) you might have noticed that new posts can make it to the first page of Google’s results within minutes of going live. If you also use the indirect edge method outlined above you can really drive traffic to your Adsense pages and gain customers at the same time.
Calculating the competition
Let’s look at two keyphrases, “Real Estate” and “Real Estate Denver”. Sub prime lending is still a hot topic and it would not be difficult to include references to sub prime lending from within articles about either keyphrase. However, competition for the keywords you target has a direct impact on your abilty to earn.
By using Google’s advanced operators it is possible to calculate how competitive these terms actually are. If you search for “Real Estate” on Google you will see that Google returns 487,000,000 results that it deems relevant to your search. Similarly, “Real Estate Denver“returns 632,000 rsults. This number can be found above the results on the right hand side of the screen.
N.B. The figure that you see for this result may be different, this is because this number is dynamic and I am writing this document in Spain, so we are more than likely viewing results from entirely different data centres.
Although Google reports 487,000,000 pages for Real Estate and 632,000 pages for Real Estate Denver this does not relate to 487,000,000 competing for those terms, only the number of pages that contain those words. Now try these searches:
intitle:”Real Estate” inanchor:”Real Estate”
The number of pages returned from this search is 72,000,000.
intitle:”Real Estate Denver ” inanchor:”Real Estate Denver”
The number of pages returned from this search is 158.
What these 2 searches tell us is that there are 72,000,000 pages that have Real Estate in their title and within the links that point to the page, a sure sign that a decent level of optimisation is in place. This is a seriously competitive term and even with a very powerful blog it’s going to be difficult to rank for it.
Thankfully, we have a fallback term; Real Estate Denver which has only 158 pages that contain the term in both the page title and the links that point to the page. By including a fallback term you increase the chances of gaining rankings and therefore Adsense clicking traffic.
Spider Spider
Where your page eventually ranks within the search engines comes down to the power, trust, reputation and link profile of site that hosts your articles. Sites like HubPages already have this by the bucket load, you may have noticed how quickly your pages rank and may get the occasional surprise at how well they rank. Google’s ranking algorithm takes many things into account in deciding relevancy. This opens up another jar of worms that is SEO, I have written a few hubs about SEO, and will be writing others, so rather than side track this hub I suggest you read those if you want information about SEO.
In essence search engines crawl your pages and download them to their servers. Spiders or crawlers are not responsible for ranking pages, rather pages are analysed by the search engines once they are downloaded. However, Adsense creates another layer of complexity by using a second spider to evaluate the contextual relevancy of your pages in order to deliver suitable ads.
In my opinion, this is why most Adsense publishers can’t get beyond earning a few dollars per month. Before we get into this section you should download and install the Google Adsense Preview tool if you have not already done so. Instructions how to install/uninstall the tool can be found at:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10005
Once the tool is installed you will be able to see which contextual ads would be delivered to any page whether they publish Adsense ads or not.
N.B. When you try this tool for the first time on pages that have not been set up for Adsense the ads may not seem relevant. If this happens return to the page an hour or so later, by that time the Adsense bot should have visited and the correct ads displayed. (Running the Google Adsense Preview tool on a page will send out the Adsense bot to check the page)
So what can we learn by using this tool? Well from a straight forward SEO perspective its great way to check if our “On Page” optimisation is on target. Just run the tool on your pages and see if the ads served up are relevant, if not you might want to tweak your content. Also, check your competitor’s pages and the top ranking pages for the terms you are chasing to make sure that you got it right.
The Adsense algo places a heavy reliance on ‘on page’ factors to serve up relevant ads and each page is looked at in isolation. Internal navigation and back links play a reduced role in calculating which ads are served up. This is contrary to their main algo which drives rankings primarily based on links. This allows you to isolate and effectively test the efficacy of your on page optimisation against competing WebPages.
Semantics
Some of you may have heard about LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing. The truth is, unless you are a dyed in the wool SEO there is no need to understand the technology behind it. You do need to know how to use semantics and how to find terms that are semantically related to those that you are targeting.
If someone was to say to you ‘Java’, would they be talking about coffee, a scripting language or the island? If Java was used along with coffee, script or Jakarta then we would have a better idea what they were talking about.
Search engines work in a similar way in that certain words add contextual meaning to other words and in turn an entire document or article. One of our tasks is to make each page as self descriptive as possible (a task common to SEO and Adsense publishing) thus ensuring that a page is categorised properly, ranks better and displays the most relevant ads.
Working With Googles Semantic Operator
Search Google for wood, you will see that 277,000,000 pages are returned. Now try this search:
~wood -wood
If you are unfamiliar with Google’s semantic search what you have done is:
* Ask Google to return pages that are relevant for wood
* Remove any page from the result that make use of the word wood
Now look at the results and pay particular notice to the words in bold. What you are looking at are the words that Google deems to be semantically related to wood. Now amend your search by misusing out the words in bold as they occur within the search results. So my next search would be:
~wood -wood -cedar
And then:
~wood -wood -cedar -furniture
Eventually you should end up with a search query that looks like this:
~wood -wood -cedar -furniture -wooden -woods -woodworking -lumber -hardwood
Now repeat the process with the first new word that was discovered i.e. cedar: ~cedar -cedar -wood
Continue the process for each word discovered from the original search>
~furniture -furniture -chair -chairs -desks -sofas
~wooden -wooden -wood -toy –carved ~woods -woods -wood -golf -clubs -trees -wood's
~woodworking -woodworking -woodcraft -furniture -do -it -yourself -woodwork -wood –working ~lumber -lumber -wood -timber -logging
~hardwood -hardwood -tile -wood -flooring -timber -laminate
What you now have is a list of words semantically related to Wood. These are the words that Google wants to see on your pages to show that they are authoritative documents. If you want to research how LSI works in depth I suggest you start by researching Term Document Matrix, just type it into Google... Good luck!
At the end of the process you should have a word list similar to the one below.
Wood, cedar, furniture, wooden, woods, woodworking , lumber, hardwood, chair, chairs, desks, sofas, toy, carved, golf clubs, trees, wood's, woodcraft , do it yourself, woodwork, wood working, timber, logging, tile, wood and laminate.
So in the unlikely event I have to write a document that I want to rank for wood I have a dip-in word list I can use to up the relevance of the piece and ensure the most relevant ads are served to my pages. However, its not that often I target single word terms unless they are brand names. To extend the semantic search to include multiple word terms, for example Real Estate, use the following syntax:
~"Real" + ~"Estate" -Real –Estate
And repeat the process as outlined above.
I hope that you find this information useful and that it results in a few more dollars in your pocket.
Google have some great Adsense tutorials so if you are new to Adsense I suggest you read those first and familiarise yourself with the workings and terminology of Adsense. So, if you don’t know how to set up and position ad units or work with ad formats, start by working through Google’s Adsense Resources.
https://www.google.com/adsense/adsense-resources
Once you have added your Adsense code, Google will serve relevant ads to your pages. Even if you have read the information over at Google’s Adsense Resources there is no guarantee you will earn anything that could be considered an income.
So this is where the hard work begins, we are going to be looking at selecting topics to write about, ensuring that your pages are sufficiently self descriptive to ensure that relevant ads are displayed, measuring competition for the keywords you are targeting and getting search engine positions in order to drive traffic to your Adsense pages.
Topical Events and Hot Topics
Websites like HubPages are great places to write about topical events. Topical Events such as the recent US election are much searched for and documents that make reference to topical events receive a boost in their rankings. I suspect that some Hubbers who published articles about the election noticed an increase to their Adsense income.
Topical events may also become hot topics; the US election was both Topical and a hot topic. For the sake of clarity topical means current and newsworthy, a hot topic is current, newsworthy and heavily searched for online. Search engines are very quick at spotting hot topics by analysing search trends. A good example of this happened when concern over the Avian Flu epidemic was at its height. Pages that made reference to Avian Flu were deemed topical, even pages that had been around for years before the epidemic became a hot topic saw an increase in rankings.
Writing articles about hot topics and posting them on trusted sites like Hubpages can get your pages spidered quickly and achieve better rankings than your own website, if you have one, thus increasing your true earning potential.
Here are a few Ideas that are just screaming out for hubs to be written:
* I am thinking of buying a new car, should I buy from the big three?
* Should the heads of the big three keep their jobs?
* What is the greater evil, bailing out the big three to preserve jobs and the status quo or listening to free market forces and let them wither?
Gaining the Indirect Edge
You may have noticed a flaw in my original plan, that is, if you want to promote your own site it would involve waiting around for hot topics that have a direct impact on your business or the buying decisions of your target customers. Not so, you could for example write a piece talking about how your product or service can help your customers survive the current economic downturn.
Harnessing the power of blogs
If you have a blog associated to your site and registered you feed with Feedburner (now owned by Google) you might have noticed that new posts can make it to the first page of Google’s results within minutes of going live. If you also use the indirect edge method outlined above you can really drive traffic to your Adsense pages and gain customers at the same time.
Calculating the competition
Let’s look at two keyphrases, “Real Estate” and “Real Estate Denver”. Sub prime lending is still a hot topic and it would not be difficult to include references to sub prime lending from within articles about either keyphrase. However, competition for the keywords you target has a direct impact on your abilty to earn.
By using Google’s advanced operators it is possible to calculate how competitive these terms actually are. If you search for “Real Estate” on Google you will see that Google returns 487,000,000 results that it deems relevant to your search. Similarly, “Real Estate Denver“returns 632,000 rsults. This number can be found above the results on the right hand side of the screen.
N.B. The figure that you see for this result may be different, this is because this number is dynamic and I am writing this document in Spain, so we are more than likely viewing results from entirely different data centres.
Although Google reports 487,000,000 pages for Real Estate and 632,000 pages for Real Estate Denver this does not relate to 487,000,000 competing for those terms, only the number of pages that contain those words. Now try these searches:
intitle:”Real Estate” inanchor:”Real Estate”
The number of pages returned from this search is 72,000,000.
intitle:”Real Estate Denver ” inanchor:”Real Estate Denver”
The number of pages returned from this search is 158.
What these 2 searches tell us is that there are 72,000,000 pages that have Real Estate in their title and within the links that point to the page, a sure sign that a decent level of optimisation is in place. This is a seriously competitive term and even with a very powerful blog it’s going to be difficult to rank for it.
Thankfully, we have a fallback term; Real Estate Denver which has only 158 pages that contain the term in both the page title and the links that point to the page. By including a fallback term you increase the chances of gaining rankings and therefore Adsense clicking traffic.
Spider Spider
Where your page eventually ranks within the search engines comes down to the power, trust, reputation and link profile of site that hosts your articles. Sites like HubPages already have this by the bucket load, you may have noticed how quickly your pages rank and may get the occasional surprise at how well they rank. Google’s ranking algorithm takes many things into account in deciding relevancy. This opens up another jar of worms that is SEO, I have written a few hubs about SEO, and will be writing others, so rather than side track this hub I suggest you read those if you want information about SEO.
In essence search engines crawl your pages and download them to their servers. Spiders or crawlers are not responsible for ranking pages, rather pages are analysed by the search engines once they are downloaded. However, Adsense creates another layer of complexity by using a second spider to evaluate the contextual relevancy of your pages in order to deliver suitable ads.
In my opinion, this is why most Adsense publishers can’t get beyond earning a few dollars per month. Before we get into this section you should download and install the Google Adsense Preview tool if you have not already done so. Instructions how to install/uninstall the tool can be found at:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10005
Once the tool is installed you will be able to see which contextual ads would be delivered to any page whether they publish Adsense ads or not.
N.B. When you try this tool for the first time on pages that have not been set up for Adsense the ads may not seem relevant. If this happens return to the page an hour or so later, by that time the Adsense bot should have visited and the correct ads displayed. (Running the Google Adsense Preview tool on a page will send out the Adsense bot to check the page)
So what can we learn by using this tool? Well from a straight forward SEO perspective its great way to check if our “On Page” optimisation is on target. Just run the tool on your pages and see if the ads served up are relevant, if not you might want to tweak your content. Also, check your competitor’s pages and the top ranking pages for the terms you are chasing to make sure that you got it right.
The Adsense algo places a heavy reliance on ‘on page’ factors to serve up relevant ads and each page is looked at in isolation. Internal navigation and back links play a reduced role in calculating which ads are served up. This is contrary to their main algo which drives rankings primarily based on links. This allows you to isolate and effectively test the efficacy of your on page optimisation against competing WebPages.
Semantics
Some of you may have heard about LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing. The truth is, unless you are a dyed in the wool SEO there is no need to understand the technology behind it. You do need to know how to use semantics and how to find terms that are semantically related to those that you are targeting.
If someone was to say to you ‘Java’, would they be talking about coffee, a scripting language or the island? If Java was used along with coffee, script or Jakarta then we would have a better idea what they were talking about.
Search engines work in a similar way in that certain words add contextual meaning to other words and in turn an entire document or article. One of our tasks is to make each page as self descriptive as possible (a task common to SEO and Adsense publishing) thus ensuring that a page is categorised properly, ranks better and displays the most relevant ads.
Working With Googles Semantic Operator
Search Google for wood, you will see that 277,000,000 pages are returned. Now try this search:
~wood -wood
If you are unfamiliar with Google’s semantic search what you have done is:
* Ask Google to return pages that are relevant for wood
* Remove any page from the result that make use of the word wood
Now look at the results and pay particular notice to the words in bold. What you are looking at are the words that Google deems to be semantically related to wood. Now amend your search by misusing out the words in bold as they occur within the search results. So my next search would be:
~wood -wood -cedar
And then:
~wood -wood -cedar -furniture
Eventually you should end up with a search query that looks like this:
~wood -wood -cedar -furniture -wooden -woods -woodworking -lumber -hardwood
Now repeat the process with the first new word that was discovered i.e. cedar: ~cedar -cedar -wood
Continue the process for each word discovered from the original search>
~furniture -furniture -chair -chairs -desks -sofas
~wooden -wooden -wood -toy –carved ~woods -woods -wood -golf -clubs -trees -wood's
~woodworking -woodworking -woodcraft -furniture -do -it -yourself -woodwork -wood –working ~lumber -lumber -wood -timber -logging
~hardwood -hardwood -tile -wood -flooring -timber -laminate
What you now have is a list of words semantically related to Wood. These are the words that Google wants to see on your pages to show that they are authoritative documents. If you want to research how LSI works in depth I suggest you start by researching Term Document Matrix, just type it into Google... Good luck!
At the end of the process you should have a word list similar to the one below.
Wood, cedar, furniture, wooden, woods, woodworking , lumber, hardwood, chair, chairs, desks, sofas, toy, carved, golf clubs, trees, wood's, woodcraft , do it yourself, woodwork, wood working, timber, logging, tile, wood and laminate.
So in the unlikely event I have to write a document that I want to rank for wood I have a dip-in word list I can use to up the relevance of the piece and ensure the most relevant ads are served to my pages. However, its not that often I target single word terms unless they are brand names. To extend the semantic search to include multiple word terms, for example Real Estate, use the following syntax:
~"Real" + ~"Estate" -Real –Estate
And repeat the process as outlined above.
I hope that you find this information useful and that it results in a few more dollars in your pocket.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Earning Money from Yahoo Groups
Using yahoo groups to make extra money from home is not as hard as it may seem. Usually, when people think of yahoo groups, they automatically think of spam. This is very understandable as these types of groups are well known for being cluttered with spam. It doesn't have to be that way though and you can profit immensely from these groups if you use them in the correct way. Read on to find out how.
There are two types of yahoo groups you can join to make extra money from home. The first group is strictly for advertising purposes. People basically join these groups for the main purpose of getting the word out on their product or service. Although this may seem like a great way promote your opportunity, it is often not the best way. For one, these kinds of groups can get saturated fast with spam and chances are your message will not even be read. Secondly, these types of groups do not offer much for building relationships with people and getting valuable information on your niche.yahoo group is a topic or niche related group where you join in with others and post valuable ideas and information. You are not there to blatantly advertise your opportunity, but rather to build relationships with people and therefore build trust. Once you accomplish this, you can include a link to your business in your signature line. This is a much non evasive form of advertising and people who click on your link are actually interested in learning more about what you have to offer.
build relationships Build trust with other members by being a part of the group and making daily posts with relevant information such as articles, tips, comments or ideas. This takes a bit of time but will help you out in the long run. People need to get familiar with you and what information you have to offer. They need to feel like you are there as a part of the group wanting to make contributions that are beneficial to everyone and not just there to sell them on how to make extra money from home with your opportunity. This will build credibility.Once you do this, you can start introducing your opportunity as another way that will benefit them or simply place your opportunity link in your signature and people will start clicking on it once they trust you. This is where the profits start to roll in and the fun begins. You have to be patient to reach to this point, but once you get there, you will be glad you took the time to establish relationships and build trust.
There are two types of yahoo groups you can join to make extra money from home. The first group is strictly for advertising purposes. People basically join these groups for the main purpose of getting the word out on their product or service. Although this may seem like a great way promote your opportunity, it is often not the best way. For one, these kinds of groups can get saturated fast with spam and chances are your message will not even be read. Secondly, these types of groups do not offer much for building relationships with people and getting valuable information on your niche.yahoo group is a topic or niche related group where you join in with others and post valuable ideas and information. You are not there to blatantly advertise your opportunity, but rather to build relationships with people and therefore build trust. Once you accomplish this, you can include a link to your business in your signature line. This is a much non evasive form of advertising and people who click on your link are actually interested in learning more about what you have to offer.
build relationships Build trust with other members by being a part of the group and making daily posts with relevant information such as articles, tips, comments or ideas. This takes a bit of time but will help you out in the long run. People need to get familiar with you and what information you have to offer. They need to feel like you are there as a part of the group wanting to make contributions that are beneficial to everyone and not just there to sell them on how to make extra money from home with your opportunity. This will build credibility.Once you do this, you can start introducing your opportunity as another way that will benefit them or simply place your opportunity link in your signature and people will start clicking on it once they trust you. This is where the profits start to roll in and the fun begins. You have to be patient to reach to this point, but once you get there, you will be glad you took the time to establish relationships and build trust.
Earn Money from Online Paid Survey
How Paid Surveys work?
In the United States alone, companies spend over 250 Billion dollars a year trying to convince consumers to buy their products and services.
And while the majority of it is spent on advertising, $766 million dollars is devoted to "market research".
Understanding how people think and shop, why they buy certain products, etc. ultimately helps companies improve their products and services and make THEM more money.
Knowing this, and that they won't get our help for free, companies are willing to pay people like you and me good money - up to $150 an hour! - for our opinions, because when the dust settles they know they will come out ahead and generate even more profits for themselves.
As a matter of fact, there are currently over 7 million companies worldwide that actively survey consumers to find the best way to promote their products.
What are Surveys?
Surveys are questionnaires designed to inform companies about what people like you think about their products and services. They can be done online or over the phone. The answers from the participants are then compiled by market researchers and used to make important decisions about product design and advertising campaigns.
What are Focus Groups?
Focus groups are a marketing research technique in which a group of people (usually about 10) are led through a discussion of a particular product or service by a trained moderator. They can be conducted in person, online, or over the phone. Focus groups are designed to give a company a better idea of how consumers perceive a particular product or service.
On the average, if you just do about 1 survey a day and a company pays you $20 for each, that is:
Just 1 survey a day @ $20 each = $600 a month.
Just 4 focus groups a month @ $150 each = $600 a month.
So if you're retired, a stay-at-home mom, student or anyone else looking to make extra cash completing paid online surveys are a fantastic way of making great money. You won't become a millionaire with surveys, but the opportunity is very exciting -- even for people who already have a full-time job.
In the United States alone, companies spend over 250 Billion dollars a year trying to convince consumers to buy their products and services.
And while the majority of it is spent on advertising, $766 million dollars is devoted to "market research".
Understanding how people think and shop, why they buy certain products, etc. ultimately helps companies improve their products and services and make THEM more money.
Knowing this, and that they won't get our help for free, companies are willing to pay people like you and me good money - up to $150 an hour! - for our opinions, because when the dust settles they know they will come out ahead and generate even more profits for themselves.
As a matter of fact, there are currently over 7 million companies worldwide that actively survey consumers to find the best way to promote their products.
What are Surveys?
Surveys are questionnaires designed to inform companies about what people like you think about their products and services. They can be done online or over the phone. The answers from the participants are then compiled by market researchers and used to make important decisions about product design and advertising campaigns.
What are Focus Groups?
Focus groups are a marketing research technique in which a group of people (usually about 10) are led through a discussion of a particular product or service by a trained moderator. They can be conducted in person, online, or over the phone. Focus groups are designed to give a company a better idea of how consumers perceive a particular product or service.
On the average, if you just do about 1 survey a day and a company pays you $20 for each, that is:
Just 1 survey a day @ $20 each = $600 a month.
Just 4 focus groups a month @ $150 each = $600 a month.
So if you're retired, a stay-at-home mom, student or anyone else looking to make extra cash completing paid online surveys are a fantastic way of making great money. You won't become a millionaire with surveys, but the opportunity is very exciting -- even for people who already have a full-time job.
How to Make Money From a Blog
Do you want to earn money by blogging? A blog is a web log or an online diary that can be for business or pleasure. Many people now earn part-time or even full-time salaries by blogging for money. Find out a few ways that you can monetize your blog and earn money for your efforts.
Choose a blog. There are free hosted blogs online through many sources that can help you by giving you the tools and resources to make it simple to start your own blog. Or you can register a domain name and start your blog from scratch if you have a bit of technical savvy.
Choose a niche. Once you've decided on a blog, decide what you will write about to attract visitors. Some simply use their blog as a place to write editorials or opinions while others blog about a specific subject they are knowledgeable on. Many professional bloggers recommend that you choose a niche so you can build a following.Promote your blog. Use web services that will get you some attention such as blog directories and social bookmarking. Using these services can help you get indexed in search engines and drive traffic to your blog. Commenting on other blogs can also build links in to your blog and help more people find you. Once you have some material to read and are indexed in search engines, you can begin to really monetize your blog and start earning money.
Sign up with Google Adsense. Google offers the ability for people to display targeted advertisements on their blog. Google will give you a percentage of that revenue when people: click on the ads, view the ads and purchase something from a sponsor. You need to apply to Google Adsense and wait for acceptance, and then you will have to work with your blog program to embed the code so the advertisements display properly. This is not difficult. You need to follow Google's TOS (terms of service) in order to maintain good standing. See warning section in this article for more information.
Choose a blog. There are free hosted blogs online through many sources that can help you by giving you the tools and resources to make it simple to start your own blog. Or you can register a domain name and start your blog from scratch if you have a bit of technical savvy.
Choose a niche. Once you've decided on a blog, decide what you will write about to attract visitors. Some simply use their blog as a place to write editorials or opinions while others blog about a specific subject they are knowledgeable on. Many professional bloggers recommend that you choose a niche so you can build a following.Promote your blog. Use web services that will get you some attention such as blog directories and social bookmarking. Using these services can help you get indexed in search engines and drive traffic to your blog. Commenting on other blogs can also build links in to your blog and help more people find you. Once you have some material to read and are indexed in search engines, you can begin to really monetize your blog and start earning money.
Sign up with Google Adsense. Google offers the ability for people to display targeted advertisements on their blog. Google will give you a percentage of that revenue when people: click on the ads, view the ads and purchase something from a sponsor. You need to apply to Google Adsense and wait for acceptance, and then you will have to work with your blog program to embed the code so the advertisements display properly. This is not difficult. You need to follow Google's TOS (terms of service) in order to maintain good standing. See warning section in this article for more information.
How to Start Freelancer Writing
The Basics of How to Start Working from Home as a Freelance Writer.
If you want to start a freelance writing career, it's as simple as sitting down and taking the steps listed below. You can literally do everything you need to do in 24 hours or less - and it won't cost you a cent. The only thing it costs is time - eg, sweat equity.
If you want to start a freelance writing career, following is a three-step plan of action to you're your there. By tomorrow, you can officially say, "I'm a freelance writer."
Put Up a Blog: You need a web presence as a freelance writer. So, instead of putting up a website (which has hosting fees and may require skills beyond your level), simply throw up a blog. A blog and a website are both web presences. They're just used differently. For now, what you need is a web presence, and a blog will do just fine.
Start with a free one you can get from blogger.com or wordpress.com. By putting up a blog, you can't use the, "I don't have the time, knowledge, money or skill to build a website" excuse. Once you get an official website, you can move everything over later.
On your freelance writing blog, list three things: your writing samples (which we'll discuss below); your professional profile/bio (make it short and relevant); and your rates. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.Writing Samples: This is the one thing that stops most wannabe freelancers dead in their tracks. Don't let it.If you don't have writing samples - simply sit down and write a few articles for each niche you plan to target. I recommend three to five to start. All potential clients want to see is evidence of your writing ability. Whether you've been published before is irrelevant to 90-95% of clients.Cost: $0; Estimated Time to Complete: 3-5 hours, depending on how many samples you plan to write. Figure on average one article (400-600 words) per hour.Marketing List: Once you have your writing samples and your web presence ready to go, it's now time to start prospecting/marketing for clients. This is perhaps the most difficult part of starting your freelance writing career.Hit the web, the best way to find contact information. Target anyone and everyone you think can use your writing services - web design firms, internet marketing firms, ezines, magazines (although these take forever), advertising agencies, etc.Compile a list of 20-25 prospects you can contact each day. Marketing for writing jobs is simply a numbers game.
Before long, you will land a client - I practically guarantee it.If you spend a full day of 10-12 hours doing everything listed here, you will have pulled together everything you need to start a freelance writing career. Market religiously every day to 20-25 prospects, and before long, will have a successful, work-from-home career that you can do from anywhere.
If you want to start a freelance writing career, it's as simple as sitting down and taking the steps listed below. You can literally do everything you need to do in 24 hours or less - and it won't cost you a cent. The only thing it costs is time - eg, sweat equity.
If you want to start a freelance writing career, following is a three-step plan of action to you're your there. By tomorrow, you can officially say, "I'm a freelance writer."
Put Up a Blog: You need a web presence as a freelance writer. So, instead of putting up a website (which has hosting fees and may require skills beyond your level), simply throw up a blog. A blog and a website are both web presences. They're just used differently. For now, what you need is a web presence, and a blog will do just fine.
Start with a free one you can get from blogger.com or wordpress.com. By putting up a blog, you can't use the, "I don't have the time, knowledge, money or skill to build a website" excuse. Once you get an official website, you can move everything over later.
On your freelance writing blog, list three things: your writing samples (which we'll discuss below); your professional profile/bio (make it short and relevant); and your rates. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.Writing Samples: This is the one thing that stops most wannabe freelancers dead in their tracks. Don't let it.If you don't have writing samples - simply sit down and write a few articles for each niche you plan to target. I recommend three to five to start. All potential clients want to see is evidence of your writing ability. Whether you've been published before is irrelevant to 90-95% of clients.Cost: $0; Estimated Time to Complete: 3-5 hours, depending on how many samples you plan to write. Figure on average one article (400-600 words) per hour.Marketing List: Once you have your writing samples and your web presence ready to go, it's now time to start prospecting/marketing for clients. This is perhaps the most difficult part of starting your freelance writing career.Hit the web, the best way to find contact information. Target anyone and everyone you think can use your writing services - web design firms, internet marketing firms, ezines, magazines (although these take forever), advertising agencies, etc.Compile a list of 20-25 prospects you can contact each day. Marketing for writing jobs is simply a numbers game.
Before long, you will land a client - I practically guarantee it.If you spend a full day of 10-12 hours doing everything listed here, you will have pulled together everything you need to start a freelance writing career. Market religiously every day to 20-25 prospects, and before long, will have a successful, work-from-home career that you can do from anywhere.
How to earn Money from Affiliate Programmes!
Yes, we can earn good money from Online Affiliate Programmes.
But, Don't ever think i m talking about No Work , Free Money Policy ! Nothing in this world is free, If we have no money to invest, we have to invest our labor - our talent.
Yes , Affiliate Programme is something where you don't have to invest money particularly for it, but have to invest your talent and labour. You have to plan & work for it , if you seriously want to earn money with it from Online !
Yes , Affiliate Programme is something where you don't have to invest money particularly for it, but have to invest your talent and labor. You have to plan & work for it , if you seriously want to earn money with it from Online !
How to start!
it will be better, if you already have your own website Or, blog Or, discussion board(forum).
But if you have Nothing at this moment........ Don't worry ! Just make one.
If you have very less technical knowlegede on internet, but have writing skill on some particular matter, you can start with making a Blog, Go to www.Blogger.Com & Create a account for blog. Make one & create articles on which you have much knowledge.
Remember, To write articles & sell affiliate products, You need knowledge on that particular topics ! For example, if you are selling graphic software (affiliate products), Or, selling Web Hosting (affiliate service)............... Then you must need knowledge on those particular matters (example- graphic software Or, web hosting) !Ok ?
Next step is, Signup for an affiliate programme that is related to your Blogs/Website/Forum category. It is very important factor for your sell/lead to earn money from affiliate programme.
For example, If your site is all about Electronic Products/Services , then Choose Affiliate Programmes that are on similar to your site's subject. Because, who are coming to your site they are only looking for Electronic Products/Services AND, Informations on it.
Information's that you will supply, if that make them satisfy only then they will buy something of your affiliate products/services. It is so simple.
So you must not signup for unrelated affiliate programmes that are not matched with your site category !
And ofcourse, The another most important thing is, give genuine information's to your customers/visitors, If you want them back to your site again & again.
But, Don't ever think i m talking about No Work , Free Money Policy ! Nothing in this world is free, If we have no money to invest, we have to invest our labor - our talent.
Yes , Affiliate Programme is something where you don't have to invest money particularly for it, but have to invest your talent and labour. You have to plan & work for it , if you seriously want to earn money with it from Online !
Yes , Affiliate Programme is something where you don't have to invest money particularly for it, but have to invest your talent and labor. You have to plan & work for it , if you seriously want to earn money with it from Online !
How to start!
it will be better, if you already have your own website Or, blog Or, discussion board(forum).
But if you have Nothing at this moment........ Don't worry ! Just make one.
If you have very less technical knowlegede on internet, but have writing skill on some particular matter, you can start with making a Blog, Go to www.Blogger.Com & Create a account for blog. Make one & create articles on which you have much knowledge.
Remember, To write articles & sell affiliate products, You need knowledge on that particular topics ! For example, if you are selling graphic software (affiliate products), Or, selling Web Hosting (affiliate service)............... Then you must need knowledge on those particular matters (example- graphic software Or, web hosting) !Ok ?
Next step is, Signup for an affiliate programme that is related to your Blogs/Website/Forum category. It is very important factor for your sell/lead to earn money from affiliate programme.
For example, If your site is all about Electronic Products/Services , then Choose Affiliate Programmes that are on similar to your site's subject. Because, who are coming to your site they are only looking for Electronic Products/Services AND, Informations on it.
Information's that you will supply, if that make them satisfy only then they will buy something of your affiliate products/services. It is so simple.
So you must not signup for unrelated affiliate programmes that are not matched with your site category !
And ofcourse, The another most important thing is, give genuine information's to your customers/visitors, If you want them back to your site again & again.
Make money from Online Teaching
Today the internet is used for so many things. Many of us study and work from within the comfort of our own homes, with the help of our computers and the World Wide Web. This has provided many work opportunities for those who may have an interest in teaching. Today it is possible to make some extra cash by teaching in online classrooms.If you are considering this possibility, then the first thing you should think about is your own personal skills. What are you particularly good at that others could benefit from? Perhaps you are good at building web pages or are an expert at using types of software. All of these skills could be easily developed into a simple online class that you could potentially earn some money from. There are literally hundreds of opportunities to think about. Writing classes tend to be very popular as well as simple accounting courses.
People are attracted to web learning for a variety of reasons. Many of us work full time and have difficulty attending traditional forms of school. Web learning makes updating your skills much easier. People can also do this in the comfort of their own homes. Many have children and families, so being able to learn at home cuts down on travel time as well as childcare. Web learning also tends to be very affordable. College and University courses can run into the thousands. You can multiply that by 10 if you want to pursue a degree. Web learning is much cheaper and the quality of the courses is usually as good.
Teaching online English language
Teaching the english language online is becoming more and more popular. Using MSN messenger, Skype or any other web-cam chat client can get you work teaching English! You can set your own hours and availability, and the pay isn’t bad either if you’re a good instructor! There are also dedicated online language schools who hire instructors for their students
Ideally, you should have some sort of certification to show to your prospective students or employers. It’s much better then not having one, and besides, you’ll learn a lot if you do decide to go through some sort of certification program. Check out www.tefl.com or www.tefl.net for more details.
People are attracted to web learning for a variety of reasons. Many of us work full time and have difficulty attending traditional forms of school. Web learning makes updating your skills much easier. People can also do this in the comfort of their own homes. Many have children and families, so being able to learn at home cuts down on travel time as well as childcare. Web learning also tends to be very affordable. College and University courses can run into the thousands. You can multiply that by 10 if you want to pursue a degree. Web learning is much cheaper and the quality of the courses is usually as good.
Teaching online English language
Teaching the english language online is becoming more and more popular. Using MSN messenger, Skype or any other web-cam chat client can get you work teaching English! You can set your own hours and availability, and the pay isn’t bad either if you’re a good instructor! There are also dedicated online language schools who hire instructors for their students
Ideally, you should have some sort of certification to show to your prospective students or employers. It’s much better then not having one, and besides, you’ll learn a lot if you do decide to go through some sort of certification program. Check out www.tefl.com or www.tefl.net for more details.
Earn With Free lancing and Work from Home
Below are the list of authentic website where you can earn money.
ablestable.com
Directory providing a very broad listing of creative professionals, from artists to web designers, programmers, illustrators and music composers.
associatedcontent.com
Pays individuals to write about the community they live in. Payment is made per submission and one doesn't necessarily need to be a writer. Once you are registered as a "Content Producer" you can immediately start submitting content via their online system. Both non-exclusive (you retain the copyright) and exclusive (copyright bought by Associated Content) submissions are accepted.
editfast.com/english/
EditFast provides a free service to skilled proofreaders, editors and writers. If you are selected for a project by a client or by the EditFast administration you will be notified and that project will be directed to you
worldlancer.comom
Job listings and jobs online for a variety of projects. "Buyers" can post job listings for free. Freelancers can find jobs online and get paid for their work.
tca.org.uk
TCA is Europe's largest organisation dedicated to the promotion of teleworking. Over 2,000 people and organisations have joined them since they started in 1993. The TCA believes that teleworking can benefit people by increasing the quality of life and improving access to work.
ablestable.com
Directory providing a very broad listing of creative professionals, from artists to web designers, programmers, illustrators and music composers.
associatedcontent.com
Pays individuals to write about the community they live in. Payment is made per submission and one doesn't necessarily need to be a writer. Once you are registered as a "Content Producer" you can immediately start submitting content via their online system. Both non-exclusive (you retain the copyright) and exclusive (copyright bought by Associated Content) submissions are accepted.
editfast.com/english/
EditFast provides a free service to skilled proofreaders, editors and writers. If you are selected for a project by a client or by the EditFast administration you will be notified and that project will be directed to you
worldlancer.comom
Job listings and jobs online for a variety of projects. "Buyers" can post job listings for free. Freelancers can find jobs online and get paid for their work.
tca.org.uk
TCA is Europe's largest organisation dedicated to the promotion of teleworking. Over 2,000 people and organisations have joined them since they started in 1993. The TCA believes that teleworking can benefit people by increasing the quality of life and improving access to work.
Earn Money from Forex Trading
FOREX is the abbreviation for the Foreign Exchange market. FOREX is basically an international exchange market where currencies from all over the world are bought and sold for profit. The market today began in the 1970's. FOREX is a very unique market because it is not based in any particular place, and it also has very few qualifications for investing. FOREX is also free of external controls, and the investors (participants in the market) largely determine how much a currency is worth based on demand. Almost anyone can invest in FOREX, and there are strategies for investors who want to have long-term gains, and strategies for investors who desire short-term gains. The vast array of investors makes FOREX quite unique in the financial community.
The Workings of FOREX
FOREX is not centered at one place like the NYSE. The specific hours for FOREX trade are 24 hours a day from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon. FOREX transactions can take place at almost any time, anywhere, all over the world. There are FOREX dealers in almost all of the time zones, and it is simple to find them. Many dealers can be found online. All an investor does is decide what currency he or she wants to purchase, contact the dealer, and then makes the purchase. Many investors purchase using a credit line (money they do not have). This is called marginal trading.
Benefits of FOREX
FOREX can be very beneficial to a variety of people. FOREX trading can gain investors a large amount of money either over a long period of time, or in a short period of time. Investors who choose to invest in FOREX are generally well informed about the market and understand the current situations in many countries of the world. Investing in FOREX is simple and highly recommended for anyone who wants to enjoy profits from top-notch investments.
The Workings of FOREX
FOREX is not centered at one place like the NYSE. The specific hours for FOREX trade are 24 hours a day from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon. FOREX transactions can take place at almost any time, anywhere, all over the world. There are FOREX dealers in almost all of the time zones, and it is simple to find them. Many dealers can be found online. All an investor does is decide what currency he or she wants to purchase, contact the dealer, and then makes the purchase. Many investors purchase using a credit line (money they do not have). This is called marginal trading.
Benefits of FOREX
FOREX can be very beneficial to a variety of people. FOREX trading can gain investors a large amount of money either over a long period of time, or in a short period of time. Investors who choose to invest in FOREX are generally well informed about the market and understand the current situations in many countries of the world. Investing in FOREX is simple and highly recommended for anyone who wants to enjoy profits from top-notch investments.
Earn Extra Money From E-bay
There are several ways to make money using Ebay. The way most people break into Ebay is by searching around their home for items they may no longer use or need. Check in the attic, basement, or out in the garage for antiques or unused items that others might find valuable. Even if you can't think of a use for something, there's a good chance someone out there in "Ebay Land" will.
If you are creative you might want to make crafts and sell them on Ebay. There are tons of Ebayers who love homemade items. Hand sewn, crocheted, knitted, quilted, or just put together items seldom go over looked.
As you become familiar with Ebay and learn your way around the online auction site, you may want to begin searching for product to sell. Rummage sales, estate sales, auctions, and local thrift stores are warehouses of potential Ebay profit. I often pick up out of season children's clothes that are on clearance and then put them on Ebay. After all, it is always warmer or colder somewhere around the globe. Pay close attention to antique items.
This is one of the funniest ways to make money on EBay. Hit the after holiday sales. You can stock up on Christmas, Valentines, Easter, Halloween, and other specific merchandise a few days to a week after the holiday at substantial savings. Hang on to the merchandise and then resell on Ebay a month before the holiday arrives in the upcoming year. Drug stores such as Walgreen's usually have deep discounts after holidays, because of the limited stock space. You can load up on brand new Halloween costumes, Christmas decorations, toys, etc. at up to 75% or 90% off retail. You can very easily double your investment using this method.
If you are at a loss as to what to sell, here is the best affiliate program I have found online. You can sell their information product on Ebay and make a substantial amount of money. It is easy to understand, free to start, and has the potential to bring in a steady stream of income. You don't need to have experience doing this, they have instructions on everything, go ahead and give it a try: http://mynas.sitesell.com/aprilreign.html
If you are creative you might want to make crafts and sell them on Ebay. There are tons of Ebayers who love homemade items. Hand sewn, crocheted, knitted, quilted, or just put together items seldom go over looked.
As you become familiar with Ebay and learn your way around the online auction site, you may want to begin searching for product to sell. Rummage sales, estate sales, auctions, and local thrift stores are warehouses of potential Ebay profit. I often pick up out of season children's clothes that are on clearance and then put them on Ebay. After all, it is always warmer or colder somewhere around the globe. Pay close attention to antique items.
This is one of the funniest ways to make money on EBay. Hit the after holiday sales. You can stock up on Christmas, Valentines, Easter, Halloween, and other specific merchandise a few days to a week after the holiday at substantial savings. Hang on to the merchandise and then resell on Ebay a month before the holiday arrives in the upcoming year. Drug stores such as Walgreen's usually have deep discounts after holidays, because of the limited stock space. You can load up on brand new Halloween costumes, Christmas decorations, toys, etc. at up to 75% or 90% off retail. You can very easily double your investment using this method.
If you are at a loss as to what to sell, here is the best affiliate program I have found online. You can sell their information product on Ebay and make a substantial amount of money. It is easy to understand, free to start, and has the potential to bring in a steady stream of income. You don't need to have experience doing this, they have instructions on everything, go ahead and give it a try: http://mynas.sitesell.com/aprilreign.html
Earn Money from Adbrite
AdBrite will sell ad space on your site for you. They have many options to generate revenue from your site. You control what type of advertising you would like on your site. Ad units include:
(1) Text only (links to advertisers sites)
(2) Combination of Banners and Text (alternates depending on demand)
(3) Full page advertising (shown between pages on your site)
(4) Inline ads (keywords are highlighted and may be clicked)
(5) BritePic (monetizing photos)
(6) InVideo (monetizing your video)
Text only, and text w/banners work much like Google Adsense advertisers may choose to place their advertisements throughout the network. When using the text w/banners, text will display when banners are not available.Full page advertising allows appears between WebPages on your website. When a visitor moves from one page to another they are shown an advertisement with the top of the webpage identifying your site and the bottom of the webpage is an ad. Each visitor will only see one per visit so they are not annoyed.
Inline Ads highlight keywords on your page by underlining them. When the mouse hovers over the word an advertisement appears to grab their attention and a click on the word earns you revenue. These ads are very unobtrusive and a nice supplement to other forms of advertising on the page.
BritePic ads allow you to monetize your pictures. By using the AdBrite system they place an advertisement at the top of your picture. When clicked you earn revenue.InVideo ads allow you to monetize your videos. By using the AdBrite system they place an advertisement, much like BritePic, at the top of the video and you earn revenue when clicked.You may choose any or all of the above. We will write about each advertisement type and test each one.
(1) Text only (links to advertisers sites)
(2) Combination of Banners and Text (alternates depending on demand)
(3) Full page advertising (shown between pages on your site)
(4) Inline ads (keywords are highlighted and may be clicked)
(5) BritePic (monetizing photos)
(6) InVideo (monetizing your video)
Text only, and text w/banners work much like Google Adsense advertisers may choose to place their advertisements throughout the network. When using the text w/banners, text will display when banners are not available.Full page advertising allows appears between WebPages on your website. When a visitor moves from one page to another they are shown an advertisement with the top of the webpage identifying your site and the bottom of the webpage is an ad. Each visitor will only see one per visit so they are not annoyed.
Inline Ads highlight keywords on your page by underlining them. When the mouse hovers over the word an advertisement appears to grab their attention and a click on the word earns you revenue. These ads are very unobtrusive and a nice supplement to other forms of advertising on the page.
BritePic ads allow you to monetize your pictures. By using the AdBrite system they place an advertisement at the top of your picture. When clicked you earn revenue.InVideo ads allow you to monetize your videos. By using the AdBrite system they place an advertisement, much like BritePic, at the top of the video and you earn revenue when clicked.You may choose any or all of the above. We will write about each advertisement type and test each one.
Earn Extra Money from Amazon
You've probably heard before a lot of hype about how much money you can make with affiliate programs. Maybe you've even set up a site yourself, only to find that after buying the domain, a few bucks a month in hosting, software or a web designer to design your site, etc., that the piddle affiliate fees hardly even covered your cost. Well, here's the hype-free way to really make money with an Amazon. COM affiliate site. And it'll only take a day to make the site.
The secret? Low cost, low effort.
1. If you don't already know it, learn some basic HTML. You have to do this to keep your costs down and still get what you want. Even if the site is basically laid out for you, you're going to need to know how to insert images, create hyperlinks, and do some basic text formatting. Our HTML Guide offers a free 10-week HTML class and a great collection of beginning HTML tutorials. Get over any anxiety you have about this. Just do it. You'll thank me for it later.
2. Decide on your topic. You're going to be doing product reviews and recommendations, so pick a topic that you enjoy and know something about. If you can't stay passionate about the topic, that will show, and it also won't hold your interest. Choose a narrow enough niche to be distinctive, e.g., bands from your city, left-handed guitarists, music for a certain kind of dancing, authors of a certain religion, books about arts & crafts, etc.
3. Choose your domain name. Make it keyword-rich, not clever. Think how people will find your site in the search engines. Here are some ideas (all available when I first wrote this, though a cfew have been snatched up): Music: BandsFromTexas.com, BandOutOfBoston.com, SouthpawGuitarists.com, ClassicPsychedelia.com, Non-Stop-Hip-Hop.com, Merengue-Music.com Books: Mormon-Authors.com, Arts-and-Crafts-Books.com, Books-by-Stephen-King.com, ClassicBusinessBooks.com Others: Best-Baby-Toys.com, MomsMags.com, FelliniMovies.com
4. Register your domain name. If you're not technically inclined at all, register your domain wherever you set up your hosting in step 5. Otherwise, you can save a few bucks by choosing a lower-cost provider. Not a big deal for one or two sites, but it can be for ten or twenty. I use GoDaddy, who have great domain management tools and are less than $10 a year. The least expensive I've found from a reputable source is 1&1, whose price is around $7 a year last I checked.
5. Set up your web hosting. This is where most people get burned. For this kind of site, you do not need $10 a month web hosting! Our Online Business Guide has a list of Cheap Web Hosting for Under $10. Some are as little as $4 a month, with unlimited domains, i.e., you can run several sites like this on the same hosting package.
6. Install blog software. "Blog, you say?" Yes. It will give your site all the structure you need, plus make it easy to quickly post new content. My pick is WordPress, which is open source (i.e., free), easy to install and use, and yet very powerful. Many hosts have a one-step installation process for it, or you can download it and follow their installation instructions.
7. Make it pretty. One of the great things about WordPress is the huge variety of templates available for it -- they can completely change the look-and-feel. Our Weblogs Guide has a list of 5 Sites for Free Wordpress Themes, where you can find hundreds of free WordPress themes.
8. Set up categories. Most blog software allows you to create sub-categories to help organize your entries. This will help visitors narrow in even more specifically on their interests. For example, BandsFromTexas.com might have one group of categories for genre — rock, country, blues, etc. — and another for city of origin — Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc.
9. Sign up as an Amazon Associate. It's simple and free. Just visit Amazon and click on the Join Associates link at the bottom of the page (here's a direct link for your convenience). Your site should already have at least the basic setup done, even if you don't have any content there yet, as they'll review the site manually before approval.
10. Create your blog posting bookmarks/links. There are two links that are going to be essential for you to make this easy. First is the blog posting link. In your blog software, on the posting page (see their instructions), at the bottom of the page there should be a "bookmarklet". Click on the link (and hold the mouse) and drag it up to your Links toolbar in your browser (assuming Internet Explorer), or your Favorites menu. This will allow you to blog a product with one mouse click.
11. Create your Amazon Build-A-Link bookmark/link. This will make it easy to build the link with your affiliate ID built in. Log in to Associates Central, look in the left navigation sidebar, go to Build-A-Link, and under Static Links, find Individual Items. Click and drag this onto your Links toolbar or Favorites menu.
12. Build your first link. Go to Amazon and log in with your Associates account. Find the product you want to review and use the Site Stripe (gray stripe at the top of the screen that you'll see when logged in as an Associate) to get your personalized link to the item. They also offer a variety of other options for creating links and banners.
13. Blog your review. Now click on your blog posting link (Press It! by default in WordPress). If you're using WordPress, you should now see two pieces of link code in your posting form, the first one ending with "Associates Build-A-Link >< /a >". Delete through that point. The second part is a link to the product with your Amazon Associate ID built in. Now just write your product review, choose the appropriate categories for it, and hit Publish.
14. Build out your site. Before you promote your site, you want to have some substantial content there. Write several product reviews. Have at least 2-3 in each category you've created. You may also want to make a categories for articles, news, and commentary about your topic. The more content your site has, the better. And the great thing is that while you're writing all this, the search engines are getting notified automatically, assuming you turned on the notifications mentioned in step 6.
15. Promote your site. The best free way to do this is to communicate with other bloggers writing about similar topics, and to participate in online communities where your topic is discussed. See the Online Business Networking category for ideas, as well as the Internet Marketing category.
Tips:
1. You have to learn some basic HTML and basic concepts about running a web site. It's just not that hard. If you have to rely on purchased software, you won't be able to get exactly what you want, you won't know what to do when things go wrong, and you'll end up spending money you don't need to. Spend the time to learn it. It will be well worth the investment.
2. I slightly recommend music over books and other products, mainly because you can listen to the clips of an entire album in about 10 minutes and get a good enough feel for it (without buying it) to do a short review. If you have another topic that you're passionate about, great, but make sure you have a unique angle on the topic. People can get reviews about a lot of those consumer products anywhere. You need to give them a reason to come to your site.
3. To pick up some extra pennies, sign up for Google AdSense. It probably won't generate a lot of revenue, but it's free to sign up and completely effortless to maintain.
4. Set reasonable expectations for earnings. You've only invested $20. You're going to make 5% on most products. That means that you need to sell $400 worth of stuff to make back your investment. To make $20 an hour, what you write must generate $400 worth of purchases. You get credit for other purchases customers you send make while at Amazon besides just the product you linked to, so it's not as hard as it may sound. It won't make you rich, but it's not hard to be profitable, and it builds over time.
What You Need:
• A credit card with about $20 available
The secret? Low cost, low effort.
1. If you don't already know it, learn some basic HTML. You have to do this to keep your costs down and still get what you want. Even if the site is basically laid out for you, you're going to need to know how to insert images, create hyperlinks, and do some basic text formatting. Our HTML Guide offers a free 10-week HTML class and a great collection of beginning HTML tutorials. Get over any anxiety you have about this. Just do it. You'll thank me for it later.
2. Decide on your topic. You're going to be doing product reviews and recommendations, so pick a topic that you enjoy and know something about. If you can't stay passionate about the topic, that will show, and it also won't hold your interest. Choose a narrow enough niche to be distinctive, e.g., bands from your city, left-handed guitarists, music for a certain kind of dancing, authors of a certain religion, books about arts & crafts, etc.
3. Choose your domain name. Make it keyword-rich, not clever. Think how people will find your site in the search engines. Here are some ideas (all available when I first wrote this, though a cfew have been snatched up): Music: BandsFromTexas.com, BandOutOfBoston.com, SouthpawGuitarists.com, ClassicPsychedelia.com, Non-Stop-Hip-Hop.com, Merengue-Music.com Books: Mormon-Authors.com, Arts-and-Crafts-Books.com, Books-by-Stephen-King.com, ClassicBusinessBooks.com Others: Best-Baby-Toys.com, MomsMags.com, FelliniMovies.com
4. Register your domain name. If you're not technically inclined at all, register your domain wherever you set up your hosting in step 5. Otherwise, you can save a few bucks by choosing a lower-cost provider. Not a big deal for one or two sites, but it can be for ten or twenty. I use GoDaddy, who have great domain management tools and are less than $10 a year. The least expensive I've found from a reputable source is 1&1, whose price is around $7 a year last I checked.
5. Set up your web hosting. This is where most people get burned. For this kind of site, you do not need $10 a month web hosting! Our Online Business Guide has a list of Cheap Web Hosting for Under $10. Some are as little as $4 a month, with unlimited domains, i.e., you can run several sites like this on the same hosting package.
6. Install blog software. "Blog, you say?" Yes. It will give your site all the structure you need, plus make it easy to quickly post new content. My pick is WordPress, which is open source (i.e., free), easy to install and use, and yet very powerful. Many hosts have a one-step installation process for it, or you can download it and follow their installation instructions.
7. Make it pretty. One of the great things about WordPress is the huge variety of templates available for it -- they can completely change the look-and-feel. Our Weblogs Guide has a list of 5 Sites for Free Wordpress Themes, where you can find hundreds of free WordPress themes.
8. Set up categories. Most blog software allows you to create sub-categories to help organize your entries. This will help visitors narrow in even more specifically on their interests. For example, BandsFromTexas.com might have one group of categories for genre — rock, country, blues, etc. — and another for city of origin — Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc.
9. Sign up as an Amazon Associate. It's simple and free. Just visit Amazon and click on the Join Associates link at the bottom of the page (here's a direct link for your convenience). Your site should already have at least the basic setup done, even if you don't have any content there yet, as they'll review the site manually before approval.
10. Create your blog posting bookmarks/links. There are two links that are going to be essential for you to make this easy. First is the blog posting link. In your blog software, on the posting page (see their instructions), at the bottom of the page there should be a "bookmarklet". Click on the link (and hold the mouse) and drag it up to your Links toolbar in your browser (assuming Internet Explorer), or your Favorites menu. This will allow you to blog a product with one mouse click.
11. Create your Amazon Build-A-Link bookmark/link. This will make it easy to build the link with your affiliate ID built in. Log in to Associates Central, look in the left navigation sidebar, go to Build-A-Link, and under Static Links, find Individual Items. Click and drag this onto your Links toolbar or Favorites menu.
12. Build your first link. Go to Amazon and log in with your Associates account. Find the product you want to review and use the Site Stripe (gray stripe at the top of the screen that you'll see when logged in as an Associate) to get your personalized link to the item. They also offer a variety of other options for creating links and banners.
13. Blog your review. Now click on your blog posting link (Press It! by default in WordPress). If you're using WordPress, you should now see two pieces of link code in your posting form, the first one ending with "Associates Build-A-Link >< /a >". Delete through that point. The second part is a link to the product with your Amazon Associate ID built in. Now just write your product review, choose the appropriate categories for it, and hit Publish.
14. Build out your site. Before you promote your site, you want to have some substantial content there. Write several product reviews. Have at least 2-3 in each category you've created. You may also want to make a categories for articles, news, and commentary about your topic. The more content your site has, the better. And the great thing is that while you're writing all this, the search engines are getting notified automatically, assuming you turned on the notifications mentioned in step 6.
15. Promote your site. The best free way to do this is to communicate with other bloggers writing about similar topics, and to participate in online communities where your topic is discussed. See the Online Business Networking category for ideas, as well as the Internet Marketing category.
Tips:
1. You have to learn some basic HTML and basic concepts about running a web site. It's just not that hard. If you have to rely on purchased software, you won't be able to get exactly what you want, you won't know what to do when things go wrong, and you'll end up spending money you don't need to. Spend the time to learn it. It will be well worth the investment.
2. I slightly recommend music over books and other products, mainly because you can listen to the clips of an entire album in about 10 minutes and get a good enough feel for it (without buying it) to do a short review. If you have another topic that you're passionate about, great, but make sure you have a unique angle on the topic. People can get reviews about a lot of those consumer products anywhere. You need to give them a reason to come to your site.
3. To pick up some extra pennies, sign up for Google AdSense. It probably won't generate a lot of revenue, but it's free to sign up and completely effortless to maintain.
4. Set reasonable expectations for earnings. You've only invested $20. You're going to make 5% on most products. That means that you need to sell $400 worth of stuff to make back your investment. To make $20 an hour, what you write must generate $400 worth of purchases. You get credit for other purchases customers you send make while at Amazon besides just the product you linked to, so it's not as hard as it may sound. It won't make you rich, but it's not hard to be profitable, and it builds over time.
What You Need:
• A credit card with about $20 available
Earn Extra Money From Google Adsense
Google has started a new program that is making regular people (just like you & me) rich beyond their wildest dreams. This program is called Google Adsense.
What is Adsense?
Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money.
Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site.
It's also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.
It's an amazing program where Google pays people to display simple little ads on their websites. It's a program by Google which you plug into any website and Google shows some text or image advertising on the website. Whenever some visitor clicks on an ad the owner of the website (YOU) get paid. For Every Click. How much you get paid depends on the keywords which make up your web page which displays the ads. This can range from 0.10 cents to $50 per click for the higher paying keywords such as travel and credit repair related. (included in the pack). Chances are that you've seen the ads at some point while searching on the internet.
Imagine would it would be like to have your very own website containing hundreds of pages (each displaying your Google ads)! How much could you earn if you only managed to receive 100 clicks per day? Well, that all depends on how much you got paid for each click...but let's just say that you received $.25 for each click.
• You would make $25 per day (or $750 per month)!
• What would happen if you got paid just $.50 for each click?
• You probably don't need a calculator to figure out that you would earn $50 per day, which equals $1.500.00 each month!
Now just imagine how much you could make if you doubled the amount of clicks you received each day (or increased the amount you got paid for each click). By now, you probably see how quickly your earnings can add up!
It's really the ULTIMATE business for those who want to make lots of money, without working hard!
What is Adsense?
Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money.
Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site.
It's also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.
It's an amazing program where Google pays people to display simple little ads on their websites. It's a program by Google which you plug into any website and Google shows some text or image advertising on the website. Whenever some visitor clicks on an ad the owner of the website (YOU) get paid. For Every Click. How much you get paid depends on the keywords which make up your web page which displays the ads. This can range from 0.10 cents to $50 per click for the higher paying keywords such as travel and credit repair related. (included in the pack). Chances are that you've seen the ads at some point while searching on the internet.
Imagine would it would be like to have your very own website containing hundreds of pages (each displaying your Google ads)! How much could you earn if you only managed to receive 100 clicks per day? Well, that all depends on how much you got paid for each click...but let's just say that you received $.25 for each click.
• You would make $25 per day (or $750 per month)!
• What would happen if you got paid just $.50 for each click?
• You probably don't need a calculator to figure out that you would earn $50 per day, which equals $1.500.00 each month!
Now just imagine how much you could make if you doubled the amount of clicks you received each day (or increased the amount you got paid for each click). By now, you probably see how quickly your earnings can add up!
It's really the ULTIMATE business for those who want to make lots of money, without working hard!
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