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Monday, March 24, 2008

40 Ways to Make Money on the Internet

I did a little bookmark scrub this morning and thought I would share the remaining content of my "Online Money" folder. To warn you, there are certain things that I don't like and never bookmark so:

What's NOT included: Taking Surveys, Get Paid to Surf the Internet, MLM, Programs with a ton of negative user experiences (based on researching forums, Googling them, etc.), Contest Sites, "Buy my DVD, CD, Audiobook", etc.

What IS included: Things you can use to legitimately make money online - Everything from Getting Paid to review software to good ole' Adsense.

Anyway, here you go. The second batch is is available here.

* Adbrite - Sell space on your site for text ads

* Amazon Affiliate Program - Easily create a store or shopping section on your site instead of sending your visitors to Amazon. Amazon handles the shopping cart and fulfillment.

* Amazon Seller - Sell your stuff on Amazon

* Associated Content - If you write a story, how-to, rant, etc. you can submit it to them and they will pay you $3-$20 per article if they like it

* Azoogleads - Another ad program. They do have some decent companies lined up as advertisers. You provide space, they'll provide an ad.

* BidVertiser - PPC (pay per click) program with a low $10 payout amount.

* Bravenet - These guys offer a ton of services for webmasters and blog owners. Although I feel like I was spammed for a while, it has ceased and they'll pay you $1 for each person you send over

* Blog - Start a blog and consistently write excellent content. With good ad placement, you may make some money.

* Business Opportunities Blog - I am adding this because I am a subscriber to their site and I see ideas everyday that could result in making money. A lot of the ideas pertain to online businesses. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, it's a good reference.

* Cafepress - You provide a design, they'll toss it on a T-Shirt, Hat, etc. No upfront costs. Get a free online shop and promote your products on your website.

* Chitika - Their eMiniMalls service has shown great results for many Bloggers and site owners. You choose a keyword and they show relevant products on your site using a pretty unique interface.

* Clickbank - Another Affiliate Program site with 10,000+ products to advertise

* ClicknWork - Get paid $5-$150 per hour for basically doing freelance work on a per-assignment basis. You have to pass a pretty tough test to get in.

* Clicksor - These are the guys that generate contextual ads on sites that show up when you hover over a double-underlined word.

* Commission Junction - If you have a site, you can join Commission Junction. Once enrolled for free, you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to your site. Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. There are easily over 1,000 companies to choose from here.

* CreamAid - For blogs only, advertisers provide you with a topic and you write about it on your site. To do this, you have to install a flash widget into your blog post. The more people you bring into the conversation through the widget, the more you get paid. It's difficult to explain.

* eefoof - Think of it as YouTube + Flickr + Music. You add original content and they pay you based on the visitors you attract.

* Ether - If you are an expert on something, Ether provides a way for people to pay you to talk about it in a one-on-one setting. If you want to charge $250/hr, that's fine. You have to do all the advertising so you should have a blog or site already established.

* eBay - Come on, you know what this is. Gather your junk and sell it!

* eBay Stores - If you have a real store and want to sell your stuff online, this is a decent option to get you started.

* ELance - Name gives it away. Programmers, Codes, Web Designers, Writers, Editors, can look for freelance opportunities.

* Feedvertising - This is an arm of Text Link Ads and is currently only good for Wordpress 2.0 Users. This does me no good currently, but as you can guess, they place ads in your feed(s).

* Feedburner - Not only are they the best place to house your feeds, they will also add ads to your feed and website. You get paid per impression.

* Google Adsense - Come on, you don't need an explanation. These ads are all over the place. Google displays relevant ads based on your site's content

* Google Adwords - Create simple text ads and choose keywords that determine when they are displayed. This is where the Adsense Content comes from. You do not need a site for this.

* SHUT DOWN Google Answers - If you are good, Google will pay you to answer questions in your specialty. Questions all come from normal people like you and me. You can get paid $2.50+ per answer you provide.

* H3.com - Get paid to fill jobs. Commissions range from $50-$5,000. It all depends on how tough the job is to fill and how desperate the hiring company is. This is another one that's tough to explain.

* Indeed.com - Add their job board to your site. They then post jobs based on the geographic location of visitors and the position types you pre-select. I tried it and I they continually report that I sent 0 visitors and I know that's not right. Nevertheless, I may have an isolated problem so they make the list.

* InnerSell - If you have a customer that wants to buy something you cannot sell, you can sell the lead here.

* Jellyfish - This is a shopping site that pays you a percentage of the purchases made by people you refer. They are not part of a wider affiliate program so you do it direct.

* Jigsaw - It's a pretty flaky model but if you have a Rolodex full of good contacts, you can sell them here. I can't make sense of it but it looks like you get $0.10 per profile.

* KarmaOne - They are basically a recruiting website. If you fill one of their jobs by finding a good candidate, you'll get paid anywhere from $50-$12,000. It all depends on how desperate the hiring company is.

* LinkShare.com - If you have a site, you can join Linkshare. Once enrolled for free, you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to your site. Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. Like Commission Junction, there are a ton of companies waiting to evaluate your site.

* Microsoft Adcenter - Bid on keywords and Microsoft places your created ads then they are searched for. This is similar to Google Adwords. You do not need a site for this.

* Overstock.com - Sell your stuff on Overstock.com

* Pageflakes - This is a company that developed a user-defined Ajax homepage to show feeds, flickr photos, and a ton of other things. Think of it as a replacement for your Google Homepage. Anyway - they'll pay you $1 per referral that you send over. They are not part of a wider affiliate program so you do it direct. This one is pretty simple.

* Pay Per Post - I don't agree with this model entirely but they have advertisers that will pay you to write about their products on your blog.

* Pheedo - If you have an RSS feed, run it through Pheedo. Like Feedburner, they can include ads into your feed and if you really become large, advertisers will pay a premium for you to show their ads.

* Shareasale.com - I've never really worked with them but I do have an account. They are similar to Commission Junction and Linkshare however they seem to have lower tiered companies with advertising offers.

* Shoemoney - This is a blog that can teach you a ton on making money online. I've spent hours reading his old stuff.

* Software Judge - They will pay you up to $50 to review software.

* Text Link Ads - I have never made a dime here but I know people that have. You can earn by sending advertisers to them or by selling spots on your site. You must have a real site or blog to do this - nothing on a shared domain (i.e. /blogspot).

* Vibrant Media - Don't bother unless your site has 500,000 page views of text based content a month. If you have that readership, these are the guys that display bubble box ads to underlined words on your site.

* West Work At Home Agent - Not entirely online but this is worth a mention because it's won awards and is very legitimate. If you are an at-home Mom or free-lancer without work, you should check this out.

* Yahoo Publisher Network- This is the Yahoo version of Google Adsense.

How To Get Traffic To Your Blog And Make Money With It

Everyone wants to make money with their own blog today. It usually starts with creating your own blog on Blogger and putting up some Adsense ads.

The real problem is that not everyone knows how to drive traffic to their blog to make it profitable.

I would like to give you some tips and tricks on how you can drive traffic to your blog and get it into search engines

Once you create your blog using Blogger.com you should edit the template you selected for your theme. You will need to add description and keywords meta tags first.

To accomplish that simply click on your template tab in your main Blogger account and add the meta tags right below your title tag.

If you don't know how to generate meta tags please visit: addme

Next, I would suggest you to get an account at feedburner.com to create your feed. Go to feedburner

Optimize your feed at feedburner so it only displays about first 150 characters of each post. I do this to minimize the risk of duplicate content. So each time you make a post only a part of that post will be displayed on your feedburner page.

Next, link to your feedburner page from your blog to make it visible to search engine spiders and get it indexed. This will give you backlinks to each new post you make.

Now you should add some feed subscription buttons on your blog, so people can bookmark it and add it to their feed readers.

I found a great feed subscription button maker at Twister MC

Simply fill out their form and generate the html code to place in your blog template code. I would insert it into your sidebar section of your blog.

Next, add your own blog to your personalized Google home page, My Yahoo, and My MSN. This will get the search engine spiders to revisit.

Create an account at Technorati and add your blog to your favorites.

You will now need a lot of backlinks which can be easily done by writing a few articles and tagging all your blog posts. Write an article that is relevant to your blog niche and submit it to major article directories for distribution. I would suggest using isnare.com

You could also write a press release using prwebdirect.com and use the paid option to get some decent exposure and lots of backlinks.

Make sure your blog is somehow optimized for search engine rankings. Add your main keywords in your blog title and description. If you decide to exchange links with other webmasters make sure to use anchor text in your links.

Now simply keep up with updating your blog frequently and you should start seeing some great results as far as traffic.

The real power of this process is in duplication. If you can duplicate this process many times over you could earn a substantial amount of money every month.

It would require you to hire people to post in your blogs which falls into another topic called outsourcing.

How To Make Money With Blogs

If you're a newbie with a burning desire of learning more about making money with your blog, pay close attention.

NOTE: believe it or not, making money with your blog is free. Yes, making money with your blog does not require you to buy domain names nor order web hosting to host web sites.

While making money with your blog is not easy, it's free and requires you take into consideration some suggestions and apply a few quick tips.

This article reveals little-known secrets about making money with your blog, secrets that just a few people know.

Want to join the elite of top blog earners?

Here are the nitty-gritty tips on how to make money with blogs.

First of all, you need to visit Blogger and set-up your free account. The steps are easy:

1. You create a blogger account

2. You name your blog

3. You chose a blog template

Secondly, you are going to decide on how you want to monetize your blog. If you don't have your own product (I highly recommend you create one as soon as possible), you should go about picking one, two or three top affiliate products (or services).

These affiliate products or services need to be 100% related to your blog theme (niche audience) if you want to get maximum results from your promotions.

HINT: you get to generate more affiliate sales if the affiliate product you recommend is highly targeted to a specific audience. In fact, the success rate of closing the sale depends on how precise you can target your market.

One of the best affiliate program directories can be found at Associate Programs

Here you get free access to thousands of pages of affiliate programs, useful tips, money-making articles, researched recommendations, and a helpful affiliate forum.

Besides affiliate programs you can also monetize your blog by applying for Google AdSense Program.

You can get full info about this service here:

Google AdSense

The beauty of this program is that you get paid a percentage every time someone clicks on an AdSense ad from your blog.

Making money with affiliate programs require you to actively promote the affiliate product and you only get paid when you generate a real sale, and not just a click.

AdSense is the lazy way to making money with your blog.

After you decide which income stream you want to go after (I suggest you go with both affiliate products and Google AdSense) you need to take into consideration this...

Final tip - regardless your blog theme, if you want to make real money with blogs, you should copycat top blog experts into your field.

You need to spy on your competitors and find out how and why they are successful.

Try to contact them and ask them to share with you some tips about building a successful money-making blog. Most will gladly help you with some quick tips.

You'll never know when that secret tip will make you a top blog earner and well known expert into your field.

It's not that hard to find blog expert or spy on your competition. In fact, here's how you can quickly and easily find blog competitors:

1. go to Google

2. type into the search bar "your niche topic" + "blog"

e.g. "dog training" + "blog" or "acne treatment" + "blog"

I'm sure you get the picture. Once you find some listings go and browse the related Web Sites that fits your blog theme.

Make a list with top 10 blogs that you'd want to model.

3. Contact each owner of those 10 blogs and ask for help.

You don't have to be shy. Ask any question that comes into your mind. Ask your most burning questions. I highly suggest that you do not ask more than 3 quick questions.

Most people don't have time to write long e-mails. You'd want to keep your first e-mail quick and to the point.

In conclusion, if you put these quick blog money-making tips into practice, you too can become a top blog earner. That's the only way to do it. Take action now!

5 Tips To Use Search Keywords Of Internet Business Ideas In Headline And Among 100 First Words

Despite of the fact that SEO is important for the efficiency of your internet business ideas, the article must always be written to the reader. It is an art to include the search keywords into the copy in the natural way. You can bookmark this page, press Ctrl+D .

1. Do The Search Keywords Research For The Internet Business Ideas With Care The internet is an information highway. People are searching things from search engines by using search keywords. The more specific or niche the search keywords are, the more relevant are the search results. This is important for the internet business ideas web site and makes it look more special.

The search keywords are the tools to find new markets from the internet and the number of good relevant keywords is practically limitless.

An article needs from 2 to 3 relevant search keywords, which can be picked by some the most respected tool online.

2.Do Not Slaughter The Innocent Copy. You sell the business ideas to the web site visitor, not to the search engines. The most important job of the copy is that the reader gets the feeling that this is for me, this is what I searched. So the search keywords must be included naturally and that requires that a writer has picked them before he has started to write.

On the other hand, the search keywords are important, because those are exactly what the reader has used in his search and they make the reader convinced that the copy is exactly from the topic.

3.Target The Long Tail Search Keywords. The long tail keywords are phrases, which are built with from 3 to 4 words. With the long tail search keywords the article of the business ideas can be targeted to the very narrow and relevant target audience, actually to many, because one keyphrase will include several keywords or -phrases.

According to the many researches, the long-tail search keywords will convert better and rank better in the search engines.

4.Add Some Useful Hyperlinks. The role of hyperlinks in the internet business ideas article is not to sell but to offer more information or, for instance, a practical tool related to the topic.

5.Distribute The Articles Widely And Measure The Results. The marketing of internet business ideas is a numbers game and the wider is the distribution, the better are the results. The simple and affordable method is to use ArticleMarketer, which distributes articles to the widest distribution list online.

It is very interesting and useful to measure the number of hits and visitors of each internet business ideas article. This happens by adding a small code from some of the free tracking services on each article.

George Pluss' 3 Methods of Earning Without a Website

Are you interested in learning 3 methods for earning m.oney online which are open to you even if you do NOT have your own website or list?

I just bought a great little package from George Pluss for UNDER $1!!!!!
Here's what I found in it:

$700 in 7 - How to make $700 in 7 days (not brilliant but could be useful)

Effectively Promote With Articles - a GREAT 7 page report by Josh Spaulding who is a Seargent in the U.S. army. He does marketing through article writing after 6:00 pm and makes nice income doing it. The report is excellent and is worth purchasing the entire package for!

Yahoo Cash - The author describes how she made a few hundred dollars in 30 days using only Yahoo! Answers. If you are interested in learning techniques (including black hat) for doing this - grab this report.

Zero to Fifty in 30 Days - Peter Tremayne wrote an unremarkable but solid and comprehensive guide for the newbie about how to make $50 a day in internet marketing. This book does involve the "standard" methods including product, squeeze page and autoresponder.

All in all, this package is worth WAY MORE than the 20 cents (can you believe it?) that I paid for it.

I must say in all honesty that I LOVE the packages that George Pluss puts together. He charges super ridiculous prices for good stuff.

So, if you are interested in learning some methods which do NOT require you to have your own website or list run over and grab this package while the price is still under a dollar (and even if it's above a dollar it's worth it, in my opinion!)

SMARTS, Mass Control and $50 a Day

Stompernet's SMARTS, Frank Kern's Mass Control - hooeeeee. We're talking big money launches! One thing they both have in common is that they both made sure to release a bunch of really good quality, FREE videos (a la Eben Pagan) which provided tons of valuable information before they launched.

As a matter of fact, although Mass Control sold out already, I received a mail today saying that they will be re-opening on Sunday for a short time in case anyone still wants in (at about $2,000...)
Even if you can't afford to get it, you have to go on over to Frank Kern's blog, Mass Control Site and watch the free videos. They're perfect for newbies and are very informative. Frank has a very friendly and unpretentious style that appeals to me. Worth watching.

Now over to something completely different.

I got my hands on a book called 50 Bucks a Day by Daniel McGonagle. Usually I don't even open up all my mails on a Saturday night because my inbox is so full. I usually just delete everything. But, Daniel usually sends out high quality stuff and he doesn't bombard my inbox. So, I purchased it from him for $7 and I must say I learned something that I would not have thought of. It's a short report which teaches you in 14 pages (10, actually), how to make about $50 a day online without using Affiliate marketing, Adwords or Surveys. I haven't tried it yet but I can see how it would work. You do have to put work into it but, hey, we all know there is no such thing as a free lunch! Have a look at the under-one-minute video about it here.

20 Ways to $100 a Day - Product Review

By now you have probably heard about the new 247 page report, 20 Ways To $100 A Day. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of this as soon as it came out. What I am going to do is review it for you so that you don't have to wonder if it's any good or not. I will say right off the top, there is both good and bad to this report. You will need to decide if the good outweighs the bad. I can't make that decision for you. I can only give you the facts and my opinion.

Okay, here are the facts as briefly as possible, which is hard to do when you're dealing with a 247 page report.

The report is not written by one person, so you don't have to worry that this is from the biased viewpoint of a single individual. The report has been put together by a number of people, some of them just regular folks like you and me, not big name marketers. Each person tells, in detail, how they go about making $100 per day minimum and in many cases a lot more.

Some of the people in this book, like Dr Mani, I know personally. So I can vouch for their integrity. Some of the people, I do not know, however know their methods and can vouch for the methods themselves. The person who put this book together (Willie Crawford) is also a very respected marketer, so I can vouch for his character.

Okay, let me get to the pros and cons of this book.

Pros -

Each method is laid out step by step. Some of the steps aren't as detailed, which is understandable when you're trying to include so much info. Any more detail in this book and 247 pages would have been 1247 pages. Nobody would read it.

There are many types of plans as far as time frame. There are plans for immediate cash, which will appeal to many folks, and there are plans that are more long range where you will make your $100 a day, but it will take some time to get there. But most of these plans will actually yield much more money.

There is something in this book for everybody. It covers both software creation and sales, info product sales, Ebay, greeting cards and things I would never have thought of. If you can't find something in this book that strikes a chord then you're just not trying.

Cons -

There is no focus on what may be the most important part of all of this, and that's advertising methods. Now, the good news is that if you have Steven Wagenheim's Honest Income Program (reviewed on this blog here), then you have info on advertising methods, which is quite extensive. So just apply them to these money making efforts and you'll be fine. Just don't expect any great advertising tips in here. That's not what this book is about. It's about ways to make $100 a day, fairly easily, and there are 20 of them.

Finally, there is no push button method in this book. Additionally, all of these methods take a lot of work. So if you're looking for easy money where you don't have to do a thing, then this book is going to disappoint you. There is no easy way to make money online. It takes work, and this book is no exception.

Overall

On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, I give this book an 8.

It's not a "Bible" for an absolute beginner because it leaves stuff out. On the other hand, it does a really good job of giving you the "big picture" and presenting you with different ideas about how to go about making money on the net. Once you choose a method you will probably have to read up more on this method in order to fully implement it. If you've been in IM for a while this book is a great supplement. And for $27 it's a joke not to buy it.

Check it out. 20 Ways to $100 a Day.