Making Money Online used to require you to have your own web site, products to sell, and some marketing experience or savvyness, but a new generation of dot-coms have arisen that will pay you for what you know and who you know without you having to be a web designer or a marketing genius.
But often it's hard to tell hype from the real deal. I did a search for "make money online" and "making money online", and much of the information I found out there is just promoting various infoproducts, mostly about Internet marketing. This is the vary reason I decided to create this guide, so everyone has a chance at making money online.
This Article Will Introduce You To Legitimate Companies that Offer Business Opportunities That:
- Pay Cash, Not Points Towards Rewards
- Doesn't Require You To Own A Web-Domain or Your Own Products
- Doesn't Involve Any Hard-Selling
- Yield A High Return for Your Time Investment
Getting Started
Many of us (myself included) start our quest to make money online by reading about it online. You will read about SEO, Internet marketing, making money on eBay, making money with affiliate marketing, and anything else you can find to help you make money online, but how do you know what is the real-deal?
There are hundreds of ways of person can earn money through the Internet, but too a beginner it may be a little confusing. Whether you want to make a few extra bucks or whether you want to generate a comfortable income there are ways. Here are some things you can do to make money online.
In My Experience, These Are The Best Ways To Make Money Online.
1 - Affiliate Programs: The very first thing you should to do is sign up with 1 or two affiliate programs. Such as Clickbank and Commission Junction. As an affiliate you will be promoting other peoples products online and you will receive a set commission (usually around $14-$25). You will then need to find ways of driving traffic to your affiliate pages. If you can get enough people to the sales page then you will get a sale.
Usually for every 200 people that see the page, 1 of them will buy. So as an estimate for every 1000 people you refer to the page 5 of them will buy, and if your making $20 commission then that's $100. There are many different ways you can drive traffic to your affiliate page. Here are some ideas
2 - Bum marketing: is essentially a form of "niche marketing". The theory revolves around search engine optimization (ranking high in google) for articles that include your affiliate link. What you would do is research keywords on sites like Wordtracker that get a decent amount of searches per day, but that don't have that many results (typically under 50,000 when using quotes). After this you would head over to Clickbank and find a product to sell that matches the key phrase / niche. Make sure the product is appealing to your audience.
Then you would write a short 400-600 word article and include the keyword or key-phrase in your title and a few random times through out the body. You would also include a link to your affiliate product at the end of the article. If you submit it to popular article sites like GoArticles, Digg, or Reddit, then there is a good chance that Google will index the your article and include it within the top results for the key-phrase you selected. Once this happens people will click on your article through Google and hopefully some of them will click on your affiliate link and buy your product. Remember, the more people that see your site, the more sales you are likely to achieve.
3 - Blogging: If you've been on the Internet for any short length of time then chances are you know what a blog is. Blogging can be a great way of generating income and a great way to sell affiliate products. There are many different ways of earning money through blogging, and affiliate sales are only one of them. This method takes a little longer than the "Bum Marketing" method, but it pays off nicely over time.
All you have to do is pick a topic that your interested and start writing about it. You can use free blog services, such as Blogger. Once you have a topic (Such as celebrities, horses, cars, etc) all you have to do is start writing away! Once the search engines index your site you will start receiving visitors. In order to make money at this you would need to promote affiliate products in some of the articles you right.
You can also set up Google Adsense which pays your every time someone clicks a link. I highly recommend using Google Adsense on any blog you are writing, sites such as Blogger allow you to incorporate Adsense without ANY html experience, which is great for beginners!
That's it for now, I'll be writing some more detailed articles soon so check back!