Make money online the fast, easy, and efficient way

Status Report

2010-07-04T01:51:00.001-07:00

Its been a long journey since starting to make money from scratch online. How far has everyone come?

Should I place my ads in the middle? on top? on the side? footer? where?

2010-06-06T06:01:00.000-07:00

Many people have been asking where the best place to put their ads is. I found this map of hot spots with the greatest clicks from duoblogger.com

Amazon.com affiliate vs Adsense

2010-06-04T23:08:00.000-07:00

Today I'm gonna discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these two money making giants. The biggest difference between these two is that Adsense is a CPC program which means you get money per click that you deliver. There are lots of regulations set by Google to prevent fraudulent activities. Google does this to protect its advertisers which it depends on for money. You would be subject to review for any of your earnings and you are not allowed to promote the ads in any way.

With Amazon, you are given much more freedom. Amazon Affiliates are given this freedom because they make money on commissions and Amazon wants its publishers to promote its ad because this is how Amazon makes profit. They don't care how they you get traffic to them because in the end its the sale that makes you profit.

The perfect micro niche page

2010-06-03T01:07:00.000-07:00

What is a micro niche? It is basically a very targeted keyword, such as "iphone app making tutorial" or "car insurance quotes california for young drivers." The advantages of creating these kinds of sites is that you are much more likely to rank higher and beat competition than using a broader keyword.

A micro niche site is usually only one page because there is not much content for such a specific keyword. This means that creating these pages is very easy and simple; it doesn't require complex code or programs.

One disadvantage of micro niches is the amount of domains you need for each page. If a micro niche is poorly researched, you could end up losing money on domain name hosting costs. You would need one domain name per niche unless you use subdomains; but subdomains somewhat defeat the purpose of micro niches because they cause your site to be less targeted and rank lower for the specific niche.

Overall, micro niches are currently the best way for any new internet marketer to start a career. Once you become an expert at creating these pages, you can move on to another and keep adding more passive income to your revenue. Eventually, you'll gain enough experience with SEO and web designing to be able to create a much larger project that can earn way more income.

When you get a good amount of cash saved up, its time to invest in greater and more profitable ventures. You can check out my other articles for methods of using your investment to get more money. However, you may just choose to stick with this current method; many people have made lots of money this way.

How to successfully advertise on facebook

2010-06-02T08:25:00.000-07:00

Facebook's advertising is very different from the typical cpa advertising giants such as google. Facebook allows much greater targeted traffic due to the fact that facebook itself is a social networking site that has all the information about every user, including age, gender, location, school, etc. The key to being successful is very precise targeting.

1. Know your target
Research exactly what audience you are looking to cater to. You should make categories such as age and gender.

2. Set your budget wisely
Start off with a small budget and see how it goes. It is important to set a budget for your ads for record keeping purposes so that you can later see what amount is best. There is always a point where adding more money to the budget will cause minimum increase in revenue. This brings me to my next point.

3. Analyze the efficiency
Make sure you closely examine how your ad is doing during the first initial stages of setting it up. This is the most crucial part because you might find that your ad isn't working and lose lots of money.

How making money online has evolved over the years

2010-06-01T22:27:00.000-07:00

Years ago you could get relatively large revenues on pay per click ad programs. It wasn't surprising to get $5 per click for a hot niche like electronics which were able to pay for it because of the large profits they made.

More people realized the money to be made online and competition skyrocketed; as the amount of websites advertising increased, the price per click and per thousand impressions declined.

Webmasters who wanted to make more money found a way. They saw that they could directly advertise products with companies such as clickbank and commission juntion. This required more work to monetize and was not simply just copy and pasting code, but is more efficient than adsense in terms of profit.

Money making video

2009-05-13T19:13:00.001-07:00

I found a video that demonstrates money making online for those of you readers out there that find it hard to follow text.

Beware of online money making scams

2009-05-13T18:47:00.000-07:00

There are alot of scams out there that make money by tricking people into thinking they can actually make money. For example, some advertisers like Pennysaver have ads which tell you that you can make easy income by filling in surveys but really all they send you is a bunch of packets.

Save Money

2008-06-26T03:26:00.000-07:00

Chances are... the reason you're here is the high price of everything, especially gas.
Here's a way to save money.

Niche Keywords

2007-02-04T00:02:00.000-08:00

Niche keywords is where all the money at. Not just one niche keyword, you'll need a lot. If you had a list of 1000 good niche keywords, they can consistently bring in a constant flow of cash. To find these keywords, think of something common, such as music. Then break it down to maybe hiphop music and rock music, etc. You can then break that down to rock music cds or rock music albums. You can keep doing this and come up with a long list that should rank well in search engines since its a very specific keyword. They might get a visitor every couple days so if you have 1000, that could mean 1000 visitors a day. They key to these keywords is quantity.

Making money with date entry at home? I don't think so...

2007-01-17T16:01:00.000-08:00

One thing that's recently caught my eye is advertisements that say you can make $X,XXX a month! Then when you click it and go to the site you see that it sells some package to get you started. Once you get it, the packet will probably be useless and from publicly available resources.

Search Engines

2007-01-14T20:36:00.000-08:00

We all know(or should know) that search engines are an extremely important part of making money online. Once you have your site established in search engines, you'll be generating constand income from doing nothing. When you reach that point is when you can start calling yourself successful.

Heres a tool to check your ranking for search engines. Anything on page 1 is very good.
http://www.shoemoney.com/serps.php

Site info:
http://www.shoemoney.com/siteinfo.php

Why Your Blog Sucks

2007-01-13T00:27:00.000-08:00

You heard that you can make some fast and easy money with a blog... but no one even goes to it... heres what might be wrong.

1. Your content is ripped off of other sites. Theres no unique or original content. No one wants to read a blog that just puts together a bunch of articles from other sites.

2. Your content is boring. Some people have success with personal blogs about their life, however, if your life sucks and you blog about your life, chances are your blog sucks. Choose a topic that you know a lot about and is interesting for people to read about.

3. Your layout is horrible. There are ads overlapping each other and images flashing everywhere. Its hard to find where the actual content is. The background color shouldn't be too bright and the text should be big enough to be readable but small enough to fit enough text.

4. No one knows about your blog. You need to email some friends about your blog and promote it. Don't start spamming it everywhere, though.

5. You don't update often. Once a week is not often enough. People expect blogs to be updated frequently and be on top of the news.

6. You're writing for the wrong audience. If your blog is about engineering, you might not want to use slang terms and simple sentences. On the other hand, if your topic is about your personal life, you might want to make it easy to read and understand.

7. You make up stories. At first you might attract a bunch of attention but then people find out your story isn't credible by any trustworthy sources. You need to have sources that don't exaggerate facts. Your source should not be what some random guy on posted on his blog.

8. You don't respond to your readers. Your loyal readers give valuable feedback about your blog that you can use to make it better. Don't have the mindset of my blog my rules. After all, the blog was created for your readers not you.

9. You don't spend enough time on your blog. A blog needs to be regularly maintained. Not just posting regularly. You also want to change around the design or layout once in a while so that readers see that your blog is fresh and innovative.

10. You don't have passion for your blog. Some people just make a blog because they had a sudden urge to make one, but then they lose interest and only update to make money off of blogging. Readers will detect when your blog no longer has that spark that makes it unique. The key to keeping the passion for your blog is to pick a interesting topic to begin with that you enjoy. If your topic right now is something that you have no interest in, change it before its too late.

Thanks for reading this post and I hope that this helps you in creating a successful blog, or at least one that doesn't suck.

Various things that you can do to make money online

2007-01-10T04:54:00.000-08:00

Content is always something that people are lazy to produce. Money can be made by creating content for others if you know what to do.

You can write articles or poems.

You can design websites.

You can take photos or produce your own images.

You can code and make scripts for people.

You can make software to sell.

You can produce videos.

Now you might get a couple dollars for a piece, but to fully maximize your profit you might want to add some watermarks that link to your site or something. If you design a bunch of website templates and give them for free, you could quickly get hundreds of back links to your site. The same applies to other content.

You can also purchase content in large quantities that offer resale rights and resell them to people for profit.

10 Things that Hurt your SEO

2007-01-08T19:26:00.000-08:00

1. Too much html and not enough content.

2. Duplicate content copied from another site.

3. Having hundreds of outbound links on your site.

4. Having too much content about things that are unrelated to your keywords.

5. Spamming your whole page with keywords.

6. Content that is machine generated and doesn't make sense.

7. Putting keywords on your meta-tag but not your page.

8. Having hidden text.

9. Trying to cloak your website.

10. Too much confusing dynamic content that can confuse the search engine spider.

A Little Secret to Getting Cheap Keywords

2007-01-06T02:12:00.000-08:00

For those of you who use Adwords or Yahoo to advertise your products, you'll notice that you might have to pay more than $1 per click for some competitive keywords.

However there is a way to get these keywords for cheap and in a perfect world, you probably wouldn't get them, however, people make mistakes and that is where this little secret comes in to play.

Ever misspell a word when searching? It happens a lot.

Now you can generate typos for free for your keywords. The keywords are cheap because they're not even words but people who make a typo will see it and you get a potential customer for cheap.
Free Typo Generator

More Free E-Books

2007-01-05T01:04:00.000-08:00

E-books to help you build traffic and content for your site:
They are targeted at those who want to improve the SEO of their site.

I've have two of them available at
http://bofia.linkpage.frih.net/Volume1SoftwareLibrary.pdf
http://bofia.linkpage.frih.net/Volume2SoftwareLibrary.pdf

13 Things that will Improve your Income

2007-01-04T02:21:00.000-08:00

1. Don't depend on one area to make all your money. You want to be an affiliate as well as show ads on your site so that you have more than one source of income.

2. Make more than one site as well. As you should have figured out by now, the key to making money online is through websites.

3. Don't get lazy. This means you should always try to get more traffic whenever possible.

4. Constantly keep your sites updated.

5. Doing little things while your site is little will have a large effect later on.

6. Don't be afraid to test new things such as a new layout or ad placement.

7. Make sure your visitors find exactly what they're looking for right away or they will leave.

8. Make sure that you visitors leave satisfied and they'll soon be coming back with friends.

9. Don't make a habit of doing temporary things to make money such as buying a link. You should be using your time finding permanent and reliable things that make you money.

10. Instead of milking a site for all its worth with ads everywhere, just make new sites.

11. Buy software that helps you automate tedious tasks. It's worth the money.

12. Buy some books about making money that have good reviews. Don't buy the ones that promise you money but have no reliable proof.

13. Don't stop trying to increase your income when you are making a decent amount. Your ways of generating income can fail anytime when your dealing with online money making.

How to Effectively Market a Product

2007-01-03T10:09:00.000-08:00

Marketing is a skill that not many have but will always be the core skill needed in any business. Whether you have a product or not, marketing will always make money.

To successfully market a product and sell it, you need to get the basic steps.

1. Build a personal relationship with your potential customers or at least make them think that you are different from the other millions of people trying to sell them things.

2. Before trying to sell a big product, start with small ones so that you earn the trust of customers.

3. The product that you sell can be expensive, but it must be of good quality. You'll get free advertising from your customers who tell their friends if you spent the time to perfect your product. One angry customer could be the loss of many sales.

4. Make the customer feel like they need your product. Make it so they think they're missing out on a whole lot without your product.

5. Target the right group of customers. You want to advertise to the group that is most likely to buy from you. For example, you put a sports commercial on a sports channel.

6. Marketing is not done overnight, its done slowly and planned out.

You'll find that no matter what type of advertising you apply this to, your marketing skills will always be useful.

Ways to Get Good Inbound Links

2007-01-02T17:02:00.000-08:00

Having many inbound links to your site is a must to make any money. At first you might think its easy but its harder than you think to get good ones.

1. Write articles and submit them to http://www.goarticles.com/ and http://www.ezinearticles.com/ with a link to your site. These sites have good rank and will boost your rank a lot.

2. Submit your site to directories. It takes time to get put on the directories but if you take the time to do them correctly and pick the right category, you should expect a inbound link to be made eventually. Here is a good free directory listing sorted by page rank.

3. Put your link in your signature and post in forums. Careful not to spam though.

4. Post content to social bookmarking sites such as digg.com and del.icio.us. If you're lucky, then you'll get a bunch of traffic if your content makes it to the front page and you're set.

Making Money from Blogging

2007-01-01T19:58:00.000-08:00

Blogs are a popular source of information and traffic since anyone can make one.
Businesses are realizing that they can make money from people's post.

There are several ways to make money from your blog.

1. Put ads on your blog. This is pretty straight forward and self-explanatory.

2. Try to sell some product with your blog. This is harder and it is also difficult to make a quality blog while promoting products.

3. PayPerPost. There are services that allow companies to buy posts. You post about a product of the company and you get some money. Usually you post a review of a product.

4. Join a profit sharing network. For these programs, you usually just blog and the service that you use will take care of ads and you get a share of the profit.

5. Selling links on your blog. Once your blog becomes more popular, the links on your blog will increase in value. There are services out there such as http://www.text-link-ads.com/ which make it easy to find a customer for your links.

Using Overture to Your Advantage

2006-12-31T18:19:00.000-08:00

There is much competition for keywords now since search engines are the main source of traffic for most people. Ranking highly on search engines could be the difference between making a couple bucks a day and making full time income. I'll show you how to find popular keywords with low competition and avoid high competition keywords with low popularity.

First go to http://inventory.overture.com/.

That site basically tells you how many searches average are made each month for a keyword.

Now you can either pick a niche that you know about to see how many searches there are or just pick something that is popular such as "mp3" or "lose weight".

Now look at search terms that won't be too common and search them in google with quotes around them.

If you find a keyword that is searched for commonly but only like like 1000 results, thats a gold mine right there. You can make a website about that term and if you know what you're doing with SEO, you can rank #1 easily.

It might take a while to find a good keyword but once you find one, you can make a lot of money. You'll get hundreds of clicks from the search engines for free.

On the site that you make, you should make it something like, your-keyword-here.com. You can either link to affiliate products and try to sell something or put ads there. It's important that whatever you put on the page, it has to be relevant or else people will just go back and check the next ranking website.

For starters who don't know much about SEO you can look for keywords that only have maybe 200-300 results and make a site custom optimized for that term. You will very likely rank first because there is low competition. Repeat this with ten terms and ten sites and you'll be making a steady income.

For experts with bigger budgets, you might want to try a popular keyword with maybe 10,000 results. You'll get much more traffic for one site but you'll to maximize your SEO and get backlinks to rank highly.

There are millions of possible keywords and its only a matter of time before a juicy keyword starts getting more competition. Get a head start now.

You can find good keywords for free but once you start making some money, you might want to get Ad Word Analyzer. You can also just get it if your too lazy to do work manually want to start making money now.

Easy Ways to Make Fast Money

2006-12-30T04:13:00.000-08:00

The key to making money is to sell digital products. Digital products can include ebooks, guides, software, and content. To get started you should first create your own product. If you don't want to do this, don't worry, I'll discuss this topic later in this post.

Creating your own product

-You should first decide what people want. You want to find a crowd that needs something. The crowd has a problem or question to be solved. Make sure the crowd is big or desperate so that you get the maximum number of sales.

-You design a product that caters to these people's needs. If people want to lose fat, you design some kind of guide to lose weight. If people are trying to improve their talking skills, then you write an ebook about just that.

-You market this product. The key to getting the most sales and making money fast is making sure your product is the current trend. Losing weight is always a trend however you may have too many competitors. You have to make sure that when you advertise it, you advertise it to the people that are looking for a solution, not just on random places.

-Your product will start earning you cash. You just have to sit back and watch as your checks come in the mail.

For those who don't want to create their own product.

-There are many sites out there and authors who don't have the time or skills to sell their product. They may be the masters of their art, but a total novice at selling their product.

-This is where you come in. You help them sell their product and usually get over 50% commission. The reason the commission is so high is because the product is digital and unlimited copies can be distributed at no cost.

-Marketing the product is simple finding out what people want and delivering it to them.

-You can find more information and get the detailed strategies for marketing here. You'll learn all the marketing strategies about how to find a hungry crowd that wants to buy products that you deliver. I give the package a 10/10. It even has a free website set up for you so that you barely have to do any work to start earning money.

Things to avoid when you want to make money online

2006-12-28T18:31:00.000-08:00

There are many legit ways to make money online however there are also people on the internet that want to make money by taking your money or using you.

13 kinds of scams that probably won't make you any money:

1. Sites that enter you in your contest in exchange for your personal info such as address and email. They either sell the information or use it to send you advertising. Most of the time you enter it and you don't win anything.

2. Some sites advertise that you can make $100+ a day doing online surveys. These are usually scams and most of the time they want to send you some kind of packet to get you started for $40.

3. Any sites that are too good to be true. You won't find free money online.

4. Sites that offer you a way to get rich quick. Getting rich takes time and work. The only people that get rich quick are the scammers if you believe them and buy their expensive guide.

5. Contrary to popular belief, most of the time, you do need experience to make money online. If you don't what you're doing, it's unlikely you'll make any cash.

6. Sites that want you to send in some money in exchange for the information. Most of the time the only information you get is information you can find publicly.

7. Don't trust guarantees that sound too good. Lots of guarantees will say that you will make a bunch of money but the only evidence you have is the author's testimonies.

8. Sites that say you don't have to do any work. There is no way that you can make money by just sitting there or else everyone would be making money.

9. Sites that try to sell some secret that no one knows yet. These secrets are either old, illegal, or non-working.

10. There are some legit sites that pay you to read emails or do surveys, but believe me, it doesn't pay well. Some of these sites that I've tried pay like 1/10 of a cent for one email or ad. You're lucky to make $1/day with these.

11. A lot programs called HYIPs(High Yield Investment Programs) are scams. I don't know why people don't realize that money doesn't come out of nowhere and even you do make a little money, it means someone else loses theirs.

12. Matrix scams that tell you to give $10 and make $1,000,000. These scams involve referring friends to pay you and having them refer other people to pay them. It sounds good that you make money for every person that signs under you but unless you are marketing master, you'll just be on the bottom of the pyramid.

13. Theres always some kind of catch if someone wants to give you free money online. Free money is not given out to strangers.

Designing your layout to maximize ad revenue

2006-12-27T12:55:00.000-08:00

So you've followed my advice in my previous posts and ended up with a site that gets traffic and is a quality site. Now you need to make sure that you keep your visitors.

Common things that scare aware potential customers and visitors include:

-Bad layout, your site is some crazy maze where the visitors can't find what they're looking for.

-Wrong colors, colors that are too bright drive visitors away. The text should contrast with the background so that it is easy to read.

-Bad navigation, there should be some kind of navigation bar that doesn't change so that the visitor can easily see all your pages instead of finding them.

-Wrong management of ads, don't clutter you site with ads so that it looks like the ads are the only content you have.

How to successfully place ads on your site to increase click through rate:

-Blend the ads in. Most advertising programs such as Adsense allow you to customize the ad that you place so that you can match the font and colors with your site. Some people will disagree and say that you should make your ad with contrasting colors to make it more noticeable but this just annoys most visitors. It might catch the attention for a short period of time but long term it will probably scare away visitors.

-Change the ads around once in a while. If you have used the internet for long enough, your mind develops some kind of ad block that automatically just ignores what looks like ads. Usually flashing banners and similar images are filtered automatically by your mind. If you blend the ads, the reader is more likely to notice them. This only works if you have quality content to blend it with.

-Keep the ads scattered around your site. If you condense all your ads into one area, not only does your click rate suffer, your traffic will also decrease. Condensed ads all in one area make it look like your site is full of spam and ads. While your visitor is looking at your content, he/she will look around and if there are ads related to your content, your click rate is bound to increase.

-Test out different forms of ads. You never know when a different size of an ad might increase click rate. Change from wide skyscraper ads to horizontal ads and see if it makes a difference. You also might want to test out different ad forms from time to time such as switching to text only to image ads. There are also new ads offered by Adsense that are videos . You should avoid ads that pop over your site or take up the whole page.

-Most importantly, MAKE SURE THE ADS ARE RELATED TO YOUR CONTENT. No one is going to click the ads if your site is about politics and you have ads about auto insurance or financing. This is obviously the most crucial part in earning revenue from your ads. Seeing ads that aren't related will drive people away while seeing related ads will increase their chances of returning.

Making money as an affiliate

2006-12-26T03:30:00.000-08:00

There are various affiliate programs online that will pay you commission for selling their products. These are a great way to make money online if you know how to promote it. You'll first need a website and get some traffic to it as I discussed in my previous posts. Once you make your first sales, your profit will increase exponentially as your site becomes more popular.

A great way to promote products and build traffic at the same time is to start a review site. You just list the products and promote your site. Then the users buy the products and post reviews and basically run the site for you. You can actually make a living off of affiliate programs if you know what you're doing and advertise it effectively.

I have listed some popular affiliate programs below:

ClickBank mostly sells digital products such as software or ebooks. ClickBank is a good site for starters because the sign up process is fast and doesn't require a lot of verification. You can get started right away.

Azoogle is another affiliate program which has many different things to sell. One disadvantage is that you need to get approved by a human editor before you can start selling and it could take a while depending on your application.

Amazon offers up to 8.5% commission on the sales you make for it. Amazon is a popular online store that sells all kinds of things and you can start your own store. You don't have to ship or anything, all you have to do is promote your store and you get commission for every sale. You can earn a lot of money here for selling things such as TVs or computers that can get you hundreds of dollars per sale if you are successful.

Commission Junction is a popular affiliate that gives you a percent of your sales. A variety of different items are available to promote at Commission Junction.

Maxbounty is an affiliate program for those who want to try to get commission from offers. The campaigns on the site are mainly sites that pay you when someone signs up for their service that you advertise.

Exchanging Links

2006-12-25T14:21:00.000-08:00

Exchanging links is a common practice that webmasters take part in to increase their traffic and page rank. A link exchange is where you link to someone else's site and they link back. This increases the amount of back links to your site, which increases the page rank.

Some people think that link exchanges are cheating, but most would refer to link exchanging as a legit way to increase your traffic and also increase your ranking in search engines, however you'll want to stay from "bad neighborhoods." These are sites that have hundreds or even thousands of links on their page.

Amateur webmasters will sometimes submit their link to these pages and think that they will get hundreds of back links and increase their rank. In reality, search engines such as Google will see that the site is just a link farm and not count the site, sometimes even reducing the page rank of all the links.

You can find link exchanges usually at forums dedicated to marketing or webmasters. There are also some sites that automate the process and let you log in and list other users who are interested in exchanging links. If you manage to get good exchanges with high ranking sites, your site will soon become a high ranking site and generate traffic and revenue. However be careful not to turn your site into a link farm and end up with hundreds of links to irrelevant or bad sites.

Merry Christmas!

2006-12-25T02:38:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas everyone!
Thanks for reading this blog! I hope this blog has been helpful to you and that you return.

Search Engine Optimization

2006-12-23T21:07:00.000-08:00

Search engine optimization, commonly known as SEO, is the key to getting long term traffic to your site. You can't make money with your site without traffic. Search Engine Optimization is configuring your site so that it is more likely to appear first when people search your keyword in search engines. The key to SEO is having the right ratio of content to keyword ratio.

Let's say you want to be ranked #1 for the keyword "bananas." You'll first want to make sure that you include bananas in the keywords meta data. Then your site must have text content such as various recipes with bananas or various kinds of bananas. Make sure that you're not stuffing the keyword into every possible sentence of your site, as that might make your site indexed as spam. You'll want to emphasize the keyword on your page.

The most important thing in search engine optimization is back links. You need links on other sites that link to your site, with the anchor text as "bananas" for the maximum result. The general rule is that the more back links you have, the better. You'll want quality back links such as those from good directories and articles. For articles you might want to write about monkeys or something tied to bananas and then leave a link to you site in the article.

Starting your first website

2006-12-22T19:09:00.000-08:00

Are you ready to start a website? A website is the first step to earning a passive income. If you are new to websites, you might want to read this post before going out and getting hosts that are unreliable.

Step 1 - Find a host.
You can find a variety of free web hosts here. A free host is recommended for those starting out. When your site gets more traffic, you want to get a more professional paid host.
Step 2 - Get a domain name
There are lots of free domains names out there such as co.nr and .tk. For a more professional looking site, you should get a .com or .net domain. These typically cost $5+/year. However there is currently an offer than can get you a 100% free domain. You can get a .biz, .com, .net, .us, or .org for free at Domain Lagoon.
Step 3 - Add content
Add content that is original and is interesting. The people who surf your site have to be interested or else they'll just close the window.
Step 4 - Get your site out there
Start telling your friends about your site. Post it in your signatures. Submit it to free directories. Exchange Links. Just make sure that you don't spam.
Step 5 - Make money
Read my previous post about making money through ads here.
You can also earn money through ads by being an affiliate. I recommend MAXBounty for finding affiliates as it manages a variety of different affiliate programs. ClickBank is another similar program.

Thanks for reading, I hope you find success with my advice.

Useful tools for webmasters

2006-12-21T22:40:00.000-08:00

I've compiled a list of tools that would be helpful to webmasters to enhance and optimize their site.

http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/
http://www.iwebtool.com/
http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/freeof.html

It doesn't take hard work to make money

2006-12-20T20:23:00.000-08:00

Innovative ideas are what makes money. In this post I'll introduce to you some examples.

Classic example: Million Dollar Homepage
The million dollar homepage sold pixels for $1 each. As the name states, there are a million pixels for sale. At the beginning, almost no one thought it would be any success. However, soon businesses realized the potential and then pixels were selling fast. The last 1,000 pixels were sold for $38,100.00 on eBay. The success of this site soon resulted in a bunch of copy cat sites that also tried to sell pixels.

The author of the million dollar homepage soon opened up a new site. Pixelotto has one million $2 pixels. The author plans to give away one million to one lucky winner, donate $100,000 to charity and then keep the rest. The pixels are still for sale.

The newest idea was the Link Experiment, which is raising one million dollars by selling links. The homepage contains 100 of the highest bidding links. The current highest link as of now is around $400. This site is a big success and it's still very early to get in and profit. The site is not is widely known so this is a good opportunity to get more traffic. For you affiliates out there, you can make a lot of money by promoting the Link Experiment. Affiliates get $15 for each sale that comes through their link. This is a hot new site and I suggest you opportunist get in the game fast.

A very new site that has emerged is WriteAbout.Us. This site is similar to the Million Dollar Link Experiment. It's very new but you should get your links in for cheap because it can takeoff at anytime. This is a great opportunity for those who don't have a high budget because currently the links are costing only $1 each.

Another very new site is the Million Dollar Text Link. This site has a unique design where there will only be one link and that spot will always cost $10. The admin of the program is a guy who's trying to raise money for college for himself and his brothers. Its a new site so you should take advantage of this opportunity.

How to Take Advantage of Christmas

2006-12-20T01:30:00.000-08:00

The holiday seasons approaches fast and several of you may be thinking, "How can I use this as an opportunity to make my money or increase my business?" I have ideas for you guys.

1. Sell Christmas related products - this includes pretty much anything that is red, green, or white.
2. Offer some kind of limited time offer to increase traffic to your site
3. Give away some kinda of promotional guide or ebook as a "Christmas present" to promote you business.
4. Offer some kind of free service and accept donations. People are feeling more generous this time of year.
5. Design a product and convince people that it is the perfect gift. Personalized items are great if you can find a cheap place to personalize things with messages.
6. Be an affiliate and promote a site that sells Christmas gifts.
7. Don't accept donations and claim that you will donate it to a charity if you're not actually going to.

Advertisement Programs for Publishers

2006-12-19T20:56:00.000-08:00

There are various advertising programs for website publishers that allow to place ads on your site. These programs then pay you for every click to the ad or per thousand impression. I will list the current popular programs.

Google AdSense - Currently one of the most popular advertising programs on the net. Probably best for when your site starts to get big and generate more traffic.

Pros - Easy to set up, high paying, targeted ads, professional
Cons - $100 minimum payout, a lot of people get banned without warning for cheating, more difficult to cash out, cashes out only through check and bank fund transfer.

AdSense

BidVertiser - Another very popular program. A alternative to AdSense and is similar to it.

Pros - Pays through Paypal and check, high paying ads, minimum payout $10 with paypal. Very customizable ads.
Cons - Not as many ads and AdSense, sometimes ads are not targeted too well.

Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser

Obeus - One of the newer publishers programs.

Pros - Pays through e-gold! Fast payout, minimum payout only $1
Cons - You only earn for ads when advertisers choose your site to be a publisher. Not as popular as other programs and you might not get any advertisers if your site generates is small and generates little traffic.

Obeus

E-books

2006-12-16T23:07:00.000-08:00

Interested in making money online?
I've compiled a list of e-books that are specially written to do just that:

Ultimate Wealth Package
Rich Jerk's E-book - I have personally read this e-book myself and found that it has good content.
Affiliate Project X
Google Wealth Wizard
Butterfly Marketing Manuscript

Websites

2006-12-14T22:03:00.000-08:00

Many of you may have unsuccessfully created a site in the past with no traffic and was basically just sitting there to rot.

To run a successful site, you need:

1. Good content - information or tools that people actually need.
2. Attractive looking layout.
3. Regular updates

Things that don't work:

1. Spamming your site everywhere and filling up your site with ads.

A good way to get traffic and get more popularity is to exchange links with other sites.

Tools for webmasters:

http://www.seomoz.org/ - Gauges the popularity of your site.

High Yield Investment Programs and Investing

2006-12-14T20:34:00.000-08:00

I have recently started to get started with online currency. The current online currency of choice by basically all investment programs is e-gold.

To get started in online investing, you should first create an e-gold account and add funds to it. There are a few ways to fund your account. The first and most reliable way is to use an exchange service to transfer funds from your bank, credit card, or other forms of credit. E-gold has a list of them here. The second way is to exchange with a private person. The following sites are popular forums where members offer exchange between a large variety of different online currencies: GoldAge, TalkGold, and MMG. The third way to get money into your account is to join some kind of "Get Paid To" program. These programs will pay you to do things such as read emails, click links, and sign up for offers. They are useful if you can't fund your e-gold account by any other way and you have $0.00. The disadvantage is that they take a while to build up some funds. The programs that I have used and paid me are GoldAge (paid to post), and Donkeymails.

After getting at least $1 into your e-gold account, a bunch of new opportunities to make money are available. The ones that you should look for are HYIPs (High Yield Investment Programs). These programs offer a high rate of interest for depositing your money. These programs are risky and may run away with your money. The best way to minimize your risk is to do research on the program. Find out where its hosted at, search about it, check out forums posts about it, and check HYIP monitor sites about it. The key to making profit is not to put all your money into one program as it can drop and disappear at any time no matter how reliable it was in the past. History repeats itself over and over and some people never learn that no program can be trusted 100%. Sites that offer 10% daily or more are the riskiest.

If you are one of few successful investors who have made lots of profits, you may want to start thinking about investing a portion into low yield investment programs. These are much more reliable than HYIPs, but they offer much lower rates.

Programs to avoid:
Matrix doubling programs - these are programs where you pay like $5 and get like $1 for every member you refer. It advertises that you can get thousands if your members refer more members and you get $1 for each in theory but it never actually works out. You will lose your money in 95% of these programs.

Poorly designed site - sites that have misspellings, grammar mistakes, and bad layout. These programs usually run by amateurs and those who can barely speak English. The risk for these programs are bigger than usual and the admin of the program is probably just out to make quick money off of you.

Game and betting sites - sites that offer games such as head/tails and state that you get 250% profit for winning. The truth is that the win rate for these programs is like 30% and you will lose your money. I have seen one of the scripts myself and saw that you can set what the win rate is.

Other sites:
There seems to be a big craze and hype about a program called AGLOCO. However, I personally don't think it will be as successful as everyone thinks. There are like hundreds of people trying to get referrals for it and unless you are willing to spend money, time, and effort, I don't think you will get very far. It's your choice and you can go ahead and join it if you want and prove me wrong.

First Post

2006-12-14T19:52:00.001-08:00

Well, I just started this blog today for fun and this is my first post! I don't know what to do with this blog yet.