I have spent a great deal of time trying to find information on how to make a living on the Internet. There is a vast amount of free information available, however, I have found that finding such, is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Even the legit web sites want to charge you for the information that can be found free elsewhere. So, I have decided to create this page in an attempt to have a 'one stop shop' as it were, for all the info you need to start your own online career. There are several categories of online work, and I will address each one in separate sections of the page. We will address, among others
· Google Adsense
· Ebay Selling
· Drop Shipping
· Multi Level Marketing
· Affiliate Marketing
· Paid to Click
· Paid to Read E-mail
· Paid to Post
· Paid to Play Games
There will be a great deal of information here, and the site will be updated often. Also the link section will contain a vast amount of information as well. I hope you enjoy the site and learn as much as you can. The fact of the matter is, after all, people do make money online, but it is work. If a web page makes claims that you can get rich quick, as always, it’s not true. Like any job you have to work, however unlike many jobs these days, the harder you work online, the more you can make. It takes a lot of time and effort, but if you are serious about making a living on the Internet, then this page can be an invaluable resource for you.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Multi Level Marketing
Multi Level Marketing (or MLM) is another system that can be quite deceptive. There are basically two types of Multi Level Marketing programs, the legal sales oriented type, which offers a product or service for a fee. And the more common type, also known as a pyramid scheme. It is often difficult to tell the difference between the two, so here I will explain not only how legitimate MLM works, but how to avoid the pyramids.
Basically the way MLM works, is that a company hires it's sales people as independent contractors, who sell at their own pace on their own time. These contractors also are able to recruit other people to be contractors and will receive a bonus or commission for each person they recruit. Amway, Avon and many other well known companies can fall under the umbrella of MLM.
So how does it actually work? Well, often you have to buy a supply of the product, wholesale, and then simply try to sell it for a prophet. As a member of the company, the company itself will often offer various forms of assistance to begin with but ultimately, as an independent contractor, it is up to you to figure out how to sell the products. This is very much a self motivated field. If you work hard and really put in the effort, you can make a great deal of money from your sales, but in general, you can make even more from recruiting.
This is where the difference between the legit, and the not so legit comes in. When the focus is on the sale of a product or service it tends to be more legit, while if the focus is on recruiting the legitimacy begins to come into question.
Here is an example of a typical pyramid. A man tells me he is a cell phone salesman. He offers to sell me a phone with all kinds of great G3 access and all the apps, and a great service with rollover minutes and a family plan unlimited nights and weekends all the bells and whistles. He shows me a picture of the phone, he shows me his 'catalog' and all the plan options typed out on very professional looking paper, glossy and all. He even produced and order form and all the paperwork that looks all legit. Then, finally, the real sales pitch started.
He told me that "just between us" this selling phones thing is working great for him. He told me how now he is his own boss and makes insane large sums of money, and that I could make the kind of money he does as well! How? How do I make the same kind of money you do? "Easy.." he says "look at what I just did with you, you could do that right? Of course you can, if I can do it, you can. And I can get you in! All you need.." here it comes... "is to join our plan for a small license fee." Now the license fee can be training fee, or money for the products or whatever they want to tell you it is. In MLM it is a real fee, in a pyramid it is the money he gives to his boss who pays him a percentage of it, for getting the money from you.
How to tell the difference? Well when it came right down to it, using the example above, I said no thanks, but I DO want the phone! I'll buy it from you right now, I got the cash give me my phone. BUT no phone. He did not sell me a phone because there was no phone, there was only an attempt in talking me into giving him money, to buy the training, or license or whatever, to talk someone else into giving ME money, and so on and so on. The classic pyramid. If they offer you a service, tread carefully, if its a product ask to see the actual physical item. Avon and Amway reps almost always have a whole stockpile of product on them, in their car or in a bag, not just a catalog.
Basically the way MLM works, is that a company hires it's sales people as independent contractors, who sell at their own pace on their own time. These contractors also are able to recruit other people to be contractors and will receive a bonus or commission for each person they recruit. Amway, Avon and many other well known companies can fall under the umbrella of MLM.
So how does it actually work? Well, often you have to buy a supply of the product, wholesale, and then simply try to sell it for a prophet. As a member of the company, the company itself will often offer various forms of assistance to begin with but ultimately, as an independent contractor, it is up to you to figure out how to sell the products. This is very much a self motivated field. If you work hard and really put in the effort, you can make a great deal of money from your sales, but in general, you can make even more from recruiting.
This is where the difference between the legit, and the not so legit comes in. When the focus is on the sale of a product or service it tends to be more legit, while if the focus is on recruiting the legitimacy begins to come into question.
Here is an example of a typical pyramid. A man tells me he is a cell phone salesman. He offers to sell me a phone with all kinds of great G3 access and all the apps, and a great service with rollover minutes and a family plan unlimited nights and weekends all the bells and whistles. He shows me a picture of the phone, he shows me his 'catalog' and all the plan options typed out on very professional looking paper, glossy and all. He even produced and order form and all the paperwork that looks all legit. Then, finally, the real sales pitch started.
He told me that "just between us" this selling phones thing is working great for him. He told me how now he is his own boss and makes insane large sums of money, and that I could make the kind of money he does as well! How? How do I make the same kind of money you do? "Easy.." he says "look at what I just did with you, you could do that right? Of course you can, if I can do it, you can. And I can get you in! All you need.." here it comes... "is to join our plan for a small license fee." Now the license fee can be training fee, or money for the products or whatever they want to tell you it is. In MLM it is a real fee, in a pyramid it is the money he gives to his boss who pays him a percentage of it, for getting the money from you.
How to tell the difference? Well when it came right down to it, using the example above, I said no thanks, but I DO want the phone! I'll buy it from you right now, I got the cash give me my phone. BUT no phone. He did not sell me a phone because there was no phone, there was only an attempt in talking me into giving him money, to buy the training, or license or whatever, to talk someone else into giving ME money, and so on and so on. The classic pyramid. If they offer you a service, tread carefully, if its a product ask to see the actual physical item. Avon and Amway reps almost always have a whole stockpile of product on them, in their car or in a bag, not just a catalog.
Scam Alert!
I just received a check in the mail for $2,985.00. This is a very real looking, counterfeit, check.
The deal:
There are many variations on the theme, but ANYTHING that asks you to cash a check, wire some of the money, and keep the rest as your pay, is a Scam! This one said that it was a mystery shopping job, they were sending me the money to test (mystery shop) a western union. The deal was, I cash the check, wire $2, 600 to them and keep the rest as my commission.
The scam:
The check will eventually come back, and I would then be responsible to repay the full amount to the bank or currency exchange or whatever. Meanwhile the people who I wired the money too, get off Scott free. The FIRST thing I did was to call the Federal Trade Commission and Report the whole thing however there is little they can do.
What If This Happens to You?
Well the only thing is, never, EVER cash the check. Don't deposit it. Burn it, tear it up, frame it in a giant frame, with a little card under it that says in a teeny tiny font 'grift shift' and call it a conceptual art piece, But DO NOT CASH IT! The biggest problem with these is that they use the logos, names and addresses of legitimate companies, so like when I called the FTC all I could do was report a fraudulent check from a company that did not issue the check, hence the fraud, AND the fact that bank would have cashed it. Who would not cash a payroll looking check from a well known company?
The deal:
There are many variations on the theme, but ANYTHING that asks you to cash a check, wire some of the money, and keep the rest as your pay, is a Scam! This one said that it was a mystery shopping job, they were sending me the money to test (mystery shop) a western union. The deal was, I cash the check, wire $2, 600 to them and keep the rest as my commission.
The scam:
The check will eventually come back, and I would then be responsible to repay the full amount to the bank or currency exchange or whatever. Meanwhile the people who I wired the money too, get off Scott free. The FIRST thing I did was to call the Federal Trade Commission and Report the whole thing however there is little they can do.
What If This Happens to You?
Well the only thing is, never, EVER cash the check. Don't deposit it. Burn it, tear it up, frame it in a giant frame, with a little card under it that says in a teeny tiny font 'grift shift' and call it a conceptual art piece, But DO NOT CASH IT! The biggest problem with these is that they use the logos, names and addresses of legitimate companies, so like when I called the FTC all I could do was report a fraudulent check from a company that did not issue the check, hence the fraud, AND the fact that bank would have cashed it. Who would not cash a payroll looking check from a well known company?
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Data Entry, Pay To Type
Online data entry positions are often the most diverse of all online job offers. Sometimes they are exactly what you would expect, someone has to enter all the information a company needs in it's computers so they hire you to do it. Most however are just a way for people to sell you a description of how to use AdSense or pay per post. You type to post ads, or in paid blogs, or on your website, so you are getting "paid to Type" or "data entry" This does not necessarily mean that these are scams, but are simply a different way to say the same thing a thousand other people are saying.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Paid Surveys
Paid Surveys are growing in popularity now, and with good reason! With all the online work I do, I can honestly say that I have made more money taking surveys than anything else. However, I must say I do take a LOT of surveys!
How it works; Companies want to keep track of what their customers want, they always have. Market research, to see what products people do and do not like, has always been a staple of industry. Now with the advent of the Internet, they can get a massive cross section of people, worldwide, to study.
Questions about shopping habits, drinking habits, video game preferences, advertisements, television shows, these are all available and easily accessible through a number of web pages. These really are the easiest of all online money making systems, as you simply register, then fill out the forms, answering questions. But alas, as I say over and over again, there is no quick and easy big money deal, that is a myth. Online surveys may pay $2 or $3 per, and you could spend a lot of time filling out forms, just to find out you do not qualify for a survey after all, then have to start all over again on a new one. Still I take surveys online every day, and I get at least two checks a month so, it's your call, if you think you would like this the most and have the time, why not?
How it works; Companies want to keep track of what their customers want, they always have. Market research, to see what products people do and do not like, has always been a staple of industry. Now with the advent of the Internet, they can get a massive cross section of people, worldwide, to study.
Questions about shopping habits, drinking habits, video game preferences, advertisements, television shows, these are all available and easily accessible through a number of web pages. These really are the easiest of all online money making systems, as you simply register, then fill out the forms, answering questions. But alas, as I say over and over again, there is no quick and easy big money deal, that is a myth. Online surveys may pay $2 or $3 per, and you could spend a lot of time filling out forms, just to find out you do not qualify for a survey after all, then have to start all over again on a new one. Still I take surveys online every day, and I get at least two checks a month so, it's your call, if you think you would like this the most and have the time, why not?
Paid To Read Email
The paid e-mail sites tend to be a combination of affiliate marketing and AdSense type programs, and the old "take our survey for a free $100 gift card" or "i-pod" or fill in the blank whatever they offer. Basically they place ads in e-mails and when you read the e-mail, and click on the ad, then you get paid. The ones that pay the most are the ones that take some sort of registration to some program or another.
For example, you may have seen offers for a dell laptop, or a red lobster gift card, or wal mart or whatever, if you take a survey. These tend to be legitimate deals, but you have to complete their program, fully, to receive your reward. Now, to fully complete the program, you have to click through hundreds, perhaps thousands of ads, (I have spent well over an hour on one of these, just clicking skip ad, skip ad, skip ad, skip ad etc. etc.) AND complete two or three offers. The offers are things like, sign up for a magazine subscription, or apply, and get accepted fro a Discover card, or something like that. So the paid e-mail will be an e-mail of one of these offers, and you get paid if you complete the offer.
This is not always the case however, as each paid e-mail sent will be different, but they are all ads.
This really is just pay per click, the difference is that you have the offers e-mailed to you, instead of you searching the Internet for them.
For example, you may have seen offers for a dell laptop, or a red lobster gift card, or wal mart or whatever, if you take a survey. These tend to be legitimate deals, but you have to complete their program, fully, to receive your reward. Now, to fully complete the program, you have to click through hundreds, perhaps thousands of ads, (I have spent well over an hour on one of these, just clicking skip ad, skip ad, skip ad, skip ad etc. etc.) AND complete two or three offers. The offers are things like, sign up for a magazine subscription, or apply, and get accepted fro a Discover card, or something like that. So the paid e-mail will be an e-mail of one of these offers, and you get paid if you complete the offer.
This is not always the case however, as each paid e-mail sent will be different, but they are all ads.
This really is just pay per click, the difference is that you have the offers e-mailed to you, instead of you searching the Internet for them.
Pay Per Post
This is another system that takes a great deal of work and tends to have very small rewards for the casual blogger. However, if you ever had a dream of being a professional writer, or if you spend a great deal of time posting on the net, then this may actually be the answer you have been looking for. As with all of these programs, it is a job, if you look at it as such, then ask yourself, are you ready to post for eight hours a day? If so, this may be the best of all these programs for you!
The great thing about this is that it is so open. You can post about anything, as long as you actually know what your talking about. Most of these have a pretty strict set of checks and balances, however if you are the sort of person who actually has the temperament to not only handle, but actually enjoy (as I do) this sort of, what many would call tedious work, then you most likely will fall into an acceptable category to be accepted into a plan.
Basically it works like this, as with most of the online jobs listed here, having a web site with a lot of traffic is the key to success. One of the things that drives traffic is content. If you have a page with a very small amount of content, and little or no updates, when someone visits the site, they will be able to take it all in in one visit, and as there are no updates, there is no reason for them to return. Hence, no traffic. So what some people do is to actually pay people, per post, to post on their site, which in turn increases traffic.
The great thing about this is that it is so open. You can post about anything, as long as you actually know what your talking about. Most of these have a pretty strict set of checks and balances, however if you are the sort of person who actually has the temperament to not only handle, but actually enjoy (as I do) this sort of, what many would call tedious work, then you most likely will fall into an acceptable category to be accepted into a plan.
Basically it works like this, as with most of the online jobs listed here, having a web site with a lot of traffic is the key to success. One of the things that drives traffic is content. If you have a page with a very small amount of content, and little or no updates, when someone visits the site, they will be able to take it all in in one visit, and as there are no updates, there is no reason for them to return. Hence, no traffic. So what some people do is to actually pay people, per post, to post on their site, which in turn increases traffic.
Pay Per Click
Pay per click is, in most cases, just another way to say, AdSense, affiliate marketing or some combination of both. What you need to know about pay per click specifically, is what to look out for.
There are two basic pay per click offers you will see most. The first is the basic, YOU get paid when someone else clicks on an ad , or an affiliate link on your site. (for more on these see my AdSense and affiliate marketing links on this page) Most offers about these are related to either someone selling you the same information I am giving here for free, or some specific system that may or may not work depending on your specific level of dedication and involvement. And others are flat out scams.
The second is when someone else Pays YOU to click on their ads or affiliate links. For example, if I get paid five dollars when someone clicks on one of my links I would offer a dollar per click to someone, if I get a thousand people to click on my link I'll make a 4 thousand dollar prophet. HOWEVER this tends to be frowned upon and is flat out not allowed in AdSense and many other programs. People still do it, and when they get caught and their account is closed, they simply start another one. I personally do not like this system at all. Mostly because, even though I am not the one breaking the rules when I click on someone else's ads, as soon as they get busted, and they WILL, the whole program will disappear. No one can make a full time job out of something that is destined to vanish. Also, most of these such systems pay such a small amount of money that in the time it would take you to make a couple of hundred dollars clicking on other peoples ads, you could have made your own and market your own web page and start bringing in serious cash.
There are two basic pay per click offers you will see most. The first is the basic, YOU get paid when someone else clicks on an ad , or an affiliate link on your site. (for more on these see my AdSense and affiliate marketing links on this page) Most offers about these are related to either someone selling you the same information I am giving here for free, or some specific system that may or may not work depending on your specific level of dedication and involvement. And others are flat out scams.
The second is when someone else Pays YOU to click on their ads or affiliate links. For example, if I get paid five dollars when someone clicks on one of my links I would offer a dollar per click to someone, if I get a thousand people to click on my link I'll make a 4 thousand dollar prophet. HOWEVER this tends to be frowned upon and is flat out not allowed in AdSense and many other programs. People still do it, and when they get caught and their account is closed, they simply start another one. I personally do not like this system at all. Mostly because, even though I am not the one breaking the rules when I click on someone else's ads, as soon as they get busted, and they WILL, the whole program will disappear. No one can make a full time job out of something that is destined to vanish. Also, most of these such systems pay such a small amount of money that in the time it would take you to make a couple of hundred dollars clicking on other peoples ads, you could have made your own and market your own web page and start bringing in serious cash.
Drop Shipping
Drop shipping is a pretty straight foreword method of selling products online, and works very well with eBay. Here's how it works, you list the products your selling and when someone places an order, it goes directly to the warehouse, or perhaps even the manufacturer, and is then sent directly to the customer. This way you can still charge low wholesale prices, but you don't have to worry about buying and storing product you may or may not sell. There is however usually an investment on your part, as the drop shipping company itself will likely charge you a monthly fee to use the service.
Drop shipping tends to lean towards larger companies selling a large amount of products to tens of thousands of consumers. This is why there are now many web pages that offer a different kind of program. Worldwidebrands.com for example, has been building relationships with drop ship companies, warehouses, manufactures and various other businesses for years. When you join worldwidebrands.com, you are given access to all of these. This way you don't have to be a large scale marketer to get access, worldwidebrands already has it, and as member, so do you.
None of these are a real get rich quick deal, there is no such animal, at least not in the realm of the legal. It is, again, an online job, you have to work at it. If you want to drop ship you need to sell your product. Advertising is the key in an online market place. Again, using worlwidebrands. com as an example, as a member they actually give you a good start in that direction. Even having live chat with coaches and such to help you along the way. However in the end it's all up to you, the harder you work at it, the more money you can make.
Some even offer completely pre-made online stores, all you need to do is point people there, and you get a commission when someone buys something. This takes a lot of advertising as well. Here is mine for example http://www.myshopkart.net/victorvoice/
Drop shipping tends to lean towards larger companies selling a large amount of products to tens of thousands of consumers. This is why there are now many web pages that offer a different kind of program. Worldwidebrands.com for example, has been building relationships with drop ship companies, warehouses, manufactures and various other businesses for years. When you join worldwidebrands.com, you are given access to all of these. This way you don't have to be a large scale marketer to get access, worldwidebrands already has it, and as member, so do you.
None of these are a real get rich quick deal, there is no such animal, at least not in the realm of the legal. It is, again, an online job, you have to work at it. If you want to drop ship you need to sell your product. Advertising is the key in an online market place. Again, using worlwidebrands. com as an example, as a member they actually give you a good start in that direction. Even having live chat with coaches and such to help you along the way. However in the end it's all up to you, the harder you work at it, the more money you can make.
Some even offer completely pre-made online stores, all you need to do is point people there, and you get a commission when someone buys something. This takes a lot of advertising as well. Here is mine for example http://www.myshopkart.net/victorvoice/
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a system where you post specific links or ads on your pages, and you get paid every time someone not only clicks on it, but signs up for the program. Because they have to sign up for the program for you to get paid, the payout is often quite higher than the AdSense, paid per click payouts. For example, as you see to the right, I have posted some affiliate ads, one is for 000webhost.com and another for inboxdollars.com. If someone clicks on inboxdollars, and signs up for their program, both they and I get paid $5. Once you are signed up you can post the same links on your pages as well.
Affiliate marketing and multi level marketing are very similar, an affiliate marketer simply is more Internet based. You are like a sales man as it were, selling the service the web page is offering. Once again, this can be tricky, it takes time, you have to look at it like a job, if you spend 40 hours a week just posting links in blogs and forums and anyplace you can, you possibly could drive a great deal of traffic to your site, and or links. To make decent money, enough to make a living off of it however, you should use a combination, as I do, of affiliate links and other services like AdSense.
Of course you would not really want to simply spam the ads all over the place, what you need to do, to really do well with affiliate programs, is to create a web page about something you are very much into, and knowledgeable about. Then, just like you would with AdSense add the affiliate links to the site. When the link is for a specific product, you may start a page all about that one product then add a link for it on the page.
Affiliate marketing and multi level marketing are very similar, an affiliate marketer simply is more Internet based. You are like a sales man as it were, selling the service the web page is offering. Once again, this can be tricky, it takes time, you have to look at it like a job, if you spend 40 hours a week just posting links in blogs and forums and anyplace you can, you possibly could drive a great deal of traffic to your site, and or links. To make decent money, enough to make a living off of it however, you should use a combination, as I do, of affiliate links and other services like AdSense.
Of course you would not really want to simply spam the ads all over the place, what you need to do, to really do well with affiliate programs, is to create a web page about something you are very much into, and knowledgeable about. Then, just like you would with AdSense add the affiliate links to the site. When the link is for a specific product, you may start a page all about that one product then add a link for it on the page.
Monday, July 13, 2009
eBay Selling
eBay selling is also a very popular way to make money online, from a few extra dollars for some junk you have laying around, to a full blown home business, eBay seems to have a lot to offer.
For this discussion of course, we will focus on what needs to be done to start a full time eBay carrier.
There are several things you need to take into account when using eBay. For one thing, they charge for listings, if your item does not sell, you still have to pay them for having listed it. With the popularity of Craigslist however, eBay has loosened the reigns a bit when it comes to their fees, and now allows a certain number of free posts per month.
Starting your own online business through eBay is also time consuming, as you need to build a reputation as a trusted seller before you will be allowed to use all of eBay's most advanced selling tools.
Also, because eBay is so popular, many markets in it are already over saturated, and you could be undersold by someone who is already well established simply charging less than you possibly could. People who buy bulk items, wholesale, and drop ship often have rock bottom prices and would be very difficult to get sales away from, which of course I do not recommend at all.
The bast ways to make money on eBay are as follows.
Find something that you are into, something you really love (because you are going to be spending a LOT of time on it) and find a way to fit it into a niche market. There may be a hundred people selling comic books, but not so many selling signed ones. If you have comics, try going to comic cons to meet famous comic book artists and get them to sign your books, then put them on E-bay. I play guitar, and I have a small local Luther that does all my repairs and set ups for me, and he is very good, and quite cheap. Now there are a LOT of guitars on sale on eBay, however some of them are broken. The broken ones really are dirt cheap. So I buy a broken Gibson Les Paul guitar from eBay for $75, bring it to my local Luther, he fixes it for $50 dollars, I re list it on eBay for $400 starting bid, $400 is a steal for an old Les Paul, but it's a tidy prophet for me. And because it was repaired and the price is so low I get positive feedback. If I tried to charge $1000 for it, and it has been repaired, I would get negative feedback for overcharging, OR just no sale at all.
You have to know your market and have a product that somehow sets you apart from all the rest.
For this discussion of course, we will focus on what needs to be done to start a full time eBay carrier.
There are several things you need to take into account when using eBay. For one thing, they charge for listings, if your item does not sell, you still have to pay them for having listed it. With the popularity of Craigslist however, eBay has loosened the reigns a bit when it comes to their fees, and now allows a certain number of free posts per month.
Starting your own online business through eBay is also time consuming, as you need to build a reputation as a trusted seller before you will be allowed to use all of eBay's most advanced selling tools.
Also, because eBay is so popular, many markets in it are already over saturated, and you could be undersold by someone who is already well established simply charging less than you possibly could. People who buy bulk items, wholesale, and drop ship often have rock bottom prices and would be very difficult to get sales away from, which of course I do not recommend at all.
The bast ways to make money on eBay are as follows.
Find something that you are into, something you really love (because you are going to be spending a LOT of time on it) and find a way to fit it into a niche market. There may be a hundred people selling comic books, but not so many selling signed ones. If you have comics, try going to comic cons to meet famous comic book artists and get them to sign your books, then put them on E-bay. I play guitar, and I have a small local Luther that does all my repairs and set ups for me, and he is very good, and quite cheap. Now there are a LOT of guitars on sale on eBay, however some of them are broken. The broken ones really are dirt cheap. So I buy a broken Gibson Les Paul guitar from eBay for $75, bring it to my local Luther, he fixes it for $50 dollars, I re list it on eBay for $400 starting bid, $400 is a steal for an old Les Paul, but it's a tidy prophet for me. And because it was repaired and the price is so low I get positive feedback. If I tried to charge $1000 for it, and it has been repaired, I would get negative feedback for overcharging, OR just no sale at all.
You have to know your market and have a product that somehow sets you apart from all the rest.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense
The Basics
Google Adsense is arguably the most popular of all online money making systems. In Fact, many of the 'other' systems advertised online, are just variations of Adsense. The idea is that you place ads on a web page, and get paid when someone clicks on them. The amount you get paid varies greatly depending on a number of factors.
If you already have a web page, it is simply matter of registering on Google, then applying for an Adsense account. Your application may not be accepted, but when you apply there is a whole list of what you need to consider before you apply. Also there are some programs that offer instant or already set up accounts.
If you do not have a page of your own, it actually is quite easy and pretty cheap these days to start one. A large number of the "make money with Google" programs you see advertised on the web, are simply pre-made web pages that you pay the person who made it for the right to use. They do all the work, you reap all the rewards, is the tagline, but it's really not that easy. To good to be true and all that as it were.
Getting Started
Whether you already have a page or get one ready made, what it's really all about is traffic. Not everyone who visits your site will click on your ads. In fact, most people probably wont. So if only a small percentage of people click on the ad's, to make a good amount of money, you need a large amount of people visiting the site, the more traffic the better the odds of a good amount of clicks.
That ultimately is the job. That is, driving traffic to your web site. So the real question is, how to do that.
You want to pay close attention to the content of the website itself. For example, if you do a search on bing for Star Wars there are 88,900,000 results. So if your page is a Star Wars fan page, what are the odds that someone is going to click on your page, or even find it amongst all the others?
So the first thing you have to ask yourself is if your page fits in an over saturated market. If so, you may not be putting yourself into a good position to make money. You do want your page to have a niche, but you want it to be something very specific, something people will be able to find, and somehow unique.
There are many pages for just about any subject you can imagine, but when I say unique I mean the content, you want all of your own original content on the page. You should be able to write, and should write just about everything yourself. A very good way to help add content to your site, without doing all the writing yourself, is to have a forum. Your guests will end up doing most of the writing.
Next Steps
Okay so you started (or purchased) your web page and have been approved for an Adsense account. You have a good amount of unique content and are ready to start driving traffic to your page.
The best way to start is to get your site listed on the search engines. For Google, because you already have an account with them at this point, you just have to verify that you do indeed own the page, (usually by copy and pasting some html code into the web page itself) and then request it be listed. This means that when someone does a search for whatever your page is about, your page will be one of the ones that comes back in the results. Many sites offer a paid service that does the listings for you, often the more expensive the higher your page will appear on their lists. Whoever your host for your web site is may offer this, and if you bought a pre made page and they don't offer this service, you probably should have bought from someone else.
Next, find other web sites about the same basic topic and advertise on their forums. This of course is if they allow you to do so, some forums do not allow people to promote their sites in the forum. However for the ones that do, there is potential for many people to learn about your site in this way.
You will also want to join various webrings, which are pages in the same category that have links to each other featured on the sites. Links can be very powerful tools, you just have to do the legwork, find similar pages and e-mail the webmasters asking to link your page and of course offer to link theirs as well. Also you can always do the facebook or myspace thing advertising your site there, sending your friends to your site and such.
Now if you don't mind spending a little money, you can get whats called, google Adwords. This is you putting ads on other people pages that, when someone clicks on the ad, it leads them to your page.
One of the more questionable methods used is pay per click. One of the online Jobs that you will see on the web is pay per click, where someone pays you to click on the ads on their page. The problem with this is, even if the person does pay the fact of the matter is, this is against Google's terms of service, and they do have a system of checks and balances in place to remove peoples accounts if they do this. Still, if you want to drive people to site by offering to pay them to click on your ads, that's your problem and don't blame me when you get busted.
Eventually you may want to repeat the process with several other web pages. Look at it in terms of, you can try to get 100 people to visit your one page, or try to get one person to visit each of your 100 pages. Either way you can make it work, but if you have only one page, it better be a real seriously good page.
Conclusion
Google Adsense can be a good way to make money, if you're willing to do the work. You don't necessarily have to be a computer mastermind to do it, you just need to take the time to do it right. Don't just spam your way through trying to be lazy, you won't have any long term income that way, maybe a blast of a couple hundred bucks here or there, but nothing you can quit your full time job over.
The Basics
Google Adsense is arguably the most popular of all online money making systems. In Fact, many of the 'other' systems advertised online, are just variations of Adsense. The idea is that you place ads on a web page, and get paid when someone clicks on them. The amount you get paid varies greatly depending on a number of factors.
If you already have a web page, it is simply matter of registering on Google, then applying for an Adsense account. Your application may not be accepted, but when you apply there is a whole list of what you need to consider before you apply. Also there are some programs that offer instant or already set up accounts.
If you do not have a page of your own, it actually is quite easy and pretty cheap these days to start one. A large number of the "make money with Google" programs you see advertised on the web, are simply pre-made web pages that you pay the person who made it for the right to use. They do all the work, you reap all the rewards, is the tagline, but it's really not that easy. To good to be true and all that as it were.
Getting Started
Whether you already have a page or get one ready made, what it's really all about is traffic. Not everyone who visits your site will click on your ads. In fact, most people probably wont. So if only a small percentage of people click on the ad's, to make a good amount of money, you need a large amount of people visiting the site, the more traffic the better the odds of a good amount of clicks.
That ultimately is the job. That is, driving traffic to your web site. So the real question is, how to do that.
You want to pay close attention to the content of the website itself. For example, if you do a search on bing for Star Wars there are 88,900,000 results. So if your page is a Star Wars fan page, what are the odds that someone is going to click on your page, or even find it amongst all the others?
So the first thing you have to ask yourself is if your page fits in an over saturated market. If so, you may not be putting yourself into a good position to make money. You do want your page to have a niche, but you want it to be something very specific, something people will be able to find, and somehow unique.
There are many pages for just about any subject you can imagine, but when I say unique I mean the content, you want all of your own original content on the page. You should be able to write, and should write just about everything yourself. A very good way to help add content to your site, without doing all the writing yourself, is to have a forum. Your guests will end up doing most of the writing.
Next Steps
Okay so you started (or purchased) your web page and have been approved for an Adsense account. You have a good amount of unique content and are ready to start driving traffic to your page.
The best way to start is to get your site listed on the search engines. For Google, because you already have an account with them at this point, you just have to verify that you do indeed own the page, (usually by copy and pasting some html code into the web page itself) and then request it be listed. This means that when someone does a search for whatever your page is about, your page will be one of the ones that comes back in the results. Many sites offer a paid service that does the listings for you, often the more expensive the higher your page will appear on their lists. Whoever your host for your web site is may offer this, and if you bought a pre made page and they don't offer this service, you probably should have bought from someone else.
Next, find other web sites about the same basic topic and advertise on their forums. This of course is if they allow you to do so, some forums do not allow people to promote their sites in the forum. However for the ones that do, there is potential for many people to learn about your site in this way.
You will also want to join various webrings, which are pages in the same category that have links to each other featured on the sites. Links can be very powerful tools, you just have to do the legwork, find similar pages and e-mail the webmasters asking to link your page and of course offer to link theirs as well. Also you can always do the facebook or myspace thing advertising your site there, sending your friends to your site and such.
Now if you don't mind spending a little money, you can get whats called, google Adwords. This is you putting ads on other people pages that, when someone clicks on the ad, it leads them to your page.
One of the more questionable methods used is pay per click. One of the online Jobs that you will see on the web is pay per click, where someone pays you to click on the ads on their page. The problem with this is, even if the person does pay the fact of the matter is, this is against Google's terms of service, and they do have a system of checks and balances in place to remove peoples accounts if they do this. Still, if you want to drive people to site by offering to pay them to click on your ads, that's your problem and don't blame me when you get busted.
Eventually you may want to repeat the process with several other web pages. Look at it in terms of, you can try to get 100 people to visit your one page, or try to get one person to visit each of your 100 pages. Either way you can make it work, but if you have only one page, it better be a real seriously good page.
Conclusion
Google Adsense can be a good way to make money, if you're willing to do the work. You don't necessarily have to be a computer mastermind to do it, you just need to take the time to do it right. Don't just spam your way through trying to be lazy, you won't have any long term income that way, maybe a blast of a couple hundred bucks here or there, but nothing you can quit your full time job over.
Mission Statement
I have spent a great deal of time trying to find information on how to make a living on the Internet. There is a vast amount of free information available, however, I have found that finding such, is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Even the legit web sites want to charge you for the information that can be found free elsewhere. So, I have decided to create this page in an attempt to have a 'one stop shop' as it were, for all the info you need to start your own online career.
There are several categories of online work, and I will address each one in separate sections of the page. We will address, among others
· Google Adsense
· Ebay Selling
· Drop Shipping
· Multi Level Marketing
· Affiliate Marketing
· Paid to Click
· Paid to Read E-mail
· Paid to Post
· Paid to Play Games
There will be a great deal of information here, and the site will be updated often. Also the link section will contain a vast amount of information as well.
I hope you enjoy the site and learn as much as you can.
The fact of the matter is, after all, people do make money online, but it is work. If a web page makes claims that you can get rich quick, as always, it’s not true. Like any job you have to work, however unlike many jobs these days, the harder you work online, the more you can make. It takes a lot of time and effort, but if you are serious about making a living on the Internet, then this page can be an invaluable resource for you.
There are several categories of online work, and I will address each one in separate sections of the page. We will address, among others
· Google Adsense
· Ebay Selling
· Drop Shipping
· Multi Level Marketing
· Affiliate Marketing
· Paid to Click
· Paid to Read E-mail
· Paid to Post
· Paid to Play Games
There will be a great deal of information here, and the site will be updated often. Also the link section will contain a vast amount of information as well.
I hope you enjoy the site and learn as much as you can.
The fact of the matter is, after all, people do make money online, but it is work. If a web page makes claims that you can get rich quick, as always, it’s not true. Like any job you have to work, however unlike many jobs these days, the harder you work online, the more you can make. It takes a lot of time and effort, but if you are serious about making a living on the Internet, then this page can be an invaluable resource for you.
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