Affiliate Programs: How they help to make you money

To help you make money from a website that you may already have, there is the choice of joining an affiliate program.

If you don't have your own website yet, you may consider getting in contact with a web designer who has affiliate marketing experience.

An affiliate means that via your website you'll be earning from advertising other sellers' products, by the placing of banners or text links on your site.

If someone who is visiting your site clicks on one of the banners, which takes them to the merchant's website and if they make a purchase you will make a commission on the sale.

But you won't be making much by simply putting a banner on your site, unless you're one of the lucky ones who receive thousands of visitors on a daily basis.

But with a few simple techniques you could make even a small site earn you a useful income.

Firstly, you should affiliate yourself with a merchant who sells goods that a visitor to your site would buy, there isn't much sense in having a banner for a cat food merchant when your website is solely concerned with PC maintenance.

One of the best affiliate network directories is the 'Commission Junction' it costs nothing to join and you won't even be charged if you link up with a merchant that's listed there.

From that point it's very straightforward, you don't need to be a programming expert to get going.

Promoting anothers' goods on your site is a great way of earning an income, all you have to do is point someone in the right direction and then your responsibility ends.

Money-making surveys

Firstly find out which company you want to work for, there's more than one way to find the company that suits you.

Most survey companies allow current members to invite friends therefore if you do get an invitation from a person you trust then you can go for it.

You could try the old standard of a Google search making money doing surveys, but as is well known, Google searching usually leads to more confusion searching for "Online Surveys" will leave you with a mind-boggling amount of hits.

An easier way to start would be with www.surveypolice.com it lists all of the major and more legitimate survey companies along with comments and ratings for each survey company.

The following is a couple of the better online survey companies:

Inbox Dollars (www.inboxdollars.com) They pay $1 a survey for the one survey a day you're allowed you also receive paid emails which although it may not be much you're still going to read your emails aren't you?

My Survey - www.mysurvey.com seem to be one of the best with points being awarded for each survey

It's $10 for every 1000 points and they also award bonus points all the time, so it doesn't take as long as you think.

Finally you must remember you will not get rich doing online surveys and there are a whole lot of online companies who are more than happy to take your money off you.

Blogging for cash

There's a strong possibility you have mixed thoughts about using your blog to make money, if you think it may be immoral, unethical or even uncool then the best thing to do is not commercialise it at all.

But if monetizing your blog doesn't offend your sensibilities then go for it, or if you think otherwise and you consider it evil, that's fine too.

But you have to be absolutely clear in your mind that you want to do it before you even begin because making money in this way is difficult enough, without self-sabotage kicking in and making your attempt somewhat half-hearted.

It should feel pretty good making money from your blog, there really is nothing wrong with having an urge to succeed.

If in your opinion your blog has real value, then you deserve to earn something from it.

You can't be timid about the whole thing though, if you're going to put up ads, really put up those ads it's the same with requesting donations, you can't be too obvious with these things.

Some people might complain, they always do when you commercialise a free site.

Is it possible to make a proper income online? Absolutely. It will take longer if you have a day job but the possibility is there.

The ins and outs of Niche Devil

In the words of the developers themselves it is for, "Making money by feeding the Google Monster exactly what it wants whilst you barely lift a finger".

A cool, if overlong tag line, but it's not about that, it's about whether or not it's worth the money!

For the initial setup they recommend you purchase MANY domains, hosting and Niche Devil, you then install the Niche Devil onto your hosting account, then you run the script and insert your chosen keywords and affiliate links for the store you want to build and abracadabra, Niche Devil spits out a site with content and products in about 37 seconds. Got to be witchcraft, now all you need is a few spend-happy customers, and Niche Devil can even promise that with the aid of pinging, before you rush off and get your hands on this wonder, let's see what makes it tick.

The script that you upload to your server/hosting account via ftp will mean that it will have to meet certain minimum requirements.

If nothing else, it is a glorified niche store builder in the same vein as BANS stores, remember them? Niche Devil makes a lot of hype about it's "ever refreshing" content, pulling/scraping content from the Internet that relate to your chosen keywords, which works fine and looks pretty good but there may be issues over copyrighted material being used.

Niche Devil is promoting itself as with statements such as, "Hurry up, only available for 14 days" which can only raises various issues.

They have restricted the time it is available, why? Is it to make you purchase now or is it a case that they're worried about what happens when experience of the product kicks in and why sell a product that apparently makes money so easily and not use it themselves.

Ways to make money on Twitter

Becoming a professional Twitter for a company could be your first route, there's a lot of companies out there who long to join the social media realm but don't have the expertise to pull it off, so they'll be looking for someone with that knowledge and all you'll need to do is look on the job boards for "Seeking Twitter Pros".

You can sell your stuff on Twitter, even big companies do it, why not try 'Micro fundraising' by combining the two hugely successful "micro" ways of doing things, micro blogging and micro funding?

You can try promoting music by combining a short URL service with a marketplace and a music community, which sounds a lot better than the music industry or the iTunes monopoly.

Advertising is always a good way of earning money online and there are two Twitter ads services I've noticed so far: Magpie and The Branch, they both look professional enough not to appear spammy but as yet I haven't tried them so i don't know if you can earn real money without scaring off your followers.

There is also Twitadd, a Twitter ad solution that puts banner ads on your Twitter page, you could also sneak in affiliate links, not cheating as such but there can't be anything wrong with getting commission from services you already support.

Look for a freelance job on Twitter, there are Tweets daily saying "Looking for x programmer", offering Twitter Apps, many companies offer Twitter Apps for free, recently more professional applications appear on the web, applications people will pay for.

Although you can on a blog, reviewing a product on Twitter is at the moment frowned upon, but it does appear unfair that you can't advertise your content.

Twitter may be simple and limited but it can be used for so many different purposes, many companies will soon require Twitter consultants to guide them through the uses of it in their own particular niche market.

Ways to Make money Affiliate Marketing

What is an affiliate?

It is a term that describes a link between a company and an individual, who refers products or services to others.

A merchant is the supplier of the goods, the company.

The affiliate is the middle person. The one who makes the sales happen and is the direct link between the merchant (company) and the customer.

Where to start

If you want to get into affiliate marketing there are many programs that will make it very easy for you.

The popular program you may of heard about is commission junction. You can get a free affiliate account and select any merchants you would like to promote.

Before you join any programs you need to think about how you are going to sell the products or services.

This is what I advise

Get yourself a website. Plan it with the products or services you will be selling in mind.

You must spend time planning your marketing campaign. Making sure you are able to generate quality traffic.

Your marketing campaign will involve:

Research into keywords for your chosen niche

SEO (search engine optimization) both on site and off site

How much money can you earn?

If you don't sell anything then you wont make any money. You get paid commission.

This is why your marketing campaign is very important. If you get it wrong you are off to a non starter.

When your site and marketing campaign is launched. All you need to do next is paste your affiliate code on your site. Then you are all set to go.

How to get your site noticed

It does not matter what your website is for, be it business or pleasure, a definite must have is traffic.

As the Internet is so big, you are just a tiny fish in such a big sea.

How to enhance your visibility online

You can increase the traffic to your website in many ways. You will first need an Internet marketing campaign.

Find who your potential visitors are

You may of heard about programs that promise to send you large amounts of traffic. These however are no good because your visitors need to be targeted.

If for instance, you had a antiques website, what are the chances of someone, who found your site through a teenage social site link are going to buy your products? Not very high.

What I am trying to say is that you need to research who your potential customers will be and make your site available to them.

Using search engine optimization

Beginners learning seo often run for the hills. It can leave you a bit confused.

Don't let anyone tell you seo is quick and easy. It consists of many on site and off site optimization strategies and is very time consuming.

For all those who want to start learning seo here is a simple seo guide. For those who would rather leave it to an seo expert, you will leave your time free to do what you do best.

PPC -Pay per click

If you want a fast way of getting your site noticed you can try pay per click. It is exactly what it says. You pay for each visitor that clicks on an ad that links to your site. Make sure you learn about this prior to starting.

Get traffic from social networking

You can use blogs, message boards and forums to get more traffic. Links on such social pages are valuable.

Whichever route you take for your marketing campaign, one thing you must do is lots and lots of research. A poor campaign will lead to poor traffic.

I hope I have given you some food for thought.

10 seo mistakes that will damage your search engine ranking

Having a website that has high search engine ranking, has many advantages. Although learning seo can be a little mind blowing, did you know that the simplest seo mistakes can ruin your chances of search engine ranking.

1. Using the wrong keywords

Keyword research is one of the first things you need to do when launching your seo campaign. If you choose to target the wrong keywords then your endeavours throughout your campaign will be wasted. You need to make sure the keywords you choose are relevant and actually searched for.

2. Forgetting to use title tags

This is a common one often overlooked by beginners. Title tags are important and must be different on every page of your website.

3. Over the top flash

Googles spiders cannot read flash when they crawl your site. If you really want to use flash, make sure you also include the html mark-up.

4. Link farms

This is something even the best webmasters are failing to grasp. Link farms are not a good thing with Google. You will get much further by getting high quality one way links from website with high pr.

5. Overdoing the keywords

The content you write on your website must make sense. Do not stuff your content full of keywords that have no relevance to your sentences. This will get you penalized by Google quickly.

6. Your keyword density should stay below 5%

7. Duplicate content. If you use content that has been used elsewhere, you will get your website sand boxed by Google. Search engines love fresh content.

8. Inadequate navigation

Your website must have clean navigation and no broken links. It is essential that both visitors and search engine bots can access all your pages.

9. Missing the value of headers

Headers are what Google bots read first. Make sure you include your important keywords in your headers not just images.

10. Unreliable hosting. I have often made the mistake of using cheap hosting. I was not keen on changing but boy did it make a difference when I did. Outages and servers going down will annoy your visitors and confuse Google bots. This will stop you getting high search engine ranking.

10 simple seo tips

1. Keyword Research

Choosing the right keywords is the first and most important seo tip on how to get high search engine ranking.

If you choose the wrong keywords that nobody is using when searching, your campaign is off to a bad start.

2. Find your competitors

You are going to beat your competitors to the top spot. You need to first find out who they are and analyze them. Type in your keyword in the search bar...bingo, there are all your competitors.

3. Your pages titles

There are two tips for optimizing your pages titles. One is to make sure each page has a different title.

Second tip is to make sure you include your main keyword in the title. Don't keyword spam though, your titles must make sense and flow.

4 Your meta tags

Only use meta tags if you understand them. They are not that important. The keyword density has to be spot on.

5 Use h2 and h1 headers

The keywords that are included in the headers, tell googles bots that they are important.

6. Always make sure your content is updated often and it is original. Google will penalize you if you have duplicate content on your website.

7. One way links are a big seo boost. Try and get a link from a high pr website. Remember to have your keyword included in the link.

8. If you have a site map on your website, you are more likely to get more of your pages indexed.

9. Make sure your title and alt tags have a description.

10. Google loves fresh content. Try to update your website as often as possible.

Seo is very rewarding for your website but it can also be difficult. I have written lots of articles on seo for beginners. Always start with the simple things and take it from there.

What is search engine optimization?

This is for all you newbies who have heard the phrase seo and wondering what on earth it is all about.

Seo is the short term used for search engine optimization.

It is a process of making your websites optimized for search engines such as google.

Why use seo?

One thing any site needs, regardless of it's purpose, is traffic. You need people to visit your website.

There are many ways you can get traffic and they are all equally effective but the best things in life are free and if you learn seo and implement it, your traffic will be free.

Organic ranking is when you naturally rank high on search engines for your keywords.

This is one of the main types of traffic you want to be chasing.

When someone uses google search, they will normally only click on one of the results that appear on the first page above the fold, so you need to aim for top positions.

Where should a beginner start?

I will write just for you beginners. I wont baffle you with big terms. I will take it slow.

Seo is not rocket science but it's not easy either.

One thing i will start by saying is to stick with it.

Things you need

A website to fiddle with

Patience

Bags of coffee lol

OK that's the low down on seo and what it means. I will get preparing your first lessons on how to get high search engine ranking.

Seo v Adwords

My previous post was about search engine optimization, or seo for short.

Which is best for your marketing campaign? AdWords or seo?

The answer is a simple one........ Both!

What is AdWords?

A pay per click program that brings you traffic.

1. Join google AdWords for free.

2. Tweak your settings such as your daily budget.



3. Create your keywords list

4. Write your ads and your away.



Why both seo and AdWords are a good idea

Seo friendly pages will bring free organic traffic to your website.

Google AdWords will bring you fast targeted traffic.

By using both seo and AdWords you get the best of both worlds.

Doesn't google AdWords cost allot of money?

AdWords has a reputation of being an expensive learning curve. But if it is done correctly the ROI can be substantial.

I wont go into the right and wrong way of using AdWords in this post, but i will say that seo and AdWords compliment each other and can actually lower the click price you pay for your ads.

If you are new to Internet marketing and are indecisive about which marketing option to take, AdWords or seo? My advice is to learn both.

In my next post, i will dedicate it to all those beginners baffled by google AdWords.

Seo and your business

search engine optimization or seo for short, is the process used to optimize your website for the search engines.

All online business will benefit from having their website search engine optimized.

You may have your own ways of getting traffic, but organic free traffic is always a bonus.

Having your site rank high for certain keywords will bring you FREE quality traffic.

How do i make my website seo friendly?

1. Keyword research

Decide which keywords you want your site to rank high with. They must be associated with your content. Keywords are not restrained to one word. Long tail keywords are more attainable.

2. website url

This one is optional but i would try and include keywords in your url if you are not going for the branding approach

3. Content

Some say content is king. But with seo too many aspects are taken into consideration for it just to be about content.

Your content has to be liked by both your visitors and search engines.

Keyword density in your content needs to be below 5% ideally. Too much or too little will kill your ranking.

4. Links

Anchored keyword links are the best, and one way not back links.

If you can get an anchored one way link to your website from a high pr website, .......BRILLIANT.

I have given you the 4 basic search engine optimization tasks you need to perform on your website.

Contact me If you would like a free seo report performed on your website.

Make Money Online Opportunities

By now you will know that there are many ways you can earn money on the net.

We have banged on about the most popular money makers like:

Surveys

Blogs

Selling products

AdSense

affiliate selling

What though about money making opportunities that are not so heard of?

People are creating money makers for you to get involved with every day.

How can you tell if the one you have found will work?

Unfortunately, this is where most beginners endure a very expensive learning curve.

My advice to all beginners is to RESEARCH

Webmasters create money making opportunities to make money. Some are legitimate and some are scams.

Online reviews will exist for all money making opportunities. Use forums, and social networking sites to find people who have already tried them.

Making money online, is all about learning what works and what does not. Testing new ways of doing things that beat your competition.

Get rich quick schemes don't work, so don't be fooled. Making money takes time and patience.

This post is more about attitude really, showing you how your thinking can impact the decisions you make.

Find a reliable source that will help you learn how to make money online.

How to start an online business

There are many good reasons why you would want to start an online business and earn money online.

Not only does working on the Internet allow you to be your own boss, but you are tapping into a growing trend that is very profitable.

Throughout this blog i have spoken about many ways to make money for free.

Starting your online business

You will possibly already have your business idea

Drop shipping

Selling Affiliate products

Provide your services

sell your own products

Any of the above are viable business ideas

How to succeed online

1. Planning is crucial. You need to make sure there is a market for your products.

2. Find out who your competition is and determine how you are going to beat them.

3.Profit and loss is an essential part of planning your online business, even an ebayer can mess this one up. You may be able to sell, but can you make a profit?

Determination pays off!

A great amount of effort and determination is needed to succeed in online business.

The secret to making money online is....

To realise that no secret exists, instead it is determination and hard work that counts.

Make Money Dropshipping

Make money Drop shipping is a great way of starting up your own online business, without all the aggro.

What is Dropshipping

The best way to describe it is as a selling technique. It is run 3 ways.

1. You as a retailer sells a product

2. You give the order to your manufacturer, wholesaler or distributor.

3. The wholesaler sends the product direct to the customer

You have no hassle of dispatching products, customer complaints or any of this.

One of the main advantages of using dropshippers is no stock holding.

No product inventory

You are able to sell one product at a time, with no minimum order restrictions.

How to choose products to sell

This is where your market research will come in handy

Cd's, books and games, are highly sought after products for online shoppers

Try not to get caught up in this trend though.

There is a great deal of money to be made in niche products.

How to find a drop shipping company

You need to find a reputable company, who will not charge you a membership fee, even if you like the look of a company and they don't have a drop shipping scheme, ask them.

Drop shipping is a great way to earn money online.

How to Earn Money Writing

One of the things I often mention in my blogs and articles, is the importance of making money from something you enjoy doing.

We naturally put more effort into something we like doing. It is less of a chore.

Writing combines both hobby and occupation. Wouldn't it be great to earn money from your hobby?

Ways to Make Money Writing.

I am going to have a bit of a brainstorm with you.

Please add your comments if you know any other ways of making money writing.

Blog writing - You can get paid to blog.

Writing Greeting card verses - Most card companies will pay you for your verses.

Freelance content writer - For this you will need to be able to research and know about keyword density.

Review writer - This one can cover many fields. The basic principal is that all companies need to market research, they pay people to collect this info but they also will pay you to take the info direct to them.

Poetry - not allot of money in poetry but there are still other ways of making money. You could write a book, build a poetry community site, or even enter competitions for cash prizes.

Writing EBooks - Tap into the thirst for online knowledge. No costs for printing or publishing.

Has the list made you think about your own ideas?.

I have not mentioned publishing a book, it is the most obvious and one that will take time.

There is always a reader waiting to read what you have written.

It does not matter what your writing passion is. Poetry or fiction, non fiction or horror. You have an awaiting audience.

Ways to Make Money for Free

When you hear the words "Make Money Free", does it actually mean what it says. There must be some cost involved?

I write allot of articles on ways you make money for free, this is what I mean by it.............

There are many money making opportunities on the Internet. Some are genuine, some are scams. The majority of the money making opportunities, are set up to make the person who created them very rich by charging to join them, whereas others are free to join. The ones that are free to tap into are, the ones i talk about and refer to as ways to make money for free.

Are Opportunities that charge you to join scams?

Not at all, allot of webmasters that have created a money making opportunity and charge to join it are legitimate. They can charge a join fee because they have a massive online presence, people trust them and they might as well charge for a product or information they have created.

Why I write more about free money making opportunities?

I write more about ways to earn money for free, because the majority of my readers are beginners. All beginners will experience a very steep learning curve, I don't want you to go through an expensive learning curve too. Play with the free opportunities, then when you are more experienced, you will be able to determine for yourself, what opportunities will work and which ones will fail, without being broke.

What about small costs?

All my articles consist of ways to earn money without the risk. I will never promote a scam, and I will never promote something that will break your bank. With anything you do online, you still have to pay hosting, connection fees, this is obvious and unavoided. With money making opportunities like auctions, you will have to pay a listing fee and valuation fee. So not completely free, but they won't charge you anything to join, and what you spend, is completely in your control.

Ways or earn money for free

Filling in surveys

Blogging

Your Websites

ppc click programs

Becoming an affiliate

Outsourcing

Selling ad space

I would of missed many more ways to make money for free off the above list, but I am sure you will agree. Beginners are on a journey, and the journey is best done cheaply until more knowledge and understanding is acquired.

How to Make Money with Google Adsense

All website owners should seriously think about making money from AdSense.

What is Google AdSense?

Google makes most of its money from a program called AdWords. It allows advertisers to place an ad across their networks.

You can cash in and earn some of googles revenue by advertising these ads on your website, this is called Google AdSense.

To make this clear, AdWords is when you have your ad displayed across other sites and Google.

AdSense is when you get paid for having other people ads on your website.

How much money can you make with AdSense?

You will be paid a commission when someone clicks on one of the ads displayed on your website.

Google place ads on your site according to your websites content. The ads are content targeted.

The benefit of having targeted ads on your website will be reflected on your click through rate. For example, if you sites content was all about trains, having ads about baby clothing will mean you get less clicks and earn less money.

How make more money with AdSense

You can do many things to ensure you are getting the best from Google AdSense.

Make sure you don't click on your own ads, it is not worth the risk of suspension.

Where you place the ads on your pages matters, do some tests to see where you get the most clicks. The best place is usually above the fold.

If you are going to create a site just for Google AdSense, then it is important to make sure you know about your chosen subject, enough to write good content.

It is important that you have lost of targeted traffic to your website. I have written articles on how you can achieve this.

Making money from AdSense is a great way to earn money online. Some people use it to cover web hosting costs, but others are making a substantial income from it..

Make money outsourcing

One of the easiest ways to make money on the Internet is to make money outsourcing. Many big Internet companies outsource and you can too.

What is outsourcing?

You can outsource anything, the purpose is to speed up your production and turnaround time. Do you think companies do everything themselves? Far from it.

Types of things you would outsource

Content

Email marketing

ppc management

products

website

Advertising

The list has only just begun, but I am sure you get my point. Why would you want to do all the work yourself. You don't have to.

How to outsource

You need to be good at networking, this is essential when dealing with the people you are going to outsource from. Research is also vital in order to beat your competitors.

Marketing outsourced products is huge. It leaves you with more time to make more money and more profits.

How to Make Money Online for Beginners

If you are looking for ways to Make Money Online and you are a beginner, then all the money making opportunities available to you, might be a little bit overwhelming.

Where to begin

Firstly, think about what you enjoy doing. The thing about making money on the internet is, that more than likely you will have endless amount of people doing the same thing that you are doing. With this in mind, you have to try and be the best at it. To be good at something you have to enjoy it. So write a list of all the things you enjoy doing. This list could include things like writing, doing surveys, blogging and so on.

Turn your list into a money making plan

With your list of things you enjoy doing, you can turn it into a great money making plan. Let us call it a brainstorm. The thing about brainstorming is, that it opens your mind and help you to span an idea. Use a separate piece of paper for each activity you wrote down. On each piece of paper, fill it will all the ideas you can think of for that activity. You will be surprised at the things you come up with. Don't worry if your ideas don't seem to be ways of making money, the thing about the internet is, that you can earn money many different ways. In my previous post we looked at how you can monetize any website without selling products. The internet is not just about e commerce.

Getting started

The importance of planning is crucial. Too many people jump in with an idea without properly planning. You need to see what your potential earnings will be, goals need to be set, and research needs to be done. One of the things you will want to do now is, to press on with so much enthusiasm, Be careful though not to fail before you have begun. Don't be over keen to start all your money making ideas. Start with one, and when that one is fully set up, then think about another, not before.


How to make sure you succeed

Your biggest problem will be your competitors, but with your determination and your Pre-planning, you will be able to succeed. You need to make sure you are always one step ahead of them, and offering a different approach.

Notice in this post, I have not given you many examples of money making opportunities. That is because I want you to develop your own. If I give you examples this early on, you will adopt them and that won't help you to develop your own niche and your own unique ways. Remember the very beginning of the post, when I said that it is important to do something you enjoy? well this is the crucial secret to making money online. The rest will come.

Don't get fooled by Online Money Making Scams

You may be very wise and think you are immune to money making scams but unfortunately they exist everywhere and the scammers are getting better and better.

What is a scam?

Scams come in many forms. Their purpose is to defraud you. Whether it is to get your personal information, or to sell you something that is not as described.

Credit Card Fraud

Spoof emails claiming to be from official companies

Spoof auctions

The most one people will fall for, is get rich quick scams. These are tough ones, many cannot be classed as scams because the webmasters, are very careful how they describe the money making opportunity. The only problem with many get rich quick schemes, is that the only person getting rich quick is in fact the person who created it, the webmaster.

The only way to not get sucked into a get rich quick scam, is to apply the old saying " if something seems to good to be true, it probably is".

Not all money making opportunities are scams. Not at all, but what you do need to remember is, that making money online takes time. There is no get rich quick fix.

How do I know if a money making opportunity is legit?

Use Google and forums to check out if anyone has reviewed them.

It is only my opinion, but I believe the only way to make money, is to find a niche and make it your own. Create a way of doing something that is better than your competitor.Theres nothing wrong with getting involved with an opportunity that already exists. Use free resources sites that help you to earn money for free and give impartial advice.

Make Money Blogging

Many Monetizing opportunities exist for bloggers. Which one you choose depends on the type of blogger you are and the visitors you attract to your blog.

What is Blogging?

Blogging is like a diary. You post often about your chosen subject. Anyone can blog, we all have our own views, opinions and information that others find interesting.

Ways to Make Money from your blog

You can get paid by adding pay per click (ppc) ads on your blog. This is a great way to monetize your blog. You get paid when someone clicks on the ads. You use programs like adsense , bidvertiser and adbrite.

Use your blog to promote affiliate products. You simply join a affiliate program and promote the products using your unique code. You then get paid a commission for every sale or lead.

You can sell ad space on your blog which we discussed in the previous post. You must make sure you have plenty of traffic before anyone will consider advertising with you.

How much can you earn from your blog?

How much money you make will depend on many things. Firstly your blog has to be interesting, so make sure you write about something that interest you, or you will write a load of rubbish.

Secondly you need to make sure your traffic is targeted. It is not about quantity but rather it is about quality. If someone for example is a golfer and stumbles on your cooking blog. Will they stay and read your posts? Highly unlikely. This is where Internet Marketing comes in. Successful bloggers are also internet marketers.

I will close this subject for now and let you digest. I will write another post soon about how to market your blog, and how to make sure your posts are interesting. These are vital ways to ensure you make money from your blog.

Earn Money with your own Website

Making Money from a Website is just one of the many ways you can earn money online

Ways to Earn Money from a Website

Below are some ways in which you can monetize your site. You can use them all or just hand pick from them.

Using Affiliate Programs

Basically it means selling other companies products. You don't have the aggro of stock, delivery, customer complaints and so on.

This works by joining an affiliate program just like commission junction, or alternatively you can contact companies direct offering to affiliate for them. You then get a percentage of each sale you get for them.

Adding pay per click to your site

Pay per click is one of the most popular ways to monetize a website. You get paid for each time a visitor clicks on an ad that is on your website pages. You will find the most popular ppc programs are adbrite, bidvertiser and Google adsense.

Selling ads on your site

Advertisers will pay you in return for their banner on your site. How much you can charge for ads will depend on your visitor stats and ctr (click through rate). Contact potential advertisers direct offering them a slot on any of your pages.

Sell products that are your own

This one speaks for itself really. Maybe you have products that you make, or know someone who has their own products that you can get hold of cheaply. Internet shopping is more popular than ever, why not cash in?

Advertise your services on your website

Whether you are a plumber, accountant, electrician or joiner. One thing for certain is that you can snap up some online trade. Create an online portfolio of yourself and what you can do. You will be surprised at how much local custom you can get from the internet.

How to make sure your successful

You wont ever catch me saying that making money online is easy. In fact the only way to succeed is to make sure you get your marketing campaign right. Do plenty of research, plan and most of all stick it.

Work from Home

If you have ever dreamed of working from home then this article is what you are looking for

There are many ways you can make money from home, we are going to look at the online ways to earn money.

Make Money Doing Surveys

There are many sites that will pay you just for your opinion. These web sites are set up to collect consumer information that they pass onto companies that helps with their market research. They do pay for this because your opinion matters

There are both good and bad points when earning money from doing surveys:

You get to work from the comfort of your own home and at your own pace.

Some surveys can be very long and a bit boring.

Don't fall for joining fees, all the good survey sites are free

Earn money from your website

You can make money from your website in many ways. Here are a few monetizing tips:

Monetize your website by adding ads from programs like adsense or commission junction. You can get paid per click or per lead or sale.

You can sell products or a service from your website, if you don't have access to any of these then why not try drop shipping.

Work from home by freelancing.

Freelancing from home is becoming very popular. You will find many companies eager to take on freelancers.

What about other ways to work from home?

Opportunities to work from home are endless. Checkout my websites that offer free advice about ways to earn money online and work from home.

Make Money Doing Surveys

Companies will pay you for your opinion. They want to know what you buy what you wear even what you brush your teeth with. Survey sites offer cash for your answers.

You can make money doing surveys by simply completing online questionnaires.

I am not going to plug or promote any particular paid survey site, all i will say is that the best ones are free.

Whats is the catch?
No catch your simply helping the survey companies with market research. It is more cost effective to have you come to them than for them to pay someone to stand all day in the freezing cold, pestering a poor passer by. You are more likely to give them what they want if they offer you money.

Is there any scams?
Of course, there is a scam in every money making opportunity, you just have to use your common sense. How to avoid scams is a fantastic article that you should read.

Good points for doing surveys
You make money
Stay warm
Work from home
Earn as much as you want
No boss

Bad points doing online surveys
Long winded surveys can be boring
some have minimum payout

Tips for Making Money Doing Surveys
Only join the free survey sites, don't even pay a joining fee.
Use pre-filled software that fills in the basic details.
Stick to a few sites, this way you earn more and reach the minimum payout.
Have a routine and stick to it.

ll the very best of luck, i hope you Earn money doing surveys.

Ways to Make Money Online for Free

In such a worrying economic time you may be looking at ways to earn money online for free. When i say free i mean a way of making money that does not cost you a thing apart from your time. There are so many money making opportunities on the internet, so many in fact that we can easily get confused or worse mesmerized by a scam. So can you make money online for free?


The answer is yes, how do I know? Because i have spent time researching and I know how to spot an opportunity that will make you money and also one that will make you a loss too. Here are a few simplified paths you could follow; as you will see i do not include any affiliate links, neither do I promote a program or opportunity.

Earn Money Blogging


This is something that is becoming very popular; it can be very successful providing you get to grips with some basic dos and don'ts early on. I have gone into these in more detail at www.earnmoneyfree.co.uk a free website that offers free advice. Blogging is easy and requires absolutely no money. You can get a free blog from blogger.com. My advice would be to keep the blog basic write quality keyword enriched content that readers find interesting and easy to follow. You can monetize the blog by adding ads.

Get paid doing surveys

Companies will pay you for your opinion, I am not going to promote any particular survey site but what I will tell you is that some charge just to access surveys whereas others are completely free. Make sure you only join the free ones. In order for you to make some cash you need to have a routine, filling in surveys can be time consuming. Again you can read more about paid surveys on my website.

Auctions

Straight away i bet you thought of Ebay right? Yes Ebay is the biggest online but others are catching up and worth a shot. Ebay is not exactly free you have to pay a pretty hefty insertion fee but if you do your research and know what sells your profit will more than make up for your insertion fee.

Earn money from your own website

Now this can cover a wide scope. You can make money from your website in many ways:

Selling products
Drop shipping
Affiliate programs
Selling your services
Advertising

The entire above are free to set up, the only thing you will pay for is your domain and hosting which is a couple of pound a month.

Notice I have not included any money making or get rich quick programs in the above? That's because I don't believe in them. My personal opinion is that the only way to earn money online is to find your niche and excel at it. Whatever you decide to do you will need to work hard, don't be fooled by any get rich quick promises.
Read more about ways to Earn Money Online for Free without being scammed.