The Top 10 Ways To Make Money Online

#1 Selling Ebay Items
This sounds like a very very mediocre online income but it is what eventually got me started into the full fledge business which i run today. Start selling something you like/learn to like something vs. selling something completely boring. If you are extremely knowledgeable about movies and dvd’s maybe goto your local thrift shop and buy 10-15 used dvd’s (spend like 20.00 max) and put them up on ebay at .99 start bid with 5.00 shipping. Since I’ve pretty much sold everything on Ebay I can tell you that nearly everything will sell on Ebay. Some of the first auctions I ever listed were old books which were just rotting on my bookshelf. Even some extremely boring books went for 6-10.00+shipping. The biggest e-bay seller tip I can give you is to sign up for an online shipping service such as www.endicia.com or the lady’s at the post office will learn to hate you.

#2 Turnkey Sites/Basic Promotion
When just jumping into the internet business (Not including doing Ebay) simple turnkey websites (sometimes known as Adsense websites will do pretty well). The first website I ever made was a turnkey website (a myspace help site turnkey) and it made me $800.00 in 2 weeks. That being the first check I received from my internet business I was pretty happy. Starting a simple website like that will really teach you a lot about how actual original content will really make you significantly more money. You will also see that if promoted properly these sites can actually make good money.

#3 Tweaking tip #2 to make even more money
If you understand the web already you can do what I wrote for tip #2 about creating a turnkey website and spice it up to earn significantly more than standard unmodified turnkey website. When i say “Tweaking” i mean maybe change the look of these mirror sites and actually add some content of your own. Than go and buy aaron wall’s seo book and actually listen to his golden tips. If you really watch your traffic logs you will see a lot more money from these websites not only from people clicking your ads but actually having return visitors vs. people who goto your website, click on an advertisment and will never come back.

#4 Write a blog
I actually don’t really make much money with this blog but some people make major money with 1-5 blogs. If you can write very nicely and talk about various niche’s you can probably generate a very loyal base of users who will read your blog on a day2day basis and earn you some very very clean good money over time. Don’t try and blog about some high paying keyword which you know nothing about. I have seen people try and make a quick buck by blogging about Mortgages and Student loans just to get those high paying clicks. If you read their posts you see how little they know about the niche they are writing about which will generally make a user just leave the blog.

#5 Pay Developers to code you a 100% original website
If you have tried some of the tips above of this one you are probably skilled enough to pursue something more wide scale (such as having your own custom website developed). One way to keep expenses down is to actually design/code the website yourself but if you don’t feel comfortable doing that it’s fine. Shoot me an E-mail and i can refer you to a few great development companies. Since this is how I make a lot of my money I cannot give out all of my golden secrets but one important suggestion I can give you is to not make a website based on another website. I have totally done this before and made money but telling a designer and a coder I want my own google or my own myspace is simply stupid. Sites like google and myspace always dominate the world and your going to have to face it that you Cannot and Will not compete with huge huge sites unless your a fucking genius.

#6 Learn SEO
If you don’t goto school 5 days per week like me and you have plenty of time to just sit down and learn I believe this is probably the best tip for you. Search engine optimization is a golden skill which you will make money off of no matter what. Regardless of what you do with your skill; SEO’ing your own websites, consulting, etc. etc.. you will make a great deal of money. Sure seo takes time and is not an easy thing to learn but you will make some very very good money doing SEO type business.

#7 Creating a directory
This is something I do not know much about because it is something that I have never done myself. But I have heard that people can make a lot of money creating quality rich directories. Since i focus on a lot of little websites the only tip I believe would be worth your while from me is to not make a turnkey directory not focusing on 1 specific niche. Make your “Cook Book Directory” or “LCD Computer Screen Directory” I am probably wrong when I say that but I am giving you tips from stuff I have done; not other peoples tips.

#8 Start a paid service website
I am in the process of developing my first paid service website. I am extremely excited to see how it does but when i think about how much money some websites make from small $5-$10 monthly subscriptions I feel that there is a lot of money to be made in monthly subscription websites. If you are great with idea’s think of something unbelievable, code it/pay to have it developed, advertise it using: SEO, PPC, and Link exchanges. Than become the next Steve Jobs!

#9 Create a content rich newsletter
I have done this on a smaller scale and made some money. If you are a good writer but don’t like blogging this is another option you should explore. Make a simple website advertising your weekly newsletter on a specific niche. With almost 7 billion people in this world your guaranteed to find a few people who will read your newsletter religiously. After a few newsletters have been sent out and your user base grows you should maybe add a few little links to earn some money!

#10 Do PPC to CPA
This is something a SEO’er should also explore. PPC-CPA is anything but easy but will make you great money if done correctly. Due to the harsh competition out there with this type of promotion I do not want to reveal the few secrets I have learned but all i can say is Only sell something you would buy yourself. Thats my only word of wisdom for you ;).

Market Your Internet Home Business With Pay Per Click Ads

Starting an internet home business can be very easy. Once the decision is made and you found your favorite home business opportunity, your home business is set up and you are ready to go and make money from home. The challenge start now and the question of how do you make this money is rising.

Advertising is the answer for this question. Internet Home Business can be advertised in many different ways. Some methods are free, such as article marketing, blogging, and building backlinks. The other methods can cost you a lot of money, and before you know it, you will have wasted your entire budget on advertising without seeing any results.

This is where pay per click advertising can help you. Pay per click, or as you probably know it, PPC, is the best way to advertise your new internet business using the search engines.

It does not matter if you are new to internet marketing and your internet home business is new, or if you already have a running business and want more traffic; the pay per click method will help you drive targeted traffic to your website and earn money working online from home.

The idea behind the pay per click advertising system is that you, the internet marketer, will pay only for ads that the surfers click on. If they do not click on your ad, it will continue to show and will cost you nothing, and each time someone clicks on it, the money you had previously bid will be deducted from your account. When the money in your account is spent, you will either be billed for more money or your ads will stop showing on that specific search engine.

The best ways to achieve success with pay per click advertising is reading the search engine guide and following some rules.

The first rule is to do a complete keywords research. Each search engine has its own keyword tool to help you choose the correct keywords for your advertising campaign. You should aim for highly targeted keywords, but also less competitive ones.

After choosing your keywords, you should use them in your ad title and in your ad’s body. Try to write a few ads with your different keywords and test which one of the ads gives you the best results.

The second rule you must follow is to write appealing ads. An eye-catching ad will generate more clicks and more traffic to your website.

This is where the two rules combine. Targeted keywords will make sure that the people who click on your search engine ad are looking for the products or service you have to offer, and that these are not just clicks that will cost you money in the end. If you have the right combination, you will get the targeted traffic with the lowest cost you can afford to pay for advertising.

After doing this, it is time to test your ads. Write more than one ad, rotate the ads, and track the results. Check which ad generates the most impressions and which ad generates the most clicks, and as a result, more traffic and more sales.

Getting Started with Google Adsense - Step by Step

The first thing you need to do is to register in Google AdSense program. The registration procedure starts here http://www.google.com/adsense

After you have registered, from the same page please login to your Google AdSense account and agree to the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions to proceed.

Then you get to a report page with detailed status on how your AdSense ads are converting and how much they are bringing you.

On the top of the page you will find the setup section. This is the place where you generate special code of the ad that later on is posted on your web site and turns into typical Google ad.

Google AdSense program offers you the options of AdSense for text (textual ads, plus you can choose it to be text and graphics), ad which is a search box and ad that refers people to Google AdSense program.

“My Account” tab allows you to set up details about your account, payment and tax information.

To add a text ad on your site: enable the cookies in your browser, go to “AdSense Setup” tab and click the “AdSense for content” link. This will give you a choice between ad units and link units. Ad units contain text and or images concerning a certain site for each unit with some description. Link units have links to certain types.

Then you need to choose your add format and colors. The freedom of doing that is in your hands, but basically you can end up with ads that ‘mold’ with your site design and ads that go in the contrast. What is better? Life will show it, and you will always be able to choose the looks of your ads and choose the one that gives the best conversions.

After customization of ads is finished - click “Continue” and then copy the JavaScript of the ad. You can paste it into your pages directly.

AdSense is published. Track them and choose the ones that are the most successful.

Google Adsense & Publishers Earnings

There’s been a lot of talk about Google Adsense recently. Tech Crunch posted a story that details how Google has been pulling out all of the stops in adding increased coin to their balance sheet. They’re going off into areas where we wouldn’t expect them to go. For instance publishing ads that essentially go to a “parked page” that only serves up more Adsense ads.

Google is notorious for basically giving no PR to a parked page. It’s nearly impossible for a parked domain to gain any significant page rank value. In fact in many cases some very high profile “category killer” domains are left to play in the sand box. A classic example is Candy.com, it’s hopelessly lost.

One great way for Google to squeeze out some more from the Adsense revenue would be to adjust the revenue share that they split with publishers/aggregators. Unless you have a huge amount of traffic coming to your site (domains) you won’t be signing a deal with Google directly and therefore you’ll never know what you’re rev share split is. The very nature of how the system works (with publishers, aggregators and Google) guarantees zero transparency. Additionally the PPC bidding system assures daily fluctuations. So if on Tuesday a publisher was earning $.30 per click and on Friday $0.25 per click there’s no way for anyone but Google to know why.

This would be a great oppourtunity for Yahoo to open things up and allow for guaranteed revenue share rates. If Yahoo were to guarantee say 80% rev share across the board there would be a mass exodus by every major publisher. The amount of ad inventory would skyrocket. They might be giving up less than 80% currently but in what they loose on rev share they would no doubt make up for in volume. The fact that these are ads and not natural search result listings should negate the arguement that Google provides better natural search results.

Yahoo publisher network hasn’t ever really taken off, this might be a great way to accelerate growth.

The Easiest Way To Have A Google Adsense Account Fast

Google Adsense is one of the easiest way to allow webmasters to make money from content websites. You just need to add some simple javascript codes on the web pages, and then when visitors click the ads, you make money. No need to sell and think yourself, Google does all thinking for you. Very easy, right?

Google Adsense is really a gold mine. People are creating niche websites just to display the ads and make easy money everyday - automatically. There are so many success stories about people earning thousands of dollars a month from Adsense!

If you don’t have an Adsense account yet, you should get one and start profiting from it!

However, not all who applied for an Adsense account gets approved. You need to show your content websites to Google first to get approved.

Then how if you don’t have a content website? No need to worry, here is a secret method to get approved - fast and easily - just read on…

Google has its own blogging service - Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com/). You can start a blog on Blogger.com with any topics you like - and it is completely free. Once your blog is created, post two or more related articles on it. Wait for a day and then you can apply your blog for an adsense account using this link:
http://www.marktse.com/recommend/google-adsense/

Wow, your Adsense account will get approved in several days. Happy profiting from Adsense!

Using AdSense Link Units in the footer & navigation

AdSense Optimization Boot Camp Tip #7

AdSense Link Units can perform very well for AdSense publishers who get the placement nailed down. On regular content sites (ie. not blogs or forums), adding Link Units to both the footer and the side navigation are two of the best placements.

If you haven’t used link units before, essentially what they are is a list of four or five keywords or keyword phrases related to the content of the page. When someone clicks on one of the keyword links, they are taken to a page that only includes ads for the keyword selected. So any link a visitor clicks on that second page will make you money.

One placement that works well is in the footer, either above or below traditional footer links such as your privacy policy (which is now mandatory for AdSense publishers), about us page and copyright information. People often look at footers for information such as copyright date (to see how stale the information is) or to look for contact information, so it can be a good placement that gets noticed, without worrying about potential banner blindness that could happen with having an AdSense ad block in the footer.

For link units in the footer, use the 728×15 size. Then choose either the version that displays 4 links or 5 links based upon the text size in your footer - you want to match the on-page text size as closely as possible, the the link unit that displays 4 keyword(s) has much larger text than the one that has five.

A second great placement is having it positioned within your left side navigation. You can have it above, below or even within the AdSense navigation. There are four widths to chose from (120, 160, 180 and 200 pixels) so you can select the one that fits best within your navigation. And again, select either 4 or 5 links based upon your navigation text size, so that it closely matches it for the best blending.

It is important to make sure you select 4 links versus 5 based upon your on-page text size. Many publishers mistakenly believe that having one more keyword phrase as an option means more revenue, but my tests have shown that using the one that blends and matches best with the text currently on the page has the higher CTR rate. So only use the ones with 5 links if it actually is the one that matches the text best.

You can view the various Link Units here. Let me know if you have a great example of Link Units in footer or in the navigation and I will add some screenshots to illustrate this better.

Not sure if Link Units work for you? Pop a channel on it and track their effectiveness on each site. You might find the footer Ad Links rock while no one bothers with the one in the navigation, or vice versa.