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Do you remember when you were
a kid and you have that little piggy bank. Every now and
then, your mom or dad, or your uncles and aunties come by
and drop in a few coins for you.
What if I can show how to
have that again - even if you are 70? That would be great
right? No saving effort, yet you have a small little
saving that you put a way every now and then.
Infact, later I will even
show you how to turn this piggy bank into a line of
vending machines, scattered all over the internet. You
will have money thrown at your everyday, around the clock.
So here's your weekend
internet money project, generating that little change for
the rainy days.
I have been on the internet
since 1997 and I think that now is the easiest time for
you to make money from the internet.
Of course there are many
ways for you to make money on the internet. But the
easiest would in a way which you don't have to do a lot of
things - no money handling, processing orders, no shipping
or any of those things.
And even in times when you
have to work, why not be it something that you like doing.
Consider this famous quote
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"Choose a job you
love, and you will never have to work a day in your
life." - Confucius
And I think it is true.
Doing something that you love is never a work. It is never
a job - it's passion.
Now back to the weekend
internet money project.
Why don't you start
considering what is it that you love and passionate about.
What you should do is share with the world about it. How?
- Build a website.
Today, building a website
is child's play. A seven-year old can show you how to
build a website. And even if you are totally blur about
the internet and computers, there are many tools and
software that can help you with this.
Let's not go into detail on
this. Let's talk about how to make money.
The big question is - How
to generate money from your website. Now this is no
secret. There are only two ways to make money from you
website - the easy way.
- Google Adsense (http://www.google.com/adsense)
- Affiliate Programs
Let's talk about Google
Adsense. When you have build your website, register for
Google Adsense program and start earning money for every
clicks that you refer to advertisers. Just sign-up, get
the advertising code and put it in your website. And
that's it.
Google Adsense has a
technology that will show relevant ads on your website. If
your website talks about babies, Google Adsense will
display ads on baby products. This will indeed increase
clicks on the ads and increase you earning from Google
Adsense.
Before you know it, this
little website IS your little piggy bank. But instead of
having you mom or dad fill it in, you have somebody that
you don't even know, willingly giving you their spare
change.
I can't say how much you
can really earn. Some clicks give you $1.23 and some just
gives you $0.06. That all depends on the industry and how
competitive that industry is advertising. But whenever
anyone gives me a spare change, I take it.
Now, let's talk about
affiliate programs. How does this work? This is again
about advertising, but instead of earning by every click,
you earn bigger money, but for every sales that occur.
The miracle of the internet
has been able to track visitors from your website and
being able to tell whether or not they purchased anything
at the advertisers' website.
Unlike earning by clicks, a
sales doesn't occur as often. But with affiliate programs,
you earn more. You may be earning $0.23 for a click but
you can earn $50 for a sale.
There are numerous affiliat
programs on the internet. Some of the famous on would be
like the one I list below
- Commission Junction - http://www.cj.com
- Linkshare - http://www.linkshare.com
- ShareASale - http://www.shareasale.com
- Dark Blue - http://www.darkblue.com
- ClickBank - http://www.clickbank.com
... and there are more ...
What you should do with
affiliate programs is choose the most relevant affiliate
programs to your website, and then start promoting them in
your website. If you have a website about babies, find an
affiliate programs on baby products. That is the way to do
it.
Some affiliate programs
indeed offer the $80 commission per sale but if that
product is not related to your website, I doubt that any
sale is to occur.
Now, we've talked about the
opportunity of the internet and building your small piggy
bank ... now let's talk about the action plan.
1 - Build Your Website
This is easy. Here are some
tools that you can use that will help you make building
and maintaining your website almost effortless.
Hosted Solution
Free WYSIWYG Web Page
Editors
2 - Always Update Your
Website With Fresh Content
In your free time, always
write more about the thing that you are passionate about.
Just let the ideas pour in and write whatever it is that
you are thinking about.
Some Other Tips I Can Share
Now, is there more things
that I share? Well, yes! Just consider the following.
Tip #1 - Is There a Market
for Your Topic?
Try considering how many
other people have the same interest as you. If there are
many people that have the same interest as you, they are
your possible visitors. What you can do the check this out
is to check how many people are searching for the related
field.
Try out Overture Search
Term Suggestion Tool where you can check out how many
times a keyword was searched for the previous month. If
there aren't many, you may have a website with no
visitors.
Run through all the
keywords relating to your passion in the tool and see. You
might even find a topic that you can really focus on
rather than a very broad topic. If you like cats, try cat
food, cat care, cat clothing ...
If there are about 5,000
searches minimum for that keyword, you can go with that.
http://inventory.overture.com
Tip #2 - Learn a Little Bit
of Search Engine Optimization
This is the skill in which
you try to get good listing in search engines.
Now, don't get too hooked
up on this. Just do the basics. Learn a thing or two and
start implementing it in your website. You can about this
at the following website.
Tip #3 - Get People To Link
To You
Now, on top of writing
fresh new content for your website, why not every now and
then, find another website and ask that website to link to
you. You can even ask them to link to a specific article
that you have.
You benefit in two ways
from this. One, the visitors on the other website can know
about your website and come over. Two, search engines like
websites with many incoming links. So having many incoming
links can boost your listing in the search engines.
Tip #4 - Turn Piggy Bank
Into Vending Machines
Now, here's a big tip.
Because when everything is up and running, you don't
really have to do much - you can build more website. Each
of this websites is like another piggy bank. But because
you have so many of them, in every corner of the internet
- it's like having vending machines in every corner of the
town.
Now - how great is that?
In fact this is better than
having vending machines. You don't have to refill them,
you don't have to get out of your house - it's great.
Infact I myself is in the
process of building my own small vending machines all over
the net. I have a site on paintball, I have a site on
airsoft, I have a site on computer cases, and a few more.
And I want to add more.
When ever you feel like
it's time for a new website, just think about what else
you are interested in and start the work all over again.
So I guess that is all. To
sum it all up, here is a short summary action plan for
you.
- Find a field that you
are interested in
- Qualify with Overture
Search Term Tool
- Build your website
- Build links
- Build more content
So ... I wish you well.
Start building your piggy bank ... err ... I mean your
vending machines.
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About
The Author
Iszuddin
Ismail a.k.a. Kidino, the Web Marketing
Techie is the editor of MoneyClicking
Newsletter where he helps netpreneurs with
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