ways to make money online

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2009-12-10T04:25:00.000-08:00

1. Social networking

It might seem like nothing more than a pipe dream but making money as you trawl through profiles of friends, prospective and ex boyfriends and girlfriends is actually a reality. Yuwie, an upstart social networking enterprise, offers to pay its users as they increase the page impressions of their public profiles, upload photos to share and refer others to join in the fun. All of this is achieved by a proportionate payment structure that sees around half of the website’s advertising revenue – its chief source of income - distributed directly to its user base.

Admittedly it’s still early days but with around half a million registrations to date and no shortage of testimonials, Yuwie looks like the real deal.

2. Blogging

There are two ways to make cash through blogging: either by earning commission from advertising banners placed alongside a blog of your own or by engaging in the (slightly dubious) practice of “sponsored” blogging. An array of third party tools is available in the case of the former option; Google’s AdSense remains one of the more popular solutions. Just establish yourself a decent blog, configure the ads and see what happens. Sponsored blogging on the other hand is an altogether more calculated affair, with specialists such as Blogitive and PayPerPost providing a platform through which companies essentially contract bloggers to post favourable content about their products in exchange for cash. Unethical, granted, though nonetheless undoubtedly fruitful for those subtle enough to get away with it.

3. Message boards

Every message board - both small-time niche operation and gargantuan general interest community alike - relies on posts from its members in order to sustain user interest. Newly-created forums are particularly dependent on regular contributions in order to encourage conversations and attract the registration of new members. This, of course, is where you come in. In exchange for a nominal fee of anywhere between £0.01 and £0.10 per post, message board administrators frequently advertise externally for “ringers” to sign up to their endeavours and get the ball rolling. Popular recruiting grounds include webmaster-talk and Digital Point.

4. Stock photography

If you’ve a keen eye for an impressive frame, or even just some half-decent camera kit at your disposal, selling pictures to any one of the plethora of stock photography agencies scattered across the web represents a sure-fire method of generating an income online. The likes of iStockPhoto and Fotolia offer budding photographers the incentive of earning potentially significant sums for their snaps on a per-download basis in exchange for their other royalty payment rights. Predictably, the most sought-after depictions are of a fairly mundane nature – think three-quarter view angles of pretty women dressed in suits – though equally inevitable is the high demand in some quarters for photographs of an altogether more risqué nature…

5. Surveys

As inglorious a means of making money online as you’re ever likely to find, completing market research surveys for cash is time-consuming, invasive and very, very dull. It also happens to be very effective. Opportunities in this field are virtually endless too, with literally thousands of research groups vying for your time and attention. Perhaps the most well known of these is YouGov, whose methodology involves obtaining responses from an invited group of internet users at prices ranging from £0.50 to £2.00 per survey completed. Registration is free and relatively painless, though if you are planning on going down this route, you would do well to create another email account solely for the purpose of survey completion – your personal details are going to be getting bandied around an awful lot.

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2009-09-14T09:03:00.004-07:00

Google Sandbox - Real or Imagined?

Seems like anytime the subjects of SEO, Google and Affiliate Marketing come up, the first thing people mention is the Google Sandbox for new.

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2009-09-14T09:03:00.003-07:00

Are Do-Follow Bloggers Dishonest?

Do-Follow List This post has been a long time in coming. I guess you could say that I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it no more. I spent about an.

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2009-09-14T09:03:00.002-07:00

Build A Niche Store - Update

Build A Niche Store - Update Since I wrote the Build A Niche Store Review, I've had quite a few emails asking me to give everyone an update on how my Build ...

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2009-09-14T09:03:00.001-07:00

Goldencan - Affiliate Marketing Program Review

Goldencan Affiliate Marketing Program Review For those affiliate markerters such as myself who are code and database challenged, Goldencan offers us the.

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2009-09-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

Google

If you've been watching your Google rankings any at all lately, you may have noticed your website going up and down in the SERPS like a Yo-Yo. ...

Affiliate Marketing Magic - PopShops.Com

2009-09-10T04:13:00.003-07:00

Affiliate Marketing Magic - PopShops.Com

For some of us code challenged affiliate marketers, we feel disadvantaged when compared to those who can write code as easily as they can type a sentence.

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

2009-09-10T04:13:00.002-07:00

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners - Where should beginners start with affiliate marketing? Which programs are the easiest?

Affiliate Marketing May Not Be For You

Let’s face it, affiliate marketing may not be the right way for beginners to make money online. Some do not have the knowledge or the ‘want to’ to spend large amounts of time building websites and blogs, doing keyword research, learning SEO in order to get their websites and blogs ranked high and researching the best affiliate marketing program for their needs.

Some people just want to jump in and start making money online. That’s alright too. There are programs for beginners and those who just want to make some quick money without going to the hassle of building websites.

Project Payday is an unique program that allows anyone to get started making money quickly without special skills or knowledge and without a website. If you can surf the Internet, you’ll probably be able to make money with Project Payday. I think it’s one of the best ways for beginners to get their feet wet making money online. In fact, it’s so easy that they guarantee that if you’ll follow the 4 easy steps outlined and do not make money in 24 hours, they’ll give you $100. It doesn’t get much easier than this!

Google | Affiliate Programs

2009-09-10T04:13:00.001-07:00

Google | Affiliate Programs

If you’ve been watching your Google rankings any at all lately, you may have noticed your website going up and down in the SERPS like a Yo-Yo. Don’t be alarmed. Most everyone’s sites were affected by the latest SERPS earthqake.

No one is real sure what the deal was/is with Google. Some speculation was that it was a PR update, some said that Google is changing its algorythm while some others said they were changing their inbound link filters as it apply’s to your inbound links.

I have no idea what caused it. I had many sites bouncing around a few days. The good news is that most of them have their rankings back where they were before this whole shake up started. This isn’t the first time that a big movement in the Google SERPS has happened and it likely won’t be the last.

I had a few keywords ranking on other sites that lost their rankings altogether. These weren’t major keywords that the sites were ranking for, but they did bring in a little traffic. I’m not sure why these keywords lost their rankings, so the theory about changing filters may have some legs.

Whatever the cause, don’t panic when this happens. Most of you who’ve been around a while have learned to live with it. Judging by my email, some of you new people have been freaking out about it. Just relax and the let the little ball on the Roulette Wheel come to a stop…errr…I mean…just relax and let your sites settle down in the SERPS before you go bonkers.

Either way, whether your rankings returned or if you discovered you previously high ranking keyword is not on Page 6 of Google’s SERPS, it brings me to a very important tip for all affiliate marketers. If you haven’t diversified, do it now. I know how tempting it is to keep working on a site that is making you money. But if that site is your sole source of income, you could be living on shaky ground.

Work on getting your low paying sites up to being profitable. If you only have one or two sites, get more. Make sure you have sites in different niches. Ideally, you want your income spread over several sites in case one loses its rankings.

In fact, I’d say increasing the number of sites you have or making the ones you already have more profitable, is a great project to work on if your site has nose dived in the rankings!

Ezinearticles

2009-09-10T04:13:00.000-07:00

Ezinearticles

Ezinearticles is a great site for submitting your articles. But lately, the editors at ezinearticles have left a lot to be desired.

Affiliate Marketing Tools

2009-09-10T04:11:00.004-07:00

Affiliate Marketing Tools

I'll guess that most of you know what a smackdown is. Well, I've decided to put some popular article submission sites in head to head review. ...

Make Money Online Quick

2009-09-10T04:11:00.003-07:00

Make Money Online Quick

For whatever reason, from time to time people need to make money online quick. Maybe you have Johnny Knee Breaker banging on your door wanting that $100 he.

Keyword Suggestion Tool

2009-09-10T04:11:00.002-07:00

Keyword Suggestion Tool

Keyword Suggestion Tool Digital Point has provided those of us who are lazy, cheap, short of funds or all 3 a nifty keyword suggestion tool. It uses both.

Top Affiliate Programs

2009-09-10T04:11:00.001-07:00

Top Affiliate Programs

A look at top affiliate programs and how you can make money from them. These are the top affiliate programs that beginners and advanced affiliate marketers ...

Affiliate Programs - Learn how to make money on the Internet with ...

2009-09-10T04:11:00.000-07:00

Affiliate Programs - Learn how to make money on the Internet with ...

Tips for beginners on making money online with affiliate programs and affiliate marketing. Learn what it takes to get cash and earn money as an affiliate ...