How To Make Online Money

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this site. The reason is that I’ve been busy, off making money on the internet.

There’s a well-known proverb: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” Basically what that means is to be wary of teachers or self-proclaimed ‘gurus’ that claim to know all the secrets and all the answers. ESPECIALLY when it comes to making money.

You’ll see many, many products on the internet offering ‘the secret’ to making online money. Ask yourself this question: “If this guy knows a secret to making thousands of dollars per day, why is he taking his time to teach others, instead of working his own system to make more?” Sometimes they anticipate this question and try to answer it in their sales letter. It usually is something like, “I’m so excited, I just had to tell someone!”, or “I sleep better at night knowing that I’ve helped others achieve their dreams.” Whatever.

The truth is that they know they can make lots of money by selling a product, and that many people trying to ‘get in the game’ will buy their stuff.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And not that some of their products don’t have good information. In fact, it can be a service to compile tons of information from across the entire internet and put it in one place that’s easy to understand.

Before you buy any product about how to make online money, hop over to the DigitalPoint Forums or WarriorForum and do a quick search for the product name. Find out what the folks that are in the trenches actually say about the product first. If it still sounds helpful, go for it. Most of the time you’ll find that the information already exists out there (especially on those forums), and that it’s just not worth the money.

Lastly, you’re probably thinking, “OK, mister. Then why are YOU doing a website about making online money.” Glad you asked. That means you were paying attention!

I’m doing this site for two reasons:

First, I have 4-5 different friends of mine who are so interested in what I do that they are always asking me about how to optimize a page, how to build links, how to monetize a site, etc. It got tiresome answering the same questions over and over without one place to point them to. So I created a place where I can store all my links to useful places (like the aforementioned forums), a place that describes SEO, talks about link-building, keyword research, and all the other questions they ask. That’s how this site started. A dumping ground of all the stuff in my head so that I could explain to my friends what I do for a hobby.

Second, and I mean that it is the secondary, not primary reason, it is to make money. I’m always trying new methods, or tweaking existing tactics for making online money. I’m experimenting and testing. And this site is one of those tests. I figure, since I’m putting it up for my buds, other people might find it and maybe they’ll click an ad or buy an affiliate product. Maybe after I really build an all-encompassing site I might create an info-product and become a ‘guru’.

But for now, the reason I’m not here ‘teaching’ very much is that I’m busy ‘doing’. Aside from real life, I’ve been busy experimenting with some new Adwords tactics to drive affiliate sales, as well as testing out a new product that puts eBay links into a WordPress blog with ease. (It’s called phpBayPro, and my new test site is For-Sale-On-Sale.com.)

I’ll probably write again soon when I get some more definitive results from those two campaigns, though things are looking good for now.