How To Make Online Money

I found this list on the DigitalPoint forums.  It’s so useful, that I wanted to capture it on my own site.

All of the resources are free.  There is a link to the resource, as well as a link to the forum thread that uncovered the resource.
Backlink Checker
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1141323
direct link: http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker/
Check all backlinks to your site including PR, link count, follow/nofollow, anchor
For me this is better than backlinkwatch.
Poster: gerdywerdy

Back Link Manager
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1155805
direct link: http://www.ribix.ca
If you buy link from another sites and want to track them all, this is a right tool to track all your backlinks. This will go through all your backlinks and determine which sites have dropped your domain.
Poster: bigdaddysheikh

Website Analysis
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1034055
direct link: http://www.diagnosticoweb.com/webcheck/
This is a complete website analysis just in one click for someone who want to check PR, validation, Ranks, SERP, Reverse IP, Whois, Value and other important website properties we must know and care.
Not just single website, you can check for bulk domain and all internal pages as well.
Poster: chmdznr

SERP checker (Google top 1000)
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=594884
direct link: http://www.seoserp.com/web_tools/goo…ps_checker.asp
check up to 1000 each time for each click search. Search Engine Results Page is a very important issue for being SEO if you are not listed in top 1000 ranking results for those important keywords searching then you are out of business. Means your site has no weight at all if not in top #1000. Another way to say: your site will gain very little traffic because you are out of 1000.
Poster: Link.ezer.com

Free Ping Tool
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=991460
direct link: http://pingler.com/
It allows you to ping over 90 sites with a single submission. You can even add more ping services to the list if you know of more that you would like to use, but currently we have 92 available.
Poster: scriptillusion

Free Submission tool
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1151097
direct link: http://www.serocket.com/
Very useful and free online tool to submit semi-automatically your site to 500 directories, 100 article directories, 100 social networkings
Poster: hdwills

Article Spinner
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1073313
direct link: http://freearticlespinner.centerofspotlight.com/
Spinning the article, basically replaces words with their synonyms.
Poster: jye999

Sitemap Generator
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1115859
direct link: http://www.flame-ware.com/products/flame-spider/
easy to use and powerful SEO (Search Engine Optimization) web-crawling sitemap generator.
Poster: Simonsbs

Logo Maker
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1117467
direct link: http://logomaker.com/
Design your own logo in minutes with this easy-to-use online logo maker. Get a FREE web-ready logo for your website.
Poster: leadhelper

Web based FTP client
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1052984
direct link: http://www.bossftp.com/
If sometime you wanna FTP, and don’t want to download-install-run a FTP client, you can try a web based FTP client, and one of them is BossFTP.
Poster: thuankkk

URL Shortener
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1147067
direct link: http://www.url2click.com/
URL shortener service like Tinyurl, but this one is much more easy, simple and you can put your targetted keywords.
Poster: elektro

Free Favicon Generator Tool
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1152209
It generates Favicon not just static icon but with animation also
Poster: MactonxD

Online poll generator, outputs html/bbcode
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=932221
direct link: http://sigpoll.com/
create dynamic image & text based polls to place in your myspace profile, forum signatures, forum posts, websites, blogs and many more places – basically anywhere that will accept html or bbcode.
Poster: shacow

Free online MP3 Converter & Downloader
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1157509
direct link: http://www.convertmp3online.com/
Here is a free online tool you can use in downloading and converting MP3′s. You can download Youtube files and convert them into various file formats online. You can also upload video and audio files from your harddrive and convert them into MP3′s online.
Poster: Rian

Web Conference
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1130835
direct link: http://www.livemeetups.com/livemeetups/
free web conferencing tool with Skype conference call and chat integration.
The online presentation solution is easy to use for both parties, presenter and attendees. The presenter logs in and gets channel name and password. Then he provides the attendees with the data and presentation is ready to started.
Poster: Tamara_123

Free SMS Websites
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1138197
direct link: http://www.oosms.com/
sending FREE sms on the Net
Poster: mogeilen

Banner Maker
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23486
direct link: http://www.bannerbreak.com/
You can create customized banners in minutes! And when you’re done creating your banner the site supplies you with the HTML needed to add the banners to your pages.
Poster: BannerBreak

Tdnam Firesale Scanner
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=407435
direct link: http://www.freshdrop.net/
Searches TDNam’s database for several hot domain’s. Useful for domain collector to looking for closeout, drop domain, etc.
Some of the quick searches are: CVCV, VCVC, CVVC, VCCV, NNNN, NNNNN domains. The scans are updated every hour for now so it’s pretty much almost real time, cause it scans TDNam’s entire database… saving everyone the hassle of doing it.
Poster: gorilla_bob

13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=429002
direct link: http://www.cssjuice.com/13-online-ge…web-20-design/
the list of online generator particularly for web 2.0 design.
Poster: longhornfreak

Browser Compatibility Check
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1075892
direct link: http://browsershots.org/
to check your website in multiple browsers (ie 4-7, firefox, netscape, safari, etc..). Some sites look different in others browsers, so its a great way to make sure your site is consistent and user friendly to everyone.
Poster: msjudged_1

Track your site in various search engines
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1082015
direct link: http://www.exactfactor.com/
This useful tool enables you to track your keywords in various search engines and get email alerts when your site position is changed. Get alerts to any email when: Your position is up/down, competitor has passed you, you reached the first page in Google.
Poster: Idan – SEO Master

Bandwidth speed test
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1027111
direct link: http://www.webdomainsbroker.com/speedtest/
testing your bandwidth speed.
Poster: Joseph S

Some folks who are trying to make online money with Adsense are smart enough to know that certain keywords pay more per click than others.  Obviously, if you can write your content to be about topics where advertisers are willing to pay more, the clicks you receive can generate you a higher income.

In the past, people have sold lists of high-paying Adsense keywords, or built tools to figure out the best ones.

Now, Google itself has created the tool.

Google’s Search-based Keyword Tool provides all the information you need.

Go to that site, and ignore the idea of putting in a website URL to check.  Just click the link at the bottom that says ‘see top keywords across all categories’.

Then browse the categories on the left side to your niche and the results are displayed to the right.  You will see the phrase, expected number of searches per month, and suggested bid value.  Keep in mind that the bid value is for Google’s Search Results Adwords, which cost more than Content-Network bids (which is what you’d get paid with Adsense on your site).

But still…even though you might not make that dollar value per click, you can get an idea of what the high-paying phrases are.

You can even export the results into Excel (well…a .csv file which can be opened by Excel).  In Excel, you can use the AutoFilter option to eliminate phrases with low searches, and sort so you can see the highest-paying phrases at the top.

I know I plan on using this new Google tool.  I’m sure once you start to use it, you’ll find other uses, too.  (HINT:  spy on authority sites in your niche to find relevant keyword phrases)

I’ve been very busy lately, both with improving my own ‘bread and butter’ site (a niche site where I make money from affiliate sales), and with helping some of my friends get going on their new profit-making websites.

One of the things that I seem to be doing A LOT lately is niche research.  Trying to show my buddies the significance of finding a good keyword phrase that has many searches and few competition is important.  It teaches them how to think about wording article titles or blog posts.  And, the really cool thing is that I can show them immediate results…when they do what I tell them with a good phrase, they can see their page on the top of Google right away.

There are several good ways to do keyword research.  I have several tools available that I show the gang, but the one that I personally use the most, and the one I show them the most is in the video that follows:

Video – Niche Research Tool and Article Marketing

I use this tool almost every day.  Even when I’m writing a quick blog post on a topic about which I’m an expert, I still use this tool to help me figure out the title that is going to get me the most searches, and has the fewest competition.

For example, if I have a blog about Home Improvement, or Tools, let’s assume that I have an affiliate relationship with a hardware store (like Ace Hardware, through Commission Junction).  I can write a great article about cordless screwdrivers, and put links to those screwdrivers on my blog post.  Let’s assume I was going to title it something like “Best Cordless Screwdrivers”.  A quick check of the tool shows that people only search that exact phrase 40 times per month.  And even though an exact match of that phrase in Google shows only 6 results, I won’t have enough searches to be worth it.  (Both of that data is available super-quick in the tool…as is the same data for alternate suggestions.)  But, if I specifically mention “Black and Decker Cordless Screwdriver” in the title, there are hundreds of searches per month, and still very little competition.  (The tool even checks to see how well-optimized the competition is to see how hard it would be to beat them.)

The Video shows exactly how to find good keywords and walks through a strategy for making money from the niches you find.

Video – Niche Research Tool and Article Marketing