How To Make Online Money

This page is developed to give you step-by-step instructions on how to successfully create a profitable on-line web presence.

This guide is designed to require NO FINANCIAL INVESTMENT! You don’t need your own website, domain name, hosting, etc. There are more profitable ways to make money then the steps in this guide, but they require some investment. But once you learn how to do it for free, you then will have some money to invest in getting your own domain, and building from there. Then you can use everything from the Free Course to help you grow even more.

If you are interested in a fuller understanding of WHY each of these steps are important, be sure to follow the links embedded here, or walk through the Free Course. Essentially, this page is simply a set of instructions that I would give to a friend and tell him or her what to do to start making online money.

Let’s begin:

Creating Your Site

1. Determine your Niche by asking yourself “what do I know that someone might take me out to lunch to learn about?” “What questions would someone ask me that I could help them solve?” (For example, “how to care for a horse”)

2. Find a Keyword Phrase within that niche that will likely gain traffic. (horse care, own a horse, horse stable)

3. Create a Google Account. Register a Gmail Address.

4. Go to Blogger.com and use your Gmail login to create a Blogger account.

5. Create a Blog. Use your Keyword or Keyword Phrase with hyphens (horse-care)

6. Write a Blog Post, making sure to maintain all of the On-Page SEO requirements.

7. Create an AdSense account. Go to www.google.com and click on Advertising Programs at the bottom. Sign-up using your Gmail address, and use your Blogger website as your URL if it asks.

8. Create Adsense ads, choosing size and colors that blend with your Blog’s template.

9. In the Blogger’s Settings under Formatting, set it to display only one page on the front.

10. Place your ads as desired by using Blogger’s Layout, and add Elements. Put an HTML/Script element wherever you want your ads, and paste in the relevant AdSense code (ie: skyscraper format on the sidebar, wide list of links below the post). DO NOT use the AdSense elements, as they limit your choice for how you can display and track it.

11. For the ads that you want to appear in the body of your posts, and not in an Element, you need to convert it so that PHP can read it. Go to Blogcrowd’s Parse Tool, paste your AdSense Code in, hit Parse, and copy the new modified code in for the step below.

12. Edit your HTML Template in Blogger. Right between the <div class=’post-header-line-1′/> tag and the <div class=’post-body entry-content’> tag, insert the following: <div style=’float:left;’> modified AdSense Code </div>. Be sure to put YOUR modified AdSense code in from the previous step. This step wraps your content around an adblock at the beginning of the post.

13. Add other AdSense ads as appropriate, keeping in mind that each ad block type (link, ad, etc.) has a limit to the number that will be displayed.

14. Immediately after the <div class=’post-body entry-content’> tag, add this line: <!– google_ad_section_start –>. Immediately after the <p class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′> tag, add this line: <!– google_ad_section_end –>. (This ensures that AdSense will only consider the content and ignore navigation links when considering what ads to display.)

15. Check back in about 15 minutes to see if the ads are working properly. Don’t worry if the ads aren’t relevant yet…they will get there over time. Tweak the appearance/alignment as necessary.

Technically, you could just stop there. You should write a new post each day about the topic, remembering to use the On-Page SEO requirements from step 6. You would then have an on-line presence with potential ad-revenue. You are focused on correct keywords for each of your topic, picking from the words you researched in step 2.

However, AdSense revenue tends to be skimpy. If you have a niche with high-paying keywords, then maybe your revenue will be better. But personally, AdSense is just to keep the lights on. The real money comes from Affiliate sales, and later, selling your own product.

But regardless of whether we stop with AdSense, or continue on to sell Affiliate Products, you now need to MARKET your site. You’ve successfully created some real estate on the web with profit-potential. Now you need to drive customers to your site!

Marketing Your Site

1. Go to Socialmarker , check on all of the bookmarking sites. Pick your most recent post’s URL (be sure to use the URL of the individual post, not the main blog site. Click on the post title to go to the individual page.), add some keywords, a title, and a description. Hit Submit. The first time you do this you will have to signup for an account on EACH site! It’s a pain. Use the same login name (8 letters or more to cover all sites), and the same password (again, 8 or more, letters and numbers). Sometimes one of the sites will log you out and it can be a pain to remember them all. Follow the Submit process for each site, using the information prefilled or stored at the bottom of the screen by Socialmarker. This creates traffic and links to your site in a very, very powerful way.

2. Search google for forums related to your keyword (ie: “horse care forum”). Sign up on forums and make sure you read their terms. Some sites hate spam and don’t like people posting links to their own sites. Search for relevant questions that your blog actually answers. (If you wrote a post on which type of bedding makes the best material in a stable, search the forum for “bedding”). Then answer the question partially, and mention that there’s a bunch of information at the following link. Then insert the link to the relevant blog post (not the home page). If you have the option, make sure to make the “anchor text” (the text that is shown to be the link) match your keywords. In other words, don’t just paste the URL to your post, write out the keyword phrase and make that phrase hyperlink to the relevant URL. (See my post on Anchor Texts.) Lastly, modify your signature to include a good keyword anchor text with a link to your blog’s home page. Your signature will appear at the bottom of any message you post in the forum. This step creates traffic and inbound links.

3. Article Marketing - Write articles (500 words or more) and submit to article directories. Make sure they are a little differently worded from your blog posts (though they can be similar), and make sure you include links to your site in both the content and the author box, again, with proper anchor text formatting. This creates traffic and inbound links. (And the articles get picked up and put on other people’s sites, creating many links for every one article you post.)

4. Comment Kahuna - Go to Comment Kahuna, download it for free. Use it to post comments to other relevant blogs with links, for both traffic (tiny) and inbound links. For more details, visit my Comment Kahuna Tutorial.

5. DoFollow Blogs - Go to Wibbly’s Do Follow blog search, and search keywords relevant to your blog. The blogs found there all have the ‘DoFollow’ tag, which means that Google’s bot will count the link from their site (when you post a comment). (Many sites use a NoFollow tag, which means Google doesn’t count the link. That’s to keep spammers away.)

There are many more ways to get traffic to your pages, which I discuss in the Marketing section of this blog, but the 5 above are a quick start.

The very next thing I would do is start selling Affiliate Products. This may be easy or difficult, depending on your niche, but almost every niche has at least a few affiliate programs.

More Income from Affilates

1. Sign up at Clickbank. It’s free. Search for relevant products to sell. Clickbank is one of the easiest affiliate companies to work with.

2. Signup at Paydotcom. It’s just like Clickbank, but with different products.

3. Signup at Commission Junction as a Publisher. A little less user-friendly, but very good affiliate products.

4. Search google for your keyword + “affilate” and your keyword + “webmaster” (horse care affiliate, horse affiliate, horse care webmatser). This won’t always work, but many times you’ll find products to market related to your keyword. Sign up for all the programs you want.

5. Create at least one post related to each affiliate product. “Reviews” of multiple products work well, too, if you can be honest about each product.

6. Go through the marketing process above (Socialmarker, etc.) for each new post you submit. Just pace yourself…don’t bombard the social bookmarking sites with 10 links in 10 minutes, or you’ll get blocked.

Congratulations!

You now know how to create a site, with no money invested, that can make money for you!

METHOD #2:

For an alternate method of quickly setting up a webpage that makes money from eBay without selling anything, check out my post: Make Money on eBay Without Selling