Tips for Making Money Online
Posted by Joseph M.
1. Don't sign up to anything that is going to cost you money without reading a few reviews first
You will find reviews on the internet for just about any product or service so take advantage of this and read as many as you can before you sign up for any type of money making scheme.
2. Create a plan and stick to it
It's important that you determine exactly what you need to do to achieve your goals and this involves creating a plan. Work out what you are able to do on a daily basis and keep at it. Consistency is the key.
3. Find a Mentor
If you want to learn anything you should learn from the best. Find someone who is already a success at making money online and listen and learn. We recommend Kyle and Carson from Wealthy Affiliate but there are plenty of other successful online entrepreneurs who are willing to give away their secrets.
Finding a mentor will speed up your learning and have you making money sooner.
4. Stop Making Excuses
If you want to make money online you have to work at it and you have to be consistent. Making excuses for why you can't sit at your computer and work on a regular basis just won't work. Be honest with yourself and decide whether your excuses are really just a way to get out of the work. Be consistent with your efforts and you will succeed in the end.
5. Don't Give Up
A good majority of people striving to make money online give up just before they are about to make it. If you keep going you will succeed.
6. Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin
Try not to work on too many things at once. Stick to one or two methods and give them your full attention. If you do too many different things then none of them will get the full atttention they deserve.
7. Learn to Outsource
As you start making some money, start outsourcing some of your work. You can use elance.com or rentacoder.com to get writers to write articles for you for instance.
8. Enjoy Your Work
This is not a business you should be doing just to make money. If you don't enjoy the work then don't do it. The more you enjoy the work the more likely you will keep at it.
9. Make Good Use of Social Bookmarking & Networking Sites
These can get you some good backlinks and a bit of traffic if you use them correctly. Some of the best sites are digg.com, stumbleupon.com and propeller.com. Twitter.com is another one we have had some success with.
10. Start Networking
Start making yourself known around the internet in your particular niche. Leave comments on relevant blogs and post in forums.
Google Top 10 Ranking
You want to reach Google top 10 ranking with your website? Great. And then, what’s next?
Why do you want to reach Google Top 10?
Ask yourself this simple question and create a relation between your purpose and your website. Different reasons can motivate you to storm Google: you want high visibility for interested people to find your content. You want to increase the readership to influence the way people think about a topic (opinion leader). You want to occupy space on Google Top 10 to earn money.
Fine, but how do you want to make money?
Make Money with Google Top 10
Let’s not go into keyword analysis and market assessment here; let’s just look at the mechanisms which allow you to make money from your Google Top 10 Position.
When people search Google to find a solution to a problem or question, they will end up on the Top 10 search return page. Your entry shares the benefit of that page with 9 other organic entries, maybe an authority entry as well as with some advertisers who pay for being listed on the right side of the page.
The more people search for your terms (keywords) the more the Google Result page obtains and the more you are likely to harvest your share of that traffic.
Some people will click on your Google entry and end up on your site, respectively on the specific page of your site which has made the race.
Your site has different things to offer to your visitor: Contextual Content, other content, Ads and Gadgets.
By Clicking on your ads or by following related commercial links from within your content, visitors will enter your sales pipeline. Depending on what marketing strategy you use, you may make money from every single click (pay per click programs, such as Google AdSense) or you may direct visitors to a sales page of yours (shop for example) or of a merchant you are an affiliate of. The Third possibility is that visitors click on ads you have been paid for to display by direct advertisers.
Google Top 10 Make Money strategy 1
Basically it’s your content which will make you earn a Google Top 10 position.
Content is what Google is looking for; a product review is a good example for strategic content. The content can be directly linked to a sales pipeline from within the post or page, by linking from within your post to your shop or affiliate program where the reviewed product is sold and from where you expect commissions (your shop, Amazon Affiliate Program, and many more).
In this case, the content has 2 functions:
1. It earns your Top 10 position.
2. It links to contextual sales.
This strategy is probably the most rewarding one, since the content (originally that’s what visitors came to your site for) takes the information a step further right to a sales pipeline.
The Problem is: you need to write good content to reach Google Top 10 and you need to create the necessary empathy with your readers to keep them interested enough to follow your recommended links.
This strategy is compatible with all other strategies and can be used on any site format.
Google Top 10 Make Money strategy 2
You are a fairly good producer of content, but your skills are not particularly sharp on writing ’sales pages’.
Here the content transports your site to Google Top 10 but you will not focus on selling straight off your content (text), you may rather want to0 associate ads to your post, within the loop (post).
A contextual ad associated with a post is great stuff and still better than just being able to use the sidebars, headers and footers of your page. Such ads can have the shape of banners, text ads or flash or whatever you like and they can refer to your own products, other people’s products or advertisers, such as Google Ads.
This strategy is brilliant in as much as it can be associated to any content, even authorized syndicated content and it will work. Imagine you get a great product feed from a merchant to your site and you associate automatically relevant ads?
Google Top 10 Make Money strategy 3
How about headers, footer and sidebars?
These are the most basic places you will find ads on and most webmasters use ads in their framework. Such ads can be contextual, such as Google Ads or they can just be ads promoting products and services of general interest to your readership.
The danger and main mistake you may notice is that people often exaggerate to such an extent that visitors will not look at the parts of your layout where you accumulate ads; in fact many a surfer has developed a reflex to smartly navigate around ads areas on websites.
The quantity of ads is less decisive than the quality, the editing quality! One well placed and edited ad may do much better than 10 ads which scare people away.
The Good News remains: such ads can be completely separated from the content and the extreme strategy would consist in overwriding the visitors original interest in your content with a new interest in what the ad or promo is claiming!
This is an incredibly simple concept allowing people without writing skills to monetize a Top 10 Position.
Does it work? Yes, it does as YORGOO Blasters prove daily.
Google Top 10 Money Making strategy 4
Combine any of the above strategies in function of your purpose, skills and ambitions and select the appropriate framework for doing so. If you are content focused, you want to select a framework with highlights your content, if you are ads focused, your need a framework which will exhibit your ads in an overwhelming way, and so on. |
