About a year ago I read an article online about a system called "Google Cash".It was claimed that using this system one could make easy money on the internet, and lots of it. This was the day my eyes were really opened to the possibility of making money on the web.
Since then I've been looking at heaps of ways to make money on the net. There is loads of information about making money on the web, on the web!
I've made a lot of mistakes, lost a lot of money, but made a fair bit too.
Why am i telling you all this?
Because I know the world will find it interesting
You see making money on the net is actually extremely easy, IF you have a popular website.
Some people these days pay up to $100 per Visitor!!! That's right, when you click a link on the web, you could be earning an advertiser up to $100!!! However nobody pays that much for visitors unless they know those visitors will make them that money back.
However if you have a popular website with quality information, it will spread through the web by "word of mouth" on its own, without paying anything, giving you lots of FREE visitors!
That is exactly why I'm about to devulge everything i know about making money on the web, on this one webpage, because i know people will be interested, and therefore I'll get regular visitors.
How can you turn lots of visitors to your site into lots of money?
This is the easy part! Simply put advertisements on your site! The most popular way to do this is through google adsense, but there are heaps of other sites where people will pay for traffic that you send from your webpage to theirs. Some advertisers will pay you just for people seeing their ad on your page!
Now you might've heard of lots of other ways to make money on the web:
Taking surveys, high yield investments,selling on ebay, and most importantly...
Affiliate Marketing!!!
Taking Surveys: This actually can make you money, but it's generally very time consuming, very boring, and pays very little. This is a better option if you're interested in getting discounts when buying online. Many sites will give you points for completing points and then you can spend these points at participating online stores.
High Yield Investments: I've read in many forums that these actually pay as well. I'm not familiar with the forex, but there are heaps of sites where you can invest e-currencies, and they give unbelievable returns, I've heard of some that do work and pay you on average 1% PER DAY! on whatever you invested. However a lot of them are scams. What I've found is the hardest part is getting e-currencies to begin with, becuase they'll only let you invest with an e-currency. I did a heap of research finding the best place to buy e-gold and invest it. I followed the payment instructions exactly, went over all the fine print, and i never got any e-gold! Money down the sink....
Selling on Ebay: You hear stories about people making thousands each month buying and selling on ebay. It would be a very fun thing to do, look around for good deals and then sell them in a way in which to maximise profits. Never tried it myself, but i've definately looked into it. What makes it difficult to make a profit is the all the fees you need to pay to sell something on ebay, and all the postage you have to pay for when buying in the first place. But if you reckon you know a good buy when you see one, this is definately worth a try.
now to....
Affiliate Marketing!
I think any experienced web guru would agree that this is the BEST way to make money online. This is also my area of expertise. Affiliate marketing is bascially advertising for online merchants. You take people to the merchants' website and if they sign up, or buy something then you will get paid a sum of money. Some merchants pay you for just taking visitors to their site. The principle idea behind "Google Cash" (an ebook i mentioned earlier) is to advertise the merchants' products on Google Adwords, which was a fairly new idea at the time.
Simply sign up to an affiliate marketing program, they'll give you a special link for you to send traffic to, then create some google adwords ads that send people to this link.
This worked really well because only people who searched for something similar to the ad would see it, so everyone you sent through the link would be interested in buying something, which means you make money!
However these days it is very difficult to make money this way, since EVERY other affiliate marketer is doing the same thing, making these sorts of ads very expensive. You need to do a lot of searching around for good affiliate programs and setting up and testing, and more testing, if you want your revenue to be greater than the advertising costs.
Making money as an affiliate is a lot of hard work now that so many people have cracked onto it. The top affiliates write articles, blogs, emails, etc. etc. about the products they're selling and post them all over the web, as well as using google adwords and banner advertising which is said to be the most effective way of getting sales. Anything they can do to get an adantage over rival afilliate marketers.
However none of this is necessary is you have a website that has a large traffic flow!
If this is the case then you can simply sign up to affiliate programs that people visiting your site are going to be interested in, then stick the advertisements on your site, and watch the money flow in.
Take a look down the right hand side of this page!
I am actually very selfish, I don't care if you make money or not, i just wanna make money myself! But i know that if i provide extremely useful information on how to make money, then many people will come and visit my site. Generally people are going to want to go somewhere to do with making money once they've been inspired by the information on this site, so i give them that opportunity, with all the money making related links down the right hand side of the page.
What's best is I get paid when someone does this!
I'm not paying for visitors, so these are pure profits. I don't have to pay for visitors because this website is an excellent source of information that people will tell their friends about via bulletin boards, blogs, forums, msn etc. etc.
This same principle can be applied to whatever YOU are most interested in!
Think you know a lot about soccer? Make a webpage about soccer, and put ads on it in relation to soccer.
You get to share your gift with the world AND you get paid for it.
And as you've seen here it doesn't have to be a masterpiece, just something with quality information.