I am creeping up on a year of making money on the internet, and there is no reason that I cannot do this one day for a full time job. The thing is, there are many things that are slowing me down from making money on the internet for a full time living, the main thing is my nine to five, which sucks I fucking hate it but it allows me to support my family because I have to do it. If I were to quit my full time job now and do internet marketing 14 hours a day, I would not see the effects of those long hour days for months. That is why making money on the internet is a bitch, and that is why so many people that want to do this for a living will fail. They do not have the mindset to do this, they do not know what steps to take to do this, they lack the commitment to follow through with this.

Another thing that is slowing me down is this blog, not that I have put much effort into it, and thank god people are not asking questions yet, but once Iget number one for the term I am targeting, I am sure the questions will be pouring in. This will be my last post for awhile, as I said this blog right now is just slowing me down, this is a hit or miss blog, I swore I would never do a make money online niche, but here I am typing away. It is a good place for me to post my drunken rants about making money on the internet.

At the moment I am using this as a drunken place to vent, but forget that, lets talk about making money on the internet while you have a full time job too. I work 8 hours a day and I go on call once a month. I am a handyman and my job requires me to fix anything that gets broken within the apartment complex, when I am on call I have to handle maintenance emergencies. There are 500 apartments in the complex that I work at. Getting a call at 3am because of a flood or a toilet back up is quite common and I have been in some shitty situations. Needless to say I want a change, and I feel that I will be happy once I can quit my full time job and do internet marketing full time. How to get there..besides my full time job, I have girlfriend who is also the mother of my 5 month old daughter, so quality time with them is a must. More time taken away from making money on the internet.

So this is what I am doing to make my dream come true, to make sure that I will not be stuck in handyman hell the rest of my life. 1st 6 months almost aLL of my free time was spent learning, learning html, css, and a little bit of php, you will have to have some basic knowledge of these coding languages if you want to succeed in this business. I have a bunch to learn yet, but guess what, the 4-5 hours a day I am able to do this, if I am lucky, I spend my time very wisely. I am building 15 sites a month now, and getting basic links to all of them, and slowly working the deep linking to get them into number one position on google.

Lately I have been building nothing but 7 dollar secrets script pages. I have invested hundreds into different private label rights memberships, and I have nearly a 30 gigs of products. So I have a lot of websites to be building in order for me to be making money on the internet.

I am in need for a vacation, as I need to make some lute online to get away from manual labor, going on call, and dealing with pissed off customers. I spend more than 80% of my off time working on the internet, not counting sleep of course. So do you think I am going to be one of those that fails or do you think I will be one of those that will be making money on the internet. I am telling you know, the way that I think, is there is no way that I can fail. The only thing holding me back is time, the time will come, knowing when will be a guess.

EDIT: Feb 2010 – Due to the new pricing system of the eBay Partner Network I no longer recommend the use of this script to making money on the internet. You can still make money by using the script but it is no where as efficient as it used to be when it comes to making money on the internet.

If you are completely new to making money on the internet, and want to know How to Make Money Online then my recommendation would be to start off with Build a Niche Store, also known as BANS. This is not the best method of making money on the internet in my opinion, but it does make me about 1,000 bucks a month, and I have not done any site building with BANS in awhile. But for the beginner, this is what I would recommend, simply because it is easy to install, it is easy to set up, and it is easy to bring in traffic.

Before you start making money on the internet with BANS you will have to sign up to be an eBay affiliate through the eBay Partner Network.

Now to be on your way making money on the internet with BANS, you will need some initial start up cash. I believe that the price of the script is $97 dollars right now at the moment. Now that you have the software you will have to set up a hosting account, one that works well for me is hostprise, which is great for the beginner as they have the cheapest reseller accounts that are around. Once you set up a hosting account, you will next need to do some keyword research.

Find a buying keyword, what I mean by buying is say that you are trying to sell golf clubs. They you would want to use something like cheap golf clubs, golf clubs for sale, discount golf clubs etc. A buying keyword is essential if you are to be making money on the internet with BANS. When you are choosing a keyword, think about if that keyword has a buying need or not, if someone is just searching for “golf clubs”, then they may be looking for information about the types of golf clubs, or how to use a golf club, not necessarily wanting to buy a golf club. Pick something with low competition. If you have been reading my posts then you should have SEO quake installed, see what site sits at number one for keyword that you are trying to take over.

Choose a domain name and register it, I use go daddy for domain names, but I use either hostprise or hostgator for hosting. If you can find a pre-owned domain name, that has one or more of your keywords in it, then go for it. My personal preference is I only use .com’s and .net’s, I have done no tests with any other kinds of domains other than those, they have worked for me so I am sticking with that.

If you cant find a pre-owned domain name, then register a new one, there is almost always a way to get a .com and fit all of your keywords in the domain name (unless you are tackling a popular niche, which you shouldn’t be doing as a newb). I have found that having the exact keywords in the url is the best onsite seo that you can possibly do, although not necessary to rank number one, just helps a hell of a lot, and has helped me in making money on the internet with BANS.

If you need help installing the script then the BANS forums has plenty of useful tutorials on how to get your niche store running, I wouldn’t take their information on SEO to heart though. If you want to be making money on the internet with BANS, you will go broke following the SEO tactics there, they are helpful for the installation and technical issues though.

There is a problem with BANS though and if you just throw up a spammy store, then you will more than likely get de-indexed. You can either learn this the hard way or you can follow some of my tips that I have used, and more than 75% of my stores are still indexed and they are ranking strong.

Keep the store ten pages or less, this will help your site not look like a duplicate content spam site. Think about it, you put in a category id in the set up, the category is golfing, and boom, you have over a 1,000 pages all filled with eBay items. The problem is, many people do this, and in theory, triggers a major flag that your site is spam. What I do is I put about a paragraph above the product listings, and as much as possible beneath the listings, especially on the home page. I do the same for all of my store pages, which is always less than 10. You should only be targeting a couple of keywords anyway, so there are really no need for multiple pages. My best performing BANS store has 5 pages, it gets about 300 uniques a day, and makes me 40% of my entire income.

Change the name of the store pages, change the name of the sidebar tags, such as “Home” and “store pages” to something that is relevant to your keyword. Remove the sponsored links H2 tag, just another dumb foot print you do not need. Remove the powered by footer. This will remove some footprints, not so much from search engines, but by idiots that try and see who is competing with them, who is working the same BANS product they are.

Don’t worry about making the theme look pretty, in fact, for the newbie, just erase the header and do not worry about an image. Most of the sites that make me money have no header image, just an H1 tag with the keyword that I am targeting. You need to be spending time getting links instead of making your site look pretty. Once you are done with the site, build a bunch more. Do not put all of your eggs in this script BANS though, there are many ways that you can be making money on the internet, use as many as you can.