So it has been awhile since I have updated this blog about making money on the internet. There are many reasons for this but the main one would have to be pure laziness. I have learned a lot from my last blog post here on this making internet money blog and am here to share some of my experiences.

So far in my opinion the best way to make internet money legit is to make websites, write great content, get links, and choose your keywords carefully. All in all what it all boils down to is that you are going to have to work. And making money on the internet does not happen over night, unless you are an unethical asshole spammer that is doing nothing but bombarding email addresses and running bookmarking demon runs 24/7.

Ok so without further ado I will be going over some of the ways this past year that I was attempting the to make money on the internet.

Making Internet Money With Paid Surveys

To me, in my opinion this has to be one of the biggest scams that are on internet when it comes to making money online. There are literally thousands of affiliates that are out there promising you that if you work only 2 hours a week you can make 20 grand a month and so forth. I do not see how this is humanly possibly, excuse the exaggeration but it just kind of pisses me off. But despite all the internet paid surveys that are out there that are scams I decided to give it a shot and see if I could make an honest buck out of it.

I knew that I would have to be filling out countless forms if I was going to be successful at this, and knew that I would have to make a seperate email address for this form of online income. So I went and got the professional version of Roboform. Not sure if there are better automatic form fillers that are out there but this one got the job done. All in all I gave it about a week for a couple of hours a day. I made maybe $50 and got a bunch of free trials of products and such. Needless to say I gave up on it, just too annoying and too many crap websites out there when only 5% of them will pay you anything at all for completing their surveys, and some may ship you some free products.

Making Internet Money Through Ebay Powerselling

I’ve never got to the status of a powerseller but I have made some decent money off of eBay. Basically by just selling junk that has been piling up in my closet. If you want to get smart about it use the products you get from taking online surveys and then sell them on ebay for a discounted price . The key to making money off of eBay though is to have a good reputation. It’s really easy to do but will require discipline. I have a 100% user rating and that is because I deliver what I promise in the ad, and I ship out the product immediately.

It’s also may be wise to send a note in the product you are shipping to the customer, stating that you would love to get positive feedback from them, and if they are not satisfied with the product then you will refund them right away as long as they return it. Anything you can think of that will prevent them from leaving negative feedback on your user status, that will kill a lot of your sales if you are trying to become a powerseller.

Making Money on the Internet Blogging

Something I am still a long ways away from mastering. One thing that I can share with you though is that if you are blogging just to get traffic, then you are not going to make any money. If you are careful with your keywords and only target a specific type of audience to your blog, preferably selling a service of some sort, then you will be successful.

Your traffic has to be targeted or you are going to starve, that is one thing that I learned. I could Digg this post to death and get hundreds of people to Digg this post to the front page until I get so many visitors it crashes the server, but I would not make much money off it because it’s all social traffic. Which does not convert. This website does not convert well and I do not make anything off of it, maybe enough to cover the hosting and the time I take to type out these posts.

Making internet money is not hard compared to lots of jobs, but no matter which way you look at it, it’s going to take work. There is no magic bullet when it comes to making money on the internet, there is no easy way to riches, prepare to type, prepare to work, and prepare to make mistakes. Stop listening to other marketers. See for yourself if something works. If you take in one thing in this article, read the last two sentences, and live by them. The more mistakes you make the smarter you will be, that is the key to making money on the internet.

Well here I am finally making another post about making money on the internet, this time I want to go over what I think about affiliate marketing, and to give those that are clueless about affiliate marketing a better idea of what it is. For starters, my name is D.Wep and I am an affiliate marketer, I am not a blogger. Sure I have many blogs and I write posts on them, but they are all intended to do one thing in the end, and that is to make me some damn money.

So I do not blog just for the sake of blogging. Every blog that I have is very niche specific and targets a certain type of search engine traffic, and then once that blog is getting traffic I will use some sort of affiliate to make some money off of my work. Here at this blog Making Net Money I am currently using Chitika, which is similar to Adsense, it just doesn’t pay as well. That is the affiliate merchant I am using on this blog. People pay Chitika for them to publish their ads, when someone from the search engine searches for a keyword and happens to stumble upon this Making Money on the Internet Blog, keyword related ads will show up. If the searcher clicks then I get a percentage of what that advertiser had to get the ad up. I get money, the advertiser gets targeted traffic to their site and hopefully makes a sale.

If you are brand new to affiliate marketing you may have no clue to what it is that I just said, that is fine, if you are to be successful you will keep learning and eventually it will all fall into place. So if you are new to this, making money on the internet, where do you start? Well most will start using Adsense, complete newbs will use adsense, they will write 30 posts on a blog, targeting all sorts of keywords that they will never rank for, and put adsense on their blog from day 1. Then eventually they will start getting some traffic, maybe a tricke, 30-40 uniques a day, and they will be seeing nothing but 5 cent clicks, although the dollar click will come through every once in a while (I have been there).

They will put countless hours into this one adsense blog, and maybe after a couple of months go by, they will finally receive their first paycheck from adsense, because of the $100 payout minimum. If you are new to affiliate marketing, stay away from adsense until you understand it completely, and more than that understand how affiliate marketing works altogether through other programs first, such as the eBay Partner Network, CJ, Clickbank, Amazon along with many others. If you have your heart on using adsense from jumpstreet (which you shouldn’t), then I suggest you stop by some of Grizz’s Blogs and read everything he covers on adsense on all of them. Some will be successful by doing this but most will fail to be blunt with you.

Now if you are still reading this than I assume that you have a general knowledge of search engine optimization, and that content is not King as back links are everything when it comes to ranking in the search engines. So how do you find an affiliate to market? It all depends on what kind of niche it is that you are working. In my opinion, if you are not making at least $1,000 bucks a month, you should not be targeting any kind of “make money online” niche nor should you be targeting any affiliates as you should be targeting keywords and products that have less competition. This may be kind of tempting to do though as their are thousands and thousands of make money online products and affiliates that are out there, from what I have heard from Vic and Grizz is they convert horribly though. Also, if you can not make a measly $1,000 a month of affiliate marketing, you should be working other niches and building as many sites as you can until you find some winners. As long as you diversity and go through trials and errors with affiliates, you will find some winners.

Back to choosing affiliates to work with and stuff to promote so you can start making money on the internet. Depending on what it is this can be a bitch. I have a couple of blogs that are alcohol related and they have huge authority and get decent traffic, although I have not found a good affiliate to use to make money off of them. Sure there are a couple of beer making books from Click Bank, but many advertisers that use ads (adsense and chitika) do not support the promotion of alcohol, but they will pay you top dollar for dui lawyer content, not how to get drunk, pick a bar fight and wake up with a dime piece the next day, which is the kind of stuff I like to write about on those coupld of beer blogs that I got. Guess what, I barely  go to them anymore unless I am completly drunk, or one day find a way to successfully monetize a beer and liquor blog.

The best affiliate for me, so far has been the EPN Network. The Ebay Partner Network accounts for 75% of my income, I use about 15 other affiliates other than them. That tells me one thing, that I need to diversity my sites more with what kind of affiliate I use. If someone at the eBay Partner Network decides to cancel my account for some reason, I am pretty much fucked, so I have started building sites like crazy using as many affiliates as possible. Same thing with adsense, if for some reason I lose one of my accounts, how am I going to compensate with that if I am depending on adsense income every month?

One last not, the best way to go about making money on the internet is to cut out the middle man, the middle man being the affiliate merchant. The cheapest way for you to do this is to get the 7 dollar script, and then get a bunch of private lable rights eBooks and make some minnie sites. Eventually I would like the oppurtunity to create my own product, or my own eBook and promote it while also selling the private lable rights and the master resale rights. This is my ultimate goal, and to reach that goal I will have to rely on affiliate marketing for making money on the internet until then.

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.

Ah yes, that wonderful word “free”…How can I make money on the internet…for free? And on top of that, how can I make money on the internet for free, working only an hour a day, in the matter of a couple of weeks, or maybe a couple of months at worst. I do not know about you but these were my exact thoughts when I started this business about 10 months ago, and guess how much money I made – Zilch.

Well, I did make a couple of bucks my first month, I think about 2 or 3 off of adsense. I was lucky though and missed a lot of scammers and one of the first make money online blogs I ran across was Griz’s. First mistake I made, was putting adsense on a blog, a blogger blog that was brand new, 3 months later I took it down after I made a measly 15 bucks. I was doing everything every blogger says to do, get backlinks, do reciprocal link exchanges, submit to directory’s, blah blah. Every thing I did the first month was free ways of getting some back links.

Now I can tell you it is possible to make money online for free, but you are limiting your success if you do not invest some money into your business. If you are a blogger that likes blogging, and you have a well established blog that you maintain for fun, more power to you if you can make some money off it while enjoying what you do.

Before I got my first check from making money online, I had spent over 300 bucks on software and web hosting. Now I said that I had made a couple of bucks off of G adsense, but…you do not make any money off of adsense until you reach that magic 100 dollar mark. I cannot imagine how much money G makes off of failed marketers that first start off using adsense, then realize two months later they are making no money and they give up.

Back to free money making on the internet. This can be pulled off, but, if you are complete beginner there is a 99% chance you will fail and give up in the 1st month. For free, there are a number of places that you can go to make a free blog, the ones that I have used are wordpress.com and blogger.com, there are hundreds more but this is what I have used in the past and I have made a decent dollar from them, although I prefer paid hosting all day, my preference.

Ok you will have to learn search engine optimization, the best way for a beginner to do this is to go to Griz’s blog (mentioned above) and read every post he has on SEO. Then after a couple days of reading head on over to Vic’s domain and learn how to make money online. These are the 2 I learned a shit load from and they will not steer you wrong. I will be putting up a page of the best resources there are for making money on the internet and I highly recommend that you check all of them out as they are all extremely helpful.

Not all of us have the money to spend on software and scripts to aid us on making money on the internet, so I have compiled a list of everything that I have bookmarked and I use, or is helpful.

DoFollow Diver – Assuming that you know how commenting on do-follow blogs can increase your keyword authority, this is a great resource and I still use it even though I have FastBlogFinder. Best of all, it is free:)

FreeKeyword Tracker – This will give you a good estimate and some ideas of how many times a certain keyword is searched daily. Note: There is an ebook on this page that sells fro 40 bucks, there is nothing in this book that you can not find on the internet, and you will not be rich by buying it and reading it, dunce

Google AdWord Tool – Great for researching how much you could expect to pay for a keyword, or if you are using adsense great for analyzing how much you may recieve per click if you happen to put adsense on your site.

SEO Quake For FireFox – If you are not using this tool – you should get it. It is free and is extremely useful. There are people that talk about how it pisses Google off and it you use it your site will suffer, though I have not seen any proof of this.