What I am Currently Doing To make Money On Line

I have been reading about making money on-line for about 3 years now. I have started and tried many different things. I have spent money on money making software, CD’s DVD’s and eBooks. I have read article after article. I tried taking surveys and started blogs. The problem is I didn’t make any money. So I never stayed with any system or program for very long. I did feel like in most cases I was close to something but couldn’t figure out what I was missing. As time went by I realized that there are no secrets to making money on-line. There is no magic software that is going to get you rich quick. There are systems but you don’t need to pay to find out how to work them. Unless you buy a book to read, just research what it is you want information on.

I now feel like I am starting to get it. My brain is full of things that can be done to get some extra money on-line. I am going to let you know what I am doing to make money. I am now starting to see some income so it can be done. I am no Internet guru or marketing genius. I ‘m an average guy with common sense.

Here are some of the ways I am making extra money on-line.

Blog
I have started many blogs in my day. It’s a good thing they are free to start or I would be broke right now. I think I started my first blog back in Jan 07 or something like that. Today I always wonder to myself if I would have kept up with that blog how it would be doing today in terms of hits, loyal visitors, and earning money. I think the key to this (which I know now) is start a blog if you have a subject or area that you have a real interest in. Not a passing fancy but a true interest. If not blogging will feel like a job, one you don’t want. Do not start a blog for the sole purpose of making money. Start a blog to share knowledge about something you truly enjoy. Over time you will come to like blogging, especially after you get comments from readers who enjoyed what you wrote.

I started blogging with Blogger I found it very easy to use. I did try using WordPress but found it difficult to customize. I must say now that WordPress is not hard to use. It just takes a little longer to figure out. Starting with either one of these free platforms will work fine. Regardless of which one you use, I always recommend when starting a blog to get your own domain name for it. With Wordpress I do recommend getting a hosting account because you can customize WordPress to look like a website if you want. Not necessarily with Blogger.

Once your blog is set up you have to promote it. Submit it to all the search engines. If you are a person who has a lot of friends, like on Facebook or some other social network, great. Let them all know about your blog, easy beginner traffic. They will probably tell their friends about it, word of mouth promotion. Other ways to promote it is through article marketing. Whenever you post to your blog, submit your article to free article directories like eZinearticles, Article Dashboard, and GoAricles are a few. Do a google search on article directories to get more. Submit your articles to blog carnivals. Doing this will help you get backlinks for your blog. It will build you search engine ranking thus bringing traffic to your site.

Monetize your blog. Sign up for a google adsense account and display the ads on your blog. Sign up with affiliate sites like Commission Junction and Google’s affiliate program. Get ads from advertisers who have products and services that are relative to your blog topic. Put the ads on your site or write articles reviewing the products.

Blogging by itself may be one of the slowest ways to make money on line because you have to get traffic. Unless you’re an expert at writing SEO articles and have other expertise at getting your site ranked it will take time to get enough traffic to make any real money. Read as much as you can about SEO.

Adsense Revenue sharing sites

Another way to start to earn money is with ad revenue sharing sites. These sites are free to join. I am a member of Xomba.com, http://www.hubpages.com/ and http://www.ehow.com/. These are good sites to join while you wait for your blog to build traffic. These sites work almost like blogs, except with many different authors. You write an article post it on these sites for free. Since these are established sites get tons of traffic, the chances of your articles being read is like 100%. The more it is read the more you can make. With Xomba there are Goolge adsense ads on your article page they split the revenue 50/50 with you. Hub Pages works the same way. The differences being that you put in your adsense account number and get all that revenue. You can also add your affiliate link for Amazon and Kontera so sign up with those sites as well. Kontera.com works like adsense they run ads on your page and pay you when someone clicks on it. With Amazon sign up for the http://www.affiliate-program.amazon.com/ and display products on the page related to your article. With eHow you write how to articles for the site and its readers. You earn money when the article is read. The more hits to your article the more you make. eHow does not explain how they determine how much they pay you but they will pay you. Like I said each of these sites get thousands of hits a day so one good article can earn good money. You can submit the articles you already posted to your blog to all these sites so one well written blog article can go a long way

Another system I use is and this is like a two in one system is I signed up for a free search engine. 30% of the people that use the web are searching for somebody whether it is a lost relative, searching for old friends or classmates, looking for someone who owes money, someone doing a background check on a potential hire or renter. Someone is always looking for someone.

I signed up withTissa Godavitarne to get a free search engine. Tissa Godavitarne is a highly successful Internet marketer. Do a Google search on him. This is a system I tried a while ago. Tissa promises to advertise it for you for free which he does if you complete the 3 steps he has outlined. But you also need to promote it as well. Tissa is a very honest Internet marketer. He also offers really good support and training. When you joined you are not billed for 30 days. The cost of the program is 29.99 a month. When I tried it I did make money but not the $30 cost so I cancelled after the trial. Although I cancelled after 30 days it was like the 35th day Tissa refunded the $29.99 he charged me on the 31st day even though I did not expect it. I felt very good about that. He also did advertise it like he claims. I know this because I did not promote it at all and still got hits. I even got a $125.00 referral bonus he promised. But I did not stick around cause back then I was just all over the place trying to get money. I was spending more money to try and get it than I was getting

I have rejoined GDI. GDI is a company that sells domain names and web hosting as well as other services. The thing about GDI is when you get a domain through them they set you up with your own referral link to promote their site. You also get a site of your own. I use the site to create content about the GDI program to try and get sign ups. Update the content about once a week to keep it ranking. When you sign up through Tissa’s search engine he will also promote GDI for you as well. These sign ups will create a residual income for you. Income you get month after month, unlike adsense or product promoting which is a one-time payment. The cost of a domain is 10/month. This pays for it self right away because you will get the $125 Tissa guarantees within 24 hrs/ and after about 3-4 months you will be getting GDI signups. When someone visits your people search engine there are 4 ways you make money. Through Reunion.com or MyLife, HD Net Publishing, Adsense and Clickbank.

You don’t have to do both of these you can do one or the other. If that the case I would go with Tissa

These are the three systems I am currently using to earn money online. Am I making a ton of money, right now no. But I am starting to make money. I am confident as time goes by I will make more and more each month as I build content on the Internet. Set these programs up and work them. The more you write and promote the quicker you will make money. Even if you submit one article every couple of weeks after time you will make money. Just have the right attitude don’t set your expectation level to high about the money and be consistent. Go sign up with these same systems I am using and you will start to make money too.

Links to companies for sign up

Blog Platforms
www.blogger.com/start
www.wordpress.com/

Ad Sense Sites
Xomba.com
www.hubpages.com/
www.ehow.com/

Free Search Engine Sign Up
GDI