Make Money Use Internet

How Much Money a Totally Free Blogsite has made me

2012-01-20T10:34:00.004+02:00

This totally free blogsite Make Money Use Internet does not cost me a cent, yet it makes me money every month. But doesn't having Internet and a computer cost money? Yes, but I have Internet and a computer anyway. I use the Internet to do some research for the work I do from home, for watching YouTube videos, for visiting FaceBook, and so on.

So how does this free blogsite make me money and how much money does it make me?

Even though it's been 6 months since I last added a new blog post (a blog post is an article just like this one is) I still earn money from this site each month.

I got this site and started adding articles to it in January 2011. Let's have a look at how many articles I added to it each month, and the amounts I earned at the end of each month:

January 2011 --- 15 articles --- R25.13
(20 January 2012 currently $3.15)

February 2011 --- 2 articles --- R41.42 ($5.19)
March 2011 --- 3 articles --- R52.06
April 2011 --- 1 article --- R36.72
May 2011 --- 2 articles --- R55.01 ($6.91)
June 2011 --- 0 --- R77.81
July 2011 --- 1 article --- R34.09
August 2011 --- 0 --- R97.69 ($11.88)
September 2011 --- 0 --- R64.57
October 2011 --- 0 --- R110.81 ($13.91)
November 2011 --- 0 --- R187.11 ($23.48)
December 2011 --- 0 --- R84.69

Today is the 20th of January 2011 and my earnings have been R34.02 ($4.27) so far this month

Total earnings since I started this site nearly 13 months ago:
R901.13 ($113.13)

Hm, now imagine if I'd bothered to add more than just 24 articles over the last 13 months. Of course earnings may fluctuate, but I still very much think my earnings would have been considerably greater had I bothered to add more articles. I still can add more articles, though (here's one right now)

These earnings may not seem like much to you, but what I find so great is how little work I had to do to earn it. It's passive income - look at the earnings for November 2011 --- R187.11. What did I do with this site that month to earn that amount? Nothing! - the work had already been done when I wrote and added articles at an earlier time.

R901.13 could also be called the amount I was paid to write 24 articles and add them to this blog - that's about R37.54 ($4.71) an article - not too bad - and, if I didn't add another article to this site in 2012, and my earnings averaged out roughly the same each month as they did in 2011, then at the end of 2012 I would have earned a total of about R1 802.26 ($226.28) (or about R75.08 ($9.42) per article for those 24 articles)

But because I think simply writing and adding more articles often can increase my monthly earnings, I'm going to try and find the time to do that more often rather than wait another year to earn another R900.

Maybe, just maybe, had I added 72 articles in 2011 instead of just 24, my earnings may have tripled. And if I think about it, 72 articles in a year is only 6 articles a month - not too much work. What if I'd added 20 articles a month?

How did I earn this money?

I got a Google Adsense account. I'm an Adsense publisher. I have Google Adwords displaying on some of my sites and when these ads are clicked when a visitor to my sites wants to know more about what that ad is saying, I earn a small commission.

Making money with Google adsense is not as easy as it may seem, and there are rules to follow too, but I find that it's worth putting in the effort to know and follow the rules, and to write and add some articles, as well as pay a little attention to SEO and linking to my articles from other sites, to enable me to make some passive income from the articles I write and publish on my sites.

Here are some articles that may help you also try to make money from a free blog and with Google Adsense:

How to create a free blog on Blogger
How to make money with a free Blogger blogspot.com blog
Income opportunity that is free to start
What is Adsense?

Disclaimer:
You may not earn the same as I have with the example I have given. Adding 24 articles to your own blog may earn you a little more, or a little less.

I used a currency converter on the 20th of January 2012 to check what the US dollar amounts were for the South African rand amounts mentioned in this article. These converted amounts (for the US dollar amount) may not still be exactly the same at the time that you read this article.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2012

Plenty of Ways to Make Money Online List

2011-07-03T18:06:00.005+02:00

There really are plenty of ways to make money online, and I am using a few of these ways already, and plan to use more soon. It's just that all these plans to make money online get lost in my head somewhere and I need to be more organized to make sense of it all.

I sometimes jot down ideas in a rather scrappy A5 size notebook that stays on the desk near my left elbow right here at the computer - I'm on book 7 now - or I type up what's going on in my head on My Notes and Lists site. My Notes and Lists site is still quite new and I'm not using it as much as I should be yet. I have quite a few sites and I get into a bit of a state trying to decide which one I should add new articles to next.

A list of plenty of ways to make money online probably belongs on My Notes and Lists site, but since this site is all about making money on the Internet, I thought it's just as appropriate, if not more, to put my Ways to Make Money Online List here.

LIST OF WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE:

Google Adsense - from publishing articles on my own sites or online writing sites (using Google Adsense to make money online is my current biggest passive income earner)

More Google Adsense - from "bookmarking" sites where I link to my articles I have published on online writing sites or on my own sites - sites like SheToldMe and Best-Reviewer

Pageview Earnings (or Ad Revenue Share) from articles I write for some writing sites like Factoidz and HubPages

Sell Articles on Constant Content I really need to work this one a bit more as I think it has great potential.

Promote Amazon Products as an affiliate

Promote ClickBank products as an affiliate

Promote Offerforge products as an affiliate

Find more sites that have affiliate programmes for their products, even if it's just one product they have, if that product is a good product - also consider looking at E-junkie, and Commission Junction etc

Sell my photos or designs on RedBubble, Zazzle, CafePress and look for other sites where I can sell my photos and designs

Consider selling items on auction sites like Bid or Buy

Write and sell my own ebooks - on my own site or through an affiliate site

Sell direct advertising space on some of my sites or in my work from home ideas newsletter

Sell downloadable items on some of my sites like website header banners, photos, desktop backgrounds, screensavers

Offer a variety of services - which I already do, like web design, website or blog hosting, writing, SEO, Internet Research, and photo editing

Look for and apply for various online freelance jobs on oDesk

Buy and Sell domains

Create, add content to, and sell websites or blogsites

Referrals - join sites that I can earn from if I get more people to join the same sites - I earn my referral commission from either the money they pay to join, or, if there is no joining fee, then my referral commission comes from their activity earnings on the site, or sales they make on the site

Wow, where should I start with doing more about this? Oh well, one thing done already, a new article written. (this one.)

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Search Terms Used to Find this Site

2011-05-02T09:09:00.001+02:00

Not enough yet, I say, but it's getting there, and I'm fairly pleased with the results. At least some of these few search terms used on a search engine (then search results followed through to this site) are used more than once) - I'm hoping this means that this site is getting search results on page 1 or 2 of Google - but I do need to start getting more search terms found on page 1 - more content and a bit of a variety of topics. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool could assist me a bit, too.

List of some of the search terms used to find this site over the past month:

constant content earnings (used 9 times)
helium earnings (used 5 times)
how to use internet make money (used 3 times)

others:

constant content
highest earning adsense sites
top earning adsense sites 2011
2011 top 10 money earnings
2011 use blogger to make money
how to make use of internet to make money
adsense click 2011
adsense click earnings

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

My Individual Sites Adsense Earnings

2011-05-01T18:43:00.003+02:00

Looking through this site's traffic sources stats just now, I noticed that somebody found this site by using the search term "highest adsense earning sites." Now I don't know if they were looking for personal sites or sites like online writing sites that they could join.

Read Write for Money on a Writing Site or On Your Own Site? (an article on this site) to see why I generally prefer writing for my own sites when it comes to making money online from writing. I do also write a bit for online writing sites though, and cannot yet make up my mind if I should try spend more time on it, or less time. In other words I'm not really all that happy with the earnings I've so far made from online writing sites, and I am unsure if it is worth the risk of spending time doing it more just to find out if it will eventually work for me - because while I devoted more time to online writing sites, I will have far less time available to increase my Google Adsense earnings on my own sites - which are so far earning me a higher Google Adsense income, by far.

My sites that earn me the most Adsense income are the sites where I have a domain registered and the site is hosted. My unique domain name own sites. Although Tony and I do offer domain registration and website hosting services, no, I'm not trying to sell you any of our services. I'm just telling you like it is, for me - it may be different for you - perhaps you are doing, or could be doing, very well indeed with free to join online writing sites or totally free sites like this Blogger blog you're on now.

This page will also serve as something for me to look back over, in time, to see how my individual sites' earnings are improving or are doing (compared to how they were doing now).

Adsense earnings of our various sites, over the last 4 months (Jan 2011 to April 2011):

1pic4twenty.co.za
Jan R342.70 (currently about $52.08 or 32.22 GBP)
Feb R511.50
March R520.63
April R492.53 (currently about $74.85 or 44.86 GBP)

Use a currency converter to check current exchange rates.

Average monthly Adsense earnings over the past 4 months = R466.84 x 12 to get a rough idea of Adsense earnings for the whole of 2011 = R5 602.08

My hosting and domain registration costs of this site for 2011 = R553. (or $84.05 or 50.38 GBP)

Profit of Adsense earnings from this site for 2011 = R5 049.08 (or $767.48 or 46.01 GBP)
(more than 9 times my yearly money investment.)

workfromhomeideas.co.za
Jan R335.22
Feb R330.46
March R476.73
April R455.28

Average monthly Adsense earnings over the past 4 months = R399.42 x 12 to get a rough idea of Adsense earnings for the whole of 2011 = R4 793.04

My hosting and domain registration costs of this site for 2011 = R313. (Would have been slightly less, but I added a blog to the site 2 months ago, needing more hosting space, so it pushed my hosting cost up.)

Profit of Adsense earnings from this site for 2011 = R4 480.04
(more than 14 times my yearly money investment.)

onlinefleamarket.co.za
Jan R24.11
Feb R59.78
March R59.45
April R124.08

Average monthly Adsense earnings over the past 4 months = R66.85 x 12 to get a rough idea of Adsense earnings for the whole of 2011 = R802.20

My hosting and domain registration costs of this site for 2011 = R313.

Profit of Adsense earnings from this site for 2011 = R489.12
(more than 1 and a half times times my yearly money investment.)

makemoneywritingonline.co.za
Jan R72.90
Feb R3.05
March R62.47
April R42.61

Average monthly Adsense earnings over the past 4 months = R45.25 x 12 to get a rough idea of Adsense earnings for the whole of 2011 = R543.

My hosting and domain registration costs of this site for 2011 = R193. (I may add a blog to this site but not just yet, as that would increase my cost of R193 per year to R313 per year.)

Profit of Adsense earnings from this site for 2011 = R350.
(more than 1 and a half times times my yearly money investment.)

It is obvious to me, from the above calculations, that I need to add quite a bit more content to those last two sites - and also work more at marketing the sites.

I have a few other sites too, but they're either too new to include in this report just yet, or I have not yet had the time to add lots of articles to them. I'm not reporting on my overall Adsense earnings from all my sites here, or the costs of all my sites here, just individual sites.

I sometimes take a chance at getting a new site live on the Internet before I have much content to add to it, just so that it's there to tempt me to add content whenever I get the chance. This may not always be a good thing to do, because then the cost of all the domain registering and hosting of different sites adds up, and I don't always have the time to often write and add new articles to all my different sites, but it's my choice - and I can afford to risk making these choices only because some of my older sites are already doing reasonably well with Adsense. (Pleasing results, but not yet money to live on - I do other work to cover basic monthly living expenses, like freelance web design and writing, but hope to one day have my Adsense earnings be and mean more to me than just an extra income.)

For your interest, the Adsense earnings of this totally free (no domain registration and site hosting costs) Blogger blog over the last 4 months:

makemoneyuseinternet.blogspot.com
Jan R25.13
Feb R41.42
March R52.06
April R36.72

Note that further above I said yearly money investment - the only costs are domain registration, hosting, and having a computer and Internet connection, BUT there is also the cost of time and effort - writing and adding articles to my sites, and marketing the sites, even if I use free methods to market the sites, it still takes time and effort.

Overall?

I am currently earning about R1 200 per month (or $182.38 or 109.33 GBP) from Adsense (R14 400 per year) but then need to deduct my costs from that - I still make a profit, but the profit can be greater the more time and effort I put into this little money making project of mine.

So, my Adsense earnings may not seem wonderful after all, but I am still making a profit, plus get to advertise services I offer, on my own sites (so, essentially, my profit after costs of domain registration and hosting are not just from Adsense), and am also able to link my sites to each other, easily creating backlinks to all my sites. I can also consider offering direct advertising on some of my sites, or add some affiliate program ads too.

You can see a break down of which other sites (besides my own) my April 2011 total Adsense earnings of R1 297.68 (or $197.71 or 118.53 GBP) came from on this page of my Work From Home South Africa blog - a blog that is part of the Work From Home Ideas website I gave the earnings of further up in this blog post. You can also see a list of my monthly Adsense earnings totals since I started with Adsense, here.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

My Highest Earning Single Adsense Click Yet!

2011-04-07T21:43:00.001+02:00

I've had the odd R16 or R17 Adsense click on some of my sites, and that impressed me, but today I had my highest earning single Adsense click yet.

R63 (currently about $9.43)

Couldn't believe it! That's a huge jump from my previous high Adsense clicks - or what I thought was high!

Gosh, now imagine if I had just ten of these kinds of clicks everyday - that would be about R18 000 per month!

- But my highest Adsense earnings month yet was last month - R1 238 (currently about $185) - an amount I'm still very proud of since it's grown so nicely over the months since I started using Adsense, but, still, imagine R18 000 per month instead (currently about $2 697) - hm! (nice!)

Now, what would help is if I knew what ad was clicked that gave me this amazing R63. It wasn't on a particular page that I monitor in my Adsense account, so I don't even have a clue - it was on HubPages, and I have just added the main HubPages link to my Adsense account to check, and haven't added individual pages like I do with some of my sites.

It does give me more hope regards HubPages, and that I'm pleased about, because prior to this fantastic Adsense click I got today, HubPages has not earned me all that much from Adsense since I joined HubPages 9 months ago and published 37 hubs (articles.) In the past 9 months, prior to this one R63 Adsense click, I had only earned R232 (an average of R25.77 per MONTH) on HubPages.

I have been earning much more from using Adsense on my own sites, but this one click will make me sit up a bit and take more notice of HubPages, and other online writing sites too. Why? I pay for hosting and domain registration for many of my own sites, but to make money from online writing sites, all I need is a computer and Internet connection.

When I say I will take more notice of online writing sites, what do I mean? - I mean that it may be worth my while spending a bit more time on marketing my articles on online writing sites, than I have been.

Also, why do I say it would help if I knew which ad had been clicked (who the advertiser was/where the ad linked to) on HubPages, or, at least, the page on which the ad appeared? - well, if I knew this, I could write more articles targetting that site or keywords used in the ad. (Certain Adwords ads are triggered to appear when certain keywords are used.)

For beginners out there - how did I learn these things about Adsense, keywords, using websites or blogs, and about making money writing on online writing sites? I read a lot of free information all over the Internet. I'm self-taught and it did not happen overnight.

If you'd like to make money, use Internet, but you do have to be prepared to read a lot, and learn a lot, and put in the effort.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Write for Money on a Writing Site or on Your Own Site?

2011-03-31T18:00:00.006+02:00

When trying to make money with Google Adsense, by being an Adsense publisher, is it best to add pages of your writing to online writing sites or to add those pages of your writing to your own sites? Which is better, why, and which will make you more money?

I do both - I publish articles, I've written, on writing sites as well as on my own sites.

I prefer to publish articles on my own sites, but publishing articles on writing sites has it's advantages too.

Why do I prefer to publish articles on my own sites when trying to make money with Google Adsense?

Disadvantages:
(of writing on my own site, and, thereby, highlighting the advantages of writing on an online writing site.)

- If I'm not using a totally free site like Blogger (like this site) where I don't even have to pay for hosting and domain registration, then using one of my own sites to publish my articles costs me a bit - yearly hosting and domain registration. (Most writing sites are free to join.)

- If my site is a website and not a blog that allows comments, it can take more time getting people interested in coming back to the site often.

- If the only writing on a site is mine, and I don't write about too many different topics, there will be fewer people automatically being on my site and seeing my articles - or links to them in the sidebar or elsewhere - than on an online writing site.

- It can get lonely - I have to often comment on blogs posts on other more active sites to feel more a part of a community and to communicate with other bloggers, if I don't yet have too many comments on my own blog (that I could then just reply to on my own site.)

- Advertising my site (using free methods or methods that are not free) takes quite a bit more time than it takes simply being active on an online writing site (being active on an online writing site involves being interested in other people's posts, leaving comments, making new friends, etc.) Being active on an online writing site often easily generates interest in your articles you have published on that site.

Advantages:
(of writing on my own site, and, thereby, highlighting the disadvantages of writing on an online writing site.)

- I don't have to share my Adsense earnings with the owner/s of the writing site. The site is my own, so I get all the Adsense earnings.

- I don't have to worry about getting banned from a writing site for making a mistake.

- I don't have to worry about getting banned from a writing site for lack of activity.

- I don't have to worry that my articles need to be a minimum amount - or maximum amount - of words.

- I don't have to worry too much about the quality of my writing having to pass certain standards before it is allowed to be published.

- I can write on virtually any topic I please to write on (within Adsense terms and conditions, but generally any topic, instead of some writing sites possibly limiting what or how I write.)

- I don't have to worry about understanding all the rules of a writing site, because the site is my own and I make my own rules, or, there are no rules.

- I can use affiliate and referral links in articles on my own site, as much as I please to.

- I can link to my other articles or even other sites as much as I please to, in articles on my own sites.

- I can advertise a product I sell or a service I offer, as much as I please to.

- I don't need to worry about if I can include images or not in my article, or how big or small these images should be.

- I feel more important, unique and/or professional writing for my very own site - it improves my self-confidence.

Bottom line:

It's for you to decide:

if you'd prefer to publish your articles on only online writing sites;
if you'd prefer to publish your articles on only your own site/s;
if you'd prefer to publish your articles on both online writing sites and your own site/s;
if publishing articles on both online writing sites and your own site/s, which should get more of your articles;
if publishing articles on your own site/s, if you should use a totally free site like Blogger, or a site where you pay for domain registration and hosting, or if you should use both kinds of sites.

I currently have more articles on my own sites (than I have articles on online writing sites) but started my sites before I joined too many writing sites.

I add more new articles to my own sites than I add new articles to online writing sites.

My Adsense earnings from my own sites are currently much higher than my Adsense earnings from online writing sites that I belong to.

Disclaimer:
What works for me may not also work for you - you may make more money with Google Adsense than I do, you may make less - it may take you longer, it may take you not so long - it's usually the kind of topics that you write on, the style in which you write, the frequency of publishing new articles, the placing, sizes and colours of your Adsense ads, and the amount of SEO and/or marketing of your site/s or articles on online writing sites that you do, that can help your income from Adsense grow. (The more you put in the more you get out.)

SOUTH AFRICANS: Have a look at our WordPress site package that costs just R420 per year, and includes .co.za domain registration, hosting, upload of site and chosen free WordPress theme, and more. The hosting package of our small package (we do have a larger package too) is big enough for 30 to 60 or more pages of writing, especially if you do not add too many images. Write and add content to your own site, often, add Adsense ads to your site, and then also regularly use at least 40 different free ways to get visitors to your site.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

My Constant Content Earnings

2011-03-09T10:37:00.006+02:00

I have just 7 articles on Constant Content so far, but plan to submit more articles to Constant Content soon.

All 7 of my articles on Constant Content I offer with usage rights only. This means that I can also publish them on other sites, and that I can sell them again and again on Constant Content. Somebody might come along and visit Constant Content and buy one of my articles, then later another person might come along and can also buy the same article.

I decide my own selling price for my articles on Constant Content. When one is sold, Constant Content keeps 35% of the amount, and pays the remaining 65% to my PayPal account.

Constant Content writers can also sell their articles with full rights. This means that the article cannot be previously published anywhere else, and must not be published anywhere else later either, and that the buyer can do with the article whatever he or she pleases to, even attach his or her own name as the author, if he/she likes. This may sound awful to some writers, but selling an article with full rights also generally means you can sell it for considerably more than you would an article where you are offering usage rights only.

I am considering trying to write and sell some articles on Constant Content with full rights only, but for now, my 7 articles there are offered with usage rights only.

I cannot suddenly start offering them with fullrights only, as some of them are also published elsewhere.

Should I write a new article and submit it to Constant Content with full rights, and it doesn't sell after a while, I can consider changing it to usage rights only, and drop the price (even though I drop the price at least it may sell 2 or 3 or 4 or more times.)

My Constant Content Earnings:

I joined Constant Content in the middle of August 2010.

5 of my 7 articles on Constant Content have not yet been bought.

The remaining 2 have each been bought 3 times, so that's 6 article sales made.

When quite a while went by with no sales made, I dropped the prices a little.

The two articles I have sold 3 times each so far are entitled "Improve SEO by Doing Competitor Website Analysis" and "Meta Tag Relevancy is Still Important for SEO."

I sold the first one mentioned for $14, $14 and $12.

The second one mentioned I sold for $17, $17 and $15.

That's a total of $89. Less the 35% Constant Content keeps is $57.85 (currently about R399.). This is in just under 7 months. But remember this is from just having addded a total of a mere 7 articles to Constant Content, offering usage rights only, and simply just leaving them there for visitors to the site to see, and perhaps purchase. These articles can still earn me more on Constant Content, if more people come and buy them in the future.

I like to predict an earnings outcome if I had more articles on a site, even though it could never really be too accurate a prediction, it's just fun to hope or wish that my prediction could or might be correct:

For example:

2 of my 7 articles on Constant Content have been sold 3 times each or 6 times in total, in under 7 months, earning me a total of $57.85 (currently about R399)

If I had 70 articles on Constant Content, and was offering them at similar prices to what I'm selling my 7 already on Constant Content, and also offered them with usage prices only, and 20 of them sold 3 times each (60 sales in total) in under 7 months, then what?

6 sales (as currently/recently happened) = $57.86 (about R399)
vs or compared to
60 sales = $578.60 (about R3 990 in 7 months)

700 articles on Constant Content and similar happened?
600 sales = $5 786 (about R39 900 in 7 months)

That would mean roughly $826 per month (currently roughly R5 698 per month)and every month after that.

Hm, how long would it take me to write and get 700 articles accepted for publication on Constant Content? Perhaps 4 a day if I wasn't doing other work at the same time, so that would take me about 175 days, or nearly 6 months. But if I was going to earn R5 698 per month thereafter, it would be worth it. What do I risk if it doesn't work out like I would like it to? Nothing really, because if I'm offering the articles with usage rights only, I can also publish them elsewhere online.

What's also nice to know about the fact that I'm offering my current 7 articles on Constant Content with usage rights only, on Constant Content, is that I do also have these same articles on some other sites, like Factoidz, Helium, and my own sites, where they are also earning me some income.

If you want to do something similar, I suggest start with Factoidz, as Factoidz does NOT accept previously published articles, but you are welcome to republish your Factoidz articles elsewhere 30 days later. You do not sell articles on Factoidz, but can earn some extra income from publishing your articles on Factoidz by earning small amounts from pageviews of your articles there, due to Factoidz sharing their ad revenue with you.) Also check their conditions and terms of use (that relates to any site, actually) as sites sometimes change their conditions and terms of use without notification. It is your duty to check a site's conditions and terms of use from time to time, to stay up to date with any changes made, and to avoid getting banned from being a member at the site.

You may also find this article helpful:
I Sold an Article on Constant Content the Day After Joining

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Online Earnings Report for February 2011

2011-03-01T16:18:00.005+02:00

South Africans really can earn money online. I'm a South African, living right here in sunny South Africa, and I earn money online.

I started writing an online earnings report each month from August 2010, so that I can easily refer back to my other reports and see how my online earnings are growing. The reports are also to show South Africans, or anyone wishing to earn money online, that it is possible. The online earnings reports are also to show people that with a bit of time and effort invested, online earnings can grow.

Each one of my earlier reports usually has some other helpful information or advice too, and links to follow for further advice and info. Just about anyone who has a computer and Internet connection can make money online. And sometimes there's no other cost involved. It certainly helps to have your own website or blog or two, but it's not totally required.

My online earnings for August 2010 (6 months ago) were R580.21

You can link to some of my other earlier monthly online earnings reports from my January 2011 online earnings report. January earnings were my previous best. Yeah, that's right, February earnings were higher, even though February 2011 had 28 days in it compared to January's 31 days :)

Okay, let's get to the earnings report for February 2010:

Of my total passive income earnings for February 2011, R980.31 came from Adsense. (Currently about $140.15 according to a currency converter that I used today)

Most of the R980.31 came from Adsense on my own sites, and in particular from sites I have where I pay for hosting and domain registration, and are not totally free sites like this Blogger blog (just over R40 came from this totally free Blogger site and that's not too bad since it is still quite new and does not yet have that much content on it - I have been linking to it quite a bit from my other sites, though, so I'm sure that helps too.)

But my February 2011 Adsense earnings that did not come from my own sites, came from the following sites that are free to join:

HubPages R17.40
Bukisa R2.10
Best-Reviewer R0.28
Triond R0.02
Xomba R0.01

(Total from these sites that are not my own is R19.81)

Total from my 5 Blogger blogs (4 are mine and one is Tony's) (I already mentioned the just over R40 from this free Blogger blog that you're on now (Make Money Use Internet) which is included in this total amount) is R54.77 (This fairly new Make Money Use Internet Blogger blog is obviously doing the best so far.)

So, yeah, my other 5 sites where I pay for hosting and domain registration are definitely so far doing a lot better (and currently easily cover the yearly hosting and domain registration fees, with a good profit thereafter), as their Adsense earnings make up the remaining R905.73 of the total R980.31 Adsense earnings for February 2011. A currency converter, used today, tells me that R905.73 is currently about $129.37

Read about how just one of those 5 sites makes me 18 times a year more than I pay for it.

Right, Adsense earnings report done, so let's move onto my other passive income online earnings to get a bit closer to my grand total for February 2011.

From these sites, all free to join:

Factoidz R13.89
Helium R22.22
Triond R0.83
Redgage R6.95
Constant Content R67.81

Online Earnings Report for February 2011 GRAND TOTAL:
R1078.12
(using a currency converter, today, tells me that's about $154)

South Africans, you can also earn money from Adsense in South Africa, and make money online. Just get started!

One of the nicest things about making passive income online is that, for example, I don't have to do any more work regards this passive income, and I will still earn about R1 000 per month from it.

Spending more time on it, whenever I get the chance to, is of course my plan, as then I can further increase that monthly R1 000.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Passive Income Earnings from 10 Helium Articles over 6 weeks

2011-02-26T23:07:00.002+02:00

Helium is an online writing site I joined on 11 September 2010, so that's now 5 months and 15 days ago. I earn passive income from publishing my articles on Helium. Many of these articles of mine are also published on other sites, where they also earn me a passive income, but I'm reporting on just my passive income earnings from 10 Helium articles over the last 6 weeks, for now, here.

5 weeks and 6 days ago I reported on my top ten Helium article earnings since I submitted them to Helium. These are the ten I am going to again teport on here, even though some are no longer in my top ten earners as others I have submitted have crept up into my top ten Helium article earners, shifting some of my previous top ten down a bit.

Below is the same top ten list as before, but also now including how much more they've earned me over the past 6 weeks:

Google Adsense Testimonials
Published on Helium 24 Oct 2010 - 2 months and 20 days ago
$0.99
now, 6 weeks later (so now published just over 4 months ago) has earned me a total of $1.44 so that's $0.45 in the last 6 weeks

How to help your teen start a home-based business
Published on Helium 18 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 26 days ago
$0.82
now, 6 weeks later (so now published nearly 5 and a half months ago) has earned me a total of $0.86 so that's a mere further $0.04 in the last 6 weeks

How to make extra money selling at flea markets
Published on Helium 22 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 22 days ago
$0.65
now, 6 weeks later (so now published 5 months and 1 week ago) has earned me a total of $0.74 so that is just $0.09 in the last 6 weeks

Making a passive income from online writing
Published on Helium 23 October 2010 - 2 months and 21 days ago
$0.59
now, 6 weeks later (so now published 4 months and 1 week ago) has earned me a total of $0.67 so that's $0.08 over the last 6 weeks

Tips for hosting an outdoor children's birthday party
Published on Helium 15 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 29 days ago
$0.57
this Helium article of mine is currently no longer in my top ten earners (it's now in position 11 on my top earners list, since submission) - and it has earned me just $0.01 in the last 6 weeks

Easy ways to add exercise to your day
Published on Helium 24 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 20 days ago
$0.55
a further $0.09 in the last 6 weeks, bringing the total earned to date to $0.64

How to make money selling eBooks
Published on Helium 20 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 24 days ago
$0.50
This article is another one no longer in my top ten earners since submission to Helium. It is currently in position 12 and has earned me just $0.04 over the last 6 weeks (total earnings now $0.54)

How to help a child with special projects
Published on Helium 15 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 29 days ago
$0.50
Has also dropped off my top ten earners since submission (now currently in position 13), and has earned me just $0.02 more in the last 6 weeks - total since submission $0.52

Tips for helping your child with homework
Published on Helium 28 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 16 days ago
$0.47
Still just making my top ten list in current postion 10, this article has earned me a further $0.12 in the last 6 weeks (total to date $0.59)

How Helium can improve: A writer's perspective
Published on Helium 7 Dec 2010 - 1 month and 6 days ago
$0.41
$0.38 earned in the last 6 weeks puts this article's earnings to date at $0.79

The ten article above had earned me a total of $6.05 since I first submitted them, when I added them up 6 weeks ago. Now they have earned me a further $1.32 in the last 6 weeks, bringing my total earnings from these 10, to date, since I first submitted them to Helium, to $7.37

I guess it doesn't sound like much, but what I like knowing is that they're just there, earning me a passive income (and on some other sites too, where I also have them published - their earnings I've reported on above are just from the Helium writing site.) I have other articles on Helium too; it's not just these ten I have on Helium.

For example, since 3 of the above articles are not currently on my top ten earners' list on Helium (earnings since first submitted them to Helium) which 3 are now currently in my top ten?

These 3:

Primary School Long Jump Coaching Tips
Earnings since first published on Helium 25 Nov 2010 (3 months ago) $0.71

How to Identify Comment Spam on your Blog
Earnings since first published on Helium 11 Oct 2010 (4 and a half months ago) $0.63

Fast and Easy Ways to Make Extra Money
Earnings since first published on Helium 15 Nov 2010 (3 and a half months ago) $0.61

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Adsense Earnings January 2011 Best Ever

2011-02-09T22:39:00.003+02:00

South Africans can certainly make money online with Google Adsense. I'm South African and have made money with Google Adsense and am still making money with Google Adsense.

Perhaps the money I make with Google Adsense is not a fortune, but my Adsense earnings have increased over time, and I'm pleased to announce that in January 2011 I had my best ever Adsense earnings month since I started using Adsense on my websites and blogs.

In January 2011 I made R847 with Google Adsense.

Even though this month February 2011 is three days shorter than January 2011, it looks like I might earn more than R847 this month, but even if it just comes close, I'll be happy. I don't have to do any work to earn this roughly R800 per month. I've already done the work, don't have to do anything more concerning trying to make money with Adsense, and will still earn roughly R800 per month from Adsense!

My monthly Adsense earnings were not always R800 per month though - the first few months' earnings were really small, but, slowly, as I've done more work regards it, my monthly Adsense earnings have grown!

So, because I'd like to further increase that monthly R800, I'm not going to stop working at it just yet.

Earning from Google Adsense is not just for other countries like the U.S. because South Africans can earn from Adsense too. I am. I'm self taught, and you can be too.

Read whatever you can about making money blogging and being a Google Adsense publisher, and start making some extra income for yourself!

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Help others and Earn Money

2011-01-28T14:49:00.001+02:00

If you're passionate about something, whether it's a hobby or sport, a craft, baking or cooking, gardening or psychology, home remedies or fixing cars, parenting or finances, or just like to help others, you can write about what you know and publish what you wrote online, on a writing site, or on a free blog of yours, or on a site of yours that you've paid hosting and domain registration for, and that has a unique URL (website address.)

How can writing about things I'm passionate about earn me money, and how does it help other people?

You'd be surprised how many people don't know things about certain topics, like you do - knowledge that you take for granted because you already know what's what; you've already done your learning, or have experienced a situation that you can tell others about.

Millions of people search the Internet everyday, to learn more about something. Provide content on your site or in an article on a writing site that these people can find and learn from. You're giving them free information.

You want to make it easy for people to find the information on your site, so you link to your site from other sites, you share the link to your site or article on a site on FaceBook, or you can use over 40 free ways to advertise your website.

If you have a Google Adsense publisher account, you can display ads on your site, and the ads usually link to sites that have similar content to what you've written on the same page as those ads. Although people are happy with the information you gave them on the page, they want to know even more, so they click an ad, and you earn money.

You're also helping the advertisers of those ads. People want to advertise their business to get more clients or sell more products, and their ads appear on your site. When the ads are clicked, those advertisers have to pay Google Adwords, and because you're an Adsense publisher you get a commission because their ads were displayed on your site. In other words you can help others and earn money.

So, get writing and helping others, and start earning some money for it.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Update on my Top 10 Helium article Earnings, 24 January 2011

2011-01-24T16:28:00.002+02:00

Yes, I know, it's been only 11 days since I last reported on my top 10 Helium article earnings, but I'm a bit of a stats freak, so here's the latest on my Helium article earnings:

Well, the top 4 positions didn't change, and those 4 articles have earned me a further $0.17 in the last 11 days. The top one has earned me a further $0.11 of that $0.17, and the other 3 less, but totalling a $0.17 increase for the top 4.

Previous positions 5 and 6 have traded places.

The article that was in position 10 on my top 10 Helium article earnings list 11 days ago is now in position 8, having earned me $0.10 in the last 11 days.

11 days ago, my top 10 Helium article earnings, so far, was sitting at a total of $6.05 (since I first submitted them to Helium.) Although positioning has changed a bit, all of those ten are still my top ten earners on Helium, and are now sitting at a total of $6.40, meaning that those same ten articles have earned me a further $0.35 over the last 11 days.

It may not sound like much, but since I already did the work related to these article prior to first uploading them to Helium, it's nice to say that I earned a further $0.35 over the past 11 days for them. Even while I was sleeping, I was earning.

It's nice to imagine that I already had 1 000 articles on Helium, and although I can't possibly 100% accurately predict future earnings, as it may fluctuate, it's also nice to imagine that 1 000 articles on Helium might earn me $35 every 11 days, even if I added no new articles to Helium.

I have more than these 10 articles on Helium, but am just keeping track here of the top ten, so far. Many of my Helium articles also appear on other sites where they also earn me money.

I can withdraw my Helium earnings into my PayPal account every time my Helium earnings balance reaches $25. I can request my Helium payment to be released to my PayPal account twice per month, if I have at least $25 in my Helium account.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Trade Advertising on your Site for Money, Services or Products

2011-01-22T15:39:00.004+02:00

If you've worked hard at getting a ton of traffic to your site, and it keeps getting a lot of taffic, people will be happy to advertise on your site, with a text link, or banner that links to their site.

The problem is that so many people are looking for free ways to advertise a website so they may be reluctant to pay for advertising on your site, even if you're getting loads of traffic - perhaps your content is not that related to what it is they do or sell.

Offer free advertising in exchange for services or products that the advertiser has!

Obviously you must want or need the services or products that you'll be trading the free advertising space on your site for.

Two ways to find products or services that you want or need, that you can exchange for free advertising space on your site, are:

Know or decide on a product or service that you want, then browse through search engine results for the service or product. The people who have wesites coming up on page one of search engine results are not your target market, nor are those who have good PPC ad campaigns. The sites that are only appearing on page 5 or worse of search engine results may very well have a good product or service, but there's so much competiton out there, that they're not getting good natural search engine results, and they would possibly welcome more exposure for free, on a site that is getting lots of traffic, like yours.

Contact them, trying not to have the email you send appear like spam, and put forward your proposal in a professional manner.

The second way to trade advertising on your site for services or products you'd like is to advertise this on the very site that is getting lots of traffic and on which the ads will appear. Invite people to email you with details of what they are willing to offer you for free advertising space on your site, and then you can decide if the product or service they're offering is something you want, or will be easy to resell if it's something you don't want.

Depending on the value of the service or the product you can even offer different lengths of time for which their free ad will appear.

Give people links to places where they may be able to see how much traffic your site is getting, perhaps take screenshots of traffic results that only you can usually access and display them as images on your site. Use any methods you can to prove to people that your site is getting a lot of traffic, so they know that their advertisement will be seen plenty of times.

Proving that your site gets lots of traffic may encourage people to just pay money to advertise on your site anyway, instead of you having to find or decide on which services or products there are that you would like in exchange for giving away free advertising.

Start this idea with first getting lots of traffic to your site. This list of 42 free ways to do so may help.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Basics Needed to Make Money on the Internet

2011-01-20T10:47:00.009+02:00

There are basics needed to make money on the Internet. If you already have a computer and Internet connection (those are two basics needed) it is quite possible to make money on the Internet at no further cost to you other than your time and effort, but there are a few other basics needed too, like how are you going to be paid?

It's no good getting all excited about the big online adventure you're going to undertake, without being able to receive the money you earn!

Using Google Adsense to make money on the Internet is one of the most popular and easiest ways to find your footing in your new online adventure, but to do that your Adsense account application must be accepted and you need a bank account to deposit your first Adsense check into, and all the other Adsense checks you receive after that first one.

Just a usual savings account is usually fine for you to deposit Adsense checks into, so if you don't yet have a bank account, go and get one! (Just finish reading this article first!)

Next, how to get your Adsense account application accepted?

Fill in all your details carefully and you're going to have to give the URL (website address) of one website, that Google then checks through to see if it meets all the requirements to allow you to have your Adsense account.

What? I need a website? I thought I could start out making money online with the only expenses being having a computer and Internet connection?

That's correct. You can start out making money online with only a computer and Internet connection, a bank account, and/or PayPal account, but you have to give the URL of a website you plan to put Adsense ads on when you sign up for a Google Adsense account - that does not have to be a site you've paid money for - you can use a free blogging platform like this site you're on right now, a Blogger blog.

Now another problem that may arise while waiting to see if your Adsense account application is approved is that your site needs to meet certain guidelines, some of the basic ones to remember is that it should be a family-friendly site, be fairly neat and easy for visitors to it to read what's there, and that the site should already be receiving quite a bit of daily traffic (visitors) - at least 50 a day should do it.

But I don't yet have 50 visitors a day, and I want Adsense! Boo Hoo!

Do not despair!

Some writing sites like Xomba (free to join) allow you to use the URL of your profile on their site when you sign up for an Adsense account. They sometimes have a page of instructions on their site on how to do it, or a forum where you can ask questions of the writing site staff or other members. Obviously most writing sites are getting far more than a mere 50 visitors a day.

If you do not yet have a website or blog that is getting more than 50 visitors a day, I would suggest joining a site like Xomba to help you try and get an Adsense account application approved more easily.

But I want the Adsense ads on my own website, blog, or free Blogger blog!

Hang on!

Once you have an Adsense account application approved (like if you tried through a site like Xomba and the application was accepted) you can put Adsense ads on your own site too, even if the site is not yet getting a lot of traffic - but I would encourage you to make an effort at increasing traffic to your site first, rather, or at least as soon as possible, even if you have already added some Adsense ads to your low-traffic site. One way to start trying to increase traffic to your site is by being active on a writing site like Xomba. (Don't just join a writing site with the sole purpose of trying to get an Adsense account application approved!)

On Xomba you can link to your site on your profile, beneath your comments on other people's articles, and in short bookmarks where you describe the content a visitor to your site will find on a certain page (and you link to the page.)

I would suggest get to know your way around a writing site, like Xomba, post a few articles, maybe even just 3 or 4, comment on the articles of others, then only apply for an Adsense account.

When you do have an Adsense account application approved, whether the URL you gave when you signed up was for Xomba, another writing site, one of your own paid for sites, or your totally free site like this site, a Blogger blogspot site, you do not need to give Google Adsense another URL when you want to add Adsense ads to a second and third site etc. - you just add the Adsense ads coding containing your Adsense publisher id - you create the coding for these ads within your Google Adsense account, following simple instructions.

For writing sites that you join you don't even have to create coding in your Adsense account first, you just submit your publisher id in a section in the writing site, and you get to share in the money the writing site makes from displaying Adsense ads, or the ads are rotated, sometimes showing ads with your publisher id number in them, sometimes showing ads with the writing site's publisher id number in them - or some ads on the page are the writing site's Adsense ones, and one or some are your Adsense ones.

With a Blogger blogspot blog like this one, you don't need to create coding within your Adsense account either - you just submit your Adsense publisher id in the "monetize your blog" section of your Blogger blogspot dashboard, you can just add an Adsense gadget (in the "design" section of your Blogger blogspot dashboard), choose colours for it within the gadget settings, save the settings, and publish it.

Another "basic" needed to make money on the Internet related to Adsense is that once you have an Adsense publisher account, and display the ads on your site or blog, you need to have a privacy policy in place on your site or blog, or you can risk having your Adsense publisher account shut down and get yourself banned from ever using Adsense again. There are other terms of service, terms and conditions, policies to abide by, about Google Adsense that you should check out and make sure you do everything right. Apparently getting banned from Adsense, even if it was just a mistake on your part, is an extremely difficult thing to sort out, and you may never get your Adsense account back again.

See this site's privacy policy by clicking the tab that says "privacy policy" at the top of this page next to the "home" tab. Google Adsense Publishers (you) can create a free similar/same privacy policy for your own site here.

Oh, and one more very important thing - Never click your own Adsense ads! On your own site or on your own content pages of a writing site you belong to. It's a big no-no.

Okay, let's move onto PayPal.

Get a PayPal account.

In South Africa, we need to link our PayPal account to an FNB cheque account. I didn't yet have an FNB cheque account, as I banked elsewhere, but I went and applied for an FNB cheque account at an FNB branch, and it was all relatively easy. Then I went online and linked my FNB cheque account to my PayPal account.

The steps I took to apply for an FNB cheque account and link my FNB cheque account to my PayPal account may help people from other countries too, not just residents of South Africa.

You don't need a PayPal account to receive your earnings from Google Adsense; you only need a PayPal account if you've joined sites like some writing sites that pay only via PayPal.

I hope my blog post here helps people get started with an online adventure of making money using the Internet!

It may seem all a bit overwhelming if you're just starting out - it was for me too - but take it slowly, go through the steps of setting up the basics that you need in place, always do a lot of reading about sites that you join or plan to use as your own, join the sites, get set up with your own site, even a free Blogger blogspot blog, and then move on from there, paying attention to writing well, and getting lots of traffic to your sites or to your articles on writing sites.

You'll be fine - just take the first step, and get started making money online.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

42 Free Advertising methods to Advertise your Website for Free

2011-01-19T17:06:00.024+02:00

Some of these 42 free ways to advertise your website can also be used to advertise your business for free even if you don't have a website. (Your contact details can be just a phone number or email address, instead of a link to your website or blog.)

Free online classifieds sites
Free business directories
Get a free blog, like a Blogger blogspot blog (like this one you're on now, but you can choose a different look for it) frequently update it with fresh content, and include a link to your main website in the sidebar, or near the bottom (like I have on this blog, that links through to one of my websites)
EzineArticles – write articles for EzineArticles, related to what your business or website is about, and include a link to your site in the author’s resource box at the bottom; sometimes people visit EzineArticles, use these articles on their own sites too, leaving your resource box intact, with your link to your site – try other article directory sites too
Include a link to your site on your FaceBook profile
Set up a FaceBook page on FaceBook about your business, with a link to its website; invite all your friends to like your FaceBook page, and encourage them to encourage their own friends to like the page too
Include a link to your site on your profile of any photo site you join, like Flickr or RedBubble, if they allow it
Include a link to your site on your profile of any online writing site you join, that allows it, and also within the articles you write on those online writing sites, if it's allowed
Include a link to your site on your profile of any social bookmarking site that you join, which allows it
Bookmark your site for free on bookmarking sites like Twitter, FaceBook, StumbleUpon, Xomba, RedGage, SheToldMe, and Best-Reviewer - update! You can no longer bookmark your own sites on Xomba - and SheToldMe is now charging for membership.

With Best-Reviewer, if you use your Best-Reviewer referral link to get more people to join Best-Reviewer, every page they post on Best-Reviewer to promote their own websites or blogs, will also display the link to your own main website at the bottom of their page!

In other words, if you have 10 referrals who add 2 pages of content (links with brief descriptions that link to their own sites) each day, on Best-Reviewer, that would also be 10 x 2 x 30 days = 600 pages (that you didn't even write yourself) that also display your website link!

On Best-Reviewer, (see image below) you also have the opportunity to earn some extra income if people click the Adsense ads that appear on the same pages as your link leading to your site! (on both your own Best-Reviewer pages and the pages of your referrals!)(If you're an Adsense publisher.)

Join forums that discuss topics that relate to the content on your website or blog, take part in the discussions, and have your link to your site displayed beneath your comments and discussions
Join free business networking sites
Leave decent, appropriate comments on other people’s blogs that have content related to the content on your own site, and fill in your website link details when you submit the comment (your name will be linkable to your site)
Include a resource page on your site where you link to other places offering similar services or products as your own, but perhaps in a different area so there’s less competition for your business, and ask them to link back to your site on their resources page
Be a guest writer on other people’s blogs or sites
Submit your site’s URL (website address) to many search engines and directories (where it’s free to submit URLs)
Do keyword research and do your best to include words in the articles on your site that people are searching for frequently, and that do not have too much competition so that hopefully you get a page 1 Google or Bing or Yahoo etc search result and people can link through to your site
Give away items for free, that have the link to your site displayed, or at least the text address of your site, if it cannot be made linkable, that will be displayed on other people’s computers or websites – items such as free ebooks, free stock photos, calendar desktops, screensavers, or a website you have designed for somebody
If you provide a service where you can include a link or printed website address to your site on the product, don’t forget to do it (like web design, printing or publishing)
Upload interesting videos to YouTube, that possibly relate to your site, and include a link to your site on the video, or in the text description beneath the video
Trade some working time for somebody for free ad space on their site
Use a free email service like gmail to email people who subscribe to your mailing list on your site
Include a link to your site in your email signature on all your outgoing emails
Give people who have provided you with a service or product (that you’ve appreciated or has benefited you or you business) a good testimonial that they publish on their site with a link to your site
Join a group that helps spread the word about your business by word of mouth if you do the same for them
Give talks about what your business is about
Use paper you already have at home or at work to print simple A6 flyers you can pop into people’s postboxes, or leave on the counters of businesses that allow you to
Use paper you already have at home or at work to print simple small posters you can put up in places that allow free advertising on their walls eg some shopping centres, smaller shops, clinics, waiting rooms
Use paper you already have at home or at work to print simple small posters you can put up on the inside of your car’s back window
Give away some hours of your service worktime for free, at events that have lucky draw prizes and need prized donated – make sure you clearly name your business or website on the outside of the prize envelope
Get creative and do some artwork using paints you have at home already on some tshirts, hats, scarves or other clothing you already own – wear them out and about often, also get creative with the clothing of your children, parents, siblings, spouse, cousins, friends and even pets
Use scrap materials from home to sew simple dog jackets to give to your friends for their dogs, obviously including your business name or website address on the dog’s clothing
When you go walking on the beach, write your website address in the sand with a stick (write it big)
Put a simple poster on the door of your apartment, house, or on the front gate
Open your mouth – keep your eyes and ears open for people around you who might sound like they could make good use of your business product or service, and speak to them
Recycle materials at home, or use natural free items found in your garden or at the beach, make something cute or handy, attach your website address, and give tons of them away for free, wherever you go
Do a podcast or two
Enter competitions or find places that offer awards for good services or products (if you win, try make sure your business name or website link is announced too.)
If your site is a blog, join blog aggregator sites
At school functions or other functions where you are asked to bring a plate of eats, mark the eats’ container with your business name and website address
Make handmade business cards from materials you already have at home, keep them in the car, in your bag, and in your pockets, and hand them out to everyone you talk to
Display your business name and website address in large letters on your shopping bag, so that even when you go shopping in clothes that do not display your website address, your bag could make a great conversation opener while waiting in a long boring queue.

Hopefully these 42 free ways to advertise your website for free will be helpful, and bring you lots of new customers or visitors to your site!

Do you have any ideas of your own on how to advertise your website for free? Please share your ideas in the comments below!

Is it quicker to Add Content to a Website or to a Blog?

2011-01-19T12:56:00.001+02:00

A website needs coding to make the pages appear on the Internet. So when you add content to a website you've designed or give your website designer text content to add to your site, some coding work has to be done to make the text appear on the website, on the Internet.

With a blog, if you're fairly sure of your spelling and grammar and don't need to first write offline to use a spellchecker first or a grammar checker, you just write your sentences directly in the "add a new post" part of your blog's dashboard, add a few tags, click publish, and you're done!

Even if your website designer sets up a file editing system to allow you to access certain parts of your website yourself, writing a blog post is still that much quicker when it comes to adding new content to your site.

A content management system, however, if you know what you're doing, can also be as quick as using a blog to get your content "out there" as quick as possible.

Although Tony and I design websites for others and for ourselves, when I suddenly feel like writing a new article, for me, the easiest and quickest is to just add that new article to one of my WordPress blogs or one of my Blogger blogs. I'm writing this right now, hopefully there are not too many grammar or spelling mistakes (although I can edit this post afterwards if I notice any errors), and once I'm done writing, I'm just going to add a few tags (keywords that are perhaps repeated on this page at least twice), click "publish" and a second later it will be live on the Internet for anybody who visits this site to see! Quick, hey?

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Make Money Online for Free

2011-01-19T12:16:00.001+02:00

How to make money online for free? Well, you can make money online for free just like I am doing right now! I mean right now. This Blogger blog costs me nothing. Okay I have to have a computer and an Internet connection, but that's it!

Free blogs are fun and easy to use, and you can make money online with them, for free!

How can you make money online for free with free blogs?

You can work at getting lots of traffic (visitors) to your site by doing a bit of keyword research, writing articles or posts or news on your free blogs frequently, getting links back to your blog from other sites (easy; just leave some comments on other blogs) and put ads on your site.

If you're getting a lot of traffic to your sites, your ads are going to be seen a lot, and some of the visitors will click the ads to learn more about whatever is being advertised. You earn money from having those ads on your site when they are clicked, or, in some instances, when the visitor to your site clicks the ad, and when gets to the website the ad links to, buys a product or hires the person for a service they are offering.

Making money from having a blog does not mean that you have to pay for that blog, or get a domain registered or pay for hosting. There are free blogs that you can use, like the kind I'm using right now, here, this Make Money Use Internet Blogger blog.

You can also sell something on your free Blogger blog. If you make something at home that is easy to pop in the post to buyers, you can take photos of your product, put the photos on your Blogger blog, tell people a bit about your products, and let them contact you via phone or via email, to place their order!

Maybe you take really beautiful photographs. Display them on your Blogger blog, with a watermark or something to help people not pinch them, and when people order the digital photo that they may want to use on their own site, you can remove the watermark from the one in your computer folder, and just email it to them.

You can offer a service that you provide, like freelance writing, Internet research, logo or web design.

You really can make money online for free, using free blogs. Stop spending too much time thinking about it. Just start doing it!

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Make Money from Selling your Own Websites

2011-01-19T11:20:00.002+02:00

You can make money from selling your own websites. Making money from selling your own websites is not going to earn you that much money if you don't put in the effort to learn how to go about it properly, and put in the effort to make your websites worth the higher prices you can ask for them.

It should be your own websites that you're creating and wanting to sell, not the type hosted on somebody else's website where it does not have it's own unique website address. In other words you're going to need to register a domain and get hosting for your site or sites.

Now if you don't know how to design a website or understand too much about html and CSS coding, there are some options available to you:

You can take the time to learn how to design your own websites; for free from information on the Internet is fine; you don't have to pay to learn how to design a website (Tony and I didn't; are self-taught, and even have a bit of a web design portfolio now from having designed websites for other people.)
You can hire somebody to design your website for you, giving them all your written content to upload to your site, for you.
You can learn how to use a WordPress blogsite, where you can get by without having to know much html, or any at all. Now I don't mean the WordPress sites that are totally free, hosting and all, that have addresses that end in .wordpress.com and that you get at wordpress.com - I'm talking about the free WordPress themes you get at WordPress.org that you get hosting for, and you register a unique domain name. You can learn how to get it all sorted and ready to use by yourself, or pay somebody to do it for you, where all you have to do is log in and start fiddling and adding content - like through us, our cheapest starting package is just R420, including hosting, domain registration, initial set up and more.

Now that you've decided on which kind of site you want to use, why are other people going to want to buy your site when you try sell it?

Well, they're not going to want to buy your site unless you put in some effort making your site attractive to potential buyers.

How do you make a website attractive to potential buyers, when you're trying to sell that website at a profit?

And when can you charge more than the average website seller out there?

If you have a really good domain name for your website (the website address), I guess you could try just slapping a bit of content on, and hoping that people would want to buy the site on the strength of the good domain name alone.

How do you determine what a good domain name is that others are likely to want to buy?

Well, that's another whole story, but, briefly, you need to buy and register a domain name that has words in it that many people are searching for every month. You can find out how many people are searching for certain words on the Internet every month by making free use of the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Then of course, that domain name must be available to register.

What can you do if you want to charge a higher price for your website?

You can add a few pages of content that have words that many people are searching for every month. If you do your research well, using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and any other free tools you know of or find, you may be able to have the title, description and link to your site appearing on page one of Google search results when people use those words to look for information on Google (or Bing, Yahoo, etc) - if your chosen words have a lot of competitors this is more difficult to achieve, so don't ignore the words that do not have too high a monthly search volume, as they often have less competitors. Too few though (competitors) and too low a monthly search volume could also mean that hardly anyone is looking for information about those words each month, so it can be tricky getting the balance right.

You can also start getting some links from other sites that have related information on them, to increase the page rank of your site. One of the easiest and cheapest, although time-consuming, ways to do this is to comment (decent comments; not spammy ones!) on other blogs that have similar content to your site. It helps if these blogs that you comment on have a good page rank already, have been around for a while, and get lots of traffic - you can usually tell by how frequently they post new content and the amount and frequency of comments they get, or you can do a check using a pagerank checker or using Woo Rank. They may also be using PPC advertising like Google Adwords, to help themselves get more traffic - you can check it they are on KeyWordSpy.

The content on your site should be well researched and well written, and also related to the domain name of your site. If using a html website always include meta title, meta description, and meta keywords in the coding, and a doc type declaration in the very first line of coding. If using a WordPress blog, always fill in the description area, usually found below where you write your new post, and always fill in quite a few tags in the tag section. Write titles for your articles that are related to the domain name too.

Do not put the articles on other sites too, and when you sell your website or WordPress blogsite, you can add extra charges on for the content on the site, since you have saved people the trouble of getting some content added to their new site, content that is already drawing traffic from search engines because you so nicely did the correct research to try ensure that it did! If you don't put the articles on other sites too, your buyer gets fullrights to the content, and you can charge more.

You can also give the new buyer a list of sites where you have left a comment or link back to the site.

In other words you've done a lot of work at helping the site get found easily already, and have saved the new owner of it the trouble from doing all that work himself - he gets a site, probably related to his business, that is already getting the right type of traffic he wants it to get.

Sometimes a person may not want to buy any of your websites you're selling with the aim of giving their business more exposure, but they may be wanting to buy the website because they want to put ads on the site that can earn them a passive income, like from affiliate programs or from Google Adsense, or they may want to rent out ad space on their site. They may even want to add some more articles to it, and then resell it to somebody else! It's up to them what they do with the site; once they've bought it from you, it's theirs.

You may want to let the site age for a bit before trying to sell it, so that awareness about its existence is given a chance to grow, so that traffic to it increases, so that its page rank increases. Perhaps 6 months. Longer if you want.

The more you can offer a potential buyer of your website, the more you can charge for it.

Speaking of putting Google Adsense ads on a website, you may want to do that yourself too, before you sell the site, and then just take the ads off when you sell the site as the ads would have your Adsense publisher id in them, and the new owner might want to add his own ads to the site.

What might happen, though, if you use ads on your site prior to selling it, is that you may be happy with the earnings you are making from the ads, and you may decide not to sell the site afterall. You've, in effect, created the perfect site for yourself!

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

My top 10 Helium article earnings report 13 January 2011

2011-01-13T22:36:00.003+02:00

I joined the Helium writing site on 11 September 2010, so that's 4 months and 2 days ago. I was just on the Helium site, and was checking to see if any of my Helium articles had earned $1 yet, in passive income earnings from Helium's ad revenue share, just because my articles are published on the site.

Well, not quite yet. The highest earning article has earned $0.99 from Helium since it's been published on Helium. I say "from Helium" because Helium allows its writers to republish articles elsewhere, and even to publish previously published articles too. In other words my articles on Helium are sometimes also published elsewhere online and earning me money from those sites too.

Articles submitted to Helium's Market Place section, however, cannot be previously published elsewhere, or be published anywhere else later either.

The Helium writing site made changes to their upfront payment system on 6 December 2010, which I'm not too thrilled about and I probably will no longer be using their upfront system for publishing my articles on Helium, but I'm happy to continue using Helium to publish my articles, as I can still earn passive income from them on Helium, in the regular article submission section, and can still republish these articles elsewhere, or let them be previously published ones.

My top 10 Helium article earnings (passive income from Helium ad revenue share) to date:

Google Adsense Testimonials
Published on Helium 24 Oct 2010 - 2 months and 20 days ago
$0.99

How to help your teen start a home-based business
Published on Helium 18 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 26 days ago
$0.82

How to make extra money selling at flea markets
Published on Helium 22 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 22 days ago
$0.65

Making a passive income from online writing
Published on Helium 23 October 2010 - 2 months and 21 days ago
$0.59

Tips for hosting an outdoor children's birthday party
Published on Helium 15 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 29 days ago
$0.57

Easy ways to add exercise to your day
Published on Helium 24 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 20 days ago
$0.55

How to make money selling eBooks
Published on Helium 20 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 24 days ago
$0.50

How to help a child with special projects
Published on Helium 15 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 29 days ago
$0.50

Tips for helping your child with homework
Published on Helium 28 Sept 2010 - 3 months and 16 days ago
$0.47

How Helium can improve: A writer's perspective
Published on Helium 7 Dec 2010 - 1 month and 6 days ago
$0.41

Total $6.05

These Helium writing site articles are not yet finished earning me money, and may never be, as long as they are on Helium. They keep earning me money! Cool, huh? I submit an article to Helium once, and it keeps earning me money!

I also earn more from these articles if I also have them published in other places online!

I have 76 articles on Helium, but these 10 articles above are my top 10 earners on Helium, so far.

Hop on over to the Helium writing site, and join!

Or, please email me and I'll send you an invite (tell me in the email that you would like me to send you a Helium invitation to your email address) - that way I get to earn a bit from having referred you. Thanks! (Once you join you can also invite others to join by emailing them an invite from within your Helium account, and earn a bit when they earn a bit from their articles.)

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Related articles on my Make Money Writing Online site:

My Helium Earnings
Helium Monthly Residual Payments
Helium Upront Payment System Changes Dec 2010

Make Money Online For Free list of 13 sites to help you Make Money Online

2011-01-11T01:20:00.001+02:00

This list of 13 sites or articles to help you make money online for free were selected from a list in a folder in my favourites entitled Online Income Opportunties. I have found these sites or articles very useful or inspiring in helping me make money online, and I'm sure you will too, or that they will at least inspire you to try, and help you learn the ropes.

40 websites to sell designs and photos online
The list includes sites where you can sell your photos, logo designs, web template designs and tshirt designs. Each site is given a 4 to 8 line description and you can link through to each site described.

Free streams of income opportunities
Read this powerful homepage and be inspired to make money online. The author makes money online because she was determined to find free ways to do it, to learn, work, and succeed.

Rachel's writings and more
Rachel describes how she has gone the route many people do at first, when trying to make money online, and how she has learned from her mistakes. She speaks about sites you can join that she herself has tried and tested, and that cost nothing to join. Save yourself the time (and money) of making mistakes when trying to earn money online and read what Rachael has to say about certain sites you can make money online with.

Using Google Alerts to increase website traffic
Fascinating article about how to use Google Alerts to alert you when blogs have posted new content about a topic similar to what you are interested in or write about on your own site, so that you can hop on over to that blog quickly and leave an appropriate comment with a link back to your own site.

30 cool sites to earn from online
A lovely list of sites to earn from online. Easy to read through as each one is not often give more than a 3 or 4 line description.

28 Ways to make money with your website
An amazing and descriptive list of different ways to make money with your website. Sometimes a list will include ways to increase earnings from an already existing method of making money with your website, but this list is very helpful in that it describes 28 different ways to make money with your website (and you could then still learn how to further increase those earnings.)

Google Keyword tool Redefined
A brilliant, useful and inspiring article on the writing site HubPages, by HubPages writer Misha, about using the Google Adwords Keyword tool to help you decide which keywords to use in your articles - keywords that lots of people use when they search for information on the Internet, so that lots of people find your article or articles, and hopefully click on your ads. Misha does not have many articles on HubPages, yet makes a decent monthly passive income from his HubPages articles, due to the fact that he spends a lot of time on keyword research before writing his articles.

SEO Resources where to start and a list of 30 do follow websites
If you're serious about being serious about making money online, you will realise you need to learn as much as possible about marketing your articles or sites onlines. This article on HubPages links to sites where you can learn more about search engine optimization and also lists a super list of 30 websites that allows do follow links.

Wikipedia's description of what Search Engine Optimization is

Make Money Online
This Make Money Online article on A Self Sufficient Life is written by Mr Dirty Boots and is an open and honest story of how somebody who didn't have work started to make money writing online. The article is entertaining and easy to read, and is definitely useful as it gives plenty of helpful tips about what to do to make money writing online.

8th Month Earnings Report – Xomba and Google AdSense – Dreams Do Come True

101 Ways you can write and make money online

Online Tools and Resources
This is a wonderful little tool on NoJobForMom and it gives a list of sites and ways you can make money, in various categories, including writing, affiliates, and tools to use.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Do I have to have a website or blog to make money with Adsense?

2011-01-10T21:54:00.002+02:00

People are intrigued at the idea of making money with Google Adsense, but then they do not pursue the idea as they think they need a website or blog, and they don't know much about website design or hiring a website designer, or about domain registration and website hosting, or they don't have the money to pay for their own domain name site.

They might also be a bit nervous about getting a totally free site like a Blogger blog, like this one, even though they shouldn't be!

There is an alternative though.

If people can manage to get around their Face Book account, they should pretty easily be able to get around an online writing site. Most online writing sites are free to join.

Some online witing sites share their Adsense earnings with you. If you have an Adsense account, you add your Adsense publisher id number to your writing site account when you sign up, or later, if you want, and you can add articles to the writing site, and earn a percentage of the site's Adsense earnings generated from when people read your content and click on the ads on the same pages as your content.

In other words you are helping the owner or owners of the writing site earn money by providing them with content that trigger the ads to appear, so the writing site owners reward you.

It is also sometimes easier to be accepted by Google Adsense when signing up for a Google Adsense account, if you give your profile URL of a busy writing site you have joined, instead of if you give the URL of your own site that is not yet getting more than 50 visitors a day.

Some writing sites may expect you to have an Adsense account first, but some writing sites allow you to use your profile URL to sign up to Google Adsense. Follow instructions on any writing site you join. Xomba is one writing site that has instructions for you.

The nice thing about being accepted by Google Adsense when signing up for your Adsense account using a writing site URL, is that you can then use the same publisher id to display ads on a site of yours that is not yet getting much traffic. You do not have to have a separate Adsense account for each website or blog you want to display Adsense ads on. You simply add the URL of the site within your Adsense account. Actually, you don't even have to do that to earn; you just add the URL so that you can check from time to time to see if that site is getting traffic, impressions or clicks.

Besides Xomba, some other writing sites that share their Adsense revenue with you are:

HubPages
Triond
Bukisa

A bookmarking site is a site you can use to write just a few words (sometimes as little as 50) about an article you have written elsewhere, and link to it, and some of these bookmarking sites also share their Adsense revenue with you, like She Told Me and Best Reviewer.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

What is Adsense?

2011-01-10T21:06:00.002+02:00

Google Adsense is a program people sign up for. They get a Google Adsense publisher id number, are known as an Adsense publisher, and they display ads on the pages of their websites or blogs. When people click an ad to go visit the site that the ad links to, the Adsense publisher earns a commission.

What do Adsense ads look like?

You know when you use Google to search for information about something? On the page of search results that come up, you will sometimes see results at the very top of the page, and sometimes on the right too. These are Adwords ads that are displaying on Google.

If you have an Adsense account you are allowed to display these Adwords ads on the pages of your sites or blogs. Customization of the ads is possible, where you can change the colour of the text, the colour of the title text, the colour of the description text, the colour of the URL link text, as well as the background colour and border if you want one. You can even have images displayed instead of text.

Adsense publishers are allowed to display three Adsense blocks on each page of their site, as well as three link units. Depending on their preference, some Adsense publishers display all 6, or just one or two. It's up to them.

Google monitors Adsense accounts closely, records your IP address, and knows if you click your own Adsense ads, so do not do it! You risk getting banned from having an Adsense account.

Google Adsense is free to join.

There are quite a few rules to go through when trying to make sure you do not do anything wrong to risk getting banned from using Google Adsense, but it's a popular way of making money online, and can be well worth the effort of becoming familiar with the Adsense policies, conditions and rules.

Within your Adsense account you can add the URLs (the link to the page, seen and found in the browser bar right at the top of your computer screen) of the pages you have your Adsense ads on, and you can log in from time to time (or a few times a day if you like!) to monitor which pages of your sites are getting impressions and clicks. You can see how much money you are earning and which of your pages are doing well, and which are not doing so well.

You are allowed to publicly share with others how much you are earning but you are not allowed to disclose your click through rate. Click through rate is for example 10% if for every 10 times a page with an ad on receives an impression (is seen) the ad is clicked once.

Go through Adsense rules carefully to learn what you can and can not tell others about it.

In South Africa you have to earn R1 000 before Google posts a cheque to the physical address you gave when you signed up.

It took me a year (while not knowing much about Adsense at all) to earn my first R1 000. cheque. Since then it has been every three months and I am due to receive my fifth Google Adsense cheque soon. I am almost almost managing to get the three months between cheques down to being only two months between them, and, obviously my aim is to not only try to get a Google Adsense cheque every month, but to try let that monthly cheque be considerably more than R1 000. per month.

Some people really struggle to earn much with Adsense, while others are thriving, especially in the U.S. However, there are actually some South Africans who manage to earn over R10 000. per month with Adsense.

Using Adsense is not simply a matter of putting the ads on your site and expecting the money to roll in.

The text in the Adsense ads automatically generally relates to the text content you have on the pages of your site or blog. Some research and learning is needed to be able to put words in your titles and text that people are searching for quite often. If your topic does not have too much competition (there are not too many other sites that have similar information) you may manage to get the link and description to your page appearing on the first page of Google results - the natural search results ten results per page - for free, without using Adwords to get an ad linking to your site displayed there in the results.

Also, depending on which keywords you've chosen to target when you write your article on your site or blog, how much you earn when somebody clicks an ad on your page could be different amounts. Sometimes you may get next to nothing, and sometimes a reasonable amount. It helps to do research into which kinds of words might generate higher paying ads on your pages, and how much competiton those words have.

If you have an Adwords ad appearing on Google search results and somebody clicks it to visit your site, you pay for that click, whereas you do not pay if your link and description result on Google search results is a natural search result and somebody clicks the link to visit your site. Well, you might not pay in money, but it can cost quite a bit of time doing research and working on trying to get a Google page one natural search result.

Of course, having a natural search result on page one of Google search results is not the only way to get free traffic (visitors) to your site.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

What is a Blogger blog or Blogspot blog?

2011-01-10T19:37:00.001+02:00

A Blogger blog is a blog just like this one. A Blogger blog's URL address ends in blogspot.com like the URL address of this blog is http://makemoneyuseinternet.blogspot.com/

Blogger blogs are free and you don't have to register or pay for a domain name or pay for hosting of the site. You don't need to know how to design a website to manage your Blogger blog.

You can also register a domain and get hosting (pay for domain registration and hosting), and still use a Blogger blog, except that then your website address will be nice and unique just like a regular self-hosted website, and your website address will not end in blogspot.com - I have not tried this with a Blogger blog, yet. I have with a WordPress blog, though (register a domain name and pay for hosting, even though I use a free WordPress theme.)

My other totally free Blogger blogs are:

Teresa Schultz and East London Photographs and Wild Ramblings.

Tony also uses a totally free Blogger blog Tony Flanigan.

Each of the three Blogger blogs I link to above have a different "look." There are a few different themes you can choose from (how your site will look) and you can also choose a background image from the choices available. You can have the background image showing through the text by choosing that the main section be transparent, or you can just have the edges of the background image showing.

There are quite a few options to play with in the template designer section of your Blogger dashboard, and it can be quite fun creating the look of your blog.

It's very easy to get a Blogger blog. Get a Google account and then get a Blogger blog. You can use your same Google account log in details for your gmail account and Blogger account. I use Blogger, gmail, Adsense and I even tried Adwords a bit, recently.

Once you have a Google Adsense account, you can add your Adsense publisher ID to your blog, and display Adsense ads on your blog, in an effort to earn some extra income.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

How many sites do I have about making money online?

2011-01-10T18:13:00.002+02:00

Besides this Make Money Use Internet Blogger blog, I also have 2 other sites that have information about making money online. They are not exclusively about making money online, but also have articles telling you other ways you can work from home, that do not involve computers or the Internet at all - unless of course you want to use the Internet to advertise what it is you do from home!

So, actually, even if your work from home idea is not something you do online, you can still say Make Money Use Internet applies, as advertising your product or services online is a way you make money using the Internet.

The two work from home ideas sites I have that include some information about making money online are Work from Home Ideas and Work at Home Jobs.

Work at Home Jobs is a little older than Work from Home Ideas. Work at Home Jobs is a WordPress blog I added to my main website 1pic4twenty after I realised that a particular page on 1pic4twenty was getting quite a lot of traffic (visitors.) It is a page that has a long list of work from home ideas, in alphabetical order.

The amount of traffic to my list of work from home ideas page is probably not wonderful by global standards, but it is often the most visited page on my main site, indicating that people are looking for ideas on how they can make money at home.

Well, since Tony and I make money at home, I thought we should try help others how to make money at home too. We know many people are struggling to find work, or struggling to earn some extra income, and that if they have a computer and Internet connection, they can make money online.

Of course getting more traffic to my site (and now my sites) was also in my mind: not only could the services Tony and I offer gain more exposure by having these people see our links to more details about our services, but we could also earn some extra income by placing Google Adsense ads on our pages, and affiliate program ads too, if we wanted to.

So, we added Work at Home Jobs to our main site, on the same host server, to save money (instead of getting a new domain and hosting package for it.) Work at Home Jobs is a WordPress blog. We selected a free theme from over 1 000, and set it up on our main site.

Work at Home Jobs is quite similar to our Work from Home Ideas website, when we're speaking about the content on these sites, except that the content is added in different ways. If you don't know html coding then it's easier to add content to a WordPress blog than to design a website. Although I'm fairly happy with where I've placed my Google Adsense ads on my Work at Home Jobs site, I wanted a bit more freedom with choosing where I put the ads, and so the Work from Home Ideas site came into being - also because of realising that quite a few people search for "work from home ideas" on the Internet due to the traffic to our page with a list of work from home ideas, on our main site.

Then, after realising that search engines like Google favour (this is South Africa otherwise I would write "favor" instead of "favour" - South Africans and people from the U.K. use favour instead of favor, but if I'm doing a writing assignement for somebody that lives in the U.S. I would use favor) niche sites that have a lot of content related to the title of the site, I started another site called Make Money Writing Online (which is only about making money writing online, even though it can split further into a section about making passive income from writing online, or making money from freelance writing for clients on freelance job sites or privately.)

So, with this site, that's 4 sites I have about making money online, even though it's only this one and the Make Money Writing Online one that are exlusively about using the Internet to make money online.

I also write articles on writing sites about making money online.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011

Make Money Use Internet

2011-01-10T14:32:00.010+02:00

Welcome to our new blog, Make Money Use Internet. Yeah, we have other free Blogger blogs too, as well as WordPress blogs that are not free - well, the WordPress themes are free, but we pay for hosting and domain registration. There are totally free WordPress blogs available, where one does not even have to pay for hosting or domain registration, but we prefer to have our own unique domain name for our WordPress blogs, and like to place ads on our WordPress blogs.

We have a few websites too, self-designed using html and CSS.

Who are we?

We are Terry and Tony of TnT Unleashed in South Africa, and we work from home, making money using the Internet. We're currently almost 51 (Tony) and 41 and a half (me, Terry.)

How do we make money using the Internet?

We're self taught freelance web designers. Web design is the main work we do, but we do also make money using the Internet in other ways too.

We started our little work from home freelance web design business in February 2008. From there, slowly growing our web design portfolio, we branched out into other work from home ideas too.

We also make money through freelance writing and writing online, on our own sites, as well as on online writing sites that we join. We also do photo editing, Internet research, on page search engine optimization, and pretty much anything that goes with these different job descriptions!

We do work locally, here in South Africa where we live, and also for International clients, mostly through the freelance job site, oDesk.

We have found that there are many people struggling to find work, or at least struggling to make some extra income that can improve their financial situations, not just here in South Africa.

Many of the articles that we write for our own sites and for online writing sites are about how others can also make money online, or at home, even offline.

It is so often that all one needs to make money at home is to have a computer and Internet connection (the only costs involved,) but the problem comes in when people don't want to spend time reading and learning how to make money on the Internet, or from home, offline. There is so much free information all over the Internet. Just about anyone can make money if they only try.

We got desperate enough looking for work and not finding any work to try to make money on the Internet. We had to read and learn a lot along the way, and we still have to read and learn a lot along the way. We're not yet making as much as we would like to, and at times it's quite a struggle just paying the bills, but our efforts are starting to pay off, and we're so glad we made the effort to try make money online, and that we stuck to it.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011