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Latest nofollow stir

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:31:00 +0000

After it was announced that nofollow no longer blocks page rank lot's of people made a lot of mess about it. My advice is simple: if its not broken, don't fix it.

Kontera vs Infolinks vs Vibrant Media

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:54:00 +0000

I decided to give these networks a shot on some of the sites. They complement adsense very well.

So far Vibrant and Infolinks seem to give highest income at around 35% adsense income level. Kontera is far back with only 15% compared to adsense.

If you want to easilly rise the income on your sites I recommend experimenting with these sites.

Images in Posts - The Unrevealed Treasure

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:41:00 +0000

Recently I created a site for test where my goal was to include an image in each post. I made 50 posts and got the site indexed. Site started getting some search engine traffic then after 3 weeks explosion happened.

Site suddenly started getting around 1000 visitors per day from Google Images alone.

I've put some Adsense on it to see if that will convert - result is $15 a day :)

Amazing considering the whole site cost around $150 to make.

Bought two sites in foreign language

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:17:00 +0000

I have just bought two Turkish sites. I do not speak Turkish so you must be asking why have I bought these sites.

Well first of all they get about 3,00o unique both, 99% being search engine traffic! That's not too bad.

They also rank first page for their keywords. And there are 160million Turks out there. That's a lot of potential.

I am either going to keep them for long term potential or flip them for profit soon. If you have ideas on how to monetize them, shoot :)

Oh and then sites are Komik Sözler and Aşk Sözleri !

Outsource, Outsource and Outsource

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:24:00 +0000

Let's face it. A busy netvestor will have a dozen of sites under his belt, and managing them all can be really hard. From reading analytics data, managing adsense and adwords to SEO and marketing, you will be done pretty much for the whole day.

That's where outsourcing comes into play.

You can find very cheap services offered at DigitalPoint and to some extent SitePoint Forums from article writing, link building, web design, site installation etc. The latest deal I got was to install a WordPress blog and write 50 articles about a niche for $200. Those 5o articles will give you unique content for almost two months. And if you did your keyword research well, you can be sure that you traffic will start to climb slowly but steadily. At very least if you are not satisfied with the site you can sell it at the same forums to get you investment back. To sell a site for $200 it will need to make around $0.50 a dey on adsense in average.

Outsourcing prolongs your day from 24h to 48h. Start using it now.

Hubpages are really great

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:30:00 +0000

I have been doing a lot of experimenting with hubpages and I can say they are really great.

Find a longtail low competition keyword, and create an article about it on hubapges. It will rank extremely well, extremely fast.

Spread or Climb - Decide your strategy

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:22:00 +0000

Past few months I have been experimenting with two possible internet marketing strategies. One is to go wide and one is to go high. Here are my thoughts.

Going wide:
+ lot of independent sources of revenue
+ possible automation of tasks
- low income

Going high:
+ dedicated project
+ quality of content
+ quality of backlinks
+ high income
- if you missed the niche you are going to regret it
- risk

More tricks fo the trade: Adsense, YPN, buying websites

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:23:00 +0000

Yesterday I had a first $10 adsense day. Not bad, took me few months though. Of course I already had $100 days with affiliate sales but this is first time with adsense.

One of my sites really took off with Adsense earnings. Thing I noticed: The amount of visits have not changed, the price for the ads did. I am using adlink and in the beginning it was miserable. 1 or 2 cents a click. But then google figured out what people like to click and what pays well. And they started rotating better links. Now click is 11 cents. that's ten times more. Therefore my $10.

I've heard that Yahoo's YPN pays even more then Adsense. I do not know whether this was true, and YPN is still in beta and for US citizens only. The rumor made sense since the minimum bid on Yahoo network was 10 cents in contrast to Google's 1 cent. But recently Yahoo switched to 1 cent model too. Worth a try if you are from US.

I bought another website! Yee. It's called ZoomWallpapers.com. I always wanted to have a wallpapers site. You can find some pretty cool backgrounds there like Star Wars wallpapers, interesting space backgrounds, perhaps pick a transformers wallpaper, find a background for your website or maybe interested in Vanessa Hudgens pictures? It's all there in one place, that's the beauty of wallpaper sites. The previous owner was earning about $3-$5 per day. Since I took it over it fell down to only $0.10 per day. Why?

I got rid of ads that were literally all around the place. I moved them away because I want the site first to be a usable resource. And this will take some time.

You need to have faith in what you do. Netvestor over and out.

Tricks of the trade

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:27:00 +0000

It's been a while since the last update as I was busy, a lot :)

I am slowly catching up with this game called website investing and it's major fun.

My first two sites Wii Finder and Wii in Stock, after a huge success in December, are getting back to former performance. My new sites Fly The Copter Game and ScriptCopy are slowly gaining both in visitors and revenue.

So I am there at about $10 per day. That only 300 times less then my goal $3000 per day, lol.

This proves only one thing. Knowledge is essential, but patience even more so.

Netvestor on a break

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:49:00 +0000

Most of you have probably noticed that I do not post as much as I used to.

Reason for this is the overwhelming amount of work. You know that I quit my job in December and decided to create streams of passive income from online ventures alone. I have a lot of energy but it gets spread out on not less then 13 websites I am maintaining right now, 3 of them being major projects.

The Internet Market is one of the most quickly developing markets in the world today. To stay competitive, an enormous amount of information has to be followed every day. This is taking it's toll on me and I need a little break away from the madness. The articles presented on this blog are a very sold base for anyone to start investing in websites. Having lot less knowledge then I have now I managed to earn $1500 in December out of two months old website. So everyone can do it it's dedication that matters.

To the readers who have been following the latest series of articles, the newest free development/promotion website that is showing better results then anything I have seen before is scribd.com. Out of other sites, Jimdo came out of nowhere these days and is ranking very well. Surely to keep an eye on.

Online dev platforms experiment continued...

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:16:00 +0000

In my first post I outlined six online development platforms and decided to make a test by creating the same page on all of them and see which ranks better.

After ten days have passed, I have some preliminary results. Best to rank for hidden word 'lovtexmes' was weebly site and then the standalone site cutecoco.com.

Best to rank for the whole keyword was cutecoco.com with around position 550 on google (yes terrible).

But there seems to be another contender in this game and the things get really exciting.

What insane person designed comment feature on Blogger?

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:27:00 +0000

In this off-topic and unrelated rant, I just want to express my utter frustration with comment feature on blogger blogs. It seems like it was made by monkeys and designed by cows.

How could anyone in their sense for usability create a blog comment feature that takes you to another page, where you do not even see the post you are commenting on and figuring out how to sign is harder then launching a rocket to the moon. And you can not even automatically link to your website!

Come on Google, it is your reputation at stake! Do something about and do something quick!

I expect this post to have zero comments, and I sympathize with you.

Starting a PPC campaign with Adwords and YSM

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:24:00 +0000

I have decided to expand my marketing by introducing PPC (pay-per-click) campaigns. Since I earned a solid amount of money last month I wish to reinvest some of it while learning the new tricks of the trade.

What is PPC and how does PPC work

Basically, PPC works like this. You make an advertisement. This advertisement appears on places you choose, like search engines and websites. You of course have total control of what keywords you want to promote through that advertisement. Then you decide how much you want to pay for one click on your add. This is called the bid. Depending on your bid and other people's bids for the same keyword your ad will be displayed in a better (or worse) position.

Let's say you decide to pay 10 cents for one click. That means it will cost $10 to have 100 visitors to your site. If by conversion methods you can earn more then $10 then you have a profitable campaign and vice versa. When you get it profitable you can reinvest all the money you earn to have more ads for more people until you hit an equilibrium between cost of advertising and money earned. Of course you can improve conversion or find better sources of income for visitors and the game starts over.

Setting up a PPC campaigns with Google and Yahoo

I decided to use Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing advertising networks. These are the two strongest networks from two strongest search engines in the world today.

If you haven't signed up with those yet, I suggest you search the net for coupons first. Both networks have them so try searching for "adwords coupons" and "yahoo search marketing coupons". You will generally find Google Coupons of about $50 worth and Yahoo coupons of hefty $100. This is "free money" and you should use it.

Setting up an account with these two providers will still cost you a little money from your credit card. $10 to start an account with Adwords and $30 for Yahoo. But if you take all the coupons you will end up with $190 of ads money to spend for the cost of $40. $190 could relate to around 2,000 very targeted visitors.

That is and isn't a lot. Depending on your niche, you will have to earn more then $200 from 2,000 visitors. Good thing is that's 2,000 very interested people in your product but it all comes down to niche and conversion from there.

How to start a first PPC campaign

After setting accounts with Adwords and YSM, you are ready to create your first advertisements. This will be a purpose of another article, but let me just give you a hot tip. Google has excellent advertising support team and you can basically take it from there. Ask them directly (you will find a link in your Adwords screen) to help you create an advertising campaign that will suit your needs and usually within a week you will get an useful answer and a ready campaign from one of their experts. It pays for Google to spend money helping you, because ultimately you will be spending more money helping them.

Roundup of six online website development platforms

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:18:00 +0000

I have been doing research lately in order to find a best free website development platform on the net, suitable for business of website investing (with zero investment in funds).

I have had a lot of success with Weebly, but it has it's limitations. So after extensive research I have come up with a list of six sites:

Weebly.com
GooglePages.com
SynthaSite.com
Jimdo.com
SiteKreator.com
Webnode.com

All these site have in common the fact they are free to use, provide some kind of web site development tools and are also ad-free. That means all the ads on the site will be run by us, unlike on sites like Squidoo or Sampa.

You can read a review about Weebly and GooglePages in my previous posts. Out of the new contenders SynthaSite and Webnode seem to have most potential, with Jimdo following and SiteKreator on the back end.

In order to test the sites development and SEO capabilities I have created an experiment. A test page that I shared on all of these platforms. That way I can monitor website ranking for the same keyword and notice which does the best. The keyword phrase I am targeting is "Love Text Messages".

Here are the sites:

I have also included a self-hosted site on a domain cutecoco.com for comparison purposes. So the game is on and I'll be closely monitoring the results these platforms provide for their sites.

New and improved, Year 2008

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:04:00 +0000

I hope you all had good fun celebrating new 2008. I myself withdrew to my little island sanctuary in the Adriatic sea and pondered about things to come in this year. I have started so many endeavors and I have a feeling this is going to be a really great year.

So what is going on with Netvestor

December was really a great month when website investing is in question. Thanks to holidays and spending habits, my Wii Finder site made just shy of $1500 in December. It took position number one in Google and held it for couple of days and then after holidays it fell down and the shopping spree fell down so that was like a very good timing.

I have rearranged ScriptCopy and although this site did not earn anything significant yet, I am sure it will. I have increased the traffic by 50% by modifying the site structure and adding new content.

You will notice that I have also added adsense to this blog, and I am curious how will that work.

I have removed my little earnings widget on the side, since daily earnings are now around $2, down from $57 and I do not want it to be depressing. Because things are going in good direction, it is like a tiger crouching before leaping.

I am also doing a lot of work on my main blog which I kindly invite you to visit. You will find a lot of interesting information there and of course, some good webmaster resources.

For the end here is a little reminder to some of the Netvestor's best blog posts of last year just in case you missed them.

How to double AdSense income in one day

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:17:00 +0000

Having become an adsense publisher I have instantly encountered a need for better conversion. Far too many sites write about ad placement and blending that are supposed to give you better conversion rates. OK I admit there is something to it, but not one of these tips is 100% sure simply because web sites are different. You need to test it and testing takes time and I am sometimes impatient. So I did what I do in these cases - discover a better and repeatable way on my own.

Here are two simple tricks that will almost double your conversion and will work all the time.

Understanding how does Adsense work

When you put adsense code on your site, it analyzes the content of the page, mainly the title and neighboring content and decides upon relevant keywords. I already written how to manually set relevant keywords. Then based on advertiser bids for given keyword ads are displayed, usually highest bidders first and so on. This is a win-win system when it works, because you get the most money from the clicks and the advertiser is sure to get the traffic they payed for.

But often, in order to get more traffic or just out of pure lack of knowledge, the advertisers bid for keywords that are remotely relevant to their website. That means it will be remotely relevant to your visitors too. I had the luck to discover this early because I run a site that is about Nintendo Wii. The console is in large demand and is out of stock almost everywhere. That's why most of the Wii advertisers withdrew their bids or lowered them - they could not convert the traffic simply because the console is out of stock. This in turn caused that when I included adsense, I was getting ads for xbox, playstation 3 and other products my visitors did not want to see.

Now someone will argue that's still great because I was getting the highest paying ads. But here is the crucial thing. It is revenue that matters not ad cost per click. Would you rather take 1 click on $1 paying ad or 20 clicks on $0.10 paying ad?

How to turn things to your advantage

I decided it is far more important for visitors to receive relevant ads then cost per click of single ad. I monitored the ads appearing on my site and wrote down all that were not relevant to the content of my site.

Then I went to my adsense account and under Adsense Setup there is a menu called Competitive Ad Filter.This very option allows you to enter all sites you do not want ads to be displayed from. Wait a couple of hours for changes to take effect and there you go, only relevant ads displayed. This means happier customers, more clicks and more income to you.

There is also another trick. You can specifically tell adsense which sections of your site you do not want to be considered for generating keywords for your ads. Simply put these two html tags around irrelevant text.

< !-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->

This text would be ignored for determining adsense keywords because it contains irrelevant information and I do not want it

< !-- google_ad_section_end -->

(when pasting remove the space between '<' and '!' characters on the beginning)

Using these simple techniques I have literally seen increase of income by 100%.

Remember, when in doubt always try to give your visitors what they want, not what you want. You can never go wrong with that.

One last note, when you are monitoring what ads not to display, do not click on the ad to get website url. You can get banned for clicking on your own ads. Usually the site is the same as the url written or you can try other ways to find out the target site.

Running adsense through an iframe widget

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:47:00 +0000

This is a little known adsense technique used to accomplish two things. First is to run adsense with precise keywords that you select, and second is to run adsense where otherwise it would not be possible, like for example on Weebly.

As you know problem with weebly is that it does not support direct Javascript inserts. Adsense code needs to be pasted in the same format you get it. But weebly reformats it when you paste it and thus makes it unusable.

However weebly supports widgets and there is an adsense widget that allows you to configure your ads.Pretty much the same way you would normally. Enter your adsense publisher id and channel id (to track performance), decide on the size of the widget (give it a little room for ads to display) and choose your keywords. When you are done just paste the widget code into weebly's custom html component and there you have it, adsense running on weebly or any other similar development platform. You can see ads running on Wii Finder.

Running Adsense through a widget has one crucial advantage mentioned before. You get to choose exactly what keywords you want Adsense to run on! As long as you have keywords that target your page's content you should be all right with adsense TOS. I have written to adsense support about it to make sure, and truth be told they did not give me a straight answer. It was in the lines of "Thanks for trying to make sure you are withing adsense tos. Please take a look at help and google groups for an answer.". I posted the questions in adsense group but nobody answered. The widget author says it's legal, Google didn't say it wasn't so I guess it is 75% sure.

Call out to subscribers

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:55:00 +0000

Generally I see interest in what I write about but I haven't met a quitter bunch of people then you, my subscribers. There are about 30 of you right now and you are all very shy. No comments on the blog or posts, not even of shut up kind.

This is a call for you to come and leave a comment. Describe who you are, what you do, leave a link to your blog or site. I want to meet you and see what are you up to. Let's discuss about things and techniques you use and what would you like me to concentrate more on. You can also leave a vote on a little age poll I have going on the site to see who is listening. I hope this works :)

Reinvest thy money, buy a website!

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:57:00 +0000

Since my Wii Finder project is going on very well I decided to reinvest the money earned and bought a website.

Reasoning behind that is simple. Worst your money can do is just lie around and do nothing. There are many ways to reinvest money and since this is website investing blog, I will be talking about buying websites. You can also consider for example buying marketing services.

A website can be found for sale in many different ways. Easiest is searching around auctions on forums like Sitepoint and Digitalpoint (here is the list of all webmaster forums).

You will soon discover there are a lot of websites for sale. What I recommend is to avoid everything related to adult and gambling related topics, web and image hosting, game arcade scripts and proxy servers. I think this covers 90% of advertised sites and now when you are cleared of those you have selection of nice sites left.

Next step is to decide whether or not the site can justify the price it is being sold for. This involves analyzing the traffic stats, backlinks, brandability etc. I am leaving this topic for in-depth coverage later.

After that you should decide whether you can do anything about the site to increase it's present income. This topics covers everything from SEO to Marketing.

Let's make an example of the site I just got. It is called ScriptCopy.com and it is useful when you want to find a clone script of a popular site. Let's say you want to start your own digg or facebook site, you will need a script to run it. And exactly this is what you will find on ScriptCopy.

Now, I bought the site that was functioning as a link bid directory. That means all links for the scripts in the site had to be payed for. That's complete nonsense to me and the first thing I am changing is allowing everyone to put a link to their script for free. You must be crazy how will you earn money, you are thinking? I am keeping sponsorship option for those who want their script to be featured. At present time site is having about 200+ unique and targeted visits per day. It also earns close to nothing.

I already changed the way links are added and I think this will add more value to the people. I also removed main page adsense and replaced it to script pages. I did a fair bit of optimization. I also have put the affiliate link for HostGator, great hosting company I am using to run ScriptCopy on. My plan is to make $60-70 a month for starters let's see if I can do it.

Little about Netvestor

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:24:00 +0000

I just realized I never had the opportunity to discuss a little bit why am I involved in website investing, what are my goals and why do I write about this.

First of all, you should know that I am a software engineer and have been working with computers for more then 22 years. They defined my life in a way. I always knew that I will be making money using computers because that is what I like to do.

I have been working in software development business for a long time. This year I decided it was time for a change. I do like software development but I was getting nowhere with it. What I had was a steady job and a steady salary, I always wanted more then that.

Time for change

I begun looking for opportunities elsewhere. I have read a book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" (amazon aff. link) which I am sure many of you have heard about. If you didn't, then I suggest you read it. It will not tell you how to get rich but it will open your eyes (a big step trust me).

So first I got involved in stock market. Luckily I decided to get one of those virtual accounts first, where you get virtual money to play with. I got $5000 and I begun investigating and reading every possible book about stock market investing. That is how I always do things. I did manage to increase my account to around $15,000 but I was spending 10-12 hours a day in front of stock market charts. I was trading options which is the most profitable way of stock market trading in my opinion. But soon I was lacking time and energy (and beginner luck) to be consistent and my virtual money plummeted to 0. Luckily it was only virtual money but a lesson learned.

Real estate was a next logical step, but I was lacking funds and the banking system here is still not strong enough to support proper investing Rich dad, Poor dad style.

Then I decided it has to be something I know and soon my attention got to Internet. At first, I was drawn to domain investing. You know, buy a domain name and hope someday you will sell it for millions. That doesn't happen, unless you own earth.com which you don't. I wrote an article on domain investing a while ago and explained why is website investing better. I invested around $900 into about 110 domain names. It's an addicting game, you get drawn to it and soon you find yourself reserving every (stupid) domain name you think of. I sold only one for $100 (that was pure luck). I decided it was time to move on. I needed reliable source of income because idea of quitting my daily job was growing on me.

With so many domains lying around I got an idea to make them into websites. Once again a lengthy process begun, this time learning everything about SEO and internet marketing. Many webmaster forums are great and time consuming way to do this.

Months passed and I started getting results. When I figured I am able to earn something and repeat it consistently I decided to start this blog and teach what I learned. Many would argue that I shouldn't be doing this and keep all the secrets for my self but a) I owe part of my success to other people's published secrets b) with more competition it makes it more fun

So where am I now and where am I going

The world of website investing is very dynamic and so much new information unfolds every day. I have donated part of my profits to charity and I figure I can always earn more because it's so easy to do it. We are still at the eve of website investing and there are a lot of opportunities around. I am convinced that I can grow up very fast in this business.

What are my dreams?

My longest term goal is to travel around the world in a sailboat, Porsche Carrera GT in garage, and a charity organization of my own helping nature and living beings in need. I figure for that to happen I will have to earn around $3000 per day which is a lot, and not so really.

Netvestor makes an appearance in New York Times!

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:50:00 +0000

Today I am proud to announce that Easy Wii Finder, one of featured Netvestor projects, got mentioned in today's New York Times!

I am very happy about it and it is a welcome pat on a back saying you're doing all right boy ;)

I am even happier that this happened after I successfully resisted "the dark force" as I wrote in this article. A mention in NY Times means so much more to me.

I am filing this under marketing articles as you can see, because that's what it is! :)

Update on projects and more lessons

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:34:00 +0000

It's been pretty exciting the past few days. My projects took off and I have been very busy learning about Conversion. I admit this is the topic I know least about so I'll be passing up useful tips for you as I try them out.

Learning Affiliate Marketing

For starters I have signed in to a few affiliate marketing forums hoping to get as much information as I can. I believe "old man's" advice is the best you can get. I still can not recommend any in particular since I've been a member only for few days but you can find a list of them in Top 100 Webmaster Forums.

My main focus has been the Wii Finder. As you can see I changed the site layout and included two affiliate marketing programs - Ebay and Amazon. I offer the visitors the opportunity to buy Wii on either of these two sites which guaranteed have Wii in stock - such is the need for the console that you can't find one anywhere else! Since Weebly does not support javascript per se I only used classical links as you can see.

But here is a little tip I learned about in the meantime. You can use iframes and Weebly's custom html element to display portion of another site that is running javascript. Basically that means that you can even have Adsense running on Weebly! But I have to investigate this further first.

Easy Wii finder and Wii in Stock currently earn 100% of my daily website income which is around $45 at this moment. You will be able to monitor this information on the blog's sidebar from today.

Dark side of the force is calling Luke

One of the things I successfully fought was the temptation to offer "Free Wii consoles" . This is an affiliate program that pays $1.50 just for a visitor to sign up with their email address in hope to win a Wii.

Having in mind that my site has more then 1300 unique visitors daily, you can imagine what kind of money could be made out of it. While I do not know if you can really win a Wii or not, it looks a bit shady to me. Why would anyone sane pay $1.50 for one email address? Well certainly the reason is to promote and try to sell all kind of products and I am afraid of those ugly ones. You know the sort.

So I decided against it and actually it was easy. Just follow "would I do it myself?" rule.

Economical principles behind three different methods of conversion

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:17:00 +0000

Conversion is somewhat a hard word, but it describes process of "converting" your website's visitors into profit. If 1000 visitors comes to your site and 100 of them make you money, you have converted 10% of your visitors into money (or you have conversion rate of 10%). So with that cleared up you need to know what methods of conversion you can apply.

There are three basic ways of visitor conversion:

Sell your own product
Sell someone's product
Sell information about someone's product

Sell your own product

This is the best method of conversion. Reason for this is that your commission is 100%. You earn what you sell. While the best, it is also used by least number of people. Why is that?

People tend to think that they have nothing valuable to sell. They think of products in a too material way. But services are also a product and many have a unique skill or knowledge that can be monetized. You can also buy something at lower price and sell it at higher. Be creative.

Here are some examples for selling an own product

Sell domain names - find an attractive domain name and grab it before someone else does. Build a domain name portfolio
Write an ebook - If you have writing skills you can turn one of your passions into an ebook and sell it for value
Design themes and templates - Nowadays custom themes and templates are very popular. Create an original theme and sell it in webmaster forums
Create software and games - If you have programming skills you can write small useful applications and promote them. Fun addicting games can monetize very well too
Offer translation services - If you speak fluently several languages you can offer translation services
Sell anything you can make - This can be stickers, t-shirts, carved sculptures, earrings.

Sell someones' product

This is also called affiliating. Basically you sign up with one of the affiliate marketing programs, pick up links and banners and put them on your site. Whenever someone buys something through your link, you get a commission. Affiliate marketing commissions are in range of 3%-8% but we can say that is is around 10% for sake of comparison. That means that affiliate marketing is 10 times worse solution then selling your own product where you receive 100% commission. Most popular affiliate programs are CJ, Clickbank, Shareasale, Amazon, Ebay...

Sell information about someone's product

This is also called advertising. What you do is put advertisements on your site that take your visitors to another site, for various purposes. The most popular advertising program is Google's Adsense. Earnings through advertisements vary but are in the range of 1% commission for what you could be getting if you were selling target advertised product. This means advertisements are 10 times worser then affiliate marketing and 100 times worser then selling your own product, commission vise. Getting there?

So what's best for me?

Most beginners start with advertisements because that's easiest to setup. But if a click through an advertisement yields $1, similar affiliate marketing link could yield $10 while if you were directly selling the target product you can cash in $100. These are only rough numbers but show where the smart money is.

If you are beginner you can start with ads. If you already have ads you should consider upgrading to affiliate links. If you are already in affiliate marketing you should consider selling your products or services directly.

Another hint. It is equally difficult to sell a sticker and a diamond ring. On average every 200 users that come to your site looking for sticker or diamond ring will buy one. But your earnings on a diamond ring will be 1,000 times bigger then for the sticker. Think about that too.

Wake up call: Stop reading ebooks, time for action!

noreply@blogger.com (netvestor) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:25:00 +0000

I have a question to ask you at this point in our little journey. Do you consider yourself a serios Website Investor? Have you read all about research, development and marketing? If not go ahead and finish reading those first.

If you did, have you actually put to practice tips given there? Have you researched your keywords? Did you build a site? What was it like promoting it?

Reason I ask you all this is simple. This blog can be read as a one big e-book on Website investing. Like all e-books out there, you will find it useful, you will accept many of ideas and you will learn something new. But it is worthless until you actually do something about it! I want to urge you to stop reading e-books for a while and start doing some live action!

The best way to learn something is by practicing it. If you do not spend equal time in practice as you spend reading theory, you will be simply overwhelmed with information and you won't be able to act creatively. Your creativity will be put to hold, sealed in a corner of your brain. You have all this information at your disposal, yet are unable to find a simple way to start. This can be very frustrating if not prevented on time.

So start today and start small... Research your keywords. If you did, build a site using proper SEO techniques. Apply some of the tips and tricks I told you about. If you did then it is perhaps time to do something about marketing.

Have a great netvesting weekend!