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53 ways to make money online

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:03:00 +0000

Ways to make money online, search for it and you’ll find hunderds of them. Some are legitimate and real methods for making money online and others are scams and get rich quick schemes. In this post, you will find information about 53 legitimate ways to make money working from home, from making money with affiliate programs, blogging and freelancing to making money with ebay, earning money with online surveys and GPT programs to other simple ways to make money fast.

Although there are so many different ways to make money on the internet, making money online isn’t always easy or quick. It takes hard work and dedication. Yes, there are some online jobs that are easier than others and there are some quick(er) ways to make money, but if you want to make real money, you have to put some time and effort into it.

Earning money online is no different than making money offline. If you want to work at home, you need to have the right mind set. Forget about making money with a push of a button, free money or the magic money making method that is going to get you rich over night. Though internet itself is a virtual world, there is nothing virtual about the need to work to make money online.

Earning money online takes hard work and consistency. But, if you are willing to put enough time and effort into it, there are number of ways you can use the internet to make extra money. Here are 53 ways to make money online:

Note:
Wherever possible, I tried to provide other resources and information about some of these methods by linking to other more in dept and detailed articles, which will give you more information on how to make money online with that specific method. I hope it will be helpful.

Making Money with Affiliate Programs
This is by far the best way to make money online, at least in my opinion. You are basically selling other people’s stuff for a commission. You can find digital products like e-books and short reports to promote on sites like ClickBank and PayDotcom. Affiliate Marketing for beginners

Get Paid to Surf
Get paid to surf is kind of big on the internet. And of course scammers are all over it as well. So, be careful and make sure you register with known and trusted sites. You won’t make much money, but not much work is required either. Get paid to surf

Make Money Selling Photos Online
If you like photography and can take interesting pictures, there are many sites you can upload your images too and get paid every time someone downloads an image of yours. The good thing is that one photo can sell over and over again. Imagine the potential of having 100s of images on few sites. Make money selling photos

Get Paid Sharing Files Online
There are a couple of document sharing sites that you can upload any kind of file you own to, and every time someone downloads it, you get paid for it. The files can be in almost any format, from txt to pdf and everything else. Get paid to upload files

Earn Money as a Mystery Shopper
Mystery shopping is becoming a popular method for companies to evaluate there employees and their customer services skills. Although there are a lot of different opinions about this, mystery shopping is actually growing as an industry. You will be assigned to shop and dine in different places and report your experience back. Depending on specific assignments, you can expect to get paid anywhere from $40 to $300 or more per assignment. Of course, the amount that you spend buying goods and services will be reimbursed. Sometimes you get to keep the item you bought at no charge to you. Legitimate mystery shopping companies

Sell Unused Items on eBay and Craigslist
Almost everyone knows how to make money on ebay these days and you are probably tired of hearing about it. But the truth of the matter is that ebay is a really good way to make money. Another great place to sell unused stuff is CraigsList. CL is one of the most visited sites in the world, so your ad will get viewed by many potential buyers and its free to place an ad on CL. Look around your house and find things you don’t need and use any more. List them on ebay for a fair price. No mater how much money you end up making selling your unwanted stuff on ebay, its still better than letting them dust in your garage!

Make Money Designing Logos
Hundreds of new websites and blogs are born everyday. Most of them will need a logo, but not every site owner knows how to make a logo. If you have some design talent, you can make good money offering custom logo creations on webmaster related forums and classified ads sites. Don’t have a professional software? Use free imaging tools such as PhotoFilter to make stunning logos.

Make Money Flipping Website and Domain
Buy good domains and resell for a profit. Build a website or a blog, work on it for a while and get it going. Its Just like flipping houses, when you get the site to a good point, put it up for sale. People like websites that are ready to go, and they do pay good money for it. Hundreds of website are bought and sold every day on sites like Flippa.com

Get Paid to Take Online Surveys
One of the best ways to make money online is doing online surveys. Market research companies get paid from manufacturers and companies to gather feedback from their consumers, which they do by conducting online surveys. they then share some of that money, with those who participate in those online surveys. Although, paid survey scams have mad it harder for people to fin legitimate paid surveys sites, there are still hundreds of legitimate paid survey companies out there, willing to pay you for your opinion. Legitimate Paid Surveys

Earn Money Designing Websites
If you are good at it, why not make money doing so? There are even free softwares such as Kompozer that you can use to design and build nice looking website without any knowledge of html. Use webmaster related forums like WarriorForum and DigitalPoints to find buyers.

Make Money Designing T-Shirts and Other Customizable Items
If you are good at making up catchy phrases and cool designs, you can make a decent amount of money designing and selling T-shirts on sites like CaféPress. Get paid to design t shirts

Make Money with Digital Scrap Booking Templates
I personally don’t get this, but many People love to scrapbook, and they do pay good money for templates. Make different kinds of templates, and make it easy for people to use them.

Record Songs and Sell Online
Don’t laugh at this one! In this age of YouTube and instant super stardom, its not very far fetched to think you can become a star if you can sing. YouTube and other video sharing sites make it possible for anyone to have a chance to be discovered by record label companies.

Make Money Making MySpace Backgrounds
They are all over the internet, those ad for myspace background! And that means only one thing, there is a market for MySpace backgrounds! Creating MySpace backgrounds isn’t that hard. But, most users don’t have the time to do it or are simply lazy. You can provide them with this service and customize their MySpace pages, and charge a fee for doing so. What place better to advertise your service, than MySpace itself?…

Get Paid For Your videos
With the huge interest in videos online, there is always room for more. Create interesting videos of yourself or whatever, and upload them to Web Sites like Revver and Break. They will share a percentage of their ad revenue with you. Plus you get something for each download as well.

Get Paid To Read Emails
As the title suggest, you get paid for reading emails. Everyday you receive paid emails in your inbox with links to different websites, whcih you have to click and view for a few seconds. Not a lot of money, but its something extra. Get paid to read emails

Make Money with Reward Programs
Another one of those “quick” ways to make money online. Reward programs or as they are known online as GPT( stands for Get Paid To…) are sites that pay their members for doing variety of things. Basically you earn money for doing thing that you already do online in some way or another such as signing up for freebies, registering with interesting sites, shopping, visiting different websites ad etc.GPT site are like middle man. They get paid from advertisers to drive leads (you) to them. They then give a percentage of what they earn from their advertisers with their members. GPT Sites

Earn Money Doing Directory Submission
In order for a website or blog to be successful and make money, it needs traffic. There are many ways to work on traffic. One way is to submit your site to website directories. But, many webmaster and blogger are busy with other aspects of running a site, so they don’t have time to do this. That’s where you can come in, and offer to submit their site to directories for a fee. Use forums like SitePoints and DigitalPoint to offer your service to webmasters.

Get Paid To Review
Set up a website or a blog, and start a review site. Website owners and bloggers will pay you to post a review of their site on your site. It helps them get the word out and helps you make money. You can also pick affiliate products and review them on your site and place your affiliate link for that product in the article. Every time someone buys that product using your link, you get a commission.

Make Money with a Niche Directory
You have seen those directory sites that have a list of specific sites in different categories. Set up one for yourself. Gather a list of site and sources related to a specific niche, and list them on your site. Sell ad space to other webmasters. You can charge a monthly fee to have their ads shown on your site. BuySellAds.com is a good place to look for potential customers.

Get Paid to Search
Search engines are big money makers. No wonder every day new search engines pup up everywhere. But since they are not as big as Google and yahoo and some other engines, they pay you to use their site to search. Basically their sharing their earnings from their advertisers with you. Get paid to search

Make Extra Money Making Photo Mosaics
If you can make photo mosaics, set up a website and offer your Photo Mosaics service. You will be surprised how many people pay for these things.

Work as a Virtual Assistant
Its becoming very popular, as more and more online based businesses are born every day. People use virtual assistant for research, finding things, doing time consuming tasks, making phone calls and etc. Setup a free blog or site to offer your service.

Make Money Hosting Online Forums
Use softwares like SebFlipper to host hundreds of separate forums from a single web server. Make money by charging people to host a forum with you, or offer it for free, but show your ads on their forums and make money that way.

Get Paid To Install Applications
Most People have problem with installing different kinds of applications. If you are good at installing a particular app or a software, why not make some money while helping others?

Get Paid To Answer Questions
If you have knowledge about something (which you do, everybody knows about something that others may not know), put it to work for you. There are many websites that you can offer your expertise and knowledge in exchange for money. 11 Site To Give Advice & Answers For Money. Get paid to answer questions

Pod Casting
Think of it as a voice or video blogging. Talk about interesting topic and make money from ads shown. If you are a good speaker, provide useful information and have a nice voice, its not that hard to get hundreds of subscribers. You can use free sites like Odiogo.com to turn your blog into a podcast!

Make Money on eBay
Believe it or not, there are lots of people who don’t know how to sell on ebay. You can sell their stuff on ebay in exchange for a commission. You can take this one step farther and turn it into a bigger business by buying wholesale items and selling them individually on ebay. Don’t forget that garage sales are often good places to find worthy items for a fraction of the cost. ebay for beginners

Make Money with Focus Groups
Focus group are basically the same as paid surveys, but unlike paid surveys, most focus groups are conducted in a physical location. Focus group studies are held in most major cities. You will be in with a group of other selected people, talking and answering question about whatever product or service the study is about. You can expect to get paid from $60 to $250 for an hour to a full day of study. Paid Focus Groups

Domain Drop Shipping
Its basically selling domain registration for big domain registration sites like TuCows, which makes it easy for you to start your own private label domain registration and make money not only from the initial sale, but from renewals as well.

Create and Sell E-Books
You can make e-books about anything. If you have some knowledge about anything, whether its a recipe or a how to do this and that. Its not as hard as you think. Look at some e-books that are selling for $50-$100 or whatever, and you see what i mean (most of them are crap, but people do pay for them!). How to make an ebook for free

Make Money with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Its one of the biggest unknown ways of making money online, yet its so easy to do. You do simple tasks like differentiating pictures from text, and get paid for it. If you have enough time to invest in it, you can make good money with amazon turk. Make money with amazon mechanical turk

Get Paid to Review Softwares
WebSites like SoftwareJudge will pay you for using and reviewing any of the software available in their collection.

Make Money Blogging
Blogging is becoming increasingly popular. You can set up a blog in less than an hour. There are many free blogging platforms you can use at first. When you get comfortable, then pay for your own hosting and domain name. You can blog about anything you like, no matter how bizarre and unusual you may think it is. There is always an audience out ether. You can make money with your blog, showing ads on your blog using advertising programs like Google ad sense or selling affiliate products or even your own short reports and e-books. However, making money with blogs takes lots of work and time. You have to be patient and willing to put a lot of time and effort into it.

Earn Money Moderating a Forum
Forums are another great way to make some extra money. You probably already participate in a forum or two. Why not start a forum of your own? Pick a topic you like and build a forum based on it where people can talk about it and share their ideas and experiences about he subject with each other. You can make money showing ads. And if the forum becomes popular, you can charge people to join, or have a special room in the forum where one has to subscribe in order to participate. An example of that would be the WarRoom which only paid users of worrier forum have access to.

Get Paid For Data Entry
Not the scam one, we are talking about data entry for Google. Google pays people to take photos of businesses, and enter basic data such as hours of operation. You know how many business are located just next to your favorite grocery store? MyDataTeam

Make Money Creating Softwares
Know how to make a software? Then start writing software and plug-ins. One of the hottest plug-in markets is the blogging platforms like word press and blogger. Use forums to find out what bloggers need that you can make a plug-in for. Create your plug-in or software, and set up a free blog to advertise it.

Make Money Posting On Forums
People who start a new forums often pay people to post on their forums, so it will look active, therefore attracts more people to join the discussion. Many forums will pay up to $0.25 per post, which can be just a sentence or two. Again you can use established forums to find people who are looking for forum posters.

Ads On Forums
If you like participating in forums or are already a member of any forum, look for “ad share” sign in your user CP. Some forums offer a percentage of their earnings from ads, with their members.

Earn Money Online Translating Document
If you speak a second language, why not translate document online and offline, and get paid for it? Free classified sites are the best way to advertiser your service.

Make Money on Fiverr
Fiverr.com is a site where you can make money doing almost anything you can imagine for $5. Simply register for free and create gigs, offering people your services. Whether its singing a song for them, calling their kid and pretending to be Santa or teaching them a Spanish phrase or showing them how to make a facebook fan page, people are willing to pay you doing these things on Fiverr. You will be amazed at how easy it is to make money on Fiverr with things that you could never imagine someone paying you for it.

Get Paid to Play Games (game money)
On game sites like Farm Gold and Second Life, you can make virtual money, which can be exchanged for real money. I am sure you have heard of like Ansche Chung, which is the first person who become a millionaire, exchanging her virtual money earned from Second Life for real money, worth over a million dollar. Get paid to play games

Get Paid as a Game Tester
Very easy way to make money by doing something enjoyable. But, its hard to find legit sites that pay you to test games. If you look around hard enough, you may find a company or two. If I do find one, I will update this page and post it here. So be sure to bookmark this page and check back.

Make Money with Your Own Search Engine
Use Google to build your own custom search engine. Build a search engine for a specific topic like a search engine just for finding information related to music or what have you. To get it going, set up contests for searchers, and give a prize to the biggest searcher. You make your money when people search from your search engine and click on ads.

Make Money Freelance Writing Online
One of the most popular ways to make money online is freelance writing. You don’t need any money to invest, there is no need to own a website, (although having one helps) and best of all, you can make quick money. In most cases you get paid the same day you finish working on the project. There are tons of places online you can offer your writings. There are even some websites that pay you for writing exclusive content for them. Get paid to write

Get Paid to Comment on Blogs
In order to rank higher and attract more traffic to make money, bloggers need quality links pointing back to their blog from other blogs, more than anything else. You can do that for them by commenting on other peoples blog and charging $0.50 or so for each link back.

Become a Job Referrer
Some firms pay referral bonuses of up to $1,000 for referring the right person for a job. Develop relationships with recruiters, like temporary job finding services and refer people who you know are fit for the specific job. You can do this both online and offline.

Software Plus
Work on already developed softwares and make them better and easier to work with.

Convert Online Money
You can make money by converting, EGold money into Paypal money, etc. People charge up to 5%-10% to do the same thing.

Drop Shipping
Use sites like CaféPress to create a free storefront online and be a drop shipper. You don’t have to deal with anything but getting customer to visit your online store front.

Sell Craft and Art Work Online
Have free time on your hand and are good at making things? Well, use your skills to create art work and crafts to sell online. You can sell your art work and crafts either on ebay or classified sites, especially CraigsList.

Make Money with CPA
CPA is a much easier version of affiliate marketing, which most of the time you don’t have to sell anything. You just have to send leads to advertisers site. For example, some Advertiser will pay you up to $5, each time you send a lead to there page where the person enters an email address or a zip code in order to participate in a survey to win something. Although to get accepted by CPA networks you have to have a website or a blog, you don’t need a website or blog to make money as a CPA affiliate. CPA for beginners

Get paid to Socialize
Now that Social networking sites are becoming more popular, a lot of people want to get in the game and make money running their own social networking site. But, since they need some members to get the word out and make the site look active, they are willing to pay people to become members and post messages. Here are some social networking site you can get paid . Get paid for social networking 5 Social Networking Sites that pay you
There you have it, 53 online jobs you can use to earn money working from home. I hope this list can give you some ideas and inspirations for making money online. Please keep in mind that most of the above online money making ideas, are simply ways to make extra cash. They are not to be looked at as long term work at home business plans. Although, a few of them, like making money on ebay and making money with affiliate programs do provide fantastic work at home opportunities and are revered by many internet marketers as some of the best ways to make money online.

MTN Nigeria Pay 400, Get 1000; Untold Facts

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Lately,you might have been hearing here and there that you can use 400naira worth of airtime to get 1000naira worth of airtime. Well, that was the exact thing someone told me and I decided to give it a try.

I was told to...

MTN Magic Number: How To Register, Cost etc

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:47:00 +0000

The only thing that makes sense to me right now with regards to the new MTN Nigeria charging plans is the "Magic number".

So, What is MTN Magic Number?

MTN Magic Number allows

How to Make More than £5 Per Day with Your Google Adsense Ads

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:41:00 +0000

It is possible to start making more than £5 per day on the adsense ads displayed on your blog or website. To get this started, you will

Stopwatch: Measure a site/blog's loading time

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:44:00 +0000

Would you like to know how long it takes for your blog or website to load?

If Yes, STOPWATCH will

MTN PayGO: Magic Number,Tariffs, Facts, Benefits, How To Migrate etc

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Have you checked your MTN account balance and realized that you have been automatically migrated to the new MTN PayGO but still don't know what it is all about? Well,

How To Insert "LOVE SYMBOL" In Facebook Status Updates.

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:24:00 +0000

Are you on facebook and you have been wondering how some of your friends do insert the LOVE SYMBOL in their facebook status updates? Well, its just a combination of some keystrokes....

How Do I Insert the Love Symbol?

Just type the "Less than" symbol been used in Mathematics together with 3 i.e "<3" in your update and after clicking on "Share", you will see the Love symbol in the update.

That's all.

I hope it works for you.

If you have anything to ask or say, kindly make use of the comment form below.

Pinging: How To Notify Search Engines That Your Blog Has Been Updated

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:55:00 +0000

Pinging simply means notifying search engines that your blog has been updated. By Pinging, you let the search engines know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity.

There are many websites out there that now offer this service free of charge. All you just have to do after updating your blogs, is to head over to the websites and send your PINGS.

Listed below are some of the Ping services I use after updating my blog.
www.pingomatic.com
www.pingoat.com

If you know of any other website that offer such service, feel free to share it using the comment form below.

How To Design A Website and Make Money With It ( + 5 free website providers)

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:27:00 +0000

If you are really serious about making money on the internet, you must get yourself a blog or a website. You can start with free ones and upgrade as time passes by. With a free blog or website, you can easily start making money with Google and even use it for promoting your affiliate links, your ebooks etc which in turn will be making you some money. As a newbie, am sure you might want to ask "how do I make a website and how do I make money with it?” The answer is pretty simple.

Here at bloggerbasicsforlearners, I am ready to take you by the hand, upgrade you from a JJC to an internet guru. I am sure you will like this. Well, you too have to be ready to learn and put into practice, whatever you learn. Practice makes perfection.

Below is a step by step tutorial on how you can create your own free online website to make money online. Lets get started.

1. Choose Your Web Host

For your website to be accessible by anyone anywhere in the world, you will need a hosting provider also called a web hosting company. There are free ones while there are some who will ask you to pay certain amount before they can help you host your website on the internet. Though, for serious businesses, free website will not make sense but If you are a newbie, START WITH A FREE ONE. After mastering how websites really work you can then go for the paid ones. Have you seen a driving school that uses Hummer Jeep to train people how to drive a car?..Think about it.

A free web host will allow you to create your website completely free using a sub-domain of course. A sub-domain is a domain name in the form of www.YOURNAME.yourwebhostname.com If you pay for your website, obviously, you will be able to get a domain name in the form of www.YOURNAME.com

Below is a couple of free well known hosting providers, which allows you to create your very website completely free.

1. Blogger : a free blogging platform which you can easily set up within 5 minutes.

2. Bravenet : loads of free webmaster tools for your website project, in addition to free web space

3. 000webhost

4. ByteHost free forum,free tech support, MySQL databases & PHP support

5. 50Webs

These are just some of the great free hosting providers that will provide you the disk space you need to easily start your own website and be able to display advertisements to make money (I will talk about this later). If you are a newbie, you can be using free hosting sites to learn how websites work before starting your very own serious website.

2. Choose a Web Template

As each day passes by, technology makes life easier. Gone are the days that you must master a lot of codes before you can design a website. Today, there are lots of already designed websites out there. All you need to do is just to apply some changes to them and your website will be ready within a few minutes. We call such ready-made websites WEB TEMPLATES and if they are blogs, they are known as BLOG TEMPLATES.

These templates are what some hungry marketers sell for some people, making series of hype like CREATE YOUR WEBSITE IN 3 MINUTES AND MAKE $1000 WITH IT WITHIN 24 HOURS etc...Wonders shall never end...loads of such hypes out there. Just shine your eyes!

There are lots of free web templates you can use on the internet, though you must still posses some web-design skills for you to be able to edit them BUT THERE IS JUST NO BIG DEAL IN WEB DESIGN. The big deal is in web development (I will talk about this later). So, FEAR NOT.

Choosing a web template can be rather hard. When deciding which best fits your website, you must already have an idea of what you want your website to be about, because if you made a site dedicated to computers, and your web template is based on animals design, would that really make sense to you?

Most of the web hosts provide free templates. After signing up with any of the web hosts, login into your account, look around and you should be able to see a link pointing to WEB TEMPLATES. Follow the link and choose the template you want, edit it and within a few minutes your website will be ready for the whole world to see.

If you are in need of free web templates you can download to your PC, go to Google and inside the search box, type "free web templates" and filter through the results to get what you want.

Below are some other free sources that give away free templates for you to use for the respective platforms, free of charge.

Blogger Template Sources:

1. bTemplates.com

2. eBlogTemplates.com

3. BlogSkin.com

Joomla Template Sources:

1. JoomlaTP.com

2. BestofJoomla.com

3. SiteGround.com

3. Build Your Website

After setting up your website with your hosting provider and have chosen the template of your choice, you can then simply add content to your website. Content is the most important key to building up a good website or blog that can both provide users the information they are looking for and at the same time make you money.

Without content, your site is of no value to anyone and I doubt if you will be able to make a dime with it. If you are running a blog, be sure that the topic you are writing about is something you will always love writing on. Adding some great stuffs, such as widgets and tools to your websites are great in terms of adding more value to your website. The more complete your site looks, the more valuable it becomes. Bravenet offers some free webmaster tools you will like. Check it out! If you are running a blogspot blog, blogger is already loaded with loads of widgets to choose from. Just feel free to explore.

There are many tools you can use to build your website. I started designing websites with Microsoft Frontpage, though I now use Dreamweaver for most of my projects. You can easily get Microsoft Frontpage from any computer store around you. With it, you will be able to easily edit your website, add content to it and also upload it to the internet.

Once you have added some valuable content to your website, move on to the next step. Make sure it is of great quality because your content will determine whether or not visitors will come back to your website.

4. Start Promoting Your Website

Without people visiting your web site, your site will be like a burial ground. Please, make sure you already have some good contents on your site before ever thinking of promoting it. If you tell me about your website and decided to check, only to find out that it is nothing, other than a dessert ,do you think I will ever come back to the website again? This is a big mistake a lot of newbies make and are still making....

With the way you are enjoying this article now, I am very sure you will love to come back and read this blog again another day, isn't it?... I can see you nodding your head now...saying YES, I WILL. Smiles** I hope you can grab the gist. LOAD YOUR SITE/BLOG WITH CONTENTS FIRST BEFORE EVER THINKING OF PROMOTING IT.

In webmaster language, getting people to visit and read your website simple means getting WEB TRAFFIC to your site. There are many ways you can drive traffic to your website free of charge (I will be talking extensively on this later).

Below is a list of few great sources of online traffic.

1. Social Networks eg Facebook, Myspace, Twitter
2. Forums eg Nairaland, Warrior Forum etc
3. Commenting
4. Search Engines

I have been using the free sources to promote my blogs and websites and they have been working for me. I believe you can see some of the statistics of this blog on the sidebar.

Please, shine your eyes before you waste your money on those traffic exchangers or sites that will promise to give your site traffic after paying some money. Most of the time the traffic is of little worth and the exchanges is just a time waster. BEWARE!

5. Monetize Your Website

This is where the money comes rolling in. Once you have set up your website with good content and HAVE ATTRACTED A LOT OF READERS, you will be able to easily make money from the website. Take it or leave it, if you have thousands of good articles on your blog or website and no one knows about it , you might not make a cent with the website. This is what forces some bloggers to be engaging in CLICK FRAUDS, clicking on their adsense ads by themselves all just to make money, since no one is coming to their blog to click for them. In the long run, they get caught by Google and Google ban them, loosing whatever tey might have earned. NEVER TRY TO CLICK ON YOUR ADS.

Load your website with good contents, PROMOTE IT OVER AND OVER. With time, you will start having loyal readers and along the line, you will be making money out of them while they too will be benefiting from things they are getting from your website. Readers get valuable information. Writers get a bit of income. THIS IS THE SECRET BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF MY BLOG, SO FAR.

You can make money from your website or blog through:

1. advertising for people
2. affiliate links
3. sales of products eg ebooks.
4. leads
5. Google ads placement etc.

These are just a tip of the iceberg. There are many ways you can make money with your website. All websites have different methods that work best for their own particular website. You just have to find out which works best for your site on your own to maximize it’s true potential income to make money.

That's all for now. So get Started, create your first website and feel free to share the link with me using the comment from below. This way, I will easily be able to help you with some useful tips that can make it look better.

If you really care about knowing how to design websites, I can train you on a one- on - one basis for a friendly fee. I also have some ebooks that can get you started asap.

In my future posts, I will be talking more about how to make money with your blog or website, how to get a free co.cc domain for your free website, cheap web hosts you can patronize for your real business websites and also will be sharing with you some videos that you can be watching to master the art of designing websites.

How To Create Football Jersey On Facebook.

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:05:00 +0000

Within a couple of minutes, you can generate your own football jersey to show support for your favorite team in the on going 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP been hosted by South Africa; the first of its kind in Africa.

To create your jersey, you will need to add this facebook application to your profile.

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How To Create An Ebook With A Free Software.

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:16:00 +0000

Ebooks simply means Electronic books which you can easily read on your PC using Adobe Reader. Ebooks are usually in pdf formats which means if you see any file whose name ends with ".pdf" , then it is obvious that the file has been compiled in an ebook format. Creating ebooks is an easy task you can do within a twinkle of an eye. There is no big deal in it at all.

You can convert to PDF from any file you can print, including Microsoft® Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® formats. This simply means if you have anything already compiled with MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, you can easily convert it to an ebook.

You can create Ebooks on anything. I could remember when I was in the University, I made some money helping some students to convert their Final Year projects to Ebooks. You too can.....

So, How Do I Convert To pdf ?

There are many softwares out there online that will enable you to convert any file compiled with MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, to an ebook. One of such softwares is PrimoPDF.

Download and Install PrimoPdf to your PC and start creating your own ebooks.

http://www.primopdf.com/download.aspx

I hope this helps.

After creating your ebooks, you might also be interested in creating covers for them. Well, I will be writing on how you can do this in my future articles.

Blogger Basics For Learners: 10 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR BLOG.

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:23:00 +0000

Blogger Basics For Learners: 10 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR BLOG.

10 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR BLOG.

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:04:00 +0000

If you want to make money blogging, then you'll be happy to hear that it is not that hard to do. Of course, the amount of money you make depends entirely on your ongoing efforts to publish a great blog, grow your audience, and continually test new money making opportunities in order to find the best ways to match your audience's expectations for your blog and your own goals for your blog. With that in mind, check out the 10 fairly easy ways to starting making money from your blogging efforts.

1. Join an Advertising ProgramThere are many advertising programs available for bloggers to join. One of the most popular online advertising programs and possibly the easiest to set up on your blog is Google AdSense, which offers a variety of pay-per-click text, display, and video advertising opportunities for bloggers. With a bit of effort, experimenting, and tweaking you can definitely make some money with Google AdSense.

2. Join an Affiliate Advertising ProgramThere are many companies that offer programs that enable you to sign up as an affiliate of that company and earn money. Amazon Associates is one of the most popular and easiest affiliate advertising programs for bloggers to use.

3. Join an Affiliate Advertising NetworkThere are a number of affiliate advertising networks that link online advertisers with publishers (such as bloggers). Commission Junction is one of the most popular affiliate advertising networks.

4. Sell Your Own Ad Space Directly to AdvertisersYou can attempt to sell your own ad space directly to advertisers, but unless your blog is established with a sizable audience, it can be difficult to manage and make money selling ad space directly. Fortunately, there are sites like BuySellAds.com that link online publishers (like bloggers) up with online advertisers to make selling your ad space easier.

5. Publish Posts and Reviews for PayYou can write blog posts on your own blog in exchange for pay, and there are several Web sites that link online publishers (such as bloggers) up with companies and individuals who want their products and services reviewed or discussed online. Just be sure to understand how to safely publish a paid post or sponsored review on your blog, so you don't negatively affect your blog's traffic.

6. Sell MerchandiseThere are a number of Web sites that make it extremely easy for bloggers to create their own online stores where you can sell custom or stock merchandise and make money doing it! CafePress, Zazzle and Printfection are three of the most popular sites for creating your own online store.

7. Become a Professional BloggerIf you write well and can work autonomously, then you could work from home as a professional blogger! Fortunately, there are many sites where you can search for paid blogging jobs. Keep in mind, blogger pay rates can vary drastically, so make sure any opportunity you take matches your long term blogging goals.

8. Join a Blogging NetworkThere are a number of blog networks that include a number of blogs and bloggers all publishing under a larger brand or company. Many of these blog networks pay bloggers a flat fee per post or word that the blogger writes or the blogger receives a percentage of advertising earnings tied to the number of page views his or her posts generate (some networks even pay both a flat fee and a percentage of advertising revenues). As always, make sure the opportunities you pursue match your long term blogging goals.

9. Ask for DonationsWhile you're unlikely to make much money from donors, it certainly can't hurt to ask for donations on your blog. It's easy to add a PayPal donate button, and you never know who might be feeling generous!

10. Make Money without AdsThere are a variety of ways that you can make money from your blog without publishing any ads on your blog at all. Don't be afraid to get creative!

Make money using Blog - Lesson 1

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:26:00 +0000

Judging from the emails I have been receiving, a lot of my readers are a bit overwhelmed by the online money making business. You probably don't know where to start and it's hard to get anyone who knows what to do to spill the beans. This is by design as letting everyone in on what works and how to do it is thought to be a death blow to all those currently making money online. I don't share this view. There are potentially several billion buyers out there and estimates of about 150,000 online marketers. There is room for every one.

If you are starting out, you probably don't know how to go about setting up an online business.

You have lots of questions;
Do I need a website?
Do I buy one or build my own?
How do I build my own?
What do I put on my site?
How do I find a niche market?
What is a niche market?
How do I sell stuff?
How do I set up adsense?
What is adsense?
What is adwords?
What tools do I need?
How do I generate traffic (visitors) to my site?
What's the secret behind making money? etc...

I'm sure the list could go on for a while yet.The point is most of you want to know where and how to start an online money making venture. The trouble is that all the online marketers are only too happy to tell you what to do... as long as you buy the product(s) that they offer. Everyone has a different scheme for you to try. A sure-fire guaranteed way to get rich! You have heard this enough I'm sure. Who do you trust?

Let's get down to the basics, before you start spending money needlessly. Forget about websites, forget affiliate marketing, forget adwords, forget MLM and JV's, forget everything and start from scratch.

Let's start with "Google Adsense" and Blogs.

This is the cheapest and fastest way to get started making money online. You can set up a blog for free. Google will provide advertisements for your blog for free. You will earn an immediate commission from Google each time some one clicks an advertisement on your blog. Once you get your blog up and running you can diversify with affiliate marketing and other methods of making money. A blog is very simple to manage. The new Blogger (just out of Beta) program (owned by Google) is a beginners dream as a complete computer illiterate can set up a blog just following the onscreen directions. Once you have a blog you will then learn how to market it - get traffic to your site. When you have learned how to do this you can transfer this knowledge to websites and other online ventures. A blog will teach you the basics and you can learn without spending gobs of cash in the process.

I'm sure you have seen screenshots of people who are making hundreds of dollars a day from adsense. Is this bullsh*t? Nope. They earn what they say but beware that they are not telling you the whole story.

There are several strategies for making money with Google Adsense but let's look at the two most common.

1)Using Adwords or other paid advertising to generate traffic to your Adsense sites and hence generate Adsense clicks.

2) Getting free traffic using SEO techniques (Search Engine Optimization) and harnessing the power of multiple Blogs to generate Adsense revenue.

So what is the trick?

Using Adwords

This is what they don't tell you.

A lot of those screen shots show you the money they brought in. They never tell you how much they spent to earn that income. They may make $600 a day but if they are using adwords to generate traffic then they likely spent several hundred a day as well. They always show you the gross, not the net. This doesn't mean that they aren't making a profit - they are or they wouldn't continue day after day - but that their profit is a lot less than they lead you to believe. This is done in order to make you believe that the product they are selling will help you generate profits of $600 a day. If they were completely honest they would admit that it might generate SALES of $600 a day - not PROFITS.

Using free traffic.

This is what they don't tell you.

This is the best way for a beginner to start out. Build a blog on a particular niche(topic), create good quality content for it, have Google index and rank your page high for your keyword (topic) and sit back as Google sends hordes of visitors to your site. Finally, count your money from all the Adsense clicks. Right? Well almost.

This is the procedure but they don't tell you that to make serious money at this you will need to create hundreds or thousands of blogs. Yes, you heard right. Your main blogs will be decent pages addressing the needs of your visitors and suitable for marketing products. The majority of the blogs however, will be set up to simply generate Adsense clicks. The articles will be unique but crappy and visitors that end up on these blogs will quickly leave - hopefully by clicking an ad that will take them to where they were trying to go in the first place. This is called spam blogging and as unethical as it seems, it is how you make a lot of money with Adsense. No one talks about this aspect of making adsense profits. No one wants to admit that they use this tactic and yet this is the only way to generate a lot of money with Adsense with out spending money to get traffic.

This is also the system I recommend to all beginners. It's the cheapest way to start earning cash, it will teach you all the main aspects of Internet marketing and you can start immediately. However, you will have to decide if ethics or making money is your top priority first.

Decided?

Let's begin.

We will keep this simple to start. In future posts I will explain more and more techniques as we go. For now we need to get a few blogs set up.

Go to Blogger.com and set up your account.

When you have completed this we can begin.

Before creating your blog you will have to find a topic. This is called a niche. There is a lot to learn about finding the right niche but for now just pick a topic you like. Let's learn how to set up a blog before we worry about what kind of blog will make money.

I will set up a new blog with you so you can see how I do it.

In blogger select "Create Account".

Select a name. Try and use your keyword in the name and the blog address. (Use Capitals in your name but only lower-case in blog address.)

ie. I want to call my blog "Blogger Basics for Beginners" using the following address "http://bloggerbasics.blogspot.com". When I checked the availability I was told this address was already taken.

When this happens try using a dash like this;"http://blogger-basics.blogspot.com" - notice the dash, this is a way to still use your main keyword by adding a dash between them. As it happens this address is also taken.

Next I try this;

"http://bloggerbasicsforlearners.blogspot.com" - This address is available and I am still able to use my keyword in the address and my title which is "Blogger Basics for Learners".

Note: The more popular the niche the harder it will be to get an address for your keyword. If you are doing a "shoe" blog I can assure you that all possible "shoe" combinations are gone. If you are using "Pre-Cambrian Rock Formations" as a keyword you can probably get it for your address.

It is important to use your keyword in your Blog's Title and Address. This will greatly help you when it comes to search engine rankings and indexing. This is a big topic that I won't get into right now - just trust me on this.

Fill in the word verification and hit continue.

Note: The reason for the word verification is to stop automated programs from setting up thousands of blogs. Basically it is there to stop you from doing what I am going to show you how to do. Don't worry, it doesn't stop the automated programs, they have evolved to take this delay in hand and let you work around it.

It now appears that Blogger has a new flagging system that can catch most auto-software trying to set up multiple accounts. As you can no longer use link farms effectively this is a moot point and you should only be creating 3-4 blogs per account. Do not use the same keywords in each blog. ie. Don't create related blogs in each account. If you want ten blogs targeted to 1 niche then put each blog on a seperate account.

You will now be asked to select a template. Later you can experiment with all the different templates but for now just choose Minima as you will find it easier to follow along with me. (It is the first choice and it should already be selected automatically) I have found this to be the most professional looking template and I use it frequently. You are reading this post on a Minima template. It is also perfectly optimized for SEO without having to tweak it.

Hit continue to select the Minima Template.

Next you will see a page that says "Your Blog has been created".

That's all there is to it.

Hit "Start Posting" and we will begin the next step.

Before posting let's go into "Settings" and make a few customizations.

Fill in your description. Make sure you use your keyword at least once and preferably twice in your description. (Update - see Common Blogging Mistakes and Common Blogging Mistakes - Part 2 for more details)

Mine is;"Learn Blogger BasicsHow to Use BlogsMake Money Online."

In this instance I have used my main Keyword "Blogger Basics" only once but I have also used secondary keywords "Blogs" and "Make Money Online". I used the pipe sign between them to eliminate words that the search engine doesn't use. It could have read; "Learn Blogger Basics for Beginners and How to Use Blogs and Make Money Online." It's better to replace these conjunctions with the pipe symbol. I'll explain this further when we get into Search Engine Optimization (SEO), another large topic.

After your description scroll down the page and hit "Save Settings". Don't change any of the yes/no settings. Leave them on default.

Select the "Publishing" tab.

Select "Yes" where it says "Notify Webogs.com" and hit "Save Settings" (the default is NO) This will help notify the outside world each time you post something to your blog.

Select "Formatting"

Change "Show" to 1 posts on the main page. (Default is 7)

Select your time zone.

Set "Show Link Field" to Yes.

Leave everything else as is and hit "Save Settings".

Select "Comments"

Select "Show" for Backlinks.

Select "Yes" for Pop up Window.

Select "Yes" for Word Verification.

Enter your email for comment notification.

Hit "Save Settings", and leave the rest of the options on default.

Select "Archiving"

Make sure the frequency is set to "Monthly" and the "Enable Post Pages?" is set to "Yes".

Hit "Save Settings"

Select "Posting" and we are ready for your first post.

You will notice that you have a Title Field, a Link Field, and a big box where you will type in your post.

It is important that each and every title you use has your keyword in the Title. (Again this relates to SEO - and again just trust me without further explanation at this point.)

In the link field you want to type in your blog address so that the post links back to your blog (your home page).

My link is typed as follows; http://bloggerbasicsforlearners.blogspot.com - this is the URL of my homepage.

Replace Blogger Basics with your address.

My first post is short and to the point. It will mention my keywords at least twice.

It reads as follows;

Welcome to Blogger Basics for Learners. This site provides tips and techniques for beginning bloggers in order to make money online.

Make your first post the same way. Use your keywords a couple of times and then hit "Publish".

Then hit "View Blog"

Congrats - you are now a blogger. Simple wasn't it?

Now you can customize your blog. You will notice that your title is a hypertext link pointing to your site. On the right hand side of the page is a section called "Blog Archive" and below that is an "About Me" section.

You can add and remove any section you like by selecting "Customize" from the top right corner of your screen.

I am going to remove the "About Me" section and add a new section for Adsense. Always leave the "Blog Archives" so that visitors can find your previous posts.

Select "Customize"

Click the edit link on the "About Me" box. I am going to select the "Remove Page Element" option to get rid of this but if you want to keep the "About Me" section just fill in the info boxes and click "Save Changes".

Let's Add a Page Element. From the main customization screen click the link that says "Add a Page Element" (Use the right hand column box - not the one on the bottom of the page.)

You will get a pop-up screen with a lot of Page Elements listed on it.

Let's add Adsense to our blogs. Click the Adsense "Add to Blog" button. If you don't have an Adsense account follow the instructions to get one. You will get a publisher ID from Google that will enable you to post adsense ads on your blog. Once you have this pick a Format and use the Blend Template option regarding colors. (it's the default).

Update: Note - if you want to use adsense channels to track your blogs then you will have to create your Adsense code in Adsense Setup in your Adsense account and then copy/paste the code generated into your blog manually. Don't use the "Adsense" element for this - use the "HTML/JavaScript" element and paste in the code after the box opens.

Update: As of February 2008, Google requires all blogs using Adsense to post a Privacy Policy on their blogs. To see what this entails view the bottom of this Blog - Look for the Header, "Privacy Policy"

For right hand column ads I stick to the 160 x 600 vertical Banner Format.

Click "Save Changes" and you will notice that an Adsense box has been added to your right hand column at the top.

Click "View Blog" and see the results.

It takes a day or two for Google to recognize your content and place corresponding ads on your site. At first you may only see public service ads until Google figures out your keywords. Just be patient as this is normal. Having said that, I was given ads related to Blogs/Make Money immediately and you may have got appropriate ads as well if you followed my instructions. Why? Remember I told you to use your keywords several times in setting up your blog. I did this so that Google will have no problem figuring out what your blog is about. If your keyword is about something that has advertisements Google will find the ads. If you used the "Pre-Cambrian" keyword you may never get anything but public service ads as I doubt that there are many advertisers selling anything related to this keyword... I could be wrong though.

Let's stop for today and let you concentrate on the next lesson. You will have to sit down and write one decent article about your keyword. (I can hear you non-writers cringing at the thought) Later I will show you how to get unique content without writing your own but for now you will have to bare down and do a little typing.

Before leaving go to my just created Blogger Basics for Learners and make sure that yours is set up like mine. If you have questions the email link I added will work. I will either answer you directly or address your question as we proceed with this exercise. PS. Don't be afraid to add and delete elements on your blog in the meantime. Play around and learn how to use the Page elements. You can also edit the Blog's type, fonts, colors and element positions. Experiment a bit. Just don't delete your initial post.

You can find the remainder of these lessons below;

Cheers

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:31:00 +0000

BEST WAYS YOU COULD MAKE MONEY WORKING FROM HOME ONLINE

Although there are many the fraudulent businesses that promise you overnight riches, there are several ways you could actually make money working from home online that are legitimate. Here are some of these methods and tips you could use:

1) Auction Website

If you are just starting out, you may want to start by joining an online auction site such as eBay to make some quick cash. You could begin by selling items you have lying around at home or that you find garage sales. Think about what you have to offer to make sure people will want to buy it. This will help you to not lose money from the fees after placing it up for sale and no one buying it.

2) Private Label Right (PLR)

ProductsPrivate Label Right is a concept similar to reselling but you are permitted to modify the product to fit your own needs. Typical PLR products are articles, reports, and eBooks. This kind of content is used for the purpose of allowing many buyers to invest in the content with free rein to alter and use it by claiming authorship of it. It is therefore a very exciting way to make money working from home because much of the hard work has already been done for you. The easiest way to make money working at home selling PLR products is to buy the products you want and then turn around and resell them to your customers.

3) Survey Websites

Join a survey website that pays you to take their market surveys. This is an easy way to earn quick income that requires little skill or knowledge. However some time it could be difficult to find all of the paid research surveys to participate in. Also, there are so many websites out there that are only looking to scam you out of a joining fee, it can be difficult to tell the difference between the reputable sites and the fraudulent ones.

4) Quality Articles for Revenue Sharing Sites

A revenue sharing site is similar to a traditional article directory site with one major difference. Traditional article directories post advertisements along with the articles that people submit. Every time a visitor clicks on one of those ads, the site makes money. Revenue sharing sites also post ads along with the articles that people submit but they share the income that they make from their advertising. If you are going to submit articles anyway, why not submit to sites that are willing to give you some of the money that they earn. The way to maximize the amount of money that you make with revenue sharing sites is to submit articles frequently.

5) Affiliate Marketing

You cannot discuss exciting ways to make money working from home without mentioning affiliate marketing as it is one of the fastest way to start your Internet online business and make money working from home. By becoming an affiliate, you could begin to sell some one else’s products because it allows you to make money from your website visitors without having to worry about shipping and payment processing. However, you need to study the affiliate agreement and assess the organisations you are dealing with. Check their quality of service by sending them an email or calling them to see how quickly and how effectively they respond. Assess their affiliate products. If you yourself are not convinced by the quality and effectiveness of the products, drop it and move on to another program.There are of course other ways of making money quickly such as online blogging, data processing and other freelance jobs such as computer programming that can earn quick income. What ever method you choose to make money working from home, success will be determined by your commitment, perseverance and dedication.

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:16:00 +0000

Get paid taking online surveys.

Companies are increasingly using the internet to gain a marketing advantage by uploading questionnaires and letting people get paid to do surveys while they share their opinion. Survey companies value the education, age and lifestyle details since this is important for the filter process required for getting feedback from the right audience. Utilise the option of being paid to do surveys and provide reliable feedback to earn some money.

Don’t cave in
So you have been hit by recession. Avoid giving in to negativity and thoughts of your uselessness or the unfair attitude of your company. Your immediate aim is to find a way to keep your family running while you look out for viable options. This may be a good time to do things you have always dreamt of. You can get paid to do surveys and look out for other ways to keep the cash flowing in. There are numerous opportunities on the internet while corporate houses sort out their route during this recessionary phase. Log on to the net and start searching.

Explore options
Search the net for paid survey banks that list out the companies that allow you to get paid to do surveys. Alternately, you can carry out a search for paid surveys and verify their authenticity with the lists on survey banks. The internet is also a way to get accepted as a part of focus groups that offer important inputs to the marketer. This can be a well paying choice to make. Some surveys ask your views after you have tried out the sample of the product and are willing to pay a higher value for your opinion. If the survey format requires the respondent

Avoid scams
This is a cash strapped time. Avoid taking attractive looking risks that involve payments being made by you. Some sites offer a draw that will give you much more than the initial payment at the end of a certain time frame if you are willing to pay a certain sum. Choose the safe route and get paid to do surveys. Many others who have lost their jobs are running their families with this route. Whether these are scams or not is something you will learn after the money is sunk. These routes to earn more money are best avoided.

Be patient
You will start to get paid to do surveys only after you have filled a few survey forms. You will have to expend time before you see the money flowing in. Initially, you are likely to find that though you have registered with a number of survey sites and also filled the questionnaires, the earnings have yet to come in. Register with as many sites as you can and start filling as many surveys as possible. Keep a list of the sites you have entered forms on and the number you have filled. The sites will try to authenticate your responses and have you fill a certain number of firms before they start making payments to you.

Learn Blogger Basics/ How To Use Blog / Make Money Online

noreply@blogger.com (Brightestman) — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Blogger Basics for Learners. This site provides tips and techniques for beginning bloggers in order to make money online.