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I don’t usually post about the general “Make Money” methods that are prevalent on the web today - my subject is Internet Marketing, which takes a longer business-building view to creating an income.

However I understand that many people find the subject too technical and long-term for their needs and just wish a simple way they can earn money, and soon. Perhaps with some cash behind them they can then graduate to building websites and mailing lists, creating products and services, and generally aim for the big money

These usually trade your time for money. You won’t get rich doing this, but you will earn a few bucks you can perhaps invest in your future…

Offline Marketing

Just after I completed this list I came across this program, “Easy Offline Riches”. I’ll cover it in a little more detail in the future but it looks very promising.

The idea here is you contact businesses in your area, or further afield, and offer to get them a web presence. Many companies small and large would like a website, but have no idea how to go about it. Everyone from your local florist to the big car dealer around the corner is a potential lead for you. All the marketing is covered for you, giving you cards and ads you can use locally. You don’t even need to speak to the prospect yourself if you don’t want to…

The best part is you don’t have to create the business site yourself. You outsource it through this program, and earn up to $400 per sale! Take a look at this - and I’ll tell you more once I’ve researched it fully.

1. Ebay

Nothing beats ebay for it’s simplicity and it’s massive army of eager buyers. You can build a business here, specialising in whatever you want, or you can simply sell odds and ends you have that you no longer need. It’s both a glorified garage sale and a shopping mall.

Once you’ve sold your old ornaments, tools, clothes, CD’s, furniture and vehicles you can look into buying wholesale. There are many places that will sell you both new and second hand goods by the palette or container load. If you know your market, you can make a lot of money here - and fast!

If you want to make Ebay a full-time business (many do!) try SaleHoo for information on Wholesale Suppliers and selling direct.

2. Paid Surveys

There are many companies that will pay you to take surveys. Anything up to $40 per survey! You simply register with the correct sites and complete surveys as they are sent to you.

There’s a full guide to making $10-$40 per survey right here.

3. Writing For Cash

You can earn money writing anything from reviews, to blog posts. If you own a blog you can write posts to advertise certain companies, and they will pay you for the promotion.

At various consumer sites you can submit reviews, and earn that way. Some will connect authors to publishers, and other kinds of sites will pay you per page view of your article, and accept a wide range of articles. The idea is they get traffic from your content and make their money from affiliate programs or ads.

The pay will vary, a lot, but if you enjoy writing this maybe something you can do part time at least.

You can even reach for the big money by writing, if you can write technical manuals, ghost write for others, enter writing competitions, or even get the next best-seller. Let’s face it, it’s unlikely, but there’s nothing wrong with a little ambition.

4. Helping Others

If you have a skill, you can trade that for cash. Whether it’s a technical skill or an interpersonal one you can market yourself online. Good with graphics, web design, programming, copywriting, promotion ? Or can you help people use their computers, get a web presence, or even search for information ?

If you have spare time you can even trade that. There are many busy marketers who pay for tasks such as submitting to directories, writing articles, post to blogs and forums, write transcriptions, do translations or other such tasks.

The best places to look for work are forums such as the Warrior Forum or DigitalPoint and then there are freelance sites such as eLance and Rent-A-Coder. You can even get basic work from Amazon’s Manual Turk service.

The pay won’t be great… but it IS pay. So if you’re a stay at home mom or a broke student perhaps this is one way you can earn some pocket (or beer!) money from your skills.

5. Get Paid To…

These sites usually make their money from advertising, and so pass on a little of that to their users.

Get Paid To read e-mail. Very little, perhaps $0.02 per e-mail, but like anything it can add up. It depends on the network as to how many e-mails you receive and you usually have to total a minimum before you get paid.

Get Paid To complete offers. These companies earn from their affiliate income, so you will be asked to join various sites such as gambling sites, free trials at DVD rentals, etc in exchange for a cut of that income. An offshoot of this are the companies that promise free iPods, Playstations etc for completing similar offers.

Get Paid To network. There are some social networks, notably Yuwie.com, that will pay you to make friends, create content, etc. Essentially the income stream here is again the traffic you generate from that, but it is something you could try.

6. Internet Marketing

I’ve already said this is the way to make real money. It’s not a straightforward “work for cash” as in the methods above, but it’s far better for a long term strategy.

The two important points here are (1) A website with an offer/sale of some kind, and (2) Traffic to that website. It’s setting all that up that can get people unstuck. This entire site is about that subject, so explore and enjoy

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I’ve just come across a useful traffic strategy called “Parasite Hosting”. It’s actually something I’ve been doing for a while, but that term describes it well. The idea is you can piggyback the traffic from major sites and direct it to your own.

There are many, many sites you can be a parasite on. In fact, any site that will host your pages. Here’s some popular ones:

Wordpress
Blogger
Squidoo
Hubpages
Geocities
Typepad
GooglePages

…and hundreds more!

You may already have noticed how it works. Each of those sites have been ranked highly by Google, Alexa etc and can help you in a number of ways:

1. Linking to your own site from them to increase your pagerank. These backlinks are from authority sites.

2. Direct traffic from the users and fans of the services themselves.

3. The ability to create strong keyword-based pages on them, to help with organic SEO.

So if you create a hubpage, squidoo lense, Blogger blog, and Wordpress blog on your choosen subject, you can put content there and also link back to your own site.

For example, if your site has movie reviews, you can create sattelite sites on as many parasite hosts as you can find. Each of these will be a movie-related theme, and each of them will link to each other, and to your own site.

If done correctly Google won’t mind. Just as long as you provide real content for the end user.

I’ve just bought the rights to a couple of products than can help you find and utilise these sites for driving traffic to your own. The first is “Taking Advantage Of Parasite Hosting” which is a full guide to this strategy, along with 13 Videos illustrating and explaining the concept. This also contains details of the best hosts to use, what content to put on them, and how to utilise the traffic-building potential to it’s utmost.

The second is “Profiting After The Sale” - a great guide to increasing the income you can generate from each main sale you make.

I’ve also thrown in a free copy of the 5-Minute Traffic Tip, since it really is a pretty cool technique in it’s own right

All three for only $7 — and that’s with full Master Resale Rights!

You don’t need this guide. This post outlines the tactic, so you can you try it yourself. But having everything in front of you in a PDF and Video form will certainly help you understand how powerful this underrated technique is.

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A Full Review, Details and How To Get It - For Free! Bonus Included.

Stomping The Search Engines 2 is the follow up to the product that first turned the Stompernet guys (Andy Jenkins and Brad Fallon) into megastars. This time around, they’ve moved on from the originals CD format and now present a full DVD - and the launch of a brand new magazine.

Four years ago Stomping 1 was perhaps the biggest selling SEO product - ever. Now, Stomping The Search Engines 2 is destined to make even more online millionaires than the original.

As the title suggests, this is about SEO - Search Engine Optimization. STSE2 details the current methods used to get your site a good ranking. After all, if you are the top result for a good keyphrase in the natural-search listings at sites like Google you can literally write your own cheque.

The DVD

There are actually two DVDs because you also get a copy of the original STSE. Remember, that sold thousands of copies at $300 a time !

Once you put the DVD into your PC it will launch into a videoplayer, giving you access to all the videos in the product. It starts with an overview of the pros and cons of SEO.

There are 7 modules, 36 videos in all. The introduction section kicks off short-term tactics you can use, and a look at what they call “agressive white hat” SEO. Then it moves on to discussions of the actual technology behind the major the major search engines, before it gets to the really juicy stuff.

For example, the videos on keywords and content structure will really open your eyes to how to properly design a website destined for high rankings, as will the shows about optimizing your site content, and your site structure.

Don’t worry if all this sounds a bit techy. The presentation is easy to follow!

By the time we’ve passed through the all important linking and promotion section, we’re well on our way to become search engine guru’s ourselves

The final section may be the most important: measuring results, and tweaking your site(s) to improve them. After all, we can’t remain stationary - someone else may make a play for our enviable top ranks…

This is only an overview of the video content. If you’ve ever seen any of the Stompernet videos that have circulated online, you’ll understand how professional the presentation is, and how informative. It’s information you want - so feel free to take notes, pause or rewind where neccessary, or (as I did) jot down the times of interesting sections in the videos so you can revisit.

And once you’ve watched all the videos (first time around, anyway - I’m sure you’ll revisit them) be sure to check out the resources on the DVD. You’ll find the Stompernet Directory List (an invaluable links collection) and the Keyword Strategy Guide!

Whatever your current level of expertise STSE2 will help you aim for, and achieve, those high front-page Google listings…

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Other things I’ve picked up from these videos - in no particular order:

How to avoid accidental duplicate content
What you can get penalized on by the Search Engines
“Canonicalization” of your content
Don’t use - or trust - Google’s inbound link count
Some “competitiors” may acually be good partners
Target the head - but mine the “long tail”

I could go on, I’m only dipping into a few videos to give you an overview, but you should get the idea.

The Magazine

The new publication, called The Net Effect, is included with STSE2. Remember, this is a physical product, so it’s a hardcopy, printed out professionally for you to read anywhere.

It’s an Internet Marketing magazine that goes above and beyond anything you’ve seen before. You can read it all in one go, or dip in and out - and probably be buzzing with ideas to implement.

In this first issue you’ll find a great article on the “Keyword Heist” technique, 26 Things To Test, Twittering Your Way To Traffic, and much more.

I especially enjoyed reading the Social Media Survival Guide!

This is - again - just an overview of the magazine, there’s a lot more included (”armour-piercing e-mail” anyone?) and you may find the Monthly Action Plan at the end very useful, as it brings everything you’ve learned so far together into a single-page plan to follow. My advice? Photocopy it or cut it out and stick it near your PC.

The Net Effect is designed to keep you up-to-date in the fast moving marketing and SEO world. Let’s face it, how many ebooks or websites do you actually read? Nothing beats a real “hold it in your hand” product. You’ll be looking forward to your snail mail each month This is an ongoing monthly journal for high-end SEO and Internet Marketing. A serious trade publication. It’s your business, your livelihood - so make sure you’ve got all the latest information to hand. Insider information from the Stompernet pro’s.

All in all Stomping The Search Engines 2 is an excellent product that is sure to benefit anyone working in the IM field today, whether they are a bedroom dabbler, or head of a company.

You already know the best part - it’s hardly a secret.

STSE2 is FREE.

And not just the “free” you see bandied about a lot in marketing campaigns. STSE2 is a very real $497 product, and “The Net Effect” magazine is worth $39 monthly…

The cat is now out of the proverbial bag. Get over to the website and claim your copy, before the Stompernet guys come to their senses!

Stomping The Search Engines 2

The page above is a good example of the professionalism of these guys. Look at the video, read the details, and get stoked up with what you could achieve. This is not some $7 screen-capture video product. This is not some re-hashed ebook. This is a very real SEO course especially designed for Internet Marketers, the people who really know how to make their livings online.

Once you decide to order at the above link, drop me a note via the support desk and I’ll send you a free bonus — even though STSE2 is free in itself…

P.S. Because the launch was delayed slightly due to demand the Stompernet guys have promised some special bonuses themselves as a “sorry” so be sure to check the link above to see what extras you get - above and beyond the review copy I’ve looked at here!

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I’m experimenting with Squidoo. My first impressions are very favourable.

Squidoo lets you bulld “lenses” on almost any subject. Each lense takes the form of a list of modules, so for example you can have text modules, links, comments, voting, amazon feeds, ebay feeds, youtube videos… and much more.

I’ve already created two lenses - early days yet, but you can take a look to see how they work. And I’d very much appreciate it if you could rate them

Internet Marketing Beginners Guide

How To Build An Email List

Some of the modules in these lenses are community enabled, so for example you can add your own tips, vote the links and tips up and down, or leave a comment.

While I wouldn’t use Squidoo as a main site it’s fun and powerful enough to create quick single-subject pages on whatever you fancy. You can earn from your lenses too, from the built in advertising, as well as add your own paying links.

Also, Squidoo lenses can have a good pagerank, so linking your own sites from your lenses has a beneficial effect on your own link rankings. That, and the direct traffic from the squidoo community makes this a great place to expand your website promotion strategies.

Like any site that offers freeform page creation tools I’ve come across many sub-standard pages that are little more than pasted in feeds and some youtube/amazon/links sections. It’s all too easy to do this. If you do decide to make your own lenses please add some real content. It only benefits everyone in the long term…

(If you do try and like Squidoo, you may also want to join the free Squidoo Secrets site.)

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You often hear claims of people earning “hands free, automatic income”. The good news is that this IS possible, albeit with a little work beforehand and some time spent on maintenance/updates.

The method most used is to set up content sites that target specific niches, and then serve ads on those pages. All that’s left in the equation is to drive traffic to the site.

Of course, nothing is ever really as simple as that so here’s a few tips to get you started:

1. The easiest way to run a content site is to use Wordpress, or your blog/cms platform of choice. Wordpress is a great staple because it’s very popular, has a lot of plugins and templates available, and is of course free.

Once you have decided upon your niche you only need to buy a domain name that has some of your keywords in it (or find an expired domain name), and then couple that new domain name to the host of your choice.

2. One of the most important steps is to build a list of keywords for the niche you are going to target. Luckily there are many online tools you can use for this.

Nichebot Classic (uses Wordtracker)
Google Keyword Tool
MSN Keyword Forecast (keyword counts)
MSN Keyword Tool

You can also use misspellings of keywords, and even misspellings of competitor domains:

Misspelled Keywords Tool

You can generate your own common misspellings by including run-on search terms (i.e. no spaces, such as “formulaone”), double letters, missing letters, and difficult-to-spell words.

You can find the keywords used by competitors, using Spyfu.com

And you can even find those competitors, by using Quantcast:
(look at the “audience also visits” list)

Finally, for some quick and easy traffic, you can use keywords based on the Digg.com front page (popular URLs), the Technorati top posts, Stumbleupon Buzz, etc. A site called http://www.populair.eu contains a handy list of these top sites.

3. Your next step is to write articles on each keyword, in your new wordpress blog. Some of the best types of articles to write include reviews, how-to’s, and tips. To help drive readers, you can use topics such as:

keyword+ “controversy”
keyword+ “tips” “advice” “help” “tricks”
keyword+ “scam”
keyword+ “free”

etc. For example: “Ipod Tips”, “Ipod Tricks”, “Ipod Help”, “Free Ipod”, “Ipod Secrets”, or for other subjects:

“Rich Jerk Scam”, “Rich Jerk Controversy”, “Rich Jerk Review” for a business-opportunity type site.

Your article need not be too long, it should include the main keywords in the post title, and perhaps within the post itself, but don’t overdo it. Don’t use content verbatim from other sites because google penalises duplicate content.

4. To add income streams for your articles you can simply use an appropriate template, or edit one to include ads. This saves you adding ad code to each individual post - though that option is still there.

Adsense is very popular, and easy to implement. Wordpress plugins such as:
Adsense Manager can help make it simple.

Alternately, a ready made adsense-focused theme can make it simple, such as those available at: Adsense Blog Themes

You can also edit your themes manually within wordpress to include adsense in other places. Popular areas include the head of the entire page, left-justified at the start of each post, at the foot of each post, or in the side-menus. Note that google limits the amount of ads shown on a page.

There are also other income sources you may want to pursue:

CPA networks offer to pay you on a cost-per-action basis. For example, a credit card company can pay you per application. That means no sale is needed, the visitor just has to fill in a form.

Popular CPA networks include:

http://www.Azoogleads.com
http://www.Maxbounty.com
http://www.CJ.Com (a mix of affiliate types)

There are many more, simply search Google for “CPA Network”

Kontera is a little different. It will turn relevant words on your site into paid links automatically.

Chitika can show “mini malls”, which include price information, small descriptions, etc for certain links. These can work well on some site types such as technology ones.

Clickbank primarily offers digital products such as e-books, with high payouts up to 75% per sale. A site such as CBProAds.com can show these, or you can include relevant products manually.

Finally, there are specialist blog-advertising networks such as Blogads and PayPerPost that advertise more directly to your audience. You usually need a more established blog with good traffic to benefit from these.

5. At this point, if all works well, you should be able to get *some* traffic from the search engines, just from your keywords and article content alone. Of course you’ll want to increase this.

Commenting on blogs, and arranging links with blogs, can help your seo rankings. Try commenting on sites that are currently experiencing a buzz - such as the Digg front page, stumbleupon buzz page, etc mentioned earlier in this article.

Viral traffic from sources such as a branded report, branded video, free template, free salespage/product, that you release can have an excellent effect on your traffic levels. If you can include your link in the salespage/template/website etc you give away it can spread all over the web and increase your backlinks.

You can buy traffic from Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, etc, but you have to be careful. The keyword lists you built up earlier can greatly help here. Try to focus on “long tail” keywords rather than general ones for cheaper hits. For example, don’t try and buy hits to a term such as “dogs”, try focusing with “dog grooming”, “dog grooming in ohio”, etc. The idea is to have a great number of lesser-searched terms rather than a few high-searched ones (which can be priced exhorbitantly).

Remember: backlinks to your site help with your search engine position (along with other factors), so whever possible - by writing reviews, comments, testimonials, articles etc - link from keywords not just your basic URL.

Other search engine factors are harder to influence, but in general links from authority sites (try getting links from sites with a high Page Rank or even from .edu sites etc), one-way links, the age of your site (obviously only achievable over time, unless you are lucky and find an aged site that has expired or is for sale), and the content on your site are the most important.

6. After all this is setup your site is mostly hands-free. You then have a few options:

Move directly onto creating another site in another niche.
Continue to write new content for your site.
Continue to seek out new backlinks, submit new articles, etc.
Start an e-mail list.
Create your own product to sell (such as an ebook), and get affiliates for your product.
Or even sell your site!

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Mailing Lists are simply a collection of your subscribers / prospects e-mail address and other details, such as their names etc.

They’re created so that you have instant access to potential customers, readers for your articles and ezines, and fans who can help you with future projects.

Creating an e-mail list is , in theory, quite simple. You just ask people for their details. But in practice that’s rarely enough. Here’s some techniques that have proven to work:

1. Use an autoresponder. You can create e-mail lists without one, including manually adding requests to a hand-built list (unbelievably, once done this way!). But why bother? Today’s autoresponders automate the entire process. They manage your contacts, manage unsubscribe requests, allow simple broadcasts, send out pre-made messages to a schedule, and much more.

You can install a script at your own site, such as “Autoresponse 3″ or you can use a third-party solution. The former means you have more control, and the second path may help with e-mail delivery since companies such as aWeber and Getresponse forge ties with the likes of Yahoo Mail to ensure your messages are received.

2. Use a bribe. If you have a form on your website asking for a prospects details, offering a gift in exchange for the information will help urge them to complete it. The gift needn’t be expensive to yourself: digital goods such as ebooks are often used. E-courses make especially good bribes since the material is provided over time, to the e-mail address, ensuring your subscriber stays with you at least in the short term and surely long enough to make an impression

3. Use a squeeze page. This is an e-mail request form that is in reality a front-end to the main website. In other words, you cannot access the site until you enter your details. In effect the entire site itself is the bribe.

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