How to make money online is an often asked question by people I talk to. They see me making money on the Internet and wonder what it takes to get started. I always point out that there is a lot of work involved, but that it also is maybe easier than they think it is.
As an example, many years back I bought several websites. One of these websites was a dessert related website (yes, think recipes for cakes and pies and other stuff in a very specific niche). I bought the site for a mere $25.00 (yes, twenty five dollars). The first day I put Google Adsense on this website was 11/20/2007. I did do some basic SEO which at that time was to submit the site to approx. 1000 web directories as well as a few link exchanges and that was about it. Overall I spent maybe 4 hours of work and additional $50 on this site.
I just ran a report this afternoon and the website has made over $1,000 in Google Adsense earnings since November 2007. A $25 investment has made back its money over 40 times since then. Now granted that $1,000 is not a huge amount money, but you have to think volume. What if you have 10 or 20 or maybe 100 of these kind of websites. 100 x $1,000 is a freaking $100,000.
Now it is 2010 and things are a little different in regards to how to promote a website, but the overall idea is still the same. If you do not know how to make 1 website that can earn a huge amount of money, make websites that make small amounts of money instead. As an example: Look at the email submits or zip submit offers from all the different CPA networks and start building websites around those topics. Write 20 pages with unique articles and post them to your site. Read up about some basic SEO (it does not take much to get 30-40 visitors per day. You do not need many conversions or huge amounts of traffic (even though that helps of course), but a single conversion brings in approx. $1.20 and that should be something you should be able to achieve every other day. One conversion every other day ads up to $18 a month. Now again, think volume and do this not with just 1 website, but maybe with 10, 20, or 100 (over time). Suddenly you make $1,800 a month (100 x $18). Take that money and reinvest it into your business (pay somebody to write the content as an example) and you can probably double that income every 6 months.
The more you do, the better the chances that one of your websites will take off and starts earning more money. Or you expand into different CPA offers. If you build your empire properly and stick to the plan, you can kiss your corporate job goodbye after 2 years and earn a comfortable full-time income from affiliate marketing.
There is only one problem: It requires to take action and that is where 99% of people fail. Which group do you fall into? Do you take action?
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