Well dont be surprised by reading this posts title, but this is a real fact that no one in the web would really help you to make money online. You may be reading many online blogs which talk about how to make money online, but did you find any of these which are genuinely going to teach you or are they just trying to make money out of you guys by just showing you some big dreams?
All of these blogs have posts with Affiliate/Referring links to various products from which all the bloggers make commissions when you guys signup under their referral links and at the end you find that the program didnt work out for you and you move on in the search of more of these programs.
But the real scenario is completely different because if you stick to a single pay per click program and a single website you can easily reach your targets. Before working on a website first of all decide on basis of the following plans.
First and foremost step is to select a good domain name and then stop getting deviated by registering many other domain names. Setting up the default CMS which ever is easier for you to handle and getting a good design for your website. Signing up for a money making program like Adsense / Yahoo Publisher Network / any other PPC network and setting up the ads on your website. Building and just building content for that website and waiting for a minimum of 6 months would give you real results rather than setting up a website with couple [10-50 pages content] and expecting to make you 100$/day.
Just before building a website make sure you have anything and everything related to the niche you are working on, example : if you have a website on hairs you need to have every info on hairs with images, video’s, expert interviews, guides, freebies, downloads and many more. This would make your visitors to come back and would not let them go back to search engines for more information. This makes your website complete and is the time when you start getting visitors who would promote your website in their own network because of the resource.
Instead what 99% of the webmasters do is making a website with 10 pages and expecting to make 1$/day which they think would help them become rich, but why not make a site with 1000 pages and expect 100$/day? That would make your website get authority in the search engines, make your visitors satisfied and help you to organise all your time by working on a single site and experimenting on the adverts , building the content and search engine optimising it. Also before you start out making a website dont forget to make a goal for the income you are dreaming off with some breakups like milestones and try to reach them on by one.
Example :
Reaching 1$/day on xx-xx-2007
Reaching 10$/day on xx-xx-2007
Reaching 100$/Month on xx-xx-2007
Reaching 500$/Month on xx-xx-2007
Reaching 30$/day on xx-xx-2007
Reaching 50$/day on xx-xx-2007
Reaching 100$/day on xx-xx-2007
This way you would reach your goals more easily and also dont get distracted by reading those other Make Money Online blogs, but rather just keep yourself updated with the new updates in the Industry and focus mainly on your own website.
If you seriously check out all the following case studies you may easily find that all these website owners run only one website seriously and result of which they make tonnes of money from those websites.
Don Vandervort from Hometips.com
Askthebuilder.com’s Tim Carter Case Study
Mid-day.com is a newspaper website Sucess
A success story from India and a Person i know who is my client too
Hope you liked the article and would add some points to it, if you would like to contribute your own feedback (or) suggestions do let me know.
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December 18th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Incredible, debateful post Amit.
I never myself liked the idea of visiting “Make money online” blogs. Because the fact is that there is nothing that can make you earn more except from the useful tips that people give from time to time.
It’s the same way a weight loss program works. Many people join weight loss programs but at the end of the day one realizes, that all the programs had just one thing to say. “Exerise more, eat less”.
Similarily the only way to earn moeny online is to “Get Traffic, optimize your ads”. Good quality content, good domain name is enough for traffic. Optimization of ads is good enough for making great momney. That’s it.
I agree with you on this post.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Amit nice post, would enlighten many young bloggers from not wasting time on ” How to make money” blogs rather concentrating on their own websites.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Well said..
December 18th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Hmm… i would like to add the following to this post.
As referred that “Making Money Online” blogs are not of help but since you cannot rely on one income source so you have search for something new. As all must be witnessing a hike in the BAN ratio of adsense so probably i think that people should also know an alternative or the best alternative medium to make money online.
As these making money online blogs only refer to these and in return they only ask for the referral i think this is clean and simple thing.
Ofcourse one should keep in Mind that Sharing is Caring.
At the moment iam just able to recall these points only.
More points also can be added to this topic…
December 19th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Well said Amit. instead of making many website and failing to produce result, i agree with ur idea of making one and do all the experiment and produce result.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Very true.
I almost went back to my starting days as a newbie designer… Only you can help yourself.. and the simple and powerful way is PPC.
Thanks for such an informative post.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Yeah, I would like to make $100 a day.
December 19th, 2007 at 7:57 am
i agree with what “Infogle” said… one should not rely on single source .. and try to get new way out for more n more…
well i am also on the way to reach $100/day … hope to reach soon
December 19th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Nice post Amit..I started my blog recently….my aim is to reach 10$/day in 5 months
December 19th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Great post Amit.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Thats really good and true comment Amit
i agree to you.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Wow ..what a post, really took me back to the days when I first used to surf the net in search of making money. A website pulling money is the main funda of every online earning program, so why not open ur own website and work behind it for making 100% profits, instead of depending on affiliate commissions.
Thats a A++++ post by Amit, and I am sure it will be helpful to newbie’s frantically searching for onnline money !….Cheers Amit
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
I get many people pinging me with same bullshit question of how to make money online. I will point them here from now on …. thanx
May 24th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi, thanx 4 this. Actually now i can earn money only from my home, since i’m suffering from some diseases. Can u mail me some more simple ways to make money