Make Cash Online

Lately, I’ve been asked questions about how I make money online. When I tell people what I do they tend to just say “wow” or “interesting”, but occasionally people know enough about websites to have an interest in making money themselves. This is what happened recently and it had me contemplating what I would do if I was starting from scratch.

The first thing that needs to be understood is that there really is only three core blocks to this business: keywords, content and links. That’s it. Anyone that has been at this and is making money is doing these three things every single day. They find a keyword, they make content for it and they backlink until they’re at the 1st position in Google. You have to understand this completely and try to apply it, but this alone isn’t going to help you starting out.

Something that you learn over time is what keywords you should go after. You learn how to write content in an efficient and timely manner that actually increases sales. You learn where to get great backlinks and how to efficiently build them. The reason why new people fail big time is not that they don’t know the core building blocks, it’s the stuff I mentioned in the previous sentences. You’re picking the wrong keywords. Your content really isn’t selling. You’re not getting enough backlinks from great sources.

The hardest pat starting out is knowing which niche you should start in. The fact is all niches aren’t profitably equally. Some niches you’re going to make money out your ass with and others you’re going to struggle with even when you’re doing everything right.

Finding a great niche is just trial and error. This is something that all of us starting out went through. I’ve tried a ton of different niches and in that time I’ve found good and bad. You’re going to find that some niches are extremely profitable and easy to make money with. Other niches can be difficult. You’ll also find niches that are pretty average with profits (nothing wrong with that) and extremely easy to rank keywords, where as you’ll have profitable ones that take a long time to rank for.

The only thing you can really do is throw up as much as you can on the internet and see what works. We all have done it and you’ll have to do it too. The question really boils down to how you put up all that stuff to see what works. The free way is to sign up at Squidoo or hubpages and put shit up. This isn’t something I recommend.  I think it is important to own the website and control it. You know why? Because this is a business. Dave from Making Money On The Internet recommended going out and buying 100 .info domains. That cost is $1/domain, so $100 for a year.

And please don’t piss and moan about having to invest $100 into this starting out. This is the CHEAPEST business to get started in. There aren’t that many businesses out there where you can get started to make good money for as little as $100.

Now that we’ve settled the need to go out and buy a lot of domains, to discover profitable niches, you need to determine what domains you should get. Typically you want the right keyword(s) in the domain to help with relevance with Google. Products, not brands, are the best way to go. If you have a site about how to take amazing pictures with digital cameras, you’re going to have trouble selling because people aren’t more interested in how to take pictures. But if you had someone searching cheap digital camera, you know what they’re looking for and you know that they want to buy. Getting something like cheapdigitalcamera.info is far more beneficial for you.

You don’t have to get exact keyword domains if you don’t want to, but I suggest going that direction starting out. It just makes things a little easier for you starting out because you’ll eventually learn that when you make big authority sites it becomes less relevant to have an exact keyword domain, but that’s something that you’ll learn.

Just get product domains and a lot of them. And it can be anything. Microwaves, stereo speakers, fans, socks, collared shirts, wireless routers, rave lights, etc.

I want to say that the goal of going out and getting a hundred domain names isn’t to profit. Don’t get me wrong, you’ll make money, but the real goal is niche discovery. You’re going to have domains that will become profitable very quickly. You’ll have domains that don’t seem to do anything. You’ll have domains that will show tremendous success after 6-8 months. And you’ll have sites that literally do nothing after a year. It’s life, but it is what you’re going to learn that is valuable.

The sites that rock are going to be long term gems. Anything that shows signs of life should receive more content and more backlinks. The sites that aren’t working can be left idle or to a bare minimum (of course only after so much work is put into it).

Dave said that you should put up 10 pages of content and backlink it all. And I think that is a completely fair number. You’ll have a shit load of work to get that much content up on a hundred sites, but it is something that is well worth it. Just doing that simple thing will earn you money. All the content that you make on these sites should be product related. Preferably popular items that people want to buy. Check out Amazon’s hottest products to get a good idea.

When it comes to the content you write, you’re going to find your own groove. The idea is to find something that you can write efficiently and effectively (time wise) that sells. We’re not writing poetry here. We’re not trying to impress people with our amazing content. We want them to click the affiliate link, get off our site, buy the product and make us money.

The only real advice I can give you is to have an easy to see and read link to the affiliate link above the fold (where they can see it on the page without scrolling). A picture of the product linking to the affiliate link, as well as text under it telling people to click it helps too. People browsing the net aren’t that smart. Literally typing “click here” will make a difference.

Linking is the hard part for a lot of people. The easiest one to get into is article marketing. I’m not a big fan of this. Honestly, I have seen very little from article directories in how much their links help. You’re sort of stuck with using them because you want as many keywords as possible, but I find them more annoying than what they’re worth.

What I’ve found very helpful for links are those forum backlink packs that you can buy for $5. There’s angies and some other guys that I can’t remember the name of. You can actually look this up at Google. These are great things to have that you can use on all your sites.

But something I like to do is reverse engineer other people’s sites. Webmaster sites as I like to call them. When you search for something at Google you’ll see two different kinds of sites show up in the top 10. The ones I like to call natural “real” sites and the other being webmaster sites (or people like me). These are the people that are here to make money just like you and are building their backlinks. I like to put their website into Yahoo Site Explorer and go through their backlinks. Anything that is good I’ll put in my own person list and use it on my sites. It’s a tedious process at first, but after time you’ll have a massive list of perfect places to get backlinks.

This really is all you have to do. Coming up with the domain names should talk you about a day to figure out. Writing 10 pages of content per site (1000 pages) will take you some time. Backlinking all that content will also take a lot of time, but it is what is necessary to achieve success. If you can hold out and do this for 6 months to a year you’re going to have very solid base of sites that will be making money. And that should be all you need to push in to the future of this business. You’ll know the niches. You can buy future domain names for those niches, put them other webhosts and build them up. It’s really that easy. There’s no forums you have to visit to do this and there is no blogs you have to read. Just work your ass off for the next  6 months and get this shit done and you’re set.