Be an individual to really earn some money online
Ok so you want to learn how to make some money online but the start everything can seem pretty confusing right? Youve got a million and 1 bloggers all telling you that they have a new method that know-one has ever thought of and it can be yours for just £99, sound familiar? So i suppose the first thing you have to ask when you read these people is:
“If your making millions from this system then why do you need to sell it on the internet”
Its a good question and one that most people hawking these products wont have a serious answer for. I suppose at the same time there are enough people willing to ignore common sense and buy these ebooks or whatever it is in the hope that it could be the solution to all of their financial problems. Now i know its always good to be optimistic in life but you have to be a realist too! The most important thing to remember is that with any “system” the more people using it inevitably the less money is available for everyone. It just stands to reason as the minute a market gets saturated prices go down.
With this in mind i really don’t think there is any such thing as a “get rich quick” scheme because as far as i can see the only people who could possibly get rich are the ones running it. On the whole the people who really make it in the “make money online” niche are those who strike out on their own to earn a living. Now this doesn’t mean they have to come up with some revolutionary idea every day. Quite often the most successful money making ideas are just variations on other people’s ideas with a different spin etc. Also quite often it can just be that this individual puts alot more effort (and sometimes money) into making the process work, motivation can be huge and not just on the internet business world but everywhere.
One of biggest problems people have with Google and other search engines is that they don’t actually say how they work. For some people this is a problem as they want a nice safe system that they can follow but this is never going to be the case with SEO or even PPC, there is just too much money at stake and too much competition. Indeed even within the internet money making world people don’t share “real” information that often, after all would you give a competitor information that could ultimately lead to you making less money? I didn’t think so! So there you have it a little “reality check” for some who think they can just buy the latest ebook and get rich online in a fortnight!
You need “buying keywords” to make money online with SEO
So i wanted to address one the main problems i see when people pick keywords to target on the search engines. Been a while since my last post so thought i should enlighten all you folks about it.
One mistake i consistently see people make when targeting keywords for SEO purposes is not targeting specific “Buying keywords”. An example of this is the post here http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/60279-lemons884-journal-will-noob-succeed.html where Lemons884 is documenting his progress in the SEO world and how his sites are doing. Now i don’t want to criticise as hes doing more than most people as the majority of newbs overanalyze the whole thing and never actually get anything done. So far hes built a site about track and field events and dates when things are happening which on the face of it sounds good right? I mean he can probably sell sneakers and other running equipment to people while they browse right? Wrong, the majority of people who hit this site will be looking for information about track events and wont actually have making a purchase in mind. Does that mean he will never make any sales? No he will get some eventually but it will never reach the levels that he wants it too until he targets the right keywords. Instead of track and field events why not target the phrase “discount running shoes”, how many of the people who find you with that keyword have making a purchase in mind? Probably about 99%. If you want to make real money with SEO then a sale or purchase should be No1 driving force in both your mind and that of your vistors, everything else is secondary.
Ill give you another example, a friend of mine wanted to start a TV show review site. He was going to have listings of popular shows and reviews of each episode, then he would have affiliate ads for the TV show box set DVD beside it as people might want to buy. Sounds good on the face of it but its the same scenario as before. 90% of the people who hit his site will be looking for information assuming hes targeting keywords like “tv listings” or “southpark show review” then those people don’t have making a purchase in mind. Much better to rank for something like “region free sopranos box set”, everyone searching for that has a purchase in mind as it’s not information and you cant get it for free.
So there you have it a little information from my tiny brain, ill probably have another usefull post sometime next year 
Make money online by blogging?
One of the most general questions i get from day to day is if it is possible to earn money online by blogging. The reason i say this is a general question is that there is more than one way to make money from your blog and it will also depend on the type of blog you have. The first thing that you have to realise is that your earnings depend very much on the content of your blog. If you are just going to create a blog about yourself and what type of cereal you had for breakfast then its pretty unlikely many advertisers are going to want to pay for traffic coming from your site. The key is to consider weather your traffic is “buying traffic” or not, what i mean by this is does the person who hits your blog for the first time weather from search engines or social media have the intention of making a purchase? If the answer is no then you are going to find it hard to convert any of these visitors to your blog into real cash. Consider as well that many of todays advertisers work on a commisson basis and if your traffic isnt making them money then you can bet they wont keep you around for long. So supposing you do have traffic to your blog that is worth money, how can you monotise it?
- The first i will mention is probably the most well known from google called adsense. Its very simple to use as all you have to do is put the code on your site and google works out what your site/blog is about and displays the relevant ads. You can do some configuring as far as colours etc go but its pretty much what you see is what you get.
- Another way to earn money from your blog is allow other people who have blogs or sites to place their links on your site. For this you do need to have a reasonable popularity level for your blog and also some authority to go with it as this is what people are paying for. The main way to get these jobs is just to become and authority in your niche and wait for people to contact you.
- The last way i will mention is a little more work but can sometimes yield alot more money. This is direct affiliate marketing whcih involves you linking directly to another website or blog who sells the product or service that you are talking about. This will envlove a little looking around to find the best place that sells the product and not everyone has an affiliate scheme but most of the bigger sites will.
So there you have a short run down on quick ways to make money from your blog. As i said at the start these are not the only ways to earn money from your website but they are a start!
