When people realize that I make money online with websites, they typically want to know how to make a website and make money themselves.
And the awesome thing about the internet is, it’s not hard to make money. It IS hard to become rich online with a website, but not impossible. I’m not rich, but I do make money online every day, even on the days that I don’t do ANYTHING.
Sound powerful? It can be as easy as this…find a topic you like to talk about (cooking, computers, camping, etc)….do some research on some of the free keyword tools out there such as the google keyword tool. That tells you what people are actually searching for.
Take that information, and if you’re really just wanting to get your feet wet, start up a free blog through blogger.com and then start posting content based on the phrases that you find in the google keyword tool and you’ll start to get traffic to your site. Without any traffic, you’ll never make money.
Once you get your site up and going (I recommend about 2 weeks worth of time, and at least 5 posts), apply to the google adsense program. Google will let you set up their ads on your site for free, and you get paid anytime anyone clicks on your ads. That’s pretty simple!
Now, in my experience, I’ve always made MORE money from my own .com than I have on free blog accounts. They tend to rank higher in google (usually). So now you’re probably thinking, wait, this is going to cost money, and yes, you are right….ready for the grand total? How about $1.99/month for what I call the best web hosting out there (6 years as a satisfied customer) and around $15 once per YEAR for your .com name (mywebsite.com, etc). That’s it! Is THAT what’s holding you back?
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P.S. Soon, I will make myself available for a short time to answer questions you have about making money online, and I won’t charge you anything for it! Coming soon, so keep checking back on this post. Once I’m ready to announce, I will update THIS post with the info.