How to Make Money on the Internet
Published on July 12, 2010 by Vic Richardson
In researching ways to make money on the Internet over the last week, I discovered the following claims:
1. There are no get-rich-quick magical website formulas that work. Commercial websites, like any other business, requires hard work, dedication and a lot of patience to make any money.
2. You either have to sell something, create original how-to articles or (re)sell something via click through links to seller’s sites. E-bay sales and Amazon resellers (such as their used book dealers) are a couple of the more captivating ways to sell things.
3. If you don’t have a website, you can sell pictures that you take or create on some of the stock photo sites. You make ~25% commission which works out to $.04 – $.25 per download by users of the sites. You must use original content with no human subjects or brand name items. Some top sites are:
4. You can write how-to articles for certain websites for $3-25 each. I saw them and some are only a few paragraphs long. Some of the top sites for this are:
On e-How you earn a commission/month based on ads clicked on the e-how article page which you wrote. Income may be only $5/mo per article but it is recurring income. If you write 100 articles, you may make $500/mo with no maintenance.
5. There is a site that hires you out as a human search engine but you have to be pretty fast at it (not a do it after work thing).
6. If you can make your website popular, and I mean 1000-10,000 hits per day, and your users are prone to click on ads (that leaves out geek sorts, right?), Google ad-sense at the top of the page can make a lot of money. It seems to work best on sites about making money, improving your sex life, etc. A blog on blogger.com (owned by Google) is a free way to try this out.
7. Most all the successful sites I visit don’t have any obtrusive ads, maybe one per page. Users now days are savvy and tune out anything that looks like an ad. Most have pop-up blockers (I do). Passive ads or selling your own ad space requires no click throughs but you need LOTS of traffic and get a few cents per page view per ad.
8. If you are going to create a website, do it on a subject that you love as writing content will need to be a passionate hobby indefinitely, it may be years before your site could make money. Users love answers and advice by someone who knows. Consider adding a blog page to your site using WordPress. It may be easier to promote the blog early on and it will pull traffic to your site, too.
9. Keep your website focused on one topic (how-to or freeware or humor but not all three, in my case) and frequently put original articles up (like weekly or more, not every 2-4 weeks).
10. Consider your users first and what they want. They come here searching for something first, NOT to help you make money.
~ Vic