How To Make Money Online

There are many ways to make money online; but no matter which route you choose, you will have to be willing to work extra hard and be patient. Time is your friend and if you stick with it, you will succeed.

Basically what you need to do is do a keyword research and find out what is hot; but you do not want a market which is too hot with too much competition as you'll never be able to make it to the top. So you want to find a happy medium, you want a niche which gets a fair amount of searches, but has little competition. Google has a tool called the Keyword research tool which helps you to do your research.

Once you have determined what market or niche that you want to get into, you can set up your blog, or website and start building content. Ideally you should add new content on a daily basis, especially if you are just starting your blog or website. This will help you to rank faster and get noticed by Google and other search engines.

If you have your own products to sell you can begin to upload all the product information and sales pages. But if you don't have a product you can sign up with various different affiliate programs or products which you can promote. Once you have some content then you can sign up for Google Adsense, or other ad networks and make money when people click on the ads. 

Then once you have your blog or website up, you have to start driving traffic, and there are many different ways to go about doing this. You can use social networking sites like myspace, FaceBook and others, along with bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon. Twitter is also a great tool to use.

Then there is article marketing which is also a great way to get more traffic, but it is more time consuming because you have to take the time to write each article. In exchange for each article you get several back links back to your blog or website.

You can also write for writing platforms such as Hubpages, Squidoo, RedGage, Scribd and InfoBarrel just to name a few.

Writing for these writing platforms will also help you to get noticed and help to build back links back to your main site. The more back links you have to your site, the more love it will receive from the search engines.

So basically once your content is up, you have to market, market, and market some more. The harder you work at marketing, the faster your website will soar to the top.

Make a Living Doing What You Love

John Chow is a famous blogger. This is how he makes his living. When he started out he wasn't in it for the money at all. He just wanted to keep an online journal where he could talk about whatever.

Today he's making a living doing what he loves to do...and a fine living I might add. Personally I think it should be everyones goal to make a living doing what we love.

Now some may ask if we all did what we loved would the world still go around? I say "Of course it would!" There are millions of different people all over the world and they all have different interests. I have a friend who loves working in a factory and she will never quit till the day she retires. I've said many times to her, "There has to be something that you'd rather be doing." And she simply says she can't think of anything else.

Another friend loves to clean and cleans for other people...think about it...she loves to scrub toilets for other people! YUCK!!!! Okay maybe she doesn't care for the toilets, but she's a very social person and this gives her a flexible schedule to come and go as she pleases, and she loves it.

Still other people I know love construction. I know one guy who loves the thrill of working on trusses...it's a dangerous job but he loves it.

So how do you go about making a living doing what you love? It may be easier said than done, but just do it. The internet has made a way for anyone in any niche to make a living online. Honest, it doesn't matter what it is you love to do, there is a market for it online.

If you like construction...start a blog and start writing about it. Share with people what it's like from day to day in the construction world. Then learn to monetize your site with relevant affiliate links or ads. This method can work in any niche that you have an interest in.

Obviously it won't happen overnight, but if you work hard and stick it out it will work. I'm still fairly new to the internet but I got my first paycheck from google about a month ago. I'm still not making my living doing what I love, but I'm well on my way. I encourage you to do the same.

John Chow has a lot of valuable information on his site on how to make money online. He's giving away a free e-book in which he shares his techniques on how he makes money online. I would encourage you to check it out. His site is at: http://www.johnchow.com. This is not an affiliate link, I have nothing gain whether anyone visits his site or gets his book. But because there is so much valuable information I want to let others know about it so they too can get their hands on it.

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