Step By Step Money Online

AGENDA

1. Add more content to your website/blog
2. Begin promoting your website/blog
3. Write an article on Triond
4. Write an article on Associated Content
5. Complete a few offers on CashCrate

WEBSITE PROMOTION
Squidoo - Create a lense with related content from your website and link to your website.

StumbleUpon - Thumbs up and review the site you want promoted.

more to be added later

AGENDA

1. Finalize your niche idea
2. Create a website/blog for this niche
3. Begin to add content to the website
4. Join CashCrate and complete a few offers
5. Write an article for Associated Content
6. Write an article for Triond

OPTIONAL

1. Spend money on a domain name and/or hosting

MAKING A WEBSITE
As per yesterdays post, you should have determined a niche for your website/blog by using SEOBook’s free keyword suggestion tool. Now you need to actually create a website. I prefer using Wordpress for self-hosted blogs but Blogger is a better tool if you want a free website. Both are platforms for creating a website/blog and they give you a yoursite.wordpress.com or yoursite.blogspot.com domain, respectively. You can also choose to buy a domain ($10/year) and have them host your website on it.

Whichever option you choose, you should now create a website with your keywords in the domain name. This will help rank your website in search engines. If you have a website, write a few articles utilizing your keywords in them. For a blog, write a post introducing what it’s all about.

CASHCRATE
Cashcrate is an easy way of getting money. You are paid to complete free offers (i.e. filling out a short form or entering your zip code). This money can be used to buy hosting and a domain name for your website.

Estimated Earned Today: $15

AGENDA

1. Get a Paypal account.
2. Join Triond and write an article.
3. Join Associated Content and write an article.
4. Create a StumbleUpon account.
5. Determine a niche for a blog or website.

OPTIONAL

1. Join Digg, Reddit, and other social bookmarking websites.

WHAT IS PAYPAL?
The first thing you need to make money online is a way to receive the money you’ll be making. That’s where Paypal steps in - it’s a free payment processing service from the people that own E-Bay. With it, you can receive and send money.

WHY JOIN TRIOND AND ASSOCIATED CONTENT?
After joining Paypal, you need an initial way to make some cash. I’ve had the most success with two programs - Triond and Associated Content. These websites pay you to write articles about anything you want. Associated Content pays an initial flat rate of anywhere between $3-20 as well as payment every time someone reads your article. Triond only pays when someone views your article, but they have decent rates of an estimated $2-$10/1000 viewers. I have had the best experience with Triond, but you should try out both of the programs and see what works for you. If you need more information, please check out my page on paid writing.

STUMBLEUPON
To attract visitors to your articles, use StumbleUpon - a social networking service that operates like this:

1. Someone visits a site and clicks the thumbs up button on the StumbleUpon toolbar.
2. Visitors using StumbleUpon visit your site. They can click the thumbs up button as well which, in turn, sends more people to the site.

StumbleUpon is a very effective way of sending traffic to a site.

FINDING A NICHE
Although money can be made from writing for Triond and Associated Content, your best income opportunity is creating your own website or blog. Money can be made on websites through selling advertisements. To create an effective money-making website, you need to pick a niche for it - determine what it will be about. Here are some tips:

• If you are passionate about something and want to frequently write about it, create a blog. Blogs are actively updated.
• If you want to make a static low-maintenance page with only a few articles on it, create a website.
• To help determine a niche, use SEOBook’s keyword suggestion tool. An effective niche needs to have people searching for it on search engines. Type in a few keywords on what you want to create a site about and find one that has people searching for it.

DIGG AND OTHER SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES
Digg and Reddit are similar to StumbleUpon in that they send visitors to a page. They are less effective, though. The only reasonable success I have had with them is when one of my articles reached the front page of Reddit. I received about 20,000 visitors from it.

ESTIMATED MONEY EARNED TODAY
$4-$10

Congratulations! You’ve done all you need to for today. Check back tommorow for the next days advice or read these helpful articles elaborating todays post:

How To Write Articles People Will Read