Dot Com Note

How do I make money online? That is the question everybody’s mind when they hear great potential for making money online using the new found medium called the web.  If you are already prowling the web to get more information about making money online, you have undoubtedly come across product launches, audio and video streaming, teleseminars, and joint ventures, etc.

The gurus that are selling these products and services are making money hand over fist. In all fairness, these products and services are genuine and valuable to the folks who buy them.

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But there is another side of the story. There are thousands of people on the web making thousands of dollars a month without spending a lot of money. They do not fly to every seminar in the country just to make contacts.

They rarely do joint ventures, because frankly, no one knows who they are. They literally sit in front of their computers in their underwear, work hard, and wait for the money to roll in.

Now you must be asking , “how do they do it?” Well, memorize these three keywords: affiliate links, Google Adsense, and quality contents. Search engines love good contents and they will reward you for creating contents that are useful to visitors.

When you create valuable content pages on your website, the search engine spiders crawl the site, then follow each link to more contents, which helps raise your search engine rankings.

How does this make you money? By placing Adsense ads on every page. As readers click through your pages, many will also click the Adsense links. Every time they do, you make a commission from Google. It can be anywhere from a few cents to several dollars.

They do not have to buy anything from you. Just clicking the link makes you money and your visitors may choose to by the product from the advertiser. The more people you drive to your site, the more people will click the links, and the more money you will make.

But you need content to drive traffic to your site. How do you do that? The good old article marketing. Write quality articles that will benefit your visitors. They will learn some thing and apply those learnings in their daily lives.

One option would be to use articles written by others and, surprisingly, that maybe the worst option for creating quality contents. Go to any of the popular article directories and you will find thousands of articles. You can use these articles free of charge as long as you include the resource box with each article. But you will be just rehashing other people’s contents and you will create very low quality articles which the search engines don’t care to index.

Another major downside to using other peoples articles is that the reader will view them as the expert and likely click the link in the resource box instead of the Adsense links, and you will lose money.

A second option is to use Private Label Rights (PLR) articles. However, you will soon find that lots of people like you are publishing these PLR articles all over the web. So you are not really adding any real value.

A quick winner is to use PLR articles for generating ideas. Get a few related PLR articles and outline all best ideas from each article. Write your own article based on those ideas. Now you have created value because you have put the best ideas in one place. The reader will also view you as the expert since you are not competing with thousands of PLR publishers.

Now you include your own resource box with a link to your site and people will start visiting your sites to get more information from you. When they see related AdSense advertisement on your site, a few will click the Adsense links. You can also advertise affiliate links. This is how you make money without spending on your own advertisement and without a single product of your own.