Making Money Online

Everybody wants to know how to make money online these days. They want to work from home and have a care-free lifestyle. There are many ways to make money online. I have been researching quite a bit about companies that I can partner with and put their products on my websites.

Making Money Online - Practical Applications

There is no such thing as a free lunch - we all know that. My business model is a service model. That means that my website is set up and optimized for people to call me and request bids on my SEO services, social network marketing services and other online marketing and web development services.

This model sucks! I have been reading some books about the millionaire mind and what separates millionaires from the rest of us. I certainly have a great lifestyle and have had a lot of success.

The problem is I am working way too hard and I spend all my work time MAKING OTHER PEOPLE MONEY! This is what I am changing. I am turning this website into a product based business model. With the Internet and a good website, it is like having a trained staff online 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. My store is always open. The big difference between me and millionaires is in the bottom line. I have a lot of capital but also a lot of credit. Millionaires don’t use credit and they don’t have debt. These are things that I am working on to increase my bottom line and eliminate some debt.

So, the first thing that you need to make money online, is a website, and a game-plan on what that website is going to sell. Personally I have high standards on what I am choosing to sell here. The products have to work, they have to be priced fairly and they have to be products that I can write unique and relevant content about. You see, the key to success in the search engines is in content.

You’ve all heard that in real estate it’s LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. Well, Internet real estate is certainly important, but in reality the secret to success online is CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT.

The platform that you use is also important. I use WordPress. In fact, the main site here, getfoundnow.com is being changed to a WordPress system. The reason for this is simple. WordPress does a second-to-none job at communicating with search engines and directories. As long as you have good content and set WordPress up correctly, you are guaranteed results in the SERPS. I am going to be creating an e-book and video package that includes everything that I use in setting up WordPress, including the plugins and themes.

You see, I am now going to sell my knowledge (of which I have quite a bit of in this field), instead of renting it out to the highest bidder. I am no longer going to MAKE OTHER PEOPLE MONEY! I got started with a great video series on how to monetize WordPress which has paid for itself many times over.

Making Money Online - The Nuts and Bolts

Once you have your website planned, the next thing that you need to consider is how the money is going to get into your bank account. I use E Junkie to process online payments. It works with E Bay, PayPal, Trial Pay, Google Checkout, basically everything that you could possibly need to process payments. There is a link at the bottom of the page (the orange and black graphic) that will take you to e-junkie.com. if you click on that from my website, I will make a few bucks when you sign up for E Junkie’s services. That is an example of how to make money online.  I am referring my visitors to my service of choice to process payments.

The important thing is that I am 100% sure that E Junkie works, it is safe and secure and I have had a good experience with them. While Click Bank is also good and highly regarded, they only deal with virtual products. At this time I am not actually shipping products, I am producing a DVD package called SEO By You that will require shipping. If you are not going to need shipping services and are only doing virtual products Click Bank will work fine for you. That link is a Click Bank “hop” link that will pay me a few bucks if you sign up for their services through my site. Yet another example of how to make money online.

OK, so we have talked about the basic needs, a plan for what you are going to offer, a website domain name that has the keywords you want placement for in the domain and finally a good system to create and promote the content that will get you placed well in organic searches. There are certain techniques that you can use right out of the gate to get your website what it needs to make you money.

That, of course, is TRAFFIC. The thing is, just any traffic won’t cut the mustard - you need quality traffic. Quality traffic, or qualified traffic, or targeted traffic are the people that are looking for the goods that your site is selling. A solid foundation of SEO and continued creation of unique content will get you into the search engine ranks, thus sending your site targeted traffic.

To get the ball rolling, start with using Google AdWords. There are specific ways to use Google Ads and I recommend that you check out AdWords Miracles  - a proven system to profit from and properly set up AdWords.  These guys actually answer the phone, which is one of the criteria I use when choosing partners. I MUST be able to contact a live person instantly. I also highly recommend that any partners you choose have contact numbers or answer their email IN PERSON and RIGHT AWAY.

My next article is going to focus on the more technical aspects of Making Money Online. 

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