Different Ways To Make Money Online
I am back from a long absence. In case people were wondering were I’ve been hiding all this time, I took some time off from this blog to come up with a better strategy for posting and keeping this blog running.
As some of you know, I am a full time blogger, however, this blog is not really generating any real cash for me, at least not yet. Purchasing “money making” products, testing them, and reviewing them takes a lot of my time. As a result, I decided to start another blog in a totally different niche in which I would be able to post more frequently. Frequent posting and quality content is key for a blogger and requires a lot of time, work, and patience.
With that being said, I decided to write a post on different ways to make money online. I actually wrote down the information in this post in a word file for myself as I was trying to figure out all the different ways for making money online. When I told a friend about this he, he suggested I post it to my blog because people have no clue about the different ways to make money online.
This information is actually quite basic but often the most basic information is overlooked. This post does not teach you how to make money online rather it tells you the different ways people make money online.
So here I go.
The different ways that I know of making money online are:
- Affiliate commissions – promoting products or services you don’t actually own or provide and generating income through commissions.
- Honest product reviews, product and/or service referrals through website or blog, Advertising with affiliate link.
- Through ads that mislead people to buy a certain product – get rich quick or other affiliate marketing
- Selling a product or service online
- Amazon, small online stores selling products, sites selling courses, software, ebooks, drop ship products, selling directly on eBay
- Having a really successful informational blog, website, or forum – money generated through ads, affiliate sales, paid reviews
- Blog/Website examples: johnchow.com, stevepavlina.com, engadget, epinions, news sites, tripadvisor, webmasterworld (forum)
- Video or photo sharing site – making money off ads, buyout
- Flickr, Youtube, Peekvid, Alluc.org
- Social Networking site – making money off ads, buyout
- Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious
Example Affiliate Sites: Amazon, eBay, Commission Junction, Clickbank
This is accomplished by:
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Examples: bogus scam reviews, “This product works!!” (Danny’s Scam Review), “How to get rich fast!”, “Sign up with this hosting provider and get product x for free (Mark Warren websites)
If anyone feels I missed something then give me a shout. If it belongs on the list I will add it.
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Interesting post. I guess I sort of knew all this. But isn’t there more ways people make money online. It seems like this is missing something.
Actually you’re right. My friend who suggested I create this post told me that I was missing the gambling video game sites. I should update this post accordingly.
Like you, I have tried and tested so many ways to monetize my website that I cant keep track of them all. Since you do this full time, in your opinion, what is the best way to monetize a website? What have you found to be your best money maker?
Hi Neo, Sorry I didnt realize you posted a comment. I was away for a few days.
The answer to your question is that I havent really found anything yet. I havent been making any money for awhile now and my wife is getting a bit frustrated. As a result I decided to try new online ventures to see what works. I havent really launched anything yet so I dont know what will work.
There are several websites that talk about the best way to monetize a site. Take a look at this post from johnchow.com. He really covers all the different options for a blog.
http://www.johnchow.com/john-chow-dot-com-blog-income-report-june-2007/
And here is another post from JohnTP.com
http://www.johntp.com/2007/05/03/how-bloggers-make-money-online/
does anyone can suggest how to atrrack traffic to my site??? i am stock and can get to much traffic
What’s the name of your site? Is it a blog or a website?
Hi Ari,
I was wondering why do all these websites have a tacky cookie-cutter image? What’s up with the pictures of those Crayola colored cars or the “Soprano” style houses that decorate their main pages? Do you think these images really do triger the buy-it-now impulse on people’s brains?
Just curious
I guess its cause people are so desperate to make money that they get really excited when they see all those fancy cars and houses.
I think people fall for it all the time. Thats why they keep showing these pictures.
Its sad. It really is.
I really like your blog, you are giving real information here, instead of “GUARANTEED!”,”I made $10,000 in one day”…etc site.
Bookmarked as my favorite! Thanks
Hey thanks Yong. I really appreciate the compliment. I am happy you enjoy the blog. Unfortunately I dont have the time to keep it up. But I do plan to add a post some time in the future once I have tested more products and strategies.
Hello Ari,
I have’nt opened a site or a blog. If I were to attempt to open a free web site [write the HTML myself ] or being it’s my first attempt use a less safisticated approach whereby limiting HTML access. Using free hosting, where would be a good place to get a domain and are their free domains out there? When using freeware, how does that affect website, domain and hosting relationships.
As you can tell I am a complete novice, but I am determined to learn.
One more question, If I practice HTML on wordpad or notepad and create something I like, Is it possible to transfer all that data to the web without rewriting the entire text? If so HOW? Or would you suggest just jumping in head first, just get out there and do it? Expect to make mistakes for a while and not sweat it.
WILL… THE CYNICAL GUY
P.S Do you write all material on your sites?
Sorry for not replying sooner. Ok you have some good questions.
For free website you could do a search on free website teplates and you’ll see some amazing ones that you could just edit the content.
Free Hosting – There are websites that offer free hosting services. http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-domain-hosting.php is a site to go to find the best free webhosting sites. They provide rating and reviews of every free web hosting company out there.
As for registering a domain name, it only cost between $6-8 a year if you register with godaddy.com or 1and1.com. So its a good idea to get your own domain name.
Once you have a domain name you could go to the free domain hosting of your choice and register and upload your site.
As for you’re last question, if you go ahead and save the html file you created as index.html and upload it to your domain via ftp then you’ll see the results.
One suggestion is if you use the profit lance program you could download one of his website templates and follow his video tutorial on how to edit the html content using you notepad and browser and see the results right away.
If you dont want to go through profit lance (you dont need to get the program just to edit a website template) then download a template from an open source site like http://www.oswd.org and edit the html and upload it to your root folder.
I love the quality and usefulness of your blog. I think it has potential even though it sat dormant for so long. Keep up the good work.
Hi Rosaline, thanks for the comment. The truth is this post is a bit old. You should look at the newer ones. While the main idea still holds true, references in this post are a bit outdated.