It has been close to year know since I began this attempt to start making money online without any startup funds. Well I can honestly say it has been a success. I am not making a full time income but I think it is a start. I have proven that you don’t really need any money to start making money online. The thing that you will need is hard work. This doesn’t happen magically it will take lots of reading and more importantly writing. I have written lots and lots of content over the past year. I have learned a great deal from others. Just do a “make money online” search on Google and you will get everything you need from the first page of results. Actually, some of those results are the free blogger blogs that I have used. I have probably learned more by just getting ideas and trying them out. That is what you will have to do, get some ideas, start writing and getting backlinks, and try things out. Then you will find what formula works well for you and you can then expand on those results.
So how did I get started?
The first thing I did is start some blogger blogs. I wrote about things that interested me and I knew a lot about without having to do tons of research. I then did research on what keywords I should use in order to get my blogs noticed and earn income. I signed up for ad sense and then joined Commission Junction (not aff link) affiliate programs. It worked out nicely.
Second, I joined a few paid to click programs. The three most successful ones for me were:
Neobux
Clixsense
Bux.gs
I did pretty well those and I am continuing to use them. I used the money I made with those programs to help purchase a couple things. I will talk more on that later. Another thing that I found over the past several months is that renting referrals for PTC programs didn’t really work well for me. I was just spinning my wheels having to constantly renew referrals and not making any money. I am sure there are good strategies to help people make good money by renting referrals but I didn’t. you will have to promote this programs to get referrals, this doesn’t happen magically. Start a blog, mention it to friends, do whatever you have to do to get direct referrals.
The thing I did do was focus on getting those direct referrals as mentioned above. I ending up getting some good ones and I didn’t have to worry about renewing them so I was always making extra money as long as I logged in a clicked every day, which only took a few minutes.
Third, I joined Peoplestring. I was skeptical of this when I joined, but it was free so I gave it a shot. Peoplestring pays you to use their site basically. They also have a program that gives you money for reading mail and visiting websites. You get money from referrals as well. There are tons of things you can do with Peoplestring to make money, I just did a few of them. I read the mails that were sent and visited websites. I also got a few referrals. I should also mention that you get revenue sharing money as well. The more you use the site, the more revenue sharing money you get. Its not a lot but it adds up. You will have to promote this program just like you did the paid to click programs for direct referrals.
Fourth, I made squidoo lenses, hubpages, infobarrels , and article directories like GoArticles.com to promote my blogger blogs and get backlinks. I didn’t start doing really well until I did this. This really helped with my G rankings and sent me quite a bit of traffic.
I also joined Free Traffic System for backlinks and I like it very much. It has helped me quite a bit in getting traffic…….and its free too.
Here’s the Cliffs Notes version of what I did:
Created Blogger Blogs of things I enjoyed or knew a lot about.
Wrote lots of content on those blogs
Used adsense and commission junction affiliate programs for income
Used paid to click programs for income
Used Peoplestring for income
Wrote on Squidoo, Hubpages, Infobarrel, Free Traffic System, and article directories for backlinks and traffic
This sounds like a lot of work, and it is. You have to do it, though, if you want to make money online. It is not easy, if it was, everyone would be doing it.
What have I done with the profits I have made using the above sites?
First thing I did was buy a product called Micro Niche Finder. I love this thing. It is a tremendous help and it saves a lot of time when you are searching for keywords for you sites. This costs around a $100 but it is definitely worth it.
I also bought some domains and some web hosting from Hostgator. It cost about $40 for the domains (with coupon) and it will cost about $10 a month for the hosting.
So, slowly but surely I am starting to make some pretty good money….all from scratch. In time will use more of the profits from my owned domains to buy more names and create more sites…..gotta diversify! I will stain maintain some of my Blogger blogs. I transferred some of them to my owned domain. I feel better about having my own domain. I feel I have more control that way. I am not under Google’s control as much if I had nothing but the Blogger blogs. Plus the site is totally mine and I can sell it if I want to.
So that’s it. That is what I did to create some money on the web. Again, it is not easy but it can be done. It will just take some patience and hard work to get there.
***Note: most of the links provided above are affiliate links. If you don't want to join under those links just google the program names and you can get to those sites in that manner.
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