This is a major reason companies prey on families with junk mail offers for credit cards and loans.  Many families have planned their vacation but are falling short with the money to book the travel.  When a credit card or loan offer drops in their mailbox its treated as a solution to book the travel.

If the family had a financial plan that was outlined ahead of time, the money needed for the vacation would be saved and the impulse to open new credit accounts wouldn’t exist.

Steps to Stop Financial Planning Junk Mail

Three steps for stopping financial junk mail offers and the impulse of signing up for them:

Get off the mailing list: Stop offers of unsolicited mail, telemarketing and email.  Visit the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) website for exact steps.

Opt Out: Get your name off the marketing lists by sending letters to those selling the lists.  Direct Marketing Association is a large source of mailing lists.  Go to their site to take your name of their list by visiting them here and clicking on the orange box “remove my name from mailing lists”.

Call to stop Pre-approved offers:  Call 888-567-8688 and ask to have your name, phone and address removed from pre-approved credit card and loan offers.

I find this to be absolutely annoying — you can’t create an entire online business without spending a few hundred bucks. The “frugal” mentality is fantastic for saving money, but not for building an income.

Still, there is an obvious demand out there for “free” blogs and websites. To fill this “need”, some companies offer to let you “piggy back” on their website for free. Blogspot, WordPress and other services off this.

Why You Should Invest in a Real Website

If you’re just looking to have a fun blog to talk about daily events, there’s nothing wrong with this approach at all. However, if you want to actually make money with your website, this would be the worst decision you could make for several reasons:

Security. If you use a “secondary” host, your entire business model is in their hands. You don’t own your website… they own it. You just own the information. If something happens to their server, you can be up a creek without a paddle. It doesn’t add up.

Income. Using your own website allows you to have almost unlimited income potential. You can make money with ads, selling products — you name it. With a free host, you’ll be extremely  limited in your ability to turn a profit. Almost all free hosts have limitations on advertsing, affiliate programs and don’t allow you to make money in other means.

Branding. Using a free host means you don’t have your own domain name. You’ll be “example.blogspot.com” rather than “example.com.” It looks like you couldn’t afford a few bucks, and aren’t legitimate. For marketing purposes alone, it’s worth it to get a real domain.

Usability. Returning traffic is extremely important. Having your name extra long with “blogspot” or “wordpress” instantly makes your website’s name harder to remember. Over the long run, this can mean hundreds of thousands of visitors that don’t come back.

I’ve seen friend after friend try to replicate my success by getting a free “blog” or website — all have failed. Don’t make the same mistakes.

If your goal is to make any sort of revenue, then you should invest in an actual website. “Free” websites aren’t really free — you get what you pay for.

Get your website, of course.

This used to be the part that got tricky, and for years only the “geeky” types could understand how to actually create a website. That’s changed now, and it’s like checking email. Anyone can launch a site in 10 minutes.

The Basic Ingredients of a Website

Getting a website to go “live” requires three things:

Domain. A domain is the “name” of your website. For example, the domain name of this website is “www.LearnFinancialPlanning.com.”

Hosting. A “host” is where your website will actually be stored. If you pick the right host you can have everything automatically hooked up for you. Picking your host is the biggest decision you will make when you start to create your own website.

If this sounds complicated, remember that it is much, much easier these days — just make sure to read to the end of the page, where I explain what your next step should be.

How to Find the Best Web Hosting 2012

Most hosts offer a free domain name when you purchase their hosting. This means you only need one thing to get started…a host. So where can you find one? Check out those listed below. I’ve put together this list of the best and the cheapest web hosts found anywhere.

HostGator – This is our absolute favorite of all time! Strongly recommend them!

Bluehost - Unlimited storage, unlimited domain, free domain name forever, free blog installation, free forum installation, $75 worth of free advertising on Google and Yahoo.

Web Hosting 2012 - For the best web hosting sites for 2012 check out this site for the best deals and pricing.  In addition you can log-in to a test account and see what the hosting set-up looks like before you buy.

Using a so-called “free” host like wordpress.com will destroy your business. Read more about it here. Frugality is wonderful for personal finance, but it’s destructive for business. Still, dishing out the money was the best financial decision I’ve ever made — period.

The next post I’ll list the best hosts you can choose, plus a special host that is created specifically for you — someone who wants to make money online with their website. That’s coming up in the next article — stay tuned!

A host is basically where you “keep” your website. You can’t have a website without “hosting” the website somewhere. It’s like a home for your design, articles, pictures and other stuff you’ll have on your site.

How to Find a Host

If you’re a technical guru, you can be your own host. I can’t do that though — way over my head. I’m not a techie person at all. I prefer to leave the technical stuff to the professionals.

Speaking of the professionals, there are companies that will host your site for you for a few dollars a month. If you can do email, you can set up a website with a web host.

I’ve gone through quite a few hosts after building well over a dozen websites, and these are the only 3 I recommend

Host Gator. From $3.96/month. Unlimited storage, unlimited domain, free domain name forever, free blog installation, free forum installation, $75 worth of free advertising on Google and Yahoo.

Just Host. From $4.95/month. This is the cheapest, by far. Free domain name for life. Free website builder. Free money-back guarantee. Free support. Unlimited domain names and email addresses.

SiteBuildIt! This isn’t just a host — also guides you towards making money with instructions and tutorials. Has the highest success rate of any other host, period. Best choice, by far, if your goal is to make money online. If you want to do it right, go with SBI. $300/year.

Make sure to check out each of the hosts and analyze what they have to offer, and what their track record is. There is also a hosting company called Bluehost that we like (and which you can read a little more about on this article about how to start a blog). If Bluehost is who you ultimately end up using, we found another site with the latest Bluehost promotions and coupons as well as historical company information, contact information, and all other important info related to the company behind Bluehost.

Finding the best web host is really no different now than it was years ago. There are a few key players who consistently rank at the top of the pack including HostGator, Bluehost, and a few of the other ones listed on this page. One thing to watch out for is that you DON’T just join the company with the cheapest price. Regretfully, you often get what you pay for in this regard and when it comes to something as important as your website (and it being live when you need it most), don’t fall for the hosting gimmicks that are out there. Stick with the companies who have consistently provided the best service and who millions of others put their trust in as well.

A Quick Personal Note

Note: If you sign up for a website right now through one of my hosts, I’ll critique your website for free. A web critique from me is worth several hundred dollars, but I’m willing to do it for free only for my readers here — I want to actually help people make money and change their lives with their own website business.

The reason is simple. I still remember the day I finally got a website — it’s one of the most important times in my life, so far. It started as just a hobby, and ended with a full-time income. I can’t tell you how glad I am I made the decision.

I’ll do my best to make sure you take the same path I did to a more comfortable and well-lived life. Just sign up through one of the links above so I can track and make sure you read about the offer on this page first!

Once you sign up, shoot me an email through our contact page, and the message will go to me directly.

I’ll be detailing the different types of traffic first, explain the different “arguments” around the web for which kind of traffic is superior, and then end with techniques for generating traffic with links to books, resources and other websites which I’m sure you’ll find helpful.

Types of Website Traffic

The methods for generating traffic are extremely controversial in the Internet marketing world, and I certainly have my own opinions. But aside from controversy, there are only a few sources of traffic that are worth worrying about, namely:

• Paid Traffic. Visitors fall under “paid traffic” if you, well, paid to get them to your sites through advertising. Thisi s obviously extremely risky to do because if you slip up, you will literally pay for your mistakes. I don’t spend a dime on advertisements because I find it pointless, especially given that there are other ways of getting steady free traffic (as explained below).

• Social Traffic. Some of the most popular websites on the Internet are websites like Digg.com and StumbleUpon.com. These two websites are extremely popular because they allow visitors to “find” popular content on the internet. The websites allow people to share funny videos, great articles and other things on the Internet. Making it to the “first page” of Digg is akin to getting mentioned in a major website, and can send you literally 50,000 people curious about your website. This is –extremely- hard to achieve.

• WOM Traffic. Word-of-Mouth traffic (or “WOM traffic”) is the traffic you get when other webmasters add a link to you on their blog, or people tell their friends about your website.

• Search Traffic. Search traffic is when you “rank” for a topic on Google, Yahoo or some other search engine. For example, you can get to my “Learn Financial Planning” site by searching for “Financial Planning” on Google – I’m on the first page.

• Return Traffic. Return traffic is just what it sounds like it is – it’s when people come back for seconds. If you have a website that people find particularly interesting/useful, they might bookmark the URL, or subscribe to your website so they can read your future content. On some level, they trust you.

Not All Traffic is Equal

If you’ve read my articles before, you’ll know that I’m an extremely huge believer in systematic thinking and planning. Building a “system” or a “model” is extremely important to consistently getting good results. This is why the “business plan” of any business is one of the most important aspect of the business.

Some people seem to understand that a “system” is important to succeed, but then get suckered into oversimplifying the entire process. For example, the typical “newbie” understanding of traffic looks like this:

“Your website is a machine/sytem. Put in ‘x’, get out ‘y’. Put in ’2x’, get out ’2y’. The more traffic you get, the more money you make. If you want to make money, find a way to get any kind of traffic. All traffic is good.”

The above understanding of traffic is obviously oversimplified for several reasons. First, the above “newbie” mistake simply assumes that all traffic is the same. This is like saying that all ingredients are the same when making a cake. “What? No baking powder? I’ll just add more eggs!” This is obviously not true.

Some traffic is more “valuable” than other forms of traffic. Some traffic is almost worthless.

For a limited example, most “social traffic”, as described above, is simply collection of bored people looking for something to do online. They’re finding a way to burn time, or put off some sort of assignment. They probably aren’t willing to buy anything, and they know their way around the internet well enough to be used to advertisements… they probably won’t be clicking ads. When they do get to your website, there’s a good chance they won’t be all that interested.

The opposite kind of traffic would be search-engine visitors. These are people with a specific goal. They went to the search engines, and are looking for something in particular. They are much, much more likely to stay on your website longer, pay attention to what you say, click on advertisements and even buy a product.

To me, one search-engine visitor is worth a hundred social visitors.

This is just a “taste test” of the controversy when it comes to different forms of traffic. In the next week, I’ll be going through exactly how you can build your “traffic model” for your website – to get the article delivered to your inbox, just subscribe at the bottom of this page.

How to Generate Traffic

Techniques for generating traffic depends completely on the type of traffic you want to generate. Here are a few basic tips to get you started:

Social Traffic, WOM Traffic, Return Traffic

Remember, as I wrote above, not all traffic is equal. I’m a firm believer that search traffic is much, much more valuable than “social” traffic. I don’t focus on social traffic at all, and prefer to get my visitors directly from the search engines.

Still, it’s important to understand the basics of all internet marketing.

• Write a “basics” article series. Write a 10 part “Basics” series about your niche. For example, at Learn Financial Planning I wrote Financial Planning 101. This gives people who are new to the niche a great place to learn the basics, and other webmasters are very likely to link to the page.

• Focus your time on value. Every post, every page, every inch of your website should be “remarkable” and interesting to read.

• Learn basic copywriting. People are much more likely to tell their friends about a page if the title is catchy. You can learn the basics of copywriting by reading Copywriting 101 by Copyblogger. (Note: See? “101” pages are a great way of getting other webmasters to link to you.)

• Be “vision” friendly. Most “social” traffic is, unfortunately, a collection of bored people who are looking to be entertained. Make it as entertaining as possible, or expect to get much less traffic. Use pictures, graphs, format your articles — make sure it’s easy to stay focused. No one likes a huge hunk of text. Spice it up.

Note that the above tactics work for “word of mouth”, return and social traffic equally as well.

Search-Engine Traffic

Search engine traffic is my favorite source of visitors because it’s steady. For example, I can always expect generally the same amount of search-engine traffic, so I’ll be able to make plans based around this. I’ll also be able to know how certain changes of my website impact my income – making decisions is much, much easier.

Plus, search engine traffic is easier to monetize. They’re more likely to subscribe to my articles, buy products, click ads – it’s a win-win situation. Seriously, on the basis of everything I know about the Internet and making money online, search engine traffic is the best traffic.

Search engines rank websites on the basis of “popularity” and “relevancy”. “Popularity” is determined by how many valuable websites/blogs link to you. “Relevancy” is determined by what you actually talk about on your website.

• Learn SEO. Search-engines will send little robots (literally) to “crawl” your website, to see what your website is about. They do this so they won’t rank a website about “knitting” on the first page for a Google search for “monkeys”. This means you’ll need to know how to “tell” Google the right things.

• Write Link Bait. Link bait is basically “a webpage worth linking to.” For example, funny photoshopped pictures, stories, facts, “Top 10” lists, etc. Just focus on writing valuable content and people will link to you.

• Build Links. Building links is the most sure way to get links is to manually go out there and find a way to add them to other websites yourself. Build a network of small “websites” on free website hosts like blogspot.com, wordpress.com, etc, and link to your main site from all of the small sites. Find other webmasters who are willing to trade links. Write an article for another blogger and link to yourself in the text. There are hundreds of ways. Again, subscribe if you’d like to see the full list that we’ll be publishing soon.

• Buy Links. If you already have a solid income, this is not a bad idea. Just buy the links. Pay other bloggers/webmasters to link to your website in blog posts, to review your website, to add a link to you on their sidebar, etc.

Concluding Thoughts

The most asked question I hear is “how long before I get a lot of traffic” and “how long before I start making money?” The answer is: that really, really depends. It won’t be quick or fast. It won’t be easy. You’ll have to work at it, plan at it, and think about it. 

Most importantly, it will take a lot of character: patience, hard work, rationality, etc. It might be two years or more before you build an income you can retire on… if you ever reach your goal. It’ll take a lot of “boring” labor to get where you want to go.

But most importantly, it will require that you be willing to sacrifice several hours every day to work on your project. If you don’t enjoy it, you’ll be miserable. I’m lucky in the sense that I simply love what I do. I love helping other people when it comes to building businesses, writing financial plans, and explaining financial topics.

If you benefited from this article, I’d really, really appreciate a link back to it from your blog, even if you just have a “personal” blog. Every link helps. Thanks!

Only 20% of your work gets 80% of the results.

Only 20% of customers end up buying 80% of your products. Only 20% of my traffic earns me 80% of my revenue. Only 20% of my time studying gets 80% of my increased grade.

It’s not an exact science, of course, but it’s extremely helpful in getting into the right mindset. Sometimes it could be called the 30-70 rule, or the 90-10 rule or something else entirely.

But the point is: most of what we do barely matters, if at all. Most time in school is wasted. Most time at work is wasted. Seneca once said, “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.”

Want to get more done? Stop focusing on what doesn’t matter. You can increase the time you have by 80%, allowing you to get much, much more done while working even less. Productivity is beautiful.

Success is Finding the “20″

When it comes to building a website, the 80-20 principle couldn’t be more true. Most people with websites spend hours and hours “writing” posts for their website/blog, and don’t see any results. This happens at almost every blog I have seen where the author is trying to make money online.

The other day I stumbled across a personal finance website that was similar to my site… the only difference is that the webmaster had nearly 5 times the content, and ended up failing to make money, and moved on to other areas of his life.

What a tragedy. The 80-20 principle could have changed his life. Instead, he wasted months emotionally and mentally killing himself, only to end up failing.

Making money online isn’t about working hard – it’s about working productively. There’s a difference.

The 80-20 Principle and Traffic

This website is about making money online. Unfortunately, if you don’t understand the 80-20 principle, you’ll probably fail. It’s essential. It’s life changing. You’ll never be the same. 

The most important impact to your ability to make money with a website? Knowing that almost all traffic is pointless.

Almost everyone who goes to a website will soon leave without clicking a link, subscribing or buying anything. They wasted your time. It doesn’t matter if you have 100,000 people going to your website every day — if they don’t do something, there’s no point.

The 80-20 Principle and Content

Almost all of the content on a website is pointless. Most articles don’t make money. Most articles don’t increase traffic. Most articles do very, very little. If anything, most articles just add to the clutter on the Internet, and drive people to leave the website early.

Learning this will save you months of killing yourself. Rather than focus on writing a new article every week, you can start writing just one a month… and still get the same income.

Stop Wasting Time

Getting stuff done is always about the key essentials. This means if you’ve been reading about making money online, yet still don’t own your own domain name, you aren’t getting anything done. You can get started for less than 50 bucks.

Seriously, for 4 bucks a month, get your own website. You can actually have a website set up in a few minutes (it’s no more complicated than email). Statistically speaking, if you don’t start now, you’ll never start.

After you do that, come back here and keep reading. Let’s use the 80-20 principle to build you a full-time online income, using tactics I’ve tested myself to make sure they actually work.

This is the exact plan I use when making a website.

This is literally what I have in a word document on my desktop to remind me to keep to the plan. It’s extremely systematic, and it works. I’ve used it to dominate topics like “financial planning”, “financial advice” and “savings accounts”. I can personally vouch for this plan because, well, it’s my plan that I use.

Several readers told me they’ve made this article their home-page until they get the first 6 steps accomplished. This continually reminds them to make sure they actually build their website — rather than wish they had 12 months from now. If you think this tactic would encourage you as well, feel free to do so!

Steps 1-6: Getting Started

The first six steps only need to be done once. This means after you get the first six steps finished, you can simply work on the website whenever you feel like it, and you’ll be making money online.

1. Get a Domain and Host. You can get both for less than $5 per month. Remember, you’re starting a complete business for that money. Treat it as a business, and you’ll suddenly see why I constantly urge friends and family to build a website.

2. Get a usable website design. You can install WordPress with one click if you get your hosting through Hostgator or Blue Host. It’s a free program that lets you manage everything on your website, including free web designs. You can even use this website’s design for free.

3. Plan out 50 articles. Whatever topic you choose your website to be about, plan out the 50 pages of your website. Go get a pen and notebook if it helps you. Just plan out the 50 articles. You won’t need more than 50. Please make sure to read this article — it’s one of the pillars of the 10-step plan.

4. Write the articles or outsource. Write the articles yourself or outsource the writing to a freelancer or a firm. I do a mixture of both. I write about what I find interesting, and have someone else write what I find to be boring. Regardless of your budget, you can find someone to write your content over at Text Brokers.

5. Place ads and affiliate programs. Don’t do this until you have all 50 articles written and placed on your website — it can be distracting if your content isn’t finished. Check out programs like Adsense, Commission Junction, ClickBank, and others. Mix and match until your website looks professional with both advertisements and relevant affiliate programs.

6. Set up a newsletter. A newsletter is a cool way of having a method for contacting people who have been to your website and trust you. You can use GetResponse — one of the most famous services. This insures that you’ll always have thousands of people on-hand if you want to sell products or remind them of your website.

Steps 6-10: Marketing and Earning

The first six steps are about getting set up. Unfortunately, very few people actually get past the first six steps. It’s extremely easy to get distracted with adding advertisements and reading about cool tools that will “make money” for you on “autopilot”.

Do yourself a favor: ignore everything except accomplishing the first six steps until you get them done. Don’t go out of order. Just concentrate and accomplish your goals. Trust me, you’ll save months — if not years.

Once you get the first six steps accomplished (and not before), start with the rest. The next four are about increasing traffic through your website.

7. Write articles for article directories. Article directories are a fantastic, cheap and easy way to build links and awareness. Websites like Buzzle.com and EzineArticles.com let you publish an article with a link back to your website. Just talk about your niche and tell people that there’s more where the article came from — you’ll build traffic.

8. Trade links with other webmasters. This works best if you have other websites to bargain with (for example, I’ll link to your site from my B site if you’ll link to my A site). This let’s you build relevant one-way links to your website, which are important to most search engines. A few months of this and you’ll get significant search-engine traffic.

9. Submit articles to blog carnivals. One of the coolest and most important websites for a webmaster is BlogCarnival.com. It lets you add your best articles to a “carnival”. A carnival is basically where some webmaster volunteers to link to all the articles that were submitted about a specific topic, like financial planning, knitting or NASCAR. You get free links, and curious people will click on your articles to read. Double win.

10. Write guest posts. This is one of the most important strategies for building traffic. Go to the most popular websites/blogs in your niche and offer to write for them. They’ll give you the credit, which can give you relevant links and hundreds (if not thousands) of visitors. This is the most important method I’ve used to generate traffic.

A Quick Warning

When it comes to building an online business, thousands of “internet marketers” want to sell you tutorials, ebooks, courses and other stuff that you just don’t need. Most “make money online” and “make money blogging” blogs are complete wastes of time. The constant barrage of “tips” are rarely worth the time to read every day.

Success, as we discussed in the 80-20 article, is almost always about the basics. Use the principles in this post one right after another, and you’ll have a full-time income.

Update: Several people have asked how long this process takes. The answer is: it depends on how much time you’re willing to spend.

I don’t work more than 1-2 actual hours per day, and haven’t needed to yet. I made it to the first page of Google for “financial planning” on the week of my website’s 6-month anniversary

It’s best if you don’t think about time, and instead think about the steps. Start with step one, actually get a domain and host, and then work on the next five. Stick to the system and the income will follow.

Quick Tip: “content” is whatever is on your website, like articles, videos, pictures, etc. It’s whatever is drawing people to your website in the first place.

In case it isn’t completely obvious, I’m a firm believer in good planning. Financial plans, website plans — plans give us a direction, and organize us so we know exactly what to do next. When you have a plan that works you can focus all of your efforts where it counts the most. 

Your website’s content is no different. You need a plan. In this article we’ll be talking about exactly what kind of content plan makes the most sense if your goal is to efficiently make money with your website.

The 50-Article Plan Explained

The plan is extremely simple. Analyze your niche. Boil the topic down to 3-10 sub-topics. In each of those sub-topics, write 5-10 articles that cover everything about the sub-topic. The exact numbers will be whatever it takes to insure that you end with about 50 articles. Now write the articles.

Your content will look something like this:

Your Website’s Topic Sub Topic

1. Article Article Article
2. Article Article Article
3. Article Article Article

Sub Topic

1. Article Article Article
2. Article Article Article
3. Article Article Article

Sub Topic

1. Article Article Article
2. Article Article Article
3. Article Article Article

You’re done. That’s the 50-article plan.

A Quick Example

For example, let’s say you’re writing about why gun control is unjustified. That’s your niche. Your website is going to discuss the topic of gun control, gun laws, self defense, etc. So you’d boil the topic down to 3 general sub-topics. Then you add 10 or so articles under each of the sub-topics. You’d link each “leg” of the ladder — your main page would link to the sub-topics, which would link to the specific articles. 

For example:

Topic: Gun Control

Sub Topic: Gun Control and Crime

1. Gun Control Failed in the UK
2. Gun Control Failed in Washington, DC
3. Gun Control Failed in Canada

Sub Topic: Gun Control and the Constitution

1. Gun Control Violates the 2nd Amendment
2. Gun Control Violates the 14th Amendment
3. Gun Control Violates the 9th Amendment

Sub Topic: Gun Control and Morality

1. Gun Control Makes Minorities Defenseless
2. Gun Control Makes Women Victims
3. Gun Control Disarms the Innocent

Is it beginning to make sense? The goal is to create a simple heirarchy that gives your website three layers: your home page, the secondary pages, and then your third pages.

The Goal of the 50-Article Plan

The purpose of the 50-article plan is to make money. This is achieved through several means.

As I’ve explained before, the best source of traffic to your website is search-engine traffic. Search engine visitors are more likely to click your advertisements, buy products, sign up for newsletters and other things that make you money.

By building your website with a strong heirerchy, and making sure you link “down the ladder” from your home page to the sub-topic pages to your specific articles, you are making sure that the search engines know what your most important pages are.

This is extremely misunderstood by most of the “make money blogging” gurus.

For example, let’s say you write an article every day for a blog. When you write an article, it will be replaced by another article, and then another, until the article you first wrote is lost in the archives somewhere. It’s “harder” for the search engines to see that article. There are fewer links from your site to that article. You’ve effectually lost time and content. It’s innefficient.

This isn’t the case with the 50-article plan. Plus, with such an easy-to-use 50-article heirarchy allows people to find the information they want, and quickly. This means your visitors are happier and are more likely to read, click, buy and even link to you. It’s a win-win situation.

But perhaps most importantly, having 50 articles gives you a goal that you can achieve. Most websites are “open ended”, meaning the goal of the webmaster is to keep writing until doomsday. There’s no set goal. With the 50-article plan, you know exactly when you’ve achieved the goal. 

This Isn’t the Only Way

Of course, there are dozens of other ways to publish content that makes money. There are other systems and plans that might work just fine for some people.

But this website is about finding a system that works for anyone — we want guarunteed success, not chasing possible wealth. The purpose of this website (and, specifically, this page) is to detail and explain the steps I’ve taken to success so you won’t need any guess work.

No theory here — just what we know works. And the 50-article plan does just that.

What to Do Now

To learn more about how you can achieve more by working less (but more efficiently), then read The 80-20 Principle of Getting Stuff Done. You can learn how to literally double your productivity while working half as much.

Do you like the concept of using a set plan to achieve your online income goals? Then check out the most important article on this website, The 10-Step Plan: How to Make Money Online.

Note that you’ll need to experiment with your monetization. A website that might only make $10 a day from adsense could make $1000 from affiliate programs. Choose your method of making money wisely.

Advertising Programs

Advertising programs are the most popular way to make an income with a website — almost every website has them. There are plenty of companies that give you a special code to put on your website. This code then looks like a block of advertisements when visitors see it.

There are basically direct types of online advertisements — CPC, CPM and direct ads.

“CPC” stands for “Cost Per Click”, which means you’ll make money only when someone clicks on your ad. You can make anywhere between 10 cents and 10 dollars per click.

“CPM” stands for “Cost Per Thousand”, which means you’ll get paid when people see the ads — just a very, very small amount. You might get paid $1-2 per thousand times someone sees the ads.

A direct ad is when you are paid directly for the ad to be listed on your website. This amount isn’t dependent on how much traffic will see their ad or how many clicks they get — they’re making a decision to trust that your website will make their ad worth while.

CPC Advertising Programs

• AdSense.com
• AdBright.com
• Chitika.com

CPM Advertising Programs

• BannerConnect.net
• RightMedia.com
• Revenue.net

Direct Advertising Programs

• PerformancingAds.com
• OIOPublisher.com

These are just the start. There are hundreds of advertising programs to be found online. Do some digging and you can find more.

Sell Products

A website is basically a storefront — you can sell products. You can sell anything from birdhouses to pet food to wholesale watches — if it exists, you can sell it.

Even if you don’t own your own product, you can sell a product for another person or company. That’s called “affiliate marketing”, and you can read about it below.

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate marketing is where you become a sort-of online salesperson for a company or person. You get a special link that only you have — anyone who buys/signs up through your link will be registered in the main database. The computer will track how many sales you make, and you’ll get a comission.

For example, at my financial website, I’m a salesperson for banks and “sell” savings accounts. If someone signs up for a savings account through my site, I’ll make about $25. That’s how affiliate programs work. 

ClickBank.com
CJ.com
Amazon.com

Last Thoughts

There are tons of more ways to make money online. You can sell a service (consulting, reviews, advice, graphic design, freelance writing, etc), sell links (risky) and dozens of other things.

Personally, I use a mixture of affiliate programs and advertising programs. I find they go together well.

If you haven’t built your website yet, then read the 10-step program to get started.

In this article, I’ll introduce you to the approach I use that most of the “gurus” are ignoring. It’s callled “keyword marketing” — and it works. It’s basically a five step blueprint for building a passive income online.

Most of the people I know who make money online full-time are keyword marketers. It just works.

If you’re actually serious about making money online, then grab something to drink and read this entire page. I’ll explain exactly what you need to know to get started right now. No bull, no hype — just what I’ve done to build a full-time passive income before even going to college.

My Websites and the Great Google

Most people who visit my websites probably found the sites through Google or some other search engine. This wasn’t by accident – I’ve specifically built my websites to get traffic from Google. It’s part of my business plan.

Doing this basically puts my income on “automatic”. It’s a great feeling, and I often take a day off from doing anything at all — the money still comes in, because Google never stops working.

Making your website to focus on getting traffic from Google means you’ll have:

• Steady Visitors. Search engines send traffic at a constant rate, so you know exactly what to expect. I get about the same number of visitors every day.

• Passive Income. Because you have steady visitors, you set up advertisements and other ways of making money with the traffic, and walk away. Google doesn’t sleep, so getting search traffic is passive. Get the traffic once, get it forever.

• Interested Visitors. The people who find you via search engines are looking for something, and are more likely to buy something or stay on your website – better traffic!

It’s the easiest way to build a long-term passive income. The best part is that you can do it over and over, building even more than one full-time income for every website you create. I start a website every 3 months — the income is basically limitless.

How Keyword Marketing Works

Like I explained above, almost everyone who visits my websites get here through the search engines. That’s because I’ve built all of my websites in a manner to focus on getting search engine visitors.

I picked a topic I knew people were searching for and I found out how to rank the first few results in the search engine for that topic.

Once I rank for that topic, I then find ways to make money from all the people who are visiting my website. They were obviously searching for something – I’ll just find a way to make money giving it to them. Advertisements, affiliate programs, Amazon books – making money is the easy part.

The steps look something like this:

• Step One: Research keywords people use.
• Step Two: Pick a good keyword you like.
• Step Three: Build your website about the keyword.
• Step Four: Find a way to make money with traffic.
• Step Five: Get the website to the first page of Google.

This approach of researching what people are searching for and building a website about it is called “keyword marketing”. It’s the idea that you build a website regarding a specific topic, and then rank in Google for that specific topic.

For the record, this is the business model I use for all of my websites. The reason I’m such a fan of keyword marketing is simple, as I’ll explain below.

Why I Choose Keyword Marketing

To be honest, the more I make money online, the more I’m shocked that keyword marketing gets so little stage time on most of the “make money online” websites. It’s sad, because keyword marketing is, in my experience, the best way to build an online income.

Learning how to get my websites ranked in Google for certain keywords has changed my life for the following reasons:

• Passive Income. This is a biggie. The income is passive. That means I could take a 6 month vacation, come back, and I’ll still have the same income as before. My websites will still be up, Google will still be running, etc. Rank on Google, earn forever.

• Easy to Repeat. Once you achieve your goals with a website for ranking for a keyword, you can move on and start a new website and do the whole thing over. Because it’s a passive income, you can put all of your focus on the new website, effectually doubling your income twice a year. I build 4 websites per year.

• Scientific Method. Ranking in Google is scientific, meaning you can learn exactly how to do it. No guess work. No hoping you become a blogging “rockstar” and that people will decide to like you. You don’t need anyone except a good course that details how to rank well in Google — that’s it.

I’ll put my whole reputation on the line and say that keyword marketing is the best, most efficient way to make money online. If you want to build an online income, then learn how to master keyword marketing. It’s a sure-thing if you do your homework. Speaking of which…

How to Learn Niche Marketing

This is just an introductory article to get you familiar with what keyword marketing is all about. The purpose of this website is to help people understand that normal people can make money online without trying out a rediculous “get rich quick” scheme.

I started this website to help beginners. I remember when I was just starting, I was (and still am) a huge fan of Kelly Felix. He was the one-man show behind The Rich Jerk back in 2006, and if you aren’t familiar with the name, Google it to read the story.

That’s why I can absolutely recommend (proudly with my affiliate link) his new keyword marketing school: Bring The Fresh (ok, I hate the name, but the product is REALLY good).

Well, I’m excited to say that he’s opened the doors to a teaching program where he’ll teach you everything he knows about keyword marketing at the absolute lowest price possible (for a real-life expert who continues to do this day in and day out…not just teach it). It’s probably the best crash course I’ve seen.

He guides you through every step of the way, and teaches you actual skills. You’ll have to learn to work hard, learn new skills, and get good at ranking on Google. He’ll teach you all of it. It’s not going to be “easy”, and it won’t happen automatically by any stretch of the imagination.

You’ll have to work hard, but if you follow the instructions, you will make money online.

I love this course, and one of my favorite parts is how little emphasis they show to getting a fancy web design. The website is simple and to the point without a lot of frills — just like the content. There’s no hype because there doesn’t need to be hype. This is the way online business should always be run. It’s refreshing.

To be honest, I don’t even want to make this article any longer. If you like the idea of keyword marketing and building an income by ranking in Google, just check out Bring The Fresh, and commit yourself to try it out for at least 30 days (he even provides a no questions asked 100% money back guarantee good for 60 days).

The first step is ALWAYS the hardest.

Below I’ll explain what your next step should be. I honestly wish I could have had someone tell me what to do first when I first started — it would have saved me a lot of time and headache. You should taking your first step in your journey to make money online in the next 60 seconds. Good luck!

Do You Want a Website?

If your goal is to build an income with a website or blog, then buy your hosting right now. Hosting is where your blog “lives” — you have to have hosting to have a your own website.

I’ve partnered with the best hosts to provide you with your website for lower than $4 a month.

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Do You Want to Try Keyword Marketing?

The main purpose of this website is to teach you how to build your own website targeted a specific keyword, and to get that ranked on Google. This allows you to get a steady amount of visitors every day who are willing to buy stuff, click advertisements, etc. This is called “keyword marketing“.

To put it bluntly, if you want to try keyword marketing and make money online the way I do, then you need Bring The Fresh.

If your someone who likes to have everything explained in step-by-step instructions, then that’s the program for you. I’ll stake my entire reputation on saying that it’s the best program out there like it.

Of course, some people can’t rustle up a dollar. To be honest, making real money online was probably never for them anyway.

• Click Here to learn about Bring The Fresh.

Do You Just Want to Make Some Money?

Some people don’t want to start a business to actually generate significant income. I suppose that’s okay. If your goal is just to make a few hundred dollars per day, then try out Project Payday.

Project Payday isn’t a get rich quick scheme (you aren’t going to be rich with this) and it’s not available to everyone. You have to be in the US or Canada to use it.

It’s like a work from home job more than an actual business. You won’t make more than a few hundred bucks a day, and only that if you’re willing to put some time into it.

The general idea is that you try out trial offers of products. They pay you about $25 per trial. The trials cost a couple of bucks to sign up for.

Basically, they’re gambling $25 bucks that you’re going to love their product/service so much you’ll be hooked for life.

You’ll have to sign up to learn more about it.

I’ve partnered with them only because not everyone wants to build a website. Building a website is my preferred way to make money online. Still, this might be for you.

• Click Here to sign up for Project Payday.

Bonus Tip: Don’t Just Read.

Most websites out there about making money online encourage you to constantly read their website because the “more information, the better.”

This is obviously a bit self-serving for them. I’m going to say something different:

If all you do is read, then information is all you’re going to get. You could spend two years and still not learn everything there is to know about making money online.

It’s better to dive head first and learn by doing than trying to do what you’ve read somewhere. Everyone I know who has succeeded online did it this way — including myself.

This is going to sound like “personal development” crap, but it’s true: the rest of your life starts right now.

Don’t to get up from the computer until you take one concrete step towards building your own online income.

Conclusion and Summary.

If you want to get a website, click here. That’s the cheapest host.

If you want to learn keyword marketing, click here.

If you want to make a few hundred bucks fast, click here. Not open to everyone.

In short, yes you can make money without spending any money.

If you’re familiar with making money online, you probably already know I’m talking about SendEarnings.

Go to their website and sign up, and then come back here to learn more. Clicking that link will open their site in a new window so you don’t have to worry about losing your place.

SendEarnings 101: Why It’s Worth It Sign Up

You won’t get rich with SendEarnings, but you can make some free money. If you want to actually “get rich” or build a full-time income online, then read to the bottom of this article.

SendEarnings has a lot of advantages over pretty much EVERY other survey/email site I’ve found, which is why I’m an affiliate with them and don’t endorse any of the others. Here’s why for starters:

• You get $5 of free money just for signing up. That’s free money. It’s automatically deposited in your account, and you don’t even have to do anything to get it. You obviously have to make the minimum to get paid, but the $5 itself is free money.

• You get free money for reading emails. The money comes with strings — you have to click the emails. That’s it. It doesn’t take a PhD in Psychology to click the emails. You only get paid a small amount.

• You get free money for taking surveys. Every day is a quick and free survey that pays you at least $.50 to fill out. This doesn’t sound like much, but it only takes a minute to fill out.

• You get paid to try offers. This isn’t part of the free money aspect of SendEarnings. Basically, it’s just like Project Payday in the sense that you can spend $1-2 to try a new product, and they’ll pay you more than that to check it out. It’s clever advertising on their part. If you have self-control, just buy and cancel. Most people don’t cancel which is why they offer this. You don’t have to do this.

Overall, you’ll make $6 or so your first 10 minutes, and can make more reading emails and taking surveys. I don’t do this because it’s boring, and I make more money online through other means, as I’ll talk about later in this article.

Still, if a couple of twenty dollar bills would make your life better, then sign up for SendEarnings… if you don’t like it, just unsubscribe and you haven’t spent a penny.

“You Get What You Pay For”

You know the old expression, “you get what you pay for”? The same goes for send earnings. You won’t be making much money with send earnings. The big draw is that it’s free. If you want to make money quickly and are willing to spend a few dollars for every twenty or so dollars you make, then check out our make money fast page.

I’m not saying SendEarnings isn’t a great way to get free money, I’m just saying you won’t get a ton. Still, free money is free money.

In the interest of full-disclosure, I don’t use ProjectPayday or SendEarnings. I do what’s called “keyword marketing”, which is neither free nor fast. Basically, I build websites like this one and get them to rank in the top of Google searches.

The best you can do is sign up for both SendEarnings and Project Payday and see if you are willing to make money through them. If you aren’t, check out my keyword marketing page and learn how to make money online the way I earn money online.

• To learn more about keyword marketing, click here.

• To sign up for SendEarnings and make free money, click here.

• To sign up for Project Payday and make money fast, click here.

In other words, if you build a website that makes money, you can stop working, stop adding articles to the website, stop marketing it, stop everything — and it still makes money. It makes money because it still exists and is getting traffic through the search engines, if you build it correctly.

For example, the other day I went into town (I live in the country) to buy a good meal and watch a movie with friends. I didn’t think about work the entire day. When I got back home, I discover I’d made over $100 while in town.

It should be obvious why I’m a fan of building an income with a website by now.

But here’s the thing… the biggest problem people have when it comes to doing this themselves is getting started. So I’ve decided to make a quick example page. My goal is for one page that I’ve written on one of my websites to make $10 per day within 6 months.

If I can get one page to make $10 in 6 months, then you’ll be able to replicate my success, and build 20 or 30 similar pages. That’s $70-100,000 per year.

I’ll be writing more about this in the next couple of days. The keyword that the page I’ve written is “pull up bar”, along with a lot of similar keywords. Again, i’ll be writing an entire series detailing every single step I’ll take to get the page to succeed.

If you’d like to see the page, check it out: Pull Up Bar. It’s written for people who are looking for an excercise bar that you hang on your door inside. It’s kind of a neat tool, actually. I bought one and everything I write on that page is true.

If you have any questions, just use the contact me form on the website. Thanks, guys!

I haven’t worked on it at all. It’s a great niche, though, and I know that building an entire website in the niche would lead to $10-20 per day. Soo…

…I’m doing it. Last night I spent 89 cents on a domain and started an actual full-fledged pull up bars website. The domain is www.PullUpBars.info.

This is just going to be an example that I’ll use to show you how to build a website and rank it for anything. Again, I’ll be writing an entire article series explaining how I did it, detailing every single step of the way.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about and want to learn more about how to make money with a website, check out the keyword marketing introduction, and especially check out The Keyword Academy, a website I’m affiliated with.

Here are the 3 future articles that I’ll be writing, explaining how I built and marketed the website:

1. How I Picked the “Pull Up Bars” Niche and Domain
2. How I Got the “Pull Up Bars” Content for Dirt Cheap
3. How I Monetized My “Pull Up Bars” Site
4. How I Built Links to My “Pull Up Bars” Site

If you’re an old timer, it might seem pretty obvious. But if you’re new, trust me, you’ll need to watch exactly how I built and ranked the website. To learn a little more about the website and my business model, check out The 10-Step Plan: How to Make Money Online. I explain my entire business model there.

A “pull up bar” doesn’t seem like much of a niche, but it really is. There are literally thousands of niches out there that you could dominate in a month or two. I’ll be writing more about this later. Sorry to keep baiting you, but I spend most of my time actually making money online rather than just talking about making money online. )

They’re right about the get-rich-quick schemes. It’s impossible to get rich quick or easily. But you can work from home and make a comfortable income if you’re willing to play it smart and work hard.

You can learn more and sign up for Project Payday, or read the rest of this tutorial.

How to Make Money With Project Payday

Project Payday is an incredible program that will help you make your first $100 online. If you haven’t made any money online yet, this might be a good start to make a few hundred bucks. How long it takes depends on how hard you work and catch on.

You won’t get rich, but you ARE gauranteed at least $100. If you don’t make that money, then you can just tell the people at Project Payday and they’ll give you the money for free.

This isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. It’s a lot of work, but you can make a few hundred bucks per day working from home if you work hard and smart. Sign up for Project Payday.

How I Make Money With Keyword Marketing

The above work from home job is what most people should try to do. It allows you to make money if you need it relatively quick. But if your goal is to build a full-time passive income, then this section of the page is for you.

This is what I do to work from home.

Chances are, you found this website using a search engine. That was no accident. I built this website in a special way that allows me to rank in the top results for keywords like “work from home” and “make money.” I then make money with advertisements and other techniques.

Anyone can build a website and have it rank in the top results for certain searches. It’s not rocket science. It’s called “keyword marketing” and you can learn the process for $1 at The Keyword Academy.

Here’s a quick overview of the process:

• Step One: Research Keywords.

Think of a keyword. This is what your website will be about. Not all keywords are created equal, of course. Writing about “debt consolidation” is probably easier to make money with than “paperclips.”

• Step Two: Build Your Website.

Build your website. You’ll need to get a host and domain. This is the most expensive thing you’ll be buying to build a website. This is the “store front” of your online business, so it’s incredibly cheap. It will cost less than $100 per year.

• Step Three: Write Your Content.

Write all about the keyword you pick. Make your website cover the basics about the topic. Write tutorials, reviews — everything people might be looking for. Write no less than 30 articles and no more than 50. This should be enough.

• Step Four: Make Money Online.

Making money online is relatively simple. Put AdSense and other advertisements on your website. This shouldn’t take much time. Most of your time will be focused on writing content and the next step.

• Step Five: Rank On Google.

Ranking on Google is mostly about getting other websites to link to you. You can do this yourself by paying other websites or writing articles for them (they’ll link to you if you’ll write an article for them, often) or through literally thousands of other ways. I’ll be writing more about this in the future, so make sure to subscribe.

The above 5 steps are just a rough draft of the basic “pillars” of keyword marketing. To learn more, you can check out The Keyword Academy.

Conclusion and Last Words

In the end, there are basically two methods that I back to work from home. The first is Project Payday, a work from home job. You’ll be working for someone else, and it’s an incredible investment if you stick to it.

The other method is what I do now: keyword marketing. To learn about keyword marketing, though, you’ll need to sign up for The Keyword Academy.

• Sign up for Project Payday.
• Sign up for The Keyword Academy.

Once you achieve a full-time work-from-home status, make sure to let me know. I love reading success stories from readers, and get them all the time. Good luck!

For those interested in personal details, I’m right at the 6-figure in yearly income mark, so I’m super excited. This is an amazing time to be creating websites.

One of the most common questions people ask is how I make money with my websites. Since this is such an important issue, I decided to update you guys on my latest change to my business model.

I’m now focusing my monetization on the 411 Affiliate Network. It’s the best I’ve seen so far, and allows you to earn money by helping people find online products and services. Everything from books to insurance to credit to health to … everything is there.

Create a free account right now.

My goal is to increase my income by roughly 50% with the 411 affiliate network by the end of the month. Let’s see if I can do it. I’m focusing on their financial planning leads, which means I’ll get people to search for financial planners and will be paid per lead.

You sign up too, and I’ll post about my success in about a month.

• My Parents. My parents taught me from a young age that I can do anything I want to do. They’ve supported me every step of the way, and never pressured me to cave in and try to just find a “nice, comfortable job” working under anyone else. My parents are amazing, and I love them, and am extremely thankful.

• This Book. In terms of business advice, everything else is based on a little book called The Four-Hour Workweek. It’s written by Tim Ferris, a young multi-millionaire entrepreneuer and investor who literally sits around making money while working only a couple of hours a week. His secret? Well, read the rest of my review to find out.

No, seriously. Go read my review of the book, and then buy the book. After you read it, you’ll see why I’m almost dogmatic in my support of the book. It’s brilliant, and worth the fifteen bucks or whatever it will cost you. Go get it and read it, and reread it, and reread it. It’ll change your life.

Click here to read the review.

We don’t do surveys and waste time for hours every day — that doesn’t make sense. We build websites that have advertisements on them, sell products or generate leads as an affiliate (we even create our own products at times) and then fill the websites with interesting articles to get people to visit them.

The Process Is Simple. Don’t Over Complicate It.

It’s hard work, but it’s still absurdly simple. How do you get started? Sign up for Site Build It, an online course that will help you plan, build, and market your website.

They include all the tools you’ll need — you won’t have to spend any more money after Site Build It.

Site Build It will teach you everything you need to know. It costs less than $1 per day every month, and they’ll host your website, give you a design for it, show you each step to take, show you which topics you should have on your website, etc.

There’s also a place on the site which let’s people answer your question if you get stuck. This was made so you don’t have to be “good with computers” to use it.

If you’re overwhelmed at the options that exist when it comes to getting started online, then buy Site Build It, and they’ll show you exactly what to do first, then show you the next step, then the next step — all the way until you reach a full-time income status.

Remember, you can build a website about anything… literally. Sports, movies, religion, politics, finance, music, books, anything. Check out their case studies page to see what others have done. It’s really cool.

How Much Money Can You Make?

It depends, of course. But if you do what they say, each website will make way more than it costs — way more. We’ve made well into the six figures with certain sites (keep in mind this is not a guarantee you will do the same – however with SBI we feel you have the absolute best chance), and the sky is literally the limit. Check out their “work from home” page to learn more about the money side of things. If you want to start off with the best guarantee to actually make money online with your website, SiteBuildIt is the only All-In-One solution we recommend. Seriously, check it out!

Recommended Companies

NUMBER 1: Over $20 Million in cash and prizes has been paid out to SurveySpot members. Register for free today and get paid up to $15 or more for every cash survey.

NUMBER 2: Paying between $5 – $50 per survey, you can make $20 right away by completing just four of their entry-level surveys.

They also provide other creative ways to complete surveys by being the equivalent of a “secret shopper” with a company you do business with. You can learn more about this once registered for free at their site.

NUMBER 3: Toluna pays between $1 – $5+ for each survey you are invited to take and complete. On top of that, they have monthly drawings where they give out thousands more to their members.

Toluna is more of a community site, and if you like the idea of being able to interact with other survey takers, this is a great site to join.

NUMBER 4: YourFreeSurveys is nice for 2 reasons. 1) They will pay you $4 just to register with their site and 2) They provide lots of information for how to maximize your paid survey efforts.

You can think of them like a survey aggregator. They organize a lot of different survey companies in one place (except where most other companies charge you a fee to access their “database” YourFreeSurveys does it for free). Join Today.

NUMBER 5: Vindale is similar to YourFreeSurveys in that they organize lots of different survey companies in one place, but they also provide a few extra resources that are worth having access to.

For starters, they are also more of a community site, and they are actively involved in talking/interacting with their members. If you like the idea of being able to ask questions and get a little hand holding with paid surveys and sponsored offers, Vindale is a must join.

You’re half-way there! Be sure to register with AT LEAST each of the 5 companies above. If you want even more survey opportunities, make sure to register with all 10 companies on this page. It takes just minutes to register with each site.

 

NUMBER 6: NPD has been around for years, and is one of the most respected market research companies in the world today.

By completing surveys, you receive points which can be used to enter their massive monthly sweepstake giveaways. Male Signup | Female Signup

NUMBER 7: I don’t think any survey site out there allows the points you receive for taking surveys to turn to cash faster than Global Test Market.

Even more exciting…some of their specialty surveys pay $100 and higher. It’s fair to say that these don’t come along extremely often, but when they do, you want to make sure you’re registered with a company like Global Test Market.

NUMBER 8: Inbox Dollars is so creative they have even been featured on Good Morning America. They go far beyond just paid surveys and provide resources about several other ways to make money online.

As a special gift to new members, they also credit $5 to your account just for becoming a member. If you’d like to learn about how to make money with paid surveys, sponsored offers, paid emails, and more — join Inbox Dollars today.

NUMBER 9: Synovate, like NPD, is a very well-known and respected market research company. They have recently opened up their survey panels to new members, so join while you can.

NUMBER 10: Survey Savvy, and their parent company Luth Research, have been offering survey opportunities since 1999.

Not only do they provide some great survey opportunities, they provide members with some great incentives to recommend Survey Savvy to others.

BONUS: We’re including Project Payday on this list because they do provide some great paid survey resources, but they are also our favorite way to make money online in 2011.

You can join their site for free and get instant access to their Guide. If you like what you see, they do ask you to pay a one-time fee of $35 to access a special part of their site that explains their unique system in the most step-by-step instructions imaginable. This is completely voluntary. You do not HAVE to pay to join — you just won’t have access to all of their resources.

Alternatively, you can “pay” for your membership by signing up with a recommended company (say Netflix or something like that), and that will cover your one-time membership fee.

Bottom Line: They provide a GREAT opportunity that goes far beyond just paid surveys, and it is worth your time to at least check out their guide which you can get for free by registering. If you are only interested in paid surveys, then signup with the 10 companies above.

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Proof

We spent a long time investigating paid surveys, and here is real live proof that paid surveys work. Even better…these were all invites from just one of our recommended companies over a two week period in October, 2010. While you won’t qualify for every survey invite you receive, imagine the results when you join each one of our recommended companies!

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Paid Survey Secret:

The companies above are only looking for a limited number of participants, and as soon as their quotas are met, all registration links will be taken down.

The “secret” to making the most money with free paid surveys is to register with as many of the best companies as possible so you increase your chance of receiving numerous survey invites. From there, you can pick which ones you want to do (maybe only the ones that pay cash for instance) and simply delete the rest.

I’m going to explain how to do it — the whole thing — in three steps. Interested? Then read on.

How to Systematically Make Money Online with SEO

Achieving a goal is almost ALWAYS easier than we make it. But there is something about being human that has us over-complicat what should be pretty simple.

In the making money online arena, this couldn’t be more obvious. There are hundreds of thousands of people looking for “shortcuts” and “tips” and “hacks” to getting “free traffic” to make their journey to an online income easier.

Of course, making money online is simple. Tips, tricks and hacks certainly work — but the pale in comparison to the basics. Show me a website that has completed the basics, and I’ll show you a website that’s earning a full-time income.

The 1-2-3 Plan to Make Money with SEO

The first problem people run into is in what should be covered more comprehensively in most “make money online” blogs: how to pick the right niche. And that’s the first step. Picking the niche.

1. Pick the Niche

When you pick a topic for your website, it needs three things:

• Profitability. Don’t pick something that’s hard to make money online. “Light switches” will take years longer to make money with than “credit cards” or even “fix your credit”. Finance is almost always easy to monetize.

• Popularity. Don’t pick a topic that doesn’t get more than a thousand searches per day. Even though you can make money with less traffic, if you’re going to spend time working on a project, think long term — as long as you stick to the plan, you’ll be fine.

• Low competition. Don’t pick a topic that is outrageously competitive, like “online radio”. Check the second page of google results to see if the competition is too fierce. Chances are, if you can make it to the second page, in the long-term you can make it to the first. Especially if you follow the below instructions.

Once you’ve picked your niche, move on to the second step: building the website.

2. Build the Website

Building the website consists of getting a CMS (like WordPress, Blogger, etc), the design and adding the monetization.

• Get WordPress. WordPress is the best CMS, by far. There are more web designs out there, more special addons, it’s friendly to search engines, it’s professional, it’s easy to use. Seriously. Just install WordPress.

• Get a Design. Pick a theme that is both usable and professional looking. Two sidebars (one on each side) is almost always a good idea for design purposes.

• Get Monetized. Find 5 or so ways to make money with your website specifically in your niche. Find 2 high-paying affiliate programs, AdSense, private ad sales, and Kontera or Infolinks. This mixture can often lead to a EPM of $30-50.

• Get Content. Pretend you’ve never read that “content is king” or that you need to “consistently add content” to your website. It’s bull. You don’t need lots of content. You just need enough unique content with links pointing towards it that the search engines trust you. You don’t need more than 50 articles so long as the articles are longer than 500 words.

This shouldn’t take you more than a month, start-to-finish. Once you have your niche picked and website built, move on to step three: building links.

3. Build the Links

Link building is almost completely misunderstood and done completely wrong. You need basically two types of links:

• Lots of links from different IPs — This means that Google thinks that crappy small-potato blogs just trusted you enough to link to you. This is a question of quantity, not quality.

• Powerful links from relevant sites — This means Google wants to think that you’re an industry leader, with every major blog linking to you.

• Plan the anchor text — Anchor text is critical to actually making money with SEO. If you’re not familiar, anchor text is the text used in a link as in the “making money with SEO” link in the last sentence. For a more in-depth review of anchor text, check out this article.

• Plan the “cruddy” links — Links matter and it is true that not all links are created equal. While most people rack their brain for how to get high authority links with their desired anchor text, don’t forget the lesser quality links from up and coming blogs, social media, blog commenting, forum profiles, and more.

• Plan the “good” links — This is a must. You simply have to have a link-building plan as quality one-way links are the absolute most important factor to climbing the organic rankings

To learn more, check out our entire sub-site titled: Make Money Online. The title is short, sweet and gets to the point. We’ll show you how to make money online using the above system and much, much more. Good luck!