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Nine ways to make money online - Part 4

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This is final of the series on 'Nine ways to make money online'. (Click here to read Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 ) .Here are the last three other ways of making money online. 7. Freelance and Work on a Contract Basis Online If you have a skill such as web design, programming or copywriting you can offer your services online in exchange for money. Traditional freelancing jobs include transcription, proofreading, translation services on top of the ones already mentioned above. Online marketplaces that you can use to offer your services include Guru.com and Elance . One of the best ways to find freelance jobs is to visit webmaster forums because webmasters usually require a variety of web-based services, which range from programming and content writing to design work. If you’re focusing on writing if don’t own your own blog, you can still make some money by registering for websites which will pay for your content. Another alternative is get paid to write for other blogs either

Nine ways to make money online - Part 3

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This is Part 3 of the series on 'Nine ways to make money online'. (Click here to read Part 1 and Part 2 ) . In this post I will touch on three more ways of making money online. 4. Try Out Domaining and the Online Real Estate Trade This is the business of buying, selling, developing and making money from domain names. A domainer purchases many domain names and sells them to interested buyers. This is similar to real estate investing offline and domainers also make money by developing websites and reselling it to a buyer. This practice is known as site flipping and can make you a tidy sum of money if you know how to build an attractive and profitable website. For a rough estimate of how much money you can earn from site flipping, check out the SitePoint Marketplace to browse through the collection of websites for sale. 5. Participate in Get-Paid-to Websites There are hundreds of websites out there which you pay you to read emails, do surveys, sign up for trial subscription

Nine ways to make money online - Part 2

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I mentioned in my last post that I will be giving more details on the nine ways to make money online . In this post i will touch on the first three. 1. Set up a Blog or Website for Profit One of the best ways to make money online is to create a website or blog which allows you to earn money from the display of advertisements or the sale of products and services. There are many different types of money making blogs which will help you to make money and you’ll need to pick a model that suits your interests, schedule and skill levels. A simple no frills blog will allow you to easily pull in at least several hundred dollars in a month through the use of paid blogging websites alone. For more information, how to create a blog read click here . Apart from blogs, other websites can easily help you to generate passive income as well. These can range from e-commerce websites, social communities and information portals to basic landing pages for affiliate programs. 2. Learn about Affiliate Mark

Nine ways to make money online - Part 1

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After having created my blogs, http://albertopoku.blogspot.com and http://lets-inspire.blogspot.com, and posting about 10 posts on each blog, it was time to start making some money! I found nine ways to make money online! I was definitely already working on first one of the ways which is 'Create a website or a blog for profit'. Here is the list of nine ways to make money online. Set up a Blog or Website for Profit Learn about Affiliate Marketing and The Art of Selling Start an Online Business Try Out Domaining and the Online Real Estate Trade Participate in Get-Paid-to Websites Find a Virtual Job or Make Use of Your Expertise Freelance and Work on a Contract Basis Online Create Your Own Product and Sell it Get Involved in the Online Retail Trad I was quite sure i could not do all nine, but if you want to give any a try - why not - go ahead. I will post full details on each in my next two posts

The journey of making money online

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Last month I started learning how to make make money online. That's how I started my first blog http://albertopoku.blogspot.com and later my second blog http://lets-inspire.blogspot.com/ .On this journey I have learnt a lot about how to make money online, yes I have started makings some money online. I am not yet an expect but there are many people who are, on this site you will find a few, learn from them. This blog is my diary where I will be posting tips and lessons on making money online. If you know of ways to make money online, post it here and thanks in advance!

Writing for the Web

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So far on my journey to make money online, I have created a blog http://albertopoku.blogspot.com/ (click here to read on how to create a blog). I now had to start writing! As a new blogger, these are some of the things I learnt on how to start writing for the web and I hope you find it useful. Focus on a Niche - If you’re blogging with the intention of making money, focus on a niche. It will boost your search engine rankings, make it easier to target an audience, and make your advertising more effective. There are lots of bloggers that write about anything that catches their interest (I’m one of them), but if you want to make money you’ll be better off splitting your interests into individual blogs. Post Regularly - Whether you plan on posting every day or a couple of times a week, determine a posting schedule and stick with it. When you post regularly, you’ll notice a slow, but steady increase in your traffic and subscriptions. Write Good Titles - The better the title, the more lik

How to make people read your post

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On of the lessons I have learnt on my journey is that a lot of blog readers are skimmers and many of them are busy people - well aren't we all.This means they often make snap decisions as to whether to read a post or move on. This is probably even more true if it's the first time the reader has arrived at your blog. So what do they look at first? The headline or title of the post.If the headline is something vague like 'Today's Entry' or 'An Interesting Article' they may not bother to delve any further and will move on to something else which sounds more interesting (even if it isn't in reality). A post headline ideally should therefore be something which encapsulates what the blog is all about or something intriguing that makes them want to look further.It's a fight to retain a reader's attention so big blocks of solid text can also be off putting. I know I glaze over when I see a big page of text with hardly any paragraphs. Small paragraphs ar

Creating a blog

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In my first week of my journey on how to make money online, I discovered that one of the best channels in making money online was either through a website or a blog on which I could advertise. I choose to create a blog rather than a website mainly because apart from it being the easiest to create it was free to. In as much as there were several blog hosting platforms, the most popular were B logger and W ordpress . I choose Blogger and within 30 minutes I had created my first blog http://albertopoku.blogspot.com . You don't have to know website design or HTML or any of the technical stuff to create a blog on B logger . Just follow theses 4 steps and you will create your first blog in not more than 30 minutes: Create a Gmail account, even if you already have a Gmail account, I suggest you create another one and keep your old one for your personal mails. Go to B logger . Use your Gmail account to create a new blog. Just follow the instructions and you will be done in less than 30

Earn money using yahoo search

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If you spend a lot of time on the Internet like i do searching for information,why don't we get paid for spending that time online? Especially when it is possible! homepages-friends (hpf) allows us to do just that! hfp uses the Yahoo search engine and when we search using it, we are get paid. You may find it hard to believe - i did too, until i tried it myself. On the first day I earned £0.07! not much, but for just 10 searches its not bad at all, can you guess how much i will earn with more searches in a whole month? I give it a 3 star rating........go try it, just click on the link below. http://www.myhpf.co.uk/banner.asp?Friend=344029