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Here is another great way to make money online.

Make approximately $150/month writing 1 article per day, 5 days a week.

About a month ago I wrote and submitted an article to About.com to be a guide for their used car section. I have been a car salesman, finance manager and a used car manager so I figured I was a perfect fit for the job. Long story short, they didn’t agree. That left me with a pretty good article discussing how a CARFAX report can save you money on a used car titled “What Used Car Managers Don’t Want You to Know“.

Join Associated ContentI didn’t know what to do with the article. I have been pondering a site about car buying advice, but there are a lot of other good sites out there about the same thing. Then I thought about just posting the article here, but since the article had nothing to do with making money online, I knew you wouldn’t care. After all, good content should never go to waste.

That’s when I found AssociatedContent.com (aff). I didn’t (and still don’t) know much about the site, but they thought my article was worth $7.03. I think it also might be eligible for some sort of bonus, but I’m not sure how that works.

It took about 5 days after I originally submitted the article for them to approve it and send me an offer for $7.03. I don’t know what would have happened if I denied the offer, but I chose to accept it.

My account now shows that my article has a total of 0 page views (which isn’t accurate) and says that I’ve earned $0.00 as a “Current Bonus”. I don’t know how to get a bonus, or who is eligible. I assume it is based on the amount of page views your article generates, but it’s a little unclear to me.

I really like the format and all of the tools that AC offers, and it seems like a great way to make money online. Like I said, I’m still a little confused by the whole process, but it could be a great way to make money online if you are a good writer.

Associated Content offer a newsletter that is sent daily giving you some advice on the topics they are looking for. That is a great way to get ideas for new content.

If you were to write an article a day, 5 days a week and averaged $7 per article, you would earn approximately $150 a month. Not shabby for just 1 article per day. I’ve read that some articles are worth up to $40 each!

Some of you articles might be rejected, and some might not be worth $7, but that could be your goal, 1 approved article worth $7 a day.

From what I understand, Associated Content pays via Paypal whenever your account reaches $15, twice a month (1st and 15th).

For more information check out AssociatedContent.com and please use my affiliate link. I don’t know what I get, but when I find out I’ll let you know!
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By |April 7th, 2007|Make Money Online|11 Comments
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Free Niche Idea #4 – Network Monitoring Tool

Monitoring a network has never been easier than it is today, primarily because of the creation of more and more tools. These tools allow network administrators to optimize LANs and WANs, fix issues, detect problems, etc. Now, these tools can make you some money.

This small niche has a high payout and a lot of long-tail keywords. If you like writing reviews, this is the niche for you. Many of the keywords are product focused but could still be written without a review format. Since this is a technological field, you also have a chance of hitting it big and getting on the Digg front page.

Here are the vitals for “Network Monitoring Tool”

Keywords: Network Monitoring Tool
Competition: 293,000
Price per click: Adwords: $10.69
Search Volume: Overture: 704/month

A few of the long tail keywords could be network management tool, network security tool, network diagnostic tool, network marketing tool, network monitor tool, admin network security system tool.

I don’t know of any affiliate programs for companies that sell network monitoring tools, so Adsense will be your top earner right now. You may find an affiliate, and you will probably be one of the only affiliates in the area.

I would suggest that this niche website be created apart from any other site and not as a subdomain. It is pretty specific and would benefit from it’s own branding. Network administrators will hopefully bookmark your site and pass it around to other network and IT administrators.

Let me know what domains you buy and I’ll give you your first link here in this thread!

By |April 4th, 2007|Free Niche Websites, Make Money Online|0 Comments
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Are Email Lists Still Profitable?

Are email lists still profitable? Do you make any money with an email signup list? If so, I’d love to hear from you!

Here is what I have been thinking…

Take a niche, say “car maintenance” and they build a 7 day course around “7 ways to better care for your car”. Make an email signup form and send 1 tip a day for the 7 days. Each day would like back to a page on your site for more information, and that page would have Adsense and/or an eBook or some form of monetization.

Anyone do anything like this? Would it still work?

Here is an example of what I’m talking about:

Digital Photography Course

What do you think about an idea like that?

By |April 1st, 2007|Make Money Online|2 Comments
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6 Ways to Monetize Your Traffic – Passive and Active

For some people, traffic comes easily. Maybe it is because they’re great writers, maybe the get the scoop before anyone else. Or maybe, people just like what they say. Whatever the reason, some people have more traffic than they know what to do with. Today we’re going to look at the various ways to monetize that existing traffic.

If you aren’t at a level of traffic you’re happy with, check out my 66 Ways to Build Links in 2007.

Passive Monetization

There are a million ways to make money online, but none better than the “set it and forget it” method. In order to create a passive income from your websites, you need to be able to create the content, monetize the traffic and move on to create another passive income stream. About 85% of my monthly income comes from passive sources.

Here are the best programs and methods for passive monetization that I have used. I know there are other great programs and methods, so leave a comment with your favorite.

Google Adsense logo1. Google Adsense (65% of my monthly income.)

Google Adsense allows you to paste some code into your website and it displays contextually relevant ads. If you’re a good writer and can write about topics that don’t interest you (like vending machines), Adsense could be a good earner for you. I love Adsense because all you have to do is insert the code and move on. Nothing else to do, it is one of the simplest programs, and also one of the best ways to monetize a website.

Text-Link-Ads.com Logo2. Text-Link-Ads.com (15% of my monthly income.)

Text-Link-Ads.com (aff) is both passive and active. It is passive because once you set it up you don’t have to do anything else. However, if you stop updating your blog/website you’ll start to lose advertisers. At least I always do. Text link sales are an easy way to monetize your blog. TLA doesn’t have any specific guidelines for traffic, but the more traffic the more your links will sell for.

TLA has great support, especially a guy named Drew. He helped me for over a week with a WordPress plugin issue until we finally resolved it. TLA is easy to install and they have plugins for every major publishing platform and forum software.

AzoogleAds logo3. AzoogleAds (5% of my monthly income.)

AzoogleAds (aff) doesn’t have the most affiliate programs, but when they have a program, it pays the most. I use 2 of their offers. This is a set and forget because I use them on webpages, and not through active promotion. Most of the offers I choose are business related. Unfortunately they have mainly CPA programs, and some of their landing pages convert horribly. Others are wonderful. If you choose to start using Azoogle make sure you do your own testing with a few similar programs.

They also have a few programs with a CPA over $50 and not much PPC competition. If you like PPC, you can find a great match at AzoogleAds.

Active Monetization

Active monetization differs from the passive realm because you need to devote time to keeping the income levels high. Usually these include advertisement that you seek out, must approve regularly, or implement monthly.

AdBrite Logo1. AdBrite (1% of my monthly income.)

I really don’t like AdBrite especially since they started allowing people to advertise on bulk sites. Out of 100 sites that want to advertise on my sites a month, I approve about 2. Out of those two sites, I make very little money. AdBrite ads stand out too much, don’t look contextual, and don’t get many clicks regardless of the ad text.

If I can, I always avoid AdBrite.

2. Sell sponsored posts. (2% of my monthly income.)

I really like sponsored posts. Sponsored posts are great because they are obvious advertisement (people don’t mind obvious as much), they don’t stick out, and they are usually related.

3. Sell your website. (5% of last year’s income.)

I don’t sell many websites, but when I do, I don’t mess with selling any sites for under $1k. Anything less takes too much time and energy. If you have a site with great traffic, or any traffic for that matter (100+ uniques per day), you can find a few buyers pretty easy. I would start with a thread at a few of the popular forums like DigitalPoint. That’s where I’ve found buyers and sellers in the past.

If you decide to sell your website, make sure you know what it is worth to you. Most people will pay a multiplier of your monthly income. For example a site that makes $100 a month will be worth 10-12x usually ($1000-1200). If you are making that much money, but have 1000 unique visitors per day, your site is worth a lot more because someone like me will buy it and turn that $100 into $500 per month. But if you don’t know how to monetize your site, you can still make decent money by selling it.

Those are the top 6 ways that I create an income from the internet. If you have other ideas, leave a comment!

By |March 27th, 2007|Make Money Online|9 Comments
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