How to Make Money Online

List of the Top Blog Hosts

2009-02-01T01:09:00.001-08:00

One of the most important decisions you will make as a blogger is to decide, where to host your blog. If you initially make a bad decision and you have to move hosting company, it can be costly both in terms of time and temporary loss of ranking, from the search engines.

Factors to consider in picking a host

Price: Fierce competition between the hosting companies have caused hosting to become very cheap. You can expect to pay between $6 and $9 per month, for an entry level web account. Costs which can quickly and easily covered by income from your blog.

Hosting quality: The problem with many of the blog hosts are that they try to put too many accounts on one server. Slowing the overloaded server down.

Service: Every hour your blog is offline costs you money. If you run into a problem , which is server related, you need quick quality service. Because of the pressure on prices some blogging hosts have reduced their technical support.

So, what I recommend is that you stay away from the cheapest hosting packages and go for one, which is low cost but good value.

List of the top blog hosts:

Number 1 Pick: Host Gator - Host Gator is my number one top blog hosting pick, because they not only haven't compromised on service or hosting quality. As far as hosting companies goes this one really has it's act together.

2. Blue Host - Blue Host is slightly cheaper than Host Gator, while still maintaining a very high standard of hosting.

3. Go Daddy

4. Host Monster

5. Just Host

How To Convert Your Website Traffic Into Money

2009-01-27T13:55:00.000-08:00

There are basically two ways to turn your website traffic into money. You can do PPC advertising or you can do affiliate marketing. With PPC advertising you put adverts on your web page and every time someone clicks on it, you get paid. With affiliate marketing your refer visitors to a sale site. If someone buys something, on that web site, you get a commission on the sale. Now say you refer someone to a site and they buy a $1,000 laptop and you are getting a 5% commission, that means you get $50. Clearly it is possible to make a lot of money from affiliate sales. However, getting a click with PPC is more likely.

So which one is best for you, well the answer lies in having a combination of both. Play around with the location and the type of adverts, until you find a combination that works for you.

Pay per Click sites
AdBrite - There are a number of PPC schemes, but so far AdBrite has worked best for me.

Adsense - Adsense is another popular option.

Affiliate Marketing
Matching your content to an affiliate marketing scheme is harder than matching it to a PPC network.

Amazon

Ebay

Commission Junction - They are a broker, they match up publishers and affiliate marketers.

Clickbank - Clickbank sells digital good, like Ebooks.

Make Money Online Free

2009-01-19T23:17:00.000-08:00

This article is all about how best to make money online without spending anything. Before I get to how you do that a few important things.

Who is this article aimed at?

I am writing this article for people that are new to making money online and want to try it out, without risking any of their own money. Still, I think those who tried making money online before, will also get something from it.

Is making money online easy?

No, it is difficult. You should be ready to work hard, fail, then work even harder. There is no shame in failing, as long as you learn from your mistakes.

How much money can I make?

There is no upper limit on how much you can make. Some online entrepreneurs are making six figures. But in the beginning you will probably not make much and you will have to work, very hard to change that.

So how do I do it?

There are a number of sites on line that will let you post content to their sites. They then share the revenue that they make from your content with you. It sounds simpler than it is, because in order to be successful your pages must be very useful and you have to get people to come to your page. Getting both of those things right is a bit of an art.

Which is the best revenue sharing site?

There has been much competition in the market, but recently one site has surged ahead of the others. Today Hubpages is the undisputed top revenue sharing site.

Reasons why Hubpages is the best revenue sharing site:

They give publishers a better percentage of the profits, than their competition. Generally these sites will give a 50/50 split. hubpages give you 60% of revenues from your pages.
Hubpages is a trust site. To be a trust site, your site has to have been around for a long time. In adition you have to have a number of incoming links from high trust sites and few outgoing links to low trust sites. If you have this, it means Google trusts your site and your pages are more likely to rank well on the search engine.
They are masters in making money from visitors to the site. Something that even the best web publisher have problems doing well, on their sites.
Their human editors will not let people publish junk articles.
It is possible to get very good internal links from the site. Which will make your pages look very important to the search engines and search engine traffic is the most profitable traffic.

Go ahead and register with Hubpages now.

Some after thoughts:

Getting people to come to your pages is tricky. Below are some sites with good information on how to do that. Remember these guys are selling stuff, just look for pages that can help you rate better on Google and draw traffic. Look for articles on article marketing, blog commenting, forum signatures and social networking.

Making a living online
SEO site
Digital point

Look for SEO information on Hubpages. They want you to succeed.

Never delete your content online. Even if a page only gets a hand full of visitors, over time the money can ad up.

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