Making Money Online......The Easier Way!

Getting the Basic Right

How to make money online? This is the question that is revolving in our minds most of the times. Internet, as we know, has been a boon for everyone. It is not only a way of entertainment, an endless book of information but also the easiest and one of the most legitimate ways of making money online. The best part about it is that you are working from your home. Earlier, you needed to be a good marketer, product reviewer or seller, had to had your blog or website. But now, all you need is a mind to know what it takes to earn money or simply advertise what needs to be sold.

Basic Tips

• Always, have a business in a legitimate manner with trusted people or companies.

• Never ever hard sell anything and promote internet marketing, as you yourself are a part of it.

• Have your own products e.g. your own web domain, blog, etc. and let time to be a part of the investment. And most importantly, always maintain quality.

Some Fields that might just Help You…

- Help your friends or others get a job. Many websites like ReferEarns and Zyoin help the unemployed get in touch with the employees. In return, you get paid for referring them.

- Try to connect a buyer with a supplier. All that comes into play here is your brain and contacts. Websites like Innersell are favorites.

- Writing. One of the best, legal and simplest ways to earn money is to write online. More commonly known as freelance writing. Here, you are writing exactly what the client demands. You write and you are paid. Sites like freelancewriting.com and scriptlance.com are the best in business.

- Make your own blog. Write whatever you feel like. You can have a personal blog or take a particular field and start writing about it. Try and target an audience. You can easily earn money through Google Adsense by promoting links or advertisements.

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10 Ways to Get Banned by the Search Engines

Guest Post by Terri Seymour

When you build your website, you, of course, want to get high rankings in the search engines. There are lots of ways to do this and lots of ways to NOT do this. Below are 10 things to avoid if you want to be in good standing with the search engines.

1. Duplicate Content/Sites – Do not set up multiple sites or site pages using basically the same content with a few different keywords spread around. This does not fool the search engines.

2. Cloaking – Cloaking is when a website or webpage is set up to show different content for a search engine spider than the human visitors. The cloaked page (for the spiders) is stuffed with keywords in an attempt to get higher rankings. What it can get you is banned!

3. Linking to Bad Neighborhoods – Be careful who you link to because you can be found guilty by association. Do not link to non-family friendly websites and unethical websites.

4. Title Stacking – This is simply trying to give each page more than one title tag so you can use more keywords to get higher rankings. The search engines consider this a dirty little trick.

5. Doorway Pages – Doorway or gateway pages are pages that are set-up for one keyword topic but then they take you to different content. These pages usually have little value in the way of content and have little to do with the rest of the site. They are used solely to try to get a higher rank in the search engines.

6. Redirect Pages – Redirect pages are set up to rank high in the search engines but when you click on the page, it will take you to another page which is usually a sales page for a product or service. So, what you see isn’t what you get!

7. Automated Submission Services - Do not use automated submission services. They are against Google’s TOS and can get you banned.

8. Hidden Links – This is when a link is added to a page in such a small size that it cannot be seen by human visitors but can be picked up by the search engine spiders. This might work for a time but when the search engines discover it, you will be penalized!

9. Keyword Stuffing – Keyword stuffing or spamming is simply being too repetitive with your keywords as to the extent of your content not being sensible. For example if your keywords are cat food and your text reads something like this: When your cat gets hungry be sure to feed them this cat food because your cat will like this cat food. This cat food comes in an easy to open cat food can and contains fish, chicken and healthy ingredients that all cat food should have. So, when your cat is hungry for cat food, give them this cat food because this cat food is the best cat food for your cat!

You can easily see why this kind of keyword stuffing should not be used.

10. Invisible Text – This is when you hide text by using the same color text and background. The invisible text is meant for the search engines only and not for visitors. This is done so you can stuff a lot more keywords on your page without wrecking your content. The search engines will discover this and they will penalize you!

Be careful not to use these Black Hat SEO methods because it could cause you a lot of trouble with the search engines. Be careful as well, who you hire to work on your site because some of these things can be done without your knowledge and cause your site to get banned or penalized.

A few things you should do to get higher rankings are:

1. Research keywords and use relevant keywords on your web pages and in your page title.

2. Add new content to your site regularly

3. Link with relevant, quality sites

4. Use a site map

5. Don’t use a lot of Javascript or flash. The search engines do not read these.

Following all of the above can keep you from getting banned and improve your rankings!

About the Author:
Terri Seymour (also known as “The eBook Lady”) has over ten years online experience and has helped many people start their own business. Visit her site at http://www.seymourproducts.com for resources, $1 resell ebooks & software, free tutorials, affiliate programs, free ezine and free business ebook with Master Resell Rights. http://www.seymourproducts.com/free.shtml.

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Make Money on eBay

Guest post by Tynnisha Hamilton

As we all know, eBay is an excellent way to make some extra money online by getting rid of the stuff that we don’t use or need anymore. But, did you know that there are people making millions every year from eBay? It’s true—and while I’m not guaranteeing that you can make millions if you start selling on eBay, I still am saying that it is possible.

When starting off on eBay, it would be smart to start off with selling things around the house just so you can get a feel for how eBay works. When you have a firm hand on how it is possible to make a pretty decent amount on money, then you may want to move on to other techniques.

Some users prefer to use dropshipping, but it has never been a favorite of mine. Dropshipping is a supply management technique that makes it so you do not have to keep items in stock. The dropshipper provides you with the information for a product, you sell it, and they ship it to the person that ordered it from you. This has never been a favorite of mine because I do not want to risk my eBay reputation on a dropshipper. Also, if that product sells for less than I purchase it from the dropshipper, then I just lost money.

Making money on eBay is so much easier for me when I buy products from a wholesaler like Liquidation.com or simply buy products from eBay and resell them. For example, I recently bought five Blackberry smart phones from a seller on Ebay. They sold for around $300, because they had no battery and no back to the phone. So, I bought the phones and I separately bought the batteries and backs for the phone so I spent no more than $400. Then, I sold four of the phones for $180 each and the other phone I kept (I needed a new phone!). So, that means I made $720 (about a $320 profit) and was able to keep one of the phones for myself. Now that’s good business.

If you can find a good way that works for you on eBay, then go for it! The harder you work at it the more money you make.

Author Bio:
CashChaser.com was started by Tynnisha Hamilton. The website and the Cash Chaser Blog(http://www.cashchaserblog.blogspot.com) is for those who want to make extra money online.

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3 Important Points You must Check Before Choosing a Survey Site to Join

Guest post by Stephen Phillips

Finding best survey sites is really a hard thing to do these days, with hundreds of sites on internet promising to provide best survey opportunities. If you are also in the same dilemma and finding yourself unable to decide which site is good and which is not, then you need to check out these 3 important points and in less than 10 minutes you will be able to judge the legitimacy of survey site.

1. No Get Rich Quick Scheme:
On the home page of site if you find that you are going to be rich overnight after joining that site, it is better that you remain poor rather than joining that site. Taking online surveys cannot make you rich. Never! If you join some good survey sites and work regularly with them, you can earn around $2500 to $3500 per month on an average and I am sure that you won’t become rich with that amount nor you can afford to leave your regular job.

Taking surveys is a part time job and it cannot be compared with a regular job. If you are a stay-at-home mom or a retired person you can do that full time and can earn somewhat higher. But for that also you have to join many legitimate survey sites to get regular surveys.

2. Clear Contact Information:
Those who are fraud always hide their actual contact information. Genuine sites never do that and you can easily find out the official address of a good website from where they are operating their work. It must not be hard to find a contact email-id, if it is so then you know what to do. Just close that site! It cannot be reliable.

Expect from contact address you can easily find out that from how long the site is in the business and which companies they are working with etc. With this you can easily get idea of what you can expect from that site.

At this stage you can join the site if you feel like this and then move to the next point.

3. List of Actual Surveys available:
After joining a survey site check out the number of surveys and updated list of survey opportunities available. Also check out the payout they are giving for completing each survey. You must remember that not all surveys pays equally and there are some low paying surveys while some are highly paying surveys.

If you find that they have updated list of surveys opportunity and they are paying decent amount you must start taking surveys and check out the results further.

Final Words:
By joining one survey site you must not expect a good earning and for that you need to join as many as possible survey sites. It is understood that searching for many sites with this method takes lot of time and effort, but this is really an effective method to earn a decent part time income. If you work with best survey sites, you will get full value of your time and hard work.

Author Bio:
Stephen Phillips is a paid survey expert and has worked with many survey sites to make money online in last 5 years. Now he promotes Paid Survey Etc. which is a Paid survey network site to help others in finding best survey site. He also runs a resource site at http://www.legitimatepaidsurveyonline.com where he reviews best survey sites available on internet.

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Maintaining Your Blog for Long Term Income

Online blogging is one of the fastest growing platforms on the internet and every other individual who is aware of some basics of blogging is considering blogging as a tool for generating some extra income. However, a person can start a blog quite easily but the big concern comes into play when it comes to the maintenance of the blog.

Online blogging is not about making a blog and doing nothing after the creation of the blog instead, it is about creating and then maintaining a blog for a long period of time. If your blog is properly maintained, then users will remain attracted towards your blog for a long period of time, if not maintained properly, then they won’t be considering your services or products for their queries and concerns.

Below are some blog maintenance tips that can help you make money from blogging for long period of time:

The quality of the content
This is the most important aspect to consider and to maintain. The blog without quality content is just like a body without soul. The content should have characteristics of freshness and quality should be there each and every time. The reader will again and again come over to your blog if he finds some useful and fresh information for his/her concerns. You should maintain your blog on timely basis like daily, weekly or on monthly basis whichever suits you according to your schedule. Different types of blogs need different kind of maintenance but quality content is the major aspect of almost every type of blog apart from a video blog which needs to be maintained at every cost.

Management of the time
Time management is also required from your part if you want to properly maintain your blog. You must devote some time to your blog on regular basis in order to keep your blog active. You must post new and unique content on regular and consistent basis. You can outsource this task to someone else if you don’t have sufficient time available for posting content on your blog.

Keep your blog up to date
Always keep your blog up to date. You must discuss new and trendy topics on your blog related to the niche. If you have a blog related to the computers then you must discuss about latest technology rather disclosing the features of Pentium III and Pentium IV. People are only interested in new and up to date content, out dated content or information will surely leave a question mark on the overall reputation of your blog.

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What You should be Prepared for before Starting a Home Based Business

Starting a home business can be a very liberating and rewarding thing to do. Escape from the 9-5, lack of a boss that always tells you what to do, the thrill and adventures of running your own business however you want to, growing big and having a lot of resources, both social, spiritual and material – all of these things are on the “awesome” side of starting and running your own enterprise.

But the life of an entrepreneur is definitely not for everyone. You have to commit to what you’re doing; you have to sacrifice commodities, food and sleep in order to get your business off the ground. For many, this sounds like the best adventure ever, but for most it sounds scary. Here are a few things that you must absolutely know about and be prepared for before venturing into the startup world:

Nothing is certain. The bad side of having the freedom of running everything how and when you like it is having to decide every single step, often without any advice (especially in the beginning). You’re in charge and responsible for everything – the good, the bad and the ugly. Depending on what decision you make today, your company may gain profit or may fail completely, and if you don’t like such extreme uncertainties, you should think twice before throwing yourself into them.

You’ll have to sacrifice… a lot. It’s like going out in the woods, alone or with just a few friends (who might turn out to be traitors). Until you learn how to survive and be strong in this environment, you’ll be constantly looking out for wolves or bears (competitors, regulators, unsatisfied clients, government regulators, you name it) which may not even be there. You’ll have to always think about what to do next, sacrifice sleep, food, social interaction and other important things because you just can’t afford to waste any time.

You’re a salesman. Even though you’re acting on your free will and on a bigger scale, you’re still a salesman who has to do everything he has to do to pitch and sell his product/persona/idea. This is unavoidable, because all our civilization is based on selling and buying, but if you don’t like salesmen who most of the times bend the truth and do anything to sell you something, it will be hard for you to work. As they say, we invent and sell people stuff they don’t even know they want :-).

You will fail. Everyone says it and every experienced entrepreneur knows it. You may fail at only one thing or at the whole deal at once, but there will always be an idea you thought is great which will turn out to be a big flop, wasting you money, time and brain cells. All you can do is learn not to do the same thing again or do it differently, and move on and try again.
The above might sound quite pessimistic, but there are some people who just read this article and laughed at it, because they either already know how it is or are not afraid of the challenges and say “Bring it on!”. One thing is for sure: they are a minority.

If you are not ready to commit to your business and sacrifice anything that needs to be sacrificed in order to succeed, perhaps it might be easier for you to get a managerial or commanding position at one of the many already established companies. The pay is stable (and definitely higher than what you would be making in the first months and years of your own startup) and you get most of the benefits of running a business without a lot of the risks. In the end it is up to you: who knows, maybe if you try starting a company you will get to like it in time or at the very least you’ll gain some experience, whether it fails or not.

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