Basics of Making Money Online (Part 2)

This is the 2nd series on the basics of making money online.

In this entry, I will show you how to create a website with "content" and advertisements in less than 10 minutes! I will like to call this a 10 minute website creation. Of course, not much traffic might be directed to it but it is better than not doing anything.

Within Two Minutes:
First, get a domain name. In this example, I am using a free domain from blogger. Search for a domain name for the blog or website that is most related to the content that you are going to display. For this, I am going to choose a name that relates to bangkok news.

Keep trying various combinations of names till you get one that you have deemed suitable. The one that I managed to get is bangkokpostnews.blogspot.com

Within 7 minutes

Google for bangkok news or bangkok post. Get into the website and find the rss feeds. This will send feeds (news updates) to your website. In this case, to my bangkokpostnews.blogspot.com
What I do is just create feeds from the gadgets options in blogger and add the feeds all over my website.

Within 10 minutes

Place Google Adsense Ads all over your website.

There you have it! A 10 minute website that is up and running with no need for any money to host and with no need for any content to be written by you. Of course, it might not prove to be a very useful site but it is still a website with news that might be relevant to some readers who in this case might be interested news that is happening in thailand.

All you need to do now is to direct traffic to your blog. You can do this either through posting links to this newly created website on forums, telling your friends the url or creating links from your other websites to it.

There you have it! A simple 10 minute website created by you and that is ready to earn and make money for you online without any money involved. All you were required to do is have 10 minutes of internet connection with a blogger account and a google adsense account. Both of which only require some details from you and there you have it! Your first money making online website that is totally free of charge.

Here are other examples of 10 minute news websites that have been created. The traffic generated to these websites have not been phenomenal. Since two weeks of running it, they have only generated around 11 visits between them.

This has RSS feeds:

Malaysia News

This is a website without any content at all. Just only with advertisements. Would you visit such a website? Of course, how much effort you put into a website will determine how much traffic is driven to your website.

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11 visits in 2 weeks for a 20 minute effort is not bad considering that these 2 sites will be up for months or even years. In 54 weeks (1 year), I can expect close to 300 visits. Imagine if just 1 percent click on any of those ads, I will be earning like close to 10 or 20 cents from Adsense per year just for a 20 minute effort. Multiply this by many more websites and the opportunities of making money online are almost unlimited!

Basics of Making Money Online (Part 1)

This is the first series of articles on the Basics of Making Money Online. To the internet uninitiated, there are a variety of ways that one can work from home and earn money online. The various avenues of making money online are paid surveys, advertising income and affiliate programs.

In this entry, I will run through what I believe are the basics of earning advertising income through an online website.

3 Key components of earning advertising income online are:

1. Website
2. Content
3. Traffic

Amongst these 3 components, the most crucial and important of all is traffic, traffic, traffic. Without sufficient traffic being directed to your website, it does not matter how beautiful and user-friendly your website is or how good the content is. A website without any traffic is useless in earning any money online. To make money from advertisers like Adsense, one's website would need a large number of visitors to provide the necessary page impressions and clicks on the advertisements for you to earn enough money.

A website can be easily created nowadays with free tools provided by Blogger, Wordpress or LiveJournal. For example, this current Make Money Online website is hosted by Blogger for free. To create your website or blogs, you just need to register a few details and you will get a unique url (http://nameofyourwebsite.blogspot.com) This is your first website!





Next will be to decide the content to put into the website. This is perhaps the easiest and yet most tricky part. What you decide to put on your website could affect the amount of traffic being directed to your website and thus how much you earn. Content on the website can either be written by you or others. Place a few Adsense ads on your website and you are ready to make money online. The only missing component will be the traffic (visitors visiting your website).Of course, you can just place ads all over your website without any content but that will most probably not create much readership or recurrent visitors to your website.

Lastly, will be the traffic generation to your website. To get traffic generated to your website, there are basically a few ways. Firstly will be through links on other blogs or websites that provides a hyperlink to your website. Secondly, will be through search engines like Google or Yahoo that returns your website as part of somebody's search query. Thirdly, will be through people typing directly your URL to get to your website. Without the traffic coming to your website, you will never be able to make any money online. This is because advertisers usually pay by the number of clicks on the advertisements on your website or by page impressions.

So there you have it, the 3 steps that will get anyone ready to making some money online while working from home. But remember:

The most important of all is traffic. Without traffic, it will hardly be possible to make money online using your website.