Making Money Online - Ways to Do It Reviewed

June 20, 2008 | By JoLynn In Adsense, Adwords, Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Scam, Make Money Online, Work at Home |

Have you noticed most of the online money making products look alike?
They almost all seem to be displayed on web pages that are longgggggggg and have testimonials and promises. The pages are long so you can read more and more and believe what you’re reading. You can make a million dollars with XYZ program.
And at the bottom the price is always a $300 value and will be priced at $27 - $97 dollars. Ever notice all the prices end in “7″.

Did you ever wonder why that is?

Conventional wisdom shows that 33% more people said they’d buy a product priced at $97 dollars rather than $100 - wouldn’t you knock off $3 bucks to increase your sales by a third?

I get emails from people that have tried this program or that program - and then write me and tell me what a scam it was. I personally try every affiliate program I talk about. Some work - some don’t. Joe Bucks for example has been VERY good to me and it was only a $1.95 investment on my part for a fully branded health products store. I have personally tried the Dietrine and my personal results alone sold many, many bottles of this carb blocker.

I also tried Google Adwords for Free. I personally think Dr. Jon cons people just a little. I have spoken to numerous people that have done this program now and not one has had the results in just a few days or even a few weeks.

They promise it will be raining money on you - in fact ,from what I’ve gleaned from other people as well as my own experience, it takes weeks upon weeks of laying out money for high position adwords to get enough exposure for your site to start selling ad spaces to pay for your Google advertising. However, if you stick with it - you’re bound to make your money back as it IS much cheaper to advertise on a website that has a good traffic draw as opposed to buying adwords and for most companies -and money spent on advertising is a tax write off.
However, here is the rub - one thing that isn’t really addressed in his book is that potential advertisers put strong value on the page rank of your website and you need to get your site a decent page rank and that can only be done through a little SEO work on your part which includes keywording your page, creating backlinks through posting articles on forums such as Ezine Articles that can give you a backlink (albeit temporary) with a page rank of 7, and also trading links with sites in the same genre which you can do at places like www.linkmetro.com. for free.

I personally laid out around $800 in Google advertising before I made a dime back on my Google Adwords for Free experiment.

I did everything by the book (Google Ads for Free Book) and I own a keyword article writing company so I’m not really unschooled in the ways of getting good page rank or SEO for organic search results. I also wrote a press release that had over 33,000 looks in one weekend (my savvy way of saving money on Adwords advertising) and my ads averaged around 3000 impressions a day so it wasn’t due to lack of people finding my ads or my site.
You can see my site here : http://cats.scojoknows.com
Was it worth it?
At this point the experiment is still ongoing and I’m undecided if it was worth all the effort - but at this time I’m pulling in the direction that there are much easier ways to create passive streams of income.

Adsense is another way many people make money online but it’s a lot more than just throwing up a blog and putting your ads on a page. You need to have content and it’s even better if you align yourself with some affiliate programs to boot. Then you need to maximize your pay per click.
How?
Check out http://www.iotaweb.com - it has a monthly update of the highest paying keywords. Last time I checked, Wisconsin Lemon Law was paying $67 a click. That’s a nice bit of change and if you can create a site that will encourage visitors as well as clicks; you can create a good stream of income. Once again, you need to make sure your blog shows up in the organic search results by doing some SEO 101 on your site using the methods above. If you’re gifted with an ability to write even remotely well, you can put a press release and you’ll jumpstart your traffic.

Last but not least, did you know there are companies other than Adsense that you can set up on a Pay Per Click basis? Well there are and many of them pay better than Adsense - check out Alternatives to Adsense - you can even sign up as an affiliate and sell the ebook for something like $27 (there’s that magic “7″ again) and keep 100% of the profits.