How to Make Money Online

With the economy in the toilet and people out of work looking for stay at home  jobs, many visitors that have never had a website come to this site looking for website ideas.  Many of my posts to date assume some level of website experience.  But what if you are completely new to the world of websites? What type of website idea would be a good place to start?  How do you get it built? How do others find your website? All simple questions for those in the business, but for those off the street they are mind boggling questions.

Starting with this post, I am going to explore these issues further in an ongoing series of posts.

By far the easiest most automated way to make money on the web is to provide information – lots of it.  If you could build a site that has 20,000 to 30,000 pages of unique information on a single topic or various topics you could easily make $200 per day on your web site.  The problem is, it is impossible for one person to write that much information.  Even if you pay someone $5 per article you would go broke before ever got a decent amount of content.  So you are probably wondering how some sites out the get 20,000 or ever 100,000 pages of content? There really is only one way to do it, have your visitors create the content for you for free.

A short cut to a content site is an article directory site.  You can use free website software like Article Dashboard and even use a free article feeder program like Article Marketers that will give you 100s of articles a day.  Using this strategy you will quickly have 20,000 pages of content.  The only problem is that most of the articles you will  have will be duplicated on 100s of other article sites. Search engines like Google, only need to list and article once, so one site will get ranked well for the article and the rest of the article sites will only get a random hit here or there.

So what’s the point?  Well even with an article site that is full of duplicate content, if you get enough content, you will get enough random traffic to make $5-$10 a day.  Not much, but it’s something, plus you will start to get an idea of how the web works.  There are various article marketing tips and tricks that will help you make a bit more, but unless you are one of the big 5 or 10 original article sites, you are only going to make some spare money on your article site.

Going back to what I said before.  To make big money, your site needs to have original content, and to get original free content you need a compelling idea that get’s visitors excited about giving you content.    So if your looking for a website idea, try to think of sites that would draw people in to create original content for you. Sites like lifetips.com and epinions.com figured out a way to do this, if you can, you will have the Golden Goose – and a nice retirement plan!

Stay tuned for more online money making for beginners brain dumps – err posts.

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