Your search for legitimate money online could quite easily see you buying ten to twenty marketing e-books that all promise to unlock the net’s treasures. More like ‘break the bank’! However, if you harness the power of Web 2.0 in your plans, then you are buying into the future of the internet rather than old rehashed ideas that have had their day.
So what is Web 2.0? Why wasn’t there a Web 1.0, or even a Web 0.0? I wouldn’t worry about that. Web 2.0, often called ‘Social Media’ is a ‘sea change’ in how people – including your potential customers – use the internet, and it has become a goldmine for legitimate online money making.
In the ‘old days’ of the internet (not that long ago in fact) it was all about highly techie people building websites, something none of us ordinary folk could ever do. Our job was to surf the internet and learn from these very clever people who’d built these sites.
Microsoft’s ‘Frontpage 2003′ was a great gift to us ‘layman’ as now we could chance our arm at legitimate online money making without having to pay a geek four grand for the privilege. Marketing our online business was a basic choice between paid or unpaid methods, ie Pay-per-click, ezine advertising and Press releases at one end, to Article marketing, traffic exchanges and forum marketing at the other.
Web 2.0 has ‘opened up the door’ for people to pursue legitimate online money making by the use of blogs, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Squidoo, Hubpages, and countless others by making the internet experience interactive. That’s the big shift and the even bigger opportunity for you.
Google, still the heavyweight search engine, loves Web 2.0 sites. Blogs, whether you use WordPress or Blogger.com, are particularly attractive because the content is always being updated and refreshed, improving the surfer’s web experience (Google’s major ‘driver’).
So you can now make legitimate money online without bleeding to death on Adwords pay per click. Create a blog and get in the habit of posting (decent content, not rubbish) regularly. Also contribute to sites like Hubpages, Squidoo and Scribd. Then you’ll be on the right side of the Web 2.0 wave. Harnessing the power of Web 2.0 is a must for anyone seriously pursuing legitimate online money making activities. There is an important ‘don’t’ though. Web 2.0 should not be an excuse for ‘blanket’ pitching business opportunities to people. That gets short shrift.
You see, Web 2.0/Social Media is all about community. It’s about giving value, and only then receiving fruitful connections. In other words, it’s not like the stock market. People are attracted to you by the value you give, and if you give enough of it freely then the right people will gravitate towards your business offering.
Legitimate money online, unless you want to throw big bucks at it, takes time and patience. But if you make a habit of using Web 2.0 in your ‘branding’ efforts, then the wave is going to keep hurtling forwards, with you triumphantly on top.
Alun Maxwell is an experienced networker and online marketer, and helps many networkers harness the power of the internet to build their businesses. A specialist in one-to-one communication, he is hired by many top European companies as a Business Roleplayer, to help executives understand the impact of their words and behaviours on others. www.Web20Gold.com www.HomeBiz-Launchpad.com
So here are the Keys to Earning Money Online:
1st Key – Content
That’s the answer that literally thousands of people package up with pretty bows and landing pages (a.k.a web page) and sell to you for about eighty bucks too much. There may lie a secret out there to making money online but the one I stand with is CONTENT. That is the key to making money online, easily, affordably, and continuosly.
CONTENT IS KING
Fresh, informative, unique, quality Content, to be more precise, is what search engines adore. It’s free, you can write your own content and you don’t even have to be an amazing writer (just look at me and I’ve been earning money online for nearly ten years now). You can work on it whenever you like. Your content so way what you will (try to keep it legal).
Keyword Density - Amount of times a keyword or keyword phrase repeats itself in your content.
e.g. You write a fabulous five hundred word review on “Tennis Shoes”. Your topic of choice is Tennis Shoes but this keyword phrase (Tennis Shoes) is only displayed in your title and never again shows up in your content but the keyword phrase “Muddy Terrain” (just an example) repeats itself ten times in your text. What you really want are readers that are looking for “Tennis Shoes” but you’re instead receiving “Muddy Terrain” visitors because to the search engine robots the Keyword Phrase that repeats itself the most is, you guessed it: “Muddy Terrain”.
Try to aim for a 5% keyword density and all should be alright. This figure is often difficult to achieve without your content sounding very very very very very repetitive. If you want targeted readers you need to create a balance between quality and keyword density. This isn’t hard and I can guarantee it gets easier as you go along. Back to our e.g.
5% keyword density on 500 words = 25 repetitions of “Tennis Shoes” is needed. So try to get those into your content right away to ensure that the search engine robots know how to classify your content. (I know that the figures may be off as there are TWO words, its okay to estimate).
2nd & 3rd Key – Display & Monetization
These two keys I’ve grouped together for a reason: Display and Monetization go hand in hand. To ensure that you’ll earn money online your content should be displayed in a way that it is both easy for the reader to read. Reading your content should be a pleasure. This is also true for your ads (Monetization), they should display meaningful offers based on your content. Displaying your content can be done in a number of methods:
1. Website- You can always buy a domain, pay someone to build you a website (or build it yourself) and then place ads on your page to monetize your content.
2. Blogs – Same concept as “Website” but without the hassle of building or buying anything as most are free.
3. Article Directories – This is where you submit your content to directories that do exactly what you need them to do: Publish your content. These sites are dedicated to getting people reading your content. Many also offer Revenue Sharing on ads displayed when a visitor reads your content from their site. This is BY FAR the easiest and simplest way to make money online with your content. The more of these you submit your content to the more you’ll earn (generally speaking).
Revenue Sharing – Mainly done with contextual ads, for example: Google AdSense, Overture, FAN, etc. In return for your content (to prove to you the power of content) these websites offer you a percentage (usually in the 50% range) of the impressions of the ads shown when a user reads your article. Confused?
Let’s say 100 people read your article, that means that the ads will in/surrounding your text will display with your Publisher Id for 50 of those views (based on a 50/50 sharing rate). Which means that, during those 50 impressions, if a visitor clicks on an ad YOU earn money for that click! This may not seem like much but don’t forget that these sites receive millions of viewers a month and there is not limit to the amount of dorectories you can submit your content to. Post to as many of these as possible.
Contextual Ads – Remember I told you to keep that keyword density up? Well this is why. The most common ads, contextual ads, work on keywords. These will reflect ads that are pertinent to the context of your content. Why is this important? Higher paying keyword phrases will yield higher paying clicks. Some companies pay up to 50 dollars A CLICK on certain keyword phrases! If your content has a good keyword density of those 50-dollar-keywords then those ads will be displayed and if someone clicks on that ads you’ve just earned 50 bucks!
Link Backs – Some of the Article Directories don’t offer Revenue Sharing but you should still submit to these as well. Why? You may be asking? Simple. In ALL article directories you can place a link to anywhere you like in your resource box (by anywhere I normally mean a website or page). Why not place a link to one of your submissions on another site? Maybe one that does allow to earn? You still benefit from their mountains of traffic and all it cost you was a couple of minutes filling out some forms.
4th and Final Key – YOU
You, author, writer, poet, blogger, you are the ULTIMATE Key. If you really and truly want to earn money online, whether it be part time of full time, you are the answer. The more work you put into this (like all else in life) the more you get out of it. I have given you all the Keys to Earning online right here and if you have any other questions you may always ask now it’s time for you to open the door as only you have that ULTIMATE key!
Keys To Earn is an answer to all those who want to earn money online without spending a dime. All you need to do is submit high-quality content and your Google AdSense Publisher ID (displayed 75% of the time) and you?re on your way to making money online. We take care of the website, you take care of the content.
Keys To Earn
While making money online might sound like something you want to start doing right away, you have to keep in mind that no matter how long you have been doing what you do, and no matter how much money you are making doing what you do, switching from your job to a online money making opportunity is going to be starting at the beginning again. This means that for awhile you’ll be making less money than you are used to, and so you have to be prepared to take a little bit of a pay cut when you start your online venture. This is going to mean that you want to wait until your family is at place where they have some savings, and where you can afford to take a little bit of time and live on your savings while your work at home business opportunity takes off and ends up making you money.
There is something else that you have to keep in mind before you start an online money making opportunity, and that is experience. If you are going to go with a online money making opportunity that requires you to do the thing that you are doing now, such as your own photography business if you are currently a photographer for someone else, you want to wait until you have enough experience to go it on your own. You need to be able to learn the basic skills needed to make money online. Luckily there are many “How To” websites you can surf, and even article directories like this where you can start your online education and keep on buidling on it as you try new methods you have learned to make money online.
Remember, going with a online money making business opportunity can be very stressful, so be sure to pick a time in your life where there is nothing else that is going to be stressful, such as a new baby or a new marriage. The best online money making opportunity will work out better if you start it at a time where everything about your life is ready for it.
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Money can’t buy love
Most everyone has heard the old Beatles song, “money can’t buy you love”. It’s true, money may pay the rent help acquire material positions but it can’t satisfy inner emotion. Inner self is satisfied only by a sensation of fulfillment or balance. When the inner self becomes unbalanced, it sends signals to the outer man to repair it. In most cases this signal is misconstrued and the outer person substitutes material possession for an inner desire to be complete.
Indeed money is essential to living a full and productive life but it is not life itself. People should not live for money but rather use money to live. Money has no worth in itself, it is the idea that money contains value which can be exchanged for labor, goods or service and to acquire more of the same. Because money is a material object it can be manipulated by spirit.
Money provides material objects
Manipulation of material objects comes through understanding their reasoning. What is monies purpose? Where and why does it exist? Is it for man’s better cause? Once the root of money is understood then it can be brought into reality and experienced. Need triggers desire which draws the law of supply.
Money is only a means to satisfy a craving or need. People who crave something strong enough will extort, steal, lie, cheat and even kill for release or satisfaction. All and every derogatory action is a result of inner misunderstanding, frustration or unrest. People who have allowed external things to control internal desire are subject to derangement.
But not is lost there is hope
Allowing money to become a controlling factor begins as an inner desire for possession. Desire drives the appetite of motivation for release and robs your soul of hope.
People relate to their reality as events they can experience. An inner desire is indefinable like an itch that you can’t scratch. The inability to define inner desire leaves the individual confused and searching for release. The material world is like a pacifier to a baby, it eases the desire and soothes the mind; temporarily subduing the craving. The body thinks it has received its requirement but the mind is not satisfied; the craving continues in a cycle of despair.
Cravings of despair
Taking drugs, drinking alcohol, being combative, compulsive behavior any and all defiant or self directed actions are substitutes for lack of inner wholeness. The mind desires its rightful heritage of supremacy. Not in the since of rising above anyone but equality in being. Every human shares the same inner feeling of incompleteness. Their soul cries for material release and supreme understanding. They search and never find because they don’t understand or don’t detect their real meaning of self.
If we could only stand aside and let the divine law do its diligence. If we could only understand who and what we really are. If, if, if, wonder, doubt anxiety answers never comes to a fractured, bewildered soul. A soul tormented because it is confused, misunderstood and lost. People have become so dependent on their material experience they have lost their true meaning. They are caught in a whirlpool and being pulled into the abyss of dismay.
Dooms mankind to materialization
Where is mankind? What has he/she become? Is he/she doomed to never realize his/her true self and completeness? Life has taken on an appearance of materialization. Humans react to outside stimulus and mask inner emotion, not knowingly but because their reality is their outer experience. They have been duped into believing the world is their provider and they are at its mercy. The connection to the world leaves the inner soul craving for awareness because it is only through the inner self that a true connection can be made.
If the outer world can not bring completeness in man then what does? Perhaps the soul craves to connect spirit and material. Maybe just maybe people need to justify their own existence. But the spirit does not seem willing, it cringes and hides like a unwilling child.
Where is Spirit?
Spirit is spirit and can only be satisfied by spiritual effects. The soul craves connection to spirit and satisfaction of the whole person. It wants man/woman to enjoy his/her experience through a spiritual understanding of their material connection because in doing so, it is pleased. It wants people to know who supplies and who partakes. In the really world, God is all and through all, and man, well, man’s experiences are for God’s pleasure.
Because a Devine principle is reveled through human experience, the experience is also Devine. Each and every experience should be seen as Devine revelation. Each experience completes a need to connect material and spirit. We may live in a material world but we exist through spiritual exposure.
Is Spirit only imagination?
Most people are so in-tune to the world that they have become that which they imagine. They have become worldly within themselves; they have become their surroundings. They can’t experience spirit because they have become detached and don’t have a realization of it. They simply don’t know it’s there or how to excess it . . . mankind is lost.
What’s the answer? It is not easy to find your way when you have been lost in the desert for a thousand years. The desert has sustained you and the horizon has become fixed. There are no trees, rivers or ocean, only wilderness, sand, sun, heat, trials, despair. Hope is gone, only the drudgery of life continues.
Or truth lost in reality
Most people are like that aren’t they? They can’t experience true life because they don’t know what it is. But wait, what if you woke up one morning and the world was a different place – a better place of peace and hope and knowing? What if your soul awoke the reality, the inner person you really are? If this could happen, if there is hope what then? We will see, won’t we?
Happy Trails
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