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I thought it would be nice, if someone would write an easy to follow step
by step guide to making money online without an investment, for anyone to follow. So I finally got enough time to write one up, and present it to everyone here absolutely free. I did it for the people, to allow everyone an equal chance to learn how to make money online without putting up any kind of investment other then time. Here is what I got. Be sure to read my formula on making money online. It will make this a lot easier on you if you do. http://www.apsense.com/article/110259.html
Step #1 Your Website
This step is going to teach you about ads and how to make money with
them.
First, you must decide what the content of your site is going to contain. Now bare in mind that internet surfing habits tend to change daily amongst society. Know that not everyone goes to the same sites. You must decide what content will pull in the most people. Best thing to do, is go back to when you were in school. Imagine sitting in Language Arts class and the teacher telling you to write up a brainstorm for a story or essay. NOTE: "It doesn't matter if you are making a site, or even if you want to make a little spare change here and there on blogs and forums. Either way will generate you money in time. When the content is good, then you can generate more then you would think." This brainstorming method is actually quite effective. Start with your first bubble and think of what brings the most people to a site. Then think of what you could add onto that site, whether it be info on the main content or an entirely new page with different content. Now bare in mind you can't just throw a site together and expect people to go to it. You want to make sure that you if you are going to make a site with more then just one category of content on it. Make sure that you specify to your visitors what the site contains. I like to use the index page, or "Main page" as more of a description of what the site is about. I like to give people information on what they could find on the site, and what they could expect. I always like to try and include a news page for the visitors to keep them posted on what is new with the site or what has been fixed/needs fixed. who have slower internet connections. Try to make the pages as small as possible. Pertaining to space that is. The smaller the KB size of a page, the less time it will take for visitors to load the pages. If a page takes too long to load, most of the time the visitor will cease browsing your page. You may want to consider putting what are called "widgets" on your site as well. They are tools for your visitors. Such as polls, forums, even a couple browser games. The sky is the limit. You don't want to just throw them on the page however. You must realize that nobody likes looking at poorly built sites. Admit it, you don't either do you? Now, I know a lot of you are saying... "I don't know how to build a website. I can't, I don't know how to do html language or JavaScript." Well relax; I will even help you with this of course. There is a very easy to use, and I have to admit, very powerful program called NVU. It's a WYSIWYG editor or drag and drop editor as some call it. NVU Main Site, The Program IS free. This program even comes with Tutorials so that you have the help you may need to get your site built and running. I want to also point out, that you DO NOT want to publish with this program. The publishing end of the program tends to be very slow and frustrating. When you are done editing a page, be sure to save it somewhere you can get to it easily. This way you can upload the pages to your web hosting, which I will go into in a moment. Make sure that you get a few pages done, before you decide on what to name your site. This is another reason why I haven’t said anything about hosting yet either. Once you have a few pages done, then you may move on to step two. Step #2 Your Ads and Affiliate Programs I will Give you the link to some of THE BEST affiliate programs. This will make it easier on you, saving you a lot of time. This way you don’t spend valuable time researching and Trying to find out which programs aren’t going to do you wrong. The following are the Top affiliate programs in my opinion. Feel free to go out and look and see what else there is, you don't HAVE TO take my word on it. Be your own person, but remember... It takes time to research all the programs to see which ones are best. When I provide you the information and links to the programs here. So people know, If a affiliate program doesn't meet my standards, which believe me are higher then hell, I won't even breathe their name. If you can't get signed up with them, due to you not having a site. Wait to sign up withthose affiliates till after step #4. Clixgalore has an extremely WIDE range of options for your publishing needs. They provide you with hundreds of merchant catalogs to display to your visitors. There isn't a product that you wouldn't find amongst the merchants. They offer you the following options: PPC (pay per click ads) which pays you each click on that ad. CPM (cost per million) which would be a set amount per 1000 impressions. PPL (pay per lead) which is a set amount per lead (which is usually an email address) PPS (pay per sale) you get paid a set percentage of what a person spends at that affiliate. This Affiliate is my top program. I still can't get over how well it performs. Definitely a must.
Next we have adbrite. Now adbrite pays you for both impressions and clicks. So either way you are still making money, even if they don't click them. Mind you, you only make a penny per 100 impressions. But, if you have 5000 page views a day. It still ads up. Think if you get more? This place pays VERY well when it comes to clicks. I've had a few of my ads pull me in 82 cents on a hit. Yes you read that right. 82 CENTS on ONE click. The banners are easy to work with as well, so there's always that advantage. :)
Exoclick has an array of new options for people who need that little extra edge. They offer their affiliates web portals, full page ads, ad boxes, and search boxes. They pay fairly well per click last time I checked. Most of these programs are on auto pilot for me now. I have them spread all over the internet.
This site is starting to pull itself up my grade A list. They pay a hansom $1.00 per only 1000 page views. Thats a penny every 10 impressions. If your site pulls in an easy 10000 page views a day after being noticed. You are looking at $300 in a monthfrom just impressions from this program. JUST IMPRESSIONS!!! Not even including clicks. They pay very well for clicks, no surprise of course.
I have to say, that this site is definitely worth the time checking it out. This company will call you personally to confirm you application. They do it to cut down on junk account, and to make sure that all sites are going to be worth the time to approve them. They will call you and tell you whether or not you will be approved. Which is nice if you ask me, it shows they aren't a bogus company. Definitely worth a look. these ads on your web pages. Make sure you place them in places where people will see them. One thing to remember, that anything under the fold, (place below where the web Browser first displays, from the start menu over) will not be seen by visitors unless they scroll down. This DOES NOT mean to go and cram all the ads into a little space. Nobody likes when a page loads and there is nothing but ads everywhere. Nobody will sit at a site with this kind of content. You want to make sure you place ads that are similar to the content that is displayed. One great thing about the affiliates I’ve listed for you, is that they offer what are called contextual ads. They read your site and display ads that are relevant to your site content for you. load where People can first see it with your site content. The next place is in the left and right hand sides of the web pages. Usually below the menu, if you use a vertical menu that is. After you have placed your ads onto your site pages, make sure to check your pages to see if they look how you want them too. If something is not showing up how you want it to, then edit the parts that need fixed. With the NVU tool, you have the source editor, the html tag editor AND the drag and drop tools all in one simple to use editor. Know that there a few different types of ads to your disposal through the affiliates that I have provided to you. I’ve found contextual ads to work better then the other types, due to the fact that it reads your site content and fills in the ads to match the site content. The loading times for these types of ads are usually a lot quicker then those of the graphic banners. If one of your contextual banners is having trouble displaying ads that pertain to the site content, then trying right clicking on your ad in the NVU program, and type in a couple of description words that match your site content. This usually fixes the problem if you stumble upon it. You have what are called graphic banner ads. These usually come in all sorts and sizes to match your needs. These banners are usually set on a certain image and linking properties. Unless of course you are using Adbrite. The ads for adbrite let you edit what kind of ads it shows. When you use these types of banners, be sure to match any banners you use through clixgalore with the content of your site. Also be sure that you align your banners to your page and your text. Also, I want to point out. You need to make sure that you DO NOT put too many graphic banner ads onto one page, as it will take the page longer to load. If you have too many, those who are using a slower internet service provider will have problems seeing these pages. There are a couple of other methods of ads. Look over your Affiliate programs, and see what kind of ads they offer, then search google on ways to make these ads work for you. I believe it is about time to move on to step three. Step #3 Keywords and how to implement them how to use them to increase your page rank, and page visitors. The first thing that you must understand, is that you can't just make a site and throw a bunch of words all over the page. There are a few different ways of implementing keywords. I will go over a few of the best methods of use for keywords. The first way, would definitely have to be meta tag implementation of keywords. Being that it's the most effective method. These keywords are found in your heading html. Here is an example of this. Again, if you want to find out more information on this method. Then use google to find out a little more. You should be able to find sufficient information. Many people release a few guides to help those in need of some advice. Click here to go to Google (opens in a new window) Another great way to implement keywords is by right clicking your banners in NVU and adding keywords to the description of the banner ads. This has worked well for me over the many sites I've built. Make sure that you don't put keywords into EVERY banner description, as search engines will pass it up as keyword spam. Which means no search engine listings for that site, that's EXTREMELY bad. The last one I will present you with, will be the linked keywords. Linking a couple of words in your content with viable sites to that word, will generate a substantial amount of traffic in most cases. When people will search for a particular site, there are good chances it will help bring up your site in searches. Plus, if someone searches a keyword you linked, you'll get traffic. Not only that, you will have viable links for the keywords. Bringing your site that much more traffic. Be sure that you use well searched keywords. Putting key phrases sometimes helps as well. By phrases I mean a series of 2 or 3 words, 4 is pushing it. Anymore then that will not work as well. When using keywords, be sure to make some very specific while others be a wider range of keyword. Example, if your site is about business. Be sure to use keywords that are very specific. Such as home business, free business, networking business, ect.. Then use a few words that aren't as specific. Such as business, money, make money, free money, ect.... Whatever may pertain to your site of course. Step #4 Hosting and setup of website Now whether you want free hosting or you want paid hosting with a domain name. This will be up to you as far as what hosting service you would prefer to use. If you haven't used a web hosting service before, then I would recommend the one that I am currently using now. As you get 3, 1 year registrations for we.bs domain names. After the first year, it's I believe 5$ a year for each one. Which is still pretty cheap considering the recent lack of unused .com names. Heres the banner for the hosting I use, they claim to have unlimited bandwidth as well. I haven't had any problems so far with this hoster, so I recommend them to you. Now, as far as setting your pages up on your hosting service. That is pretty simple. Your first page needs to be named index so that it is index.html. This is your main page. When you upload all your pages and images if you have any. You can do it one of two ways. You can do it through their website, or you can do it through FTP. If you want to do it by FTP, then be sure to read their help section on it. It is very short, easy to use, and easy to find. After you get your pages uploaded inot your web hoster. Be sure to go to your website and make sure that it runs the way you want it to. Be sure to check for broken links, bad images, images that don't show up, ads that aren't where they should be or aligned properly, ect.. Now if you want to get your own .com domain and top of the line hosting. Then you would have to purchase it. If I were to recommend ANY paid hosting service, other then the one above. It would be none other the following.. They have superb service and great hosting. (~Linked for your convienence, opens in new window~) Now if you plan on doing your site in PHP premade templates, or your own PHP site. Understand, that you WILL HAVE to make sure your web hoster supports PHP and MYSQL database functions. Otherwise, your pages won't display and operate properly. The following are some links to tutorials for php and how to use, develope, and maintain it. http://www.goodphptutorials.com/ http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/PHP/1 http://www.killerphp.com/ http://devzone.zend.com/public/view/tag/tutorials http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/php/ You are going to need to go through your site, and make sure that all the links that you have made, go to your webhosting. So this way they show up when people go to your website. I know some of you are most likely crying out in anger right now. Understand that I didn't tell you to do this, till AFTER you got some of your pages together. Most affiliate programs won't take you if you don't have some pages together, and a site that has content. This also helps you in the long run, as it leaves the visitors with more information in the beginning stages of the sites developement. Step #5 Advertising, generating traffic, and page ranking This is the part of this quest that will take the longest. The hardest part is getting the traffic to your site. There are way too many methods of advertising and traffic generation that I'm only going to name a few of them. One of the easiest ways to generate traffic to your site is by using what are called traffic exchange sites. This will allow you to atleast start generating some traffic. This will help you establish your site across search engines and show up in more places on the internet. The hardest part is getting to that point. Traffic exchanges will basically trade page views with you and traffic, so that people see and recognize your site. Here is a brief list of a couple traffic exchanges that will help you greatly if you want to take the free route. Here is a small list of some good free traffic exchanges. Both manual and auto surf exchanges.
There is of course A LOT of other traffic exchanges. But these have done the best for me so far. So these are the main ones I will recommend. JustMemo- Free Web Directory Listing The trick is getting your page rank up, so that you come up in google searches and yahoo searches. The more search engines you get yourself into the better. Here is a short list of a couple free search engine submission services. Your page rank is very important when it comes to search engines. The higher your page rank, the sooner you show up in search engine searches. As your page rank gets better, you show up ahead of other sites in search engine searches.
Search Engine Optimization and SEO Tools
There is always social networking, which works extremely well if you offer products. There are quite a few buyers and sellers on the following network. They offer to pay you to socially advertise your business, and even allow you to build what's called a business center, and all for free!!!
The first thing you're going to want to do, is register your site with as many search engines as you can. The more you are registered with, the more traffic that will pour onto your site... Given that you used good keywords that is. Your keywords are very important when it comes to advertising. If your keywords are not relavent to your site, then you aren't going to generate any decent traffic. The goal is to generate enough traffic that you do not have to worry about trying to pour people onto your site. Eventually, the site will pretty much operate itself. The only thing that you need to do as the webmaster is to make sure that the site stays up and has no errors. NOTE: Always be sure to add new content! You could always use paid advertisement services. As they always seem to have the best results when it comes to advertising. They seem to deliver exactly what you need when you need it. Be sure that you read the site for the advertiser though, to be sure to avoid any scams or crappy services. Step #6 Setting up a store or catalog One of the most important parts of a website, if you are wanting to make a good income from a site, is making sure that you set up a store or catalog with your site. You generate anything from money per click on a particular item, to percentage of sale, to money per sale, to even leads. Make sure that you tie in your catalog with your site content. This way when they come to your site, they find products that go with the site content. No body is going to go to a gaming website to buy clothes if you get what I am saying. If you signed up with the above affiliates that I have listed for you, then you would have the option of the affiliate making your catalog for you instead of having to do it yourself. All you have to do is setup the link to your first page and move on from there. This makes setting up an online store even that much easier. You can sell anything from jewelry to games to movies. Everything pretty much. Over time, when you start getting more and more people that visit your site. You will generate more and more sales. In turn will generate more and more money in your pocket. Thus, making a site that makes you money. Your catalog is your best friend. Be sure that people know about any sales that might be going on with your catalogs or stores. Be sure that you make note of those before any other products. Unless of course the other products be something that is "hot" on the market. Anything that sells extremely well, such as game systems or electronics, you want to make note of those for your visitors first and fore most. ©Copyright 2008 Max Merrill Free step by step guides to make money |
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| Man you offer people a free guide they don't want it... You tell them it's 9.99$... they eat it up >.< This post hasn't even gotten many pageviews... Well. I'll leave it up anyways.... only because I know it can help people, if they only took the time to actually read it. Read it and my formula posting.... and a few others... They might have something? Max Merrill Free step by step guides to make money |
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| HI Max, This is great for those new to marketing thinking its out of there reach, keeping it simple. I really like what you have done here and would love to chat sometime and get to know more about what you do. Kindly Lisa Lomas Do you know how to plan Success? |
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| You're welcome ^_^, I do have a couple of other guides in the works. So be sure to keep an eye out for them ;-)
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| Great Work!!
All in one place too. Thanks for putting it all together. Cindy 200 Blue Print FREE Report |
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| :P it's all for the community. I plan on posting the other guides I have, but as I've said to numerous people. I have to type them up and get everything in them the way I want them, before I will go and post them to the public. You have to have them typed and ready >.< before you can post em.... cursed notebook.
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| Wow, you have got like an entire blogs content here. Terrific! Maybe should shuffle it up and do a squiddoo lens or something.
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| Again, THANK YOU to everyone who reads this and appreciates it. As me and BJ were discussing, IT IS better to start with your own domain name. As it makes it easier on you in the long run. I wont go into details about it, as it just is better lol. I put the free hosting in here to make sure THAT NO ONE DECIDED TO CALL ME A LIAR about the comment i made about making money with no investments. When it comes down to it, making an investment will always get you ahead A LOT quicker. Max Merrill Free step by step guides to make money |
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| Wow Max This is a terrific piece of work you have sent us here. Even for the not so new - it is so good to hve everything on one page! Thanks - I'll be bookmarking this one! Jenny For Angel Lovers Earn $$s |
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| Thank you. It's nice to know the community here at apsense is still alive! lol I figured it was about time the public had access to a valuable piece of knowledge, without having to spend an arm and a leg. Plus, there is no worries about being scammed when the whole guide is on the page for the person to read..... Right? Max Merrill Free step by step guides to make money |
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| Thanks Max. There's a lot of information there, and I'm sure many who are just getting started will appreciate it greatly. Well done. WolfWoodWares OBA |

























