Making Money Online (105 Articles)



Google Adsense. Affiliate programs. PPC. It's all covered here. How does one go about making money online? What are the most reputable places? How does it work? What are some tips and tricks that can be used to enhance profits?

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How To Actually Make Money From A Blog

How can a person make money from a blog? Are all of these expensive teaching packages worth it, or is there a cheaper alternative?

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Timothy Sykes DVD Review

Review of the instructional DVDs that Timothy Sykes is currently offering, including Pennystocking, Shortstocking and TimRAW.

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Marketleverage Review

Review of Marketleverage.com, the rapidly growing affiliate marketing company that offers a multitude of various CPA offers.

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Shoemoney Tools Review

Shoemoney Tools will help those people who are launching new SEO or PPC campaigns. This is a comprehensive set of tools that is well-worth the $99 a month price tag.

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Some Older Google Penalties Expiring?

I've noticed this weekend that a number of our LONG penalized sites have suddenly...

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Blog About Topics That You Are Passionate and Knowledgeable About

One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make is that they choose blogging topics based on how ...

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Adsense Arbitrage - What is It, and Why Doesn't Google Like It?

First off, what is "arbitrage"?

According to Wikipedia, arbitrage is "the practice of tak...

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Seven Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers

The world of "blogging" has always been fascinating to me.

People tucked away in all cor...

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ScribeFire is Awesome

Normally we don't do product reviews or product endorsements on this blog, but what the hell, this p...

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Tips For Hiring Translators Online

Hiring translators online can be a much more complex (and dangerous) task then you might think. Ther...

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Traffic Before Monetization, Not the Other Way Around


I see this happen all the time in the "blogosphere". People launch their own "Make...

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Linking Out to Other Sites is Not Only Good Karma - It's Smart Business

I can understand the mindset that some people might have.

"I am never going to link o...

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Getting Started With Your First Web Site - What You'll Need

So you have decided to take the plunge and start your very first web site. You have the basic theme ...

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Tips on How to Create Interesting Content for Your Readers

When it comes to building a website on the cheap, content is king. Quality content is the great equa...

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Don't Ever Sell Your Content If You Can Help It

Let's say that you are a fairly good writer.

You have been writing for years, and a f...

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HotorNot.com Sells for $20 Million to Avid Life Media

The recent sale of Hotornot.com to a Canadian investor group called "Avid Life Media" recently just ...

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When Creating a Personal Blog, a Little Originality Goes a Long Ways

I had finished my work early last night and was surfing around, looking for nothing in particular, w...

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Cruises.co.uk Sells To Cruise.co.uk In Largest .co.uk Domain Sale Ever

Dnjournal is reporting that Cruise.co.uk, based out of the UK, has purchased Cruises.co.uk in the si...

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"Domain Tasting" and "Domain Kiting" - What Are They Exactly?

"Domain tasting" and "domain kiting". Two practices that are very well-known to most domain name pur...

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The Benefits of Getting Into Google News

Getting into Google News is a big deal. If you get one of your sites into Google News, it probably m...

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UFC / MMA Are a Huge Business and You Need to Get Involved

Mixed Martial Arts fighting, especially the UFC, is a very big but still rapidly expanding business ...

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Legitimate Reader Interest Is Your Most Valuable Capital When Running a Blog - Don't Squander It

Let's say that you are running a blog, and over the last number of months, you have built up a fairl...

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Don't Be Afraid to Experiment With Affiliate Sales and Direct Ad Sales

Google Adsense is a wonderful tool, but there is more to life than just Adsense and many people find...

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Five Tips For Surviving Your First Front-Page Digg

The goal of many webmasters and website owners is to be on the front page of Digg.com.

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How to Deal With Shady Affiliate Programs

If you have been in the affiliate marketing business for any period of time, then there is a good ch...

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Google to Make Adsense Ads Less Clickable

Google is apparently going ahead with plans to make their Adsense ads less "clickable."


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Google Introduces Two Updates to Site Targeting

Google has added a couple of changes to their "site targeting" feature that will make "site targetin...

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SEO? Just Build a Site that People Like

Many people when they are starting out a blog or web site are completely frozen by the "SEO" aspects...

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The Way That Some People Are Spinning This Google Pagerank Situation is Ridiculous

It's pretty funny to me how people in the blogosphere are spinning their Pagerank situation with Goo...

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You Never Know Who Your Best Customers Might Be

I guess this goes along with the entire mindset of how you should treat everyone the same, especiall...

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Kudos to Google For Bringing the Hammer Down on Some Sites and Networks

For those of you who don't know, Google brought their virtual hammer down on a number of sites and n...

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Using the Internet to Generate Passive Income

The best part about using the Internet to generate income is that once a site has some "juice" and h...

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Think Outside the Box

This phrase applies completely and 100% to Internet marketing. Those that can think outside the box ...

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The Digg Effect

Well after being in this Internet game for years, my partner and I had our first full-fledged Digg.c...

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Stop Chasing Links, Start Adding Value

The amount of link requests that we get each day for sites across our network is mind-boggling.

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Credibility Is The Most Valuable Currency Online

It can be tempting sometimes.

The easiest way to get traffic to your web site is to m...

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The Art of Minimalist Blogging

The entire concept of minimalist blogging first popped into my mind when reading
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Finding the Right Partner is All About Finding Someone to Complement Your Skills

There was a time in my life, probably back in the late 90's, where I never would have considered hav...

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Sorry Overture, We Can't Do Business with You Anymore

Overture's steadfast refusal to do ANYTHING about the bunk "partner site" clicks that they serve has...

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The Hidden Value of a Web Site - Page Rank

We've talked quite a bit already about the direct monetization of web sites. You spend X amount of d...

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Lenzine.com Up And Running; A Second Domain Name Is Purchased

Our foray into acquiring sites for the sole purpose of monetizing them continues.


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Blogging as a Job? Be Prepared to Put in the Time

One of the questions that is most often asked of me is: can I make a living online? Can I make a car...

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Why Web Sites Are Oftentimes Incredibly Undervalued And What We Plan on Doing About It

These days, there are literally hundreds of ways to make money with a web site. More and more compan...

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Delving Into the World of Text Link Ads

As I said a few posts ago, so far so good with Text Link Ads. We have currently had two sites approv...

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Increasing Your ROI At Overture

Overture is a funny beast.

I have found that the traffic that actually comes from the...

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"Big Dirty" Update, Overture/MSN/Google, Text Link Ads, New Traffic Records and More

It's been a long time since I did a general business update, so here you go.

1. "Big ...

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Dear Overture, Without This Change, You'll Never Catch Adwords

The crux of this article?

Overture, desperately, desperately needs to clean up their ...

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Our First Cash-Flow Domain Purchase: Lenzine.com

Recently I stumbled across a great site run by Godaddy.com called the
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Overture Fraud

Sorry for the lack of updates lately; been real busy.

As much as we wanted to try and...

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Some Adsense Placement Tips For All You Aspiring Content Publishers Out There

After testing, re-testing, and double re-testing, I have figured out the best way to incorporate ...

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Google Paid Out $976 Million Dollars to Adsense Partners in Q4 (Gimme, Gimme)

I was just looking over Google's Q4 earnings report and I noticed that Google paid out an enormou...

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Building An Adsense Empire, Day 1 - You Gotta Start Somewhere

The first day of this Adsense experiment was a fairly underwhelming one, with my partner and I ea...

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The Adsense Experiment: Making a Hundred Dollars Per Day with Adsense

Making money with Adsense is hard work. It involves creating a great deal of unique content,
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My Pen is My Weapon: Content Is King

I've been making my living from the Internet for almost ten years now. First I ran a newsletter f...

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Running a Newsletter: Seven Things You Can Do to Increase Your Audience

From November of 1998 until the end of 2001, I ran a pretty popular online stock market newslette...

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Overture - Massive Click Fraud?

Let me give you some background. My partner and I have been advertising with Overture UK for a long ...

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