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So You Want to Make Money Online huh? - Part I

by Norhafidz on December 18, 2008

Make money online is easy, it does not require a lot time, a lot of efforts and I can still do it on my bed - Those are the words that are always associated with make money online. It is regarded as the easiest way in the world to earn money.

Believe me, making money online is not as easy as that. There will be no hunger problems in Africa and poor countries will become rich doing online business. In addition to that, there will be kids from around the world becoming billionaire each month. Don’t be fool by these words. In fact, there is no such term of “easy money” in either offline or online world.

I had requests from my readers on information about make money online (thanks for communicating! :p ). So, here you are guys, this is the first part of a series of articles which I called “So you want to make money online huh”, or in short: SYWTMMOhuh? :)

The series will include:

So, this article will cover only the fundamentals of money online. Now, when it comes to make money online, I’m not the biggest celebrity of all. There are many big earners and bloggers (full time or part time) out there who made handsome money online. “How did they do it?” is a popular question toss by beginners.

John Chow (johnchow.com) is one of the great online earners, he managed to get 30,000+ US dollars in October 2008 alone. Looking at his history, it took him more than 5 years in blogging to finally achieve what he has now. According to web.archive.org, he started blogging at the end of 2000 with a weird blog’s title The Weird World of John Chow. Imagine how long does it takes to get on that position.

Make Money Online: Fundamentals

There are various fashions of making money online, as long as you have payment processor (PayPal, 2Checkout) account, you can surely make money online. Payment processor is used as an ‘online bank account’ so that every transaction can be made possible.

There are plenty of payment processors available on the internet, the most famous two are PayPal.com and 2Checkout.com. So, once you have an account, money online is always possible. I’ve compiled a list of ways to make money online (feel free to add your ways at the comment box):

  • Freelance writing
  • Money Online through Affiliate program
  • PPC Ad Network (Google AdSense, Bidvertiser)
  • Selling your own products (eBook, physical products)
  • Blogging
  • Start a discussion group, discussion forum or membership site on a popular topic
  • Start your own service-based business (designing, consulting, web design etc.)
  • Website/Blog Flipping
  • Selling Links (Of course this what makes Google hate us)

Avoid: Google AdSense

And the most popular one among internet users is Google AdSense. If you are a beginner, I would suggest to stay away from Google AdSense. Joel Comm said anyone can be successful with AdSense, if he can do it, we can do it too. It is a standard marketing phrase. Google AdSense is not just about keyword analyses i.e: finding a profitable niche, it involves huge traffic to make it a success.

That is the most common mistakes beginners made, starting their online journey with Adsense. A lot of them quit because at the end of the month, their adsense earnings are not more than $5. I’m not saying that AdSense is not good, but familiarize yourself with the traffic-getting techniques (SEO and other internet marketing techniques) before registering for a Google AdSense account. You will never make it big with AdSense without huge traffic.

Recommended: Blogging

John Chow made a breakthrough in blogging world and in October 2008, he made 30,000+ US dollars from his blog. This is probably the most fondness way of making money online. Through blogging, we can combine multiple ways of making money online, for instance, freelance writing, recommend product through our affiliate links, selling direct ads (banner, text link ads), and we can even sell our blog. Once you get loyal readers and increasing traffic, you can display PPC ad like Google AdSense and Bidvertiser.

Blog about topics that you are familiar with and had a strong-knowledge.

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The Ultimate Blog Contest

by Norhafidz on December 12, 2008

The last contest that I ever participated is at the lifeiscolourful.com. That was a long time ago, because of my crazy schedule, I’m short of contest enjoyment. So this time, I was invited to join a contest by a friend of mine, Tushar Dhoot.

He’s organizing a contest which he called “The Ultimate Blog Contest”. The best part is, over $497 worth of prizes up for grabs. Let’s be part of the contest and have fun with it :)

Here’s the article from tushardhoot.com:

Looking for a contest that is easy to enter, yet full of fun and exciting prizes? You’ve certainly come to the right place then, because Tushar Dhoot dot COM is hosting a mega contest for all it’s readers and new fans alike. We want to invite you to take part in this contest and play for an easy chance to win hundreds of dollars in prizes without spending hours trying to enter!

Prizes

I know you’re just waiting for the prize breakdown, so here it is:

1st Prize:

Obviously, the first place prize is our biggest one in the entire competition. There are currently $207 worth of prizes to be won.

2nd Prize:

The second highest prize is also up for grabs. It has $139 in prizes included.

3rd Prize

Our last major prize, the third place prize comes with $86 in prizes!

Blogger’s Prize

This prize is available exclusively to people who blog about this contest. The total amount of prizes in this category is $65!

Ways to Enter

Not only does this contest have loads of different prizes that you can win, but it’s also very easy to enter. To make it easier to count and easier for you to enter, I’ve only added two ways to get in.

Subscribe to my Feed Via Email

The primary method of entering this contest, for anyone interested in prizes 1 through 3, is to subscribe to my rss feed by email. I must stress the importance of susbcribing by email and not any other method, because if you don’t, I can’t track you. If you want to know why you should subscribe to my feed, please see this blog post on Five Reasons to Subscribe to my RSS Feed. I promise you that I never send spam and that you will only receive the highest quality content.

Subscribe to My RSS Feed by Email Now to Enter The Contest

Blog About the Contest

The second and last way to enter the contest is to blog about it. You just need to make a short, yet informative blog post (no less than 100 words) about this contest. This is a great way to enter because there are going to be less people doing this, which means more of a chance of you winning! Make sure you leave a trackback to this post, and then post a comment here with a link to your post.

CONTEST ENDS: Dec. 15th 2008

So that’s it for this edition of the TD contest. Stay tuned for more contests like this, and be sure to enter. Remember, there are over $497 worth of prizes up for grabs, and all you have to do is subscribe to my rss feed via or blog about the contest to get in. So what are you waiting for? Get involved in td.NOV, The Ultimate Blogging Contest.

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Linkbaiting a Bad Thing?

by Norhafidz on December 8, 2008

“Link bait” is a term that is widely used by webmasters as a form of practices that have the purpose of generating links to your site. Yes, It has nothing to do with fishing baits in any way.

I noticed discussions among webmasters about this topic in a couple of forums. Miraculously, though link baiting is worshipped by a lot of webmasters, some said that “link baiting” is bad. The debate was not as hot as the last US presidential debate for sure, but it is worth debating.

What is Linkbaiting?

Link baiting is a variety of practices of getting as many as inbound links to your blog. It is difficult to describe in absolute way as it involves practices ranging from giving out useful tool to writing a good and informational content within your blog or other’s. Matt Cutts (OMG! He’s a celebrity) defines link baiting as anything “interesting enough to catch people’s attention.”

Although there is still clouds behind link baiting, these are the most known fact about type of baits.

  • Informational bait - Provide an informational post on your blog that your readers may find useful. Probably some rare guides and tips from your own experience.
  • Evil bait - Be controversial, may also generate high attention among readers. Write about something that you disagree and provide good reasons for it.
  • Tool bait - Create or write about a tool that is useful to others and people might link to it.
  • Humor bait - Tell a joke or funny story.
  • Badge bait - Create a badge that can be placed on blogs.

In order for these baits to function well, you have to be a bit ’socialize’ with other bloggers. I’ll be talking more about socializing your blog in the next coming posts.

The formula for link baiting is pretty easy to understand.

Link baiting = (Tool + Humor + Badge + Evil + Informational) bait

That is how link baiting looks in math. I’m sorry if you don’t like mathematics, and no this is not a mathematics blog but I keen to give away formulas these days :)

Direct Traffic and Inbound Links

Link baiting can contribute to direct traffic and at the same time is worthiness of inbound links. We know how important it is to get as many as quality inbound links as possible if we engaged in search engine optimization.

Getting inbound links manually consume a lot of time and energy. Plus, the price is dreadfully insane these days. Link baiting can be one of those alternatives.

Linkbaiting: Good or Bad?

Some said, the term is evil. Frankly, the term is absolutely okay to me and I don’t think that it affects a lot. I don’t see it offend anyone if it is a quality and new idea, even if it’s controversial as long as it can be seen as a piece of beneficial information by others. In terms of search engine optimization, it is a good way to increase our inbound links and visibility in SERP (Search Engine Results Page).

In contrast, it may be seen by others as bad once you repeat the existed idea just for the purpose of baiting.

What do you think of link baiting?

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