Easy Money
If you've spent any considerable amount of time on
the Internet, you've probably tried making money on it. I basically make all
my income from working on the Internet, specifically by programming the
back-ends to client websites. As you may or may not know, most of my type of
work is being outsourced to India and other low-wage countries, usually
leaving people such as myself having to work more for less. This is were the
lure of "easy money" comes in as I have been researching internet marketing
and search engine optimization techniques. These are hardly new concepts
anymore and I may be a bit late to the game but I think I'll be giving it a
go. I understand that there is no such thing as "easy money" but for someone
such as myself who lives on the Internet and knows all the related
technologies, the work should not be very hard and perhaps a bit enjoyable.
The work basically entails driving web traffic to sites that contain
affiliate ads or pay-per-click ads. I have a number of websites I've created
in the past just for fun but have never really tried to promote or monetize
them. I will initially be concentrating on Desktop Linux At Home, Southern
Ontario Day Trips and Cropping News. I am also going to be partnering with
someone else trying to do some environmental affiliate sales sites.
UPDATE: Easy Money - one year later
Date: 2007-05-01
My experimentation with SEO ran out of steam about 4 months into it; but I
did still manage to triple the income from the 3 sites I was concentrating
on. The problem is that that is not saying much, as the sites were initially
making very little to begin with. My advice, unless you are in a current hot
niche market with your websites and are ready to commit a lot of effort into
your SEO, don't quit your day job.
If you are interested in trying out SEO and ad marketing, I would recommend
reading the forums daily at DigitalPoint.com.
the Internet, you've probably tried making money on it. I basically make all
my income from working on the Internet, specifically by programming the
back-ends to client websites. As you may or may not know, most of my type of
work is being outsourced to India and other low-wage countries, usually
leaving people such as myself having to work more for less. This is were the
lure of "easy money" comes in as I have been researching internet marketing
and search engine optimization techniques. These are hardly new concepts
anymore and I may be a bit late to the game but I think I'll be giving it a
go. I understand that there is no such thing as "easy money" but for someone
such as myself who lives on the Internet and knows all the related
technologies, the work should not be very hard and perhaps a bit enjoyable.
The work basically entails driving web traffic to sites that contain
affiliate ads or pay-per-click ads. I have a number of websites I've created
in the past just for fun but have never really tried to promote or monetize
them. I will initially be concentrating on Desktop Linux At Home, Southern
Ontario Day Trips and Cropping News. I am also going to be partnering with
someone else trying to do some environmental affiliate sales sites.
UPDATE: Easy Money - one year later
Date: 2007-05-01
My experimentation with SEO ran out of steam about 4 months into it; but I
did still manage to triple the income from the 3 sites I was concentrating
on. The problem is that that is not saying much, as the sites were initially
making very little to begin with. My advice, unless you are in a current hot
niche market with your websites and are ready to commit a lot of effort into
your SEO, don't quit your day job.
If you are interested in trying out SEO and ad marketing, I would recommend
reading the forums daily at DigitalPoint.com.