0 The Internet Goldmine: Easy Online Money-Making Ideas that Anyone Can Do

The Internet Goldmine: Easy Online Money-Making Ideas that Anyone Can Do

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The creation of the Internet has afforded the common man access to a never ending supply of money-making opportunities. A large percentage of these opportunities also have the benefit of not requiring any initial monetary investment. All that is required is a bit of knowledge of the inner-workings of the world wide web and an internet connection.

Answering Questions

There is a new money making opportunity out there called WebAnswers. The underlying concept behind the site is that you can get paid for asking and answering questions. The site works with Google AdSense, so you know that it is legitimate and trustworthy. The great thing about WebAnswers is that it is so simple and easy to use. Do you get 15 minute breaks at work? Well then you have time to answer questions. I started making money within my first hour of posting answers on this site. In my first week I had already answered 80 questions. By then I had already earned almost $5.00. If you choose to use WebAnswers, be sure to focus on quality contributions. It will pay higher dividends in the long run. WebAnswers is a great way to supplement your Google AdSense Income.

Content Creation/Freelance Writing

There are many web sites (or web services) that allow you to create content in exchange for income. Since you're reading this, HubPages, is probably one of the best sites around (trust me, I've researched 100's and tried several others). Even so, there are many other great sites out there as well. The internet's largest, and most well known, content site is eHow. Becoming a writer for them is a rather difficult process though. Remember, with content creation, its about quality not quantity. A thoroughly researched and well written article will earn you much more money in the long run than many poor quality ones. Check out this great hub for more information about content quality: How to Develop Your Writing - Developing Your Voice as a Writer.

Selling Merchandise

Everyone has heard of eBay, right? Well, selling things on eBay or other websites such as Craigslist, OnlineAuction, or UBid is a great way to add to your monthly income. Web sites like these have brought the yard sale out of the yard and into your computer. While they do take some effort on your part (taking pictures, going to the post office, etc), there is plenty of money to be made. With the downed economy, people are always looking for a good deal. The Internet has made it very easy for anyone to become a salesman.

Virtual Real Estate

Domain names are like houses. You can buy them, sell them, or set your 'home' at the domains address. In 2002, Frank Schilling, invested over $200,000 into the purchase of over 250,000 domain names. In 2004, just two years later, Schilling's revenues were more than $10 million dollars. Frank saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. With some quick clicking and a few dollars you can buy the domain names of the latest startup tech companies and sell them later when they want to create an internet presence. Though most of the good domain names are already taken, there still are many opportunities to earn some cash with this method.

Affiliate Marketing

Wouldn't it be great to earn money just for promoting and marketing existing products? Well you can! There are many people who make a decent living from affiliate marketing. Here at HubPages, they have a great affiliate program that uses eBay and Amazon. Commission Junction and ClickBank are another great way to maximize your earnings with affiliate marketing strategies.

Website Flipping

This is sort of like house flipping, but with a lot less paperwork.  This is similar to buying and selling domain names, except this involves much more work. First you buy already established websites, make them more profitable, and then selling them for more money later.  You can also purchase empty domains, create a brand new website, and then sell it as is. This money making method requires a significant input of time and money, but the rewards often outweigh the risks.

Paid Online Surveys

There are many legitimate web sites out there that will pay you for taking surveys. How does it work you ask? Companies are desperate to find the answer to the following question: What do consumers want? These companies will hire market research firms to survey the public and find out the answer to that question. The right survey companies will compensate you very well for your time answering simple questions. Some great survey sites are: SurveyMasterMind, SurveySavvy, and BrandInstitute.

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Design for Print on Demand (POD) Companies

If you've got an ounce of creativity in you, then perhaps designing for a print on demand company is for you. There are many companies that enable you to sell your artistic designs on hundreds of products. The two post popular seem to be Zazzle.com and Cafepress.com. I currently run 5 shops at Cafepress which hosts a combined total of more than 1,000 designs. Right now my shops are doing quite well and my passive income from this medium surpasses that of anything other method on this list. The ironic thing is that in my case designing for print on demand companies has required the least amount of work overall.

Selling Stock Photography

If you're like many people these days, you probably have thousands of photographs sitting on your computer right now. However, most people don't realize that there may be a literal goldmine within the photographs stored on your hard drive. Marketing and advertising companies are always in need of high quality images to use in magazines, billboards, and even internet ads. Who knows, perhaps the next ad for your favorite snack could feature you! There are many stock photo sites out there, however among the most popular are: iStockphoto, Fotolia, Dreamstime, and Shutterstock. And since you own the copyright to your photos, there's nothing preventing you from uploading your pictures to more than one site. Stock photography is a volume business. The more images you have, the more money you can make!

Selling Creative Art and Photography

Are you an avid painter or photographer? Wouldn't you want to sell those images online for hundreds or even thousands of dollars? Well now that the Internet exists, you can! Most art and print websites require that you create and upload high quality, high resolution, and unique images to their online galleries. Once uploaded, the world can view your art and purchase high quality prints and canvas reproductions for their homes. Some of the best wall art for your home could be found on one of these sites. There are litterally hundreds of sites that allow you to sell your art and photography. Among the most popular are FineArtAmerica.com, ImageKind.com, and RedBubble.com

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0 How To Make Money Translating Online (4 Paying Companies)

How To Make Money Translating Online (4 Paying Companies)

No Degree & No Monthly Fee!

As a translatoion student, I always felt as altough I had not a degree, my knowledge and experience could already be useful in the market. Let us embrace the truth, we have been living on the era of communication for a few years now. We, the youth from before, have grown in constant contact with media and arts, thus developing our foreign language skills. English to Spanish, French to German, Portuguese to English. No matter the language, someone will be bilingual on them. Some learned from movies and books, some learned at school, perhaps both,

Our society requires those people, to translate, documents, e-mails, books, subtitles, websites, blogs, you name it. Where there is content, there is need to translate it. More and more companies and individuals have come to understand the importance of translating this content. Consequently other companies have emerged on the merket who offer to establish a connection between client and translator. Sign up and look for what tasks best suite your set of language skills.

What is so GOOD about these companies?

1. All the 5 companies mentioned in this article accept translators from all around the world, there are no country restrictions.
2. They provide a cheap translation for clients while giving a fair pay rate to its translators.
3. Easy way for you to find some work and earn an extra income.
4. You do not need to be a translater professional already. As long as you are good and you can pass their skills requirements you are ready to start earning.
5. Be paid regularly, you do not need to wait until the end of the month to cash out.

Unbabel

Unbabel founders have come up with a new way to translate and monetize. Their inovation has brought the attention of many companies such as Google, whom became investors. Thus developing one of the best translation tools out there, and in my opinion the future of online translation.

A Machine + Crowd Translation- What is this? How can I monetize from it?

Unbabel has combined automated translation together with human translation. On the platform as a translator you must translate the so-called micro-tasks, around 20 to 50 words. This are machine translated words, their software automatically translates the task into what it thinks it might be the best translation output. It's your job to correct the mistakes and/or re-written parts of the task. After you compleate each micro-task the amount of time you took on it + the amound of words + your hourly pay = the amount you earn on each micro-task. And you earn the money instantly into your account.

What Unbabel does is they divide the content into micro-tasks, for example a 100 page document might be 10.000 tasks, and you as a translator must translate them together with other translators at the same time. Thus ending with a translation by 7 or more people.

The good thing is when you don't know how to translate one micro-task, you can just click "skip" and you will get a new one. The other one you were not able to translate will be given to other translator.

How much do I earn from each paid-task?

As I mentioned, the amount you are paid depends on the previsouly stated factors. As an Unbabel translator myself I can assure you an average of 0.05$ to 0.60$ per task. They do pay well, I have even been paid a 1$ for some micro-tasks that required me to re-written all the machine translation. As you get better and better, producing good quality translations, your hourly pay increases, consequently your earnings do to. The standard hourly pay is 8$, in my case as an example I'm already earning 12.77$ per hour, but if my rating drops (currently 4.7/5) my hourly rate will too.

How do we cash out the money? What is the minimum amount and do they pay?

After a minimum of 5$ is met you can cash out your earnings. Yes, Unbabel is not of those companies who require you to have a 100$ balance in order to chash out the money. The payment is done to your Paypal account in 4 days. They do not do monthly payments, we decide when to cash out and the payment is done as quickly as possible.

They pay. I have been a Unbabel Editor (Translator) for the last 3 months and I have earned 350$. It's a good extra income and it can become an extra salary at the end of the month if you have a wide set of languages and you are willing to put in some work.

Are there always mini-tasks (translations) to do?

No. But this depends on the languages you are able to translate. For example I know Portuguese (Native), English(First) and Spanish. And I can not translate from English to Spanish. So I can only do tasks when there is work fitted to my capabilities. Do not expect it to become your full-time job, more as a regular hobby which earns you a few good dollars.

Translate on your phone/tablet wherever you are.

Perhaps this is one of the biggest winning factors for Unbabel, they have an app. And yes you can be doing your micro-tasks wherever you go. I used to be sitting on my translation classes learning and doing tasks on Unbabel. Is there something better than learning and earning at the same time?

How do I become a Unbabel Paid Editor?

Editors is what Unbabel names their translators. So you wanna join the company and put your skills to work, great! Sign up and complete the learnings tasks. It only takes about 5 to 10 micro-tasks on each language you want to translate in. After, other Paid Editors will review your learning tasks and give you a rating. If you are good, you become a Paid Editor. Don't worry. it will not take forever for you to be accepted, for me it only took 1 week until I was doing Paid Tasks and cashing in.

Translate

Following Unbabel sucess, Translate.com changed its working method. A former front-end service of translations tools powered by Microsoft. Has recently launched its interprise platform. Like Unbabel, it is now a service combining both machine and human translations. The website as well as providing an automated translation much like Google Translator, it also unables businesses to have acess to Professional Human Translators.

How to be a Professional Translater for Translate.com?

Do not worry, what I mentioned in the beginning of this post is still valid. We need no degree or curriculum to be eligeble to have acess to paid translations. Apply to professinal translations by passing a fluency test given by the company itself. You pick your set of languages and you do a quick online test, proof of your capabilities. As long as you are good, it will be fine.

Are There Alot of Tasks?

The service is fairly new, do not expect as many tasks as Unbabel has, neither expect as many language options. In fact Translate.com only has 4 set of languages available at the moment: English, Spanish, Chinese and German. You can only translate from English do the other 3 languages, you do not yet have tasks to translate from other native language to English. As I stated, the service is new, they are still improving it, gathering clients and "hiring" translaters. The good thing is, you can join already, earn a little bit of money, and grow as the company grows too. Who knows, maybe in a couple yars you will be a Translate old school professional translater, earning top money.

How is the Payment Done?

You require a minimum of 20$ on your balance in order to cash out to your Paypal account. You do not have any other payment options besides Paypal.

Proz

Proz is one of the most active translater community. Not only they provide all type of translation doubts and awnsers through their extensive network of experienced translators. They also have a job board where companies log on pitching the job they need done. If we meet the criteria we are abled to contact the company or individual and maybe get the job.

While Unbabel and Translater.com work with crowded translations, Proz does not. We need to apply to the job and if the client agrees to our pay rate we get the job. There is no test or learning tasks, you sign up and you seek a job.

How much is the Pay Rate?

It depends on the type of document or set of documents. We are responsible for the full translation of it, unlike Unbabel and Translater micro-tasks. So be smart and only apply to those you know you have the expertise to complete. The payment will very according to the amount of words on the documents, the amount of time you take to translate it and of course your own personal hourly rate.

Is it Certain I Get the Job?

Write a good profile description, complete the fields of expertise and be sure to include your best qualities. Make use of your native language as many clients ask for native speakers. Contact the clients with a well-writen email, stand out from all others who are applying to the same job. If the client agrees, you get the job!

How to Withdraw Earnings?

The clients pay you directly to your Proz account. Then we can withdraw the money through Paypal, Moneybookers or a Check. The minimum amount to cash out through Paypal and Moneybookers is 1$ (you can basically check out as soon as you earn your first payment). Via check the amount is 25$ but it is available to US residents only.

Main Advantages of Proz

1- The supporting community, you will translate and learn at the same time.

2- You can keep contact with your client, so if you are good enough and the client is satisfied, he might come for you directly next time he needs a translator.

eLance

eLance is a freelancing website. Not 100% dedicated to translation jobs. When signing up do not expect a website only for translators. Which is a good opportunity if you have other skills besides translation. Perhaps, voice-over, creative-writing, blogging, eLance has a wide set of options. One of the company biggest advantagens besides the diversity is the constant jobs they have on their board. You will be sure to find some type of work on there.

How Does eLance Work?

Much like Proz, clients post the jobs alongside their requirements. We as a freelancer are only able to submit a proposal of work for those jobs we meet the requirements. While submitting a proposal we are asked to write about our relevant experience and qualification as well as our approach to the job.

How Much is the Pay Rate?

That is up to you and the client to the decide. While posting the job the client may already have given his budget or left it open to discussion. In latter case, you can suggest how much you charge. Bare in mind that on your profile you can set the usual amount you charge per hour.

What is the Best Thing About eLance?

Clients can find us easily. We are not the only ones browsing for work, clients are also browsing for the best qualified for the job. So if you meet the criteria and you already have a good history of happy costumers on eLance, you will be invited to submite a proposal for the job.

What Is The Future of Translation

Sure there are many more companies I did not mention. I have my reasons. Either they were not free, they were country restricted or they have their job boards empty.

The four I write about on this article are the ones prevailing in the market. They provide a nice extra income to any students or part-time job seekers while still being a great solution for clients looking for cheaper and quicker results.

A Machine + Crowd Translation is in my opinion the future of translation. It will end the need for job proposals and it will start the era where translators are all a big powerfull working tool for clients. Giving each one a bit to work and monetize on.

Embrace the future! Hope you enjoyed my article, share and leave a comment!

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1 21 Best Ways to Make Money Online

21 Best Ways to Make Money Online

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Many people think that making money online is very difficult and reserved only for the brightest folks, but that's simply not true.

Anyone can make money online. It doesn't matter if you’re smart, old, young or dumb. You can make money online with little efforts and patience.

Here are 21 legit ways that will help you make money online”

Affiliate Marketing

This is a passive way to make money online once it is set-up and you have the traffic needed. In the older days of the net you could simply set-up a website with a specific niche, buy FB Ads and you'd be able to bring in some decent cash (for the amount of work you put into the method.) Now you have to create an authority website, gain a following and then offer affiliate links.

Affiliate marketing should HELP people, if you're spamming your links you're not going to get sales and people will never buy your product.

It's also mandatory to tell people when you are using affiliate links, if you do not tell other people you could get into trouble legally and face a lawsuit.

The best way to approach affiliate marketing is to create VALUE FIRST and THEN offer the links to your customer base. The links should ALREADY be something they are interested in.

For example, if you have a site about Hunting, you should have affiliate links about things relating to hunting. You should not confuse your audience by having irrelevant things as affiliates.

The income you can make from this method can be substantial. The top affiliate marketers can make upwards of USD 10,000 a month.

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Amazon FBA

Amazon FBA is another great way to make money online, this takes some more time to set-up and it does require a little more maintenance compared to Affiliate Marketing but the income can be greater.

There are hundreds of thousand of millionaires made through Amazon FBA. It's very similar to Shopify except that you let Amazon do the shipping for you. This means they will take a cut on your product BUT you don't have to deal with shipment and you also don't have to have stock either.

Also, because of Amazons popularity, you don't have to build an audience because you will only be selling on Amazon. You just have to get people that want your product and having them find it. It has to be a product with decent margins.

The basic idea with Amazon FBA is to find a niche product, find that product on www.Alibaba.com and then create a listing for it.

That's a very basic idea but it should get you started.

The good news is Amazon FBA is widely popular and there are tons of experts out there that have courses and free content that you can use to help you learn and beat the leaning curve.

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Shopify

Shopify is very similar to Amazon FBA. The only main difference is that with Shopify you can set your own margins and you get all of the profits for your sales. You also have to bring in the traffic yourself through paid Facebook ads or other avenues.

What is Shopify?

Shopify is an app created to make creating and running your own eCommerce site easy.Before Shopify, selling products on the web was a PIA and required some dedicated coders to make the process run smoothly.With Shopify, you can have your website up in a few hours and selling within a day. The possibilities are endless with Shopify.

Craiglist (Picking up Scrap)

This sounds silly but you can make a lot of money from picking up others junk. Scrap can add up, especially if you strip the junk down so you get better prices at the scrap yard.

Check your local listings for junk that people want to get rid of and drive around your area looking for things at the curb that people want gone.

Washers, Dryers, Dishwashers are common appliances that people don't want to deal with hauling to the scrap yard.

The only major downside to this method is that you need a vehicle to haul things; a truck is going to get you much further than a car. In fact, I'd say a truck is almost mandatory. A car isn't going to hold very much.

If you are in decent shape and don't mind doing labour, you can advertise that you're willing to clean up people’s yards and do landscaping.

Landscaping is one of those things that most people want to do but never have the time for. An easy way to sell your service is to tell people that they can get the work they've always wanted done without having to do it themselves.

Put some effort into your Craigslist ad and include a picture of yourself, that way people will know what you look like and that you're trustworthy.

Fiverr

Fiverr is a massive market place where you can sell your services and make money online.

The great thing about Fiverr is that there's such a wide variety of services you can offer and it's relatively easy to get traffic to your gig.

If you read a little about advertising and write a decent description you should definitely get a sale in a month.

Once you have that first sale, you can then keep building on your service until you get more popular.

The one downside with Fiverr is that in the beginning you won't be able to charge a high rate, you will likely be working for $5 but once you get reputation you can up your price and have a lot of up-sells.

Up-sells are where you make money with Fiverr. $5 can easily turn to 20 or 50 with quality Up-Sells that the customer can't say no to.

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Upwork

UpWork is similar to Fiverr but the profits are greater and you have to apply to get accepted in your industry/field.

You have to take tests to prove your ability and even then once accepted, you may struggle to get clients.

It takes more effort than Fiverr but the rewards are greater.

Copywriting

It's kind of a fad to be a copywriter now, everyone is doing it and that's because there's A LOT of money to be made if you’re good.

Copywriting is where you write copy for businesses that sells their products. It's everywhere, especially online.

Every word you see on a website has been crafted to sell you and the persons behind those messages are copywriters. Copywriters are the salesmen of the internet.

You can make millions of dollars copywriting if you land the right clients, or you teach people how to do it.

This will give you a good idea of what copywriting entails and then you can create your website and pitch to clients.

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Logo Designs (Graphics)

Companies are always going to need graphics and they're always going to want to make their websites and sales pages look good.

They're willing to pay a lot of money if you can create a jaw dropping visual experience, especially when it comes to websites.

Logo design also can bring in good money because there are always new companies forming that need a logo for their business.

Profits here, depending on the type of clients you have can vary from $40 a logo to $3000 dollars a logo.

This is also a relatively free way to make cash, as long as you have some prior design or illustration experience.

If you've never drawn before and never used programs like Adobe Illustrator, I'd recommend that you look down this list to find something else that suits your skill set.

Coding

Code is everywhere. There's tons of avenues you can take with it as well. From UX coding to Websites to Games, there's all kinds of different avenues.

Everything run through a computer runs on code, if you can learn the language and can code efficiently with minimal bugs people will pay you top dollar.

It's hard to find a good, reliable coder and businesses that are primarily online are always going to need a good coder. So, you can make a reasonable amount of money with coding.

Consultancy

If you have relevant experience in a field you can offer consulting services to others.

This is a highly lucrative field where you can become a millionaire.

You can consult on basically anything that you have experience in but the highest paid consulters are targeting businesses with problems that relate to;

• Marketing
• Copywriting
• Sales
• Design

These are the main avenues that make the most money in consulting.

The biggest downside with consulting is that you have to build an audience or customer base first, this is similar to any other freelance work.

You won't get customers right off the bat and have to build your authority in your niche. Once you've done that and established yourself, you can make some very good money.

Publishing E-Books

It's easier than ever to publish a book now, with the internet and Amazon you can have your book up in less than a day and be making money from it.

The best part is that once you have your book completed, you really don't need to do any other work. The income is very passive and if you write something that people enjoy, you can turn a solid profit from your efforts.

Reviewing Music

You can get paid to review others music, all you have to do is go to ww.slicethepie.com , create an account and start reviewing.

The better the review, the better commission you make. This method isn't going to net you a living but you can make some extra beer money through it. Typically pay out is a few cents per song reviewed. Some songs are worth more than others and the value of your review will decide the commission that you make.

Selling Stuffs that You Don't Need

You probably have a lot of stuff around your place that you don't need. Selling it is an easy way to make some money, it's not glamorous but you can definitely pull in a pretty penny if you have a lot of stuff.

You also may be surprised what you can get for some of your stuff. A dusty old type-writer could sell for 100 dollars or more, same with other vintage electronics like Cameras. CD's are almost always going to have a demand and if you have a solid collection or you have some discs that are sought after, you can also make some pretty decent cash.

It might be worth asking friends if they have stuff they want to get rid of aswell, offer to sell it to them and then you take a percentage for every sale.

Everyone has random crap they want to sell.

Everyone wants money.

It's easy money, with minimal work. Especially if you have a lot of connections.

Selling Domains

If you can spot market trends and buy domain names that big companies may need, you can definitely turn a good profit.

You want to buy names that companies and businesses may want later.

If you decide to go into the venture, you must buy a lot of domain names. Sitting on 10 domains isn't enough, you want to be sitting on 100+.

Another tactic to use is to find sites that haven’t renewed their domains and then purchase it and sell it back to them.

Selling Photos

Photography can be a great way to bring in money, especially if you are already quite good at it.

Sites like 500px prime and ShutterStock offer a place to sell your photos while taking a cut of your profits.

For 500px prime the cut is 20% and for ShutterStock the cut varies depending on how many photos that you sell. The more photos you sell, the less of a cut ShutterStock takes.

Creating Courses

Ever had someone say

"You make the best pancakes ever"

Or ask you

"How do you fix your car without going to a mechanic?"

Then it might be a good idea to make an internet course on how to do these things.

Courses on the internet can be sold for large profits, most courses are within the 100-500 dollar range and some can go all the way up to 10,000 dollars for courses created by masters in their field.

The biggest time-sink with a course is the creation of it, once it's created you don't have to do anything. It's very similar to an E-Book but nets you a larger profit and people buy courses more than E-Books so it should be easier to get customers.

The biggest thing to remember when you create a course is to have an audience, which you can build through a website or blog. Creating a course and then releasing it to a bare website isn't going to get you any sales and will be a waste of your time.

You have to position yourself right in the market and have an audience if you want a course to be profitable.

Retail Arbitrage

This is a little known money-making method but it can be quite profitable and some people make a living doing this.

Basically what you do is go to a department store like Lowes for example, buy a product there and then re-sell the product online through sites like Ebay.

Margins here can be quite good for the amount of time you put in but it does take some research to figure out a good niche and product.

I know one guy who bought blinds from Lowe's then flipped them on Ebay for about 50 dollars profit and he did this a few hundred times making 50 dollars profit each time.

If you want to make enough money to live on, you must have the space to store the product because it doesn't always sell as fast as you think and you will likely have to store it at your house before you sell it all.

Retail Arbitrage is an especially good avenue to make money if you have no experience, all you need is a place to store items and a bit of money to make purchases.

You can easily turn 100 dollars into 500 with this method and then 500 into a thousand and so on. The cap I would say is reaching the 7-10k mark. You'd have to either find a very solid niche with great margins or hire people to do some of the work for you.

Stock Trading and Forex

FOREX is more volatile, while Stocks are less volatile.

Both can make you large sums of cash but you have to know what you're doing by studying the markets.

There’s a huge learning curve with Stocks and FOREX which if you can overcome, you can make a living off of trading.

This is hardly a fast way to make money if you're starting from scratch but once it gets rolling, you can make large sums of cash very quickly (you can also lose money very quickly as well).

If you're interested in this avenue, I cannot stress it enough that you HAVE to DO YOUR RESEARCH. You can't just "jump in" into stocks or FOREX trading.

Developing Websites

Creating websites and designing them is a very lucrative business, people are even willing to pay for a simple WordPress site and template.

You don't have to be a master coder either (although it helps).

There are millions of people that either don't want to learn how to make a website or don't understand technology well enough to create one.

If you can find these people and offer your services, you will make some fast easy money.

Youtube

Top YouTubers make over a million dollars per year through ads on their videos.

If you can create engaging content that people enjoy and you can build up a loyal subscriber base and this can be a very lucrative way to make money doing something you love.

There are people on YouTube called Let's Players where they commentate while playing a game. This has taken off like crazy in the past few years and is continuing to rise. Lets Playing has made many gamers millionaires.

The great thing about YouTube is that you can combine it with your personal course, e-book or services so you not only have one income stream but multiple.

These are just a few of the ways that you can turn a profit online. There are hundred of others but this list should give you something to start with.

Making money online isn't that hard and with a little bit of effort and thought on your end you too will be making money online.

The above mentioned methods are the legit ways to make money online. Try some of them and you will see the results.

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on July 02, 2019

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0 Free Tools That Will Drive Traffic to Your Blog

Free Tools That Will Drive Traffic to Your Blog

These 5 free tools can help you dramatically increase organic traffic to your website and they don't require you to have a massive social media following!

Whether you’re a blogger or content writer, getting the snowball of organic traffic rolling can seem like an impossible task, especially if you don’t already have a massive following on social media. If you’re like me, you love writing but aren’t so great at search engine optimization. You need easy-to-use tools you can incorporate into your writing system that are effective and won’t suck up all of your valuable content creation time. If that's you, you've come to the right place. These tools will help you increase your organic traffic without draining all your time and energy.

Before we get started, here are some key definitions so you can get the most out of this article:

Key Definitions:

Word/Phrase	Definition
"Search Engine Optimization"	Or “SEO” is the process by which you increase your website’s ranking from search engines. It refers specifically to unpaid views.
"Backlinks"	Links from other websites or social media sites that lead back to your web pages.
"Keywords"	Words or phrases that people type into search engines.
"Referral Traffic"	Traffic to your web pages from sites like Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit etc.

How Important is Organic Traffic Anyway?

Organic traffic is the most effective long-term strategy for getting your website noticed and the best part is that it doesn’t cost a thing!

Check out these statistics from SEO Tribunal:

• Nearly 80% of users ignore paid ads in search results.
• Organic SEO is about 5.66 times better than paid search ads.
• Of the links clicked on after a search is made, 70% are actually organic.

As you can see, organic traffic is a powerful force in getting your content in front of viewers! The tools in this article will help you generate more organic traffic to your articles and improve your rank on Google.

But first, having an effective system for when you sit down to write will waste less of your time, and help you incorporate these tools effectively. If you don't already have a writing system, you can use mine as an example:

My Writing System:

1. I Create a List of Topics That I Want to Write About

This is an important step because sitting down at the computer without a clear idea of what you want to accomplish takes all the fun out of writing. I keep a running note on my phone and add ideas as they come to me. (Usually at 2 AM.)

2. I Choose a Topic From This List

This list may include things that I've googled without finding a satisfactory answer to, or whatever I'm interested in at the time. It also includes ideas based on my specific areas of expertise. I believe it's important to pick something you're currently passionate about so you are motivated to complete your article or blog post.

3. I Do Some Keyword Research

I make sure that my title and keywords are things people are actually searching for. I also make sure that my topic is not something so niche that I'm the only person who's curious about it. (One of the tools that you will read about below will help you do this quickly and effectively!)

4. I Do a Lot of Content Research

I believe that it's very important to do thorough research before attempting to write. Doing beforehand makes it much easier for me to write my piece, and I find it takes a lot less time.

5. I Write My Article

I look at the top two or three hits on Google and see what they have to offer. Whatever I write must be of a higher quality than their article or offer something that their article doesn't. I try to write between 800-1200 words per article. If what I write doesn't have enough substance to it, I might even combine two of my best ideas into one article.

6. I Start Getting My Article Some Traffic

Once I've published my article, it's time to start getting traffic to it. Once a week (usually Friday afternoons since this is a high traffic time) I post one of my favorite articles to Facebook. I also share my articles on Pinterest. (One of the tools that you'll find below will help you generate a significant amount of Pinterest traffic quickly and easily.)

Now that we've got some foundational knowledge of important SEO terms and established how you can have an effective writing system, here are my favorite free tools for driving traffic to my articles:

1. Uber Suggest

Uber Suggest is my favorite tool for keyword research because it is so easy to use and it helps me select topics and keywords that will get me organic traffic. When I first started writing regularly, I attempted to use Google Adsense but couldn't seem to get the hang of it and found that I was wasting a lot of time trying. Fortunately, Neil Patel's Uber Suggest is much simpler, though it still offers a wealth of information.

How It Works:

Let's say you want to write an article about latte art. Simply type your prospective keywords into the search bar. You'll see results like this come up:

On the left side of the screen, you'll see that 290 related keywords have come up. Above those keywords, you'll see the following data:

• Volume: The number of people searching for this keyword each month.
• Cost Per Click: The value of this keyword if you wanted to pay Google to show your work as an ad.
• Paid Difficulty: The estimated number of people paying for their articles to come up in search results. Higher numbers mean this keyword is more competitive.
• SEO Difficulty: How competitive this keyword is in organic searches.

The two pieces of data that I pay the most attention to on this side of the screen are Volume and SEO Difficulty. Volume gives you an idea of how much traffic you could potentially get from these keywords and SEO Difficulty shows you how much competition you'll have in fighting for those views. Ideally, you want to select keywords that have high search volume and lower rates of competition.

On the right side of your screen, you'll see five more pieces of data that will show you who the big fish are in this particular pond of subject matter:

• Google SERP: The top 100 webpages that show up when you search this keyword in Google in order.
• Estimated Monthly Visits: The number of views that web page gets per month.
• Links: The number of backlinks that web page has coming in from other webpages.
• Domain Score: The score given by Google based on how trustworthy and useful this site is.
• Social Share: The number of times this web page has been shared on sites like Facebook and Pinterest.

While again, that is a lot of information, the two things I focus on are Google SERP and Estimated Monthly Visits. Google SERP tells me who exactly I'm competing with so I can scope out their web pages, and the number of estimated monthly visits gives me an even clearer picture of exactly how much potential traffic I can get from this keyword.

How To Get the Most Out of Uber Suggest:

Before you begin writing your article or blog post, do some research on this site to ensure that you're spending your valuable time where it will be most effective. Play around with a few different keyword ideas to see which one will get you the most traffic. Uber Suggest also offers more tools besides just the keyword tool, so spend some time checking those out too.

2. Grammarly

When you're ready to begin writing your article or blog post, I suggest using Grammarly to check your spelling and grammar. Google (and most importantly, people) look for correct grammar and spelling when deciding who to give their time to. Poor grammar and spelling will drive away traffic and hurt your rank within Google.

This is where Grammarly can help you! I don't know about you, but when I start reading an article or blog post, and I immediately stumble upon spelling or grammar errors, I quickly click out of that article and move on to the next. Subconsciously I assume that if someone doesn't know the difference between "their," "there" and "they're" they probably aren't the authority I will trust on whatever I'm topic searching for.

While Microsoft Word, Google Docs and all the other big word processors do this, Grammarly does it better. If you download the application so Grammarly can also check your work on whatever platform you are using. The accuracy and versatility of Grammarly make it an excellent tool for those writing on platforms like WordPress, Wix, Text Broker or Hubpages.

For example:

If I click that green button on the bottom right corner, I'll immediately be taken to this page:

Here, I can quickly and easily identify any errors or misspellings that my word processor may have missed!

How To Get the Most Out of Grammarly:

Download the Grammarly app so you can double check your work on a variety of platforms (including emails!) and avoid publishing your work with easy-to-fix errors! Even the free version of Grammarly can help you become a better writer and be certain of your accuracy every time you go to use a hyphen or semicolon. Copy and paste all of your work from the word document directly to the Grammarly app so you can correct any errors you may have missed.

3. Pixabay

If you don't have time, equipment or inclination to take your own, Pixabay has over a million royalty-free photographs that you can use! Professional looking photos also help you market your article or blog post on social media sites. The same way you pick up or touch items in a store that are beautiful, or have an interesting looking texture, colorful, related images encourage people to click on your work instead of someone else's. Part of what makes an article or blog post fun to read (besides relevant and engaging content, of course!) is beautiful photographs.

Let's say, for example, you are writing about latte art. Type that into Pixabay's search bar and you'll immediately find hundreds of gorgeous, professional looking photos related to your topic:

4. Canva

When you're ready to start sharing your article on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, etc., it's important to have a graphic with a title that will encourage people to click on your article. Canva can help you create a beautiful, social media friendly image that will encourage referral traffic! I like to create a pinnable image for the bottom of my post and a square image for the top with words across the center so it can be shared on Facebook or Twitter and doesn't show up with half my title missing. Having high-quality backlinks to your article on a variety of sites will help you get that snowball of traffic rolling.

Canva offers a wide variety of templates in the precise dimensions required for sites like Instagram and Pinterest that only require you to insert your own photo and text. This makes Canva an incredibly convenient tool for those who are not particularly graphic design savvy.

If you're more confident in your graphic design skills, you can even create your own designs from scratch:

How To Get the Most Out of Canva:

1. Experiment with a few designs to see what you like. Sometimes my fourth or fifth design is the one I end up loving. I save all my previous designs and if I feel something I've written hasn't gotten very much traffic, I switch the images in my post and often find my traffic going up again.
2. See what the major players are doing and learn from them. Look at social media images for topics similar to yours that are getting lots of traffic. Don't try and copy exactly what sites like Buzzfeed and Bustle are doing, but look at the colors they choose and what type of layouts get a lot of attention and then play with those variables.

5. Pin Groupie

Did you know Pinterest is one of the best sites for getting traffic to your articles?

Check out these statistics from Blue Corona:

• Millennial use of Pinterest has increased more than any other social network—even Snapchat.
• 87% of Pinners have purchased a product because of Pinterest, and 93% of Pinners have used it to plan a future purchase.
• 5% of all referral traffic to websites comes from Pinterest.
• Every day, nearly 2 million people save product-rich Pins.

If you sell a product or get paid by people viewing your articles or blog posts, Pinterest is clearly the place to share your work! But what if you don't have a huge following on Pinterest that will see your pin? This is where Pin Groupie comes in. If you've written a stellar article and created a gorgeous, social media friendly set of images to go with it, the next step is finding relevant boards to share your pinnable images on.

Again, let's say your topic is latte art. Simply go to Pin Groupie's website and type that in:

You'll be directed to a list of group Pinterest boards that are accepting new pinners. Simply follow the instructions in the "How To Join" section and apply to be added as a pinner. Once you are added, you can start pinning your article and have instant access to all the traffic that Pinterest board already has. Sometimes a Pinterest board's subscriber's can be in the thousands! It doesn't get easier than that when it comes to getting your article or blog post in front of literally thousands of eyes!

How To Get the Most Out of Pin Groupie:

• Read the description. Then read it again! The last thing you want to do is start pinning your articles to unrelated Pinterest Boards. This will get you blocked very quickly because it looks spammy. Also, follow the instructions and only pin as often as they allow. Some group boards may even require you to pin one image from the group board to one of your Pinterest boards for every pin you upload. Whatever the instructions are, be sure to be respectful.
• Request to be added to a variety of group boards. You will find some group boards with thousands of subscribers and hundreds of pinners and some with hundreds of subscribers and just a few pinners. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. The former will get your pin buried faster and deeper into the group board, even though it exposes your pin to thousands of viewers. The latter will keep your work closer to the top of the board for a longer period of time but also has fewer viewers. Play around and see what works for you.

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