** Make $100 a month for NO WORK! **
Yes, I know, it looks like one of those typical spam e-mails you receive every day. But it's not.
I thought I'd just share with you how I'm making extra "pocket money" simply by using an old web site that doesn't (didn't) earn me any money because it's too much out of date.
1. You need a web site with well-established "traffic" (= lots of visitors each day). If not, you have to build one. All you have to do is write about 50 pages, each with information about a different subject. How do you write 50 pages??? One at a time! The more pages you have, the more money you'll make. Ensure that ALL pages are linked from a common index page so the search engines can find them. Make sure the index page is referenced on any other web sites you own or have access to. Get your friends to add a link from their sites.
You can scan information from old magazines, books (preferably more than 50 years old so copyright problems are unlikely). Or you can scan stuff in with permission of the author. Or take something already written and carefully rewrite it so it looks nothing like the original (you have to be pretty good to do that and get away with it!) Or use something that you wrote yourself - did you keep your school books, college notes, that article you wrote for "Practical Fishing" magazine ten years ago?
2. OK, you got your web site. Now sign up for Google "Adsense". (Hyperlink to Google deleted).
Google will first "vet" your web site. If they approve it, you are in business!
Copy the Google "Adsense" code onto each web page. When someone views the page, it automatically notifies Google which puts a relevant advert on your page. (To begin with, it may put totally irrelevant adverts in place of the Adsense code. But, once your page has been "spidered", the adverts are relevant to the text on your page).
3. Register your web site with (at least) the Google search engine. I found the most effective way to do this is to generate a sitemap.xml file and register this file with Google. (Search "Google sitemap" for more information). All my sites have been fully indexed by Google within 7 days by using this method.
4. Whenever someone clicks on an advert, your Adsense account gets credited with a few cents. Dependent on how much the advertiser is paying Google, it's sometimes a LOT of cents!
5. Now, you can determine what adverts appear on your page by altering the text. This means that, with practice, you can get the highest-paying adverts. In addition, you can *exclude* certain adverts. For example, you may not wish adverts to appear from a rival company whose web site is (for example)
www.made-this-up.com (not a real URL).
So you go to your Google Adsense control panel (web page) and type in "made-this-up.com".
Adverts from that site will no longer appear on your pages from the next day onwards.
I did this with my obsolete site. I earned MORE than $200 in the first two months, which Google posted to me in the form of a US dollar "check" at the end of the second month. (Google also lets you select an option for payment to go direct into your bank account).
Go and do thee likewise. I'm a Yorkshireman by birth and this is money fer nowt! (It's also an extremely valuable tip, fer nowt!)
Here's another suggestion if you are good at writing. Write "How To" books. This is an old fashioned idea but it still works! I've been selling eBooks (files for download) for several years and they bring in more than £2000 pocket money a month. I received a number of requests for a new eBook. People wanted to know "How to Use a Multimeter". It took me a few hours last week to take the photos, crop and resize them and write the text. I'm charging only £1 for this eBook and it's already earning me an extra £10 a week (and rising). That's £520 a year. Couldn't YOU use a little extra pocket money? The "secret" is to ask people what they want and give it to them. I'm a technical author but you don't have to write technical stuff. Write about what interests you (and your customers).
Martin
http://www.marketingtips.uk.com