Some ways to make money online

I consider myself as a newbie in online money making attempts. I have tried some methods, which I learned from internet itself. internet is a great resource for those who wish to know how to make money online. The world of internet has made it possible to generate many ways to generate passive online money.

The reason why we call it passive is that most of the times the money generated is not from your active involvement with the work. You do a certain amount of effort and it brings you money over and over again. Sounds like unrealistic? For me too this sounded unrealistic and unreasonable some five years before. A very simple example of passive online income is that comes from displaying advertisement in your blogs and websites. You might have written a post, say in 2009. When someone lands in your blog or website after a search in the internet with keywords, and finds a relevant advertisement, that person will definitely click on the advertisement. Then you get the money shared by your ad provider. You had written that post in 2009, but without further work, you get money now. This is a passive process.

The most popular source of passive online income is through advertisements displayed in your site. Online advertisers often register with ad providers and offer a variety of advertising models. As publishers, we also register with ad providers. Advertisement providers have automated system to show relevant ads according to the content. Blog or site owners are affiliates. Affiliates will get a share of the revenue generated if someone clicks on the ads. Some companies share money for impressions while others pay only if they get money from sales. For example, an online book store may offer a percentage of the revenue generated after the visitor buy books from them. In this case they do not pay for clicks.

The amount of money generated by affiliates directly proportional to the number of visitors to the affiliate's site or blog. The more the number of visitors, the higher the chances of people click on ads and buy things. Your job is to compel the visitors to click on the ads. I have seen some sites begging visitors to click on the ads. Recently I saw a Youtube video on which the video publisher begs viewers to click on the ads displayed. Note that this is against the rules. Ad providers have their program policies, that prohibits such kind of mischievous acts.

Creating content is the way to attract more visitors to the site. Visitors will do the rest. It is their requirement to buy the things for which they search and come to your site. Your job is to provide them interesting content. Websites that affiliate advertisements need content. Text content seems to attract more visitors. Online content types can also be images, downloads, software, video and various other applications and forms of multimedia. Website owners have two options to generate content, which we have discussed in some of the earlier posts. They can create the content by themselves or by subcontracting the content out to other content creators.

Some website prefer to share a portion of the earnings they get with the content creators. There are some websites prefer to pay a fixed amount to content creators. This direct payment is an example for active online. income. Foxed fee provide content creators ready cash and an immediate gratification. Remember that if the article is good, it can generate money over and over for the website owner.

Selling products and services online is one of the many ways to generate money. People create e-commerce sites to sell products. E-commerce websites generally sell a select type of merchandise, with products sold usually at a set price. There are some auction websites that allow buyers and sellers to meet online. Buyers will bid on a product and just like real auction, the highest bidder will get the item. Bidding concept is also used to sell services, where customers post projects and professionals, who are competent will bid on the project. This is a good way of earning decent money if you are good in web applications, handling software projects etc.

These are only some of the ways to generate online income. There are many other ways. We should not get desperate in our search for online money. It is like a treasure. We may find some small treasures on our way, some may find only stones. Do not get disappointed. Keep on searching. The internet is a like a sea. We never know when and how the treasure will be seen to us. Try till you find. The world is for those who try!

What a blog can do for you - Part II

Hello friends, this is the Part II of "What a blog can do for you?"

In Part I we saw some personal advantages of writing for own blog. I am not going to pursue you to leave your habit of writing for another blogs or sites and start your own blog. I just want share with you my views, which may need corrections and suggestions from you. Please do it through comments.

I understand that both Writing in your own blog and in other sites have their own advantages as well as disadvantages. With your own blog, you have plenty of freedom such as what you want to write, how lengthy or short you want to write , what picture or video you want to use to spruce up your blog etc. If you write for other sites you may need to follow the rules and regulations of a site administrator, which may not be always as per your imagination. Mostly if you fail to stick to the site's rules, chances are high that it may result in deletion of your articles. So your personal blogs have advantage when it comes to freedom. The benefit of writing own blog is that one can write according to one's wishes and abilities. If you have enough knowledge about a particular subject, you can write good articles on that subject but you may not be so successful in writing on other subjects. So if you do not have your own blog, then you have to accept the subjects which may not be of your choice. So the quality of writing may not be maintained if you are writing for others. In such situation your work will not get the recognition.

Now let us look into the other side of blog' Make money out of your blogs. When it comes to earning, your own blog may not be that beneficial as you thought initially. You need to promote your site /website all alone, which is tiring and a continuous time taking process. You need to learn a lot of things about Search Engine Optimization techniques. Now a days are there are many sites from where you can learn Search Engine Optimization techniques free of cost.  So naturally it requires different skills and knowledge. So if one wants to earn through blog then one has to think of marketing it effectively.On the other hand, when you are writing for some other sites, there are whole bunch of experts to promote that site and you get paid for the page impression or a certain percentage of ad revenue that your articles generate for that site. If you are writing for another site, you may get writing tasks different from your skills and interests. It pushes you to learn new things in life. If you continue write about your own interests, you may miss many of other areas of knowledge, which if you put a little effort could be an enjoyable experience in learning and writing.

Thus an own blog may be for those who are exceptionally good at marketing,writing and other computer related activities, if your prime objective is making some money from blogging. So, your purpose with a blog is important to decide whether you need to go for an own blog or just write and earn money in other blogs/sites. For most people, the tendency would be to earn some bucks from what you do. Writing for other sites is a short term option to earn money from your online activities.

The bad thing with writing for other sites is that your writing may be posted in multiple sites by the site owners without your permission. You might have put your energy in researching the internet and books to write an article. You can see your well researched articles all over the internet without your name on it. For many of you this may be annoying and frustrating because you do not get the proper recognition for your hard work. We need to accept the fact that this is the way those sites works and make money and share the revenue with you. You have to decide between two options;

• To write for other sites and remain free from all worries of updating the blog and marketing it to earn regularly.
• To write your own blog and earn reputation. You make money at a later stage as you grow if you wish.

An own blog gives you passive income, but may not be good for those looking desperately to make money from online activities. If your prime objective is to make money, then you need to develop skills required to market your blogs, while updating your blogs regularly with quality content. 

Writing up to here, I feel the post about 'What a blog can do for you?' is still incomplete. I may update this content at a later stage with more inputs. Till then good bye.