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.

What a blog can do for you?

Part I 

Why writing for your own blog is better than writing for somebody else's? I have my own reasons why writing in my own blog is far better than writing in other people's blogs and websites. I say own blog is better from my own experience in blogging.

I started blogging on May 2008, five years before. My first blog was about my living experiences in Japan, now almost inactive except when I take care to reply to the comments. My initial intention to start blogging was to make money. My inspiration to learn more about blogging was after reading from a blog that by blogging people make big money. I got mad to master blogging and dreamed dollars flowing to my bank account! Those were the days I walked with my head up, mind full of dreams of what to buy and where to go for vacation with family, because that was the way bloggers did. Bloggers would just sit at home on their pajamas and the money will flow to their bank account! What a wonderful life waiting for me!

I spent all possible hours reading and experimenting with blogs. I carved out time from comfortable sleeping to make more time to learn blogging and took laptop even to toilet. I was restless till I got first visitor to the blog and went more crazy to get many visitors. This may be the case with all bloggers: STRUGGLE. Without struggle very few things comes out in our life. I was determined to make money online, but I could not dedicate in blogging in between when it started interfering with my personal life. I had to find a balance between blogging and personal life. I made some money by displaying google adsense advertisements and wished if I could make more money if all visitors to blog were kind enough to click on them. My priority from making money from blogging changed when more and more visitors started interacting with me through blog comments. That blog made me to assume more responsibility over a period of two years.

An own blog gives your own space in the world to put yourself and project yourself the way you wish. You do not need to acquire all the characteristics of that projected personality before you do so. This is not the case in the real world. You project yourself and this self image projection will drive you to acquire the required characteristics one by one. What a wonderful way of personality development, isn't it? So, blogging gives you a platform for personality development. I will now disagree to the idea that blogging is primarily for making online money. Blogging makes you a responsible person, responsible for what you write. When you assume responsibility others start noticing you.

The responsibility as I mentioned above changed my priority from making money to write more better and useful content. Of course having own blog has many advantages than writing for others and those are already talked by many other bloggers. My stressing point is 'how a blog makes us more socially responsible and drive us towards higher personal goals.

All of us know that spoken words have power and it is manifested scientifically in hypnotism. Written words are sharper than swords. With a blog, we are warriors with responsibility. It gives total freedom on what you want to say to the world. When you read the comments made by your visitors you learn new things. In turn, when you research and study to give reply to the comments, you learn new things. Both reading comments and replying to comments open up your world of new knowledge, that may lead to another blog post.

Writing for own blog and writing for others have their advantages and disadvantages. In this post we saw some important advantages of own blogs such as;

• Get own platform to stand and speak
• Get more freedom on what we want to say
• Take more responsibility for our own words
• That responsibility leads us to higher personal growth
• Assume higher social status
• Use the power of your words 
• Learn new things

This post does not end here. I have much more to tell you. Wait a moment till I finish writing the second part of this post. See you in next post.

Earn Online Money with Gomez PEER - Passive Online Money!

Online money making needs multiple strategies. We all know that blogging could be a potential source for making money online by displaying advertisements and by selling things to your customers. I went a bit more curious and searched for another ways through which people make money online. I would like to share one more online money making method that I recently joined. It is a kind of passive online income. I did an online search to find out their credibility and found that this company pays real money!

The name of that passive online income source is Gomez PEER. It is a secure java application that runs in the background of your PC and leverages your system’s idle resources. Idle resource means unused processing power, RAM, and bandwidth. They use this to test the performance of many of the world’s most popular websites and get feedback to them.

All you need to do is to download the software and keep it running on the background of your system every time you are online. The tough part of this online earning system is to get approved and activated by Gomez PEER. Once your application is approved, you will earn money. People, who download and run the Gomez PEER application make up a network of more than 150,000 individuals who, together, are helping to make the Internet a faster, more reliable tool for everyone.

What they do? Gomez PEER application performs tests that measure how websites perform for their visitors by using their system’s unique characteristics, in combination with other unique systems around the world. The results play a pivotal role in shaping how these websites function and improve. Gomez PEER runs in the background of your system you are never required to visit specific websites or alter your normal Internet usage. Wonder why they pay you for just running their application in your computer? When you are connected to the Internet the Gomez PEER will be able to perform its tests with no impact on your machine’s performance. Gomez PEER might be getting money from websites for giving feedback on their performance, which they share with their down-lines.

Don't worry, Gomez PEER does not monitor or record any of your personal web browsing activity. Simply run the Gomez PEER application as often as possible while connected to the Internet. Once your account is active, you accumulate earnings for your daily Online Time and every minute of work your system processes for the Gomez servers. Monthly payments are automatically deposited into your PayPal account as long as the monthly minimum payment is reached. Active PEERs that do not meet the monthly minimum payment amount will have their account balances carried over to the next month's earnings.

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Once you join, you can also earn bonus payments for referring friends.

You need to have a PayPal to receive payments from Gomez PEER. PayPal is currently the only method through which payouts are distributed. Additionally, you must use the same email address associated with your PayPal account when registering the Gomez PEER program to ensure proper delivery of PEER payments. If you do not have PayPal account, please make it now. It is important to have a PayPal account if you are serious to make money online. You can join PayPal by clicking on PayPal

Gomez PEER account activation depends on how well your system characteristics such as connection type, location, etc match their current testing needs. You need to be patient with Gomez PEER after applying. They review the accounts for activation approximately every 2 weeks. Keep patience and continue to run the PEER application to remain eligible for account activation. Patience is the key to your success in online money making efforts!