So you want to know how to make money on the internet?  Or are you looking for a get-rich-quick scheme?  There is a clear difference between the two.  If you are trying to make money online for the long term, you are going to want to avoid trying to “get rich quick” and the entire mentality that accompanies it.  It takes most people MONTHS and sometimes YEARS before they start earning any decent money online.

A great way to make fast money on the internet is to put targeted advertisements on your websites.  If you don’t have a website yet, you could write a few articles for InfoBarrel or HubPages and expect to earn some pretty good money via their shared revenue systems.   The point is, as long as you have traffic, you have the potential to make money.  With that said, you probably will not make squat for money if you are not targeting any specific keywords on your site.

Making Money On The Internet = Avoiding Blogs

What should you do if you have no clue about how to make money?  The very first thing you should do is start taking action instead of reading blogs!  A lot of times people think that they need to “keep reading blogs” and “absorb as much information” as they can before they actually build a website and start making money online.  All that “reading blogs” is going to do for you is show you how other people are making money – it is not going to make you any money yourself!

It is definitely a good thing to have some knowledge about what you are doing before you launch a website, but reading articles about “how to make money on the internet in 30 days with this simple technique… (insert fake testimonial here) it really works, I made $382,082 in 6 hours while sitting in my college dorm room” are not going to get you anywhere.  You need to step it up and actually do some keyword research, find some topics that you are interested in writing about (that also pay well), and start setting up websites.  Now, I already told you what the best web hosting service is for people that are trying to make money, so get going and sign yourself up if you haven’t!

Buy Yourself Some Hosting and Domains

Once you have signed up, what should you do?  I recommend having a list of all the topics that you are going to create websites about, and starting with one website.  You are going to need to buy domain names for each website, so you probably want to go through a cheap service.  I recommend getting your domain through NetFirms.com (that’s where I get mine) and they only cost about $7.99 per domain (this saves you a couple bucks vs. GoDaddy).

Anyways, once you have purchased your hosting and domains, transfer your name servers to match your hosting.  When you have finally gotten your hosting properly set up and all of your name servers transferred, you may need to wait a few hours for them to lock in.  Make sure that you have your “privacy” enabled on all of your domains and then start by clicking “Add A Subdomain.”  Type in the URL’s of each domain that you purchased.

Setting Up A WordPress Website

Next, go to a little icon called “Fantastico” in your cPanel hosting.  You should then set up a new version of WordPress on each of your domains that you bought.  Once WordPress has been set up, you should go get yourself some good plugins like (All In One SEO pack, Google Sitemap XML, No Self Pings, etc).  You will probably want to make sure that you have a theme that looks good as well.

Your next step should be to write some posts on your website.  (Before writing, make sure that your permalink structure is set to custom permalinks with: /%postname%/.  After you have set that up, I recommend that you add about 10 to 20 posts that are each solid length.  Make sure that you do some keyword research ahead of time using Google’s Keyword Tool.  This will help to make sure that you are getting targeted traffic.

Writing Content and Internet Marketing Tools

When you have finally have finished writing your posts, you are going to want to dedicate a pretty darn big chunk of time to marketing them.  I recommend that you spend a lot of time on marketing, becuase it will help you get a heck of a lot more traffic than just writing new posts will.

What can you do for marketing?  There are a bunch of good things to do as a marketer.  I recommend writing related content on shared revenue sites like HubPages and InfoBarrel, (and maybe even Squidoo) and sending about 2 links back to your main website in each posts.  Make sure that you are anchoring your links properly for the keyword that you are targeting.  You should also look for similar blogs to exchange blogroll links with so that you can get more traffic.

I also recommend using EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com to send a total of 20 links back to your site.  Ezine links are going to be slightly more powerful, so you should go with at least 10 of those.  When you have finally sent out all of your links, take some time to wait (by not marketing your site any more for a couple weeks).  After about 3 to 4 weeks, you should think about using either Unique Article Wizard or Article Marketing Automation to send your site some more links.

You can get a heck of a lot of good backlinks using these services.  Despite their prices ($67 per month for Unique Article Wizard) and $47 per month for Article Marketing Automation, they will save you a ton of time. If you can only afford one, I personally give the edge to UAW, but they both are very solid.  What’s nice about using these services is that you will likely be able to earn way more than they cost per month.  If you are paying $114 per month, but have increased the traffic on 20 of your sites by double, you could make a lot of extra money… Let’s just say the cost of these 2 programs will be pretty insignificant.

Google Adsense and Affiliate Links To Make Money

After about 1 to 2 solid months of marketing and adding more content to your website, all that you need to do is throw up some Google Adsense ads and affiliate links to products that you like.  I don’t recommend promoting any affiliate products that are crappy… make sure that you test them out before you go spamming your blog with links for them.

Anyways, if you followed the instructions in this post, you should be well on your way to making money on the internet quickly.  Will you need to keep making websites forever and slaving away at writing new content for all of them?  No, once you start making some decent money, you will be able to outsource your article writing and hopefully (eventually), the entire set-up process of your websites!

People can and do make a full time income online if they approach it with the right mentality.  Start small, but always focus on making improvements and never (ever ever ever X infinite) give up!  It took me awhile to learn how to make money on the internet, but I have figured out a strategy that has worked well for me.  Everyone is different, so focus on your strengths and play off of them.

Along your journey, you will make new discoveries and find new monetization methods that maybe I don’t even know about at the moment that may work really well for you.  I will say that if you are working A) As hard as possible + B) As smart as possible, you are going to make a lot of money in a pretty short amount of time.  Best of luck to all those who set out to make real money on the internet!

Hey guys, I thought I’d give you all an update about my experiment regarding my Info Barrel earnings since I started the experiment last month and finished getting all 100 up within one week.  It took a lot of work on my part, but they are all up and earning cash.  So how much money was I able to earn with all of the effort that I put in?

Total Info Barrel Earnings In 7 Days: $95 Dollars ($13 per day)

Now you may be wondering why I have only earned this much money… To be completely honest, it’s mostly due to the fact that my pages on there are brand new.  They are not yet marketed and are all about 1.5 weeks old.  When your articles are only about one week old, you are going to need to definitely play the waiting game if you hope to increase their earnings.  Some additional marketing would also be awesome because it would help drive traffic to my Info Barrel pages and really help me make a lot more money.  You should make sure that you are signed up for Info Barrel if you haven’t yet… (yes that is my affiliate link, so of course I’d be happy if you used it to sign up).

What are my future plans with Info Barrel?

I honestly plan to crank out over 500 brand new Info Barrel articles within the next 2 months.  It is a very attainable goal since I will be outsourcing some of my writing.  I am still going to grind away with writing my own stuff, but I know that it will really help to change my average articles per day from 15 to 18…  Adding just 3 more articles per day is going to be really awesome as far as I’m concerned.

Can “anybody” make a lot of money from Info Barrel?

The truth is that anybody can make a lot of money from Info Barrel, but I don’t think that many people will simply due to the fact that they won’t do as much writing as they need to in order to start making money on the internet.  Most people give up well before they start to see the results that keep them motivated.  Most people throw up maybe 10 or 20 articles and think that they should start raking in the dough, but it doesn’t work that way guys.  You have got to throw up massive quantities of stuff and find out what works and what is getting clicks.

What worked for me in order to make money on the internet with Info Barrel

The exact same thing that worked for my HubPages experiment to make money online worked very well for my InfoBarrel experiment.  Since I am much more experienced and learned exactly what niches would work well, I complied over 500 article ideas and began plugging away.  If you hope to start making a lot of money with this website, then you are going to need to do a few simple things.

1. Do keyword research – This will help you get yourself on the right track as far as choosing fairly profitable topics to write about so that each time somebody clicks on an advertisement, you will end up making money.  I simply use Google’s free AdWords Tool and make sure that I am using a good strategy when choosing my keywords.

2. Write a lot of articles – This is a step that a lot of people skip, but in my experience, you will need at least 100 Info Barrels before you start making at least $10 per day from them.  I think my highest earnings from Info Barrel was at around $18 bucks in one day, but I wasn’t really that surprised because I have 100+ articles up there to help me make cash on the internet.

3. Target keywords within your post – Folks, you want to make sure that you are targeting keywords that are uncompetitive within your post.  You want to make the use of your keyword natural as well (i.e. make sure that your sentence makes sense).  Don’t just go spamming your targeted word around your article… I recommend using it about 4 – 5 times total within a 600 word article.  I usually leave a gap of 100 words or so before I use the same keyword twice.

4. Write informative articles – A lot of people write very “trashy” quality articles and that is not for me guys.  If you want to make money in the long-term and increase your earnings potential on Info Barrel, you are going to need to contribute good stuff.  If everyone wrote junk on that site, it would soon start to fall down in the rankings.  Each of my articles is at least 600 words of very quality information.  Do not cop out by writing anything shorter than 450 words…

5. Link to your other Info Barrel articles – This step certainly helped me out with my Hubs, so I presume that it will do great as far as getting me some extra cash on Info Barrel.  I am linking to at least 3 other of my Info Barrel articles within each article.  You want to give your articles some extra juice by linking to them from other stuff that you have written.  Even though it may seem a little bit tedious, I don’t recommend skipping this step!

What I don’t particularly like about Info Barrel

1. Adsense Earnings share subject to change - I honestly don’t care that I don’t own the content as much as I am unsure about whether the Adsense earnings will remain at 75% for the long term.  I honestly think that when this company really starts to boom, they are going to claim more Adsense earnings per article and maybe drop it down to 60% or 50% earnings share.

2. No easy related articles feature – I wish there was some sort of interface that allowed you to easily add links to your related articles at the bottom of each post.  Right now I link out to some of my articles at the end of what I write and I need to make sure that

Why I absolutely love Info Barrel

1. The Contests – They have monthly contests that allow you to earn up to 90% of shared AdSense revenue, which is absolutely phenomenal.  Though it is fairly tough to take down some of their top writers for the #1 spot, I’d say that most of you can do a good job at securing 90% Adsense earnings if you put in a little bit of work.  Plus, their top 3 contest placers usually get some sort of gift card.  First place is usually $100, second place is $50, and third is $25.  I’m not going to let you all know whether or not I won a contest, because I don’t want to draw any attention to myself.

2. The Owners – The owners know how to run the company and are doing a phenomenal job at it.  I really hope that the ownership does not change hands because this site has a ton of potential.  If the ownership does change hands, let’s hope that it is to ME, because I would definitely love to add such a great site to my portfolio!

3. The Approval Process - I actually like how there is a delayed approval process because it helps weed out a lot of garbage content that gets submitted.  This is one aspect that Hubpages is missing that I think they should integrate.  You need to regulate the spammers and make sure that only good stuff is getting posted on your site.  Otherwise you will turn into one big spam farm *cough* Squidoo *cough*… and take a turn for the worse like Hubpages….

4. Instant Search Engine Rankings - You will rank higher in the Google search index with Info Barrel pages than you will with Hubs… You will rank in similar fashion to well-written Ezine articles.  If you do a good job with your IB, you will immediately outrank most (if not all of) your fully-marketed HubPages.

5. 75% Adsense Revenue Share – Having 75% of your revenue on Info Barrel is awesome.  Like I mentioned earlier, you can get it up to 90% if you frequently contribute to writing a lot of articles on a monthly basis.  You would be crazy not to take advantage of this earnings potential.

6. Adsense Layout - Now I know that they could certainly tweak their existing Adsense placement in order to make more money, but what they have actually works well.  They have a decent sized advertisement placed in the upper left corner of their articles and more ads throughout the page.  Yeah they could improve it, but I am pretty satisfied with what they’ve got.  My only suggestion would be to try out some new stuff to see if they can get a slightly higher CTR…

7. Free Strong Backlinks – If you write an article, you can get yourself free, strong backlinks to your websites.  This is another feature that I absolutely love.  If you write a good article that gets a lot of traffic on IB, you are not going to have any problems redirecting some of that traffic to your own sites.  The “link juice” is what matters most though, and you will get plenty of it from this site.

My future goals with Info Barrel

My future goals with Info Barrel are to really take things to the next level and start making $100 per day with the content that I put up on their site.  I have a very good game plan that is going to be flawless and unstoppable in getting me to the place that I want to be as far as Info Barrel earnings are concerned.  The whole key is for me to stay motivated enough to get the work done and seriously bust my ass for the next 2 months in order to get up all 600 keyword-targeted articles that I have.

I really hope that the same administrators stay working with Info Barrel and do not plan on selling the company anytime soon because they are doing a great job running the show.  In all honesty, I wish that I had my own company like this because it has so much potential!  If you haven’t already signed up for Info Barrel, you already know what you need to go ahead and do…

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