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Have you jumped in and started your own website or blog yet? If not then why not? You won’t make money online by sitting on the sidelines. The best way to get started making money is to create your own business and that means getting a website or blog online.
Even if you have no idea how to do a website you can start a blog quite easily. And really the best way to learn how to do something is by doing it. Trust me, my first site was ugly as a wart, but since then I have learned so much about site design and the only reason I learned was because I already had sites up that I wanted to improve.
Is money and issue? It shouldn’t be. You can get a domain name and account for less than $100. At Bluehost (that’s who I use) your first domain and account set up works out to just $6.95 a month and you can have unlimited domains on this account. Each additional domain is only $10 a year which works out to $0.83 a month. If you don’t have the initial $100 then sign up for and take some surveys to make it. That is exactly how I started.
Bluehost also gives you 1500 Gb of storage and 15,000 Gb of bandwidth per month. You would need to be getting millions of pages views to use up all of this bandwidth.
If you go with a blog rather than a traditional static website you’ll make your life a bit easier. You can install Wordpress very easily. I think my first install took about 30 minutes, but now I can do it in about 5. And with all of the plug-ins and themes available customizing your site is a snap. You can also install plug-ins that will make your blog more search engine friendly which makes it easier to get traffic from Google.
My best suggestion to any of you that are trying to make money online is to get yourself a website and start creating something now. You will make mistakes and your first site may not last, but you’ll learn in the process and you’ll continually get better at making money online. If you’re not sure how to pick a subject area or niche I’ll be posting about that later this week so keep coming back.
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I’ve been exploring ways to make money online outside of paid surveys and todays post is a tried and true money maker. If you haven’t heard yet about Squidoo you should go and check it out because there are lots of people that have been making good money by authoring Squidoo lenses. You probably won’t get rich, but it is another way to make some cash from the internet and it’s a good way to diversify your online income. And if you’re just getting started making money online Squidoo is a great way to build confidence, get motivated and start learning about internet marketing.
One of the major reasons people give up on trying to make money online is they don’t have the patience required to market and establish a new blog. As a consequence they lose their confidence, motivation and faith in their ability to make money online.
How Will Squidoo Help You Get Started With Internet Marketing?
Squidoo is a free platform that allows you to author what they call ‘lenses’. These lenses are really just web pages and they have one big advantage over starting your own website. The advantage is that Squidoo is already highly regarded by search engines which means it is much easier to get your lenses indexed. This means you should start seeing traffic to your new lenses quickly which will be a big confidence booster and motivator. There’s nothing like that first sale or seeing people view your site to boost your morale and motivation.
What makes Squidoo a good way for anyone to start making money online?
1. Once you create an account and get used to working with Squidoo you can create a lens in as little as 10-15 minutes. Try doing that with a blog or website.
2. Squidoo will allow you to rank well in Google almost right away because the site has high authority and trust. Getting your own site in the top 10 results in Google can be very difficult and requires hours or marketing work, but with Squidoo all that work has been done for you already. By doing a little bit of keyword research you can get a highly rank lens page pretty quickly and easily.
3. Unlike other free web authoring sites Squidoo allows you to promote affiliate products. You can put your own affiliate links into your lens and start making money from day 1 with Squidoo. Some popular affiliate networks include Clickbank and Commission Junction. Just find a product and build your lens around it.
4. Since the lenses are so quick and easy to set up Squidoo is a great place to experiment with different offers, layouts and ads to see what will convert for you. You can use Squidoo to identify profitable niches before taking the time to build an entire website around them.
5. Along the lines of yesterdays post Squidoo is a good way to diversify your online income. It gives you one more way to get some additional cash each month.
You can get started with Squidoo here
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