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What is this information revolution all about? |
Work at Home Answers |
Well they use it to find information, to socialise, to play games, to shop and to share ideas. They may also keep a personal journal or blog online and permit others to read what they have written or keep it private. The Internet has gone from being a mystery known to a few geeks, to a necessary part of everyday life, even a lifeline for some who may be housebound or otherwise unable to get out and about. |
Why do people use the Internet? |
As pre empted in my home page, we can provide people with the information they are looking for, and earn an income from the links they follow to make purchases, or we can sell our own products online. |
The primary aim of this page is to talk about making money from content rich websites. |
First let me tell you how to make money from a website using click through links. Google has a wonderful program called adsense. With this nifty program you can create special code which you place on your website, and google uses the information from your web page to run advertisements which fit the content. The ads are text based and not intrusive, but they offer your readers the opportunity to purchase items they might be looking for, related to the subject of your web page. Any time a visitor to your web pages clicks on a link in one of these Google ads you get paid. |
How can we use this to make money? |
Google has a complicated formula for working out what you get paid, and it is a percentage of what Google is paid for the advertisement. |
Everyone benefits from this form of advertising. You benefit by being paid anytime someone clicks on a Google adsense link on one of your pages, Google benefits by being paid by the advertiser for advertising, and the advertiser benefits because they get widespread advertising they dont pay for until someone clicks on their advertisement (on your page via Google adsense), and those clicks are from people who are interested in the product advertised. You and Google have guaranteed that by making sure the advertisements on your page are for products people who read your content are interested in. |
You dont need to know any web coding except for being able to cut and paste the code Google creates for you into your web pages. If you don't know how to do this you can find plenty of free resources on the Internet about using HTML. You may find it a bit harder if you use a web host that provides web page creation tools (freewebs, homestead etc use these) but you can generally edit them enough to insert your adsense code into your pages. I learned by saving a copy of my original pages, then trying different cut n pastes until it worked. I was confident that I still had my original pages backed up if I made a complete mess of things. For more information about Google adsense please visit my adsense page. |
Affiliate links are another way you can earn income from your website. With affiliate links you place special lines of code into your webpage, and these create a link to the affiliate site or product. When a visitor to your site clicks on an affiliate link, and then purchases the product you get paid. The downside is you don't get paid if they don't buy, but the upside is you get paid more than you get for pay per click ads (such as adsense). For more information about making money through affiliate links please visit my affiliate page. Ebay is a third way you can make money from your website. Ebay allows website owners to place a box of ebay auction ads on your web pages. These ads look just like the standard ebay auction site, and like the Google ads the coding detects the topic of your page and places appropriate auctions in the box. You get paid when one of your visitors clicks on an auction and successfully bids on the item. Again this means you don't get paid until they make a purchase, but you do get paid more. For more information about ebay advertising please see my ebay page. |
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Of course you can also sell your own products, email courses, ebooks, videos etc on your website. For more information about these please visit my Others page. All of these money making techniques rely on one important factor - getting traffic to your website, and keeping them there. For this to happen you need people to find your website, and the main ways people find websites is by searching using Google/Yahoo etc, by following a link from another website, by following a recommendation from a friend, a forum, a social site etc, or by stumbling on it. It is very rare that someone will stumble on your page, so you have to use other techniques to tell people about your page. Techniques for driving traffic to your website is covered in greater detail in my Marketing page. |
One important point to note here is you need to have your website listed with the search engines, and for that to happen they have to know about your website. Most of the major search engines have ways for you to tell them about your website. They will eventually send their crawlers around to look at your page, and it will get listed. Where it gets listed depends on many things, which are covered in more detail in the SEO page. The important point here is that web sites that have plenty of good quality content will list higher than pages that are one long advertisement. So finally we get to the most important factor in your infopreneurial career - creating a website with plenty of quality content. This means that the whole website should be about a single topic, divided into easy readable chunks (about 500 - 750 words per page) and sorted into a logical order. I am guilty of making my pages too long because I try to give my visitors lots of information in few clicks. So, because I am already way over my word limit for this page, I will ask you to visit my Content page where this discussion on content will continue. |
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