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[LaaMok]

I have decided to do this thread to save me time explaining to people, how you can make money online. I will try and list the skills and tools required. You can do all this with virtually no money.  But you need to get some skills, its not easy and its not fast. But within 2 years, you could be living off your websites.

The basic principle of this method, is spend a week making a website and then earning 2 dollars per day per website for years to come.

100 weeks later, you will have 100 websites and $200 dollars per day. Its not much money, BUT it will increase more and more. Within 5 years, you could have double that and virtually retired.

However, some sites may make 50 cent a day and some may make 15 dollars a day.

I will be answering questions in this thread and updating it with my progress over the next 6 months.

I will only do sites about subjects that I enjoy, otherwise I end up doing work I don't enjoy and it shows.

If you have no experience in website design/marketing/adsense etc, please sign up on this site and become active http://forums.digita...point.com/  the search engine optimization forum will be the most popular.

I will try and do a step by step guide, hopefully a few people will follow it, I will make it as easy as possible.

Step 1, is to choose a subject you are passionate about and you can write about without getting bored. And there are plenty of videos about it on youtube.

Step 2 - Keyword research and buy domain

Step 3, Getting familiar with xsitepro

Step 4 - Making pages of content from youtube channels

Page checklist

Next steps added soon

UPDATE:

I have made this site to help you make your website effective!  Ultimate SEO Website Checklist

[culvers]

Good thread, I also think the warrior forum has got some incredible sources of information on it: www.warriorforum.com

I would say you should read through thoroughly over the course of a few weeks before taking part, posting threads like "how can I make money online" are not going to incline people to help you, when there are thousands of threads covering every aspect of this subject over the forum.

I am still in the early stages of things, having only really gotten into it 6 months ago, but I now have 7 niche sites up and all rank on the first page of google for their selected keywords. The amount varies, but at the moment my income from those 7 sites is about £20 per day, but I know that this will grow as the search rankings grow. I also intend to make many more sites, I will just keep going until I run out of time, and then I will outsource.

My biggest lessons so far:
1. Pick the right niche. Nothing worse than picking a high competition niche, it will take too much hard work to rank for.
2. Pick one method and stick with it. I am pushing forward with small niche sites monetised with google adsense. There are many different ways to approach the business, but I think its best to pick one way and focus on it and master it. At the beginning I was focused on too many different things and made little progress.

Thats just what I have picked up over the last 6 months, yet I still have tons more to learn. If you are serious, don't sit around reading for too long, just take action, you learn best by doing.

[DavidL]

Looking forward to reading more. Would also be interesting to see the results that people can obtain by following your instructions/advice.

[LaaMok]

culvers, on 21 March 2010 - 06:37 PM, said:

Good thread, I also think the warrior forum has got some incredible sources of information on it: www.warriorforum.com

I would say you should read through thoroughly over the course of a few weeks before taking part, posting threads like "how can I make money online" are not going to incline people to help you, when there are thousands of threads covering every aspect of this subject over the forum.

I am still in the early stages of things, having only really gotten into it 6 months ago, but I now have 7 niche sites up and all rank on the first page of google for their selected keywords. The amount varies, but at the moment my income from those 7 sites is about £20 per day, but I know that this will grow as the search rankings grow. I also intend to make many more sites, I will just keep going until I run out of time, and then I will outsource.

My biggest lessons so far:
1. Pick the right niche. Nothing worse than picking a high competition niche, it will take too much hard work to rank for.
2. Pick one method and stick with it. I am pushing forward with small niche sites monetised with google adsense. There are many different ways to approach the business, but I think its best to pick one way and focus on it and master it. At the beginning I was focused on too many different things and made little progress.

Thats just what I have picked up over the last 6 months, yet I still have tons more to learn. If you are serious, don't sit around reading for too long, just take action, you learn best by doing.

I find there is alot more money going for the highly competitive keywords, but it takes alot of time and effort, so you have to have an income already, to gamble your time on such projects. So your advice is correct, especially for newbies.

Normally I would recommend keyword research, however for this experiment, we are only going to aim for some long tail keywords and try and get as many as possible up there.

DavidL, on 21 March 2010 - 06:54 PM, said:

Looking forward to reading more. Would also be interesting to see the results that people can obtain by following your instructions/advice.

Hopefully some people follow it and ask questions, there are plenty other people on here that can add there advice. I am not a webdesigner, even though I do it when needed.  The good thing about what I am showing people here, is that they need no or little experience in web design.

[culvers]

LaaMok, on 21 March 2010 - 07:13 PM, said:

I find there is alot more money going for the highly competitive keywords, but it takes alot of time and effort, so you have to have an income already, to gamble your time on such projects. So your advice is correct, especially for newbies.

Normally I would recommend keyword research, however for this experiment, we are only going to aim for some long tail keywords and try and get as many as possible up there.

Hopefully some people follow it and ask questions, there are plenty other people on here that can add there advice. I am not a webdesigner, even though I do it when needed.  The good thing about what I am showing people here, is that they need no or little experience in web design.

Your right - I do have one competitive niche in mind with massive payouts, but im keeping that one as a long term project to keep me occupied when im chilling out in bangkok on my adsense residual income.    

Im shite at webdesign, but it doesn't seem to matter. Just find a clean template, and use that, nothing fancy.

Anyway I should get back to work. If you do decide to go down this route, get used to writing lots...  

[Soi Sauce]

I have managed to make 6p from my Adsense today! so I guess I have a lot to learn hehehe, every penny counts

look forward to hearing any advice.

Sawat-dii bobbing

[melawny]

definitely sounds interesting, better retirement plan than shares for sure.
I will be watching this one

[LaaMok]

culvers, on 21 March 2010 - 07:26 PM, said:

Your right - I do have one competitive niche in mind with massive payouts, but im keeping that one as a long term project to keep me occupied when im chilling out in bangkok on my adsense residual income.    

Im shite at webdesign, but it doesn't seem to matter. Just find a clean template, and use that, nothing fancy.

Anyway I should get back to work. If you do decide to go down this route, get used to writing lots...  

I use xsitepro to make most of the sites, you can make fantastic looking ones, and its very seo friendly. I used to use templates and dreamweaver, but it takes many many more hours and its just not worth it for the time. I will go into this, in the next post.

Soi Sauce, on 21 March 2010 - 07:31 PM, said:

I have managed to make 6p from my Adsense today! so I guess I have a lot to learn hehehe, every penny counts

look forward to hearing any advice.

Sawat-dii bobbing

You will get there one day, post your link, and someone may even offer advice.

melawny, on 21 March 2010 - 07:33 PM, said:

definitely sounds interesting, better retirement plan than shares for sure.
I will be watching this one

It wont hurt you to try and follow it, because you will learn also

[LaaMok]

Step 2.

You have now decided what your website is going to be about, try and type in some relative keywords into Google Keyword Tool, remember to choose the countries you are targeting.  You just want to make sure that people are searching stuff related to your site. But as we are going for long tail keywords, you don't really need to use that tool.

Now you have decided what you want your website to be about, we need to get it made.

If you know how to buy your url do it now.

You don't have to have your keywords in your url, but I would have your url relevant in this case.

There are plenty of places you can buy domains, but I recommend http://www.godaddy.com and buy some hosting with it, you can put many domains on your hosting.  

For the url, if you are targeting the UK, buy a .co.uk  if you are targeting USA or worldwide use .com or .net.  Please do not use co.cc, .info etc. I don't want to get into a debate about this, just trying to make it simple and easy for all to follow.

Try and buy the domain for 2 years or more.

My website is going to be about business and marketing in the UK.

So I have just purchased http://www.businessv...ideosuk.co.uk   for £13.30  I have literally brought this one minute ago, I am doing this all as the thread progresses.

[LaaMok]

Step 3.

To make your website, I highly recommend Xsitepro, its very good and easy to use. Even if you are a webdesigner, I would still use it, simply because its super fast and efficient and you can add pages over the years in seconds and everything gets updated automatically.  Its very good for search engine optimisation.

You can buy it here

Purchase xsitepro  (This is a friends affiliation link.)

However I recommend downloading it on a torrent site for free, to try it. The dodgy torrent copy doesn't have the bug fixes, updates or support. But it will show you how easy it is to use.  Once you have realised how good and simple to use, you may buy it. You can use one license on two computers. So you could go halves with a friend.

I only rave about it, because I use it daily and its very effective. There maybe other alternatives around, you can use them if you wish, but I have no idea about others.

Once you have xsitepro running, mess around with some of the templates and try and do a test site with aload of bollocks written on it, you can click the preview button to see what you have produced.  There are some xsitepro template sites around. Here is whitespiders template website. http://www.xsitepro-websites.com/

[LaaMok]

Step 4.

In theory, the more pages you have the more money you could potentially make.

I am going to start making pages using xsitepro. I don't worry about the website design, until I have lots of webpages made.

Don't publish your website until you have finished.  Or stop google from indexing it, using a robots text.

For my website, I am going to look for some Youtube channels of business marketers and entrepreneurs. Every youtube channel that I like, will get there own page with all there videos on, I will limit it for 10 videos per page. Under each video, there will be a link to a totally new page, which I will write a review underneath the video with relevant title.

Its pretty difficult to explain, so I will start making the site now, and report back tomorrow, I am hoping I can get the site done over the next week, you can check on the progress by looking at http://www.businessvideosuk.co.uk

[bigjimslay]

can I sell my body online?  Anyone want to watch BJS and Bagel19 beat off?  Just joking and sorry for the thread fuck.

Interesting topic....

[bigjimslay]

1 question is, if you make a website, and you are not selling anything, then who pays you???

[LaaMok]

bigjimslay, on 21 March 2010 - 09:09 PM, said:

can I sell my body online?  Anyone want to watch BJS and Bagel19 beat off?  Just joking and sorry for the thread fuck.

Interesting topic....

Bagel does that for free already on chat roulette, the website is a good concept and very popular, but not my cup of tea
http://www.chatroulette.com/

bigjimslay, on 21 March 2010 - 09:10 PM, said:

1 question is, if you make a website, and you are not selling anything, then who pays you???

I will cover this in more detail when we get to that step, but as you mentioned it, I think its important for people to know how and why before they get to that step.

In this case we will use adsense, because its easy and simple to use. This is how it works.

We write useful information that attracts traffic through natural searches, this costs us nothing, but time to construct the site and content.

We paste basic adsense code around the website, and the adsense company will serve adverts automatically with anything they consider relevant. Then hopefully viewers of your website, exit through an advert. You get payed per click. You dont have to do anything but paste the code and collect the money.  Advert placement can be played with, but thats something to do later.

More info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense

To sign up. (you need your site published first, to sign up)
https://www.google.com/adsense/

[LaaMok]

I would just like to add, I will be aiming to make 2-5 dollars per day with this website, thats very realistic. Once it performs, I can update it and add pages, in theory I could double the income by doubling the pages over months/years.

You may think the same as I did years ago and think, fuck that, 2 dollars a day is nothing... but in 2-3 years time, you could have a hundred.

This website will take me around 50 hours maximum to make. And then I should earn 800 - 1400 dollars per year for the rest of my life. Its very likely to be very more than that in a few years, but I am trying to be realistic.

I am also trying to make this guide as simple as possible, and its very easy to forget that people probably wont understand some of it. So please ask.

[LaaMok]

Every page should be as follows.

Page Title. (most important factor) Put your keywords/video title in here

h1 tag.  (second most important factor) Put a different relevant title in here. Your H1 tag is just a heading tag to show topic title.

Insert Youtube video

Then as many words as you can describing the video or even discuss/review argue about what they are saying, unique content is the key here. Ideally 250-500 words.

One video per page is better, therefore one topic per page.

[LaaMok]

Make sure every page has a 2 sentence relevant description, this will not help your rankings. But when your pages show up on google, its important for your page description to draw attention, because they often use this as a sample snippet.

[7-Eleven]

Lot's of people reading this thread already which is good to see.

I have purchased a domain this evening and already have a copy of Xsite Pro which Bryan mentioned earlier, I have made a start and hope to have a minimum of two pages done in the next 48 hours (I work full time also)

[The Viking]

Looks like a fun thing do to just to make time pass waiting to get enough money to go to Thailand (and if It can help me on the way it's even better) thank you!

[7-Eleven]

Knudde, on 21 March 2010 - 10:32 PM, said:

Looks like a fun thing do to just to make time pass waiting to get enough money to go to Thailand (and if It can help me on the way it's even better) thank you!

Not only is it a good way to pass the time every key press and mouse click is securing your future!

[The Viking]

Yeah, had been awesome to have enough usefull sites in 5 years time (making me 26-27) and allready having the income to retire

[LaaMok]

Knudde, on 21 March 2010 - 10:49 PM, said:

Yeah, had been awesome to have enough usefull sites in 5 years time (making me 26-27) and allready having the income to retire

I am 28 and been living in Thailand since I was 25!  Its a reality, not a dream!

[The Viking]

LaaMok, on 21 March 2010 - 10:52 PM, said:

I am 28 and been living in Thailand since I was 25!  Its a reality, not a dream!

Neat, just gotta find something interesting to write about and try it out.
my 2nd hope is my back injury that occurred at work, if I can't work anymore from that (doctor said if I don't get it fixed by training within a few years, I'll have to retire) i'll get the same salary as I get now which will give me a great life in Thailand

[Temujin]

Great thread mate. I was considering e-mailing you about just this topic.

I shall be following this with interest.

[LaaMok]

Temujin, on 21 March 2010 - 11:45 PM, said:

Great thread mate. I was considering e-mailing you about just this topic.

I shall be following this with interest.

I hope you can literally follow it!