Earn Or Make Money Online Tutorial: Part 3

So, you'll need the follow tools:

Website: Use blogspot.com, myspace.com, and/or facebook.com - Go with what is popular to increase maximum earning potential (more potential customers, more people, right?).

Accounts with adsense, clickbank, and commission junction. Refer to resource links on the right hand side to open an account.

The warrior forum, a forum with a TON of smart, helpful people. DO NOTE that people CONSTANTLY try to sell stuff to you, so be mindful of where and WHO is telling you to do something or buy. Stick to the basics, don't go all out fancy, it's probably a ploy to make you give them your cash.

Utilize the free keyword research tools to make sure your niche market or topic has a big audience:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
http://keyworddiscovery.com/search.html
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

These are limited editions of the full version (obviously) but it should be sufficient. You just want to know how big the market is. So, if you were doing say Golf, you want to make sure the number of searches in a month is like say... 3000 or more (meaning 3000 people are interested in golf) and sell stuff to them. People into golf would be interested in ebooks on how to improve their golf swing, golf course discounts, golf clubs, golf carts, you get the idea.

I personally use an advanced research tool because like an idiot, I paid $100 dollars for this when I was barely making money. It's a great tool at least so it wasn't a total waste. For you though, let's not spend money yet; use the free keyword tools.

The criteria you should be looking at is:
1. Number of search results on google
2. Number of searches for that keyword
3. *Important!* Number of GOOGLE campaigns for that particular keyword.

#1 tells you how many websites talk something about the keyword. The more there are, the more competitive. Don't worry, with good incoming links, you should be able to get sort of close to the top of that keyword, and 100's of variations of that keyword (google is a great search engine).

#2 Tells you how many folks searched for that term. You ideally want this number to be HUGE. 10,000, 200,000, Millions of searches. Most likely, you'll have to settle to just 500-1200 searches a month, which is pretty decent.

#3 This shows how many people are bidding and paying google.com for ads on that keyword. If you noticed 8 or more google campaigns, chances are companies are making money. If there are none, then either nobody makes money or it's a secret niche that no one knows about (lucky you). The best way to figure this out is to rank for that niche keyword and test it out, or simply ignore it.

Directories: Search google for "directories" or in the case of golf "Golf directories" and look at them. Find the pagerank of the particular directory page you want to link for and hope it is pagerank 4 or above, 3 minimum. Be sure to download the google toolbar and have the "Pagerank" tool enabled so you can instantly see the pagerank of the directory. Most people get links from page rank 2 or below and wonder why nobody comes to their website. Well duh.

Once you have a directory, submit your website or blog to that directory and get the link from them. You can also use dmoz.org and joeant.com for directories but in my experience, they are SLOW.

Sign up with digg.com and furl.net and submit content to them. It's best to use unique content you created but you can try and get away with submitting duplicate content. A popular method to use is to submit news stories about your topic, airlines, golf sports, chocolate, business and finance, etc. Yahoo, google, and a famous company that furnishes news related stories to your topic would be ideal candidates.

Once you have done all of this, install your affiliate links and adsense ads onto your website and let the traffic roll in and hope people click.

Your results should be fairly quick because you should see traffic (excluding yourself) within 1 week, if not one day after you've established yourself. If you get no traffic after 30 days, something is wrong. The fundamentals are, get links linking to your website otherwise, everything you do does not get indexed in the search engines and you're dead in the water.

For example, if I want to see if I'm indexed, I'd type "cashjacks blogspot" (my url) in google and see if it contains my articles or content. If it does, then good, if it doesn't, either google is still spidering me, or I didn't get a proper link bank.