Money Making Resources

Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land has written a terrific introduction to Google PageRank that deserves to be read by anyone who’s interested in learning the details behind how Page Rank (PR) actually works as well its relevance to your blog or website.

With most webmasters eagerly anticipating the upcoming PR update, this article dispels several unfounded myths and situates the focus on PR within a balanced link building/SEO strategy.

Written for both internet searchers and webmasters, Danny uses a large variety of official documents from Google to come up with various explanations which define PageRank and examine it’s relationship with search rankings.

There’s been a lot of talk about Craigslist marketing for small businesses and affiliate marketers and I’ve tried using Craigslist and its alternatives for a short period of time.

Personally, I think they are an excellent avenue for freelancers who plan to make money online through their specific skill sets. These online classified boards can also provide small businesses with a channel to sell their services through the internet.

It’s basically free targeted advertising because of the ability to categorize services and products according to specific categories.

One of the best ways to learn how to make lots of money online is to interact with like-minded individuals who are equally dedicated to making money on the internet. Nobody knows every single trick in the book and making sure your efforts are profitable in the long run requires some knowledge of proven strategies or methods for optimum results.

The best and easiest way to develop this knowledge is to visit forums that offer valuable information on topics like affiliate marketing, search engine optimization, Pay per Click Advertising and freelancing.

Everyone who’s on the internet uses search engines to find the information that they needed. The massive amount of search engine users makes it a natural vessel for businesses and individuals who want to promote their website through advertisements.

Over the past few years, several social-minded search engines have taken to donating a share of their ad revenues to various charitable organizations.

The search engine charity movement has resulted in various search engines targeted at different charities and geographic locations. This article is the largest online collection of all the charity-based search engines currently available on the internet.

I’ve recently been dabbling in domaining during the past few weeks and so far it’s been rather fascinating. Domaining is practice of buying, selling and making money from domain names.

How do you make money with domaining? The easiest way is to practice monetized domain parking or the art of making money from type-in/typo traffic (people who visit websites by typing/mistyping in words on web browser address bar).

What you do is that you’ll place Adsense or other types of Pay Per Click ads (based on the domain’s keywords) on the domain you’ve just bought. You’ll make money when people click on the ads.

I was browsing Digg this morning when I came across a 5-page article written by a business consultant on a 101 ways to earn money on the internet. Some of the methods he/she listed include creating niche business websites, domain parking, site flipping, Myspace marketing and even accepting bribes.

A interesting read. You might find some ideas that might be useful, athough several of them are just rather devious and downright unethical. For a more informative and helpful article, check out this list of ways to make money online.

I’ve put together a lot of these ideas from thousands of hours discussing businesses for sale with their owners. They’ve shared with me how their businesses operate, how they make money, how they built their businesses up etc.

They’ve given me access to their traffic stats, their earnings and accounts and tax figures… Most of these business ideas can be run from anywhere in the world, even the United States, Australia and other non-English speaking countries. For consistency sake all figures are quoted in US dollars.