Money Making Online

On December/2004 I began to write a personal blog that was a complete failure.

There I was writing about my personal experiences and my opinions about politics, economy, TV, people, etc. I made an effort in order to put good written posts and for me the posts seemed well but I had a small obstacle: I did not know nothing about promotion for a webpage. My skills were focused in programming (PHP, Java, ASP, .net) and databases.

Pages could go up in server, but nobody seemed to be reading that.

I subscribed my blog in some directories, and yes, I had 3, 5 or 10 daily visits. But I had in my budget many more visits. And I had read about Google Adsense, a program which you can use in order to win some money when people visit your page and click on text ads promoting stuffs related with the content in your page. You can subscribe for free and you only must copy and paste a code in your website according to instructions in control panel.

In 2005, I was dreaming with my check of $ 1,000 per month. I was writing posts in a daily basis. I said myself: “well, in some months I will have money from adsense”. And yes, two months later I had money from adsense: $ 2!

$ 2! Can you believe that? And Google only send your check if you accumulate at least $ 100 in a monthly basis. I abandoned my blog on June/2005. Actually, I deleted it from Google and my posts were eliminated.

I was disappointed. No visits. No money. And I had a blog without sense. I was writing for myself. Then on June/2005, I said: “Blogs are a stupidity. And Google Adsense is a stupidity. Only big websites can get real money from adsense”.

But, today, I have changed my mind. I have learned SEO techniques for good rankings in search engines and I can say Adsense is an excellent program, if you can get a decent traffic, even with only 50 daily unique visits you can get a check every month of $ 100, and more traffic means more money. Of course, it depends of your website topic and how you locate the ads in your pages.

I am getting money by adsense from several sites and when I get my check, I am happy because it is a passive income: money with a minimal effort. Sure you must promote your website, but not for adsense, you must promote your website, because you want to have people interested in your content.

Now, if you know SEO/SEM techniques, then you have an enormous advantage and you can get a huge check from adsense. Let me say this: $ 2,000 or $ 10,000 from adsense per month could be very easy for a good SEO optimizer. But if you are not a SEO optimizer, you can get money from Adsense if you have a content with quality and you make an effort in order to promote your website or blog. Maybe you must wait several months or maybe years. For that reason, I recommend you should learn about basic or advanced SEO.

Now, if you had a big wallet, maybe you can spend money in Adwords or putting banners or traditional advertisement in media or to buy links from related sites to your topic which have a good pagerank (rankings from google indicating link popularity for a webpage) and they are well-known in the industry and they are updated frequently. Those are some ways to get good rankings in search engines or traffic if you had money for promotion.

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