How to make money online for FREE

Making money online can be simple if you want it to be, or it can be hard (or as some like to call it free). I’m not saying that you can’t make money online for free, I’m just saying if you don’t invest in your education the money you will make is not going to be worth it.

Have you ever tried some of these survey sites or get paid to sites? Is it worth 10 to 15 minutes of your time for a mere two or three dollars? To me it’s not. Well, with that being said I’m going to tell you the short version of how to make money online for free.

What’s popular right now on the internet is IM or internet marketing. It’s not really all that new however, and people have been doing it for years. The first step in internet marketing is finding a product. For this all you have to do is go to your favorite search engine and type in affiliate programs plus the type of product you’re looking for. As I said in my last post one of the industry leaders in affiliate programs is clickbank.com.

They have thousands of products that you can get paid to promote. Some people argue that you have to do your keyword research first, which can be true and may be right, however you can do it in whatever order you feel fit. I like to look for products first because I can usually have somewhat of a feel for whether or not the niche I’m considering is highly competitive.

Either way keyword research will only take me about 10 to 15 minutes so it won’t affect me that much (you may take longer if you’re a beginner). I mean it’s much harder for you to create a product then it is to find potential key words that you can use promote a product (at least in my opinion). If you are a beginner however, I’d recommend starting with Keyword research first.

This is important because when you’re just starting out, you know nothing about selling stuff online. You’re swimming against sharks in an ocean of information. Choose the wrong keywords and you will be wasting your time.

A good way to check and see if your keyword(s) are good is to type your search phrase into Google and see what types of sites are in the top ten. Are they just information sites or are they trying to sell you something. If there the later of the two then it might be something you want to investigate further.

Another thing that you need to do is to check out the number of sites in your competition. You can do this buy searching in Google with quotes like this: “Keyword Here” is in quotes. This basically gives you your competition in short.

All of this research goes hand in hand in SEO, forum marketing, article marketing, PPC (pay per click) advertising and search engine marketing in general. You don’t want to spend lots of your time focusing on trying to get page one results only to find out the key words you’ve chose are worth less than noting. Bottom line is don’t waste time. I’ll Talk more about keyword research in my next post. I’ve got to get up for work in a few hours, so we can pick up were we left off there.