Work At Home

Work At Home to Make Money Online is a general need for many people for many different reasons. After my last post Content is King, I will look at this need now. Some need to do this because they lost their job, or because they got fed up working for a dickhead who demanded more than they should reasonably expect. You could be a busy mother who prefers to stay at home and look after the kids while making some extra income using the Internet and its vast array of money making possibilities.

At its most basic level, people are looking at the idea of how to work at home to make money online as a viable business precept. It can work and in some instances can work very well, but the person doing it has to spend a considerable amount of time learning the ropes and also avoiding the many scams and misinformation that is prevalent online.

Often then, success can be had as long as you take the time to do the ground work and learn from the ground up how to make money online and then apply it to your daily routine when you decide to work at home.

Well, one of the easiest ways to earn money online is to build some free blogs and put up adsense ads on them. If that sounds over-simplified, then it is to a point. The basic mechanics of creating the sites are the easy part. You can use blogger or several other free blog hosts which are simple to figure out and get started quickly. But you have to be aware of some things from the very beginning and this post will help you there.

Not all free blog hosts allow you to place ads on your blog

Not all free blog hosts allow you to link to other blogs you own

Not all free blog hosts should be trusted with your content (they may be here today and gone tomorrow)

With these three points in mind, then it pays to start creating your blogs on hosts that allow you to place your own ads and to link out to other blogs you own (this is important). It is also worth mentioning that many free blog hosts will place their own ads on your blog whether you want them or not. You can apply your own adsense code to some of these, but the owners will take a share of your revenue for the privilege of using their hosts.  So you need to know who you can use that will:

Allow you to place your own ads

Allow you to link out to other blogs

Not put their own ads on your blog

Not take a share of your adsense revenue

Here is a short list of such free blog hosts that you can do that with:

Blogger

…erm, very short, it seems… that’s it I’m afraid! There are other good free blog hosts but they all have some restrictions or other that will strangle your attempts to succeed.

Other free hosts that are ok to use are:

WordPress (you can link out but you can’t display ads)

Blinkweb (allow ads and links but they take a share of the revenue)

Blogetery (also allow ads and links but they take a share of the revenue)

Why would I show you a host that you can’t display ads on? Well, with WordPress, you can create a few blogs that you won’t be monetising, but as a part of the process of how to make money online, you’ll be using to provide links to your blogs that you will have ads on. This improves their authority and gives them a better chance of ranking in the search engine pages (SERPs).

Oh, did I mention you need to have your site listed high in Google (and the other search engines) in order to attract organic search traffic to them? Well, I just did. You need that to make money online. That’s where you need to be getting links to your blog with ads so that people go there. If you don’t get anyone turn up at your site, who will click your ads to make money for you? Mmm… see its starting to get more complex now. I’m going to expand on that in my next post…

Terry Didcott
Work at Home

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Following my last post about: Work at Home Blogs and SEO, I mentioned content and how important it is to get plenty of relevant, on-topic content onto your work at home sites and blogs in order to rank well for your chosen keywords in teh search engine SERPs.

In fact it is so important that you should not be too concerned with grammar and spelling and going over and wasting valuable work at home opportunities by proof reading and correcting and re-correcting everything you write. The fact of teh matter is, you want to make money from your site, and that means you need to attract organic search traffic and the only way to do that is to rank high in the SERPs period.

So satisfying the perfectionist needs of a whole bunch of social traffic readers by crossing every “t” and dotting every “i” might be highly commendable and earn you the respect of the writing fraternity, but it won’t make you any bloody money!

So you have to toss a coin and decide which it is, because it is a choice between the two and never the twain shall meet.

You can’t have a great reader base and feed subscriber base running into the hundreds or even thousands if they are all savvy marketers themselves, because guess what? They ain’t gonna click your ads and when people who visit your site don’t click your ads you do not make money. So you might work at home spending long hours on your literary masterpieces but you’re going hungry!

Ok, maybe you’re not starving if you have income from otehr sources and writing online is just a hobby. In that case, you should do teh best you can and get those readers and feed subscribers, because its a great hobby7 to have and you’ll make lots of friends online.

But if your main goal is to make money fast while you work at home, then you need a different approach. You need to NOT attract other marketers to yoru site, NOT procure a huge feed subscriber base and NOT write well!

By writing a little off colour and not quite providing all the information you could do but still writing a whole lot of stuff that is highly relevant to your niche and has a good percentage of your keywords within the text, but not so much that it becomes keyword stuffinmg, you satisfy the serach engines need for lots of fresh, new, original content which will help your site or blog up teh SERPs ladder in order to attr5act organic search traffic.

Why?

Organic search traffic WILL click on your ads and ergo make money fast for your work at home opportunity site. If that makes sense to you (and it should) then at least this post will not have you shaking your head and going away thinking “That bloke just wrote a bunch of crap and I wasted my time reading it.” Because you didn’t waste your time as the moral of ths story is highly useful to you if your goal is to make money online while you work at home.

That’s all for now, more later,

Hasta pronto chicos…

Terry Didcott
Work at Home

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