Well, but anyways, ever see the X-files? Whether you dug molder & scully or not – yes – the truth really is out there … the truth, the answers are within this very blog post. And it was right here in front of you all the while. Here are 20 links to my last 20 blog posts showing you 20 ways to make money online!

1. Website Flipping

   The art of buying, dressing up, and Selling Websites.

2. Affiliate Coupons.

   Promote Discounts via Affiliate links for products and just give people what they are looking for.

3. Create Information Products.

   Create your own Information Product and enjoy Passive Income. Like I do. Not linking to my original post, but a new project I am working on to help YOU create a product in 24 hours. Yes, 24 hours.

4. Ebay!

   Go see who I exploited to highlight ways to make money on Ebay, the largest Employer in the World.

5. Be an Expert.

   Get paid to offer expert advice in any field you know well.

6. Video Promotions.

   Increase sales by adding video to your sales / service process

7. Outsource.

   If you can figure out how to outsource successfully, you can either work less, but hopefully earn a lot more as others get more done for you!

8. Network.

   Be Seen. Meet other like minded people. This could earn you more money than ANYTHING else you do.

9. Educate yourself.

   Spend some time learning some of the basic skills that are holding you back from success. Understand how to use WordPress, FTP, Video Editing, and some Graphic skills, to name a few. You will save money on hiring out help, and achieve much faster.

10. Solve a Problem.

    Identify a Problem, Figure out a solution, Tease the target market with some of the solution, and then hold back the rest of the solution for money! Works like a charm.

11. Climbing the Search Engines.

    Naturally if you are able to make it to the first pages of the Search Engine, you are going to get a lot more visitors and make more money, yes? Yes.

12. Take a GOOD look at yourself.

    You can earn a lot more money if you can identify MISTAKES you are making, and how you are leaving MONEY on the table. Big Money.

13. Stay Focused!

    If you can learn to stay focused on the results you want to see, you will make a LOT more money.

14. Viral Marketing.

    Create a Viral campaign, and returns will be more $$$ and lots more.

15. Educate Others.

    Not a way to make a lot of money, but one I certainly enjoyed writing about. I offered money for great insights, ways to be productive, ways to make ME make more money by learning what YOU know. Offer is ALWAYS open.

16. Add Audio.

    Not ready for Video? Easily add some Audio to your website and increase sales. Explain what you are doing with your voice.

17. Increase Brand Awareness.

    Attach your product / service with an online personality, allowing them to self brand and promote for you! You both Earn.

18. Blog for Impact.

    Expand your reach. The possibilities are endless…and fruitful.

19. Increase your Page Rank.

    Get Backlinks to your site, increase your Google PR, move up in the search engines, and watch the magic happen.

20. The COPY is Key.

    If you ask any Internet Marketer what is the most important Element required in a product campaign.. they will all say THE COPY. You cant skimp on the copy. It will make you money.

I own some really crappy websites.

What makes them crappy? They don’t even deserve to be called WEB 1.0, they are so ugly. They have garish colors, layouts, bright banner ads, and probably some old style animated gifs. Like this big NO-NO image to the right..

They barely do anything I would recommend to YOU, and they earn a FRACTION of what they should and COULD be earning.

Yet, these websites are among my most valuable online assets. Their combined worth in the 5 figure range.

There is a ONE word explanation to this.

Backlinks.

Before there were all the distractions that the current SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experts suggest, before Article Directories, Before Social Media….

Someone’s full time job used to be:

“Hi. My name is Andrea, and I represent crapsite.com. I think our sites have a lot in common and wonder if you would consider a link exchange?”

This was when people read their emails, so the conversion rate was fairly high. It was not DONE with Page Rank in mind. This preceeded page rank! It was done in the hopes that someone would see the reciprocal link and come visit your site. But when Page Rank was born, these links gave you the competitive advantage. And still do.

Not only has NOTHING changed (except the reciprocal part), but for some it in the basis of their successful business model. Bloggers for example. As successful blogging is usually determined by how many other bloggers engage, link to you (technorati ranking), it is simply the more links to your blog, the higher your PR ranking, the more successful. That doesnt mean $$$, although it certainly could.

Dean Hunt, from deanhunt.com has made a professional career out of creating “buzz” for himself and for others, essentially building up websites and careers with Backlinks and Raising Googles PR.

You will be hearing about him in blog posts to come as we are going to start a little head to head. He may have used the word duet, but I think controversy is what will be called for, yes Dean?

Check out this spoof he made on Google’s Page Rank. Ok, so it’s only moderately amusing (am I allowed to say that?), but it features the amazing Josh Groban, and it does continue to exhibit how Dean manages to get places as he has now managed to secure a link from my site to his. Nice work.

I know I promised this video 2 days ago, but 2 things happened:
 
1) I got tired. Sorry. It happens occassionally. I will try not to let it happen again.
 
2) I decided last minute to remove all references to a report I was promoting in the VIDEO. Not because I dont find it worthy of promoting, in fact I am.. right HERE and read below.. but I wanted the video to be more timeless and well.. have the potential to promote ME . However, instead of re-recording, I just took the same footage and chopped it up even more!
 

 

As is typical.. just as I am getting ready to do something, someone else comes along with a big bang! Andrew Cavanagh wrote a thread on the Warrior Forum suggesting similar ideas to what I mention in my video. As I suspected would happen, people were like WOW.. meaning the idea never occured to them. I did not actually see the thread in the forum. I think it was removed so he could instead pitch the idea and sell it. I advise you to check out this $19.99 product since unlike many other products where you purchase and dont know what you are getting, he has his original forum post in his sales pitch and there are no secrets.
 
What you are getting in this report (< -- link) are tips to approach businesses, lingo with with to approach them, how to build up referrals (which it really is all about), services to offer, prices to charge, outsourcing suggestions, and some basic SEO practices.. Basically helps you fill in the holes. Not to hype it up, but his price will only remain for a while, since that is the rules of this forum! Be expected for a serious hike in the next few days.
 
By the way I am quite serious about what I wrote in the video. If you go out and get the clients, I will take half (well assuming you charge them enough!), and show you how to get it done. It wont take long for you to cut out the middle man, and do it for yourself! So go ahead and click contact!

I look at web sites and they SCREAM AT ME with what they are lacking and how much more they could be earning.. Just because a business took it ‘online’, does not make them internet marketers…
 
I know there are big time companies that charge big time money for dressing in suits and using big time lingo to make you big time lost and you say… “help = here is my big time money – just make it work”.
 
There are those who can actually do it (use their IM skills to make themselves money), and others who are better at preaching it. I am not neglecting the former as an option, by any means… but I really want to do that so it can be bring me more credibility to do the latter more successfully..
 
Before I started my online business, I was actually very successful at hosting moving / estate sales in my local town. I could juggle a crowd of 100+ with no problems, and the best part of each job was that I jumped in with 2 feet, got very into it.. but then when the job was done, it was over.. I received my money and moved on to the next one. I am not quite sure why I have been sabotaging this business that was so good to me – maybe the drug of working online + having small children helped to assuage the guilt of leaving so much money on the table to try my hand at this game.
 
However, this same idea is what I now welcome…. Give me your problem, let me solve it for you, take my money.. and NEXT..
 
I mean that in the nicest way .
 
I loved doing my moving sales, and I will love helping YOU. (or your money back!)
 
~~ andrea

 

Plugins have basically made your blog (WordPress anyways) about as capable an engine as any expensive BIG website.

 

Apparantely there are these [GEEKS] throughout the world who get a kick out of creating a ‘plugin’, which is literally a zip file that is usually downloaded (for FREE) and then uploaded into your [plugin] directory of your site. Then you click ‘activate’ and VOILA… you are in business. Some require a little bit more of a learning curve than others and usually it is not too hard to find installation instructions and even video tutorials and step by step guides.

 

Go to WordPress Plugins and find the latest available. Most of the programmers offer the plugin user to donate a nickel here or there to support their Geek habits. Many of these people are still in college! The Adsense guy has it set up where you can ‘reward’ him with a %age of your earnings. This is JUST for adsense within the posts – a reasonable request considering any earnings are directly a result of his generosity.

 

I already have the standard Adsense Deluxe (technical difficulties keep me from showing you it in action here), and Akismet – to avoid spamming comment posters.SEO and Traffic being the latest ‘HOT’ topic around here, I downloaded

 

SEO Title Tag – Creates SEO Friendly Title tags,

 

Google Sitemap – Creates a Google Sitemap – loved by Google search engines

 

Ultimate Tag Warrior – Creates a Tag Cloud,
 

and SimpleTags – which add auto-linked Technorati tags to each post, either at the end of the post, or within the body of the post.

I am ‘moderately’ Tech Savvy – I am comfortable with FTP, and not scared of HTML, PHP, what have you.. so I managed to get all the plugins uploaded and activated.

 

However…I still have some WHAT NEXT questions..

 

Like I activated the Google Sitemap, but how do I get it so a viewer can see that it exists?
 

Like I am placing the proper [TAGS] around my words in my post as suggested with simple tags, but will it really appear at the bottom of this post as technorati tags?? If it DOESNT work, I am not correcting it later – so excuse the random use of []‘s.

 

Like why AM I having technical difficulties with my Adsense Plugin?? I put in the proper Google Code and all..

 

When I have the time… I know all the free resources will be available to me to get it straightened out…. unless YOU can help me??

 

~~~ ANDREA

 

 

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It seems that when it comes to the roads, noone wants traffic, but when it comes to the WEB, its ALL about the traffic.  

 

Many people, myself included, would like to believe that we are going to dump good money into a solid looking website, and then the people are just going to come.. or maybe we will email our parents and friends and that’s all it will take for the business to really take off. 

 

One of my favorite lines from one of the greatest movies in the ’80′s: 

 

“IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME”… 

 

 

It could not be LESS true with the WEB! ..