Beginner Guide for making money online

Idea of making money online looks really cool to all us as it gives us the opportunity to make great amount of money on internet and also gives us the freedom to work when we really wants to. This post is specially for you if you are beginner and looking at some ways to make money on the internet:

  1. Filling online surveys – There are many survey filling websites on internet where you get make from $1 to $75 per survey. Filling a survey will take 5-10 minutes only and can be thought of an easiest way to make money on internet when you have no blog or website of your own. But you should take cautions when you go for online filling survey websites. There are many survey websites which are just scam and exists on the internet to waste your valuable time and money. Before taking any survey on a website, spend some time on internet to inquire about what others have to say about that particular website, payment proofs, and Minimum payout and whether they are asking some kind of money before you start taking surveys. So you should be extra careful when going for making money with survey filling websites.
  2. Data Entry Jobs – Beginners can think of making some good amount of money while doing data entry jobs available on internet. Generally, we don’t require any experience or programming skills to do these jobs. There are many Freelancing websites available on internet where we can find some good data entry jobs for ourselves. Some of popular freelancing websites are Elance.com, guru.com, project4hire.com and getafreelancer.com
  3. Writing content – There are many websites where you can write content about the topics you are knowledgeable and passionate about. On such website, you get some percentage of profit when a visitor visits the page written by you. Here is the list of some Adsense revenue sharing websites
  4. Creating a blog – creating a blog gives us the opportunity to make money in many ways. And if you are new to blogging, I would suggest you create your first blog on Blogger.com. So chose a topic for your blog you are passionate or knowledgeable about. You should choose a topic you can write long post and at regular intervals. You don’t require knowledge of HTML to start a blog on Blogger.com and if you have some knowledge about HTML, that will help you create a more professional looking blog. And when we think about generating revenue from a blogger blog, you can always go for Google Adsense. With Google Adsense, we are going to get paid for every click made on an Adsense Ad. And to make more amount of money from your blog, increase the number of people that are visiting your blog on daily basis, coming from Search Engines, referral Sites or directly opening your blog.
  5. Affiliate program – Join an affiliate program like Amazon, Clickbank or LinkShare and get paid for every sale that is made via your affiliate ID. Spend some time on these affiliate sites and find some products that are someway related to your blog niche. And when you find some products in your niche, add links and banners for those products in your blog header, sidebar, footer and if applicable in your post section as well.

Adding Paypal donate button to wordpress blogger blog

Adding a ‘Paypal Donate Button’ is one of many ways like PPC, Paid blogging, Link selling, Affiliate products selling bloggers use to make money from their blogs. There is no harm in asking your blog readers to donate some bucks in your paypal account if they really like the content of your blog and want to keep it going.

Table of contents
. Why I need a paypal donation button
. Adding a Paypal Donation Button
. Add Donate button into Blogger Free Blogs
. Add Paypal button into Wordpress blogs
. Adding a Paypal donate button to a website
. Paypal icons

Why I need a paypal donation button

Adding a paypal icon on your website or blog is not a bad idea if you can provide better content and services to your website or blog readers by accepting some donations from them. You should do something special for those who give some bucks as donation to you like adding a paypal donation widget, giving something free may be some links or advertisements on your website. But we should avoid adding paypal donation widgets on our website if it’s new or is not popular in its niche as that will only show our greediness for money. And you should allow as small as $1 as donation on your website.

Adding a Paypal Donation Button

Sign into your Paypal account and if you don’t have, get a free paypal account here.

  1. Login into your Paypal account with your paypal E-mail address and password:
  2. Click on ‘Merchant Services’ Tab available in the Top Menu
  3. When you scroll down your window, you will see a ‘Donations’ link in the ‘PayPal Website Payments Standard’ heading Section.
  4. Clicking on the ‘Donate’ link will take you a form where you are asked to fill some information’s like Organization name/service, Donation ID (optional).
  5. After Filing the required information click on ‘Create Button’ link.
  6. Now you will see some HTML Code, copy it

Adding HTML code into Blogger free blogs:

  1. Sign in into your Blogger Blog and Click on the ‘Layout’ link in your dashboard
  2. Click ‘Add a Gadget’ link and select ‘HTML/JavaScript’ option
  3. Now paste the HTML code that you copied from your Paypal account and save it.
  4. Now open your blog and you will see the ‘Paypal Donate’ button in your blogspot blog sidebar. You can display Donate button wherever you want on your blog like blog Header, footer or its sidebar

Adding HTML code into Wordpress blogs

  1. Login into your Wordpress blog and go to its Dashboard
  2. Click Presentation –> Widgets
  3. Click on the content area in front of ‘Text 1’ widget
  4. Paste your HTML code in the content area available and save changes
  5. Open your Wordpress blog and check donate button will be in your blog sidebar

Paypal icons

Here are some paypal icons you can use as a donation symbol on your blogs and websites:


Best keyword Tool: WordTracker

wordtracker keywords toolKeyword research is the first step that we take when it comes about promoting a website in various search engines including Google, yahoo and MSN. Without keywords, we cannot do any kind of on-page or off-page promotion kind of stuff for a website.

If we create keywords of our own and don’t use a good keyword suggestion tool, then we may end up with no traffic/profit from a website. For getting real traffic and money from a website, we need to target the keywords that people actually search in search engines.

For the last few months, I have been using the paid version of WordTracker, the best keyword tool available today in the market. With this keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, I have been able to find what people are actually searching and how many times they are searching a particular keyword in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

You will find using keyword tool from WordTracker, easy and simple. Just place a relevant keyword in the search box available and press enter. Within few minutes time, you will get the most relevant keywords and phrases list that people actually use for finding the information they are aiming at in the last 100 days.

Cost of WordTracker Keyword Suggestion tool is not much; you have to pay just $59 if you are willing to get its subscription for a month and $329 if you have decided to get its subscription for a year.

But now there is great news for all internet marketers and bloggers who are willing to make money from their website or blog. They are offering 7 days subscription to the full version of WordTracker for free these days. To use this free subscription, we will need to create an account on WordTracker with credit card number. You will not be charged any money if you unsubscribe or cancel your subscription there before the end of one week. WordTracker will even send you a reminder when your free subscription is going to expire.

With keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, you will not be able to bring more traffic/money to your website but will also be able to know about many more new money making niches. When you have access to WordTracker keyword selection tool, you can assure yourself that you have the best keyword selection tool ever made in the market.

Google adwords Keywords suggestion Tool

Google adwords keyword tool is really helpful for people who are willing to optimize their campaigns on Google Adwords. Also this keyword tool from Google is useful for publishers and bloggers who are aiming at making money from Google adsense. The best thing about this keyword suggestion tool from Google is that it is free of cost and you don’t need to create an account on Google adwords to use it.

To start using it, open Google adwords keywords tool in your address bar. When you open this URL, you are offered to use it in two ways. One is ‘Descriptive words’ or ‘Phrases’ search and second one is ‘Website content search’.

Let’s know how to use this amazing keyword tool from Google in both ways:

Descriptive words

I started using this tool by entering ‘make money online’ in the box available, keeping ‘Use synonyms’ option checked and filling the right Captcha. The result gives me long list of keywords related to my searched term ‘make money online’ with their relevance.

With keyword relevance, there are many more options like ‘Advertiser Competition’, ‘Search Volume’ for last month, Avg search volume, ‘Search Volume Trends’ etc we can use if you are aiming at making money with Google Adwords or Google adsense. And if you are willing to get results for a particular country or Territory in a particular language, you can specify that as well in the option available. By default, Google adwords keyword tool shows results that are tailored to English, United States.

Website Content

Now go back to the top and select the ‘Website Content’ option. Now enter the Address of website or blog from which you want Google adwords keyword tool to kind the related keyword list within content. And if you want this keyword tool to find related keywords on a single page that you specify, uncheck the click against ‘Include other pages on my site linked from this URL’. And in case, you want this keyword tool to include all pages from your website for keywords finding, keep it checked.

I entered the URL of my blog http://www.scopeformoney.com in the box available and press ‘Get Keywords idea’ button. This time also, I got a list of keywords with drop down menu and could view this list in various forms according to my requirements.

For my blog Scopeformoney, I get the following results:
Since I blog about making money online, PPC, search engine optimization, affiliate programs, keywords, adwords & blogging, I don’t see any problem with these results.

For every keyword, there is a list of related keywords or phrases with search volume.

Google adwords keywords tool is surely helpful for advertisers who aim at optimizing their ads and keywords in Google adwords. But with this bloggers and publishers as well can use it to earn more money with Google adsense contextual advertising.

How to use Google Trends to make money online

This post is helpful for guys who are new to blogging or looking for addition post ideas for their blogs to earn extra amount of money from their blogs:

  1. Using Google Trends: Have you ever used Google trends, if not you are missing a big resource that can be used for new post ideas, driving traffic and making extra money for a particular searched term from different search engines including Google and Yahoo with your blog. What we get from Google Trends:
    • A line graph showing search volume trend with different time frames for a search term
    • Top regions, cities and language for that search term
    • Latest news items about a searched terms on Google news
    • Top 100 hot searched terms which changes frequently (within few minutes time)
    • When we make search with a website URL, we get:
      1. Visitor traffic trend for that website
      2. Top region and sub region where the website is most searched
      3. Also visited websites list
      4. Also searched for Terms list
  2. Creating blogs: create a blog on Wordpress or blogger about the topics you are someway knowledgeable about and willing to blog about. If you find some hot topic in Google trend, you are passionate about, instantly start a blog about or around that topic.
  3. Creating content: With topic in mind to blog about, create some post for your blog of 200 to 400 words. And if you are not willing or don’t have time to write, take help from some professional content writer. And get some quality links for your blog from your own resources and fellow bloggers
  4. Drive traffic: now look for ways to bring some traffic to your blog. You can use social media websites like Digg.com, propeller, Delicious, StumbleUpon or Yahoo buzz to bring traffic and index your content in search engines. Don’t forget to ping Pingomatic and Technorati whenever you add new content on your blog.
  5. Google Adsense: when you notice some decent traffic on your blog, look for ways to monetize it. And when we talk about blog monetization, the first thing that comes in my mind is Google Adsense. Adsense is a pay per click service offered by Google for website owners and bloggers where we get paid for every click that is made on an Adsense Ad on our blog or website. And the amount of money we will be able to make from Google Adsense depends on our blog niche. Google has lots of banners we can test on our blog and go ahead with the ad formats which perform best on your blog.
  6. Affiliate options: if you have a blog about particular niche, you should look at the option of making money in affiliate marketing arena as well. First of all check if there is some stuff related to your blog niche on Amazon and eBay. You can also try other affiliate channels like ClickBank, LinkShare, Commission Junction, Shareasale, AzoogleAds.com etc.

Where to find profitable niches to make money online?

Making money online is everyone’s dream. But to convert these dreams into reality, we must have some online existence in the form of a website or a blog. And when we think about our blog niche, it should be profitable and have the ability to earn money. It becomes really difficult to monetize a blog which is created with no particular niche in mind. Before creating a blog, we must have its niche in our mind and the kind of monetization we will be doing with this blog. In today’s article, I’m going to introduce some free resource we can use to find a profitable niche to make money from our blogs. And when you visit these resources, you will know about many more profitable niches you were unaware about:

  1. Google Trends: Google Trends is the first place we should visit to find the hottest topics for the day. List of hot topics changes within every few minutes and by clicking any of hot topic, we get lot more information about that topic like:
    • Its search volume graph
    • Peak time
    • Latest news articles about that topic
    • Coverage in the blogsphere
    • Web results about that topic
  2. Lycos top 50 list: Lycos also offers top 50 list for this week which is updated every week.
  3. Yahoo Buzz: Yahoo buzz gives the list of top 10 searches which is updated hourly.
  4. Amazon and EBay: spend some time here on Amazon and EBay websites searching the terms you want to blog about. If you find some products available for the terms you searched, that niche is profitable. And if you see lots of products available for that term, your niche is highly profitable but highly competitive as well.
  5. Classified websites: search classified websites and newspapers for additional product and service ideas.
  6. Shopping.com top search list: Shopping.com has a list of top 100 searches that are updated after every two weeks. And for each search term, they have collection of around 5000 keywords related to that search term. So shopping.com is a must check website as they have lots of information about what people are actually searching to reach their targeted products.
  7. About.com: About.com has lots of original content about every niche. They have hundreds of experts sharing their knowledge and experiences with their content on About.com.
  8. Answer websites: while looking for more niches to blog about, you can try question answer websites like:
  9. Dmoz open directory project: Dmoz is most trusted web directory used by all major search engines. Browse this directory to get a list of some of existing websites in any niche.
  10. Popular groups: spend some time on popular groups like Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, MSN groups and Myspace groups etc. Make search with keywords of your niche and go through the results carefully to get more valuable stuff about your niche.
  11. Discussion Forums: spend some time in discussion forums in your niche. Pick some popular forum in your niche with lots of users and when you have decided your niche, promote your blog on those discussion forums in your signature section.
  12. Using keywords tools: By now you must have created a list of keywords or long tail phrases you want to promote your website for. Now its the time to check other stats like:
    • How many websites are actually competing for these keywords
    • Number of searches for these keywords
    • Advertiser competition
    • More related keywords and search terms etc

    Some of keywords tool you can try are:

  13. Google search: Go to Google.com and type in the keywords you want to target for your upcoming blog. If you see some or lots of ads for those keywords in the Ads section, you have chosen a profitable niche. You can see an example of Dog training which is highly profitable niche: