Blogging your way to Income Online

Blogging is one way you can use to make easy money online. A blog is just like a website but it is much more interactive and easier to manage. How does a blog work?

Well, to begin with you will need to identify which program you would like to use like Blogger or Wordpress. In our case we shall use Blogger. Blogger is a blog program from Google. It’s free to use and doesn’t require you to pay for domain name or for hosting. It’s also very easy to use and you don’t need to know html.

Now, if your choice is blogger you will have to sign up or if you already have a google account you can choose to use it for blogger. After doing that you can now sign in and create your blog. Of course you will not just create a blog just for the sake of it; you will need to think about what you will be posting in your blog. Because you want to make money with your blog, think about a topic that you think will be searched for by internet users. This is what is known as ‘Niche’. Note that you don’t want to choose a niche that is highly searched (one that could be having tens of millions of sites competing for that niche). For selecting your niche you will need to use a keyword tool and google adword:keyword tool which is absolutely free to use is a good one.

If you get your niche, you might want to use the keywords in your url and in the Title of your blog. If you can’t on your url, your blog title will suffice. This is primarily for search engine optimization purposes.

Once you have completed your selection, you can now go and publish your first post. Just click new post and type. This should be about your blog and a welcoming message to your expected readers. Always use your keywords in your posts but not too much-you will be penalized by search engines. Ensure it is also used sensibly. After finishing, click publish and view your post.

Getting your blog indexed

This is getting listed on the search engines for search results. If you take your url with the http and do a search, you will not find any listing of your blog. So how do you get your blog indexed?

First, submit your site to search engines. Just do a search on the search engine on how to submit a site and you will get directions.

Secondly, submit your site to internet directories. Use the free option and submit to as many as possible each day. This is one of the best way get your site indexed quickly.

Finally, use article directories. Read more here.

Bringing in traffic to your blog

This is the most important aspect of getting your blog ranked by search engines. The higher the traffic to your blog, the more importance the search engines will give to your blog.

To effectively bring in traffic, there are things that you will need to implement.

1.    Use article directories. If you write good articles and post them to article directories, chances are you might get visitors to your site or your article will be republished on other sites giving you baclinks-which are very important in ranking on search engines and you will need many to even be ranked on 1.
2.    Comment on other blogs leaving your url on the option for-your website url but don’t spam.
3.    Use social networking sites to market your blog like facebook.
4.    Put lots of content on your site but it should be unique. Search engines love fresh content.
5.    Comment on forums related to your blog.
6.    Use yahoo answers.

If you get good traffic you can monetize(but you can also monetize prior to getting traffic) your site with google adsense, amazon or other affiliate programs like Clickbank, Paydotcom or a product that you have depending on the niche you had selected. Blogger already has monetization options for google adsense and amazon associates.

That’s it for now but check out other posts to see whether you can make easy money online with a home opportunity.

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Revenue Sharing Sites

Revenue sharing sites is another great way of making easy money online. These are sites which have a certain way of splitting money earned through their site with its members. Some allow you to submit your google adsense code so that when you have written a topic and posted it, relevant ads will be displayed alongside your material. Now, when a visitor clicks on one of the ads, money is earned. But not all the money goes to your account; it will be shared between you and the site depending on the ratio stipulated by the revenue sharing site but you will be paid directly by Google. You might use others like E-bay, Amazon or Kontera.

Some Revenue sharing sites work in same way as article directories though the major difference is that you earn money (though there are article directories which share revenue with the writer) . It also incorporates some form of social networking where like in one of the most popular RSS-Hubpages you can follow a hubber or be followed thus building up a network. This will assist you in making friends and possibly if you are doing business online, build a network of loyal followers who can be your customers for your products.

Another thing to note is that these sites offer you a broader channel of writing than your blog or website. While on your blog you will only concentrate on one niche, on a revenue sharing site you will write on different niches and earn money with them. And again you don’t have to optimize like your sites, RSS already have high traffic and it’s up to you to come up with interesting and informative material to capture this great potential of earning with adsense or to sell a product or any other mode depending on the chosen site.

Now this is basic info but you can go directly to those sites to find out more.
1.    Hubpages
2.    Helium
3.    Squidoo
4.    Trend Hunter
5.    Articles Revenue

There are other sites and as always, you can look up with Google.

Remember to fully understand the policies of the respective advertising companies when you sign up with them. Like in Google's adsense there is the aspect of click fraud and sites which are in violation of any of the adsense policies.

Well, that’s all for now. Hope you have found this insightful towards making easy money online with a home opportunity.

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Freelancing can be a Source of Income Online

Freelance sites post jobs which have been outsourced to them by publishers. This is also a great way to use to make easy money online though as with many ventures on making money online it’s also very competitive. These jobs are of a wide range like web design, programming, article writing and many others.

What happens here is that you will first need to sign up for free to become a member. Before signing up make sure you identify what payment system they use to see if it’s available to you. After that you will now be able to bid for the advertised jobs from the category of your choice. The publisher bids usually have a time limit before they expire. Now, if the publisher likes your bid, you will be awarded the job.

To give you a competitive edge you will need to have a portfolio of yourself. This will comprise a detailed info of your profile and samples of the kind of work you have done previously. You can use a free blog to host this if you don’t have the resources to do it on a website. This is a very important aspect of freelancing because it will advertise you as well as give a professional impression to your would be employer.


Well, that’s just a brief intro but I will give you a list of a few sites which you can check out for more detailed info.
1.    Elance.com
2.    Guru.com
3.    Rentacoder.com
4.    Programmingbids.com
5.    Allfreelancework.com
6.    Freelancer.com

This list is not in order of ranking, popularity or size of company. For more companies, you can google “freelance sites”.

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A Quick Look at Forex Trade

Today, I would like us to look at different aspect of making easy money online. Forex Trading. Let me say upfront this is not an easy way of making money online. I have been there and done it. Forex Trading is not for the feint-hearted, you have to have nerves of steel and a very strong mind-set.

There are a couple of pointers that you will need to consider if you would like to enter into this lucrative business. But before we look at them lets get up to speed as to know the basics of Forex Trade. Forex Trade involves the buying and selling of currencies. A good example is, let’s say you go to your local bank (in this case we are going to use USA for purposes of explanation) with Euro currency with the purpose of reverting it back o US Dollar. You will be selling the Euro to the bank. If you were exchanging the dollar for the Euro, you will be buying. If you had bought the Euro at 1.4550 and you sell it at 1.4450, you will have made a loss of 0.0100. But, if let’s say selling price was 1.4650, you will have made 0.0100 profit.

From the example, Forex Trade with brokers works in similar fashion only that it leveraged by the broker. (We will get to talk about leverage later). Mostly, Forex involves speculation in that you predict the direction the price is going to move-which is usually two-way up (buy) and down (sell).If you predict the price is going to go up and you are correct, then you make a profit and vise versa. But it’s not just a straight forward prediction, you will have to use a few things to arrive at your opinion but it is usually of two kinds.
1. Technical analysis
2. Fundamental analysis


Technical analysis involves the reading of charts of various periods ranging from 1 minute to monthly and using an array of tools at your disposal like moving averages, macd, parabolic sar, trendlines, Fibonacci and many others that help you predict future price action.

Fundamental analysis involves price action being determined by economic announcements made by countries concerning the state of the economy or news which impact on the specific currency. Usually, economic announcements are set at specific dates and times but news can occur at any time causing a price spike. But both cause short term effects in determining the future price action.

Leverage is what makes it possible for small investors to participate in Forex Trade. To trade forex as a small investor you will have required a lot of money but leverage takes this out of the picture. Let’s use the previous example to get this. Now, if you had 100 USD, the profit/loss would be 1 USD-not much. But if it was through a broker in Forex Trade, the broker gives you money that is not yours for purposes of opening a trade. Here, the 100 USD will be increased (leveraged) to let’s say 1000 USD thus the profit/ loss you make would be 10 USD-quite a big difference. This is what makes Forex Trade through brokers interesting as well as challenging.

Depending on the account you open with a broker you can make easy money online with Forex but at the same time huge losses. Therefore you will have to learn all that is required first before diving in-usually 2 years minimum. There are free resources online to get you started or check out: Forex Strategies Revealed and Investopedia.

In summary, this is what you will require to start your Forex Business:

1.Internet Connection-should be fast and reliable for dealing purposes.
2.Forex Education-use free resources online like those provided earlier.
3.Chose a reliable forex broker:just google 'forex brokers' to find one and preferably one that supports MT4.But be cautious,there are those that might rip you off(do thorough research).
4. Strategy-your plan on how you are going to open trades and close trades.Read more.
5. Money for opening a live account-can be opened with as low as 100usd. For demo (is for purposes of testing your strategy and to know your way around the broker platform), no money is required.
6. A very strong mind set. This is what will make or break you. Don’t enter forex with the notion that it is a get rich quick endeavor. Suppress your greed.

Well it is a good home opportunity, try it out and see whether it will make easy money online for you.

Disclaimer: Forex Trade involves a high level of risk. While you can make huge profits you can also make huge losses. Don’t use money which you can’t afford to lose.

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