Friday 4 October 2013

5 Simple Steps to Start Your Online Earnings

There are many roads that one can go through to start a  great online career.  Here's my experience of earning money online. This is just a starter guide for beginners on How to Earn Money Online or Earn Money from One's Blog.


 Step # 1 

Niche

Decide on a niche to write and concentrate on. Some examples are fashion, gadgets review, home decor, toys, etc etc. One can write on a broad range of topics  but a niche will work better. I stress enough on its importance. It will make one an expert on various topics surrounding a smaller area. For example home decor can divert to interiors, examples of great interiors, indoor plants and their care, importance of colours, etc. All the while one will also be talking about a domain one loves.

 Step # 2

Platform

Decide on a platform to write on. Platform means the place where one can start to provide content. there are many sites where one can create their own blog. I use Bloggers from Google and have not been able to get away from it. If one has serious content, it is better to get one's own domain or website and develop it. Wordpress too provides a great platform for blogging.

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There are many google adsense sharing  sites where one can provide content and the sites share their adsense revenue. For that one needs to create a google adsense account. Google adsense is the google ad network providing contextual ads (or ads related to the content, context) on the page.

The advantage of starting this way is that these sites already have a following and they take care of the basic maintenance and SEO. One just needs to write good content on a topic.

Step # 3

Publicise

There are simple tools one can use to publicise after one has put in content. Talk about your blog. Give the link at Facebook, use google plus, provide a link on our email id, etc etc These are just simple steps to start with for newbies. Facebook pages and FB ads are serious advertising tools now and will easily reach the targetted audience. But the problem with a serious audience is that they expect regular and  unique content. Too much publicity at an early state of development can work negatively.


Step # 4

Monetise


The next step is to monetise one's blog/domain/content.

One can sign up for various ad networks which provide intext ads (like infolinks), contextual ads (like google adsense, chitika) or adcash, yahoo publisher networks.


Another way to earn serious  money is to sign up as an affiliate. Amazon affiliate works well for starters.



If one decides to sell products as an affiliate sometime - a niche domain that already has a following will work sweetly. One can easily review products related to that domain for a great chance for sale and earn commission.

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Step # 5

Doing too much

One would do better not to read too much material on how to make money online. They tend to confuse and pull one in different directions. It is always better to just start off with one system. After one is more familiar with the system and concept one can decide on the next step and do more literature search.

The above are some basic steps to kick off. Enjoy the process!

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