Make Money Online Reviews: How To Make Money Online

Image by baxiabhishek via Flickr“How would I earn money online?” is on the lips of pretty everyone that asks me how I make a living on the internet. Then I make them take me for a coffee or I won’t tell them. Ok, not really, I tell them anyways.

Pretty much the first thing I tell them is to NOT quit their day job, like I did. It does take time to match your income to your salary and all the benefits you get so stay employed.

Next I make sure I don’t tell them it’s simple. So many people start with ‘It’s simple, all you do is…’ That just sets them up for disappointment when it doesn’t happen quite the way they expect it to, like over night.

Most of the people I talk to soon find out how much I love my hobbies because I love to talk about them. Before you know it in a conversation like that you pick up on the hobbies they have as well and that’s my starting place.

I earn money online talking about my hobbies and if you spend money on your hobbies you most likely can make money online for free talking about them like I do.

I really like blogs over static websites, especially when I am talking about the things I talk about every day. The blog just updates the search engines faster and people tend to find blogs easier to read.

Blogs are like a journal where you can write what’s on your mind every day or so. Sometimes I write once every two or three days, other times every day and sometimes multiple times a day.

Now I said you could make money online for free and it’s true.

Step One - Get a free blogging account.

I have used Blogger.com and Wordpress.org for a few of my blogs but later made the choice to purchase my own domains which I feel gives me more control over what I can write without the fear of losing my account.

Step Two - Don’t try to monitize your blog too soon.

And when you do don’t go wild and scare your visitors with ads every where. If you are tempted to put ads up you may find your readers don’t like it. Let them get to know you first and they will learn to trust you because you feed them great content.

Step Three - Stay for the long haul.

That is why I told you not to quit your day job.

I have a few hobby blogs that took me about 3 months to start producing the results I wanted and that’s when I started to earn money online from them. Unfortunately most people or new marketers can’t seem to keep focused over the long haul and never earn enough to keep them going.

Step Four - Take the time to create great content.

It’s a fact that poor quality content doesn’t get read much and if it does it doesn’t get read completely. Sure how you made it this far.

When I first started blogging I felt pressured to come up with content at the snap of a finger but that’s not really the case. I now take a bit of time and put my articles and posts together over a period of days.

Creating content over time allows you to think about it and gather better info in you need to.

I will also create content for multiple posts will my mind is rolling in that direction. I don’t have to publish these posts at the same time. I will time stamp them with the date I want them to appear for my readers.

This post on ‘How To Earn Money Online’ was created three days before I actually posted it but I set the date at the same time I created the post.

This allows me to give content to my readers when I am off fly fishing with friends or out jammin’ on my guitar or what ever I want to be doing that isn’t in my office.

NOTE: I didn’t add any advertising sites for you because I don’t want you to put advertising on your blog until you have been blogging for a month or more.

Related articles

• A Brief History of the Universe of Blogging [via Zemanta]
• Forum Marketing How To [via Zemanta]
• 12 Reasons Why You Should Start a Blog [via Zemanta]