Weekend Internet Money Project - Internet Vending Machines

Do you remember when you were a kid and you have that littlepiggy bank. Every now and then, your mom or dad, or youruncles and aunties come by and drop in a few coins for you.

What if I can show how to have that again - even if you are70? That would be great right? No saving effort, yet youhave a small little saving that you put a way every now andthen.

Infact, later I will even show you how to turn this piggybank into a line of vending machines, scattered all overthe internet. You will have money thrown at your everyday,around the clock.

So here's your weekend internet money project, generatingthat little change for the rainy days.

I have been on the internet since 1997 and I think that nowis the easiest time for you to make money from the internet.

Of course there are many ways for you to make money on theinternet. But the easiest would in a way which you don'thave to do a lot of things - no money handling, processingorders, no shipping or any of those things.

And even in times when you have to work, why not be itsomething that you like doing.

Consider this famous quote -

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

And I think it is true. Doing something that you love isnever a work. It is never a job - it's passion.

Now back to the weekend internet money project.

Why don't you start considering what is it that you love andpassionate about. What you should do is share with the worldabout it. How? - Build a website.

Today, building a website is child's play. A seven-year oldcan show you how to build a website. And even if you aretotally blur about the internet and computers, there aremany tools and software that can help you with this.

Let's not go into detail on this. Let's talk about how tomake money.

The big question is - How to generate money from yourwebsite. Now this is no secret. There are only two ways tomake money from you website - the easy way.

1 - Google Adsense (http://www.google.com/adsense)
2 - Affiliate Programs

Let's talk about Google Adsense. When you have build yourwebsite, register for Google Adsense program and startearning money for every clicks that you refer toadvertisers. Just sign-up, get the advertising code and putit in your website. And that's it.

Google Adsense has a technology that will show relevant adson your website. If your website talks about babies, GoogleAdsense will display ads on baby products. This will indeedincrease clicks on the ads and increase you earning fromGoogle Adsense.

Before you know it, this little website IS your little piggybank. But instead of having you mom or dad fill it in, youhave somebody that you don't even know, willingly giving youtheir spare change.

I can't say how much you can really earn. Some clicks giveyou $1.23 and some just gives you $0.06. That all depends onthe industry and how competitive that industry isadvertising. But whenever anyone gives me a spare change, I take it.

Now, let's talk about affiliate programs. How does thiswork? This is again about advertising, but instead ofearning by every click, you earn bigger money, but for everysales that occur.

The miracle of the internet has been able to track visitorsfrom your website and being able to tell whether or not theypurchased anything at the advertisers' website.

Unlike earning by clicks, a sales doesn't occur as often.But with affiliate programs, you earn more. You may beearning $0.23 for a click but you can earn $50 for a sale.

There are numerous affiliat programs on the internet. Someof the famous on would be like the one I list below

1 - Commission Junction - http://www.cj.com
2 - Linkshare - http://www.linkshare.com
3 - ShareASale - http://www.shareasale.com
4 - Dark Blue - http://www.darkblue.com
5 - ClickBank - http://www.clickbank.com
... and there are more ...

What you should do with affiliate programs is choose themost relevant affiliate programs to your website, and thenstart promoting them in your website. If you have a websiteabout babies, find an affiliate programs on baby products.That is the way to do it.

Some affiliate programs indeed offer the $80 commission persale but if that product is not related to your website, Idoubt that any sale is to occur.

Now, we've talked about the opportunity of the internet andbuilding your small piggy bank ... now let's talk about theaction plan.

1 - Build Your Website

This is easy. Here are some tools that you can use that willhelp you make building and maintaining your website almosteffortless.

Hosted Solution

- Site Build It - http://www.sitesell.com
- Website Wizard - http://www.websitewizard.com
- Third Sphere Hosting - http://www.thirdsphere.com
- GoDaddy! - http://www.godaddy.com

Free WYSIWYG Web Page Editors

- Amaya - http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
- WebPage - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
- WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
- 1st Page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage/

2 - Always Update Your Website With Fresh Content

In your free time, always write more about the thing thatyou are passionate about. Just let the ideas pour in andwrite whatever it is that you are thinking about.

Some Other Tips I Can Share

Now, is there more things that I share? Well, yes! Justconsider the following.

Tip #1 - Is There a Market for Your Topic?

Try considering how many other people have the same interestas you. If there are many people that have the same interestas you, they are your possible visitors. What you can do thecheck this out is to check how many people are searching forthe related field.

Try out Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool where you cancheck out how many times a keyword was searched for theprevious month. If there aren't many, you may have a websitewith no visitors.

Run through all the keywords relating to your passion in thetool and see. You might even find a topic that you canreally focus on rather than a very broad topic. If you likecats, try cat food, cat care, cat clothing ...

If there are about 5,000 searches minimum for that keyword,you can go with that.

http://inventory.overture.com

Tip #2 - Learn a Little Bit of Search Engine Optimization

This is the skill in which you try to get good listing insearch engines.

Now, don't get too hooked up on this. Just do the basics.Learn a thing or two and start implementing it in yourwebsite. You can about this at the following website.

- http://searchenginewatch.com/
- http://searchguild.com/
- http://www.lilengine.com/

Tip #3 - Get People To Link To You

Now, on top of writing fresh new content for your website,why not every now and then, find another website and askthat website to link to you. You can even ask them to linkto a specific article that you have.

You benefit in two ways from this. One, the visitors on theother website can know about your website and come over.Two, search engines like websites with many incoming links.So having many incoming links can boost your listing in thesearch engines.

Tip #4 - Turn Piggy Bank Into Vending Machines

Now, here's a big tip. Because when everything is up andrunning, you don't really have to do much - you can buildmore website. Each of this websites is like another piggybank. But because you have so many of them, in every cornerof the internet - it's like having vending machines in everycorner of the town.

Now - how great is that?

In fact this is better than having vending machines. Youdon't have to refill them, you don't have to get out of yourhouse - it's great.

Infact I myself is in the process of building my own smallvending machines all over the net. I have a site onpaintball, I have a site on airsoft, I have a site oncomputer cases, and a few more. And I want to add more.

When ever you feel like it's time for a new website, justthink about what else you are interested in and start thework all over again.

So I guess that is all. To sum it all up, here is a shortsummary action plan for you.

1 - Find a field that you are interested in
2 - Qualify with Overture Search Term Tool
3 - Build your website
4 - Build links
5 - Build more content

So ... I wish you well. Start building your piggy bank ...err ... I mean your vending machines.