Making money online is nothing new, but it’s gotten a bad reputation because of all the unscrupulous wheelers and dealers out there, preying on people who are eagerly looking for opportunities to make some extra money to ease their financial situation.

I’ve seen plenty of these wolves in sheep’s clothing, and unfortunately, I’ve even fallen victim to a few of them myself when I was starting out online. Cutting through their bushels of crap seems to be kind of a right of passage for aspiring internet marketers.

If you’ve been taken by these types, don’t feel bad, you’re truly not alone. The good thing is that you recognize that the stuff they’re peddling isn’t going to get you anywhere but the poor house. Now you’re looking for the real deal – the type of information that produces real monetary results for real effort.

I want to make extra income. Are there any honest ways to earn money online?

Luckily, you’ve found this article, because I am more than happy to let you know the answer to your question is – YES!

Every day there are numerous people, who were once in your shoes, who now make a good, honest living by working for themselves online. Notice I said the word WORK. To make decent money at this, you have to actually do something that produces financial returns.

Examples:

If you are a waitress, you make money by serving customers their meals. In return for good service, you get paid in cash tips.

If you are an office manager, you make money by supervising people and making sure they produce the results your company wants. You get paid for making your department successful.

If you are a teacher, you prepare lesson plans, show up everyday for class and make sure your students are absorbing enough knowledge to pass your class. You get paid for educating your students.

Making money online is the same as making money offline, you’ve got to produce something valuable that people want in order to get paid.

Okay, so I know from personal experience that there are three very popular ways to make money online that a lot of people are having great success with. 

Create an Affiliate Website or Blog

Do a search in Google for just about any subject and you’ll see information websites and blogs pop up. Some have hundreds of pages of information, while others have only 5 to 10 pages. Many of the sites you see will be promoting affiliate products.

This method is popular because it’s relatively easy to do. Research a topic, set up a website or blog and add your content. Sign up for affiliate programs with sites like Commission Junction, LinkShare, PepperJam or Clickbank. Add affiliate product links and/or images to your site and then work on getting visitors to your pages.

When visitors click on your affiliate link and make a purchase, you get a percentage of the sale – normally called a commission. In most cases, you’ll receive a check (as long as you make the minimum amount) in about 30 days after the pay period ends.

Be prepared to create a really good information site that focuses on helping your visitors with the subject they’re researching. The better the information you provide, the better reputation your site or blog gets, which results in more visitors – an increase in visitors often means an increase in the amount of your affiliate check.

Create Your Own Information Product

Another area that people are having a lot of success with online is creating information products and selling their information in the form of an ebook. This requires some effort on your part to gather the information, put it in a nicely laid out readable format, upload it to a website, hook it up to a payment processor like Paypal or Clickbank, then promote it to the public for the amount you’ve set.

For the content, you can use your own information that you’ve researched from scratch, or you can purchase the rights to use information put together by someone else. Either way, you can sell your ebook and keep all the profits for yourself.

If you choose this method, be sure not to limit your aspirations to the overcrowded internet marketing niche. People are searching for information for all kinds of things. You can make good money selling information to a small, but eager group of folks hungry for what you offer. Just make sure you do your research first to see if your targeted group is willing to spend money for this information. You don’t want to waste your precious time creating a product that no one wants.

Writer for Hire

As the internet grows and more people come online, there is a growing need for good writers who can create content for websites, blogs, forums and articles. Many people don’t like to write or want to, but aren’t good at it, yet they need compelling content to attract visitors to their site.

As a writer for hire, you would offer your writing services and create this content for them at a reasonable rate. When deciding what to charge, make sure you do your research before setting rates. There are writers who charge very low and others who charge at the higher end.

You may need to charge a lower rate when starting out, then as you build your credibility and obtain more clients, you can adjust your rates as you see fit.

Writing for online clients takes discipline and the ability to meet deadlines. If you can handle yourself professionally, you’ll find a never ending supply of clients willing to pay you for putting words on a page.

I’ve highlighted three great ways that you can make money doing honest work online. If you do a little more research, you’ll discover many more options available to you.

What you doesn’t know

After reading this article you will know why Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank (BTTB for short) is worth a review.

Blogging To The Bank 3.0 is an upgrade or addition to the previous ebook report that Rob published not so long years ago. Basically it teaches you how to make money with your blogs, and not only making money, teaches you how to become a super-affiliate, promoting other people products using your blog.

In his report, he teaches the 7 Step Blueprint to Become a Super Affiliate Using Free Blogs.

#1 Researching the Market:
This is the foundation in which you’ll learn if the market is hungry for your offer, researching using free tools like Google keywords or free Wordtracker or choosing the right keywords is essential for a successful “affiliate” blog.

I use Google Suggestor to show related keywords. It’s a software that is no longer available in the market, basically it fetches keywords in Google searches and suggest related keywords and keywords modifiers.

It’s very important and crucial in researching your niche because you want to decide if you want to crush or dominate your competition by being a research junkie. The tools and resources are free, sometimes there are paid services but you can still do away with free tools available online.

#2 Creating Your Blog
This next step is like building your house. This is where you want to place all your contents like your videos, your articles, your audios downloadable free report. Creating a blog is not difficult. You can start creating a free blog at Blogspot.com or WordPress.com. Go there and create an account, start entering new post about the niche you are researching in step 1 and you are almost there.

If you already have an experience, you can have your own blog hosted with your own domain name such as myownwebsite.com/blog and brand yourself as the next superstar in blogging. And the most popular blogging software is WordPress, it’s free, you can install it through your website control panel, or just upload it via FTP on to your website root directory or folder. If you are new however (or a newbie, you don’t know anything about FTP, etc) then I suggest get this newbie profit system how to start your online business from scratch.

#3 Monetizing Your Blogs
In this step, you need to learn how to place ads, banners and monetizing ideas on your blog. These are ads you’ve seen on most blogs. If you wonder how and where you can get products to promote go to Clickbank.com marketplace and search by category and enter keywords that fit about your niche blog.

You can also place Google Adsense on your blog, or Clickbank hopfeed. The possibilities of monetizing your blog is endless but do not overdo it. Sometimes, it become annoying that instead you keep your readers they will just stay away.

Hot tip: Instead of placing lots of ads on your website, focus on getting them into your list and create a special page that target them alongside the ad. That will increase clickthrough and conversion!

#4 Getting Content:
If you are lazy creating contents for your blog, you can buy private label right articles, modify them, change the synonyms of the keywords you are bidding and post them on your blog. Or, you can go to scriptlance, bid someone who can write for you for an article, it’s doesn’t cost too much maybe $2-$5 as much as $15 per article depending on your niche really.

Another way, is to let your subscribers have the right to create articles on your blog, give them incentives, whatever and you have new and fresh articles every post. Instead of them being subscribers, you let them become Editors and Authors.

#5 Blogging Tips
This step, Rob Benwell layout his tips on blogging. How to optimize your website with keywords, where and how to place keywords, linking, the whole bunch of stuff. It’s how to optimized your keywords in the search engine ranking. Also, submitting your RSS to different feeds is one way to boost your blog’s visibility.

My tip: Search your competitor, examine his blog, be a spy and as much possible dominate them by making your blog better.

#6 Getting Your Blog Seen
This step is one of the important elements of a successful blog, you need to get traffic to your blog. Without traffic, nobody will know you have something to offer. You need traffic so that people will learn about some stuff you promote to make you money.

How to get traffic? How to generate traffic to your blog?

There are many ways, some simple some complicated. Some involve money or lots of money and then some are free as you see there are various ways.

First the most effective way is write an article and submit it to article directory. And you only submit to those article directory that are high value PR sites which can drive traffic. I recommend you can start with Ezinearticles but there are still others that worth the try and get your blog rank high in Google searches.

The other method is press release, there are free press release site but also there are paid site like PRweb but it’s worth it. You can also get traffic through forums by being a forum member, it’s only a slow traffic if you do it through forum. Try going to WarriorForum and register an account. Build a reputation and you then have ways to post your blog url in the signature or offer people about what’s in your blog.

Other ways for effective traffic is Web2.0 (there’s a lot of ways how to do this and will be beyond the scoop of this article), comment posting and blackhat or grey hat methods (I won’t elaborate more on this methods because that’s another topic)

#7 Creating a Network
Here he teaches you how to interlink your blogs, once you get the hang of it you can start linking each other to form a network.

Now, that’s in his last BTTB and now that he released his BTTB version 3, he added software into the mix. Article Assistance and Blog Announce Pro

He also provided a whitehat and blackhat PDF report that shows how to get you and your blog into one of the elite. In other words, techniques how to a successful blogger using whitehat and blackhat strategies.

There’s a bonus included which is 5 niche products – wedding planning, quit smoking, golf, dog training and discusfish.

CONCLUSION, Straight From the Horses Mouth

Blogging to the bank may not be for you, if you are already earning $5K~$20K or $30K as a professional blogger because almost all of the stuff is already known to you, except only for the fact that in his whitehat and blackhat strategy report, I find it new so you can still learn from his Blogging To The Bank 3.0

If you are an experienced blogger but haven’t meet your desired income consistently, you still need to learn Rob Benwell stuff, more importantly his softwares, Article Assistance and Blog Announcer Pro and also the report – whitehat.df and blackhat.pdf. Itr’s worth that price of his $37 BTTB3.

So, I recommend it, I use it and I’m on my way bloging my way to the bank.

Click here to Go to Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank 3.0