What is the Key To Making Money Online?

As most of you know, I have been focused on learning how to make money online.  I have been creating Squidoo lenses where I have been promoting affiliate products.  I have been creating niche WordPress sites focused on very narrow niches and keywords.  I have been creating niche Blogger blogs.  And, I am about to purchase the Build a Niche Store software so that I can more easily sell ebay products.

This might sound simple, but it is something we all have to learn.  You have to create websites and create content on the web in order to make money online.  The biggest mistake that I tend to make is not creating enough content.

As stated in Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come.”  Well, I am not sure that it is that easy, but I promise you that if you don’t build it, they will not come and you will not make any money online.

Most of the Internet marketers and bloggers that I have met who are making money online have many sources or streams of income.  It is imperative that you start creating you multiple streams of income.

Why not just stick to one website?

If you are already meeting your financial goals with one website, then go for it.  Stick with that one site.  However, most of us are finding it pretty difficult to make money from just one website.  Especially in the how to blog or how to make money online niche.  So, go out there and create new websites.

Each new income stream that I try to produce I learn something new.  I have a very specific focused strategy with Squidoo.  And, I can tell you that I am now making some pretty decent money with Squidoo.  I am also learning how to make made for adsense blogs.  But, what I am learning is that I am not going to be able to retire off of one website.  I am going to have to build a ton of them.

So what different ways are you trying to make money online?

Tools that I have reviewed:

• Secret Income Streams
• Micro Niche Finder
• Viral Mini Sites

Hey Fred, did you just say that I should pick a niche that I hate?  Absolutely!

Too often  I hear bloggers talk about the need to like what you are blogging about. Over the last year, I have learned that this is complete hogwash.  Well, at least partially.  Let’s explore this a little further.

For me, I break down blogging into two high level categories: flagship blogs and niche blogs.  My flagship blog is Newest on the Net.  However, I don’t make much money with Newest on the Net.  On the other hand, my money blogs are my niche blogs.  And, let me tell you a secret for these niche blogs.  DON’T BLOG ABOUT WHAT YOU LIKE.  BLOG ABOUT WHAT CAN MAKE YOU MONEY.

That was a very important lesson for me to learn.  Every thing that I read said that I needed to blog about something that I am passionate in.  But, you know what?  For my niche blogs, I am passionate about making money.  I am not doing these niche blogs to gather a huge following of RSS subscribers.  I am creating these niche blogs to made money.

I have learned that I really don’t need to like what I am writing about.  I just need to research the niche very thoroughly, and write articles from this research.  And, despite not always loving the topics that I am writing about, I am motivated by learning more about Internet marketing, blogging for money, etc.

This is an important thing for us bloggers to learn.  Sometimes you need to go against the grain.  Don’t always listen to the professional bloggers.

If you need a good free backlink checker, I have the tool for you.  As many of you know, when you are trying to increase your search engine page results with Google you need lots of backlinks to your website.  I have been trying to find a good tool to see who is linking to my websites.  I have also been trying to find a good tool to show me the backlinks of the pages that rank higher than me.

The free backlink checker is Domain-Pop.com.  I absolutely love this tool. UnlikeYahoo Site Explorer, Domain-Pop presents these link in a very easy to read format.  In addition to this free backlink checker being easy to read, it seems to be very accurate.

Try it out.  Do you know of another free backlink checker?

Every now and then I come across a website on Internet marketing that blows me away.  First there was the Thirty Day Challenge.   After participating in the Thirty Day Challenge, I did not think that I would come across anything that compared to this free Internet marketing course.  Well, that all changed in the last two weeks when I read make money online, make money online blogging, and Internet marketing.  Grizzly, Vic and Court truly are the three men of Internet marketing.

These three blogs have reinvigorated me with the desire to try to make money from niche blogs.  Since I have learned so much from Grizzly, Vic and Court, I just knew that you would love them too.

These three bloggers are sharing all of their secrets for making money online.  It seems like they are competing with each other for who can share the most.  However, each does it with their own style and experiences.  It is also great to see these three bloggers commenting on each others’ blogs.  The three of them are really working together to educate people on Internet marketing.

How to Make Money Online for Beginners:  

Grizzly from the blog How to Make Money Online for Beginners has been writing some unbelievable article on how to make money online.  I encourage you to read all of his past posts, but I want to highlight one series of posts that is the best Internet marketing series that I have ever read.  Grizzly has written 6 comprehensive article on how to target a keyword and make money using adsense.

• Payday Loans
• Payday Loans Review
• Payday Loans and Adsense
• Payday Loans – Adsense Update
• Payday Loans Update

Blogger Unleashed:

Vic from Blogger Unleashed is writing is heart out to explain to people how to make money using niche sites and adsense.  Vic is the author of the blog Bu.bulicio.us.  In just 4 months since launching Bu.bulicio.us, Vic is getting over 20,000 unique visitors.  Vic’s Blogger Unleashed blog explains to readers how he used SEO to build this site and how you can make money online following his same techniques.

Vic has also recently started an make money online mentoring program. Vic’s mentoring program is free and available to anyone who wants to join.  Check it out.

Court’s Internet Marketing School:

Courtney Tuttle from Court’s Internet Marketing School has been writing some of the best Internet marketing articles I have ever read.  Courtney has recently written the best internet marketing article of 2007.  In this article Court describes how to target a specific keyword and take the number one position in Google’s search engine results pages.  You have to read this article.

Well, I hope that you like these articles.  I have been devouring them as fast as I can read them.  I am reading through Grizzly’s payday loans series a second time through right now.  I am also rereading Court’s keyword sniping article again tomorrow.

Please tell me how you liked these articles and blogs.

Do you want to make money online blogging?  Well, Google’s Knol could be a great way for bloggers to make money blogging.

What is Knol?

Google’s Knol is that latest announced but unreleased project that google is working on.  Knol stands for “unit of knowledge.”  Google Knol will be a user content creation system similar to Wikipedia, Squidoo, and Mahalo.  People will be able to write Knol articles about any topic of interest and publish them on Google’s Knol.

Unlike Wikipedia, Knol is going to allow authors to promote themselves in these articles.  Additionally, Google will share the ad revenues that an author’s knol page generates.

How Can Blogger’s Use Knol To Make Money Blogging?

Well for starters I am sure that Google’s Knol will perform very well in Google’s search engine results pages.  This means that you can indirectly promote your blog by writing great pillar Knol articles.

Also, like Squidoo, the revenue sharing on Google’s knol could be a great way to make money blogging.  There are bloggers who are making very good money with Squidoo.  Getting in early with Google’s knol could be very lucrative.

Will we make money blogging with google Knol?  We will have to wait and see.  The proof is always in the pudding with any online revenue program.  But, I know that I will certainly be testing it.