Its Impossible to make money for free!

Went through all the posts in this thread. Great advice guys, nice to see so many people willing to help out!

Jay12341235 said:

I have been trying for a long time to make money for free on the internet. I've tried CPA though clickbank and nothing is working! I can't get any clicks on my site either, and for those of you who are just going to tell me to keep looking don't because I am. can anyone PLEASE mentor me or at least point me in a good direction for some tips on how to make some cash!? any help would be greatly appreciated. and yes i HAVE TRIED TO HELP MYSELF BEFORE ASKING THIS. many thanks to anyone that helps me out

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Yes its impossible to make money if you don't invest anything. investing atleast some hard work and thinking out off the box."Money attracts Money always".but hardwork always gets some $$.

Its a fact that around 95% of newbies fail at Internet Marketing. The No.1 reason they fail is due to not doing one little thing. TAKING ACTION... They all have a wealth of knowledge on the internet to learn from, most dabble in 4 or 5 different methods. But that's the problem, they only put 3 or 4 hours of actual work into each method and don't see the money poor in like all those "make $10,000 by going to bed and dreaming about it" ebooks promise.

Since the method doesn't work they go back to forums and waste another few days reading every post, searching for that one method that will solve all their problems, commonly refereed to as "Analysis Paralysis".

Believe me I know exactly what its like because I wasted my first 2 or 3 years in IM doing just that. I knew all the IM methods, could mentor a guru but never actually put any of my IM knowledge into practice and I didnt TAKE ACTION.

Nothing is free with IM, do you think your time is worth $0/hour? The less you invest with currency, the more time you will have to invest to make up for that. E.g. The minimum award wage in Australia is around $18.00/hour, im not a good writer so it would take me around 45 - hour to write an informative 500 article. I can go on getafreelancer.com and have articles written up for me for $1.50 - $2.00 each, so to invest $50 and have 30 articles written up, that would have taken me 3 days to write, is a dam good investment.

The articles are definitely an investment, if you cant at least double, triple or quadruple your initial investment for them, there is seriously something wrong.

Few tips to having a better chance of succeeding with IM.

1. Break free from the analysis paralysis and TAKE ACTION, good way to start is by banning youself from these forums, they are very addictive and waste tremendous amounts of time reading info that you have already read before and getting money making tips from newbies that are in the same position as you. If you want to learn real techniques, download an rss reader and subscribe to some gurus IM blogs that focus on the method you enjoy most, e.g Article Marketing, blogging, Video Marketing, List building, etc, etc (im not dissing this forum, im dissin forums in general).

2. Make sure you focus on one project and IM method at a time. You spread yourself to thin when you are trying all methods at once. Your 100% better off starting one project and finishing it, then working on 5 projects at once and completing none of them. - This was my second biggest issue as a newbie, head was bursting with ideas and I wanted to get them all going but never finished any of them.

3. Iv been doing IM for over 8 years now and have mentored a few people. The one method I teach them when first starting out that never fails when done correctly and has proven itself over and over again, is good old bum marketing (article marketing). A mistake a lot of bum marketers make is giving away their precious origional content to the article directories for a bust of traffic without stamping their name on it.

The correct way to do it is, invest the $9 on a domain name and the $4/month on hosting, install wordpress and publish your own articles first. Wait a few days for Google to index you articles then go to the big daddy article directory, Ezinearticles.com and submit your articles there, link the article back to the same Article you published on your site with anchor text that contain the keywords you are targeting with that article, this will make your article appear as the origional copy and prevent it from being filtered out in the Google dupe content filter.

Ezinearticles are very strict on article originality and uniqueness, they will accept it if its only been published on your site first but will deny the submission if its been published to 5 - 10 other places before hand. Now search google for a list of the http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Article-Directories and social media sites e.g. Squidoo.com, hubpages.com, scribed.com wordpress.com, etc, etc. Now publish your articles to all of them, dont stress about the google dupe content filter, just make sure that you change the title of the article with each submission and maybe write a unique intro to each article, this is all thats needed to avoid the Goog Dupe Con Filter.

Remember every article thats submitted has to link back to your original article with keywords that you are targeting, which is usually the title of your article. If you are unsure what anchor text is, heres a quick example. Articoolz.com is an article directory, if I wanted to link to that site from my article, instead of linking to it with its name "http://articoolz.com", I would link to it like this, "http://articoolz.com". The anchor text is the phrase "Article Directory" while the link still links back to Articoolz.com.

Anchor text from backlinks helps Google determine what niche your original article is targeting and what keywords it will rank the article for, since the anchor text from the articles submitted to the directories matches your original article title, Google has no choice but to rank it high for that keyphrase.

For people that cant get their head around the importance of backlinks from high authority sites in SEO. Imagine if each backlink to your site was a "Vote" for your site. In 2004 the more votes your site had than your competitors, the higher you ranked compared to them, Google wasn't as smart then and votes where more evenly valued, this ment you could get 10,000 backlink votes to your site and dominate a niche overnight. Ahh those where the good old days. You may also remember how awefully untargeted and spammy the search results where.

Google has since devalued the power a backlink had in the ranking algorithm on its own and focused a lot more on the authority and trust of the sites that supplied that backlink. Looking at the backlink as a vote once more with the addition of trust and authority. Lets say, there were 2 websites ranked 1 & 2 for the keyphrase "Best Dog Training Guide". No.1 ranked site has 100 votes and No.2 ranked site has 1000 votes.

You maybe shocked and wonder how that can happen when No.2 ranked site has 10X more votes.

No.1 ranked site obviously has votes from more powerfull (high authority) sites. E.g. The President, the pope, the Queen, 97 other saintly people vote site No.1 as the best dog training guide, but site number 2 has managed to get 10x the number of votes from terrorists, rapists, murderers and a heep of other unsavory type people. Obviously if you were to choose whos opinion you trusted more, you would go with the President, the pope, the Queen and 97 other saintly peoples opinion even though the other site has 10x as many votes. In SEO this is known as a sites trust rank. You see this all the time now when analyzing the SERPS. There is no way you can convince me that PageRank isnt worth anything.

In 2004, the rapists and murderers vote was trusted just as much as the Presidents. Since the rapists and murderers where a lot easier to get votes from, this is what many blackhat and whitehat SEO's went casing their links. Creating software to run day and night, getting links from comment spam, doorway site networks, torrent sites, etc, etc. Thank heavens for the nofollow link, the SERPS are much cleaner and now the sites that carry real value rank the highest.

So at the end of this stage, you should have each of your original articles appearing on 10 - 20 high authority article directories and Social Media sites. Remember each time you submitted the article, you used a different title, targeting the http://www.ryandoom.com/Blog/tabid/57/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/32/What-is-long-tail-marketing.aspx (4 or more word title). Never ever use the short tale (any less than 3 words) in an article title. The more words in your title, the less competition there is to rank high for that keyphrase. The less words, the greater the competition. A longtail keyphrase "Where Can I Buy a Cheap Sony Playstation" is also going to convert into sales 10X more often than short tail keyphrase "Sony Playstation". More is not always better when it comes to website traffic. Laser targeted traffic that have their wallets out is the key.

HUGE bum marketing tip for everyone. Your article titles should mirror what you would expect people to type in Google to find what you offer. Don't try to add fancy words and humor. Your potential customers are looking for a solution to their problems and you have the solution they are after.

Here is a quick example of a bad phrased article title "http://articoolz.com/2010/03/its-friday-night-will-you-get-lucky/ " nobody would search that keyphrase. They would search it from their point of view, "It's Friday Night, Will I Get Lucky". That simple little tweak of the title can be the difference between ranking for a keyphrase with much higher search volume and not.

Final step is to join up to 10, 20 , 50 of the best social bookmarking sites and bookmark every single article you published on your site and every article that was published to the other directories and social media sites, all the trust and authority of the social bookmarking links with flow through to your articles which inturn will flow through to your site. The largest social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon.com and delicious.com get a huge amount of traffic so bookmarking is very beneficial.

Big Mike from Warriorforum.com has the best bookmarking software that I know of, called SocialBot, there was a WSO on warriors ages ago, selling it for $7, if ya want to automate bookmarking go to that forum and search the WSO section, also remember to close your eyes when you go there coz its easy to get seduced by all the "make $10,000 while taking a crap" WSO's that are published to take advantage of the aspirate newbie.

Finally in conclusion, With the initial investment of $15 for domain and hosting, $50 for 30 Articles, you have leverage what you had to the maximum. Created a website that you have full control over, 30 articles published to 20 authority sites each, ranking for indervidual keyphrases that people search for 20 x 30 = Articles = 600 keyphrases = 600 high authority backlinks to all areas of your website with targeted anchor text. Large amounts of traffic flowing through those links to purchase your solution to their problem. Those 600 articles each been bookmarked to 50 of the top Bookmarking site. Each bookmark is indexed in google, (50 x 600) + (50 x 30) = 31,500.

So thatch around 31,500 references to your site that are indexed in Google, all leading back to your site, announcing that you are the authority in your niche and to pay attention Do that once a week, after 3 of 4 months when Google gives new domains more trust, your site will have that much authority that you will rank on the first page of Google for any article you post.

Now you have a truckload of traffic, its time to monetize the website, but I have wasted to much time here already and I doubt many of you would have made it this far down my post. Sorry for the long one.

What niche would you guys target in this situation? How would you monetize the website?

Impossible? So, for example you couldn't use info from this site and get yourself a free blog, monetise with adsense and/or affiliate offers? You couldn't use your own ideas to generate a product and do a JV? I could go on......and on....

You do have to be creative; and if you're creative for enough time, it will be easy to invest in the right methods and you'll start seeing money roll in every day.. Now, if you tweak those methods a bit and seo, it's not hard to make at LEAST 60 dollars/month. That's enough to pay for the domain and more.. So, if you can do this across subdomains under a cheap host like siteground.com, you'll break even and WAY more.. It really just takes hard work and TIME.. Think about building 20 sites and seo them.. Do something in the same niche and build on it.. Not everything has to be blackhat.. Build longterm. I'm seeing money everyday; and you wanna know a secret? I'm not hardly doing anything in IM.. The money is just starting to roll in as some websites are picking up that I build from a couple of months back.. Now, I'm going to concentrate on SEO, and build more just like it!

Find something that you LIKE TO DO in internet marketing: build a game hub, or a video channel for some entertainment, sex, or some unique product. It's hit or miss. If you hit, just replicate... When they say, "scale" it just means to do it again and again; and if you have the opportunity to invest, then do so with care and test your traffic.. Hang in there! -p

THIS IS FAIL! I even started without 0 investment and made $100 off my first overnight INSTANTLY.. Psh.. just move your ass out of those remotes and televisions. READ and APPLY!