$0/month to $500/month in 6 months
This is about one of my friend who is doing his automobile engineering and is still a student. He contacted me about 6 months back asking whether he can earn money on the net without spending a single penny. I thought a lot about it and this was my reply to him:
Hi *******,
Ya, surely you can do that. But I think it will take much more time to do that. May be an year or two. Take following steps, if you don’t want to spend any money:
- Create a blog on http://www.blogspot.com on the subject of your choice (please choose a subject which interests you).
- Use some neat and clean template and put your Google Adsense code on it to earn the dollars.
- Give one hour every day to your blog and try to write two GOOD posts (current events, news, reviews etc) on the topic.
- Submit each of your post to all the famous bookmarking sites like digg, netscape etc. (this will take extra 10 mins)
- Go everyday to http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65 and see the NEW DIRECTORY ANNOUNCEMENTS in the section. Submit your site to two new directories every day free of cost.
- Register with some forums in your niche and put your website URL in your signature. Use the forum everyday for half an hour and interact with people in the forum
- When you start getting some traffic from bookmarking sites or forum threads or search engines, you will be making some money out of it in Google Adsense.
- When you get your first $10, start hunting for cheap links for your blog. Remember to get ONLY related links. Please remember to put all your money back into the site (promoting it) for quite some long time. Then will only it will rise.
- Get more and more links when you get more and more money. That will give you more and more traffic. Which means more and more money.
So these are the steps I think I can tell you. Do let me know if you actually plan to follow them.
So the main points here were to get some free traffic first, which will make you some money, use that money to get some paid links, which will increase your traffic further.
Yesterday I was discussing with him like how is his project going. So he showed me his Google Adsense for the last month (6th month). In his 6th month he made around $502. But he has put in all the money he has earned back into his blogs promotion.
Today his 300+ post strong blog (niche: cars specs and news) gets around 1200 uniques per day and make him around $500/month. He says, he still does not need any money right now, so he will be using all his money back into his blog for next 6 months.:)
Well done.
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Jim Karter on August 10th 2007 in Earning Money, General, Google, Link Building
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P2K responded on 11 Aug 2007 at 8:18 am #
Hey, I am currently doing the same thing, I think it’s great and it does work. Great post.
Dubai Property John responded on 07 Sep 2007 at 2:59 pm #
Good basic steps to take and well layout in simple enough terms there. Much congrats to your friend too!
I see you have also mentioned Http://forums.digitalpoint.com. I would be advising anyone who is serious about making any kind of solid income online to do more than just look for free directories there. A few hours a week scanning those boards, asking a few questions and answering a few if you can too and you will reap plenty of rewards. The amount I have learned there (or should I say AM learning there) is unreal. I guess there are of course other similiar forums out there but I think you’ve mentioned the best in my opinion.
I think people should be thinking about getting from
Dubai Property John responded on 07 Sep 2007 at 3:03 pm #
…. 20 bucks to 500 a month in six months instead of from zero to 500. Having you own domain name and (cheap) hosting account from the offset will be of great benefit along the way.
hiutopor responded on 17 Sep 2007 at 1:57 pm #
Hello
Very interesting information! Thanks!
Bye
Abhishek Daaga responded on 27 Sep 2007 at 1:26 pm #
Hi,
This is really nice & worth information.. I like the slow & steady way a lot.. & the re-investment plan is nice… & the DP forums really ROCKKK!!! one can make nice amount of money if one works dedicatedly.. with his/her own interest niches…
another tip is RSS
Bye for now
Abhishek Daaga
Sumesh responded on 08 Oct 2007 at 4:24 am #
That’s an inspirational story.
I have a dilemma - I am on Dreamhost right now, just bought an account there last month.
I could get back the $30 I spent(money-back guarantee). Plus around $100 from the earnings so far.
Should I spent that combined total for a good host, and continue blogging, or spend the money($100) for promotion, and stay on DH?
Shypy responded on 13 Oct 2007 at 9:07 am #
Looks like my story, except for Anand referred me to DP, and I dont make money from a bunch of websites not a single one..
Nice blog, I’ve subscribed
Rushh responded on 21 Oct 2007 at 1:04 am #
Jim, those are some really good tips. Even if you submit to a couple of directories everyday , you can get yourself listed on about 700+ in a year which will surely help improve on serps.
Publishers Weblog responded on 21 Oct 2007 at 6:28 am #
I dont know about some of the tips man. I reckon if you want to be a professional and earn money online then you need some hosting and a domain of your own.
Flat Stomach Exercises responded on 29 Oct 2007 at 1:59 pm #
This is a great way to get started but a free blog with adsense as the only income source has limitations.
Also work on ranking well with the search engines this will bring alot of visitors your way.
robinson responded on 02 Nov 2007 at 7:34 am #
what a nice post… I will do the same thing… still look for free directories.
Vignesh.N responded on 02 Nov 2007 at 10:50 am #
Its nice to see people earning through blogging. This is were interest pays. Can you pls share his and your DP profile id
Guru responded on 14 Dec 2007 at 11:22 am #
Great post for me ! I will follow all these 9 tips and I am sure I can be successful.
NIMONY responded on 20 Dec 2007 at 10:31 pm #
I’ve just started to monetize my blog. I hope for the best.
Charan responded on 21 Dec 2007 at 4:31 am #
I am inspired by this post…I started my blog recently and will try hard to reach 500$/month with this blog
Thanks Jim
MG responded on 26 Dec 2007 at 9:40 am #
Nice info tnx! I will try to follow that. I’m investing my money to advertise like you sad, i think it is the best way to generate more traffic and money
property investment responded on 21 Jan 2008 at 8:27 am #
nice story.
i’ve always wondered if it is better to use a blogger account or own hosting?
i’ve heard that blogger is loved by google
Deepak responded on 04 Feb 2008 at 2:51 am #
I am doing affiliate marketing and averaging low 4 figures a month. I never touched adsense much. I dont know why, but may be because once adsense closed my account and I got disappointed.
After reading this post I am inspired to start a blog. I got a great domain - http://www.blogofme.com
I will work enough so that I get atleast $1000/month from adsense.
seoreef responded on 16 Feb 2008 at 5:27 am #
1200 uniques/day and only $500/month? That’s not very good.
And submitting your link to all the junk article directories is not that good either, it will hurt your search engine rankings.
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Mickey responded on 03 Mar 2008 at 7:56 pm #
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IIT Mumbai responded on 08 Apr 2008 at 3:37 am #
Do I need to have a Website
Regards
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Thanks JIM
Carol responded on 09 Jun 2008 at 11:03 pm #
Very nice guidance to start a blog. Actually I want to know what is his blog address.
Internet Money Making responded on 11 Jun 2008 at 5:17 am #
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