3 Things You Can Do to Start Making Money Online Fast – Best for Beginners

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In the internet world, opportunities are endless. And the existence of these endless opportunities overwhelm a lot of people especially beginners.

If you are a beginner or have been into IM for some time now but couldn’t start making some money, the fastest possible way to make money online is providing a service.

The first thing you have to do is evaluate your skills and think of what type of service you are able to offer. Below are 3 relatively simple services you can start offering right away for some fast cash.

  1. Writing– If you speak English well or have ever written a couple of paragraphs or essays before, providing a writing service for other people shouldn’t be any difficult for you.The most in demand writing service online is article writing service. You write 300-1000 word articles on a given topic and you get paid $5 – $15 for start. Once you get some experience, you can raise your fees and earn more.

    You can also provide a service of writing ebooks, sales letters, autoresponder messages and the likes if you have some skills or are expert at something.

  2. Voice talent – You may get required to record your sound as voiceover for online Videos or Pod casts. You may also record your sound for auto responders, webinars, shows or many other purposes for other people for a fee.
  3. Link building services – Webmasters want to get visitors to their site. And to get visitors, they use different techniques. One of the techniques they use to get visitors to their website is Search Engine Optimization which simply means pushing a site up in search results for a query. And Search Engine Optimization largely involves building links or in other words putting someone’s website address or URL on some other website.

There are a lot of webmasters who are too busy to do the work of link building themselves and they hire it out.

You can implement different techniques to build links for other people. Some of the techniques are advanced and relatively difficult to execute for beginners. But as a beginner, there are techniques you can implement easily. These include social bookmarking; where you bookmark sites on social bookmarking sites like Digg.com, and blog commenting where you leave informative comments on different sites and put the URL of the site you are building links to on the ‘website’ section of the comments.

How to find clients

To find clients (people who pay you for your service), go to websites that are specifically intended to connect service providers with clients including Elance.com, Freelancer.com and oDesk.com.

You can also find works on ‘Services’ section of some busy forums like the Warriorforum and Digital Points Forum.

TIP – you can also build a business by setting up your own site and promote your service there. And generate clients by advertising your site or contacting your previous customers.

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How to Effectively Use Yahoo! Answers to Instantly Drive Targeted Traffic

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Yahoo! Answers is the number one resource you can use to drive instant targeted traffic. How it works is simple – people come to the site to ask and answer each other’s questions. If you happen to answer a question on the site, you are given a chance to include your site at the bottom as the ‘source of information’.

If people find your answer helpful, it is highly likely that they will check out your website for more information. This gives your site exposure and instant traffic.

It is not only to get some initial traffic that you should use Yahoo! Answers. You can get residual traffic or build thrust and credibility to your online business if you incorporate the task of consistently answering questions to your routine.


The right ways of using Yahoo Answers

Yahoo! Answers is an untapped source of traffic and most of the time it is abused by many. Many people don’t take time to craft good and relevant answers. They simply hope to make some money from the bunch of affiliate links they spam out on the site. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.

What happens most of the time is that the answers posted by these spammers get reported immediately and the answerers get labeled spammers and they get banned.

Even if their answer goes through by chance, it will not be used as a genuine answer and will get a horrible click through and conversion. Time wasted.

What other people do wrong is they answer questions to purposely build links for SEO. I don’t have any objection with people using Yahoo! Answers to build links but the way most people use the resource is not the right way.

They simply post too many worthless answers for hope of getting backlinks. But links from YA and especially created this have very little vale in regard to SEO.  What you have to understand is when you use Yahoo! Answers wisely by posting high quality answers, you will get quality and targeted traffic directly from the site while at the same time building links naturally

 

How many links is too many?

Don’t just put your links on every single question you answer. If you do so, it is highly likely that people will notice you and label you as a spammer and you will get reported. Include your link on like once in every 5 or 10 posts where it is relevant.

Also make sure to diversify your links. Putting only one site as a source of information on every answer you post doesn’t look normal. You should link to authority sites like wikipedia and other informative sites where appropriate. Also link to other sites of yours on other niches.

Another advantage of Yahoo Answers is that it enables you target a specific geographic area. If you have a site or a service that is geared towards an area or a country, you can also choose from which country that you want to answer a question

When targeting is concerned, there’s one another thing you have to consider. If you are an expert or have a site about weight loss, you should focus on the category of weight loss.

What if you have only one website that targets a specific niche? If that’s the case, that doesn’t mean that you have to post answers only in that category. Answer every question you know the answer of but put relevant links only in answers that are related to the topic of your site.

What niches work best on Yahoo! Answers

  • Entertainment (music, movies, etc)
  • Health and relationship
  • Fashion
  • And anything that has to do with teenagers and young adults.

 

Quality vs. quantity?

On Yahoo Answer, quality content is the king. Too many people think the more number of answers they post, the bigger the exposure they get. But the reality is that, most of the time, this is a wrong assumption.

If you are a fast writer and can create content fast, you may thing, why should I bound myself to answer only a few questions.

Generally, the problem is not the numbers. But when try to churn out too many answers in a short period of time, the quality of the answers tend to suffer.

Simply search questions that you expertly know the answer of and craft informative and relevant answers. They don’t need to be a few in numbers. But just try to allocate your time to find appropriate questions and post relevant answers.

This way, you will not only get trust, higher CTR, bigger chance of being chosen as best answer etc but also will reap the rewards for the long run.

There is a friend of mine who tripled his Adsense income just by posting a couple of high quality answers. And I’ve heard of another man who made $25 a day just by promoting his site on Yahoo! Answers where he posted nothing but PLR content.

That actually was in 2009 and things might have changed a bit lately but if you manage to give quality through your answers, you have a high chance of getting a lot of targeted visitors to your site.

 

Be a top contributor

To get the most out of Yahoo! Answers, consistently post high quality answers on relevant questions. Also try to answer any type of question that you are interested in or know the answer of even if you can’t include a link to your site at the end.

You may not benefit directly, but doing this helps you increase your points and levels on the website and as a result you will gain credibility and initial trust on all your answers.

Also be personal. Use your real name or a generic name as your user name and change your avator to your real picture or at least a custom avator. Discuss your real interests and feelings inside your answer, feel in your profile, join networks and groups and just be personal.

The point here is not to worry about what you do or what you say but and just try to let everything flow naturally.

7 Top Tips to Generate Instant Traffic From Forums

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The benefits of forums can not be numbered. If used correctly, forums are the number one sources of immediate traffic. Once you establish yourself on a forum, the possibilities of residual or long term traffic are also endless.

Forums also help you get the latest information about your topic and help you keep up with the latest info about your niche.

But there are right ways and wrong ways of using forums effectively. Here are some tips to make forum marketing work for you effectively.

 

Tip 1, Hang out only on top forums

Instead of joining every forum out there and trying to reach each of them, just find the top players in your niche and focus on them.

This is because you can’t find the value of one top forum from 10 other obscure forums in terms of both traffic and information. In addition, you will have the time to focus on and effectively give value to the few forums you join.

To find top forums on your niche, simply go to Google and search “niche + forums” or just use sites like Findyourforum to locate forums by category.

Then filter the top 1 or 2 ones by seeing how busy they are or how many posts they have recently. Also check the number of their members and how much traffic they get.

Tip 2, Network

While on forum, network with the members of the forum and build relationships. This in turn will get you a high amount of targeted traffic as you will get credibility in the forum and every one in the forum will want to check out your site on your sig

Not only this but consider a scenario; One problem of the ideal work at home dads and moms is that, they spend the majority of their time at home and they don’t have a chance to meet a lot of people in the real world. As a result they feel lonely and depressed.

And building relationship and making friends with members of the forums you hang out can be the best solution to this problem. The relief of sharing your feelings with others or just chatting with them is a good thing.

 

Tip 3, Don’t go to a forum solely to market

Don’t go to any forum solely thinking of the traffic you will drive or the marketing’s you will do. You have to treat the forum as a community. It is totally acceptable to put your site on your signature wanting to get some traffic. But once you set your sig file up, forget about it and make your job to give value to the forum.

Because the benefit of hanging out in forums is numberless; you will learn a lot about your niche, find a lot of information, find partners, and drive traffic.

Tip 4, Add value

Be genuine and help others. Answer the question of the members, help them with their problems and share your knowledge with them. The more value you give to the forum, the better your results will be.

 

Tip 5, Do regular contributions

Interacting and posting regularly on forums helps you get to know to the members well and establish a name or brand for yourself. As a result, the members will highly likely be eager to check out what ever you are promoting or selling.

 

Tip 6, Do the right targeting

Targeted traffic is the key to online success. Don’t go to a health forum and promote a marketing site using your sig. If you want targeted traffic, you should promote a site that is related to the topic of the forum you join.

 

Tip 7, Be personal

Don’t go there just to spread your links around by posting valueless posts. Do what a normal human being does. Talk about your self and what you do, befriend with members and ask them about themselves. Treat your forum account as you would treat your Facebook.