How to Make Your Own Website and Profit From It

1. First of all, decide what kind of site you would like to develop. If it's your first website, it might be worthwhile to read up some of the specifics as there are quite a few variables that should be considered. A content site is likely the easiest, with some affiliate marketing and ads. An online store might be more your speed however, and could easily be started up using eBay.
2. Next up it's time to actually build the website with all the bells and whistles. For this, for those who don't have any experience with the intricacies of web programing and design, it's time to either pick out a nice template online or to hire some outside help. Many templates are included with web-hosting, which I'll get around to next.

3. Pick your web host. There are tons of these online, just pick out an affordable one with plenty of storage and bandwidth, and if you need more later just expand it a bit. Most of these will include plenty of tools and features you can use to design your site. Especially check and see if they have any unique looking templates as these can speed up the development time considerably.
4. Select a domain name for your site with your subject matter in mind, unless of course you would like a domain name that would be highly brand-able, which would be perfectly acceptable as well. Domain names are crucial for traffic from search engines which is certainly no laughing matter for web-masters, so choose wisely.
5. Add content to the site, whether articles or merchandise, and continue to add content until you rank well in the search engines, then... well, keep adding content. On the web, content is king.
6. If you'd like to make money with it, after you have the necessary traffic, simply advertise ad-space or add in Google AdSense. If you'd like to make even more, start promoting affiliate products you've had good experience with.

How to Protect My Earnings

1. Protect your earnings by eliminating the amount of cash you carry on your person at all times. Most bank accounts provide liability for debit and credit card purchases in case your wallet is ever lost or stolen. This is in contrast to lost or stolen cash, which has no liability protection.
2. Take advantage of your employer's direct deposit program, if available. This will allow your paycheck to deposit automatically into the bank account of your choosing. You may then carry a debit card instead of cash.

3. Check to see if your bank account is FDIC insured if you plan to save your wages. This insures your money in case anything happens to your bank. Most FDIC-insured banks insure accounts up to $250,000.
4. Speak with your bank concerning additional coverage, or spread excess money into multiple accounts. This is a better alternative to storing cash in your home or other location, as you will still receive liability coverage for unauthorized transactions and payment of this money if the bank closes.
5. Pay your bills and taxes on time to avoid any wage garnishments, thereby protecting your earnings. Garnishment can cause additional late payments toward other bills, as well as bounced checks or declined purchases. Avoid these additional fees by staying current with your bills and keeping track of your payments.

How to Create Multiple Streams of Income Online

1. Create a niche website. The more specific the topic of the website, the better your chances of earning higher income. Choose a topic that you're knowledgeable and passionate about, and start creating content related to your topic. Monetize your site with ads relevant to your site's topic using Google AdSense or by joining an ad network (see Resources below).
2. Sign up for an email marketing service, such as Constant Contact or iContact, that will help you manage an email mailing list (see Resources below). Create a signup box for your website so that your website visitors can sign up to receive updates from you. Send out a regular newsletter packed with useful information related to your niche topic. You can place ads directly in your newsletter, or promote other people's products for an affiliate commission.

3. Create a blog related to a niche topic. It can be the same topic as your website, or something else that you're interested in. Stay abreast of the most current news and information on your topic and make regular posts to your blog. Help to create a sense of community among your readers by encouraging and responding to comments. Monetize your blog with ads, through an ad network or Google AdSense (see Resources below).
4. Write articles related to topics that interest you and publish them to sites that offer revenue sharing programs, such as Associated Content or eHow (see Resources below). Be sure to follow the guidelines for the specific site that you're writing for, and publish as many articles as you have time to write. The more articles you publish, the more revenue you could potentially earn.
5. Write content for other business websites for a fee. Once you've become a skilled content creator, it won't be hard to get other businesses interested in having you help them create content for their sites, especially if you know how to optimize the content so that it's search engine friendly.
6. Create an ebook and offer it for sale on your website, through your blog or through your mailing list. If you have specialized knowledge in a certain area, your ebook will be filled with valuable information that others would be willing to pay for. You can also allow other website owners to promote your ebook for a percentage of the sale, otherwise known as an affiliate program (see Resources below).

How to Build a Free Complex Website

1. Sign up for a free Web host like Wordpress. Wordpress has the advantage of having the Wordpress content management system preinstalled for you. Over 10 million websites use Wordpress as of July 2010. Even some professional publications, like Anderson Cooper 360's blog, use Wordpress.
2. Change your website's default theme. Your website automatically starts out with a very basic blue design with a few basic widgets on the side of your Web page. There are literally thousands of free themes for you to use. Click 'add new theme' and search for a theme. You can filter searches by color, number of columns and more. It should be very easy to find a theme that fits your website's niche.

3. Install plug-ins. Click 'add plug-in' and search for a plug-in. Plug-ins add new functions to your website--for example, the 'Aksimet' plug-in filters out spam messages from your website. It is up to you to decide what is needed for your site. You are the webmaster.
4. Add content to your site. Click 'add post' or 'add page' to create new posts and Web pages for your site. Common basic pages you should provide are the frequently asked questions (FAQ) page, contact information page and 'about us' page.

How to Find Keywords

1. Search for the right keyword tool. Many are free, while some charge a fee, but most depend on the same source to compile their information: the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Google has built one of the most informative tools for advertisers and publishers alike, and it's the best place to start looking for keywords. The tool is free to use.
2. Start with topics you know. Enter one or two keywords into the search box at the top of the keyword tool and hit search. You'll receive a list of keywords related to your initial search terms, along with the current competition and the previous month's search volume.

3. Find keywords using Google's search engine, or test the popularity of the keywords you have selected. Visit Google's homepage to use their search engine and type in your keywords, one at a time. Google has a function that 'completes' your possible search term, based on popularity. For example, if the keyword you enter is 'shoes,' Google suggest terms like 'shoes for crews' or 'shoes on sale' in the drop-down box. Because these results are based on popularity, it's a great way to find potential keywords.

How to Earn Money with Pay To Click

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SAFETY FIRST! If you don't already have your computer protected, go to http://pack.google.com and get yourself a copy of Spyware Doctor. It is a free product. Download it and set it up to run once a day to make sure you don't pick up any nasties.
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Go to your search engine -- like google or yahoo -- and type in 'pay to click sites' or 'PTC sites'. You will find reviews of many sites and you can decide which ones to join.

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GET PAID! Most of the sites will pay you to either your Paypal account or your AlertPay account. These accounts are free and you can transfer your earnings from them right to your bank account.
4. Bookmark your PTC sites and visit them once or twice a day. Click the ads and remember to request payout once you have reached the required number of clicks.
5. You can earn more by referring your friends. When they register using your special link, and they click an ad, you will receive a tiny bonus for each one of their clicks. Kind of like free money! :)

How to Apply to Work from Home as a Google Ads Quality Rater

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Go to the job posting at http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=118299 (or click on the link below) and read the job description for an Ads Quality Rater (English Language).
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If you are interested in the job and meet all the requirements, prepare your resume.

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Save your resume as an html or ASCII file. If you use Microsoft Word, all you have to do is choose 'Save As' from the File menu. Save your resume as a .txt file or a .html file.
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Send an email to temporaryjobs@google.com with Ads Quality Rater - English - Temporary in the subject line. Attach your resume as a .txt or .html file to the email. You can also type a cover letter in the body of the email, but it is not necessary.
5. You should soon get an automated response that they received your resume.

How to Make Money Writing for Revenue

1. Consider writing for Triond. Triond accepts online content in any form, and also accepts photographs and audio recordings. There is a short wait while Triond reviews your work before they publish it. After that, they share 50 percent of the earnings on your article.
2. Write for InfoBarrel. This site gives you 75 percent of the Adsense revenue generated by your articles. They accept multiple content forms from their freelance writers, including how-to articles.

3. Sign up with Squidoo. With this site, you can create pages that are called 'lenses' with content, links, photos and more. You get 50 percent of the revenue generated by your lenses.
4. Write for Bukisa. Bukisa is relatively new on the revenue-sharing landscape. You can write articles or upload presentations or videos. Bukisa pays based on page views, not straight ad revenue. The amount of money you get per page view depends on how the site is doing as a whole, so contributing good content counts.
5. Consider signing up with Helium. Helium offers small upfront payments for certain articles, and also offers residual income on top of that. Helium is a very involved site, meaning writers are expected to rate other writers' articles. Your articles also have to rate highly in comparison to other similar articles in order to earn money. It's worth it for a lot of writers, because Helium is a respected site and they also have weekly contests that pay up to $60 per winning article. They also have a marketplace where clients request content, and writers battle it out to write the best pieces to get picked by the client. Some of these clients pay $100 or more per article.
6. Consider writing for Suite101. This freelance writing site has been around for more than a decade, and has a reputation for paying well. Articles must be at least 400 words and written in the third-person. Each article goes live immediately, but is also reviewed, post-publication, by an editor who will help you make your article the best it can be. Suite101 editors help their writers with proper keywords, grammar and everything else so that you earn the most you can from your articles.
7. Set up an account with Associated Content. Like Helium, Associated Content offers small up-front fees for certain original articles, on top of the residual income. The first pieces you submit are likely to be in the queue for a long time, however. Once the editors approve them, your wait time will be decreased. Associated Content ranks particularly high with Google.
8. Write original news articles for Orato. This site, like Suite101, bills itself as an online magazine for freelance writers. They share 20 percent of the revenue from your articles with you.
9. Consider writing for FireHow. This site is similar to eHow, in that it asks for how-to articles. FireHow is another newcomer to the residual income world of freelance writing sites.
10. Write articles for HubPages. HubPages is similar to Squidoo. Articles on HubPages are known as 'hubs,' and can be a combination of links, photos, affiliate links and content. HubPages gives their freelance writers 60 percent of the revenue generated by Adsense.
11. Consider setting up an account with Xomba. This site has two parts: content and social bookmarking. They pay 50 percent of the revenue generated by Adsense. Xomba has a lively community and is another place where freelance writers can earn residual income.

How to Report Click Fraud on Google AdWords

1. Launch your Internet browser and go to the Google AdWords 'Contact Us' site (see Resources).
2. Type in all the information asked for in the form including your Google account information if you have a Google account.

3. Click 'Submit.' This will send your report to the Google AdWords click fraud investigation team. You will receive an email from Google with any updates on the investigation. If you have lost money through click fraud and the ruling comes back supporting your defense, the money lost will be reinstated to you.

How to Install FeedBurner for WordPress

1. Navigate to Feedburner.com. If you have not added Feedburner to your Google account yet, follow the instructions to do so and view the 'My Feeds' page.
2. Click the text field under 'Burn a feed right this instant'. Type the address of your website, followed by a forward slash and the word 'feed' such as 'www.example.com/feed.' Click the 'Next' button. This brings you to a page titled 'Welcome'.

3. Type the title and address that you would like to use for your feed, or click 'Next' to use the default settings.This generates a Feedburner feed for your website.
4. Click the 'Skip directly to feed management' link at the bottom of the page.
5. Select the 'Publicize' tab at the top of the page.
6. Click 'Chicklet Chooser' on the left side.
7. Click the radio button next to the graphic that you prefer. This is the graphic that your readers will click to subscribe to your feed.
8. Use the mouse pointer to highlight the contents of the 'Copy the HTML below' box at the bottom of the page. Right-click the selected text, and then click 'Copy'.
9. Open a new browser window or tab, and navigate to the dashboard section of your WordPress website. Expand the 'Appearance' menu on the left side of the page, and then click 'Widgets'.
10. Drag and drop the 'Text' box from the middle of the window to the sidebar area on the right side. The widget expands and displays two fields.
11. Click the 'Title' field at the top of the widget, and type a title such as 'Feedburner' or 'Subscribe to our feed'.
12. Right-click the large field at the bottom of the widget, and then click 'Paste' to paste the HTML code for your Feedburner button.
13. Click 'Save'.