Getting Started: Making Money Online

July 31st, 2007 by Mark

Before I get started, I’d like to thank Jon for inviting me to contribute a post to his blog – Thanks, Jon! I’ll introduce myself because um, you probably have no idea who I am. My name’s Mark and I run an SEO/Online Marketing blog over at www.digeratimarketing.co.uk and like Jon, I’m very much in the Blue Hat spirit – trying to give as much practical advice as possible, while avoiding the fluff and the “buy my shit $89 seo book” crap you get from a lot of SEOs & online marketing types. Oh – and avoiding getting a “real” job too

Making Money Online
Okay, I’m normally write stuff in a “guide” style, but I’ve had a lot of this stuff floating around in my head for a while and it doesn’t fit into the whole “guide style” of things, but it’s pretty important stuff. For those of you who are starting out trying to make money online, be you designers, programmers, marketers, or just sit-in-my-pants-on-the-Internet-till-5am types I’d like to try and widen your horizons in terms of what revenue streams you can set up to purchase that new helipad you’ve been dreaming of. If you’re a bit more experienced and you’re already earning a decent living, perhaps I can inspire you to try something new.

Without further fanfare, I am now going to talk about stuff as it enters my head, starting with:

Community sites

Revenue Potential: Very High
Technical Difficulty: Medium
Promotional Difficulty: Very Hard

Here’s a great hard one to start with! Community sites are definitely one of the best revenue generating projects you could hope for. Unfortunately, they are without doubt, one of the hardest. I wanted to talk about community sites first because it’s how I got started. About 6 years ago I set up a community site for my local music scene and invited a few people to use it, I knew exactly what the site needed as I was making it for myself as well as anyone, it was something I was involved in at the time. I didn’t really know much about Internet marketing or promotion and the site went through a couple of evolutions for about 2 years, implementing ideas and suggestions about what the members liked and didn’t like.

After a couple of years of blindly stumbling through, I noticed (when I actually installed tracking) that my visitors were increasing week on week and I was receiving loads of traffic from Google. Without even trying, I was ranking for core key-terms in my niche, I had dozens of new user-generated pages of content going live every day and I… Well, I wasn’t really doing anything. Fortunately for me at the time, someone sat me down and explained the fundamentals of monetization and SEO. Within 6 months, this one site was earning me more than my day job.

The “Pros” of community websites

Absolutely marvellous for SEO – Because of the diversity and frequency of user-generated content, you’ll start ranking for long-tail terms very quickly.
Community member loyalty – Once you’ve got your core group established, community members will actively recruit others to join your website. This is really when your site will start to flourish; it will become…
Self-sustainable – Which means very little work for you. Once your community is set up, you can select your most trusted members as moderators to police the site and most of the content creation and promotion can be left to your users
Trust – If you look after your community you can build some excellent relationships which allows you to use more personal (and more effective) permission marketing, such as e-mail subscriber lists and product recommendations
Sticky traffic – Traffic levels on community sites will tend to be very steady, with users returning again and again to take part in the site

The “Cons” of community websites

Most community sites fail – Miserably
You cannot set up a community site with the sole aim to make money – You’re engaging intelligent people and need to offer them something. If you set out just trying to wring every last penny from a community they’ll get wind of it and bolt before you can say “CTR”.
Hard to launch – Community sites will need approximately 200 active users before they become self-sustaining. Most community sites will have a high proportion of “lurkers”, people who will passively interact with the site but not add anything of their own. So you’re probably looking at around 500-1000 members before it will fly on its own, depending on your niche.
Lots of competition – As much as I hate the term, with a lot of new “Web 2.0″ sites and mashup sites springing up, you’re going to have to either do something different – or do it better. People have a choice and won’t go for second best, so don’t just try and copy myspace or something!
Technically complex – Obviously this is subjective to your skill but the bar is pretty high. The extra interaction of users puts a greater than normal importance on a good, easy to use, rugged design. Most community sites are going to be fairly complex database driven affairs to. So aside from functionality, you’re going to have to ensure reliability too. Downtime will kill any community.

Starting a community site
There are several ways you can get a jump start into making a community site. Both phpNuke and Joomla are popular content management systems which both lend themselves nicely to community websites. One of the advantages of using open source content management systems is that you can get a website going with very little programming knowledge. A lot of extra functionality can be found in the way of plugins or modules, which are either free of very cheap. Of course, if you’re a veteran programmer, you may wish to do something a bit special and custom.

My personal opinion is that CMS are fine for standard community sites and are quite well accepted; it’s the content and the community that really matters. If you have a unique idea which doesn’t fit the community site “mould” you may be better off getting some custom programming done.

Monetizing Community Sites
As mentioned earlier, you really should be embarking on this project with a personal interest or with actual value to add to the topic, going in with dollar signs in your eyes will kill your community before it gets started. I would recommend not employing any type of advertising or monetization until you have your userbase and the site is self-sustaining. You want to keep your users in the site as long as possible and make them come back – you don’t want them either getting distracted by adverts or leaving the site entirely.

Once you are at the stage of monetization, you’ll have some unique opportunities:

Direct Advertisers: Community sites will attract a very specific demographic of people connected to your niche. This is incredibly valuable to advertisers if they can match their product/service target audience to that niche. You can get some of the best Cost Per Impression (CPM) rates going – £10-30 ($30-60) per 1,000 exposures can be asked to reach the “audience in a barrel” you have.

CPM Networks: Although CPM advertiser networks will not pay anything close to direct advertisers, you can make some serious cash here with purely down to page views. Community sites have a high stick rate with people coming back in some cases several times per day and browsing forums. If you can achieve 1,000 visitors per day and fill your inventory at say, $0.40CPM you’ll be earning $600 a month off this one revenue stream.

Affiliate Sales: Within your chosen niche there will be a lot of related products or services that businesses will be eager to sell. Having a user base builds a great amount of trust – more than a pure e-commerce site could ever hope to have. You can use this power of recommendation to select and sell products via affiliate networks, earning yourself commission on each sale. If people like the site, it is also feasible to give them access to a totally generic shop, such as Amazon and ask them to use it simply to support the site. This way they can effectively give donations without having to donate any money directly.

Donations/Subscriptions: There is a lot to be said for the psychology of “status” among social groups of the Internet. You see it all of the time in forums when they use a “ranking” status on forums; normally how many posts you have, which gives some kind of indication to your authority within that community. A lot of sites offer subscriptions based methods whereby the user can pay a monthly/yearly subscription to have special status given to them. As an example, I offered my members custom forum titles when they made a donation of £5 or more. This was received very well as then all other members knew who really was putting into the community and development of the site. Donations are used by many sites as there is a legal different to “selling” a product or service – mainly that the site owner has very few responsibilities on delivery.

My final tip for community sites would be this: always keep your cool and be friendly. It can be hard when you get, well – wankers, for members but you have to treat everybody with respect and dignity. You’re going to be the main “face” for your website and it is important that you don’t overreact to situations and start dishing out bans all over the place and never, ever lose your rag on the forums. It will only make you look stupid in the long run and it will poison your community.

Okay, if you’re still with me, we can move onto:

Affiliate Sites

Revenue Potential: Excellent
Technical Difficulty: Medium/Hard
Promotional Difficulty: Hard

Affiliate sites are one of the best ways to make money on the Internet, period. They take a bucket load of effort to do successfully but they have a whole bunch of stuff going for them:

Affiliate schemes generally pay very well in comparison to other schemes
Affiliate sites tend to be large and sprawling, making them good SEO projects to work on
Having a well ranked affiliate sites will mean a constant stream of income with no expenditure
It is often possible to buy search traffic and still make money from the resultant affiliate sales

I’m going to cut affiliate sites short because I’ve already written a detailed guide on Making Money With An Affiliate Empire. So read that if you’re interested in affiliate sites.

Blogging

Revenue Potential: Medium
Technical Difficulty: Low
Promotional Difficulty: Medium

There are several ways to start off blogging and they really are separate strategies, so we’ll give them an overview.

Becoming an authority blogger
If you’ve got a subject you’re passionate about and you have knowledge to share, blogging may be the route for you. There are millions of blogs about and it has become something of a fad with every business, man and his dog wanting one.

There are millions of blogs floating around on the Internet with many of them starting and fizzling out after a couple of months, or not even that. It can be depressing pouring your thoughts and hard work onto the Internet only to see nobody give a damn, but there are several critical mistakes you can avoid which can give you a much better chance of success when starting a blog.

Common mistakes when starting a blog

Blogs are about people. Your visitors are coming to here what you have to say, so it pays to be candid and honest. If you follow a “company branding policy 772: online communication policy”, you’re going to end up with very dry content which people are going to find hard to read. Your human, let people know it.
Don’t just emulate someone. There is a lot of loyalty when somebody chooses to subscribe to a blog. Why on earth would people come to your blog to read recycled news, or your opinions when there is a blogger who has established credentials and reputation in that area? You’ll get a few, but it will be hard. Either find something original to blog about, or find a subject that hasn’t been covered to it’s full extent and rewrite it so you have the best article on the subject.
Don’t start advertising too early. As with community sites, you need to build a user base and a lot of trust. If you’re sacrificing usability just so you can get the best Adsense placement, you’re shooting yourself in the foot to begin with. Hold fire on the adverts for a while or people will become suspicious of your motives.

Getting started blogging
After you’ve grabbed a domain name, one of the easiest ways to start blogging that offers the most future expansion potential is to grab WordPress and install it on your server. WordPress has a huge array of plugins and themes available so you can customise the look and functionality of your blog with very little time or coding knowledge.

Find your way around WordPress is a very simple affair and you’ll be able to get up and running quite quickly. If you don’t have hosting available to you, or your not technically savvy enough to set up WordPress, they also do a hosted version or you can look at the alternative, Blogger which is owned by Google. The hosted versions require absolutely no technical knowledge to set up and shouldn’t cause anybody any problems.

When you begin writing, it is good to develop your own “style”, which isn’t as hard as it sounds. Just be yourself, say what you’ve got to say and make sure you read over your posts when you’re finished to cut out any typos, fluff or terrorist manifestos that might have slipped in there. You can learn from the Pros here, so have a look at: Seth Godin, Matt Cutts, Blue Hat and Dosh Dosh who all have very unique and different styles of writing, each catering for a different type of audience.

Promoting your blog
Before you even do your first post, you’ll want to get a Feedburner account and set up your RSS feed. RSS is really how you measure the success of your blogs: How many people find your content good enough to have it delivered to them every time you write something? Are you keeping these subscribers over time, or are they getting bored of your content? RSS is a trial by fire (no pun) and one of the most challenging things you can do as a blogger is try and get this number up and up. After being bought by Google, Feedburner and all of its functionality is now free so it will give you a whole new load of stats to explore and play with.

Some ideas to promote your blog

Do guest posts. Offer to write articles and posts for other popular blogs (or sometimes even get invited!). This is a great way to dip your to into someone else’s readership and if they like the cut of your jipp, you might be lucky enough for some of them to go and have a look at your blog too.
Link to other posts: A lot of blogging software supports “trackbacks” which means if you link to another blog, with a bit of luck you should automatically get a link from the comment section of the post you have linked to.
Comment on other blogs: Have a good look through the blogs in your niche and get involved. Almost all blogs allow commenting, which will allow you to put a link back to your website. Search engines aside for a moment, most blog authors will check out the sites of their readers and if you’ve got some good posts the chances are that they will link to you sometime in the future!
Interact with your users: If your users go to the trouble of commenting on your blog it is only polite to answer any questions they have and engage them in discussion. This is a great way to get feedback about your blog.
Pay attention to your stats: With any site you run, you should be running some kind of stats package such as Google Analytics. This can give you an invaluable insight into what keywords you’re ranking for and even more importantly, what your users are enjoying reading and recommending.
Blog the right amount: What’s the “right” amount? Well, it depends on what field you’re in. For instance, I’m in the SEO field and SEOers need to take in vast amounts of information everyday to do their jobs. For this reason, I only post when I have something really worth saying. This (hopefully) builds a kind of trust that if you come to read something on my blog, it will be worthwhile. However, if you’re running blog about the latest happens in the Big Brother reality show, then you’re probably going to want volume – people want information as fast as possible. Don’t just listen when people tell you “this is right, this is wrong”, think hard about your audience and what you’d want from a blog.
Submit your blog to RSS and Blog Directories: Submitting your blog to sites like these can have a great impact on your traffic and search engine results.
Use social bookmarking: I’ve personally had great success with StumbleUpon, Digg and del.icio.us. Give people the option to socially tag, bookmark and vote for your site, sometimes you get really lucky and you can get a few thousand visitors in a single day.
Use catchy titles: It’s make or break with titles. Apart from being a strong factor in your SERPs, they will sometimes be the deciding factor whether your post makes it from the feed list to the browser. For instance, any post with the words “Make Money” in it on Digerati gets four or five times the pick up rate of other posts; you greedy beggers!

Monetizing your blog
If one thing can be said about blogs it’s that they attract links. Authority blogs are built on great content and will naturally attract high profile citations, trackbacks and bookmarks. That’s going to give you something to sell: PageRank. Many services like Text Link Ads allow you to auction off some text links on your site. One of the most important factors in deciding the value of your ads in PageRank, the higher your PR – the more money you get.

There are of course ethical (and possible search engine) ramifications to selling links, so a lot of blogs are monetized with Adsense and although it probably won’t pay as well, it is a stable source of income that will fit nicely into most designs. You can get pre-made Adsense optimised WordPress themes from Dosh Dosh.

Once you’ve established yourself a bit of a reputation there are all kinds of avenues you can explore such as ReviewMe where you can get paid to do a post and review about another blog. The price you charge to do this will again be decided by your traffic and authority.

Disposable Blogging

Revenue Potential: Low/Medium
Technical Difficulty: Medium
Promotional Difficulty: Low

Aside from becoming an “authority” blogger, you can use the blog platform to deliver all kinds of content. I have previously written a detailed guide to making money with a video blog. This kind of blogging focuses on what I call “disposable” content. I don’t know if the term is already in use but I call content that can be incredibly popular, but has short-lived appeal, “disposable content”. A great example of this is I Can Has Cheezburger?. It’s a blog… With photos of cats with captions.. That’s it. It is probably more successful than most of us will ever make. The content is funny once and that’s it – you rarely look at the same thing twice.

You can find yourself a niche such as “Funny Pictures of Bears” or something equally as off the wall and corner it. The great thing about the content is it’s so easy to go viral, after a bit of a promotional push – these things really fly by themselves and you slowly get readers over time.

Lets compare blog growth by feed subscribers:

This is an “authority” blog that relies on excellent content to promote itself. As you can see, the blog subscribers “spike” every time there is a new post. The content is popular and it lets lots of links, new visitors and subscribers. This method, as discussed is great – but very hard work and time consuming.

This is our “disposable” content blog. You’ll notice a much smoother increase in visitors [notice the time span is much greater – so the growth is actually much slower). Each few visitors will pass the content onto their friends and so on. The growth is also curved because you eventually get more subscribers recommending more subscribers.

The idea here is you don’t have to work too hard on disposable content sites. Although (unless you’re really lucky) their earning potentially is fairly low, you won’t have to invest much of your time on them. This means you can either make lots of them, or devote your time to other projects.

Splogs
If you’ve had a bad day and you’re feeling a bit evil, it is possible to automate blogs; especially disposable content blogs. This method requires a bit more technical knowledge but reduces the effort to 0 – but it will have an impact on your earnings.

With the use of server Cron jobs, it is possible to automate the scraping of other people’s RSS feeds and republish the content on your blog. We are of course, slipping very quickly into black hat land here but I feel it’s worth mentioning because you can’t just pretend it doesn’t exist now can you?

Splogs can have a variety of uses, some people use them as “backup” fluffer resources for their main sites and others make direct revenue from them. You can easily set up a splog to post 10 new posts per day, the advantage of this being Google Blog Search is very time sensitive, i.e. generally the newest posts will appear at the top of the of the search results so if you have new keyword rich posts going live every 2 hours… Well, you can do the math.

Getting really naughty – setting up a splog
I don’t want to go off track too much, so I’m going to give you the bare bones of to win with a splog. I’m going to assume you’ve managed to get your splog set up to scrape RSS feeds (sorry, you’ll have to work that out yourself, the last thing I want to do is release another group of spammers).

You can get one up on the site your scraping by following a few rules:

1) Post a couple of really, really good posts on your splog.

2) Promote these posts hard with everything you’ve got, every social network/bookmarking site you can find, directories, build links like a madman

3) Let your domain age for a few months and creep a couple of new posts on there. Hopefully by now your domain has a couple of thousand of links and some authority.

4) Choose the feeds your going to scrape and make sure they’re from newish or low authority blogs.

5) Set your Cron job to scrape their feed every 1 minute, checking for new posts.

6) Set up a Feedburner Ping, to ping Feedburner & co the instant to you have new content.

7) If your blog has more authority, Google should come by and index your content before the guy you’ve scraped, resulting in you ranking and him being buried.

Tough life isn’t it?

Right that’s enough of that shady stuff, back on track…

Traffic Arbitrage

Revenue Potential: Medium
Technical Difficulty: Low
Promotional Difficulty: Low

For those of you who haven’t heard it, traffic arbitrage is the process of buying traffic and selling it on for a profit. It’s really, really dead simple – but requires a hell of a lot of research to do correctly. Basically, you buy a domain and set up either a parked page, or a page serving adverts (such as MFA site).

Easy so far? Here’s the tricky bit..

You need to now research search terms that you can buy on Google, Yahoo or MSN that you can then make a profit on when your adverts get a click. You really need to think out of the out of the box here and try and find terms that nobody else is bidding on.

This is a full list of keyword research tools I used to help me:

This is a full list and brief summary of the keyword research tools I use:

Google based tools:

Google Keyword Tool
Provided free by Google AdWords. Shows basic search volumes and related terms.

Google Suggest
As you type, Google will offer suggestions. Good related keyword search.

Google Trends
Provides useful insights into broad search patterns across the world.

Google Zeitgeist
Weekly Google Search patterns and trends.

SEO Book Google Suggest Scrapper Tool
Scrapes Keyword Suggestions from Google Suggest.

Yahoo! based tools:

Overture/Yahoo! Keyword Suggestion Tool
Official Overture Keyword Selector Tool.

Yahoo! Buzz
Statistics of Top Searched Terms on Yahoo! by Category.

Overture SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
Scrapes the Overture Suggestion Tool but includes much more useful information. You can also target by country.

DigitalPoint Keyword Suggestion Tool
Used Suggestion Tool and Wordtracker and compares the two results.

MSN based tools:

MS AdLabs Search Funnels
You can use the adCenter search funnel tool to help you visualize how people search by entering related keywords in certain sequences and analyze these search behaviours.

Other keyword research tools:

Trellian Free Keyword Discovery
Another good, free keyword tool. Also offers advanced features on subscription.

Free wordtracker Keyword Suggestion Tool
generates up to 100 free, related keywords and an estimate of their daily search volume.

Keyword Suggestions by CheckRankings.com
Shows number of searches, competitors and competing AdWords in Google. Also provides a free ranking monitoring tool.

Lycos Top 50
Top 50 keyword list from Lycos.

Nichebot Classic
A 3 in 1 keyword suggestion tool: keyword discovery, overture and wordtracker.

NicheWatch.com
Find exactly which competitors there are in your niche.

GoLexa Search Tool
The Search Tool with Complete Page Analysis for each Result and much more.

Keyword Lizard
By Google AdWords Expert.

Ontology Finder
Related Keywords Lookup Tool by goRank.com.

Now, I don’t proclaim to be an expert on arbitrage as I’ve only recently started dabbling in it, doing some really basic stuff such as bidding on misspelings of finance terms, but I have turned a profit. I’ve heard of people spending 6 figure per week sums on PPC arbitrage, so I guess if you’re spending that much money even a 10% profit and you’ll be making $10,000 a week.

Also, for those of you who think you’ll get your Adsense banned for making arbitrage MFA sites, that’s bollocks. Google are not killing MFA sites, they are simply killing any MFA site that doesn’t give the advertiser a return. Makes sense doesn’t it?

Shoemoney (wretch) did a good, but rather sickening video round up of arbitrage.

Methods With No Website

Revenue Potential: Low/Medium
Technical Difficulty: None
Promotional Difficulty: Low

So, you’ve got this far. If you’re still struggling for something to do, there are ways to make money online without even having to make a chuffing website! How easy is that?!

Get Paid To Blog – It’s quite possible to get paid just to write blog posts, for existing sites. Many sites will offer you a revenue share if you’re in it for the long term and some will pay you per post. It’s a great way for the casual person to make a bit of cash at the weekends.. It can be fun too!

Get paid to Digg and Stumble – There’s a program launched a few months ago that allows you to get paid just for voting for stories on Digg and giving sites a “thumbs up” on Stumble. This is probably the easiest way to make money online as you get e-mailed when you have a job to do, the you get paid for merely clicking your mouse.

Distribute your affiliate link – Why not sign up for a Poker/Casino affiliate, then right an e-book on how to play poker? You can then sell the e-book on ebay for $1 a pop and upload it to bit torrent sites, or share it on P2P networks like Kazaa… Why would you want to do this? Well, PDFs can take links… Such as your affiliate links! It doesn’t matter if the book is being given away free, if you seed it on 10 BT sites, you can easily get 1,000 downloads in a month or two – all you need is 5% of those people to sign up with your embedded affiliate links and the recurring bonuses can keep going for months.

Be creative! There are absolutely thousands of opportunities to make money online, don’t get stuck in the rut of thinking you have to build site X using strategy Y to result in profit Z. I’ve written this post just to try and give you a brief insight into how I look at the different types of website that are about. I think Maki put it brilliantly when he said you should surf the net like an Entrepreneur – always be on the lookout for opportunities and study other sites to see how they are making money and what they are doing well..

Maybe you can do it better?

Congratulations if you finished this jumbo post, big hello to all of Jon’s readers – I hope you enjoyed it!

Mark
www.digeratimarketing.co.uk

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55 Comments

Comment by Grimm

2007-07-31 20:24:22

Word up.

Comment by jonwaraas

2007-07-31 20:41:25

One of the longest posts ever, great to have you as a guest blogger, thanks

I really love your blog too…

Comment by JerkyBeef

2007-07-31 22:19:03

nice post… good advice…

Comment by Bill

2007-07-31 22:39:43

I already read your blog, GREAT POST.

Comment by Ted

2007-08-01 00:30:45

Wow, huge post, good info too

Comment by smaxor

2007-08-01 00:47:57

Found my way here from Digerati. Great post on different avenues to venture down. I think the auto-gen’d sites have a lot more potential then you meantioned if you know what you’re doing and can scale thing properly using parasite hosting and domains combined. Starting with some strong posts to begin with is a fantastic suggestions and really get the blog going with I bang I really like that idea. Keep sharing I really appreciate it.

Comment by TextAdSearch

2007-08-01 05:05:10

That post was so long I even had to reconsider reading it. I’m sooo tired now.

Comment by Seocracy

2007-08-01 11:25:35

ooooh! pretty graphs!

Comment by Fun Things

2007-08-01 13:51:41

Figuring out which way to best publicize your site is compounded by having limited time in the day to work on your site. Personally I have a full time job, but love updating the site and find time to do so. But also finding the time to get the word out is proving to be the most difficult part.

Great Guest Article Mark! Definitely record length I’d say.

Comment by David Lithman

2007-08-02 14:17:06

Holy crap! That was like 10 blog posts in 1. Awesome info!!

Comment by Plepco

2007-08-02 14:22:28

Nice one. I like the angle on scraping and pinging brand new blogs to get indexed first. I just never thought of that particular fine point so that should help me with my coupla splogs. Okay yeah now I’m tired.

Comment by Mwork

2007-08-03 07:12:50

thanks a lot for sharing that infos.
the idea to share e-books with adds on p2p-networks in nice!

Comment by Mike

2007-08-03 09:13:37

Wow, one of the longest posts I’ve seen in a long time… coming from a guest poster makes it even more great. This info is deffinitly helpful, a great summary.

Comment by Nathan

2007-08-03 09:15:03

WOW so much extremely good information. Thanks!

Comment by Bob Buskirk

2007-08-03 20:36:50

I knew something this long could not have been written by jon….lol

Comment by Scot Smith

2007-08-03 22:00:12

Good post, very thorough.

Comment by The Dino

2007-08-04 18:31:36

Well very good… There might be more details about each method.

Comment by JerkyBeef

2007-08-06 08:08:47

Man you prolly should have split this one up into a series of 3 posts, would saved you a ton of time.

Comment by Mark

2007-08-06 09:41:38

Split it up? It’s nowhere near finished yet! It is split up! More to come hehe..

Comment by Aoleon

2007-08-10 15:03:59

You rock! Great blog!

Comment by KingJacob

2007-08-13 16:06:12

that was the most thorough run through of making money online Ive read, Great Job.

Comment by Social Network Marketing

2007-08-16 17:06:37

You forgot to mention using websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Craigslist, and other social networking websites to generate business.

Comment by Michael

2007-08-16 20:22:40

Dear lord that’s the longest post I’ve ever seen…but incredibly informative. Great resource.

Comment by Wally

2007-08-18 13:24:01

Good information and your analysis on community sites. It’s good to actually see some rough numbers rather than just hand-waving on a lot of other posts.

Getting that 200 core users is the key.

Comment by Stuart

2007-08-21 00:38:41

I don’t really see $0.40 CPM making you $600 a month with only 30,000 visits or am I missing something?

Comment by Blogging Sponsorships

2007-08-21 04:23:53

That was one hell of a post. I will link to it from my blog. Thanks Jon!

Comment by Kingsley Duru

2007-08-22 12:41:45

Great Post, i enjoyed the part about disposable blogging the most.

Comment by Tom

2007-08-23 04:35:14

Thanks for such a good roundup of the options available. It must have taken you ages to write, but it’s a great resource for anyone new to the idea of making money online.

Great job!