Making money online? Who does it?

[S1MON]

Just interested to see how many of you make money online.. or try to?

I attempted to.. set up a small site just to see if I could do it, just a small car niche site brand/model specific as i knew a bit about them etc and added a bit of content then i've just let it sit there with some G@@gle @dsense running and have made £120.00 odd in past year from little or no work.

Lacking motivation i just left it, I was planning on trying a few more niche sites just to make a little money and gain some experience but have just let the one site run, I know people who run alot of sites making a decent income, a friend who sadly died in a motorbike accident in Thailand used to make a great living from having multiple sites running adverts but he was great with SEO he taught me the basics.

Cheap to start.

 

[Chi]

I know someone who does something similar, fascinating stuff but I don't know anything about it..

 

[Addicted]

Got a couple of sites up, doing a similar thing but through affiliate networking rather than targeted ads, they do ok!

I mine bitcoins/litecoins too, technically free money (ignoring power costs).

 

[Damo_Sport]

Got a couple of sites up, doing a similar thing but through affiliate networking rather than targeted ads, they do ok!

I mine bitcoins/litecoins too, technically free money (ignoring power costs).

How does bitcoins work? i looked into it once but seems confusing.. how do you actually make money?

 

[S1MON]

I know someone who does something similar, fascinating stuff but I don't know anything about it..

It's pretty easy if you have basic html skills etc, plenty of videos on youtube but it does take a long time.

Got a couple of sites up, doing a similar thing but through affiliate networking rather than targeted ads, they do ok!

I mine bitcoins/litecoins too, technically free money (ignoring power costs).

I tried to make some money with the amazon affiliate network have made £0.00, thought I would of made something.. my main plan for the website was get into the eBay partnership program but that's damn hard to get into! What type of affiliate networking? I had a look at the ebook things but didn't really have any suitable.

Never really looked into/understood bitcoins, but i understand is just using your computer to do some computing work and your rewarded with coins?

 

[The Russian.]

0000.000mph is incredible at it.


Give him a pm.

 

[Addicted]

It's pretty easy if you have basic html skills etc, plenty of videos on youtube but it does take a long time.



I tried to make some money with the amazon affiliate network have made £0.00, thought I would of made something.. my main plan for the website was get into the eBay partnership program but that's damn hard to get into! What type of affiliate networking? I had a look at the ebook things but didn't really have any suitable.

Never really looked into/understood bitcoins, but i understand is just using your computer to do some computing work and your rewarded with coins?

Yep that's what I use, I run Associate-o-Matic frontend mixed in with Wordpress for site news (auto-posted), pages etc.

And yep exactly right with bitcoins, point some software at a remote host and let it run away!

 

[S1MON]

I know someone who does something similar, fascinating stuff but I don't know anything about it..

Yep that's what I use, I run Associate-o-Matic frontend mixed in with Wordpress for site news (auto-posted), pages etc.

So have you got a target product?

And have you pre wrote all of your posts? And how often? Friend told me to post something every single day, relevant to my site even if it doesn't make that much sense to humans it will to someone else

 

[Addicted]

So have you got a target product?

And have you pre wrote all of your posts? And how often? Friend told me to post something every single day, relevant to my site even if it doesn't make that much sense to humans it will to someone else

I target Computer components (and peripherals mainly) [yup huge market, and have 0 chance of getting top, but still pull in people].

I'm lazy at the moment and just have plugins to pull news from selected rss feeds and publish them into posts - it won't do s**t for placing on Google, but it seems ok anyway really.

PM if you want and I'll send you a link over of an example

 

[S1MON]

I know someone who does something similar, fascinating stuff but I don't know anything about it..

I target Computer components (and peripherals mainly) [yup huge market, and have 0 chance of getting top, but still pull in people].

I'm lazy at the moment and just have plugins to pull news from selected rss feeds and publish them into posts - it won't do s**t for placing on Google, but it seems ok anyway really.

PM if you want and I'll send you a link over of an example

Yeah PM coming your way, i'll link you to my site.

 

[Chapster5]

I tried once and failed miserably. Targeted Illusion Mage 3D Software and yeah... Never ranked so gave up!

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

0000.000mph is incredible at it.


Give him a pm.

FLOL!

 

[Addicted]

FLOL!

I missed that, LOL!

 

[Harbinger]

Wish I invented the Million Dollar homepage, the best but laziest idea around.

 

[Gally]

I do a little bit on ebay under a different name from my personal account. Only really the missus and my Mum and Dad know about it. Returns decent profit which is the main thing for doing very little.

Sadly I don't have the time nor internet/IT knowhow for anything bigger in regards to money making on the net, add into the fact my job pays well it's not really something i'd want to pursue.

 

[Dolan]

My mate is doing it, but it will take him 3 years to set up before any money is made.
Not 100% sure what it is ill ask him if u want

 

[@Spoonie]

Get a webcam - charge men £10 to watch you knock one out into a Timberland boot while dressed as the Fonz. Don't think that's been done yet.

 

[mas]

I've dabbled in domain names before, but as with everything online, securing a good'un is hard. I ended up buying some nice sounding names, things that people/I could brand up. Had interest in a number of them and most recently sold one which was a direct contact to me from a chap in Germany - that one was HappyStaff.co.uk

I've got ones like, GetPrinting.co.uk, MoveJobs.co.uk, GoVisit.co.uk, BikeNuts.co.uk etc - I'm going to update some landing pages soon.

 

[Cup_Phil]

If you want to just make money from advertising then a forum is easiest - get the ball rolling and when you have 30,000 users on there all chatting a way you'll see £500-1k a month in google advertising.

Affiliate schemes for links to ebay and amazon are good too as you get a percentage each time someone buys something from a link from your site

 

[@Spoonie]

Or set up a stupid Facebook page saying you are giving away Maserati's as they are scratched an cannot be sold. Loads of likes by dumb people. Sell page.

 

[mas]

If you want to just make money from advertising then a forum is easiest - get the ball rolling and when you have 30,000 users on there all chatting a way you'll see £500-1k a month in google advertising.

Affiliate schemes for links to ebay and amazon are good too as you get a percentage each time someone buys something from a link from your site

I totally agree with Phil.

Target a niche, like say, DJ'ing?

So, you'd want to buy a domain name which will rank well, like say, www.DJsForum.co.uk

You can buy that off me.

 

[Cup_Phil]

Likes aren't really worth a lot tbh. Neither are youtube views unless you get into the millions. Not compared to how much money google throw at people.

 

[Cup_Phil]

I totally agree with Phil.

Target a niche, like say, DJ'ing?

So, you'd want to buy a domain name which will rank well, like say, www.DJsForum.co.uk

You can buy that off me.

Nice holding page LOL

 

[mas]

I'm working on those, I did have something a little more eye catching. LOL.

 

[S1MON]

If you want to just make money from advertising then a forum is easiest - get the ball rolling and when you have 30,000 users on there all chatting a way you'll see £500-1k a month in google advertising.

Affiliate schemes for links to ebay and amazon are good too as you get a percentage each time someone buys something from a link from your site

Yeah a great forum can earn a great income, you just sit back and let the users generate content.. Google picks it up nicely. Easy to create a forum hard to get alot of users and regular input.

 

[Chapster5]

Nik is a Baller from this forum.

Should go check out the Warrior forums (google it) amazing site with such awesome input and tips!

 

[S1MON]

Nik is a Baller from this forum.

Should go check out the Warrior forums (google it) amazing site with such awesome input and tips!

Is the owner of that on here? pretty impressive.

 

[Chapster5]

Is the owner of that on here? pretty impressive.

Don't think he/she is lol god knows who made that forum but if you're ever struggling for marketing techniques, new niches, website help, google ranking , keyword selection, seo or even article writing... That's the place to go.

 

[S1MON]

Yeah i'm just having a read now.

I really need to find motivation and add some more content to my site, I just can't be assed.

I normally get home from work and if i'm not seeing the GF or out on the MTB, im watching TV and on the laptop doing nothing much productive... bashing some keys and creating some content could start earning me a little more £££.

How do people find the motivation and drive..

 

[Nik]

Nik is a Baller from this forum.

LOL, I wish!

 

[Chapster5]

LOL, I wish!

So modest x

 

[sn00p]

My bosses son makes upwards of 30K per year for creating random "funny" facebook pages and just getting people to view them. Does the same thing with a website.

Basically, posts for a couple of hours each day and makes a comfortable living out of it.

 

[S1MON]

^ Not sure how you make money by doing that with Facebook?

 

[LiamR172]

My bosses son makes upwards of 30K per year for creating random "funny" facebook pages and just getting people to view them. Does the same thing with a website.

Basically, posts for a couple of hours each day and makes a comfortable living out of it.

Explain?

 

[Addicted]

Explain?

By spamming s**t for advertising pretty much.

You know all those annoying pages that spam "OH LOOK AT THIS PICTURE A GUY WITH NO HEAD" (and stuff like that), that's what he does.

 

[S1MON]

Yeah but how do they make money? Your not going to make money by showing a photo of a guy with no head.. unless it takes you to an external site.. with some form of advertising or product placement.

Someone simply going and looking at a Facebook page doesn't make the owner money.. I have a facebook page with over 1,400 likes...

 

[Addicted]

You dont make money directly, the reason you have so many likes is to get a large audience to spam products/website with advertising etc.

 

[Jack!]

I had a crack at this a few years ago, running a blog about Guitars, I made a bit of money from Google Adsense, but soon lost the inspiration. Shame, I got quite a few comments about how people enjoyed my writing style and enjoyed what they read, but after a while I soon ran out of guitars and equipment that I cared to write about, and not being hands on enough with things I was reviewing made it difficult to give any real insight that couldn't be found elsewhere.

From what I remember, to really make some money from this takes a lot of patience, often talking in years before you could see any substantial money and you need a real passion in a niche that hasn't already been taken.

 

[sn00p]

Yeah but how do they make money? Your not going to make money by showing a photo of a guy with no head.. unless it takes you to an external site.. with some form of advertising or product placement.

Someone simply going and looking at a Facebook page doesn't make the owner money.. I have a facebook page with over 1,400 likes...

Amateur....

He has loads of pages each with hundreds of thousands of likes.

And websites, which link to these...with advertising.

 

[S1MON]

Trying to think of a niche site I can make... Why is it i always have some motivation when i've got other things to do.

So hard finding a decent domain even the crap ones are taken! lol