I spent several months not long ago - well, perhaps 3 years ago now I guess it’s been - researching methods for making a ton of easy money as fast as possible using the Internet and a web site. I bought some programs about how to do it. Spent a few hundred dollars.
I’m here to tell you, the only thing I did was to provide someone else with their mad free money through my own greed.
Some programs teach you how to use ads on your website to make money. They forget to tell you that you have to be spending crazy amounts of time creating content. Or spending a bunch of that crazy cash you were supposed to make buying content. Private label rights, article writing, or stealing content from others’ rss feeds - the list is endless. The bottom line is beg, borrow, steal content so you have pages that are indexed in Google. If 1% of 1,000,000 page views click on an ad that’s a lot.
If you participate in this madness let me just say a sarcastic “thank you” for spamming the entire world wide web. it’s not enough to do it in email, now we’re doing it online too.
In the end, I realized that the one good way to make a lot of money online, and I made a good living last year doing this is to find something that you are good at and sell that as a service online.
I make websites. I charge to make websites. If I’m working, I’m earning. I don’t earn without working. Somehow that feels good to me.