Making money online.
I have recently come into a situation where I have to work from home.
I would really appreciate some feedback on some of my ideas and any other methods you can think of to make money from home (hopefully on my computer).
I was thinking possibly a shit load of the pay per click ads (never used them so I'm not sure how profitable they actually are.), maybe try my skills on rentacoder.com (Dunno how profitable it would be), a friend told me online poker can be quite profitable (I'm not half bad at hold 'em), maybe post an ad on craigs list for web design or other computer projects (through logmein etc.) Ive also thought about putting some stuff on ebay.. Any ideas/feedback would be greatly appreciated.
No no no. wrong approach to ptc mate. I used to be in the whole ptc scene, spend all day and earn like 5c. I payed more for the electricity usage and internet! Not to mention the boring act of viewing retarded ads, often loaded with malware.
This is what you do: Open a ptc website of your own, promote it a bit on other ptc sites and let it grow to around 1000 members, then go and sell it on ebay quoting the alexa rating. Now, there are some tricks to earn off of the site itself (selling ads is not a good income), but you have to figure it out like I did. In addition to selling the site when it grows big enough, you can start getting into the script's code and creating bug fixes, security patches, and plugins. The best plugins I ever made and sold were advanced user management, multi-account user detection, bot detection (hot selling btw), and an apache log parser, and other visually nice things. For some reason some webmasters find direct access to the logs is beneficial. Run agpt, and a bux site if you plan to scam (just dont its lame).
During the 4 months I owned 2 sites, I made $320 measly bucks from advertisement sales, and addition $200 from other means, and another $400 from programming for the script. Note that bots save your more money than they take. If you can detect bots, you can pay them less often and less money, and pay regular members. In addition making their clicks take a percentage of a credit from advertisers ad. The core model of ptc does not yeild much money in itself because it doesn't work with less than like 50k members who buy ads often. More ads = more activity, = more money out of your pocket. Its hard to keep a good balance. So start up a site ($15 + hosting), make some money off of the advertising, then sell the site on ebay.
Most buyers never try to get control of the domain name…. Aside from that, there are thousands upon thousands of ways to make money online. With programming try to be forward. Contact someone with a shitty site and offer to redo it cheap, crap like that, people can get interested. Thats how I managed to get all the freelance work because webmasters in industries are always in contact with each other because they use the same scripts and ideals their sites use. I got in contact with the owner of earn3.com over a year ago with another site of his, and I've done several hundred dollars of work for him since, including many bug fixes and security patches. His work is the primary thing that improved my php/mysql skills. If you can, dont get anything over agpt 2.15. They all suck… Pre agpt 2.15 is good, I'd be willing to help you out with a few bug fixes and security patches, or rather tell you about them and allow to fix em. free… Good luck. If your determined to earn money for free, you could be evil. myptc888.com. Btw, this guy cowers at the first threat of legal action, so any site owner that wants to can be nulled against this bot.B)
I have read, in 2600, that a good blackhat SEO can be rather profitable.
I couldn't find the article, but you can find out on there if 2600 is sold in a store near you.
So can a good legal SEO business… Most of the stuff SEO teams do could be frowned upon, but none of it should really be considered "black hat".
Things like google bombing (though old) look bad to google, but in all reality the top listing companies pay google for those high listings so there is little difference in paying less to get high in the listings.
SEO is pretty interesting though. Get's into everything including the naming scheme's of files on the server. In the very least you could always give some bullshit advice and throw on some good marketing. Interesting stuff, but It got old really fast for me. But its not something that is likely to be hard to get paid for if you know what your doing.
p99 wrote: So can a good legal SEO business… Most of the stuff SEO teams do could be frowned upon, but none of it should really be considered "black hat".
Yeah and the whole ideology of hats can be taken in many ways in terms of ethical conscience, but basically if you are using SEO to optimize content that may be manipulated or not there at all then you can be banned from Google for black hat methods.
And if you pick up a copy of 2600, which you should - a great read, the SEO that they are teaching is titled "Exploiting the dumb masses to make a profit". Not so ethical if you ask me.