I spent a lot of time this weekend doing a little research and reading. I have been busy creating sites on various topics on different platforms (blogger, weebly, wikidot, etc) over the last couple of weeks. Actually, to say that I have spent a lot of time is probably an understatement. I have been trying to figure out how to make money online or how to earn a dollar a day online for a little over month now. My kids wonder why their father who really never spent time online now sits in front of the computer continuously. My one son told me yesterday that I need a laptop. I agree with him. Actually, I think the problem is that I have interfered with their Facebook or MySpace accounts since we only have one computer. But I digress.
Let me share a little bit about what I have learned and what I have done. I currently have four articles on eHow. I noticed yesterday that I have made 19 cents this month already. If I continue to make money at this rate I should be able to retire in a month or so (ha!). Well, it is a good this that I am not in this to make mney online quickly. The traffic that is generated by eHow is pretty good. If I could monetize their traffic I might be able to make money online and make even more than a dollar a day online. They rank quite high in the search engines. I have two articles that consistently rank on page one or page two of Google for their particular search terms. This is good but there is really no way to monetize eHow articles aside of the paltry sums you get from them for someone clicking on the ads they place on the page. But since they rank so well in Google it should be good for providing links back to your main website or blog on the same topics.
I also have 4 articles on Hub Pages. I have a 5th written that I should put up sometime tomorrow. I didn’t seem to have much success here at first but they are beginning to generate a few page view. Hub Pages allows you to see where your traffic is coming from. So far about 1/5 of it is coming from Google. It is all for one article in particular. I don’t know what search term it is ranking for. I will have to try to figure this out. Again since Google is friendly to Hub Pages it would be a good site to use in your linking strategy in your attempt to make money online from your main site.
I have written 5 articles for Squidoo. Despite what I hear others say, they have generated crap in the way of traffic. I have done nothing different with them than I have with Hub Pages but I am having no luck. I see from searches in Googe that others are able to rank high but I have had no success. I did have initial success with my first article. But when I wrote a second article my first one fell off the map. I had heard other people talk about this happening but I kind of blew it off. Now I am a believer. I guess this means that you would have to set up multiple Squidoo accounts and only post a few articles in each account. Right now I will only use Squidoo in my linking strategy back to this site or one of my other sites. I currently do not expect to make money online from any article that I have on Squidoo. If any of that changes, I will let you know.
I decided to log in to my Adsense account last night and saw that I have made $1.73 this week. Wow that means I am almost up to $2 between this and eHow. That probably breaks out to about 5 cents per hour for the time I have put in this week. I know some will think this is a crazy way to try to make money (my wife is among them) but I view it as progress.
I looked at the adsense reports and cannot tell where the money was made. I will have to try to figure this out. I don’t know if it came from Hub Pages or one of the recent Blogger sites. My guess is Hub Pages since I know it gets Google traffic and I don’t think the Blogger blogs have been indexed yet.
In my next post I will tell you what I have learned about backlinks but have yet to really implement yet. There are only so many hours in the day.
Take Care.
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