Affiliate Programs

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re looking for ways to make money now. I know. DUH! Otherwise you’re just bored and want to kill some time while at work! But for the sake of this article, I’m assuming you need a few extra dollars, or a bunch of extra dollars. Here are 5 ways people can start making money quickly. I have other article on this site regarding quick ways to make money, a few are the same ones only updated while a few are different and will work if you do! I’ll also prerequisite this by saying that you’ll have to dedicate some time and effort in order to get these or any other method to work for you. So if you think these are going to be easy money making methods, they’re not! So let’s get started!

Next to “How do I get started making money online“, most beginners ask “Should I put adsense ads on same page as Affiliate ads?” It seems that a common misconception of beginners is that the more ads you have on a page, the more money you will make. I guess I can see that logic, but I’m about to tell you why that is a bad idea! Follow along as I explain why you need to pick just one monetization method. I’ve come to this conclusion after many years in the affiliate marketing business and by doing many test to see which made me the most money.

By the time you read this, there’s a good chance that PostRunner V2 will have been released. PostRunner is/was a feature for the members of The Keyword Academy (here’s the Keyword Academy Review). You logged into a dashboard, wrote articles and picked from a list of websites where you wanted your article to be published. The owner of that blogged then decided whether or not to accept your article. Why did members post to Post Runner? Because every article was allowed to have a backlink pointing to their website. Over the years the quality of these sites really became poor. Website owners wouldn’t approve or decline articles and even if they did, some would remove the links in the future (which is against the TOS of PostRunner). Some would simply remove your article if it started ranking and replace it with a spun copy without your links. It was no big surprise that the quality suffered and people left in droves.

A few  years ago, there was a group of people starting to talk about buying aged domains that already had PR. These domains were former websites and for some reason, there people who owned them let them go. In most instances, all the links pointing to those domains stayed in place and since all those links were pointing at those domains, they kept their PR in most cases. If you bought on of these aged domains at auction, all you had to do was throw up a website and you instantly had a website with PR. It was pretty easy and pretty straightforward. I bought a few back in 2008 and 2009 and they had a brief period where their PR dropped. But since I had quickly put up a website all were able to get their PR back and keep them. A few even went up.

Ever since the Google Farming algo change, many content sites have been scrambling to try and appease Big G. Both Hubpages and EzineArticles made some changes in hopes of getting their Adsense income and their rankings back. However, EzineArticles have recently taking some actions that can only be described as “knee jerk” at best. Simply because they make no sense at all and will only end up turning away those that have helped build EZA to the money maker it was (and in all honestly, still is!)

I’m going to assume most of you know what HubPages is. If not, then go and take the Official HubPage Tour. It’ll explain what HubPages is. While there, you might as well sign up. It’s free. Then come back and read the rest of this article to find you how you can make money with HubPages and earn residual income. It’s just one income stream I use to make money online, but it’s a very important and profitable stream!