So How do you earn money online with a website? Many ways, you can build an ecommerce store selling products, create a web directory that charges inclusion fees or build a website selling services. The most common type is a review or information website that makes money with advertisements and affiliate programs.

I have written a post about building a website back in 2009, you can read more about here. I intend to write an updated and more detailed post about how to build a successful website. Below you can find an outline of the basic steps needed to start a website.

1. Register a Domain Name

2. Get a Good and Reliable Hosting Company

3. Point your Domain to the Hosting Server

4. Install WordPress

5. Writing Content for your website/blog

6. Let your Website be Found!

1. Register a Domain Name

First you need a domain name, like www.yoursite.com. The domain name for this site is www.thefunstufftodo.com. It is very important to have your own domain name. There are places where you can get free sub-domains, but they are not yours and may be cancelled any time. I want to stress again, getting your own domain name is very important for your future success, you will gain trust from your readers and customers and you will benefit from all of the backlinks pointing to your site.

Domain names are cheap, they are about $10 per year for .com domains. Godaddy is the largest online domain registrars, you can check them out here. You can also find cheaper domain names from smaller companies, like Idotz.

2. Get a Good and Reliable Hosting Company

Once you pick a creative domain name for your website, you would need a hosting company to store your web pages. Blogger offers free hosting, but they have the right to cancel your site at any time. I know many famous blogger who got their blogs deleted from blogger. So I strongly suggest you to host your website with a reliable paid hosting company. Then Only YOU will have the permission to change or delete your web pages.

I highly recommend Hostgator. I recently switched from Godaddy hosting to Hostgator and I am very happy with the results. Godaddy is a very good domain registrar, but their hosting is not as good as the others. If you previously have your website hosted elsewhere, Hostgator will transfer your website to the Hostgator Server completely Free!

Hostgator uses the famous C-panel, which is a very easy to use control panel for web hosting. What I really like about Hostgator is their customer support. Whenever you have questions or problems, you can get help and answers Instantly via the Live Chat. The technical staffs are very experienced and friendly. They will pretty much help you with anything regarding your websites. I recently had a problem installing a directory script on one of my websites and a technical staff solved the problem in a very time efficient manner.

Once you reach the Hostgator Home Page, click “VIEW WEB HOSTING PLANS”. I would recommend you to choose the “Baby Plan”, because you will be able to host Unlimited websites with Unlimited Space and Bandwidth. But if you are Sure that you only want one website, then choose the Hatchling Plan.

Next Pick “I Currently Have a Domain Name”, and enter the domain name you registered from Godaddy or Idotz in the box. Before Pressing “Continue to Step 2″, at the bottom, Enter Coupon Code: hosting25percentoff to save 25 % on your hosting package.

The option on the left is for people who want to purchase a domain name from Hostgator. I don’t recommend this, because Hostgator’s price for domain names is higher. But if you are lazy and want to save the hassle, then register a domain name at Hostgator and You can skip Step 3 ( Point your Domain to the Hosting Server) and move on directly to step 4 (Install WordPress).

3. Point your Domain to the Hosting Server

Since you purchased your domain and hosting server at different places, you need to point your domain to the hosting server, so when people type your domain name (http://www.yourdomain.com), they will arrive the web pages stored at your hosting server.

There two things you need to change at your domain registrar, one is the IP address and the other is the DNS Nameservers.

I recommend you to change the IP address first. If you purchased your domain at Godaddy, go to DNS Manager and change the IP address after “A @”. Your IP address may look like this 123.234.12.34. Change that address to the IP address shown at the side bar of the Cpanel at your Hostgator hosting account. Once you log into the cpanel at your Hostgator account, go to the bottom of the page and find the sidebar titled “Account Information”. Under “Account Information”, you will find the IP address of your hosting server. Change the IP address at your domain registrar to that address.

Next you need to change the Nameservers at your Domain Registrar. You can find the Nameserver information of your Hosting account also under “Account Information” in your Hostgator’s cpanel. Your Nameservers may look like this “ns2000.hostgator.com”
“ns2001.hostgator.com”. Change the Nameserver information at your domain registrar to these ones. Note: you have two Nameservers.

If you purchased your domain at Godaddy, Here’s a Video Tutorial to help you change the Nameservers.

4. Install WordPress

Now that you have pointed your domain to your hosting server, you can start to build your website at your hosting account. WordPress is a very powerful and free web-based software which you can use to build a blog or website very easily. If you think WordPress is only a blogging platform, then you need to think again. WordPress is very capable of building all kinds of websites and many successful websites are built via WordPress.

You can install wordpress right at the Cpanel in your Hostgator account. Once you log into the Cpanel, you will see a bunch of icons. Find “Fantastico De Luxe” (the happy face icon) under the Category “Software/Services”.

Once you enter the “Fantastico De Luxe”, you will be able to find “WordPress” at the Navigation Menu at the left. Next click on “Install WordPress”. First choose the domain you want to install wordpress on and you can leave the next field “Install in directory” blank (This will install wordpress at the root directory of the domain you chose). For the “Admin access data” field, pick a username and a password. You will be using this information to log into WordPress. Next pick a nickname, a email address in case you lose your password and fill in the site name and description. Finally click “Install WordPress” and you are all done!

5. Writing Content for your website/blog

You can log into WordPress by typing the url “http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin” in your browser and fill in the username and password you selected during set up.

After you log into WordPress, you will see a navigator bar at the left. I will briefly introduced the important items.

Under “Appearance”, you can change your themes. A theme is basically a website template. You can use the default template of the WordPress called “Twenty Ten” or you can change to a different design template for your website. You can browse many available wordpress themes by clicking “Install Themes” tab at the top. There are also plenty of wordpress themes on the internet.

Under Posts, you can create a new web page by clicking “Add New”. You will see a platform similar to the image below:

You can create a title for your web page and starting writing content at the field below the title. You have a visual editor and a Html editor. Use the visual editor if you don’t know any html. The visual editor has a lot of editing functions similar to those found in Microsoft Word. Play with it. You can see a preview of the webpage by pressing the “Preview Button”. When you are ready, press the blue “Publish” button and your post will be live on your website.

By Default, WordPress shows a number of the posts at the home page. This is fine if you intend to start a blog. However if you want to start a website, this is not very convenient. There is a fix for that. Go to “Settings” at the left Navigation bar and then go to “Reading Settings”. Choose the option “Front page displays a static Page”. Then create a new page which you intend to use as your home page and select that page to be at the front page.

These are the basics which should be able to help you start a simple website. If you want to go into more depth, I recommend the Book ” WordPress for Dummies”

6. Let your Website be Found!

Now that you have a basic website, you need to let visitors to find your website. You can share your new website on the major social bookmarking sites, like Facebook and Twitter. Also join major forums relating to your niche and put your website at your signature to raise awareness. You can also publish Free Press Releases about your website.

You also need the major search engines, like Google, Yahoo or Bing to find your website. I recommend you to install the plugin “Google XML Sitemaps”. You can install a plugin in WordPress by accessing “Plugins” at the navigator bar and then click “Add New”. Search the term “Google XML Sitemaps” at the search box, and after you found the plugin, click “Install Now”. Next go to “Plugins” and find “Google XML Sitemaps” and click “Activate”. This will activate the plugin which will automatically create a sitemap for your website and submit it to all the major search engines.

You can also ping all the search engines at Ping-O-Matic and let them know about your website.

If everything goes well, Google should be able to index your website in about 3 days. You can check by googling your site’s url and see if your site comes up.

Good Luck at building your website, and if you have any questions, feel free to make a comment.

The original Google sniper was launched in 2009. When the course came out, the whole internet market was shaked by the news. No one would believe you can earn a six figure income without any traffic generation, totally on autopilot! I was one of the skeptics, but I bought the course anyway, because the course came with a 60 Days Money Back Guarantee. And I am so glad that I did. The sniper sites I set up back then are still generating income even Today, completely on autopilot! And it only took me less than one hour to set up each sniper site.

So what is Google Sniper all about?

It teaches you how to set up micro niche sites that rank very high on Google with the unique “formula”. Each site takes very little time to set up and you only need a few pages. Once the sites are set up, you can just leave them running without any maintanence and with almost no or little link buidling. Because of the unique ways the sniper site are set up, Google will rank very high for those sites. Each sniper site is promoting affiliate products and you make money if they sell. With the large amount of Free traffic from the search engines, it would be hard not to make any money.

Ok, Google Sniper works.

But What’s so special about Google Sniper 2.0?

It is the updated version of the orginal Google Sniper. You will learn new keyword research strategies and Massive improvements to the original sniper system. Google’s algorithm is contantly changing, so you need to stay up to date in 2011.

Google Sniper 2.0 also introduces the “Empire Module” which teaches you how to build an Empire of Sniper sites. After all, the more sniper sites you have, the more money you are going to make. The new module teaches you how to outsource the sites-building, so you can save time and efforts.

You will also learn how to make your sniper sites FTC compliant, so that your sites are 100% protected in your affiliate marketing from any legal threats.

Do I recommend you to Buy it?

If you haven’t bought the Orginal Google sniper, I highly recommend you to buy the Updated version Google Sniper 2.0. It will teach you step to step how to make real money online. I know the system works because I have tried it.

But if you already own the old Google Sniper, I think the price you had to pay for the update is a little bit more. The core system is still the same, there are just some updates on keyword research and improvements on the old system. There are also some information on how to expand your exisiting system into an Empire. So it’s totally up to you if you want to purchase the updated version or not.

Here you can get a Free Bonus.

Get the New Google Sniper 2.0 Here!

*Remember, Google sniper 2.0 comes with a Full 60 Days Money Back Guarantee. If you are not making any money with the product, you can get a full refund within 60 days. They are that Confident!

I recently came across a blogging course, called “John Yeo’s Bloggers Paycheck“. I think it is very well written and very descriptive. I would recommend this course to anyone who is starting to start a blog/website or anyone who wants to earn money from their blogs. So if you are generating a very good income from your blogs already, then this course is not for you.

I will give a brief John Yeo’s Bloggers Paycheck Review in this post. But first of all who is John Yeo? He started blogging in 2006 as a complete beginner. After years of experimenting and hardworking, he turned his first blog Romance-fire.com into one of the most successful wedding blogs in the industry. Now he is sharing the experience with you and is going to help you step by step to create a successful website.

John Yeo’s Blogger’s Paycheck course contains 5 Volumes.

Volume 1 teaches you how to set up your blog completely from scratch. The explanation is very easy to understand even for people who have no experience at all. John Yeo also gives some advice picking the topic of your blog and writing blog posts. If you are lazy and don’t like to write, the course shares where you can find other people to write posts for you.

Volume 2 teaches you how to bring traffic to your site and also how to track the info. Several traffic sources are introduced and places where you can submit your site for free. You will also learn how to exchange links with other webmasters to get more traffic and higher search engine rankings.

Volume 3 is about Marketing Online. This volume’s purpose is to help you gain a even bigger exposure to your blog. Some topics include Reaching your target audience, free advertising, email marketing, building an online community, search engine optimization and branding.

Volume 4 teaches you how to monetize your blog, basically how to make money from your site. John Yeo mostly talked about selling links and where to find sponsors to advertise on your site. He shared several sites where you can find potential link buyers. I find them very useful.

Volume 5 shares 16 tips for your long term success, like advice on time management and how to maximize your efforts.

Overall, I would say John Yeo’s Bloggers Paycheck is a very decent course for beginner and some intermediate level bloggers. If you have been blogging for years and have been making decent money from your blogs as well, then you probably already know the stuff he’s talking about.

You can get the Five Volumes of John Yeo’s Bloggers Paycheck course Here.

I wish you good luck on making money with your blogs.

Now you will have two ways to sell your old books. You can sell them directly to ecampus. They mostly buy back textbooks. So if you were a student once and have some used textbooks lying around, you can earn a fair amount of money selling them.

You can also sell your old books at the marketplace. Listing your books is free, but ecampus will get 15% of your books selling price if they do sell. For example, if someone bought your book for $100, ecampus will claim $15 and you will still earn $85. In my opinion, earning anything from the books you never read is worth your while. Remember, listing your books in the marketplace is free and ecampus also provide you a shipping credit to help cover the shipping cost.

You can create a free account at eCampus Here. Check if they are buying back your books by typing in the ISBN, which is the 10 to 13 digit number on top of the barcode usually at the back of your books. Even if they are not buying back your used books, you can still sell them at the marketplace. Since listing the books at the marketplace is free, so why not?

If you expand this a little further, you can actually start your own textbook business. If you have any University or college around your area, you can buy cheap used textbooks from ecampus and then sell them to the students. Most students are looking for ways to save money from tuition and textbooks. New textbooks can be very expensive these days and many students have no choice but buying them. So if you can offer them used books for a much cheaper price, they will be very glad to buy the textbooks from you.

So how can you buy used textbooks at a cheap price? eCampus is still the place to go, they are the number 1 textbook selling site today. As a result, they are able to offer used textbooks at a very cheap price. I have also listed several eCampus Coupon Codes below to further reduce your costs.

3% off $80 orders Coupon Code: BUY380

$10 off $150 purchase Coupon Code: 10OFF150

5% off any order over $100 Coupon Code: FIESTABOWL

*Note: For the coupon codes to work, click the associated link first, then before you complete the purchase at the checkout, enter the coupon code to save some money.

However, there is still a potential to earn in this area. The general approach would be registering domain names that other people have never registered and then later selling them at much higher prices. You would have a lot of trouble finding unregistered domain names ends in .com. So try .net, .co.uk, .info instead.

You can purchase domain names at iDotz.net, domains names ends in .info is currently only $4.99 per year there. It would be a good idea to stock up some domain names, since they will almost always appreciate in value. If you are such a big fan of .com domains, try to register domain names relating to a new niche or a just released product. For example, when netbooks were developed, you would have made a fortune if you registered say, netbooks.com.

Another approach would be buying existing domains and websites. This can be really costly, so only do this if you know what you are doing. This would require extensive research on the domain or the website you are considering to purchase. For example, you need to determine the website’s age, page rank and monthly traffic etc. Usually, the older the domain, the better and the more expensive it will be. You can find most of the domain information at www.cubestat.com. It also gives you an estimated price of the domain. But remember, that price is only an estimate, usually it’s too high for its value.

You can purchase and sell domain names at iDotz.Net Domain MarketPlace. After you bought the domains, it would be a good idea to create some quality content and build some backlinks to some of the domains. This will make the selling part so much easier.

Just remember to always stay ahead of the curve, so you will be ready when the opportunity arrives.

#1 Paid Online Surveys

Why would I place this one at the number 1 spot? Because it is just So Easy to earn money online with paid surveys. It doesn’t require any specific skills, anyone is able to do this.

However, finding the right survey panels is not always so easy. Just remember, don’t join any survey panels that have paid memberships. All legitimate survey panels are Free to join. Luckily for you, I have compiled a list of the Top Paid Survey Panels that I have gathered over the years. You can Access it Here.

No one can get rich by doing paid online surveys, but earning $200-$500 per month is feasible. Each survey site only have a limited number of surveys available to you every week, so the more survey sites you join, the more surveys you will receive and the more money you will earn.

Check out the Top Paid Survey Sites!

#2 Trading Forex

Trading Forex is basically trading Currencies. It is similar to trading Stocks, except Forex trading is easier and more predictable. One major advantage is that, unlike stocks, you can trade Forex 24 hours a day. You can decide when to trade based on your own schedule.

In Forex, you trade Currency pairs, like EUR/USD (Euros/US dollars), USD/JPY or GBP/USD. You predict if the pair you select is going up or down and you buy and sell accordingly. If your prediction is correct, you will earn an amount depending how much you invested initially.

Trading Forex is different from gambling. There are many technical indicators and economic factors that are going to help you to predict the market movement.

Forex Trading is one of the fastest ways of earning money online. Many people have earned thousands of dollars over night.

Finding the right forex brokers to trade forex is very important. There are many trading platforms out there. You need find one that is reliable, with good indicators and offers good bonuses. I will share some of the forex brokers I have personally dealt with.

You can check the Top Forex Brokers Here!

#3 Playing Poker

Playing real money Poker is also a fast way to earn money online. For poker, I am referring to Texas-hold’em Poker. If you have ever been to the casinos, you’ll know what I’m talking about. There are many Online Poker Rooms, so you wouldn’t need to go to a casino if you want to play a few hands. You can play right at your home any time you want.

If you don’t know how to play Texas-hold’em, it’s really easy to learn and you can read more about it here.

Of course, when you are playing poker online, you are playing against real human players. However, they are not as good as the people in the casinos, many barely know how to play. So it won’t be hard to earn money from them. Many poker rooms offer first time deposit bonuses, giving first time players some extra money to play. The poker rooms provide these Bonus codes to attract more players.

Check Here for a list of the Exclusive Bonus Codes for several Top Poker Rooms.

#4 Completing Offers

Completing offers is also a good way to earn money online. What are offers? They are tasks like data entry, doing surveys, registering to different websites, testing new software, etc. You usually earn $0.1 to $0.3 per offer. You can request payment by check or PayPal.

Most of the offers are only available to residents from U.S, Canada and Europe.

I would highly recommend you to use a new email address for this. A lot of the offers require you to register your email address, and they may send junk emails.

The two most famous completing offer programs are CashCrate and Treasure Trooper.

#5 Blogging

How are you going to earn money with blogging? The answer is by advertising and promoting affiliate programs.

If you need help building a website, you can get some help Here

There are many kinds of advertisements, like banner ads, text ads, pop-ups, etc. You can read it more about here

Affiliate programs, on the other hand share you some earnings if the sale or lead came from your website. I have described Affiliate programs more thoroughly in this post. One of my favorite affiliate programs to promote is Site Build It!, because you will get paid for life!

Good Luck to you and I hope you will achieve your desired income working online.

Global Test Market is operated by GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), found in 1999. Over the years, it has become a global leader in market research targeting consumers over 60 countries and currently has millions of members worldwide.

Members earn points which are redeemable for cash. A typical survey pays anywhere between $2-$20. Members will also receive free sweepstakes entries into daily and monthly cash drawings. If you are an active member, you will receive survey invitations frequently. All surveys invitations are sent to your email. GlobalTestMarket pays members via checks.

What I especially like about Global Test Market is that even if you do not qualify for some surveys, you will still receive a small reward for your participation (Free entries to monthly and special drawings).

I want to assure you at the end of this review that Global Test Market is definitely not a scam. In fact, it is one of my favorite survey sites, because of their generous rewards. I have received payment from them many times.

You may Join Global Test Market Here, if you have not already done so.

They accept members from world wide.

You can also check out the Top List of my Favorite Survey Panels

What to sell on eBay is a very important decision to make. Finding the right product to sell on eBay defines the difference between success and failure of your business. If you are just starting, I would recommend you to sell your old junk. You will get a sense of what kind of product is hot and you can become familiar with eBay’s selling platform at the same time. It is also a good idea to check the current eBay Pulses to find out about the popular products.

Once you earned some money by selling your old stuff on eBay, you can start outsourcing merchandise. You can start with the products in local dollar stores and move on to wholesalers in your area. Wholesalers will sell at a much cheaper price if you agree to buy in bulk. Some good product choices would be electronics and computers. Deal Yard is a good place to buy your products from.

If you don’t want to worry about shipping or maintaining an inventory, you can also try drop shipping. There are many drop shippers willing to handle all these for a small amount of fee. Of course, the disadvantage of drop shipping is that you are putting your reputation in some other people’s hands. It depends on the drop shipper to ship your items on time and you have no control over that.

Make sure you include a good photo of your product when you are listing on eBay. Pictures are very important; good photos can attract more buyers and as a result higher bids. Informative description and eye-catching title are also crucial for a successful listing.

There are several types of eBay listing, like auction-style, fixed-price and classified ads listings. Auction style listings are used for selling two rare or precious items. Buyers will bid on the item and the highest bidder will be eligible to purchase it. Fixed-price listings are ideal for selling bulk products. It’s ideal if you have a large amount of a particular product to sell. Classified ads can bring your product or service greater exposure. You usually pay a monthly fee for a classified ads listing. It is important to choose the correct type of listing for your product.

Lastly, remember most people do their shopping on weekends. So make sure you listing does not expire right before the golden shopping time.

Toluna is a very fun survey panel to join. Besides getting paid by doing surveys, you can also get paid by participating in polls and discussions. You will receive surveys weekly through emails. After you become a member and confirm your email address, make sure you complete the profile surveys. This allows Toluna to send you more relevant surveys in the future and you will receive 2000 points once you complete them.

You earn points by doing surveys which are redeemable for cash. Depending on which countries you are from and based on your personal profile, Toluna will send specific surveys relevant to you. You usually get paid $1-$10 per survey from Toluna. Once you earn $20, you can request a payout through check or paypal. I would recommend paypal, because of faster payment.

And unlike many other survey panels, Toluna accept members from almost all of the countries in the world.

If you are from USA, you can Sign Up Here!
If you are from Other Countries, Sign Up Here!

 
You can find more Paid Survey Panels Here!

If you haven’t tried video marketing, you should. Youtube is one of the largest social networking sites online and has millions of visitors everyday! I am sure you would find some potential customers or buyer from those millions of people. By the way, google loves youtube because they own it. If you do some google search, you would usually find youtube videos on the first page. If you are lucky, your videos may end up in those places, and you would receive a huge amount traffic in very competitive niches.

But surely, if you want your videos to stand out from the rest, there are a few things to keep in mind. First of all, you need to create a video. You can simply talk about the niche you are promoting or what your website is about in front of a video camera. Create a free youtube account and upload your video. Now here comes the key points, you need a good title, description and meta keywords.

Do some keyword research, and find one that is not too competitive and has reasonable amount of traffic. Make sure your title has that keyword, and also make sure it’s also attractive to human readers. For example, if your keyword is “Lose Weight”, your title could be “How to Lose Weight in 7 Easy Steps”. Also give a good description of what your video is about. Meta keywords are also very important for youtube. I would suggest you to just copy the meta keywords of the Top Ranked videos in your niche. Don’t include too many. Remember, Quality over Quantity.

Your first video may be difficult. But once you get the hang of it, making videos should be a piece of cake. You will also have more and more subscribers over time which will give your videos even greater exposure. Following the above guidelines should bring tons of free traffic from youtube and I wish you good luck on your internet business.