Making Cash On The Web is a serious attempt to compile useful information about making money on the internet. It is a combination of things that I have learned myself, as well as information culled from other sources. It is NOT about get rich quick schemes, or wierd marketing programs. I am not going to sell you anything.
If you don't yet have a website but want to get started making cash on the web, start here.
In creating a site, you need to pay attention the Google Adsense policies. Of particular interest are the prohibitions against certain types of sites, including those with:
# Excessive profanity
# Violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization
# Hacking/cracking content
# Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
# Pornography, adult, or mature content
# Gambling or casino-related content
# Any other content that promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others
# Excessive advertising
# Pop-ups, pop-unders or exit windows that interfere with site navigation, obscure Google ads, change user preferences, or are for downloads. Other types of pop-ups, pop-unders, or exit windows may be allowed, provided that they do not exceed a combined total of 5 per user session
# Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages
# Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site’s search engine ranking, e.g., your site’s PageRank
# Incentives (monetary or point-based) to users to click on links or ads while visiting a site containing Ads
# Sales or promotion of certain weapons, such as firearms, ammunition, balisongs, butterfly knives, and brass knuckles
# Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol
# Sales or promotion of tobacco or tobacco-related products
# Sales or promotion of prescription drugs
Pixelfast offers a free tool to help you research the prices that advertisers are paying for clicks. It queries the Overture pricing tool and presents the information in a usable format.
The Affiliate Masters Program offers a free e-book on making cash on the internet through affiliate marketing. It’s worth a read.
To find out what various advertisers are paying for clicks for different key words, try the Overture Bid Tool. You can type in key words, and Overture will tell you what the current bid is.
Of course, this tool only gives you the pricing for Overture, but it’s probably save to assume that prices are similar on other programs such as Google Adsense.
What kind of site does it take to make cash on the web?
There’s a good discussion on just this topic here at Webmaster World.
The advice varies—from creating a site based purely on income potential, to creating one on a topic you like (my recommendation), but overall the theme is the same: content, content, content
Read the discussion. You’ll get inspired.