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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.
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General
Content Categories
Grouping your posts into meaningful categories will make it easier for your reader to find what they are looking for.
While you are writing your posts, be sure to create logical categories to group them under. Look at the way things are grouped in this site as an example. You also could to to http://www.teachingecon.com to see another example of a site that uses WordPress and has good categories.
The WordPress software makes it easy to do this. Just choose the Categories section from the menu and add one. Then, when you are writing a post, remember to select one from the categories list on the right side.
Continue On To Adding Pictures To Your Posts.
Adding Pictures To Your Posts
There are three ways to add images to your posts.
The first is to show a picture that you are hosting yourself. Here are the steps:
1) Take a photo with a digital camera, or scan an existing picture.
2) Use your ftp program to upload the photo to your web server.
3) In your post, add an image link.
WordPress makes it really easy to add an image link. All you have to do is find the address of the photo you want to link to.
If the file is on your website in a folder called “photos”, the url would be http://www.domainname.com/files/photoname.jpg
Of if the picture is a “gif”, then replace .jpg with .gif
Put the cusor at the top of your post. Then click on the img button. A window will pop up. Type the address of the photo into the form. Then click Ok. It’s all done for you.
The basic syntax for an image link is as follows:
Another way is to find a picture that you like on the internet and do the following:
1) Hover the mouse pointer over the image. Right click and choose “Save Picture As”.
2) Save the picture to your computer.
3 ) Do steps 2 and 3 above.
This, of course, can lead you to all kinds of copyright and trademark issues. So be sure you have permission.
The final way is to find a picture that you like on the internet and do the following:
1) Hover the mouse pointer over the image. Right click and choose “Properties”
2) In the popup box will be a line that says “Address”. Highlight that line and copy it, using Control-C.
3) Go to your post
4) Type in
You also should get permission to do this, as it’s both stealing a photo, AND stealing bandwidth, because every time someone looks at your site, the site you have the photo linked from has to expend bandwidth to send the picture to your site. Of course, the likelihood that any one will find out is slim.
Continue to adjusting the size of the image.
Basic Software
To get started making money on the web, you need three basic pieces of software:
1) A program to create web pages;
2) A basic text editor; and
2) A program to upload those pages to your web host.
You could spend hundreds of dollars buying professional grade software. And lots of people will try to convince you that’s what you need to do. But the honest truth is that there are free programs out there that will do the job as well as—or even better—than the commercial ones.
Here’s what I recommend:
To create your web pages, I suggest you use a piece of free software called WordPress. That’s the program that I have used to create this site. Neat, huh? You can find more about WordPress here. If you feel confident about installing programs on your web hosting service, you can download for self-installation here However, if you just want to get started and have someone else do the technical work, HostRocket.Com offers a hosting plan where they will automatically install the software. This is by far the easiest solution for getting started making cash on the web.
The basic text editor that you need came with your computer. It’s called WordPad or NotePad. You can’t use a word processor like MS Word, or Works, though. Those programs insert extra characters into the code that will mess things up. I use WordPad.
To upload your programs and pages, you will need what’s known as FTP software. A good, free FTP program is Ace FTP It’s just a download away. There’s a futher explanation of FTP programs here.
Continue to Creating Content.
Creating Content
In your quest to make cash on the internet, content is king! Content is what brings readers to your site. Content is what keeps them there. Content is what makes them return. Content is what generates money.
In this post for beginners, I’m going to assume that you’ve followed my advice and installed the WordPress software. If not, just adapt it to whatever software you are using. I’m also going to assume that you’ve given the software the “look” that you want by choosing one of the available free templates.
Your first post to your new website should be a welcome post, in which you state the purpose of the site, and tell your readers what kind of material they can expect to find there.
Then, start on your second post. And your third. Write a couple of dozen in your first couple of days. The first few are easy. If you’re truly passionate about your topic, you will find that you have lots to say.
Your goal is to get a decent sized site up quickly. That way, when people find you, they won’t be disappointed by a site with only a couple of pages. I’d suggest that two dozen posts is a good start.
You do not have to write a book on every post. In fact, you shouldn’t. Your model should be USA Today, not the New York Times. Articles should be short and snappy. They should focus on a single, narrow topic. If it’s going to run more than five or six paragraphs, see if it shouldn’t be broken into two topics.
For many posts, you don’t have to write anything at all. Some of the most effective posts are those that offer your readers a link to another site. For example, if your site is about glass mushrooms, you might have a post like this:
Carol Wojeda has a site with several interesting photos of green glass mushrooms. LINK.
There are many examples of this sort of post on this site.
Continue on to Content Categories.
Ace FTP
FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol” and is the method by which you upload files to a host computer. It also can be used to download files from host computers.
I find that I really like the Ace FTP freeware program. You can download it here.
Once installed, it will ask you for a couple of bits of information before you can get to work. You’ll need to know the ftp address of your site, your username and your password. If you don’t understand this, contact the technical support department of your web hosting service.
After getting connected to your site, using Ace FTP is no more difficult than using the file management system on your PC. You just find the file on your computer that you want to upload, drag it to the window representing the server connection and there it goes.