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Work at Home : is it a Scam?

It is not a Scam, but many people become victims of scammers that promise that you will get rich working from home with a super secret automated system or formula. That is why many people start believing that creating a successful online business is not possible.

Working from home is definitely not a scam, think about it for one second, working from your computer is not the only way to make money at home, you can do a lot of different things that have been explained thoroughly in many pages of this website. But since I actually make a living from blogs and internet marketing, I want to focus on the reality of achieving full time passive income by posting. I don’t have to make a bunch of high quality posts to make money, I just have to make enough relevant content with enough links pointing towards that content, then I rank, I get traffic, and Earn.

I really enjoy making a living from my websites, this particular website or blog as you may call it is not my main money maker, I just write about how I have made money online because I know how to do it, I like to think about it, and I like to teach people for free how to do it as well. Most people think that it is a scam because they have the idea or they get the idea from lousy teachers that tell them that they should focus on social media traffic. Unfortunately social traffic is not worth a dime, the effective way to make money online, the “secret” which is not, is by being at the top of the SERP’s, through them you will get highly targeted traffic and you will make money from your Adsense ads, CPA leads, and affiliate products. This is the key to making money on the internet if you want to make money with a blog or a website.

My favorite way to earn money is by creating a niche website or a niche blog and making page one in the SERP’s for the terms I choose, the other cool thing about it is that after you start ranking for one good keyword you can try to rank for other related keywords and depending on the authority that you gain with that site you can even try to rank for unrelated keywords, and this will make the volume of your traffic increase exponentially. With a lot of targeted traffic or organic traffic as some call it you get the highest ratio of conversion.

If you are not interested in building a website or creating a blog, if you don’t want to deal with content creation, SEO, and traffic, then you can try other legit work at home options like ProjectPayday.com or TreasureTrooper.com, if you don’t want to deal with all the crap behind blogs and websites, and you want to make some good money then you can use both of these sites to make some extra cash every month. They are legit GPT websites that have helped a lot people work at home from their computers without having any technical skills, without knowing a thing about blogging, website building, html, SEO and all that stuff.

I do prefer making blogs and websites for a living becasue they make more money, usually, if you know how to do it, for some people the story can be a little bit different, maybe some people will tell you that blogging is a scam and GPT sites aren’t. One thing is for sure work at home opportunities are not a scam, you just have to find legit oportunities or real ways to make money online with blogs and websites.

Here you have another excellent way to make money online for free. If you don’t have a website or a blog don’t worry, because you don’t need one, you can Make Money Writing Summaries or Reviews at Shvoong dot com. As you can see we are always searching to give our readers more feedback on different ways to make money and we always try to find new ways to make money that do not require investment.

How To Get Started

All you need to do is go, to Shvoong.com and register for free and that’s it. After registering you can get started, you can write summaries or reviews about any published written text, any published book, article, newspaper, website or academic work, anything that has ever been published you can rewrite it with your own words here and you will make money. Is about doing summaries, or you can review anything you want, but what you must know is that your writing must be at least 900 words long in order to get published.

How to Make Money Writing at Shvoong

You get money 10% from the advertising revenues on every page, summary or review that you write. There is no exact amount on how much you get paid it all depends on traffic as usual.

You get paid as soon as you reach $10 dollars. Payments are made through paypal, if you reside in a country where paypal is not accepted then you will receive checks through mail.

Another way to make money by writing on shvoong is if you have websites or blogs, you can create links back to your sites and you can increase you money site’s traffic, it is a great tool for promotion and recognition on the web.

Tips to Make Money Writing at Shvoong

- High quality summaries for shvoong and search engine rankings.
- Create links between your summaries, so that all of your summaries receive traffic.
- Write a lot of summaries or reviews.
- Invite your family and friends to read your summaries.
- Promote your summaries and reviews as web from your blogs or websites.

Now you can go to Shvoong and make money writing summaries or reviewing whatever you want!

If you are really interested, I mean if you truly want to learn how to make money online blogging then I want to point out a great system created by Jack Humphrey that relies on the 10-30 method, which works by setting up 10 blogs that make at least $30 u.s dollars a day, which means that you will be making $300 u.s dollars a day, which means that you will be making $9000 u.s dollars a month.

It is actually a very easy system to apply, it is a system that really works, you will be trained by a series of videos, you will be provided with a series of tools that will allow achieve your blogging goals, you will also have access to an unbelievable library of information probably the biggest one online for subjects such as making money blogging, you will also have access to the forum which is full of successful active members that can help you achieve success even faster.  If you are a newbie and you really want to get started making money blogging then I really recommend this program, it will get you started real fast and you will be making money in no time.

The website you want to visit is www.blogsuccess.com, you can join for the $1 dollar trial, if you like it and you feel you can use it constantly which I think you probably will, then you can keep using the service which is based on a monthly fee, if you feel you don’t have the need to join, then take advantage of the $1 dollar seven day trial and absorb as much information as you can because it will be great for your blogging future.

This is one of the most recommended online training courses or systems I could possibly think of due to the high effectiveness and all the amount of information that they have which is not as easy to get from make money blogs, it is totally worth it, I have tried it myself and I can tell you that their system works! You will actually be able to make money online from blogs.

Claim token for technorati : G2HRZTTREQ2G

That’s it, all you have to do is place the claim token just as I did at the beginning of this post, you don’t have to use html codes or anything else. Just make sure to place it at the top of the post so the technorati spider can easily find it when it crawls your feed. After placing the the claim token in a post a publishing it all you have to do is go back to your technorati account, go to your profile, check for for claimed blogs and click un update blog feed to check claim, in a few minutes your feed will be cawled, then you will have to check again to see if your blog was successfuly crawled, you will receive a message that tells you if it was appropriately crawled. It is very easy, don’t get confused searching everywhere how to do this, all you have to do is what I just told you!

If you claim your blog at technorati you will make money, why? If you want to become a successful blogger, then this is a step that you should not forget to take, by claiming your blog at technorati and being accepted you will join one of the biggest communities of bloggers in the world. If you claim your blog at technorati the level of awareness of your blog and your blogging skill in the blogosphere will increase dramatically. I’m going to keep this short and simple, if you claim your blog at technorati your blog will generate more traffic, it will be seen a whole lot more by many people that might be interested in your subject, and they will tell other people and so on. Your credibility as a blogger will also be affected positively because this means that your are good enough! If you have a good blog, go to technorati and claim it. Once your claim is complete your blog will notice a serious increase in traffic levels, and you know that traffic equals money.

If you want to start successful Blog Sites you must choose the right blogging platform or blogging software. As I told you in my article, how to make a blog site, you must have a clear idea of what  blogging is, what your goals are, and how much money are you willing to invest.

If you are just getting started with blogging and you haven’t learned much about the techniques involved to create a blog site that has success, and you don’t want to take the risk of investing on your own self hosted blog, then you should choose from one of the many free blog sites that give you the opportunity to get started without having to take something out of your pocket. Some people may believe that these sites aren’t as effective as self hosted blogs might be, maybe they are right in some ways, but they may also be wrong about other things that might come as a benefit when choosing properly the right free blog site.

Benefits of Free Blog Sites:

Blog sites that are free and play a major role in the blogging world offer you benefits that in order to aquire them for your self hosted blog would require investingo much more time and money.

- Some established free blog sites have very high alexa rankings for each of your new pages.

- Each webpage or blog which you produce will get indexed faster, because they carry the weight of the big site to     which they belong.

- Free blog sites are already listed in major directories that would require investing a generous amount of money to get listed. Example : Yahoo directory listing.

- Free blogging services give you the opportunity to make money even you have no money, some let you keep all the money, with others you must share some of your earnings. In either case most of the times it won’t matter because you do save a lot of time and effort by the tools they provide for free, in a self hosted blog you would have to incorporate most of these things by paying for them and for others you would have to take a long time of trial and error until you reached the point were your blog could be effective after a long learning and investing process.

- Domain age: Free blogging sites usually are old and very well known, and they have projected themselves their business for quite a long run, so their domain age is already old which is valued by the search engines, and the expiring dates of their domains are probably undefined, which means that they have paid to have that domain for a very long time which gives them even more extra value in the search engines.

The cons fo choosing one of these sites are that you don not have control over your hosting, if the hosting managers decide that your content is inappropriate or if they believe that you are not following the propre guidelines then they might close your account, therefore you wouldn’t be able to claim money if you had made any and you would have lost all of your invested time as well. But all and all if you do things right then you probably might never get shut down and you could make some serious money from taking advantages from services such as theirs.

I want to start the list of blog sites with the free blogging platforms which I believe that are always more appealing to beginners, through these sites you will be given a lot of benefits that allow you to rank high, get a lot of search engine traffic, learn a lot about the subject which in this case is blogging, and you can get started immediatly to start trying out and applying things that you learn through this process.

Free Blog Sites List:

1. Blogger.com : Blogspot is probably the best free blogging platform overall, it is very flexible, you get to choose as many templates as you want online, so you can make it look how you want, you can also pick any of the default templates which allow you to make a professional blog without messing the original html configuration that blogspot blogs, the original templates are very well optimized for the search engines . It is also very easy to integrate monetization methods to your blogspot blog site, because it just about clicking and dragging and dropping, you can easily place adsense ads through their adsense widget, you can easily insert affiliate products through the html/java gadget which allow you to copy any code you want paste it anywhere you want. Inserting pictures and video is very easy as well, anything that you could think of doing to your blog to improve it can be done easily with any of their options or gadgets. Blogspot blog sites come right off the bat very well optimized as i’ve said before, most of the competitive keywords have blogspot blog on the first page result, although numbers are dropping it doesn’t matter because it may be because a lot of people are starting to host their own wp blog site.
2. Squidoo : This is a blog site indeed, you have to choose a topic and write about it, and that is exactly what blogging is. Of course you are not allowed to make single blogs that are very big, you know blogs that have a lot pages and that are categorized and archived, etc. No, here you create single web pages that are called lenses, you can make as many lenses as you want, and you can string them all together through links if choose to make a whole lot of pages on one niche with different keywords. With lenses you should focus on one keyword per page. The cool thing about squidoo is that they provide you with a lot of easy to use modules, you only have to click on add and that’s it, they provide you with enough modules to create content easily, the hard part that is writing could be cut short vastly and still produce a lot of lenses that would make money. On squidoo adsense blocks are already integrated so the adsense earnings are shared with all users according to their lensrank, higher lensrank higher adsense earnings. But you can also monetize with affiliate products through the modules they offer which are perfect for people that really don’t know about anything, you will be able to insert amazon modules, ebay modules, cafe press modules and zazzle modules, of course by using their affiliate marketing modules you would have to share part of your comission with squidoo if you generated a sale. But you can promote your own affiliate products as well so you can keep all the earnings by placing your affiliate links within the content in the text modules, you can insert banners and anything else that can be done through html or css, the only thing that is not allowed is placing interest based ads such as adsense. Another great thing is that the alexa rank of each lens you make will be very high, you will get indexed very fast, and since you carry the weight of such a large site then you can probably or you will probably rank in the first page within the first results if you do a proper keyword research and apply a proper keyword strategy. Of course keyword strategy is what creates success for any blog site be it free or self hosted.
3. Hubpages: The hubpages service is unbelievable, it is very similar to squidoo except that they call their pages “hubs”, creating a hub is very easy as well, but they require a little bit more of hardwork when creating one. Because they are more focused on quality, which have made them a very credible source of information which. They offer a very easy to use platform as well, the provide you with modules as well, but you have to focus a lot more on content creation, on unique content. This have made them gain a lot of trust in google’s eyes therefore they are being highly valued by the search engines oftenly reaching number one for any keyword, you must focus on one keyword per hub as well to get the most benefits. In hubpages you will be able to insert your own adsense code and your own kontera in text ads code, you do not get 100% of the earnings because visitors are split between you and them, givin you both the opportunity to make money off this blog site. They get 40% of the visitors which gives them a forty percent chance to make money from every visitor, and you get the other 60%.
4. Wordpress.com : You may have heard about all the great things that wordpress has to offer, of course the real benefits of wordpress are not within their free blog site, the true power of a wordpress relies within a having your blog on a website hosting service. But wordpress.com is free, it can be monetized not as well as monetizing a blogspot free blog because you cannot place adsense on them. But they do work , they get very high rankings, so you can choose them to promote affiliate products or redirect traffic to other sites were you might get all the earnings if money is made.
5. Blogsome.com : I forgot  about this one, today  I just wanted to let you all know that blogsome blogs are doing very good lately you can see a lot of them on the first page of search engine results, and they are quite easy to create and manage.

Here’s a list of the with more of the best Free Blog Sites to where you can get started today without investing, of course I will provide just the list or else this article will be too long and I still have to talk about blogs that must be hosted by yourself through good website hosting services.

1. Greatestjournal.com
2. Insanejournal.com
3. Journalfen.net
4. LiveJournal.com
5. Blogabond.com
6. Busythumbs.com
7. blogrox.com
8. Blogsome.com
9. Blogladder.com
10. Blogster.com
11. Bravenet.com
12. Bloki.com
13. Soulcast.com
14. Terapad.com
15. Tumblr.com
16. Zoomshare.com

List Of Blog Sites that must be Self Hosted :

1. Wordpress.org : I’ve said a millions time before , probably you have heard a lot in other places as well. The best software to create an efficient, powerful, professional blog site. You can create niche sites and very big sites that will just make your blog or business potential go through the roof. If you create a wordpress with great content and great keyword strategy then sucess will be nothing but an option, I have nothing else to say if you are serious about making money online then you should focus on wordpress.
2. Typepad.com : Also very effective, may be a little bit expensive, I haven’t tried it but some say that it is worth it.
3. Movabletype.org: Has been growing steadily and hosts some of the greatest blogs on the internet next to wordpress.
4. Blogsmith.com

The benefit of self hosted blog sites or websites is that you can do them about any topic that you want, it won’t be shut down, it might get dropped from the index lists of the search engines but since you are probably serious about this then you will be a legit blogger that does not apply any black hat techniques, so you won’t have any problem at all if it’s free or self hosted.

Now you can get out there and start your own blog site, free or self hosted as you may like it, now all you have to do is choose one these blog sites and begin a new journey that might open the gates for a whole new world that will allow you to get money in any way you want it, providing you the freedom and economical independence you always dreamed of.

Have you ever wondered how people are making money online these days, If you are looking for the real answer then you have just probably found it. The way people are making money right now it trough the creation of blog sites. A Blog Site is a place where you write or read about anything that you want, anything at all, it could be about your passions, your dreams, your hopes, your desires, your hobbies, your area of expertise, any subject that you master, or that might get you interested enough to master at some point through the development process of your blog. Creating your own blog can be something very entertaining if you really enjoy what you are doing, and that is if you like what you are writing about, if you are just going to do it for the money then you probably won’t develop enough interest and it can get quite frustrating so you will probably just quit with the idea that making money online through a blog site is impossible.

Every day a new person tries to learn how to make a blog, so they just go and join free blogging platforms or better yet pay to host their new blog site and end up loosing more time and money than they expected, when really the whole idea was about to making money. Many people might say that they are not in it for the money, but the truth is that most are. Sure why not get money by working at home or wherever you want to talk about the things you love, sharing your opinion, your ideas, your own point of view, it’s fascinating.

To make a blog site that makes money requires a little bit of hard work and dedication, you have to get your facts straigth. You have to decide what the purpose of you blog is, you have to know if you want to create free blog sites through free blogging platforms, or if you want to host your own blogs through a good website hosting company. This decision also depends on how serious are you going to be about your blogging, are you going to do it on a regular basis, do you want to make money online? or are you just going to do it to see how it goes and see if maybe you have what it takes?, well if you are serious about making money blogging then you must have dedication, you have to constantly updating your blog site with a lot of unique content so that it is always fresh so it can be constantly crawled providing you a higher number of indexed pages in the search engines, which means that you will get more traffic and money. Great unique content is the most important thing to have success with blog sites, but there are also a lot more things that you can do or have to do to improve your rankings and your web presence. Of course there are other ways to make a blog site that will make money without focusing so much on content, but this techniques require even more knowledge, and this type of knowledge is mostly guarded by the people who constantly use it to make money.

How to Make a Blog Site to Make Money:

There are two ways  that work great when creating blog sites with the intention of making money, they are probably the most effective internet marketing strategies and through them is that people become super affiliates or very high adsense earners, or whatever  monetization method that they have chosen for their blog site. The most effective strategies to make money online with a blog are:

• Niche Blog Site : You do your work lay out a solid keyword strategy, focusing on one main keyword to create mini sites that rank number one at the search engine result for the searches made on the keyword that you choose. The technique Keyword Marketing.
• Super Blog Site : You create a very big blog with many subjects with the same strategy that you must apply to niche blog sites, the difference is that you pick a lot more keywords that meet the requirements that will allow you to get to first position in the search engine results for as many keywords as you can. Usually this has to be done under one niche and then you move on picking related keywords following the same principles, and then you go on and pick more related keywords to the other relate keywords and so on. But with some great blogging softwares you are allowed to make categories which allow your blog to be crawled for independant subjects, topics, niches, etc. This is also keyword marketing.
• Affiliate blog site: It is made by a person that does not posess so much knowledge or information but still wants to make money. So they create sites that can be done through free or paid website hosting, but their internet marketing effort is done through PPC targeted traffic, which means that they have to pay for services like google’s adwords or bidvertiser to display ads of their website on others peoples webpages through clickable ads, which direct possible buyer for their affiliate products to their site.

As you can see a blog site that makes money usually has success through Keyword Marketing, why? because keyword marketing is the highest level of SEO, you have to know about SEO and internet marketing vastly to apply keyword marketing. Well not that much to be honest, the hard part is learning how to get the information to make the right decisions when choosing the keywords, you also must have a solid internet marketing strategy plan, which involves article marketing, backlinking, blogrolling, new blogs and websites, press realeases, directory submissions, etc. If you want to blog for a living you must be willing to learn all of these things and you have to constantly apply them.

How to Make a Blog Site :

Creating blog sites is actually quite easy, as i’ve said before if you want you to make a blog just to test blogging out, then you must get started with free blog sites that allow you to create free web pages. There are a lot sites which you can choose from that even give you the opportunity to get money, in fact I think that all of them do if you decide to keep the earnings, some choose to donate their earnings for things like charity and other stuff, because as i’ve said a lot of people blog for the joy of writing and expressing themselves.

After choosing a blog site to create your blog, then you must know how to make a blog site properly, you have to pick a topic, subject, niche, market, etc. Then you have to do research about your keywords, which pay the most, which bring the most traffic, and which have very low competition and that meet the two previous requirements. Then you have to tweak your blog for the search engines by placing your keywords in the title, in the url and stuff like that. Creating a succesful blog site follows the same rules of creating a succesful website, you can learn how to make a website easily in a few minutes and make a lot of money with it.

So plain and simple. How do you create a blog site?

You choose blog host, if it’s free let’s say you picked blogger.com, if you host it let’s you picked SBI, and that’s it you start posting following the guidelines provided in this site or other sites that provide truthful information on how to make blogs that have sucess. You try to post every day to create as much content as you can, you SEO your blog sites to make google’s first result on google searches for the keywords in each post, get traffic, get money, that’s all. If you want to get more detailed information learn how to make a website, and you will be provided with all the necessary tools to create succesful websites/blogs. A solid blog site relies on unique internet marketing skills so go out there and learn as much as you can, but do it as you develop your first site , because information won’t do nothing without practice, and as you can see starting a blog site is very easy, and it can be done for free, even with wordpress.org’s software which you can integrate in a free website hosting service, or through very effective blogspot blogs which already perfectly SEO’d.

Now choose any of these blog sites to make a blog and make money!