Monday, May 4, 2009

How To Earn Extra Cash Online Without Spending Any Money

You can earn cash online without spending your own money, and without filling out stupid surveys either. Some of these surveys are just silly attempts to get you to buy something anyway, and many people are excluded from taking surveys because they do not live in the USA or Canada. If you are looking to earn extra cash on a regular basis, I am very sure this simple article will help you to do so.

This article is designed to help you to use the free resources that are already online, to create some kind of cash flow within the next 30 days. I am going to walk you through a simple step-by-step process that gets results. This is not a bunch of theory or hype, but actual steps that I have taken to earn money. This will work for you no matter where in the world you live. However, you must be able to receive US dollar cheques in the mail and cash them.

Step 1. Register for free accounts at Clickbank, Amazon, and Commission Junction

These are all free affiliate programs that provide you with customized links to sell their products. ClickBank is free, and has over 11,000 digital products to sell. Their commission structure is designed pay you between 30% and 75% per sale, approximately. Amazon.com sells digital as well as physical goods and will pay you between 4% - 8.5% commission. CJ.com is also free. Join Amazon as an associate, ClickBank as an affiliate, and CJ as an affiliate.

All three will allow you to sell great stuff that people actually want for good commissions. Once you have confirmed your memberships, you are ready to earn extra cash from these market places, just from your knowledge and efforts and you have not spent any money yet.

2. Get a free account at Squidoo.com, research your topic, and build lenses

There are several advantages to building lens (web pages) at squidoo.com. They are not only free, but search engines love them. People will find your lens fairly quickly and there are a lot of free help available just for asking. Before you build a lens, you should know what topic you want to build your lens around. Ensure that there are products from at least one of the vendors above, that relate to your product. It makes no sense to build a lens without the ability to earn extra cash from your efforts.

To research your topic, you must use keywords. This is how people will find your lens. As an example, I use the term "create wealth online" in one of my lens. At last search on Google, with the quotes included, it had over 19,500 competing sites. That is a little more competition than I would like but it will work.

Try to use keywords that relate to your site. For quick help go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and put in your main keywords. When you have about 40 keywords on your topic, go to squidoo and build your free lens on your topic. Try to include short paragraphs, and lots of pictures. Write like you are talking to a friend. Check for accuracy, and eliminate all grammatical errors.

3. Promote Your Lens Using Free Articles

Once you have your first lens, you will need to promote it. You can find some good examples at squidoo. Take a close look at how people are building lens by browsing the top 100 lens for example, and then try to emulate them. Also, provide useful information for your readers. They will love you for your attention to detail.

Now, let us move onto the matter of promoting your lens. You should write several articles around your main keywords and then submit them to the top article directories online. A few that come to mind are ezinearticles.com, articlealley.com, articledashboard.com, buzzle.com, and so on. Ensure that your articles are good but do not give away all your secrets here. You will want your readers to hunger for more information. That is why they will go to your lens. Remember that you are trying to earn extra cash too, so do not try to solve all your readers problems in an article.

4. Rinse and Repeat for even more cash

This formula is working for many people from all walks of life. Notice that you do not need domain names, websites, or anything that cost money. Later on, when you become successful you can always get those things. Hopefully you will remember me, and look me up; but I digress. What you really want to do now is to get your lens ranking high in the search engines.

Continue to promote your lens until you are making sales. Use squidutils.com to perfect your lens, and always check on the top lens to see what they are doing. In your articles biography section, remember to point your readers to your lens. This will only work if your article is related to what you are trying to sell then in your lens. So there you have it. You can earn extra cash without spending any cash. The more lens you build, the more money you will make. Just use this article as a guide and build on it when you become more experienced.

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