There are many different ways and means at everyone’s disposal in order to make money fast online, from writing and selling your own electronic products like ebooks or software. As Internet Marketers we are very well aware of the potential to make money fast from a big launch of a new must-have piece of software.
However, there are more ways to skin a cat and to make money online takes a lot of thought and guile, not to mention an innovative thinking cap.
One of the more extensively used but still potentially very underused techniques or methods depending upon how you view it, is by selling used items online via various exposures. Auction sites like eBay are probably the most used and easily the most successful way of selling merchandise new or used, but there is also the humble website that should never be forgotten as a very powerful way of promoting your products as long as the website itself is well promoted.
A good website needs visitors in order to convert numbers into dollars. To get visitors, you need good placement in the search engines for well searched keyword terms and by striking the right chord, you can attract a veritable flood of visitors to your website. Then its up to your own marketing skills to have the sales pages perfectly worded and laid out in order to convert those visitors into customers.
Take for example a website that sells Refurbished point of sale equipment. VisionPOS.com is a well structured website geared up for promoting sales of refurbished pos equipment. There is a tight market for this kind of equipment, but the companies that have a requirement for ibm surepos pos and similar point of sale machines may not have the resources to buy them direct from the manufacturer at “new” prices. In this instance the company that sells the used equipment at a much lower price will generate a good customer base from its website because they are supplying to a demand for this particular merchandise.
That’s the bottom line in selling any kind of merchandise whether it be new or used gear. To make money there has to be a demand for the product you’re selling regardless of whether its new, used or refurbished, where there is a demand for your product and you can connect with the very people that require it, then you will have no problem supplying it to them.
Basic business sense applies whether your business is online or offline and many successful online businesses have flourished because of knowing how to apply these basics.
Freedom Writer
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Make money fast? How’s that then? Hey hey, its about time for another post here at the make money fast site. The last post Fast Make Money Ways, went over the SEO side of using keywords to push your site up the SERPs and showed it can be done with limited success, especially in the make money niche which is probably the worst performing of all niches when it comes to actually making money from it!
The post is actually inspired from a comment I was writing in Griz’s blog, “How to Make Money Online for Beginners,” where it was mentioned about buying expired domains with Page Rank to use as back-link providers for your other sites.
Well, if it sounds like a great make money fast idea on paper (or in this case on computer screen), in reality it is not. Let’s have a look at what this is all about and why it is unlikely to be of much use to you if you want to make money fast.
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Starting off, there has been ample blog writing and commenting lately on the merits of buying used, or expired domains as opposed to registering brand new ones. The benefits to make money fast are huge, especially if you can find a well aged domain of a few years or more.
The older the better, as older domains tend to attract more authority in the eyes of the search engines, so a site that you put up on an aged domain will climb the SERPs more quickly and achieve a higher placement than a brand new domain. If that’s not enough reason to get your hands on one or more old domains, then being able to make money fast by creating a new site with monetization and avoiding the dreaded Google sandbox is more than worth the trouble to find them.
But there is a third, very good make money fast reason to buy up expired domains and that is some of them come with existing Page Rank. And some of them can be as high as PR6 or PR7! I should know, I’ve bought several PR6 domains and two PR7s as well.
So you’re immediate thoughts (as were mine) would be that a few well chosen PR6 sites could very quickly dominate a niche and you’d certainly make money fast that way. Not only that, but they could interlink and provide back-links for some of your newer sites and blogs and bring them up as well - because its no secret that if you can acquire one or two keyword anchored PR6 back-links your newer site will almost certainly get a PR5! Imagine how incredible that would be with a small army of PR5 and higher sites all targeting similar niches and you can see the potential to make money fast… and some!
Considering that most of these domains only cost me $5 plus a years registration fee, what a bargain!
Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?
And what are you told about things that sound too good to be true?
They usually are!
Yep, all that build up comes with a payload of “big time let down!”. What could go wrong with that scenario? You may well ask!
Well, for starters, when you buy an expired domain, the domain has literally expired because the previous owner didn’t bother to re-register the domain for another year. Now, if you had a killer PR6 website, would you be so careless as to omit to pay for another year’s domain registration?
Nope, I didn’t think so. So why did the previous owner not keep up his or her payments?
Well, there could be a number of reasons, not least of all that the owner has died! Or gotten so ill that they couldn’t keep up their work. Or they went broke and couldn’t afford to renew (that would happen even if you had a PR6 site and weren’t using it properly to make money, fast!).
Or much more likely is they mis-used and milked the site until dry to make money fast, made their money and simply let it go, knowing full well that on the next PR review their site would be slapped anyway. Or the niche they were working with the site was not producing any dollars and they didn’t know enough about the business to fix it.
Or lastly, it could simply be that the site owner had bought loads of dodgy links in order to attain the high PR and make money fast, then pull out knowing that all those links were about to become worthless, as in the case of using PayPerPost or other blog post review company where the blogs that they paid to put up the links (under the guise of a paid review) had themselves been slapped by Google for doing the paid reviews.
The upshot of all this is that even though the expired domain you’re buying shows a high PR on your toolbar, Google has already flagged that domain to have its PR removed at the next review. So all those high PR domains I bought are now PR0 domains (except one or two, which I’ll explain about next) and useless as high powered link providers.
But all is not quite lost…
You see a couple of those domains have survived two PR reviews with their PR intact. Upon checking, I can still see all the back-links that had provided them with their PR. That means that the domains were not mis-used, or abused by spammers or “make money fast and dump them” merchants, but were probably owned by people who I spoke about first - they either died, or got sick or went broke or for some other reason simply were not in a position to renew their domains. And as long as I retained the same site names as the previous owners, I’ve kept the PR. I also did some checking to make sure the backlinks all pointed to the homepage and any that pointed to deeper pages, I simply created pages with the same names, put up a paragraph or two of vaguely relevant content and the deep-linking has stayed intact.
So I know that buying expired domains at auction can be a bit of a lottery (and are not most auctions a risk?) at theend of the day, I’ve still got some useful domain names with age - still important for moving up the SERPs quickly and avoiding the sandbox. In fact one of those now PR0 domains achieved page one in Google’s SERPs for fairly competitive keywords within a couple of weeks of me getting it back up with a blog and 10 posts.
So it can be done!
You can make money fast with SEO, expired domains and a little of the old fairy dust for luck!
Terry Didcott
Freedom Writer
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In my last post Work From Home, Make Money!, I went over the keyword thing some more in an attempt to rank this blog for the from home make money keywords. That experiment was not so successful and proved some things as well, which, in this fast make money ways post, I will share.
The first thing to note is that good keyword density alone is no guarantee of getting up there onto page one of Google’s search pages. Sometimes it works, but not always. I’ve just repeated this experiment in a niche that doesn’t have so much competition as this fast make money ways niche (oh such wanton abuse of those keywords!) and surprised myself a little in that a brand new site using a 3 year old bought domain with almost no content went embarrassingly straight onto page one in its niche.
I wasn’t expecting Google to index it so fast, so didn’t prepare it properly.
All I had was the basic Wordpress theme, an “about” page with a few keyword stuffed lines that I intended to pad out later and a first post that pretty much said welcome to my site which is under construction (I won’t do that again!) and signed off with my keywords. Google duly placed that pile of rubbish straight onto page one for all to see - yep, with the description: “welcome to my site which is under construction…” Guess how much fast make money traffic that attracted! Nada!
I hastily slapped 10 posts worth of content on there to try to repair the damage, but so far in the last three days, the googlebot hasn’t returned to update its cache, so my useless description sits there on page one mocking me…
Ok, that’s how not to do things when the opportunity is there to move into a niche for the kill. Back to fast make money ways and a post mortem as to why this site didn’t get up there for its last keyword assault on this woeful fast make money ways niche.
Simple fact of the matter is the post itself lacked keyword authority in the guise of backlinks with the right keywords in the anchor text. If you go to Google right now and type in “fast make money”, with the quotes, you’ll see sitting up in second spot my Fast Make Money alter ego, Money Hints.
It’s been there for a couple of weeks now and looks like staying put as long as I keep feeding it fast make money keyword rich backlinks from various places.
On the other hand, this site has dropped onto page two for the same fast make money (ways) keywords, because I’ve been concentrating more effort on the other fast make money ways site. You’ll notice that PR has nothing to do with placement here. This site is a PR3 and (fast) Make Money Hints is a PR0. It has everything to do with backlinks and some to do with keyword density and keeping the site tight to a few keywords with multiple posts featuring the fast make money keywords.
As I said earlier, this works better in niches with less competition, especially from other Internet Marketers who, in this fast make money niche, are all trying to out-SEO each other using every trick in the book (and some using the tricks in my own SEO book!)
Ok, not such a long winded Griz style post this time as I simply don’t have time for it - especially as this niche, despite its fast make money name, does not fast make money for me anything like the niches that I’m spending more time in do!
Here’s to fast make money ways in the niches!
Terry Didcott
Freedom Writer
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