From the beginning of my journey to make money online, I was wondering always about the amount of scams online. Every advertisements online leads us to a new scam. But in between we have seen many genuine opportunities too. I am talking about Freelance opportunities. It is among the greatest opportunities online to make money and build a career.

I was sitting with my kids playing with them today. I have 2 boys. First one is 8 and the second one is just 5. Both of them are smart and they always have readymade questions ready for me. Elder one asked me the first question. Dad.. How you make money.?  I was beginning to answer when my second son answered his brother. Dad makes money from computer. Well is it very simple? My journey to make money online is sort of fairy tale.

I stumbled on this opportunity by sheer coincidence.  I was reading a newspaper which had publicized an article about people making money with freelance opportunities. It lead me to digital point forums. I began searching for opportunities. I did some forum postings, blog commenting and other stuff to begin with. I improved myself with some article writing and began my first website 2 years ago. It is gaining exposure and improving alexa, google and yahoo ranking rapidly.

I always consider Freelance opportunities as the most genuine one. There are websites like Guru.com, elance.com and odesk offers job for every qualification that is available. But I still advice people to begin from digital point forums because it is very easy to find jobs and make money. I know quite a few people online making huge fortunes.

Have you wondered from where you derive your strength from? I always think about my positives. When I was deep in to the debt I was thinking about me.. Am I a good person or a bad person? I found the answers myself. To my mother I am her best son, to my wife I am a best husband and my kids simply love me. They treasure the time they spend with me. These are qualities of a good person and I feel rejuvenated.

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Link Building Techniques, One way Link Building

We are all having blogs and spending a lot of midnight oil trying to figure out what is best Link building strategy for our blog.  If you would believe me, even great bloggers are also thinking about the best link building techniques for their blogs. We can build links but they must be effective links to be of any use. One way link building is the key ofcourse.

I am also having the thoughts every now and then. When I was sitting infront of my wife’s doctor I was very busy thinking about how to build link for this site which is relatively new and my other site that is doing very well. Doctor stopped my thinking and said to me in no un certain terms that Mr Noor, Your wife is very weak. She must take rest. I am prescribing complete bed rest for her for the next 5 months.  Oh Yes I forgot to tell you by God’s grace we are expecting our child in that time.

What I am coming at is Link building is the most complex issue. It is like a code which never cracks. It consumes  a major part of our blogging time. It is the lifeline. Do I have a remedy? No is the answer. I do what the word does. I am bringing them for you so that you can benefit from my experience.

When I create a blog post or a Web page, the first thing I do is to submit them to social bookmarking sites. I have a auto submission tool as far as wordpress is concerned and I do manually with my website. Once I submitted to these book marking sites I wait for the post to be indexed  by search engines. There are few sites that are more important than some others. I found clipmarks.com useful. It is indexed very faster by Google these days. My page first appears online via clipmarks.com only. I follow by submitting to Digg.com and I stumble it. When talking about digg and stumble if a group of 10 or 20 combine together and digg, stumble then we will have big difference. I am waiting for some trusted friends to join me.

Once the social bookmarking is done our link building begins. I usually attach the link in signature links of the forums. I make posts in quite a few forums. More related the forum to your topic it is help ful. I also follow the effort by blog commenting.

Along with forums and blogs I do classified submission. There are classified sites like usfreeads.com that is viewed very favorably by Google. These sites will help you in search placements.

Article submission and Press release submissions I do but only to a small extent. There are many more ways to improve traffic and I will update it next time.

Top 5 Options to make money from your blogs

There are different ways to monetize from your blogs. A blog with a reasonable traffic offers a great opportunity to make money. There are different ways to monetize blogs. For a starter we must follow certain points before we monetize our blogs.

A blog must have good quality content. The content must be original and unique. The content must be created with visitors in mind. We must offer the visitors what they expect from our blogs.

A blog must have reasonable traffic before you make money from blogs. Programs like google adsense and affiliate programs require reasonable traffic to become successful.

1.Once you have reasonable amount of traffic we can begin monetizing our blogs. The first of the opportunities comes from Google Adsense. It follows smart pricing which means the click rates differs according to the traffic and conversion from a particular website. There are certain optimization techniques to make more money with adsense. You can refer to adsense blogs to learn more about it.

2.Second opportunity comes from Affiliate marketing. With a quick Google search you can find the affiliate products related to your Niche.  You can start adding the banners and links of the affiliate products inside your blogs and you can make healthy commission from it. Learn more about affiliate marketing.

3.Third opportunity depends more on the amount of traffic. You can sell your advertisements like banner advertising and Text link advertising privately to make money. There are forums like digital point forums and sitepoint forums that offers the opportunity to list your spots. You can ask the people to bid and settle for the highest bidder.

4.Fourth opportunity comes from reviews. You can make reasonable money from reviewing products and services. A sponsored review at johnchow.com costs around 750dollars. This is one option for blogs that reach the top of the Niche.

5.Fifth option comes from Selling your blogs. You can sell your blogs with good content and reasonable traffic to the highest bidders. There are websites and forums that allow you list your blogs for sale. You can sell it to the highest bidder.

We have seen Top five options to monetize a blog. There are many more options to make money from blogs. In our continuing posts we can discuss about more options.

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