How to Make Money Online with a Content Site

One of the fastest and easiest ways to make money online is with a content site,
 YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT! What you may not know is how to take this
 idea to a whole new level.
A much more profitable way to create wildly popular
content  sites is by using breaking news that millions of people are search for TODAY.
I’ll also give you 16 other methods to monetize your site. I certainly cannot discredit adsense a
 good way to monetize content site but I want to give you a few good alternatives.

 Before I get to that, let’s deal with using breaking news to monetize your site.
A good way to make money online is just by staying abreast of the daily news and making a
 simple webpage that you can have online within minutes.
Write up some basic including the keywords for the stories that people will be looking for this evening to learn more about today’s news. You can have people arriving at your site very quickly by creating a  few pay per click campaigns.

 You can keep up with what’s going on by frequenting websites like cnn.com,
 msnbc.com or even local and regional news sites. You can do the same with sports or
 entertainment news.

 
16 Adsense Alternatives to Monetize Your Website
1. Adbrite.com
2. AuctionAds.com
3. BlogAds.com
4. BidVertiser.com
5. Clicksor.com
6. Feedburner.com
7. Performics.com
8. Pheedo.com
9. Text Link Ads.com
10. YahooPublisherNetwork.com
11. AzoogleAds.com
12. CPA Empire.com
13. Max Bounty.com
14. XY7.com
15. Crispads.com
16. Paypopup.com

How To Make This Work For You

Before you run off trying to pull this off remember that in order for it to be successful you need to be confident you can successfully generate good search engine traffic to the niches you select. The recursive income only comes when you have search visitors clicking your ads. By the way, random search visitors are usually better ad clickers than loyal readers and that’s one of the reasons why this technique can work. Randoms come to your site once, read your content, click an ad and probably leave never to return again. Loyal readers come back for new content and often screen out the ads. It’s not in your interest to establish a repeat audience using niche sites. You don’t want the responsibility of adding new content since chances are finding content about a niche you don’t necessarily have much interest in can be tough. In this case it’s just search traffic you care about, forgot about being sticky

Step One: Find A Niche

First you need to find niches where there is some traffic. You should use the usual tools, such as the overture inventory keyword data miner, to conduct research on how many searches are done for certain key phrases (look for sites with at least 1000 searches per month). Don’t aim for keywords and topics that are highly competitive, look for low competition with *some* traffic. Take for example Jonathan Wold’s Sump Pumps Information niche. How random is that! Do you even know what a Sump Pump is? I don’t, but he suspects enough people are searching for sump pump information online and he only needs a handful of them to click his ads per day.
The key is to find topics that people search for and advertisers use Pay-Per-Click marketing and other online advertising methods to sell to these people. Your niche content site helps to bring these two groups together and you take your middle man fee, with the help of the search engines for traffic and advertising programs for a monetization system.
Always be certain there are monetization possibilities before starting a niche content site otherwise you will be wasting your time. Look for AdWord campaigns by doing Google searches for the niche you are considering – if you see several ads down the right column that target the niche then you know advertisers are paying to reach these markets. To be really thorough, log into AdWords and set some test campaigns up and see what the bid prices are for your keyword research subjects. If the prices are reasonable then there probably is some competition for those keyphrases from advertisers running AdWord campaigns.

Step Two: Scan For Competition

Once you find a few niches you think have potential search those keyphrases and see what results show up. If the natural search result sites that turn up are badly optimized (look for low PageRank, poor title keyphrases and heading tag keyphrases) and you are confident that a site with well optimized content would quickly jump to the top of the rankings and by quickly I mean about 3-6 months (remember the Google Sandbox is going to impact how quickly you get high rankings) then you might have your first candidate for a niche content site.

Step Three: Build A Site

I suggest you go with WordPress to manage your niche content site. WordPress is blog content management software that runs off a PHP/MySQL backend (this blog uses it). It’s very easy to set up, handles most of the search engine optimization for you and all you need to do is pump in the content and off you go. There are some occasions where a plain static HTML site may be more appropriate, for example when you only need a micro site of a handful of pages and it would be quicker to just set up the few pages using a HTML template design, but I’ll leave that up to you (read Bo’s Marketing-Syndrome post on WordPress vs Static HTML? for more discussion on this topic).


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