This is perhaps the only REAL legitimate work from home job that I have tried so far.

It is completely free, there are no membership fees and you don’t earn money by recruiting others.  No Pyramids, no MLM.

However, it is by no means easy.  I have been experimenting with this for the past few months, researching and learning as much as I can.  I haven’t made enough money to quit my day job yet but I am sure I will eventually get there.

There are 2 different ways that I make legitimate money working from home via my computer.  The methods discussed here don’t require recruiting other people like a pyramid which I would say at least 90% of online schemes are just fancy MLMs.  One way I earn money is by promoting clickbank products.  Instead of writing a long article about that, you can learn about it by reading about the clickbank course (CLICK HERE).  Clickbank is free to join but of course no one is going to teach you how to do things step by step for free, so you have to be willing to either spend years learning how, or spend a few bucks and buy a book from someone who has already done it then you can start earning a little quicker with that little head start help.  I decided to buy a few books and get a head start and it worked out for me.  I will talk a little bit below about my second work from home income method.

Now although there are no membership fees thiese businesses are by no means without any costs.   It is nearly impossible to have any business without incurring costs.  You use your electricity to run your computer, your telephone etc.  In order to run these businesses there are things you cannot do without.  The difference is that those things that you need do not benefit any “recruiter” just like your electricity and phone bill does not benefit any recruiter.  I cannot “recruit” you into this business and if you decide to try this out I won’t earn a commission from your efforts.  That is also why I cannot spend time training you how to be successful because I don’t earn any money from doing so.  I am merely explaining the basics in this article in order to provide good content for my site and hopefully help people  find a legitimate way to earn a living online.

In order to run these businesses (or any online business) you need to have web hosting, as these businesses are all about creating web sites and making money from them.  Web hosting companies are a dime a dozen so feel free to pick any company you want.  However I have been using this web hosting company and they have been great.  They are only about $5 per month for unlimited everything (cheaper if you pay a year or more up front).  Further, perhaps the greatest feature they have is one click WordPress installations.  I used to have to do this manually and it would take about 10-20 minutes getting everything set up and it wasn’t very easy.  So for a newbie you will love the one click wordpress install feature as wordpress is a great and easy way to create websites for this business.

The only things you MUST have to start these businesses are a computer (which you likely already have) and web hosting.  You could even use someone else’s web hosting if you didn’t want to pay the $5 or so per month for your own.  So once you have a web hosting company you then have to begin your “keyword research”.  The research is perhaps the hardest and longest part of the job.  You are looking for topics that aren’t too competitive because your goal is to get onto the first page of Google for search results of your targeted keyword.

This is very easy if for example your targeted keyword is “things people like to do on the beach on July 10th“.  If you wanted to be the first position in Google for that phrase I’m sure it could easily be done.  The problem is how many people in the world do you think search for that term?  Probably none! So what you are trying to do with your keyword research is find search terms that are somewhat popular but don’t have a lot of competition.

One website you will need to check is https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.  Here you can type in any keyword and it will give you a rough estimate of how many people search for that keyword.  Select “Exact Match” as that is the number of people who search for that exact phrase.

In order to check the competition for a certain keyword you can type in the keyword phrase into Google and look at the top 10 results that are shown.  You will want to use a plug in for your browser like http://www.seoquake.com/ for Firefox.  They may have a plug in for Explorer I’m not sure.  Just install and use Firefox as it’s a great browser.

Otherwise just do a search in Google for “SEO Plugin Explorer” or something like that.  I am sure you will find something.

Once you have the plug in installed type your keyword phrase into Google and look at the first 1o results.  First thing to look at is the Page Rank of each website.  If the top 10 websites are all Page Rank 3 or lower that’s your first good sign.  The plug in should display this information next to each website.

The second thing to analyze is how many backlinks do each of the sites have ?  The lower the better.

So if the top 10 sites are all low page ranks with low numbers of backlinks then you could be on to a winning keyword phrase.  Another thing to look at is the total number of results that Google gives you.  This number is normally displayed at the top of the search results.  It could be millions of matches or maybe even only 1000s.  This is not as important as the page ranks and backlinks of the top 10 sites, but it is still another indicator as to how many sites are out there with this keyword phrase in them.  The less sites there are the better.

Of course this will likely take you many many hours to do, coming up with ideas for possible website niches and then doing the research, checking the top 10 results etc.  You will probably find a good keyword phrase 1% of the time , so be prepared to spend a lot of time trying to find good target keywords.  It’s all about trial and error (mostly error).

If you don’t want to wait, or don’t have the patience to jump through all the hoops then you may consider buying this software that does a lot of that work for you.  It takes a huge amount of the leg work away.  You type in a keyword phrase and it basically gives you a rating from 0 to 1000 for that phrase,  0 being the easiest and 1000 being the hardest.  Generally if you are just starting out you should target phrases that are less than 20, 0 of course being the ideal.

I use this software and it’s great, but I will stress that it isn’t necessary.  The only thing that is absolutely necessary to start this business is web hosting.  You can use the same company as me or maybe you already have webhosting ? If you are a member of one of these webhosting matrices like Teamwork Revolution, or the like, then you can just use their hosting.  But those normally cost $10 or more per month, whereas I only pay $5.  I’m sure you can find it cheaper but this is the company my friend has been using for a while now and he is also doing this niche marketing work.  However, he does it full time and makes a living at it.  So I am trying to learn from him and follow in his footsteps.

He also uses the Niche Finding Software and swears buy it, and so do I.  But again if you have more time than money then don’t worry.  Just spend the time doing the research manually as the software costs $97, but worth every penny.

Once you have found your keyword phrase with low competition then you will want to buy a domain.  GoDaddy is a pretty cheap domain name provider, but I’m sure you can find cheaper.  A domain will cost you about $10 per year.  This is another cost associated with this business that you can’t avoid.  Nobody makes a commission off you buying domain names except the domain name company.

You will want to find a domain that matches your targeted keyword phrase exactly.  So if you are targeting the keyword phrase “dog grooming kit” you will want to try to get the domain “www.doggroomingkit.com.”  It’s very likely that it will already be taken so you can try to get .org or .net.  Don’t go for any other extension other than those 3.  If those are all taken you could try to go for hyphenated domains like “www.dog-grooming-kit.com” or the like.   However, the fact that the domain is already taken could be an indication that another person is trying to do the same thing as you.  So you may take that as an indicator not to bother as you may not want to go head to head with another niche marketer that is likely more experienced than you and who will easily out rank you.  It’s up to you of course.  If they aren’t in the top 10 search results then perhaps they aren’t that good anyway.

Now, how do you make money you may ask ? One very popular way is to simply put Google Adsense on your site.  People who visit your Dog Grooming site will see ads about Dog Grooming so they are quite likely to click on them and you earn money every time someone clicks on an ad.

A word of warning here.  DO NOT EVER CLICK ON YOUR OWN ADS OR ASK FRIENDS TO DO SO.  If you think Google won’t know then you are highly mistaken.  Google knows EVERYTHING.  So don’t try to be smart and increase your earnings by a few bucks, because that type of short sightedness will get you banned FOR LIFE from Google adsense.

If you choose to use Google adsense to earn money from your site you will also want to take into consideration the amount each click is worth.  You may stumble upon a Niche that looks very easy to target but when you see what the average CPC (cost per click) is it may not be worth it.  $0.01 per click might make you a few dollars per year.  Just enough to pay for the domain name perhaps and maybe the hosting.  So there is a combination of many factors to consider when choosing a niche to go for.  You can check out what keywords are roughly worth at this site https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox

Another way to make money from your niche site is to sell affiliate products, for example Amazon.  With this type of affiliate marketing you only get paid a commission on each successful sale, not on clicks like Google adsense.  So it may be harder to make money with Affiliate commissions as you are depending upon people actually buying something.  Whereas with Google Adsense all you need is a simple click to make money.

In reality however, I have sites that earn more money from affiliate commissions than from Adsense.  So both ways are good.  Even both ways on the same site work well too.

The main thing to remember about this business is that it is very slow going and has a huge learning curve.  It isn’t a get rich quick scheme but a real legit way to work from home.  Initially it will likely be a hobby as it is for me.  You can expect to make money after about 1 year of trying this so don’t be dissappointed when one or more of your websites don’t make any money.  Some of the guys who have been at this a while launch 100s of websites EVERY MONTH !  Those guys admit that only 20-30% of the sites actually make money and they are experts.  So if you embark on this make it a long term goal so as not to get too disheartened.  I have been at it for almost 1 year now and I can by no means do it full time (yet).  But I have learned a lot during this past year and I am certainly getting better at it.

I also know that I will be able to this full time one day, it just a matter of when, not “if”.

If you are interested in working from home in the same way as I am then you need training as I did. I recommend this Training Course.  Of course if you are reluctant to spend money on any training you will still likely succeed in carrying out this business as I have.  However it took me over a year to reach any decent income level.  If you don’t have that sort of patience then the training is right for you.  I know make over $500 per month with my websites and each month that number slowly grows.  I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to have a completely independent source of income.  I feel like my experiment has finally paid off.   I sure wasted a lot of time with the MLMs but I don’t regret it.  Overall I haven’t lost money because I view those MLMs as a stepping stone that brought me to this REAL business.   I hope the same can happen for you.

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