One of the greatest implied conflicts in the "make money online" community is the debate whether we should focus on creating small "niche" websites or larger "flagship" websites. As someone who has found success in both niches, I've found the debate to be completely wrong-founded.

This article will introduce you to the two most popular website business models, and will compare them for you to choose.

Small Niche Websites

A small niche website is a website that has just a few dozen articles and is written to rank well for a very specific niche. For example, I built a website that details the basics of information dealing with short term loans.

The website details the basics of student, personal and business short term loans. It isn't amazing. The content isn't breathtaking. But I still make $20 per day.

That website is geared towards the search engines specifically. I focus on content and links -- and that's it. By focusing on writing a good 20-30 articles, you have enough content to rank in Google. By building links, you'll be increasing your ability to rank in Google as well as the other search engines.

The total amount of time to build a website is less than 2 days if you're a fast writer. The time to build links depends, but I usually spend about a month working on a new niche site.

The income is usually limited. I usually make no more than $5-10 per day per website, with the exception of the short-term loan site. But when you build 20 or so small niche websites, you have a relatively easy income stream.

Here are the reasons people like to try small niche websites:

-You don't have to constantly update
-You don't have to constantly manage comments
-You don't have to build links for years
-You can expand as you see fit

Large Flagship Websites

Large websites are different from the small niche websites. They aren't written only for the search engines, but are wired specifically for people. The goal is to get a large following of people to read the website. These readers will give you a huge level of traffic every day.

An example would be my How to Make Money Online website. My biggest money-making page is the affiliate page, where I help others make a few hundred per day who aren't looking to actually create a website.

You make money specifically by selling products, placing ads on the website, etc. You don't make much per visitor, but the theory is that with enough traffic, you can still pull a profit.

The idea is that you generate traffic by writing and publishing fantastic content every single day. Some blogs publish literally 5-10 articles per day, trying to shock and awe the Internet into gathering them a great income and following.

-It takes a lot more work
-It takes more time to succeed
-The competition is usually worse
-But the payoff can be lucrative

This is where most people earn millions online -- by publishing a flagship website in a competitive and high-paying niche.

Conclusion

There you have it. If you are willing to work harder to get the money, a flagship website might be for you. Of course, if you're just starting out a niche website is probably the best bet. I have used both and both methods work just as well in the long run -- it's really just up to you.

by: http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/

One of the reasons many people join Twitter is to converse with other people in their industry to learn more about their niche. You may have seen bloggers who wrote about asking a question on Twitter and then getting many responses.

So, you join Twitter, follow a bunch of people, and then start asking questions. However, no one replies to you.

That’s what happened to me. I followed many people in my niche and most of them followed me back. However, no one would reply to my questions.

I then realized that I had to do more to build a responsive Twitter network. Here are the things that worked for me.

1. Answer questions.

Instead of just waiting for people to answer my questions, I started answering the questions of my followers. Because I became helpful, many of my followers now respond to my tweets.

2. Retweet liberally.

As I followed my network, I realized that they had a lot of interesting things to say and interesting links to pass along. I retweeted those tweets and some of them thanked me for it. A couple of them have become regular responders to my tweets.

by: Dee Barizo.

Do you actually want to monetize your blog?

Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs. If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.

If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path. If you want to succeed, you must be congruent. Generating income from your blog is challenging enough — you don’t want to be dealing with self-sabotage at the same time. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog — you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. If, however, you find yourself full of doubts over whether this is the right path for you, you might find this article helpful: How Selfish Are You? It’s about balancing your needs with the needs of others.

Web savvy

What do I mean by web savvy? You don’t need to be a programmer, but you need a decent functional understanding of a variety of web technologies. What technologies are “key” will depend on the nature of your blog and your means of monetization. But generally speaking I’d list these elements as significant:

• blog publishing software
• HTML/CSS
• blog comments (and comment spam)
• RSS/syndication
• feed aggregators
• pings
• trackbacks
• full vs. partial feeds
• blog carnivals (for kick-starting your blog’s traffic)
• search engines
• search engine optimization (SEO)
• page rank
• social bookmarking
• tagging
• contextual advertising
• affiliate programs
• traffic statistics
• email

How to build traffic

Now if traffic is so crucial, how do you build it up to significant levels if you’re starting from rock bottom?

I’ve already written a lengthy article on this topic, so I’ll refer you there: How to Build a High Traffic Web Site (or Blog). If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later. That article covers my general philosophy of traffic-building, which centers on creating content that provides genuine value to your visitors. No games or gimmicks.

Multiple streams of income

You don’t need to put all your eggs in one basket. Think multiple streams of income. On this site I actually have six different streams of income. Can you count them all? Here’s a list:

1. Google Adsense ads (pay per click and pay per impression advertising)
2. Donations (via PayPal or snail mail — yes, some people do mail a check)
3. Text Link Ads (sold for a fixed amount per month)
4. Chitika eMiniMalls ads (pay per click)
5. Affiliate programs like Amazon and LinkShare (commission on products sold, mostly books)
6. Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer)

Automated income

With the exception of #6, all of these income sources are fully automated. I don’t have to do anything to maintain them except deposit checks, and in most cases I don’t even have to do that because the money is automatically deposited to my bank account.

I love automated income. With this blog I currently have no sales, no employees, no products, no inventory, no credit card processing, no fraud, and no customers. And yet I’m still able to generate a reasonable (and growing) income.

by: http://www.stevepavlina.com

So do you want to try to make money online? Well, don’t just try. Just do it. Take action. Make solid plans. Make it known right from the beginning.

When you say “try” it seems that you’re not really that committed to make it. Many people who say they try are more likely those who quit immediately when things don’t come up as they initially expected.

I spent one year trying to make money on the internet. No plans, no course of action, no focus. And the result was one year of my time was almost wasted.

Set yourself on creating an online business where it can generate you a solid income in the future. For every website or blog that you create, just think of it as an investment. If you don’t know how and where to start then find the right people or internet marketers who can really teach and coach you.

If you don’t have the means to pay for money making guides or programs then there are real make money online bloggers out there who gives free tips and advice on how you can start with at least a real money making blog.

Just be cautious in choosing what kind of make money blogs you’re going to read. Many will just misguide you while many are just interested to make money out of you being a beginner. It’s a waste of time and money following such misleading blogs.

There are also that those who will just entertain you but you will not actually learn a thing on how to make your first dollar online. Well, entertainment is good but if you need cash you have to make your priorities first.

Treat your money making endeavor as a business and not just an online make money site. Give value to it. Give it a brand.

Don’t try to pretend that you’re not in for the money. If you really need to earn you should not be shy to put it on your site or blog title. For example, you blog title will say “make money with a dork” or “make money online with PlaySense” then make it like that.

by: http://www.bizphere.com/trying-to-make-money-online/

Affiliate marketing is one of the quickest ways to earn money through the web. This is due to the fact that, when you engage in this business as an affiliate marketer, you will not have to start from scratch in terms of creating a product and developing promotional materials. You don't need to create your own website and you don't have to shoulder fees associated with capital, storage, or shipping. The owners of the affiliate businesses are responsible for all the tedious (and expensive) work while all you need to do is promote the products and make sales.

However, like any other business venture, you can fail in affiliate marketing. To significantly lower your chances of failure and to make it big in this field, read through the tips below:

1) Find a Lucrative Niche

Among the best things about getting into affiliate marketing is that you simply have to choose from all the available programs. In order to choose the right one, you first need to find a lucrative niche and then, later on, check out the programs available within that niche.

To help you out with your efforts, you can check out websites such as Amazon and eBay. Check out the most popular products as well as the most successful sellers. Chances are, whatever niches are most popular in those websites are best to engage in.

2) Select the Right Product

Be careful when making the choice between all the available products in your chosen niche. Study the pros and cons of each product you consider and choose only those that are in high demand within your target market or those that provide solutions to common problems. If it is possible, choose affiliate products that are already established as best-sellers or already have good reviews. It may cost you more but keep in mind that the better the product that you choose, the more sales you can generate.

To help you find good products within specific niches, try checking out affiliate marketing sites such as Clickbank. Sites like that provide categorized programs and listing containing all the details you need to know to make a good decision.

3) Promote Intelligently

Once you've already chosen an affiliate marketing program to get into, you will need to promote your business intelligently. Promotion is one of the hardest things to do in this business mostly because competition is high. Study all the platforms that can help you gain as much targeted website traffic as you can and advertise your products in forums, classified, and blogs. You can also run your own email marketing campaign. Just keep in mind that the more traffic sources you have, the better for your affiliate marketing business.

There are many things you need to keep in mind to make it big in this field of business. The three steps above are those that have been tested by affiliate marketing leaders. Follow the tips and you can be among those leaders soon enough.

by: http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/

If you want to promote a program, an opportunity, a website or a blog that is related to making money online, PlaySense is the place for you to do it.

PlaySense gets between 1350 to 1650 unique visitors daily. About 95% of the visitors are from Google search engine. These Google visitors have real interest to know how to make money online. They are actively searching for money making opportunities, programs and information. The rest of the 5% are bloggers and webmasters.

Latest Stats:

• Google Ranking: No 10. for the keyword 'Make Money Online' in Google.com and several other related keywords.
  
• Alexa Traffic Rank: 10,554
  
• Daily New and Unique Visitors: 1,450 in average

Advertising Options

125 X 125 Banner Ad
Your banner ad will appear in the top right sidebar of PlaySense. The visitors often pay attention on the banner ads in this location. Thus, your 125x125 banner ad can potentially attract good amount of traffic.

Price:
$120/month, $65 for 2 week trial (Sold) - If you like to reserve a 125x125 banner ad spot, please email to kuyalex@gmail.com

468 x 80 Banner Ad
The location for the 468 x 80 banner ad is at the top within the blog post area. This means it will always stay above the first blog post of PlaySense's homepage and each single blog post page. So each visitor comes to PlaySense will notice the banner ad.

Price:
$170/month, $45 for 1 week trial (Sold)

468 x 60 Banner Ad
The 468 x 60 banner ad will display on the right of the header of this blog. Ad will appear on every page of PlaySense.

Price:
$90/month (Available)

Text Link
Your text link will appear in right sidebar just below the 125 x 125 banner ads. You will choose the anchor text you prefer.

Price:
$50/month (Available)

Paid Review
This will be a blog post about your products, services, business or website. I will include two anchor text links and one image into your paid review post. The review post will be posted on the homepage as the first post to attract traffic. About 1,450 unique visitors will read your review post and usually at least 10% (often more than that) of the visitors will click the links inside the review post to visit your website.

Price:
$100 per review post (Available)

To order an ad space on http://PlaySense.blogspot.com, please send your banner ad, link and PayPal payment to:

kuyalex@gmail.com

All ads will be live on http://PlaySense.blogspot.com within 24 hours of receipt.

If you have question on any of the advertising options or like to reserve an a spot, please email me at:

kuyalex@gmail.com

I will reply you within 24 hours.