Still no laptop, still making money online....its not such a bad life...

Making money through the internet is really a beautiful thing. I'm now on day 6 of not having my laptop due to the $%^#&@*(@ hard drive crash, but because of the way I set my adwords, adsense, affiliate programs, and eBay business up, I'm still making money.

The most important way to make money online without turning your computer on, or even having one in my case, is to set up a good adwords program. Adsense makes good money too but not nearly as much as adwords.

Setting up a good adwords program involves

selecting the right products to advertise,
set up your ad campaign
sign up for the affiliate programs,
create excellent ad campaigns and occasionally revise them

That’s it!

Now just sit back and revise when necessary. Sure without being able to constantly check my computer, I’ve had to hold back on the revising, which probably does cost me a little, as it is a very competitive world, but still its doing very satisfactorily considering the fact that I’m doing no work at all. I sit back, blog from my PDA phone, harass the laptop repair shop once an hour, and write down more money making ideas. Yes without a computer, I sure do write a lot.

The best way to learn about adwords? Of courser I’m going to plug my own website here. I put this section together based on everything I’ve learned doing it, along with some other information that I’ve collected from people who seem to know what they are doing. The point is if you follow those directions just like I did, you’ll be making money with adwords and affiliate marketing in no time. I also give away free ebooks about the subject in my free members section.

Some people think affiliate marketing and adwords are two different things. Hell before I started, I didn’t even know what they were, let alone that they were so closely related. But the fact is, without adwords, affiliate marketing would be very difficult to do. Without affiliate markeing, theres really no sense in paying for people to click on your ads. It’s still possible, but requires a LOT more work.

Find one of the best Pay per click advertising programs here

For example, if you decide today you want to start making money with affiliate marketing, what would you do? Set up a website and advertise your affiliate products on it hoping that people come there and click on your ads so you can earn some income? Or do you just email all your friends and tell them what a great product you find? Do you have that many friends? You can go around leaving comments on their myspace accounts too but is that really efficient?

This is where adwords comes in. You create an ad campaign, set your budget, pick your keywords, put in the right links, and you’re off! Anytime someone goes to google and searches the keywords you’re using, your ad will come up. If they click on your ad, you’ll get charged whatever it is a click costs for the ad you have. They will be sent to the product directly, no intermediate website, and if they buy the item, you get the affiliate profit. Now that’s my idea of thinking globally and acting locally. Just a few keystrokes on your pc and the whole world has access to your ads. Not just the whole world, but only the section of the whole world who is actually interested in your product. The rest of them are never even bothered with it. I think this is a beautiful concept and if you don’t, you aren’t meant for a life of making money online.

Get started, click below to Sign up, you’ll obviously need an account if you want to get in the game…

Sign up for AdWords.

Of course you’ll also need to know the basics of affiliate marketing. check out my website section on it.

Also, Check out my Tips for a Successful Pay Per Click Advertising Campaign

To learn an incredibly large amount of information about adwords for free, and to get a free ebook about it, check out my website, and also check out Perry Marshall’s website. I bought his book before I got started and he really stopped me from making a lot of the mistakes most people make because he had already made them and put it all in his book.

He also has a completely free course on adwords that is extremely useful or get a full adwords consultation here

There are a lot of affiliate programs out there you can join. Linkshare and Clickbank are the big ones as far as I can tell, but theres thousands. What is more is that there is thousands of dollars to be made a month using this method, and once its set up, you never have to look at it again, well once in a while, but on the grand scheme of things, hardly ever compared to other occupations or methods of making money online.

You have no website to cry about if your hard drive unexpectedly crashes, you have no blog to have to update every day, you have no inventory to ship out, you don’t need to do any physical labor…I mean seriously, whats better than that? All this time you’re wasting reading blogs, checking people’s pictures on facebook, watching stupid videos on youtube, and you could be making thousands of dollars advertising other peoples products. You figure out which you want to do and get started.



Yes my adwords campaigns still are active and are making tons of money for the affiliate products I’m currently advertising. Yes I’m teaching others how to do it. And yes I still don’t have my laptop so I have plenty of more time to devote to writing blogs, even if nobody is reading J

Happy Halloween - My Hard Drive Crashed, I learned SEO

Well like the title suggests, its Halloween.



I havent dont much on the website or blog lately, basically because my harddrive crashed. I had all the files needed for making money online, my website, everything, on my harddrive...and it crashed.


TOSHIBA SUCKS!!!!

Data recovery costs anywhere from $200 to $500.





The money itself is not the issue, its the principle. It is the ridiculous markup companies put because they know how valuable your data is. My naive opinion is things should cost as much as they actually cost, plus a fair markup so that the economy can keep going. However data recovery companies feel that since the harddrive is such a valuable asset, the information on it must be very valuable, so people are willing to pay just about anything to get it back and are pretty desperate about it. This company actually doesn't overcharge and actually prepares you for a hard drive crash before it happens



Another option, which is what I did do also, is purchase an external hard drive and from now on will be backing up my data weekly. I did some pretty intensive research on the web and the best deal available was at TigerDirect

Luckily, my harddrive was under warranty, so the replacements free, I just have to wait about a week. The annoying part is they won't give me my old harddrive back so I can do the data recovery myself. Again this is simply because they want to charge some ridiculous amount to do it themselves. They only told me they won't give it back after I already gave them the laptop to send out to be fixed. So whatever, point is, always have a warranty, back up your hardrive regularly, and don't trust Toshiba. Its the third harddrive crash in 5 years. You'd think I would learn and back up stuff. But theres nothing like a good lesson in detachment and I've been apart from computers this entire week and still living. Good news is that I do have my handheld portable PC to work from and my blackberry so I guess its not exactly "roughing it".





This happened just as I relaunched my eBay business which needs daily monitoring from a real computer so I think I may lose a few bucks there, no biggie.

What I have been doing with my time is a lot of reading on Search Engine Optimization and its amazing to me what this world includes. There are blogs, and websites, and companies all dedicated to the topic. People compete daily to be the #1 page rank on google for certain keywords and when they lose a spot, they write pages and pages of blogs on why. Its quite fascinating to me and something I could easily see myself getting lost in. To this point I've made the majority of my online money through the eBay or affiliate marketing so I've never really been too concerned with SEO. But now that I have a website, I really want people to visit it and learn all the really great stuff about making money online, so I think I may devote some time to this.

I found a great website, at Globalpromoter.com which has tons of free Search Engine Optimization Tools .

Of course what I've learned is that money can buy you any page rank that you want, but the real challenge is doing it without costing anything, and since my website is built solely around the idea of making money online without costing a dime, then I really want to master getting top billing without paying for it. It will be challenging, I will need to devote hours and hours to it, and in the end it might completely fail simply for the stubborn reason that I'm using Google Pages to host my site. I say stubborn reason because I have a choice of any host, but I am hell bent on doing everything free of cost, and Google has the best option for the cost of nothing. So I'll keep this blog updated on my successes, failures and learnings in the world of Search Engine optimization. If you're not up for the challenge, I think global promoter is the best.

For now I'll be leading people to my new site through this blog, myspace and my eBay business since I know Google isnt putting me anywhere near the top just yet. I've actually learned that the most important aspect of optimization is to be linked from other pages. But I've also learned that buying links on other pages, or trading links could lead to actually hurting your optimization as well, I guess the search engines are smart or something. Still I'm hoping that my content is good enough that people will actually want to link to it from their sites. If you like my stuff, link to it from your blog or website and tell your friends about it. After all, all I'm offering is a free education on making money online.

I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this subject. Have you tried it, have you succeeded, failed or are still trying? Any tips for other readers? or even for me?

Also as I've mentioned in my free Members only group, I'm looking to start an affiliate business with somebody else who is interested. It will work like this. You sign up for an affiliate program. I'll tell you which products to create affiliate links for. You create a free website with those links. I'll drive traffic to your website through my eBay business. You keep 100% of the profit on traffic you generate yourself and 40% on traffic that I bring there. The cost for you will be absolutely nothing other than a few minutes spent setting up the free page. If that's not an easy income stream, I don't know what is.

Well this blog has covered making money online, harddrives, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, myspace, and eBay. This is the way my mind works if I don't have my own computer. Hopefully I'll get it back soon and I can go back to working on my website. Actually since all the files from my website were on the old hard drive, I'm gonna have to create it all from scratch again and make it look just like the old. But that actually gives me a chance to improve on some stuff and will keep me busy while my wife studies :).

Have a great day and feel free to leave any and all comments....and HAPPY HALLOWEEEN!