Make Money Online

Ever think of adding your own directory to your website?  Structured properly, a niche industry directory is a great way to add keyword-rich content to your website to increase the amount of content on your website, thereby also increasing visibility with Google and other Search Engines.  Now you can build your own directory with PHP My Directory, a packaged solution you can use to launch your own full-featured business directory, link directory or classifieds website.

You can set your directory up with multiple levels of listings based on location and/or specialty, and it comes with automated billing to make it easy to collect listing fees if you don’t want to only offer free listings.   Listings can include an image gallery, products gallery, review & ratings, maps, pdf export and links to external websites.

With Google’s revised stance earlier this year on adjusting or eliminating page rankings for sites accepting payment for links, it’s up to you whether you want to collect fees for your listings.  I for one, will be implementing this on a number of my sites, and will be accepting payments on my higher-traffic commercial sites, but keeping listings free for my free resource sites.  In any event, I’ll keep you all updated on how phpMyDirectory.com performs across my network.

In business, everyone has business cards, so why don’t you create some for your online business? While you are certainly spending a lot of time creating your online community, don’t miss out on the opportunity to spread the word by handing out business cards whenever the opportunity arises. I can’t tell you how many times I have met someone on the plane, in the espresso line or at a party who ran an interesting site. If I don’t get a business card, the chances of me actually remembering their web address is virtually nill.

After a year’s absence from this blog attending to other sites and business, I’ve come back to Lugnut22 to chronicle my online marketing & blogging efforts.  As part of this, I have removed all of my paid and sponsored posts from this blog.  Like many other bloggers, my site was hit last year by Google’s crackdown on sponsored-listings promoted by such companies as Pay Per Post, Sponsored Reviews, etc. and my Page Rank was removed and has stayed at 0 for the last 12 months.  My hope in removing these posts is that my page ranking will return and my site’s content will once again become available to people interested in starting their adventure in making money online.  I continue to think that sponsored posts remain a viable money-making opportunity for bloggers, I will just not be taking part in any organized effort as I had in the past. 

In any event, this blog will continue to focus on the many opportunities available make money online, either through affiliate programs, Google and Yahoo ad placements, advertising networks, directories or classifieds, or even selling products in conjunction with a wholesale drop-shipper.  I hope you’ll stay tuned.