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The Tutorial to end all tutorials How to Make Money on the Internet without spending a dime - That's it! I have blown the lid off of all of this and pared it down to the steps you need to take and brought the cost down to zero! But it takes work! Roll up your sleeves and let's do it!
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The Basics Tutorials

How to create and put audio messages on your site - Free and easy; And i do an audio message as an example.
How to post a youtube video to your website or wordpress blog
Some basic rules about making banners for your website. You don't have to be an artist to make decent banners.
Three simple steps to making a successful website. By Successful I mean get visitors and make money
An Introduction to making money with your website - The process of making a website the ethical way. Choosing a niche subject that you are passionate about
The Checklist for getting started for beginner webmasters - everything you need clearly explained.
Brainstorming for a website idea - Not sure what you want to make your website about? Here are some ideas that will help you find an idea that you love and that other people will love too
How to get a free website - A tutorial that walks you right through all the steps of signing up for a free Bravenet webmaster account.
How to get a paid website - The easy way to get an inexpensive paid website. You can use the same company that I use for this website. They are inexpensive, reliable and have great customer service.
Choosing a domain name - This is an important thing to consider because the name of your domain can affect the amount of traffic your website receives. Read these tips on domain name choosing.
Get free web design software - Just getting started with a new website and don't want to shell out the money for design software? I have free software that you can download. It is called Frontpage Express and it is the light version of the popular Frontpage by Microsoft.
What is FTP? How do you get your website from your computer to your website? Here is the tutorial on the easy way to do this including a link to free software.
Adding Awesome content to your website - Content is King; you have to have great content on your website otherwise why should people visit? Here are some tips and some advice on content.
Creative ways to advertise and promote your website - Linking to other sites, designing graphics for your site and more creative things to do. This tutorial is four pages long!
How to register a domain name - The easy and straight tutorial that takes you through the process painlessly
The Basics of Good Webdesign - Good, clean, and organized web design is important here is a tutorial that will show you what to do.
Add a counter to your website - This is very important. It allows you to see what pages are popular and what pages are not.

Driving Traffic to your site

Hubpages are a great, and free, way to get targeted traffic to your site Create some hubpages today
The Creative webmasters list of ideas on driving traffic to your site
Registering with the Search Engines - An easy tutorial on how to get recognized with the search engines. This is an absolute must. Includes links to free registration services.
Creative Ways to advertise and promote your website - This tutorial is four pages long.
Affinity linking - How to link to other websites
Guestbooks and Bulletin Boards - An easy and free way to find targeted traffic for your site
Write articles for article directories - This is a very powerful method of getting traffic. write articles in your nice and post them to directories
Article Directories - advice and a listing of directories to submit your articles to
Keyword Laddering - a concept for getting high placement with the search engines

Affiliate Programs

Tips on Increasing Holiday Sales from Affiliate programs like Amazon - The holiday season is a very productive time of the year. Here are some tips on how to maximize your profit.
Using the Unspun Widget to improve amazon sales
Hubpages are a great, and free, way to get targeted traffic to your site Create some hubpages today. And you share in the revenue of any pages you make.
Join Amazon.com for free - Tutorial on how to join the gorilla of all programs. They have everything your website visitors could want.
Join AllPosters.com and sell posters, plaques, photos and other things on your website. This program is totally free and they have an awesome percentage for you!
ebay now has a free program where you can sell their stuff and make a profit without ever shipping or stocking anything.
Other affiliate programs to join - Here is a list of other great programs to join. I have included only the programs that I have worked with.
Kanoodle - The alternative to Google adsense - They will place ads on your webpages and pay you when people click on the ads.
The New Amazon Astore - The easy way to get a bookstore linked to your website - with targeted products from the complete amazon line.
ClixGalore - The free affiliate program that offers you hundreds of different companies to affiliate with and you can track all of your statistics on one account. This is a great way to find niche products and companies.

Google

Put Google Video ads on your website - This is a revolutionary new way of adding content and ads to your website. You get videos, content and make money while doing it!
Working with Google and Getting Google to work for you! Google has webinars that will help you improve your income and they have alerts that will help you keep on top of your website subject
Create a robots.txt file for your website - This is easy and very important . Google mandates this if you use their adsense program and have the search engine on your site with a search results page. They want you to exclude the search results page from their listings.
Sign up for the Google Adsense program - It's free and easy and you can start making a little money right away.
Placing your google ads on your website. - this is a very important tutorial because good placement of ads can increase your sales tenfold or more. Poor placement can mean no ad revenue. Google has a recommended heatmap.
Using alternate ads with google adsense - This is an important thing to do. Many webmasters don't use this technique but it will increase your revenue and its easy to do.

Creative Ideas

The Creative webmasters list of ideas on driving traffic to your site
Review Movies for fun and profit - This is a great idea for a website and here are the things you need to do to get started.
Podcasting for Profit - You cna have your own little radio show where you podcast to your web visitors. It is very easy to do and you can get started for nothing if you already have a microphone.
Put a newsfeed on your website in 5 minutes flat - with no coding required
Tutorials are a big money maker - Web visitors want to know how to do things. Can you put together a tutorial on how to do something in your niche subject?

Advanced Topics

A Basic Primer on Metatags - How and why to use them, there are only three to worry about
Create a robots.txt file for your website - This is easy and very important
You have to track your web visitors - Knowing where they come from and what pages they look at it very important and you can use this information to increase your revenue from the site. Here are three free programs for you to use.
Get an XML sitemap and an HTML sitemap on your site - This will help the search engines to understand what is on your website. This is an absolute must for any website.
Keeping tables straight on your webpages - Tables can be tricky to use because they don't always show up in the browser the way you want them to. Here are some tips and techniques for getting tables to behave properly.
Advanced Article Writing - You have written some articles - It's time to put those articles to work and maximize what they can do for you
Does your website have a "Not Found" page? You need to add a not found page that has links into your website. You don't want people to see the dreaded not found page and then to click away.
Design your site to be search engine friendly You want the search engines to easily understand what is important on your webpages
Keywords and more keywords - The scoop on keywords and how to use them
Ancillary Products - Don't ignore this valuable tool for getting more sales from your website. Your web visitors may be interested in many different types of products.
Put a newsfeed on your website in 5 minutes flat - with no coding required
Keyword Laddering - a concept for getting high placement with the search engines

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New additions to this site:

How to easily put adsense ads on your blog using a plugin
My Free pdf: The webmasters crash course on how to make money with a website
Affiliate Programs to sign up for and earn money with - They are free!
Identifying multiple benefits to maximize your time and your income
Piggybacking and prognosticating: Two techniques for increasing revenue
Tips on Increasing Holiday Sales from Affiliate programs like Amazon
How to make money playing video games
Put a free photo gallery on your website
Put a form on your website so you can have a contest and build an email list
Put the new google video ads on your website
Working with Google and getting Google to work for you! (Sep 21 07)
Adding the Unspun widget to boost amazon book sales
How to add audio messages to your site - Just like the one I have here.
An example of the development of a website How I started and how I ended So you can understand how to improve your site
A basic primer on metatags, how to do them and why you really need to
Make a robots.txt file - You need to do this and its easy
Thinking creative for webmasters Apr 19
Create HubPages and get quality links and earn money too, It's free
The webmasters list of creative ideas
take the test: Do you have what it takes to make your website a success?
How to post a youtube video to your website or wordpress blog (And why you should)(Apr 2)
The tutorial to end all tutorials: How to make money with a website without spending a dime - Really! (mar 28. 07)
Making banners for your website (march 21)
How to Make your website a success in three simple steps (March 13)
About my new website for creative webmasters
Use the ebay free affiliate program (Jan 28)
How to monitor your web traffic for free (Jan 23)
Naming your webpages - very important (Jan 17)
Keyword laddering - a concept for the little guy to get ranking in the search engines(Jan 5, 07)
Rafting the Amazon. How to get affiliate code onto your website (Dec 22)
The best way to drive traffic to your website is... (Dec 5)
Optimizing graphics, a must for all webmasters(Nov 20)
The important thing about google that nobody talks about added sep 19
Put a newsfeed on your website in 5 minutes flat
Open a free Amazon Astore for your site (aug 19)
Why and how to add alternate ads to your google adsense ads (aug 22)

Table of Contents for the Tutorial

Introduction
Checklist for what to do
Brainstorming ideas for your website
get a free site
get a paid site
choosing a domain name
get free web design software
ftp your website
Now let's add some awesome content
Join the free Amazon. com affiliate program
Open up an amazon Astore for free
Join the AllPosters affiliate program
Register with search engines
Creative ways to advertise and promote your site
Affinity Links
Guestbooks & Bulletin Boards
Write essays
Submit to directories
More money: Google adsense
Feedback- tracking your website progress
Spider friendly design - One small change has a big impact
Keep tables straight
How to register a domain name
STAY MOTIVATED
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Here are some great website ideas for making money

Review Movies for profit - Can you write movie reviews? Heres how to do it.
Book Reviews for profit
Tutorials are a big money maker

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Money Making Advanced Topics

Kanoodle in addition to google adsense
Keywords and more keywords
Design for easy search engine crawling
Using a sitemap
Google ads: Place them on the page properly to increase your sales
Advanced article writing
Vegetarian Dragons - An example keyword page
Ancillary Products - The key to diversification
List of Affiliate Programs to join
Podcasting for profit
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