• I was nervous about publically making mistakes
• My situation changed dramatically from being employed to being unemployed
• The credit crunch / recession / depression / end of the world began, and soon had to find a stable source of income
• Became a full-time student at University, studying Film & TV Production (which was not planned at ALL!)

So now I have FINALLY been able to sort my life out, and reassess my priorities, I have decided that I would like to invest a lot more time in exploring the world of making money online. As a student, if I am not studying, I am socialising (probably more than I should), and so I would like to find a way to earn an additional income from the web instead of having to find employment with strict shift hours. There are several reasons of this:

• Student friends who have jobs are under pressure – balancing both work and uni commitments
• Less time focusing on Uni work – more time washing uniforms
• Most parties happen at the drop of a hat, need to be able to attend at VERY short notice

Over the next few days I will be introducing each of the websites I will be building to help achieve my goals for this year (till December 2009):

• To earn a minimum of £500 (about $1000) per month (to begin with)
• Build an advanced understanding of what (and what doesn’t) work when you are trying to make money online
• Share ALL (and I mean ALL) of my experiences on this site, to hopefully help you

So, enough said. Apologies for letting everything slide on here, and let the journey begin… AGAIN!

I have personally used this service for many of my blogs, and have had some good responces from it. One of my blogs I earned $200 in one week, and I know many other bloggers who get four or five times that per week.

If you are ready to take the next step in blogging, and start earning some money from it, Sponsored Reviews is it!

My advice is this:
It does not matter if it is a .com or not, most likely all the good ones are gone anyways. Think about the audience you are trying to attract – are they location specific? If so, a .co.uk will work fine if they are based in the UK. If you cannot get a .com, then .net will do just as well.

BEFORE you start building your website, you should register your domain name. It is a simple cheat to ensure Google knows about your domain name, and so will keep looking back to see if you have launched or not. This will also give you extra brownie points when you do launch your site, as google favours domain names that have been around for longer than brand new ones. This will also ensure someone else doesn’t buy it before you do!

Try and get your main keyword in your domain name. This will make it easier for people to find you in Google. I could have gone for something like money-making-secrets.com, to ensure top listings, but I decided not to because it would of made my site sound like every other greedy git out there trying to sell you something.

Very often, if you can’t get the domain name you want, the domain name registrar will suggest alternate forms of the name you typed. For example, if you wanted website.com, and it was taken (of course it is), it might suggest forms like: thewebsite.com, mywebsite.com, websites.com – and the like, if they were not already taken as well. The question is, should you take them?

I hope this helps you out a little more. For domain names and hosting, I suggest 1&1 Internet, purely for the fact that I use them (this site is hosted there), they are very reliable, and more importantly their 1&1 Business package comes with 3 free domain names – which means you can buy one domain name as the ‘main one’, and then have two left over for marketing (two different domains with two different sets of keywords in them) – or you could just use the other two to launch some more websites on the same hosting… the choice is yours!

Now, these people who preach to others that they earn hundreds and thousands from Adsense are obviously high from sniffing their socks, but everyone can earn a little from adsense – just by adding the code from Google to your site. The more effort you put in to your site, the more people will come and see your site. This means that without doing anything out of the ordinary, your Google Ad views will organically grow too.

What people do not mention often enough is that Google still pays you for your visitors just ‘viewing’ your site. You will not get as much as from your visitors clicking one of these ads, but it can become quite profitable.
At the end of the day, if you own a selection of different websites / blogs, it is silly not to add a Google Adsense banner, from the same Google account, to all the sites. This way even if you have only a few visits a day to each site, you are still gaining views that Google will pay you for.

A little, often, soon increases to a lot if you use this system.

This blog is different.
Here I have set myself a challenge of trying to become a millionaire from earning money from the web. I am going to tell you exactly how I do it, and expose the crap that is only there to ‘steal’ your money to make them richer.

In theory I am already breaking the first rule: “Write an eBook and sell the information to others”. This site is a free resource for research. I am sure I will be making mistakes along my journey – and so hopefully you will not have to. I am going to be up front and brutally honest.

My Personal Goal:
On Sunday 27^th June 2010 – I want to retire young and free from debt, safe in the knowledge that my future financial security is sorted, so I can actually enjoy life.
(I know it sounds a little far-fetched, but when you think that on average 70% of our lives is taken up by the meaningless, never-ending realms of work – or ‘the prostitution of time’ as I like to call it… surely life would be better served ‘free’)

For starters, this site will be hopefully generating some money by listing affiliate links to products and services I believe are good and I have been able to reap the benefits from. I will also be allowing advertising on the site. Also, if you find the information here helpful, please donate to buy me a coffee!

Today, 21st March 2008 marks the beginning of my journey… I hope you enjoy the ride with me!