Interesting Ways to Earn Money Online

Internet has turned into a great place to earn for a living. Some of the advantages it offers are: working from home, (partial) independence and freedom, plenty of various opportunities.

The best thing about making money online is that it is fun. You can do what you really enjoy and get paid for that!

So besides obvious making-money-from-your-website thing, what are other reliable ways to earn some extra cash?

(1) Get Paid for Reviewing Software

What kind of a geek are you if you don’t love playing with new software? I am sure you do. Have you ever considered getting paid for that?

Software Judge is the most popular site that allows to be paid (up to $50 per review) for software reviews. The rules are as follows:

• Review it as it is: the review shouldn’t be positive; it should be constructive and honest;
• Pick the software listed on the site;
• No more than 3 reviews per day.

You get paid the following ways:

• Digital freebies (e.g. free reg keys and free games);
• Cash via Western Union (if you have at least $200 in your account);
• Software exchange (if you have at least $20 you can exchange your money for any downloadable software listed on site).

(2) Get Paid for Bargain Hunting

Bargain hunting is fun and can save you a bunch of money. The key is to know how and when to track. It’s nice that active bargain hunters can now be rewarded with cash (because many people can be grateful to them for a timely spotted deal).

Buxr is a user-generated coupon code and deal directory that rewards most active and active users with daily and monthly cash.

The rules are pretty simple: the deal that gets most votes from other users wins the contest. The daily prize is $10 and monthly prizes vary from $100 to $200. If you refer friends to join the site, you’ll also get a prize:

The top 3 memberswho refer at least 5 ‘Good Members’ will be awarded. The first, the second and the the third place prize is $50.

(3) Get Paid for Consulting Others

Do you consider yourself an expert in anything? Do you think your advice may be useful? Let people pay you for it!

Ether.com offers you to get paid for your expert advice. I can’t say the site is too active and you will get hundreds of phone calls but you can try it.

Here’s how it works:

• Get your free Ether phone number;
• Set your rate per hour;
• Get pre-paid phone calls.

The site also offers "Call me" buttons for your website or blog as well as some advice on how to market yourself to get more calls. It also enables you to sell digital products via email and "Buy" button on the website.

(4) Get Paid for Reviewing Products and Completing Offers

Getting paid for reviews has double benefit: cash and the product itself you are reviewing. Here are some well-trusted sites that allow you to earn money by reviewing products (there are more of course, so if you personally tried and liked another one, please share):

• Cash Crate: Make sure to also check their Contests page for more fun;
• Gangster Greed pays money for completing (free trial) offers. Payout threshold is $10; Payouts on demand;
• Treasure Trooper: monthly payouts with $20 threshold;
• Instant Profitz.

Are you aware of more fun legit ways to earn money online? Share them in the comments!

Oh and those of you who are still in college should also check out our Ryan’s article om best websites for teens to earn money online.

Note: Internet is full of scams. If you come across any site that offers to pay you in cash, make sure to do at least some research: check scam forum and just Google it.

Disclaimer: I didn’t personally try all the sites listed above but I took time to research reviews by others before listing them here.

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Understanding Search Engine Optimization for Today's SEO Blogger

SEO is a simple acronym for Search Engine Optimization. SEO experts and bloggers implement SEO to bring more traffic to their websites from Google, Bing,Yahoo!, as well as other smaller search engines.By increasing website traffic,these marketers bring in more prospective customers to buy their services or products or to generate affiliate or pay-per-click sales at their websites.

Every time you search on Google or Bing,you can potentially tap into thousands--even millions--of keyword-relevant websites.The mass amount of competing websites makes it very difficult to rank in the top 10 or top 100 search results at Google or Bing.Just because Google or Bing lists your website somewhere in their search results does not guarantee you website traffic.The reality is your prospective customers will not peruse past the first 10 pages of search results, or until they find your website.More than likely, the searcher will click on a website within the first 10 results,which may be a business that competes with your business.

The aim of SEO is to rank your website or specific webpage within the top 10-20 results.To accomplish this tedious and on-going task,you will need to make your site unique,interesting, and useful.

Why do you need to make your blog or website useful? When someone searches at Google or Bing,he is searching for information on a specific subject; therefore,he types in a keyword, such as "make money blogging." The search engine hastily and promptly searches for relevant,highly-useful websites based on that keyword.

Google spends millions of dollars each year to make its search process as accurate and as useful as possible--and this means directing users directly to useful and highly-rated websites.Can you imagine if Google spat out lackluster, non-relevant results every time you keyword searched a topic? They'd be out of business.Users wouldn't use the search service,and advertisers wouldn't pay to advertise via Adsense.Statistics show that users prefer Google more than any other search engine because it delivers timely, relevant and accurate results on every search.Search engines want to make sure they deliver search results that users want, otherwise,as we have seen with bankrupt search engines,they will suffer a slow death.

Google lists sites in order of relevance and importance based on keywords and phrases that the user types into the search box. Ideally, the most relevant site is listed at number one or number two.What site do you think generates the most traffic in a day? Yup, you guessed right! Result number one.

Search engines are programmed by skilled people,but skilled people do not generate the search results.It is humanly impossible for a staff of people to scan through every page of every site, process and unpack the information and say,"This looks like it's relevant to (insert keyword here) and maybe relevant to this...Let's list it here at number one."

Most search engines use what is known as a web crawler or "web spider" to crawl through a website,inspect the contents of each and every page,and then sort, categorize,classify and store the website and its wepages.The human-programmed web crawler decides (based on complex algorithms) the website's rank on a search engine.A web crawler may use the following criteria:

1) Frequency of keywords.Sometimes the number of times a word or phrase appears in the website's pages can indicate how relevant it is to the user's search term. Suppose you listen to your friend with partial hearing and hear the word "Yankees" every ten seconds--you have a good idea of what your friend keeps blabbing about.If a word appears repeatedly across a site,then the web crawler may assume the keyword and search term relate to each other,and it will then classify them accordingly.

2) You don't want a keyword to appear too often because then your website begins to look like SPAM .If you are posting content to your website and a particular keyword or phrase repeats itself abusively on every webpage of your site,Google will classify your website as SPAM and may delist you from its search results.

3) Titles, a meta-description (first few sentences of your content),and meta-tags (keywords).Because a web crawler can't read straight English with 100% accuracy,it hones in on words that appear in the title and first few lines of each individual page.A typical webpage also has a few relevant keywords stuffed in an invisible meta-tag that helps the web crawler classify your webpage. The title and description of your webpage tell the user what specifically he might find on that specific webpage.The web crawler also takes into account these two elements to help classify and list your webpage.For example,a webpage with the title,"How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs" probably isn't going to be listed with "How to Buy a New Mattress."

Use the above criteria to help a web crawler index and classify your website based on relevancy.The sites that Google and Bing rate and rank as the most relevant will earn that prized position at the top of search results and bring you continuous,relevant traffic.
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About the Author
Brian is a professional freelance writer and avid blogger. He warmly welcomes you to his free website, http://www.HomeBasedBlogging.com, where he and other expert bloggers show you how to make money blogging in your spare time.

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