All newcomers to the world of Internet business want to know how to make money online the quickest fastest surest way by doing the least amount of work and quitting their job at the end of the week regardless. Well lets look at how that can be done, or not as the case may be.

Funny how we’re all attracted to those magnetic, almost mesmerising ads that promise to show you how their author’s just made three grand in a week by pressing a few buttons and sitting back in their chair to wait for the money truck to roll up outside their door! As newbies, we all sat there marveling at just how that could happen and wondering just how easy it would be to pull off. Yes, we all believed that hyped up crap when we were first initiated into the ways of the Internet money-go-round. And the few of us that managed to resist temptation by keeping our credit cards firmly locked away are probably the ones that survived to tell the tale.

But what is the reality behind all that hype? Can you really make money online as easily? Well, there is no definitive answer to that one, because although the resounding truth of it all is that no, you cannot easily make a lot of money online so quickly, there is a way to bend that truth.

What I’m saying is that there are ways to make a lot of money online in a short space of time. But that takes intelligence, knowledge and guile. So looking at the title of this post, you now know why I worded it in such a way that this post might be ale to show you how to make money online with guile! And you’d be right.

The knowledge can be learned by anyone willing to put in the time to do it. You have to be able to filter out all the horseshit from the nuggets of truth, but with intelligence you will be able to do that. And let’s face it, you wouldn’t even be here looking at how to make money online if you weren’t already blessed with the intelligence to realise that it might be possible!

There is some work involved, but you have to box a little clever with this. You will need to set up a series of free blogs on different hosts,such as blogger, wordpress, blinkweb, squidoo, hub pages etc and there all going to be loosely based around the topic of celebrity news. You are also going to have to nominate one blog, or a hosted domain as your main money site. The work involved will come from you populating all those free blogs with content that is mostly original and relevant to that topic. As you can see, celebrity news is a very wide topic, so you have an enormous amount of latitude for what you can write about. You can also cheat by using spun articles - you write the original, set it up in spin notation and run it through a free spinner such as jetspinner. You get 50 articles that you post around your free blogs.

There is some time involved too. You need these blogs to all get indexed by Google along with their posts. That means you’ll have to get links to them all from sources such as social bookmarking, blog comments, forum posts, article marketing, pligg site submissions (such as digg, bloggingzoom etc) the whole nine yards. This will probably take you three months or so but in that time you will have acquired a collection of blogs that will assist you in making that fast, easy money. As to your main site, that will be populated with only original, relevant content and you’ll be getting more links to it than the others from whatever sources you can. Also submit it to as many RSS syndication sites as you can. Post as often as you can about any celebrity that is in the public eye at the moment, no matter how crap the story is. You should also go about getting blogroll link exchanges as a good way to boost its authority.

But this is not what will supercharge it into making the money for you. That comes a little later.

Once your main money site has ranked for some of its longer tail keywords and is attracting some traffic from Google and the other search engines, its time to put Adsense on it. Check out my previous post about how best to do that: How to Make Money with Adsense. Once all the preparations have been made you can begin in earnest. How?

You wait and watch.

What you are watching for is breaking news about a high level celebrity, whether they be movie or TV, sports, political… any high profile well known name will do. The breaking news will be something big that a lot of people will want to read about. And you’ll be ready.

Quick as you can, write a 250+ word article outlining the breaking news story, entitle it with the most relevant phrase concerning what they are in the news for (it must also contain their name) and publish it on your money site. If you can upload an image of the celebrity into that post do it and put their name in the alt field. Use Onlywire to bookmark it and a good ping service to ping it to as many blog services as you can. Now edit ALL your free blogs. Take a recent post on each and change the title to include the name of the celebrity you are now targeting, add a link in that post straight to the post on your main site anchored with the celerity’s name and maybe the phrase that is most prevalent in the news story about them. No need to write any more articles, just use what you already have as it will be generic anyway. Publish and ping each free blog, then Onlywire the post you just changed.

If you get all that done quickly enough and beat the big syndicated news sites to the drop, your money site should enter the SERPs on the front page, maybe even take the top spot. If the phrase you chose is the one most people will search on, then within the next few hours your traffic should explode into many thousands. If your Adsense is optimised as best you can for that kind of site, then you should get a big flow of clicks that could amount to a lot of money in a very short space of time.

Let the site run as is for 48 hours max, or until the story dies down and your traffic drops off, then remove Adsense from your main site. This will help prevent you getting smart priced.

And that’s how to make money online with guile! Ok, it also takes work and preparation and then some luck, but its doable and repeatable. And if you do it, you just proved the myth that you can make a lot of money online in a short space of time!

Freelance Writer Terry Didcott
Co-Author of Blogging Web 2.0

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