Net Hustlin'

PLR stands for "private label rights." When you buy a PLR article you usually will have full permission to use the article on your website, claim ownership of it, modify it, and sell it. PLR articles usually come in packages based on various keywords, e.g. 15 articles on e-bay marketing.

You can buy and sell PLR articles on e-bay or various webmaster forums such as Digital Point. Here are 5 ways you can make money with PLR articles.

1. Run a PLR Site Many ghostwriters have found success by running their own sites with a database of PLR articles. These sites usually have hundreds or thousands of PLR articles that can only be accessed with a membership fee. The most successful PLR sites will update their database weekly with new articles, and take the most downloaded articles off the site, so that the content is always fresh. Most PLR sites have a membership limit so that the articles aren't on thousands of sites across the internet. Some are so popular that they have waiting lists that are backed for months.

2. Re-write Articles You can re-write free PLR articles online and sell them on ebay or Digital Point. Selling original re-writes of PLR articles makes them more valuable because buyers don't run the risk of having duplicate content online. If you want to do this it's best to just sell the articles to one person without resell rights. Selling the articles to one buyer will allow you raise the price because they will be buying unique, original content that only they will own. The only difference between re-writing a PLR article and writing your own article is re-writing an article will probably save you time and energy.

3. Buy and Sell Article Packs This is probably one of the hardest things to do because there is a lot of competition. When you buy an article pack, everyone who owns the article pack already has the opportunity to sell it. The people who buy the pack from them will also have the opportunity to sell it, and so on and so forth. Before you know it there can be 1,000's of people online selling the same article pack. If you want to put your internet marketing skills to the test then this is the right thing for you.

4. Publish PLR Articles on a Blog Blogging can be profitable but it also can be time-consuming and costly. Some people opt to use PLR articles on their blogs and websites instead of hiring a writer or spending hours writing their own articles. The chance of owning a successful blog is unlikely if all of the articles are duplicate content. If you are thinking about doing this, try to mix original articles with PLR articles, and re-write some of the PLR articles. The Problem With Automated Content explains the importance of keeping the content on your site unique.

5. Use Free Articles as an Incentive Some webmasters give away free PLR articles as a bonus when you buy an e-book, subscription, or other products and services. This is one of the cheapest ways to give customers an extra incentive to buy your products. It can also make a decent gift for people who are subscribing to a newsletter or RSS feed.

If you are interested in free PLR articles, Get a Script has 6,500 articles which are free to use and redistribute. My favorite thing about the site is that you don't have to sign up or give your e-mail to download the articles.

If you are in the market to buy articles, the post Where to find good PLR articles lists dozens of PLR article sites online.

Most people overlook the value of using advertising coupons and internet offers to market their sites. In an attempt to get free advertising for my blog, I searched the web for advertising vouchers and other great deals. Here are some of the best coupons and vouchers I have found:

$50 Google Adwords Voucher

• $50 in free adwords
• Includes free activation fee
• For new customers only
• Expires 12/31/2007
• US & Canada

$25 Yahoo Sponsored Search Credit

• Requires a $30 nonrefundable deposit (the deposit will go toward your advertising)
• New advertisers only
• Expires 12/31/2007

$75 Microsoft Ad Center Voucher

• Requires a $5 activation fee
• New advertisers only
• Expires 12/31/2007

Bidvertiser $20 in Free Clicks Coupon

• No activation/setup fee
• Open to new advertisers only

$100 Free Text-Link-Ads

• Minimum purchase of $25 required
• Open to new advertisers only

So far I have 5 vouchers with a combined value of $275. There is a total of $60 in activation fees/deposits, but if you consider the fact that most of that money goes into your account, you will be spending $60 on a total of $325 in advertising with these coupons. That is a lot of free advertising for your site!

If I find more I will be adding them to the list so please comment if you know about more offers. Thanks :)

In May 2007 Facebook opened its network to developers by allowing them to create applications. Ever since doing this over 1,000 developers have been signing up every day.

An application is anything you can put on your Facebook profile. For instance, there is a Feedburner application that allows you to display the most recent headlines from your Feedburner blogs and Podcasts on your profile.

According to Adonomics, an open analytics website that tracks Facebook applications, there have been 425,485,539 installs across 6,690 apps on Facebook.

Facebook applications can be monetized in any way you can imagine. The most popular way to monetize is selling ad space. Facebook applications that are popular can make good money by monetizing with Adbrite, Lookery, and Google Adsense.

You can also monetize through sponsorship. For instance, a music application can be sponsored by a record company or a game application can be sponsored by a gaming website.

The third way to monetize is by selling goods and services. For instance, you can create an app. that helps people find relevant e-bay auctions or tickets off ticketmaster. You can also create an application that has your own products and services.

As Facebook continues to rise in popularity so does the potential to make money. Facebook will probably soon overtake Myspace and its a good idea to be ahead of the curve before that happens.

There is a website that will pay you $2 for every product review you create. Shared Reviews is a social media site where people share their reviews of company products. All you have to do is write a review with 750 characters and if it's approved you automatically get credited $2.

The great thing about this site is the product reviews don't have to go on your blog or website. In other words, it's not just a link sale like Pay Per Post. This is more geared toward making useful content for the site - which will help visitors who are looking for real reviews on products and services.

This is what the website is about:

We're changing the landscape of review-research by framing customizable, media-rich reviews, with meaningful profile data.

This adds the necessary clarity for users to be able to make informed decisions by not only reading the review, but also learning more about the person who wrote it.

If you enter my referral name "Crystalcash1" you get a free referral credit in your account - in other words you get $2 to start. You can cash out after your account hits $10.

The Digital Point forums are one of the most popular webmaster forums online. They have over 37,000 active members with 499,000 threads. Obviously this can be a great place to get exposure for your site just based on the sheer number of people.

You can only make a live link after you make 25 posts. It's worth the wait because threads are indexed by Google almost immediately and many have gained page rank over time. Don't forget to put your links in your signature immediately after you make 25 posts so you can start getting hits and back links.

Digital Point also has a "recent blog" listing your latest blog post under your name. I don't know about anyone else, but I always click these links. This is an easy way to get a few extra clicks to your blog.

If you want to promote one of your latest posts on Digital Point you can, but don't try it until you have established some reputation on the forums. The posts that will get you the most hits will be about link building, web design & development, and making money online. Obviously this is because almost everyone on Digital Point is on there to do at least one of those three things. If you have a blog in this niche don't pass up the chance to promote your site in the appropriate threads.

If you start an appropriate thread with a link to your site you can probably get over a hundred visitors every day that the thread stays in the first few posts. Although this isn't massive traffic there are a few pluses to the type of traffic you're getting. Most of the Digital Point users are web savvy, will subscribe to your feeds if they like your blog, and use social bookmarking sites like Stumble Upon and Digg. Most of them also have blogs of their own and might even give you a link back if you have a great article.

Another great thing about getting traffic from Digital Point is almost all of the users have the Alexa toolbar installed. I know Alexa isn't the most accurate measure of traffic but it can bring more advertisers to your site and make you look more credible in the eyes of other webmasters.

The first time I got massive hits from Digital Point was when I wrote a thread promoting my article "Blogs With Top Commentators Plug-in." That day I finally broke the 100,000 rank on Alexa - I was ranked 44,000 for that day and 65,000 the next.

The traffic from that thread died about four days later but ever since writing it my overall traffic has increased from about 70-100 visitors daily to 400+ daily. This was two weeks ago and I haven't had less than 300 visitors since.

If this isn't enough, you can go to the "freebies" section and exchange Stumbles & Diggs with other users. If you wanted to you could get 100's of stumbles in one night from Digital Point alone. If you do think about doing this try to get only your best article dugg & stumbled. Otherwise your article will probably just get buried and thumbed-down and you won't see much traffic.

There are a few ways that you can make money by digging and stumbling articles. I see this go on a lot over at Digital Point forums. First you can sell your services in the Buy, Sell, or Trade category over at Digital Point. There are a few threads that you might have seen if you've been there such as "100 Social Bookmarks for $5." Most of these threads get hundreds of responses which means that at least a few people are making hundreds of dollars digging & stumbling articles.

Since your services might get lost in the shuffle the easiest way to stand out is to get creative. Instead of offering "50 diggs for $3" how about "Get on the front page of Digg for $20!" Obviously you can't make that claim unless you can deliver - but if you can deliver, you can make a lot of money. Some people have gotten 40,000 hits from the front page of digg. You can't buy that kind of traffic. Or can you?

Another way you can make money is selling Diggboss points. Diggboss gives you 1 point for every digg and stumble you make, and it costs two points to get a digg or stumble in return. You can also sell these on Digitalpoint, or through the Diggboss chat and forums. I know those of you who stumbled across this post are probably shaking your head at me, but just because I write about a site doesn't mean I endorse it. Also keep in mind that you don't have to digg or stumble any articles you don't want to - they actually encourage you to only digg the ones you like.

Last but not least you can use different revenue-sharing social bookmarking sites to do your personal bookmarking. There are sites that offer a share of adsense profits on your bookmark pages. I reviewed the two most popular ones on my post "Social Bookmarking Sites with Revenue Share."

If you've been here before you probably noticed that I haven't posted in awhile. I started school last month and I've been pretty busy trying to stay ahead in the last few weeks. I decided to drop my biology class (i'm horrible at science) and take environmental science instead, so that should free up my schedule and allow me to post more. I've also been busy trying to make money online to pay for the new class. I've been slightly successful though nowhere near my goal - yet. Here is what I've made in the last week:

Writing articles: $28
Selling posts on another blog: $18
Moola: $1.75
Adsense: $3.38
Vume: $.70
Web-adepts: $.60

Total: $52.23

Honestly it's not bad for the internet, although my adsense CTR (click-through-rate) is dismally low. I need to figure out how to tweak the HTML so I can get more clicks on this blog.

Now that I have taken this break I'm going to be posting a lot more often. I don't plan on having 5 posts for the month of October, even if it means learning how to balance school work with the rest of my life (something which I'm still learning how to do.) So stick around, there's still more to see.

Find your topic

So you want to write an ebook, but you don't know what to write about. Before you do anything else you should think about your hobbies and interests. Writing about something you enjoy will make writing, researching, and promoting your topic much easier.

If you still haven't though thought of anything, you can go to Amazon and check out their best seller list. Although they are "real" books they still reflect what people are interested in reading. You can also go to forums and google groups to see what most people are talking about.

The easiest way to write a successful ebook is to find a gap in the market and write about it. If there is a topic that most people are talking about but there aren't many blogs or ebooks dedicated to the subject, your ebook will have a good chance of success if it answers peoples questions.

Make your ebook easy to read and understand

Once you know what you are going to write about you have to present the information in a way that is easy to read and understand. People have a lower attention span on the internet than they have when reading a book in print. It's also a strain on the eyes to read a book on the computer. You should keep both of these in mind when writing your ebook. Here are a few ways to make your ebook easy to read:

• Break your book up into different chapters, then break the chapters down into smaller sub-topics. This will make it easy for the reader to find the information they are looking for. It will also make it easier for the reader to pick up where they left off. Any information that doesn't directly relate to the chapter should be put into its own chapter or left out of the book.
• Use short sentences and small paragraphs. Each paragraph should have a specific point to make that is clearly stated in the beginning.
• Highlight your most important points by making them bold.
• Read your e-book over when you are finished writing it and take out any unnecessary information. Every sentence should have new information to offer.

Make an eye-catching title

A good title goes a long way. The title is a buyer's first impression about how useful and entertaining the ebook will be. The title should detail what the book is going to be about while grabbing the reader's attention. Which one would you rather buy?

"Learn how to make money online."
Or
"Lazy kid makes $100 an hour without wife or girlfriend!" [Link]

Both of these are essentially the same title, but the first one is completely non-descript and boring. You know it'll show you how to make money online, but it doesn't tell you how much you can make or what you have to do. Most people won't pay money for an ebook without first knowing what they are buying.

The second one gives you an idea of how much you can make, and the word "lazy kid" gives you a hint that the work will be easy. Who doesn't want to make $100 an hour doing nothing? Of course you shouldn't make a claim like that unless your book delivers. The example comes from a popular ebook sold on ebay, the book sells for $9.95 and has sold hundreds of copies.