How to Make Money Online Without Investing

1. Create a website, online comic, or blog based on your interests. If you're going to be creating a website, make sure that it is one that you will be able to update at least slightly every 1-2 months. If you'll be creating an online comic or blog, you should be sure to update at least every 2-3 days if you don't update daily.

2. Create a Google AdSense account or an online advertising account with another major advertising broker. You might also consider signing up with affiliate marketing accounts with sites like Amazon which can be used to supplement the AdSense account without violating Google's rules about using other targeted advertising.

3. Optimize your website or blog posts using keywords that accent your theme scattered throughout the text that appears on the page. Try to make these keywords appear as natural in their context as possible and don't simply group a large number of unrelated keywords together; this can actually damage your Google page rankings and possibly get your AdSense account penalized or banned.

4. Start placing links to other websites on your site or blog, and try to establish links from other sites that point back to yours. This will help people to find your website or blog, and will also improve your search engine rankings so that even more visitors will be able to find your site and click on the ads that are placed there.

5. Keep updating your website or blog regularly, and keep an eye on your AdSense account in order to track how many hits and views your ads are getting.

How to Make Money Using Online Advertising

Host Affiliate Advertising

An easy way to begin pulling income from online advertising is to sign up for an affiliate advertising account. You allow the affiliate to place ads on your blog or website and earn money for every click-through. Major players in the affiliate ad business are LinkShare, Google Adsense and Commission Junction, as of publication. The ads that appear are tailored to match the theme of your site. You add to your earnings for each click on the ads you host. Users choose the size and quantity of ads that appear on their sites. Sites that post new material on a frequent basis are able to build a large audience and garner more income from affiliate advertising.

Facebook and Social Media

Advertising on Facebook and other social-media outlets provides opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Advertisers can reach a targeted audience for as little as $5 per day, as of publication. Ads on these sites can help to extend your existing marketing strategies, such as adding email subscribers to your blog posts or simply to drive traffic to your website. Carter recommends combining Facebook ads with setting up a Facebook page for your business. One ad strategy is to send potential clients to your business Facebook page to click on 'like.' A 'like' notice appears on potential clients' Facebook home-page feeds where their 'friends' can see it. Social-media sites Twitter and Linkedin offer similar advertising programs.

Microsoft adCenter and Google Adwords

Microsoft adCenter and Google Adwords are the big two of online advertising, as of publication. Google has the bigger market share at about 65 percent, according to search-engine expert Scott Spjut. Users create ads focused on selling their products or services, and select keywords to determine which websites or searches will show their ads. They target potential customers by location and set a maximum price they are willing to pay for each click, as well as a daily maximum budget for their ad campaign. Your ad appears in search results and on websites selected by your keywords and target location. Each click on your ad brings a potential customer to your site or blog, where you sell directly to them with a call to action. Advertisers track the results of their ads and campaigns, and make adjustments in budgets and keywords to maximize results.

Free Online Advertising

Network with colleagues and arrange to trade links and advertising on each others' websites or blogs. Create a news release about newsworthy items such as a new product release. Send the release to online media relating to your product or service such as the online local newspapers, interest-focused magazines and blogs, and trade publications. Write an article about your area of expertise and submit it to sites that cover your industry. Arrange for a link to your website and your email to appear along with the articles and news releases. Potential customers can click through to your site or email you, creating an opportunity to add a client.

How to Make Money Online Writing Poetry

1. Populate your poetry blog or website with advertising. Services such as Google Adsense will provide you with ads and a portion of the revenue when each ad is clicked. Online retailers such as Amazon.com will pay you a portion of the revenue from goods sold to a user who has clicked an ad on your site. Drive traffic to your pages by maintaining an active online presence, adding new poetry to your blog or website on a regular basis and promoting your work on social networking sites.

2. Solicit website advertising from local businesses for a flat fee. Gain a local following by participating in spoken word events and poetry jams. Promote your site by gathering names for an email list, sending out regular newsletters and tracking the number of visits to your site. Once you can demonstrate your online poetry has an audience, approach local businesses such as small bookstores to pay a monthly fee to have an ad on your site.

3. Publish pieces of poetry on revenue-share websites. These sites include Hubpages and Squidoo, which pay writers a portion of the revenue earned from each post. Depending on which revenue-sharing site you choose, you may have to place your poetry within the context of an article or otherwise tailor your work to the demands of the platform.

4. Submit your poetry to online magazines, also called zines. If your work is accepted for publication you may receive payment depending on the editorial policy of each zine. Many zines also run poetry and fiction contests, which may require an entry fee but offer a sizable prize to the winning entry.

5. Submit your poetry electronically for publication in print magazines and journals. Your poetry may not end up online through this method, but if it ends up in print you'll have used your online savvy to reach the publishers willing to pay you for your product.

Google AdSense Help

Getting Started

If you have your own website or blog, you can apply for a Google AdSense account. It may take a few days for your application to be processed. Once approved, you can select content ads, which contain image or text ads, or link ads for your website. You can customize the size, shape and color schemes for your ads. Once you have configured an ad, Google will provide you with the code to copy and paste into your website. The content of the ad will change, depending on the ads Google has available. Ads are matched to each web page based on the content on the page so that ads will be as appropriate as possible for each page. At the time of publication, Google pays publishers 68 percent of what the advertiser pays for content ads.

Other Types of Ads

Besides content ads, you can also select search ads for your website. If a visitor to your website uses the the search feature in the ad on your website, and if they then click on an AdSense link, you will get 51 percent of the ad revenue generated. AdSense for mobile content allows you to place content ads on websites configured for mobile devices. AdSense for mobile applications lets you put ads on mobile apps. There are also AdSense programs for RSS feeds, video and parked domains.

Understanding Policies

Google has extensive policies for website publishers using AdSense. Violation of any part of these policies can result in a lifetime ban from the service. For example, you cannot click on the ads on your own website, or encourage visitors to click on ads. You are not permitted to use AdSense on webpages containing objectionable content, or linking to such content. This includes pornographic or violent content, content promoting illegal activities or racial intolerance, and the sales of drugs, tobacco or alcohol. AdSense also requires that your website includes a detailed privacy and disclosure policy.

Maximizing Revenue

As a Web publisher there are many things you can do to maximize your revenue from Google AdSense. Google provides you with reports, updated nearly in real-time, to show your revenue, as well as the number of page visits and clicks your ads receive. You can use different ad channels to get separate reports for different types of ads. This allows you to experiment with different ad placements, colors and formats, to see which ads do best on your website. Of course, getting more visitors to your website will increase the chances of getting clicks on your ads. Writing content that is in higher demand for the best paying ads will also increase your revenue each time an ad is clicked.

How to Sell Using Google Product Search

1. LOG IN or CREATE A GOOGLE ACCOUNTGo to http://www.google.com/base.

If you have an existing Google account, just login. If you do not have an existing Google account, it is a simple matter to set up a Google account. Just go to www.google.com and follow the on-screen instructions.

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ACCEPT TERMS OF AGREEMENT and SET UP ACCOUNTAfter logging in, one time, and one time only, you will have to accept Terms of Agreement.After accepting Terms of Agreement, you will have the opportunity to establish your account settings for your company or orangization (even if you are a sole proprietor. A sole proprietor is an individual, rather than a company).

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CHOOSE YOUR GOOGLE PRODUCT SEARCH CATEGORYAfter you click 'Save Update' you will be directed to a screen where you can add products. First you will need to choose the category that best suits your product. Choose from the drop-down menu, or write your own.

4. ADD PRODUCTS--Google Products Search uses a dashboard, similar to blogspotThere are various ways to add products to your Google Products Search presence. Products can be added one at a time, they can be added via a datafeed, or through API. Choose the method that best suits your needs depending upon the number of products you have to sell and your ability to upload by the various means.

5. HYPERLINK TO PRODUCT PAGESIf you have downloadable digital products, you will want to create a hyperlink(s) within the product description to bring buyers to your product page.

How to Hide Google Ads in Firefox

1. Launch Firefox and navigate to the AdBlock Plus download page. Go to addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/.

2. Click 'Add to Firefox' and then 'Install.' Restart Firefox once installation is complete.

3. Select 'EasyList (English)' from the subscription drop-down menu, and then click 'Add Subscription.' This subscription will block a variety of web advertising, including Google ads.

How to Enable Java JavaScript in Internet Explorer

Enabling Java

1. Open Internet Explorer and navigate to 'Tools' from the menu.

2. Go to 'Internet Options.'

3. Click on the 'Advanced' tab and scroll down to select 'Java.'

4. Check the box next to 'Java' version.

5. Go to the 'Security' tab and click the 'Custom Level' button.

6. Select 'Scripting of Java applets.'

7. Check the button that says 'Enable.'

8. Click 'OK' for saving the settings.

Enabling JavaScript

9. Open Internet Explorer and navigate to the 'Tools' menu.

10. Choose 'Internet Options.'

11. Go to the 'Security' tab and select 'Internet.'

12. Click 'Custom Level' and scroll down to 'Active Scripting.'

13. Click 'Enable' and click 'OK' to save the settings.