Make easy money off the internet!!

The internet is full of them-people who claim they make enough money to live on and then some by getting money off the web. I think they are actually making more money selling their How-to books, but they would never claim that, of course.

The idea isn't all that difficult to figure out, but it is difficult to make even a fraction of what they are claiming. The premise? Have a website and run ads on it, then get paid for each click on those ads. The planning takes a little more time and effort, however.

First, you would need at least ten websites. Yes, ten. Why? Because a single website simply won't generate enough traffic and therefore, enough clicks, to earn anything even remotely substantial. A website can be a single page, but it still has to be something worth seeking out.
If all you want to highlight is the mating cycle of emus, you're not going to be raking in the big bucks anytime soon.

Second, you need to find the ads. Google has Adsense, which places ads on your site wherever you designate spaces for them and then ads placed are related to whatever it is your site is about. There is a slight downside to this as someone may have an ad whose merchandise or service is better than yours. There's an "oops". But that should be of no concern as you are looking to make money off those ads, right? And therein lies the rub.

If no one is visiting your site, no one is making clicks onto ads and you won't make any money.
Google makes it very clear that you can't go clicking on them yourself all the time; they will discontinue your Adsense agreement if that is found to be the case. So, what is a lowly one-site owner to do?

Beg.

Ok, not beg really, but get people you know to promote your site. Being in a dormant state for several weeks, I decided to send out an email to all my friends asking them to look at my site(www.reevesphotographics.com), click on the ads and then pass it along. In just fourteen hours, my balance went up by almost $13.oo. WooHoo! I made almost a dollar an hour! But there's another rub to the whole "Make money off the internet" plan.

Google and most other companies will not just send you checks willynilly. You have to meet minimum balances first. In Google's Adsense, that would be $100. If what has been written is to be believed, those internet moguls would have to be pulling in over $500 a week. At about 20 cents a click, give or take, that's a lot of clicking. Two thousand, five hundred clicks to my estimation. Do we really click that much?

Now that you have your site, you placed ads in it, what's next? Shameless self-promotion, that's what. I place my site name everywhere possible, even in places that don't allow www's by simply saying "reevesphotographics.com" somewhere. Sneaky, eh? You can place it that way in online bios, blogs, storylines like they have in Classmates-anywhere people might be reading what you say but where linking sites is not permitted. Afterall, you didn't really link the site, you simply "mentioned" it.

Everyone wants to make extra cash without trying, but the thought of making it off the internet while out playing golf is unrealistic. These internet entrepeneurs do work at what they do, but if they told you that, they wouldn't be selling all those books, now would they? By the way, I'm still $33 short of that first check, so if you wouldn't mind.....