This is a post for anyone who is interested in making money online. If that’s you then you should keep reading because I’m going to tell you the truth about making money online, which many people ignore. When they ignore it, they get scammed. So if you’re interested in making money online, keep reading because this is going to really open your eyes (or you may close them).

Do This and You’ll Make Thousands You’re First Day!

These overnight riches programs are complete scams. I’m sorry to break it to you, but there is absolutely no miracle formula to becoming a millionaire overnight on the Internet. These products and programs, which say that you can are not telling you everything. They are only telling you want you want to hear, in order for you to buy the program/product, so they can make money.

I’m a very skeptical person. Before I purchase anything, I look into it very carefully because I do not want to go down the same road many have. It’s absolutely terrible how people get sucked into these programs, only to feel like they have just been stolen from.

The programs I suggest on AffiliateRyan.com are ones I stand by. None of them promise to make you rich overnight, not even in a week. They teach you how to build a business on the Internet and that’s what I would recommend to anyone who is looking to learn how to make money online.

When a Product/Program Sounds Too Good to Be True

When a program sounds too good to be true, promising you heaven and earth, then it most likely isn’t true. This goes much like the first one, programs getting you rich overnight. When a program promises you results that are unbelievable, it’s probably because they are.

Quick Cash

If you’re here, looking to earn quick cash on the Internet, then I would just send you to a reliable paid survey site. However, you are going to be spend too much time on those surveys, only to be getting little in return. If you wanted quick cash, you could sell some stuff on Ebay.

But, if you’re looking to build a steady Income stream online, then you need to know that it’s not something that will happen overnight. You’re going to have to learn and take action. Everyone who makes an income online has had to learn how to do so.

You can make a ton of money online, this is not a lie. It just won’t happen, if you do not know what you’re doing.

I don’t know about you, but when I was looking to make money online I didn’t want to spend a single penny. I didn’t want to invest my money into something I wasn’t sure would make me money. We all just want to make money online for free, this way everything is profit and we have nothing to lose except for our time.

I read a few free ebooks on the Internet from people who make money online, but none of them really taught me about how to build a business from the ground up. All I had was my computer. I knew how to search for something I wanted on the Internet, create a myspace page, but that was it.

I wanted to know what I had to do in order to make money online without spending any of my own money, just like you I’m sure. However, I did anyway. I spent $39.99 for a month at Wealthy Affiliate University. I was working at a restaurant at the time and I made 45 bucks that night I joined. I thought to myself, “I have heard so many great things about this and I really want to know how to make money online, just join for one month, If it’s truly what it says I’ll stay if it isn’t than I will have only wasted $39.99″. So, I joined. Once I was inside, there was so much to learn. There is a ton of information, a big forum with successful marketers in there to help you and everything. I was extremely happy I took a chance that turned out to be a good one. You can read my Wealthy Affiliate Review, if you want to learn more. But, I’m going to continue with this post.

For me, I did spend money. But I put it to good use. My education. Someone can give you a task list, but unless you know what you’re doing. That task list is just going to confuse you even more.

So I spent money on my education, but did I need to spend money to get started and make my sales? No.

I didn’t spend a single penny, expect for the $39.99 to start making money online. There are tons of free websites out there, you can make a page (very simple) to promote products. Refer to my post How to Make Money Without A Website.

Make a page with a product linked to it. (P.S – If you have no idea what I’m talking about, maybe thinking “What? I need a product?”, sign up for my 5 Day Make Money Mini Course, it’s explained there. And no you don’t, that’s what you’ll learn throughout the mini course. How to make money without you’re own product.) Then, by writing articles related to the products and it’s uses, you can drive traffic (potential customers) to your webpage for absolutely free! This process does not cost you a single penny out of your pocket.

In conclusion, you do not need to spend money to make money online, however just paying for school, it’s wise to invest in your education.

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Education: Wealthy Affiliate University

Task List: One Week Marketing Action Plan

A Link Wheel is when you interlink six web 2.0 properties together. Ok, I know, I lost you right there. Let me start over. Before going into what a Link Wheel is exactly, I’m going to start of my explain why you want to create Link wheels.

By creating a Link wheel, you are able build backlinks much faster and you will rank much higher in the search engines for your keywords or keyphrases. If you still have no idea what I’m talking about, then you haven’t signed up for my 5-Day Make Money Online Mini Course, do that know, so you will understand this post.

As I have said before, keywords and keyphrases are words or phrase you want to rank in the top 10 when they are searched in search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. A contributing factor to your search engine ranks is backlinks. The more backlinks you have the higher you will essentially rank.

Alright, you now know you want lots of backlinks, so you rank high in the search engines, which increases traffic to your page/blog/website, increasing the number of sales you make, increasing the money in your pocket, right?

Backlinks = High Ranking = Traffic = Sales = PROFIT!

Pretty simple concept, right?

So back to the Link wheel. You want to create a link wheel with web 2.0 properties because they rank not only higher, but faster and faster backlinks. Examples of Web 2.0 properties are Squidoo Pages, Blogger Blog, Hubpages, WordPress Blog, etc. There is a bigger list I’ll provide at the end of this post. These are all free to use.

Of course, FREE = You don’t pay anything! = The Way to Go

To make a link wheel, you want to link 6 web 2.0 pages in a wheel or circle. Like in the graph below (click to enlarge)… (yes, first graphic I’m using…finally! By the way, I created this myself at www.bubble.us, it’s complete free and create for creating link wheel or other backlink plans)

In the graph, you will notice I will use 6 different keywords/keyphrase, one for each web 2.0 property. This is just the start though, late I expand on each keyword making a link wheel for each keyword. But to start just make 1 web 2.0 page for each keyword. The web 2.0 ages are in gold, while the red is the product page or my own website. Notice how I labeled each keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3 and so on. I will use them to explain the graph.

After I create each page for each keyword, I need to link them together in a Link Wheel. Each page links to the product page/main site directly, then I begin linking each web 2.0 in a circle. I link Keyword 1 to Keyword 2, link keyword 2 to keyword 3, link keyword 3 to keyword 4 and so on. Creating a full circle, where keyword 6 links to keyword 1. All you need to do is place the link on the page, be sure to use the Keyword as the Link text. So when I put the link for keyword 2 on keyword 1′s page, the link will be keyword 2.

Once you do this, then you want to write 5-10 articles to each Web 2.0 page. To build backlinks to each web 2.0 page. My process is that I write 5 articles, all unique and submit them to 5 different article directories. Then to backlink to the article, I submit the article to FreeTrafficSystem after they have been approved and published.

Below is the expanded graph I made with Bubbl.us to show the articles and freetrafficsystem. Definitely, click on it to enlarge it.

I write 5 unique articles for each keyword, I submit one article to EzineArticles, one to AssociatedContent, one to ArticleBase, one to ArticleCity, and one the Goarticles. Each article will have 2 links. One link will link to the Web 2.0 page and the other will link to the Product/Main Page. Once they are approved and published, I wait a few days for them to get indexed and ranked, then I will copy the article and submit it to FreeTrafficSystem. FreeTrafficSystem or FTS submits your article to a bunch of blogs automatically. With the FTS article I use one link for the original article, and the other link goes to the Web 2.0 page.

This entire process to create a link wheel will take me 8 days, plus a few with the FTS because I wait a bit. Only 8 days and you will have a strong and effective link wheel. The first day, I spend selecting a product to promote, writing a review of the product if I have a website or blog to use as my main site or I simply direct link to the product sales page. The second day I will spend creating each Web 2.0 page and linking them in a circle and to the main page. The third day, I write the 5 articles for keyword 1 and submit them, the next day is write the 5 articles for keyword 2 and so on for each day after. After 8 days, I will have a nice link wheel.

Once I submit to FTS, my link wheel looks like this… (MUST ENLARGE! )

Well that’s how I create a link wheel. Once I’ve done this, my pages will become much higher in the search engines. To expand on this, you can great a link wheel for each keyword! Think of all the backlinks you would be building and all the traffic flowing to the main page

If you have any questions, perhaps I may have been a little confusing at times, please leave a comment and I’ll be happy to help!

In order to succeed, we have to set goals for ourselves. Without goals, we have nothing to achieve. You can ask anyone who is successful, they will all tell you the same thing, they set goals!

I set goals for myself everyday. I have a set of short term and a set of long term goals. My short terms goals are usually goals for each day of the up coming week and my long term goals are usually goals I want to achieve months of even years for now.

The set your goals, write them down on paper or type them up in notepad. List what you want to achieve with your business, whether it’s to make $100 a day or build an entire website, it can be anything you want, but write it down.

I like to write my monthly goal down on a post-it and put in on the side of my monitor, this way as I’m working and I start to get distracted by something else, I’ll notice my post-it and get right back to work.

Setting goals helps you get organized by knowing exactly what you need to do in order to meet your goal.

I write my long term goal down, and then create a large list of short term goals which will help me to achieve my long term goals.

For example, let’s say my long term goals create a well established website for a specific niche. This website would be ranked high in the search engines for the keyphrase that I want. I do not care if it has millions of results, but it gets a boat load of traffic each month, so I want to be ranked high up there.

My short term goals, would be to write 3 articles a day, create a page a day, and so on. These short term goals, which I can achieve each day will help me reach my long term goal.

My point is that by creating a sequence of short term and  long term goals and checking them off as you achieve them will increase your passion for success.

Alright, you’ve in some way or another stumbled upon my blog. Now What?

I’m assuming you came here because you want to know how to start making money online or want to know more about making money on the internet, right?

Well since I’m such a nice guy and it’s the purpose of this blog, so I guess I can share all my strategies and tips etc. with you.

The first thing you need to do is sign up to my 5-Day Mini Course (emails are not long or boring). Why? Simply because over the course of 5 days I’m going to introduce you to several ways that you can make money online. I mention surveys, but I they will not make you enough. I go into ones which you can start you’re own home base business around. So sign up on the right and over 5 days I will introduce them to you and get you on the track to success. Plus, this blog well make much more sense to you.

Ask me questions!

Now, I know I have failed at this before due to my email screwing up, where i lost many unanswered emails, but I can assure you, if you have a question, ask it through a comment or you can email me. I prefer comments there may be others  wondering the same thing.

Once you have completed read through all 5 days, you can think about which direction you want go in. Once you have decided, than it’s all about taking action! And hopefully, not too long after that you will be making money.

The title of this post is titled “How to Start Making Money Online” and I’m sure you’re wondering why, am I right? Well in case you are it is because for you to start making money online, you need to know the different opportunities you could do.  That is the first step, deciding on the direction you want to take.

So sign up for my 5-Day Make Money online Mini course and I’ll introduce you to a few business opportunities which you can do.