| There are tons of different marketing models that | | | | of each page on your website Google can then run |
| people can use to make money online but nearly all | | | | advertisements on your blog. Any time somebody |
| of them have considerable costs involved when | | | | clicks on one of those ads you make a little bit of |
| getting started. Today I'd like to write a quick article | | | | money. |
| about a very simple business model that anybody | | | | The other way is to join some sort of affiliate |
| can use almost immediately to start making money | | | | program such as ClickBank or Amazon.com's affiliate |
| online without spending hardly any money at all to | | | | program and then put affiliate links throughout your |
| get started. | | | | website. Anytime somebody clicks on those links and |
| This idea is nothing new, in fact tens of thousands of | | | | then goes on to buy the product, such as the electric |
| people use it to make their living online. The great | | | | razor that you just wrote about, you earn a |
| thing about it is that it doesn't cost hardly anything to | | | | commission. |
| get started. I'm not sure it has a known name but | | | | That's really all there is to it. The cornerstone of this |
| I'm going to call it content publishing. | | | | model is free traffic from search engines. The more |
| The idea of content publishing is to build a simple | | | | you write about your specific niche and the better |
| website, or several simple websites, related to | | | | the information content you create is, the higher you |
| specific niche topics; mostly product related topics. | | | | will rank at the search engines and therefore the |
| For instance electric razors. What you do is create a | | | | more traffic the search engines will send your |
| website or a blog where you write about electric | | | | website. The more people that come to your |
| razors. You can get started for free doing this at any | | | | website, the more people there are to click on your |
| number of free blog sites online such as blogger or | | | | links and earn you money. |
| WordPress; or you can register your own domain | | | | Of course, there are many different ways to |
| name for as little as eight dollars and order web | | | | optimize your website for the search engines and |
| hosting for as little as $20. When you get right down | | | | improve your rankings by getting other websites to |
| to it those are the only costs involved, making this | | | | link to your website, but that's an article for another |
| incredibly attractive for those of us on a shoestring | | | | time. |
| budget. | | | | Hopefully this article today has given you enough |
| So how do you monetize something like this, that is, | | | | information to pique your interest in this simple |
| how do you make money? There are basically two | | | | strategy. You shouldn't have too hard a time |
| ways. The first way is to sign-up for AdSense by | | | | researching it in more detail on your own. |
| Google. By placing a small snippet of code at the top | | | | |