Work At Home Scams Make you pay for Free Stuff!

Paying for Free Stuff! Why?

Reprinted here by author from my post on Share Your Expertise site:

Who would not want to be able to work from the comfort of their home and 'be their own boss'? My only problem is that I hate to see people pay money for what is free. Forgive me for a lengthy post but I am hoping that this information may be used by someone in the future. You see many of these type at home opportunities generally offer you the following:

1. Information on how to create a Google Adsense account -
Not only is a Google Adsense account sign up free but Google themselves give you information on how to get an account. The most important thing is that you need to have a Google account. If you already have a gmail or a hotmail account then you are already half way there. You can sign up for one here -> GOOGLE ADSENSE SIGN UP

2. Information on how to create a blog account from Google -
Again Google's Blogger is free to anyone and they readily furnish the information on how to get an account. Again though you can use the same gmail or hotmail email account that you needed for point # 1 above. Check out the official blogger website from Google and get your new blog


3. They introduce you to Google Adsense Revenue forums (like Share your Expertise)
At these forums you submit your articles with your adsense code and you make money when people read your article and click on your google ads. Again these forums are free to join and you can join multiple forums. Some require you to have a minimum number of posts before you can start earning so make sure to read the FAQs and guidelines for each.


4. They offer you some SEO tips
Well it should go without saying that if no one finds your article or ads and they are never clicked, then you will never make money. So they share with you the importance of finding keyword rich content. They will then show you how to submit your articles to various search engines including the major ones like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Go ahead and submit your web pages or urls right here:

Google Sumbit URL portal

Submit your Blog portal

Yahoo! Sumit URL portal

MSN Submit URL portal

Hopefully if the search robots like your content your article will end up high on the search results listing for the keywords you used. Once your article returns on the first page of lets say Google's search, people are apt to click on it, and then you make money when they click your ads.It does help though that the forum you posted your article on has a good alexa ranking so that it helps your article to return favourably high.

For example, on my networking and employment site I try to increase green consciousness and have a "SolarGreenEarth" network with a blog and articles that I write. If you type "green technology toys" into Google's search bar, one of my articles submitted here on ShareYourExpertise is returned as No. 2 and No. 3 on the search results (at least up to this morning!)

They also introduce you to traffic exchange programs which are not endorsed by Google Adsense, but they say that the programs are to be used to help improve your traffic rankings. You are better off entering into a link exchange with other websites and writing articles on highly trafficked forums like SYE!

5. They introduce you to Affiliate Marketing -
Affiliate Marketing is basically marketing someone else's product and receiving a commission for sales you generate for them. The only thing is that this information is readily available and free on the internet. Also affiliate programs for merchants are also generally free to join.

6. They get you to sign up with ClickBank or PayDotCom
ClickBank and PayDotCom are like affiliate centers. They have a marketplace where you find goods to promote and get a piece of code called an affiliate link or hop link. You write short ads or articles which you submit to forums or free classified sites and and include your links which are supposed to track your commissions revenue.So people read your article or ad, click your link and make a purchase which is processed from ClickBank and PayDotCom. These affiliate centers then credit the proceeds of the sale to the merchant whose product you promoted and will also pay you the affiliate your commission.
Here's the thing - these are all free sign ups and the information is readily available.

Sign up for ClickBank

Sign Up for PayDotCom

7. They introduce you to Adwords and other Pay Per Click (PPC) programs as a more lucrative option or method for making money
This is indeed true - PPC is more lucrative, it can also be a lot more risky if you do not know what you are doing. Because you can end up losing money in running ad campaigns and not making back what you put out.Again though there's a lot of information available on the internet on how to run a successful ad campaign but I must submit that sometimes when you start using PPC advertising you may have to suffer some losses up front in order to run test campaigns which you run to know which market is lucrative.Or you can do some research in market trends to determine which market and keywords are lucrative. You may need some guidance in this though especially if you are new to marketing and advertising. And as far as I know, no one truly reveals their secret or else their profit margins would be compromised.

Sign up for Adwords

(As you may have guessed, you can use the same google account - gmail or hotmail - that you used to sign up for Adsense or Blogger).


MY CONCLUSION:

Now you just got a ton load of information for free. Use this article as a spring board and continue to do some research and very soon you will have a program for yourself and be able to benefit from some passive income.
You can always feel free to check out my job board which can be accessed from my blog or from the NESSCreations (Networking and Employment Solutions Services) website. Just visit the site and click the various "Jobs" tabs that are available.