How to Make Free Money Online

A direct answer to the last question is yes, but it doesn't have to be in form of cash. It takes time and effort, and time is money, right?.

I have been doing it for over a year now. A friend of mine is also doing it. She is also teaching a free model to "how to make free money online" in her book "One Week Marketing". She is following a different model than the one I have in place, but obviously it works because her ebook is selling like cold lemonade in a sunny July afternoon. Her system involves less work than mine, and the techniques she is using are time proven ones.

Another system that works like charm, without any complicated link building strategies is also available from George Brown's Google Sniper. It's astonishingly simplified, but again different from my system which I am outlining here for you for free :-).

As for the first question "how to make free money online", well ... I think I should charge for this kind of information :-). But I'll give you a simple easy to follow scheme. It is about affiliate marketing the right way: building niche lists while making money with affiliate marketing. You can read more list building specific information in this lense.

1. Find a niche that you are interested in.
2. Write a series of emails rich in information about a very specific part of this niche.
3. Get an autoresponder and load your email series.
4. Get an opt in form from you autoresponder.
5. Build a page in which you'll give away this email series and request a first name and an email address.
6. Put a "pay per lead" offer related to your "subniche" in your thank you page (the page which your subscribers will go to after they opt in).
7. Send your subscribers to a one time offer after they confirm their email address (could be your affiliate link to a "pay per sale" offer directly related to your "subniche").
8. You are done setting up your system to make you free money online. Just drag traffic to your lead capture page and you're almost done.
9. From time to time (maybe once a week) find a good offer from your affiliate network that you think will help your subscribers, review it on your website (include your affiliate link), and send an email to your list to go to that review.

If you are going to follow my scheme (outlined above) you'll need some basic tools that will make you free money online. You'll first need a web hosting, an autoresponder, an affiliate network account, a web site builder (also called "html editor software"), and an FTP software to load your website to your hosting account.

Although you can start all of the above tools for a very decent amount of money (less than a $20), still you can get functional equivalents for free. You can get a free webhosting from new horizons, an html editor from "My Free Website Builder", an FTP software from FileZilla, and an affiliate network that accepts free web hosting. The only thing you need to pay for is the autoresponder because this is your asset. You can get a decent one for under $10/month (which is the cheapest ever) from iContact or Grab That Lead.

Now that you have the system ready, how much money can you make with it? The main factor that determines the amount of money you can make is the number of people who will get to the door, which is your lead capture page.

Remember when I said "find a niche you are interested in"? This is how you'll get people to see your lead capture page.

Since you are interested in this niche, you'll have a strong background in this particular niche. Hence, you can actively participate in communities interested in this niche. And what is the best place to hang around with people interested in your niche? You got it ... forums.

To get high traffic search Google for keywords related to your Niche. From the organic search results find the forum posts that showed up. Register to those forums.

Another way is to search Alexa for the top ranking forums related to your niche and register to the top 10.

But DON'T Spam the Forums

To get decent and targeted traffic to your lead capture page you'll need to actively participate in the discussions on those forums. In your signature you'll say something like: "Here is How to Make Free Money Online" and hyperlink it to your lead capture page. When people read your posts about this particular issue and find useful information they'll want to know more by going to your website where you promise more information. This is the highest quality of web site visitors you can ever get.

The more people to see your signature the more money you'll make.

It depends on how you use the above system. If you pick a legit niche to begin with, provide real value in your email series, pick legit offers for the "thank you" and "one time offer" pages as well as the review pages you're in a good shape.

If on the other hand you pick an offer that is known to be a scam, or in the gray zone, you could find yourself in the black lists of some authority sites like Google.

The last time I checked, Google Adwords decided to ban for life those who advertise scams, even if they were affiliates.