How to Start Working From Home

What you need to do is just brainstorm a list of words related to topics that interests you.

- Something already related to your work - and that maybe you think your boss doesn't value enough?

- Anything related to your Study? Something you already research(ed) for school or college?

- Anything you already browse on the internet?

- Do you sign any magazine? What is it about?

- Have you read any book recently? What is it about?

- Do you have a hobbie?

- Do you have some recipies?

- Do you like any kind of sports?

- And so on....

List as many topics as you can, then go to the next module - "researching". You will be surprised how much quicker it is than this brainstorming module!

If any of those topics is related to your work and study, it's even better. You already have a lot of content you wrote for your teachers or your boss. If you have the copyright to it, if it's any kind of resume that you hold authorship, then the second part of this guide, working fom home, could involve just copy-and-pasting your high school or college works, that poems you wrote while at class, or maybe some drawings you did in your book instead of the homework you were supposed to.

If it's unique content, like a sum-up you did for a grade, you couldn't have a better choice to earn money from. Let all your hard(?) studying pay off before you even graduate. Simply publish it online. It's very easy and - guess what - free. No matter how many work at home programs are being sold every day, it can all be learned for free.

But can I really earn a living from my school annotations?

Well, if you were a normal kid, enough not to make perfect resumes of your classes, you've got unique content in your hands. Just make a quick research about "internet marketing" and "making money online": everybody will tell you that you need UNIQUE CONTENT. And that's the most important component of working at home.

That's basically what all those "data-typing", "internet income", "affiliate marketing", "work at home" opportunities are all about: getting the search engines to list your free pages, which will run advertisements for some companies you choose.

Just think of it: The resumes you made while at school and college are not only unique - they are also VALUABLE content. I don't know any smart family in the world that doen't put their kids and youngs to learn those subjects 5 days a week for two decades or more. :D

DO YOU?!

Now, I said in the beggining you DIDN'T NEED A WEBSITE. How come now I'm telling you that you need to publish content online?

When I think of a website, I think of my own domain name (www.site-name.com), web hosting fees, writing HTML and sending the pages to the server through FTP.

Don't know what HTML and FTP are?? (If you do, you should be advanced for this tutorial).

That's my point. You need to publish web PAGES, not web SITES. You can publish your pages here at Squidoo or at Hubpages. You can also start a blog at blogger.com. All of those are easy to learn and are costless. You build a page at a time, not an entire website upfront.

A small note about your earnings:

The other option you have is to be the one who pays for advertisement. You can place an advertisement for some companies you choose - thousands of companies have affiliate programs that will pay you for that. That's actualy a GREAT option for getting paid much more money, but if you spend more on advertisements then you win from companies sales, then you are going to lose money. So, if you are new to this, you have A LOT more to learn before you should start paying to advertise online.

To start writing web pages, though, you don't have that much to learn. You don't have to make any upfront investments. You don't even have to write new content - just copy and paste your old school homework, and then expand from there. You can also sum-up any other content you like.

How about telling why you loved or HATED that last movie you saw? I said TELL, not write, because if you realy, REALY hate writing you have STILL another choice: tape yourself and publish yourself in audio format. That will serve much well! You can also do movies with a cell phone or a cheap (or borrowed) digital camera. In fact, you'regoing to learn that you should tape audios and publish movies to do your site or page's marketing.

Here's one last option: do it like you did at school, have someone else write your works for you. Either hire someone or get your family to help - maybe your broters and sisters or friends can come up with the content and you help with taping it or making a video out of it with free images from the internet; or you can help by marketing the content through word-of-mouth, business cards, or some other way.

Now, go on to researching your keywords list.

Go to Google's Keyword Research Tool and type the words you've brainstormed before.

Try researching each one separately AND togheter (a combination of some of them):

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Examine the Suggested keywords:

When you go to the link above and type your brainstormed keywords, a result page will show up with a list of related keywords.

Next to each keyword you will have three columns:

• the estimated search volume for that keyword on the current month.


• the estimated search volume for that keyword, monthly, for the past year.

You should write down / save all the keywords with more than 1.000 monthly search volume, that have three or more words in it (e.g. "best recipe books", "best recipe books online" - those are called long-tale-keywords, by the way), and go type all of them, one by one, at Google (www.google.com)to see how many page results you get.

If you get less than 5 million page results for a keyword with at least 1k serches per month,, that's a niche keyword.

Also, by clicking on the column "competition", you can sort the keyword sugestion results by competition, so you learn which keywords have the less competiion and can be easier to promote on the web.

Save two lists of keywords:

Back at the Keyword Tool, you have an option to load another column, with information about keyword bids. That's how much you would have to pay to advertise a sponsored link a google for that keyword. If you advertise your niche, though, you on't have to pay for sponsored links - your site will show up at google automaticaly.

On the other hand, that bidding value is the estimated earnings you could have, per click, for posting advertisements on your blog or other web page you create.

Now, here are the two lists we have to save based on the estimated bid value:

• Low competition keywords


• High-bidding keywords

The first group of keywords is going to be used to bring visitors to your page (website, blog, lens, whatever).

The second group of keywords is going to be used to profit from your website's traffic.

One MOST IMPORTANT keyword you must find has to have the following characteristics:

Have more then 1.000 searches every month and less then 5 million competing web pages. If you type your keyword on google, there shoud be less then 5 million result pages.

This MOST IMPORTANT keyword should be used to register you own domain name (www.keyword.com), later, and for now: your Squidoo Lenses, your blogs, your hubpages and your social bookmarking names. We will get back on those later on.

If you market your site / pages correctly, you might see it on google and get lots of free visitors each month.

For example, If you type "yoga" on Google's Keyword Research Tool, you could find that "tantra yoga" has more than 1.000 search requests every month. If you type "tantra yoga" on google web search and find less than 5 million result pages for that search, this is a good niche you found.

To be more sure, you could check the addresses of the first result pages: are they top-level "yoga" domain names (.net, .com., .biz)? If there are a few results on the front page that do not have a matching keyword ("tantra yoga", in this case) on their top-level domain name, you have good chances of getting a well optimized website in google's front page.

Once you have ONE good website (or blog or hubpage or lense) on Google, getting more websites in it gets easier and easier. And making money with them is just a matter of copying and pasting free affiliate links and google ads code.

By now, you should have spent around $9 dollars per each domain name (start with just one and make it to the top of google's front page for it's main keyword). That's all you have to spend.

MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THESE TIPS CORRECTLY, IF YOU WANT YOUR BLOG OR LENSE TO GET FREE GOOGLE TRAFFIC.