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Start your own Free Online Store and Earn Cash

Creating an online shopping mall from the scratch is more daunting than any other task. Here i will list some of the free online shopping malls that you can own and earn cash for yourself. You don't need to spend money to create an online store. You just earn by signing up and referring it to others. You are just going to promote the Url link you get. You will get paid when some one purchases from your mall or from your referral member's mall. This means you will be earning from your down line members also. That's it. Simple.




Tmiwireless offers you a free online storefront without any cost. You will earn up to $50 per cellphone sale and $10 if your referral makes a sale. Yes it is a 2-tier money earning program. They offer a bonus of 10% if you sell 20 cellphones/month. You also earn 15% for wireless accessory sales. If a visitor visits the online store and returns back within 365 days and purchases something you will still be paid. What's more? Yes, you can also set your own logo on top of this free storefront thereby making your visitors think that they have not left your site. There are more earnings details which i have not described here. You just visit and learn about it.

Visit tmiwireless

Cbtopsites You can get a ClickBank online store preloaded with 35000+ products. You just sign up and promote the mall you get and earn up to 75% commissions.

Visit Cbtopsites

RiverOffers provides free online mall for you to sell following products :
T1/Dedicated, Metro Ethernet, Enterprise VoIP, PBX Phone Systems
Local Phone Service, Long Distance Plans, Toll Free Services, Conference Calling, Calling Cards Dial around
Cellular Phones, Cellular Plans, Prepaid Cellular
Residential VoIP, High Speed Internet, Domain Names, Web Hosting
Credit Cards, Prepaid Credit Cards, Airline Miles Cards
Satellite TV, Identity Theft Protection, Home Security, Computers

Visit RiverOffers

I have listed only a few but good ones but you can find more by searching google.

Add free shopping malls in comments if you find any.

21 Techinques to Drive Traffic to Your New Website!

In reality driving quality traffic to your new website is a very difficult task. Big websites spend thousands of dollars a month to promote their website. That means they may be earning at least 2 - 3 times their spending. Even Spending hundreds of dollars a month for a new startup website for this task is unimaginable. But Internet does provides lots of free resources for you to drive traffic to your new website. No body visits any website without any interest or intention. I will list those free services . Avoid scams and spams. You can also search in google for the topics below to get more information. You don't need to pay for most of the services found below.

Free Techniques

1)Search Engines/Directories - Your first task is to submit your website to search engines like google. Submitting to more search engines will make your website more visible to search engine users. Some websites offer free services for this. Tip : Search google for "Free website submission".

ineedhits - Search engines,Directories submitter
majon - Search engines,Directories submitter
Cyberfetch - Search engines,Classifieds,Directories submitter
Trellian - Search engines,Directories submitter

2)Press Releases - Write Press Releases about your website and submit it to press release websites. They will be immediately visible in search engines and various news sites etc... Some provides paid services also. Tip : Search google for "Free Press Release".

free-press-release
prlog
newswiretoday
openpr
pr
NationalPRWire
ecommwire
BigNews
i-newswire
ClickPress.com
newswiretoday
pr9
prbuzz
prcompass
prurgent
press-base
pressabout
pressmethod
prleap
theopenpress
free-press-release-center
pr-inside
prxbuilder
majon
24-7pressrelease
send2press
1888pressrelease
pressreleasepoint
massmediadistribution
prnine
express-press-release

3)Articles - Write articles about anything and submit to many articles directory. All your articles must have your website/blog url in the author section present below the title of the article or at the end of article. Some webmasters may use your articles(with your url) on their websites. There are lots of article directories. Search google for "article directories".

4)Link Exchanges - Exchange your website link with other related websites. This has lots of benefits. This makes your website to be ranked higher by google (PageRank). It increases chances of being indexed by google.

build-reciprocal-links
linktradeexchange

5)Blogging - Write a blog and write something about your website. Your readers may visit your site.

Blogger.com

6)Online Classifieds - You can post ads in classified websites. If your website is more targeted to local people this will work effectively.

Cyberfetch - Search engines,Classifieds,Directories submitter
justaroundtown
epage
isell

7)Newsletters/Ezines - Publish newsletter emails containing latest offers or news from your website. These newsletter emails must be sent to your customers who have willingly expressed their interest in receiving your newsletters. Otherwise this is considered as illegal spam activity.

8)Rss Feeds - You can provide your website links as Rss feeds so that interested visitors subscribe to your rss feeds themselves.

9)Forums/Communities - Join forums or communities related to your niche and add your website link and short description in the signature section of your profile in that forum/community website. You must actively participate in the forum discussions. Whenever you start a thread or reply to another post your signature will always be visible. These links will be visible to thousands of visitors to that forum and chances for your website being visited if it is interesting to them.

10)FFA's - These Free for all links websites may drive traffic but a little.

11)Safe-lists - Safe-list websites sends emails to all of their registered members. Some times this may be effective depending upon your niche.

ipostad - Safelist Submitter
Businessworldlist
Herculist

12)Social Bookmarking - You can add a bookmarking button in each page of your website. If a interested visitor submits your website page to any bookmarking website this may increase your site visitor count.

addthis.com - Get Bookmark button(see at top right of our blog) to add in your website.

13)Social Networking - Yes you can use your friendship and community power. You can add your website in your profile and use related forums and polls to drive traffic to your website. You can inform your friends about your website.

Yuwie (You can earn money by making friends)
orkut
myspace



Paid Techniques

14)Advertising Networks - You can drive targeted traffic through the pay per click (PPC) /CPM campaigns through Google Adwords or similar advertising networks. This is the best method to drive traffic to your website but you need to spend money.

AdBrite*
Bidvertiser Publisher Advertiser
Chitika*
Text-Link-Ads
MSN AdCenter
Yahoo Publisher Network
Kontera*

If you run affiliate program you can also try affiliate networks

Pepperjam Network
ShareaSale
Zanox
LinkShare
Commission Junction

15)Internet Audio Ads - This is a revolutionary new method of advertising evolved now. Net AudioAds have started this internet audio advertising network.

NetAudioAds

16)TV/Radio Advertising - Advertising in TV's and Radio's always brings fame and poularity among millions of general public.

17)Press - Whether you advertise in Newpapers or Magazines this works same as TV advertising.

18)Mobile Phones - Now a days mobile advertising ie advertising by sending ads through SMS is popular.

19)Others Ezines/Newletters - Some ezines/newletters has a large base of subscribed readers. Those websites charge some money to put your ads in their newletters and has chances to be seen by thousands.

20)Ebooks - You can also write ebooks where you can intersperse your links wherever possible.

21)Submitters - Some websites offers submission services to submit your website to hundred's of search engines, websites, forums, classifieds, directories, opt-in lists, safelists, ffa's etc... These submitters simplify the task of submitting to the above in a single submission. Choose good scam-free/spam-free submitters for advertising your website.

I will list some of these submitters below. All these provide more than one services or all services for some cost.

ineedhits - Search engines,Directories submitter
majon - Search engines,Directories submitter
Cyberfetch - Classifieds,Directories submitter
Trellian - Search engines,Directories submitter
ipostad - Safelist Submitter

You can find lots of other free advertising resources on the internet through search engines like google.

No doubt all these techniques drive massive traffic to your website. Best of luck!

You can comment your techniques other than described above.

Read my previous articles in this series :

Startup Websites - How to start my first Website?
How to Monetize my Website?
Earning money by putting advertisements in your website

Earning money by putting advertisements in your website

A lot of websites are earning thousands of dollars per month or even per day,then why your website can't do that? People who have mastered or tries to master these earning techniques always do well in this case. You need to know what are the ways you can follow to make changes/additions into your website to earn. Mostly start-up websites need immediate ROI(Return of investment) and earnings. These start-up websites must first use only CPC,CPM based advertising programs on their websites. These ads on your website maximizes the possiblities of faster earnings. There are lots of math terms used in internet to describe the type and calculations of earnings. See below :

PPC/CPC : Pay Per Click/Cost Per Click (You earn money when a visitor clicks on an Advertisement displayed on your website)

PPP : Pay Per Play (You earn money when a visitor visits your site. When he visits a 5 sec audio clip will be played in your website and you will be paid for that)

CPM : Cost Per Thousand Impressions (Earn money by showing thousand impressions(displays) of images)

CPD : Cost Per Day (Some Ad Networks allow you to fix a price for showing advertisements for a day)

CTR : Click-through rate (number of clicks on the ad devided by the number of times ads shown)

eCPC : Effective Cost Per Click (the average cost per click)

eCPM : Effective Cost Per Thousand Impressions (the average cost per thousand impressions)

CPS/CPA : Cost Per Sale/Cost Per Action (you will be paid when a visitor to the ad purchases something or does some required action such as filling some forms - See below - CPL)

CPL : Cost Per Lead (you will be paid when a visitor to the ad does some required action such as filling some forms.)

Advertising Networks :

Advertisers provide their ads to the networks. Publishers(you) display those ads in their websites and earn money on CPC, CPM ... basis. When you join and create your publisher account with them, you will be provided with a script code to paste in to your website in a particular place (Ad Space) in your website. The advertisers ads will be displayed in that place and provides you earnings.

Google Adsense

Google is the first and foremost biggest advertising network. Google Adsense program is the advertising program for webmasters who want to display advertiser's ads on their websites to earn some extra revenue. Millions of websites have joined and using it successfully. Some websites even earn thousands of dollars in a month in this program. Google Adsense is based on CPC and a small CPM. Google is considered best among the other ad networks in revenue terms.

Alternatives for Google :

AdBrite*
Bidvertiser Publisher Advertiser
Chitika* Publisher Advertiser
Text-Link-Ads
Yahoo Publisher Network
Kontera*

* Considered compatible with google adsense. ie you can put their ads on the same page where google adsense ads are present. But as per Google policies these ads should not look same as adsense ads. Please refer Google policies, adsense blog and adsense forum before you do this.

Internet Audio Ads - PPP (Pay Per Play)

This a new revolutionary form of advertising evolving now in internet. You earn money when a visitor visits your site. When he visits a 5 sec audio clip will be played in your website and you will be paid for that. NetAudioAds have started this and is at the end of its Beta. That means soon they are going to start providing their ads for all publishers. They may stop accepting publishers soon. So you can join the network immediately.

This will be the easiest and fastest form of earning revenue in internet.

Join Here NetAudioAds

Affiliate Networks

Affiliate Networks are a kind of advertising networks where they pay on CPA/CPS or CPL basis. When a visitor clicks on ads on your website you will not be paid. But when he purchases something after visiting that website you will be paid. Affiliate networks tracks these visitors and their purchases. You will be paid even if the visitor returns without purchasing and comes back after a few months and purchases depending on the tracking cookie's lifetime installed on the visitor's computer. There are lots of affiliate programs in the internet and you can create your account with them and earn money placing ads in your website. Some of the best affiliate networks are listed below :

Pepperjam Network
ShareaSale
Zanox
LinkShare
Commission Junction


Direct Selling of your products

You can sell your own products like shopping items and digital products such as e-books etc.. This kind of website may need some investment. But in case of digital products that you create on your own like softwares,widgets,e-books,articles you may not need any investment. If you are selling your own products with some investment, you don't need to put other business websites ads on your website unless you have a joint-venture with some other business. Some websites provides services for creating your web stores to sell your or others products.They are Amazon, ebay, Yahoo shopping etc...

Direct Selling of Advertisements

You can sell Ad Spaces for any other websites who want to advertise on your website. You can earn money which is solely based on the traffic (no of visitors, page views ..) on your website. Sometimes you may get contacted by advertisers directly or you can use services of Chitika, bidvertiser and other networks for putting direct ads on your website. So that you can fix your own price for that. See the list above in alternatives for google section.

Try to use above networks and see the results and decide about which you can keep and which you can avoid.

In the next article i will write about promoting and driving traffic to your website.

Read my previous articles in this series :

Startup Websites - How to start my first Website?
How to Monetize my Website?

How to Monetize my Website?

Monetizing websites - this is the topic most discussed by webmasters/website owners. Every website whether related to business or hobby need to earn money atleast for its running (except free hosted sites). Yes almost all webmasters want to earn money through their websites. If you are a new webmaster definitely you will take a long time to learn about this and grasp it.

Your Websites earn money through :

1)Selling your own product.

2)A lot of good content oriented websites are earning thousands of dollars worth of money every month by putting advertisements in their site.

3)Selling others products through affiliate programs.

If you do not have any existing business Step 2 & 3 is best for you. A good mixture of 2 & 3 will give you free cash! In the next article we will discuss about this.

You have developed your website, added content and followed steps 2 & 3. Now will you start earning money?

Definitely no.

There is another important step, advertising/promoting your website. Making public know about your business and its usefulness to them there by making them your customers.

How can you do that?

In the next article we will discuss about the various methods of monetizing your websites and then we will discuss about how to promote and drive traffic to our website.

Read my previous article, the first in the series :

Startup Websites - How to start my first Website?

Startup Websites - How to start my first Website?

Now a days an internet business is considered to be a money earner for both starters and big corporates. For everyone internet has become an unavoidable world. Everyone wants to show their presence in this internet world. You need to have your own website/blog to start your e-commerce business or a personal website to show your presence. Whether you start a site for business or hobby all the rules explained here apply equally.

There are a number of ways you can build your first website.

1)Free websites without domain name

You can register at following websites and create your free website by following their instructions. Mostly you don't need programming knowledge. A little knowledge of HTML will be beneficial. To easily learn a bit of HTML and other programming techniques you can visit W3schools.com and other learning sites (searching in google for html).

Create your free websites here : Geocities.com Freewebs.com

Create your blog at Blogger.com

All have their own limitations. I don't recommend free websites if you are really serious about the outcome in your venture. The reason behind this is most visitors avoid free websites without an attractive domain name. Now a days domain registration and hosting costs have become unimaginably very cheap. Brand presence is more important for both small business owners and corporates.

2)Your own site with your registered domain name just like Blogger.com

To start your own website you must do following things :

First Register Domains

Register Domains for your desired domain name before others do. You need to research a lot to get a good domain name. The domain must be related to the industry of your choice. Domains can have 1-3 meaningful words. Shopping domains generally will have some words like shop,mall,discounts,coupons etc.. in the domain name. Travel domains have words like travel,tour,trip etc... Choose a name which is more related and attractive.

Recommended Register domain here : Moniker.com

3)Website Hosting

Don't waste your time, finish your site before you get a hosting account if possible. Some times testing your pages as you develop, in your hosting is also good. Get a hosting account from a genuine/reliable website hosting provider.

Recommended Buy hosting here : IXWebHosting

4)Website Development

Build your website design, content, programming on your own or using 3rd party services. You can find free resources in the web for website templates, graphic images etc.. You can also find websites which offers services for low cost.

Website Templates

Highly Professional Pre-developed/Pre-designed web pages. They may be either CSS templates, Photoshop templates or Flash Templates. You don't need to change any design but just add your content. These templates saves your valuable time and money. You can also get free templates in the web (searching google for free templates). Some times free templates may not be your choice as they are not more professional to attract and keep up visitors to your website.

Recommended and Best : BoxedArt

BoxedArt - Get Full Membership access to all the world’s largest collection of Original Web Templates, Flash Templates, Print Templates and Graphic Elements etc...


Freelance Websites

You can submit your project details so that an expert can develop your work for you for much lower prices. From these freelance sites you can also get some home based jobs for you to earn money.

Recommended Freelance Sites : GetaFreelancer EuFreelance Scriptlance

Website Development Softwares :

For people who want to build their website with complete life-time support from development to promoting, they can use services from well-known website businesses. For example Site Sell offers you services in a single package like domain registration, website hosting, site development (you will be developing your site with their software), promoting websites using their software tools etc... with their complete support in all stages. You can visit Site Sell to learn more about their services. There are also other sources (websites) ie. website development companies, on the web to develop your website.

Recommended website developer tools : Site Build it

3rd party website development services :

You can build your website from local web development companies in your place for cheap. You can also use some freelance websites for that as described above. Some discussion forums also have threads for this where you can get cheaper but quality services from well-known companies and freelancers.

5)Website Content

The main thing you must need to know about before/after you build your website is SEO (Search Engine Optimized) Content in your website. This helps to drive organic traffic to your website from the search engines. Your content may be any text content like articles, news, discussions etc... Pages which contains good unique and quality text content will be indexed by search engines. When a search engine user such as google user types a keyword to search for websites, your indexed pages may come in the search results. If your website comes in the top list of first page in search engine, that's where your success is.

Some websites sells article contents for your website. See below for one of the best website.

Recommended : Niche Content Packages

6)Monetizing Websites

Monetizing websites is the main topic of our blog and will be discussed all over our blog. No doubt the real success of monetizing websites depends on the quality and quantity of visitors to your website. In reality for most websites a visitor converting in to a regular customer is the real success for them. Driving traffic is a some what difficult task which beginners normally don't understand in the beginning. But as the time goes you will grasp what is needed and when it is needed.

Well my website is ready, what next?

Read my series of articles.