As for most of us that freelance work can at time be sporatic.. i know it can for me. so how else can money be made online..well dammit i have tried it all below is a list of some of them how they worked out and so on..
Google Adsense
I see alot of google adsense boxes on damn near every website i go to now.. when adsense first started i was buying expired domain names and putting adsense on them with search results from companies like search feed and search 123...did it work..yup i had about 20 domains and was making an extra 150 - 250 a month. pocket change if you think about it. Unless you own several thousand domains your not gonna make any real money ( example: an employeer of mine owns 3k domains.. he has hundreds of thousands of pages online.. makes about 8k a month from adsense.) so yes money can be made from it
Expired Domains
Like what i mentioned above you can get these and put adsense on them and make a few bucks off traffic. or you can use companies like fabulous.com who priveds the content for them.. not huge money but it makes sure hosting is paid for and you can always resale.
Affiliate Programs
Programs CJ.com and linkshare.com are such a waste of time. the retailers pay out very little i have seen commision as low as 5% .. thats crazy... so unless you have millions of hits a day your not gonna make much here either.
eBay
Yup , been all over here too.. i would buy bulk dvds, and resell them, my wife would go to garage sales and antique stores looking for bargins. this is a tuff market to work in.. i never bought into any of those wholesalers for ebay lists or any of those scams.. bunch of BS imo. are best month was $900 in sales.. not bad.. but it started slow down with the summer moneths.. either that or we just wheren't getting the right items up there ..
Casinos
i worked on casinos for about 6 months.. i tried ppcs, seo , exit exchanges damn near everything i could think of to make a buck with them.. worthless imo..will not try again
Herbal & Rx
NOt bad but the market is getting tighter and tighter with restrictions.. the big money with this was made several years ago when they where not so hard on the online pharmacies. I have done pretty well with these especially since when you sign up a customer most places give you that customer for life so when he reorders you get a percentage of the program . Even though i don't promote as many programs as i did before i am still getting checks from reorders.. always a nice surprise
Adult
ah the naughty sites.. pay sites are hard to make money with imo . though if you can find a good company and a good nich eall you have to worry about then is traffic, TGPs AVS, SEO whatever you can do.These are good cause again with alot of the programs you get a monthly percentage as long as that person is a memebr. Toys and DVDs i had alot better luck with and at my best months was doing a about 2k a month .. This again gives you a percentage of any reorders you get from customers and those customers are uauslly yours for life. For this you'd need several sites and have to learn a bit about traffic and seo. but all in all i would only put in a couple hours of work a day (2-4) and it produced a decent enuff 2nd income
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Webmasters Signups
this was alot harder but well worth it. mostly in casinos, herbal/rx/adult and some mainstream affiliate programs have 2 teir affiliate programs. What i would do is i would visit other boards, build some seo pages, and target only signing up webmasters. this was you get a percentage of every sale they do. alot harder but here you don't have to do alot of grunt work selling online just have to find new webmasters and convince them to sign up for programs.. most companies give you a percentage and that is for however long that webmaster is making money
have fun,