A Guide to Making Money from Web Publishing

Within these pages you'll find ideas, techniques, and best practices for creating and publishing online web content that can be used to generate money for you. The primary method for making such money is through advertising. There are no get rich quick schemes here and nothing on this site will require that you pay me money to read.

If you want to start from the beginning, I recommend you look at the articles in the web publishing guide category. These articles serve as a good introduction to creating a web site from developing an idea to creating content.

So the first question you'll probably want to ask is, "Why would I want to share my money-making ideas with complete strangers?" Well, publishing content is what I do. The more valuable the content to my readers, the more traffic I attract, and the more advertising dollars I earn. So if you find this information valuable, maybe you'll link to me from your own web sites or maybe you'll friends and family about this site. Either way we all win.

In addition, most people don't have the motivation to follow through with the ideas and suggestions on this site. That's just reality. We all have certain interests, limited free time, and specific life goals. Sometimes all those things aren't aligned with the time and effort required to be profitable on the web.

So moving on, let me begin with telling you that there is no real secret to making money online. There is, however, a lot of information and knowledge to acquire. Most of it is readily available somewhere on the world wide web, but finding it and picking out the important pieces can be very time consuming. And that's where I come in. I've been monetizing content on the web for a while now and have several sites that prove my techniques are successful. Through the combination of low-overhead expenses, web-based content management software, and search engine optimization, I'm turning knowledge I have from hobbies, training, and experience into a five-figure income. And that's in my spare time when I'm not doing my real 9 to 5 job!

In closing I'd like to welcome you to ask questions. What I've written here is far from complete because there are simply to many options to discuss. My intention is to provide you with an overview of the process to help you decide if it is something you actually want to pursue. And at the same time, I'll hopefully provide a few good ideas and useful pointers to save you a lot of time researching.