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smartile · 03-03-2008, 06:44 PM

I agree. Making money online is one of the easiest things to do, especially nowadays. I work full time and build my website part time.

I'm one of those guys who doesn't quite understand html but I love writing. I have a few friends who understand web programming so I call them up from time to time to make website improvements. I am very appreciative and grateful for their help.

If you can get your head around the technical aspects (i.e. do it yourself/find a friend/pay someone) then building a website is really simple. I've generated around $300 from my site to date and the articles are sound. A few of my articles have even been published in a local magazine.

Ideally, I would have liked to create a higher income but I’m on the learning curve. The biggest lesson I've learned is that a website needs traffic. I thought,

"If I build it, they will come."

This isn’t always true. I've put more effort into building traffic in the past two months and the results are speaking for themselves.

03-03-2008, 06:44 PM	#9 (permalink)
smartile Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 426	I agree. Making money online is one of the easiest things to do, especially nowadays. I work full time and build my website part time. I'm one of those guys who doesn't quite understand html but I love writing. I have a few friends who understand web programming so I call them up from time to time to make website improvements. I am very appreciative and grateful for their help. If you can get your head around the technical aspects (i.e. do it yourself/find a friend/pay someone) then building a website is really simple. I've generated around $300 from my site to date and the articles are sound. A few of my articles have even been published in a local magazine. Ideally, I would have liked to create a higher income but I’m on the learning curve. The biggest lesson I've learned is that a website needs traffic. I thought, "If I build it, they will come." This isn’t always true. I've put more effort into building traffic in the past two months and the results are speaking for themselves.