Please note that I do not personally sell any of the items listed here. They are programs or services that I have chosen to use myself to build my own money-earning sites. The companies that sell these products pay me a commission fee, when someone purchases through my links. This fee typically ranges from 15% to 50% of the purchase price. There is no extra cost involved to you. In a few cases, you will even get them cheaper than you would anywhere else. Many programs are available as free trials, so you can check out their quality before paying anything. A few are completely free. You can also become an affiliate with these companies yourself and earn some cash even if you are not into the “make-money” niche. The information provided below is provided “to the best of my knowledge”. Some programs are still being evaluated. I reserve the right to edit or change my recommendations at any time based on my research and personal experience.
| KEYWORD RESEARCH – A good keyword finder application is a must to start your money-earning site on the right foot. |  |
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| MARKET SAMURAI – My number one recommendation. Easy to use and full of features. I found the keywords “money earning sites” and my domain thanks to this application. |
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| DOMAIN SAMURAI – Market Samurai’s younger brother is free to use and comes with basic keyword and domain features. You need the paid version to become an affiliate. |
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| LONG TAIL PRO – I don’t use this software but I tested it out and it does its job. While I still prefer the Samurai’s interface, Long Tail Pro beats it where speed is concerned. |
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| SEO BOOK – A service that offers a variety of tools to help finding the right keyword. The basic version includes some great features. A pro version is also available. |
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| GOOGLE KEYWORD PLANNER – Not recommended. It’s free but extremely slow and can take ages to extract all the data needed. If you want free, use Domain Samurai. |
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| DOMAIN REGISTRATION – Having found your keyword the next step towards building a money earning site is buying a domain name. |  |
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| NAMECHEAP – My favorite registrar provides an easy to use interface and cheapest prices for domain name registration. Not so good affiliate program though. |
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| GO DADDY – A bit slower and service not as good as Namecheap. The affiliate program is awesome however. Go for Go Daddy if you need to pitch domain names to your customers. |
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| HOSTING – Go for a cheap shared host to start with your money earning sites. IMPORTANT: Never leave hosting and domain registration to one company. |  |
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| WP ENGINE – Professional, fast and reliable web hosting. This is a managed web hosting service meaning your site will be maintained by their staff. |
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| SITE 5 – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED This site is hosted on Site5. Speed and uptime unmatched by any other I tested. Free 1 month trial with no credit card. |
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| BLUEHOST – Bluehost offers a great affiliate program if you’re involved into web design or monetization. Speed and uptime are about decent for the price. |
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| CLOUDFLARE – Not a host but a free CDN service (a pro version is also available), which will speed up and cache your website. DO NOT USE WITH SITE5 |
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| WEBSITE BUILDING – Building a Quality site that your users will love is the key to creating a successful online business. |  |
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| WORDPRESS.ORG – If you are building a blog or content web site, WordPress is the way to go. Most popular web sites use this platform. Easy to use and secure! |
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| JOOMLA.ORG – A good content creator with many features. Not as versatile as WordPress and still has quite a few bugs. Free plugins are hard to find. |
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| WORDPRESS PLUGINS – The free ones I use: Clean and Simple Contact form, Facebook Like Box, Mail Subscribe List, Twitter Facebook Social Share, Widgetize Pages, WP-Polls, All-In-One SEO pack, Google XML Sitemap, W3 Total Cache, Captcha, IQ Block Country. |
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| CUSTOMIZING – If you want to customize your money earning site you need to do some template editing and CSS design. Optional but recommended. |  |
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| FILEZILLA – Free program to FTP your files to your host. While PHP Designer can do the same, Filezilla is much faster. It can also backup your site. |
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| PHP DESIGNER – Fantastic editing application that makes templating and CSS editing easier and smoother. |
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| CONTENT CREATION – when the basic structure of a money earning site is complete, it’s time to fill it up with content. |  |
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| CONSTANT CONTENT – Constant Content allows you to buy a single one time use license or rights to exclusive use for most of their articles. |
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| FIVERR – A great site for outsourcing your content. You can get decent articles done for $5. Choose your “gigs” carefully for best results. |
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| GRAPHICS AND PICTURES – An eye catching and vibrant money earning site will keep visitors to your site interested to your content. |  |
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| PIXABAY – My favorite site for getting free pictures to use in articles and for web site graphics. Most graphics on my site comes from Pixabay. |
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| FLICKR – Probably the largest site that allows commercial reuse of pictures. You have to put a back link somewhere on your web site to use their content. |
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| ISTOCK PHOTO – Not free, but the quality is unbeatable. Any picture you need, iStock Photos will have it! |
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| MONETIZATION – Having created the greatest site the World Wide Web has ever seen, it’s time to find a way to earn some cash. |  |
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| WEB HOSTING – Cab drivers, toy collectors, business men, students, housewives can all benefit from having a personal web site! Whatever your niche is, find a way to promote hosting. |
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| CLICK BANK PRODUCTS – Number one stop for all affiliate marketers. Any imaginable product from gardening and cooking, to marketing and finance. |
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| GOOGLE ADSENSE – Make sure that you have your money-making sites ready before applying and you are running the site on a steady service. |
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| SEO – Search engine optimization is all about creating an awesome site and making sure that the search engines know it’s out there. |  |
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| SPINNERCHIEF II – The basic version is all we need to create high quality readable content. Manually spinning articles can still be of benefit if done right! |
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| UNIQUE ARTICLE WIZARD – With a very captivating logo on their landing page, Unique Article Wizard is the best and safest article submitter out there. |
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| ARTICLE MARKETING ROBOT – Is submitting to multiple article directories still a good idea today? If you’re very cautious and don’t overdo it, maybe. |
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| COMMENT BLASTER – Don’t use this program to post comments but its scraping capabilities can be useful to build up lists of article directories. And it’s free. |
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| SOCIAL BOOKMARKS – They have become a new powerful means to achieve search engine ranking. With the right tools, social networkING can help SEO. |  |
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| SOCIALADR – RECOMMENDED. I tested this for quite a while and have found it to be very effective. It should give quite a boost to your site with very little effort. |
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| LIKESASAP – A like exchange system to grow your Facebook user base. Use with caution since Facebook is on war against these type of sites. |
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Items marked “in evaluation” are still being tested. I will report back on their functionality as soon as I can.
A WORD OF WARNING: Don’t Spend any money on programs that you cannot afford especially those programs that involve recurring fees. You do not know how long it will take for your business to become profitable. Of course the less tools you have, the harder it will be to get there, but you can make wise choices. Here are some examples of selections from the above list that can help you get started, including a 100% free option. Go for the free “Cheapo” option, if you have only limited time for this business or if you are still unsure whether this is right for you or isn’t.
Holy crap! Amazing job, Arthur!
I can see you spent a lot of time researching all this stuff. Awesome.
Thanks for sharing.
Best wishes,
Aleks
Wait until you see my thorough webhosting analysis! Well, I will likely publish a “draft” of that since it will take a long time to complete and I am thinking about a whole new site for it because it’s very huge. Already have a domain in fact.