In your quest to internet riches you’ve likely ended up on a lot of email lists and with that comes offers to your inbox from all over the internet.  If you’re anything like I was when I started out, I was buying stuff left and right and to be honest you start to get pissed off because you’ve spent all this money and you’ve yet to make a buck. So what is the cost of learning how to make a lot of money online?

For me,  it cost tens of thousands of dollars, time missed with my family, about 20lbs of added gelatinous mass and swarms of stress. No joke, learning how to make a reasonable income online especially if your starting today is difficult but no impossible. I would venture to say that if your willing to work as hard as you do at your job, you’d have what it takes to make very good money online…eventually.

Learning how to make money online takes time just like any other thing in life. If you want to lose 20lbs, there is no miracle pill or diet, it’s gonna take time and consistent hard work. I know this first hand because that’s exactly what I’m doing now that I’ve learned how to earn an income. Everything worth having or achieving in life has a cost.

Now to answer the question: No! You don’t have to buy everything you get pitched on but I do credit a part of my success on the courses and ebooks I’ve purchased in the past. The first program I ever purchased was one of those “get rich quick” type of programs and while most would write it off as a scam before ever purchasing it, that program is what ultimately ignited my passion for learning how to pull money out of this giant we call the internet.

There will never be that one “end-all-be-all” program that takes you from complete beginner to making 5 figures a month. It’s the little bits and pieces from each of them that will help you start making money online. For me, it took about 8 months before I started making any money at all and then once the momentum kicks in, game over! Was it all worth it? Absolutely!

Let me ask you this…If I told you that in 2 years from today you’ll have a 6 or even 7 figure yearly income from home and all you had to do was spend 8 months learning and $10,000, would you do it? Compared to the cost of a 4-year education and an average salary of $40,000/year for a college graduate, I would have spent $100,000 and 4 years to learn how to make money online.

So your in a cash crunch and you need money now, right? Think for a minute and ask yourself “how can I make money right now online and have it available to spend the same day?” You’re probably stumped aren’t you?

I have some good news that I think you will be super excited about, especially if your in a cash crunch. There are actually a couple ways to generate spendable cash on demand and Paypal is key for this to work. If you don’t already have a business or verified Paypal account you will need one. It’s very easy to get one, just sign up for Paypal and follow the instructions for setting up a verified account. This may take a couple days to do especially if you sign-up for an account later in the week or on a weekend but once it’s setup you are set for life. Once you get your account verified you can apply for a Paypal debit card. This card is just like a credit card and any money you bring into your Paypal account becomes available instantly for purchases or withdrawal.  With me so far?

Ok, now the fun part! Getting money flowing into you’re Paypal account. Your probably thinking you need a product to sell or something but that’s not the case at all. There is a little know network of Paypal based affiliate programs where you can go sell other people’s products and get paid for your sales in real-time directly to your Paypal account. For a list of over 200 instant paypal affiliate commission products go to http://www.instantpaypalmoney.com.

Now another way for you to generate serious amounts of Paypal cash in a day is to sell WSO’s or Warrior Special Offers in the Warrior Forum. This forum has thousands of users online at any given time and if you create something cool to sell them for a discount then you will get hundreds of sales in a day. Don’t be stingy in this forum or they will eat you alive. Create a unique and valuable product and they will buy from you forever.

I have always said to hell with SEO and went the paid advertising route which I recently realized was a mistake. At the time of this writing, websites that are bringing in daily search engine visitors are worth money regardless of how much money the site is making. The big investors investing in established websites are paying 5-6 times the yearly revenue for sites that are generating passive income through Adsense and affiliate offers. Even sites that aren’t monetized, but are getting natural search engine traffic are selling for a decent price.

Let it be understood that this is an ideal long term strategy and if you take consistent action to create these sites regularly, you will always have assets on the auction block ready to be cashed out. Now I know you probably like the fast instant money and you don’t want to wait six months for a site to reach it’s potential but unfortunately that’s just the way it is. You have to have the long term in mind here or you wont be successful with this model. Believe me when I say that it’s well worth the wait and if you keep the sites for over a year, you can sell them and only pay the long-term capital gains tax of 15% should you decide to sell. Of course you can always sit on the sites and let them earn money for you without lifting a finger but you better make sure you are constantly promoting your sites and adding new content if you want to keep the traffic steady.

Now let’s get down to the nuts and bolts of what you will need to start rolling out highly optimized websites that search engines will love. The first step is to find a fairly simple theme that you can get ranked for quickly. We don’t want to be targeting terms like “work at home” because it will take you years to rank that site and a lot of work. Think long tail terms like “how to get rid of ants” or “how to build a treehouse”. You’re going to have to do your keyword research and the tool I use exclusively to research projects like this is called Keyword Country. What you’re looking for is some long tail search phrases that get traffic but the competition isn’t real stiff. Believe me when I say there are thousands of keywords like this which means you could easily have thousands of sites. This is simply a numbers game and the more sites you have the better. Imagine having 500 sites that each get 20 visitors a day. That’s 10,ooo visitors a day and lets just say that you are selling affiliate products and the average sale pays you $20, and your converting traffic into sales at 1%. That’s $2,000 a day in PROFIT for you while doing nothing and spending nothing on advertising. Of course it’s going to take you some time to create that many sites but just think where you could be in a year if you had someone doing all the work for you. Would it be worth it to make $60,000 a month if you had to work hard for a year or if you had to invest a little money up front?

Once you have decided on some good niches and keywords for your websites it’s time to decide how you are going to design your site. Even though I know how to create my own websites from scratch I use simple XHTML compliant templates to build my SEO sites. Google loves them and they are very clean and fast for the end user. Just do a search on Google for free XHTML compliant website templates and you will have plenty to choose from.

Now let’s say that your theme is “how to get rid of ants”. Luckily, I have already built a site on this very subject just to give you an example of how the site should be built. Go to how to get rid of ants and take note of the very simple design. This site literally took me two hours to create! The cool thing is, it’s now ranked in Google for a few terms and an article I wrote and submitted to Ezine articles is bringing in 15+ visitors a day.

Some key elements to take notice of with this site is it’s internal linking structure, it’s super clean XHTML compliant code, the adsense placement and don’t forget the sitemap. Also, notice how I use no follow tags going to my privacy policy and contact page. Privacy policies and contact pages usually contain very little content or duplicate content so linking to them with no follows is a good idea.

Once you have your site complete be sure to generate your sitemap at xml-sitemaps.com and submit it to Google’s webmaster tools, digg it at digg.com and then submit one unique article to ezinearticles.com.  Watch what happens over the next week or so and I think you will be quite pleased with the results .