With more people seeking new ways to make money for their families these days, one method that is appearing in newspapers, magazines and online is advertising that you can make money online with Google by posting links for them. Is this for real, or is it just another online scam trying to take your money leaving you with an empty wallet and feeling pissed off?
What’s the truth about making money online?
You have probably seen the ads on websites and in newspapers and magazines. The ad shows fancy cars and big homes, promising that “this guy” or “that girl” made thousands of dollars posting links or working from home for Google. You know, there are copies of those “big” paychecks from Google that show thousands of dollars of income for a month. They talk about how easy it was and they will let you in on their secret for an introductory offer of just a few dollars.
Well, you need to read the fine print and save your money. Don’t sign up for the “Get paid by Google” or “Make Money Selling Links on Google” programs.
Why? I’m not calling them scams, at least not outright as they do have some information, but they promise that you can make thousands in a month almost immediately. Nothing is cheap and easy, especially when it comes to making income with online businesses.
If anyone, or any program promises or tells you that you can make thousands with a little effort, something smells funny. These programs reek like a garbage dump on a hot and humid day.
How can you make money online with Google?
Before you spend your money for empty promises or monthly fees, you need to know this.
You can make money online with Google. However, you can do it for free. It’s not quick and it does take work. You get out of it what you put into it. I wrote previously in an article about the 3 steps to make money online with Google and also do you need to spend money to make money online where I detail more information about how to legitimately make money online.
The truth about posting links on Google to make money
What the whole make money posting links on Google system is promoting, besides taking your money telling you things you can find online for free, is that in order to make money with Google you have to pay to promote links. What this is talking about is using Google Adwords for you to buy links promoting websites, affiliate programs and other products. Here’s how it works.
You open an Adwords account, set up your keywords and ads and pay for everytime that someone clicks on your link. This can get expensive. I dabbled in the Adwords market a little bit and I can tell you that it cost me plenty. The hope of the system is that when someone clicks on your ad and goes to the site/service/program that you are promoting, they will buy something and you make a commission on it.
You can make money doing this, however, big warning here, you need a big wallet to get started and you must really understand keywords, human behavior, online buying trends and lots of other metrics.
My suggestion and advice, unless you really know what you are doing, stay away from Google Adwords. It will cost you more than what you can make. It is a tough market to enter because you are bidding on keywords and phrases that people search for. You are bidding against other experienced advertisers, such as Amazon and eBay, just to name a few. Big pockets with lots of money to spend on advertising.
As an individual, if you are wanting to learn how to make money online by posting links, then you might want to forget about it. However, you can make a nice income with Google Adsense. Adsense is the Google program that shows the ads that are set up in Adwords.
By writing good keyword focused articles, building backlinks to your pages and sites and increasing your traffic, you can make money when people click on your links that you show on your site. You don’t need to spend any money to learn this. Trust me.
Read my previous articles about how to create sites that are keyword focused. You don’t have to buy a website or register a domain. One of the biggest things you need to do is pick good keywords that pay well, write quality content providing information about topics/services/products, drive traffic to those sites and monetize them with Google Adsense or other affiliate programs.
My best advice is NEVER spend any money to learn how to make money online. There are some good programs out there that will help you and offer support to do this, such as The Keyword Academy, but for the most part you can find information online for free. You just need to watch out for some bloggers that promote for you to sell other people stuff to make money online.
Here are some more resources about the “Make Money With Google” scams that are going around online and in print.
