One of the ways to earn money from home is to join the world of Internet marketing. You do not need your own site, you can earn with helping others to promote their sites (and then start your own). One of the crucial points to achieve success with your website is to build links pointing to your website: both quantity and quality matter. As a result, a new profession has evolved – Link Builder. And it is a cool way to make your living at this moment in time.

Task is clear: to get other websites place links to the site of your customer. Below are some valuable article links thaht will teach you how to do it efficiently:

• Link training
• Advanced link building
• 12 Essential Strategies for Building & Structuring Inbound Links

Next question is where to search your potential customers – those people who are ready to pay for your work:

- freelance sites (rentacoder.com reviewed here. A great collection of other freelance sites is here)
- classifieds (good place to start: www.craigslist.org)

How much to charge? Reciprocals and directory links are not highly priced – 1-2$ per link. But once you are experienced enough to get permanent and valuable one way links you will get 10-30$ per link.

What skills do you need? You should be PC and Internet savvy. Plus some basic knowledge of HTML would be of great help. This basic knowledge is available here for free.

Would like to be updated on the latest link building techniques? I recommend you to read this and this blog and occasionally browse this section of webmaster forum.

I continue the series of successful drop ship sites that deal with all kinds of products and generate good income to their owners. They are all for sale due to miscellaneous reasons described by their owners.

As an option, you can enter drop ship business by means of buying a fully functional and profitable website (see below). You need some free funds to invest for that purpose. And you should be careful to avoid any sort of scam.

Cell phone accessories, no doubt, are popular products to sell online:

URL:
www.aftermarketcellular.com

Age of site (months): 64

Monthly revenue: 4500

Revenue details:
I had over $54,000 in sales for 2005 with over $12,000 gross profit. Sales have gone up approximately 20% every year since 2002.

Monthly page views: 300000

Traffic details:
I currently receive anywhere from 1-2.5 million hits a month. I have anywhere from 30,000-75,000 uniques visitors per month with 150,000-650,000 page views per month. I have top listings throughout Google, Yahoo, and MSN. 100% of my traffic is obtained through organic search results, links, or affiliates. I currently am not involved in any paid advertising or pay-per-click (someone with available funds and a marketing sense could really grow this site). Also, all of my links were obtained the hard way. I have never particiapted in link exchanges or link farms.

Description:
I sell over 4,500 different oem and aftermarket cellular phone accessories. I currently have a distributor in California who drop ships all my orders with my company name on the boxes and my company logo on all the invoices. My products are automatically maintained in my site through xml feeds which I spent over $10,000 developing. I also have access to my distributors database to check order status, obtain tracking info, and more. I pay $100 per month for hosting and $50 per month for a 1-800 number. I also pay $1.00 per call to a call center maintained by my distributor. The call center can take orders over the phone or provide technical support. My merchant fees are my only other real expense. I have prided myself on automation and I even have complex pricing algorithms setup to automatically price my products. I also have a fully developed affiliate program with decent earners, a coupon system, over 3,000 subscribed customers, a mailing system and more.

Type of site:
Established and functional website with traffic

Price (or starting bid): 25,000

Is an auction?: No

Indexed pages (Google): 65,700

Indexed pages (Yahoo): 50,700

Google page rank: 4

Yes, I agree that freelance sites are crowded with high competition and low payout rates. It is the first impression you get once you visit a freelance site. But when you start browsing the site, reading the feedbacks and ratings of the service providers you notice that the lowest bids are rare winners. We see that buyers prefer to pay some extra, but be certain the work is done in time and properly.

No doubt it makes sense to join one-two most popular freelance sites and add them to your mix of resources in your hunt of home based job. In this post I will shortly review a well-known freelance website RentACoder (aff. link).

You should not be misguided by the name of the site. You will find many job listings that do not require you to code. For example, open projects for:

• Data Entry,
• Design, Graphics,
• Photography,
• Writing,
• Training,
• Marketing incl. Search Engine Optimization,
• etc.

So, how can this freelance website help you with your attempt to provide a sustainable revenue stream from your home based job?

Registration is free. They handle all the money collecting so you can concentrate on what you’re best at…working. By the time you’ve begun work, the buyer’s money has already been placed into an escrow account, freeing you from the problem of getting ’stiffed’. To pay for this service, Rent a Coder charges you a 15% fee on the profit from work completed and questions. So if you don’t find work…they don’t get paid. Clear and no hidden fees.

Once registered start searching the marketplace. When you find a project you’d like to do, you can bid on it.  At the bottom of the list, just enter you bid amount and an optional comment.  If you want to just leave a comment only (for example to ask a question), leave the bid amount blank…

If the buyer selects you do your work properly within the stipulated time frame. Submit your work for the buyer approval.

Approved? Get paid and rated.  Your account will be credited with the escrow amount minus the fee.  All credits accumulate in your account until the credit cutoff date of your choosing arrives (either the middle of the month, the end of the month or both).  They then pay you that total on or before the following 7th day. (Note that you can also choose to not be paid, until your account goes above some amount that you specify). You can choose to have payments sent to you via PayPal, snail mail or Western Union. There is a small postage and handling fee charged for snail mail payments.

Project completed? Funds credited to your account? Start a new search of your next project! You will discover that properly done work breeds return customers that tend to ask for your services again and again.
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