This page sets out, in an easily accessed form, the steps you need to follow to earn a second income online, that will then allow you to get out of teaching.
Updated September 2011 to reflect recent developments in SEO
- Day 1-30 - Go to Blogger.com and start a free blog. Post to it every day
- Day 4 – Apply for a Google Adsense account. Google – Advertising Programs – Publishers. Type in the address of your free blog when asked for your website
- Day 4 – Sign up for InfoBarrel (Link opens in new window)
- Day 4 -Enter your Adsense account details in the space on Infobarrel’s signup page
- Day 4 -Write one 500 word article about anything
- Day 5 – Check and Submit your article
- Day 5 – Start your second article
- Day 5 – Visit the InfoBarrel forum and introduce yourself. Do not underestimate the importance of this step. The writers on the forum all say that they learn something new every day
- Day 5 – Finish and submit your second article. (Your first ten articles need to be approved by Infobarrel’s admin team, after that your articles will go live without going through admin)
- Day 6 – 99 – Visit the forum every day and become an active contributor. Links are frowned upon in forum posts, so don’t post any active links or you will be taken for a spammer
- Day 6 – 8 – Read previous forum threads until you can absorb no more. These are invaluable tips and methods that InfoBarrel writers share with each other, now you are in the club, too
- Day 7-10 - Finish your first 10 articles
- Day 11 – Download the free 1 month trial of Market Samurai from www.marketsamurai.com
- Day 12 – Check out every forum post you can find on keywords, Read and learn
- Day 13 – Find three good keywords on Market Samurai. Write one article based on each keyword.
- Day 13 – 24 -Write one or two articles every single day.
- Day 14 – Research 100 keyword articles, while you have the MS free trial
- Day 15 - 41 - Write three more of your MS researched keyword articles
- Day 39 – Join The Keyword Strategy 1 month free trial. They don’t even ask for credit card or PayPal details
- Day 40 – Choose your passion site to work with Keyword Strategy
- Day 41- Let your Market Samurai trial run out. Buy a website domain name and hosting from a reputable provider. You need websites and blogs to point your links to from all your InfoBarrel articles. These websites are your nest egg that you will spend years growing and developing, so don’t trust any free hosting site with your retirement plan.
- Day 42 -Set up WorPress on your domain
- Day 42 – 69 – Start to build your passion site using KS
- Day 69 – Decide whether either of the two paid programs, Keyword Strategy or Market Samuri is for you
- Day 52 – 3052 Write one article for InfoBarrel
- Day 52 – 3052 – Make 3-5 posts to your passion site every day
I appreciate the way you give step by step instructions to how you can join IB. I’m sure this blog page will help many beginners go through the motions to learn. Nice job.
Desperate to leave teaching, I am finding your guide rather intriguing. It wouldn’t make me enough to survive on, but it may very well save my sanity. A new purpose…hmmm.
Glad you think it might be useful. I checked out your own blog…Interesting.
Re leaving teaching – It’s the start of the journey that I found most difficult. Once I had the decision made I just kept rolling along. Take care