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A good and income-generating web site is like a good business. It gives you a steady income stream. The goal here is to own enough income streams so that you can retire. You can build your site from the ground up, but there is a lot of risks. Alternatively, you can consider to acquire one.

There are sites that are dedicated for buying and selling web sites. Digital Point has a Buy, Sell or Trade forum where you can find deals. For a complete list, you can access our directory.

Buying a site involves valuation. How much should you pay for a web site? We dont suggest to buy a site that makes no money for the beginners. You should buy something that is already established and have at least 3 month of proved revenue from Adsense or other mechanisms. Now, this kind of site will be less risky, but it will cost more. You can find a site that generates $2 per day or $60 per month. A very general rule is that you pay a multiple (i.e. 10 times is the current market multiple for a general site) of the monthly income. So for a site that makes $60 per month, its price probably will be around $600. Different kind of sites have different multiples. For example, proxy is currently at a multiple of 3.

Once you’ve acquired the site, you need to move the domain, the code, and the data to your own hosting. Sometimes, the seller is willing to do the migration for you. So, ask! After that, you just need to market your site, and grow your stream.

One of the current trend is to make money online by setting proxy services. A proxy service is a web service that allows you to browse the internet without exposing your IP addresses. Normally, if you use a regular browser to visit a website, your IP address will be logged by the website and it can be used to track your online activities. To avoid being tracked, you use a proxy to retrieve the web page for you, and the website can only log the IP address of the proxy service, not yours.

There are 2 free proxy scripts, namely cgi-proxy and php-proxy. Cgi-proxy requires higher system resources but it is more compatible with popular site such as MySpace.com. You can also use service such as Proxy Builder to build custom script.

If you decide to run your proxy service, please make sure you set it up on a dedicated server. A proxy script consumes a lot of CPU cycles and memory.

So how much can you make from a proxy? Well, it depends on how popular your site is. we suggest you install adsense in the main page, and use adversal in the proxified pages. For a proxy with page impression of 350,000 and around 450 clicks, you can earn up to US$40/month from adsense alone. You can easily fetch additional $30 from adversal.

Here are some of our proxies, check them out: YourGlue, NavyDog, IcePacker

OK, once you’ve created your website such as a blog. What’s next? We recommend that you add your site to google’s search engine by going to Add your URL to Google, Add to MSN, and More. We also suggest to add Google analytics javascript to your site so that you can track your visitors and find out which pages are most popular.

You can also consider to use Google’s Adword to get traffic. Don’t buy Adword directly. You can save big by buying Adword credits from eBay or Digital Point’s Vouchers section.

To make money, you need to have either a product or a service. You can create a blog as your product. A blog is an online journal. What you are looking at here is a blog.

A blog can be on different topics. You can pick a topic that you have experience in or you have passion to talk about. The goal here is to build traffic to your blog so that you can monetize on it if you choose to. There are numerous ways to make money once you have a popular blog. You can, for example, participate ad network such as Google’s AdSense as a publisher, and show Ad on your blog. You can easily earn $3 dollars per day from ads. Click the following icon to create an adsense account.

Or, you can join affiliate programs to promote particular products. You can write reviews on them. Some products give up to 80% commission to you on successful transaction. And you can select to feature only the products that you like to market. Commission Junction is one of many affiliate program.

So how do you setup a blog? You can use blogger.com. Or, you can purchase an account in dreamhost, then create a wordpress application. Both solution requires no programming experience. The latter solution requires a bit more works and money, but the flexibility that it gives well worths the cost.

Owing your own product is very critical. Otherwise, you are just selling what everyone else is selling.

Each site on the internet needs a name, a domain name. You can get a domain via a domain registrar such as Godaddy. The process of getting a domain is extremely easy and the price is usually around US$6.95.

Once you bought a domain name, you dont need to know how to set it up or even write a web page. The registrar usually will do and host everything for you. More importantly, it will automatically setup some web pages which sometimes are referred as parking pages.

These parking pages may contain marketing information about products or some links to other sites. Companies, called advertisers, actually paid your registrar for hosting those information using your domain. And your registrar will cut you some commissions and send you a cheque monthly. If you are not satisfied with the domain parking income from your registrar, you can always pick another domain parking providers such as NameDrive, sedo, ParkingSite, Trafficz, Fabulous.

The more traffic your domain brings in, the more money you will receive. This income stream is very passive and you can earn money while sleeping. Earning $5-$30 per domain is very real.

There are so many ways to make money on the internet. Some of them may require technical skills, but most of them dont. We will tell you more in the future entries.