There are a lot of ways to make money online these days that don’t even require you to own a website. Many social, web 2.0 sites do what is called “revenue sharing” where you create the content, they display the advertising, and you share what your content generates in revenue from the traffic it attracts.
It is a simple arrangement made even simpler due to the fact that you don’t have any hosting, programming, or other technical headaches that come with owning a site.
And you can drive your own traffic, above what the site itself drives to you from other members and direct traffic, with the same types of social sites.
Example: HubPages
There are HubPagers that have over 100 Hubs on all kinds of topics. HubPages allows you to quickly and easily set up a page on anything under the sun. Articles on child birth to cameras to the mating habits of African elephants if you want.
This content is displayed with advertising so that when it gets picked up in the search engines or linked to from other sites, you earn right along with HubPages.
The key to earning any decent amount of money here is to be prolific. Make tons of Hubs, but not only that, make them good. The only way to become a popular Hubber is to gain respect in the community of Hubbers. And there are some good Hubs on that network.
Take a look around and you’ll quickly see what it takes to be a serious Hubber. Then start creating your own Hubs and promote them with the same Web 2.0 strategies outlined in “Bending the Web” and “Authority Black Book” to drive serious traffic to them.
Example: Yuwie
Since you’re going to be social, you might as well make money doing it. That’s Yuwie’s stance, anyway. This site is much the same as other social communities except you make money doing very simple things like browsing profiles, commenting, blogging, and the like.
Their revenue sharing model doesn’t even require you to do something as easy as make a HubPage. Just belong to and use the site. Revenue is generated by ads, of course, and the money is spread among the community as a killer bribe for making Yuwie one of your social community staples, if not your main hangout.
I will be focusing on other money making social sites and revenue sharing models in the months to come.