How do people make money while traveling? We are often asked about this, both by mail and in person. It is clear that you can travel the world and earn offline on the travel itself, but today the post is about making money through the Internet, since this does not tie you to any specific place, and for this you only need a computer and access to the network. I do not pretend to be complete, we have a travel blog after all. If the need arises, then there will be more posts-additions.
The content of the article
- one All parts of my little blogger FAQ:
- 2 Freelance and Internet work
- 3 Earnings on traffic
- 4 Earnings on the travel itself
All parts of my little blogger FAQ:
I have written a number of blogging related articles. They do not pretend to be a complete manual, but beginners may find it useful. You can read it if you are interested.
0. I recommend the course «How to become a thousand-year blogger and earn»
one. How to start blogging
2. How to promote a blog - a list of my actions
3. How to make money traveling on a blog and not only
4. An example of making money on our blog - Finstrip 2013, finstrip 2012, Finstrip 2011
five. Reader and Search Traffic, and Why Readers Don't Return
6. Some truth about travel blogging
7. Tips for securing your WordPress blog
Basically, I will talk about making money on traffic, that is, directly about working on the Internet. However, often people earn money by selling their labor, working for someone, and not showing up at the office. I'm talking about freelancers.
Working on the front porch in Phuket
Freelance and Internet work
The most common professions:
- Programmers in any form. If you know how to code, then you can earn. And for good programmers, the doors are open in many countries, you just need to know the language.
- Web designers. Those who make websites and design for them. Sometimes these are individual people, some make the site itself (code), others come up with the design.
- Copywriters, write unique articles and rewrites for various web resources. You can first look for customers on Advego.ru, but there are very low prices. Therefore, it makes sense to search in private, for example, by sending letters to site owners. After a while really to a normal professional level.
- Vector and bitmap graphics. All sorts of pictures, banners, icons. You can sell both privately and on special stocks.
- SEO optimizers, are engaged in the promotion of sites on the Internet to order.
- SMMs, everything related to social networks. The simplest thing is to administer a group on VKontakte. It is more difficult to make such groups to order and bring them to the top. Actually, this item includes all those who, in one way or another, are engaged in traffic from social networks..
- Translators from one language to another.
- Skype teachers, from English to all kinds of consultations and psychological sessions.
- Website and blog owners. There can be both author's projects, when 1-2 people run the site and own it, and the organization of the work of copywriters, when you only manage, and the content is created by freelancers..
- Earning money on photo and video stocks. There is a lot of competition, so it will take a lot of time to create a normal portfolio. Plus, you still need to feel which works are sold and which are not..
- Infobusinessmen. Although this word has become a dirty word lately, there are also normal people in the information business. The bottom line is that you are doing some kind of course on moving to Thailand, or on how to properly develop a blog, and you are selling it. True, here it will be necessary not only to share knowledge, but also to learn how to sell it..
There are also other options, it all depends on your skills. It is enough to go to the freelance exchange and see what kind of work is being offered. There are other exchanges, and you can also search for employers through your channels: through friends, through your websites, etc. I didn’t do much freelancing, so I’ll hardly say something sensible. So, I copied a little and did the sites. In general, starting from scratch is difficult, you need to make a name for yourself and a rating, and then normal earnings will already go.
Here it is important to understand that you must initially choose the path, you work for someone or you create a job for yourself, this is a fundamental moment. For example, you can be a copywriter and always write for others (money right away), or you can write for your sites, and when these sites rise (earnings in 1-2 years), then attract other copywriters.
Earnings on traffic
Let's go back to making money on the Internet based on traffic, that is, on visitors. In this case, it all comes down to the fact that if there is traffic, then it can be monetized (make money on it). You can conditionally divide the options into several points..
- Earning money on websites and blogs by placing different types of advertising.
- Earnings on affiliate programs.
- Traffic arbitrage.
- Internet shops
- Selling your goods and services
Let's analyze all the points one by one..
Earn money on websites and blogs by advertising
A resource is being created that is useful and interesting to people. It can be about anything. But the best thing to do is about a topic that you understand and that you like. In this case, you will also get pleasure from what you do..
It can be both a website and a blog. You can write in it, either yourself, or make a project that will be updated by other users (for example, a travel portal with trip reports). Accordingly, the better the resource, the higher its attendance, and the higher the earnings. Normal attendance should be in the thousands per day.
- Contextual advertising (Yandex.Direct, Google Adsense, Begun.ru) with pay per clicks. The site contains code that looks like an advertisement, the subject of which depends on the context on the page and what the visitor has recently searched for in the search engine. The cost of clicks is usually a few rubles, everything happens automatically.
- Pay-per-click advertising, but not contextual. Similarly, the code that broadcasts advertisements is placed. You can find out more by typing the word teaser in a search engine..
- Pay-per-view advertising is a banner ad. A banner is placed on the site, and hangs until it appears a certain number of times or a certain period (for example, a month). Advertisers are located both independently and through Rotoban.ru. The cost of placement per month is from several tens of rubles to thousands.
- Advertising in the form of sentries. A post is a link at the end or beginning of your article to a resource. Placed once and for all. Advertisers are searched both independently and through the sites for the sale of guards Gogetlinks.net, Getgoodlinks.ru, Blogun.ru, Rotapost.ru. The cost of a guard is from several tens of rubles and up to thousands.
- Earnings from the placement of advertising articles (the main goal of the link). You post an article on your website, and it simply contains the links you need to promote the customer's resource. Advertisers are searched for, both independently and through the Miralinks.ru exchange.
- Earnings from the placement of advertising articles (the goal of the PR brand). You post an article on your website, and it can advertise any product / service. But advertisers will only post this if you have a large readership. Such a post can cost tens of thousands..
- Earnings on time-based links. This refers to Sape.ru and Trustlink.ru. Unlike post links, links are posted for a while, and change periodically. Outwardly, it may look like contextual advertising. You need to be most careful with this type of advertising, since if it is placed incorrectly, there is a big risk of getting into the Yandex ban.
For serious sites made initially for people (SOM), only contextual advertising (Direct and Adsense) is suitable. You should not post links on such sites. Blogs with large audiences can also post promotional articles from private advertisers to promote their brand..
Earnings on affiliate programs
There are sites on the Internet that sell any goods or services. And some of them have affiliate programs, and you can get a percentage of their sales or, for example, a flat fee for the user you refer to sign up. Thus, by connecting to any affiliate program, you receive a referral link (your personal link with an identifier), which you place on your site, and by clicking on which, your visitor gets to the affiliate site, where he can make a purchase or register.
There are a huge number of affiliate programs on various topics. It makes sense to work only with proven and relevant to the theme of your site. Here's an example of a few of them:
Beget.ru - hosting our blog, also provides an affiliate program.
Admitad.com - many affiliate programs on various topics on one site, or, in other words, an aggregator of affiliate programs.
Travelpayouts is an aggregator of affiliate programs that are only related to travel: booking flights / hotels, insurance, transfers, etc..
You can read about my success in working with affiliate programs here in my last finstrip.
Traffic arbitrage
Or, in other words, traffic reselling. In short, the point is to buy traffic cheap and sell it high, putting the difference in your pocket..
Let me explain. You have a website, you place ads or links to affiliate programs on it, and you need to be clicked on and clicked on, because you get money for this. To do this, you yourself can buy advertising on the Internet, bringing visitors to your pages, or buy traffic on special exchanges. Accordingly, the cost of advertising on third-party resources should be less than the earnings received from affiliate programs posted on your website.
You can resell traffic without your own resource, for example, when buying advertising on third-party resources, immediately indicating your referral link (and not a link to your own site), or using, as an intermediate link, a VKontakte group or a spacer site.
In fact, this type of earnings is one of the most profitable, but this will have to be learned. For example, I do not know how to arbitrate, so I create all traffic on the site by writing content (search traffic).
Internet shops
Everything is clear with an online store. You can create your own online store and sell something there. Moreover, it is not necessary to sell real goods, you can also information or something else, for which you do not need delivery and warehouse.
Selling your goods and services
Having your own website or blog, in addition to placing advertisements on it, you can also sell your goods and services. For example, the author of a photoblog may offer the services of a photographer, the author of a travel blog may offer the services of a tour guide, and so on. It's the same with the product, if you have a knitting site, you can sell handmade sweaters.
Yes, this is more offline earnings, which is sometimes tied to a place, but with some approaches, you can continue to travel and live in other countries.
Earnings on the travel itself
Well, and finally, earnings on the travels themselves. This is real! I know people who make money like that. Yes, this path is not trivial, but it does exist. I, unfortunately, cannot tell you how to implement all this, but I just once tried to conduct a group in Thailand and I liked it.
Someone photographs and writes articles for magazines, making extraordinary reports from different places, someone comes up with and implements unusual or social travel projects and attracts sponsors to this event, who pay for equipment, or the entire trip. We even participated in a similar project. Russia in 365 days, however, on an altruistic basis.
P.S. These are the ways to make money while traveling online and offline. Not all options have been tried by me on this blog and in life, but still to come. To get a rough idea of how much advertising costs in relation to the number of visitors, you can go to blogs and see who is selling it and for how much..
