Teens Can Make Money Online Too

To make money online for teens is not easy. For starters, it takes reading, understanding and persistence.

Also, you have to be a genuinely kind person; you have to be ethical, you have to follow the internet rules. Teenagers who want to make money online will want to read further.

For starters, please know that most online money making websites are only making money because they are able to sell you on the concept that you are going to make money easily. To be honest, they are making their income from you buying into their program.

Having said that, there are actually some legit websites that offer semi-decent advice in exchange for a fee; which is usually sold to you in the form of a book, ebook, cd, affiliate network, or some other medium that costs money up front. However, please realise that most, if not all, of the SAME information can be found for free on the internet. As I mentioned above, it’s not always easy to do but it gets easier as you go. The first couple of weeks are the most difficult as your inundated with new terms and concepts that are largely foreign to you.

The first thing that needs to be tackled are some key terms. If you used a search engine to find the key terms of : Make Money Online or How to make money then you are probably aware that most sites are a dogpile of mumbo jumbo internet marketing terms. Very few actually explain these terms, instead they assume that you are a professional online marketer such as themselves. I choose to start this off as though we are all in third grade and then to build up from there slowly. So, let’s get started on How Teens can Make some MONEY



Lets start this tutorial with some simple terms that will help you make money online. Although there are many ways for teens to make money online, we will start with the Free Money Making first. When I say "make money free", I do NOT mean without any work, but rather that you do not have to pay any money to start.

Try to read through them several times so it sticks in your memory. This guide is for teenagers who are beginners in the internet marketing world.



SEO - Search Engine Optimization : this refers to getting your particular website recognized by the various search engines, namely Google ™. If you do a search for this term, then you will find millions of websites that pop up offering countless ways to help you climb the search engine ladder. This is the most important term to familiarize yourself with as it will make or break your website. Good SEO brings in clicks whereas bad SEO brings only disappointment.



Backlink : a link on another website or web page that links directly back to your website. This term is your lifeblood and is your main influence in your overall search engine ranking. I’ll speak more about this later.



CLR : - this means ‘ Click - Through - Rate ‘. This refers to the advertising that may appear on your website and is usually expressed as a percentage. It is the percentage of visitors that actually click on one of your advertisements. So if you get 100 visitors and 10 click on one of your ads, then your CLR would 10%. CLR percentages usually vary but, in my opinion, anywhere between 4% and 10% is great. I’ll talk more about advertising soon.



KEYWORDS : Keywords are simply the main words that are contained within your website that describe what your content is about; the most significant words relative to your content. Search engines scan all the content of your web page and try to determine which ones point to it’s main topic. This is how they classify and eventually rank your site in there searches. For example, if you make a site about fishing supplies, then somewhere within the page there will be "key" words, such as bait, fishing poles, hooks, worms, string, lures, etc. The search engines will send a automated robot to thoroughly scan your webpages and from that information they will catalog your site.

While there are literally thousands of marketing terms on the internet these days, I believe that these are the most important for teens who are beginners at internet marketing. Most of the other terms are better learned when doing.

I’ve outlined on my website the step by step process for making money online without an investment.