By John Mettie

Well, first you have to read the initial post to this category, so you will know that I am going to post my results as I progress through the steps of adding “Pull” advertising to make money on the internet.

So here we go, the first step of course had to be already done, so I could have a place to post the results, and that was to explore the different blog options open to me. Obviously, you are reading this on a blog, so I thought to give you a heads up on the reasons I wound up with my blogs here on my own domain.

My first attempts at blogging were to review the sites open to me as a location for my blog. The most prolific was http://www.blogger.com and it is free and offers a lot of options. I set up my first blog there and have decided to leave it there as it is stable and monetized with Google adsense and my Commission Junction affiliate links to my online shopping mall.

You can see it here: http://www.intekcomputer.blogspot.com
The PHP coded online shopping mall website that the links point to on my different blogs point to can be seen here: http://www.yourfavoritestores.com. Your favorite Stores.com has been a chore, but I have had it for years and it does make me some money, so I attempt to keep it maintained as to retailer additions and deactivations.

I also set up blogs at Squarespace, Vox and others, but I won’t go into why I didn’t continue with them right now. Suffice to say that blogger.com, a Google site, remains the only third party blog site I use.

After reading internet reviews of Typepad, Wordpress, and others, I became intrigued with Wordpress as it was offered preinstalled by most CPanel hosting companies via Fantastico, and a wealth of widgets and themes were available from users and coders. Since I already have several hosting companies I use, I experimented with Wordpress in sub domains and sub directories. After many failures, false starts and reading, I finally had some success at a real estate blog located at http://www.simplestreams.com/blog.
Since www.simplestreams.com has fallen into disrepair over the years as the multi-level affiliate programs waned away, I was using several money making sub domains such as the following site: www.moviehelp.simplestreams.com to make amazing money using Clickbank and Google Adwords. However, P2P networks and Adwords keyword changes brought this to a standstill and I had to discontinue this particular income avenue.

I have several other sites that make money on the internet for me, however again I say this site is to track the progress of a different source of internet income using “Pull” content information that is of interest to someone to bring them here to perhaps follow links to more information that will make you money as they click on your ads and links.

I may continue the real estate blog, however my overall goal was to post information I knew a lot about. Instead I may upgrade my user website http://www.yourfavoritehomepage.com which as a computer builder and provider to small business, I set this page on all the computers I sell and the users are making me adsense money when they use the google search and the affiliate links I keep current.

Since I make my living as a computer consultant and an internet marketer, and since I am also an avid computer, movie, gadget, electronics, music, dog lover, boat, software user, and a webmaster, I decided I needed to concentrate on writing about things I had a passion for.

The reason I chose to create my own blogging site is that the major effort of working with hosting companies and using FrontPage, Dreamweaver and other web editors has already been done and it was easy to set up domain names, hosting, and Wordpress installations. Now I can setup as many blogs as I want, monetize them and post to them as often and as I like.

So now, here is a monetized blog, with new, updated content that the search engines like, and the first posts have been created and I have made $45.00 so far on adsense content and search clicks. We will see where we go from here.

Within the next few days, I will post Step 2 as to how I setup the site for making money and where I got the code and links for adding to the site. Stay tuned!

By John Mettie

As an internet marketer of many years, I have explored most of the ways for making money on the internet, and have succeeded in making money on the internet!

When I first started my internet business, the main way to get money was to get people to join multi-level affiliate programs under you and hope they did the same. I have done this with some success. Promotion was the hardest part, being limited to such things as opt-in e-mail, FFA pages, autoresponders and heaven forbid, SPAM. (Arrrgggghh, more on that later!)

The next phase was, and still is, Clickbank and Google Adwords. A lot of research and plenty of adrenalin rushes, but a more legitimate way of making money, and the amazing successes with this combination are powerful and lucrative.

Another key method for making money on the internet is with the affiliate brokers as I call them such as Commission Junction, Linkshare and others. I belong to them all and have used the affiliate links from major online retailers such as Overstock, Toolking, Dell, Sony and literally thousands of others to earn commissions, all paid by the broker rather than the retailer. Again the major obstacles here are website maintenance and promotion.

Each of the above methods can be debated and analyzed forever, but the point of this post is to explore the most current method for promotion and making money on the internet that I am now exploring.

The internet continues to grow with webmasters trying to invent new ways to promote the site and make money; we are seeing the promotion break into two distinct methods of advertisement, The Push and the Pull.

Many internet marketers have, and still do, push advertising like pop-ups and direct e-mail; however web surfers are growing tired of this method and are avoiding pushy advertising, so webmasters who understand how to pull consumers to their sites will win in the long run.

What is happening now is search engine promotion and providing information that the customer is searching for. Web surfers are looking to receive information when they ask for it and want to know more about the subject or product. So the change in successful marketing is weblogs or “Blogs” as they are called to post the information you know something about and monetizing the blog with relevant ads generated using third party content ads from providers such as Google and Yahoo.

So, as an internet marketer, well versed in the “Push” method, I am now setting up this “Pull” method for making money on the internet. What I want to accomplish here is to post the steps I am taking and the successes and failures that occur as they happen. If you want to make money on the internet, then follow along as I post the results.