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How I Made My First $5000 Online

Making Money Online is Easy, I Spoonfeed People the Way But They All Give Up. Easy, But Needs Discipline!

By Rui CarreiraPublished about a year ago 4 min read
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I Was a Total Beginner, But Making Money Online is Easy!

One of the things I’m going to let you know right now is that making money online is easy, and you don’t need to have a lot of practice with it.

You need to be disciplined and smart — that’s about it.

If you still don’t believe it, let me tell you the story of how I made my first $5000 online and you’ll see what I mean.

Finally, if you would like to be spoonfed on methods to grow your streams of income, you may want to follow the New Twitter Account I just created.

The Method to My First $5000: It Involves Flippa, But You Won’t Be Buying!

So, the first thing I did was I opened up Flippa.

For those who don’t know it, Flippa is a website that allows people to either buy or sell websites and as such is a treasure trove of what works or not — if you know how to look.

I searched around on Flippa for websites that were thin in content and yet were banking hard via ads or affiliate sales.

When I found the websites, I’d investigate their backlinks to see if the content was ranking for itself or if the site had a lot of good links.

Finally, I found a website that had 50 articles, was making thousands and didn’t have a big link profile.

I knew this was the winner.

I could easily rewrite all of the articles, create a similar site, and either monetize it or flip it.

I was a newbie back then, I didn’t know much about SEO or managing a site, so I decided I’d create a similar but better site and just flip it to whoever could make money with it.

Starting the Rewriting Process: Making It Better

The site had 50 articles, and I went to every single one of those and copied them to 50 open Docx files (Word format files).

Then, I rewrote them all.

Not only that, I wanted to go the extra mile, so I added 1000 words to each article.

Now, this is the part in which I tell you making money online is easy, but it requires patience, discipline, and willpower.

Make no mistake, you do have to work!

And work hard!

But if you do it, you’ll reap the rewards soon.

Anyway, having rewritten the articles, I made sure I published them with the same interlinks as the original site.

Everything should be absolutely similar, just better.

Once that was done, it was time to pass on to the next phase.

Getting Adsense Up: Just for the First Month!

Google Adsense is the ad network that pays the best. I knew people on Flippa would want to see earnings on the site in order for it to look good.

I got approved and installed Adsense on the website.

Then comes the hard part — waiting for the website to start attracting traffic.

I left it to mature and went to learn more on how to make money writing.

Coming back to it, I now had about $20 bucks in the first month Adsense gave me any income.

Time to sell.

Selling the Website: Flippa Auction

I created the listing and I went over just how much of an expert I was — yeah, I kinda lied, but in my defense, I made everything the same as the original site, which was raking thousands and thousands, so it probably was good.

Attached to the listing, is the first month of earnings.

I told the truth here and let people know I didn’t invest in any ads or did any out-of-page SEO.

Plus, the listing was in “auction” mode without a buyout price.

I started getting bids until a guy sent me a direct message asking to buy out for $5000.

I did!

…and that was how I made $5000 without knowing much about making money online, and just because I sat down and thought of a way to make it.

You too should try to come up with ideas on how you can make it knowing what you know.

In conclusion, no matter how much of a newbie you are, you can make money online — you just need discipline, and intelligence, but more than that… a massive amount of willpower.

It doesn’t hurt to know more though, and investing in yourself is the investment that brings you the most return.

If you want to learn, either follow my New Twitter Account or take a look at my Medium Growth Hacking Compendium.

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About the Creator

Rui Carreira

A full-time blogger on a writing spree!

Founder of https://instageeked.com

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