There is estimated to be over 3 million Google searches per month on subjects involving making money online. These people have been told that the Internet is a place where they can make money without working to hard and without spending much money.

Let’s take a look at what you’ll find on Google if you do a search for making money online. First you’ll see that there are 260 million results… 260 million websites ready and willing to show you how to make money online.

Happy days! With that many sites this is going to be easy to find one that you would like to work. Let’s just take a look at the first page and see what we have. After all if they are able to get on the first page on Google they must all be money makers right?

I’m not going to mention sites by name because I’m going to be in enough trouble just telling the truth about this industry and all the crap being sold.

The first site I’m looking at is very proud of the money making information they are about to share with you so proud that the first thing you see under the header graphic of the site is a big Google AdSense ad. That tells me they really don’t care if you click away before you even read what they have to say.

After reading the site I can understand why! They are trying to sell you on making money by taking surveys or reading email. Oh boy they want to teach you to open a day care in your home or maybe you would rather build a web page and sell something. That’s it just build it, no information on how to get people to the site just build it and they will come… Yea RIGHT!

Let’s move on to the 2nd site it must have better information. Nope just a site with a long article about Internet e-commerce with a bunch of Google ads. No secrets to help us make money here.

The next site is a blog about online marketing where you might pick up some tips but no blue print to starting and running a business.

Okay now here is one that might be interesting, it’s about making money without spending a dime. Let’s see what they list.

Help friends find better jobs.

My comment: You have enough friends looking for jobs to make the kind of money you’re looking to make?

Connect suppliers with buyers.

My comment: How do you find buyers without spending money to drive traffic to a web site? Provide business contact information.

My Comment: Again we are talking about getting enough traffic to get the leads to sell the businesses.

Become a semi-pro reporter

My comment: Where is the money in this even if it does interest you?

Write your own blog

My Comment: Another one of those idiot ideas that says build it and they will come. You know how many blogs don’t get read and never make a dime?

Advertise other people's products

My Comment: Last time I checked it cost money to advertise.

Let’s move on to the next one… YEA HOOO the bonanza, “Over 6500 money making recourses” Site doesn’t even deserve a comment. Build for Google AdSense with a list of old crap on it.

Now here’s one that wants to teach you how to make money with Google AdWords and Clickbank. Now that might be of interest so let’s see what it’s all about. Nice website with a tempting killer sales pitch. They have the secrets to how to make money with AdWord selling Clickbank products.

Okay I know better but for the research of this article I’ll flop down the $49.97 to see what the secret is…. 25 minutes later. You’re not going to believe this! This guy has enough guts to charge $49.97 to walk you through how to sign up for a free Clickbank and Google AdWords account. He explains how important it is to pick the right product to sell and then kindly gives you a list that includes mostly his back end products.

He does have two or three paragraphs on looking for low cost keywords but doesn’t mention the fact that those low cost keywords are also low volume. My experience with Adwords is that Google will turn off cheap keywords. It’s a catch-22, if it’s cheap; it means it’s got low search counts per month. In turn, if it’s low, you’ll generate a low impression count for those keywords. Once the algorithm on Google realizes it has low impression counts, it de-activates your keyword and forces you to bid ALOT higher to stay active.

Of coarse he doesn’t mention anything about that. Also the examples of the costs of keywords is very dates, there is no way you could get those words at the prices he list in his book. I totally wasted of $49.00!

I can’t take anymore crap so you can go to Google and search on making money online and see for yourself, but out of the 11 results on the first page I would give none of them a chance in hell of making you money.

With 3 million searches from people looking for ways to start online money making businesses it’s obvious there will be a ton of people ready to sell them something. Our little test just proved even the sites with the top spots on Google came up with nothing but junk. Hhmmm this must not be as easy as they said it would be but don't worry there are options.