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In years long past, typing at home jobs could be found. People built entire businesses around typing up other people’s reports, essays and even books. (This may be showing my age here!) There may be a few remaining assistants who will take an old guy’s notes and turn them into a manuscript, but not many.

Why have typing at home jobs gone the way of the dinosaur? Because everyone has a computer now, or a laptop or even a phone that can create typed documents with ease. For those without fast typing speeds, there is voice recognition software.

On the internet, typiing at home jobs get advertised fairly regularly. They attempt to pull people in with promises of easy money for typing just a few hours each day. Those who are unused to the marketing-speak of the online world often get sucked into paying “just” $29.95 to learn more about this exciting opportunity! (Is the sarcasm coming through okay?)

But there are no such things as typing at home jobs anymore. There may be some virtual assistant jobs, but you won’t find employers advertising them with flash websites and videos about how you can move to Maui in two years. You’ll find them just like any other telecommuting job out there… on a job site or in the newspapers.

What are these typing at home jobs then? What exactly are these people advertising?

First of all, NEVER pay $29.95 (or any other amount) for the opportunity to work or to get a supposed job. Second of all, get savvy about how people make money on the internet. There are three potential reasons someone would want you to start typing at home for them.

1) Typing advertisements onto classified sites or even paying for ads in papers

2) Typing articles you come up with  yourself (also called writing!)

3) Typing forum posts, comments or blurbs on sites… pretending you are interested in the topic but really spamming links or ads (which is really annoying and morally questionable)

How does this tie into how people make money on the internet? The top two ways to make money online is by selling information, sometimes through affiliate programs, or freelance writing. These typing at home jobs have you doing things - and making a fraction of the actual profit - that could be done directly by you to build a considerable income.

Stop trying to find typing at home jobs or opportunities, and think about what people really want. It’s not typing. They can do that themselves. It’s content, or advertising. If you can create good content or advertising, you can make money for yourself.

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It has been a long time since I’ve seen free traffic exchanges being advertised with incredible frequency. However, they are still around, especially within the Get Paid Program world of earning online. A quick Google search brings up more than 15 million results, so you would think that the owners of these websites must be making some money off them.

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Owners making money = people using the sites. But when you examine what free traffic exchanges actually do, you may find it hard to understand why people use them.

The goal of any website or blog owner is NOT to get as much traffic as possible to his or her website or blog. More traffic does not equal more profit. The key word that is missing is “targeted.” Targeted traffic is the only thing you should concern yourself with, unless you are lucky enough to find one of the few PPC affiliate programs that don’t mind free traffic exchanges.

Free traffic exchanges show websites in a rotation and each user must click on a little button to go to the next site. For that view and click, the user earns one (or half) view to his or her own site. It sounds like a very easy, though boring, way to get traffic.

The problem is, the traffic is not targeted at all and, in my experience, often not even english-speaking. The person who is viewing your site is concerned only with gettiing traffic to his own site, not finding detailed information about whatever your niche topic is. People find that sort of thing through the search engines.

One argument I’ve seen that supports free traffic exchange use is that the massive number of hits to the site can increase directory or Alexa rankings in some way. It would not increase search engine rankings, and those are the ones you should really be concerned with. I suppose, if your intention was to sell the website, boosting hit counts may seem attractive as well. However, any savvy buyer would know what to look for to see the true worth of the website or blog.

Free traffic exchanges still flourish in the internet marketing world. I’m not really sure why. Anyone wishing to expand his or her online business and increase profits should steer clear of them. They are, essentially, a waste of time.