Make Money Online In Canada In A Recession, USA too!

When you listen/read/watch the news, you would think that the whole world is in a recession.  Luckily, you can make money in Canada in a recession even if you live outside of Canada . You see, according to the latest International Monetary Fund(IMF) update, Canada will have a growth of 0.3% in 2009. It's not much but Canada is not in a recession yet.

I'm sure other countries are in the same situation thus you could target them too. For example, you could use the phpBay WP plugins(paid version) to offer products to visitors related to your post. That's if the visitor's country is available in the drop down option of phpBay.

Know your traffic

Since my domain is a .ca, Google.ca does like me more and I wrote about this before. In my case, the bulk of my traffic do come from the USA and that's the main reason the plugin country option was left to the default(USA). But, you could make a post about a specific item from your country thus bypass the default country.

Examples with USA(default) and Canada using iPod:

USA
[ phpbay]iPod, 6[ /phpbay]

US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian Auctions French Auctions German Auctions Indian Auctions Irish Auctions Italian Auctions Dutch Auctions Polish Auctions Spanish Auctions Swiss Auctions UK Auctions

Best Match Time: ending soonest Time: newly listed Price: lowest first Price: highest first Price + Shipping: lowest first Price + Shipping: highest first

8x Stylus Touch Screen Pen for iPad 1st 2nd 3rd iPhone 3G 3GS 4 4G 4S iPod Touch    US $.01

New Car Charger Adapter for iPod iPhone 3G 3GS 4G    US $.01

Mirror LCD Cover Screen Protector Guard Film Filter For Apple iPod Touch 4G 4th    US $.01

New Black Flip Leather Case Cover Skin For Apple iPod Touch iTouch 4G 4th 4 Gen    US $.01

3M 10FT USB Date Sync Charger Cable Cord For Apple iphone 4 4S 3G 3GS ipad Ipod    US $.01

10W USB Charger AC Adaptor FOR Apple ipod Touch iPhone 3G 3GS 4 4G 4GS iPad 2    US $.01

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Canada

[ phpbay]iPod, 6, ,"","","","","","","","","","",2,""[ /phpbay]

US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian Auctions French Auctions German Auctions Indian Auctions Irish Auctions Italian Auctions Dutch Auctions Polish Auctions Spanish Auctions Swiss Auctions UK Auctions

Best Match Time: ending soonest Time: newly listed Price: lowest first Price: highest first Price + Shipping: lowest first Price + Shipping: highest first

Hot Digital Camera Ipod MP4 Mobile phone Case Pouch Bag iPhone 4 4G 4S 3GS Case    C $1.02

Flower Digital Camera Case MP3 ipod bag Pouch Coin Purse Mobie Phone Iphone Case    C $1.02

Leopard Print Digital Camera MP3 ipod Case bag Pouch Coin Purse Mobie Phone Case    C $1.02

Zabra Print Digital Camera Carry Bag Mobile Phone iPod MP3 MP4 Case Coin Purse    C $1.02

Gift Gadget iPhone iPod Touch Mobile Phone Cables Funny Holder Organizer Design    C $.01

Apple iPod nano 6th Generation Silver (8 GB) (Latest Model)    C $.01

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Make money in the USA

Even if the USA is in recession, you can still make money from that market.

A few months ago, most of my auction sites were deindexed by Great Google slapped like many webmasters I know.  Part of it was my fault but I won't go into that here.  What is done, is done and I can't control what Google do.

However, the money did not dropped to $0 from those sites.  Since then, I get about 35% the money I was earning before the Great Google slapped. I did not do nothing new to those sites or added backlinks.

You see, the traffic is coming from other search engines.

They are 3 lessons in here:

• Most of what I earned still come from the USA. They want cheaper price.
• If someone tell you that you don't need Google, they are full of crap. I want the 65% back.
• Set and forget sites are nice to earn residual income even deindex from Google

Btw, in the first 10 days of November, I already earned the 35%. It could stop now or they could continue to earn me for the rest of the month.

Looking forward

I was very busy with AuctionSiteWriter and updating See Free Movies Legally to v.3.0 thus did not take the proper time to work on old and new auction sites.

I'm releasing a minor version(1.3) of AuctionSiteWriter in the coming week or two. It's SEO and phpBay plugin releated related. After that, I planned to support phpBay API 3.0 make sites Google friendly.

Once it's done, I expect 2009 to be a great year for me with my auction sites and my other projects like AuctionSiteWriter.