Well, we being pretty busy with our startup and also recently we are building up and testing our SEO effort with the objective to capture long tail search engine traffic by improving our “landing” page. This being a very rewarding week for us. We still pretty much in the “SEO” mode yet.
We know our reader is not that technical to hear what we want to say about SEO. So we decide to cover more interesting and simple blogging topic such as how to get paid to BLOG rather then more on internet marketing and SEO.
We think get paid to blog is more like a getting a job rather then a business. Anyway, it’s the simplest way to start out to start make money online besides “taking survey” and “paid to browse”. And we believe this fit in perfectly for “start small and think big”, and definitely better then taking survey and paid to browse because who know what blogging might bring you …
Here is our story. We have to go and check it out ourselves.
We pick the 4 blogging networks that we feel good about, and see how good is their online customer service. Here is our first 4 lists:
PayPerPost.com
ReviewMe.com
Smorty.com
Bloggerwave.com
We sign up for PayPerPost.com first since they have receive $7 million venture capital funds, we thought they might be the best. Well, guess what, their server is “very very” slow, and it’s took forever to load just a few pages and how they approve our blog and their interface seem very confusing for us. Very disappointed!
ReviewMe.com by far is the best for us, instantly login, quick approver. I guess they really did they homework and have some automation tool that detect our PageRank and Alexa Traffic.
Well, we still waiting for Smorty.com and Bloggerwave.com for approver. But we can’t be too hash on them since we just sign up today. * We did go for PayPerPost and ReviewMe first * yesterday. We heard pretty good story from Smorty, but we need to check it out to confirm. Well, bloggerware.com being buying a lot of ad and even go extra length to other blogging network to paid other blogger to blog about their service. With that at lease we know they have some budget and we are looking forward to test out their service.
Just like adsense, we are publisher and advertiser at the same time. If you want to make money online, you need to know what is the tools are available to help you to grow your business.
Anyway, we will let you know once we start getting paid from those blogging network we just sign up. And we will review and compare them one by one.
Aug 30, 2007
Is Blogging Really Paid Well?
Ultimate Way To Make Money Online With Blogging!
Sure, they are so many way to make money online with blogging. But we think the ultimate way is Recommendation With Commission Or Affiliate Program.
But Not All Blogger Can Do It
In order to make this happen, you must focus, have a flagship blog, be credibility and most important things is your reader must like you and listen to your recommendation.
If you create blog just for Adsense or advertising money, you are missing a very important element of making money using blog which is INFLUENCE. With Blog, you are very very POWERFUL, you just like a mini-station that allow the world to tune in and listen to you. If you are not using that strength to put in to your action plan to make a lot of money online or “live life to the fullest with wealth” strategy, you just cash in too fast and selling it short.
Very Good Example
Oprah Winfrey book club, do you know much they make? The figure will shock you, and I can promise it’s even ten times better then most of the highest pay blogger out there.
Well, when we said it’s ultimate is also mean the hardest to do, you can’t expect this to happen in months. You can only build your credibility and brand by continue deliver and bring value to your reader, create win-win, care about helping … and those take times to build. But we think that’s the true potential for blog to make money online.
Question, Aren’t You In For Making Money?
We all know for sure that you can’t straight away be credible. The the main question is how your make money online while still be credible? We don’t have the right answer for you as we are still learning the way. For now, what we can say is you need to set your rule of conduct through blogging EARLY, always be ethical, be honest, and credible. And with that, you still can make some money online through advertising money, ethical paid-blogging and recommendation for the affiliate product you think that will benefit your reader greatly rather then making a quick buck.
What Do You Think?
LinkBait : Pragmatic Way To Unleash “Content Is King”
Well, we ask a lot of successful blogger out there, what is their secret to be a successful blogger. And they answer is …
Content Is King
A lot of marketer out there will disagree with “content is king ” and say without help of promoting the content, no matter how good is your content, no-body know about it!
So they come up with a better word for content is king, a content without the linkbait nature, it’s useless. So linkbait is the pragmatic way to unleash “content is king” power.
Anyway, this is just our logic to explain why linkbait is important - Don’t take this seriously
3 birds In One Stone
We think LinkBait is the number one things to do if you have a new website to launch,. Seriously, write quality content, and promote it as linkbait.
First, if people like your content, they will link to you and might become your reader. (Readers)
Second, with linking, search engine will love you. (Search Engine)
Third, with great content, you are start creating brand. (Brand)
Well, you can’t find many online strategy … a strategy that can kill 3 birds in one stone, can you? Bummer, after launching our website for 3 months, now we know … duh.
No More Theme Sponsor Link In Themes.Wordpress!
There is a lot of talk about whether Themes.Wordpress should allow theme sponsor or not. Now it’s confirm theme sponsor links are not allow anymore in themes.wordpress! Just kidding, it’s just on weblog tools collection.com, but they are leading the movement.
And themes.wordpress.net might just consider the idea to ban sponsor links someday.
Personally, I don’t see it’s unethical to leave a sponsor link there as long as it’s stated that it’s a sponsor wordpress theme download. Blog theme designer need to make a living too. And to have proper incentive is what make our system great in the first place (capitalist).
You got have something to motivated people!
But Are We Taking It Too Far?
Is the whole theme sponsor thing is taking too far? As you know, it’s very valuable to have a theme sponsor on a blog that have google page rank 4-6 and have more then 200 postings. That’s mean the sponsor will get 200 different page rank quality in bound links with little costs. This is why a lot of online marketer have use this to exploit the opportunity. And sometime, you will see 2-4 sponsor links. I said good for them.
Well, as long as it’s inform people that this is a sponsor links theme, and use it as your own risk, we don’t have a problem with sponsor links. But it’s definitely not right not to inform that this is a sponsor theme, and use coding to hide your sponsor link. This is just not the right way to improve your google ranking and make money online.
The Way We Look At It
We don’t like the decision because we think it’s should give incentive and credit to the sponsor who actually paid the bill. But when you look at how the system being exploit and affect those who like to make money online, then you know this stand is necessary.
I know a blogger who write solid content and have good quality incoming links. But his blog can never get a good google page rank. With my little help, we found out that he actually got penalize by Google because of having a sponsor link that link to the “bad neighborhood”. Hmm, this is definitely a sad thing for him and since he has lost so many hair try to figure out what has happen.
Imagine that you are that hard working blogger who is waiting to make some money online and want to see your google page rank go higher and higher, and want to see your traffic coming more and more from google search engine. And it’s never happen! This is why we can see it’s necessary to take the stand now, because base on themes.wordpress, they don’t have the resource to check one by one for the “bad neighborhood” or “sponsor links that go too far”. It’s necessary to protect those new bloggers who know nothing about SEO, but like to make a nice living online. Well, we think …
This is not a right decision, but is the best decision for lacking of resource to check the bad neighborhood.
Anyway, it’s crucial to know a little bit SEO for blogger just like any business owner starting a business without know how to do marketing can cost the business greatly.
How to check bad neighborhood?
Well, you must be wondering how you can prevent this so that you don’t lose all your hair:) You are definitely in good had if you read our hoobin.com blog ( shameless self-promoting trick learning from john chow ). Try this tools Bad Neighborhood Link checker tool here
Anyway, we do favor “black hat” or “quick and easy way” method sometime if it’s ethical and for the best, but honestly we think to learn “white hat” method is best return of investment(ROI) since it’s always apply and relevant for the next 5 years.
By the way, Nate is honoring us the Power Post Blog. This really motivate us to write more great story, compile more information and share our little experiment with what is best to make more money online.
The Number One Challenge For Make Money Online!
If you ever ask what is the number one challenge for us to make money online is GETTING TRAFFIC. You can get google page rank 10, or have all the monetize things going on in your blog. But if you don’t have any traffic, you can’t monetize or earn anything!
That’s why we talk about getting online traffic most of the time. This is our number one priority if we want to make money online. Once you get the traffic, it’s much easy to test out and maximize your monetization plan on web conversion.
There are million of blog and website out there. How you share or get traffic is our number one challenge.
How People Find Your Blog?
We have blog about a bit dry and technical topic subject such as search engine optimization(SEO) and we going to cover more about blogging and social network.
If you check, how people actually find your blog?
Search Engine & Blog Search Engine
Social Network Blog
Blog Community
Other Blogs
News Website & Website
Forum
Offline Media
We being focus on search engine tremendously because we think people who actually search online is beginning to look for information how to make money online, this will be our best target audience.
Using search engine to drive traffic is definitely a tough market to be break in, since it’s getting more competitive in search engine result. But the reward to master search engine can be tremendous. And the easy way to get good result in search engine is blogging.
Through observation of many blog out there, blog that post one post a week wouldn’t get much traffic from search engine, even though they have great quality content! We have seem it. Of course, it’s best you have good quality content and blog more often. But what really make a different to get more traffic from search engine is you need to blog often, blog frequent, blog consistent and blog about your variety topic of your niche subject. One of the main reason is by blogging often, you have more contents, you stand a better chance to capture “long tail” keywords traffic. Besides that, by having bigger size blog, you will get higher page rank too.
I think we have talk a lot about SEO and blogging, maybe too much. For the next couple weeks, we hope we will cover more about how to bring in more traffic using social network web 2.0 site. But our main point is … let tackle the toughest problem first : How To Bring In Traffic!
Well, what is your number one challenge to make money online?
Top 10 Ways For Doing It Right In Blogging
We read a lot about how to doing it right in blogging. We think the most solid advise come from Robert Scoble in his book, Naked Conversation. Here are the top 10 list of his tips how to do it right in blogging:
- Get the title right for search engine result
- Read bunch of blog before you start
- Keep it simple. Keep if focus
- Demonstrate Passion. Show Authority
- Add Comment
- Be Accessible
- Tell A Story
- Be Linky
- Get out into the real world
- Use your referrer log
Money Blogging Risk! Is There Any?
Blogging is cheap, very cheap (that’s good to hear) Your expenses and financial risk should should be minimal. But we are sure there is some risk involved! And we think ..
Biggest Risk
We think the biggest money blogging risk involved is “our lost of opportunity”. Blogging take time, and the time might be much well spend to pursuit some opportunity. So in blogging, our greatest risk isn’t that the mistake that we make, but is the mistake that we didn’t make, the opportunity we didn’t pursuit and the time we didn’t learn!
Time Is Money
Time is money, lost of opportunity might be our greatest lost after few years of blogging.
This is our concern. Even though we blog for money, we try every possible way to do new thing to make money, we try every possible new way to build traffic, and we try every possible way to learn from the mistake. Then at least we know are pursuit and maximize every opportunity.
Anyway, we see most of the successful money bloggers out there always try something new, push the limit, and go for every possible opportunity to build traffic and to monetize their blog. And they are doing it to minimize their blogging risk. Sound weird huh? We know:)
Anyway, this is just our personal opinion about blogging risk for money:) How about you? What do you think of your biggest money blogging risk?
Why Social Media is the New Internet
The New Dot Com
In 2003, when a renowned IT and computing publisher and conference organizer, O'Reilly Media, first used the term 'Web 2' they were heralding what was considered a major shift in the way the worldwide web was organized, accessed and used. Since 'Blogging' began, in the mid 1990's, with its unique personal agenda and dissemination of user generated content, more and more people began using the web for networking: based on shared interests and concerns. With the launch of MySpace in 2003 and YouTube in 2005, this trend for User Generated Media has exploded and referring to the unique characteristics which caused and propel this explosion as 'the second generation of the worldwide web', or Web 2, might begin to seem more and more prescient as time passes.
The term 'Web 2' specifically referred to what was then perceived as a second generation of the web, or web based communities functioning on the web, which had originally begun their days as message boards, bulletin boards, newsgroups and Usenet. This new usage, by web based communities, was allied with a new way of hosting services to target and facilitate collaboration and sharing among online communities; together, these characteristics are represented by the term 'social media'. The characteristics of Web 2, and of Social Media, websites are therefore of content creation and distribution being predominantly motivated by individuals and social groups. The creation, submission and sharing of 'home grown content', or 'User Generated Media' lies at the very heart of such websites as MySpace and YouTube.
Where 'Web 1' reflected the publishing model; what Social Media achieves is a transition from interaction on the social scale in the real world of human affairs, to an online interaction which reflects, and in some cases replaces, that interaction. Where you might have interactions between networks of families, friends, neighbors, colleagues, associations, organizations and institutions; online you have blogging, MySpace, Friends Reunited, YouTube, and even eBay. What these sites create is an environment where 'chat' takes place along with the exchange of photos, videos, music and any other digital media in an environment of personalized 'spaces' which reflect and reinforce the character and disposition of the users. It is not the 'linear' environment of the old web, where website publishers, or webmasters, created content geared towards their particular personal or professional agenda; Web 2, and Social Media, are 'non-linear' and 'organic'. Some say: they represent the democratization of the web and many strongly defend the wider freedom of speech and activity which is allowed in this medium.
What this means to an online business person, a marketer or webmaster is that the voice of public opinion is ever present and moves fast. The term 'viral' is often used in the context of this 'speed of message' which can occur within the networks of sites like MySpace. Even 24 hour news stations can't keep up with the organic distribution and dissemination networks online.
Viral Marketing is a form of marketing, advertising and promotion which takes advantage of the 'network' nature of human interactions. Viral Marketing targets pre-existing social networks and, online, social media to spread a specific message or increase brand awareness. Of course, the term 'viral' is resonant with a biological virus, since a successful marketing message sent to one person will be replicated as it is distributed around that person's network and then by each of those recipients' networks, and so on at an astonishing rate. The nature of the 'viral message' is always highly targeted to the network; typically, it will also contain humor or entertainment value or some benefit to the recipient which causes each recipient to want to send it on to their network of friends.
The accumulated impact of very many versions of one message being exchanged around the internet adds to the overall currency of the message. Saying of a message that it has 'gone viral' implicates a sense of the message having taken on a life of its own and no further initiation of the message is required since it is being actively passed about at a high rate of success. When a message takes on this independent quality it is given more attention for this fact: the concept of democracy within the internet community is one which gives greater credulity to popular messages. This 'quality' of a viral message is often imitated for the purpose of creating the impression of popularity or spontaneity, whereby a marketer or publicist might use manufactured networks of false identities or non-impartial distributors to give the appearance of a message 'gone viral'to attract attention to it.
Affiliate Marketing - Finding a ClickBank Product to Promote
Make Money With Affiliate Marketing
This article is intended to help you make money as an affiliate. Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide. Be sure to check out our other affiliate related guides on the lower part of this page.
If you have decided that Click bank is the best place to find a product to promote then you will be pleased to learn that the process from registration to promotion is a simple one. The first thing you need to do is create an account: you'll be pleased to discover this is free to affiliates. When registering at Click bank you first create a unique username which will later be used to identify you for Affiliate commissions. The details you submit are reasonably few but do include an address so your earnings can be sent to you. Within a few short minutes you will be registered and able to begin browsing the marketplace for products to promote.
Click bank's 'Marketplace' is the 'clearing house' where merchants' products are listed. It is split into nine main categories: Business to Business, Health & Fitness, Home & Family, Computing & Internet, Money & Employment, Marketing & Ads, Fun & Entertainment, Sports & Recreation, and Society & Culture. Each category is further split into smaller subcategories. If you are new to Click bank it is a good idea to first browse the main Marketplace categories, then 'dig down' into the subcategories of those areas which interest you. When you have a few products or topic areas you are interested in promoting then you should type the relevant keywords into the keyword search field to begin creating a list of potential products to look at further. When researching products, never make a decision until you have compared the product and its available sales material with its competitors so it is advisable to create a list of at least three or four similar or related products for the sake of comparison..
There are three 'levels' of search you can conduct with the Click bank keyword search function. When you type a keyword such as 'dog training', or 'learn Spanish', etc, into the keyword search field you can then set the 'Category' and 'Subcategory' fields either to search 'All' or search within one main category, or search within a subcategory of a main category. You can also choose to list the results in order of popularity, or graded according to a number of other statistical attributes. You can also decide how many results you wish to see on a page, from 10 to 50.
With each product listing in Click bank, or result of your search, there appears four numbers: one is a dollar amount, two are percentages, and the fourth is simply a score. You can order your search results on the page, in ascending or descending order according to the values of any of these figures. The first number on the left is a dollar amount and indicates how much, on average, an affiliate will earn per sale on that product; this is a 'balanced' figure and takes into account Click bank fees and customer refunds of the product. The second number tells you what the affiliate commission is, as a percentage value of the full price; this is usually between 50% and 75%. The third number is the percentage of Affiliate sales of the product compared to total sales of the product; this is usually quite high. The last figure tells you the 'gravity' of the product - which is an estimation of the popularity of the product, among Click bank affiliates, based upon sales.
The Click bank figures, which accompany product listings, are useful in helping to decide upon which product to promote but should not be the only factor. Click on the product listing title to view the sales page; as an affiliate your efforts will be to send people to an identical page and it's a good idea to read it through to see how effective it is. If you spend a lot of your time, and money, promoting this product it is necessary that the sales page is effective, otherwise your efforts will be wasted. In addition to being well written and attractive, a good sales page should have a title which draws the reader into the body of the text, it should include testimonials by satisfied customers, it should have a picture of the product and should also have pictures of any bonus offers, there should be bullet points outlining the features and benefits of the product and it should have a clear refund guarantee and an easy to find 'buy now' link or button. Statistically, 'long' sales pages are the most effective. If you know the market the product is targeted at then you should read the sales page over to decide if it is well targeted or not. Any work you do as an affiliate will rely upon the effectiveness of this page to 'close' the sale so it is worth spending a bit of time reviewing it, and its competitors, before making a decision.
After you have viewed a few products and sales pages and have decided upon a product to promote, you will now create your own personalized link which will open your personalized version of the sales page. This is the link you will place in all your promotions and will identify you as the affiliate to which any sales commission shall be paid: Click bank calls this 'a hoplink' and it is, simply, a hypertext link to the sales page which has your unique Click bank username added to it. The procedure is deceptively simple: below each product listing there is a link named 'create hoplink'. Click on this link and a new window will open in your browser. Type your Click bank username into the top field and click 'submit' and within a few seconds the window will refresh and give you two links. The first link is the web address of the product sales page with your Affiliate ID on it, the second is the same address formatted in html to create a text link.
You can now go ahead and begin marketing or promoting this product, and as many others as you wish. Your efforts will be rewarded whenever a visitor clicks on your link and buys a product from the sales page you send them to. All you need are the 'hoplink' from Click bank and your 'wits'.
Make Money Blogging
Blogging - The most popular way to make money
This article is intended to teach you step by step how to get started and more importantly, make money blogging. We will teach you how to start a home based blogging business. Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide.
According to Wikipedia, "A weblog, which is usually shortened to blog, is a type of web site where entries are made (such as in a journal or diary)." (Wikipedia, March 2007) It was not until recently however, that people have been using blogging as a full time home based business and have been making enough money to make it worth while.
So, how do you start to make money blogging? Believe it or not, It's actually fairly easy to get started. If you have a access to a computer and internet it can even be completely free! If you do not have a computer at home, you can always go to your local library and blog from there. So, if you are serious about making money blogging, there should be no excuses stopping you.
Once you decide that blogging is right for you, you need to find a blogging platform. There are a number of web sites that will allow you to host your blog. Alternatively, you can create you own website and blog using wordpress. If you decide that making your own blog web site is a little beyond your technical skills, you can use any of the following companies.
Blogger.com
Blog.com
BlogToolKit.com
Wordpress.com
LiveJournal.com
Obviously there literally hundreds of other blogging sites that you can use. Feel free to do a search for "free blog" in your favorite search engine.
Once you have a platform from which to start blogging, you need to decide on your "niche" market. Think about the last time you searched on the internet for a topic that you wanted to learn more about? Perhaps you even found our site by doing such a search. The simple fact is, people go to the internet to find information. If you can supply that information, you will begin to accrue readers and profit from that web traffic.
By choosing a niche market, like make money blogging for example, you are funneling the search traffic into a select group of people who will actually be interested in what you have to say. So, rather than coming to your blog and hitting the back button, the reader will see that your blog is about their interests and will stay and read.
The next step is to blog every day. In fact, one of the biggest mistakes new bloggers make is thinking that they can post a blog and forget about it. This is NOT the case. In order to make it big, you have to keep readers interested and coming back to your blog again and again.
It's really not hard to do, especially if you chose a niche market that you are interested in. People really do want to know what you have to say, even if it is only opinions or your daily life story. Once you get someone interested, they will come back time and time again and that is where the money is made.
Next, you need to throw up some ads. You can choose from any number of ad companies but for beginners we suggest either Google Adsense, or Yahoo Marketing
Once you have your ads up and once you attract enough readers, sit back, continue blogging and watch the money come in. Each time someone views your blogs, there is a chance (usually around 2%) that they will click on an ad and you will get paid. Talk about an easy home business! The more readers you get, the more money you will rake in. Some blogs make well over 6 figures a year and the sky is the limit. So why noit get started and begin making money by blogging?
An Introduction to the Different Types of Affiliate Programs
Today, affiliate marketing programs is seen as one of the most important methods by online companies and merchants to market their products and services because implementing an affiliate program doesn't cost much money and it helps generate a consistent stream of online profit.
On the other hand, the affiliates see affiliate marketing as a feasible and low cost method to make online online by promoting other people products using a website or without a website (using Google AdWords PPC advertising program).
There are many affiliate programs on the Internet and not all of them are similar. The most basic affiliate programs fall into 3 categories:
Pay Per Performance
Pay Per click
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
Pay Per Performance
Pay per performance (PPP) affiliate programs are what most companies and online merchants likes to use. The companies only need to pay when an affiliate referral translates into an action. The action can be a purchase or a lead. The affiliates will spend their own money to promote the affiliated company's products, This save a lot of money for the company. PPP affiliate programs can be futher classified into 2 sub-categories:
Pay Per Sale (PPS) The title says it all. The company only pays the affiliate when a visitor referred by the affiliate make a purchase.
Pay Per Lead (PPL) PPL is a little different to PPS. PPL affiliate programs usually used by finance and insurance companies. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate will be paid a fixed commission whenever a visitor referred by him/her to the merchant's website requested a quote or filled up an online application form.
Pay Per Click (PPC) Affiliate Programs
PPC affiliate programs are most popular. You should have heard them a lot. PPC programs are probably the easiest way for web publishers to make money from their websites and blogs. The affiliate gets paid a certain amount ($0.05 to $0.50 usually) whenever a visitor click a banner or text ad displaying on the affiliate's website. PPC typically used by contextual advertising companies like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Networks and much more.
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
In this type of programs, the affiliate not only compensated for every customer referred to the merchant's website, the affiliate is also paid whenever the referred customer returns to the site and buy another product.
The different types of affiliate marketing programs would deffinitely work differently for merchants and affiliates, and each would have their own advantages and drawbacks. To find out which types of programs work best for you, you'll have to know which one of them suit your need and characteristic most. And then start testing them.
Tips for Selecting a Good Affiliate Program to Promote
Your success in affiliate marketing part depend on the kinds of affiliate programs your are marketing.To make your affiliate marketing campaign works, you obviously need to participate in an affiliate program that offers worthy and quality products. Below are some tips that can help you choose an affiliate program that is good for you:
1. Affiliate programs that are associated with many experts in that particular niche usually are in certain level of standard and quality. Joining one of these programs will assure you that the products of the program you will be promoting are in good standard.
2. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Ask question. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.
3. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.
4. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.
5. Ask for program recommendations in the community forum of your niche. The experienced marketers who see your question may recommend you the reliable programs they have success with. Other things you can ask about are like is the program offers a real and viable product? Does the program provide a lot of free tools and resources helpful to affiliate? and any other questions you think are essential.
5 Tips to Boost Your Adsense Revenue
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Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google's contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click.
However you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don't know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:
1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn't matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.
2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website's background. If your site's background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.
3. Don't place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between AdSense locations can make when you see your earnings.
4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.
5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.
These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.v
Make Money with Paid Membership Site: How to Get Members (Part 1)
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Paid membership sites are gold and can give a monthly guaranteed income. They are very easy to set up and just take a few hours of your time. Membership sites can be set up in various niches and in different price ranges. Imagine waking up in the morning and seeing a pile of cash in your Paypal account, without actually doing anything that day or even that week.
Today, people understand the importance of good content and they have no issue with paying to access a good membership site that provides that information. Getting members to a membership site begins with looking for a good niche for the site. It all depends on your target market.
Hot market
Selecting a hot market is the key to getting people. The first thing that needs to be done is research to find out what is selling. The best place to look for the top selling hot products is www.clickbank.com. Clickbank is the leading seller of ebooks and that would be a perfect place to find a niche market. Another place to get some ideas of great niches is www.43things.com and also www.amazon.com. Go to these places and see what is most popular and you should get several ideas. Getting members starts here, finding the right niche.
This is basically the initial research that needs to be done in order to attract people. Here we will not be going into how to create a paid membership site. Once you found your niche and have created a membership site, how do you get people to know that you have a site that you want them to join?
Affiliate programs
Finding some super affiliates that are looking for great affiliate programs to promote, is a wonderful way of promoting your membership site.
There are several paid membership sites that allow you to do joint ventures and look for joint venture partners. There are paid and free forums and sites where you will find such people. There are affiliate program directories through which you can find good affiliates, for example, http://lifetimecommissions.com. You don’t have to price it very high to attract top affiliates. Just ensuring that the sales page converts well will get it going and you can pay anywhere between $5 to $20 to your affiliates, depending on what you are charging for membership. If you have a few top affiliates promoting your membership site, you can see membership swell and earning you fat money month after month.
Get Paid to Blog at TenFootSquare.com Travel Blog Network
http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/
Ryan Caldwell's network of TenFootSquare.com travel blogs has 10 travel blogging positions open at present. TenFootSquare.com is looking for people who love to travel or already have experience in traveling and blogging to fill their positions.
Monthly Compensation
1. US$100 for 20 travel posts for the first month.
2. After the first month, each hired blogger will be paid US$150 for 20 travel posts and 2 travel resource posts per month.
2. Bonus $25/m extra after every quarter, up to at least 4 quarters.
Hiring Process
You'll need to send your application to TenFootSquare.com and then go through a training provided by TenFootSquare.com pro-blogger Raj Dash before you are accepted. Here's are the steps:
Send an email to Raj Dash at rdash001@yahoo.ca with your details (Full name, email address, any travel knowledge, travel blogging experience, or blogging experience, along with a few relevant URLs, if any).
Then sign up at training site Travel.BloggingTrainer.com with your real name and personal details.
Start blogging about travel at the training site for a week on your own, with comments/ suggestions from TenFootSquare's pro-bloggers.
Raj will decide whether your qualify for the job.
TenFootSquare.com plans to recruit a travel blogger each month. If you apply but don’t get hired, you can always try again.
How many Inbound Links Do You Need?
http://www.blogformoney.org/
Today, I am going to focus on Page Rank again. As you may know, SEO talks about two things - On-page optimization and Off-page optimization. You can handle the on-page optimization without any problem since you can have full control on what to show or to have in your site. On the other hand, it is not under your control in case of off-page optimization which talks about the inbound links. As the title of this post implies, how many links do you need to in order to achieve certain PR of your site? First of all, let's look at the table below:
Therefore, as you can see from the above table, if you want to achieve Pagerank 6, you need at least 18.5 external Pagerank 6 links, 101 external Pagerank 5 links, or 555 external Pagerank 4 links. Of course, getting inbound links from a higher PR site will become harder. Sometimes, you may need to pay for those inbound links. It depends on you whether it is worth to buy those inbound links. This table partly relfect the truth that you should get as many links as possible. But, if you really want to get external links from other websites, make sure that those websites provide similar content as your website. Remember, we want good external links. And, bad external links will definitely hurt your website’s Pagerank.
