Make Money Online

Monday, April 5, 2010

Craigslist

This is one of my favorite sites on the Internet. Free advertising of almost anything you want, websites, products, used furniture, job listings, anything.

Everyone knows about Craigslist, but there are things to be aware of regarding Craigslist rules.

· Duplicate ads get deleted automatically by Craigslist

· Too many ads from the same email address can get your ads deleted

· Users can get your ad flagged and removed if your ad is irrelevent or offensive in any way.

So how can money (and I mean BIG money) be made through Craigslist?

For starters, if you have products that you want to sell, whetjer retail or wholesale, you will find prospects in your city who are interested.

If you have a website, you can advertise it on Craigslit and it may even help your site rank higher on the search engines.

However, there is a slight drawback:

“How can I make a lot of money on Craigslist if I am limited in the amount of ads I can place and I dont have time to sign up for 100 email addresses in order not to get my ads deleted from Craigslist.”

The solution is at the following link: Craigslist Ghost Poster.

The Ghost Poster is a software that I personally use to post a hundred ads per day on Craigslist. I only need one email account and I will not get my ads deleted. This program is one of the more genius methods of Internet Marketing that I have ever stumbled upon.

I advertise my Ebay listings as well as a few websites. I also have a few ads that prompt potential customers to a web page that captures leads; i.e I get their name and email address and they agree to receive information and promotions from me via email.

It's free, it's simple, and it converts wonderfully!

MySpace

Everyone by now has heard of Myspace.com. It's where people set up pages to talk about themselves, their hobbies, networking, advertising, making friends, and just having a good time.

Well, there are those that make money directly through MySpace. There are forums and boards on Myspace where you can advertise yourself, your website, your products, your affiliate links, and even your Ebay Products.

I have done so and many others have as well.

The key with Myspace success is to have a lot of friends who join your bulletin, and you send them all a bulletin once in a while with a newsletter or promotion of some sort. This is very similar to email marketing when people sign up to receive emails from you.

How do you gather friends. The slow way is by actually inviting as many people as you can and hope thay accept your add, which most will do. But this is very time-consuming and it is a hard process to find the people that would be interested in what you or your products are about.

YouTube and Internet Video Marketing

The advancement of video marketing has recently changed the way marketers do business online. Make videos and post them on your website or on sites like YouTube.com. You can even place videos in your Ebay listings and blogs.

What a way to capture prospective customers and build your credibility and professionalism by offering visual descriptions and instructions.

(I know you are thinking: “Hey big talker, so why didn't you just make this really long book into videos...that would have been more interesting.”

My answer to that is: I am working on it. I have received great feedback on my previous book, and I found out that many people preferred printing out the Ebook and reading it on paper and not strain their eyes on the computer.) But I will make videos for all of you as well.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Making Money as an Affiliate

Being an affiliate means that you are selling or promoting someone else's product and you get paid a commission for it. You sign up as an affiliate, either at an affiliate website which has thousands of companies and products to choose from or at a specific website that provides an affiliate opportunity, and you get a special link that is designated for you only. Your goal is to advertise that link and to convince people that the product is worth buying. When they do buy the product, you will get a percentage of their payment.

It's a lot easier than it may sound. I will show you the best affiliate sites to join and how to promote the products in the most effective way that will convert your visitors into buying customers.

First you should sign up to an affiliate website. There are many of them. Almost every business website today has an affiliate program. You can usually find the link to join their affiliate program at the bottom of their web page. If you are interested in promoting their product(s) then you have to sign up and get approved. This can be time consuming if you are looking to promote products from different websites.

Therefore, the best thing to do is to join an affiliate website where you only sign up once and there are thousands of products to choose from and all you have to do is change the name in your link to that of the product you want to sell without having to sign up to each website individually.

Here are the affiliate websites with the best products and easy to use features. They usually pay twice per month.

· Clickbank – Mostly informational products and digital products.

· Commission Junction – Physical products including electronics, credit cards, and even an affiliate program for Ebay.

· Paydotcom – Excellent affiliate site integrated with your Paypal account and has many informational products as well.

· Linkshare – affiliate program for many top companies on the Internet

· WebSponsors

· Lifetime Commissions

· Affiliate Guide

· Associate Programs

· Affiliate Programs Guide

Remember, all you need to do is sign up to the affiliate site(s), follow the instructions on how to get your affiliate link, choose a product, add your link name or number, and promote the product with your link in it.

Almost every website on the Internet is promoting someone else's products. It is an EXTRA SOURCE OF INCOME! You don't hold any inventory and you don't need to deal with customers. You just need to get someone to click on your affiliate link and hope that they will like the product you are promoting.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

How to Increase AdSense Earnings

AdSense has been one of the most proven ways for bloggers, small and large alike, to generate some additional cash flow through their blog each month. However, some misconceptions about the quality of the program, especially in the way that sites present their ads (i.e. Made for AdSense or “scraper” blogs) have arisen over the past.In this post, some of the ways to improve your site while running these ads will be presented shortly and nicely. These are general tips then they may be used for any sites using Blogger, Wordpress, Drupal …

The Basics of Using AdSense – Location

When you place AdSense on your site, you should look at the task as though you are providing a resource to members, not simply trying to generate income from their clicks. For this reason, you’ll want to target the areas that visitors tend to look at first – sidebars and headers. Visitors that don’t see an ad won’t click on them, either.

Here is a rather brief look at general placement options for most blogs:

Sidebar – The sidebar is one of the most critical placement areas for ads – the second most looked at location right after the content. Ads should be placed in a logical manner, blending in with other similar links or used in a way to attract attention to them, while not overwhelming your visitors with “flashy” graphics.

Between Blog Posts – These ads will display in-between each post (up to three times per page), with nearly every size available, from 120×90 pixel buttons to 300×250 rectangles. There is a good chance that visitors will notice these, thinking they are still a part of your content.

Header – A blog’s header should remain as clean as possible, distinguishing your site from others from the time a new visitors first appears on your site, but it can also be a prime location for placing ads. Generally, the best sizes are 468×15 (up to five links) or larger, as the content/links displayed will be generated from the keywords that have been placed in your header/first posts.

Menu – 728*15 ads in place of the menu in header or just beneath the header will work the most if used in that spot. This will really increase Adsense earnings as the spot and the ad resembles as if the menu of the website. Many readers of your blog may not like placing ad in that position but still if we need to make earnings from Adsense we need to find such most important spots for Adsense. (Thanks BLOGGERUSER)

Inside Blog Posts – If we display Adsense ads inside post, it is found that it has relatively higher CTR. People mostly think this ads as a part of the content and click it often. And these ads have almost related words to the topic or key words you have in your specific blog post. (Thanks CELEBSIMAGE)

Feeds – An area often overlooked for ad placement is in feeds. After all, there are many sites that have thousands of subscribers – people who normally don’t visit the actual website each day.

You can find the full set of AdSense Ad Formats here.

Color Palettes and Further Advice

There are a number of different options when it comes to how you design and place your ads within the areas specified above.

Depending on the number of visitors/readers you receive each day, you’ll want to tailor your ads to this amount. For example, higher counts means additional clicks, so less ads will need to be placed to generate the same amount of income.

Secondly, you’ll want to test and refine how they are displayed within your site. Some people design custom images to place their ads within, while some simple changes to the colors can make an enormous difference in clicks, leading to a potential increase in earnings.

If your blog has a light background behind the ads, you are suggested to blend ads within content and blend or complement ads adjacent to content.

On the other hand, if your site has a dark background, you are suggested to blend, complement, or contrast ads within content and contrast or complement ads adjacent to content.

Following these guidelines will allow your ads to either stand out or blend in appearing much like normal links.

The Key Points

Adding AdSense to the main areas of Blogger blogs is much easier than other blogs, such as self-hosted WordPress, as you don’t have to see a single line of code, although in-post ads are more difficult to implement.

Strategically place ads so readers get value in return, rather than using them to generate income. Continually test and refine to improve their appearance vs. your original content.

Desired Earnings

Ask nearly anyone that has never created a blog or website, and they will probably tell you that it is impossible, or at least “too good to be true” to make a living publishing content through blogs. Even though you want to tell them that it is possible, you might not be able to if your earnings are not at the level you want them to be.

There are a few simple ways to ensure that your earnings increase proportionally with your traffic, links, and subscribers.

#1. Make sure that you are focusing on a single topic.

When you focus on more than one topic, or subjects outside of your main niche, you begin to get into the grounds of where your visitors don’t know what to expect each day. One day, you could be talking about blogging, where the next you are reviewing your favorite TV show. They really aren’t related, no matter how hard you try to explain to your readers that they are.

#2. Your ads aren’t related to your content.

Even though many ads are placed through third party networks (AdSense, for one), you don’t have too much control over which ads are displayed when they are generated from your content (contextual).

Despite the fact that you want to “accept” all advertisers who want to place an advertisement on your blog, you have to realize that some might not be completely relevant to your readers and some may even compete against your blog. In this case, you may need to reject an ad or two, but you have to be aware that these advertisers will likely never return.

#3. Where are your ads placed?

Before you can even begin looking at where to place your ads, you should look at a heat map or click path that visitors follow when browsing your site. Based on the findings from this, adjust where your ads are placed and where your content is.

It might be contrary to popular belief, but placing content “out of reach” can help you increase earnings, as visitors are now diverted to clicking solely on your ads, then clicking on additional content.

#4. What are you providing to your readers?

This is a popular question that you should ask yourself at times when you begin to notice decreases in traffic or revenue. When you say “content,” you should think about changing your focus. Advertisers look for something unique that you can offer, whether that is a high conversion rate, a high number of subscribers compared to traffic, or services that you offer in addition to content.

#5. Increase your site’s traffic.

Not easy for some, increasing a site’s traffic could take some time. The more traffic you get, or the more high-quality traffic you receive, the more likely a visitor is to click on an ad. Additionally, if your ads are targeted towards your visitors, they will be more inclined to click on them, if you offer CPC advertising.

#6. Diversify your revenue sources.

Focusing solely on AdSense earnings won’t help you in the long-term, unless you are able to quadruple your traffic each month, which is nearly impossible. Add affiliate links to your content through reviews, banner images in your sidebar linking to the program, or include them in your feed’s footer. Although many frown upon this form of advertising, it is one of the easiest to make money from, and you are getting free traffic form your blog flowing to the pages.

Conclusion

Everyone’s blog is different, so there could be underlying problems that eliminate some of the potential from your earnings. You have to think about why your visitors aren’t clicking on ads, why advertisers aren’t finding your site, and other reasons that might affect your earnings. At the end of the day, you have to realize that blogs take more work to maintain and keep active than a traditional static website, but can see more benefits over the course of your blog’s lifespan.

Launching Traffic

The public is greatly involved on the World Wide Web nowadays, ensuring their own websites, blogs and social internet domains. Filled with informative information up to the gibberish data that are least to be look upon. Being influential to the web visitors is our prime concern. Gaining traffic is similar to generating money; the more web-surfers come to your website, the more revenue you can produce. Likewise endorsing ads or establishing more business. But we can’t deny the fact that attaining traffic needs expertise, time, and strategies to drive your site traffic as much as you can manage. To avoid rejection and failure on your online marketing business, here are some guidelines to somehow instill you on the most effective way of launching traffic in your websites:

1. Established a blog network

Everyone have their own blogs, a popular form to endorse commercial aspect and social networking. A Blog Network is simply a bunch of blogs that are linked together under a similar scope and a sole domain or banner, it can come in a range of shapes and sizes. The most prominent and long running of the current range of blog networks are Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc – both of which have numerous blogs with massive traffic and business models that generate big profit . An easy way of promoting advertisement and gain web traffic.

2. Engage yourself to the most widespread Social Networking Sites

Social networking makes the web go round because the internet is crowded with millions of individuals who are eager to meet other internet users, to know each other and share first-hand information or talk about topics they are hooked in. When it comes to online social networking, websites are commonly used. These websites are known as social sites. Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users. Spearheaded by known social networking sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, Flicker & Friendster. Generating millions of visitors and members each day, conveying such a potential market for the business ran in the internet. It offers infinite opportunities to generate traffic by social network users that are of interest in your business and could also be a businessman itself.

3. Create a proficient impression and design a good template

Having a proficient impression can buy peoples trust and gain links to your website, to promote what you are selling. Write an informative profile about yourself that can fascinate web visitors. An overall picture of your profile can appeal to the eyes of the web surfers. Each of them has their own perceptions of what is organized, informative and outstanding. Some prefer a design that best fits their thoughts. In addition there are many available templates that best fits your ads and the atmosphere of a professional profile that can add significance to you and to your products.

4. Use Social Networking to invite business men

An online business is look upon by business men that are interested with your products, in social networking you can invite people to gain traffic by promoting your products to businessmen like you that are more interested and concerned. 65% of business professionals utilize personal and professional social networking Web sites, a surprising result of a recent survey on online social networking by the Institute for Corporate Productivity. It cannot only improve your search engine ranking but can also gain links and web popularity.

5: Broadcast your website through audiovisuals

YouTube is one of the most popular video sharing site nowadays. It is one of the best place to exhibit and share your own videos. The more people who visit your videos in YouTube or other video sharing site, the more you can create traffic flood to your site. And people may want to obtain further information by following the links at your YouTube profile and arrive to your website.