Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Making money from your web site.


MoneyMaking money with your web site can be easy and challenging at the same time. Easy because all you need to do is to place snippet of code in-to your web site’s html code. Challenging because if there is no traffic to your web-site, no matter how many ads you have on it, your will earn zero.

I you have decent amount of traffic to your website and are ready to offer some space to the advertisers there many options available to you. But before you begin, please don’t over do it. Have you ever come across a site that has nothing but ads in it? How long did you stay there? This is exactly how visitors to your website will behave if they see your website as being overstaffed with advertisements of all sorts. Buy providing quality content that is relevant to your visitor, you have a better chance to keep the visitor, to make him come back and along the way to make money with advertisements on your site. Making sure that advertisements on your site are relevant as well will allow you to profit more.

So how do you make money with your website?

There are many options available today to publishers. Some are better than others but neither should be dismissed or overlooked, since each program out there can offer something unique.

Google Adsense

Google Adsense- probably most famous, most sophisticated and most used method of monetizing on your website.

How does Google Adsense work?

Google Adesnse works in conjunction with Google Adwords. Google Adsense is a way of delivering advertisers ads to the end user (Internet user). When an advertiser using Google Adwords choses to have his advertisements delivered via content match, his ads will appear on the sites that are approved by Google Adsense. So whenever you apply and are approved for Adsense your website(s) become a part of Google Network. Google uses sophisticated technology to analyze the content of your website and place advertisements that are highly relevant to the content of your website. So if you have quality content on your website and good traffic, you maybe able to monetize quiet well with Adsense.

What are the alternatives to Google Adsense, how do they differ?

AdBrite and TexLinkAds

While Google is a leader in advertising today there some good alternatives which can be used to make money with your website. We will discuss AdBrite and TexLinkAds among so many other options hoping that you are not bored of your mind and still reading this article.

When using AdBrite or TextLinkAds, the advertisements on your site will be placed in a form so static html links and if your site ranks high in the search engines, you may be able to make $100 or more a week per link. Unfortunately neither Adbrite or TextLinkAds are as much sophisticated as Google when it comes to analyzing the content of your website, so that ads appearing on your site will be relevant to your visitors. But with AdBrite as well as TexLinkAds, you have an option to approve or disapprove an advertiser and therefore to control the relevancy of your ads from these systems to the content of your website.

Many web masters and advertisers will use AdBrite and TexLinkAds to increase “link popularity” for their websites. You too can use these systems for link building purposes as well. But if you have good traffic to your site and your site is ranked high in the search engines, you may make as much money with AdBrite and TextLinkAds as you would with Google Adsense.

Tips On Making Money With AdBrite

So you have joined AdBrite? You may be one of those lucky web-masters or bloggers that will immediately start benefiting from the advertising ads shown on your blog or website. Chances are that you may also be one of many who, after joining AdBrite and placing the necessary codes on your website, will earn pennies per day as weeks and months pass them by. Every forum or website you go to, to find an advise on how to monetize on your website via advertisements, you will read that in order to begin earning any good money with advertisements on your website, you will need traffic and lots of it.


There are few things that you can do to improve your chances on earning better income from AdBrite, even if your website does not have much traffic. Basic understanding on how AdBrite works will help you to set a stage for success with advertising.

Placing Your Website in Correct Category and Choosing the Right Keywords.

Whenever you create a new AdBrite add zone for your website, you are asked to choose a category to which your website belongs. While this may seam as a simple step, placing your website in a wrong category will affect the kind of adds that will be shown on your website. If your website, for example is about cosmetics and you have chosen for your website a category for websites about pets, the future visitors may wonder why the advertisements for animal products are shown on your website.

You may also consider to use wisely the description field for your website. Many web masters use the description that is exact copy of the description they have used when submitting their websites to other directories and search engines. While this kind of description is OK, you will be better off to you use that option to sell your space. You can, for example mention that all AdBrite advertisements are located above the “fold” on your website. Many advertisers know that adds located above the fold have much better click-through.

After choosing the category, you will be asked to provide two sets of keywords. One- to describe the content and nature of your website. The other- to let advertisers know what they can sell via advertisements on your website. Make sure that each group of keywords are related. This will only compliment the content of your website and most likely improve the click-through of your ads.

The above steps of course are not important should you choose to manually approve each and every add. But if you let AdBrite to approve the adds, they will most likely reflect the keywords you have provided in one of the steps while setting an add zone.

Pricing Your Add Zone.

One of the great features available to AdBrite publishers is that they can choose to set their own prices that will be used in direct purchases. Setting the right price is very important. While you may have an ambition of showing an advertising at $100 per day, this will only work for high trafficked websites. On the other hand setting lower then your competitors may result in poor earnings. With time you will be able to adjust prices after you learn what works and what does not. Having the freedom to set your own prices, you may also use it as an incentive feature. Let say you have set the price at $1 per day. You can offer a discount to those advertisers who will choose to place a weekly rate at $5 or a monthly rate at $20.

Developing Relationships With AdBrite Advertisers.

Since you will be able to manually approve all direct purchases, use this opportunity to build a business relationship with your advertisers. Do not be afraid to ask for their feedback even if they do not repurchase the adds on your website in the future. This feedback will provide you with tips on how to improve your efforts.

Upon approval of specific adds for your website send an e-mail to your advertisers reminding them to install tracking code on their website. If they have done so, send them another e-mail to see whether or not their campaign is performing well.

How To Make Money With Google Adsense




| By XD-2008 |

Learning how to make money with Google Adsense is probably the easiest way to make money online.

In this article, I will show you what it takes to make money with Google Adsense and more importantly, how I got started making money with Google Adsense.

Get ready for some interesting screenshots……

How Much Money Can You Make With Google Adsense?

The sky is the limit, frankly.

But one thing about Google Adsense is that you are not likely to earn a lot of money right from the beginning.

Seriously ask yourself this question:

Would you like to be paid $4k a month? Or being paid $0 in the first month but getting a pay rise of $100 every month thereafter?

If your answer is the former, Google Adsense may not be for you.

But if your answer is the latter, that’s the kind of money Google Adsense can give you - at the minimum!

What It Takes To Make Money With Google Adsense

I’ll keep my answer short. You need to:

Step 1) Conduct keyword research
Step 2) Churn out good articles based on the right keywords
Step 3) Build SEO friendly websites
Step 4) Build links (to boost your search engine rankings)

If you are new to internet marketing, every one of these 4 steps can be a challenge to you. But trust me, each of these 4 steps are simple skills that you can learn and master. Once you’ve mastered these 4 steps, you simply have to repeat the 4 steps again and again.

How I Started Making Money With Google Adsense

To tell you the truth, I had been making pennies from Google Adsense since 2004. But I started making ’significant’ income from Google Adsense after I made a major decision in September 2006.

The major decision was to subscribe to PLRPRO, a premium membership site that gives you 440 unique articles a month in 11 different niches.

One thing I like about PLRPRO is that the founder has done all the keyword research. That saves my work in doing Step 1.

Churning out good articles in Step 2 is also easy, since I already have 440 articles to choose from.

Back in 2006, the only things I needed to focus on was Step 3 and 4. (Today, PLRPRO has grown so much that even Step 3 and Step 4 are semi-automated. With the latest PLRPRO that is launched today, the whole process has been simplified tremendously.)

Before you jump into building your Adsense empire, let me give you a preview of what you can expect.

As I mentioned, I subscribed to PLRPRO in September 2006. In that month, I only built two websites out of the 11 niches given to me. Apparently I wasn’t one of the hardworking members in PLRPRO.

Here’s my Adsense earning from the two websites in October 2006 - $17.57. Nothing impressive. (I purposely blur part of the website url so that you can look at the change in income for each website.)

In November 2006, I made $64.45 with Google Adsense from just two websites. No new website was added in that month.

In December 2006, I added 3 more websites. My monthly Adsense earning was $76.23.

The 3 new websites got established fast and in January 2007, I achieved my first three figure a month Adsense income. In January, I also added 2 new websites.

Things were starting to look promising, weren’t they?

In February 2007, my total websites increased to 9 and my Adsense income for that month was $349.19.

It’s worth noting that out of the 9 websites, 2 of them made me more than $100 a month!

Sidetrack: Take a look at my February stats again and look at my new website that start with www.rom….. I’m very fortunate to have built a website on this niche.

Why?

Because…… Look at what this website is making me now!

$626.54 a month from Google Adsense from just one website! I may be lucky on this niche. So far, it’s my best performing Adsense site.

Ok, let’s go back to my progress……

After 1 year, in September 2007, my Adsense income was $1099.62.

After 2 years, in September 2008, I made $2725.28 from Google Adsense.

Can you see how the income grow exponentially?

All the earnings I’ve shown above are from websites built using articles from PLRPRO, excluding my Adsense income from other sources. This gives you a better assessment of the potential of PLRPRO.

Final Remarks

In my opinion, Adsense is the easiest way to make money online. As long as you are willing to work, you will surely make money. There is no need to know how to write good sales letters or presell affiliate products.

Moreover, in the process of making money from Google Adsense, you will master the skill of generating traffic from the Search Engines. With this skill, you can easily diversify into other ways of making money online, such as affiliate marketing.

Special Bonus For Action Takers

The new PLRPRO has just been released today and it’s now more than just a content provider. It has transformed into something that is close to a push-button solution to making money from Google Adsense.

It’s excellent for newbies.

If you sign up PLRPRO through my link, I’m going to give you an invaluable bonus.

After two years of creating Adsense websites, I realize that certain niches are more profitable than other niches. Interestingly, whenever I create another website in the profitable niche, the website will be another winner.

As a special bonus for those who take action, I’m giving you a list of my top performing niches and poor performing niches. This will help you to focus on the profitable niches and avoid niches that are not profitable.

Yes, with this bonus, you will know what is the above niche that makes me more than $600 a month.

Here’s what you need to do to get the bonus:

1. Sign up PLRPRO through this link.
2. Email the receipt to support[at]leadsleap.com, with the subject “My PLRPRO Bonus”.

I’ll send you the bonus personally.

PLRPRO is a limited membership program. The last time I checked, Group A and Group B are already sold out. As far as I know, there are a total of 5 Groups and each group probably have about 30 vacancies left. This means there are less than 100 vacancies left at the time I checked.

Monday, December 22, 2008

How to make money from your blog: 3 tips

Many of the people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too.

I recently wrote a column detailing how to get a blog up and running to boost your small business.

If you're interested in taking it further — blogging for bucks, if you will — here are five strategies that could turn your blog into a moneymaker.

1. Sell advertising.

This is likely the most common means of leveraging a blog to generate income. If yours happens to become a well-known blog, or one that is well-received in a particular niche, it's always possible to sell ad space on your

own. For lesser-known blogs, services such as Google's AdSense or BlogAds enable bloggers to establish ad programs.AdSense's — which lets you select several ads that are consistent with the content of your blog — pays you based on how many readers click on the ads for further information. Even better, it's free. BlogAds, on the other hand, hooks bloggers up with would-be advertisers and levies a commission in return for any ad placements that result. "The nice thing, too, is that the ads are relatively unobtrusive," says Scott Allen, co-author of "The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online."

2. Help sell others' products.

Here is another click-through opportunity. Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a conduit between readers and onlinesites offering various goods and services. One popular choice is Amazon.com. If, for instance, you offer book reviews or even just mention a book in passing in your blog, an affiliate program provides a means for your readers to click directly from your blog to Amazon to obtain further information about the book. If they break out the checkbook or charge card, you get paid as well.

3. Solicit contributions.

Not every blog-related income opportunity involves hawking goods or services. As Blanche DuBois did in "A Streetcar Named Desire," consider relying on the kindness of strangers. Ask for contributions. If, for instance, your small-business blog supports a cause or issue in some fashion — say you repeatedly mention tax reform, health care or some other topic — you can always ask for reader support.Even if you've attracted a group of regular followers who simply enjoy reading what you have to say, they may be willing to underwrite their loyalty with a little financial help. Programs such as PayPal make iteasy to establish a simple on-site contribution collection button. "There are lots of worthy 'cause' blogs that would qualify for donations from grateful members of the blog community," says Las Vegas communications consultant Ned Barnett