Saturday, February 23, 2008

Earn Money With Paid To Post

Making money online with paid posts can be an example of home-based business model which works. Although it can become boring and very frustrating after several months, writing paid posts can earn you a living until you learn how to generate some residual income.

The advantages of making money with the “paid to post” model

  • You don’t need to have any other skills than writing, in order to run your business
  • The initial investments are low (and can be zero, if you decide to go for free blogger blogs), provided that you already have a computer with an internet connection
  • There’s no minimum traffic level requirement in order for you to get accepted

The drawbacks of making money with the “paid to post” model

  • If you stop writing, you stop earning
  • Writing paid reviews which contain links to the advertisers’ websites, which are not tagged with no-follow, is against Google’s rules concerning internet marketing and SEO, and you risk to get your blogs de-indexed from this search engine. This means that your blog won’t appear in the results pages for any keyword, plus you’ll be taken away your PR which you may have earned by gathering links
  • If Google catches your blogs faster than you can build them, your earnings will be under initial expectations, so it is not a highly reliable business model
  • You can’t use it if you don’t have a PayPal account, as this is a must for getting accepted by PPP

So, this looks very much like a 9-5, ordinary job: you do it, you get paid, but the income stops the moment you quit it. However, it is a job with flexible working hours, allowing you for example to stay home with your children and still make some money. If your objective is to find a way to make a living without having to commute every day to and from the work place, and with the possibility to work at any hour of the day you wish, then this can be a suitable model for you.

If you aim for getting rich, or earning a residual income (the so-called “make money while you sleep”), or setting up a business you can scale later on, then this is not the method for you.

Now, let’s see how making money with “paid to post” model works:

Despite the fact that many blogs have been “punished” by Google lately, and found their PR dropped to 0 over night, there are many bloggers who still use paid posting services, like PayPerPost.

Why do bloggers still use paid posting? Because it is easy. Just try this scenario:

  1. Build 10 blogs on Blogger (or buy 10 domains, host them somewhere cheap, and install Wordpress on all of them; you can also buy one single domain and define 10 subdomains, if you don’t have the money for 10 domains)
  2. Write 3-4 posts on each blog. Don’t use duplicate content, go find some Private Label Rights (PLR) articles and rewrite them. Usually there’s a fee you have to pay to get access to PLR articles, but there are also free ones available. Private Label Rights give you the right to modify the articles in any way you wish, and sign them with your name. This is not theft, this is the purpose they’ve been written for.
  3. Bookmark all your posts with del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites. If you don’t have the budget for some good submission software, you can use SocialPoster, which is free and which saves you a good bunch of your time.
  4. Submit your blogs to some 100 free blog directories. If you don’t use any helpful submission software, this would take you about 3 hours for each blog. You’ll see the benefits in several months or so (if you want to get indexed in directories faster, you have to pay, and I don’t think it’s worth doing it in this stage of your business).
  5. Rewrite a bunch of the PLR articles and submit them to article directories. Rewriting is necessary in order to appear unique. By rewriting I don’t mean mixing up the words with whatever words mixer software, but to express those ideas with your own words, and even complete the article with your own ideas about that topic. It’s true it takes a bit longer than just using automation, but it is worth spending time to create things that make sense. In this way, your articles will be more appreciated by people who seek content for their sites, and who will publish them on those sites, giving you backlinks with your desired anchor text, because they must keep the author box intact (and it is you who writes the author box and the links in it)
  6. Continuously add content to your blogs. If you do 2-3 posts per week, in one month’s time you’ll have at least 10 articles on each blog.
  7. Keep on building links to your blogs. Bookmarking helps a lot here, and it shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes per each post.
  8. At the next Google PR update you’ll probably get some PR between 1 and 3 for all your blogs.

Open a free account with PayPerPost and submit one of the blogs. The good news is that PayPerPost have just announced that their TOS (terms of service) for accepting new blogs into the network, have just changed:
Until now, blogs had to be 90 days old and have 20 posts published. Starting February 13th, blogs have to be only 30 days old and have 10 published posts in order to get accepted.

Once accepted, you’ll be allowed to write maximum 3 paid posts per day. For PR1 blogs, the payouts average $7 per post. So you can make $21 per day, for some 1 - 2 hours of work, depending on your writing skills.

Once you have 10 paid posts approved (this can take about one week), you can submit more blogs to PayPerPost.

Let’s say you enroll 4 blogs with PayPerPost, while taking care to update the other 6 every other week or so. For 4 PR1 blogs, you can earn $7 x 3posts x 4blogs = $84 per day. For this you’ll have to work 5-8 hours. Keep in mind that you cannot have two consecutive paid posts on your blogs, so you’ll have to write also your normal blog posts (3 per day, per blog).

At each Google PR update you’ll probably have the unpleasant surprise that some of your blogs are downgraded to PR0. Let them stale and replace them in PPP with some others you already had been growing, but never used them in ways which are not conform with Google’s policies.

Don’t forget to keep on building new blogs, so that you can always have 2-3 blogs with PR1 at least, which are “clean”.

Possible monthly earnings

With 4 PR1 blogs in the PPP network, and writing 3 posts per day on each of them for 25 days a month, we come to an average monthly income of $2100. If you work 10 months per year, you can make $20,000, which, depending on the country you live in, can be the equivalent of an average salary, or even better.

And this is not the most optimistic scenario. Some of your blogs can get a bigger PR, depending on how fast you are at getting inbound links.

Besides, if you choose for your blogs some topics which are pretty hot, after a couple of months you may get some traffic from the search engines. Nobody stops you to put some AdSense or some affiliate links and banners on your blogs, for additional income.

The expenses can be zero, in case you decide to go for free hosted blogs, or they can reach some $200-$300 per year, if you buy the domains and the hosting.

If you decided to give it a try, even if it is only with 2-3 blogs, or even with one blog, just for some extra pocket money, please find out how to get your blog ready, from our PayPerPost review. You’ll also find out from our review why we have chosen PayPerPost and not any other paid-to-post program to illustrate this home-based business model.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Affiliate Programs for Better Money Making

                     An affiliate program provides a financial incentive to those who run their own websites to encourage traffic to visit an advertiser's website. Some webmasters receive money simply for driving traffic to a site while others pay webmasters only if they sell more products or services as a result of the extra traffic.

               SFI stands for "strong future international" and affiliate programs of this sort are a step above the affiliate programs that first got their start when the Internet was only a few years old. The SFI affiliate programs are geared towards teaching novice webmasters everything they need to know, in a logical step by step format, in order that the webmaster can begin making money over the Internet from a variety of affiliate programs and in particular do this all for free. So far SFI seems to be fulfilling its purpose as more and more people are jumping on the SFI bandwagon and choosing to involve themselves with affiliate programs.

           There are many types of affiliate programs available on the Internet but what makes this process even better is to get involved with the Plug in Profit website. The Plug in Profit website provides all the necessary tools to get an affiliate off to an excellent start. Besides SFI, an affiliate is provided with other programs upon signing up with a Plug in Profit website such as Host4Profit, GetResponse, the Internet Marketing Center and Internet Marketing Warriors. Later on Empowerism, Success University and Traffic Swarm were also added.

                   The Plug in Profit website allows you to start your own business from scratch but provides the web entrepreneur with the necessities such as a domain name which clearly is visible on the website that is created for the brand new affiliate. These websites are easy to develop and easy to maintain and many can be up and running in 24 hours, and in some cases in a shorter period of time then that. Abbreviated to "PIPS", Internet marketing and home-based businesses are thriving due to the inception of this concept in the online marketplace.

                  All of the products as well as the programs available are free to join and it has never been easier to promote the "PIPS" program as long as you are an enterprising person with a drive to succeed.

                    Marketing tips are provided to affiliate members who join "PIPS" which makes it easy to start earning money right away as opposed to having to wait for many months to see a dime. These tips will teach you how to recruit new affiliate members and how to grow your business from a small one to that of a large, thriving affiliate network.

                   SFI is one of the best known, and at a glance seems to be one of most lucrative of legitimate home business opportunities. SFI stands for Six Figure Income because that is what you can earn . SFI is a marketing company that is affiliate based. The owner, Gerry Carson, started his legitimate home business as Carson Marketing, then changed to the more appealing Six Figure Income, or SFI as its known by most.

                   While SFI does have direct marketing features, those who join and build their own legitimate home business make most of their money through overrides paid when they recruit others to SFI.

Friday, January 11, 2008

Free Money Making tricks for Bloggers

Making money from blogging has become easier over the past two years. Advertisements, sponsorships, fundraising and even blogging jobs are only some of the ways a blogger can earn money these days. So, if up until now you weren't financially rewarded for sharing your world view with the blogosphere, continue reading to find out how to make your blogging efforts more profitable.

Advertisements
Google's Adsense is one of the easiest and most popular ways to earn money by putting advertisements in your blog. Anyone who owns a blog (or a website) can open an Adsense account, place ads in his blog (or website) and earn money depending on the number of clicks on the Adsense links from the blog. Adsense advertisements fit themselves to the target audience of the blog. For example, if you write a blog on the popular board game backgammon, the ads would probably lead to online gaming sites. Therefore, the size of the revenue from your blog is subject to the appeal of the ads among your readers.

Sponsorships

If your blog gets a lot of traffic, you can try to approach a certain company or a business and offer them to run an advertisement campaign at your blog. Many of today's companies appreciate the widespread potential hidden in popular blogs so you might even receive a positive answer.

However, it would be easier to get sponsorship for your blog if you are willing to settle for your original content ideas and include a preordered review on a specific product chosen by the company that will pay your hosting bills. Services such as Pay Per Post (PPP) or Review Me, specialize in connecting between advertisers and bloggers. Of course that if you write a beauty blog, you will not be paid to post a review on a set of golf woods and vice versa.

This money making method has its pros and cons. Looking at the bright side, you get free products, content idea at no cost, plus you get paid to post. On the other hand, you can never be the same independent and free of commercial considerations blogger you used to be.

Fundraising

If blogging takes over most of your spare time and your community of readers still can't get enough of you, why don't you ask them to lay a few pennies at your donation box? Fundraising buttons, also known as tip jars, ask the readers to take part in the blog maintaining expenses or to help the blog owner to spare part or all of his day job to become a full time blogger, have been in use for a long time. Over the past few years, rumors on the effectiveness of this monetizing method supported the growth in its popularity among successful bloggers.

More Ways to Make Money from Your Blog

Additional ways to make money from blogging include joining an affiliate program (such as Amazon Associates) in which by linking your readers to the business you receive an agreed share of their revenues; developing blogging related career which can range from a ghost blogger to newspaper columnist through business blogging counselor and merchandizing, whether by offering t-shirts with your blog logo for sale or by selling an e-book on your field of expertise.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

GET A GOOD BLOG AND EARN MONEY

The positioning needs to be constantly informed.

Terms SEO.

Some of the terms and words that you can understand more easily all the documentation concerning the search engine positioning.

At the time of increasing visits, here are some useful tips

  1. Include the address of your blog on your signing the mail. This is great, because every time you send an e-mail will be your blog address and more than one click it out of curiosity.
  2. Add your URL to Google.
  3. Enables your pages entry into the options for your menu. This means that each post will have its website independently, so that when someone searches for something on Google, the search engine will have more links.
  4. offers at the end of your post and where you want, links to other articles you have written.
  5. Design a button to your blog with a code so that other users from copying and stick in your sidebar.
  6. Subscribe Seekers Blogs to keep you on their lists as Technorati, Daypop.
  7. Creates links to other blogs. To help you read the others to read.
  8. Leave comments in many places, is a way people are interested in what you say and want to deepen curioseando in your blog. Now, the idea is not to become a spammer.
  9. Enables Feed your site.
  10. Allows readers comment on each post. Perhaps many users back to see how the conversation continues.
  11. Increases your positioning on the search engines Google.
  12. Meet at your feed as often as possible.
  13. Look after your spelling and your vocabulary.
  14. Participate in forums and gives your blog.
  15. Install a 'Blogroll'. This is a collection of links to blogs that you like.
  16. Add a link to your blog that others recommend.
  17. Creates posts summary, which verify various posts on the same subject, linking them.
  18. Tries, to the extent that you can, answer the comments of your readers. They will be very happy.
  19. Try writing on the same subject, to let your readers back for more of it.

Blog Traffic Tips

1) Comment on Blogs
Look for large traffic Blogs in your niche, visit them and leave your comments on their blogs posts. You may use blog search engine like www.blogsearchengine.com, www.google.com/blogsearch and www.searchengineblog.com to find blogs in your niche.

2) Submit Articles
Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.

3) Participate in Community Forums
Use google to search for forums that are related to your blog. Look for forums that has over 10,000 members and read the rules of the forums to see whether you can promote your blogs and websites in your signature. Join forums that allow you to add a link to your blog in the signature and start participating in discussion. You can ask questions, answer other members questions and post your articles, ideas and thought in the forums.

4) Submit Your Blog to Directories
This isn't working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.

5) Post Often
You can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog, try to make it at least 5 posts per week. This not only will maintain your traffic but possibly attract more readers.

6) Write about Blogging
Write helpful and quality articles related to blogging can attract other bloggers link to your articles and gain may be truckload of free traffic.

7) Post Breaking News
If your found a breaking news of your niche very earlier, post it to your blog. It may give your blog's traffic a boost.

8) Social Bookmarking
Bookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.

9) Run a Contest
Start a contest on your blog. Think about the prizes that people really want. It will create a viral effect and bring in new visitors.

10) On-page Optimization
Make sure your blog's title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, don't be surprise to see your blog ranks top 10 in Google and get free search engine traffic daily.

Website to Make Money Online

There are several choices in creating a website to earn money online, you can either choose to design a website from scratch yourself or use a professional ready-made web template to build a website for your online business. Whatever your choice is, there are several things to think about and ask yourself from the start:
1. Do you need a shopping cart or an e-commerce solution on your website?
2. Do you want to reserve some space to display articles?
3. Would you like to make money with advertising programs (such as Google AdSense, Kontera Ad Link and, etc)? If yes, you'll need to plan for on-site advertising space in the website design.
4. Do your website design need to be interactive for site visitors?
5. Are you going to use a content management system (CMS) to run your website?
6. Is there a need to add audio or video player on your website?
Once you have answered these questions, it is time to start designing a website for your online business. You have a few general options to consider when deciding how to design a website:
1. Pay a web design company or professional Web designer to design and create a custom website according to your requests and needs.
2. Design a website yourself if you already possess web design skills and experience or you can take a course to learn about web design and HTML code.
3. Search for a ready-made professional web template from free website template sites, or buy one from a web template provider. Then use the template to start building your site. You may customize the template to fit your needs.
Using a web template is probably the best option if you don’t need a custom web design, and don’t want to design a website from scratch yourself. The good things about using template are it saves you a lot of work in the website building process and you don't need to spend a hard time thinking about the background and layout for your website since web templates have all the design made ready. Below are some of sites that provide ready-made website templates where you can use to build a money making website:
1. Freewebtemplates.com – The website has a collection of 3937 Free Templates created by designers from around the globe available for download. They also provide free web graphics and links to professional website template.
2. Templates5.com – A lot of pre-made web templates created to fits the needs for different online business in Templates5.com. Most of the templates are well designed and in good quality. Each template in Templates5.com costs $50 to $90.
3. Aplustemplates.com – This is one of those subscription based template sites. For a yearly fee of $49.99, you can access to Aplustemplates.com's library to download different types of website templates. New templates are added weekly, so you have the chance to use fresh new template for your website.
Whatever your decision is in designing a website for your online business, make sure that the website design serves the needs of both your online business and its target visitors.

Key to Success of Your Blogging

Definitely content means a lot for blogging. If you can create a stable flow of unique, quality content on your blog with very nice frequency of publishing - very soon your blog will become a highly authority blog in the niche.

But even 1 post per day post speed is not easy in terms of finding quality content. You can use these very simple blogging tips to learn the sources where you can get quality content on a regular basis,

Niche Forums - Idea One

Visiting niche forums is interesting not only because it helps you to learn your niche better. You can see what people are talking about there, what is INTERESTING for them or makes up some NECESSITY or URGENCY. The problem, its development and cures for the problem can become a nice and informative reading for your visitors.

Niche Forums - Idea Two

You can ask questions for the questions that are important to you and share this opinion on your blog (surely with the permission of a person who gave a good tips and the forum. If you give them a mentioning in the post - there are very likely to agree.

PLR Products

PLR (private label rights) products are the products (content) that you can legally change and edit. PLR products can be solved as separate packages and communities where members on monthly basis pay money, professional writers create PLR articles for necessary niches. And this content is later on used by the community members.

Ghostwriters

If you have a budget - ghostwriter in a nice choice. You are working with this person individually, the writer understands better the topic as he/she is writing for one niche for a long time and has the time to dig niche deeper. And this gives a nice manual control on how the process of content creation for the blog is running. Even with a pack of ghostwriters you still have a nice grab on the process.

Niche News Providers

Search for the official news provides in the niche, maybe, some niche press release agencies. Contact them and ask for the permission to edit their news and publish on the blog. If you give them a backlink from each post created on their content, they will agree. This will help you to grow with content and gain authority, then you can minimize the "give-away's" of your backlinks.

Blog Content JVs

If you found a writer or blog author in your niche and you like his/her materials - offer a content JV. This person will be sending you the new content (because this person is already creating content for the blog). You change texts a little, publish on your blog as well, with backlinks. If this blog owner sells something on the blog, you can also publish affiliate links inside your posts on your blog - this can give you extra affiliate sales.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Free Money Making Methods for Bloggers

Making money from blogging has become easier over the past two years. Advertisements, sponsorships, fundraising and even blogging jobs are only some of the ways a blogger can earn money these days. So, if up until now you weren't financially rewarded for sharing your world view with the blogosphere, continue reading to find out how to make your blogging efforts more profitable.

Advertisements
Google's Adsense is one of the easiest and most popular ways to earn money by putting advertisements in your blog. Anyone who owns a blog (or a website) can open an Adsense account, place ads in his blog (or website) and earn money depending on the number of clicks on the Adsense links from the blog. Adsense advertisements fit themselves to the target audience of the blog. For example, if you write a blog on the popular board game backgammon, the ads would probably lead to online gaming sites. Therefore, the size of the revenue from your blog is subject to the appeal of the ads among your readers.

Sponsorships

If your blog gets a lot of traffic, you can try to approach a certain company or a business and offer them to run an advertisement campaign at your blog. Many of today's companies appreciate the widespread potential hidden in popular blogs so you might even receive a positive answer.

However, it would be easier to get sponsorship for your blog if you are willing to settle for your original content ideas and include a preordered review on a specific product chosen by the company that will pay your hosting bills. Services such as Pay Per Post (PPP) or Review Me, specialize in connecting between advertisers and bloggers. Of course that if you write a beauty blog, you will not be paid to post a review on a set of golf woods and vice versa.

This money making method has its pros and cons. Looking at the bright side, you get free products, content idea at no cost, plus you get paid to post. On the other hand, you can never be the same independent and free of commercial considerations blogger you used to be.

Fundraising

If blogging takes over most of your spare time and your community of readers still can't get enough of you, why don't you ask them to lay a few pennies at your donation box? Fundraising buttons, also known as tip jars, ask the readers to take part in the blog maintaining expenses or to help the blog owner to spare part or all of his day job to become a full time blogger, have been in use for a long time. Over the past few years, rumors on the effectiveness of this monetizing method supported the growth in its popularity among successful bloggers.

More Ways to Make Money from Your Blog

Additional ways to make money from blogging include joining an affiliate program (such as Amazon Associates) in which by linking your readers to the business you receive an agreed share of their revenues; developing blogging related career which can range from a ghost blogger to newspaper columnist through business blogging counselor and merchandizing, whether by offering t-shirts with your blog logo for sale or by selling an e-book on your field of expertise.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Way to Increase Profits of your Website

Most individuals who create a website do so with the intention of making money. There are many successful internet marketers who started with a simple website and turned it into a lucrative business. Many people search for the secrets behind making money with the internet, however, many times these individuals come up short. This is because they fail to understand the basics of simple internet marketing. If you are looking for ways to increase profits with your website, the information listed here will help maximize your potential for success.

The first thing that you can do in order to increase profits with your website is to ensure that you have a marketing strategy in place. Just as a standard small business and large corporation will create a business plan that outlines their goals, you should create a plan that outlines the goals of your website as well. This can be an extremely powerful tool in ensuring that the website that you create has the necessary components to be successful in the virtual world. This may take some time and research, but you will find that it will all pay off eventually.

The second method that you can use to make money with your website is to ensure that you have valuable content. When you add content to your website, you must ensure that it is properly optimized for search engines by appropriately placing keywords and keyword phrases throughout the information that you share. You should also make certain that you provide enriching content that your visitors can benefit from reading. Your readership is extremely important. It is best to make sure that you have content that will pull in visitors, and keep them interested in your website.

The third method that you can use to increase profits with your website is to consider one or more of the many affiliate programs on the internet today. There are many programs available where you can advertise products that they specialize in and make a decent little income from the proceeds. Examples of these affiliate websites include:

- Amazon
- Wal-Mart
- Allposters
- Barnes & Noble
- Dish Pronto
- Family Safe Media
- Puzz
- VMC Satellite

The fourth method that you can use to increase profits with your website is to implement Google Adsense into it. As a webmaster, you can easily set up a variety of different advertisements on your webpage. These advertisements can be in the form of a video, simple images, or text-based. When someone who visits your website clicks on these advertisements, Google will share a percentage of their earnings with you. If you have a properly optimized website that includes thorough information and ranks high in search engines, Google Adsense can result in many profits.

Many individuals who specialize in internet marketing have discovered the secret of creating eBooks to make profits with their website. There are many individuals who simply allow a visitor to download an eBook for free. This is a great way of building opt-in lists so that you can keep in contact with individuals who are potential customers. Many internet marketers create eBooks on their website and then sell them to those that are interested. This can turn into a highly profitable business. This is especially true if you price your merchandise at a reasonable amount and your website generates a lot of traffic!

As you can see, there are many different methods in which you can increase your profits with your website. The most important thing for you to remember is that there are many different ways to increase profits. Creating a website often requires a lot of patience and hard work, but staying dedicated to the tasks at hand can help to ensure that you achieve the success that you desire. By implementing the suggestions listed in this website, you are likely to increase your earning potential. It is important to stay on top of your internet marketing strategy and to be comfortable with a certain amount of risk.

Important Information Regarding Blogging

Blogs are here to stay, and many are taking advantage of the trend. Blogging to make money is a popular choice for many work at home business owners. Blogs are simple to set up, and relatively easy to update. This is especially true when you compare blogs to other types of websites. Within just a few minutes, you can set up a professional looking blog for free and start your blogging business.

A blog is an easy to update website that looks sort of like a journal. Entries are made at a minimum of each week, and the newest entries appear at the top. Entries are normally short articles of 300 to 500 words. Readers visit the blog or read the new blog entries through a blog reading program. Readers can also comment on entries and provide links between their own blogs and your blog.

With blogging, the opportunities to make money are wide open. Before you start a blog, do some research on the Internet to see if people are interested in your possible blog topic. Your topic doesn”t have to be popular, but it does have to have a dedicated group of people who are interested in the topic. When you pick a topic, make sure to stay within a fairly small niche. Try to find a happy medium between a popular topic and a niche interest so your blog has plenty of readers. Some topics, like working at home or parenting, are too broad and have too much competition for readers.

You can set up your blog through a free blogging platform, like www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com. There are also a half dozen others to choose from. The blogging platform will walk you through making your first entry into your blog. Personally, I find blogger to be very user firendly and a good place to start experiencing what blogging is all about if you are new. However you may want to switch to wordpress and host your own blog once you are more experienced, especially when you are beginning to make money from blogging. Simply because it’’s a more stable system. The information you have read so far are essential for making money from blogging please take note of them.

Now, after you”ve made a few entries into your blog, its time to monetize your blog. This means you will be making specific changes to your blog in order to make money. One of the most popular ways to gain income from a blog is by using a contextual advertising program, like Google Adsense or Chitika. For example, if you have a blog on children’’s television and write an article about Sesame Street, the ads appearing next to that article will have to do with that program. They might be links to shopping for Sesame Street items, or an ad for vintage Sesame Street collectables selling on ebay.

One thing to note with contextual advertising is that you won”t have to worry about placing the ads yourself each day. Once you enter the code on your blog, the program will automatically refresh the advertising when you make a new post. You will be paid several cents for each click. It doesn”t seem like a lot per click, but it sure does add up quickly.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

How do you make money from WidgetBucks?

Earn $$ with WidgetBucks!

You don't like Google Adsense like me? Ok, here is the alternative, Widget Bucks. How this work?

How do you make money from WidgetBucks?

You earn money each time someone clicks on a WidgetBucks ad widget on your site, also called pay-per-click, or PPC. You can also earn money by referring people to WidgetBucks.

How do you get started?

Getting started with WidgetBucks is a simple 1-2-3 process. First, sign-up. Second, configure your widgets with our easy publishing system. Third, paste the code into your blog or Web page, or use our integration with popular blog platforms such as TypePad, Blogger and WordPress. If you want to change or update your WidgetBucks widgets in the future, simply sign in and go to My Widgets.

How much do you make?

How much you earn depends largely on your site's traffic and content. A number of publishers who have tested WidgetBucks are seeing a $3-6 CPM.

How often do you get paid?

They send out checks the first of every month for all revenue earned during the previous month, as long as you've earned a minimum of $50.

How does Mpire know where to send my check?

Simply select "Check" as your preferred payment method and complete the Payee information on your "My Settings" page. As a reminder, they have a strictly enforced Privacy Policy.

What is MerchSense?

MerchSense™ is Mpire's patent-pending contextual algorithm engine. It detects and analyzes the content of your website or blog to determine what product offers are most relevant to your audience. If you choose the MerchSense option when creating a new widget, simply place the code on your site and let MerchSense automatically provide the most appropriate ad content. MerchSense evaluates your editorial information daily, so, as your content changes, WidgetBucks will dynamically offer the highest-yielding products.

You haven't sign up yet? Start making your first online money now by join Widget Bucks!

Monday, August 06, 2007

Top 10 Reasons Why EBay Auctions Fail

Is your ebay auction not attracting any bidders? Do you find it difficult to sell your items with so many competitors. Then you need to take a look at the list below of the top 10 reasons why auctions fail.

1. High Starting Price

Many ebay buyers are looking for a good deal on ebay. If you fixed your price too high, you are probably scaring them away. They will not even look at your auction. Try to lower your starting bid each time the auction fails.

2. Ebay Buyers Can't Find You

With millions of listings on ebay with thousands added each day, buyers may not be able to find your auction listing. That is why your auction title is so important since most buyers only uses basic search function.

3. No Picture

Humans beings are visual animals. We tend to be attracted by images. So it is important to insert an image for every auction you list. Buyers like to see what it is they are bidding on even if they already know the product well.

4. Reserve Price

Putting a reserve price sometimes scares potential buyers away. Try not to have a reserve price if possible.

5. Bad Presentation

The presentation of your auction needs to be professional. Get a free auction templates from ebay or on the internet. Make it easy to read your auction by choosing a light colored background and 12 size black font.

6. Bad Spelling and Grammar

Run a spelling checker before you list your auction. A bad spelling or grammer auction makes you look bad and doesn't inspire the buyers' confidence in you.

7. High Shipping Cost

Do not overcharge your shipping costs. Most buyers will be able to know if you overcharge pretty easily by using the shipping calculator provided by ebay. A small handling charge is reasonable.

8. Low Feedback

Are you just starting out selling on ebay? If so, it may be quite difficult to sell your auction. My advice is to get your feedback rating up to at least 20. You can buy some cheap items to increase your feedback. It will be easier for you to sell then.

9. No Payment Options

Paypal is far the most acceptable form of payment on ebay. If you do not have it, go and get it. There are also other payment processor such as 2checkout, nochex but they are not integrated into ebay like paypal. Your customers may not know how to pay through those.

10. Don't respond To Questions

There will be times when buyers have questions regarding your auction. You should try to respond as soon as possible or within 24 hours. Take too long and your buyers will run off to buy your competitor's product.

There you have it. This is my list of top 10 reasons why auctions fail to get any bidders. Of course there are other reasons as well but if you can eliminate the points I mentioned in your auction, then you should be able to get bidders for your auctions.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Different methods to make money from a forum

More and more Internet marketers are flooding to join forums everyday. Obviously they have the vision and see something beneficial to them. There are certainly many ways to make money in a forum. Here are 5 proven methods:

1. Quality post to build up your reputation

By Building your reputation, you are indirectly building friendship and trust. No one trust their money or time to some whom they do not know well. Share your ideas sincerely. Never promise anything you cannot deliver. Building up trust will build up friendship and you are on your way to a huge and strong network. You will soon have a team of fellow marketers and a big group of followers. Great business deal and joint venture come from them

2. Use your forum signature

The signature system is free for you to use. Most forum limit you to a 150 - 250 letters in your signature space, so please be sure that you fully maximize your signature space. Use short url services so that you will have more space to display more advertisement. Signatures are a great way of advertising. Most people will click on a reputable person’s signature and most probably join the program he/she puts in the signature. The more post you have, the more chances your signature ad is going to be expose to the money makers.

3. Upgrade your forum account and get more exposure

Many forums has paid membership for you to upgrade at a reasonable price. You can get a lot more exposure because your user name is displayed in a different color and also you can have some free banner impressions. Your name will always be displayed on the front side hence creating curiosity and more exposure to who you are. People wants to know you and wants to join the program you are joining and making money together with you.

4. Use forums to get higher PageRank and get index fast on Major Search engines

We all know that PageRank can increase the value of a site. Most buyers look for sites with higher PR compared to lower PR. If you site or blog got index or a high ranking PR of a forum, it will help and push your PR ranking. I have seen some site which have PR 1 and got PR 2 after just 1 week of been indexed by SE on a money forum. If you find your site not indexed on Major Search engines, one of the best way is to post your site on a forum with high PR and traffic. You will soon see your site being indexed on major search engines and indirectly you will have more traffic. Traffic is equal to money on the Internet. Getting quality traffic are very important if you are looking to make money online.

5. Leverage on other money making gurus and learn from them

There are many members in the forum who are willing to share their tips and knowledge with you. Example if a member can teach you how to save money wisely and you managed to save an extra of $100 monthly. This makes $1200 in a year meaning indirectly you earned an extra of $1,200 in one year and that knowledge which is your assets follows you forever. Always increase your knowledge learning new things from the wise one. Many wants to share their quality methods of money making but are you the one who is willing to receive it? Knowledge is equal to power and money. Always invest your time in the forum learning new tricks. Treat the money forum like your money making university, you will find many professor out there willing to be your mentor.

There are many more ways to make money in forums. Any small idea can make you lots of money if you are willing to try new things. Every sub forum of a forum has its own reason for being there. Explore every part of the forum and you will be amazed of what you can find. Money making has never been made easier. The Internet and technology has helped bring the world closer. The world is out there for you. Now it is time for you to receive it.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Pay-Per-Action Ads may open up Google to being a victim of fraud

I was just reading Barry Schwartz’s report that Google is opting-in some AdSense publishers into Pay Per Action (CPA) ads. He poses the question of why would Google push these ads on the publishers who haven’t asked for it? The immediate answer I come up with is that this could actually be a test to try to detect fraud, since CPA is thought to be less prone to exploit. After all, the publisher would only get paid for these ads if someone buys - not just clicks on the ads on their sites. Perhaps the publishers that are getting opted-in are ones for which Google has had some question about the quality of click-through in their regular PPC ads.
I’ve been thinking that an unpublished problem with Google’s pay-per-action product is that Google itself is likely to become more a victim of fraud with these types of ads. Read on and I’ll describe…

I haven’t signed up for Google’s pay-per-action ads, so I’m basing this on what I know about how CPA ads would be integrated with an advertiser in general. As I understand it, Google needs to be able to detect when a particular action such as a sale in an online catalog has been completed. In order to do this, Google likely has the advertiser install a little bug onto an exit page in their shopping cart. So, when a person who has clicked through an ad completes an order, this bug would detect when the customer passes through the “Thank you for your Purchase” page or something similar at the end of the advertiser’s shopping cart process.
So, Google and the publishers of Google’s ads, depend on that reporting bug in the shopping cart exit page to be present in order for them to account for each billable “action” to be completed. If the advertiser leaves that bug off the page, Google and thead publishers would not be paid for all the customer referrals they’re sending to the advertiser.
Now, Google likely has some sort of validation process at the beginning to ensure that the bugs are installed at the beginning of pay-per-action ad campaigns. But, after initial validation, how would they tell if the bugs are present? Naturally, it would be questionable if Google is sending lots of click-throughs/referrals to the advertiser’s site and none of those converted. But, what if the advertiser is randomly displaying the tracking bug on their checkout pages only half the time, or one-third, or one-fourth? Google surely couldn’t always detect the lack of the tracking bug.

If an advertiser did this sort of an exploit, they could get a lot of free advertising at the expense of Google and AdSense publishers.

Now, I posed this exploit theory to my colleague, Alan Rimm-Kaufman who is an expert in the paid search industry, and it only took him about five seconds to find a major flaw in my thinking. According to him, this could indeed potentially give an advertiser some free advertising exposure, but it would eventually bite them, since their apparent conversion rate would be lower than Google’s threshold, which would ding the advertisement’s Quality Score. Once this happened, the ranking of the ads would start dropping and their cost to the advertiser would increase, counteracting the value of cheating.

Alan’s surely right, but I don’t think this entirely discounts my concern. There will surely be other people who would realize the same chain of reasoning I had: if the tracking bug isn’t present at checkout, an advertiser won’t get charged anything. There are likely to be some number of advertisers who are unethical enough to do this while also being so unsophisticated as to not realize that they may eventually end up getting charged more. Some of them might even not care about the eventual impact, and be entirely happy with getting loads of advertising at half-cost, third-cost, or quarter-cost.

If I’m right, pay-for-action ads appears to turn the big fraud problem with internet advertising completely on it’s head - advertisers wouldn’t need to be concerned so much with paying for invalid clicks, but Google and AdSense publishers now have to worry about being cheated by advertisers!

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Make Money Online With Your own Information Product

Creating an information product for the first time may seem to be a daunting task, but it is also the most profitable way to go!

Going through the web will bring up a lot of information but it is difficult to understand howexactly to go about it. This is where a step-by-step concise guide comes handy. This is exactly what you will find in this article.

The first step, before getting into the actual product creation is the mindset. The right mindset goes a long way in ensuring the success of your product. If one has been in Internet marketing for long and has a list to sell this to, it is easy, but when one is new and has no list, it takes a lot of hard work and some good elbow grease! Never ever get started thinking this is going to be easy. Have faith and leap into it with the dedication and commitment that is required. See it through no matter how much time it takes, one week, two weeks or a month. The first product is always the most difficult to create and let me stress that it gets only easier, especially if the first one is a success. Ensuring its success is in your hands.

                The second and most important step is one of the most talked about subjects. Finding a hungry niche. With the first product, it is always best to go with a niche that you have an interest and knowledge in. There may be several niches that are profitable, but pick one that you are passionate about. This makes things easier. After choosing a niche, check if people are interested in that niche. Use keyword tools, of which several are available, and find out the number of searches that are made for that niche and how much competition there is. Make sure the niche search results have at least 2000 searches or more. This shows that people are keen on finding information related to that niche. If it is a very small niche (less searches), then think of something else that has good search results and less competition. Choose at least ‘key phrases’ that people are looking for in that niche and note them down. Do not pick anything with too much competition for the first information product. Once you gain a little experience, you can get bold.

Once the niche and the five key phrases are ready, next step is to start writing the ebook. How do you go about it? How would you know what chapters to have in your book?

This is where Yahoo answers comes in. If you have heard of it, you would know that people ask questions and find answers to those questions, and it is an excellent resource to learn what people want to know within a particular niche. This is an awesome tool to find chapters for the ebook.

Suppose you are writing about ‘dog training’. Type that in the search bar and yahoo will bring up several questions on the dog training topic. The amount of chapters for your book should be based on the number of questions being asked, but about 5 or 6 chapters with decent content should be good enough. Note down 5 or 6 important questions that are being asked and these will be your chapters. There may be a lot more but since this is your first book, concentrate on a few.

There should be chapters for the ebook and also good titles for each chapter. Creating content for each chapter comes next.

Always start an ebook with an introduction, telling the readers who you are and what it is that you wish to convey through your ebook. Although, this doesn’t have to be long, a short story will be good.

Here are some guidelines to help with the titles. Pick a catchy title and use some words like ‘Secrets’ or ‘Never before seen’ or ‘Top 5 reasons’ in the title and make it attention grabbing. Once the titles are formed, content should be written based on those titles.

Try and ensure there is not too much fluff. Remember, people crave for information, give them as much as possible. This makes all the difference between a well-made information product and one that has been written just to make a few sales.

When writing for the first time, it is natural to feel awed by the whole process, but it sure doesn’t have to be that way. Time to get some ideas for the titles. If you are running out of ideas because you are new, read various articles on the topic of the chapter, writing down points all the time. Then expand on those points in your own words. The biggest mistake and one that will pull a writer down is copying content. There is no excuse for doing that. Taking ideas from other articles is fine, in fact it is good as it provides the much needed learning curve.

It is a lot of writing but staying focused is the key to succeeding in coming up with a great product!

Construction of each chapter becomes very important. Start off by telling them what you want to tell them. Then tell them about it and write the main content, advice and a few tips. At the very end of the chapter, summarize what you told them briefly and write a little about the next chapter.

That’s all there is to it! If you follow these steps you are on your way to creating a very profitable product!

Saturday, July 21, 2007

The most popular affiliate payment plans

Affiliate networks usually represent hundreds of advertisers, and more importantly, they collect all of your earnings from the different vendors and pay with ONE check. Even if you make $5.00 with one program, $15.00 with a second, and $10.00 with a third one, you will get paid with one check!

There are two Affiliate brokers that any new entrepreneur should sign up with: ClickBank and Commission Junction (C.J.)

ClickBank Best Affiliate Network For Beginners

The most generous commissions one can earn is by promoting digital products such as ebooks and software. Sellers of these digital products offer up to 75% commissions and sometimes more because there is no shipping costs or physical inventory involved. After a payment has been made, customers will be able to download the ebook or software directly to their computers.

The best place to find such generous affiliate programs is Clickbank. ClickBank pays affiliates twice a month as long as their accounts have earned a minimum amount of $10.00.

ClickBank represents thousands of products, which are listed by ratings. You don’t have to understand all details of ClickBank ratings, just remember that products located on the first and second pages of each category are the leaders. The top ten to twenty products in each category have high conversion rates. These sites are very successful at converting Internet shoppers to buyers. What does that mean to you? More sales!

How To Write Emails - How To Write Emails That Make Money

In order to actually make money online, you need to know how to write emails.

If you do not know how to write emails effectively then your chances to make money are limited.

Learning how to write emails that make money is not hard it just takes practice.

For starters, you must know what your audience wants.

If they are looking for information on the best golf clubs then you need to make sure your emails give out the correct information on the best golf clubs.

When you are learning how to write emails that make money be sure to speak to your readers as you would to a friend.

Be on point, courteous, and write in a simple to understand structure.

Always personalize your emails so that your readers get the impression of a one on one relationship.

When you are practicing on how to write emails that make money one of the best things you can do is to make sure you nurture a relationship with your readers.

Relationship building is of the highest order when learning how to write emails that make money.

That is how the real money is being made.

You can read every article, book, or report available on how to write emails that make money, and you will see that in each and every publication, it states pretty much the same thing as this very article does.

It is all about creating and fostering a close relationship with your audience and or readers.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Foreign Language in Website

Think global. Who says you can only earn money from articles written in English? You might be interested in knowing that I actually make a lot of money from non-English content as well!

Here's a test: Quickly, name the top three search engines in the world.

You may have come up with something like: Google, Yahoo, and MSN, or something similar. But you are dead wrong if you did!

So? Translate your content into Chinese and get it indexed! Korea, Japan and Spain also all have gigantic, growing foreign language markets to make money in!

There are many language translation plug-ins available on the market for wordpress blogs or standard web pages. Translation software usually connects to one of 3 translation services (listed below) and can do real time translation for you.

• Google Translate (http://Google.com/translate)

• Yahoo! (http://babelfish.yahoo.com/)

• Altavista Babelbish (http://babelfish.altavista.com)

Alternatively to that method, you can get SYSTRAN desktop software to do translation for you offline. The three translation websites listed above, all run SYSTRAN technology, by the way.

Now, to take this technique one-step further to create a fail-safe way of making money in foreign markets is by including the original English-based content right after the foreign language content on the same page.

Why does that help? Because sometimes AdSense fails to come up with relevant ads in strictly foreign language pages and ends up displaying nothing at all! The simple reason for this is that there are much less advertisers in foreign languages. So by including the English version on the page, regardless of the actual foreign language content, your angle is now fail-proofed.

In final, what I've learned about the foreign language experiment is that, even though there are not that many ads in any given particular foreign language, people still click on them. My theory for this is that the translated text is probably butchered, and since the ads would become the only properly structured content on the page, naturally, they click it.

Hanging Out Earning An Online College Degree

Could you ever imagine hanging out at home by choice, and earning an online college degree in the process? Many people think that obtaining an online college degree is something that requires frequent trips to the computer lab and ongoing technical issues. It is anything but this way when you enroll in your choice of online college degree programs. The simple fact is that with a steady internet connection you can access the most powerful and effective programs. This sounds easy, but it does take effort. For the self-motivated, online programs are great ways to get an education.

The fact is that most online college degrees are based upon the self paced method that allows students to work at the time most convenient for them. Given that most self paced online programs are still in someway regimented by a timeframe, within this timeframe one can obtain an online college degree in a manner that suits the needs of the person and can still be somewhat flexible. This means that you will literally be able to login, and deal with every aspect of your online education, and your online college degree program specifically at a time suitable for you. This will allow you to meet your personal or professional needs while obtaining your degree.

Earning an online degree can be individually structured to meet your specific timetable. You will never have to take an online degree class at a time that is not going to work for you. Essentially, you will be earning your degree while allowing life's priorities to come first, and your education will fall into the place that is best suitable for you. This means that for most classes you will be able to work at night on your coursework if you have to work during the day, and vice versa if you have a night job. With the recent advancements in technology and broadband connections, one attending online degree programs can watch video and do coursework anytime in as much clarity as if it were being played on their television.

So what is the downside of being able to hang out and earn your online college degree at the time you prefer? The answer is that you still must do the work, which means that you must be self disciplined enough to deal with the intensity of being enrolled in college, and especially in a self paced online college degree program. This is not a great fit for everyone, as self paced does not mean no pace, and in order to earn your degree you must be prepared to work, and be prepared to make sacrifices, just as you would in any traditional college degree program

While earning an online degree is much different in scope and breadth than earning a traditional four-year degree, it is similar in the fact that both ventures require a considerable amount of work. This means that one must be prepared to give the online college degree as much effort on studies and the coursework as they would if enrolled in a traditional program. Taking advantage of the online college degree program's flexibility is the key.

Making Money With A Business Degree Online

Most people attending college will say they are pursuing their dream: to become an integral part of the vocation in which they are interested. Many will also admit that people attending school have the desire to make substantial money after graduation. In fact, the statistics show that those with an advanced degree make more money in their lifetimes than those without an advanced degree. One of the most popular degrees that can directly increase salary potential is the business degree online of your choice. The most popular business degree is the one that takes a short time to earn, and can offer substantial benefits. There is a business degree online for all educational backgrounds, and thus is universally appealing to those considering a career change, or simply want to enhance their personal marketability. For those that want to earn a graduate degree there is the business degree masters program, as well as several undergraduate programs that should be considered when researching business programs.

While some degrees can pose a cumbersome situation for the graduate, such as the liberal arts degree, others can directly be used to create income, like that of the business degree programs. The reason that any business degree online program is worth its weight is because of the real life lessons that are taught in the program. When one graduates, they can expect to utilize the lessons taught to help improve their situation financially. The degree may even be obtained to use as a tool to gain attention from potential employers. There is an opportunity for those with a business degree online to start their own business and use the information taught in the courses to build a successful business that prospers for years to come.

Utilizing a business degree online to create a small business is a common trait among graduates. There are plenty of business degree students that take what they learn in the online classroom and apply it directly to the real world in order to better profit from the situation. This means that people will make money by using the knowledge they have acquired from the business degree online classes they took in school, and the subsequent lessons that were learned from those classes. In fact, some programs encourage students to start a business while in school to test the theories they are being taught in their business classes. This means that many of the people currently enrolled in a business degree online program will start businesses before they even graduate college.

Whatever the case may be, the bottom line is that the online courses that you take now will greatly help you profit in the future, without getting in the way of your current schedule. With this course module you will be able to study when you need to, and take other classes at the same time to pursue your career. Whatever the schedule, most business degree online programs have a way to make it work. You have no real excuse not to take online business degree courses, as they can be a great benefit to you while fitting into your current schedule. Enrolling in these courses will only enhance your chances of creating an exciting future career