Your success in affiliate marketing part depend on the kinds of affiliate programs your are marketing.To make your affiliate marketing campaign works, you obviously need to participate in an affiliate program that offers worthy and quality products. Below are some tips that can help you choose an affiliate program that is good for you:
1. Affiliate programs that are associated with many experts in that particular niche usually are in certain level of standard and quality. Joining one of these programs will assure you that the products of the program you will be promoting are in good standard.
2. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Ask question. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.
3. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.
4. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.
5. Ask for program recommendations in the community forum of your niche. The experienced marketers who see your question may recommend you the reliable programs they have success with. Other things you can ask about are like is the program offers a real and viable product? Does the program provide a lot of free tools and resources helpful to affiliate? and any other questions you think are essential.
Auctionads has been introduced and recommended by a number of well known bloggers and Internet marketers, but I never intend to try Auction ads because I thought that it was against Google's AdSense policies to use Auctionads and AdSense on the same webpage. But I found that I was wrong after reading John Reese's blog at http://www.income.com/blog. John Reese told that:
Auctionads doesn’t conflict with the AdSense Terms Of Service so it’s okay to use it on a page where you might already be running AdSense.
The above statement really delight me. I have gone ahead to sign up with Auctionads and placed the Auction ads at the right sidebar of this blog to see whether they can generate extra income for me.
Auctionads is likely to increase online revenue for webmasters and bloggers. So if you have not try Auctionsads yet, I suggest you create an account with auctionads and start testing it.
I received emails from the owner of Senserely.com last week informing me that he has started a DIGG-like website called AdSenseigg. I then visited AdSenseigg, it just like Digg.com, anyone can sign up as a user to post their favorite news stories in a vast array of topics. And the site allows users to display their AdSense on all their news pages to make money with AdSense.
I have seen a number of Digg-like websites closed down because of lacking of traffic. I think this one will not end up the same way as the site offers a 50/50 AdSense sharing programs.
AdSense sharing seems to be working in large traffic site or blog. I previously have signed up an AdSense sharing program in Worldvillage Blog. The blog gets 3k visitors every day. I contributed about 15 articles to the blog about 7 months ago and the articles earn me nearly $30 AdSense every month. If AdSenseigg can become another popular social bookmarking website, the users who share AdSense may be able to rely on AdSenseigg for additional source of online income.
You have spend a lot of energy and time to drive targeted visitors to your website. And as a result, you get a good amount of website's visitors daily. But later you discover that most of the visitors don't come back to your website and then you are thinking about how to attract visitors return to your website often.
If you are selling something, each visitor to your site is a potential customer. They don't buy on their first visit but they might decide to buy from you on their second or third visits. If you are monetize your website or blog with AdSense, CPA ads, CPM ads or affiliate programs; getting a good percentage of returned visitors will definitely help maintaining and increasing your traffic level and your website revenue.
So how to make sure many of your visitors come back to your site time and time again? Here are some of things you can do:
1) Add new and fresh content to your site frequently. You can have a section on your home page like 'What's New', 'What's Top' or 'What's Hot' section and update this section on a daily basis. This give your targeted visitors a reason to visit your site again.
2) Offer freebies. You can create a section in your website to allow your targeted visitors to download free e-books, reports, tools and software they are interested in.
3) Add a Community forum to your website. Many website visitors like communication and discussion. You forum can be a place for visitors to come back often to participate in discussion and search for new info.
4) Install an article directory to your website to publish the latest articles of your niche. People who like to read may return to your site to find new articles.
5) Create a classified section to let visitors to post free ads. This can be a way to maintain your traffic level.
6) Optimize your website or template for faster speed of navigation. Many people don't like to wait too long for a website to load up. So the faster you can make your pages load up, the better chance your visitor will stay on your website and also return.
7) Offer free entertainment. You can add games, interesting video and audio to your website. To keep your visitors return often, you need to update your games (add new game), video and audio content on a regular basis.
8) Add a guest book. Visitors will come to your site and leave their comment about your business and website and to list their signature file.
Why buy e-book or report when you can get them for free. Below are three resource links that may provide the money making information you are looking for.
Blogforfunandprofit.com Newsletter
You'll learn how to start a blog from scratch to promoting the blog and generate Google AdSense and affliate commission from Blogforfunandprofit 10 days newsletter.
Foragreatercause.org
Steven Pierce, a successful Internet marketer is currently raising fund to help feeding starving children around the world. He has created a free success report (the report shows you how Steven went from being broke to earning millions of dollars online and how you can do the same). The report is free and for every person that download this report, Steven will donate a plate of food to Feed The Children on your behalf.
Privatelabelpack.com
The site, Privatelabelpack.com is currently offering free access to a private label package. The package includes the following private label rights (PLR) products:
- Software with PLRs
- ebook with PLRs
- Article with PLRs
- Photoshop hearder templates
This is the 6th time I update money making programs. Hope all the previous posts and this post really help.
Loudlaunch.com
If you like to make money from your blogs by posting sponsor posts, you may be interested to join Loudlaunch network. Loudlaunch is same as Payperpost.com, they pay bloggers to write blog entries related to advertisers products, services and websites. Loudlauch issue payment to bloggers every 30 days. The bloggers requirement are:
* 18 years or older
* Verifiable Paypal Account
* Verifiable 2 month old blog
* Verifiable readership
* Basic knowledge of HTML
Qwickly.com
Qwickly is inviting people to become editors of their community. Editors will be responsible to write the entries which will then read, rated and discussed by the Qwickly's community. There is a long list of topic categories in Qwickly, Editors can choose to write entries for the categories they are expert at. Each entry must be between 150 to 200 words. Editors will keep 80% of the revenue generated by their entries.
People who make money from AdSense with a content-based website always ask this question - What are best niches for adsense sites? Joel has just posted a video in his blog, askjoelcomm.com to answer this question.
Joel told that the best niches for AdSense is the niches you have experience or knowledge in, the niches that you are passionate about. I 100% agree that. Since Google emphasizes that AdSense is for content. To make money with AdSense, you should work out a website that people want to visit, with content that people want to read. To build a good content-based sites you must be passionate about or interested to the topics of your website, then only you can write out quality and useful content that visitors want to read.
The best niches obviously are not the niches that pay the highest AdSense pay-per-click. If you build sites based on selective high pay AdSense PPC keywords, they might make you some money in the first few months but they will not work for long term as you'll get bored on those sites easily. Moreover, AdSense arbitrage and MFA sites that provide little content are no allowed by Google. This certainly leads to making money with high pay keyword niche AdSense sites much more difficult.
Today, affiliate marketing programs is seen as one of the most important methods by online companies and merchants to market their products and services because implementing an affiliate program doesn't cost much money and it helps generate a consistent stream of online profit.
On the other hand, the affiliates see affiliate marketing as a feasible and low cost method to make online online by promoting other people products using a website or without a website (using Google AdWords PPC advertising program).
There are many affiliate programs on the Internet and not all of them are similar. The most basic affiliate programs fall into 3 categories:
- Pay Per Performance
- Pay Per click
- Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
Pay per performance (PPP) affiliate programs are what most companies and online merchants likes to use. The companies only need to pay when an affiliate referral translates into an action. The action can be a purchase or a lead. The affiliates will spend their own money to promote the affiliated company's products, This save a lot of money for the company. PPP affiliate programs can be futher classified into 2 sub-categories:
- Pay Per Sale (PPS) The title says it all. The company only pays the affiliate when a visitor referred by the affiliate make a purchase.
- Pay Per Lead (PPL) PPL is a little different to PPS. PPL affiliate programs usually used by finance and insurance companies. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate will be paid a fixed commission whenever a visitor referred by him/her to the merchant's website requested a quote or filled up an online application form.
PPC affiliate programs are most popular. You should have heard them a lot. PPC programs are probably the easiest way for web publishers to make money from their websites and blogs. The affiliate gets paid a certain amount ($0.05 to $0.50 usually) whenever a visitor click a banner or text ad displaying on the affiliate's website. PPC typically used by contextual advertising companies like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Networks and much more.
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
In this type of programs, the affiliate not only compensated for every customer referred to the merchant's website, the affiliate is also paid whenever the referred customer returns to the site and buy another product.
The different types of affiliate marketing programs would deffinitely work differently for merchants and affiliates, and each would have their own advantages and drawbacks. To find out which types of programs work best for you, you'll have to know which one of them suit your need and characteristic most. And then start testing them.
You may have heard a lot about Google bans AdSense accounts for the reason of invalid ad clicks previously. And now Google is taking a further step to close AdSense publishers accounts if Google thinks that the AdSense publishers websites aren't suitable to their AdSense content network. A number of AdSense publishers has reported that they received emails from Google stating that they have an unsuitable business model and their AdSense account will be disabled within 2 weeks. This is a shocking news to me. The affected AdSense publishers will not lose any AdSense revenue as Google will pay all the earning the publishers have earned.
So far there is only emails communication with the involved AdSense published, Google has not officially announced about this matter.
All those affected publishers are either doing AdSense Arbitrage or building sites that are specially for AdSense (MFA sites). AdSense arbitrage means getting traffic/visitors from Google Adwords PPC advertising program to AdSense websites in order to generate AdSense revenue. It is a fast way to make money from AdSense. For 'made for AdSense' (MFA) sites, I think Google is targeting to close MFA sites that are lacking of content.
It seems that fast and easy money cannot be found in AdSense anymore. To work with AdSense for long term, you must provide unique and helpful content to your targeted visitors on your website. Google has said that AdSense is for content. They want to display their AdSense ads on websites with relevant content not websites offer little content and give no value to visitors.
Keep learning from those free info and you will be become more effective when it comes to making money online. Three more resource links added in this post.
AskJoelComm.com
Joel Comm is a successful Internet marketing expert. He often receive questions from people asking how to make money online. So he created a video blog called Askjoelcomm.com to answer as many questions as possible. Currently Joel has posted several video tutorials about making money on the net in his Askjoelcomm.com.
Internet-success-system.com
The site's owner, Mark Hendricks has uploaded a teleconference recording you can download and listen to learn how to succeed in affiliate marketing.
Sonicmemolite.com
Jay Jenning is teaching people in http://sonicmemolite.com how to implement streaming audio on an e-commerce website without monthly fee and without requiring a special server. The benefit of adding an audio to a e-commerce site is it helps increase sale.
1. Have a bumper sticker printed up with your web site address and other business information. Place it on the bumper of your car. People will see it when you're driving.
2. Have some t-shirts made with your web site address and other business information. Your family or friends could wear them almost anywhere.
3. Have some ball caps made with your web site address and other business information. Wear them to keep the sun out of your eyes and promote your business at the same time.
4. Have some business cards printed up with your web site address and other business information. Pass them out to people you meet or that might be
interested in your business.
5. Have a magnetic sign made with your web site address and other business information. Place it on your car door or roof when you are traveling.
6. Have some flyers printed out with your web site address and other business information. Keep a few with you to hang on bulletin boards you see.
7. Have some jackets printed with your web site address and other business information. Give
them away to family and friends. When it's too cold for t-shirts, you can wear jackets.
8. Have some mugs imprinted with your web site address and other business information. Use them when you have company or give them away to friends and family as gifts.
A virtual assistance is a home-based entrepreneur or worker that provides business services to companies and enterprises. The services provided by virtual assistants include but not limited to:
- Web design and Internet marketing
- Database management
- Data entry
- Admin support
- Customer services (respond to phone call, reply to email inquiries and, etc)
- Organizing meetings
- Medical and legal transcription
- Writing, editing, translation and proofreading
- Accounting services (bookkeeping, P & L and cash flow statement)
- Secretarial services
- Event planning
- Mailing services
Anyone who has working experience can become virtual assistance and high qualification is an added advantage. Finding virtual assistance job opportunities isn't difficult. You can start by searching on online job websites. Here are 2 websites that contain virtual assistance working opportunities:
Virtualassistantjobs.com/jobs.html - A staffing and recruiting firm that frequently need US virtual assistants (VA) to fill in the VA positions from their clients. It is free to get access to their VA jobs list.
Guru.com - Employers post jobs, VA vacancies and projects that they need assistance. Anyone can sign up as a service provider of guru.com to bid on the freelance & VA jobs, and projects. VA job offers mostly are targeted to US and Canada only. Freelance assignments and projects available to people around the world.
I like to introduced you two more sites that will help you earn money online.
Zlio.com
Zlio is for anyone who wants to make money online with an online shop. They allow registered users to choose from an extensive catalogue of thousands of products and create their personal online shop. Users can promote their Zlio shop and share revenue for each sales generated from their Zlio shop.
Spotajob.com
This is an opportunity to make money by helping people get a job in Spotajob.com. Spotajob.com has a list of job openings posted by different companies. The companies offer a reward to the person who refers the winning candidate. You can join spotajob.com and refer candidates to any vacancies. When a candidate is hired, you receive the reward.
Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing are the Pay-per-click (PPC) adverising programs that can bring instant targeted traffic which can be converted into AdSense revenue and affiliate commission. But this 2 PPC advertising programs are crowded with tons of advertisers and thus making pay-per-click cost expensive. So how to get cheap PPC traffic? The solution is simple, look for an alternative of Google and Yahoo that has small advertiser network. Here's are some of the alternatives that can offer lower pay-per-click advertising cost:
Bidvertiser.com
Bidvertiser is the first pay-per-click advertising program I use when I first launched my content-based website one year ago. It brought me over one hundred targeted visitors daily with an average cost of $0.07 per visitor. And with the traffic from Bidvertiser, I made about a net profit of $10 AdSense daily (Daily AdSense Earning minus daily Bidvertiser Cost). But it doesn't last long, I only make profit in the first six months advertising in Bidvertiser's network. I'm not sure the reason, may be my site has get too much exposure in Bidvertiser's network of sites and getting only repeat visitors that aren't converting.
If you just started making money from a website or haven't try PPC adverising program yet, you may consider testing drive Bidvertiser. Bidvertiser has a huge nembers of websites in their network. The websites are divided into a list of categories. Advertisers can choose to display their contextual ads in any categories and bid for the amount they willing to pay per visitor sends to their websites.
Some Tips for Using Bidvertiser
- Don't just advertise in the categories related to your site only, try also other unrelated categories for more traffic.
- Set your bid below $0.10.
- Set Your daily budget less than $10.
- Results are not guaranteed, If it isn't work for the first few days, then you should stop using it.
BidClix.com
Another pay-per-click advertising company that works much the same as Bidvertiser. But the cost to advertise is a little higher. You need to pay between $0.10 to $0.20 per visitor. I have tried Bidclix.com for several weeks, it also help me in increasing my AdSense revenue.
Searchfeed.com
I have not yet set up a campaign in searchfeed, but I think searchfeed can bring low cost targeted traffic too. Seachfeed is my next PPC advertising network I'll use when I out of traffic.
Update 19 Nov 2008 - BidClix has already shut down.
Sarah has organized a contest in her blog Somewhereoverthedebt.com that will give backlink to the participants. To enter the contest please visit http://www.somewhereoverthedebt.com.
Her blog is about finding ways to make money online and living life on your own terms. She will give away a copy of the book, “The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense” written by Joel Comm to the contest winner. She will post all the participants links in her blog on Jun 1st.
I just informed by Cody Moya from www.codymoya.com that he has a collection of over 120 hours of MP3 audio files featuring today's successful and well-known Internet marketers (who are consistently making big money online) spilling their gut and telling some of their success secrets. Cody has uploaded these audio files to his website to allow anyone interested to gain free access to these audio files. The marketing experts you can listen to in these 120+ audio files are John Reese, Derek Gehl, Armand Morin, Yanik Silver......just to name a few.
Visit http://www.secretsofelitemarketers.com to gain free access to the all audio training of the top Internet marketing gurus.
After reading about the paid links issue in Matt Cutts blog and Digitalpoint Forum. It seems that paid links will no longer useful for Google SEO in the future as Google is going to change their ranking algorithm to make sure that paid backlinks will have not effect to Google ranking. Google now tries to figure out how to separate paid links from natural links and they also allow anyone to report paid links to help them distinguish paid links and natural links.
Furthermore, Google will take action against on websites that contains a lot of paid links. And for websites and bloggers that sell text links, here's what Matt Cutts, Head of Google's webspam team advices:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links
" If you want to sell a link, you should at least provide machine-readable disclosure for paid links by making your link in a way that doesn’t affect search engines. There’s a ton of ways to do that. For example, you could make a paid link go through a redirect where the redirect url is robot’ed out using robots.txt. You could also use the rel=nofollow attribute."
Google will make SEO harder. If you frequently buy paid links to boost your Google ranking and PR, I think you should stop now to avoid your site or blog penalized by Google.
Payments to webmasters and bloggers for a text link appears on their sites and blogs are definitely considered as paid links. For paid directory listings, there are still no clear specifications whether they are seen as paid links. In my opinion, they will not be considered as paid links since Google and Yahoo also have their own directories accepting paid listings. Can we report them paid links? For blog sponsor posts from reviewme.com and Payperpost.com, they are likely to be treated as paid links as well since one of the goals of Google is to stop people from using unnatural backlinks that can artificially boost up their websites ranking. The devaluation of paid links by Google will sure affect the ways webmasters make money online in the future.
To get traffic from Google and make money from your website and blog, I think the best ways now is to make sure the majority of your links are natural, continue to grow natural and relevant inbound links and update your website or blog often with unique and useful content.
Chris Carpenter, author of Google Cash has released his first free special report. The report contains information about the latest techniques and tools you can use to create a successful affiliate campaign. To download this report please visit Google Cash Report.
Chris will show you:
- An affiliate campaign you can follow and use to make money online promoting affiliate products.
- How to automate your affiliate business.
- Two Case Studies - How two beginners make money with affiliate programs using Chris's affiliate marketing system.
There are plenty of ways of making money on the net without requiring Internet marketing knowledge and I have introduced a number of them in the previous posts of this blog. For easier searching, I decided to combine them into this post. Here are them:
Work Online for Others
Guru.com and Elance.com are freelance marketplaces with tons of online job opportunities. Getting an online job through freelance marketplace is similar to getting an offline job, it involves competitions. You search for an online job that is right for you in freelance site, then you bid for the job. If your bid is the lowest, the employer will usually award the job to you.
Another site offers online job opportunities is Clicknwork.com. Unlike freelance marketplaces, there are no bidding competitions involved. They will assign the work to you. But to become their home-based professionals or workers, you must pass a difficult test.
Submit Articles for Cash
If you are passionate about writing, you may submit your articles to the below sites for publication and earn cash for each article published:
Developershep.com/writers.php - Accept articles related to web development and Internet marketing.
Associatedcontent.com (AC) - You become their member and submit articles in wide array of topics for payment consideration. Available to US only.
Newsforge - Pay $100 to $300 for each article about Linux, open source and free software.
Try Companies Offers
The concepts are simple. You join a website that contains a list of offers you can sign up or try. For each offer completed and approved, you'll be credited an amount of money into your account. Most of the offers available to US residents only. Treasuretrooper.com is one of the programs allows you to earn by completing offers.
Submit Photos and Images to Photo Agencies
Web designers, magazines and press need new photos and images often. They will look for photo marketplaces and agencies to buy photos that fit their need. You can submit your photos and images to these agencies and they will sell the photo and images for you. Below are some of the photo agencies:
www.dreamstime.com/sell
http://submit.shutterstock.com
www.scoopt.com
Write Products Reviews
Have something to say about the products and services you have used? Send your product comment to products reviews websites. If they decide to publish your review, you'll be paid.
Softwarejudge.com - Reviews software and online games.
Reviewstream.com - Plenty of product categories to review.
Be a Paid Bloggers
Here are the blog networks you can apply for a blogging position:
www.creative-weblogging.com
www.b5media.com/jobs
www.knowmoremedia.com/write-for-us.html
Upload Videos
Large video sharing websites like Metacafe and Break willing to pay people for uploading interesting videos such as funny, amazing and entertaining videos. You can earn hundreds to thousands of dollar, if your original video attracted tons of views in these video sites.
Here are some freebies released last week that can help you make money online:
117softwaregoodies.com
A website called 117softwaregoodies.com giving away hundreds of free software that can enhance your online business performance. This software give away program only available for four weeks only. It ends on Jun 13th 2007.
Niche Empire Generator
Niche Empire Generator is a Blog building tool created by Andrew Hansen. The tool allows you to create, promote and manage your nich blog more easier and quicker.
Adsense Inner Circle
Another new AdSense membership site like AdSensegirl.com. Inside the AdSense Inner Circle, you'll find tips and AdSense techniques to increase your AdSense earning. For beginners and AdSense publishers that need some advice on AdSense.
Whether you are promoting affiliate products or selling your own products online, building an opt-in email list is very benefitial to your online business. Research show that many visitors don't buy in their first time visit on e-commerce websites. Is is essential to collect their email addresses to follow up with them. You can collect a list of email addresses of your targeted visitors/audiences by adding a web form into your sales website where visitors can fill out the web form to sign up your e-zine or newsletter. With an opt-in list, you can keep in touch with your targeted audience by sending them newsletter, helpful information, tips, tutorial and promotion to entice them to purchase your products.
The greater your opt-in email list, the more sales you will generate and the more money you will make online. Below are some of the ways you can use to grow your list effectively:
1) Offer freebies. Mention in your opt-in form that your visitors will receive free e-books, report or tools if they subscribe your newsletters or e-zine. The subject of your e-book or report should be related to your targeted visitors.
2) Create a series of e-courses of your visitors interest and invite them to sign up the e-cources by filling out a web form in your website.
3) Run a contest or sweeptakes on your website. Request your visitors to provide their name and email addresses to participate.
4) If you have a membership site, you can offer your visitors a free access to your membership site if they sign up your newsletter or ezine.
5) Offer free ads. You can set up a free classified section on your site. Anyone want to post free ads must give their contact information to you first. Or offer your visitors free advertisement in your ezine if they subscribe your newsletter.
6) Publish testimonials from your current subscriber to encourage more people to join your newsletters or e-zine. You don't need to publish the testimonials in your home page. What you can do is add a text link like "Click Here to Read the Testimonials of Our Current Subscribers" just below your opt-in form in your home page. When your visitors click the text link, they will be sent to a page that contains all you subscribers testimonials.
Using AdSense ad filter to block the low cost-per-click (CPC) AdSense ads of most of the relevant keywords of a website and let high CPC AdSense ads display more often to earn more AdSense revenue isn't a new idea actually. It has been mentioned years ago. Many webmasters and bloggers don't like to filter low CPC AdSense ads as it involves works and time to manually compile a list of low CPC AdSenses.
However, recently some bloggers have suggested using AdSBlacklist to automatically find a list of low CPC ads for you. AdSBlacklist is a free software and anyone can try it. I still don't have the time to test AdSBlacklist. So I don't know whether it works in increasing AdSense commission or not. But logically if AdSBlacklist can find a list of low CPC ads that are potentially displaying on your site or blog and you block these low CPC ads, then your AdSense income should increase.
For anything to work well, care must be taken to make firm, workable plans to execute it and the same goes for website designs. With a well thought out website design, you will be able to create a site that generates multiple streams of revenue for you. In fact, may websites turn into online wasteland because they are not well planned and do not get much visitors. Gradually, the webmaster will not be motivated to update it anymore and it turns into wasted cyberspace.
The crucial point of planning your site is optimizing it for revenue if you want to gain any income from the site. Divide your site into major blocks, ordered by themes, and start building new pages and subsections in those blocks. For example, you might have a "food" section, an "accomodation" section and an "entertainment" section for a tourism site. You can then write and publish relevant articles in the respective sections to attract a stream of traffic that comes looking for further information.
When you have a broader, better-defined scope of themes for your website, you can sell space on your pages to people interested in advertising on your page. You can also earn from programs like Google's Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing if people surf to those themed pages and click on the ads. For this very reason, the advertisement blocks on your pages need to be relevant to the content, so a themed page fits that criteria perfectly.
As Internet becomes more widespread, advertising on the Internet will bear more results than on magazines or offline media. Hence, start tapping in on this lucrative stream of profit right away!
Some reliable programs I have found for you:
Job-a-Matic
Job-A-Matic is an alternative of Google AdSense. It offers webmasters and bloggers an opportunity to generate online revenue by adding paid job listings on websites and blogs. There are 2 ways to make money with Job-A-Matic:
1) Sell Job listings to employers
You charge employers a fee for placing job ads/listings on your site and share with Job-A-Matic on all the revenue earned from selling job listings at 50:50 basis.
2) Earn Click Commission Displaying Job-A-Matic's Job Listings
Job-A-Matic has a job datebase called Simply Hired's database containing more than 5 million job offers. You can choose to display Simply Hired's database job listings and earn 30% of the revenue generated from visitors clicks on the paid job listings of Simply Hire's Database.
You are allowed to use both on your website or blog. Minumum payout is high. You need to reach $500 to request a check payment. But Job-A-Matic states that if you can get companies to advertise job offers on your site or blog, charging them $100 to $200 per listing is fairly standard.
Know More Media
Know More Media is looking for people to contribute to their open business blogs. The topic of the blogs include:
- Automotive
- Construction
- Customer Service
- Finance/Banking
- International Business
- Real Estate
- Sales/Marketing
- The author must be passionate about the topic.
- The author must be an expert on his/her topic.
- Good writing skill.
- Unique voice. You need to have a singular, identifiable voice that people want to listen to.
They didn't mention about the pay. But I think the pay must be good.
1. The forum will be used as a tool to communicate with your visitors frequently and closely. You could use the forum to start an online class, provide free tutorial and tips, and respond to your visitors inquiries. This way, your visitors will begin to trust you and as a result these visitors may start trying your products or services and you make more profit.
2. If your forum has become a popular place for discussion of a niche topic, then many people will often come back to your site’s forum and participate on discussions. You’ll gain a steady stream of free massive traffic. With this steady traffic, you can have an additional income stream by displaying pay-per-click ads like Google AdSense and YPN or selling advertising space.
3. You understand more about your visitors by reading the conversations and discussions between them. Your visitors may talk about your products, services and website. Studying these information and feedbacks can help you market your products or services more effectively.
4. You could open a section in the forum to provide after sale support to your customers. By answering your customer questions in a friendly manner, you’ll increase your customer satisfaction. Also your customers might get the answers of their questions immediately by reading other previous inquiries by other customers in the forum. This will give you and your business more credibility. And your satisfied customers will recommend your products or services to their friends.
5. The forum enables you to network with other businesses and exchange business tips, ideas, strategies, advertising, etc.
1) Sell Used Cell Phones on ebay
The demands for used cell phones with brand names like Nokia, Motorola, Kyocera, Alltel, Ericsson, Sprint, etc in ebay are pretty high. Many of the used cell phones auctions in ebay usually attract bids.
So how to find used cell phones to profit on ebay?
Many people change their cell phones every year. If you are one of them, probably you already have 2 or 3 used cell phones kept at home that can sell on ebay. Your friends may also keep a few of old phones left unused. You can buy from them and resell on ebay.
To get a consistent supply of cell phones, you may think about placing classified ads in newspaper states that you pay money for used cell phone. You shouldn't pay much when buying used cell phones. Do a little research on ebay to find out how much used cell phones are generally selling. If a used cell phone sell at a price of $50 in ebay, you should pay not more than 30% of the price to buy it. If the phone is a recent model you can pay little more and cut a little if it is old and nothing special.
2) Sell Used How-to Books
Used how-to books are quite easy to find and inexpensive to buy. They can be bought at $1.00 or less. You can buy how-to books from thrift shops, estate sales, used book stores, yard sales, etc and sell them in ebay for high profit margin. You can also get how-to books from Book Sale Finder. Here are the type of books you should look for:
Hobbies
Photography, blacksmithing, clock building & repair, woodworking, magic, treasure hunting, iron work, pipe smoking, dog training, antiques, coins, buttons, medals, drawing, painting, craft making, dolls, pottery, etc.
Home and Garden
Home decorating, home remodelling, garden trellis, etc.
Misc
How to repair (watch repair, door repair, pipe repair), how to play, lost treasure, eary aviation, etc.
When you list your books in ebay, you can either list them in the "Book" category of ebay or in the subject specific category of ebay. For instance, If you are selling a book related to home decorating, you may be making more profit if you list the book under the "Home Deco" within the "Home & Garden" category of ebay campare to listing the book under "Book"
3) Sell Gift Cards
Gift card is another profitable market in ebay. There are many people possess gift cards but not everyone of them will use their gift cards. If you can offer to buy these unused gift cards for a price at 20% or less of the value of the gift certificates, they will sell to you. You can advertise your offer in local newspaper, penny shop and trading post. You are looking for gift cards that are still valid (not yet expire). Most gift cards have a toll-free number on the back you can dial to check whether the cards are still valid.
When determining the buy and sell price of a gift card, you should do some research on ebay. Try to look for auction that sell the similar card. See how much the card sells in the auction and set you buying price at 40% to 50% of the selling price of the auction. The starting bid and winning bid of the auction can also give you an idea on how much your card can sell on ebay.
Here are some new free stuff you might be interested:
Inf-o-asis.com/lifetime.html
A membership site gives free lifetime access to e-business info-products such as e-book, script, resources, software with resale rights.
Adsensegirl.com/members
AdSensegirl.com is a new site created by Liz Tomey to teach people make money with AdSense. She also give away ready-made AdSense templates to members.
Ebizmodelsyoucancopy.com/resellrights
Edmund Loh has prepared a special report titled "Resell Rights Crisis Solved". The content of the report is about how to profit with resell rights products. Anyone wants to start a resell rights business should read this report.
Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google's contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click.
However you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don't know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:
1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn't matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.
2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website's background. If your site's background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.
3. Don't place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between AdSense locations can make when you see your earnings.
4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.
5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.
These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.v
Google posted more tips on http://adsense.blogspot.com to help AdSense publishers avoid their AdSense accounts getting banned. Google advices publishers not to optimize their AdSense ads that can lead to accidental clicks by visitors like placing AdSense ads:
- In close proximity to Macromedia Flash games
- Under pop-ups or download prompts
- Near site navigation controls on your pages, such as drop-downs or menu links
I'm a little worry when I first read this post from AdSense blog as I have AdSense ads link near my menu links at the left sidebar. But when I think again and ask myself, will my Ad links placement lead to accidental click? I took a closer look on my blog and website, my ad links look simple and clear. Visitors who click my ad links know who they are clicking. So I think I'm safe.
Bravenet
I found Bravenet from a blog. Bravenet has an affiliate program that seems to be a good earning opportunity for people who have niche websites or blogs related to web development. Bravenet is an online company provides free web hosting & domain services and free web tools. Bravenet's affiliate program allows webmasters and bloggers to earn money by sending their visitors to Bravenet. For each visitor sent by an affiliate that sign up for an account and take advantage of Bravenet's free webtools, the affiliate will earn $1.00.
Affiliate Cash Secret
Derrick VanDyke, the owner of Affiliate Cash Secret is looking 3 people to work online with him. The positions are:
- Second Level Customer Support
- Marketing Assistant
- Writer / Editor
All positions restricted to US and Canada residents only and require the following Internet marketing knowledge:
- Affiliate programs and ClickBank
- Domain names and hosting
- Generating traffic (PPC, ezine advertising, article marketing, etc.)
- List building (co-reg, ad swaps, giveaways, affiliates, etc.)
- Squeeze pages and autoresponders
- and more...
Information products are probably the most profitable products you can sell on Internet. Some of the most common types of information products that can make you money are ebooks, articles and special reports. Information products are so profitable because they are inexpensive to produce and once they are created, the authors can sell them again and again without incurring manufacturing cost.
Create the Info Product by Yourself
If you have good information in your mind and writing skills, there is no reason why you cannot develop your own info product. It will cost your little money or even free if you create your info product by yourself. However, it does involve a lot of works like topic researching, writing, editing, proofreading, and converting your info in PDF format. And it will take you plenty of time to develop your first info product since you have no previous e-book creation experience.
Hire a Freelance Writer
If you want to create an info product but don’t like to write, outsourcing your info product creation project to a professional writer is your solution. Take some time to write down what you want and your expectation and the writer will produce an info product that meets your expectation. When selecting a professional writer, you should check their references, contact their previous employers to find out their quality of work and also read the feedbacks from other people who have hired them. You can find a freelance writer from the following freelance marketplaces:
Buying an information product that comes with private label right will grant you the right to edit or modify the info products, put your name on it and sell them instantly to the public. Some PLR products even allow buyers to add their own name on the products without modification and claim ownership on the products. This is the fastest way to profit online with info product, but it can cost a few hundred dollars to purchase a PLR product and if you bought a low quality info product that is hard to resell, you may end up suffering a lost.
Information products industry is competitive. Your info product should be targeted to a specific niche. Before you can sell your info products successfully, you need to build up a good relationship with your targeted prospects. This can be done by growing a opt-in list and sending helpful and educative information to your opt-in subscribers to build trust or credibility.
Smorty.com is the latest get paid to blog company I've seen. They provide blog advertising service to advertisers as similar to Payperpost.com and give bloggers an opportunity to earn money by blogging about the products, services and websites of the advertisers.
The Main Requirements to be an Approved Blogger of Smorty
- Your blog must have been indexed by Google and Yahoo
- Your Blog must have been stayed online for more than 3 months
- The content of your blog must be family-friendly
- Your blog must be active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week
You can earn a minimum of $6 per approved sponsor post. Smorty uses a unique ranking system to calculate the amount you can charge for each sponsor post. Their system will combine the following factors in the calculation:
- Googles PageRank
- Alexa Rankings
- Return rate of given tasks
- Approval/Decline ratio of completed tasks and
- Number of completed tasks
There are many type of online ads, some of the most common ads used by e-entrepreneurs and webmasters are PPC contextual ads, classified ads, banner ads and online sales letters. In most cases, the purposes of these ads are to sell. To make your ads sell, you just have to write them as effective as possible and here are some tips that can help you:
1. Refer your competitors products advertising material to get ad writing ideas. You can read their sale letters by visitng their websites, study their Google AdWords ads by going to Google and enter the keywords of your niche, etc.
2. Know exactly the purpose of your ad copy. What you want your ad copy to achieve? It could be making a sale, generating a lead, driving more traffic, signing up your contest and so on.
3. Emphasis on benefits, not features. Benefits are things that mean to your potential customers. Some example of products benefits are save money, solve a problem of your prospects, save time, etc. Whereas features are description on what qualities are product has.
4. Focus on the headline of your ad. Write an eye-catching headline to attract your targeted prospects. Your headline should convince your targeted audiences that it’s worth a few minutes to read the body of your ads. A good headline promises some news and a benefit. Here’s an example of headline:
- Announcing...New High Tech Article Re-Writing Software Converts Your PLR Articles into Unique Articles
5. If your ad copy is a sale letter. Include proven and supportive facts in your ad copy such as testimonials from satisfied customers, product reviews, result of customer surveys, a top-ten list, etc.
6. Use a money back guarantee in your ad to convince your potential customers. Personally I’ll be more likely to buy a product with a money back guarantee because it removes my risk of loss. If the product doesn’t work as described, I just return it to the seller and get back my money.
7. Let your potential buyers know what kind of after sale services they will get after they buy. It could be free tech support, consulting, free servicing, etc.
John Reese, one of leading Internet marketer has completed a special report called "The Rebirth Of Internet marketing". It is a 53 pages PDF report containing information about the present and future of Internet marketing that you need to know for your online business growth. The report is available to download at John's Blog.
Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing? What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry? There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward. There are five things one must ultimately possess if he wants to achieve the glory he is yearning for in this business, and these five things are a must for him to possess to be able to stand out among the rest.
The very first quality one must possess if he wants to try his hand in affiliate marketing is the willingness to learn and be trained. Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and he might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown. Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one’s willingness to know it all will give him far better advantages in the business than he could ever imagine.
The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent. Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has his foot in the industry to hold on and wait. It is this quality which would save him from giving up after investing a lot of himself in the business.
The third quality one must possess is self-determination. If one wants to conquer the affiliate marketing world, he must have the ability to push himself ahead. Never having to say die is a quality each and every affiliate marketer should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take an affiliate marketer there.
The fourth quality one must possess is discipline. If one knows how to teach himself to work everyday with all the energy he can muster, then he is close to achieving what he has set his heart to having in the first place.
The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism. Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned. Neither should anyone influence his attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for him to be the captain of his ship and the master of his soul.
The ingredients to success in a business such as affiliate marketing are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in himself alone. It is he who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize his prospects, and the desire which fuels his heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.
Affiliate marketing is all about putting one’s fate into his own hands. The right attitude is the key to being able to steer one’s ship into that part of the ocean where a certain kind of serenity can be found, one that permeates the atmosphere as the ship sails calmly on.
The advance of technology has made creating websites easier. More and more website building software were created by online companies to let people create their own websites without web design knowledge and experience. Below are some of the free website building software that are designed to help people build websites easily:
Google Page Creator (GPC)
It is a free beta online website development tool of Google. Anyone can sign up to use Google 
Page Creator to create a mini website with no HTML knowledge needed. It is easy to use, built in with a number of features and allowing AdSense ads. But in term of webpage optimization, GPC doesn't provide much options. The tool is right for beginners who want to build a content website and make money with AdSense.
Website to learn more about how to use GPC:
http://jvanbaelen.googlepages.com/gpcinfo.html
Domain & hosting
Free
Hypervre
Hypervre website builder was developed by Matt Callen. The site builder automatically creates 
SEO friendly content web pages based on keywords of your choice. You don't need to figure out where to place your AdSense ads on your web pages, you just add your AdSense code during the web page creation process and your AdSense ads will appear on the high click-through rate areas of your web pages. You can also add your Amazon and Clickbank ads if you upgrade to paid membership. The builder saves time and work but only limited to building content-based website.
Domain & hosting
You can upload Hypervre sites to any of your paid and free hosting accounts using your own domain names.
Bluevoda
An advanced website builder that allows you to create e-commerce site, sale page, AdSense & affiliate content-based website and much more. They provide video tutorial to help you begin. You can choose to design your site from scratch or use their ready made templates. Although the site owner of Bluevoda claims that users can build their own site without technical knowledge but my experience on Bluevoda is that it will make you more easier if yo learn some basic HTML code.
Domain & hosting
You have to register a domain name and a paid hosting account with Vodahost.com.
