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Five Things You Should Know Before Using PTC (Paid-to-Click) Sites

2010-01-16T19:28:00.000-08:00

An overview of what PTC is and how to succeed in this ever-changing environment.

Many people want to earn some extra cash online. There are many advantages to this, such as working your own hours and choosing your “job responsibilities”. But if you plan to get into PTC (Paid to click) sites to earn your pay online, there are certainly some things you need to know first.

Overview: What is PTC?

If you haven’t already came across these in your internet surfing yet, you probably will. Most of them are advertised with flashy banners proclaiming “Instant payout! 75% referral commissions!” and the like. These are PTC sites. PTC stands for “paid-to-click”. At its simplest form, this is exactly what happens. You register an account with one of these sites (NeoBux, Bux.to, TheClickers, and countless others) and you get paid to essentially view ads for a set period of time. For example, a site could pay you $0.01 per each ad you view for 30 seconds. Many of the ads are for other PTC sites or for get-rich-quick or casino schemes. The sites pay by a variety of means, but the two most common are AlertPay and PayPal (although you typically need to have met a payout threshold, such as five dollars).

The second way to make money on PTC sites is to refer others. These could be your friends, your family, or even people across the globe from you. Typically sites will advertise their referal program with a percentage. What does this mean? Well, 100% referral commissions means that whatever money your referals make, you make. So if you refer 5 friends and on one day they each click ten ads for a penny each, you earn 50 cents for that day, as well as an extra ten cents for clicking the ads yourself.

Now that the basics of PTC sites have been explained, let’s explore 5 specific tips I have for using these sites.

1. You aren’t going to get rich

I defer to the old adage, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” The depressing thing about these websites is that a penny per click is actually a pretty good deal. From my experience, 0.1 cent to 0.5 cent is more common, and there are only about 10-20 ads per day. You are not going to make big bucks off the PTC market, and especially not if you only join one or two sites. Since they don’t have a way to check that you are actually viewing the ads, you can run as many different sites as you want, but of course having more than one account per person (or even on the same IP) will get you banned. Saying that you aren’t going to get rich, however, brings us to point number 2.

2. You need referrals to make any sort of decent money sort of decent money

Yep, you guessed it. Clicking on these ads yourself isn’t going to make you much at all. Depending on the referral rate of the site, though, you can make some decent money off of referrals. While number one still holds true here, a worthwhile amount of money can be made.

How do referrals work? As explained in the introduction, the basic idea is that you earn a percentage of any money that your referees make. Some sites take it a step further, with multi-level referrals. These are usually explained in a chart with the other details on the website (found on the front page or perhaps a FAQ section). The typical chart works something like this:

Level 1: 5%

Level 2: 4%

Level 3: 3%

Level 4: 2%

Level 5: 1%

This is a fairly typical payment structure that I have seen on more than one PTC site. What this means is that you earn 5% of the money your referrals make. Then if those referrals have referrals, you make 4% of that! This can get profitable quickly if you have a large base of active referrals, resulting in you earning 1% of hundreds of active users’ profits. The catch of course is that some of these profits are 10-20 cents a day, max. Which means you need to have a large amount of referrals, bringing us to tip 3.

3. You need to promote yourself and the sites you use

Well maybe you were able to convince a couple friends to sign up under your referral link and started making a bit of money. But you’ve ran out of real-life connections to inform of your brilliant marketing scheme.

What you have to do is to promote the sites that you frequent, and while you’re doing that, leave an offer to join under your referral link. This is a special link that lets the service know who you have referred. The link’s format differs by site, but here is an example (one of my PTC accounts, however I am not endorsing the site by posting this link. If you would like to sign up, be my guest)

http://www.upbux.com/r?r=elassar08

That is an example of a link. Sometimes these come with site-provided banners to make it more visual (and partly to hide your vested interest in the site because they won’t actually see the link, but just a banner).

Your “job” then, aside from clicking the ads yourself, is to spread this link to as many places as possible. There are referral “sharing” communities where PTC’rs share their referral link and swap them with other users. The idea is “you sign up for me, I sign up for you, we both make money.” This is an interesting method to try, but I must admit to not having much experience in this matter.

There are many ways to promote your link. Make a blog with PTC site reviews (putting your referral link up on the positive ones), hang out on money-making forums, or use the powerful built in connections of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Two things I must caution you to avoid, however, are outright spam and making multiple accounts per site. Spam is illegal in many countries, as well as widely irritating to nearly everyone. By spamming your referral links you are hurting the companies reputation and hurting your chance of getting new members,

4. Be cautious before you pay money to make money

Many sites make money off of selling ways to get more referrals. Some sites have a “premium” member option, which usually grants you a token increase in money per click, more ads per day, a lower waiting time, deeper levels of referrals, and other perks. Most sites also sell referral “packs”. What this means is that a predetermined number of “unreferred” members are made to become referred members. Say there are 500 members that found the site on their own and so did not enter a referral when they signed up. If you purchase these 500 referrals, it is just as if they had signed up using one of your links or banners (or simply typed your name into the box at sign-up).

It is possible to make money in the long run off of these offers. While mathematically they may seem can’t-lose opportunities, the truth is that many of your referrals might not be active in clicking the ads everyday, and some may drop out. Some sites replacements for inactive referrals, but these too sometimes come at a price.

Basically, be wary before handing over money. Consider it an investment and of course don’t spend money you don’t have. PTC should be considered a money-making “hobby”, not a business. Which (you guessed it) brings us to number 5.

5. Don’t get scammed.

This is the most obvious and yet difficult tip on the list, isn’t it?

Many PTC sites are legit, many are not. Some are fly-by-night operations that take money for premium memberships and then leave. Some simply don’t pay users. And some have impossibly high payout limits. Here common sense goes a long way.

* Check out the sites you are going to use

There are many sites that specialize in reviewing PTC sites. Always do at least a quick google search before signing up with something.

* Never give out excessively personal information

This step is up to you, but don’t give you information you wouldn’t want in the hands of identity thieves. PayPal is the safest way to receive money. I would never, ever recommend getting paid by credit card.

* Use common sense

Is the payout reasonable? Referral levels and percentages? I recently saw a site promising $10 per click, only to find a minimum payout of $20,000 (and I highly doubt they’ll pay that).

Conclusion:

Well that was it. If you have questions about a site that you want me to evaluate or want to talk about PTC, comments are appreciated, and be sure to check out my up-and-coming PTC.

Note: If you want to try more trusted PTC site.Click my banner link at the right side of my blog. Thx happy Earning!!

Tired of Being a Corporate Slave?

2010-01-16T19:19:00.000-08:00

There has been a trend in recent years that has the everyday employee working harder and harder for seemingly less and less. We sit here and watch fuel costs, healthcare costs and every other kind of cost rise higher and higher while our employers decide that if we are lucky we will get an annual cost of living increase (notice they aren't even called raises anymore) at somewhere between 2-4%. Somehow it seems that the expenses are rising at a higher rate which means that the employee who has worked his or her tail to the bone is left with less discretionary income - provided they had any discretionary income to start.

On top of the raw numbers we are also dealing with massive levels of corporate downsizing and restructure which means that those employees who are "lucky" enough to keep their positions are now left with more work to do. So they get to keep their job. Hooray. That is their prize. They now have more work to do, but were they given a raise? I am guessing probably not. We can assume that they were working a full work load before the restructure so now they have more than forty hours of work to perform in a week's time.

No more pay, the cost of everything is rising and now more work which leads to longer hours - the employee is being held hostage. They are working harder and getting less.

Free time or family time- what is that in the corporate world? Most people work 40-50 hours a week. Add in travel time and you now have a typical work week of 45-70+ hours. Maybe this is fine for the career oriented single person or the fathers or mothers who don't care to watch their children grow but what about the single person who wants to experience life or those who have children and want to be a part of their lives? If you head to the office at 7 or 8 am there is a good chance that you're not getting home before 6 pm. Home at 6, dinner until 7, add in bath time and what do you really have for quality time before you're putting junior to bed?

Let's now add in the fact that most households are dual income. It was bad enough in the above example when we were talking about one parent. Now think about the home where both parents are trapped in their corporate environment. What does this mean for their children? Corporate America is robbing our children of one thing that they need the most: their parent's time.

So what recourse does the employee have? Many will just sit back and hope that they get to keep their job. They'll do whatever is needed and will take their measly cost of living increase and if they are lucky it will be more than the increase in their expenditures. They will be a slave to their job, working longer and harder - but not for their benefit. Some will unfortunately lose their jobs and undoubtedly will begin the search for a new one. They'll be looking for something that is safe and secure and they will find their way right back to where they were before. Others are diamonds and will rise to the top. They will have success and good for them - we need people like them. They keep business going and after all, business is what provides most of our luxuries today. The rest, well they are the special ones. They are the people who have decided that enough is enough. They are tired of working their fingers to the bone for the benefit of someone else. They want to take back their time, their freedom and their wealth.

Emotionally many people fall into this last category but very few have the courage to do what it takes to make the jump out of the rat race. You start to hear the excuses, "I don't have the time," "I don't have the money," "I don't know what to do," "I'm not good at anything," and the list goes on. If you're reading this there is a very good chance that you may have uttered some of these words yourself. I certainly know that I have.

Don't fret, there is good news. Believe it or not there is an option out there for the person who isn't quite willing to give up everything to just make the jump. Many people are in situations where they just aren't afforded the luxury to drop everything and dive right in. Fortunately for them there is a business model that typically allows for someone to get involved at a part-time basis and then grow to their full potential as they become successful. What is this model? Multi-level Marketing (MLM), Direct Marketing and Direct Sales all fit the bill and are terms that are commonly used synonymously (although that isn't really appropriate).

All of these options allow you to be your own boss (and usually with very little start-up cost). You work when you want, where you want and as hard as you want. You want a raise? Easy, go make more money. This is the beauty.....you set the course.

An important point to keep in mind though is that these are all businesses and businesses have expenses. (However these expenses are typically much less than a traditional business would incur.) Unfortunately, many people fail in these ventures because they see a simple process and they think they can just plug-in and success will come. That's not the case. Remember, you need to work your business and your business will work for you.

Of course the person who can dedicate more time to their effort will have a better chance at making things move quickly for themselves but that doesn't mean that the person who can only work their business a few hours a week can't succeed. In fact, there are many who did it exactly this way. Persistence is the key. If you have the dedication and the desire and you are willing to listen to the people who have walked this path before you, there is no reason why you can't be successful.

Take back your life! Do what you want, when you want and with whom you want. No excuses!

How to make +$30/day with NeoBux

2010-01-12T19:03:00.000-08:00

This is actually a strategy found on some forum, seems pretty good.
It relies on PTC service NeoBux.

Ok. Please hear me out before you judge this strategy. Someone I told it to earlier complained about it but it is legit. The only catch is that you won't be making $30 a day as soon as you start. You will only be making a few cents but you will work your way up. I have not invested a penny in this site. I invested time. If you invest money you will obviously earn a lot quicker but that is not what I chose to do.
I use a service called neobux to make anywhere from $25-$35 a day. You may be a neobux member and not be making that much and complain or you may not have faith in PTC sites and complain, but I am just telling you what my strategy is in hope that you will join as my referral.

The key to making money with neobux is renting referrals. If you don't have referrals, you won't make much money. It's as simple as that. You will make about $20 a YEAR if you don't get referrals. That's no good. I probably find more than $20 in change on the street in a year and I certainly wouldn't want to waste my time with a PTC site that makes me so little.

Along with getting direct referrals by getting people to sign up for neobux under you, you can also rent referrals directly from neobux. The referrals are real people and cost 30 cents a month each. Some will be active. Some will not. To "recycle" a non-active referral for an active one you have to pay 8 cents. It may seem like a lot, but it's worth it. If you don't recycle inactive referrals, you will lose money. And we don't want that.

When you reach 90 cents by clicking on your own (if you don't invest money), you can purchase your first 3 referrals. This is where most people go wrong. It takes a few days to earn the 90 cents on your own and people are so eager to buy referrals that they just purchase as soon as their account reaches $1 (the minimum amount you can transfer to your rental balance to buy referrals.) When people do this they do not realize that they do not have enough money to maintain their rented referrals and their referrals eventually are taken away because they can't pay for them. Before you rent referrals you should earn $3 by clicking on your ads and then transfer it to your rental balance. This way you have $1 per referral and you will easily be able to recycle them if they are not active or pay to keep them for one more month. It will take a while to get $3 on your own, but this way you will be able to keep your referrals and exchange the inactive ones for active ones without the fear that you will not be able to pay for them.

Autopay is another must. As soon as you rent your first 3 referrals turn autopay on. Referrals cost 30 cents a month to keep. Instead of you paying for the referral, they pay for themselves as long as you have autopay turned on. What it does it subtract one of the advertisements your referral views each day and puts it towards the 30 cents that referral needs to stick around for another month. So you get one less penny from each referral, but they will be your referral as long as they are active.

Cashing out too early is a huge problem for people that use neobux. When you request a payment it is INSTANTLY transfered into your alertpay/paypal account. In order to see if neobux is indeed legit (which it is) many people will earn a dollar by clicking and then cash it out. Woo-hoo. You now have a WHOLE DOLLAR in your paypal account. That dollar should have been put towards buying referrals. With this strategy you will be putting $3 into your rental balance before you buy 3 referrals. So $1 per referral. I actually did not cash out until I started reaching +1000 refs. Keep renting referrals by increments of 3 (you can rent by higher increments later as your referrals make you more money) and continue until you have 500 referrals. This will take quite some time. This is where most people flake out. When you reach 500 referrals, stop buying referrals and just maintain the ones you already have. Keep doing this until the money builds up to about $100 and you can use $90 of it to pay for golden. $100 won't take very long at all to get once you have 500 referrals and once you upgrade to golden your earnings will DOUBLE. This is the great part. Golden costs $90 a year but instead of getting half a cent for every advertisement your referral views, you get 1 cent. Your earnings double. That's all there is to it.

Keep renting new referrals after you upgrade to golden and don't cash out. Remember, you haven't cashed out at all, and you won't until sometime far down the road. But when you do cash out, you will be able to cash out about $30 a day. Don't be impatient and blow it before that. You should wait until you have 2,000 referrals (the cutoff limit for renting referrals) and any money you are not using to maintain referrals you can cash out. I have about 1,500 referrals and I have cashed out a few times because I got impatient but if you can make it to 2,000 then you are more dedicated than I am (haha.) And that's the end of the strategy. It will take you a long time to reach 2,000 refs. Don't flake out before you do. It is well worth it.

As you see, it seems a pretty decent strategy to go along, if you have the time and dedication. You won't have this kind of profit from night to day, it will take some time. If you want to rush some steps you may spend $5-$20 and buy referrals at start but keep in mind that you can do this enterily free! All it takes is an email and paypal/alertpay account.

If you found this post usefull feel free to click NeoBux ad below, register and test for yourself this strategy.

At NeoBux you get paid just by browsing our sponsor's ads.

Unlike many other PTC sites, our goal is to innovate and reach the needs of our users as well as our advertisers.

Our site is completely designed from scratch because, as users of other PTC sites we were sure that, besides many offers, none could give us what we wanted as users or advertisers.

We will be glad to receive your feedback.

What you get as a member:

Earn up to $0.02 (2 cents) per click.

Earn up to $0.02 (2 cents) for every ad your referrals click.

Access detailed statistics of your clicks, earnings and even of your referral's clicks and activities.

Pay and receive instantly!

WHAT IS NEOBUX?

NeoBux is a free worldwide service available in both English and Portuguese language.

Our service consists of allowing advertisers to reach thousands of potential customers by displaying their advertisement in our site and users to earn money by viewing those advertisements.

Our users click on the advertiser's ad and view it during the amount of time specified by the advertiser.
After viewing the ad, the user gets credited with a pre-determined amount of cash on their NeoBux account.

You don't need to pay us to start earning. So, now that you're a registered user, start earning money for free!

HOW MUCH CAN I WIN?

The amount of cash the user earns varies between the user's membership, the ad viewed and the number of referrals the user has.

For example:

If you have a Golden Membership, click 10 top ads a day and refer 150 members who also click 10 top ads a day:
You win $30.2 (US dollars) per day that translates to around $936.2 (US dollars) per month. Now, try to multiply that for a year!

With even more referrals (which can be rented or obtained freely) and more ads, we will leave it to your imagination.

(This is just an example. Actual earnings can be different depending on the factors above.)

You don't need to pay us to start earning. So, now that you're a registered user, start earning money for free!

HOW MUCH DO I GET PAID AND WHEN?

The amount we pay you is divided between several factors.

First let's describe the amount you win per click and for each of your referral's clicks depending on the type of membership you have:

Pioneer and Standard Membership

Per click:	$0.010 (standard view) · $0.015 (extended view)
Per referral click:	$0.005 (standard view) · $0.010 (extended view)

Golden Membership

Per click:	$0.010 (standard view) · $0.020 (extended view)
Per referral click:	$0.010 (standard view) · $0.020 (extended view)

Minimum Payout:

The minimum payout amount is set at $2.00 (two US dollars) for your first payout request, $3.00 (three US dollars) for the second, $4.00 (four US dollars) for the third and so on until $10.00 (ten US dollars).
This means that when you reach or go beyond this limit, you can request your earned money.

Amount of time for payment processing:

After you request your payment, you'll receive it instantly in your chosen payment processor account unless some kind of technical difficulty is encountered during the process.

WHAT IS A REFERRAL?

A referral is someone who works for you.
Sounds good? Keep on reading:

A referral gets what every other user gets when they click ads: Money!
But, if a user that clicks ads is your referral, you get money, too!

There are two types of referrals and three ways of getting them:

Direct referral:

This user registered using your username as their referrer.

Rented referral:

You rented them.

So, how do you get referrals?
Here are the three ways you can do that:

Use our banner:

Show our banner online with a link to NeoBux with your username on that link (you can find the banners with the links in your account).
When the visitor clicks that banner, he/she will be sent here.
Then, all he/she has to do is register. We'll take care of the rest for you.

Talk:

Just tell everyone to register at NeoBux and to type your username in the referrer field when they do so.

Rent:

You can rent referrals monthly to work for you (this is not slavery... they win too).
Just go to your account to do so.
The quantity of referrals available will vary depending on how many users registered without a referrer.
You'll only get referrals that have clicked at least 10 advertisements in the past 5 days.

he renting price for each referral per month is:

Referrals	Golden		Pioneer		Standard
Referrals	Monthly	AutoPay	Monthly	AutoPay	Monthly	AutoPay
0 -> 250	$0.20	$0.0060	$0.25	$0.0075	$0.30	$0.0090
251 -> 500	$0.21	$0.0060	$0.26	$0.0080	$0.31	$0.0090
501 -> 750	$0.22	$0.0065	$0.27	$0.0080	$0.32	$0.0095
751 -> 1000	$0.23	$0.0070	$0.28	$0.0085	$0.33	$0.0100
1001 -> 1250	$0.24	$0.0070	$0.29	$0.0085	$0.34	$0.0100
1251 -> 1500	$0.25	$0.0075	$0.30	$0.0090	$0.35	$0.0105
1501 -> 1750	$0.26	$0.0080	$0.31	$0.0090	$0.36	$0.0105
over 1750	$0.27	$0.0080	$0.32	$0.0095	$0.37	$0.0110

NOTE:

The first two rentals for standard members have a special
discount being the price for each referral only $0.25.

Pay daily using AutoPay:

You can activate AutoPay to extend your referrals' next payment date.
On the first click each referral makes per day, you'll pay to keep him/her for an extra day.
This is the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to keep your referrals.
Also, you'll save 10%.

Recycle your referrals:

You can recycle each referral any time you want to.
Is your referral inactive or just clicks a few advertisements per day?
No problem!
For just $0.08 you can replace him/her with a new active referral.

So, what are you waiting for?

451Press.com - Paid Blogging Opportunities

2009-01-23T11:37:00.000-08:00

451Press.com is one of the largest blog networks. They are always looking for writers to contribute to their growing network of blogs which cover a wide range of subjects and topics. If you're passionate about a topic, you may think about writing for 451press's blogs.

Requirement

Knowledgeable and passionate on the topic you write.
Strong writing skill with unique voice.
Creative
Reliable
How much you can earn
As a blogger of 451press.com, you task is to write unique content for the blog you are handling. 451press will take care of promotion and generating advertising revenue for your blog. They will provide the support you need to succeed. You'll get paid 40% on all the advertising revenue generated by your blog.

To know more about 451press's blogging opportunities or apply as a 451press's writer, please click here.

2 Legitimate Online Companies You can Work with to Make Money at Home

2009-01-23T11:31:00.000-08:00

I have read about Hirepoint.com and Customloyal.com in a forum. They are 2 legitimate online companies that provides home-based opportunities to people who want to make money online or at home. I'm not affiliated with any of these companies, just want to introduce them to you and hopefully they can help you make money.

Hirepoint.com
Althought the site address is Hirepoint.com but the company name actually is TeleTech Holding. It is a global company providing business process outsource services and work at home opportunities. The work at home job opportunities of TeleTech are available to people in US, UK and Australia. To work with Teletech, you first need to apply to become their accociate and then go through several selection processes before you're hired. There is no fee to apply. To learn more please go to http://www.hirepoint.com/index.html.

Custom Loyal Concepts
There has been many people working with Custom Loyal Concepts (CLC) as a call employee. CLC services newspaper subsribers in many different areas. As a call employee, you'll be making outbound call to CLC existing newspaper subscribers. It is not a cold calling. The pay starts at $7.00 per hour. All the positions are for US resident in 26 states only. There are minimum requirements to become a call employee of CLC. If you are interested, please click here for more details and find out the steps you need to take to apply for a post.

Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs: Getting Started Guide

2009-01-21T19:08:00.000-08:00

Affiliates make money by referring customers to their merchants. There are many companies and webmasters offer affiliate programs to promote their online sales. When you sign up for an affiliate program, you will be given an affiliate link with an unique affiliate ID which will be used to market the product. When someone makes a purchase through your affiliate link, you make money (earn affiliate commission). Below are the steps to starting an affiliate marketing business:

Step 1 - Join an Affiliate Program
Clickbank.com is one of the best places to find an affiliate program that interests you as there are a ton of sellers looking for people to promote their e-books and info products. Before you join any affiliate programs, do a little research. Find out which products are most popular, the conversion rate of the products and visit the sellers’ websites to see whether their sales letters are convinced enough to generate sales. A conversion rate of 5% is reasonably good. This means that for every 100 visitors to the website, 5 visitors will buy.

Step 2 – Promote an affiliate program through a website
You need to have a website to promote your affiliate programs. Creating a website isn’t difficult nowadays. You can use an easy website builder to create a website with little or no technical knowledge. To learn more about how to set up a site with website builder, you can go to Google and enter the search term 'website builder' to find a site builder that is right for you.

Step 3 – Decide the Content on Your Website
As you are promoting e-books, you can write a review on each e-book with an affiliate link to the sales website of each e-book. If you do not wish to write reviews, you can create a product recommendation list on your website (e.g., ‘Top 5 SEO e-books,’ ‘Top 3 MP3 music download,’ etc.).

Step 4 – Drive Targeted traffic/visitors to Your Website
To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely you’ll generate more sales. There are several ways to drive targeted traffic to your site in short period of time (2 to 5 days). Here’s how……

Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
You can get a lot of targeted traffic using PPC advertising. The two most popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. So how PPC advertising program works? PPC advertising programs allow you to bid for top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone enters a search term matches your keyword in the PPC search engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will appear on the sidebar of the search result page. If the visitor clicks through your ad to your website, you’ll be charged base on your bid amount. To learn more about PPC advertising, please click here.

Article Marketing
Writing an article related to your affiliate products with a link to your website in the article’s resource box and submitting it to many article directories can bring some free targeted traffic to your site. To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write more articles. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing this for a year can drive truckload of free traffic to your website.

Post Messages on Forums
Another way to get free traffic is by posting messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted by you. Here’s a technique I learned from an affiliate marketer.

1) Run a search on Google to find out forums and message boards that are related to your affiliate products and try to join as many forums as you can.

2) Make sure that each one of your forums profile is edited to include your website link within the signature option.

3) Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The more people trust you, the more likely they will click your link.

An Introduction to the Different Types of Affiliate Programs

2009-01-21T19:05:00.000-08:00

Today, affiliate marketing programs is seen as one of the most important methods by online companies and merchants to market their products and services because implementing an affiliate program doesn't cost much money and it helps generate a consistent stream of online profit.

On the other hand, the affiliates see affiliate marketing as a feasible and low cost method to make online online by promoting other people products using a website or without a website (using Google AdWords PPC advertising program).

There are many affiliate programs on the Internet and not all of them are similar. The most basic affiliate programs fall into 3 categories:

Pay Per Performance
Pay Per click
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
Pay Per Performance
Pay per performance (PPP) affiliate programs are what most companies and online merchants likes to use. The companies only need to pay when an affiliate referral translates into an action. The action can be a purchase or a lead. The affiliates will spend their own money to promote the affiliated company's products, This save a lot of money for the company. PPP affiliate programs can be futher classified into 2 sub-categories:

Pay Per Sale (PPS) The title says it all. The company only pays the affiliate when a visitor referred by the affiliate make a purchase.
Pay Per Lead (PPL) PPL is a little different to PPS. PPL affiliate programs usually used by finance and insurance companies. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate will be paid a fixed commission whenever a visitor referred by him/her to the merchant's website requested a quote or filled up an online application form.
Pay Per Click (PPC) Affiliate Programs
PPC affiliate programs are most popular. You should have heard them a lot. PPC programs are probably the easiest way for web publishers to make money from their websites and blogs. The affiliate gets paid a certain amount ($0.05 to $0.50 usually) whenever a visitor click a banner or text ad displaying on the affiliate's website. PPC typically used by contextual advertising companies like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Networks and much more.

Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
In this type of programs, the affiliate not only compensated for every customer referred to the merchant's website, the affiliate is also paid whenever the referred customer returns to the site and buy another product.

The different types of affiliate marketing programs would deffinitely work differently for merchants and affiliates, and each would have their own advantages and drawbacks. To find out which types of programs work best for you, you'll have to know which one of them suit your need and characteristic most. And then start testing them.

Video Guide for your Google AdSense Steps to Success

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Free Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

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1) Comment on BlogsLook 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 ArticlesWrite 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 ForumsUse 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 DirectoriesThis isn't working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.

5) Post OftenYou 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 BloggingWrite 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 NewsIf 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 BookmarkingBookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.

9) Run a ContestStart 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 OptimizationMake 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.
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6 Ways to Make Money Blogging

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Advertising ProgramsCPC advertising programs are the best money making programs for most of the bloggers. They are suitable to all kind of blogs with family-friendly content regardless of their traffic level and age. CPC programs work well on blog because they display contextual ads that are highly relevant to blogs content and bloggers will earn anywhere between 10 cents to 50 cents for each contextual ads click by their visitors. With proper CPC ads optimization and consistent amount of traffic, a blogger can earn a steady amount of money displaying CPC ads on his/her blog. Google AdSense is no doubt, the undisputed king of CPC advertising programs and Yahoo Publisher Network is the closest alternative of AdSense.
2) Cost-Per-Action (CPA) Advertising ProgramsCPA programs is quite similar to CPC programs except CPA programs don't pay bloggers for each click on the CPA ads hosted by bloggers. The blogger only makes money when the visitor takes an action on the CPA advertiser website. The action can be a sign up, making a purchase, generating a lead, downloading a product and more. CPA networks pay a lot more than CPC programs, for a visitor sent by the blogger from his/her blog to a CPA advertiser website and the visitor taken an action on the advertiser site, the blogger can earn few dollar to fifty dollar depend on the niche. But CPA ads tend to work well on large traffic blogs only. AzoogleAds.com, Commission Junction and Advertising.com are some of the largest CPA networks.
3) Promote Affiliate ProgramsMarketing affiliate programs is very common nowadays. You sign up with affiliate program of an online company, then decide whether to use the company's text link or banner ads on your blog to promote the company's products or services and earn affiliate commission when a visitor make a purchase through your affiliate link. Affiliate programs can be promoted without a website and blog too.
4) Pay Per Post ProgramsPay per post programs started last year. The programs pay bloggers to write a blog post about a sponsor's website. The paid blog post can be a review or an introduction on the advertiser's website, products or services. The blogger will be paid a least $5 for each sponsor post. Blogs that have massive traffic, high Google PR and large number of subscribers can charge a few hundred dollar for just writing one sponsor post. Here's are the two most popular Pay per post networks that offer this type of earning opportunities:www.reviewme.com www.payperpost.comThe downside of pay per post is that writing too many sponsor posts that are not relevant to your blog content can seriously affect your traffic.
5) Sell Text Link AdsSelling text links on your blog can be a great source of additional online revenue. It is not difficult to get started, just go to Text-link-ads.com to sign up an account, then decide which part of your pages you want to display paid text links, set your price and you are ready to take order. Text-link-ads.com will handle all the promotional works. Another company that offers the similar services as Text-link-ads.com is Reverselinks.com6) Hosting Web PollVizu Answer offers a pretty new way to monetize your blog's and website's traffic. The pays the publishers on a cost-per-thousand impression (CPM) basis for hosting targeted web poll. The money a blogger can earn from hosting poll is depending on the page views. The more page views, the higher the earning.

Make Extra Money With A Blog Without Spending A Dime

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Blog or weblog is simply a website with frequent updates on a particular subject or topic. You can write a comment, review, suggestion or tip on a subject on your blog. You can also provide educational resources and advice if you are an expert at something. For instance, If your blog is about sport cars. You can post the latest annoucements from sport cars manufacturers such as BMW, Ferrari and so on, discuss about the latest models of sport cars and the best components used for producing sport cars.Blogger.com allows anyone to create a free blog (free domain name and hosting) without any technical knowledge. Creating a blog with Blogger.com is easy and you can have you blog published within an hours.There are several ways you can make money with a blog:Become a Google AdSense publisherYou can join Google AdSense program and start earning advertising revenue from your blog. It is not difficult to set up you AdSense campaign as Blogger.com also provides Adsense tool and guidances to help you start an AdSense campaign. This can be a great source of revenue, though of course the amount of income you can expect from your AdSense ads will depend on the amount of traffic (visitors) to your blog.Sell Other People's StuffYou can promote your affiliate programs by placing the affiliate links and banners on your blog and earn commission whenever someone clicks through an affiliate link or banner to your merchant's website made a purchase.Sell Your Own ProductBlog can be used to promote and sell your own products too. You can write about your products' features and benefits on the blog.Drive Visitors to You BlogTo make money you need to drive visitors or traffic to your blog. The more traffic you're getting the higher your earning will be. There are several free ways of getting traffic to your blog. Here's how ......1) Introduce your blog to your family and friends.2) Submit your blog to directories. You can find a list of blog directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'submit blog url'.3) Write an article or more with a link to your blog and submit them to article directories. You can find a list of article directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'article directory'.4) Post messages on community forums with a link to your blog on the signature of each message posted.There are other ways (free and paid) to increase traffic for your blog. You can find a lot of free information and resources about blog promotion from search engines.
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Tips for Avoiding Your AdSense Account Getting Banned by Google

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I have seen quite a lot of AdSense publishers posted in different forums stating that their AdSense accounts were banned by Google due to fraudulent clicks. Most of these people claim that they are innocent and have never clicked on their on AdSense ads. So they have no idea why click fraud can occur on their AdSense accounts. The truth is click fraud can happen in several ways and not necessarily caused by the AdSense publisher himself/herself who accidentally clicked on his/her own AdSense.Below are some of the tips to protect your AdSense account:1) Do not use autosurf programs to promote your websites that contain AdSense. Autosurf programs can substantially increase your website traffic or hits, AdSense page view and ecpm but people who surf your site only to earn advertising credit or other type of incentives. So the traffic generated from autosurf programs aren't counted as real and thus against AdSense policies.2) If possible, do not involve in any traffic exchange networks and programs. If you have join one or more programs or networks that can make you a steady AdSense commission, you should start worry about your AdSense account as this could mean that members of the program(s) were clicking each other AdSense ads all the while whether intentionally or unintentionally. As soon as Google detected a group of people were clicking each other AdSense, many of the members AdSense account in the program will be suspended. Also traffic exchange can be another mean to artificially generate tons of unreal website traffic or hits and boost up AdSense page view & ecpm and it is strictly prohibited by Google .3) Do not join AdSense exchange networks. They are similar to traffic exchange programs except members are participate just for clicking each other AdSense. This should be a guaranteed way to be banned by Google.4) Read all the Google AdSense policies at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-ww-et-asui&amp;amp;medium=link&hl=en_US to see whether you have against any policies and make the necessary modification.
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5 Tips to Boost Your Adsense Revenue

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Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google's contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click. However you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don't know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn't matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website's background. If your site's background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.3. Don't place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between AdSense locations can make when you see your earnings.4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.

4 Steps to Creating A Website Specifically to Earn AdSense Revenue

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Building a website to earn Google AdSense advertising revenue has become a popular way to make extra money online nowadays. It is easier to earn AdSense income versus generating sales by selling products or services online. However it does involve works, time and money before you start earning from Adsense program. Below are the steps to creating a content website for earning AdSense revenue.Step 1Decide the content of your website. You can write a topic or subject related to your interest, hobbies or experience. You can also provide educational information and advice on your website if you are expert at something.Step 2Use a website builder to create your website. One of the easy-to-use website builders that can help you build a website is Bluevoda website builder. Bluevoda site builder allows users to build a website without technical knowledge. You don’t need to build your site from scratch. The trick is to use a free professional template provided by the site builder and then start adding your text and links to your website. You can add some graphics and pictures to make your site look nicer. After completing your website project, your next step is register a domain name and sign up for a hosting account to publish your website on the Internet.Step 3Join Google AdSense program. It will usually take several days for Google AdSense team to review and approve your site. If Google accepts your application. You can start learning how to generate AdSense code for inserting to your website to generate Adsense revenue. If your site rejected by Google, don’t get upset easily. Google will let you know the reasons of the rejection. You can fix the problems and reapply again.Step 4You need to drive targeted Visitors/Traffic to your website to generate Adsense revenue. The higher your website’s traffic the greater your Adsense earning will be. Below are some of the ways that can help you drive some traffic to your website in short period of time.1) Use Per-per-click (PPC) advertising. The two most popular PPC search engines are Google and Yahoo. Google and Yahoo can deliver instant traffic to your website but it is costly to advertise on Google and Yahoo. There are other alternatives like Bidvertise.com and Clicksor.com which are cheaper to advertise with.2) Introduce your site to your family and friends.3) Write several articles with a link to your website on the resource box and submit them to article directories. You can find a list of article directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'article directory'.4) Post messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted.
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Make Money Online with Top Affiliate Programs

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Everyone wants their home internet business to making them as much money as possible. How much money you actually make is determine by the types of affiliate programs you choose to promote on you site, and there is a wide variety of programs you could join. There are so many affiliate programs on the internet that it's so hard to mention all of them. But you will get the best.

Staying relevant to your main niche or subject matter is of course one of the major things you should consider to be successful. Let say for example let's say if you have your health related website showing ads about computer parts, chances are you're not going to get good result. On the other hand if you put ads on that site about diet pills etc. You will stand a better chance at raking in the cash and have you home business running the way it should.The affiliates that you could join that will help you with your home business and will get you earning a good income if you go about advertise it the right way.One of the top paying affiliate programs is Clickbank which is a nice generator for huge commission. This program is like a product directory for affiliate programs. Many people become a member of Clickbank in order to promote their products which are digital products such as eBooks, software's etc. After those products are accepted by Clickbank and added to their database of products, webmasters like you and I grab at the opportunity to promote these products and get some commission. If you're looking to start a work from home website or already have a website, I would advise you to take a look at some of the products Clickbank have to offer, just check out the Clickbank market place. If you don't have a website that's not a problem, you could learn how to use Google, yahoo or MSN to start and ad campaign and start promoting the link that they give to you and you will be able to keep track of your sales by jus logging in to your Clickbank account.Another program is Commission Junction. This company is another one of the leaders in affiliate marketing. Commission Junction provides their affiliates with quality product to promote because the advertisers/Merchants the sells the products are relatively bigger and better developed companies. This is a very good advantage for the affiliates because they can promote products that are reliable and keep their websites trustworthy.Websponsors is another affiliate program. These costs per action affiliate programs are great for adding revenue to your bottom line through your web site.One of our favorite income earners for webmasters is Google ad sense. It is very popular website owners and bloggers. With Google you can paste the code into you site and get pays every time someone clicks on it, But one the things you should avoid is clicking those ads yourself. That's a guarantee to get banned from the program. For a starter you can make over $400 dollars a week or maybe even more from Google ad sense.So if you want to be on the road to making money online with your work from home business then these are some of the programs you could get involved with but remember these programs won't start making money until u start to attract visitors/traffic to your site.