WAYS TO MAKING MONEY ONLINE

Promoting Products and Getting Big Sales

noreply@blogger.com (mexon) — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:25:00 +0000

Now this is the complex part.

There are numerous ways by which you can promote your preferred products, but here, I will discuss with you the most effective ones. These ones have been proven excellent through years of constant usage by online marketer and entrepreneurs.

Promote using your Blog or Site: If you have a blog with good traffic, you can easily promote an affiliate product by writing a review post about that product with your affiliate link hyperlinked in-between texts or putting it at the end of the post. Or you can simply put a banner of that affiliate product on your side bar. While putting it, jst remember to post products that are related to what your blog’s niche.

Use Social Networks: As you all know, social networks are growing at a rapid rate and will continue to grow. Facebook, for example, has nearly 600 million users and twitter has 200 million. And that is what you can make use of.

If you use twitter, you can search for tweets in your niche and reply to them with helpful product links (masked with your affiliate code). For Example: You search for your loved niche, lets say “Weight Loss”, in Twitter and you find a tweet of a desperate person asking for help to loose his/her weight. Now If you know of a product which you think can really help that person, you simply can reply to that tweet with your affiliate product link.

If you use Facebook, you can create a Facebook page or group in your selected niche and once that Page/Group has got good number of fans/members, you can share the affiliate link of a related product (of course, if it is useful) on your Page’s wall. This way you are exposing your affiliate products to targeted people (your Page’s fans) and you will easily be able to get sale of that product.

Write and Submit Articles: Article Marketing is the most exploited way of getting affiliate sales and Guess what? It works every time. You just need to write an article related to your niche and then submit it to various article directories. You are given a chance to add a resource box in your article where you can add hyperlinks of your choice. But the drawback is that most of the reputed Article Directories do not allow the use of affiliate links in your resource box. So, to get the most benefit, you have to first write a review of the selected affiliate product on your blog or elsewhere (where you can add your affiliate links) and then create a related article, for article directories, containing your review post’s link in the resource box of that article.

If done effectively, this can get you a good amount of targeted visitors to your blog post where they might end up buying that affiliate product. Few things that you need to keep in mind is that you need to create an effective resource box (or Call to Action Box) paragraph which urges the reader to click the link in that box.

Some of the Famous Article Directories where you can submit your articles are :

Ezinearticle.com

Goarticles.com

ArticleAlley.com

Ideamarketers.com

buzzle.com

Create Videos: Video Marketing helps you get tons of targeted traffic easily (Yes, i said ‘easily’). All you have to do is Create a Video Review of the Product you are promoting and upload that video to popular video sharing sites like Youtube. In the description field for that video, Add your affiliate link and that’s it. Videos gets viral too easily, All you need to care is about the Title and the Content of the video. Try to create a catchy Title which makes people view your video.

You can work on Keywords and link building to get the video rank higher in search engines but there is an easy way to get traffic to your video. It is by getting your video listed in the “Related Videos” section of Popular Videos in your niche. This can be achieved by adding the same tags to your video which are used by other Popular Video in your Category.

Create Web 2.0 Properties: Now this is fun. You might have heard of Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Hubpages etc. These are mostly like article directories but these are community driven, i.e, other users can comment upon or like/dislike your article and accordingly your article is ranked. All you have to do is create an Article around your affiliate product and include your affiliate link in that article. Now you have to work on building backlinks for that article (with your anchored keyword). Web 2.0 sites are loved by Search Engines and it will not be too hard for for you to get it ranked higher for your keyword.

Join Online Forums: This is also a popular form of Marketing Online. First find Forums that are related to your niche and create account there. Next, set up a Signature line there and include your affiliate link in it. The last thing left for you to do is to stay active on these forums and post useful threads there and answer to other posts. If you post useful stuff, People will start trusting you and will browse through your signature links. This way you can easily get affiliate sales.

Build an Email List: Someone rightly said : “The Money is in the list.”

Yes, that’s right, If you have a large number of E-mail list or subscriber to your website, you can often send them Newsletter with an affiliate link. You must craft a cool email that will get your subscribers click through the links in it. This way you can really get good number of affiliate sales for your product. But Remember, If you start sending them affiliate driven emails everyday or emails promoting unrelated products, Your subscriber will unsubscribe from your list and will left you in the vast ocean alone. So use it Wisely.

Create Niche Sites: You might have heard a lot about Niche Sites/blogs these days. Well, a niche site/blog is that which is made around a very specific keyword or niche which has quite a low competition and could be easily ranked for, in Google, with minimal effort. What you have to do is, Research for a lucrative “Low Competition”, “High Traffic” Keyword using some keyword tools and then create a website/blog around that keyword and a few related ones. This type of site might not contain a lot of pages but 5 – 6 content rich (& SEO rich) pages will get you going. Then Start Building backlinks (Off Site SEO) according to the level of competition and in a few days, you would ranking well for those keywords. Now, all you have to do is to place banners or direct affiliate links in your sidebar or Content and see the conversions coming in within a few days.

You could even create a niche site reviewing a product (real life or digital) and that way you will be directly targeting buyers. Make use of keywords like “Product Review”, “Buy Product”, replace “Product” with the name of the product you are promoting. That’s it.

These were the best methods to promote your affiliate links and get sales and commissions.

By Now, you must have attained great knowledge about Affiliate Marketing. So what are you waiting for, Go on and and Get your First Affiliate Sale today.

Affiliate Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (mexon) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:42:00 +0000

AFFILIATE MARKETING: (The Introduction)

Participating in Online Affiliate Marketing Programs can be an extremely lucrative way to earn income as an Entrepreneur. Some online entrepreneurs earn as much as six digit incomes with little or no effort using affiliate marketing programs. Since it is an online business, it means that Entrepreneur can actually participate.
However, like any other business idea, you need to understand the workings of the business before expecting profit. Too many online entrepreneur have spent money and time struggling to earn income from affiliate marketing programs without success.
What is affiliate marketing?
It is simply a form of marketing. A company offers a product or service for sale. The company invites you to market the sale of the product or service on their behalf. For each sales you generate, you are rewarded with a percentage of the profit. (That is putting it simply, it could be much more complicated than that. But this simple definition will suffice for now).
Requirements

1. Registration - You will be required to register with the company promoting the affiliate program. Affiliate Link – When you have successful registered, you will be giving a unique code, this is your affiliate link. It may look something like http://www.affiliate.naijaecash.com/?you.

2. Marketing - It is now left for you to market the product or service so as to generate sales. You can do the marketing via blogs, website publications, articles, newsletter e.t.c whatever method you choose, you will need to provide your affiliate link so that buyers can click it to get to the seller.

3. Caution – Do not send unsolicited emails to people asking them to buy the product or service. That is SPAMMING. If you are reported, the company you are affiliated to will simply cancel your account with them.

How do you earn money from affiliate marketing programs?

1. Commission on Sales - You will earn a commission, whenever a sale is made as a result of someone getting to the seller through your “affiliate link” and the purchase is concluded (so do not ask friends to click on your affiliate links, payments are based on sales concluded). Your earnings will be paid into your affiliate account with the seller.

2. Commission on Subscriptions or Continuous Services - This is slightly different from the first one and it one of the best income earners because it has a residual Residual income is my favorite concept. Basically you put in your front-end effort and once you make a sale you get to, on-going, collect a small portion of the recurring fees for the subscription or service, until it gets canceled by the subscriber. Combine this with possible referral residual income and all I can say is simply WOW, what an opportunity.

3. Referrals of new subscribers to the affiliate marketing program – Another means of earning income is through referring new subscribers to the program. Whenever a new person joins the affiliate program through your recommendation by click your “affiliate link” and they become active members, you will earn either a flat rate or a portion of their earns (it all depends on the particular affiliate program). Some affiliate programs pay a one time commission, while others allow you to build teams of people you referred under you and you earn a percentage of every sales made through them.

Why I recommend this for Online Entrepreneurs
You do not run the risk spending money to start the business. (Only few of the affiliate programs require registering with money. I do not recommend those for a starter).

Your fund is not tied down to any product or service.
You do not run the risk of failed sales.
You have no business with the delivery of the product.
You are not liable for the performance of the item purchased (Wait! A word of caution, as an online entrepreneur, your greatest asset is your REPUTATION, so be careful with what you recommend. One aggrieved customer can cause a lot of damage to your reputation via negative publicity)
You will be assisted with many resources to make success of the marketing by the seller, often that is offered at no cost (be weary of Affiliate Programs that require you spending fortune to learn marketing strategies).

How will I get my payments?
This still remain a challenge somehow. Most affiliate programs pay via PayPal. Some simple solution for now is to join only Affiliate Programs that issue Cheques or make payments via E-gold, Payza or any other payment options assessable in your country.
That means, before you join an affiliate program, you need to make your research online and ask questions so as to ensure that you will not just labor in vain and get stuck when it is time to receive your earnings.
Also, for the sake of your reputation, use Google or any other search engine to find out the reputation of the seller over time. Do not destroy your online REPUTATION by joining an Affiliate Program set up by get-rich-quick-scammers.

See you at the top

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Efficient Ways to make Money withYour Blog

noreply@blogger.com (mexon) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:37:00 +0000

EXCELLENT AND EFFICIENT WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR BLOG

Having a blog isn’t just about writing pleasant articles and posting to the internet unless you are doing it as a hobby; most people out there will tell you that there is no meaning to having a regularly updated and quality content blog if not created to make money, no matter how much. To most people being a professional blogger is all about how quality your content is, how much traffic do you drive per month and of course how much do you earn doing it.

Over the years bloggers have continually earned their money from banner ads, but in some cases, it is not enough for someone with a lot of responsibilities to have a linear means of making money with his/her blog if they says they are professional bloggers, while there are numerous means of diversifying their income which am going to discuss with you in a minute. Here on this post, am going to show you a few but very effective ways to monetize your blog and make good money while doing what you love.

Blogging world is a very big one filled with opportunities for those who can find them, to capitalize on them. As you have come over to this blog, if you are an expert, then I will be helping you sharpen your skills and provide you with some other awesome ways to earn but if you are a beginner hoping to make money with your new blog, then you have to read with inept attention as we learn these easy and awesome ways to monetize your blog.
Ads
Ads are generally the bread and butter of bloggers. And that is why it is my number one. However, they can be used to scare away your readers if placed haphazardly. To be able to have a little control over the type of ads that are placed on your blog, you have to be relevant, write around a specific keyword or keywords. This way, the ads appearing on your blog will be more focused and will in turn increase your click-through rate. You can check out with any of these sites for the ones that suits you best.

Yahoo! Publisher Network: Display contextual ads on your site via the Yahoo! Publisher Network.
ValueClick Inc.: You'll get quality advertisers, support and advanced technology from ValueClick.
Tribal Fusion: Tribal Fusion's impression-based ad service focuses on targeting and optimization.
eXelate Targeting eXchange: This program relies on delayed ad cookies.
Clicksor Inc.: Clicksor focuses on contextual ads that can be presented in a number of different ways, such as text, graphics and in-line links.
Indeed: Post job listings from Indeed and get paid.
Chitika eMiniMalls: Promote products through interactive merchandise kiosks and provide both relevant content and comparative shopping to readers. You'll get paid per click.
AdSonar: Attract advertisers and build relationships with them individually through this platform.
ExpoActive: Get freedom, from specific ads to style, with ExpoActive.
AdVolcano LLC: Using AdVolcano's platform, you can design your ads, set your own prices and screen your advertisers.
eXelate Targeted Links: Pick and choose the advertisers you want on your site with this program.
grokAds.com: Set your price and choose which advertisers to accept with grokAds.com.
Adify: Get editorial control and high-value advertising on your site with Adify. You can even set your own prices.
AdBriteInc.: Using AdBrite, you have the option to approve and reject ads that will appear on your blog, and you can even use it to sell directly to your own users.
BidVertiser.com: These ads are highly customizable, and you have the option to block any ad you don't want displayed on your blog.
Blogads: Get invited to this exclusive network of bloggers, and you'll have high-quality, relevant advertising on your blog.
Casale Media Inc.: Get high-quality advertisers and control with Casale Media.
DoubleClick Inc.: DoubleClick offers differentiation and lots of solutions for publishers.
BlueLithium: Get great ad targeting, selective partnerships and better ad performance with BlueLithium.

RSS Ads
This is a more specialized advertisement method. A lot of your readers would like to subscribe to your feed and RSS ads allow bloggers to monetize there feed. So if you maintain quality content and stay relevant, it will work just fine for you.

Pheedo Inc.: This RSS advertising platform offers interactive triggers and video options.
Feedvertising: A part of Text Link Ads, Feedvertising embeds ads in your RSS feed.
CrispAds: This blog-focused ad network allows you to place ads directly into entries so they'll show up both on your site and in feeds.
FeedBurner Inc.: FeedBurner's ads are embedded in RSS feeds,and feature high-quality advertisers like Discover Band, Best Buy and Comcast.
FeedM8: FeedM8's service makes your blog ready for mobile content and embeds mobile-appropriate advertising.

Text Ads
This is in my own terms the most efficient. Texxt ads are much more compatible any blog than banner ads. You can check out these text ads service and start reaping good income from your blog.

Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media's ads are in-text and completely user driven.
Google AdSense: Ads from Google are the most popular and often the most profitable source of income for many bloggers. They're relevant to your content, and many blog readers expect it, so you're not likely to run into lots of negative feedback.
LinkAds: These text ads come with lots of control.
PaidTextLinks.com: Sell links on your site and retain editorial control over what's posted with this service.
One Monkey Inc.: You can host highly targeted, text-based ads and earn a great percentage of revenue with One Monkey.
Kontera ContentLink: ContentLink turns relevant keywords within your content into a hyperlink ad.
Text Link Ads: Text Link Ads' simple, nonintrusive ads are a good choice for many bloggers.
TAGword: Select your ads and set your prices with TAGword.
LinkAdage Auctions: Sell text links through private online auctions with LinkAdage.
LinkWords: LinkWords offers pay-per-click revenue embedded in your content, highlighting keywords that are relevant for advertisers.
Textlinkbrokers.com: Get unobtrusive, small link ads, as well as a steady monthly payout that doesn't depend on traffic from Textlinkbrokers.com.

Merchandising
As you already know, content is king and when you maintain that and make quality your watchword, you are going to start getting a lot of traffic to your blog and you will eventually build a good number of loyal readers who may be willing to support your blog in any way they could. So why not give them the chance by branding your blog and putting its logos in different items which they might be willing to buy in support of your blog.

CafePress.com: This perennial favorite makes it easy for you to put your blog's logo on shirts, bags, coasters and other items.
Self-Published Books: If your readers like your content, they may want to have something they can own offline or even share with friends. Create a book with self-publishing services like Lulu, and you'll earn profits even without a huge book deal.
Printfection.com: Design and sell custom products with Printfection.com.
Hard-Copy Content: Create a CD-ROM "book" with cleanly organized content that can be accessed offline. You can take things a step further and sell subscriptions for future updates to the system.
GoodStorm: Like CafePress.com and Printfection.com, GoodStorm is a nice way to create and sell your own merchandising products.

Paid Content
This is meant for bloggers who offer exclusive information especially those that can help the reader make money. Do not create fake previews telling the readers that you have classic information for them when you don’t have any and do not create a membership page just for it as it will repel most readers. Instead create a good content that you know is worth the buyer’s money and create a premium page for those who will be willing to pay for it.

E-Books: Whether it's a compilation of your best tips or a new idea altogether, an e-book is a good, reader-friendly way to package content.
White Papers: Like e-books, white papers are a smaller, more technical version of your content.
Phone Calls: Sell one-on-one phone calls for advice and other consulting through Ether.
Miniguides: If you've just run a particularly helpful series, package it up into a miniguide.
Tutorials: Gather your knowledge and compile it into a tutorial that relies upon your expert advice.
Members-Only Sections: Whether you're providing access to published items or just ad-free content, make sure you're delivering a product that your readers are willing to pay for.
TextMarks Inc.: Charge readers to get text-message alerts about your content through TextMarks.
X-Events: Project physical events online and create revenue by charging admission, attracting sponsors and selling subscriptions to future events.
Podcasts: Podcasts may be a novelty to your readers, and many of them are probably willing to pay to be able to hear your entries on the go.
Videos: Like podcasts, videos are value-added extras that readers may be willing to pay for.

Affiliate Programs
Bloggers tend to drop names of programs or products in between lines of their articles while blogging. Affiliate programs helps you to make money dropping those names as you will be dropping your own url that will lead the interested readers you your referral page and earn a certain percentage of the money the readers spend their.

Amazon Associates: Amazon Associates earn up to 10 percent in referral fees for revenue made through blog links.
Chitika ShopCloud$: With ShopCloud$, you can list popular products in a tag cloud format.
WidgetBucks: These shopping widgets offer popular products, lots of relevance and plenty of customization.
LinkShare Corp.: LinkShare's affiliate program will hook you up with programs for companies like Apple Inc., Dell and Disney.
zanox: Set up a zanox online shop, choose your products and earn a percentage of every sale.
uSuggest LLC: Suggest relevant products to your readers and get paid for doing it.
Chitika RPU: If you've discussed a product in a post, make money by putting a link to the product at the end of your text.
Auction Ads LLC: Place relevant eBay auction ads on your site to earn money.
Recommendations: If you're a fan of a particular product or service, why not ask them directly to pay you for linking to their site?
Commission Junction Inc.: You can promote a wide variety of products through Commission Junction, so you'll be able to find something that's relevant to your readers.
Chitika Linx: Chitika's Linx identifies keywords in your blog's content and links them to paid product listings.
shareasale.com: Sign up with this network and choose which merchants you'd like to promote.
ClickBank: Through ClickBank's program, you choose the products you want to promote.
iTunes Affiliates: Keep your readers up-to-date on new releases and earn a commission on revenue with the iTunes Affilliates program.

Introduction to Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (mexon) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:25:00 +0000

Introduction to Blogging

Blog

As Wikipedia would define it –
A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often were themed on a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have deve
loped, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, interest groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal newstreams.

In this section, we will learn some things you may need to get started blogging.

Blogging - meaning

The world is getting computerized these days, as a result of that, a lot of businesses (small and large) have thought it wise to create an online channel either to market their goods online or to advertise it there and market offline. There are lots more reasons why people create and manage blogs. A blog to most people mean a space on the internet where you can do whatever you feel like (e.g write articles, market goods, provide information) and actually have a chance of people all over the world viewing it and loving it.

There are a good number of bloging platforms you can choose to create a blog which includes WordPress, Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr, Movable Type, and TypePad. I provide you with a quick preview of some of the popular ones so you can make your choice on which one to go with.

The Benefits of Blogging:

There are why you should blog for your company oor business and some of these reasons are:

1. TO SHOW SUPERIORITY: By writing and sharing nice articles about your business on your blog. Giving yur customers or readers insights about your company and other related topics they need to know will stand you out as a leader in your profession.

2. TO ADVERTISE YOUR GOODS: When you create and manage a blo fill with quality contents about your business, and when you write articles frequently, you'll get higher rankings on Google and other search engines which in turn increases your sales.

3. BAND AWARENESS: If you are blogging regularly about your business and there are people around the world searching it, they are more likely to find you and get to know your brand than if you are not blogging about it.

4. BUILD RELATIONSHIPS: This is probably one of the best reasons to have a blog for your business. Most blogs you find here and there nowadays are very interactive. It give your customers a room for discussions, where they can ask there questions and be answered probably by another customer who might have used your product which increases trust level because customers prefer to hear from fellow customers precisely the ones who have used a product that they are new to.

5. CUSTOMER SUPPORT: Blogging provides a unique and easier way for you to resolve customer issues without actually having them come over to your headquarters. You can provide them with solutions right on your blog and a lot of them are going to feel happier considering the stress it save them.

6. SHARE THE LATEST INFORMATION: Share the latest news and updates and keep both your customers and non customers informed about latest development in your business.

According to a study by Hubspot of their customer base, the average company that blogs has 55% more website visitors, 97% more inbound links, and 434% more indexed pages than those that don't.

So here we go: let me give some hints about some of the most popular blog hosts.

Blogger

Blogger is one of the oldest and best performing blogging platform in the world. It’s quick and easy for beginners to setup and get started. Blogger is owned by Google, so your content will live on their servers. Expect the blog to run near 100% of the time, and lots of integration with other Google applications. But; Blogger only offers a hosted solution, which means that it will be harder for you to make customized changes. If you’re serious about blogging, we recommend WordPress.

Tumblr

Tumblr & Posterous are both a cross between a micro-blog (like Twitter) and a full-fledged blogging platform (like WordPress). Tumblr & Posterous break posts up into content-specific categories like photos, quotes, music, etc. Part bookmark, part blog, they are both awesome ways to keep a live stream. Posterous is famous for their post by email feature, while Tumblr is a great service to build community around finding and sharing new ideas. But; Both sites aren’t the easiest to fully customize, and they can be confusing for beginners.

WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular blog platforms available today. WordPress comes in two flavors, WordPress.com the hosted version, and WordPress.org the source code. This means that you can get started right away, and as your technical expertise grows, your blog can grow with it.

It’s free, easy to customize, and supported by an incredible community of volunteers who work hard to improve the platform every day.

Note: To fully customize the hosted version at WordPress.com, you might need to upgrade your account.

And Note again: if this article was useful, share it to your friends by using any of the social links below.

You are free to leave a comment or suggestion below, I normally reply very fast.

Make Money With Google AdSense

noreply@blogger.com (mexon) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:57:00 +0000

Making money with adsense is probably the easiest way to make money online.

You think am joking? Now ask yourself.

Have you ever thought of an automatic way to monetize your blog? Have you ever had a dream of making a cool income from your blog without having to convince anybody to buy anything? If yes then adsense is that which you have been looking for. I am going to open you up to the automatic money making world, am going to open you up to the advertisement world and am going to tell you, right here all you need to know about Goggle Adsense.

What is Google AdSense?

Google AdSense is a powerful advertisement program created and managed by Google itself, it is a nice way to make money from your traffic, and it is very easy to implement.

Google creates most o its revenue by allowing other website owners to advertise on their search result pages. And they monitor all of that through a program called AdWords.

Now you as a website or blog owner can earn a percentage of that revenue by helping google to do the advertisement. You can do that by placing adsense text ads on your website or blog and when your readers or website visitors click on them, you earn 60% of whatever amount of money the advertiser had paid to Google for that particular advert.

Every website owner should at least consider the program. Even if your site is just for information purposes, you can still participate and make decent money with AdSense -- or at least enough to fund your website.

So if you are one of those people that doesn't like the idea of paying for a site, this is an excellent way to earn your money back and then some.

How Much Can You Earn With AdSense?

The amount of money (commission) you earn per click depends solely on the amount of money the advertiser paid Google for that advertisement, from which google pays you 60%.

So it is logical to believe that keyword phrases like weight loss, debt free, employment, make money, mp3, , etc. may earn you more per click since these are highly competitive keywords that are searched for quite a bit on the web. Advertisers generally pay more for popular terms because they are searched for more.

Even though Google will not reveal how much you are earning for each ad that is clicked from your site, you can still login to your account at any time and see the total amount of revenue you've generated that day, week, month, year, etc.

The amount of money you make with your adsense depends hugely on the amount of targeted traffic you receive to your site, how well the ads match your website topic or niche, how well you placed the ads on your website or blog and of course the amount you receive for each click.

Your adsense success will also be determined by how focused your content is towards a particular topic. In other to achieve this, you should create a website or blog on a topic you know to a great extent, this way, you won’t have a hard time write a large number of articles that principally focused on that particular topic.

How to Join AdSense

Before you ever think of going for adsense for yor blog or website, make sure you have 10-15 pages on your site/blog, then head to http://adsense.google.com to apply.

When you are accepted, simply copy and paste the provided HTML code into any page that you'd like to show the ads. If you've done a good job of defining the content on your web pages, the ads that show should be relevant to the content of your page...increasing the chances of click-thrus by your visitors.

You can either display the ads vertically along side the page like Google does or in a banner-like formation horizontally across your pages. The placement is up to you. You can even customize the colors to match your site's theme.

Tips on Succeeding With AdSense

Here are some tips for achieving success with Google AdSense.

Build Traffic

Google adsense is hugely dependent on targeted traffic. When a lot of people around the world are interested in what you have and show up frequently, the more money you will make from your adsense.

Create Channels

Channels allow you to see what units are working best. So if you are adding an AdSense unit to your header, you should create a channel called (name it Header, for example) so you can track its performance in your reports.

I think it's important to maximize your click through rate (CTR) so you can attract more advertisers (just my opinion based on logic.) So I remove channels/units that perform significantly lower than others.

Advertisers want to advertise on sites that will give them the most clicks, right? So it makes sense to optimize your account's CTR as much as you can.

So how do you create channels?

When you are creating a new ad unit, you are presented the option of creating a custom channel on the first screen...

Set Units to "Targeted"

When you target your custom channel units, you make them available to Placement advertisers who may want to advertise on your site directly. These advertisers pay more so you earn more per click.

It's super easy to set this up.

Just click "My Ads" from your account, then select "Custom Channels". Click the channel you want to target and click the box for targeting as illustrated below...

Just remember, success with AdSense is all about how well you bring in targeted visitors to your website.

PROFIT IN THE MAKING

noreply@blogger.com (mexon) — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:58:00 +0000

When it comes to making money online, most people feel that it is not real if not impossible. When sweet programs are being portrayed over the internet, they tend to feel attracted but they won’t still act because they feel that it is too good to be true. I have been earning incomes from the internet (Online) since 2009 and I have come to realize that some people who doesn’t feel like working hard for their money, come on to the internet and instigate a high yield investment program (hyip), promising a high return, they even tell you that they are going to pay you double of your investment with them on weekly basis. Well, those of us who can do basic calculations can stand up quickly to tell me that that’s a very good investment, but those of us who can do economic calculation can vouch on my behalf that considering the economic situation in the whole world right now, that, that is a very good fraud and I can prove that with just a little fact, we all are literates, I mean, for you to be looking for how to earn cool income on the internet, you must be a genius to some extent, and you have a place you are living, by living I mean, going out, interacting with people, seeing people, and of course “buying and selling one thing or the other” which is my area of interest, you must have heard or seen people living in abject poverty and if you have experienced it before then that’s better, because in the cause of buying and selling, we interact with the economy which in turn means that if we tell ourselves the truth, the economy is bad and for some of us who do internationally based businesses or travel to other places or listen to news, can say that the economy of the whole world is in shambles. So how true is it when someone behind a beautiful webpage is promising to pay you double in one week, what am i even saying, 5 days!!” But it is only after the proposed 5 days that you will realize that you’ve thrown your sheep to the wolves. So why am I writing this article, you may ask, well, it’s because I am about to introduce you to a very good internet business. A business that I joined skeptically but today I feel so free to invest my bank loan on it. It is a business that pays you 2% on every 10$ you invest on daily basis. When you invest 10$, you reap 0.2cents every day, wow!! i mean, even if I did not have a degree in mathematics I can still pick up my calculator and understand that if I put in $50 then am going to be ready to bag in $1 each and every single day, wow!!!! Again, in this economy? That someone would be taking in $1 every single day just because of an initial investment of $50. But the crux of the matter have not even been reached, this is just a tip on the iceberg about this business.

Profitclicking.com is providing you a very nice advertisement platform whereby you purchase an advertisement position at the rate of $10 per one and earn 2% daily for a period of 81 days.

And additionally, when four of your positions mature (reach 81 days), you will get a pc panel position that will pay you $60 when it circles. Just click on join, fill out the form and then fund the account with as much money as you can through any of their payment processors and then you will be ready to receive mouth watering returns afterwards.

So I compel you to take this step towards your financial freedom, I will be keeping you updated on my monthly online business secrets though my newsletter.

Lastly, this message is meant for those seriously looking for ways to make cool and hassle-free income on the internet without having to be an internet guru (gurus too).

So If you need further coaching on this piece of information or you want to subscribe to my monthly newsletter free of charge OR you are okay with the information you got on the website, you may as well want to subscribe to the newsletter. Just e-mail me on mikewilsononline@yahoo.com with your own e-mail address where you will receive my response and your full name with which you registered at the website, remember that I will see your name and username in my downline as soon as you register.

Immediately I get your mail, I will know through the content what you want and I will respond immediately and then put your name on my mailing list.

To your online success

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Easy ways to make money online

noreply@blogger.com (mexon) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:00:00 +0000

FREE STEP BY STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE IN NIGERIA

Making money online ain’t beans in as much as the so called "Gurus" make it seem so. It takes a lot of hardwork and dedication and that’s why I recommend you guys read Ajith Prasad's Do you really Make Money Blogging? and MK Akan's Can Nigerians Really Make Legit Money Online?.
With this post, I hope to answer most of the emails I get from my readers who are eager to jump on board and start making some money online.
Plenty of gurus claim to have made tons of cash online and that’s quite true but the catch is that, the money they make is from selling information which is readily available on the internet for FREE or selling online cash generating techniques which they’ve NEVER actually tried before.
Some are just plain SCAM ARTISTS such as Emmanuel Samson who peddles E-Cash Pro. You also need to open your eyes to the fakers out there such as Ogidi Patrick of the Facebook Naira Free Report.

NIGERIANS TEACH YOURSELF HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE

This post is a compilation of all archived posts here @ StrictlyOnlineBiz that have to do with making money online.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE AND YOU’RE READY TO PUT IN SOME EFFORT, KEEP READING OTHERWISE YOU CAN MOVE ON.

To start this guide off, I’d like to let you know that, there are Top 10 Ways Nigerians Make Money Online and I’m going to show you how to go about some of them.
Blogging seems to be the in thing now as it’s a simple way of earning easily online. You set up a blog with good content, slap on some Google Adsense ads and affiliate links and you’re good to go. DON’T GET ME WRONG. It ain’t as easy as I just painted it. You have to work to promote that blog and get it ranking high in the search engines for some quality search engine traffic which in turn will bring in the real money.

HOW TO SET UP A WORDPRESS BLOG ON YOUR OWN!

Nigerians BEWARE Of MMO Blog Setup Services Like This One! They are only out to deliver crap for your hard earned money. Strive to create your own blogs yourself or hire authentic individuals to get the job done for you.
Setting up a blog requires some server space and domain name. This could set you back some N2,500 if you go with hosts such as Syskay. I recommend Netfirms, Hostgator and Web4Africa as I've had first hand experience with them, Hostgator being the most expensive of the three. I host with Hostgator and have absolutely zero complaints about their services.
Of course if you’re strapped for cash, you can get a free blog from Blogger.com or Wordpress.com.
If you’re looking for a comprehensive guide to setting up a quality wordpress blog, I suggest you download Income Blogging Guide which has got to be the best FREE guide I’ve found online that shows you how to set up a wordpress blog complete with adsense, SEO optimization and so much more. It’s a 5.5MB 82 paged wonder!

HOW TO MONETIZE YOUR BLOG EFFECTIVELY

Once your blog has been setup and running with some quality content and is gaining some nice traffic, the next move most bloggers make is to make some cash off their hardwork through promoting products as affiliates and displaying ads from ad networks such as Google Adsense, Kontera, AdBrite, Chitika etc.
For a limited time only, you can Download Joel Comm's E-Books Without A Credit Card! These e-books include the bestselling Google Adsense Secrets 4 and Kontera Secrets.
You can learn a bit about affiliate marketing by reading the Pros & Cons of Earning Cash Online Via Affiliate Marketing or visiting ClickBank Guide By Affiliate Bully.

DEBIT CARDS AND PAYMENT PROCESSORS: HOW TO RECEIVE, ACCEPT AND CASH PAYMENTS ONLINE

Most gurus have made their fortune via this means as it seems to be what everybody needs at the moment. Unfortunately, the gurus are cashing in on the ignorance of folks who don’t know their way around the internet.
The following posts are aimed at showing you how to get your own PayPal Merchant account & Payoneer Prepaid MasterCard and also how to get a Merchant account that accepts credit card orders amongst other things.

EXTRA WAYS OF MAKING MONEY ONLINE BESIDES BLOGGING

If you ain't interested in blogging, you can still earn cash online as a Nigerian through the following means:

The Top 10 Commandments Of Paid Online Surveys: The info contained within still sells like hot cakes but then a few of we, the Nigerian bloggers, feel it’s about time we just forget about online surveys.
The Unrevealed Dark Side Of CPA Marketing
Make Money Online Reselling Web Hosting with these awesome Hostgator Reseller Hosting Plans. If you truly want to start a web hosting company here are Eight Small Steps To Being A Great Nigerian Web Host
Make Money Online Registering Domain Names
How To Make Money Online Flipping Websites/Blogs

That’s just about the basics you need to know about making money online as a Nigerian living in Nigeria. It’s not easy but with dedication, honesty and hardwork, you can make it.
Best of luck with your online endeavors. Cheers.