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June 30th, 2007 — blog monetization
Although I still believe that link building is still one of the best ways to get found in the big universe of search engines, there’s one way it can backfire - overdoing link building.
This method of going overboard on your link building efforts could be in the form of Google bombing. Google bombing is making a large number of sites give you a backlink using just one or just a few link titles more popularly known as anchor texts to gain a good search engine placement. Continue reading →
June 26th, 2007 — blog monetization, online ad networks
If you’re tired of your plain AdSense ad borders and would like some new style, say, a Web 2.0 look for your AdSense ads, you’ll be happy that the Google AdSense team has just added a new look on ad formats - rounded corner goodness!
And guess what? There’s even a varying degree of roundness if you don’t want too round corners: square, slightly rounded, or very rounded corners.
Now if you’re like me who doesn’t care about borders because I believe that the more invisible (is there even a degree for that adjective?!) the border the higher the click through rate (CTR), you won’t find this too useful. But if you also have the heart of a scientific-minded AdSense user, you will know the value of experimenting with your ads. And, these ads with rounded corners can just be good addition to your variables during ad experimentations.
What do you say? Did they help you get back the old spark of your AdSense earnings? (I’m sorry, too much Transformers!)
June 19th, 2007 — blog monetization, online tools
If you are a professional blogger, say you’re a corporate blogger or you’re blogging for a blog network and you’re one of those who can’t get past the stage of using some blog accessories you’ve always enjoyed during your younger personal blogging days, you can still have some fun and ”earn some money” if you do it with moderation.
Here are some blog accessories bloggers who are making money online with their blogs can make use of without turning off their readers:
Clean and Easy to Navigate Blog Layout
There are thousands of free Wordpress themes and Blogger templates out there that you can choose from. But how do you know which assist you in your endeavor to increase your blog profits? Select a blog template that is cool - to the eye that is. White background and lots of space is still the fad if you want your visitors to enjoy reading your blog. Make sure that your sidebar and blog’s body is not cluttered with too many buttons and other unnecessary blog accessories. A modern Web 2.0 touch won’t hurt either if you want your blog to look trendy. Continue reading →
June 9th, 2007 — blog monetization, online ad networks
Warning: This AdSense 101 is old news for old online money makers.
Top AdSense earners like Plentyoffish.com’s Markus Frind, Digg’s Kevin Rose, and Jeremy Schoemaker are, of course, not experts in making money online. Like many who aspire to reach the levels of those who got successful in this form of residual source of income, didn’t have time to be slackers when they tried Google’s AdSense.
What exactly is Google AdSense?
It is a Google product that promises an easy way to make money online to online publishers (those who own static websites and / or blogs)by displaying relevant ads.
Why is Google AdSense popular?
The key to its being a well-loved (still debatable) is its ability to place ads that might be of value to a site’s readers because of the relevancy of the displayed ads or their being contextual by simply copying and pasting codes, which not many ad networks were able to solve a lot earlier than AdSense.
How does Google AdSense work in terms of showing relevant ads?
When you place the AdSense codes on your site, the AdSense crawlers will read your site’s content and will start to show ads that are relevant to the prominent theme of your site’s content. This is however not always the case since there are still some sites that get served not-so-relevant ads. But there are ways to get around that irrelevant AdSense ad problem, which many expert AdSense earners and AdSense tool developers have discovered.
How does Google AdSense make you money? Continue reading →
June 8th, 2007 — blog monetization, online ad networks
If you’ve been trying to learn about making money online using a blog and haven’t heard about Text Link Ads (afflink) yet, you’ve been living in the cave for quite some time now. It’s the blog monetization of choice for both the less-earning people who earn from blogging and the top earners. There are a dozen of Text Link Ads out there that can help you earn more from this online ad network. Here are some of the most popular ways to get the most out TLA:
1. Choose a niche that has a great demand from text link advertisers.
Of course, this is for those who’s only trying to make money from TLA and definitely has no issues on doing it that way. From what I checked with the Text Link Ads Calculator, gambling-related and finance blogs get excellent response with text link ads advertisers. If your blog has a gambling theme, you might not get much from AdSense because I think it’s against their policy. But with TLA, it earns the greatest single link value according to the TLA calculator.
2. Place your text link ad codes on the upper fold of your blog.
It’s just logical that the advertisers would prefer publishers that have their text link ads on the upper part of the site where readers can find the links more easily. This is especially helpful to new blogs which are not as established as LiewCF’s and JohnTP’s yet, which both discuss these tips on maximizing the earning potential of a blog if monetized with TLA by the way.
3. Post more on your blog.
The more pages, the better inventory you offer your potential text link advertisers. Also, along with more posts, the greater chance that you earn a better traffic rank from Alexa, which is one of the measures that TLA uses in gauging the quality of a blog. Consequently, as your traffic gets to love your blog posts’ quality and quantity, it’s easy to get a high Google pagerank which is another site appraisal tool that TLA makes use of.
4. Editing your listing can help you up your TLA earnings in “so many ways.”
Now one my recently discovered way to earn more using TLA is editing my listing. Sure, it’s already long known that you have to set the best category for your blog if you want your potential advertisers to notice you. However, it’s just a few months ago that I noticed that you can also do more if you want to use the ”edit your listing” section to work for you. Here are two ways: Continue reading →
June 7th, 2007 — blog monetization, online ad networks
In-text ads services, which offer text link ads that are inside a site’s content usually linked on keywords, like Kontera, Intellitext, and Adbrite’s are now joined by another in-text ad program - LinkWorth’s LinkInTxt 2.0.
When it LinkInText was launched, it’s required for a publisher to enter each web page that he or she would like the intext ads to appear on. However, just today, I’ve received an email that it now has its own search engine that will crawl the webpages of a site to automatically include intext ads in stead of manually entering each web page.
Here are the steps to take advantage of LinkInTxt’s automatic crawling:
Here’s what you need to do: Continue reading →
June 3rd, 2007 — about flood of dollars, blog monetization, blog promotion
Do you blog just whenever you feel like blogging? That’s fine if you are blogging for the sole purpose of venting out or expressing thoughts. Or simply put, that’s fine if you intend to keep your personal blog just that - a personal blog.
But what if you want to augment your income with the help of your blog? Definitely, blogging just “every now and then” won’t work. You have to have a plan on how to make your blogging for money endeavor take off.
In view of this came the decision to set up my own blogging goals, which is a list of to-do’s which may not be too ambitious but will most likely help me in keeping things in perspective.
Since Flood of Dollars is about making money online, it’s only logical that I try to make money online from it, while keeping a symbiotic relationship with my current and future readers. Although even without any motivation I’ll still do my best to make FOD as resourceful as possible, it never hurts to get incentives whenever it reaches some milestones. Without further adieu, here are what I’m planning to get at with this blog for the month of June:
Here is a snapshot of the Google Analytics stats of FOD. Continue reading →
May 30th, 2007 — blog monetization, online ad networks
While looking for more *Text-Link-Ad‘ish ways to earn from a blog, I found another text link ad selling service in the form of that of V7 Network’s.
However, it’s available only to the members of V7N Network forum. And instead of being like Text-Link-Ads wherein you usually place the links on the sidebar or somewhere else except on blog posts. V7N Contextual Links is more of ReviewMe-like than TLA’ish I guess because of this information I got from its FAQ.
Q. Do the links get placed on web sites owned and operated by V7 Inc?
A. No. We have a large network of bloggers who are paid to place the links contextually in a blog post on their own blogs.
Also, you are required to have a PayPal account to get paid.
You can join the V7 Network’s text link ad service here again only if you are already a member of the forum.
*referral link
May 30th, 2007 — affiliate program, blog monetization, make money online selling
Edith Yeung, a personality development writer and entrepreneur has compiled 53 ways to Make Money on the Internet.
However, she has divided them into four major categories for easier digestion:
1. Online Advertising
YPN, Clicksor, and Pheedo are some of the online ad networks that Edith Yeung highlighted. It definitely pays to have more options other than AdSense.
2. Affilate Marketing
Clickbank and Commission Junction are two of the most popular affiliate marketing services Edith has mentioned. I have noticed more referral programs that I’m not familiar with such as ShareaSale and Jellyfish. Will definitely try them out when I get the time.
May 29th, 2007 — blog monetization, make money online selling
They’re easy to sell to, you can consider them a captured market, they’re a major method of strategy and yet many entrepreneurs fail to harness the possibilities that come with each referred prospect made by their blogs. Here’s why you should take advantage of the sales potential blog referred prospects bring so you can turn your profits way, way up:
When blogging’s done properly you can build a good measure of trust.
Referred prospects are easier to sell to because they already have an idea of what your product is and what it can offer. When clients are happy, they can convince other people to do business with you. If they’re pleased about their experience, you can be sure that they will let other people know about it and convince their referrals that your products are better and worth a try. More than half of those who make a purchase, especially of a new product, have been referred by previous customers.
How do you build trust with the help of your blog? Write about helpful information related to your home business. If you have a cleaning service business, tricks on cleaning a carpet or windows are samples of great blog posts that can show to your readers (read: potential clients) that you care enough to share these bits of advice.