Let Derek Gehl Works out a Top 10 Search Engine Ranking for Your Website

I just heard that Derek Gehl has put up an SEO program with the goal of getting 17 websites to reach Top 10 in the big three search engines which are Google, Yahoo! and MSN.com.

In the next 14 days, Derek and his expert team will be choosing 17 websites from the Internet and do all the hard search engines optimization works for these 17 websites so that they can gain a top 10 listing in the search engines. You can submit your website to Derek's SEO program for your website to be considered by them.

What happen if your site is chosen?
They will first analyze your website and business and select the right keywords for your website. Next, they will move ahead to optimize your web pages such as title tag Optimization, alt tag optimization, anchor text keyword optimization and etc. And finally they will build inbound links and SEO content to get your site listed in top ten.

Once your site got a top 10 listing in Google or Yahoo, search engine traffic will flow to your website and this definitely will help you make more money online.

I would suggest you give it a try by sending your application to Derek's SEO program. At the end, if your site is chosen, they will get right to work to improve your search engine rankings dramatically.

3 Steps to Making Money Online with Your Skill

Your skill in a particular field can earn your cash from the Internet. The idea is to provide your skill to others who need it through the Internet for a price. There are numerous Internet marketers and entrepreneurs needing help, with the right skill you possess, you can help them solve their problems. There are also loads of Internet users interested to learn your skill. You can earn money by sharing your skill or guide them to do the thing they love.

Below is a 3-step process you can take to turn your skill into cash:

#1 Step - Find Your Skill
This obvious isn't difficult. You should already known what best skill you have. Skills that can earn you money those are that can help people save time, solve a problem, save money or save time. Some of the high demand skills now are:

• Writing - article writing, copywriting, blogging and ghostwriting.
  

• Web and graphics design - website building, blog theme design, e-cover design, graphic and images creation.

• Search engine optimization - Building inbound links, optimizing website and etcs.

• Technical - Programming, script installation, blog installation, tracking and testing.

As you can see, the above skills are directly related to Internet marketing and e-commerce. The e-entrepreneurs and webmasters often need them to get their problem solved fast.

For most other skills that has nothing to do with the Internet marketing, it is best to turn them into educational guide and offer it to a target group of Internet users who want to learn it.

#2 Step - Turn Your Skill into a Product or Service
If you do possess a skill related to Internet marketing, it will be profitable to start a freelance business specialized to provide your service to the e-entrepreneurs and web publishers. While doing your freelance business, you can also develop your paid coaching program or e-book product that will teach people to master a skill of Internet marketing niche. This can become an additional source of income to you.

For those of you who are good at office support (data entry, etc) or accounting, you may check out Guru.com, Elance.com and other freelance service sites for freelance works that suit you.

Even your skill has nothing to do with Internet marketing, it still can bring you online income. There are already a group of people searching on the Internet to learn the skill you have, you can just write a 'how to' e-book or guide and sell it to this target group of people.

#3 Step - Start Your Business
When you have your own products created or you are ready to provide your expertise or skill, it is time to plan and start your online business. A website is needed to launch your business.

Don't worry, it isn't difficult to get a professional website nowadays. Web designers are everywhere on the Internet. Just hire a good and experienced one through the freelance marketplace and your problem solved. Lets the web designer do all the work for you (from website building to setting up).

As you are selling a service or product, marketing will be vital to you. For a beginner who hasn't experienced much about web marketing and promotion, PPC advertising is a good choice. PPC advertising can give you instant potential customers at no effort. But, you will pay for each targeted visitor send to your website.

While your PPC ad campaign is running, you can spend more time to look into what other Internet marketing approaches to use for promoting your business. If you can come up with a marketing plan, that will be even better. The plan will clearly list out your goal, the exact marketing strategies to be used for achieving your goal with a budget of how much to invest in each marketing approach.

Improving Your Adsense Returns

Adsense is a great program, if you run a content based website, then it can effectively offer you 'free money'. Basically just by placing Google's AdSense code on your site you can make money from anyone who clicks through on any one of those ads.

This is great and most website owners end-up applying for the AdSense program. Once approved the tendency is to log into your account, chose a few ad formats, place them on your site and wait for the money to start rolling in... or not...


The truth is that AdSense is extremely easy to implement (you just copy the text from Google's website and paste it into your own site). But it's actually fairly complex to get right. That's why many website owners feel very, very disappointed when they reach the end of the first month and little money has come through.

Partly this is because displaying ads on your site is a numbers game... The more people you have coming to your site the more likely it is that they will click on the ads on your site. Typically you will get a click-through rate of between 1% and 5% (ie for every 100 people who visit your site only between 1 and 5 of them will click on an ad). You can improve this number by altering the layout of your ads (ie ad size, font colours and border colours) where plain ads that actually resemble the overall look and feel of the text on your site tend to perform best. Basically you're trying to make the ads merge in with the content of your site so that they do not look like ads. That's why some of the more unusual ad sizes can look better than the standard 'banner' style of ads.

Obviously you also need to look after your SEO. You need to build more links so that more people find your website and see your pages (remember that earning income from ads is a numbers game, the more people who visit your site, the more clicks you get).

However, it's also often forgotten that each ad is worth a certain amount of money and only pays you a certain amount for each click. You want to get ads to your site that will entice your visitors to click on them and which will earn you the most income. This is why you need to pay particular attention to how your website is indexed and the keywords you have.

Your keywords should always be related to your site's content, however some keywords are better at getting high-paying ads than others. Also , the google bots index the whole of your site and if you have a complex page with lots of links this may not be a good thing.

The links and other text you have may lead to areas of your site and topics that are not related to the main focus of the page they're on (this is particularly true of portal sites and forums and article sites) and this is where Google provides tools to help you. One of the most important of these is a series of tags:

text of section

This tells Google that the text between those tags is the most important part of a web pate. Now, the remainder of the page won't be ignored but whatever's between those tags will be given extra weighting. Google recommends that you include at least 20% of a page's content in those sections and you certainly can't use it to just highlight certain words and phrases. But if your page is complex and especially if your page design puts some of the main navigation elements before the main content it can be very powerful.

If, however, you want certain text on your pages to be ignored completely for ad indexing you can use the following tags:

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->

text of section

Using these tools can help you dramatically help the focussing of ads on your site and this can help your click-through rates and incomes.




Dyfed Lloyd Evans runs the Celtnet Articles free article directory. He is also the author of the How to Maximize your Web Traffic eBook (and the associated free eCourse).

Overcoming Your #1 Barrier Blocking Your from Making Money on the Internet

There are a lot of people trying to use the Internet to make money online, but many of them encountered barriers blocking their way to success. Some people are having difficulty in web design and optimization, some people can't generate enough traffic for their sites, some are have trouble writing good content.....

So, is there anything stopping you from making money on the Internet? If yes, what is your #1 barrier blocking your way?

You can now post your #1 barrier or biggest challenge at Derek Gehl's new site http://www.internetmarketing.com. In return, Derek will release a series of video tutorial specifically to help you solve your top obtacles in your online money making venture.

Hundreds of people has already shared their #1 barrier at internetmarketing.com. I thought you will also want to take a moment to share your #1 obstacle and receive the video series in near future that can help you overcome your problem and make the income your dream of.

And as a thanks for sharing your biggest challenge, Derek will immediately send you a free case study of a real business that's been very successful online, which you can use as a "road map" for your own business.

My AdSense Site or Blog Doesn't Make Money: What are the Possible Reasons? - Part 2

The first potential reason why your AdSense site or blog doesn't work is because you are lacking of targeted traffic. This reason has been discussed in part 1 of this article. For those who haven't read part 1, please click here.

There are a few more possible reasons and you will find them in this article.

Your web design or blog template doesn't suit for AdSense
From my two years experience in AdSense, I found that the design of your website or blog has a lot to do with your AdSense performance. A poor designed website will of course make your AdSense performance bad, but, even with a advanced high tech website, AdSense probably still wouldn't work on it because it look too good, making the visitors don't want to leave the site.

Let's start with the layout of your website, both two column and three column layouts can be used for AdSense. But for good performance, if you are using two columns, the sidebar should be on the left and the content section on the right. If you are using three column, the traditional three column are still the best which is both the left and and right columns are a sidebar and the middle column between the left and right is for content.

Your site must have a header with a compelling logo included if possible. The look and feel of your site need to be professional, clean and neat. Adding some beautiful images and photos can make thing even better, but too many can draw your visitors’ attention away from your Adsense ads. For the navigation section the sidebar of your site, I would suggest you not using buttons; instead you should use simple text links for your navigation area. Make the color of your navigation links match your website.

Your site is displaying low content relevant Google ads frequently
This is one of the possible reasons as the AdSense ads that attract your visitors are those ads that are highly relevant to your content. One easiest way to get a quick understanding on the ad relevancy of your content pages is by visiting your site yourself. Browse every web page to see what ads show up in your AdSense units. If you still quite a number of low relevant ads show up, this might be one of the reasons pulling your AdSense revenue down.

You can then record down the urls of all the low relevant ads and use the Google AdSense Filter tool to stop these ads appear on your content pages.

Another way to find these low relevant ads is by using an AdSense preview tool. What the tool can do for you is it can give a list of AdSense ads that will potentially appear on each single web page. All you need to do is entering the main keyword or urls of each of your pages into the tool. From the AdSense ads list you generated, you may find some low relevant ads that you can filter out.

Other possible reasons for poor AdSense performance

You opted for image ads when generate AdSense ad code - Part of the time, image ads will show up on your content pages. This isn't help actually. Firstly image ads are proven to be low click-through rate and secondly Google seems like has far lesser image ad inventory compared with text ad inventory, so you might be getting irrelevant images showing up on your pages.

You don't place enough AdSense ad units in your content pages - A lot of web publishers put only one AdSense ad unit with their article content. But, from what I learned from the experts, we can actually have two AdSense ad units placed within an article. The first unit place on the top left of the article body content just below the article title but align with the first sentence of the body content. And another AdSense unit display on just below the end of the content. And then you may also make use of Adsense link ads. Place one AdSense link ad unit on the navigation section of each of your web pages, match it well with your navigation links and you will earn extra revenue from the AdSense link ads.

Low traffic - This one you may have known it when you find you AdSense revenue little.

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And recently Amit released a new report '3 Critical Mistakes You’re Probably Making' to help people avoid failure in affiliate marketing. You might have struggling in affiliate marketing to make money online, but nothing seems worked and you can't figure out what went wrong. In this situation, this report may be able to help you.

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Signing up for downloading a copy of this report will also entitle you to get access to a 42 Minute Video of Amit where you will discover Amit's success business model and his favorite tools used for finding profitable keywords for affiliate marketing.

My AdSense Site or Blog Doesn't Make Money: What are the Possible Reasons? - Part 1

Every website and blog are different in term of content, design and structure. However, when it comes to optimizing Google AdSense ads, most of the web publishers and bloggers apply the similar techniques. They have learned and realized that the best location for displaying AdSense ads on their site or blog is probably within the content area. So, they went ahead and placed their AdSense ad units into their content area.

But the result is, no everyone enjoy high click through rate with the similar AdSense optimization technique. Those who have got nice click through rates and made a good AdSense income, congratulation to you! But, for those publishers who still get a poor AdSense performance after implementing the same technique, what is the reason?

Below are a few of the possible reasons why your AdSense site or blog doesn't performance as you expected.

You don't actually get real targeted traffic
When you have generated a lot of traffic to your site but still make tiny little money from AdSense, you will need to look into your traffic. Review your traffic stat to find out where most of your traffic come from. The traffic sources like search engines, off-line marketing, link bait, PPC contextual advertising and video marketing (your links are mentions in different websites and blogs) generally will provide you targeted traffic. If your traffic is from these sources mostly, then traffic probably isn't the reason why your AdSense site didn't perform.

Article marketing also send targeted traffic, but it usually don't work well for Adsense according to my experience.

Other traffic sources like social bookmarking, forum posting and blog commenting can also give you consistent amount of traffic but the problem is these sources often don't send your real targeted traffic. Most of these traffic may be just are those competitors or the friendly web publishers of your niche. The competitors want to know what you are up to and the friendly web publishers want to see the design of your site, your content or make friend with you. These types of visitors seldom convert into AdSense revenue. So, you might need to change your web promotion plan if you face these situations.

However, if you are one of the leading experts in a particular niche, then social bookmarking and forum traffic may be excellent to you. Those web publishers of your niche who directed from social media sites and forums to your site will choose to listen to you than turning themselves to be your competitors because your voice has strong influence in the niche. But, in this case, AdSense still doesn’t work. The best way to make money is to offer them your quality product or service.

Your will find 5 more possible reasons of low AdSense earning in part 2 of this article, stay tuned for part 2 in next Tuesday.

14 October Update: Part 2 has been published here.

The Top Internet Marketing Experts Want Your Shipping Address

A lot of good stuff given by the big names Internet marketer experts lately. The quality products that used to sell for a price on the Internet became free. It was first started by Andy Jenkins from Stompernet, then the idea seems to influenced Joel Comm where two days ago he suddenly announced that anyone can get a copy of his popular e-book 'AdSense Secrects 4.0' and printed newsletter at no cost. I already written about their free offers here and here.

This giveaway trend doesn't stop yet. In fact it is getting hotter. Brad Callen, the creator of SEO Elite Software has also printed 200 copies of his brand new book titled The SEO Mindset and ready to ship them to anyone interested to read it. Brad has proven success in search engine optimization (SEO), sure he will have a lot of great SEO info to share in his new book. You will get a strategy for making good money online by getting high rankings in the search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Click here to get The SEO Mindset

And yesterday I got an email from Glen Hopkins with a link to his free offer. Glen isn't a big name marketers actually, but he did make a lot money online for the past couples of years. He has recently done a 3-day Online Marketing Success Formula workshop where people paid money to attend it. The workshop is about teaching people how to make money in the online marketing industry. The entire workshop has been recorded into CD. Glen has produced loads of copies of the CD and wanted to give them away. All you need to do is tell him where you want the CD to be shipped if you want a copy.

Full details about Glen's offer can be found here.

Note: There is a small shipping and handling charge you need to pay to get any of these quality Money Making books except if you are signing up for Joel Comm's offer.

Why Affiliate Marketing is a Great Way for Stay-at-home Moms to Make Money From Home

For stay-at-home moms who want, or need, to earn money to help improve the family's financial situation the Internet is the perfect place to make money from home. Of all the work from home jobs for moms one of the best ways for any mom to earn money online is through affiliate marketing. To those not familiar with it, affiliate marketing involves selling products or services of other people in exchange for a commission from the sales you make. It is an easy and proven money-making enterprise.

Here are five reasons why affiliate marketing is great for stay-at-home moms:

1.) You don't need a lot of money to get started. There are tons of ways to get started making money as an affiliate marketer without spending money. Using the power of information and spreading it through articles, e-mails, forums and websites using your own affiliate links you can get the word out about the products you are promoting very quickly using FREE methods.

2.) It's a proven way to make money online. People have been making money with affiliate marketing since the Internet first got started over 15 years ago. Many people have already become successful with affiliate marketing and are earning thousands of dollars from it every single month.

3.) It is a very flexible way to make money online. Unlike a full time job, affiliate marketing doesn't require you to work 8 hours a day, five days a week. It can be done any time of the day. Moms can work at night while the children are sleeping or during the daytime when the children are at school. And it also allows Moms to be free to pick up the kids from school or attend to a child that is having trouble sleeping or is ill. You control when you work - plain and simple.

4.) Moms don't need any special equipment. Other than a computer and an internet connection, which you probably already have, you don't need any other equipment. You also don't need any special skills or a background in selling or business in order to be successful as an affiliate marketer.

5.) You don't need to spend a lot of time tending to your business. Affiliate marketing is the type of business that you can set on autopilot. Yes, at first you will have to spend a little time setting up the mechanisms that will run your affiliate marketing business, but once they are in place you'll only need to give your business a few hours of attention per week. You can work part time and make a few hundred dollars a month and supplement your family's current income or you may choose to work fulltime and earn a significant income that could give you more time with your family and eliminate your financial worries.

Ultimately, what affiliate marketing offers to Moms is the opportunity to make real money online while at the same time allowing them to spend quality time with their children and families. Flexibility and low capital to enter this business makes it an ideal money-making opportunity for Moms who don't want to start working or go back to working in an office.


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Why Your Online Business Needs a Backend Marketing Strategy?

Backend marketing is a form of marketing method that involves the use of strategies and tactics to sell additional products or services to your existing list of customers.

In this rapid changing and competitive e-commerce industry, it is important that you don't neglect the backend marketing if you have an e-commerce website built to make money online. The backend marketing can avoid you being taking over by your competitors.

Below are some reasons that why backend marketing is important and necessary.

Easier to Close Sales
The marketing estimate shows that the success of selling to a old customer is 8 times higher that selling to a new customer. So, it means convincing an old customer to buy from you is far easier.

Thus, backend marketing is really a powerful technique to grow your online business and increase your profit. You should care about your old customers. Whenever you launch a new product and the product is highly relevant to your existing product, it is always best to start with these older customers as many of them have already bought and used your product before and were satisfied with the purchase. They are more likely and willing to try your new products as they are familiar with your brand and confident on you.

Fast Profit
You can potentially crank out a nice and quick profit from marketing a backend product to your existing customers. The trick is to offering them a good discount. This method has been widely used by the Internet marketing gurus when they are releasing a new product. Giving them a limited time discount will simply make your offer irresistible.

If offering rebate doesn't seem to be suitable to your marketing plan, then you may consider offering bonus products. This also can trigger the buying interest of your existing customers because they will get more for paying the same price.

Minimal Cost and Effort
Selling to your existing or old customers not just easier but also the save a lot marketing cost and effort. Imagine you want to convince a visitor to become your customer, it will cost you money in advertising to get the visitor to visit your e-commerce site and then invite the visitor to subscribe your newsletter so that you can get his/her email contact and follow up with them. You got to put in effort to write quality newsletters and email copies to get a sale from your newsletter subscribers.

With a list of existing customers, you can just inform them by email of your new interesting offer and the happy old customers may immediately buy the new product after reading your new offer. There is only little marketing cost in the process and it involves less time and works to reach your product to your potential buyers.

Conclusion
Since you can make second, third or even fourth sales from your first time customers, a backend marketing system or strategy is really necessary. Your backend marketing strategy may focus on developing new product specifically for your old customers. Your old customers have other need needs and wants. So, you may create new product to meet this needs or to provide a new solution to a problem.

The Next Generation Mini-Site Strategies v2.0" Webinar is Happening Tomorrow

Can you make money online with just a mini-website that has only a few content pages? Yes, you can. A guy named Jim Edwards proves it can. He has made millions dollars of sales through his online business by using mini-websites.

This Thursday, 7:00 - 8:15 P.M. EST, Jim will appear in a live webinar event of Mike Filsaime. Mike will asked Jim to talk about his latest mini-site money making strategies. If you like the idea of profiting online using mini-site, this live event is right for you.

The live webinar event is free. To reserve a seat for attending this webinar, you may visit the below link to register:

http://www.minisitewebinar.com/register

During the webinar, you'll see and hear from Jim Edwards and Mike Filsaime telling you what works and what don't in mini-site online business. They have also prepared to give you a new online business model with a proven step-by-step system you can follow to start making money online with your mini-site.

I'm Going to Reveal Joel Comm's AdSense Secrets to the Public

I got something really exciting to share with you today. The AdSense expert, Joel Comm who receive 5 figure AdSense check every month from Google is now inviting people to download a copy of his popular e-book 'Adsense Secrets 4.0'.

The AdSense Secrets 4.0 is a guide to making money with Google AdSense and has been sold to thousands of people. For a limited time, you can grab a copy of the entire 230-page AdSense Secrets 4.0 at no charge through this link:

https://infomedia.infusionsoft.com/go/as4/a554200

What You will Learn in AdSense Secrets 4.0?
I have this e-book downloaded and took a look on it. Wow... this e-book is jumped packed with loads of good content and information. It has all the info you want to know to start making money online with AdSense. Everything from basic to advance are explained clearly with latest updates included in the book.

Why would Joel do this?
OK, so what's the catch you ask? No, I would say there is no catch because this give away is totally free to you.

The reason why Joel gives away his popular e-book 'Adsense Secrets 4.0' is because he want to promote his new product, the 'Top 1% Report'. When you sign up for a copy of AdSense Secrets 4.0, Joel will also mail you a free trial issue of his Top 1% Report containing the latest Internet marketing techniques. He will ship you the trial issue at his expense. Meaning you don't need to pay for the shipping charges.

Plus, Joel will also throw in two more bonuses in this give away:

1. Free trial access to the Top One Network that will help you take your online business to next level.
2. Seven Interview recordings with advices and success tips. These Interviews were done by Joel with several top Internet marketing experts like John Reese, Armand Morin....

So, wouldn't you agree that there is no catch in this free offer of Joel Comm?

You will need to give you credit card details to sign up for this free offer. The credit card is for subscribing the free issue of Top 1% Report. But, don't worry, you can cancel the subscription anytime you want.

Earning AdSense Revenue: How Many Websites to Build? - Part 2

The part 1 of this article has focused on explaining the downsides of building many websites to make big money with AdSense. Now this part 2 will answer the question of how many website to build for AdSense and give you the practical tips that will help you effectively make money with AdSense using the content website(s) you have built.

It is suggested that you start with only one content website. The website should focus on topics that you love. You'll know what to write when the topic is of your interest and the content created will offer value to your visitors since you are writing on your favorite topic that you probably have great knowledge in it.

With loads of unique and useful content published on your website, it will attract both the attention of search engines and your targeted visitors. Your quality content can delight your visitors and they may then want to check out your AdSense ads. And another thing, other webmasters who found your good articles and content will want to link to you. This is really a good help in increasing your search engine rankings and traffic.

AdSense Optimization the Right Way
Some proper optimizations are needed when implementing AdSense ads on your site. Certain locations of your website shouldn't be placed with Adsense ads like the header and footer of your website. AdSense click-through rate is proven to be very low in these two locations. The good location for displaying AdSense ads is within the content area. You have a few choices. The first one is inserting your AdSense into the top left or top right of your content. The second way is by adding your AdSense just the end of your content. Take some time to test these two locations. I'm sure you get some good result with AdSense.

There are several AdSense ad formats you can choose for placing on your content. The one that always performs well is the Large Rectangle AdSense ad format. So, it is recommended that you should this ad format. Other settings like the bolder and background of your Ad unit, you should match them with the background of your content pages. If the background of your content pages is white, then you should set your AdSense unit white as well. This is an effective way to increase your AdSense click-through rate.

Targeted Traffic is Gold
The formula to succeed in AdSense is:

Good Content + Effective AdSense Optimization + Consistent Targeted Traffic = Long Term AdSense Income

So, if the targeted traffic is missing, nothing will work. Driving targeted traffic to your website is the toughest challenge to you. You must spend a great deal of time to learn and master the different techniques of traffic-generation. And then put what you learn into action.

SEO is a powerful technique for generating targeted traffic. If you can use it effectively, then you probably will enjoy high AdSense click-through rate and nice steady revenue. But SEO work is tedious and you wouldn't see the result until you waited about three months or more. You need to be patient and thinking positive.

While waiting for the SEO result, you may use the content network advertising like Bidvertiser.com which can send you targeted traffic daily for a cost. Other options such as social media marketing, blog comment posting and guest post on other blogs are worth consider as well because they are traffic-generation techniques that wouldn't cost you a dime.

Once you have got consistent traffic with the techniques you use. You will need to keep on repeat on what you are doing so that your traffic and Adsense income can be maintained and grow from time to time.

The Money Generation Live Webcam Training with Michael Cheney

Michael Cheney, the author of the AdSense Video Course decided to do a presentation in a live webcam show in next Monday at 3PM EST. The live webcam show is much like a coaching program that will teach you about making money on the Internet. It is now opened for registration.

There will be a lot of info you will gain if you join this live show. Michael not only will expose a system that you can follow to set up your own Internet business and make real cash online but also he will give out seven turnkey websites. These turnkey websites can be activated with just few clicks of mouse. Once activated, you can use them right away to generate income on the net.

Another interesting area that Michael is going to talk about is how to put your Internet business into auto-pilot. It is beneficial to you when you know the ways to automate the works that you used to do them manually because you can work lesser and have more free time while still maintaining your online revenue.

The link to sign up for this live training is at http://www.goldenthreadsite.com/see.

Earning AdSense Revenue: How Many Websites to Build? - Part 1

Google AdSense is really a great money making program for webmasters. Before the existence of AdSense program. Making money online used to be very difficult. You will need to have a high quality product, possess advanced Internet marketing skills and be willing to invest a sum of money for setting up professional sale website and launching advertising different campaigns. You either make big money because of you product is selling well or make little that not even enough for covering your cost if the product doesn't sell.

The launched of Google AdSense changed everything. People have more choices when thinking about making money online. They no longer have to sell products on the Internet in order to earn income online. With Google AdSense program, they can become an AdSense publisher and earn ad revenue by displaying AdSense ads on their content-based website.

The Basic of Google AdSense
The concept is pretty simple. You put up a website with good content, insert your AdSense ads into your content site, and then drive targeted traffic to your website. Part of your visitors who finish reading your content will read your AdSense ad and click on it. For each ad click, you usually earn anywhere between $0.10 to $0.60 depends on the niche of your site. Those publishers who gain large traffic have earned thousands or even ten thousands dollar of AdSense revenue.

Some publishers use one or two websites to make money with AdSense, some have their own networks containing a lot of websites displaying AdSense ads which make them lucrative AdSense revenue.

Why You Shouldn’t Focus on Many Websites
As an individual publisher, it is always best to focus on using only one or two websites for AdSense program. While building a network of websites such as building fifteen content websites in different niches seem to be a great idea to earn money with AdSense. The idea assumes that you can generate $3 to $5 AdSense revenue from each site daily making a daily total of $45 to $75 AdSense income if you own fifteen website. But, practically it is very hard to succeed this way.

To make AdSense works for you, each of your sites must have quality unique content. With 15 sites, it is not possible to create unique and good content for each site by you alone. Getting help from the professional writers seems to be a good solution. But those who can write quality content are often expensive to hire. You will have a lot of writer fee to pay before you earn a single dime from AdSense.

Another problem with this idea is the website-promotion part. To make each of the websites earns AdSense income; you must be able to drive a reasonable amount of targeted traffic to each site every day. With so many content sites you maintained, you will never have enough time and energy to generate consistent traffic to your all the sites. As you aren't staying focus, you could get tire and bored easily which end up none of the sites generate revenue for you.

The publishers who really make a big money with a network of websites are those who are serious about web publishing. They have a group of experts to help him/her to create unique quality content, handle web design and do AdSense optimization with sufficient financial resources to back their plan.

Part 2 of this article has been published, you may continue to part 2 here.

Learn How to Creating Internet Wealth from Kathe Lucas and Denise Hall

There is a new report written by Kathe Lucas and Denise Hall from Wackyweekendsale.com that I think you might be interested to read it.

The title of this report is 'Creating Wealth: 7 Steps to an Online Income'. The report provides you step-by-step instructions to building an online business that will create wealth for you.

This is not another tiny promotional report that give people not much useful content but contains sale pitches to push people to buy their products. Kathe and Denise have really done their homeworks when writing this report. They explained in detail how you can make money by marketing and selling your own products. In each chapter, they give an Internet marketing idea that you can apply to your online business for generating more profit. You will find also the available free tools and social platforms that are useful for you to build and market your online business.

Go ahead and grab a copy of this report now at http://www.themaingate.com to check out what money making ideas and strategies Kathe and Denise will share with you. It wouldn't cost you anything to download a copy.

Tips for Internet Marketing Strategy

Written by Aleluia Sanjuan

Internet Marketing is not simple as creating your own website and makes it popular. You should think about your income and if it is reasonable. There is much online business that still struggling because they do have internet strategies, which is important. If you want to achieve good income, you need to have effective strategy.

There are questions you need to consider before jumping into conclusion like:

What product or services do you offer?
The products you should offer give benefits to your customers. If you will think about your income alone, you will not succeed.

Who is your Target Market?
Many people need lots of services and products, you should think about who needs it. In that way, you can focus and give them the benefits they deserve to have.

Many online businesses have their own Internet Marketing Strategies. Most of them have good income and continue increasing each month. The secret is they do not just let anyone to do the work for them, they become part of it and create an effective strategy. Here are tips for Internet Marketing Strategies to help you:

Research a lot on the We
Internet is a huge place. Obviously, there are many competitors and you need to think ways to be on top. Learn to research about their strategies and make your own. You should also look for places where your target customers are located like forums, social bookmarkings and more.

Data Analysis
The second important thing to do is to write down your competitor’s negative and positive aspects. Summarize all the data you have gathered and develop your conclusion. In that way, you can create your own strategy that will give you advantage to competitors.

Developing the Strategy
If you are ready, create your own Internet Marketing Strategy. There are many ways you can do like pay per click (PPC), blogging, email marketing, SEO, display advertisement and more. You should always think about the money and time you will spend. If you want to survive to the competitive world of internet, you need think about this matter many times.

Monitoring Internet Marketing Campaigns
When you have all the strategies to start, you should implement it. Monitor your customer’s action every time they visit your website. Look for keywords where your site has much traffic and where it came from to PPC, SEO, blogging etc. Comparing one to another and see what works and does not to have a better action.

Remember that Internet Marketing Strategies do not have rule. It always depends on the situation about money and time issues. Finding out your advantage to Competitors and your weaknesses can help you to create an effective internet Marketing Strategy.

What are the Easy Ways to Make Money Online? - Part 2

The part 1 of this article has covered two easy money making methods which are completing cash offers and doing paid searches on Yahoo. Here in this part 2, you will find 2 more ways:

Paid Survey
You probably have heard of paid survey as it is one of the oldest ways of earning money online. It works simple.

There are a few hundreds of market survey websites on the Internet. Each of this market survey websites wants people to join them and take their online surveys. They will reward the online survey participants in the form of cash, gifts, vouchers, free products, or tickets to enter a lucky draw.

What you need to do is join as many market survey sites as possible and wait for the paid survey opportunities send to your email address. Each time you receive a paid survey invitation, you will be informed what you will earn (cash, gift, coupon, or vouchers) for completing the survey.

Paid survey opportunities are actually only available to US and Canada residents although some people said there are survey sites for International members. But, believe me, most of these international sites are actually based in US which often send paid survey sites to US people only.

Finding these paid survey sites isn’t difficult at all because there are those directory sites that have done the work for you. These directory sites give you a free list of market survey sites you can join and earn money for taking online surveys. Below are some of the directories you can access free to find market survey websites:

http://www.surveyclub.com
http://www.yellowsurveys.com
http://www.internetpaidsurveys.com

Making money with paid surveys requires patience. You will be uncertain of when you will receive a paid survey invitation, you may receive one every day or one in every week. You can make more than one hundred dollar or just a few bucks per month. It all has to do with you profile. The survey sites decide whether you are eligible for a paid survey based on your profile.

Paid Review
Unless you are the type of person that hate to write, writing review on consumer products that you have used can be also an easy way to earn cash online. The product review websites like Reviewstream.com, Softwarejudge.com and Dooyoo.co.uk want real opinions from you. You probably bought and used products and services often. You must have tried good and bad products and have something to say about them; those review sites are excellent places for you to expression your opinions about the products.

Your product reviews can help others to make a better decision when purchasing online or offline. For each short unique review submitted by you and get published on one of the review sites, you will be paid a few dollars.

Conclusion
All right, the above are all the easy ways of making money online I’ve found so far. If I find a new and interesting way in the future, I will update it in this post. And finally I hope that the information in this blog post can really help you make some easy money online.

You Too Can Become an Online Millionaire

Many people who put their toe into the Internet waters undervalue the potential of their online business. They view web-based marketing as a great way to make a little extra cash. The problem with this attitude is that people who believe “little” is good enough are most likely to be kidding themselves, especially when they learn they could be making millions of dollars with basically the same amount of effort and time.

If they only understood that very bad assumptions are holding them back from
attaining true wealth from their online enterprises. First of all, these people
set their objectives too low; when you think small, you stay small. Secondly,
they have a tendency to put up websites that are not really worth visiting,
believing that automatic site building can fake out the search engines.
Additionally, they only sell small ticket items, don’t really fulfill the needs of
the market, focus on relatively little venues (like Craig’s List and Forum
postings) and employ other small money making tactics.

Part of the problem is that these small thinkers don’t invest a sufficient amount of time in learning how to do it right. It’s not necessarily that they don’t want
to but, rather, that they don’t think they have the time to do so because they
have the misconception that running an online business is supposed to be a
one-person job even if takes long, hard hours to achieve even small successes.

Mike Filsaime and Tom Beal have developed the solution to this problem. It began as a 3-day, $5,000 per person workshop in which the most successful internet marketers taught attendees the insider secrets for making substantially more money by using time wisely and focusing on the right things. Luckily, for the majority of us, these two Internet gurus in their own right then developed a 16 DVD program, The 7Figure Code.

The information covered includes both big picture and detailed facts. For
example, Volume One covers the difference between a vision statement and a mission statement, along with the marketing insights behind why this is so important to building your business Another DVD from The 7 Figure Code concentrates on subjects like pipeline and sales processes while a third reviews when, why and how to outsource. It’s clear that by the end of the program you will have received a full 360-degree education on becoming a multi-millionaire.

Filsaime and Beal’s program also features information from Jeff Johnson, Andrew Fox, Keith Wellman, Sterling Valentine and a host of well respected Internet marketing specialists.




John Cale is the Home Business Reporter within the home based business niche. HomeBusinessReporter.com is an online community where free members can share ideas, concepts, strategies, and discuss trends. Visitors can read what other people have to say about their home businesses and “rate the home business” based on their own experiences. They can also post comments providing more specific information about their experience. Please visit Home Business Reporter and rate the home business today.

A Lot of Free Blogger Templates in Eblogtemplates.com

If you are using Blogspot blog to make money online, you know that Blogger.com doesn't provide many choices when it comes to selecting a professional template for your blogspot blog. Because of this, you may have wanted to replace your current template with a professional template that suits your blog theme. You searched the Internet, but just can't find the right template.

Now, here's a solution to you.

I have visited eblogtemplates.com lately and found that the site provides a lot of professional and interesting templates that you can download free. Many of the templates are three columns and looking good. Some were specially designed to let you sell banner ads on the top sidebar.

I think you will find the one that you have been looking for. Here's the direct link to the Blogger template download page:

http://www.eblogtemplates.com/passion-duo-blue-blogger

What are the Easy Ways to Make Money Online? - Part 1

I actually wrote a few articles about how to make money online the easy ways and published them on this blog and article directories for the past couple of years.

Because not everyone likes to start an e-business or learn Internet marketing to make money online, some people just prefer to make money online in simple and straight forward way; So, in this blog post, I like to again write about the easy ways of making money on the Internet with up-to-date info to help you find out what are the choices you have if you want an easy method of earn money online.

Sign up Cash Offers
There are companies that want more and more people to try their product or service from time to time. To attract people to try and test their products, these companies offer cash incentive to anyone who sign up their offer or try their product. And the good news is, it is not difficult to find these companies thanks to those free service websites that list paid offers.

One of the best free service websites now is Treasuretrooper.com. Treasuretrooper.com has few hundreds of cash offers in their database. The payout of these offers rank from $0.50 to $50 which means you can earn $0.50 to $50 for signing up or completing an offer in Treasuretrooper. All the offers are available only to residents in US, Canada and UK. If you aren't living in these three countries, you wouldn’t be able to sign up the offers and earn cash.

However, there is a referral program that everyone can join in Treasuretrooper. This referral program can help you earn some extra money constantly. By referring new people to join Treasuretrooper and complete offer, you will earn a percentage of referral commission.

The opportunities in Treasuretrooper wouldn't be able to replace your employment income but they can provide you an extra source of revenue like $20 to $50 per month if you keep on signing up offers and referring new members.

It is a real program that truly pays. I have been a member of Treasuretrooper more than a year. I received their check from month to month.

Search Yahoo
I come across a quite popular site, Homepages-Friends.com which offers to pay people search on Yahoo. I did an investigation; this site has no relation to Yahoo actually. They are just inviting people to sign up and search Yahoo to get paid.

It is completely free to join. All you to is search and search Yahoo. It has been discussed in a lot of forums. So far I find no proof of this program is a scam. A number of people are commenting positively about this program and some even posted screenshots to prove that they have been paid for searching.

So, it is worth a try if you are looking for an easy way to earn cash. But this isn't a program that can provide you full-time income. If earning a couple of extra bucks monthly sound good to you, the program is right for you.

Part 2 of this article has been published, you may read it here.

Want to Know the New Techniques of Making Money Online with Affiliate Programs?

Anik Singal, founder of Affiliate Classroom did an interview with a guy who has earned more than one million in affiliate commission. This guy was $20,000 in debt for the last 3 years but now he is making $7,000 per day by marketing affiliate products only. He has come up a system which involves the use of pay per click (PPC) advertising to make money with affiliate marketing.

Anik has asked this guy to talk about how he did it in the interview and yes this guy is willing to share his business model and his PPC strategies. He gave some new and advanced PPC strategies that you may also apply them to your affiliate business for achieving better result.

The whole session of this interview was recorded. If you like to get access and listen to this interview series for interesting strategies and tips, you may sign up at:

http://www.ppcclassroom.com

There will be a series of interview and this is just the first one. Anik will send you more upcoming interview videos once you sign up.

6 Tips of SMO for Internet Marketing

Written by Aleluia Sanjuan

Internet Marketing is the process of promoting products online. Thousands of companies and small business are making their way to success in selling services or products through their website online. One of the most helpful Internet Marketing Strategy they used is SMO. It stands for Social Media Socialization, which increases the traffic ability of your website from social networking sites and receive high search engine rankings.

If you want to increase your ability to receive thousands of sales each month, studying SMO strategy helps a lot. The most important techniques you should consider is to learn more about the process. Here are some tips to help you:

Good Content
Learn to write content to help increase the knowledge of the readers. The title should be catchy and write content daily to help readers get update. Remember that no one will love to read non-sense content.

Social Networking sites
Your target market is social networking sites so you need to look for those with high Ranking. They are already searchable and have thousands of users so you can have the assurance of many visitors.

Target Specific Audience
Every Social Networking sites have their specific target of audience. You need to submit your content according to information like this content 6 tips of SMO for Internet Marketing, which can be submit to the following Social Networking sites:

• PlugIM- is a Social Networking sites for internet Marketing topics. You can bookmark content, which you find very helpful for you.
  
• Sphinn - is a Social Networking sites for Internet Marketing Professionals. It helps you to share your content and receive vote from other users.

Summary of the Content
Online Readers read very fast. They do not stop to look each of the summaries submitted to Social Networking sites. The summary of your content should be interesting. Never write summary with confusing information like “Internet Marketing: SEO and SMO”. The main purpose here is to give idea of the whole content, not to confuse the readers.

Make bookmarking and voting easy
Social Networking sites offer free quick buttons. You can put it on your content for easy access of the readers to bookmark and to vote. It helps to increases the popularity of your content. Remember that many readers need to have reminder because most of them forget it.

Reward Readers
Many readers will continue to read your content, if they receive important information and reward. Letting them to link in your site or allow, “Do follow” for their website whenever they comment is a good strategy.

Social Media Socialization provides big impact because everyone is receiving benefits. As the process of SMO continues, the ability of internet marketing will continue to be successful. Right attitude, Right Knowledge and Right Strategy is necessary!

Work At Home Online Business Tips

Work At Home Online Business Tips
When starting a work at home online business and going through the training there always appears to be so much to do and of course we want to get everything set up as quickly as possible in order to start making money online.

However, you may find that a lot of the information that you are provided with is totally new to you and so before being able to implement the tasks you may need to learn some additional skills and so you need to try and avoid suffering from information overload.

By trying to get as much done as possible in the few hours available without having a total understanding of what you are doing will only lead to confusion and frustration. It can become overwhelming, so you need to focus on one task at a time and try and stay organized and work as efficiently as possible. Making use of To-Do Lists helps – you could have an urgent list, important list, daily, weekly and monthly lists.

It is highly likely that you will want to implement some changes to your website but at this stage your knowledge of html is really minimal, so you first may need to spend some time learning html before you move on to the stage of being able to successfully make changes to your website.

You will also be eager to start driving traffic to your work at home online business website and may want to implement a pay-per-click advertising campaign but your experience in this area of advertising is also lacking. Again you would need to spend time learning the ins and outs of pay-per-click before starting a campaign otherwise it could end up costing you dearly.

There are many internet marketing methods that you would no doubt be introduced to during your work at home online business training, such as article marketing, email marketing, forum marketing, blogging, traffic exchanges, safelists, pay per click, classified ads, ezine advertising, social bookmarking, etc. Avoid trying to implement them all at once. Choose one and focus on it until you are having success then move on until you have 2 or 3 methods that you are skilled at.

You may like to initially focus on building your list by getting subscribers to sign up for your work at home online business ideas newsletter. You can do this by buying leads, placing classified ads with your autoresponder email address in it rather than your website address, put an exit pop up on your home page, put a newsletter sign up form on all of your web pages, etc. Each new subscriber you get to your newsletter means that you are making progress.

You could for example then move on to learning how to write and distribute articles which is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your website as you will be building back links to your website which will result in higher positions in the search engine results

Building a work at home online business is a step-by-step process and takes time. It is rather like building a house, you cannot put the roof on until the walls are built and you cannot build the walls until the foundations are laid and so building an online home business needs to follow a similar logical process.

Don’t rush, take your time and get to grips with the information provided in order to build a solid foundation to your online home business. Choose the internet marketing methods that are most effective for you and build your work at home online business one step at a time instead of trying to implement everything all at once.



About the Author: Cynthia Minnaar is the owner of www.cyns-home-biz.com. Subscribe to her Free Online Home Business Ideas Newsletter and learn how to start and build a work at home online business. Download a free copy of Dotcomology and learn the secrets of making money online. You may publish my article if you include the bio.

Eliminating the Roadblocks Holding You Back from Making Money Online

The two big names in the Internet marketing field, Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren have planned to do a teleseminar in Wednesday, Sep 24th. The title of this teleseminar is Constraint-Buster. It will be focusing on helping you eliminate the constraints (barriers) that blocking your from success.

You may have worked very hard on your online business, but your business just don't make much money for you. You want to give up. No, don't give up. Jay and Rich are here to help.

In the seminar, they will provide you the proven ways for eliminating your constraints and subsequently achieve the business success you dream of. You will also get an insider's look at how Jay and Rich have helped thousand of people who want to make money online to discover the hidden factors stopping them.... and watched them get rid of their barriers and make load of money on the Internet.

Register now at http://www.strategicprofits.com/gps/jr to join Jay and Rich in live this teleseminar at Sep 24th.

Make Money Online with Domain Name in Three Ways - Part 2

In part 1, we have discussed about the first way which is by flipping domain names for quick profit. Now, this article will share with you the rest of the two methods you can use to profit with domain names.

Parking
Maybe, you don’t like domain flipping because it involves Internet selling. You are wondering if there is any other way to make money online with domain names. Yes, there is. You can park your domain names into the domain parking websites and earn a share of advertising revenue.

The parking service websites will generally set up a page on your domain name. You get the chance to select a template and the niche of your advertising. They will place relevant ads on your page and you will earn a share of the ads revenue generated through your page. The advertising models are either cost-per-click (CPC) or cost per thousand (CPM). If the ads appear on your page are CPC, then you will earn money for each ad click. If CPM, you will earn based on each thousand of page views.

Some well known parking services are Namedrive.Com, Parked.com and Whypark.com. Each of these parking websites has their own rules of website parking. Make sure you read and understand the rules before signing up for a parking service.

Developing
Now that you know both flipping and parking domain names can make you money. Let’s discuss the third choice of using domain names to make money online, which is site developing. Site development will require a lot more investment, effort and time; and of course the return will be high.

You will buy a domain name, keep the domain name and then build a website on it. You are going to grow the website and make your domain valuable so that you can sell it for a great price and reap in lucrative profit.

Here are the things that can increase the value of your site and domain:

• Google PageRank – Most websites in the index of Google gained a Google PageRank (PR). It can be PR1 to PR10. The higher the PR, the better the value of your domain name.
• Existing Traffic – If you have put hard effort in marketing your site and achieved some success, your site would have gained high amount of traffic / visitors constantly. People just like this kind of website because once they take over; they will immediately start enjoying traffic and earn revenue without put in effort. So, it is easy to sell a high traffic site for a good price.
• Site Revenue – Another interesting factor that buyers want to look for. Buyers are eying on sites that generate consistent revenue every month.
• Inbound Links – Inbound links also help. The more your site gaining inbound links, the more they will help in appraising the value.
  

For the site design and look, they don’t play a very important role. A website with standard design will do. If you are a web designer, you can build the site by yourself using software. For those who don’t know how to build website, don’t worry, there are good website builders like Xsitepro you can use to create website. There is no HTML code you need to add in, just be familiar with the software, follow instructions, click your mouse and you can put up a brand new website.

As you will need to make your site sellable, you will probably have to work a lot in marketing and promotion to build up your PR, traffic, site revenue and inbound links.

While marketing and promotion can build up your traffic and PR, content writing shouldn’t be ignored. The content must be unique and offer value to the visitors. This is to keep you visitors coming back to your site often.

Make Money Online with Domain Name in Three Ways - Part 1

In the real estate industry, there are three common ways of making money with housing: flip it, rent it out, or live in it while waiting the value builds up and sell it in future for great profit.

For domain name, you can make money exactly the same three ways as applied in the real estate industry.

Flipping
These days, it is hard to make money by flipping real estate. But flipping domain names is in different case. Flipping domain names works pretty simple. Just like reselling business. You purchase inventory then resell it to the market for profit. The domain names are your inventory or product. You will be buying domain names and sell them out quickly for profit. You don't intend to keep those domain names to develop a website on them, nor will you part it on a domain parking site.

You can buy a lot of domain names from prices $7 to $15 and sell them as quick as possible. These domain names generally have very little or no traffic at all. Thus, they aren't a valuable piece of cyber real estate that will net you thousands of dollars of profit. But, if you have bought some good names, you probably can find buyers willing to pay you $20 to $100 for a domain name.

One of the good places for selling your domain names is eBay.com. By running auctions, you gain the advantage of pressuring the buyers to fight over your domains which will drive up your prices.

All the domain names sale auctions are listed under Web Domains & Services – a sub-category of Computers & Networking category in eBay.com.

One type of domain names that often sell well in eBay.com is those four letter acronyms domain names. They don’t have to make sense, as long as they are good to pronounced, people will place their bid to buy. To know what other types of domain names are attracting buyers, you need to do research.

Browse the auction pages to find those domain name auctions that attract bids, take a look the domain names, how the sellers set up their auction and write their sale description. This can give you hints and ideas of what domain names you should sell in eBay.

Another marketplace helpful to your domain flipping business is Sedo.com. You not only can buy your inventory (domain names) there, but also resell your inventory for profit in the same place. Sedo allows you to list your domain names for sales. There are two options to choose when listing domain names in Sedo.com which are “Fixed Price” pricing option and “make offer” option. Using the “fixed price” option means you are setting a price that you want to sell. But this option isn’t recommended because most buyers prefer to negotiate when buying domains. So, it is best to use the “make offer” option. Let the buyers make an offer to you and state the price they are willing to pay will increase your chance of making a sale.

Sedo wouldn’t charge you for listing your domain names for sales, but you need to pay at least 10% commission if a sale is resulted. The minimum commission you must pay is $50 if you sold a dot com, dot net, dot info and dot org domain name in Sedo. So, you would want to use Sedo only when you have high potential domain names to sell.

Some other trusted marketplaces for selling domain names are snapnames.com and tdnam.com and etc.

Part 2 of this article has been published, you may read it here.

Free Resources Helpful for Making Money Online - 20th Sep 2008

Today, I have a few free resources to share with you:

Internetmarketingrush.com
Do you need somebody to show you in step by step on making money with Internet marketing? Guido Nussbaum has put together a 30 day step by step marketing course in which he will show you the exact same Internet marketing Techniques he has personally used to build up a big list and earn a consistent income of about $5000 every month.

AIDA Profit Formula E-Book
This e-book is about affiliate marketing. Peter Yoon, author of this e-book is going to share with you his AIDA formula which has made him thousands of dollars in affiliate profit. AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action. You will understand how AIDA formula can be used to make money from affiliate marketing.

Outsource2success.com
When you online business grow bigger, you may find that you don' have the time and energy to handle all the works. This is the time to outsource part of your works to others. You got to know what tasks to outsource, how to find the right persons to do your work, how much you should pay, and etc. So, there are things to learn in outsourcing. The site Outsource2success.com has plenty of study materials about outsourcing where you get free access to and learn how you can make more money while working lesser.

Tips for Using Banner Ads to Generate Traffic and Income

Banner advertising is one of the methods that you might want to use for promoting your business website or blog. It will cost you a fair amount of money to use banner ads, but if you advertise your banner ads on the right sites and blogs, they can provide you a fairly good return.

To start a banner ad campaign, you first need to design a banner ad. It is OK if you don’t know how to design a banner as there are many of graphic designers on the Internet ready to help you. For a small fee, you can ask a graphic designer to create a nice looking banner ad for you.

Even though you are not the one that will create the banner, you do need to know clearly what types of banners are excellent for generate traffic so that you know how to request the designer to create a successful banner ad for you.

There are several things to keep in mind when putting up a successful banner ad.

The main purpose of your banner ad is to draw the attention of the visitors long enough to entice them to click on the ad to look for your offer or website so that you can generate income. Thus, you must be careful about how you put together the banner.

A big mistake that people often fall into is that they are putting too much info into the very small space of their banner ad. It is not necessary to include good description, company name and logo into the ad.

The most important thing you want to do is write a short or sweet slogan that acts as the ideal teaser. You are going to need to use only a few appealing words to grab the attention of people. Using the right words is more important than correct grammar. If you find that three words will create a powerful slogan or phrase that can catch a lot of attention, then go for it.

For logo and company inclusion into your banner, they are only helpful if your company or business already have good reputation and popular.

The color and fonts also play an important role. When you banner ad show up on the publishers sites and blogs that you are advertising with, you will want your banner stand out from the other banners appearing next to yours. You have very little time to impress the visitors. So, you may consider using bright colors with a contrasting color for the fonts. This will give you a good chance of making good impression.

Once your banner ad is ready, it is time to search for the sites and blogs that you can place your banner ad on. In these couple of years, banner ads are widely sold in blogs. So, you should start advertising your banner ad on blogs that are related to your products or business. Most of the blogs will have an advertising page stating the pricing and traffic stat.

Look for those blogs that gain a good of amount of unique visitors (at least 400 daily). Then send an email to each of these bloggers to ask about the potential average visitors their blog can send to you. Choose those that can send 0.5% or more of their daily traffic to you.

Openx - The Tool that can Increase Your Revenue from Online Advertising

No matter what type of online money making venture you are in, there are always certain software tools that help can you.

In this blog post, I like to introduce you a popular, free ad serving software called OpenX. OpenX is basically an online ads management software which provides everything you need to manage your ad campaigns. It will help you make more money from online advertising.

If you are selling online or promoting affiliate products, you are going to start ad campaigns to make sales. Openx enables you to target your ad campaigns to the right people based on locations, keywords and more; track and compare the performance of all your campaigns so that you know what ad campaigns are best for maximizing your revenue.

If you are selling ad space on your website or blog to generate income, Openx can help you manage all your ad space effectively and also it will generate ad campaign performance report for your advertisers.

You can learn more about Openx at http://www.openx.org. Do give it a try, I'm sure it will give you better control on your online advertising.

Anyway, you might need some practical tips on how to use Openx to make more money in your online Business, here's the link to a free training by Jeff Johnson from Underground Training Lab:

http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/113/openx_call/

In the training, Jeff shares with you how he has actually used OpenX to increase his affiliate business revenue.

6 Squidoo Traffic Strategies You can Used to Make Money Online

Are you wondering why people keep on recommending Squidoo.com? Well, it is because Squidoo.com is one of the powerful and fast growing Web 2.0 sites available free for web publishers and marketers to make money online. Squidoo allows you to create web pages called lenses which can be posted with whatever content and information you want to share with the world.

By being part of Squidoo, you will be able to use Squidoo lens as the marketing tools for your online business. You don’t have to worry about the rules and regulations of Squidoo as it is perfectly OK to promote your affiliate products, business website or anything else you like to promote on your lenses.

To make your Squidoo lense work for you, the lense has to be attention-grabbing so that it can attract traffic constantly. Those visitors come to you lense not just will read your content but also will click on your affiliate links or business website to find out what you are offering. As a result, you may end up turning these lense visitors into paying customers.

Below are a few strategies you can use to attract attention and traffic:

Create an Impressive Profile
Building a Squidoo profile that appeals others isn’t very difficult. Squidoo lets you upload Youtube videos, Flickr images and much more. These features are great help for making your profile attractive. And the bio photo of your profile, make sure you upload a quality one.

Include Your Target Keywords
Your lense have the ability to attract search engine traffic. So, the content in your lense should contain your main keywords to let the search engines better understand what your lense is about and send you the most targeted traffic. But, don’t overuse keywords in your lense as this could cause your lense blocked by Squidoo staff.

Tag Your Lense
During the process of building a new lense, Squidoo lets you add a title and suggest some keywords. Those are actually your tags. For the entire lense to be effective, you need to tag your lense appropriately which means you should add tags (keywords) that are directly relevant to your topic.

Add in Interesting Images
If you browse on Squidoo lenses, you will find that most of the lenses have the similar format and look. This is a good chance for you to make your lense look unique and interesting. You can do this by placing images and photos to your lense. The images you use must be interesting and have a relation to your content. This way you will make your lense different from others, giving you advantage of drawing more attention.

Network in SquidU
SquidU is much like a bulletin board created for members (Lensemasters) of Squidoo to learn everything about Squidoo. SquidU can be very helpful to you as you can connect with people who know more than you. They can help you optimize your lenses, create attractive profile, and guide you on the effective way to use Squidoo to market your business.

Struggle to Become Lense of the Day
Every day the chief of Squidoo editor will pick a lense that stands out from the crowd and feature as Lense of the Day. The Lense of the day probably will experience a great increase in traffic and exposure. So, you may think about getting your lense to become Lense of the Day. I know this doesn’t sound easy, but you should set a goal to make it to Lense of the Day and struggle to achieve it. One marketer shares a method which is to target topics that are of current interest, such as Olympics. Big news items or clever lenses can end up featuring on the Lens of the Day in the Squidoo blog and gain a lot of traffic overnight!

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Host-my-post.com is basically an article management website. It offers a pretty new way for webmasters and blog owners to make extra money online.

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The Criteria of Good Affiliate Marketing Programs

Clickbank has more than 10,000 affiliate programs, Commission Junction listed Top Fortune 500 companies with thousands of affiliate programs available, LinkShare also offers affiliate programs close to few thousands and there are still several other big affiliate networks offers plenty of affiliate programs.

Wow.... so many affiliate programs, how to choose the good programs that are effective for you to make money online with affiliate marketing?

Choosing the right affiliate marketing programs to use is critical to your success. This article will let you know what criteria to look for when making the choice of which programs to use:

The Affiliate Program is High quality
Always look for programs that are backed up by a reliable company or backed up a trustworthy team specializing in the industry. These quality affiliate programs generally offer products or services that sell well. But to make sure they are really offering good products, you should do some research and investigation. Check the affiliate product and services to see whether they offer good value, is most of the customers satisfied with them, how long the programs have existed. This way you will ensure the programs you are joining are credible.

The Affiliate Product is Great in Demand
You will want to promote affiliate products that have consistent demand. A product with good market demand is easier to sell and once you have developed an effective Internet marketing plan that will market it to mass audience, the product will make you good money for long term.

The Affiliate Program Pays High Commissions
Many affiliate programs reward affiliates by sharing a percentage of commission for each sale generated by the affiliates. So, when choosing affiliate programs, you should struggle to find the programs that pay high percentage of affiliate commission.

Affiliate programs usually offer either digital products or physical products. For digital / information products, you should only participate in the affiliate program if it offers commission at least 50%. Whereas for physical products, look for those that offer at least 10%.

The Affiliate Marketing Program Offers Good Support
This is an important criteria you should also look for when making the choice of which affiliate program to use if you're a beginner. There are a lot of programs that will offer their system and leave you to your own devices without much support.

If you just begun in affiliate marketing with limited knowledge, avoid these types. The affiliate programs that offer sufficient information, guide and affiliate support are the ones that suit you. You will appreciate this extra feature in case you encounter problem in affiliate marketing.