How to Make Money Online with Kontera Content Link? Joel Comm has a Guide for You

Joel Comm was generous enough to give away a free copy of his Kontera reports "Kontera Content Links Secret" to webmasters and bloggers who want to make more money from online advertising programs. The free report is now available to download at:

http://www.konterasecrets.com/special.html

You may have heard about Kontera Content Links advertising program or even use it on your site to increase your pay-per-click revenue. Is the program working? If it isn't working, something must be wrong. I will suggest you read this report, you might learn some new tricks and techniques to improve your Kontera result.

The good thing about Kontera Content Links is that they can be used together with AdSense. If both of the programs are optimized properly in your website, you may put your website revenue up to next level. And the report is going to teach you that.

Tips for Maintaining a Successful Blog

Setting up a blog for the purpose of making money online is relative easy but maintaining a successful blog is a far more difficult and challenging process. Why maintaining a successful blog is difficult? Because there are many different aspects which can contribute to the success of your blog you need to know and do well. Some of these aspects include the subject of the blog, the blog's popularity and even the aesthetic layout of the blog. Furthermore, the ability to market and promote the blog effectively and reach a large number of targeted audiences will also have a profound impact on the success of a blog. Although there is no one simple formula or system for building and maintaining a successful blog, there are some basic tips which can help to ensure a bloggers will enjoy success with his/her blog. Below are some of the important basic tips:

Adding New Blog Entries Frequently
The importance of adding new blog entries on an ongoing basis cannot be underestimated. Updating your blog regularly with unique and useful content can attract your visitors to keep returning your blog to read the content they are looking for. Readers may visit a blog originally by chance but become committed to returning to the blog frequently based on the content which is posted on a regular basis. If the blogger seldom publishes new blog post, his/her readers may gradually reduce because they do not have motivation to keep coming back to the blog. However, if there are new blog posts published on an ongoing basis, visitors are more likely to come back to the blog frequently with expectation of new postings.

The length as well as the depth of a blog post can vary considerably based on the subject of the blog and the expectations of the target audience. However, in many cases even a relatively short blog entry offering only a small amount of content may be enough to keep readers interested. This can be useful when the blogger is unable to provide in depth posts but in the long run, blog readers are looking for a certain degree of sustenance and will likely expect the blog to be updated with new posts regularly. Additionally they will come to expect a certain voice and quality to the blog posts so bloggers who enlist the use of guest bloggers should carefully screen guest bloggers to ensure they are capable of posting blogs the audience will appreciate.

Understanding the Blog Audiences
You also need to understand your blog readers to succeed in your blogging business. Most successful blogs concentrate on a rather exclusive niche which draws a unique set of visitors. By updating the blog with content and information related to the niche, the blogger helps to ensure the audience will remain interested in the blog. However, the subject matter is not the only important aspect related to understanding the target audiences.

Bloggers should also be well aware of the type of information the blog readers are seeking and the way in which they prefer to have the information provided. This is important because some blog readers may enjoy lengthy pieces while others may prefer posts which are brief and to the point. Still other blog visitors may prefer to have posts provided as bulleted points in an easy to read manner. Providing the information in a way in which the visitors can process the information easily is as important as providing quality information.

Evaluating Changes to the Blog
Finally, all successful bloggers know how to make changes to the blog carefully and evaluate the effects these changes have on blog traffic. This is critical because a blog which is already successful can be doomed to failure if the blogger makes a chance which is not appreciated by the dedicated visitors and does not address the concerns of the readers. To avoid this potential problem bloggers should be careful to only make one change at a time and to allow ample time to evaluate the effect the change has on website traffic as well as the comments from readers before deciding whether to reverse the change or make additional changes.

Similarly a blog which is looking to increase website traffic can run into problems if they make too many changes and do not evaluate how these changes are affecting the blog’s traffic. A better strategy would be to make small changes one at a time and evaluate the effect of the change carefully before making more changes. This will help guide the blogger to produce a successful blog.

Minor Changes to AdSense Ads but Affect Publishers Earning Directly

I've been notified by Joel Comm today that Google has made a little changes to their AdSense ads to reduce the number of accidental clicks of AdSense ads.

AdSense Contextual ads consists of four elements:

• A title
• A description
• An URL and
• A backgroud (the surrounding areas for the ads)

Before the changes, the visitors can click any of the above elements of the AdSense ad to visit the advertiser site. But after the new changes, visitors can now only reach the advertisers sites by clicking only the title or the URL of the ads, the ad description and the surrounding areas of the ad can no longer be clicked. I pointed my mouse to Joel's AdSense ads when reading his blog this morning. Yes, it is true, the description and the background are no longer clickable.

Now the question is will this new changes affect the revenue of the AdSense publishers. I believe they will. Probably a very small part of AdSense earning of many publishers are coming from accidental clicks of AdSense ads by visitors. So with this new changes took place, the publishers may experience a very little drop of AdSense. And so publishers shouldn't worry about this new changes as they will not obstruct you from earning more from AdSense. As long as you grow your traffic, you'll get more AdSense revenue as usual.

Affiliate Cash Secrets - A Complete System for Beginners to Make Money Online from Affiliate Programs

Derrick Vandyke has recently developed a marketing system at http://affiliatecashsecrets.com for beginners to build a opt-in subscribers list and make money on multiple affiliate products. The marketing system is a push-button technology that allows you to:

• Creates professionally designed squeeze pages customized with your name and opt-in form automatically.
• Brands viral PDF reports with your affiliate links and delivers them to your subscribers automatically.
• Produce ready-to-send email promotions customized with your name and affiliate links automatically.
• Tracks all your promotions so you know how many visitors and leads you get from every source of traffic.

Derrick realizes that traffic is key to make his marketing system works. So he also included loads of how-to info to help you generate free traffic to your squeeze pages and build your list.

You can test drive this system absolutely free for the first 7 day to see whether it help you make money with affiliate program.

eBay Sellers Tips: Dealing with Difficult Customers

Your eBay buyers are your customers if you are selling stuff in eBay. Just like shop retailers, you may also have some problems with a number of customers. While many of the eBay buyers are friendly and easy to deal with, there are some who can “ruffle your feathers.” While your first thought may be to give a difficult eBay buyer a piece of your mind, you may want to refrain from doing so, especially if your monthly income is depending on your eBay business.

First Difficulty: Customers Asking for Lower Price
One common difficulty that eBay sellers face is having to do with their current auction listings. When you have selling on eBay for some time, probably you'll get eBay messages from buyers asking you to reduce your price on one of your listed items. The eBay buyers may mention that they are other eBay sellers offering the same items with lower listed price. If this happens to you, you may solve this problem easily by doing what the customers said, which is lower your price. If lowering your asking price isn't possible, you should reply to your buyers telling them your reasons to make them understand your situation. Do not ever suggest the buyers to look for other eBay sellers that offer lower prices as the buyers may think that your are impolite to them. Whether you want to reduce your eBay prices or not, the decision is yours to make. You should never feel pressured into doing so.

Second Difficulty: Customers Asking for Payment Method Your don't Accept
One of the other problems that commonly arise on eBay, concerning difficult eBay buyers, is the payment process. There are actually a number of eBay buyers have the assumption that all eBay sellers accept the same methods of payments, but not all do. The most common payment method in eBay is PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account at the moment, you may want to look into doing so. Regardless of what payment methods you accept, you are advised to specify them in your auctions. Yes, eBay has a section for sellers to outline the payment methods they accept, but, unfortunately, not all sellers make their way down to that section. Should you have a buyer that wants to make alternative arrangements, you need to use your best judgment. If you cannot reach an agreement, eBay should be notified.

Third Difficulty: The Winning Bidders are not Paying
Another common type of difficult eBay buyers is those who refuse to pay after wining your auctions. A simple policy of eBay is if you bid on an item and win it, you must making payment for the item. But no everyone complies this rule. Your may encounter non-paying buyers. If you do have these buyers, you will want to stay professional when requesting payment from them. By simply sending a few reminder notices you should still be able to keep your positive image. If you non-paying eBay buyer haven't reply your after weeks of waiting, you will want to contact eBay about this issue. eBay has a process that allows you to claim your listing fees back, as well as a process that will gives non-paying eBay buyers a negative feedback rating.

Fourth Difficulty: Customers not Happy with Your Item
eBay buyers that bought and received your item but not happy with the item is probably the most difficult customers you have to deal with. should this happens to you, you need to use your best judgment. To prevent a problem from occurring, you should provide a detailed description of the item you are selling with several pictures. It is also advised that you set a return policy, whether or not you actually have one. If you have unintentionally mislead an eBay buyer, you should apologize and do anything you think needed to make the situation right; however, stand your ground if you are being scammed or “taken for a ride.”

Unhappy customers can damage your eBay seller image which will directly affect your eBay sales by leaving you negative feedback. Some buyers will just post a negative feedback without contracting you when they receive an item that they don't satisfy with. The best way to prevent this is to send a follow-up email when your item is on the way to your buyer. Ask them whether they have received the item and should they not happy with the item they receive, tell them to give you a change to solve the problem before leaving you a negative feedback.

The above situations are just a few of the many that you may experience when doing business in eBay. No matter what difficult you face, you should use your best judgment and also keep your cool.

Shoppero.com - Recommend Products and Make Money

I found Shoppero yesterday. It was a new products review website providing users recommendations and opinions on products to aid people making better decision in their purchases. Registered users of Shoppero who write about products, reviews and recommendations that published on Shppero will earn advertising revenue.

Earning money with Shoppero is simple. Below is a short intro on how it works:


The ads revenue you can earn from your product reviews and recommendations is depending on the page view of your product recommendation pages. The more people read your recommendation, the more revenue you'll get.

Besides that, you can also display Shoppero adget on your blog and social networking sites and earn money every time your visitor clicks on your adget. Here's are some illustrations:
But Shopero adget is all about product recommendation. If your blog and site aren't related to consumer products, these adgets wouldn't work well.

Money Making Opportunities (20th Update)

IPublishPress.com - Get Paid to Read
I Publish Press is actively looking for people to become their readers for their audio book collection. I Publish Press offers many titles in audio format. Audio readers will be contracted to make the recordings for new titles, and I Publish Press will sell all the audio recording of readers in their online store.

Jobacle.com/Blog
There are currently 2 paid blogging positions opened in a career advice blog called Jobacle:

1) Career Web 2.0. The blogger is responsible to bring the latest and greatest career tools to readers’ attention and letting them know the pros and cons.

2) Career Advice. The blogger need to provide standard and realistic career advice and tips in a voice that readers trust.

Two posts a week per position (approximately 250 words each). Bloggers will receive payment via Paypal.

Application must be sent to Andrew G.R. - Jobacle@gmail.com. Send whatever you think is necessary to get the gig and tell how much you expect per post.