Wednesday, January 8, 2014
How to Monetize a Website Without Using Google AdSense
1. Review your website with the eyes of a visitor. Place links strategically throughout your website pages that are easy to navigate and deliver a message that says 'Buy Now!'
2. Implement required changes in the navigational structure to increase accessibility for your visitors. Ask others to look through your website. Barring any huge changes, you're ready to begin to monetize your website with affiliate programs.
3. Research online options for affiliate programs Linkshare, Commission Junction and ShareASale are the big three in affiliate management programs. Also, if you have a favorite store, visit its site to see if it offers an affiliate program. Locate a standalone company that focuses on merchant and affiliate programs exclusively.
4. Collaborate with merchants that mesh with your current or planned content. For example, if you write a website about taking photos, then you'll want to join an affiliate program selling digital cameras and supplies.
5. Input your unique code that the merchants supply to you. This link allows you earn money from your affiliate program. The unique code is assigned only to you in either a banner or a text link format. You can often choose your design to enhance your website. Whether you joined a pay per sale or pay-per-lead program, the code is the same.
6. Test your links in both Firefox and Internet Explorer after you've inputted the code and uploaded it to your live website. Testing your links ensures the links work and that none of your visitors will have an issue clicking them.
How to Put Excerpts in Blogger
1. Open Microsoft Notepad or another text editor. Type the following HTML code:
Save the file.
2. Open a Web browser. Go to the Blogger Web site at www.blogger.com. Type your e-mail and password. Click the gray 'Sign in' button to go to the 'Dashboard' page.
3. Click 'Design' on the 'Dashboard' page. Click 'Edit HTML' under the 'Design' tab to go to the 'Edit Template' page.
4. Select the 'Expand Widget Templates' check box. Scroll down within the template code until you see the following coding:
5. Highlight the coding in the Notepad file. Click 'Edit' and click 'Copy.'
6. Position your mouse cursor in the line directly underneath the '
' coding. Right-click and click 'Paste' from the drop-down menu. The coding appears in the template.
7. Click the orange 'Save Template' button. Click the 'Posting' tab.
8. Type a blog post. Insert the following HTML code into the post where you want the excerpt to end:
9. Click the orange 'Publish Post' button. Click the 'View Blog' link to see the post excerpt.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
How to Make Website Income
Advertising
Advertising is the simplest way to begin earning income from your website. To begin displaying advertisements, you simply need to join a network such as AdSense or Chitika, create an ad unit and paste the source code into your website. The advertising network uses various parameters, such as the content of the page being viewed, to select an advertisement likely to interest the reader. If the reader clicks the advertisement, you earn money.
Affiliate Links
Income from online advertising is interest-based meaning you earn money when a reader shows interest in a company by clicking its advertisement. Affiliate marketing is performance-based, and a reader must click a link or advertisement and complete a purchase before you earn money. However, the commission for an affiliate sale can be quite high depending on the product being sold. The key to success in affiliate marketing is finding a product that strongly appeals to your readers. Commission Junction, LinkShare and ShareASale are three networks through which you can promote products as an affiliate.
Subscription Fees
Some website owners may feel the integrity of their content would be tainted if they displayed advertisements or endorsed products. If this is the case, you may be able to earn income from your website by charging a subscription fee for full access to your content. Study the market extensively before you begin charging for access to your website as many people are unwilling to pay for Web content. You must be able to offer something not available elsewhere for free.
Product Sales
When you promote another company's products, you generally receive only a small percentage of the profit. While the amount of money you can earn from advertising or affiliate marketing may be substantial, it may be difficult for you to earn a full-time income without a product of your own. Creating and selling your own product may not be as difficult as you think. For example, if your website is informational, collect your best posts and sell them as an e-book. If your website focuses on entertainment content, create clothing and other merchandise with your logo. For example, CafePress is a service that allows you to design and sell your own merchandise. When you use a service of this type, you do not have to handle order fulfillment yourself.
Monday, January 6, 2014
How to Promote Affiliate Products Without A Website
1. Join Forums and discussion groupsDo a quick Google search and find a few forums that are related to the product you will be promoting. Find at least 2 or 3 that have a high page rank and register with them. Once you register set up your signature line which is where you will put your name and affiliate links. After you do that it is time to get active. Start posting questions, comments and answers to other member's questions. Don't promote your products in the body of your posts. Simply write a valuable informative response and people will read your signature line and more than likely visit your site.The more active you are the better. Try to visit the forums a few times a week. Once people see that you are a valuable contributor they will start to trust you. Once you build trust you will begin to attract visitors to your affiliate links. The more visitors you get the more likely you are to get sales.
2. Writing ArticlesThis is probably the best way to generate a ton of targeted traffic to your affiliate products. If you write good informative articles you will get a decent amount of traffic to your site. Submit each article you write to several different directories. I personally submit my articles to 7 different directories.Ezinearticles.com
Ideamarketers.com
Articledashboard.com
Affsphere.com
Ehow.com (revenue sharing site)
Flixya.com (revenue sharing site)
Howhub.com (revenue sharing site)Your articles don't have to be long. 300-400 words will do just fine. Make sure you have a compelling title. If the title isn't interesting then people won't read the article which means you won't get any traffic or sales.Make sure your article has a good keyword density. This is how people will find your article when they use search engines such as Google or when they search on the article directory site.Once you finish writing your article you will have a box that is called the resource box. This is where you will put your affiliate links and any other information about the product you are promoting.The great thing about articles is that they stay in the archives of these directories forever so you can still be getting sales from your articles years after you have written them. Doesn't get any better than that.
3. Linkreferral.comLinkreferral is a free traffic exchange site. You have to participate on a regular basis in order to get a decent amount of traffic. Here is how it works. You have to visit 30 sites in the network a day, comment on 5 of them, favorite 1 of them and make a post in the forums. Once you have done that you will receive 30-60 unique visitors to your site a day. Not bad for about 30-40 minutes worth of work.
4. Create a squidoo pageIt is true that you do not need your own personal website in order to promote affiliate products. The problem is that not all article directories will let you send their visitors to an affiliate website. Ezinearticles.com is one of them. Ezinearticles.com gets A LOT of traffic so it would be a great idea to submit articles to their site. To make sure your articles get published and to get around the fact that you can't send visitors directly to an affiliate website you can simply set up a squidoo page.Squidoo is a very high ranking site. Put together a good squidoo page by posting articles (the same ones you post in the article directories) and other information about the product you are promoting. From there you can send them to your affiliate site.
How to Get Paid to Advertise on Cell Phones
1. Go to the Google AdSense website. If you have a Google account, sign in with your Google email address and password on the Google AdSense website. If you don't have a Google account, create a Google email account at the Gmail website and come back to Google Adsense.
2. Input the required information in the fields. Click 'Next.' View your information. Select the best answer for 'Which best describes you?' and 'Would you like to use your existing Google Account for AdSense?' Type in the 'Word Verification letters' and click 'Continue.' Complete your registration and wait for your Google AdSense account to be approved via email. Once it has been approved, you can go to the next step.
3. Click 'AdSense Setup' and then click 'Adsense for Mobile.' Choose the format of your choice for your mobile phone and, then, select 'Server Side Script.' Install the code to your mobile phone and you're done.
How to Keep CPCs Down on Facebook
1. Determine whether the Facebook audience would be good for your product or service. The website now encompasses a vast array of people, rather than just college students as it did before.
2. Discuss your goals and advertising model with Facebook. You may want to work with a search engine or a specific website that may be more closely related to your product.
3. Ask for the advertising plans they offer. Suggest that they show you some statistics and client examples from each if they haven't already. According to Facebook Ads, you can 'set the daily budget you are comfortable with [and] adjust your daily budget at anytime.'
4. Opt for a flat-rate plan initially if you think it will be more cost-effective. You'll only pay based on actual clicks or number of people that go to your ad or website.
5. Explore the bid-based variety if you see a possible advantage. If your product is of the niche variety with few competitors, this may be a better option. If several other companies will be placing similar ads on Facebook and you're working with a smaller budget, this would be the lesser of the two options.
6. Make your offer and set up the payment and advertising model. Check your traffic levels after the ad has been implemented to find out its effectiveness.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
How to Add AdSense Ads to a WordPress Blog
1. Use your favorite seach engine such as Google, Yahoo! or Dogpile.
2. Type in: Adsense-Deluxe Wordpress Plugin.
3. Once the search engine has finished populating its results, click on the first link provided.
4. Follow the instructions.
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