Wednesday, February 5, 2014
How to Make Money Advertising on My Web Site
Sell Banners
1. Locate the space on your web pages where you will offer to place banners for advertisers. Banners are commonly sold in a number of standard sizes including 300x250, 250x250, 468x60, 728x90, 160x600 and 125x125.
2. Join an ad banner advertising service like AdBrite.com, BuySellAds.com or AdEngage.com. These companies serve banner ads for advertisers that can be placed on your website. Typically, publishers are paid by the number of ad impressions served.
3. Find the offers you want to advertise and place their banner ad code on your web pages. The ad service will maintain a record of each ad impression served and pay you on a regular basis.
Google AdSense
4. Join Google's AdSense program at https://www.google.com/adsense/. Google allows website owners to place AdSense pay-per-click ads on their websites and shares in the revenue generated by each click on the ads.
5. Determine the sizes of ad blocks you want to place on your web pages. AdSense provides a wide range of different ad block sizes for you to choose from.
6. Customize the colors and borders of the ad text to fit your website color scheme. Integrating your ads within your website will usually result in higher click-through-rates and generate more revenue.
7. Copy and paste the code provided by AdSense into your web pages. AdSense will determine the ads served by matching ads with the content of your pages.
Affiliate Marketing
8. Join an affiliate network like ClickBank.com, NeverBlue.com or ClickBooth.com. These companies offer a wide range of products and services for sale on an affiliate basis. For every sale generated by traffic from your website you will be paid a portion of the sale or a fee for generating a lead.
9. Identify the affiliate programs you wish to promote. Select programs that appeal to the demographics of your website visitors in order to maximize your revenue.
10. Place ads on your website. Most affiliate programs provide a selection of banner and text ads available for use by affiliates. Choose the ads that fit the ad space available on your website and that appeal to you.
11. Split-test the ads on your website. Rotate two ads in the same ad space and measure the response of each of the two ads. After you have received 30 clicks or more on each ad, you will have enough data to decide which ad converts better. Remove the other ad and run the winning ad full time.
Good Jobs for Writers
Online Content
Writers can write for online magazines, website owners or create their own websites or blogs, which can make money with Google Adsense, which displays ads on your website. An overview of Google Adsense is found in the Reference section. Writers can find many online opportunities by word of mouth or by becoming members of online writer's forums. The market for writers online is endless, but you do need to know how to market yourself to potential clients to compete with other online writers.
In-house Content
Newspapers, magazines and publishing houses look for writers with a flair for creativity. Newspaper and magazine writers can cover sports, festivals or a number of other events. Book authors can write and publish hard cover or paperback books or e-books that are sold online. Writers can also work for companies writing press releases, sales copy or grant proposals.
Editors
Many editors begin their careers as writers or through internships with well known companies. Editors will edit work that is submitted by writers and make any needed corrections or send the work back to the writer for corrections. Editors can work in-house for a company or telecommute. An example of careers in the editing field include executive editors, managing editors and assistant editors.
Qualifications
Qualifications can vary depending on the type of writing that you are doing. Typically, staff editors and writers for newspapers will be required to have a degree, but a freelance writer may not be required to have a degree if she can produce quality articles with search engine optimization knowledge. If a writer wants to be an expert in one field and write about it, a college education in that field may be needed.
Earnings and Job Outlook
The job outlook for writers is competitive, but, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as newspapers and magazines move their focus to online resources the job industry will open up more writing jobs. Earnings for a writer will vary. Compensation typically depends on the type of writing that you are doing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the median wage for a writer in May 2008 at $53,070 per year. The typical range of pay for a writer is between $38,150 and $75,060 per year, with 10 percent of writers making $28,020 or less. A freelance writer will earn what he negotiates for his work, but generally will not have benefits such as health insurance as a full-time writer would with a company.
How to Block Google Ads in IE8
1. Open Internet Explorer 8.
2. Click on the 'Tools' button at the top of the browser page and choose 'InPrivate Filtering Settings' from the drop-down menu.
3. Select 'Choose content to block or allow' from the dialogue window.
4. Select 'www.google.com' from the 'Content provider' menu and click on the 'Block' button to block Google as a third-party content provider.
5. Click the 'OK' button. This action will stop Google ads from appearing when browsing the Internet.
How to Hide Ads by Google
1. Download the Adblock Plus add-on for Mozilla Firefox. Restart the Firefox browser and click on 'Tools,' and then 'Add-ons.' Click to select the 'Adblock Plus' button. Click the button labeled 'Add Filter.' Enter 'http://*.googlesyndication.com/*' without the quotations into the box and click 'OK.'
2. Download IE7Pro for Internet Explorer. This is a free add-on that includes an ad blocker to block Google ads. Install IE7Pro and restart Internet Explorer. Right-click on the blue circle in the bottom right part of the Internet Explorer browser window. Click on 'Enable Ad Blocker' to block Google ads and many other types of ads as well.
3. Download and install Sponsored Ad Blocker. This is a free software program that only blocks sponsored advertisements such as ads by Google. The program works on multiple browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. After installing the program, load a web browser and the ads should be gone.
How to Add Amazon Ad Code to a Wordpress Blog
1. Establish an Amazon affiliate membership (see Resources below). Set up your information with your name, email, choices on how you want to receive payments, your username and any other information that is needed by Amazon.
2. Once this step is complete and everything is ready to go with Amazon you are ready to create a link to a product. Go to the Affiliate Program page. Sign in to your account.
3. I'll show you a specific product link, but the steps for a link, a banner or a widget are basically the same. On the Affiliate main page, click the tab called 'Links & Banners' on the tabbed menu at the top.
4. On the new page for Product Links select 'Add Product Links Now.'
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You can narrow down your search for the exact product you want to sell using the drop-down menu to select a category within Amazon's product line. You can enter an exact title or give an ASIN/ISBN if you know it. Press Go.
6. If you get more than one result in your search, find the proper one. Click the button that says 'Get Link' for the one you picked.
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In the window that opens, select your link type. If you choose 'Text and Image' (Enhanced Display) you don't have to copy the image and upload it. Amazon will serve the image. If you choose 'Image Only' you will need to copy the image and upload it. If you choose 'Text Only' you get a text link with no photo.
8. You can customize the link to fit your blog's color scheme, then you are ready to grab the HTML for the product link. It's immediately under what you see in the image in Step 7. Copy that HTML.
9. I recommend you leave the Amazon page open. If you need the HTML again, it will be findable. In a new browser tab sign in to your Wordpress blog. Create a new post title in the usual way. Type some text in the blog post to talk about the product you are planning to link.
10. At the top of the Wordpress blog post entry field, click the tab that says HTML.Find the spot where you want to insert to link to the product. Paste the HTML from Amazon there.
11. At the top of the Wordpress blog post entry field, click the tab that says 'Visual.' Check visually to make sure things turned out the way you want. Select 'Save Draft' and then Preview the post so you can click on the link to make sure it really goes to the Amazon page you want, then close the Preview.
12. If you have finished writing the text you want to have appear with the link, you are ready to click 'Publish.'
Monday, February 3, 2014
How to Change a Google Homepage Color
1. Open your Web browser and navigate to Google.com.
2. Locate the 'Change Background Image' link on the bottom left side of the page, then click it. A dialogue window will open. This link is sometimes found in different locations on the Google homepage, depending on browser.
3. Click the 'Public Gallery' tab in the left sidebar to view public backgrounds.
4. Click on an image to choose it, then click the 'Select' button. The image will load to your Google homepage background.
How to Submit a Complaint to Google
1. Open your Internet browser and visit the 'Removing Content from Google' page on the 'Help' section of Google's website.
2. Click on the radio button next to the Google service you want to complain about. This will open a new section with additional options.
3. Click on the radio button next to the sentence which best describes the nature of your complaint.
4. Follow the instructions which appear at the bottom of the page. Depending on the nature of your complaint, you might have to fill in a form on a new page or you might have to contact another department.
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