How To Monetize Your Web Site with Google Adsense & Affiliate Marketing
by Anne-Marie RONSEN
One of the best ways to monetize your site is with Google Adsense, however if you don’t have the content or the on site optimization your traffic will trickle in and the ads that Google might send you won’t be worth that much.
One way to make sure you maximize your Google Adsense profits is to subscribe to services that specifically tailor their content for Google Adsense and create page layouts and templates that benefit the web developer. With content management services, you can increase your traffic, click through rate and increase the profit you make on each paid advertisement.
Selling affiliate products is another important strategy that can result in profits. Not only should you spend lots of time looking for great affiliate products, you should join affiliate sites that sell many products and services that consumers want most. Some of these affiliate sites include Amazon.com and Clickbank. These affiliate sites sell either real world products or information products such as ebooks and software.
Besides choosing the right affiliate sites, it is also important to make sure that your web content matches the products you sell. It should be noted that there are a few services that have done this legwork for you and have matched content with consumer friendly products that pay out high commission rates for web developers.
Optimization is extremely important and is a great way to get free advertising and visitors from the search engines. Most web sites generate the most traffic from search engine indexes such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. You can increase the traffic you receive from these search engines by optimizing your site with keyword density and links. Keyword density means that the content on your web page has a specific amount of a certain keyword or keyword phrase. When visitors look for information, they usually type in a keyword like “life insurance”. You can build web pages that have keyword densities or a percentage of keywords or phrases on a page that match a specific term. The proper keyword percentage is usually 2% to 5% of a web page.
Affiliate programs also help in improving inward linking. In affiliate schemes, you provide incentives (usually a commission on the sale of your product or service) for other websites to become affiliates (i.e. carriers). These affiliates then generate you direct traffic; the added bonus comes in the form of those inward links to your site. Affiliate Programs create powerful alliances between your web site and your various “affiliate” web sites. Providing affiliate links to your website would improve your website’s search engine ranking. It makes your website more visible to crawlers.
Building links is another way to improve how high you rank on a search engine index. Links consist of your hyperlink of your web site that is posted onto another web site. The more links of your web site that can be found throughout the internet on other sites, usually the higher you will rank in the search engines. Other factors apply such as types of links and where your links are posted.
Not only is Google Adsense a great way to monetize your web site, but you should also diversify and sell affiliate products on your site. Selling an affiliate product is simple and usually requires the web developer to sign up to be an affiliate and sell a specific product of his or her choice. Usually web developers sell affiliate products that are relevant to their web site. For instance, if you have created a web site on gardening, you might want to sell an ebook on gardening tips, gardening tools from an online store such as Amazon.com or other affiliate sites. The web developer gets paid when one of their visitors buys a product through the affiliate link on their web site.
One of the ways many web developers monetize their web sites is with both Google Adsense and affiliate marketing. Google Adsense is an extremely effective way to turn traffic to one’s web site into a steady income producing enterprise. Affiliate marketing is an extremely simple and very low labor intensive way to generate sales on your site. If you already have an established website and traffic or would like to build a web site to use Google Adsense and affiliate marketing, here are some tips on getting the most out of it.
There are definitely specific strategies that work better than others when trying to monetize your web site with Google Adsense, a few of them include, content management and optimization of your web page and site.
In the early years, having decent content on your web site was more than enough to draw lots of traffic to your web site, however times have changed. Today, there is much more competition regarding content and in order to drive traffic to your web site, you have to make sure you have high quality content that is focused on specific topics that people are looking for. While some topics have too much competition when it comes to web sites, many smaller web developers have turned to niche sites that focus on less popular topics that have less competition for traffic. If you are building a new web site, you will probably do the best with niches and in some cases micro niches. Many web developers put lots of time and effort into choosing the topics that they build their web site around.
Besides having quality content, you will need to optimize your website to rank high in the search engine indexes. Some optimization techniques include keyword density and linking with other sites.
Adding Google Adsense to your article site is easy, because Google easily figures out which keywords your site is optimized for and then tailors ads that may be interesting to your visitors. Besides Google Adsense or in conjunction with Adsense, you can also add other types of paid advertisements, possibly from a large online florist (for a rose web site) or even a neighborhood florist, if your site is optimized for a specific region.
Adding Affiliate Products is also a great way to monetize your site and create a profitable article site. Promoting affiliate products is a great way to earn more than just with Google Adsense or paid advertisers, with a quality affiliate product, you can make $10, $20 or even $50 or more, just on one sale of a product. Article web sites that can draw lots of traffic can easily reap affiliate commissions and make thousands every month.
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Having a linking strategy is extremely important. Of course you can work on your own and create your own links and develop your own relationships or you can join special services that automatically build links within your web pages and send you lots of reciprocal and one way back links that ultimately raise your page rank and drive traffic to your sites. For many web developers, it can take months to build a network of links for just one web site, one of the newer trends is to already have a large network of links mapped out and ready to go to help out web developers drive up their page rank and traffic.
As an affiliate marketer, the web developer only has to advertise, promote and generate the sale of the affiliate product; they do not have to worry about processing a payment, inventory or shipping the product out making this technique a low cost and less time consuming way to monetize your web site.
Hope you enjoyed the article,
Nathan
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Saving Money Is Easier Than You Think!
It’s so much easier said than done to save money. Well, somebody has given lists such as cutting your coffee, less entertainment, less shopping (no, you are killing me)… That works for your money but not for your life, because you save for a better one.
To better manage your money, here comes some tips:
First, set your goal in short-term and long-term. There must be something you want in desperation, like a car, a macbook. You will figure out what to cut to have your dream come true. Yes, you are not really saving money here, but you find the ways.
Second, make a budget and prioritize your spending. Track your monthly expenses and calculate the average for your regular payments (Rent, Phone Bills, utilities, gas etc.). Shopping and entertainment may change from month to month, set a minimum. When you have a total spending plan for the next month, save all the surplus for investment or open a savings account.
Third and the smarter way, when you have to buy something, find a cheap one. Actually this is easy because you are online. DO NOT save your cable expense.
The Internet has changed our way of life: Users get greater access to information than ever before. It also offers many opportunities for saving money. As online shopping has become more and more popular, businesses have been pressured into not only maintaining an online presence, but also competing for a thriving global consumer base. Online deals and specials are powerful persuasion for potential customers, and are therefore used by many retailers. If you know where to look, you can find many ways to save money online, such as traditional coupons that you can print out and carry with you, and online coupons that use links or coupon codes to save you money.
There are two ways applying the discount for online stores: linked coupons and coupon codes . With a linked coupon, you simply click on the link, and it takes you to the online store via a special URL; then when you finish the shopping, your savings will be applied to your shopping cart automatically. A coupon code is a special code you will need to enter when you check out. Because online stores depend on online coupons and promotions to boost sales, these codes are very easy to find. There are many websites dedicated to listing current online coupons and coupon codes such as couponcabin.com , couponsmarter.com etc. Most of these sites offer a search feature to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.
Hope you enjoyed the article,
Thanks,
Nathan
CompForLife.com
Another Whoo For Ebay, Ebay Alternatives Are Up
Another blow to the ebay business! Ebay is falling like a rock because they still do not know what their true client is… Are they catering to the buyers or to sellers that pay the listing fees. With all the recent policy changes in the last 6 months, it is very hard to make a sell or even stay compliant with the ebay policies.
Power Sellers and regular sellers are fed up, while looking for alternative ebay type sites to sell their products. It seems that ebay just does not care for who they piss off or change the policies to disallow everybody. This business action just makes it seem that they are big and do not care about their users, whether it buyers or sellers. They are just going downhill, and waiting to loose control to crash and burn. The core of any brokerage business is your sellers because they are the ones that pay the fees… Buyers are attracted because they do not pay anything for the transaction, they just feel that they are getting a deal on the item they agreed to purchase. Just watch the video below,click the link, another whoo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-JjepaCDOM
Here is an ebay alternative site that I have found is worthy of mentioning…SoAuctionIt.com . For the remainder of May, they are having FREE auction style listings and 50% off Buy It Now Fees… This site has No Tiered Listing Fees, No Final Value Fees, No Reserve Fees, Just One Flat Fee to sell your items. Visit today and receive $10 added to your sellers account to apply for any listing upgrades.
Thanks,
Nathan
CompForLife.com
Federal Stimulus Package won’t do a thing!
The Federal Stimulus package is not even going to make a dent… Inflation is on the rise because of the cost of gas on the National Level. Not because of the economy is slow. People are holding tight of their money because of the rise of the gas prices has hurt their normal expense for transportation, in which has taken a away from the splurging factor of non neccessary items. The economy is also hurt by the crash of the subprime market for refinancing, the money just is not flowing like like it was two years ago. It is much harder to obtain a new loan because of the criteria has set the bar much higher. This has hurt the housing sales in turn has created more homes to go into foreclosure because of the owners not being able to qualify and or get their home sold before foreclosure. On the Adjustable Rate Mortgages, they have flexed higher becuse they have expired on their initial term and the homeowners could not refinance because of the subprime meltdown.
Do you see how everything is melting down? I can remember when the gas prices creep up in 2001, that the would open ip the reserves to lower price of gas. Why isn’t Pres. Bush doing this? Oh, that’s right, this where he makes his true money, its in the oil. The President’s income for being President is nothing compared to what he makes with his involvement of crude oil. Inflation occurs when the cost of utilities or neccessary commodity items have the price risen because of the demand versus supply. Will Americans pay bills with their Federal Stimulus money?
The American people that recieve this money, will spend spend it but in what manner? Will they go to Wal-Mart because they know that they can get the lowest price of goods? Do they realize that Wal-Mart is the biggest supporter of imported goods, this is how they keep the cost so low? Will the people use it to catch up on their bills that have fallen behind on? Will they use it to spend on their kids, such as summer clothes or new shoes? Just a few questions to keep in mind. The lowest price items are going to be attractive to these americans trying to stretch thir dollars that received back from the federal government. On the lower class that this package was intended for, has been limited to only $300, is that right, I believe that they need this stimulus the most because the impacts of the cost of living and the means for transportation. Personally, i will not see any of this, but I have read the articles and heard from other people what they have received.
It is sad because I recently met a few people that were loving life two years ago, working their full time job and enjoying quality time with their family on the weekend. Now, these people have 2-3 jobs just get by. Retailers have cut back on pay raises and benefit items, such as health has been raised. What will offset this insanity? The federal government is the stimulus package. Bull! These people working so hard just to get by. Life is meant to be enjoyed, you live to work, not work to live. Do you think working all that time will wear on your body? If you have the time, you will ensure that your body is taken care of and exersice is essential to your health. This is why Americans are so overweight, because they work so hard and are exhausted when they get home that do nothing. People need to make the time and make a change to their lifestyle. It is not the federal stimulus that is the answer.
Additianal income online can be achieveable if you utilize your resources and execute the knowledge on a daily basis. Time blocking is a key element to stay focused and to be productive in a timely manner. Quit those part time jobs and earn the money online so you make it in your own time and relax your body from having the wear and tear to take care of your family. You can sell items on soauctionit.com for a small fee and is cheaper than ebay. Sellers are needed and will receive $10 into their account upon signing up on the site.
Thanks,
Nathan
CompForLife.com
Did Ebay Kill Your Online Business?
Recently I hit a bump in the road when Ebay suspended my Power Seller becuase they feel that I was in violation of their feedback policy… They stated becuse I was selling cheap products in my store that this was an intent of boosting my feedback rating and the searching buyers were doing the same…
I looked into other Power Sellers that I knew in the community and their accounts were suspended also… Does Ebay care about that much on their feedback that they would suspend the core of their business to make examples? I made over $3000 in the month of March and was going to launch a boot camp for others on how to sell on ebay with results that I have strivedand achieved…. I am going to kill that idea at least the part on ebay… As for making money online, that was the core of my business, but with the knowledge I have gained, I am going to use some other sites for my business. Yes they get alot of traffic however there are some other alternative auction sites.
With all these policy changes that also have been put into place, it has really hit hard on the ebay community… Coming soon, sellers will not be able to leave a nuetral or negative feedback on the buyers, only a positive… So buyers are just so canny that if you do not respondwithin 24 hours, they will leave a negative feedback. I thought feedback was based on the whole transaction experience. It has hit a high note in my with all these changes. It will be a very long time before I sell anything on that site ever again. I told them to take their power seller status and shove it. I am sick and tired of walking on eggshells to retain that title… Yes, it does show integrity and that I am not on the site for a day to sell just one item. I was there to make an online business.
The transaction experience is based upon customer service, how fast they get their item and keeping an open line of communication. It is so simple, follow up and follow through. Ebay has made is so complicticated in the last few months with their policy changes. I know rules are meant to keep a peace and harmony., but when you change them from on day to the next without warning… That is wrong! Then calling sellers out that they are in violation this policy and fees will not be credited because of the policy violation. There is no customer service there, this is dealing with your internal customers, which are your sellers. I do not mean to go off on a tangent, but this issue has really effected me… When my account was suspended, it was like getting fired from a job. This is why it has been fraustrating to me.
I have found a new home on soauctionit.com , the fees on this site is so much less than the previous online market place. It is a new site but I see the potential of the growth and saving me overhead fees to use and list my items. they are offering new members FREE signup and $10 worth of sellers fees deposited in your account. I have redirected my ebay store domain (monsterchange.net) to point to this site. I invite others to join this site to save money on selling your items and the incentive to have a FREE signup on soauctionit.com and come realize that there is an alternative that has lower fees while not changing the policy rules in the middle of the game.
Thanks,
Nathan
CompForLife.com
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