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Make Money with Your Blog – Really

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

If you are interested in creating your own blog to make money then read on.

1.The first thing you need to do is to decide what you want to write about:
I write about making money online because I feel that I have some experience that will help others out. You can try and figure out what subject pays the most or you can write about what you know best. If you are curious to know what people are paying for particular keywords, you can find out here. Just make sure that you choose a subject that you know something about and can offer something of value for your readers.

2. Purchase a domain name and hosting:
You can get a domain name from mightydomains.com for $8.99/yr. You will also need to choose a hosting company (That is where your website will reside). You can get web hosting for $7.95/mo from ipowerweb.com. That is a good price as I have shopped around. You can probably get it for a little cheaper somewhere else but it will most likely not have the best customer service to help with problems quickly.

3. Download free blogging software:
You can download free blogging software from Wordpress which is awesome and is pretty easy to set up. I will be posting more later on how to setup and customize your Wordpress blog.

4. Choose which affiliates and Ads that you will display on your blog:
There are many affiliates to choose from but I would suggest going with a couple in the beginning that have been tested by the blogging community and pay promptly. Chitika pays well and is a good source of my income. You can also make decent money with Google Adsense if you set it up right. If you are really serious about finding out how to make the most from Adsense you can read this e-book. All you want to know about Adsense is in that book. There are a few other good affiliate programs but I would start out with those two so that you don’t get overwhelmed. Once you sign up for the programs you will need to put them in your blog template with the code they give you.

Kent Hamilton – founder of http://www.moneygenius.net

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Can I Really Earn Money With Articles and Adsense

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

The question regarding making money using articles and adsense has been asked many times. The doubters will tell you that it’s not possible. If that were true, there would not be so many people making their living writing articles for their Adsense sites.

In order to make money with Adsense, you need to find a profitable niche. When you are just starting out, you should pick a niche that you have some interest in. By doing this you will be more interested and it will not be quite as challenging for you to write your articles. If you are interested in gardening, you could write articles about different plants, soil conditions, watering, the best planting times or even about those pesky insects that invade your garden. The possibilities are limitless. When you become more comfortable writing articles and have your site profiting for you, you might then try a niche that is new to you. Go to the search engines and do a search for whatever niche you want to try and research that topic. You might find that you have more of an interest in that topic than you thought.

When writing your articles, be precise, be informative, and by all means, don’t tell them the same thing that everyone else is telling them. Make your articles new and interesting. Give them unique content. Don’t write one or two articles and think that will be enough. You need to keep writing, keeping your site full of fresh content. Don’t forget to put your name and website address at the end of your article in the resource box. As you write articles that are interesting, other website may pick up your article and publish it on their site or in their newsletter, thereby driving additional traffic to your site.

By keeping your content fresh and informative, the search engines will spider your site more often. The search engines love new and unique content. They will make numerous trips to your site if you keep adding to it. The more often they visit, the higher in the ratings you can go.

You need to also submit your articles to the article directories. Each article directory has its own submission guidelines so before you submit be sure to check their guidelines out. Make sure your resource box is included with the article when you submit it. Without this resource box, readers will not know who wrote the article or how to get more information from your site. These visitors will also help increase your search engine ratings.

When you sign up for Google’s Adsense program, they will place Adsense ads on your site that are directly related to the topic that you are writing about. Google does this work for you. When a visitor clicks on one of the ads, you are paid for that click. The amount you are paid depends on what the advertiser is paying for that ad and only Google knows that. The more traffic that comes to your site, and the higher your click through rate (CTR) is, the more money you can make.

It’s not as hard as it may appear. The hardest part is getting started and keeping the momentum going. Don’t give up. It can take several weeks for your site to get traffic. The most important thing though is to keep the articles going to your site. If you want, you can also ad articles written by others, just be sure to include their resource box.

Loretta Miller has a site where the goal is to help people increase the traffic to their website. increasesalesinfo.com/

Loretta Miller has a site where the goal is to help people increase traffic to their website. increasesalesinfo.com/

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Get the Most Out of Your Adsense Site

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

More and more webmasters out there are utilizing Google’s Adsense program to maximize their earnings off of their website through targeted advertisements geared towards their viewers in a certain niche.

Many websites earn very little monthly income through their Adsense campaign. Most sites do not even make over $5 a month! Sure, there are several ways that webmasters can optimize their Adsense ads on their site to achieve a higher click through rate (CTR), but I’m not going to explain that topic in this article. If you want to learn more about that, read my signature at the bottom of this article. Instead, I’m going to focus on two other factors; traffic and content.

First lets begin with traffic. Every website, not a few, not some, but EVERY website on the Internet needs traffic to make money. How much traffic? Well, technically, someone could make some money off of 100 visitors a day, but what good does 100 visitors a day do you when it comes to generating money through your Google Adsense ads? Probably not too good. Take for instance the following example:

Let’s say your website is receiving 100 visitors a day (many websites dont even reach this amount) and the average amount you get paid per click is 10 cents with a CTR of 5% (which isn’t too bad). This means that 5 visitors are clicking your ads each day earning you a total of 50 cents a day. That’s about $15 a month. If all you’re looking for is to cover web hosting costs, then you probably achieved the amount of money you need based upon these results. But hopefully you want more money! After all, this article is not about breaking even. It’s about making the most out of your website’s earning potential.

OK, now let’s say your goal (which is a reasonable goal for starting out) is to make $60 a month. I know it doesn’t seem like much, but if you apply the principles I’m about to tell you, you can easily double this amount each month. In order to meet this goal you would need at least 400 visitors a day at the same 5% CTR and average 10 cent earning per click.

How do we achieve this 400 visitor a day traffic goal? There are a number of ways:

1. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – Drive more traffic to your site by ranking high in the search engines. You can learn more about SEO at www.realmoneyreviews.com/directory/seo-1.htm . This can take a lot of time and effort so be patient.

2. PPC (Pay Per Click) Advertising – If the only revenue from you site is from Adsense, I recommend against this option, but if you’re selling a product or service, this could be a worth while option for you. For more information on PPC Advertising (as well as Adsense information) visit www.realmoneyreviews.com/directory/pay-per-click-advertising-1.htm .

3. Writing Articles – Writing articles is a great way to attract visitors to your site as well as helping in SEO. When you write articles for other article directories and sites, you get to place your link at the bottom of your article. If you submit to an article directory, other webmasters can pick up your article and place it on their webpage under the terms that your link remains in the article. Write articles on subjects that your target market would most likely be interested in.

4. Post in Forums – Post in forums that deal with the same target market as your site. Add a link in your forum signature to your site. If someone has a question and your website has the answer, tell them and a lot of other viewers about your website.

5. Link exchanges – Try to exchange links with as many other sites related to yours as you can. This not only helps in SEO but can give you a few extra visitors as well.

Those are just a few ways to drive more traffic to your site. If you utilize those methods above, you can easily bring 400 visitors to your site a day.

The other way to make more money through your Adsense site deals with content. Content is king on the Internet. If your site offers nothing but bull, dont expect to be successful. People want to read real valuable content. This goes back to traffic as well. If you offer good content (and a lot of it) to your visitors, they will want to return in the future. Article directories are a great way to find new content to add to your site.

What else can good content do for your Adsense revenue? If you offer well written content on your site, Google will be able to display ads on your site most relevant to the content you provide. More relevant ads mean more clicks for you!

And if your website deals with a niche that isn’t too common or popular, think about changing niche markets. Advertisers for low volume niche markets do not pay much for their ads. You want to target a niche in which advertisers pay a fair amount of money for their ads to be displayed on your website.

Darin Kleb is the owner of http://www.realmoneyreviews.com, a site offering articles and information targeted to teach people how to make money online.

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Moving To The Next Level With Adsense

Monday, November 17th, 2008

When you first start promoting Adsense on your site, the potential is obvious. After a few months, however, you need to move to the next level to maximize revenues.

When it comes to Adsense optimization, most will talk about different ad sizes and colors. These can make a difference, but the biggest and best enhancement has everything to do with placement.

Assume you are reading the sports page or some other part of the paper one morning. The page is full of images, text and advertisements. What do you see? Typically, you first read the headlines and look at the images. After that, you either read a story of interest or turn the page.

You will note that I didn’t mention looking at advertisements. This is because you will have developed a filter over time that causes you to ignore the ads on the pages. In practical terms, this is the equivalent of Pavlov’s dogs, but backwards. You know the ads are in certain areas and you just tend to avoid them naturally so you can focus on why your team is losing, you stock bombed or the latest scandal. This concept applies to the web as well.

People inherently avoid advertisements on web pages including Adsense ads. The number one Adsense improvement you can make is to move your ads. Should you place your ads at the top? The bottom? The side columns? The answer to all of these questions is absolutely not. Here comes the secret [drum roll].

The best location for your ads is in the middle of the page. For most sites, this means between the paragraphs of text on a page. Few sites take this approach, so readers are not conditioned to skip over the ads. Since Adsense ads track with the keywords on the page, this position is a gold mine because the ads are read by the visitor as the naturally move down the page. If they naturally read it, a higher percentage of them will click through and that is good news for your revenues.

There are a lot of tips on how to generate more revenue with Adsense. When you cut through the riff raff, however, the placement of your ads is everything. Try it and see.

Halstatt Pires is with MarketingTitan.com – providing internet marketing services.

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