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Start Blog Optimization for Profit

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

It takes some research and creativity to find the right money-generating tools for your blog. It’s all a matter of your personal tastes. There are many to choose from.

In previous parts of this series, I showed how using Google Adsense and other affiliate programs will generate profits from your blog. However, there are even more options to monetize your blog. Here are a few to consider.

The first option to consider is Chitika. What is Chitika you ask? Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising program because it can serve very detailed advertisements to your blog that fit perfectly with your blog theme.

For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. They show them in different tabs: one for another for another for and or on www.atoz-about-rss.com. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than a blatant advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher. You can apply at chitika.com

If your blog/website has been around for a while and has a decent amount of traffic, you can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers a wide range of products but its predominant niche is in physical books. And, like Adsense, you can select Ad blocks that display products that fit your blog perfectly. Whatever your niche is about, you can probably find a book about it on Amazon.com.

Keep in mind though; they do NOT pay big bucks. You can refer visitors to them and earn up to 10% commission. Its not a lot of money but, if you can manage to refer big volumes of visitors, Amazon is for you. You need to read their Terms of Service.

This program really shines when it comes to the ways you can refer visitors:

You can use their predefined templates to pull up recent items that match a certain criteria you set.

You can target your ad to show a specific item on sale.

You can just simply weave your referral links into your blog posts.

Every dime helps so join their Associate program if you are into selling hard and soft cover books.

Last, but definitely not least, you can sell advertising space on your blog if your blog is truly popular. Just take a look at blogs like: xiaxue.blogspot.com. That blog receives over 10,000 page views every day and naturally merchants make deals with the blog owner to post their advertisements there. If you manage to pull in huge amounts of traffic like that blog, you can definitely get people to buy ad space on your blog for prices from $150/month upwards, depending on your blog popularity.

To gauge how many page views and visitors you get everyday, just use the free tool I use. Get it at statcounter.com. Their setup guide is very detailed so I cannot go into it here.

If your blog has not acquired a large amount of visitors yet, you can still sell ad space on your blog on a per click or per impression basis. Visit adbrite.com and for a complete list of these sites, visit performancing.com.

This is just one in a 6 part series that should help you drive readers to your blog and maximize earnings and profits from your blog! Yes, it is possible to quit your day job through blogging or you can visit www.blog-and-ping.com. All that stands between you and freedom is working smarter, and sometimes harder, towards your goal. It is a balance. Eventually, after you have worked harder, you will be able to work smarter.

I edit 15 blogs. It took 6 months of learning and working harder before I was able to work smarter and begin making extra income.

I did not jump on every offer and I rejected those marketers who claimed I could make overnight riches with no work on my part. In fact, I have spent less than $100.00 so far!

Earn money from adsense site other than google

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

1)widgetbucks:

Higher eCPMs Hands down, WidgetBucks exceeds traditional publisher’s CPM targets of $1-$2 Content vs. ads WidgetBucks delivers engaging, contextual, rich-media widgets that complement your site content Easy deployment Placing customized code on your site takes just minutes, and only YieldSense auto-optimizes your widget rotation based on performance tracking

2)Adbrite:

for Website Owners Find out how we can help you generate more revenue from your ad space. * Customize ads to match your site * Approve and reject ads for your site * Works alongside other ad programs * Supports:banner +inline ads + full page ads it has referral program On all buying and selling activity referred by your site, you earn: * 50% of AdBrite’s profits for the first 3 months * 10% of AdBrite’s profit for the next 9 months join here http://www.adbrite.com/mb/landing_both.php?spid=120427

3)Chitika:

can be used Chitika Ads with Google AdSense Chitika ad units are NOT contextual Chitika ad units do NOT look like AdSense units has referral program earn 10% of what your referrals earn Chitika will pay you 30 days following the end of the month that your commissions are earned provided that your total revenue has exceeded $10 (for PayPal) and $50 (for check where PayPal is not available) join here

4)Bidvertiser:

my favorit for publisher it pays for click only not impression user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, we’ll credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40 for refering advertiser first spends $10, we’ll credit your account with $5. When that same advertiser spends $50, you will be credited with an additional $20

Finding the Best PPC Programs

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Even though Adsense seems to deliver the most relevant ads, highest CTRs and best eCPMs, you shouldn’t neglect the other players on the pay per click market. The top three best pay per click programs are, in this order, Google Adsense, YPN (Yahoo Publisher Network) and Chitika. Other online advertising and contextual advertising programs seem to develop at an amazing rate, but it will be a while before any of them manages to threaten the position of the three main players. The most attractive thing about the programs offered by these providers is that they are fully automated, which means that you only have to paste a string of HTML code into your website and relevant ads will appear in that location instantly or in a very short while.

Google Adsense managed to secure its number one position as the best PPC program by creating a quick and easy to use ad placement and integration procedure. Also, the ads presented through Adsense are often very high payers, and revenues of $10 or $20 per click are not fairytales (multiply these numbers by 20-30 cliks per day, which is what you could expect to have after a couple of months of developing your ad-ready website).

Particularities of the 3 best PPCs

Google Adsense – Adsense is the most popular and effective pay per click program. Although you can use the presets offered by Google as far as ad placement and appearance are concerned, you can also modify those to your heart’s content. Another feature that contributes towards the title of “best PPC offer” is the fact that Google sorts the ads for you, only displaying those that are most relevant.

Contextual ads also imply that the program will differentiate between the different meanings of the same word – a site on Java software will display related technical and software-related ads, not tourist information for visitors heading for the Indonesian island of Java. You can also modify and filter the advertiser ads on your site, a fact which allows you to obtain better relevance and higher click through ratios. These are just some of the things that make Google Adsense the most effective PPC choice – you can find out more about it by reading our special Adsense report .

Yahoo Publisher Network – YPN aims to be the best pay per click program by allowing you to generate additional revenue from your site and take advantage of Yahoo! Publisher tools, services and programs. However, YPN is just out of beta, so it’s a very young player on the market. Backed up by Yahoo’s huge resources, YPN has all the chances of becoming a tough competitor for Adsense, and many publishers see this as a great thing, as this will diminish Adsense’s dominance and make both Google and Yahoo offer better deals to webmasters in order to gain supremacy. While the beta version of YPN showed that it is not a perfect program, the bugs are being sorted out and many publishers are using Adsense on one site and YPN on another, then switching after a month or two so as to compare results.

Chitika “the industry’s leading impulse merchandising company” as they say, also offers some interesting pay per click options. Many webmasters were thrilled with the idea that an alternative to Adsense is on the market and deemed Chitika to be the best PPC program. However, although some of them are still loyal Chitika users, others have complained of the low CTR rates. While its hard to make a general statement about this pay per click program, it is widely accepted that Chitika, just like YPN, is still in an infancy phase. However, Chitika has the potential of becoming a great pay per click program (although it would take a miracle to overthrow “Google Adsense” in the near future). For more Adsense tips and guides on getting started, please see the author/resource box.