Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing

So you've been working on your site or blog for awhile, adding content, promoting and gather up as many of those precious backlinks as you can your hands on. You build your site using different SEO tactics, doing everything you can to get as much inbound traffic as possible. All your hard work has paid off and you now have a nice, consistent flow of traffic coming in. All that traffic didn't just start pouring in by luck, you worked hard to make your site successful and you want to make as much money from it as possible. How can you turn all that traffic into money? Why, you simply start up an account with AdSense and hope a nice percentage of your traffic will convert into clicks, making you money and bring you one step closer to independent wealth. AdSense is probably one of the easiest ways to monetize your blog but is it the most profitable? A great way to increase your residual income is to become an affiliate marketer.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

While surfing the web or reading your favorite blog in your rss reader, you may have noticed that many of the more successful sites advertise with companies other than AdSense. Some of these large, traffic siphoning sites may no longer use Adsense at all. Think about it, how do you get paid when you use Adsense? You post on your blog and Google sends you relevant ads that your viewers could potentially click on. Each time some clicks on one of those ads, Google pays you but where do these ads come from? The marketing geniuses at Google use AdSense's counter part AdWords to gather up ads to send to you. AdWords is a program created by Google where different companies pay them to advertise their sites and products. What does this mean to you? Why should you care where your ads come from? Google is a middle man! Lets say you get an average of $0.50 per click through AdSense. How much money do you think Google is making from all the traffic your site diverts to that advertiser?. If you had been advertising directly for that company you could have earned a lot more form your site. Essential, when you become an affiliate marketer you are pushing the middle man out of the picture and keeping more of the profits for yourself.

Affiliates Do A Little More Work

You will have to do a little more work as an affiliate marketer. You are used to Google automatically sending you ads that are relevant to your site. If you write a post about cheap children's clothing, AdSense will send you ads that suit the topic. When you become an affiliate marketer you will have to pick and choose your ads yourself. This isn't as easy as it sounds, after all, you won't have a very good CTR advertising used car parts on your children's clothing blog. When all is said and done, the increase in income will make all this extra work worth while. Your site or blog is most likely to have some kind of theme this will make searching for ads a bit less tedious. Once you find a few relevant ads, they should work for all your posts.

What Affiliate Network Should You Use?

Personally, I find I have the most luck using Peerfly. They have a nice array of ads and pay very well. You may have to try many differnet affiliate networks before you find one with just what you are looking for. Do a Google search and check out the ads and rates each network offers. There is no limit to how many affiliate networks you can sign up for. Worse case scenario, you sign up for a few and never use them. Like everything else in internet marketing and making money online, you usually end up doing an ton of research and a lot of trial and error before you get it right.

The Pros

• You will earn much more each time a visitor clicks on ads
• You will be climbing to the next step in Internet marketing ladder
  
• Affiliate ads tend to look more professional than ads sent to you by companies like AdSense and Adbrite
• You will have more control over the ads that appear on your site
• Unlike AdSense, there is no limit to how many ads you can show on your site

The Cons

• Ads won't be chosen for you and you will have to do a little extra work

There is no risk involved in becoming an affiliate marketer. There is no rule that says you can't have both AdSense and affiliate ads on your site. My advise would be to leave AdSense on your site while you experiment with affiliate ads. As the weeks and months go by see which one is bringing you more money and adjust the advertising on your site accordingly.

Good Luck As Always,

Kegnum

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Making Money Online With Hubpages

What Is Hubpages

HubPages is an online community where people can publish, gain information about a specific topic or both. When I first came across Hubpages I thought it was just another site built to make money off of the hard work of bloggers and other writers, boy was I wrong. Ok, first of all they give you the option of placing your own AdSense ads on each of your "hubs" ( hupages articles ). This is unheard of, not only are they free but they don't even push their ads using your content. On top of allowing you to monetize your own hubs, they are an excellent resource to build up solid anchored backlinks. I will explain why using Hubpages as a backlinking reacorse is so great later on in this post.

Importance Of Backlinking

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm sure you have read this on every single SEO and "make money blogging" site you have ever come across, backlinks are THE KEY to ranking well in search engines. You can stuff keywords and long tail keywords until your site is just one big advertisement for itself but without backlinks its all a waste of time. Search engines assume if other sites link to yours that your content is more relevant. This is why you may notice when you get that new site indexed, other sites with less relevant content are ranked higher. All of this is due to backlinking! Yes, content is king but you should probably spend most of your time gathering as many solid do follow anchored backlinks as you can get your greedy little hands on.

What Makes Hubpage Backlinks So Great

Why are backlinks on Hubpages so great? Simply put, Google loves Hubpagse. Google loves Hubpages so much that it shows Hubpages its love by indexing all of its hubs and profile pages in less than 24 hours. I don't have a PR 5 site to mooch a backlink off of to get my newer sites indexed quickly. I have never gotten a site indexed in less than a week, while, each and every hub that I have written for Hubpages has been indexed within a day. As a matter of fact, when I first created my account with Hubpages, my profile page was indexed by google in less than 10 hours. That's when I realized what a backlinking gold mine Hubpages could be.

The Catch

A great backlink reacourse yes, free and easy ... no. Hubpages won't cost you any money but you won't start off with any do follow links. Instead of asking for money for their do follow backlinks, they ask that you pay with your time and content. I assume that they created their site in this way to avoid spamming. Don't think that this makes Hubpages a waste of your time. Look at it this way, Google loves Hubpages, if you got do follow backlinks instantly, you could only imagine the huge amounts of spam that the site would get hit with. After awhile there would be so much spam that you would not longer be able to find good, relative content. If that happened then I'm sure Hubpages would loose its Google love and would no longer be useful to you and I for backlinking.

This is how it works, sign up for Hubpages and write a few hubs, they don't need to be long and can be about anything you want. Write about a vacation you took, your dog's spots, falling interest rates, making money online.... anything you want. I usually spend no more than 20 minutes writing a Hub. In no time at all you will have enough profile points to have all the backlinks on your hubs become do follow. Once you receive 40 profile points the backlinks on your profile page become do follow. Keep building, write a few more hubs and get your profile points up to 75 and when that happens, presto, all your hubs now have do follow links!

It took me all of 2 days and 5 articles about newts... that's right... newts, to get my profiles points to 65 and just a week and 5 more hubs to get up to 75, changing all the backlinks I had put on my hubs to do follow. All those backlinks are just another feather in my SEO hat.. pushing me one step closer to the top of Google's serps and one step closer to fulfilling my dream of working from home.

Good Luck,

Kegnum

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Help Adsense Make You Money

While working on a few of my blogs I found that some of them, particularly the blogs with smaller posts, weren't displaying ads that would peak the interests of potential clickers. There are certain blogs that I own, where long winded posts are unnecessary. A post on one of these blogs might consist of two or three sentences. I also have this problem with some blogs where I write longer posts but can't use enough keywords to trigger the proper ads from google, without taking away from the quality of that post. Instead of changing all my posts around in order to guide AdSense in the right direction, I did a little research and found this very useful little trick.

This is one of my "problem" blogs before I implemented this trick... Just click the image to enlarge.


Here is my blog after I used the trick...


Notice the difference, my credit card post now has targeted ads for its visitors. This "trick" is not against any TOS and you will not get into trouble with google. It simply points to AdSense to certain parts of your post, the parts with the proper density of keywords to produce suitable ads.

Simply open your post in the html editor. Find a sentence or a paragraph in your post that best describe the main topic or the area where most of your keywords are located. This is what your post should look like after you are done editing in html.

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Good luck monetizing your blogs!


Kegnum

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