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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Screw Making Money With MMOs

I just want to warn anyone that randomly stumbled upon this blog post that I'm not in the best of moods and I may be using some colorful language, a big SEO no no. You are never supposed to use colorful language in your post as this may turn off potential readers. Guess what... screw it. First off this is a MMO blog (Make Money Online Blog). Ya wanna know something else... If you're smart, don't start one. You will NEVER succeed! You will never make any money with a make money online blog. It's not the advertising potential. I get the highest CTR (click through ratio) and the highest paying ads on AdSense with my MMO's. A great click through ratio and they pay well... so what's the problem?

Why You Will Never Make Good Money From An MMO Blog

There are many reasons why MMOs will never bring you enough revenue to quit your job or allow you to work from home. The biggest reason is everyone and their mother are going after this overinflated niche! There are so many guru's out there all spewing the same shit, optimize this and optimize that... it's all crap. All these amazing secrets and tips these experts are selling you are all just a ploy to get you reading and clicking. They jam pack their site with keywords and links getting as many backlinks as possible anyway they can, all in the hopes of climbing the Google's serps and getting more suckers (no offense) viewing and clicking. Search Google for the term "make money online" and you'll get 185 million results. What makes you think that you can climb up high enough to grab any of that traffic. Don't kid yourself or waste your time, you won't! Does this mean you can't make money online... no. All this means is you shouldn't waste your time on MMOs. You want to learn some SEO techniques? Hold on to your hats. Here comes a crash course.

The Only SEO Techniques You Will Ever Need

Use keywords. Write long post to snag long tailed keywords. Get backlinks... a lot of backlinks. Anchored backlinks are better. Anchored backlinks from high PR sites are even better. Anchored backlinks from high PR sites in a similar niche are the best. Use keywords in your web address, site title and post titles. That's it... everything else is horse shit. Write good content and over time people will come.

If You Subscribe To My Feed You Are Useless To Me

For those of you who haven't been bored or offended and left, if you got this far you are useless to me. If you subscribe to my feed you are useless to me. Want to know why? Because you won't click on my ads and make me money. You know who will click? The asshole who came on this site for five seconds, saw an ad and clicked on it. That's why I can call him or her an asshole... they already left. Yes, the occasional rss reader will click, but it's rare. If regular readers don't click then why does everyone push their rss feed? Simple, if you can manage to build your monthly traffic to over 20,000 visitors per month or so, you can tell AdSense to go fuck themselves and get a real affiliate program going and start making real money.

Hey, If MMO Guru's Are Full Of Shit... Who The Hell Am I?

I'm no guru of any kind, that's for sure. I make almost NO money off of my MMO sites. I make no promises that you can learn a God damn thing from reading my blog. I think my total AdSense revenue for my MMO channels was something like $35 last month. Worthless. So why do I waste my time, why am I writing this post? I'm not going to lie to you and say I'm trying to give back to the world. I'm not doing it out of the goodness of my heart. Sure there are a lot of people out there surfing the net and click on ads. There very well may be enough for everyone but I'm greedy and don't want to share! To be honest, I don't know why I still keep my MMO sites. Maybe it's the hope in the back of my mind. The hope that because of this amazing post I'll leap to the top of the serps and haul in $10,000 a month in AdSense revenue. Nope... never gonna happen. Maybe I want people to hear about my frustrations.. maybe I want to vent. Maybe I'm just not making enough money that I can throw away the 35 bucks. Who knows. Just do yourself a favor and don't waste your time on MMOs. Does this mean all of us would-be "pro bloggers" should give up? No!

What Did I Do?

I'm not going to lie and tell you I got rich from blogging. The truth is I started really blogging with the intentions of pulling a profit in October of 2007. My revenues have slowly risen each month and it's not from this MMO. Like I said previously in this post, MMOs provide you with a higher CTR and good paying ads. The only problem is this niche is already spread way too thin. I have several other sites and the CTR is half what it is on this site and the ads pay less than half per click . So why do I do it, why bother with such poorly paying niches? The reason is the competition, or lack there of. These smaller niches have no competion and there for can be dominated more easily. I pick a niche that hasn't been tapped or at least by someone trying to get to the top of the serps in order to make money. I do a little research on Google AdWords to see the average traffic for a certain keywords per month and how many ads are available. That's how I do it. I climb to the top of that niche and leech up all that traffic. In this game its all about your traffic volume. You get enough volume coming at you and it doesn't matter what you're selling, you'll make money. I haven't quit my job yet but let me tell you, I am well over the minimum pay out for AdSense every month and I love writing and creating new blogs. I never expected to make as much as I am and I've almost given up more times than I can count. It takes a long time to start bringing in real cash online. Don't give up and stay realistic. Dreaming is good. It keeps you motivated, but if your head is too far up in the clouds you won't get anywhere.

Thanks For Listening

I feel much better now that I've vented a bit. I hope that this post hasn't offended too much and maybe even helped some of you. Screw MMOs and MMO gurus. They are all full of shit. Try a smaller niche, experiment and if you really want to succeed... you will with a little work and patients. Never give up and never follow Make Money Online Gurus... you will never shine in someone's shadow.

Good Luck,

Kegnum

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Get Paid By Using SEO To Boost Your Adsense Earnings

I you're looking to boost the Adsense earnings from your site or blog and get paid online, the only way to achieve this is through search engine optimization or SEO for short. If you've never heard the term SEO, don't worry it won't take much to create a site that is completely optimized for search engines.

Why Do You Want To Optimize Your Site

There is a very simple answer to that question. Whether you created your blog as an artistic outlet or to get paid online, you like everyone else, want your hard work to be viewed and enjoyed by the world. When you first create a fresh blog you are a very small fish in a huge pond. Aside from telling all your friends and family, the only way to be noticed is through social sites and by being well ranked by search engines. Social sites are a terrible way to try and boost your Adsense income, I will explain exactly why later on in the post. Getting ranked well by search engines, especially Google.com, is the best way to get the most exposure to your site and the single best way to significantly boost your Adsense income and get paid online. When your site ranks well you will get continuous traffic from search engines. The best part is that you will be getting traffic directly targeted for what you site has to offer. When you use SEO to create your site you will also notice that the Adsense ads are more targeted too. What does this all mean. A) Increase targeted traffic + B) More targeted ads = C) Higher paying ads and a much higher CTR or click through ratio. Not only will a higher percentage of the visitors to your site be clicking on your ads but there will be a lot more of them.

Why You Will Not Get Paid Online Through Social Sites

When you use social sites like Digg or Stumbleupon to advertise your site you will not get paid. The reasoning behind that statement is, the people using social sites are like you and me. When was the last time you clicked on an Adsense ad. When you are looking for the best cure for a cold sore or the best new flat screen T.V.s do you look for them on Digg or do you search on a search engine? Even if you get a few click from social sites the clicks aren't considered targeted and you won't get paid as much for them. On the other hand if someone searches for cold sore remedies and comes to your cold sore remedy site and then click on an ad for cold sore ointment it is considered targeted traffic. That advertiser is getting exactly the kind of traffic they are looking for and will pay the highest price for it. If you use Adsense on your site and a certain percentage of your clicks come from untargeted traffic you run the risk of having your adsense account "smart priced" by Google. If your account is smart priced you will get lower paying ads and will get paid less per click for them. If you've noticed a lot of unrelated ads on your blog and your average click is lower than $0.25, there is a good chance you've been smart priced. Being smart priced will make getting paid a lot harder. If one of your sites or blogs is smart priced it will cause your entire Adsense account to be smart priced and you will not be getting paid very well on any of your sites. Don't panic, just remove the Adense ads from the sites that are causing the smart pricing and you should see an increase in the price of your clicks within a few days.

Optimizing Your Site To Get Paid

There are three rules I live by to optimize all of my sites. First of all, you must use keywords in all of your blog posts. Your sites address must contain your sites keywords. Your post titles must contain your sites keywords. Only use one post per page, this will help stabilize your Adsense ads and help you get indexed better with search engines. If you are concerned about readers being able to navigate through your site from post to post, just ad an archive widget towards the top of your site. The most important SEO rules that will contribute the most towards how well you rank and how much you will get paid is backlinks. That's right, backlinks, backlinks, backlinks. The more well anchored and related backlinks you have the higher you will rank. Anchored backlinks are simply links to your site from another site with your keywords as the "clickable" text. When I say related backlinks, what I mean is getting backlinks from a similar site. Money sites should try to get backlinks from money sites and news sites should try and get backlinks from news sites.

It may take some times but if you follow these steps you will see your site climb up in the search engine ranks and you will see an increase in traffic to your site. For more information on SEO Optimization and Keywords visit SEO Oprimization Now.

Good Luck Getting Paid Online,

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.

Just open this image in an other window to enlarge it.

Good luck monetizing your blogs!


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