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Saturday, April 24, 2010

AdBrite

AdBrite, Inc. is an online advertising firm based in San Francisco, California. It was founded by Philip J. Kaplan and Gidon Wise.

AdBrite serves ads on 112,009 sites, according to their published stats , and is the 10th largest ad network on the Internet, according to Media Metrix. Attributor survey ranked AdBrite as the 6th largest ad server in 2008 with a 2% share of the market.

AdBrite was originally founded as Marketbanker.com in 2002, and relaunched as AdBrite in 2004. AdBrite is backed by Sequoia Capital., Mitsui and DAG Ventures.

On February 12, 2008 the company launched Spottt.com, a link exchange that enables sites to promote each other for free.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Your own Affiliate Website

We have discussed different ways you can promote affiliate products through articles, blogs, forums, and PPC advertising. Now we will discuss having your own affiliate website.

Making an affiliate website is a very similar idea to everything we have discussed with affiliate marketing through articles and blogs. You need to have good content on your website with good information, and have your affiliate links in the body of the content or articles. Having your own website is a major advantage since you can choose your own domain name and promote it how you want.

You can have your own affiliate website created for you without you having to do a thing. There are several programs I recommend that will make one for you for a fee:

XsitePro.com – for $100 you can get your own website for affiliate products or to sell your own informational products. There is no need to know HTML programming at all.

SiteBuildIt.com – This site building program is a little expensive but it is the most popular one used. You don't need to know any HTML and it is very easy to use.

Adsense tips

What an easy way to make money. Here are some Adsense tips:

1. Choose an ad style which matches the background of your blog or website. This way, the visitor will think he is just clicking on a regular link on your site and not on an advertisement.

2. Place small pictures above the Adsense ads. It is a proven way of attracting clicks to the Adsense ads. So for my blog I found little Clip-Art images of cars and I placed them above my Adsense Ads. This can increase your click-through rate by more than 70%.

Google Adsense

No matter what kind of website you are making, a big money-maker is GoogleAsdsense. You'll remember that we discussed about PPC Advertising and Google Adwords. Well, those ads also appear on people websites because Google puts them there if the website owner wants to get a commission of the money Google makes from those Adwords. The Sponsored Google Ads which appear on websites are called Google Adsense ads. Here are picture shots of a few websites that utilize Adsense to make more money:

Illustration 1: theDietChannel.com

Illustration 2: www.Zillow.com

Google does not say how much money you make per click, but Google does say that the amount depends on the type of ads and the type of products.

All you need to do is sign up for Google Adsense which is free, and paste a code onto your website. Google will post advertisements on your website and you make money every time someone just CLICKS on an ad. It's so simple to use and you can choose the types of ads and the feel or design of the ads. To learn how to strategically place these ads on your website then click here. It would be a loss of income if you do not place these ads on your website. Please note that Yahoo also has a Sponsored Link program but Google is a lot easier to use and a lot more profitable since the bids on Google Adwords are much higher. Even though you might only get $.05 - $1 per click, it all adds up when you have hundreds or thousands of people visiting your site everyday. But PLEASE Caution: Do not click on the ads on your own site thinking you will make money for yourself! Google will catch you and you will never be able to join the program again! So join the program, make your money, and follow the rules.

A great tactic for money-making with Adsense is by purchasing PPC (Pay-per-click) ads directing to your website for cheap and getting visitors to click on the Adsense ads on your site which are more expensive. Let me explain. We have mentioned that purchasing PPC ads on Google costs more than by other PPC programs. These are the steps to take:

1. Place Adsense ads strategically in your blog or website.

2. Pay a cheap price for visitors by buying PPC ads from a cheap PPC program such as Miva.com.

3. Let's say you pay $.05 per click on Miva, then that customer will hopefully click on your Adsense ads on your website and you make $.20 - $1.00 since the ads being displayed on your site are from the expensive Google Adsense ads. So you pay 5 cents, for example, and make 20 cents. This is all automatic so it's very easy.

4. For example, I have a blog that talks about car-buying tips. I have Adsense ads placed in my blog. I have an ad campaign with Miva.com where I pay only 5 cents for each click. The ads are advertisements for my blog. When a visitor that clicked on my Miva ad comes to my blog and will most likely click on an Adsense ad, I make money on that click and it is most definitely more than $.05. Most of my Adsense ads generate for me about $.30 - $.50 per click on that topic of Car Buying Tips. This is due to the fact that advertisers are paying Big Money on Google Adwords (even more than $1 per click in many cases) and I get a commission from those clicks.

Ezine Advertising

Advertising on Ezines is one of the most successful ways of targeting your product to the people who are looking for it. Also known as a newsletter, an Ezine is an electronic magazine which is delivered to people who ask for it (subscribers) via email, blogs, or on web pages. The reason Ezines work so well is because they are delivered to a very targeted group of readers.

Now, wouldn't it be great to have your ad on the front of one of these Ezines which will be seen by hundreds and thousands of targeted readers!

Well, the way to find the right Ezine for your product and niche is by simply doing a search for it on the Internet Many websites provide Ezine subscriptions for their visitors and they offer advertisement opportunities on their Ezines.

To save the hassle of searching for Ezines to advertise on, I highly recommend the following program. It is called the Directory of Ezines and it costs $50. If you choose to advertise on Ezines and if you can afford it, then this is the program to buy. It helps you find the perfect Ezines to advertsie on for your product.

Infolinks

Infolinks presents the next generation of pay per click In Text Advertising, leading the industry with the most relevant contextual advertising links and the highest revenue share - guaranteed.

Quick and easy setup with no changes to your website

Ads are tightly integrated with your content - no additional space required

Free sign up with no commitments or risk

Pay per Click in Text advertising inserts text link advertisements within the content of your website, usually in the form of double-underline hyperlinks. Upon a hover of the mouse, a floating informational bubble opens with content from an advertiser. If clicked, the visitor is directed to the advertiser's landing page and you earn advertising revenue; otherwise, when the mouse is moved away from the hyperlink, the bubble disappears.

With Infolinks, you get complete control over the contextual In Text ads on your website - enabling you to optimize the user experience and maximize your revenues.

Once you've completed the basic 1 - Minute ad Integration process, you can easily customize and configure various parameters of the In Text ads, including the ads' graphic appearance, the number of ads per page, and the locations of ads across your website or within each page.

The Infolinks team will guide you through this customization process and enable you to easily change your Infolinks configurations at any time.

Write a Blog

One of the most fun ways to make money!

Writing a blog is so easy that it is a shame some people don't take advantage of this. It is literally a free website with decent templates and great potential for money-making success.

A blog is just a site where you can jot down your ideas, opinions, reviews of products, or just plain information. Pretty much Anything! This opens up a great venue for an affiliate marketer. I personally make lots of money with a couple of blogs I created and which I update about once a week. I spend no more than 2 hours per week on my blogs. You can make lots of money within a few days. Let's see how.

First, you would need to sign up at a blog site. Here are the top 3 blog sites to use and I will tell you why to use one or all of these 3.

www.Blogger.com

www.Wordpress.com

www.Technorati.com

The best one to use is Blogger since it is one of the highest ranking sites on the Internet and it is run by none other than, of course, Google. The advantage of Blogger is that it is constantly being spidered by the search engines, which means that any changes you make to your blog will be quickly detected by the search engines. The higher a site ranks then the more the search engines pay attention to it. However, the other two blog sites are good as well and have very nice templates and rank high as well.

Blogs can be fun if you will write about things that interest you. Think about anything that interests you and then find products or services which you can be an affiliate for that pertains to your blog. You can put links or reviews of your affiliate products and make money easily.

In the Post about creating a website we will discuss how to optimize your website or blog so that it will rank high for search engines. We will also discuss about where to find content for your blog if you are not someone who likes to type or write much.

By now you should have some understanding of how to make money as an affiliate. Hopefully, you are not overwhelmed. Though we discussed many ideas, keep in mind that if you are persistent there is no way you cannot make money with what we discussed until now. Once you start it off, after a month or two you should be able to only spend no more than one hour per day on your affiliate business.