Make Money Online

AdSense Optimization Tips from Google's AdSense Publisher Support Team

2009-07-22T21:58:00.004-07:00

Have you noticed that Google has recently posted a recording of one of their recent webinar called Taking It to the Next Level: Improving Your AdSense Performance in Google's official AdSense blog . The Webinar offers tips and suggestions on how to make the most money from AdSense. If you're are relying AdSense to make money online, you might want to look at it.

2 Legitimate Online Companies You can Work with to Make Money at Home

2009-07-22T21:58:00.003-07:00

I have read about Hirepoint.com and Customloyal.com in a forum. They are 2 legitimate online companies that provides home-based opportunities to people who want to make money online or at home. I'm not affiliated with any of these companies, just want to introduce them to you and hopefully they can help you make money.

Hirepoint.com
Althought the site address is Hirepoint.com but the company name actually is TeleTech Holding. It is a global company providing business process outsource services and work at home opportunities. The work at home job opportunities of TeleTech are available to people in US, UK and Australia. To work with Teletech, you first need to apply to become their accociate and then go through several selection processes before you're hired. There is no fee to apply. To learn more please go to http://www.hirepoint.com/index.html.

Custom Loyal Concepts
There has been many people working with Custom Loyal Concepts (CLC) as a call employee. CLC services newspaper subsribers in many different areas. As a call employee, you'll be making outbound call to CLC existing newspaper subscribers. It is not a cold calling. The pay starts at $7.00 per hour. All the positions are for US resident in 26 states only. There are minimum requirements to become a call employee of CLC. If you are interested, please click here for more details and find out the steps you need to take to apply for a post.

Auction Ads Doesn't Work on "Make Money Online" Niche

2009-07-22T21:58:00.001-07:00

I have tested Auctionads for 19 days in this blog. The result is quite disappointing. I Generated more than 10,000 impression/views in this blog with 185 ad clicks and got 3 new referrals. But only made 68 cent sales commission. 68 cent earning for over 10,000 impression and 185 ad clicks, what a poor result.

I noticed that the most of auction ads displayed on this blog are ebay ads offering 'how to' e-books teaching people to make money online. Well, no wonder the result is poor. This type of 'how to' e-books are very difficult to sell in ebay. There are plenty of ebay listings selling 'how to make money online' e-books on ebay but you hardly see a bid on these listings even though the starting bid is less than a dollar. So the 185 visitors I sent from my blog to ebay are viewing ebay auctions that offer 'make money online' ebooks for sell and 99% of them don't buy.

Besides that, I think Auctionads isn't working to niches related Internet marketing and home business also because people seldom buy products in these niches in ebay too.

However, Since auction ads are all about ebay listings that offer different types of products for sell with a picture of each product. So I guest Auctionads may be a good money maker for websites and blogs that talk about retail good such as electronic products, computers, cell phones, cameras, jewelry, video games and many more.

8 Benefits of Helping a Newbie to Make Money Online

2009-07-22T21:57:00.001-07:00

Do you remember when you just started to make money on the Internet? You probably had a lot of questions that need to be answered, difficulties and problems that have to be solved along the way. Wouldn't it be easier if someone willing to help you? When a beginner ask for your advice and help; you answer the beginner's questions and provide the right information to help the beginner solves his/her problems. You are likely to gain a number of benefits from doing that. Even if the newbies questions are beyond your knowledge to answer, you can still help them by pointing them to the right direction to get the info they needed. Below are eight possible benefits you could receive:

1. You will feel good knowing that you had a part in helping them build their business. You can sit back and say "I had a part in their success."

2. They may become one of your best friends. Most people can use new friends, even business owners. You may even become business partners and create a totally new business together.

3. You could end up being strategic business allies in the future. You could regularly do joint venture and cross promotion deals with each other.

4. They may help you out with your business. Maybe they will give you some testimonials or endorsements for your products or services.

5. You might gain some valuable referrals from them. They may also join your affiliate program and make sales for your business.

6. They might offer you some free advertising space on their web site or in their e-zine for your help. You could also exchange advertising with them.

7. You both could end up developing a new product or service together. The product or service could be a combination of your current ones.

8. They might purchase the products you sell and become one of your best customers. You could sell them many back end products or services in the future.

There are probably many other benefits you could get from helping a new online business owner. Always remember to help them out because it's the nice thing to do and not just to benefit your own business.

Money Making Opportunities (9th update)

2009-07-22T21:56:00.001-07:00

There are two opportunities in this update. One is quite unique and interesting.

TheNewsRoom.com
TheNewsRoom is an online news site that provides free access to hundreds of thousands of fully licensed news stories in a number of categories where webmasters and bloggers can publish them on their websites and blogs. Webmasters and bloggers who publish TheNewsRoom's stories will earn money every time a visitor view a news stories in their websites or blogs. All the content in TheNewsRoom are available to web publishers of all sizes, from large media organization to individual bloggers. TheNewsRoom doesn't mention their services are limited to US only, so I guest they are opened worldwide.

Three types of TheNewsRoom content you can displayed on your website or blog:

Video feed and story
Text story
Image

The pay on views of each type of content are different. See below.

	CPM When Viewed on Your Site	CPM When Viewed On Referred Site
Video Feed	$4.00	$1.00
Video Story	$3.00	$0.50
Text Story	$1.00	$0.50
Image	$1.00	$0.50

Sitepoint.com
If you write about content related to web design and Internet marketing, you're going to like this opportunity. Sitepoint is welcoming people to write for them. They pay at least $50 for a 1000 words or more article that publish on Sitepoint. Sitepoint is in the top 500 most visited website according to Alexa ranking and getting over 3 million visitors monthly. So publishing articles on Sitepoint not only will earn you cash but also possibly expose you to massive global audience.

Free Internet Marketing Resources to Help You Make Money Online - Jun 16 2007

2009-07-22T21:54:00.004-07:00

There are advertising tips and money making strategies you will find in the below resources links.

The Ultimate Super Tips
Harvey Segalan, an experienced online marketer has put all his viral ideas and tips in a PDF viral e-book called The Ultimate Super Tips to let people learn how to sell products online using viral marketing. The e-books can be downloaded without any sign up by visiting the above link.

Cashless Advertising
It is a report that shows you the ways to advertise your online business without spending a single cent. Learning some of them might help you save money in paid advertising.

The Internet Money Tree: 2nd Edition
Joel Comm has released The Internet Money Tree: 2nd Edition yesterday. You can right click the above link to download this e-book instantly. You'll discover ten ways that you can pull more money out of your website reading this e-book. He has good experience in the Internet marketing world, so, definitely he will share with you practical tips.

Google Webmaster Tool's New Feature - Report Paid Links

2009-07-22T21:54:00.003-07:00

A Little update on Google webmaster tool. Today when I login to Google webmaster tool, the first page I landed is an online form that any member of Google Webmaster Tool can use to report websites that buy page rank with paid links. Seem like Google is serious on paid links matter. This is a bad news to people who make money online selling paid links and link buyers. But fortunately, Google said it earlier that paid links reports from other people against your websites have no direct impact on your website ranking in Google but PR is likely to affected.

Beginner's Guide: 4 Things to Avoid When Making Money from a Website

2009-07-22T21:54:00.001-07:00

When you just started out a website to profit online with AdSense, affilite programs or your own developed products. It is important to know that there are certain things you should avoid doing them as they aren't working most of the time. And If you involve in these things, they could get yourself into trouble and causing you lose money.

First Thing to Avoid: Spamming
There are many types of spamming and the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam. Email spam happens when someone is sending an ad message to other email addresses (usually massive numbers of email addresses) that the receivers have not elected to receive email from the sender. Email spamming never works but still there are plenty of online business owners doing it without aware that it could ruin their reputation. Furthermore, spamming is illegal in US. If a person get caught, he or she will be fined.

Other type of spams to avoid include newsgroup and forum spam, spam in blogs, instance messaging spam and many more.

Second Thing to Avoid: Buying Traffic from Traffic Sellers
Have you came across websites promising a good amount of targeted traffic for a reasonably low price? Watch out these websites as most of them (if not all of them) didn't actually send you real visitors, they are using software to generate fake traffic. And buying these traffic can get your AdSense account banned by Google.

Third Thing to Avoid: Using Safelist Mailing Services
Safelist mailing service is a free or paid service that allow you to promote your business and website by emailing your ad message to a long list of opt-in email addresses without getting involved in spam complain. Many safelist mailing services are legal and ethical but unfortunately most of them aren't generating result. Most of the receivers don't open promotional emails as they have got too many promotional emails that they have not time to read all of them. Also they don't read email that they aren't interested.

Fourth Thing to Avoid: Buying Products that are too Good to be True
You may need to read some paid Internet marketing e-books and buy a number of tools and software for your online business growth. You search around the Internet to find the products you are looking for and then you read their online sales website, they claim that the products can skyrocket your traffic and earning within a short period of time. Wow...... sound too good to be true. You shouldn't take their words easily and buy from them immediately because there are many dishonest Internet marketing products sellers out there.

Before buying any product, it is always good to do some searches in search engines to find out other people comments and reviews on the product. This give you an idea of the quality and usefulness of the product and help you decide whether it's worth buying it.

The Video Traffic Assistance

2009-07-22T21:53:00.002-07:00

Just want to share with you a free online video marketing tool called 'Video Traffic Assistance'. As you know, videos are getting more useful in Internet marketing. They can be uploaded to video sharing sites and generating free traffic for your e-commerce sites and blogs. Traffic video assistance is a video submission tool that will make your video marketing campaign easier. The tool can submit your videos to 9 most popular visited video sharing sites by clicking a few buttons, save your a lot of hard works on typing and video sites navigating.

Affiliate KB $1,000 Giveaway Contest

2009-07-22T21:53:00.001-07:00

I just read about the $1,000 giveway contest in AffiliateKB.com. It is for bloggers and webmasters. Participants will earn points during the contest period and the highest points earner wins the $1,000 cash prize. Here's how the contest works:

- First you need to join affiliate program of Affiliate KB to participate the contest. It's free.

- Then you can start earning points to win.

- There are several ways to earn points:

5 Points - Earn 5 Points every time you get someone to read an article of Affiliate KB or visit Affiliate KB.
50 Points - Earn 50 Points every time a referral of yours signs up for the affiliate program of Affiliate KB.
50 Points - Earn an additional 50 points every time a referral of yours signs up for Affiliate KB newsletter.

The contest started at the beginning of June will run until June 30th. It is still not too late to join. Bloggers in affiliate marketing niche seem like have a good change to win as they can recommend the affiliate marketing articles of Affiliate KB in their blog to attract many visitors to read the articles in Affiliate KB and accumulate a lot of points.

4 Selling Techniques You can Use to Profit with Your Products

2009-07-22T21:52:00.003-07:00

The upsell Technique
Upselling is a selling method in which you offer a product or service to your customers and they buy it. Then the customers are given an opportunity to upgrade their purchase with another product. Software sellers and websites that offer membership subscription services often use upselling to market their products and services to make more profit online. Anti-spy software sellers are good example of using upselling method to push their products. Anti-spyware usually comes with 2 versions:

Free/trial version
Licensed version

Free version can be downloaded at no cost but with limited features. To enjoy full features, the users need to pay money to upgrade to licensed version.

The Back-End Technique
The back-end selling simply means the selling you do after the first sale. E-book and Information sellers like to use back-end selling method to earn more profit. If you often buy and read e-books related to Internet marketing niche, you find that these e-books frequently provide links enabling you to buy related products, that's back-end selling. Getting more sales from similar customers is possible if you have a quality product with a strong back-end.

The Firesale Technique
You may have seen this or heard of it before. This is when a company or seller has a massive sale at an extremely discounted price to move their products. Firesales is popular because of the great amount of profits being pulled in from them. It's not surprise to hear people say that they made thousands of dollars in just few days. That's the power of the Firesale. A good Firesale will offer high quality products for an insanely low price, with the price going up by any given percentage or dollar amount throughout the length of the sale. It builds like a fire! Until it's all over and it has burned out, or run it's course.

The Affiliate Technique
This is the most common selling technique and probably the cheapest method you can use to market your products and services online. By setting up your own free affiliate programs, you can recruit hundreds or thousands of affiliates to marketing your products and bring in new customers for you.

Money Making Opportunities (8th update)

2009-07-22T21:52:00.001-07:00

The below two opportunities are related to writing and editing.

Telecommuting-writing-jobs.com
Telecommuting Writing Jobs publishes newsletter daily. They need new articles to publish together with their newsletter daily. Anyone who can supply an article that fit the site's need will be paid a minimum of $15 via Paypal for the article's non-exclusive electronic rights. The site prefers articles related to freelancing which will benefit new and experienced writers, help writers enter into new markets and let people know the ways to make more money writing.

Webhostingherald.com
If you have experience and knowledge in web hosting and Internet marketing, the Webhostingherald's editor program might interest you. WebhostingHerald.Com is looking for new editors to keep providing unique and valueable content for the site.

The Areas of Responsibility of Editors
- Submit news and articles relevant to web hosting.
- Add more web hosts into WebhostingHerald's directory.

The Rewards of Editors
- $1 USD for every fresh GENUINE article approved and published
- $1 USD for every NEW web host added into our directory (including plans and profile)
- $0.20 USD for every fresh articles approved and published (taken from other sources)
- $0.20 USD for every news approved and published
- $0.20 USD for every web host updated and approved

Also editors will be entitled to enter WebhoatingHerald's $50 article of the week reward plus the $500 article of the month reward!

Viral Marketing Tips and Ideas

2009-07-22T21:51:00.003-07:00

Any marketing strategy that encourages people to pass on a marketing message voluntarily to others is viral marketing. A successful viral marketing campaign will spread your marketing message like virus and reach your marketing message to thousands, ten thousands or even hundred thousands of people. And as a result, it generates massive amount of traffic to your websites or blog and increase your products sales and AdSense revenue. Below are some of the tips and ideas that can help you start a viral marketing:

1. Write an e-book related to your products, website or blog. Make sure you have mentioned that your e-book is free to give away and included links to your sales website and blog in the content of the e-book. Upload the e-book to your site and blog to allow your visitors download it free. If your visitors find that your e-book is worth reading, then they might recommend your e-book to their friend, share with online communities by the posting link to download your e-book in forums and social networking websites. Thanks to your visitors help on spreading your e-books all over the Internet, you get a lot of free website and blog traffic. In addition of that, web publishers who always want to provide value to their visitors may recommend your e-books in their website and blog.

2. Write articles and publish them on your website and article directories with reprint rights that allow your readers to republish them in their websites, blogs, magazines, e-zines or newsletter. Each article should contain a resource box at the bottom promoting your website, blog, products or services that others must publish them if they reprint or republish your articles on other places.

3. If you experience a lot in web design. You may consider spending some time to create some website and blog templates, graphic, headers, etc. Upload them to your website and give away free to anyone interested. Like e-book, people who like you web design freebies will mention your download link in forums discussion, blogs and websites; and your website gain free exposure from that. Also make sure that you place a link back to your site in the copyright notice of each template and people who use them keep your copyright notice in tact.

4. A forum or other bulletin board can also be a great tool for viral marketing. You can build a forum for people to interact and discuss with each other. Grow your forum to become a favorite place for people to discuss and search for new info and your forum's members will start telling their friends and family to participate and interact with them in the forum.

Free Resources that are Helpful to Make Money Online - 10 Jun 2007

2009-07-22T21:51:00.001-07:00

It you need traffic tips or PLR resources, this post has what you want.

Traffic Surge
Traffic Surge is a new free e-book from Stephanie and Greg. The e-book talks about how to use articles to drive traffic from article directories to your website and blog. The book is helpful escpecially to beginners who want to learn how article marketing works. To download, please right click and save the above link.

Plrempire.com/plr
Another site offers free private label rights (PLR) products in Internet marketing niche. One thing special about PLRempire is all the PLRs of the free products are unrestricted. This mean you can do anything you want to the products after you downloaded.

Income.com/blog
John Reese, a leading Internet marketer has posted a video in his blog. The video is an excerpt from a keynote presentation John gave in February of this year at the StomperNet Live conference that was held in Orlando, Florida. It contains some important information about Internet marketing.

AdSense Sandbox 1.0

2009-07-22T21:49:00.000-07:00

When you have created a new website or web page and added in your AdSense code. Are you curious to know what kind of AdSense ads will appear in your website or page. Knowing what AdSense ads will display in your pages will help you do better in AdSense. You'll be able to filter out your competitors ads and ads that aren't highly targeted to your content which can lower your AdSense CTR.

But the question is how to find out what ads will display on your pages? Amit Agarwal has released a new tool for AdSense publisher called AdSense Sandbax 1.0. Test drive this Adsense tool at http://www.labnol.org/google-adsense-sandbox

It lets you enter your keywords and see what AdSense ads (Adsense content ads, AdSense links and image ads) will appear on your web pages for visitors in different countries. The tool is free and easy to use.

Blogging for Cash: Things You Should Know in Blog Marketing

2009-07-21T05:43:00.003-07:00

If you are making money from a blog, you are going to spend a lot of your time and effort in blog marketing to generate traffic and convert the traffic into AdSense and affiliate commission. Anyone that is familiar with blog marketing online knows that it takes dedication, hard work and consistency. For someone just starting out with their marketing campaign, it may seem like a little comlicated or no pay off to be seen right afterwards. However, just know that marketing is something that you have to build. You have to work on it and continue to market your blog.

There are many things that you can do to market your blog and get it out there to be seen by the world. One of the most important things is to visit other blogs that are relevant to yours and leave comments. Doing so gets your blog out there to readers of other’s blogs. And in return can get you some new visitors as well as readers. While all of this might seem confusing at first, after a while you will get the hang of it and it will make sense and fall in place.

Posting on your blog on a regular basis is another way to get new readers. Who wants to read a blog that is never even updated? Would you? Of course not! So give your readers what they want with new content and give it to them often. Post daily, weekly or bi weekly and be consistent about it. This way your readers and visitors will know how often to check your blog for a new post.

Know where your traffic is coming from. Know which search engines are directing people to your blog and which are not. Find out what keywords are bringing people to your blog as well. If you know all of this all ready, use it to your advantage. Write more content on the keywords that are working for you and monitor where you fall on the search engine pages that are sending visitors.

If someone leaves a question in the comment section of your blog, be sure to answer it. No one wants to have a conversation with themselves, and it will only take a brief moment to reply and let them know you appreciate them.

Make friends with other bloggers. Network with them and find out how they get so many visitors to their blog and what they do to keep them interested. Exchanging ideas with other bloggers that are successful is a great idea and a good way to make friends. If you want, you can even become friends with other bloggers offline as well. Use this to your advantage and do not just take from the conversation though, be sure that you share all of your blog marketing techniques as well with your new found blogging friends.

If you happen to be quoting an article from another source or blog, always be sure to provide a link back to the original. Other wise this is known as plagiarism and something that is looked down on in the world of marketing. Stealing someone else’s content is not legal actually. You will get caught if you try to say someone else’s work is your own of it is not. This is not a good way to start off in the blog marketing world as well.

Yahoo Search Marketing - Free $100 advertising Credit

2009-07-21T05:43:00.001-07:00

Yahoo is giving more sign up bonus to attract new advertisers to try Yahoo Search Marketing (YSM) advertising program. They offer free $100 pay-per-click credit this time to anyone opens a new sponsored search account. Here's the link to sign up and find out whether PPC traffic from Yahoo can generate more income for your online businesses, websites or blogs.

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com

You'll be charged $30 to open an account and $25 is refundable.

The Days of Stable Search Results in Google are Over?

2009-07-21T05:42:00.003-07:00

Google has changed their ranking algorithm lately and causing obvious fluctuation in search results. A number of websites and blogs are coincidently disappeared in top 10 when the change took place and some of them have sent back to their original position after a few days of the change. This has happened several times in the past 6 months I noticed.

Google Always struggle to help users to get the exact information that they are looking for when searching in Google and avoid anyone to be able to manipulate websites rankings. And Google has recently launched the 'Google Universal Search'. So I guest the recent Algorithm change is related to the new universal search and to meet their goals of providing quality services to the searchers worldwide.

The inconsistency of ranking algorithm is going to give more challenges and works to webmasters and bloggers when doing SEO and makes me a little worry that my blog will be the next one dropped by Google. In the past when someone has achieved top 10, the person can expect to see his/her website stay in top 10 for long period of time. But now, it seems that those days are over.

In my opinion if we want to play the Google SEO game now, we not only need to work hard on SEO to reach at the front page of Google but also continuous SEO effort to maintain top rankings that have achieved.

Also not to forget that content is still the king in Internet. So with relevant and unique content added on a regular basis, you give Google a reason to place your sites or blogs for long.

3 Tips To Create Profitable Online Business Ideas

2009-07-21T05:42:00.001-07:00

All Online businesses begin from ideas. With a good business idea in your mind, you successfully launched an online business. And then you need ideas for web promotion and marketing; solving problems, product development etc. Sometime, the difference between success and failure could be just one idea. So, personally I think that good and profitable business ideas are the foundation of a successful online business.

Now, let’s take a look at how we can generate profitable business ideas:

1. Communicating frequently with other e-entrepreneurs and business people can help you come up some ideas. There are a number of ways to meet and communicate with business people. Some of the ways are through discussion forums, chat rooms, seminars, trade shows etc. Sharing your business knowledge and experience, asking questions, and absorbing new information will stimulate your mind. Your brain will start to put all this information together to generate new business ideas.

2. Besides communicating with business people, reading business information like business books, reports, magazines, e-books, articles, journals, newspapers, e-zines, etc can also stimulate your mind. Your brain will create profitable business ideas by taking in and rearranging the information you have read on a regular basis.

3. If you don’t like to read? You could listen to business audio books, seminars and courses. Listen to them in the car, while you are doing house work, working in the yard, or exercising. Also, tune in business related radio stations. This will help you save time and generate profitable business ideas at the same time.

When you have absorbed a lot of business information, you brain may begin to generate ideas. You should write down in a notepad every time you get an idea so that you don't forget them.

Money Making Opportunities (7th Update)

2009-07-21T05:41:00.002-07:00

Dooyoo is an Internet platform providing consumers information and tips to help people make better decisions in purchasing products and services. Dooyoo has thousand of products and services in their databased divided into categories. You can become a free member of Dooyoo and write your own reviews on the products and services listed in Dooyoo. You'll earn money every time when another member reads and rates you review.

Pureprofile.com
Pureprofle allows anyone to make money by viewing offers and completing surveys. To get started in Pureprofile, you first need to sign up an account with pureprofile and create your own online profile. Then you'll receive business messages inviting you to view offers, complete surveys and earn money. Pureprofile only send business messages that fit your profile. Pureprofile is an Australia based company but they are open globally.

Free Internet Marketing Resources to Help You Make Money Online

2009-07-21T05:41:00.001-07:00

Check out the resource links below, you might find what you need for your online money making venture.

Acceleratemyebiz.com
The site offers free Internet marketing newsletter that teaches people how to build an online business and profit from the business using several Internet marketing strategies.

PLR Special Report
Jennifer Kirkpatrick has written a report with 9 step-by-step plans for profiting from private label right content. The report can be downloaded directly from the above link (right click and save).

Templatesbox.com
I like Templatesbox.com. It provides a lot free templates for website development like website templates, logo templates, banner templates, abstract images and much more. Take at look at this site if you are currently re-designing your site or building a brand new site.

Internet Marketing Program - Free Live Teleseminar

2009-07-21T05:40:00.004-07:00

Cody Moya from Freeinternetmarketingcourses.com has organized an Internet marketing teleseminar to be held on friday 9.30 EST. He is inviting anyone to sign up the teleseminar at
http://secretsofinternetmarketingmasters.com. The teleseminar will tell you how 13 Internet millionaires make a fortune on the Internet using the effective Internet marketing strategies. If you want to listen and learn the techniques and strategies from this 13 experts. Sign up for a seat now.

Bid4prizes.com - Too good to be true?

2009-07-21T05:40:00.003-07:00

I came across Bid4prizes.com when surfing the net. The site allows people to enter into bidding games to win great prizes such as car, motorcycle, watches, electronic products and many other lucrative prizes. And the best part of Bid4prizes's auction games is that, the person with the lowest unique bid will win the prize of an auction. Doesn't these sound too good to be true?

To find out whether Biz4prizes.com is real or not. I went to Google and did some searches. I didn't found any scam complaints on Biz4prizes. Biz4prizes is actually owned by New Motion Inc, a digital entertainment company that specializes in products for mobile phones and making a net sales of $18.7 million in 2006. Biz4prizes also posted a list of testimonies of the winners recorded in audio. So I conclude Biz4prizes is real.

How Bid4prizes Works?
There are many auctions running in Bid4prizes and each auction has a prize. Member look for the prize he/she like then bid in the auction to win the prize.

- Member with the lowest unique bid in the auction win the prize. What is lowest unique bid? Here's an example to help you understand.

- Let say there are 10 persons bidding for a TV in an auction and the bids result are:

Bids
$1 - 2 persons
$3 - 1 person
$4 - 3 persons
$5 - 1 person
$7 - 3 persons

$1 is the lowest bids but not unique because there are more 2 persons, $5 is unique but not the lowest. The $3 bid is the one that match the criteria "unique and lowest". So the person with the $3 bid win the prize.

- Bid start $0.01 and each member can only bid up to 20 times daily.

Bid4prizes accepts US residents only
The bidding games open only to US people only. This to me is a downside of bid4prizes.

Tips for Selecting a Good Affiliate Program to Promote

2009-07-21T05:40:00.001-07:00

Your success in affiliate marketing part depend on the kinds of affiliate programs your are marketing.To make your affiliate marketing campaign works, you obviously need to participate in an affiliate program that offers worthy and quality products. Below are some tips that can help you choose an affiliate program that is good for you:

1. Affiliate programs that are associated with many experts in that particular niche usually are in certain level of standard and quality. Joining one of these programs will assure you that the products of the program you will be promoting are in good standard.

2. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Ask question. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.

3. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.

4. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.

5. Ask for program recommendations in the community forum of your niche. The experienced marketers who see your question may recommend you the reliable programs they have success with. Other things you can ask about are like is the program offers a real and viable product? Does the program provide a lot of free tools and resources helpful to affiliate? and any other questions you think are essential.

Auctionads Can be Used Together with Google AdSense

2009-07-21T05:39:00.002-07:00

Auctionads has been introduced and recommended by a number of well known bloggers and Internet marketers, but I never intend to try Auction ads because I thought that it was against Google's AdSense policies to use Auctionads and AdSense on the same webpage. But I found that I was wrong after reading John Reese's blog at http://www.income.com/blog. John Reese told that:

Auctionads doesn’t conflict with the AdSense Terms Of Service so it’s okay to use it on a page where you might already be running AdSense.

The above statement really delight me. I have gone ahead to sign up with Auctionads and placed the Auction ads at the right sidebar of this blog to see whether they can generate extra income for me.

Auctionads is likely to increase online revenue for webmasters and bloggers. So if you have not try Auctionsads yet, I suggest you create an account with auctionads and start testing it.

AdSenseigg.com - A New Social Bookmarking Website Sharing AdSense Revenue

2009-07-21T05:39:00.001-07:00

I received emails from the owner of Senserely.com last week informing me that he has started a DIGG-like website called AdSenseigg. I then visited AdSenseigg, it just like Digg.com, anyone can sign up as a user to post their favorite news stories in a vast array of topics. And the site allows users to display their AdSense on all their news pages to make money with AdSense.

I have seen a number of Digg-like websites closed down because of lacking of traffic. I think this one will not end up the same way as the site offers a 50/50 AdSense sharing programs.

AdSense sharing seems to be working in large traffic site or blog. I previously have signed up an AdSense sharing program in Worldvillage Blog. The blog gets 3k visitors every day. I contributed about 15 articles to the blog about 7 months ago and the articles earn me nearly $30 AdSense every month. If AdSenseigg can become another popular social bookmarking website, the users who share AdSense may be able to rely on AdSenseigg for additional source of online income.

8 Things You Can Do To Attract Visitors Return Back To Your Website

2009-07-21T05:38:00.004-07:00

You have spend a lot of energy and time to drive targeted visitors to your website. And as a result, you get a good amount of website's visitors daily. But later you discover that most of the visitors don't come back to your website and then you are thinking about how to attract visitors return to your website often.

If you are selling something, each visitor to your site is a potential customer. They don't buy on their first visit but they might decide to buy from you on their second or third visits. If you are monetize your website or blog with AdSense, CPA ads, CPM ads or affiliate programs; getting a good percentage of returned visitors will definitely help maintaining and increasing your traffic level and your website revenue.

So how to make sure many of your visitors come back to your site time and time again? Here are some of things you can do:

1) Add new and fresh content to your site frequently. You can have a section on your home page like 'What's New', 'What's Top' or 'What's Hot' section and update this section on a daily basis. This give your targeted visitors a reason to visit your site again.

2) Offer freebies. You can create a section in your website to allow your targeted visitors to download free e-books, reports, tools and software they are interested in.

3) Add a Community forum to your website. Many website visitors like communication and discussion. You forum can be a place for visitors to come back often to participate in discussion and search for new info.

4) Install an article directory to your website to publish the latest articles of your niche. People who like to read may return to your site to find new articles.

5) Create a classified section to let visitors to post free ads. This can be a way to maintain your traffic level.

6) Optimize your website or template for faster speed of navigation. Many people don't like to wait too long for a website to load up. So the faster you can make your pages load up, the better chance your visitor will stay on your website and also return.

7) Offer free entertainment. You can add games, interesting video and audio to your website. To keep your visitors return often, you need to update your games (add new game), video and audio content on a regular basis.

8) Add a guest book. Visitors will come to your site and leave their comment about your business and website and to list their signature file.

Free Internet Marketing Resources to Help You Make Money Online

2009-07-21T05:38:00.003-07:00

Why buy e-book or report when you can get them for free. Below are three resource links that may provide the money making information you are looking for.

Blogforfunandprofit.com Newsletter
You'll learn how to start a blog from scratch to promoting the blog and generate Google AdSense and affliate commission from Blogforfunandprofit 10 days newsletter.

Foragreatercause.org
Steven Pierce, a successful Internet marketer is currently raising fund to help feeding starving children around the world. He has created a free success report (the report shows you how Steven went from being broke to earning millions of dollars online and how you can do the same). The report is free and for every person that download this report, Steven will donate a plate of food to Feed The Children on your behalf.

Privatelabelpack.com
The site, Privatelabelpack.com is currently offering free access to a private label package. The package includes the following private label rights (PLR) products:

Software with PLRs
ebook with PLRs
Article with PLRs
Photoshop hearder templates

The products may be useful for your website marketing and they can be modified in any ways you like to fit your need.

Money Making Opportunities (6th Update)

2009-07-21T05:38:00.001-07:00

This is the 6th time I update money making programs. Hope all the previous posts and this post really help.

Loudlaunch.com
If you like to make money from your blogs by posting sponsor posts, you may be interested to join Loudlaunch network. Loudlaunch is same as Payperpost.com, they pay bloggers to write blog entries related to advertisers products, services and websites. Loudlauch issue payment to bloggers every 30 days. The bloggers requirement are:

* 18 years or older
* Verifiable Paypal Account
* Verifiable 2 month old blog
* Verifiable readership
* Basic knowledge of HTML

Qwickly.com
Qwickly is inviting people to become editors of their community. Editors will be responsible to write the entries which will then read, rated and discussed by the Qwickly's community. There is a long list of topic categories in Qwickly, Editors can choose to write entries for the categories they are expert at. Each entry must be between 150 to 200 words. Editors will keep 80% of the revenue generated by their entries.

What are Best Niches for AdSense Sites?

2009-07-21T05:37:00.002-07:00

People who make money from AdSense with a content-based website always ask this question - What are best niches for adsense sites? Joel has just posted a video in his blog, askjoelcomm.com to answer this question.

Joel told that the best niches for AdSense is the niches you have experience or knowledge in, the niches that you are passionate about. I 100% agree that. Since Google emphasizes that AdSense is for content. To make money with AdSense, you should work out a website that people want to visit, with content that people want to read. To build a good content-based sites you must be passionate about or interested to the topics of your website, then only you can write out quality and useful content that visitors want to read.

The best niches obviously are not the niches that pay the highest AdSense pay-per-click. If you build sites based on selective high pay AdSense PPC keywords, they might make you some money in the first few months but they will not work for long term as you'll get bored on those sites easily. Moreover, AdSense arbitrage and MFA sites that provide little content are no allowed by Google. This certainly leads to making money with high pay keyword niche AdSense sites much more difficult.

An Introduction to the Different Types of Affiliate Programs

2009-07-21T05:37:00.001-07:00

Today, affiliate marketing programs is seen as one of the most important methods by online companies and merchants to market their products and services because implementing an affiliate program doesn't cost much money and it helps generate a consistent stream of online profit.

On the other hand, the affiliates see affiliate marketing as a feasible and low cost method to make online online by promoting other people products using a website or without a website (using Google AdWords PPC advertising program).

There are many affiliate programs on the Internet and not all of them are similar. The most basic affiliate programs fall into 3 categories:

Pay Per Performance
Pay Per click
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs

Pay Per Performance
Pay per performance (PPP) affiliate programs are what most companies and online merchants likes to use. The companies only need to pay when an affiliate referral translates into an action. The action can be a purchase or a lead. The affiliates will spend their own money to promote the affiliated company's products, This save a lot of money for the company. PPP affiliate programs can be futher classified into 2 sub-categories:

Pay Per Sale (PPS) The title says it all. The company only pays the affiliate when a visitor referred by the affiliate make a purchase.
Pay Per Lead (PPL) PPL is a little different to PPS. PPL affiliate programs usually used by finance and insurance companies. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate will be paid a fixed commission whenever a visitor referred by him/her to the merchant's website requested a quote or filled up an online application form.

Pay Per Click (PPC) Affiliate Programs
PPC affiliate programs are most popular. You should have heard them a lot. PPC programs are probably the easiest way for web publishers to make money from their websites and blogs. The affiliate gets paid a certain amount ($0.05 to $0.50 usually) whenever a visitor click a banner or text ad displaying on the affiliate's website. PPC typically used by contextual advertising companies like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Networks and much more.

Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
In this type of programs, the affiliate not only compensated for every customer referred to the merchant's website, the affiliate is also paid whenever the referred customer returns to the site and buy another product.

The different types of affiliate marketing programs would deffinitely work differently for merchants and affiliates, and each would have their own advantages and drawbacks. To find out which types of programs work best for you, you'll have to know which one of them suit your need and characteristic most. And then start testing them.

Google Disallows AdSense Arbitrage

2009-07-21T05:36:00.002-07:00

You may have heard a lot about Google bans AdSense accounts for the reason of invalid ad clicks previously. And now Google is taking a further step to close AdSense publishers accounts if Google thinks that the AdSense publishers websites aren't suitable to their AdSense content network. A number of AdSense publishers has reported that they received emails from Google stating that they have an unsuitable business model and their AdSense account will be disabled within 2 weeks. This is a shocking news to me. The affected AdSense publishers will not lose any AdSense revenue as Google will pay all the earning the publishers have earned.

So far there is only emails communication with the involved AdSense published, Google has not officially announced about this matter.

All those affected publishers are either doing AdSense Arbitrage or building sites that are specially for AdSense (MFA sites). AdSense arbitrage means getting traffic/visitors from Google Adwords PPC advertising program to AdSense websites in order to generate AdSense revenue. It is a fast way to make money from AdSense. For 'made for AdSense' (MFA) sites, I think Google is targeting to close MFA sites that are lacking of content.

It seems that fast and easy money cannot be found in AdSense anymore. To work with AdSense for long term, you must provide unique and helpful content to your targeted visitors on your website. Google has said that AdSense is for content. They want to display their AdSense ads on websites with relevant content not websites offer little content and give no value to visitors.

Free Resources to Help You Make Money Online

2009-07-21T05:36:00.001-07:00

Keep learning from those free info and you will be become more effective when it comes to making money online. Three more resource links added in this post.

AskJoelComm.com
Joel Comm is a successful Internet marketing expert. He often receive questions from people asking how to make money online. So he created a video blog called Askjoelcomm.com to answer as many questions as possible. Currently Joel has posted several video tutorials about making money on the net in his Askjoelcomm.com.

Internet-success-system.com
The site's owner, Mark Hendricks has uploaded a teleconference recording you can download and listen to learn how to succeed in affiliate marketing.

Sonicmemolite.com
Jay Jenning is teaching people in http://sonicmemolite.com how to implement streaming audio on an e-commerce website without monthly fee and without requiring a special server. The benefit of adding an audio to a e-commerce site is it helps increase sale.

8 Low Cost Methods to Promote Your Website and Blog Offline

2009-07-21T05:35:00.001-07:00

1. Have a bumper sticker printed up with your web site address and other business information. Place it on the bumper of your car. People will see it when you're driving.

2. Have some t-shirts made with your web site address and other business information. Your family or friends could wear them almost anywhere.

3. Have some ball caps made with your web site address and other business information. Wear them to keep the sun out of your eyes and promote your business at the same time.

4. Have some business cards printed up with your web site address and other business information. Pass them out to people you meet or that might be
interested in your business.

5. Have a magnetic sign made with your web site address and other business information. Place it on your car door or roof when you are traveling.

6. Have some flyers printed out with your web site address and other business information. Keep a few with you to hang on bulletin boards you see.

7. Have some jackets printed with your web site address and other business information. Give
them away to family and friends. When it's too cold for t-shirts, you can wear jackets.

8. Have some mugs imprinted with your web site address and other business information. Use them when you have company or give them away to friends and family as gifts.

Guide to Becoming a Virtual Assistance and Make Money at Home

2009-07-21T05:34:00.000-07:00

A virtual assistance is a home-based entrepreneur or worker that provides business services to companies and enterprises. The services provided by virtual assistants include but not limited to:

Web design and Internet marketing
Database management
Data entry
Admin support
Customer services (respond to phone call, reply to email inquiries and, etc)
Organizing meetings
Medical and legal transcription
Writing, editing, translation and proofreading
Accounting services (bookkeeping, P & L and cash flow statement)
Secretarial services
Event planning
Mailing services

Virtual assistances are not employees of the companies they work for. They are independent contractors that provide business supports to companies using their own equipments such as telephone, computers, printer, scanner and fax machine. Virtual assistance usually are paid on hourly basis. The pay rate is anywhere between $5 to $50 per hour depending on the types of works you are handling and your qualifications.

Anyone who has working experience can become virtual assistance and high qualification is an added advantage. Finding virtual assistance job opportunities isn't difficult. You can start by searching on online job websites. Here are 2 websites that contain virtual assistance working opportunities:

Virtualassistantjobs.com/jobs.html - A staffing and recruiting firm that frequently need US virtual assistants (VA) to fill in the VA positions from their clients. It is free to get access to their VA jobs list.

Guru.com - Employers post jobs, VA vacancies and projects that they need assistance. Anyone can sign up as a service provider of guru.com to bid on the freelance & VA jobs, and projects. VA job offers mostly are targeted to US and Canada only. Freelance assignments and projects available to people around the world.

Money Making Opportunities (5th Update)

2009-07-15T23:47:00.001-07:00

I like to introduced you two more sites that will help you earn money online.

Zlio.com
Zlio is for anyone who wants to make money online with an online shop. They allow registered users to choose from an extensive catalogue of thousands of products and create their personal online shop. Users can promote their Zlio shop and share revenue for each sales generated from their Zlio shop.

Spotajob.com
This is an opportunity to make money by helping people get a job in Spotajob.com. Spotajob.com has a list of job openings posted by different companies. The companies offer a reward to the person who refers the winning candidate. You can join spotajob.com and refer candidates to any vacancies. When a candidate is hired, you receive the reward.

How to Get Low Cost Pay-per-click (PPC) Traffic for Your Money Making Website

2009-07-15T23:46:00.001-07:00

Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing are the Pay-per-click (PPC) adverising programs that can bring instant targeted traffic which can be converted into AdSense revenue and affiliate commission. But this 2 PPC advertising programs are crowded with tons of advertisers and thus making pay-per-click cost expensive. So how to get cheap PPC traffic? The solution is simple, look for an alternative of Google and Yahoo that has small advertiser network. Here's are some of the alternatives that can offer lower pay-per-click advertising cost:

Bidvertiser.com
Bidvertiser is the first pay-per-click advertising program I use when I first launched my content-based website one year ago. It brought me over one hundred targeted visitors daily with an average cost of $0.07 per visitor. And with the traffic from Bidvertiser, I made about a net profit of $10 AdSense daily (Daily AdSense Earning minus daily Bidvertiser Cost). But it doesn't last long, I only make profit in the first six months advertising in Bidvertiser's network. I'm not sure the reason, may be my site has get too much exposure in Bidvertiser's network of sites and getting only repeat visitors that aren't converting.

If you just started making money from a website or haven't try PPC adverising program yet, you may consider testing drive Bidvertiser. Bidvertiser has a huge nembers of websites in their network. The websites are divided into a list of categories. Advertisers can choose to display their contextual ads in any categories and bid for the amount they willing to pay per visitor sends to their websites.

Some Tips for Using Bidvertiser

Don't just advertise in the categories related to your site only, try also other unrelated categories for more traffic.
Set your bid below $0.10.
Set Your daily budget less than $10.
Results are not guaranteed, If it isn't work for the first few days, then you should stop using it.

BidClix.com
Another pay-per-click advertising company that works much the same as Bidvertiser. But the cost to advertise is a little higher. You need to pay between $0.10 to $0.20 per visitor. I have tried Bidclix.com for several weeks, it also help me in increasing my AdSense revenue.

Searchfeed.com
I have not yet set up a campaign in searchfeed, but I think searchfeed can bring low cost targeted traffic too. Seachfeed is my next PPC advertising network I'll use when I out of traffic.

Get an Easy Backlink from Somewhereoverthedebt.com

2009-07-15T23:45:00.004-07:00

Sarah has organized a contest in her blog Somewhereoverthedebt.com that will give backlink to the participants. To enter the contest please visit http://www.somewhereoverthedebt.com.

Her blog is about finding ways to make money online and living life on your own terms. She will give away a copy of the book, “The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense” written by Joel Comm to the contest winner. She will post all the participants links in her blog on Jun 1st.

Cody Moya's Free Gift

2009-07-15T23:45:00.003-07:00

I just informed by Cody Moya from www.codymoya.com that he has a collection of over 120 hours of MP3 audio files featuring today's successful and well-known Internet marketers (who are consistently making big money online) spilling their gut and telling some of their success secrets. Cody has uploaded these audio files to his website to allow anyone interested to gain free access to these audio files. The marketing experts you can listen to in these 120+ audio files are John Reese, Derek Gehl, Armand Morin, Yanik Silver......just to name a few.

Visit http://www.secretsofelitemarketers.com to gain free access to the all audio training of the top Internet marketing gurus.

Google Devalues Paid Links

2009-07-15T23:45:00.001-07:00

After reading about the paid links issue in Matt Cutts blog and Digitalpoint Forum. It seems that paid links will no longer useful for Google SEO in the future as Google is going to change their ranking algorithm to make sure that paid backlinks will have not effect to Google ranking. Google now tries to figure out how to separate paid links from natural links and they also allow anyone to report paid links to help them distinguish paid links and natural links.

Furthermore, Google will take action against on websites that contains a lot of paid links. And for websites and bloggers that sell text links, here's what Matt Cutts, Head of Google's webspam team advices:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links
" If you want to sell a link, you should at least provide machine-readable disclosure for paid links by making your link in a way that doesn’t affect search engines. There’s a ton of ways to do that. For example, you could make a paid link go through a redirect where the redirect url is robot’ed out using robots.txt. You could also use the rel=nofollow attribute."

Google will make SEO harder. If you frequently buy paid links to boost your Google ranking and PR, I think you should stop now to avoid your site or blog penalized by Google.

Payments to webmasters and bloggers for a text link appears on their sites and blogs are definitely considered as paid links. For paid directory listings, there are still no clear specifications whether they are seen as paid links. In my opinion, they will not be considered as paid links since Google and Yahoo also have their own directories accepting paid listings. Can we report them paid links? For blog sponsor posts from reviewme.com and Payperpost.com, they are likely to be treated as paid links as well since one of the goals of Google is to stop people from using unnatural backlinks that can artificially boost up their websites ranking. The devaluation of paid links by Google will sure affect the ways webmasters make money online in the future.

To get traffic from Google and make money from your website and blog, I think the best ways now is to make sure the majority of your links are natural, continue to grow natural and relevant inbound links and update your website or blog often with unique and useful content.

Learn Affiliate Marketing from Chris Carpenter

2009-07-15T23:44:00.001-07:00

Chris Carpenter, author of Google Cash has released his first free special report. The report contains information about the latest techniques and tools you can use to create a successful affiliate campaign. To download this report please visit Google Cash Report.

Chris will show you:

An affiliate campaign you can follow and use to make money online promoting affiliate products.
How to automate your affiliate business.
Two Case Studies - How two beginners make money with affiliate programs using Chris's affiliate marketing system.

7 Ways to Make Money Online Without Involving Internet Marketing

2009-07-15T23:43:00.002-07:00

There are plenty of ways of making money on the net without requiring Internet marketing knowledge and I have introduced a number of them in the previous posts of this blog. For easier searching, I decided to combine them into this post. Here are them:

Work Online for Others
Guru.com and Elance.com are freelance marketplaces with tons of online job opportunities. Getting an online job through freelance marketplace is similar to getting an offline job, it involves competitions. You search for an online job that is right for you in freelance site, then you bid for the job. If your bid is the lowest, the employer will usually award the job to you.

Another site offers online job opportunities is Clicknwork.com. Unlike freelance marketplaces, there are no bidding competitions involved. They will assign the work to you. But to become their home-based professionals or workers, you must pass a difficult test.

Submit Articles for Cash
If you are passionate about writing, you may submit your articles to the below sites for publication and earn cash for each article published:

Developershep.com/writers.php - Accept articles related to web development and Internet marketing.
Associatedcontent.com (AC) - You become their member and submit articles in wide array of topics for payment consideration. Available to US only.
Newsforge - Pay $100 to $300 for each article about Linux, open source and free software.

Try Companies Offers
The concepts are simple. You join a website that contains a list of offers you can sign up or try. For each offer completed and approved, you'll be credited an amount of money into your account. Most of the offers available to US residents only. Treasuretrooper.com is one of the programs allows you to earn by completing offers.

Submit Photos and Images to Photo Agencies
Web designers, magazines and press need new photos and images often. They will look for photo marketplaces and agencies to buy photos that fit their need. You can submit your photos and images to these agencies and they will sell the photo and images for you. Below are some of the photo agencies:

www.dreamstime.com/sell
http://submit.shutterstock.com
www.scoopt.com

Write Products Reviews
Have something to say about the products and services you have used? Send your product comment to products reviews websites. If they decide to publish your review, you'll be paid.

Softwarejudge.com - Reviews software and online games.
Reviewstream.com - Plenty of product categories to review.

Be a Paid Bloggers
Here are the blog networks you can apply for a blogging position:

www.creative-weblogging.com
www.b5media.com/jobs
www.knowmoremedia.com/write-for-us.html

Upload Videos
Large video sharing websites like Metacafe and Break willing to pay people for uploading interesting videos such as funny, amazing and entertaining videos. You can earn hundreds to thousands of dollar, if your original video attracted tons of views in these video sites.

New Website Links to Free Resources and Tools

2009-07-15T23:43:00.001-07:00

Here are some freebies released last week that can help you make money online:

117softwaregoodies.com
A website called 117softwaregoodies.com giving away hundreds of free software that can enhance your online business performance. This software give away program only available for four weeks only. It ends on Jun 13th 2007.

Niche Empire Generator
Niche Empire Generator is a Blog building tool created by Andrew Hansen. The tool allows you to create, promote and manage your nich blog more easier and quicker.

Adsense Inner Circle
Another new AdSense membership site like AdSensegirl.com. Inside the AdSense Inner Circle, you'll find tips and AdSense techniques to increase your AdSense earning. For beginners and AdSense publishers that need some advice on AdSense.

6 Ways to Grow Your Opt-in List

2009-07-15T23:42:00.003-07:00

Whether you are promoting affiliate products or selling your own products online, building an opt-in email list is very benefitial to your online business. Research show that many visitors don't buy in their first time visit on e-commerce websites. Is is essential to collect their email addresses to follow up with them. You can collect a list of email addresses of your targeted visitors/audiences by adding a web form into your sales website where visitors can fill out the web form to sign up your e-zine or newsletter. With an opt-in list, you can keep in touch with your targeted audience by sending them newsletter, helpful information, tips, tutorial and promotion to entice them to purchase your products.

The greater your opt-in email list, the more sales you will generate and the more money you will make online. Below are some of the ways you can use to grow your list effectively:

1) Offer freebies. Mention in your opt-in form that your visitors will receive free e-books, report or tools if they subscribe your newsletters or e-zine. The subject of your e-book or report should be related to your targeted visitors.

2) Create a series of e-courses of your visitors interest and invite them to sign up the e-cources by filling out a web form in your website.

3) Run a contest or sweeptakes on your website. Request your visitors to provide their name and email addresses to participate.

4) If you have a membership site, you can offer your visitors a free access to your membership site if they sign up your newsletter or ezine.

5) Offer free ads. You can set up a free classified section on your site. Anyone want to post free ads must give their contact information to you first. Or offer your visitors free advertisement in your ezine if they subscribe your newsletter.

6) Publish testimonials from your current subscriber to encourage more people to join your newsletters or e-zine. You don't need to publish the testimonials in your home page. What you can do is add a text link like "Click Here to Read the Testimonials of Our Current Subscribers" just below your opt-in form in your home page. When your visitors click the text link, they will be sent to a page that contains all you subscribers testimonials.

Increase AdSense Earning Using Competitive Ad Filter Provided by Google

2009-07-15T23:42:00.001-07:00

Using AdSense ad filter to block the low cost-per-click (CPC) AdSense ads of most of the relevant keywords of a website and let high CPC AdSense ads display more often to earn more AdSense revenue isn't a new idea actually. It has been mentioned years ago. Many webmasters and bloggers don't like to filter low CPC AdSense ads as it involves works and time to manually compile a list of low CPC AdSenses.

However, recently some bloggers have suggested using AdSBlacklist to automatically find a list of low CPC ads for you. AdSBlacklist is a free software and anyone can try it. I still don't have the time to test AdSBlacklist. So I don't know whether it works in increasing AdSense commission or not. But logically if AdSBlacklist can find a list of low CPC ads that are potentially displaying on your site or blog and you block these low CPC ads, then your AdSense income should increase.

Make Money from a Website Starts from Good Planning of Website Design

2009-07-15T23:41:00.003-07:00

For anything to work well, care must be taken to make firm, workable plans to execute it and the same goes for website designs. With a well thought out website design, you will be able to create a site that generates multiple streams of revenue for you. In fact, may websites turn into online wasteland because they are not well planned and do not get much visitors. Gradually, the webmaster will not be motivated to update it anymore and it turns into wasted cyberspace.

The crucial point of planning your site is optimizing it for revenue if you want to gain any income from the site. Divide your site into major blocks, ordered by themes, and start building new pages and subsections in those blocks. For example, you might have a "food" section, an "accomodation" section and an "entertainment" section for a tourism site. You can then write and publish relevant articles in the respective sections to attract a stream of traffic that comes looking for further information.

When you have a broader, better-defined scope of themes for your website, you can sell space on your pages to people interested in advertising on your page. You can also earn from programs like Google's Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing if people surf to those themed pages and click on the ads. For this very reason, the advertisement blocks on your pages need to be relevant to the content, so a themed page fits that criteria perfectly.

As Internet becomes more widespread, advertising on the Internet will bear more results than on magazines or offline media. Hence, start tapping in on this lucrative stream of profit right away!

Money Making Opportunities (4th Update)

2009-07-15T23:41:00.001-07:00

Some reliable programs I have found for you:

Job-a-Matic
Job-A-Matic is an alternative of Google AdSense. It offers webmasters and bloggers an opportunity to generate online revenue by adding paid job listings on websites and blogs. There are 2 ways to make money with Job-A-Matic:

1) Sell Job listings to employers
You charge employers a fee for placing job ads/listings on your site and share with Job-A-Matic on all the revenue earned from selling job listings at 50:50 basis.

2) Earn Click Commission Displaying Job-A-Matic's Job Listings
Job-A-Matic has a job datebase called Simply Hired's database containing more than 5 million job offers. You can choose to display Simply Hired's database job listings and earn 30% of the revenue generated from visitors clicks on the paid job listings of Simply Hire's Database.

You are allowed to use both on your website or blog. Minumum payout is high. You need to reach $500 to request a check payment. But Job-A-Matic states that if you can get companies to advertise job offers on your site or blog, charging them $100 to $200 per listing is fairly standard.

Know More Media
Know More Media is looking for people to contribute to their open business blogs. The topic of the blogs include:

Automotive
Construction
Customer Service
Finance/Banking
International Business
Real Estate
Sales/Marketing

The requirements of the blogging positions are a little strict:

- The author must be passionate about the topic.
- The author must be an expert on his/her topic.
- Good writing skill.
- Unique voice. You need to have a singular, identifiable voice that people want to listen to.

They didn't mention about the pay. But I think the pay must be good.

5 Benefits of Adding a Community Forum to Your E-commerce Website

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1. The forum will be used as a tool to communicate with your visitors frequently and closely. You could use the forum to start an online class, provide free tutorial and tips, and respond to your visitors inquiries. This way, your visitors will begin to trust you and as a result these visitors may start trying your products or services and you make more profit.

2. If your forum has become a popular place for discussion of a niche topic, then many people will often come back to your site’s forum and participate on discussions. You’ll gain a steady stream of free massive traffic. With this steady traffic, you can have an additional income stream by displaying pay-per-click ads like Google AdSense and YPN or selling advertising space.

3. You understand more about your visitors by reading the conversations and discussions between them. Your visitors may talk about your products, services and website. Studying these information and feedbacks can help you market your products or services more effectively.

4. You could open a section in the forum to provide after sale support to your customers. By answering your customer questions in a friendly manner, you’ll increase your customer satisfaction. Also your customers might get the answers of their questions immediately by reading other previous inquiries by other customers in the forum. This will give you and your business more credibility. And your satisfied customers will recommend your products or services to their friends.

5. The forum enables you to network with other businesses and exchange business tips, ideas, strategies, advertising, etc.

3 Interesting Ideas to Make Money on ebay

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1) Sell Used Cell Phones on ebay
The demands for used cell phones with brand names like Nokia, Motorola, Kyocera, Alltel, Ericsson, Sprint, etc in ebay are pretty high. Many of the used cell phones auctions in ebay usually attract bids.

So how to find used cell phones to profit on ebay?
Many people change their cell phones every year. If you are one of them, probably you already have 2 or 3 used cell phones kept at home that can sell on ebay. Your friends may also keep a few of old phones left unused. You can buy from them and resell on ebay.

To get a consistent supply of cell phones, you may think about placing classified ads in newspaper states that you pay money for used cell phone. You shouldn't pay much when buying used cell phones. Do a little research on ebay to find out how much used cell phones are generally selling. If a used cell phone sell at a price of $50 in ebay, you should pay not more than 30% of the price to buy it. If the phone is a recent model you can pay little more and cut a little if it is old and nothing special.

2) Sell Used How-to Books
Used how-to books are quite easy to find and inexpensive to buy. They can be bought at $1.00 or less. You can buy how-to books from thrift shops, estate sales, used book stores, yard sales, etc and sell them in ebay for high profit margin. You can also get how-to books from Book Sale Finder. Here are the type of books you should look for:

Hobbies
Photography, blacksmithing, clock building & repair, woodworking, magic, treasure hunting, iron work, pipe smoking, dog training, antiques, coins, buttons, medals, drawing, painting, craft making, dolls, pottery, etc.

Home and Garden
Home decorating, home remodelling, garden trellis, etc.

Misc
How to repair (watch repair, door repair, pipe repair), how to play, lost treasure, eary aviation, etc.

When you list your books in ebay, you can either list them in the "Book" category of ebay or in the subject specific category of ebay. For instance, If you are selling a book related to home decorating, you may be making more profit if you list the book under the "Home Deco" within the "Home & Garden" category of ebay campare to listing the book under "Book"

3) Sell Gift Cards
Gift card is another profitable market in ebay. There are many people possess gift cards but not everyone of them will use their gift cards. If you can offer to buy these unused gift cards for a price at 20% or less of the value of the gift certificates, they will sell to you. You can advertise your offer in local newspaper, penny shop and trading post. You are looking for gift cards that are still valid (not yet expire). Most gift cards have a toll-free number on the back you can dial to check whether the cards are still valid.

When determining the buy and sell price of a gift card, you should do some research on ebay. Try to look for auction that sell the similar card. See how much the card sells in the auction and set you buying price at 40% to 50% of the selling price of the auction. The starting bid and winning bid of the auction can also give you an idea on how much your card can sell on ebay.

Links to Free Internet Marketing Resources

2009-07-15T23:39:00.000-07:00

Here are some new free stuff you might be interested:

Inf-o-asis.com/lifetime.html
A membership site gives free lifetime access to e-business info-products such as e-book, script, resources, software with resale rights.

Adsensegirl.com/members
AdSensegirl.com is a new site created by Liz Tomey to teach people make money with AdSense. She also give away ready-made AdSense templates to members.

Ebizmodelsyoucancopy.com/resellrights
Edmund Loh has prepared a special report titled "Resell Rights Crisis Solved". The content of the report is about how to profit with resell rights products. Anyone wants to start a resell rights business should read this report.

5 Tips to Boost Your Adsense Revenue

2009-07-08T22:56:00.003-07:00

Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google's contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click.

However you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don't know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:

1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn't matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website's background. If your site's background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.

3. Don't place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between AdSense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.v

AdSense Account Protection Tips from Google's AdSense Blog

2009-07-08T22:56:00.001-07:00

Google posted more tips on http://adsense.blogspot.com to help AdSense publishers avoid their AdSense accounts getting banned. Google advices publishers not to optimize their AdSense ads that can lead to accidental clicks by visitors like placing AdSense ads:

In close proximity to Macromedia Flash games
Under pop-ups or download prompts
Near site navigation controls on your pages, such as drop-downs or menu links

If Google detected too many accidental ads clicks that didn't increase the business result of advertisers in an account, then they will disable that account.

I'm a little worry when I first read this post from AdSense blog as I have AdSense ads link near my menu links at the left sidebar. But when I think again and ask myself, will my Ad links placement lead to accidental click? I took a closer look on my blog and website, my ad links look simple and clear. Visitors who click my ad links know who they are clicking. So I think I'm safe.

Money Making Opportunities (3rd Update)

2009-07-08T22:55:00.003-07:00

Bravenet
I found Bravenet from a blog. Bravenet has an affiliate program that seems to be a good earning opportunity for people who have niche websites or blogs related to web development. Bravenet is an online company provides free web hosting & domain services and free web tools. Bravenet's affiliate program allows webmasters and bloggers to earn money by sending their visitors to Bravenet. For each visitor sent by an affiliate that sign up for an account and take advantage of Bravenet's free webtools, the affiliate will earn $1.00.

Affiliate Cash Secret
Derrick VanDyke, the owner of Affiliate Cash Secret is looking 3 people to work online with him. The positions are:

Second Level Customer Support
Marketing Assistant
Writer / Editor

Click here to send your application if you are interested.

All positions restricted to US and Canada residents only and require the following Internet marketing knowledge:

Affiliate programs and ClickBank
Domain names and hosting
Generating traffic (PPC, ezine advertising, article marketing, etc.)
List building (co-reg, ad swaps, giveaways, affiliates, etc.)
Squeeze pages and autoresponders
and more...

Tips for Getting You Own Information Product to Sell Online

2009-07-08T22:55:00.001-07:00

Information products are probably the most profitable products you can sell on Internet. Some of the most common types of information products that can make you money are ebooks, articles and special reports. Information products are so profitable because they are inexpensive to produce and once they are created, the authors can sell them again and again without incurring manufacturing cost.

There are a number of ways to obtain your very first information product to sell online for profit. Here how:

Create the Info Product by Yourself
If you have good information in your mind and writing skills, there is no reason why you cannot develop your own info product. It will cost your little money or even free if you create your info product by yourself. However, it does involve a lot of works like topic researching, writing, editing, proofreading, and converting your info in PDF format. And it will take you plenty of time to develop your first info product since you have no previous e-book creation experience.

Hire a Freelance Writer
If you want to create an info product but don’t like to write, outsourcing your info product creation project to a professional writer is your solution. Take some time to write down what you want and your expectation and the writer will produce an info product that meets your expectation. When selecting a professional writer, you should check their references, contact their previous employers to find out their quality of work and also read the feedbacks from other people who have hired them. You can find a freelance writer from the following freelance marketplaces:

Guru.com
Elance.com

Buy a Private Label Right Product
Buying an information product that comes with private label right will grant you the right to edit or modify the info products, put your name on it and sell them instantly to the public. Some PLR products even allow buyers to add their own name on the products without modification and claim ownership on the products. This is the fastest way to profit online with info product, but it can cost a few hundred dollars to purchase a PLR product and if you bought a low quality info product that is hard to resell, you may end up suffering a lost.

Information products industry is competitive. Your info product should be targeted to a specific niche. Before you can sell your info products successfully, you need to build up a good relationship with your targeted prospects. This can be done by growing a opt-in list and sending helpful and educative information to your opt-in subscribers to build trust or credibility.

Another Get Paid for Blogging Website

2009-07-08T22:54:00.001-07:00

Smorty.com is the latest get paid to blog company I've seen. They provide blog advertising service to advertisers as similar to Payperpost.com and give bloggers an opportunity to earn money by blogging about the products, services and websites of the advertisers.

The Main Requirements to be an Approved Blogger of Smorty

Your blog must have been indexed by Google and Yahoo
Your Blog must have been stayed online for more than 3 months
The content of your blog must be family-friendly
Your blog must be active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week

How Much You can Earn and How to Get Paid
You can earn a minimum of $6 per approved sponsor post. Smorty uses a unique ranking system to calculate the amount you can charge for each sponsor post. Their system will combine the following factors in the calculation:

Googles PageRank
Alexa Rankings
Return rate of given tasks
Approval/Decline ratio of completed tasks and
Number of completed tasks

And Smorty pays on a weekly basis through Paypal to bloggers.

7 Tips for Writing Effective and Profitable Online Ads

2009-07-08T22:52:00.004-07:00

There are many type of online ads, some of the most common ads used by e-entrepreneurs and webmasters are PPC contextual ads, classified ads, banner ads and online sales letters. In most cases, the purposes of these ads are to sell. To make your ads sell, you just have to write them as effective as possible and here are some tips that can help you:

1. Refer your competitors products advertising material to get ad writing ideas. You can read their sale letters by visitng their websites, study their Google AdWords ads by going to Google and enter the keywords of your niche, etc.

2. Know exactly the purpose of your ad copy. What you want your ad copy to achieve? It could be making a sale, generating a lead, driving more traffic, signing up your contest and so on.

3. Emphasis on benefits, not features. Benefits are things that mean to your potential customers. Some example of products benefits are save money, solve a problem of your prospects, save time, etc. Whereas features are description on what qualities are product has.

4. Focus on the headline of your ad. Write an eye-catching headline to attract your targeted prospects. Your headline should convince your targeted audiences that it’s worth a few minutes to read the body of your ads. A good headline promises some news and a benefit. Here’s an example of headline:

Announcing...New High Tech Article Re-Writing Software Converts Your PLR Articles into Unique Articles

The headline is a news and highlighted a benefit. Webmasters who have problem finding unique content to publish on their websites will be interested to know about how the software can help them. And the headline successfully gets the targeted audiences to read the entire ad copy.

5. If your ad copy is a sale letter. Include proven and supportive facts in your ad copy such as testimonials from satisfied customers, product reviews, result of customer surveys, a top-ten list, etc.

6. Use a money back guarantee in your ad to convince your potential customers. Personally I’ll be more likely to buy a product with a money back guarantee because it removes my risk of loss. If the product doesn’t work as described, I just return it to the seller and get back my money.

7. Let your potential buyers know what kind of after sale services they will get after they buy. It could be free tech support, consulting, free servicing, etc.

The Rebirth Of Internet Marketing

2009-07-08T22:52:00.003-07:00

John Reese, one of leading Internet marketer has completed a special report called "The Rebirth Of Internet marketing". It is a 53 pages PDF report containing information about the present and future of Internet marketing that you need to know for your online business growth. The report is available to download at John's Blog.

5 Things You Must Have to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

2009-07-08T22:52:00.001-07:00

Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing? What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry? There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward. There are five things one must ultimately possess if he wants to achieve the glory he is yearning for in this business, and these five things are a must for him to possess to be able to stand out among the rest.

The very first quality one must possess if he wants to try his hand in affiliate marketing is the willingness to learn and be trained. Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and he might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown. Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one’s willingness to know it all will give him far better advantages in the business than he could ever imagine.

The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent. Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has his foot in the industry to hold on and wait. It is this quality which would save him from giving up after investing a lot of himself in the business.

The third quality one must possess is self-determination. If one wants to conquer the affiliate marketing world, he must have the ability to push himself ahead. Never having to say die is a quality each and every affiliate marketer should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take an affiliate marketer there.

The fourth quality one must possess is discipline. If one knows how to teach himself to work everyday with all the energy he can muster, then he is close to achieving what he has set his heart to having in the first place.

The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism. Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned. Neither should anyone influence his attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for him to be the captain of his ship and the master of his soul.

The ingredients to success in a business such as affiliate marketing are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in himself alone. It is he who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize his prospects, and the desire which fuels his heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.

Affiliate marketing is all about putting one’s fate into his own hands. The right attitude is the key to being able to steer one’s ship into that part of the ocean where a certain kind of serenity can be found, one that permeates the atmosphere as the ship sails calmly on.

3 Ways to Create a Money Making Website with Little or No HTML Knowledge

2009-07-08T22:46:00.001-07:00

The advance of technology has made creating websites easier. More and more website building software were created by online companies to let people create their own websites without web design knowledge and experience. Below are some of the free website building software that are designed to help people build websites easily:

Google Page Creator (GPC)
It is a free beta online website development tool of Google. Anyone can sign up to use Google Page Creator to create a mini website with no HTML knowledge needed. It is easy to use, built in with a number of features and allowing AdSense ads. But in term of webpage optimization, GPC doesn't provide much options. The tool is right for beginners who want to build a content website and make money with AdSense.

Website to learn more about how to use GPC:
http://jvanbaelen.googlepages.com/gpcinfo.html

Domain & hosting
Free

Hypervre
Hypervre website builder was developed by Matt Callen. The site builder automatically creates SEO friendly content web pages based on keywords of your choice. You don't need to figure out where to place your AdSense ads on your web pages, you just add your AdSense code during the web page creation process and your AdSense ads will appear on the high click-through rate areas of your web pages. You can also add your Amazon and Clickbank ads if you upgrade to paid membership. The builder saves time and work but only limited to building content-based website.

Domain & hosting
You can upload Hypervre sites to any of your paid and free hosting accounts using your own domain names.

Bluevoda
An advanced website builder that allows you to create e-commerce site, sale page, AdSense & affiliate content-based website and much more. They provide video tutorial to help you begin. You can choose to design your site from scratch or use their ready made templates. Although the site owner of Bluevoda claims that users can build their own site without technical knowledge but my experience on Bluevoda is that it will make you more easier if yo learn some basic HTML code.

Domain & hosting
You have to register a domain name and a paid hosting account with Vodahost.com.

Links to Helpful Resources

2009-07-08T22:45:00.000-07:00

Just want to share some new links to free Internet marketing resources I found last week:

Stompernet.net
A video case study on How a website made by an "Old Football Coach in Mississippi" generated $60,000 cash sales while it sat on the 6th page of Google. The video might help in increasing your online sales.

Site-reference.com
The site published an article called 'How I Made 78 Cents On Squidoo'. The article's title may sound a little redicious to you, but don't laugh. It is a good article actually. The article will give you an overview on what is squidoo about and how Squidoo can be used for SEO purpose.

Spraven.com/Gift
Sharlene Raven has put together a package of 3 e-books to help people gain more knowledge about Internet marketing and it's free to download. The e-books are:

Easy Traffic Now
Paypal Made Simple
Article Handbooks

6 Ways to Make Money Blogging

2009-06-27T06:09:00.004-07:00

1) Cost-Per-Click (CPC) Advertising Programs
CPC advertising programs are the best money making programs for most of the bloggers. They are suitable to all kind of blogs with family-friendly content regardless of their traffic level and age. CPC programs work well on blog because they display contextual ads that are highly relevant to blogs content and bloggers will earn anywhere between 10 cents to 50 cents for each contextual ads click by their visitors. With proper CPC ads optimization and consistent amount of traffic, a blogger can earn a steady amount of money displaying CPC ads on his/her blog. Google AdSense is no doubt, the undisputed king of CPC advertising programs and Yahoo Publisher Network is the closest alternative of AdSense.

2) Cost-Per-Action (CPA) Advertising Programs
CPA programs is quite similar to CPC programs except CPA programs don't pay bloggers for each click on the CPA ads hosted by bloggers. The blogger only makes money when the visitor takes an action on the CPA advertiser website. The action can be a sign up, making a purchase, generating a lead, downloading a product and more. CPA networks pay a lot more than CPC programs, for a visitor sent by the blogger from his/her blog to a CPA advertiser website and the visitor taken an action on the advertiser site, the blogger can earn few dollar to fifty dollar depend on the niche. But CPA ads tend to work well on large traffic blogs only. AzoogleAds.com, Commission Junction and Advertising.com are some of the largest CPA networks.

3) Promote Affiliate Programs
Marketing affiliate programs is very common nowadays. You sign up with affiliate program of an online company, then decide whether to use the company's text link or banner ads on your blog to promote the company's products or services and earn affiliate commission when a visitor make a purchase through your affiliate link. Affiliate programs can be promoted without a website and blog too.

4) Pay Per Post Programs
Pay per post programs started last year. The programs pay bloggers to write a blog post about a sponsor's website. The paid blog post can be a review or an introduction on the advertiser's website, products or services. The blogger will be paid a least $5 for each sponsor post. Blogs that have massive traffic, high Google PR and large number of subscribers can charge a few hundred dollar for just writing one sponsor post. Here's are the two most popular Pay per post networks that offer this type of earning opportunities:

www.reviewme.com
www.payperpost.com

The downside of pay per post is that writing too many sponsor posts that are not relevant to your blog content can seriously affect your traffic.

5) Sell Text Link Ads
Selling text links on your blog can be a great source of additional online revenue. It is not difficult to get started, just go to Text-link-ads.com to sign up an account, then decide which part of your pages you want to display paid text links, set your price and you are ready to take order. Text-link-ads.com will handle all the promotional works. Another company that offers the similar services as Text-link-ads.com is Reverselinks.com

6) Hosting Web Poll
Vizu Answer offers a pretty new way to monetize your blog's and website's traffic. The pays the publishers on a cost-per-thousand impression (CPM) basis for hosting targeted web poll. The money a blogger can earn from hosting poll is depending on the page views. The more page views, the higher the earning.

Money Making Opportunities (2nd Update)

2009-06-27T06:09:00.003-07:00

Have a look at the money making opportunities I have come across, who know you might be interested.

Reviewparty.com
Reviewparty.com is a sister site of Bloggerparty. They invite anyone to join them to write review about book, music and DVD (movies and televisons) and reward the reviewers by allowing them to display their own Amazon ads and AdSense ads, and make money. The reviewers ads will appear on all his/her product reviews pages.

eSylvan
eSylvan is an online company that provide online tutoring services to US students in grades 3-9. They are in need of online tutors with teaching certification. Tutors will teach students using Internet from home and work at flexible hours. This is a great way to make extra income online. Click here if you are interested.

Guide To Choosing A Web Host For Your E-Commerce Web Site

2009-06-27T06:09:00.001-07:00

There are many things to take into consideration when setting up an e-commerce website to start making money online and one of the most important things is choosing a web host company to publish your e-commerce website. When selecting a web host, it is always best to research each potential host and compare all of the offers and prices before settling on the company that provides exactly what you need.

First, you should determine what you will require from the host. The basic business requirements may include:

- Disk space
- Bandwidth
- Shopping cart or similar technologies
- Email accounts
- FTP ability
- Technical support

You should make sure that the web host company you deal with provides the basic features your site will require otherwise you will end up paying for them separately. For example, for e-commerce you will have to be sure that the web host has facilities of a shopping cart and mailing lists along with a secure socket layer (SSL) certificate. Shop around and ask lots of questions. Make sure your host can meet your needs.

Security of your shopping cart is of primary importance. Some large companies offer firewalls, protection against denial-of-service (Dos) attacks and even virtual private networks (VPNs) at an extra cost. You may pay more for these additional services and it may be worth it because any security lapse can undo all the effort that you have taken in building up an online business.

Downtime is a death knell for an online store. Imagine the frustration and reaction of a buyer who tries to but cannot access your site or if it goes down when he/she is actually putting items in a shopping cart. The obvious assumption is going to hurt you and make you lose prospective buyers. Some of those who experience such incidents are liable to spread the word around too. To ensure that nothing of the sort happens to you, it will be good idea to check out the uptime guarantee offered by the web hosts and the technical support that it will provide in the event your site goes down.

If a host offers 30 days trial. You may sign up the trial offer to see whether the company delivers their promises. Although this can mean a small loss to your business due to delay in launching your website. But it is worth it to make sure that your customers can find, use and depend on your website.

Once you have narrow down the list of potential hosts, it is time to compare prices. Budget hosting usually comes with several downsides, such as lesser facilities and lack of technical support that could ultimately prove to be more expensive in terms of loss of profits. This is of course, not all budget-hosting companies provide such a low quality service, but keep these things in mind before going with a cheap deal and regretting it later.

The web hosting industry is very competitive, you should be able to find a good deal after doing some researches. Finding the right host will save your money in the long run and help you get your site to its complete potential immediately.

Another Free Gift from Derek Gehl

2009-06-27T06:08:00.003-07:00

Derek Gehl and his team from Internet Marketing Center (IMC) has just released another free e-book to share their ideas, tips and strategies on starting an online business to make money online. I just downloaded and read the e-book. It is about how to find a profitable niche with proper keyword researches, ways fo getting the right products of your niche with lowest cost possible to sell online and some online businesses tips and advice. This e-book is helpful to you for starting an online businesses and it can be downloaded by visiting the below link:

http://www.marketingtips.com/foolproofsuccessebook.html

You can only download the PDF format if you are not a subscriber of IMC newsletter.

BizPreneur.com - The First Business Networking Website Allows Members to Make Money with Sponsor Ads

2009-06-27T06:08:00.001-07:00

BizPreneur, an online community that lets people around the world market their businesses for free has just released their new beta advertising options for profiles. This means that members of Bizpreneur can now use their own advertising services to generate income from their profiles.

How it works:
- You create a profile in BizPreneur to network and promote your business.
- You can choose to use your own Google AdSense Ads or Adbrite ads to displayed on your profiles pages.
- Simply go to "Edit Profile" to insert your ad code.
- Your revenue-generating ads will be displayed on the left-hand side of your profile page.

This is the first business networking website that allows members to earn 100% of ad revenue while networking. I like their new idea, it is creative and motivative.

A Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Generate Traffic and Make Money from Myspace (Part 2)

2009-06-27T06:07:00.003-07:00

Step2
Grow Your Friend List. Your friend list is the key to succeed in Myspace marketing. You need to make as many friends as possible. You are going to look for friends that have interests in your website and blog content, or your product and services. This is the first challenge in your Myspace marketing.

Tips and Tricks for Growing Your Friend List Faster
1) Search for Myspace users in your niche and add them as your friends. There are plenty of groups created in Myspace, look for groups in the categories related to your niche , visit these groups and add them as your friends.

2) Visit other Myspace users profiles that also market the same niche as your. They should have built a friend list, add their friends as your friends too.

3) Use Myspace trains like makeatrain.com and Myspacetrains.com to grow your friend list faster. If you have never heard about Myspace trains, they are websites with a specific program code allowing people to add their profile to a chain which will be seen in all bulletin board on the different Myspace communities.

4) Whoring. What is whoring? Here's an explanation how it works:
- You partner with a Myspace marketer in your niche, request the marketer to send a bulletin message encouraging his/her friends to add you as friend.
- In exchange, you'll do the same for the Myspace marketer.

Step 3
Drive traffic to your site or blog from Myspace and make money. Once you have got a lot of friends, you can start sending your promotional message using bulletin. Your bulletin message shouldn't directly promote your site or blog as it will not work.

You can post bulletin to notify your friends when you have written a new blog post, posted an interesting news on your blog, added new helpful tips and articles on website, organized a contest and ask them to visit your site or blog to find out more about the contest and any other ideas you can think of. This ways your traffic will increase and so as your AdSense revenue.

Tips
- Make you bulletin message interesting and fun to read.
- Don't just make your bulletin message about marketing. Occationally you can send something fun such as a joke or a brain teaser.
- If you want to sell your own or affiliate products to your targeted friends, you need to figure out ways to draw your friends to your sales page using bulletin.

A Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Generate Traffic and Make Money from Myspace (Part 1)

2009-06-27T06:07:00.001-07:00

Myspace.com is the largest social networking or web 2.0 website with over 1 billion members in their database and their membership is continued to grow steadyly. For people who want to socialize online, it is definitely a great place to make friends, share your content and build your own groups. But for Internet marketers, webmasters and bloggers it is a great tool to generate free targeted traffic and make more money online. So, how Myspace can be used as a marketing tool to generate targeted traffic? The below step-by-step instructions will show you how:

Step 1
Obviously the first step is go to Myspace to sign up an account. Once you have set up your Myspace account successfully, you proceed to login and you'll see the following main features:

Edit Profile
Account Settings
Add/Edit Photos
Add/Change Videos
Manage Calender
Manage Blog
Manage Address Book

Edit Profile
Profile is one of the most important myspace marketing tools you can use to promote your website, blog or online business. Clicking the 'edit profile' link will allow you to add details to your profile and make it searchable by the 'friends', e.g. the people or niche group you want to attract on Myspace. Here are the options available to customize your profile:

* Headline
It is the place to add a title to your myspace profile page.

* About Me
This is the section to add details and information to promote your website and blog. It is important not to make your about me section read like a blatant sales page as this against Myspace rules. You can start introducing yourself, What you are doing, your area of expertise, tell about about your website, blog and business, some descriptions about your site and blog, share your knowledge, experience and so on.

Myspace allows HTML code in the about me section. So add in some images, graphic, features to make your page look more interesting. You can even change your layout and background using one of the Myspace editors at http://www.strikefile.com/myspace . Keep you Myspace page looks clean and neat.

* I'd Like to Meet
This is the section you tell people who you like to meet. You should focus on finding friends that have interest on your website and blog content, and your products and services.

* Interest, Movie, Music......
Let other know more about you by telling them about your interest and hobbies.

Add/Edit Photo
You need to upload your own photo onto your MYspace page to make friends in Myspace. It will make your Myspace profile a little more interesting and people are more likely to approve your friend requests if they can see your face. Pick the best photo to upload.

The rest of the features you can choose not to use. But they can help in your Myspace marketing if you use them.

Money Making Opportunity Update

2009-06-27T06:06:00.003-07:00

I saw commonties.com appears in Google ads. They are looking for people to submit them personal stories for cash. I then visited their site to read more about the opportunity.

They actually want personal stories on all topics from people around the world. They accept stories between 750 words to 3,000 words and prefer stories between 1000 words to 2,000 words. What about the pay? The pay is pretty high, $100 to $200 per published story and can ask for more if you think your story deserve higher rate. Interested? Click here for full guideline.

Google SEO Tips: Content Updating is Getting More Important

2009-06-27T06:06:00.001-07:00

Google's ranking algorithm has never been consistent, recently, I discover that the frequency of content updating on blog and website is getting more useful in increasing Google ranking as it uses to be. I think it started about a month ago.

The search term "make money online" is a good example to strengthen my point. If you often use this search term, you'll notice the websites listed in top 10 result fluctuate from time to time. The frequent fluctuations have lead to websites with decent number of backlinks that have stayed in first page for long period of time gradually one by one drop from top 5 to top 10 and from top 10 to top 20; and allowing more blog with frequent content update to get into top 10 listing. I have been in the niche of "make money online" for more than a year and never see it happens this way. It is obvious that Google has changed their ranking algorithm again and place more weight on content.

So if your website have experienced a drop in Google and you think that you have not done anything wrong. The frequency of content updating may be one of the main reasons. You may take a look at your competitors website to see whether they have started adding fresh content often. If yes, you may think about updating your site in on going basis as well. It will give you a better chance in re-gaining your Google ranking.

New Links to Helpful Resources

2009-06-27T06:05:00.000-07:00

Internet marketers like to give away free Internet marketing resources to anyone interested to learn Internet marketing and they never stop what they are doing. Below are some new links to websites that provide free info and tutorial about Internet marketing I found last week:

Viralprofitautomator.com/videos
Free FTP and Cpanel video tutorial such as website configuration in cuteFTP, WS_FTP, SmartFTP and more.

Other98percent.com
A website that offers free and paid memberships. The member areas have webmaster tips, methods and strategies of getting traffic, information and technique......

Easter JV Giveaway 2007
The title says it all. It is a giveaway program allowing you to gain free access to over one thousand products and services from hundreds of experienced Internet marketers that you can use immediately for your online businesses to increase profit.

Paid Survey, How to Get Started?

2009-06-22T22:23:00.001-07:00

Make money with paid survey, is it just a scam or non-sense. Well, there are actually a lot of reputable market research and consumer companies welcome people to become their members to earn cash participating in their online survey. It is a legitimate way to make money online. Additionally, Paid survey is very popular, there are more than 100,000 people searching for paid surveys every month in Yahoo as recorded in Overture Search tool.

However, the downsides of paid survey is that you will not know how much money you make ever month. The companies only send paid survey invitations to you if you are eligible. If you receive more surveys in the month, you'll earn more. Another problem is that most paid surveys only available to US residents, so people outside US will find hard to make money with paid survey.

Start Earning with Paid Survey in 3 Steps:

Step 1 - Create a new e-mail account specially for receiving paid survey invitations. You can use Yahoo, Hotmail and other free email services. This will make finding your survey invitations easier compare to using an existing email that receives plenty of mails daily.

Step 2 - Go to Yellowsurveys.com to sign up with as many online market research companies as possible. The site compiled a long list of market research companies that offer paid surveys. Sign up with the companies in "Most Popular" category first and then continue to join the rest. This can take few days of work.

Step 3 - Wait for paid survey invitations send to you. It can take fews days to months to receive your first survey invitation. You shouldn't rely on paid survey as your main source of income. It can only be a way of earning extra money.

The Complete Clickbank Guide

2009-06-22T22:22:00.004-07:00

Gabor Olah from http://plrwholesaler.com has prepared 14 part of Clickbank guide to help people understand how Clickbank works. If you have a lot of questions about Clickbank or confuse how to get start with Clickbank, this free guide is right for you:

http://viralprofitautomator.com/clickbankguide.html

The guide cover most of the aspects of Clickbank, including explanations on Clickbank important policies, what are the features available in both vendors (sellers) and affiliates accounts and what are the products statistic affiliates can use in selecting a right Clickbank's product to promote and make money.

How to Start an Online Business Fast and Easy

2009-06-22T22:22:00.003-07:00

The fastest and easiest way to start an online business is buy a turnkey e-commerce website. A turnkey website is a website that ready to generate sales and make money online. The website is completely functional and provided with everything you need.

Where to buy a turnkey website?

There are many companies offering a turnkey website in web hosting business. These companies generally are web hosting service providers. You can own a web hosting business by joining a web hosting company’s reseller program. Many of the reseller programs usually are free to join and you are allow to set your own price for each product you selected for reselling. To search for a web hosting reseller program, you can go to Google and enter the search term 'web hosting reseller program'.

If web hosting business doesn’t sound interest to you, you may consider starting an online store. You can buy an online store for less $100 from a website calls getestore.com. They allow you to choose from 3,500 items with brand name such as Sony, Xbox, Panasonic and many more for reselling on your store without paying upfront for inventory. The suppliers will also handle all the packing and shipping works for you.

If you are only interested to start an affiliate marketing business. Pluginprofitsite.com is your solution. The site will recommend you to join several popular affiliate programs. After you have joined their recommended affiliate programs, the owner of Pluginprofitsite will create a brand new professional e-commerce website for you to promote all the affiliate programs you have participated. The cost isn’t cheap; you need to pay about $50 per month for hosting your website and the affiliate membership’s fee.

To generate sales, you need to drive targeted visitors/traffic to your site. The more traffic you get the more money you will make. Here are some of the techniques you can use to drive traffic to your site:

Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
PPC advertising programs offer an opportunity to advertisers to promote their websites by bidding for top-listings in the search engines on the keywords of their choices. PPC advertising can drive instant traffic to your website but they can be very expensive if you don’t use them wisely. Here’s a link to download a free e-book that will teach you how to use PPC advertising effectively for your online business:
http://www.googleadwordsmadeeasy.com/1

Search Engine Optimization
Search engines can bring you a lot of free targeted traffic for long term if your website ranks top in their listings. To rank high, search engines optimization is a must. Search engines optimization involves optimizing your webpages for your targeted keywords and increasing the number of websites link to your site. It will take a lot of time and effort in search engine optimization. Here’s a website contains helpful basic and advanced SEO tutorial:
http://www.seo2020.com

Article Marketing
Writing articles and publishing them on article directories is another free way to drive traffic to your website. You will promote your business in the article’s resource box by introducing yourself and your website. Your articles can drive thousands of visitors to your site within weeks if your content is impressive.

A List of News Sharing Sites that Share AdSense Revenue

2009-06-22T22:22:00.001-07:00

Google AdSense revenue sharing not just occur in community forums and article directories, it happens in news sharing websites too. Below is a list of news sharing sites that allow you to earn with Adsense by sharing news and articles:

Kick.ie
Kick Have a long list of news and story topics you can post. Share 50% of the AdSense revenue generated on all your published content.

Techtagg
A technology news related sites. Welcome submission of links to your blog stories. Earn 100% of AdSense on your content posted in Techtagg, if you the first 250 members of the site.

SharePointKicks.com
This is a media site focuses on news and content related to Microsoft Sharepoint technologies. Also allow other topics submission. It shares 50% of AdSense income.

How to Make Money Online with Private Label Rights (PLR)

2009-06-22T22:21:00.000-07:00

Private label rights (PLR) are rights given a person to change or alter the content of an original product and the person can include his/her name as the author of the product after modification.

Products that come with private label rights include e-books, website templates, software, scripts, articles and other written, raw material.

Let's use e-book as an example. The Internet is flooded with e-book sellers. Some of them even give away the private label rights of their e-books to people who buy a copy of their e-books. If an author of an e-book would give you private label rights, you can edit the e-book in any way you see fit, add your name on the e-book and then use them in anyway that you think it will make money for you.

The advantages of gaining private label rights are they make starting an online business easier and faster. All you need to do is find the right material to work with, modify the text with your creativity, put in your name and you have an instant product ready to sell online. Futhermore, you get the glory of the byline since you can put your name on the PLR material because the product is yours to claim now.

Now, let's see how we can profit from PLR products:

1. If the license allows you to resell the PLR products as they are, you could start selling it right away and keep 100% of the profit.

2. If you buy PLR articles, you could change the articles into unique articles then use them to build niche content sites to make money with AdSense or other PPC and affiliate programs.

3. PLR articles can also be compiled into a series of tutorials and send them to your subscribers in your opt-in list. You can profit from your tutorials by using teach and sales technique.

4. You could use the PLR products as bonuses to your customers who purchase your own developed products or if you are marketing an affiliate product, you can offer the PLR products you have bought as incentive for anyone who would order the product through your affiliate links.

5. You could also use your PLR products as supplemental materials for your sales page. Do you have a highly informative piece in one of your PLR purchases? Clip the same and paste it on a box inside your sales page so that your readers can refer to it to complement whatever you will share on the main parts of your sales copy.

Here are some of the websites that offer PLR material:

http://www.sourcecodegoldmine.com - Selling PLR software products

http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway4.com - Free Internet marketing resources with PLR

http://www.plrpro.com - Selling PLR articles

These are just some of the things you could do with your PLR articles. The possibilities are quite endless, further establishing these PLR goodies as fantastic options for your marketing needs.

Free Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

2009-06-22T22:20:00.001-07:00

1) Comment on Blogs
Look for large traffic Blogs in your niche, visit them and leave your comments on their blogs posts. You may use blog search engine like www.blogsearchengine.com, www.google.com/blogsearch and www.searchengineblog.com to find blogs in your niche.

2) Submit Articles
Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.

3) Participate in Community Forums
Use google to search for forums that are related to your blog. Look for forums that has over 10,000 members and read the rules of the forums to see whether you can promote your blogs and websites in your signature. Join forums that allow you to add a link to your blog in the signature and start participating in discussion. You can ask questions, answer other members questions and post your articles, ideas and thought in the forums.

4) Submit Your Blog to Directories
This isn't working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.

5) Post Often
You can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog, try to make it at least 5 posts per week. This not only will maintain your traffic but possibly attract more readers.

6) Write about Blogging
Write helpful and quality articles related to blogging can attract other bloggers link to your articles and gain may be truckload of free traffic.

7) Post Breaking News
If your found a breaking news of your niche very earlier, post it to your blog. It may give your blog's traffic a boost.

8) Social Bookmarking
Bookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.

9) Run a Contest
Start a contest on your blog. Think about the prizes that people really want. It will create a viral effect and bring in new visitors.

10) On-page Optimization
Make sure your blog's title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, don't be surprise to see your blog ranks top 10 in Google and get free search engine traffic daily.

Would You Report Paid Links?

2009-06-22T22:19:00.003-07:00

Li Evans from Searchmarketinggurus.com has posted an interesting blog post titling "Would You Report Paid Links ?" The blog post stated that webmasters can now report paid links to Google by using the authenticated spam report form to help Google improve their search results. If Google concluded that the reported site is spamming, then the site will be removed from Google's index. If you are making money online by selling text links in your website(s). The news is really concerned you.

Guide to Making Money Online With A Website Without Selling

2009-06-22T22:19:00.001-07:00

Creating a website to generate income online is one of the most common methods these days. You can earn money from a website by:

a) Marketing your own merchandises/products and services.
b) Joining affiliate programs to promoting other companies products or merchandises.
c) Participating in Google AdSense Publisher Program to start generating AdSense commission from your website.

Option (a) & (b) require a lot of time, effort and advanced Internet marketing knowledge before you start generate profit from your site. The third choice is much simple and faster to profit online with a website. To launch an AdSense campaign you must first sign up to become a publisher of Google AdSense program. You are going to submit your website for review when applying an AdSense account.

The first step of building a website is deciding the content of your website, your content can be related to any subjects as long as they comply with AdSense program policies. Google AdSense policies can be found at https://www.google.com/adsense/policies. Your interest, hobby, past experience and area of expertise may help you decide what topic or subject you are going to write. You can provide helpful content like advice, educational articles and so on to others on your website if you are an expert at something. If you like to travel you may write about the places and countries you have visited and share your traveling experience and tips in your website.

There are plenty of online companies providing web design service but it is expensive using the service of a web design company. Hiring a web designer to build a website via freelance marketplace like guru.com is much cheaper than using a company. However this is still not the most effective way to cut your cost to minimum. The cheapest way to create a website is by using a free web development tool or software. There are getting more and more free web development tools on the Internet and I recommend Bluevoda website builder. You can download Bluevoda website Builder at http://www.bluevoda.com. Bluevoda allows user to create websites without technical knowledge. Users can create almost any kinds of website with little limitation. Create websites using Bluevoda is free. You only pay for the domain name and website hosting.

After you finish designing your website, it is time to publish it on Internet and promote your website to earn AdSense revenue. There are a number of ways to promote your website to bring traffic (visitors) to your site.

Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising companies let you advertise your website on search engines using keywords-bidding system. When a visitor enters a keyword you bid on in search engines to find something, the visitor will see your ad and if the visitor clicks your ad, you will be charged based on the amount you bid. The two most common PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing but they are quite expensive to advertise with due to tough competition in the keywords-bidding system. You might encounter the problem of your PPC cost higher than your AdSense revenue and lead to a loss. Luckily, there are low cost alternatives such as Bidvertiser.com, searchfeed.com, Bidclix.com and so on. These PPC companies allow you to drive instant targeted visitors to your site with less than $0.15 per visitor.

Provide free content
Creating articles and sending them to content websites like online article directories is a no cost way to gain further exposure for your website. You will promote your website and get traffic by writing about yourself and your website with a live link points to your website in the author’s bio of each article published on content websites.

RSS advertising
RSS advertising is another free method to increase your website’s traffic. There are people reading information and news online using RSS readers or news aggregators. This has created another opportunities for webmasters to boost the websites traffic. By creating your own RSS file and submitting it to search engines and RSS directories, the links to the content in your website will appear in front of those who read information using news aggregators and as a result driving free visitors to your website. Need further explanations? You can learn more about RSS at http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271

Web promotion is what you will concentrate. It is much like a business. The more effort you put in for web promotion and generating traffic, the more traffic you will gain and possible the bigger your AdSense pay check.

Latest Money Making Opportunities

2009-06-22T22:18:00.002-07:00

I read about this 2 opportunities when visiting other people blogs. I think you might be interested:

Newsforge.com
Newsforge.com is a online news site for Linux and open source. They need new articles currently and offer to pay $100 - $300 for an article (between 800 to 1500 words) published on their site. They want news, reviews, case studies, HOWTOs, feature articles, and fact-based commentary directly related to Linux, open source, or free software. $100 - $300 for an article, this is the highest offer I've seen so far. Too bad this writing job isn't for me as I know nothing about Linux and open source. Anyway if you are interested to write for them, here's the link for more information

http://www.newsforge.com/write.tmpl

Vizu Answers
Vizu Answers offers an innovative way to monetize your websites and blogs traffic. It is an advertising network that pays you to host interactive web polls.

Vizu Answers is more suitable to large traffic sites as it is a CPM (cost-per- thousand page views) advertising network. Publishers will share 50% on all the revenue earned from hosting polls with Vizu Answer.

Getting Started in 3 Easy Steps

Register and create an account you
Poll template(s) and establish your pricing
Paste the Vizu Answers Poll Zone code into your site page(s)

The polls only appear in locations that you specify and are from Vizu's clients who have a question to ask your website visitors.

10 Mistakes in Affiiliate Marketing that Can Stop You to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

2009-06-22T22:18:00.001-07:00

Although anyone can start an affiliate marketing business but not everyone can achieve success in affiliate marketing. What is the reason? Well, there are 10 of them, actually. There are 10 affiliate mistakes that deter people from succeeding in affiliate marketing business. To avoid all these mistakes, you first need to study them and understand them thoroughly.

1. Believing that visitors would only click on their affiliate links. Although the task of an affiliate is only restricted to pre-selling, pre-selling isn’t just limited to displaying the affiliate links. It also entails enticing visitors to click on them by listing out the benefits of the affiliate products, giving positive recommendations by writing reviews to encourage readers to check out the products.

2. Promoting too many affiliate programs at the same time. If an affiliate markets 8 affiliate programs at the same time, he or she will have 8 affiliate marketing campaigns to handle. Most probably, the affiliate will find difficult to manage all his campaigns and unable to concentrate on each one of his or her affiliate programs in this situation and ends up losing money.

You should begin with one affiliate program; choose a program that you are passionate about. Then put your best effort to market the product. Test different marketing strategies to see which one works best. Once you are making a steady commission with the product, then maybe you can look for second affiliate product to sell.

3. Believing that using a single method of marketing technique is sufficient. There are people actually think that submitting a few articles to article websites will generate the amount of traffic they expected. But this is wrong. Focusing only one marketing technique will limit the number of potential buyers you can send to your affiliate merchant’s website

4. Failing to improve the performance of your marketing campaign. Many affiliates tend to concern on checking their daily commission only and have no interest on studying and analyzing their marketing campaigns performance. When their campaigns don’t work as expected or don’t generate sales, they will fail to make corresponding adjustments because they don’t know which aspects of their campaigns need to be improved. It is essential to learn every aspect of our marketing strategies. Which marketing techniques are attracted most visitors? How many unique and returning visitors generated? How long do they stay in our website? Where they come from? These are the questions that could help us enhance the performance of our affiliate marketing business.

5. Promoting affiliate products that are lacking of demand. Some affiliate programs offer extremely high sale commission to their affiliate. But the products aren’t sellable and thus earning nothing.

6. Failing to find an affiliate program with a proven record of consumer satisfaction. The trustworthiness of a company relies on how people view it. If the affiliate program has established good relationships with their customers, then it has established a brand which is recognizable for its excellent service. You will find easier to pre-selling such an affiliate product.

7. Failing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the industry. There will come a time when the marketing knowledge we know would become obsolete, more so in the field of internet marketing where everything transpires at a rapid pace. You have to constantly update yourself with the newest trends, techniques and news in this field to always keep your competitive edge.

8. Failing to invest on knowledge. Knowledge likewise evolves and you have to evolve with it. Buy noteworthy eBooks, special reports and the likes… those which would teach you the latest tactics to help you conquer your field.

9. Resting on your laurels once a semblance of success is achieved. Success is not eternal. You have to sustain it. If you leave your business alone once it shows the promise of success, you’re just setting it up for failure.

10. Though that affiliate program can help you become rich fast. No, affiliate program isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. You have to put in a lot of effort and time, and some capital before you can make money in affiliate marketing.

Some Links to Helpful Stuff

2009-06-22T22:15:00.000-07:00

Awesomefungifts.com
The site have a long list of free downloadable gifts from a number of Internet marketing experts that can improve your online business. Gifts you can download are traffic-building e-books, Adsense templates, wordpress themes, softwares & tools, website headers and more.

Covertaffiliatelinks.com
Some Clickbank affiliates find hard to sell Clickbank products due to commission stealing problem. Covertaffiliatelinks.com has a free report that contains tips on how to stop commission thieves and boost your conversion rate.

Freeiq.com - Beta Version
Freeiq.com is a new social media website. Currently have a lot of money making resources in PDF format, video and audio shared by members. You can become a member to upload your content too to promote your website and business. The site was recommended by Joel Comm. He said it will be big in near future.

How to Increase Your E-Bay Response

2009-06-22T22:14:00.002-07:00

Only a successful sale generates profits. You can encourage visitors to your auction, you can alsvo get them to read it, but the most important thing is to get them to bid on it. Below are some tips that can help you increase response on your e-bay listing and make more money on each sale:

1) A lot depends upon how you design your auction. You have to attempt to put information on it in a manner that it gives the much required incentive to the casual or interested visitors to actually bid for your item. For example some people do not give enough importance to the accompanying picture they have posted on eBay. A professionally shot picture with proper lighting and un-intrusive background is as vital as the description of your item.

2) Most of the bidders are apprehensive about disputes and the hassles that they might get into after they pay up. To allay such fears the best policy is to sign up at SquareTrade and get permission to display their logo on your auctions which will assure the bidders that they will be not be shortchanged in any eventuality. It gives a professional look to your auction and you will always see it on PowerSellers auctions. To further your professional image and build confidence, put up all business practices in a visible place giving details, including shipping, time schedules, and refunds.

3) Nothing boosts confidence more than good feedback. Include all positive feed back comments prominently and in the event that you have 100% positive feedback, make sure that it is mentioned on all auctions. If you have a reserve price it is likely to discourage bidders. Displaying a NR (no reserve) along with your item’s name should take care of that.

4) Benefits not features: Make sure your description emphasizes on the benefits that your item can give to the customer, not just its features. This is a classic sales technique. If you have trouble with this, remember: 'cheap' is a feature, 'save money' is a benefit.

5) You can never be sure of which payment method a particular bidder might be comfortable with. Try to include unusual payment methods such as checks, which most of the sellers try to avoid. Also keep just two or three auctions going on for an item you have more than one of in stock rather than choosing the Dutch-auction route.

6) Remember that much depends upon the search results when it comes to categories that are crowded. To ensure that your product comes up in the first ten results and you get the maximum hits you need to upgrade regularly. The best upgrades may be expensive but they may be worth the money you spend for them.

New Forum to Talk about Agloco and It is a Paid to Post Forum

2009-06-22T22:14:00.001-07:00

I just found a forum for people to discuss everything related to Agloco. The forum's address is http://www.agloco.fm. It is not agloco.com. The owner of this forum has nothing to do with the owners of Algoro.

The forum looks simple and currently has 308 members. I think it is pretty new and it is the first forum of Agloco I have seen. If you have a lot of opinions about Agloco whether positive or negative, you may express them out in this forum.

Also, owner of Agloco.fm offers some incentive to members who refer new member and post messages to the forum. The minimum payout is $100. $100 seems to too high and I think the owner should lower the payout or no one will be able to reach the minimum payout.

Blog and Website, Which One is Better for Making Money Online?

2009-06-22T22:09:00.001-07:00

The main difference between blog and website is blog has content update frequently and the latest blog post will appear on the top. Each blog post created in blogs generally welcome comment from readers. So which one is better in generating online income for you? Unfortunately I don't think there are any answers to this question. Which one works better for you will depend on your preferences and behavior. You will have to know which one best suits you before putting serious effort, time and money in Internet marketing or you could end up regret making the wrong choice and suffer losses.

Ok, now lets take a look the the pros and cons of website and blog to help you find out which one is right for you.

Website's Pros

Most Website seldom have new content added frequently. You don't need to add new content and articles to your website if you don't want to. So it saves your a lot of hard works.
You still can get a steady stream of free traffic from search engines even without updating your website often. You wouldn't lose ranking in Google since most of the webmasters don't add fresh content to their sites often too. This apply to most of the niches except some niches that are crowded with blogs in Google.
More flexibilities in AdSense and affiliate programs optimization in your website.
Generate high AdSense CTR if you optimize your AdSense well.

Website's Cons

Take long time to get a lot of traffic and high search engines rankings. Also visitors seldom return to website unless fresh content are added daily.
To survive in long-term, you'll got to master some long-term traffic generating strategies such as good SEO to rank high in search engines, effective article marketing and more.

Blog's Pros

You can join blogger.com or wordpress.com to create a blog easily at no cost. A better option is to register your own domain name and pay a hosting company to host your blog.
Take lesser time to gain a steady stream of traffic by posting new and quality content on your blog daily and using free traffic strategies like social bookmarking, networking in a blog community like mybloglog.com and so on.
When you blog start becoming popular, many bloggers will start noticing you. You will find many of them will link back to your quality post and thus gaining a lot of free quality backlinks to your blog. And Probably, your blog will then rank top 10 in Google and getting more traffic. The more traffic you get, the more money you will earn.

Blog's Cons

Lower AdSense click-through rate. You need to have massive traffic to earn few hundred dollars of AdSense revenue monthly.
Over AdSense and affiliate program optimizations in your blog can annoy your readers and lose traffic.
If you want to maintain a steady stream of traffic, you have to keep on writing. Your returned visitors expect to read something on your blog when they come back.

An Important Reminder on A Google AdSense Policy

2009-06-22T22:06:00.000-07:00

Displaying AdSense ads just below interesting pictures or images in a website use to be a great way to generate high AdSense click-through rate. But Google has disallowed this optimization technique recently.

There are still websites using this technique. Some them may be not aware about this new policies and some of them knew about it but thought that Google will not take it strictly, may be just a warning if Google found their website against this rule. But my advice to you is remove the AdSense ads that place next to or near your pictures immediately if you are one them who uses this technique because your AdSense account might be banned for this reason. I was told by a webmaster that his AdSense account has disabled by Google due to this reason and most probably his AdSense earning will be disabled as well.

Here are two examples I taken from http://adsense.blogspot.com that don't comply to this policies:

And here a page of a website against this policies currently

http://www.moneymakingstuff.com/internetmarketingseo/

Google is pretty strict to the AdSense publishers. So, do take some time to review your sites and blogs to make sure you are fully comply with the policies of Google AdSense program.

Google's Website Optimizer Now Opened to All AdWords Advertisers

2009-06-15T21:05:00.001-07:00

After about 6 months of launching Website Optimizer, Google finally released Website Optimizer (beta) to all AdWords advertiser worldwide on 4 April 2007. If you have no idea what is Website Optimizer, Here's how it works as explained in http://adwords.blogspot.com

Website Optimizer is a free multivariate testing application built into AdWords that helps online marketers increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction by enabling them to continually test different combinations of site content.

So, the tool is designed to boost your sales. It will eliminate your guesswork on what site content works better by letting your website visitors to tell you what works best and thus save your a lot of time and hard work.

To learn more about this tool, please visit Website Optimizer sign up pag e.

I personally think that this a tool that you should spend time to learn about it as when you know how to use it, it will be very beneficial to your PPC marketing with Google AdWords.

Marketing Affiliate Products Without a Website, how?

2009-06-15T21:03:00.000-07:00

Promoting affiliate programs without a website, is it possible? Yes it is possible. In fact there has been plenty of affiliates market their products without websites. They use Google AdWords cost-per-click advertising programs to advertise their affiliate programs and some of them have achieve great success in affiliate marketing after years of testing different AdWords strategies and techniques.

However, Affiliate marketing without a website isn’t limited to Google AdWords advertising only. There are other techniques:

Forum Marketing
Online communities, or forums, are likewise great channels where you could promote your affiliate links. Membership in pHp 2.0 based forums gives you a signature box where you could advertise your links. Use this to advertise your affiliate links. For every post you will make, your signature box would appear. Post a thousand messages, and you’ll have a thousand pages advertising your affiliate links! Want to know the forums which are relevant to the subject serviced by the affiliate products you’re promoting? Use the tool at www.link-advantage.com/search to find the appropriate online community.

Advertise in E-Zines
This may cost you some cash, as many eZines charge for advertising space. Nonetheless, you could expose your affiliate links to highly targeted prospects using this approach. Imagine if the eZine has a list of 10,000 people. You’d immediately be able to reach 10,000 quality leads with one advertisement. Again, you don’t need a website. Simply use your affiliate link in your ads.

Unique Idea to Make Money On ebay (Part 2)

2009-06-15T21:02:00.002-07:00

Marketing Your Service
To make money you need to have customers. You are going to go out and find customers. Don’t worry, it is not very difficult. I believe you can do it. Here are 2 methods to find customers for your business.

Post Your Flyer
Look for a local shop that can prints out 500 copies of your flyer. The cost should be anywhere between $20 to $40. Then go out to post your leaflets through 500 letterboxes. You can start with your own area to post your leaflets. After you have posted all the leaflets, all you need to do is wait for calls.

Once you received your first call, you are going to arrange to meet your first customer. You will meet your customer at their home as the items usually placed at their homes. Bring your digital camera and a notebook. Be cheerful and polite with anyone you meet.

Take a few shots on the item using your digital camera. You can get good results in daylight, but using the flash. Record as much detail about the item as possible like make, serial number, model and other details. Make sure you have agreed the following things with your customer:

The selling price of the item
How much commission you’ll charge and how much money the owner will receive.
The item must not advertise for sell during the period you are trying to sell the item on ebay.
Who will pay the shipping fee? You, the owner or the buyer
Who will send the item once it was sold

Establish a good relationship with your customers. Make them trust you and they are likely do business with you again.

Another marketing method is to buy a copy of all your local newspapers and start checking at the ads section in all the newspapers and look for the ads that offer items for sell. You are going to contact the sellers to tell them you can sell their items for them for a fee. You can contact them using phone. Is this a sales call? Yes it is. If you don’t like to do that, there is another option. Use your leaflets. Send them to the sellers to offer your service. You may found many items for sell, but you should not contact each of the item’s seller to offer your service as not every item will make you profit. Here are some tips on what kinds of items you should pick to sell for the sellers:

Small items with value more than $100.
Jewelry and metals.
Collectables and antiques.

Listing You Items on ebay
After your customer agrees all the terms and conditions and let you sell the item. It is time to list the item on ebay for sale. You will be uploading a picture (pick the best picture) of the item to ebay, write an attractive title and a description.

Start with an auction listing instead of fixed price listing to allow ebay visitors to bid for your item and this can make your selling price go higher. Try not to set your starting price too high as people in ebay tend to like bargains. They prefer to bid for an item with a low starting price.

Freelancing For Cash Online

2009-06-15T21:02:00.001-07:00

Freelancing refers to the process of offering your services for someone else on a per project basis. The best way to explain this is through an example.

Supposing you possess excellent writing skills. There are tons of webmasters and internet marketers out there who are in need of fresh content and new products on a daily basis. Their demand for digitally written works is so great that even if they are blessed with just as much writing prowess, they won’t have the time to come up with everything that they need. Hence, they resort to outsourcing.

And this is where you enter the picture.

As a freelancer offering your writing services for a fee, you could take in some projects they will give you. You will be paid per delivery, and once that’s done, you could take in more clients for consistent earnings.

But freelancing is not only limited to writing, or ghostwriting as it is technically known. There are other services that you could offer, depending on the area of proficiency you possess. Here are more examples:

* graphic creation and design
* web creation and design
* software development
* data encoding
* translation to specific languages
* marketing consultancy
* strategic placement consultancy
* Admin and Accounting

If you want to dabble in freelancing, here are some splendid places where you could advertise your services and solicit some clients:

www.elance.com
www.scriptlance.com
www.guru.com

Creating an account on the above sites are free. You will need to fill in your personal and working information in your profile. The employers will review your profile to decide whether you are right for their jobs. So, make sure you update your profile well.

Unique Idea to Make Money On ebay (Part 1)

2009-06-15T21:00:00.000-07:00

If you have been learning how to make money online for some time, you may have aware that you can make some extra money by selling your unwanted things on e-bay instead of throwing them away.

But, do you know that there are plenty of people who struggle to dispose their unwanted stuff for extra cash never think about they can dispose their stuff on ebay even though they heard about ebay before.

They just sell their items using the old-fashion ways like spending money to advertising in newspapers, sticking their sale notices on everywhere on the street. If you can offer them a better way to sell their unwanted things then they would like to accept your offer. And this created a business opportunity for you to profit online.

The business will work in these ways:

1) You approach the people who desperate to sell the stuff.

2) Discuss about your offers with these people.

3) If they accept your offers, you may start photographing their items and list the items on ebay on a no sale, no fee basis.

4) If an item successful sold on ebay, you earn certain percentage on the selling price as agreed earlier with the item's owner.

The owner possesses the item until it was sold and thus the item will be stored at the owner place, and you don’t need to spend any money up front.

You can use your existing bank account or open a personal bank account for the business until the bank starts bugging you. Other things you must have are:

An ebay account - To list your customer items for selling.

A PayPal account - To accept payment from ebay buyers.

Your own business cards - You can design your own business cards and print them out to distribute to your customers. Or a better way is to create a flyer. A flyer is a small advert and the suggested size is A5 (half A4) with the details of your offer and contact inside the flyer. Here’s an example:

Give your flyer to your potential customer when meeting with them. If they don’t have anything to sell yet, tell them to stick it to their doors or walls, or keep it until the need your service.

The headline and messages in the flyer should be simple but attractive to the readers.

Set Your Price
The reasonable service charge for an item sold is 12% to 15% on the selling price. If the item doesn’t sell, no charge to the customer and the agreement end.

AdSense Master Plan - Guide to Starting an AdSense Business

2009-06-15T20:59:00.002-07:00

Kurt Chrisler has written an AdSense e-book. The e-book is called AdSense Master Plan which contains a step-by-step guide from creating an AdSense content-based website to promoting the site in order to generate Google AdSense advertising revenue. You will learn some of tips and ideas such as how to locate underdeveloped niches, perform proper keyword research, ways to build AdSense site, methods of driving traffic to your site, how to optimize your AdSense ads to achieve high click-through rate and more.

Kurt is currently offered this e-book free to the public at http://www.adsensemasterplan.com. To sign up to download this e-book, you need to give your name and e-mail address.

Break.com - Social Media Site that Pays a Lot to Members

2009-06-15T20:59:00.001-07:00

Break.com is another social media website like Metacafe.com that worths mention. Members of Break.com will make money for posting original videos, pictures and games. Here's how it works:

If a member post a short original video or film to Break.com's homepage, Break.com will pay the member up to $2,000 to buy the video or film.

If a member post an original picture and feature on the gallery, the member will be paid $25.

If member created an interesting game, the member can email to Break.com to request the game posted on the game channel of Break.com. The member can them sell the game to Break.com for $2,000.

Here are some tips by Break.com to help members to get paid:

How do I get my picture in a gallery?
Create and upload an original picture. We scour the site for the best of the best. If we use yours, we'll send you some paperwork to fill out. Once you send it back in, you will be paid $25 bucks through Paypal within one week.

How do I get my video on the Homepage?
Create and upload an awesome video, short film or flash animated short. If it's cool, funny or interesting enough, we'll put it on the homepage!

How to Profit Online with Parked Domain Names

2009-06-15T20:58:00.001-07:00

Making money online from parked domain names seems to be an unfamiliar concept to many people. The concept is simple:

You register a domain name.

Then park the domain name to a domain parking company.

The domain parking company will create a parked page for your domain. name with sponsored ads, links and search box inside the parked page. Some domain parking services even will add relevant articles and content to the parked page.

You earn ad revenue for the traffic generated by you to the parked domain. Some domain parked services will share ad revenue with you and some allow you to display your AdSense ads and keep 100% of the AdSense commission earn.

The cost for parking a domain usually less than $5 monthly. If you have domain names that left unused with existing traffic, you can start using them to make money by parking them to a domain parking company such as Parkedgold.com and Godaddy.com - Cash Parking.

Another way is to buy a expired domain name comes with existing traffic. One of the important factors you should pay close attention to when looking for a expired domain name is the link popularity of the expired domain. An expired domain name with many backlinks is very likely to have a targeted traffic built in. You can find expired domain name from Godaddy domain auction, there is a section in auction where you can bid for domain names that have expired recently.

Get Free Targeted Visitors from MSN

2009-06-15T20:57:00.001-07:00

More visitors to your website means more website revenue. Here's is an opportunities to increase your website traffic free. MSN is offering free $50 pay-per-click advertising credit to new advertisers opening a new Microsoft adcenter account.

http://startadcenter.com/lcoffInexp%5Fcj/

You need to pay a one-time activation$5 fee when opening a new Microsoft adcenter account to get the $50 credit. Bid starts at $0.05 per click. Since the competition in Microsoft adcenter is lower than Google and Yahoo. You can expect to get hundred of visitors with the $50 ad credit. Offer valid until 30/4/2007 and available to US residents only.

Derek's Free Gift - How to Dramatically Increase Your Online Traffic

2009-06-15T20:56:00.001-07:00

Derek Gehl, owner of marketingtips.com sent an email to his newsletter subscribers offering a free copy of "How to Dramatically Increase Your Online Traffic" to his subscribers and to the public for a limited time. I didn't post this free offer here as I thought Derek offered this new e-books privately to his subscribers only. Is my mistake, Derek is actually giving away free copies to anyone who want one. This e-book is going to teach you the the exact same strategies and methods used by Derek to get a lot traffic and increase your online revenue. It is helpful especially to beginners and experienced Internet marketers will learn something new reading this book. Here's is the link to get the e-book

http://marketingtips.com/trafficebook

This e-book is currently sell for $27.00 at http://www.marketingtips.com/increasetraffic/tips.html but for a limited time, you can download it free from the above link.

Amazon New Ads System for Affiliate

2009-06-15T20:54:00.004-07:00

Amazon has launched a new ads system called 'Content Links' for affiliates to promote Amazon products. Amazon's Content Links are similar to Kontera In-Text Advertising. Context Links automatically identify relevant phrases and keywords within your page content in your website and turn those phrases and keywords into links to Amazon products. When a visitor clicks a content link and purchase a product, you make money.

Content Links are customizable and here are the customization options provided by Amazon allowing you to control:

the number of links on each page
which portion of the page will be linked
which Amazon product categories are linked
the matching of exact product names only
if preview windows will appear when your site visitors hover over the links, and the style of those windows
the options of single underline, dashed underline, and double underline link formats to indicate to your site visitors that they are Context Links

See how Amazon Content Link look like in this website muppetcentral.com.

If you are Amazon affiliate you can try it immediately. If you are interested to test this ads system but not an Amazon affiliate, you need to join Amazon Associates program

Super Blogging

2009-06-15T20:54:00.003-07:00

Blogging is one of the ways to make money online and it is getting more and more popular lately. Creating a blog using services like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com is easy and they don't cost you a dime to set up a blog. However, making money by blogging isn't something simple. You need to have the right knowledge and learn several promotion techniques in order to generate income from your blog.

I just found a free membership site teaches people how to start blogging for cash from scratch. The site name is Super-Blogging.com, becoming a member of Super-Blogging.com will be given access to an e-book and video on Super Blogging. Grab your copy now at http://www.super-blogging.com.

Everything you need to know to get started are outlined in simple easy-to-follow steps in the book and Training Videos.

Free Online Store to Sell Clickbank's Stuff

2009-06-15T20:54:00.001-07:00

1Clickaffiliate.com is currently offering free online store. Anyone can sign up with 1clickaffiliate.com to get a Clickbank store plugs in with over 10,000 Clickbank products that are ready to sell. Here are the main features of the 1clickaffiliate.com store:

* You can choose to use your own domain name or a subdomain of 1clickaffiliate.com for your store.

* Free hosting and no HTML knowledge required.

* Loaded with more than 10,000 products with weekly products update and sorted by categories and sub-categories.

* Dozens of templates to select and you can add your own articles and content to the store.

* Make money with AdSense by displaying your AdSense ads on the store. All you need to do is typing in your AdSense Publisher code.

Click here to try this free service.

Free Report Reveals How to Find Profitable Niches

2009-06-15T20:53:00.003-07:00

Finding a profitable niche is the first step to making money with affiliate programs and PPC ads campaign like AdSense, YPN, and etc. It is crucial to identify a profitable niche before you set up a website to profit online because if you start without choosing a right niche, you may find that later:

a) The niche is saturated and you can't get traffic for your main keywords.

b) The niche is too small and only a small number of people visit your website.

c) The AdSense pay-per-click is too low and you make less than 5 cent per click.

So if you want to making a serious money online, finding the right niche is a must. So how to find a good niche? Here's a free 47 pages report that reveals the best ways to find and research hot niches.

How To Uncover Red-Hot Niches With A Simple, Step-By-Step Formula

You can download it free and start learning niche marketing.

EMC Internet Marketing Training Center

2009-06-15T20:53:00.001-07:00

JP Schoeffel from Ethuccash.com has just launched his first EMC Internet Marketing Training Center and it is 100% free to join. Inside the EMC marketing center, there are around 100 lessons covering the following topics:

- Internet Marketing Strategies
- Niche Marketing
- Traffic Generation Secrets
- Viral Marketing
- Article Maketing

And

- Bum Marketing

There will be a lot more lessons in the coming weeks, including:

- Affiliate Marketing
- Networking
- Social Bookmarking
- Site Monetization
- Copywriting
- Online advertising
- Offline Advertising
...

You can also add your own comment on each lesson and discuss the lessons in the "Training Center" board of the forum.