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Showing posts with label pay per click. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pay per click. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

No Money Down!

Today I stumbled upon a product that really excited me. There is always a bunch of hype about products with huge sales pages and sales letters that seems endless. A lot of the products are just hype. But, and I mean but, I have found a product that raised my blood pressure, and made me take all of 1 minute to decide to try. It's called HyperVRE For someone like me who has been stuggling to make money with those so called free adsense sites that have compiled thousands of pages with 2931 broken links to be exact, and poor content. This product in itself is AMAZING!

HyperVRE can Generate THOUSANDS of fresh, unique content-rich webpages from highly-targeted keyword lists. Ever heard that "Content is King"? That's only half of it... "FRESH and UNIQUE Content is King"!

Add extremely targeted auto-refreshing content to your website by using rotating keyword definitions and put your niche keywords on steroids. Fill each of your webpages with content the search engines will love. When determing how important a webpage is, search engines look at words that are highly related to the main keyword and that are frequently updated. Your rotating keyword definitions will attract the SE spiders like ants at a picnic.

Keep your webpages fresh with unique content by placing several rotating RSS feeds to ensure that all pages are unique and highly related to the topic. This is CRITICAL. Having these RSS feeds will make your pages unique to the search engines and you shouldn't get penalized for duplicate content.

Include one high quality article based around the main keyword for the webpage Insert your unique Google™ AdSense ads on each and every page. By using 3 Adsense code blocks which are integrated into each page you will maximize your clickthrough rates.

Use the power of pay-per-click ads with the potential of affiliate payouts by creating contextual ad links within your content-driven webpages.

Dynamically create unique affiliate links and employ them in the content of your webpage based on the keywords of your website. Use your unique affiliate ID for ClickBank, Amazon.com, and others within your contextual links. (*For GOLD users only*)

Use a perfect linking structure to ensure all of your web pages get indexed quickly into the search engines.

The best part of all this. You can test the product out for FREE!!! You can actually generate pages using keywords and the FREE templates and have unique webpages that you can post in less than 5 minutes, for FREE. HyperVRE give it a try, and you will be excited too.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Not a Get Rich Quick Scheme

Affiliate programs are a very easy first choice for newcomers to make money online. Just about everyone who is trying to make money online starts here simply because of how easy it is.

1. All you have to do is to join a merchant program as an affiliate and send visitors to the merchant site, free of charge of course. Why should you be paying anyone to sell their product for them? Anyone asking you for money upfront, I would stay away from.

2. Once your visitor has been sent to the affiliate site, all other work such as making a sale, delivering the product or service, receiving payment, handling the complaints or refunds, is all handled by the merchant site.

3. The merchant site also handles the payment of commissions that are to be paid to you when ever a sale is made because the visitor you sent to the merchant site has purchased a product from them.

4. You can also make commissions if a visitor you referred to the site joins the affiliate program, and they make a sale. This is known as a two tier system. You should investigate these systems closely, because there is a fine line between affiliate programs and multi-level marketing schemes or scams, you can choose the appropriate word.

Sound simple enough doesn’t it? But there is always a catch. I am willing to bet that almost all affiliates soon find that in spite of their best efforts they are making little or no money.

The reason behind this is simple. Affiliate earnings don’t depend on how many visitors that are sent to the merchant site, but how many of those visitors buy the product or service that the merchant is offering.

So just sending visitors to the merchant site is definitely not enough, because sending visitors to a site is very easy. Link exchanges, text links, or random posting to forums.
Your merchant site that you’re linking to will be seen hundreds of times but it will not make a sale. And the reason is very simple. These visitors are not qualified visitors. They don’t care what product you are trying to sell. They are looking at it to earn credits so they can show their site to others. If you want to make money, you need to qualify your visitors, get them primed for the product, use sizzle words, create some excitement, bait the hook so to speak, so the merchant account can close the deal.

So if you want to make serious income from affiliate programs, the thing to do is to send qualified visitors to your merchant site.

Who is a qualified visitor?
This is the visitor who reached your site by themselves. They are looking for the product you are promoting. This is why they took the trouble of finding it from a search engine or from the particular kind of ads or forums. Chose where you put your advertising links or text ads carefully, putting them in the wrong place could be very expensive.

Ensuring good ad placement, good ad context and great copy will create excitement. Make the visitor red hot for a sale. They are already interested in your product. If they find what they want on your merchant site, he is very much likely to look at the product's features, mentally compare it with other similar products, and ask for more information by giving his email address. All this can lead to a sale and a commission for you.

How to target interested visitors

The best way to reach qualified visitors is promoting your products through search engines submissions, placing catchy ads using adwords, or other pay per click programs, posting in forums or through your very own website. It all depends on your budget. If your just starting out, you may want to use as many free methods as you can. If you have a budget to spend on some pay per click programs, it can be a solid investment if done right.

This may sound terrifying to newcomers at first. Most people think that they need to be a master of html, but all these are do-able with a little effort and knowledge. You can get any of the help for mastering all these skills from the resources freely available on the internet. I know some of the guru’s might be cringing because if it’s free, they aren’t making any money.

Joining the right affiliate programs can also help a good deal to gain affiliate mastery. While great many affiliate programs give you a few text ads and banners and be done with you, there are some programs that give valuable training to succeed. There is nothing wrong with putting a little more effort than just spending a few minutes putting together some text links, or ads. Be creative; research the product so you can stand behind what you’re trying to sell. Remember luck favor those who are prepared.

Remember to be positive. Most newcomers trying to make money on the internet fail because they expect to be rich in a week, if not overnight or sooner. They expect once they post their site, link or ad. When this doesn't happen as it rarely does in real life, they get discouraged. The result -- they give up, frustrated.

The reality is that nobody becomes rich overnight in internet marketing. You have to work at it consistently. It may take weeks, or months of hard work. 15-20 minutes a day, just doesn’t cut it, no matter what the experts say. Let's be serious.

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Does Adsense Make Any Cents?

By knowing what the most expensive keywords on the internet are, you can create websites, blogs and web pages based on these keywords. On these sites and pages, Google can serve expensive ads that match the content of the sites (based on your keywords) and you could promote affiliate offers that reap high bounties when visitors click on the ads or purchase the products that you are promoting.

The challenge lies in driving traffic to these sites. One way to drive traffic is through search engine optimization, whereby you create a website that ranks highly on the search engines and receive free traffic. This can be tricky and very time consuming. Or, if you already have an existing well-ranked site, you can create new pages linked from your existing pages. This is a little more difficult to accomplish since the pages you are creating may not have anything to do with your original site. A second way to drive traffic is through online advertising.

With regards to online advertising, one key is to understand correlations between keywords. By determining correlations between inexpensive and expensive keywords, you can advertise on the inexpensive keyword (via pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on search engines) to drive traffic to your website that serves ads based on expensive keywords. For instance, advertising on the keyword painting ($0.20 keyword), and sending visitors to your site about the related topic home remodeling ($2.00 keyword) allows you to profit from the wide spread between the keyword prices of the two correlated keywords. This is known as keyword arbitrage. The spread between the two words is your profit. Sounds simple enough, but picking the wrong keyword, can end up costing you a lot of money. For example, I ran a small campaign, spending $25.00. My keyword bids ranged from $.05 to $.011 cents per click. I set the max daily budget at $7.00. Within 3.5 days my budget was gone. The results….I made $7.64. What happened? I used the wrong keywords, I generated 300 clicks from the cheaper words, but the traffic still wasn’t qualified enough. There wasn’t a strong enough correlation between the 2 keywords.

There are two other ways to profit from knowing the most expensive keywords. The first doesn't even require you to own or operate a website. In this method, you advertise using inexpensive means (e.g., via pay-per-click advertising on inexpensive keywords or CPM advertising) and direct traffic to high paying affiliate offers.

The second method is to set up your own search engine. There are several companies that allow you to easily set up a search engine that serves PPC ads syndicated from Google, Overture or other PPC search engine networks. Once you create your engine, you can drive traffic directly to your PPC results, and get paid every time someone clicks on one of the results. Likewise, on your search engine's home page, you can include many links to expensive keywords, so that when someone clicks on it, the engine shows expensive ads based on those keywords.

Understanding keyword pricing is critical to the online advertising, PPC search engine and affiliate marketing businesses, businesses that combine for over $25 billion a year in revenues. With a market of this size, generating substantial profits, if you have the right information, is really not that challenging. I just want a small percentage of this, don’t you?

Thursday, December 7, 2006

Part-time Work, Full-time Pay

In the past advertising revenue was reserved for those sites with large amounts of traffic, now even teenagers like my son are making a quick buck with their online hobby blogs, talking about movies, music, and video games. People also place adsense advertising on their online family photo albums, their blogs and their business sites all the time, even with a small amount of traffic, you could end up having your web hosting costs paid for. With blogs, you don’t even have those costs to consider. Sites like blogger don’t charge for hosting. What could be better than that? Nothing better than an opportunity to make money free, only investing your time doing something you love.

Adsense has revolutionized the world of paid advertising. In the past cheesy, ugly, insert your negative adjective here banner advertising littered every website, as site owners attempted to monetize their site. Google Adsense is very different; it can blend in and compliment your site with ads that are built around the topic on the page, making the ads targeted to your reader. Income is derived from the number of clicks generated from the visitors, giving the site/blog owner an unlimited income potential. Keyword prices or payouts to the site owner can be particularly lucrative, even if there are only a few ads on the site.

Google adsense has dominated the web; with the opportunity to generate passive income, with little work on the website/blog, more and more people are jumping on the adsense bandwagon, and using Google adsense to generate money. Some of the highest earners manage to attract enough visitors with quality content to easily make thousands of dollars each and every month, just from using adsense alone! I am slowly starting to generate regular monthly income from this blog. This is definitely not a get rich quick scheme. It takes a lot of dedication, many postings, and quality posts.

One of the other benefits of adsense, is fact that anyone can apply to use Google adsense for free. Signing up for blogger has made it even easier, since it is owned by Google itself. These two facts have caused millions and millions of people to sign up. This allowed Google to extend their web presence to millions if not billions of websites and it now generates millions of dollars in advertising revenue for Google.

One of the driving forces behind Google Adsense is its signifigance to each and every page on the blog/website; the program scans the page and looks up keywords appearing in the website copy and automatically displays relevant ads. This increases the chances of people clicking through the results are very targeted ads in front of very qualified traffic. What does that mean to the blogger/website owner? It means they have the opportunity to put more money in their pocket not to mention putting more money in Google’s pocket.

Many of the so called web gurus are multiplying their income by operating several blogs / websites and attempting to attract as many targeted visitors as possible using high quality niche articles. Once the sites are fine tuned with good content and quality keywords, they can be left alone, but still keep on generating income each and every day. Occasional updates can keep the sites fresh, and help search engine placement.

It is no surprise Google adsense is the most widely used form of advertising; they have created a “pay-per-click” program where advertisers do not pay for ads that are not clicked on by visitors, and website owners are paid more for each click than they would if the system were based on the number of people viewing those ugly banner ads.


All in all Google adsense has developed itself into a powerful tool, used by the masses. There are imitators that are popping up everywhere. Azoogle is another company that is offering pay per click advertising. I have set up an account and I will be comparing the two programs over the next few months. I have heard many great things about them, and I am very anxious to see the results.