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Every ad in our blog or website is really worth for our business. If we’re planning to monetize our website or blog, the ads you see are the basis of monetization. Clickbank and Google Adsense are the top programs to deal with, and it’s sure that you really make money with them by placing ads within your website or blog. Of course, real traffic or unique targeted visitors are needed daily for our blog or website to generate revenue and impressions.

But what are the differences between Clickbank and Google Adsense? They have the same goal, which is to help people in monetizing their website or blog. But these top revenue programs are specifically competed themselves to be the best revenue program ever. More and more people are beginning to have interest in putting their ads to their website or blog, whether it’s Google Adsense or Clickbank, but whose better?

Google Adsense is a pay-per-click program which allows the publisher to earn money through the visitors’ clicks. These ads came from the advertisers who use Google Adwords for their ad campaign. Advertisers have set their rates depending on the budget they have for their own ad, and the publisher will have his or her share through targeted visitors’ clicks.

Of course, you’re not allowed to click your own ads because it’s called a fraudulent click which Google is very smart in detecting the IP of the one’s who click the same ads on your blog or website. The earnings really depend on the keywords and niche you have included in your website or blog, because there are high paying keywords and low paying keywords as well. You can check it using the Google Adsense Keyword Tool, or the Google Trends. You can also pay to others for advertising your own Adsense which their site must have huge traffic and high PR. Google Adsense has a minimum payment of $100 through Western Union or mailed check.

On the other hand, Clickbank is a pay-per-sale program which allows the publisher to earn money through clicking your ads and purchased the product you promoted. These ad rates are being set by vendors, who are the sources of selling these digital products to many, as we only promote their products to our website or blog. We can earn up to 75% of their total sales, much bigger and more potential than Google Adsense. The good news is, we can click our own Clickbank ads because if we’re planning to purchase the product we’ve promoted, still we earn a huge potential income.

So far, there are more users who use Clickbank ads rather than Google Adsense. In terms of making money through our website or blog, Google Adsense and Clickbank is a great tandem, and it’s possible to combine them together in your website or blog as we earn much more than sticking to just one program.

People are asking how to make money online in a recession. One way is by observing how successful companies are behaving right now, given the present economic situation. From there, you can apply the same thing to your home based online business, and perhaps come out ahead in the coming months.

Successful companies know that there are business cycles. These intrepid entrepreneurs know that eventually, the tide will turn. Before you know it, people will start buying more things again. Consumers will fearlessly start spending once more.

For bloggers who earn an online income, some of you have no doubt seen declines in online advertising revenue. Fear not. Continue to build. Keep on posting useful and relevant information on the web, so that when the economy rebounds your sites are there, ready to serve the demand.

I read about this fellow who was despairing because his network of 30 sites was only earning $200 a month from AdSense. He wanted to quit. He was so desperate that he wanted Google to ban him.

It’s understandable why he would feel that way. Imagine, you work on 30 websites and all you can earn is around $6/month per site. He tries to attract more traffic to those sites, but somehow that magic $100/day target eludes him.

He continues to spend time on those projects, yet his online earnings refuse to grow. Where can he find the easy cash he has been dreaming of?

What do successful companies do in a recession? They carefully analyze their costs (time and money), and channel their resources to projects that work. In the case of our AdSense blogger, it may be better to focus on something other than those 30 blogs.

Yes, just leave those 30 blogs alone. Let them continue bringing in your $2,400 a year. In the meantime, build other blogs elsewhere. Create a network of 30 blogs in another topic. When you reach the $200/month level for that second set of 30, then leave those alone.

You can then branch out to other things such as affiliate marketing or even CPA marketing. In the meantime, you’ll have 60 sites working in the background. I’ve seen cases where a bunch of websites have not been updated for years, yet each of them brings in around $7 to $50 (in some cases, $100) each month from online advertising alone.

This reminds of another internet marketer who promoted a program in 2007 and promptly forgot about it. It was a simple thing to promote on the web, and for two years he did not hear anything about it. Then last week, the affiliate manager told him he was going to receive a check for $436 in affiliate commissions.

What a pleasant surprise, don’t you think? The timing was perfect, actually, since he needed an additional $400 for a home improvement project. You know what they say about the teacher appearing when the student is ready, right?

So if you want to make money, do what farmers, teachers, parents, and captains of industry do: BUILD SENSIBLY TODAY.

There is a lot of real estate on the internet waiting for you. You have Twitter, Plurk, Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogspot, WordPress, Qassia, Yola, Synthasite, Scribd, your own dotcom sites, videoblogs, photoblogs, membership sites, and more! You don’t have to fill those sites with articles every single day. All you need to do is build a useful/relevant site, market it, and move on.

True, there will be some flagship sites that you will need to nurture and develop on at least a weekly basis, but nothing stops you from creating bite-size, self-contained, 20- to 30-page sites that will not require too much maintenance.

So if you want more cash, try creating something of value and relevance today. Keep on building. Sensibly, that is. And when the economy improves, be prepared to be rewarded for your efforts. Here’s to your continued and lasting success!

Many of the people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too. If you’re interested in taking it further — blogging for bucks, here are five strategies that could turn your blog into a moneymaker.

1. Sell advertising. This is likely the most common means of leveraging a blog to generate income. If yours happens to become a well-known blog, or one that is well-received in a particular niche, it’s always possible to sell ad space on your own. For lesser-known blogs, services such as Google’s AdSense or BlogAds enable bloggers to establish ad programs. AdSense’s — which lets you select several ads that are consistent with the content of your blog — pays you based on how many readers click on the ads for further information. Even better, it’s free. BlogAds, on the other hand, hooks bloggers up with would-be advertisers and levies a commission in return for any ad placements that result.

2. Help sell others’ products. Here is another click-through opportunity. Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a conduit between readers and online sites offering various goods and services. One popular choice is Amazon.com. If, for instance, you offer book reviews or even just mention a book in passing in your blog, an affiliate program provides a means for your readers to click directly from your blog to Amazon to obtain further information about the book. If they break out the checkbook or charge card, you get paid as well.

3. Solicit contributions. Not every blog-related income opportunity involves hawking goods or services. If, for instance, your small-business blog supports a cause or issue in some fashion — say you repeatedly mention tax reform, health care or some other topic — you can always ask for reader support. Even if you’ve attracted a group of regular followers who simply enjoy reading what you have to say, they may be willing to underwrite their loyalty with a little financial help. Programs such as PayPal make it easy to establish a simple on-site contribution collection button.

4. Market your services in your blog. Many people associate blogs exclusively with a cyberspace-based soapbox — a place to shout your opinions and little more than that. Granted, blogs are an ideal venue to share your thoughts with others, but don’t overlook their capacity to generate new business as well. When appropriate, work in references to what you do and, in turn, what you may be able to offer any would-be client or customer who may be reading your blog. That can spread your opinion and your business moxie at the same time.”Instead of short commentaries that begin a dialogue with readers, as many blogs do, I write the equivalent of journal articles that demonstrate my abilities, strategies and perspectives on specific issues

5. Use a blog to deepen your existing customer relationships. Nor does any marketing material inserted in blog content have to be limited to bringing in completely new business. By using a blog to regularly communicate with existing clients as well as other readers, you can take advantage of the opportunity to fully inform them about everything your business does. That may expand your readers’ understanding of the full scope of your products or services.

What really is the difference between an and network and an affiliate network?

The question rages in many minds who’re nouveau to the Internet Marketing Scenario. One easy answer, is that it really doesn’t matter, which is which as long as one is paying to get the results.
The entire objective of these networks is to act as an effective middleman to reach out to the few thousands of small sites(Don’t believe any if they claim they’ve more). Who are catering to specific verticals/ small portals where advertisers can advertise in Bulk. The so called “Mutual Fundsisation” of websites leads to a similar synergy and benefit. Popularised by the hugely popular Google “Adsense” and “Adwords” programs. So how does it work?

1. For Small Site Owners- They don’t have to pay a dime for any sales efforts or employ a sales force. If a small portion of their visitors click on the banners displayed, they stand to make a tidy sum. So more the visitors, more the chances of clicks and more the money. Even Bigger sites tend to utilise their unutilised inventory by monetising on the Google Adsense Program. For more details on the same click http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/ads/

2. For Advertisers - They can get a good bargain while buying through a network. Most of these networks have a few Star sites, which give lots of volumes and thousands of small ones, which together also make a tidy buy. The cost of approaching them is lower as against a Big ticket buy on a mainstream site. Lastly, most of these networks offer CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) buys, which is absolute value for money.

So tackling the final question, what’s the difference?
It’s just that in Affiliate Networks, various sites apply to be a client’s “affiliate” and the client knows exactly who his affiliates are and how well each of them are performing. In real life, it’s the closest to a franchise model. A more open model

In case of Ad Networks – They buy in bulk from smaller websites and come to the clients as an overall bouquet of websites. Ads are placed after optimisation depending on campaign objectives. It’s good for bulk buys, where a client buys for say 10 mn impressions or 20,000 clicks,

Finally, in this incestuous world of Online Marketing, nothing is absolute. We’re seeing more transparency for the customers and lots are heading the CPA way. Let’s wait and watch how the next couple of years pan out

Even the best blog authors need a little help to spice up their sidebar. While some argue that a plain, white-space inspired sidebar is best, I’ve become used to the little gardens of chicklets that most bloggers cultivate next to their posts.

Here are some of the best ones I’ve run into on the web.

1. Page Rank Checker

When it comes right down to it, this may be one of the most important metrics on your blog. While some people say Google Page Rank isn’t as important as it used to be, it still determines how high up Google will generally display your site when it is competing with others on a particular search term. Once your Page Rank grows above level 2 or so (remember each level is logarithmically harder to get to than the last), it isn’t a bad idea to show it off. This is especially useful if your readers don’t have the Google toolbar installed.

If you don’t know what your Page Rank is, you can either get the toolbar, or you can just pop over to PRChecker and submit your site’s URL.

2. Who’s.amung.us

Don’t worry, this is the last “true” chicklet on the list. It’s a very worthy addition though, because it tracks not the number of visits to your site, but instead, the actual number of users on your site at any given time. For instance, if you had a surge of users and had 50 viewing your site simultaneously and then it went back down to 10 users, Who’s.amung.us would give you both the minimum and maximum numbers for the day.

On top of this, it’s not account based, so anyone can view your stats and you can look up the stats of other participating sites. A really original way of thinking about site traffic!

3. TwitStamp

I discovered our second Twitter-related entry when I came across it on Mark’s blog (he’s our managing editor). He has a ton of great widgets on his sidebar (his articles aren’t too shabby either), but this one really stood out to me. It’s a clear summary of your Twitter information and along with your latest update, it includes several of the people you are following as well. There are several configuration options and you can test it out on a dark or light background before copying the code.

4. Retaggr

While Retaggr has a great number of uses, one of their neatest features is a collapsable profile card. When it renders on your page, it will look like a small chicklet that fits in with any others you might have. Upon clicking it, though, it inflates into a complete profile of all your Retaggr information. It even has a little “loading” circle to indicate what’s going on to users. Of course you need to be a Retaggr user already or create a free account, but it’s well worth it for all the different widgets they have available.

My only complaint is that many users might not know to click the widget or what it is at all. You might frame it with a little explanatory text if you are worried about this.

5. Wakoopa

Wakoopa is an interesting little site that we talked about a few weeks ago. I shouldn’t really say little, as it’s a huge database of software and, recently, web apps. If you have a free Wakoopa account, you can get several different widgets that utilize data collected about what software you use most frequently. As a power-user you might very well define yourself by the software you use every single day. This top list probably says more about you than you think.

The widget is relatively attractive and functionally narrow. There aren’t a lot of customization options right now, but I think the information it provides is valuable enough to make up for this.

6. The Classic Blogroll

The last entry on our list isn’t really a widget at all. At least not in the traditional sense. Since time immemorium, blogs have had lists of links to other sites on them called “blogrolls.” I have noticed a marked decrease in the number of blogs using these recently and would like to emphasize how they can be useful to both bloggers and the community at large.

First of all, a blogroll can say a lot about how YOU view the rest of the internet. You can pad the top with a few sites you visit almost every day, then list a few blogs whose owners you are familiar with. Be careful not to overpopulate your blogroll with too many sites though. Otherwise, you might hurt your Page Rank by linking to lesser websites. If you have almost no Page Rank it doesn’t matter so much, but you won’t want anything holding you back in the future.

If you have a good relationship with another blogger, encourage them to swap links with you, that way readers of both your blogs can be shared between you.

Wrap-Up

That’s all for now. There are a MILLION widgets, chicklets, embeds, and other discrete objects you can place on your blog. Be considerate of your users when doing this and try to limit yourself to about two lengths of a standard monitor. Beyond this not only will your widgets get no visibility, but you’re just increasing your load time.

Be sure to share your favorite widgets in the comments and let us know how you use your sidebar.

Are you always on the lookout for ways to improve your blogging? With the many aspects involved in maintaining and building a blog it’s understandable that certain areas of your blogging may have become stale. Every blog whether it’s new or established can benefit from periodic reevaluations.

Here are 5 blogging tips that should help tune-up and re energize any blogs performance.

1. Know your Subject

It’s always a good idea to possess a certain amount of knowledge concerning your selected subject matter. Your choice of topic could be based upon a personal interest or perhaps something you want to learn about. Either way you’ll want to be familiar with the subject so that you’re content will be informative and fresh for your readers.

2. Don’t Stray from your Subject

Remain consistent with the theme of your blog. If your blog is about water sports for instances, don’t start posting on embroidering unless it is somehow related to water sports. The point here is that if you start to veer from your original subject then readers will become confused and uninterested. After all they were attracted to your blog based upon the original theme. You’ve worked hard for these subscribers and you don’t want to lose them like that.

3. Maintain Quality Content

As mentioned previously you’ll want to have a certain amount of familiarity with the subject you are blogging about. This will be reflected in the quality of the content you post on your blog. This information needs to be interesting and informative for your visitors. The reason they’ve subscribe is their interest in the subject and obvious yearning to learn more about it. They’re counting on you to supply them with this educational information. It also wouldn’t hurt to inject humor where appropriate for the entertainment element it brings to the post.

4. Post Frequently

For a number of reasons it is advantageous to post often to your blog. Firstly it keeps your readers coming back for the new content. Another benefit of regular posting is it attracts the search engines to ‘crawl’ your site for the new content and as a result it will boost your search engine rankings. This is why search engines love blogs, for the continual updates and fresh content.

If you are sometimes ‘lacking’ inspiration or fresh information on which to post, do some research, which you should already be doing, and rewrite something you may have found interesting. Referencing other sites for good information is another way to circumvent the occasional writers block and improve search engine rankings.

5. Easy to Read Posts

Publish your content in a concise and easy to read fashion. Don’t make your readers have to try and figure out what your saying.

If you’re truly intent on how to improve your blogging without ‘reinventing the wheel’ these 5 blogging tips, if put into regular practice, will definitely get you results.

1. Social bookmarking : There are many social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us,digg,technorati etc. where you can add any site’s url as a bookmark.
This url can be your own blog’s url. This will definitely increase your blog traffic.

2. Submit to search engines : submit your blog url to popular search engines like google, yahoo!, msn(now called ‘live’), ask.com.
Google : http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

3. Post at forums : There are many forums present online. Start posting at these forums on some appropriate topic which is related to your blog and never forget to add your blog’s link along with your message.

4. Submit articles to article directories : Submitting articles to the article directories is a very nice way of increasing traffic for your blog. If you need some more information on how submitting articles helps in bringing traffic Read this.
List of article directories where you can submit articles.

5. Leave comments on other blogs: whenever you visit a blog, make it your habit to leave comments on their articles and add your blog’s address to that comment. Try to comment on those blogs and sites which have got high search engine rankings. And keep this thing in mind that don’t spam. Your comment should make some sense so that readers will get good impression for your blog and hence the will definitely visit your blog.

6. Submit your blog to blog directories: there are many blog directories where you can submit your blog and will surely help you to increase your blog traffic.

• Technorati.com
• Topblogging.com
• Blogtoplist.com
• Fuelmyblog.com
• Mybloggingarea.com

7. Pay Per Click Advertisements: google adwords is service through which you can advertise your blog. But this service charges you money for that. I would advice you to use this service only if you want to sell your products.

Know Your Target Audience

Most important of all is that you have to know who your audience is. You must write for your target readers and not just about the topics (because you may diverge away from the readers’ needs if you centered your content around topics to write).

Your target audience must be convinced that your content is written for their needs and unmissable. What they want is a 100% relevant content so that their times are not wasted. Even if your content is just 70% relevant, there’s a big chance that they won’t subscribe to it – because some of your content can be missed!

It’s a good trick to write clearly at the top of your blog to whom is it for so that they know right away without even reading the content yet.

Write Good Stuff, But How?
Content is the heart of your blog, so make it a great one. Write posts that give values to the readers, not just for the sake of making more posts. One post packed with values is worth so much more than many posts with little or no values.

If time is hard to come by, it’s okay to post less but make sure each piece have great values to offer. Make your readers’ time worthwhile. Readers will subscribe if they learn a lot from your content.

Expose Your Blog – To Your Target Audience!

There are two ways for people to get to your blogs – links or social media. These are the place to put your effort to build your blog’s exposure.

Links: There are two types of links:

1. Links you make in other blogs:
   • Links from your comments in other blogs.
   • Your forum or social media signature.
   • Your by-line as guest-posts.
2. Links you get from other blogs:
   • Write great articles that people will link to.
   • Ask them to link to you or exchange links with them.

The most powerful links that you can make or get are from popular blogs, sites, and forums related to your blogging niche. Not all links are equal – some links are better (in sending readers to your blog) than others. But it’s better to have all these links than to have none or just a few good ones. It’s unmistakable that if you have great and valuable content, links will come naturally.

Try also to write as guest-posts especially in popular blogs. But first, show that your content is worth it.

Social Media: The tip on social media (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc) is simply to be an active user. If you vote for other posts, they tend to vote for your article as this is naturally the easiest way to repay the favor. Once your article has been voted, other people will easily build it up the ladder on.

Some principles that guarantees her success are to be friendly, treat every person you interact with respect, always help out in the best way you can, focus on mutual benefit, and give more than you take.

Other Little Things

Without all of the above, the little things won’t work. But once you have the essentials covered, consider putting some effort on the extras

• Make your feed button easily visible (e.g. at the top part without scrolling)
• Add the option to subscribe at the end of each post.
• Put effort on blog design. Readers see that authors’ are more serious with their content if they are serious about their blog design.

1. Write often and write well with quality and meaningful content to keep readers interested.
2. Submit blogs to search engines to make sure it is listed (it may take time for it to go up the list).
3. Link to others using Blogroll. Owners of the blogs you link to will most likely link to you back and have their visitors use the links to go to your blog.
4. Use comments efficiently. Increase your readers’ loyalty by responding and interacting with your commenters. Leave thoughtful and relevant comments on other blogs to draw others to visit your blog.
5. Syndicate your blog using a feed so that others can get updates to your blog easily. (Read more on how to increase your subscribers.)
6. Use links and trackbacks. Links to your blogs are powerful ‘vote of confidences’ that are counted in ranking your blog. You can create internal links from your posts to your other posts too (works best when you use the right keywords to link). Trackbacks are links in other blogs’ comments that link back to your blog. They’re created when you link to these blogs’ posts in your posts. Some blogs either don’t have or don’t allow trackbacks to appear.
7. Add tags to your posts. Tags increase the chance of others finding your content in search engines.
8. Submit your posts to Social Bookmarking sites (Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Reddit, etc). If your posts are excellent, others will vote for them as well and make them more visible to other millions of readers.
9. Do Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Use the right and relevant keywords relevant that can draw large number of readers to your posts. Using keywords that’s not searched often will decrease visibility of your blogs in search engines.
10. Use images with the right keywords. Other people don’t just search for contents, they search for images too!
11. Try to write posts in other blogs as a guest blogger. The more popular those blogs are, the more traffic they’ll send to your blog.
12. Participate in forums and social networking with people of relevant interest.
13. Promote your blog outside the blogosphere. Add your blog URL in your email signature or business cards. Basically, tell others about it.
14. Nominate yourself (or other blogs) for blog awards to get more attention to your blog.
15. Don’t be shy to do all of the above.

A website without traffic might just as well have never been built. It’s invisible and unsuccessful. It’s a fact – No Traffic = Invisible! There are many tried and tested free methods for driving web traffic to your website. Many of these free methods are absolute gems that can drive truckloads of web traffic to your website. Here are the top free methods to use in order to gain PR4 and PR5 for most of blogs and web sites.

1. Offer a great freebie like an ebook or tutorial, with your web site links imbedded, then let others give it away for free at their site, too. They can use it as an incentive, bonus, or just as a gift for visitors. It adds value for those sites that spread it and it creates more visitors back to your site as your freebie spreads because of your imbedded links.
2. One of the best ways to increase web traffic is to accumulate quality links to your site. Not only do you get more people from the linked sites to visit your site, but you get better rankings with search engines. The combination of increased traffic from linked sites and more internet traffic from the search engines will provide a huge pay off for the time and effort you invest. But, stay away from Link Farms and buying links. Go only for sites with quality that matches yours.
3. Visit and comment in Forums. If your comments are interesting and liked by the forum members, they will click on your link and visit your website regularly. This is a great way to create a targeted traffic. This mode of free website advertisement is also relatively untapped by many marketers for driving web traffic, so you can take full advantage by using your writing skills and create traffic from the forums. Just remember – Your posts should really be useful to the members of the forum. Don’t post just to sell something. You will be banned.
4. Another great method of driving targeted web traffic is joining popular social networking web sites. Social networking web sites can immediately send your website a flood of targeted web traffic. The common factor between all the social networking sites is social interaction. These sites are hugely popular and are liked by the search engines for this fact. Social sites like the Facebook and MySpace are so popular that they can send you massive traffic.
5. I saved my #1 method for last – Article Marketing. Article Marketing can dramatically increase the targeted traffic to your web site and increase your search engine rankings at the same time if you provide quality information! Your high quality, original, search engine optimized content will be spread around the web. Your articles feature your Author Box which is where you place a snippet about your web site and it’s products and services.

Article submission sites are extremely popular, and many web masters depend completely on them to borrow free articles for their own web sites with a condition that the articles borrowed shall contain the full text and the Author Box. These could be your articles with your Author Box! This creates a free viral traffic to your website when your quality articles are published by other web sites.