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Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing

2008-09-19T05:30:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

I am back!

Today, let's talk about: Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing.

Are you a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running?
Or is your website the only way for you to earn income?
Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily. And if your website is rich in great contents and you want to earn more profit, why not get into the Google Adsense program as well?

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and probably the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businessman’s products on your site. But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketing programs, because affiliate marketing actually works for merchants as well as it works for the affiliates.

Affiliate marketing, simply said, is a relationship or agreement made between two websites, with one site being the merchant’s website and the other being the affiliate’s site. In the relationship, the affiliate agrees to let the merchant advertise his products on the affiliate’s site. The merchant, on the other hand, would agree to pay the affiliate in whatever method they have agreed into. This would generally mean easy income for the affiliate, as he would do nothing but place the retailer’s ad on his site. This would also be very beneficial for the merchant, as getting affiliates to advertise their products would be a lot more affordable than hiring an advertising firm to promote their products.

There are a variety of methods on how the merchant would compensate the affiliate for his services, and for the webmaster, these methods simply translates to the method by which he would earn easy cash. Among the more common methods of compensation are the pay-per-click method, the pay-per-lead method, and the pay-per-sale method. The pay-per-click method is the method most preferred by affiliates, for their site’s visitor would only have to visit the advertiser’s site for them to gain money. The other two methods, on the other hand, are better preferred by merchants, as they would only have to compensate you if your visitor becomes one of their registrants or if the visitor would actually buy their products.

Getting much profit on affiliate marketing programs, however, does not depend so much on the compensation method is it does on the traffic generated by your site. A website that can attract more visitors would generally have the greater chance of profiting in affiliate marketing programs.

What about Google Adsense?

Google Adsense is actually some sort of an affiliate marketing program. In Google Adsense, Google act as the intermediary between the affiliates and the merchants. The merchant, or the advertiser, would simply sign up with Google and provide the latter with text ads pertaining to their products. These ads, which is actually a link to the advertiser’s website, would then appear on Google searches as well as on the websites owned by the affiliates, or by those webmasters who have signed up with the Google Adsense program.

While one can find a lot of similarities between Google Adsense and other affiliate marketing programs, you can also see a lot of differences. In Google Adsense, all the webmaster has to do is place a code on his website and Google takes care of the rest. The ads that Google would place on your site would generally be relevant to the content of your site. This would be advantageous both for you and for the advertiser, as the visitors of your site would more or less be actually interested with the products being advertised.

The Google Adsense program compensates the affiliate in a pay-per-click basis. The advertisers would pay Google a certain amount each time their ad on your site is clicked and Google would then forward this amount to you through checks, although only after Google have deducted their share of the amount. Google Adsense checks are usually delivered monthly. Also, the Google Adsense program provides webmasters with a tracking tool that allows you to monitor the earnings you actually get from a certain ad.

So, where do all of these lead us to?

Where else but to profits, profits and even more profits! Affiliate marketing programs and the Google Adsense program simply work, whether you are the merchant or the affiliate. For the merchant’s side, a lot of money can be saved if advertising effort is concentrated on affiliate marketing rather than on dealing with advertising firms. For the webmaster, you can easily gain a lot of profits just by doing what you do best, and that is by creating websites. And if you combine all your profits from both the Google Adsense program and other affiliate marketing programs, it would surely convert to a large amount of cash.

Ciao,
Delia.

See you soon...

2008-07-08T00:02:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

I am going on vacation...at the beach... and I will be back at the end of August.

I hope you spend a wonderful Summer...we will see soon!!!

Ciao,
Delia.

Received payment: TLA

2008-07-01T23:35:00.000-07:00

Hello guys,

today I have received a payment...13.31$ from Text link Ads for the 3 links running in June on my Delia's corner.

Well, the sum is bigger every month...I am really happy about this!!!

If you have a blog, sign with TLA...it pays!

Ciao,
Delia.

3rd link sold!

2008-06-22T23:57:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

I am happy that I have sold 3 links in my Delia's corner!!!

I am really proud of it and happy because now I earn 13.31$ every month just for having 3 small links on my blog...^_^.

Come on advertiser, buy a link on Blogging for profit!!! I am waiting for you!!!

Ciao,
Delia.

How Many Affiliate Checks Do You Want To Receive?

2008-06-19T05:07:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

affiliate marketing is by far, one of the easiest ways to make money online. It is a revenue sharing business relationship between the affiliate who agrees to promote the products or services, and the merchant who offers them.

The affiliate advertises the merchant's products and services and gets a commission for every successful referral. Every time a customer is referred to the merchant's site, through the affiliate's efforts, and makes a purchase, the affiliate gets a share of the profit. No payment is due to the affiliate until successful results are realized. Compensation is based on either number of visits (Pay-per-click), registrant (Pay-per-lead), or commission for each sale (Pay-per-sale).

Affiliate Marketers can earn a few bucks to thousands of dollars with affiliate programs. The opportunity to earn in affiliate marketing can only be limited by the affiliate's determination, creativity and strategy. It is a brilliant way to earn online, and you do not have to produce your own product or service to make a buck. By advertising your merchant's products passionately, you get more in return. Profits in affiliate marketing usually start small but can get larger as the campaign starts to build up steam.

There are many ways that an affiliate marketer can do to maximize their profits. If you ask any affiliate marketer how many affiliate checks they would want to receive, they will most likely want to get as many as possible. Some affiliate checks are small, amounting to nothing more than $25.
While others are large and can easily reach the thousands and even more. Over time, these affiliate checks may build up to a really impressive amount. However, making a fortune in affiliate marketing is not instant. You should put in enough work and effort as well. You have to use your imagination to find more ways to attract more web traffic that can convert to sales for the merchant and profit for you as well.

How many affiliate checks do you want to receive? Most affiliate marketers will enthusiastically reply that they want to receive as many affiliate checks as possible. However, is it as easy as it sounds? Does joining many affiliate marketers guarantee more affiliate checks that really amount to something? The answer is No. Most affiliate marketers assume that joining multiple affiliate programs is a wise option. Because, it is very easy to join affiliate programs and there is really nothing to lose, affiliate marketers are tempted to join as many programs they can get their hands on. Thus, they fail to give their affiliate programs enough attention and work that they ought to receive. The maximum potential of the affiliate programs are not realized and the resulting income from these programs will almost certainly be disappointing.

The best way to achieve multiple streams of income is to concentrate on one affiliate program first. Choose a product or service that you can promote passionately. Pick a product in which you have complete trust. The best products and services to promote are those that you use personally. Your prospects will be able to sense your sincerity whenever you promote a product that you have experienced. This will greatly enhance your credibility as well as your product's marketability and will really encourage your prospect to purchase or avail of the product or service.

As soon as your first affiliate program is making a reasonable profit then you can proceed to joining another affiliate program and repeat the process. "Too much, too soon" is a common pitfall in affiliate marketing. Joining too many affiliate programs simultaneously in the hopes of having multiple streams of income simply does not work.

Focus first on one affiliate program and work on it so that it makes a good profit. Then, go find another promising program and give it your best effort. The question should not be how many affiliate checks you want to receive, but how many "high-paying" affiliate checks can you receive. The answer lies in your determination to succeed and determination to maximize your earning potential. With the right tools, the right actions, and perseverance you can definitely make a good profit out of affiliate marketing.

Ciao,
Delia.

2nd link sold!

2008-06-10T05:28:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

I am proud to announce that I have sold my second link on Delia's corner!

Now there are 2 links running and I am going to earn 10$/month thanks to them!

Many thanks to my sponsors that go on buying my links!!!

Ciao,
Delia.

Earn with surveys: part 1

2008-06-04T07:32:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

do you like surveys?
Doing surveys is one of my favorite way to earn money from home...you can choose when start, how many surveys take and, of course, how much money earn!

If you want to start taking surveys, try GreenfieldOnline...it pays well and send a lot of surveys.
You can withdraw your money using PayPal without minimum.

Try and let me know!

Ciao,
Delia.

My post has been approved!

2008-05-29T00:52:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

PayPerPost has approved my post...yuppie...and I will receive 20$ for this!

Is it not bad...20$ for 200 words, I am really satisfied and I hope I will find other interesting opportunities in PayPerPost.
Unfortunately my blog is too young and its PR is N/A at the moment, but I am sure that Google will give it PR1 at the next revision.
Do you know when the next Google revision is scheduled?

Ciao,
Delia.

PayPerPost!

2008-05-26T01:31:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

today I am really happy and proud, because PayPerPost has accepted my blog.
PayPerPost is very selective and its rules are strict, that's why I am proud that my blog finally has been selected...you know I am Italian, so it is important for me to be able to write in an English good enough to be approved by PayPerPost.

If you want to submit your blog, remember that it :
- has to be 30 days old with 10 post written in the last 30 days.
- must be in English and without grammatical mistakes.
- must have only 1 author.
- has to be original and full of content, not only sponsored reviews.

It is not simple, but if you will be able to join PayPerPost, you can enjoy lots of rich and interesting opportunities...you can earn money, writing reviews for site related to various classes (games, computer, health, bathrooms, e-mail service provider...and so on).

This is my first review for PayPerPost and I am happy to write it about their service.
My blog is actually young and its PR is low, so I do not have many available opportunities ...but I am sure that in the near future I will be able to earn a tidy sum of money (or I hope so!).

Ciao,
Delia.

SocialSpark, a new opportunity!

2008-05-21T01:27:00.001-07:00

Hi guys,

today I have a great news for you, because finally SocialSpark has approved my blog...it had taken a long long time, but now I am a proud member of this new and full of opportunities site!

In the future I will write several sponsored reviews for SocialSpark...well, I hope I will...^_^.
There are a lot of reviews opportunity on SocialSpark and I can even accept sponsorship in my blog.

I will write a better review of SocialSpark in the future, maybe sponsored (this is not a sponsored review!)...now I have to start explore the site and learn how to make use of all those opportunities.

Ciao,
Delia.

Free stuff: cat and dog ringtones

2008-05-17T02:14:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

do you like cats and dogs?
I love them and that's why I am so happy to have found these unique ringtones...all about our little friends!

Would you like to download them?
It is really simple...just follow this link to the Purina.com website and you will be able to download all the ringtones you want!!!

I prefer the "meowing kitten" ringtone...what is the one you like best?

Ciao,
Delia.

Received payment: CreamAid

2008-05-17T01:54:00.000-07:00

Hi, all!

Today a short post, just to tell you that CreamAid has paid me for the review I wrote 2 days ago.

I am really satisfied, because I have received the payment in less than 48 hours: 10$ for the review written on my Delia's Corner...CreamAid works very well!

I suggest you to try and write a post for CreamAid, you can earn 10$ + 5$ for every referral who will click your widget and write a new post.

Ciao,
Delia.

Here’s Why You Need To Use Landing Pages

2008-05-16T02:05:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

all the products that you want to sell online are ready.
You have already signed up with the Google Adsense program or with other affiliate marketing programs and you have already prepared the ad you want to post on your affiliate site.
Your mind is now set to being the next most successful online businessman. But is there anything else that you might have forgotten to prepare? Maybe none.

But how about your landing pages? Are they all set for your business?

Landing pages are simply web pages where visitors are directed to whenever they click a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad.
For affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your potential customer to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliate website.
Landing pages are, at most times, nothing really different from other web pages in a particular website, especially if the said website is an e-commerce site.
Some online businessmen would even use the homepage of their websites as the landing page for their ads.

Are these businessmen making a big mistake? Or should you follow their method in creating landing pages for their ads?

Well, you can always follow what most online retailers do, directing their potential customers to the homepages of their websites.
But if you want to achieve something more from your online business, and if you want to earn a lot of profits, you better create a special landing page for your web ads. Why?
Here are a few reasons why you need to use landing pages for your web ads. And take note, it would do you a lot better if you create a great landing page than a so-so one.

Reason no. 1: It is the only way you earn conversions in an affiliate marketing program.

There are a variety of affiliate marketing programs today, but most of these programs let the merchant pay the affiliate in a pay per click basis.
Basically, all you have to do is sign up with the program and submit your ad.
The program owner would then distribute your ad to various affiliates who would then place your ad on their websites.
Whenever your ad is clicked, a visitor would be directed to your landing page and you would have to pay the affiliate for his service.

As a merchant, you earn in an affiliate program through conversions—that is whenever a visitor that is directed to your site actually buys a product on your site.
Without these conversions, you actually earn nothing from the program.
Also, the more visitors that your affiliates have directed to your site, the larger would your expense be. And the only way that you can recover from these expenses is through conversions.

Now, you sure won't get any conversion if you have posted an ad on your affiliate's site without an actual landing page for the potential customer to be redirected into.
It's just like advertising a product without actually having a store to sell your product.
Your advertisement may be enticing enough to encourage people to purchase a product, but without the landing page, how will they know how to purchase the product

It is therefore important to have landing pages for your ads because it is the only way for you to earn something in an affiliate program. Without landing pages, all you do is spend money paying your affiliates without actually getting anything in return.

Reason no. 2: Other web pages may just not be enough.

Many people make the mistake of making their website homepage as the landing page for their ads. The same is true for those who make use of other pages like a "contact us" page or a product page.
Homepages are often designed to serve multiple users and contains a lot of links to other pages or to other websites. The same is with the other two pages mentioned.
If you want to be successful in an affiliate program, we're sure that you don't want your landing page to cater to the needs of various people, most of which may not be really interested with your product.

When choosing a landing page, you must always have the customer directed into that page in mind. Therefore, your landing page must be relevant to the keywords and the contents you placed on your ad.
It is also important that the landing page can induce your visitor to take action—that is to purchase your product or at least provide leads for potential customers.

Final Word

You probably entered into an affiliate marketing program with these things in mind: to save on advertising expenses and to gain more profit. But if you get into an affiliate marketing program without actually having a landing page, you'll end up paying too much without getting anything in return.
So if you still don't have a landing page for your ads, you better start creating one now. And don't get us wrong; it isn't enough for you to have just a landing page—it should be a great landing page!

Ciao,
Delia.

GTA4: art or brutality?

2008-05-15T01:30:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

in the stores is now available Grand Theft Auto 4 (GTA4), a controversial and much-discussed game...it is 18+ rated and you will need to set your age in the game before start playing.
Well, it sounds a little strange to tell your age to a game, but why all this limits?

Your main character is Niko Bellic, a ruthless Serbian, who have to steal, stick up, drive drunk, and other "nice" things...maybe this is the problem, but it is too easy to blame a video game for encouraging violence, after all it is only a game...or not?

You can find a great review of this game on GamesRadar, so you will be able to give an opinion about GTA4, even if you do not own a copy.

Have you ever played with GTA4? How old are you?
Let me know what do you think about this game...

Ciao,
Delia.

Free stuff: free Porsche Calendar

2008-05-14T02:01:00.000-07:00

Hi, all!

Today a nice freebie dedicated to all the boys (and girls...why not?) who loves Porsche...a cool calendar!

If you click this link, you will get your free "Faro at the Porsche SuperCup" calender, thanks to Faro.com.
Enter your personal details in the form and the gift will be sent to your address.

This offer is available worldwide.

Ciao,
Delia.

Bloggerwave

2008-05-13T11:40:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

do you own a blog and want to earn with your post and review?
Now it is really simple to make money with your blog...just register with Bloggerwave and start writing reviews...you can earn 10$ for each 50 words review you will post.

You can submit up to 5 blog and take the same review opportunity in each blog (if it qualifies), so you can earn up to 5x10$=50$ for just one subject...obviously the post must not be the same in all your blog!

I am really satisfied with Bloggerwave and I have been paid 2 times...always in time!

Ciao,
Delia.

Scam alert!

2008-05-08T11:13:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

recently I have received some mails from some friends who are AOL subscribers, indicating that they have been called or e-mailed from an AOL representative.
In these mails he wrote that he needed to verify their credit card number. The caller requested the card number and the expire date.
In most cases the e-mail had the AOL logo displayed prominently.

Watch out, AOL does not require any credit card verification!

Never, never, never give out any credit card details.

If you receive this kind of e-mail, do not give any personal information and let AOL know about the scam.

If you have been scammed, please post a comment here to alert others.

Ciao,
Delia.

Received payment: OGR

2008-05-07T06:15:00.000-07:00

Hello guys,

a short post in order to make you to know that I have received the following payment:

40$ for a survey (just 1) from OGR, Online Global Recruiting, on my PayPal account, after approximately 8 weeks from the completion of the survey.

Astonished from the figure?
In effects the gain is remarkable, even if the survey was long and difficult...about 40 minutes.

OGR sends medical surveys in English very rarely, even if, however the compensation is usually much elevate... if you are interested you can enroll as a consumer (not like doctor, because you have to insert the qualification number).

Ciao,
Delia.

Free stuff: free magazine subscription

2008-05-05T03:58:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

a nice news today...would you like to find a nice present for your mum?

If you follow this link you will receive a free subscription to Woman's Day magazine.

You have to fill in a form, to determinate your profile and the magazine that will be presented...you can choose up to three magazines for free!
This offer is available only in the USA.

I think it is a nice freebie to jump at.

Ciao,
Delia.

Received payment: Text Link Ads

2008-05-01T07:11:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

as I had pointed out you some post ago, I have sold my first link (on my Italian blog "Delia's corner")...... today I have been paid !
Like declared, the payment has been carried out on PayPal, without minimum, 1° the day of the month next to the publication of the link.

Sure the value is low (3,61$), but it is a beginning!
I must also offer thanks to the link purchaser, because it has renewed the link for all the month of May and therefore it will make me earn 6.37$... thanks, not for the value, but for the confidence.

TLA is really paying and serious.

Ciao,
Delia.

Received payment: OGR

2008-04-30T19:23:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

just a short post to let you know that OGR has paid me 5+15$ for 2 surveys I have taken in February.
I am satisfied with OGR, even if it sends few surveys and pays more than 2 months after the surveys complexion, because it pays really well!

Ciao,
Delia.

Free stuff: free magazine and pin

2008-04-28T10:33:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

join the Go Red For Women movement and become part of the fight against heart disease.

Sign-up is free and you will get some great benefits, including a free subscription to Heart Insight magazine, a red dress pin, a monthly newsletter (filled with heart-healthy tips, events and programs, news, recipes, promotions and more).

Visit their site to complete the form.

Scam alert!

2008-04-25T04:43:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

yesterday I was looking on the Net for work at home jobs...you know, just to earn something more!

I have found a job that promise me 25$ for each mail I will be able to process and send. In this way I would be able to earn a lot of money, working just 1-2 hours every day, from the comfort of my home...watch out...this is a scam!

If you want to receive more information, you have to pay 49$ to buy the starter kit, that contain only the instructions to build a site (like the one I have found in Internet) and sell to other naives the same scam you have received.

See you at the next scam...

Ciao,
Delia.

Free stuff: 20 free prints

2008-04-21T10:37:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

do you know Kodak? I am sure you know and trust this great cameras manufacturer...well, now it prints photos online too!

If you open an account with Kodak Gallery, you will receive 20 free prints, so you can turn your digital photos into Kodak prints.

It is easy and free, just follow the link and sign up.

Using Google Adwords to Drive Traffic to your Website...

2008-04-18T01:45:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

highly targeted traffic is one of the most important entities in the Internet universe. Any website owner or administrator recognizes the importance of driving traffic to a website. The success of any website does not rely entirely on the site itself. You may have a terrific idea for a website, offer an excellent product or service, or have an exceptionally designed site with superb content, but if you do not use the right strategies to advertise, your site would not attract the high traffic you need. Attracting targeted traffic is a task that should be taken seriously for any site to succeed or make a profit. Fortunately, there are Internet-marketing tools that help the website marketer to drive traffic to his website. One of the most significant, and effective, of these tools is Google's Adwords. Adwords is one of Google's advertising services.

How does Google Adwords work? Google is the largest search engine on the web receiving over 200 million queries each day through its various services. As Google is the most popular search engine today, webmasters are keen on having their websites achieve a higher ranking in the search engine results it provides. A high ranking can mean high traffic for that website. The search engine results page is also a great venue for advertisers to promote a product or service through ads and links. Consequently, Google launched its Adwords service, as a way for businesses to advertise products and services to a targeted audience. Google Adwords can guarantee instant traffic. In this service, Google displays relevant text based ads within its search engine results page termed as "Sponsored Links". Whenever a particular keyword is searched on, these relevant links appear in a separate section giving excellent exposure to the sites listed.

How do you use Google Adwords? First, you have to open an account with the Google Adwords Service. Then, you should indicate your target language and country. This is important because you would not want your products advertised in countries where your product or service cannot be sold. Afterwards, you should now create an ad group. This involves designing the ad, selecting keywords and determining maximum cost per click that you are willing to spend and defining bid amounts. The most important step in creating a successful Adwords campaign is selecting an effective title tag that will catch the attention of your target audience. The title tag, generally a short phrase, is the most important part of your Adwords campaign so make sure that it is attractive and catchy. You should describe the website clearly and accurately. The most effective advertising conveys a clear message to the target audience. With a clear message, you will be attracting qualified leads, which can eventually convert to sale. Thus, the importance of selecting the right keywords cannot be overemphasized.

There are keyword variations you can adapt to reach more prospects. Using these varieties, misspellings and derivatives can help increase the chance of your ads being served. Broad match is targeting keywords in a loosely defined manner. Here, the ads appear based on the keywords that have been queried by other users as opposed to exact match, which calls for the keyword to match the query exactly. Meanwhile, a keyword phrase set to phrase match will only appear when the exact phrase is searched on. A negative keyword is helpful in filtering unrelated pages.

After you have decided on what title tag to use in your ad, you must now define a budget in order to maximize exposure. Google Adwords recommend a daily budget for each campaign. However, you should determine a budget that is suitable and affordable. You should also determine the maximum cost per click. Google will offer a recommended cost per click, but you do not have to stick with this. Usually, a number one position is not ideal as it can also attract unwanted traffic and useless clicks. A number two position is more preferred as it can filter useless clicks and provide traffic with a higher conversion rate.

To conclude, Google Adwords is an excellent strategy and tool in giving your site maximum exposure. Nevertheless, Google Adwords should not be your sole advertising campaign. It will definitely help you find the all-important, highly targeted traffic you need.

Ciao,
Delia.

My first link sold!

2008-04-17T07:18:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

what an emotion... I have sold my first text link!

You can see it on the left in my Italian blog Delia's corner??!!

Thanks to Text Link Ads (for comfort TLA), that has accepted my blog, finally I have seen the first link sold.
My gain is 3.61$ for 2 weeks of publication.
Maybe you can think that the amount is little or no... well, in effect it is, however I have offered for sale 10 link and if all of them were reserved for 1 entire month, I would earn 72,2$.

Have you got a blog or a site? Try this service, it is really easy to use and all blogs are generally accepted!

TLA pays on the first day of the month, without minimum on PayPal, therefore I will let you know something after 1° the May.

Ciao,
Delia.

Free stuff: free font download

2008-04-10T10:14:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

do you need some new fonts for your documents? Do you like original, new and funny fonts?
Font Maniac is a great free font site, you can browse the site and look for the font you like best..and then download it for free!

Bagpack, Agent Orange, Aggstock and lots of other nice fonts are waiting for you!

Ciao,
Delia.

Payment received: aPairOf

2008-04-03T15:49:00.000-07:00

Hello guys,

this post is dedicated to one PTR of old date, but always active and correct: aPairOf.
It is a long time that I am a member but I must confess that I do not click their mails anymore... at this point I do not work with the PTR, you know it... but I collect my referrals' gains.

I have received the payment from aPairOf after approximately 5 days from my request (1,22$).

Are you interested into the PTR word and not still enrolled to aPairOf? You can sign in without worries...it pays!

Ciao,
Delia.

Free stuff: free DVD

2008-03-31T10:07:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

you can get a free movie on DVD and it is not some ineffective workout or gardening video that most of you do not want.
It will be one of the currently better placed movies on Amazon's Movies & TV bestsellers list.

Check on OhFreeMovies.com, when 100% is reached on the "free movie bar" (which is updated during the day), a button labeled "Get this DVD for free now" will show up on the right. All you have to do is click that button, enter your data and, if you are the first one to submit that free order, OhFreeMovies.com will ship you the DVD completely free.

Ciao,
Delia.

Received payment: BidVertiser

2008-03-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

today I want to confirm, to whom could have doubts, that BidVertiser really pays!

I have received punctually on PayPal the payment of 12,31$, relative to the returns of the banner advertising and the referral.
I am really satisfied of their service, because the contextual announcements are well integrated in the blog and their banners are customized, you can choose the largeness as well as the diagram and color... I hope that you have noticed them and that you like them!
You can also try to deepen your interest... ^_^

You can choose the announcements that will be published on your site one, rejecting those that you find inopportune and you have a detailed control panel to check every moment your gains.

Moreover, there is the guarantee that the announcement that will appear on your site is the one that pays more for a single click, in order to assure always the maximum possible gain to you.

I can suggest you BidVertiser, like valid alternative to Adsense, that often bans the customers without a valid reasons.

Ciao,
Delia.

How to Set Yourself Apart From Other Affiliates

2008-03-03T04:57:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

considered today as one of the best and easiest way to earn some money, affiliate marketing is now attracting many people to represent themselves in this type of business. But as competition is getting a bit bigger, you may need some ways to distinguish yourself from the rest of the affiliate marketers. For the major reason that many of your competitors including you are promoting the exact same program, in the exact same zone or on the exact same websites perhaps. Now here are some tips that you may consider in order for you to stay in this business and have the chance to outwit and outplay other competitors of yours.

The first thing is for you to have your own website. It is very essential for you to have your own website in considering affiliate marketing as your professional career. Secondly, potential customers primarily go to websites in order for them to search and sometimes purchase items they were looking for. For the same reason that it is much easier to remember than a certain URL that you may be using and you can just point to your visitors the affiliate page in your website.

Another thing to remember is to have your own ad. A lot of times affiliates marketers have published the same ad two or three times done by advertisers. In this case, you may email the owner of your affiliate program asking that you make your own ads. This way, people may not become immune to ads, because sometimes seeing the same ads over and over again, may just make your potential customers to just skip it all together. Besides, your primarily purpose is to attract or encourage people to click and read your ads and be curios enough to click through your website.

Step three, have some products of your won which are only available through your website. Once you have your website going, it is important to have some products or services that your customers can’t find with other affiliate site. You want your customers to keep coming to your site and the best way to do that is to have something on your site that they can’t find on others. Being an affiliate marketer we must then choose a certain market segment where you can have a potential leadership or at least a strong challenger role.

The fourth step is to build a strong relationship with people who already buy your product. Now, in order for you as the marketer to fully answer the query of your potential customers, it is best to try and buy the product by yourself. With this particular notion, you can better sell the product that you are trying to market. You can share to your potential customers what a great experience you had with the product, and this can make them interested enough to buy the product. You may also be able to provide a support if necessary or you may provide a confident tutorial or steps on how to use the product that you are trying to market based on your personal experience. Entailing this idea is to be totally honest about the product that you are trying to market. If you find out that the program you were promoting is a scam, stop promoting it and inform your readers about it. This will help you build credibility with your lists.

We all make mistakes and admitting your mistake will boost your reader’s confidence in you. Lastly, don’t try to market everything you see. With services such as click bank, it is easy to become overwhelmed and try to market everything in the click bank marketplace. That is not a good idea. It’s better to focus on one market and market products that they would want. This is called niche marketing.

Try also to promote a certain product, which conforms to the specifications measured through indications of customer-satisfaction, rather than indicators of self-gratification. It is the customer who decides what to buy and not the company or the affiliate marketer. The company simply produces products catering to the needs and wants of their chosen market segment.

Today, different types of business are emerging from all over the world in a multinational level to reign supreme on their specific market segment that they are trying to dominate, and affiliate marketing is one of them. Affiliate marketing is definitely here to stay and it can become a great way to earn extra or even part time income. However, it won’t happen overnight. Like everything else in life, you’re going to have to put a lot of hard work into it. Good luck to you in your new venture.

Delia.

Received payment: SponsoredReviews

2008-02-28T08:10:00.000-08:00

Hello guys,

today I want to mark the reception of the payment of a new sponsored review service: Sponsoredreviews.

I have received 13$ for one review, published on 21th February.
Sponsoredreviews pays with PayPal, every 2 weeks, for all the reviews published and approved of during such period.
This service offers very many reviews to write, just for enrolled and approved blogs.

In reality, you have to select the reviews that you are interested in and offer your service, deciding also how much to ask like compensation (inside of an interval of $ defined by the advertiser, es. 5-20$) and then wait that the advertiser approves and allows you to write the review.
Once written and approved, the review will be paid in 2 weeks.

I have been paid punctually 13$ for a review of 50 words and I am really satisfied, I hope to receive other opportunities of job in the future!

Good job!

Ciao,
Delia.

Ipsos Panel

2008-02-18T08:22:00.000-08:00

Hello friends,

it is passed a little time from my last post and I am sorry, but this has been a difficult period for me and I have not found many occasions in order to write new posts.

Good news for you...I have received a 10$ bond Top Premium Accor from Ipsos Panel.

I know that Ipsos has reopened the enrollments, I suggest to try to find their link inside of the game of Kingolotto, I have found it there many times.

Ciao,
Delia.

THS is closed.

2008-01-28T08:27:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

today I have one sad news: TeamHairSay is closing, since the sponsor has withdrawn itself from the community.
Probably many of you do not know the community of THS, because the enrollments were possible only through invite... however, the two friends who had been able to enroll thanks to my invite will know well what I am speaking about.

It is a pity that THS closes, because, beyond to being an international forum, amusing and funny, it made us earn a lot of money!
I have earned approximately 200$ in those months of life of the community and also the other members have been able to gain well, discussing in chat or posting new ideas about the hairdos.

I hope that an other sponsor makes ahead and that THS can recommence to live!

Ciao,
Delia.

Finding Hot Selling Products to Sell

2008-01-06T01:20:00.000-08:00

Hy everybody,

in order to locate products that sell online, we need to understand what people already want to buy. Finding a good choice of idea or product is always accompanied by interfacing the demand for the product in the current market and the level of competition or market share that the product will be having in the long run.

“What should I sell? What products are hot selling?" These are the questions most people are trying to find an answer in order for them to make the definite decision. And if we really want to know the answer to this question, our only choice is to do some research. There are all kinds of twists along the road that may lead you to think you have a high-demand idea. We must be able to understand and satisfy the need, wants and expectations of our customers on a certain product that they’re trying to buy. This three are called the basic needs or minimum requirements in a purchase. Needs are the basic reasons or the minimum requirements consumers are looking for in a product or service. They are called the qualifying or “gatekeeper” dimensions in a purchase. Wants are the determining dimensions among many choices. Expectations, on the other hand, are values or intangibles associated with a product or service. Expectations are actually part of “wants” but they become extremely important when products or services are not differentiated.

For example, in reading a logic book, university students look for the following: relevant logic concepts use of simple language, easy to understand and affordable prices. These similar ideas can be applied to Internet Sales as well. After all, the Internet is just another place to sell products. The basic concept of demand is the same there as it is anywhere else, and has been all the time.

Now, the second thing that must be considered in finding “hot” products to sell are the level of competition or the market shares do your product will have. Market share or level of competition means the ratio of your brand sales versus the total market sales. While companies would naturally define its target competitors, it is actually the consumers who ultimately decide the competitive frame, or the list related products or services that consumers consider when exercising their purchasing power. We must therefore choose the market segment where we can have a potential leadership or at least a strong challenger role. Because the overriding objective of getting into this business is not just to satisfy the needs and wants of our customers but to do so profitably better than his competition. Otherwise, our competition will end up satisfying the customers better than our own interest.

Third factor to be considered in finding hot selling products is finding out the general interest level about the product. General interest in a product helps us to gauge where our demand and competition numbers fall into the big picture. Simply saying, if there isn’t much demand for the product, and there isn’t much competition, it would seem that it might not be good a good put up for sale. But the research doesn’t stop here; there is one last thing to be considered to exactly find the hot selling products that you’ve been looking for. We must also learn how others are advertising those products. If there are a good number of them doing so, it may mean that it’s a good product to get into. Coming to the last phase of the process is analyzing and evaluating all the information that has been collected. We have to look at all of the data we have collected on demand, competition, and advertising, and make decision as how they all balance out.

And here are several factors or aspects that must be measured: (a) not enough demand means not enough people are going to buy (b) too much competition means not enough of a profit to go around (c) too much advertising drives up the price of pay per click ads, and competition as well (d) not enough general interest, combined with low demand, means there may not be a good market even if there is competition trying to make the sales.

Delia.

I am back!

2008-01-04T21:36:00.000-08:00

Hello everybody,

I am back from the vacations...did you miss me?

I hope that you have thought to me at least a tiny bit, I I have often thought of you and my blog!
Well... do you have some news to tell me? There are new gains opportunities that you want to share with me?
Let me know!
Now that I am home, I have found a long list of surveys to compile...maybe too much, so I will have to delete some of them, even if I am really sorry to lose money!

What about your Christmas vacation?

Ciao,
Delia.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

2008-01-02T08:06:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

affiliate marketing has many descriptions, yet all have the same meaning. Affiliate marketing is a huge business piece on the Internet. It is a cooperative effort between merchants and an affiliate’s website. For many years now, affiliate marketing has proved to be a cost-efficient, measurable method of delivering long-tern results. It has become famous for Internet sites who are trying to make some extra or additional income for their site. Every day, people get interested to affiliate marketing and want to make money out of it. But in many cases, these new affiliates do not fully understand the affiliate world and make costly mistakes. In other words, affiliate marketing has often been misunderstood.

One of the common misconceptions that are being associated about affiliate marketing is “selling”, though selling is an important activity of affiliate marketing and the central function of a business operation. Another is that affiliate marketing is commonly linked with “advertising”. While the importance of advertising in marketing a certain product is not to be underestimated, the fact of the matter is, advertising like selling, is merely a part of the many functions of marketing.

In affiliate marketing, an affiliate is compensated for every visitor, subscriber and/or customer provided through his efforts. The said compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit. The most attractive aspect of affiliate marketing from the merchant’s viewpoint is that no payment is due to an affiliate until results are appreciated.
Affiliate marketing is typically being run by affiliate networks and this affiliate networks are composed of two functional bodies, the group affiliates and the group merchants. Each has their special function and role when it comes to affiliate marketing. The affiliate network acts as a third party between the merchant and the associated affiliates. The network provides the technology to deliver the merchant’s campaigns and offers. The affiliate network also collects commission fees from the merchant and then pays the affiliates which are part of the program.

The merchant is any web site owner that wants or desires to take advantage of performance based marketing. The benefits to the merchant are many. First, the merchant maintains and operates the affiliate program. If it would be extracted, the merchant needs to do their part by researching interested affiliate websites to ensure that they are a good fit for that particular website. Finding a fit for their merchandise would be the key to more generated income. The merchant has access to markets and customers without him spending valuable time searching out. Banner ads on affiliate sites are not distracting to the site user. It might produce interest for that product and drive the consumer to the merchants’ website. It is also the merchant who decides how much he is willing to pay for each sale that results from a visitor sent from an affiliate.

The affiliate or the affiliate marketer also sees a lot of benefits. The affiliate is a web site owner that promotes one or more merchants and their affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing can generate a full-time income for the affiliate. But this is not an easy task to accomplish. The affiliate needs to have a better understanding with the merchant what the commission will be, expected payment method and time involved in the contract. The affiliate has also the responsibility to stand for the merchandise their user based would be most interested in. For example, if the site has a user base of mainly stay-at-home mothers, then on-line job openings such as surveys would be a good match for them. This group would also appreciate direct links to children’s products and informational sites. Merchandisers often provide targeted, best-seller items and personal support to their affiliate. They often offer sales promotions that will benefit the merchandiser as well as the affiliate.

Affiliate marketing is a great situation for both the marketer and the affiliate. If they would work together, they can be an advantage to both. Plus the fact that it seems to make sense, it is easy and inexpensive way to start, and you can be up and running within a few days. But there is one thing to consider, it is how to get traffic and make your offer different than all others.

Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 10: Interactions Between Blogs

2007-12-31T09:33:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

As your blog’s content increase, people in your niche will definitely mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions. This is, in a sense, an initiation of an interaction. When people speak of you, you should thank them for the mention and build up the interaction!

When you use a traffic tracking script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can see where traffic comes from. If a large number of visitors come from a certain blog, you can be sure they have mentioned you in their latest post or linked to you from their sidebar or links page. What you should do is pay them a visit, leave constructive comments on their posts and build up a conversation!

As you continue doing this, you will start to gather a lot of friends in your niche. This is helpful later on when you decide to do collaborations such as interviews. In fact, when you’re out of ideas for writing on your blog, you can interview other blog owners in your niche! Human beings are curious creatures, so naturally they would like to know more about a person whose writings they read so often.

If you’re using Wordpress, Textpattern, MovableType or any other advanced blog engines, you can also post trackback links on your posts. This means you can post an article about what other people have posted! Your particular post will then appear as a link on that post you have written about. This is definitely a great way to get traffic if you post brilliant insights about a post on a very famous blog. Since the famous blog already has a per-existing pool of readers, this is like a shortcut to hog their visitors! The only thing you would want to observe is to keep your posts sensible and insightful, or you’ll be viewed as a spammer.

On the other hand, if you’re using Blogger, you would not be able to use trackback links. However, you can post insightful comments on other people’s blogs and subtly include a link back to your blog. You can make it seem like you’re pointing to your blog as an extra reference to the subject of discussion. Of course, this technique is not only limited to Blogger users and users of other blog engines can employ this strategy as an additional traffic source.

Delia.

Received payment: OGR

2007-12-28T01:12:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

I love this kind of post...received payments!

Today one interesting news: Online Global Recruiting (or better OGR), a medical surveys panel in English about therapies and medicinals, that pays really well(from 3$ to 50$ for one survey... my higher compensation was 35$ for just one survey!).

OGR has also an optimal referral program: for every survey finished from your referrals, you will earn 5$. I had had some problems with my referral account and,because of this I had never received compensations, but thanks to their kind webmaster, now all is ok and I begin to receive payments.

I suggest you this panel, because the payments are punctual (every 4 weeks, with PayPal) and, even if it sends few surveys, those that arrive are always really gainful!

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 9 – More Monetizing Options

2007-12-27T01:12:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

we’ve discussed about using Google Adsense program and other merchants’ affiliate programs to generate profits from your blog. However, we have a lot of other options to monetize your blog, so we’re going to look into that today.The first option we’ll be looking at is Chitika (www.chitika.com). Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising program because it can serve very detailed advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in different tabs: one for “Best deals”, another for “details”, another for “reviews” and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher. You can apply here: https://chitika.com/application

You can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers a wide range of products but its predominant domain is in books. Whatever your niche is about, you can probably find a book about it on Amazon.com. Join their Associate program here: https://associates.amazon.com/gp/flex/associates/apply-login.html/

Once you join them, you can refer visitors to them and earn up to 10% commission. It’s not a lot but if you can manage to refer big volumes of visitors, Amazon is for you. This program really shines when it comes to the ways you can refer visitors: you can use their predefined templates to pull up recent items that match a certain criteria you set, you can target your ad to show a specific item on sale or you can just simply weave your referral links into your blog posts.

Last but definitely not least, you can sell advertising space on your blog if your blog is truly popular. Just take a look at blog like http://xiaxue.blogspot.com. That blog receives over 10,000 page views every day and naturally merchants will want to strike a deal with the blog’s owner to post their advertisements there. If you manage to pull in huge amounts of traffic like that blog, you can definitely get people to buy ad space on your blog for prices from $150/month upwards, depending on your blog popularity.
To gauger how much page views and visitors you get everyday, just use the free tool available at www.statcounter.com. They have a very detailed setup guide there so I won’t go into it.

If your blog has not acquired large amount of visitors yet, you can still sell ad space on your blog on a per click or per impression basis. Just visit sites like www.adbrite.com. For a complete list of these sites, visit http://performancing.com/node/60.

Hopefully, that will help you maximize earnings and profits from your blog!

Delia.

Happy Christmas!

2007-12-24T18:56:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

I wish you a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays and thanks for stopping by my blog!

Ciao,
Delia.

Received payment: Gainpay and Amity-Cash

2007-12-20T01:00:00.000-08:00

Hello,

a short post just to let you know that I have received 2 payments today from two PTR:
- Amity-Cash, PTR of old date, that sends only 2/3 mail to the day. The searches are demanded. Payout 0.5$.
- GainPay, old but consolidated PTR, that always pays. It sends few mails, but, in this case, the searches are not obligatory. Payout 1$ for verified PayPal accounts, 5$ for all the others.

I must confess you that, lately, I have left to go many PTR and PTC, because I am tired to click tons of mails and links for just 0.25/0.50 cent...recently, I have found a virus in one mail and I have lost the all enthusiasm for this kind of gain. I dedicate myself, instead,to the surveys and paid reviews.

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 8 – Monetizing Your Blog

2007-12-18T01:57:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

you have been working hard to produce good-quality, original content on your blog and you have attracted a decent amount of traffic by doing so. However, money is not going to appear out of thin air just because you have traffic. You have to turn your traffic into money.

There are several ways to generate profits from the visitors of your blog, and Google Adsense program allows you to do so with ultimate ease. First, visit their website at http://adsense.google.com/. You’ll find out more about their advertising program there, but here are some extra bits I’d like to tell you.

First, Google Adsense program is a really useful way to monetize your blog because when users finish reading your newest post, chances are they want to leave your blog because they have nothing else to do on your blog. If your Adsense advertisement block is visible on your blog, they might see advertisements relevant to them and click on them to exit your blog. Ka-ching! You’ve just cashed in on your first virtual cents!

But yes, your profits will only be cents if you don’t “do it right”. This involves placing your Google ads in the right places and ensuring they blend in to your site so that they appear more like links rather than advertisements to your visitors. Consult the page https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html to see the “heat map” of your blog. The “hotter” a certain area, the greater the chances of someone looking at your blog.

Once you get a Google Adsense account, you can change the color of your advertisement text and links. You will want them to match the colors on your blog. If your blog text is black and the links are red, do the same for the ad blocks too! It’s that simple.

Another way to earn profits from your blog is to recommend products to your readers. When your visitors buy from the merchants you recommend, you get to keep a little commission too. This is known as affiliate marketing and it is very easy to start because you don’t have to create your own products or services.

Anyway, let’s refer back to our technological gadgets blog example. Let’s say you discover this Gadget X on a merchant’s website, and they offer an affiliate program. What you would do is to create a post in your blog and do a mini-review on this Gadget X. Rip it apart and point out its benefits and bad points, if any, and include a link (which is given by the merchant) for the visitor to purchase the Gadget X online.

If your visitor clicks and purchases the gadget, the merchant will track from the link that the purchase is referred by you, so they will send you your share of the profits. Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get purchases this product, and you earn $27.00 commission from each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors in a month that would be a $2,700.00 paycheck for you just for writing about ONE product.

Now, affiliate programs are very nice ways to generate profit, but how do you find affiliate programs that are related to your blog theme? Easy, just go to Google and search for +”affiliate programs”. Another slightly better way is to go to http://www.associateprograms.com/search to look for affiliate programs in your niche.

The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits from your blog. We’ll be discussing other great, profitable ways, so keep your eyes peeled!

Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 7: More Traffic Sources

2007-11-30T04:44:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

Getting links from other websites is not the only way to attract visitors to visit your blog. This time, we are going to explore alternative methods to attract high quality traffic with both free and paid methods.

The first thing you can do to generate traffic is to recycle all the content you have written on your blog. What I really mean is to turn your blog posts into little “manuals” or articles that help people solve their problems or offer valuable information and submit them to article directories. These article directories are like aggregators that collect articles of similar themes together in one place, so they receive thousands and thousands of qualified visitors every day.

When you submit your articles to these directories, you are exposing your name to the thousands of pairs of eyes visiting them for free! On most article directories, you are also permitted to include a “resource box” where you can include your contact details, a simple biography and so on. This is where you can truly leverage the traffic of the said article directories.

Some good article directories to get you started:
www.eZineArticles.com
www.ultimatearticledirectory.com
www.submityourarticle.com

Another excellent way to gain traffic is to join Internet forums that is based on your niche. To find these kind of forums, just go to any search engine and enter “ +forum”, without the quotes. You would want the most focused forum with a substantial number of active members, and preferably always bustling with activity. Just check the dates of the threads posted on the forum.

When you join active forums that focus on your field of discussion and post very useful and valuable posts, your peers will start noticing you and paying attention to what you have to say. In most forums, you are also allowed to append a link to your site in the signature line, which is under every post you make on the forums. People will click and visit your blog if they find your posts helpful and informative. This way, your credibility is built even before they land on your blog, so traffic from the forums would be easier to turn into profits if your blog is selling your own products or recommending others’ as an affiliate since they are already convinced you’re an “expert” in the field.

The strategy we’ll discuss is word of mouth. Let’s say you already have a daily visitor count of 100. What if you compiled a small report or gift and posted it on your blog, saying that if a certain visitor can refer three of his/her friends to visit your blog the gift will be his/hers for free? If your small report or gift is lucrative enough, it will generate a small buzz among your blog readers and they will surely refer their friends to this blog that they frequent!

You can also utilize the “blog and ping” technique that everyone’s talking about. Basically, when you update your blog, you can let blog portals such as www.technorati.com know by pinging them. You can ping a lot of portals at once by using the free www.pingomatic.com.

Besides the techniques described here, there are also paid methods like buying links from high-ranking pages or buying banner advertisement space. A thing to keep in mind when buying paid traffic is to always weigh your profits generated from the paid ads. If your profits do no offset the expense, you will end up losing money, so choose wisely.

Delia.

Agloco...is it dead?

2007-11-28T00:41:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

today I was thinking that, for a long time, I did not have news of Agloco and the eventual payments... therefore I have visited the official blog to see if there were news and I have uncovered that, unfortunately, there are some!

The payments would have to start soon short and the conversion rate would have to be gone around 0.50$/hour...good news, you will say... BUT (and it is a large but) the payments will come delayed in 10 years.
No, I am not joking.
The plan of Agloco is to fraction our credit into 120 payments and to pay them every month. What do you think about this? I am really worried, also because my mount hours is rather low and I do not succeed to imagine how much I would have to receive every month.

Supposing that 1 hour is worth 0,5$ and calculating to navigate only 5 hours, I would have to receive: 0.5 $ x 5 hours = 2,5 $ -- 2,5 $/120 payments = 0,0208 $/month for the next 10 years.

He he he !

However, I will continue to activate the bar for 5 hours during the first month... first because in 1 day all the job is made... second because I am curious to see how this unusual adventure will go on!

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 6: Offpage Search Engine Optimization II

2007-11-12T03:26:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

in the last article, we talked about how getting high quality links from authoritative websites in your field can boost your search engine rankings.
This time, we’re going to explore further into linking strategies, and how to determine and obtain “high quality” links. We’re also going to talk briefly about Google’s PageRank.

First, let’s examine a regular link. It’s a piece of text (or image, but we’re going for text) that links to your blog, and some of the factors that matter are:
1) The address which it links to
2) The text of the link
3) The PageRank of the page on which the link resides

Let’s analyze this information one by one.
First, you’d naturally want the link to link to your blog, but to which page of your blog? To an individual post or to your blog’s home page? Since your blog is a constantly updated website, it is always wise to accumulate all the links to point to your main page instead if individual posts because they tend to be very time-sensitive.

The text of the link also affects your rankings for a certain keyword.
Let’s say your blog is about technological gadgets and another site has a link that says “Barbie dolls” and links to your blog. Doesn’t make much sense, right? If a lot of links that link to your site contain the terms “technological” or “gadget”, it will greatly boost your rankings for those keywords. Hence, it’s essential to put some thoughts when requesting links from other webmasters as you want them to link to your blog with appropriate keywords.

Now, about Google’s PageRank. It’s basically a scale set by Google to measure the popularity of websites. You can read more about it on http://www.google.com/technology/. What is interesting is that the higher the PageRank of a certain website, the more frequent Google’s robots will visit the website to index it. Of course, the PageRank of a page will also help it to rank higher in Google’s search engine results. In short, having a high PageRank will bring you many benefits SEO-wise.

Your blog will start with no PageRank (which is different to PageRank 0) because Google has not yet indexed your blog. Once Google’s robots find your blog through links on other sites, your blog will show a PageRank of 0 and depending on the PageRank of the referring page, your blog’s PageRank will also rise eventually.

Getting high-quality links to your blog will help direct targetted visitors who are interested in your niche to your blog, enable search engines to find and index your blog and ultimately rank higher in search engine results.

Ciao,
Delia.

HairSay invitation.

2007-11-10T11:53:00.000-08:00

Hello guys,

the three invitation for the HairSay community have been assigned to 3 of you.
George is enrolled, Cristina is waiting to define the inscription and Antonio has asked me the last invitation available (is nearly sure that he will be accepted, because the boys are more sought after!).
Well, unless that some inscriptions will not go to good aim, the opportunities has finished...however I really hope that Cristina and Antonio will succeed to enroll in the community.

Thanks to these three friends, that have interacted with me and my Blog...I am happy to knowg that you read my post and you take in consideration my proposals!

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 5: Offpage Search Engine Optimization

2007-11-09T05:34:00.000-08:00

Hi guys!

We’ve already optimized our blog to rank well for search results of certain keywords that we’re targetting, but here comes the sad news – it affects your ranking in only very minor ways. However, don’t skip this step as every little bit helps when you’re competing for search engine rankings!

Now, we’re moving on to offpage search engine optimization. That is, factors that are not on your blog but affect your search engine rankings very greatly. There are a lot of offpage factors, but we shall study them one by one. The first and most obvious one is the number of links to your blog.

As a general rule of thumb, the more links to your blog, the more the search engines think you are an authority in that particular niche and hence the higher they rank you. However, take care to observe the quality of the links. For example, a thousand links from totally irrelevant sites like online dating sites would not help at all because your blog is a technological product blog. In contrast, a single link from a highly authoritative site about technological gadgets will get the search engines crawling about your blog like the Feds storming a crack den…

Anyway, the most cost effective way of getting high quality links from authoritative sites is simply to ask for it. If your blog contains high quality content that is original and will provide valuable information to the site’s readers, chances are the webmaster(s) will link to your blog or even write about you!

Let’s talk about how we should ask these webmasters of authority to link to your blog. We’re discussing this based on the presumption that your blog is really content rich and offer high quality information to anyone in your niche or topic of discussion. The most viable option would be to send an email directly to the webmaster.

First, let’s look for the top sites in your niche. Simply search the major search engines for the term that you’re targetting. In this case, let’s search for “technological gadgets”. The first few results, www.t3.co.uk and www.acarplace.com/brands/gm/gadgets.html are commercial sites, so don’t bother asking. We’re looking for community-based sites and other blogs that are more accessible to a complete newcomer like you. Seems like www.gizmodo.com would be a good option!

So, compose an email to the webmaster of www.gizmodo.com (whose email address you shall find on the site). They even have their AIM contact there, so it’s also a good choice if you use AOL Instant Messenger. Start by stating how you came across their site (i.e. “looking for gadget information”, NOT “looking for link partners!”) and how you think their site provides valuable info. Basically, try to say something really good about their site honestly.

Then, suggest that so-and-so content on your own blog will be a nice complement to their site’s content and vice versa. Put a link on your blog to their site and ask subtly if they might be able to do the same to weld a mutually beneficial relationship between the site and your blog.

Along the way, you might find people who won’t even respond to your email, so forget about them and move on. Remove the links from your blog to their site if they have not responded to your email within two weeks, which is a pretty long wait.

Keep doing this for the first 30 search results that pop up, and before long you should have quite a few good sites all linking to you. In the next article, we shall explore further the more advanced offpage factors, and ways to improve them!

Delia.

Received payment: Ipsos, HairSay, ReviewMe

2007-11-08T00:32:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

also today a post on my favorite argument: the received payments.

As you can see from the title of the post, I have received the following payments:

- 5$ on my PayPal account from ReviewMe, for the October review about the customs for Halloween.

- 10$ Top Premium Accor voucher from the Ipsos surveys panel, for approximately 1 month of activity.

- 30£ Amazon voucher for the participation to 1 hour of chat (really amusing!) from HairSay.

I do not put link to Ipsos, because the enrollments are not opened... while ReviewMe is open... if you have a blog that answers to requirement demands. Try!

About HairSay, I have exhausted the 3 available invitation... maybe in the future I will have the possibility to receive others.
In HairSay chat I have met Cristina, but not George or Antonio... why have you lost this opportunity?

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 4 : On Page Search Engine Optimization

2007-11-06T09:04:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

now, you should have a blog full with content you have passionately written. It should be a very interesting grapevine for the community of your chosen niche, as opposed to a lifeless factsheet.

However, no matter how delicious your content is, if there is nobody to read it you can’t generate profit from it. Traffic is the lifeblood of your blog. In order to attract people, you must offer attractive information. Simple enough.

However, to get traffic onto your site, you have to think backwards. Where do people look when they need information? Yes, they search using search engines like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com and www.msn.com, to name a few more popular ones. So, to get these people on your blog, your blog needs to rank high on search result pages of these search engines. When these people search for information through the search engines and see your site among the top results, they will naturally click through to your blog!

The art of getting your blog or website onto high rankings on search result pages is called search engine optimization. It is a very complex and hard subject to master, but that doesn’t stop us from learning simple yet effective techniques to conquer the search results for certain keywords. The more complex techniques are usually needed to fight for very competitive and general keywords such as “fat loss”, but I’ll teach you how to overcome that later.

For now, let’s determine the keywords that you want to optimize your site for. For example, your blog talks about tech gadgets. Now, you’d want to check in Google whether it is a very competetive keyword. At this time of writing, there are 29, 000 ,000 search results. Think you can beat 29, 000, 000 sites at your first attempt? I don’t think so.

Now, let’s try to narrow down our scope. Let’s look for “technological gadgets” instead. At this time of writing, Google lists 792, 000 results. That’s more manageable, but you’d like to search for more focused keywords. However, let’s optimize your blog for “technological gadget” just for the sake of learning.

First, you have to pay attention to the title of your blog. Since you’re optimizing for technological gadgets, you need to have that exact phrase in your blog title. For example, a line like “Your Best Technological Gadget Blog!” would work great.
You can change the title of your blog in the Blogger control panel or the Wordpress blog when you’re creating it. If you’re proficient with HTML, you can even do that on other blog engines like Moveable Type. Bottom line? Learn a little HTML!

Other than that, your page heading should also contain the term you’re optimizing for. The page heading is the bit of text in your code that is enclosed within the "< / p >" e "< >" and tags. This is important as it tells the search engines what your page is about (in this case, “technological gadgets”). Since we’re posting a blog, the "< /p ><>" "< /h1 >" tags are usually the post titles, so remember to include the term there whenever relevant.One last bit, you should also sprinkle the words “technological gadgets” in your posts whenever possible. The frequent occurrence of that phrase in your blog will hint the search engines that your blog is really relevant to that topic.

However, this is the most important bit of all. Always keep in mind that you’re writing for real life people who read your blog to obtain information, so it is very stupid to spam your blog with keywords! In fact, if you do that, the search engines will end up thinking you’re spamming and drop your ranking further down into oblivion… So keep in mind! Write for humans, not search engines!

Delia.

PR3...wow!

2007-11-05T04:51:00.000-08:00

Hi guys,

I want to share with you that my Italian blog has reached PR3...I am really proud of it!!!!

Thanks to all the friends that have linked my blog and all the people who read my posts and come back to post a comment too.

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 3 : Blog Content Brainstorming

2007-10-23T06:37:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

face the fact – your blog needs to be regularly updated to maintain its readership!
Hence, you must always find fresh topics to write about, and we’re going to discuss how to do just that in this article.

We have discussed how to write attractively, so now we are going to discuss what we are going to write on. The very first option that I think a blogger should write on is a topic that he or she feels passionate and interested in. You’ve chosen to make blogging your career because you want to escape a mundane job – forcing yourself to write about something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as as your mundane job!

The other reason I ask you to write about something you’re passionate about is because your feelings and emotion shows through your writings! If you feel indifferent to a certain subject but still write about it just for the sake of it, your readers will notice it. Remember the advice about writing with a personality? Forcing yourself to write will not establish a welcoming style at all.

Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to your blog about it and make it a habit to post at least once every day, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article you read today. Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of effort to get you moving. First, you might just budge an inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally reach your full speed. Then, it’ll take a lot of effort to stop you instead!

However, no matter how well you know your topic, your brain is bound to get exhausted over some time, so here are methods to brainstorm for content for your blog.

1) The very best way to brainstorm is to see what other bloggers have to say about stuff happening in your field of discussion. And the very best way to find related blogs is to use http://blogsearch.google.com/ or www.technorati.com. There are other decent search tools too, you just have to look around. From other blogs, you can gather more knowledge on your subject and you can also comment on what others have to say on your own blog!
2) Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in your field, you’ll have quite an unexhaustible “conversation” ongoing, so you’ll not need to actively search for content to write about. However, if you’re still stuck, search for news articles related to your niche in the local newspaper or online through sites like http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com.
3) You can also have conversations with people with the same interest as you in the particular niche you choose, so you will eventually build up a bank of questions and answers and interesting discussions to write about in your blog. To do this, join forums related to your niche, but don’t join every forum there is out there. Stick with one or two with the biggest number of members or the one which is most focused on your niche. This will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and generating profits.

Remember to keep up your momentum of posting at least once per day (or more if you have a lot of content to write about) so that the major search engines will know that your blog has fresh content everyday. This will attract the search engines to spider your page on a more frequent basis, hence gaining you extra traffic.

Don’t worry about the paragraph above about generating traffic and search engines, because we’re going to talk about that in more detail later. For now, remember to keep a consistent effort everyday and build up momentum like that of a locomotive!

Delia.

GainPay

2007-10-20T04:43:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

another received payment: GainPay.

GainPay is an old and consolidated PTR, maybe send few mails to click, but it pays everytime you reach payout.

Payout is 1$ for verified PayPal account and 5$ for all the others.

I must admit that lately I work less with PTR, because I prefer sponsored reviews and consumer opinion survey...fatigue is less and earnings are really better!

However if you like PTR, try GainPay!

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 2 : Blog Content

2007-10-15T01:55:00.000-07:00

Hi,

today, we’re going to discuss the type of content that is suitable for your blog in order to make it profitable. First off, I want you to understand that there is no fixed scope that your blog should have, which means you can write about whatever you’re interested in.

However, the difference between a profitable blog and a non-profitable blog is the way the blog is written. Just imagine, would you prefer to read your university professor’s lecture notes or the latest novel by your favourite author?

You may prefer to read the novel because it appeals more to your interest, or because it is not as mind-numbing as the lecture notes by your professor. However, the most important point is people like to read “light” stuff most of the time. You see, when people log on to your blog, they are not only looking for information – they are also looking for information they can obtain easily, and better still in a relaxed manner.

So, to attract more visitors as well as to keep your current visitors coming back for more, it is very important to add a human touch to your blog posts. This can be done by simply imagining you’re talking about a certain topic with your personal friend. An extra bonus for your readers would be a great sense of humour, so try to add funny comments in your articles where they are suitable.

Another important key point is to avoid addressing your reader as a plural unit. What I really mean is you should not write as if you’re preparing a speech. Instead, you should write as if you’re having a conversation to a single person because this will make your visitor think of you more as a personal friend rather than a person of higher authority.

Besides that, it is also very useful to establish your own personality through your words. Human beings are very curious creatures, so naturally your visitors would want to know as much about you as the information you’re offering them.

Having a distinctive personality in your blog would make a world’s difference between your blog about gadgets and all the other blogs about gadgets out there. This is a lot like creating your own brand name, where people immediately remember your blog’s name when they need to find out information about gadgets, just like how people immediately think of McDonald’s for fastfood or Nike for sportswear.

So, the lesson for today is to simply write as an equal friend to your visitors, write to them as if you’re talking to a single person and establish your own personality on your blog.

Delia.

Spam!

2007-10-14T04:36:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

my blog is just opened and I already have to fight with Spam.

I receive tens of Spam comments everyday, full of affiliate links and nonsense text...of course I delete them, but thank to Blogger filters and to the form I have introduced (now if you want to leave a comment, you have to fill a form and wait for my approval).

Well, I don't want to discourage you...post your comment freely, just ask me for links you would like to exchange with my blog.

Ciao,
Delia.

Blogging for profit - Part 1: Setting Up Your Blog

2007-10-13T04:17:00.000-07:00

Hi,

Blogging is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are easy to set up and maintain. Imagine a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, whenever you want, wherever you are. The mere flexibility of blogging makes it easy for you to just kick back, relax and go on a vacation whenever you feel like it.

In this article, we are going to look into the profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our own at no cost! Interested? Read on!

First, we need to obtain a blog. There are several options – host a blog on your own domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s talk about the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at www.blogger.com or the newer www.wordpress.com. If you are a techie, you must have heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine that is robust and infinitely expandable.

Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected on Google’s radar faster and you will be indexed faster. Wordpress.com, however, is a relatively new option so I have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. However, Wordpress is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later).

Get a free blog at either Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com/signup.g) or Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/signup/). Then, familiarize yourself by posting your first post on your blog and tinkering around with the options and templates.

Here are a few common “blog-related” words to help you out:

1) Permalink – Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.
2) Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.
3) Pinging – Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is mentioned nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the newest post of your blog on their website. This is a useful way to gaining traffic, which we shall discuss later.

For now, I shall leave you testing out your new blog and the features that come included with it. In the next articles, we shall discuss the many ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as tips on how to write posts that keep visitors glued and keep coming back for more!

Delia.

Hericom and ReviewMe

2007-10-12T04:22:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

this is my favorite kind of posts: received payments!

I am really happy to post that:

- Hericom has paid me after 30 days from my request. Hericom is a French site that will pay you just for listening to the radio and chat with other users. Payout is 10$ on PayPal account. You can open the radio windows and turn off the volume, if you do not like the music...your account will increase the same!

- ReviewMe has paid me 6$ for the review on my Italian blog, posted in September. Nice earnings for a little work! I am really satisfied with ReviewMe and I hope I will be able to post other reviews in the future!

Ciao,
Delia.

How to Start an Internet Business without Capital

2007-10-11T01:40:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

I often meet new Internet marketers on various forums and they aspire to earn the big bucks like some of the well-known personas out there, such as Yanik Silver and Bryan Kumar. However, most of these new marketers have only the slightest ideas on where to start, and a lot of them are not willing or able to invest a startup capital in their online business. However, it is almost impossible to start an Internet business without spending some money on basic infrastructure such as web hosting, domain names and so on.

Hence, here is a rough guide on how to build an Internet business starting with $0.

The first and most important thing to do is to list out all your skills. What skills do you have? You may have picked up these skills through daily life (for example languages), through your job (hands-on knowledge on a specific niche) or from your hobbies (for example fishing). It is most vital to list down skills or knowledge that you have and might be in demand elsewhere. For example, you love fly-fishing and you do it every day after work. You may build your Internet business upon this: writing an instructional guide on fly-fishing, teaching people how to do it, etc. Best of all, you do not need to spend money to acquire this knowledge: you already have it.

So, the very first option, if you have no money to start off your online business, is to earn some capital using your already existing skills or knowledge. You can give tuition to students on your dominant subject in college, you can teach stuff about your hobby to people who are interested, you can write guides on knowledge or skills you picked up through experience and cannot be found in theoretical books.

Okay, let's say if you just can't think of any skills or knowledge that people might be interested in. Then, it's most important that you locate a workable business model and focus on that alone. You can obtain almost everything you need through bartering, web hosting, domain name or credit card processing, to name a few in exchange for your product (if you own one) or services like copywriting, ghostwriting and website designs. There is always some mundane job that people don't want to do, and you can do that for those people in exchange for things you need. You just need to ask for it!

Delia.

Welcome!

2007-10-10T04:17:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

welcome to Blogging for profit!

I know that earning from home (without spending a dime) is really hard...but I hope I will be able to do it and I want to share my adventure with you!

Your comments will be welcome, so post them without fear!

Ciao,
Delia.

Resources

2007-10-09T01:11:00.000-07:00