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Affiliate Strategies for Newbies

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KevinKarter
on November 2, 2008
in Advertising Networks, Making Money and internet marketing
. 0 Comments

Many times I get asked a simple question from newbies:

I am a newbie to affiliate marketing and PPC, can you let me know few tips and tricks to getting started?

Well, I don’t have any tricks up my sleeve, but yes, there are some tips.

I think the easiest way to learn affiliate marketing and PPC is to try it yourself. What is the simplest place to start? In my opinion, many online marketers have started and having good success with clickbank, and is a good place to start. I recommend it.

For newbies in this field, its is difficult to make websites (or landing pages) as it involves a lots of different stuff. So, the simplest way is to send the traffic directly to advertiser’s website. It is not the best way, but it is the simplest way to start. Remember to do a little bit of research and try to choose a non-saturated clickbank niche for your campaigns. Here is a list of good campaigns and advertisers, I would advise that you try some yourself to see how they work:

  1. Commission Blueprint - huge commissions and easy conversions makes good money for affiliates marketers.
  2. Make Money Flipping Websites - a video series teaches anyone how to earn money from home flipping websites.
  3. 12 Month Millionaire - amazing money making secrets of a 28 year old who made $100 million in two years!
  4. Web 2.0 Wealth - learn how to make multiple incomes from custom Wordpress blog with multiple income options.
  5. Flipping Domain Names - learn how to make $1,000 a month simply buying and selling domain names.
  6. Recession Rescue System - 3 giants of the internet marketing world show you how to make money in a recession.
  7. Blogging to the Bank - the best blogging advice on the net. Highly recommended.
  8. Secret Affiliate Code - send traffic and make money, great promotional tools are here

So what are you waiting for, get started today and soon you’ll be earning good money.

The Mistake of the Make Money Online Brigade

Published
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KevinKarter
on February 11, 2008
in Blog, Making Money and internet marketing
. 6 Comments

What is the biggest mistake any ‘newbie’ can make when starting a Make Money Online business? They  plan to make money in the “make money online” niche!

But that is what you are doing Kevin I hear you say! Yes, but I am not doing this to make money, I am doing this to tell everybody how much I am making from all my other niches :-)

So why is it a mistake for newbies to start in the Make Money Online niche?
Making money in this niche is not an easy task and here are some of the reasons why it may not be a very good idea to start your online business in “make money online” niche:

  1. It is already a saturated niche with some big players like problogger.net, shoemoney.com, johnchow.com, and thousands of others making some serious cash.
  2. The people that visit such sites are webmasters and most of them are ad blind. So it is very difficult to make money from webmasters.
  3. Most of the people in this niche already know, and tell the tricks in this field. So it would be difficult to find and write something new which is not known to them.
  4. CPC costs in this niche is much less than others niches like finance, auto, health etc.
  5. If you find something new/great in this niche, it gets copied/duplicated quite fast on blogs bigger than yours as well in some other form. And they get the credit instead of you.
  6. Huge search engine competition in this niche.

So, in what niche should you try to make money?

Try something which you are interested in. It can be anything. My suggestion is think outside “make money online” niche. Spend some time, do some research and find a niche which interest you and does not have massive competition.

Affiliate or Adsense ?

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KevinKarter
on February 10, 2008
in Advertising Networks, Making Money and internet marketing
. 11 Comments

I have a website in the health niche. This site is about 2 years old and makes around $500/month consistently with adsense since last year. This site has a top 5 ranking on most search engines for some very good keywords and gets around 1,000 unique visitors a day. So, with those 30,000 uniques and $500 in adsense, I was happy with $16 eCPM. Who wouldn’t be? That is a pretty good eCPM. So, I was very happy with this site. Until a couple of days ago.

So what happened two days ago?

I got an email from one of my competitors, saying that he is willing to buy my site (they had seen the search engine rankings for it). I told them that the site is not for sale. Then, they gave me an offer which was very difficult to refuse. An offer of $20,000 for the site. I was shocked. Is my site that worth? How he is going to monetize the site making that much money? All these questions came to my mind.

At first, with the amazing offer price, I was just about to sell it. But then I thought, wait, why not try and see what he is going to do with the site. I can do that myself and see if my earnings can be increased. So I started researching the related sites and found that most of my competitors are not running Adsense but running some affiliate links which have some very big payouts.

I put those affiliate links on my site 48 hours ago and here are the stats I see for those 48 hours:

So in 48 hours, that’s a total of $652.60. So if I keep earning that sort of money every day, that would be around $9,789.00 per month from this site alone! Even if I average the figures down a bit to $200 per day (instead of current $326.30), I will be making at least $6,000 per month from this site, which was only making me $500 per month through Adsense until now.

So, Adsense is not always the best way to monetize your website. If you can the right type of affiliate programs which pay well and suit your niche, you can earn more, a LOT more!

Later on this month I will update you all on how the month went.

So, whats next?
As of now I have kept adsense on the site. I will keep them for next 5 days (total of seven days). Then I will remove them for next 7 days and will compare my affiliate earnings from these two weeks. That will decide whether I should remove adsense completely from the site or not.

What do you think? Have any of you had similar experience with changing from adsense to affiliate, or even the other way around?

Google Adsense Has New Terms and Conditions

Published
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KevinKarter
on February 5, 2008
in Advertising Networks, google and internet marketing
. 4 Comments

The Google Adsense policy has changed. They announce about it here. Of course you will also see it when you login to your account. So what has changed?

The most common change in the policy is that most instances of “Website(s)” is changed to “Property(ies)” to take care of the new Adsense avenues like gadgets. The second major change is the privacy policy where you need to have a privacy policy on your site which needs to mention about cookies.

Here are the other changes (other than the mentioned above)

In Point one:

Program is subject to Google prior approval

is changed to

Program is subject to Google’s prior approval

and

located at https://www.google.com/adsense/policies, or such other URL as Google may provide from time to time

is changed to

located at https://www.google.com/adsense/policies, and/or such other URL as Google may provide from time to time

and

By enrolling in the Program, You represent that You are at least 18 years of age and agree that Google may serve third party and/or Google provided advertisements (such Google-served advertisements, collectively, “Ads”), related Google queries and/or Ad search box(es) (collectively, “Links”), Google Web and/or Site search results (collectively, “Search Results”), and/or Google referral Ads (“Referral Buttons”) in connection with the Web site(s) that You designate and the Atom, RSS, or other feeds distributed through such Web site(s) (each such Web site or feed, a “Site”). For the avoidance of doubt, any reference in this Agreement or the Program Policies to an individual “Web page”, “Web site”, “Web site page” or the like that is part of the Site will also mean feeds distributed through such Web site. Multiple accounts held by the same individual or entity are subject to immediate termination unless expressly authorized in writing by Google (including by electronic mail).

is changed to (read it, it is important. About privacy and cookies):

By enrolling in the Program, You represent that You are at least 18 years of age and agree that Google may serve (a) third party and/or Google provided advertisements and/or other content (such third party provided advertisements, Google provided advertisements and other content, collectively, “Ads”), provided, however, that if Google serves non-compensated content, You will have the ability to opt out of receiving such content as part of the Program, (b) related Google queries and/or Ad search box(es) (collectively, “Links”), (c) Google Web and/or Site search results (collectively, “Search Results”), and/or (d) Google referral Ads (”Referral Buttons”), each in connection with the Web site(s), media player(s), video content and/or mobile content that You designate, or such other properties expressly authorized in writing by Google (including by electronic mail) (such other properties, “Other Properties”), and the Atom, RSS, or other feeds distributed through such Web site(s) , media player(s), video content, mobile content and/or Other Properties (each such Web site, media player, video content, mobile content, Other Property or feed, a “Property”). For the avoidance of doubt, any reference in this Agreement or the Program Policies to an individual “Web page”, “Web site”, “Web site page” or the like that is part of the Property will also mean feeds and media players distributed through such Web site. Multiple accounts held by the same individual or entity are subject to immediate termination unless expressly authorized in writing by Google (including by electronic mail). In some circumstances expressly authorized in writing by Google (including by electronic mail), You may enroll in the Program and create an account for the sole purpose of receiving payment from Google, and not, for purposes of clarification, for the purpose of displaying Ads, Links, Search Results and/or Referral Buttons on a Property. If, however, You subsequently use your Account to participate in the Program (i.e. for the purpose of displaying Ads, Links, Search Results and/or Referral Buttons on a Property), then such use of the Program will be governed by the terms of this Agreement. You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.

There are many other changes, but in short the major changes (as per my understanding of the above differences) are:

  1. You can put adsense search and referral ads on pages without content
  2. You can put adsense on error, registration, chat and thank you pages
  3. You need privacy policy on your site with says that advertisers (google) may use cookies to track information
  4. You can show adsense ads from more than one adsense account on same page at the same time
  5. You can now run contextual ads from other companies like yahoo on the same page

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