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One of the earliest forms of pay-per-click advertising is called direct linking. This type of advertising typically sends the person who clicked on the ad directly to the website associated with the ad; sometimes it can even redirect the domain. This is often a problem for the user because they do not want to leave the site they are currently viewing, especially if they click on the ads by accident. Read the rest of this entry »

As the first thing any internet user will see when they click on your pay-per-click ad, the landing page is going to make a decided first impression. You have an average of three second to impress your visitor before they will move on to another site. The page needs to be short and snappy. It must give the potential customer a good idea of what the product or service is without overwhelming them, which would make them decide to go back to the previous page to find something more fitting. Making a landing page that has lots of graphics and many menus may take up too much time and deter any further exploration into your product. In other words, marketers should not have the click drag the internet user to their site. Read the rest of this entry »

The most important part of  internet marketing are good ideas. You have to be creative when you’re building new website, creating new ads, writting new content for your websites… And there is always this idea problem. I decided to help you a little bit with idea part of your business and this list of 7 ways how to get ideas came out.
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When an enthusiastic, rookie internet marketer starts with internet marketing, he follows this far-fetched dream of having his site listed on first page of Google’s search results. Of course, this without a doubt generally is the right goal. But the problem is, a rookie doesn’t understand that the competition is just too hard and their dreams are virtually impossible. They then discover niche marketing and how important it is to target a niche if you’re to be profitable. Next question is of course, what actually is a good niche and how to find one?
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At the start of my internet marketing carrier I was building my sites with articles from article directories. Those articles have been already published on thousands of sites. In first few days I got few visitors from SE and than Google marked my site as duplicated and my traffic disappered. All of my time I spent on designing, link building was wasted. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been working quite hard in April. I built one new site, wrote few posts on this blog, made many link exchanges, joined in few new ad networks… I can see benefits of this hard work – traffic on all of my sites are growing fast. Now it is time to calculate how much have I earned in April.

AdSense – $44.91
Text-Link-Ads – $83.69
Paypopup – $2.06
AdBrite – $0.23
Kontera – $0.52
Local Ad Networks – $13.26
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Total – $144.67 or $4.82 per day

Directory submission is one of the best link building methods. It is free, easy and you don’t have to spam your website with links. But it takes a lot of time and many of your links stay unapproved.

The easiest way to avoid dead directories is submiting to new directories. Many webmasters spend a lot of hours with their new directory, but after some time they start working on other sites and there is no time for directory.

It is easy to find new directories on webmaster forums. My favorite place to find new directories is DigitalPoint.

I wrote about make money methods in previous post and today I’ll show you some more ways to make money.

1. Affiliate marketing
In affiliate marketing you put ads on your website and you are paid every time somebody you have reffered to webshop buy something. In the most cases you get from 4-75% commission but in other cases you get fixed amout of money per sale. The easies way to start with affiliate marketing is to join to one of the affiliate networks:

• CJ.com
• ClickBank

2. Direct banner sales
Direct banner sales is great way to make money. You can cut out middleman commissions and make prices more affordable for advertisers. But you have to have lots of traffic and great marketing skills to get advertisers.

3. Paid Surveys and Polls
There are companies which pay for running polls and small surveys. The most popular service is called Vizu.

4. Donations
If you have great community which is aware of your hardworking and have lots of benefits from you content you can put small Donation button on you website.

5. Selling an eBook
Many bloggers rewrite thier post in eBook and sell it online. EBooks are great for readers because it is easier to read book than searching all over the blog to find all useful posts.

1. PPC Advertising
PPC advertising is one of the most popular methods to make money from your website. How does it work? You join one of the PPC network and than you put simple javascript code in HTML of your website. This code can show image banner, in-content links(Kontera) or text banner(AdSense, AdBrite…). You get paid everytime your visitor click on banner or link.

2. CPM Advertising
CPM means cost per 1,000 impressions. You get few bucks for every 1,000 impressions of banner or popup/popunder. You’ll get about $0.5 – $2 per 1,000 impressions. CPM advertising is popular mostly with entertiment websites which has low CTR and a lot of impressions. CPM program I use is Paypopup.

3. Paid reviews
Paid reviews are popular with bloggers. I don’t have much experiences with paid reviews, but some bloggers get upto $500 per post. The most popular review service is ReviewMe.

4. Text link sales
Text link sales is one of my favourit methods. Link buying is the easiest way to get more link popularity and many webmasters are doing it. I use Text link ads and TNX.net.

Another post about making money methods is coming soon. Don’t miss it – subscribe to my RSS.

Business Blogging by ProBlogger
In the afternoon I was surfing all over the web and I found great post about business blogging. Blog can be extremly useful for your business if you use it right. You must not have your blog only for promoting your products because your blog will get almost no traffic and you won’t have any benefits from it. You should share useful tips about products you sell.

Darren from ProBLogger has written a kind of a case study. It talks about jewelry store which had blog mostly to get people know they had added new product in their store. They had had small number of RSS subscribers and bad ROI. Than Darren gave them an advice… read more

5 way to get readers to new blog
Darren have also written great series of posts how to start blog – not how to setup WordPress but how to get first readers to your blog and get first subscribers.

Series include 5 posts:

• Guest Posting
• Networking
• Advertising
• Social Media
• Viral Content

I think it would be enough reading for today and tomorrow I’ll be back with another post full of great tips. Don’t miss it – subscribe to my RSS feed.