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Adsense earnings went down the pan

Posted December 8, 2009

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What the f*** has happened with Adsense clicks over the past week?

I usually have no problem in generating enough clicks to make the minimum S100 income every month – usually by the middle of the month. So far in December my Adsense earnings are less than one third of the amount for the same period in November. And, compared to last December, the rates are pitiful. Page eCPM is down: the only thing that is not down is my site traffic, so that is not the reason for this massive fall. At least I have other sources of income, and good job – if I was relying on Google for my Christmas spending money, it would be a bleak celebration around here.

I am not alone – this problem is affecting thousands of Adsense publishers, this thread on Webmaster World shows the misery is being shared around the world at present.

Tags: adsense

Filed under: affiliate programs, blog for money, blogging

Amazon Affiliate earnings

Posted August 19, 2009

Written byFlora Comments(0)

One affiliate program that makes steady money is Amazon. If you thought Amazon was just a place to buy books and CDs, think again. You can serve up affiliate links to a massive range of products and your readers will be able to buy them at a better price than eBay. The links and widgets are not easy to build, but if you take some time to explore them and place them in the right web page they can really take off for you. I must say that i was not making enough use of Amazon until recently as I did not realise how many merchants were selling through them. If you search on some fairly basic household items you will find that Amazon links rank highly. But a lot of affiliates do not bother with Amazon because it pays a lower commission than other affiliate or CPA networks.

Your task then is to make your links effective enough so that they rank on the front page for your chosen search term. And that is a little trick which is the reaosn to continue using Amazon links. Suppose you have a product page comparing MPs players. Place your usual lick direct to the merchant pages and other price comparison affiliate programs, then add an Amazon link on the same page. It does not matter to you where the traffic comes from, as long as it comes to YOUR page. If the Amazon link brings the visitors, they can then look around at all the deals on your page and choose the one they like best. If you have done the work right, that is going to be the link that pays you the highest affiliate commission.

Tags: affiliate programs

Filed under: affiliate programs, search engines

Mass Article Control Makes Money for You

Posted August 3, 2009

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Article Creation and Submission packages

Are you struggling to write articles, even though every Internet Guru tells you they are an easy way to get traffic to your website, and make money online? Make no mistake, article writing is still an amazingly effective way to get highly targeted visitors to your website without paying for traffic. This week I came across a software package that can help you produce unlimited well written articles that you can publish on sites like eZine Articles. It uses brand new technology to help you create hundreds or even thousands of unique, readable articles from your single original article. It is so simple – just a few clicks of your mouse button and you will have new original material to submit to the top article directories on autopilot.

The authors of these two powerful software programs have spent almost $50,000 to develop them into state of the art article solutions and now the product can help you skyrocket your income by producing high quality articles and using article marketing to generate online income. By using Mass Article Creator and Mass Article Submitter you need have no fears of duplicate content penalties, and your backlinks will increase exponentially. I have tried dozens of packages that promised to help me create new versions of my articles but the results were pathetic. I do not want articles submitted in my name that do not make sense and risk the Duplicate Content penalty. Rest assured, this Mass Article Package protects you from these dangers and allows you to use your imagination to ratchet up your online income. Buy the Mass Article Package today with a cast iron guarantee from Clickbank – the world’s leading software vendor. And the real bonus is that the price of this life changing package has been cut in half for a limited period. To find out more and get your personal Mass Control Article Package, just visit the website for more information.

Tags: Article Marketing

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Trade Show Displays

Posted July 24, 2009

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When you set up an online business alone it is easy to forget that you need to get out into the offline world as well, if your business is going to succeed in the long term. Do not be deceived by early successes into thinking that promotion is not necessary. Almost every business on the planet needs to get involved in trade show dislays at some point in its life cycle. Taking part in exhibitions is a feat of logistics and planning, and if you get it right this can give your company a huge boost and gain valuable orders and kudos. But what do you do if you are new to organising trade show displays? Go to the people who have done it before, of course. Without the help of experienced contractors you could take your eye off the ball by spending every waking hour preparing for the big day. Nobody says it is easy, but you would be well advised to go to a set of experts to book your exhibition space, design the look of the stand and make sure it comes together as you envisaged it. All your telecoms and lighting need to be there on time, plus your stock and hospitality supplies. Then you can dedicate your efforts to schmoozing the visitors and securing those valuable orders.

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Filed under: home business

Internet Marketing Tools – Trial Offer

Posted July 20, 2009

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After hearing great things about ShoeMoney’s Internet Marketing Tools, I signed up for an account of my own.

While using them I just kept thinking to myself how much other affiliate marketers could benefit from them. Whether you are looking for tools to help you build links and rank better in search engines or want to get more into advanced forms of making money on the internet through pay per click and affiliate marketing, ShoeMoney Tools has something for everyone. ShoeMoney Tools have become the industry must-have for internet marketers and this is a perfect chance for you to test them out.

ShoeMoney Tools normally cost $79 a month and that price can be a little intimidating to someone who just wants to test it. So I reached out to Jeremy to see if there was a way I could get a special price for my readers.

I was able to negotiate a special rate of ONLY $3.95 for the first month! There is no long term commitment and you can cancel at anytime.

What’s the catch? It’s only available to the first 50 people who sign up. You can try out Shoemoney’s Internet Marketing Tools for the special price of $3.95.

Tags: affiliate programs, Niche marketing, Shoemoney tools

Filed under: affiliate programs

What you need to know about Clickbank

Posted July 20, 2009

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Good news for all affiliates who want to make money online with Clickbank. The marketplace for electronic products, Clickbank, can make some serious affiliate earnings for you and now they have improved their services for publishers to make more money for you. If you have not used Clickbank to make money from affiliate programs, you should check it out. Clickbank is different from mainstream affiliate networks because it allows individual merchants to market their products through the website, and any affiliate member can promote those products and earn commissions of up to 75 per cent. Products include ebooks and software and you put your personal Clickbank hoplink into the product page URL to earn your share.

But that system has been open to scammers who actually hijacked other people’s legitimate affiliate links to steal the commission. Most publishers did their best to stop this by using TinyURL, but it is time consuming to convert every affiliate link individually. There is an easy way to protect all your affiliate links with a clever software package and I advise anybody who want to keep their affiliate earnings to get this now.

Clickbank have taken a lot of steps to improve their affiliate links, by encrypting them all, automatically. But other affiliate programs do not encrypt, so you still need an Affiliate Link Cloak to protect your online income. The other new product from Clickbank is the HopAd Builder, a fully customised text ad box to display on your website or blog. By inserting keywords related to your website, you can create relevant text ads that have the potential to make much more than your latest pathetic Adsense earnings.

If the whole idea of affiliate marketing with Clickbank is new to you, you can get help from The Clickbank Code – this is a fantastic five hour video guide to some real top shelf affiliate techniques. Michael Jones, who devised the system, will hold your hands every step of the way and get you into profit.

And I mean big profits… Michael made $48,506.66 his first month using the system – And that was his first month in Clickbank!

Tags: Affiliate Link Cloak, affiliate programs, Clickbank Code

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Internet Marketing Training

Posted July 16, 2009

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Every World Internet Summit is an outstanding event. They often SELL OUT weeks before the event, so it’s important that you start marketing as soon as possible so that you don’t miss your chance of making profits. Every two months, twelve of the best internet marketers in the world come together to present one HUGE weekend of internet learning, somewhere around the globe – Sydney, London, Dallas, Auckland, Singapore and more. You’ll be there, won’t you? A dozen top world internet marketers are coming to speak at the World Internet Summit. There are only a few seats left (every year it sells out). But if you want to be on the inside and find out what’s working and selling on the internet, you’ve got to be here.

Tags: internet training, Niche marketing, world internet summit

Filed under: affiliate programs, blog for money, blogging

XL Results Foundation New Name

Posted July 13, 2009

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XL Results Foundation is no more

This morning I received another email invitation to pay Roger Hamilton’s company for a “WealthDynamics Profile” test. According to them, the “WealthDynamics Profile is the key to you doing better in business”. By throwing in the names of credible entrepreneurs, the soft sell persuades us that by paying $100 to complete the Wealth Dynamics test, we will find our similarity to the likes of entrepreneurs Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, George Soros or Warren Buffet. Not that any of those worthies have taken the test, you understand. You have to hand it to XL – their marketing is not bad! Just to be clear: the WealthDynamics Profile was dreamt up by the Roger Hamilton, it has not been validated independently and it is used as a hook to sell life membership in his organisation. There is news on that front – Roger Hamilton has moved his scandal-hit XL Result Foundation to a new website with a new name – XL Nation. That company name is no mistake – read this, from the xlnation.org website: “On 31st March 2009, on XL National Day, XL Nation launched as the first global nation without borders. Operating as a non-profit, for-social-profit nation, XL Nation is in the process of harnessing technology to operate as the first real-time global democracy” WHAT? This megalomaniac copy goes on and on, with glowing testimonials from memners of the XL nation. But, as ever, there are no concrete examples of business benefits for XL members – just plenty of training sessions to make them feel good.

The XL Nation membership page states: ‘XL Nation is a community of like-minded, social entrepreneurs working together with integrity and purpose towards realising World Wide Wealth. XL Nation Citizens are entitled to invite and accept those individuals who they believe would both benefit from and add value to XL Nation. If you are applying independently and as yet don’t have a Buddy to invite you to join, we would be delighted to help find one, who will invite you to join their circle directly and give you access to all of XL Nation.’ Sounds more and more like Network Marketing to me…

Aftedr so many allegations that Roger Hamilton’s XL Results foundation is a con or a scam and so many complaints from members who paid upfront and demanded refunds, it is no surprise that XL Results Foundation has rebranded itself to try and appear more legitimate.

Tags: Roger Hamilton, XL Results

Filed under: XL Results Foundation, scams

Your online business is the best model

Posted July 1, 2009

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Online business or offline? Your choice

Today I went to the local shops, to get a bracelet repaired. There is a jeweller who makes her own stuff on the premises, using beads, pearls and silver. The products range in price from £15 to £150. The shop rent is probably £200 a week, and rates are £75 on top of that. The electricity bill could be up to £30 a week, making the fixed outgoings at least £300 per week – say £50 per day. Today, on a glorious sunny afternoon in our tourist town, no customers came into the shop in the fifteen minutes I was there. Other times I have been to the shop, I have always been the only customer. To cover the outgoings the business needs sales of £200 a day and I saw no hint of any paying customers coming through the door. The business owner has invested time and money in the company, she is makiing the jewellery herself every day and paying the fixed business costs. That business must be operating at a loss.

My online blogging business cost me $8 to set up, my fixed business overheads total about $5 a week for hosting and domain name registration. Sure there are quiet days when I do not make many sales, but I am not mortgaged to the hilt so there is no financial downside to this internet marketing model.

Tags: Making Money at Home, online business costs

Filed under: home business

Ping Service Wordpress Plugins

Posted May 8, 2009

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Wordpress Themes Optimize your blog

There is one Wordpress Plugin that could make all the difference between success and accidental oblivion for your blog – especially if, like me, you often rewrite your finished blog posts. Wordpress contains some brilliant built-in functions, for example it pings new posts to your chosen blog services automatically every time you publish a new post. When you write a new blog post, Wordpress sends an automated ping to all those websites telling them there is new material on your blog. All well and good when the post is new, but suppose you edit the post after you have published it? Wordpress thinks the ping services will want to know about your revised post, but they will raise the alarm if you ping the same URL to them over and over again. Your site could then be flagged up as a spam site – and banned by the ping services because of ping spamming. If you edit several already published posts, everyone will cause a new ping frenzy, unless you havea Ping Optimizing Plugin installed. Because spamming is an SEO technique that is used by black hat sites, and even if the mistake was accidental, you will still suffer the same penalty. The Smart Update Pinger and the Ping Optimizer by MaxBlogPress are two Free Wordpress Plugins that help you avoid making these mistakes, protecting your site’s position in the Search Engine results. The plugins take over the Wordpress standard update ping functionality. Instead of pinging every time you save a post, the Smart Update Pinger and Ping Optimizer plugins only ping when the post has not previously been published. You can also see a log for the latest pings, together with error messages, on the plugin’s options page. The author of Smart Update Pinger has said that he is not updating the Plugin any more but my log stats show that the plugin is still working for me. Have a look at each of them and decide which one is best for you. But make sure you install one of these plugins to keep your blog out of trouble! And do not forget to download the Wordpress Affiliate Link Cloak Plugin to maximise affiliate earnings from your blog.