Yahoo Answers Big Traffic & Money Making Machine

Some of my blog readers ask me if they can make some decent amount of money online with Yahoo Answers. And my answer to this question was simply yes. In today post, I will gude you how to get some good amount of targeted traffic and thus more money for you with Yahoo Answers.

About Yahoo Answers

Yahoo answers is one of highest traffic social network website on internet. They are showing tremendous growth and are becoming stronger and stronger day by day. Good thing about yahoo Answers is that they are having lots of authority is search engines and thus rank really well on all search engines specially Google and Yahoo.

It is a big knowledge sharing network where we can ask questions and answer the questions asked by other users with more than 21 million unique users in US only and more than 90 million users worldwide. Yahoo answer use points and level system to reward their users. Don’t forget to read Yahoo Answers terms and conditions before joining them.

Yahoo Answers Point System

For evey answer that you attempt, you will be awarded 2 points and you will be awarded 10 points if your answer is chosen as the best answer in the community. Here is Yahoo Answers complete point table:

Actions Points

First start participating on Yahoo Answers 100
When we ask a question -5
Choosing the best answer for my asked question 3
No best answer was chosen by voters on your question 5
Answering a question 2
Deleting a question asked by you -2
Sign into Yahoo Answer daily 1
Voting for a best answer 1
When your answer is selected best answer 10
Any of your question removed due to violation -10

yahoo Answers has a level system (level 1 to level 7) where they keep track of activities and we keep on getting higher and higher in level system with the questions we answer. As we go high in level system, we keep becomes stronger and our power to answer number of questions in a day increases. Here is how level system works and our powers with each level system

Level Points Questions Answers Votes
1 1 – 249 5 20 20
2 250 – 999 10 40 40
3 1,000 – 2,499 15 60 60
4 2,500 – 4,999 20 80 80
5 5,000 – 9,999 – unlimited 80
6 0,000 – 24,999 – unlimited 100
7 25,000+ – unlimited 100

Chose a Niche

Before start thinking of making money online with Yahoo answer, you should identify a niche you are most interested in and have some expertise. If you like, you can create a product around your expertise and sell that. And if you don’t want to create a product of your own, you can still make money online by promoting other people products. Pick a product of your expertise from any of affiliate site and answer questions about this product or related questions will help you make some money from Yahoo Answers.

Yahoo Answers profile

Once are finished with product selection you want to promote, its time to create a profile on Yahoo Answers. You should include maximum details about you and your website/blog with your interests and expertise in your profile and also chose a good looking Avatar for you on Yahoo Answers.

Yahoo Answers Traffic & Money

The real key to making money with Yahoo answer is gaining some level of credibility which you can gain by giving answers to the best of your ability and by being active in the community. So chose a category or questions related to your product or niche and start gaining credibility by giving relevant answers. You should remain polite and answer those questions only you have answers. You can get spam flag and even your account can be banned if you try to spam in Yahoo answer community or give irrelevant answer to the asked questions. You can include a link to your website or product within your answer body or in the resource section if that page contains more details about the question being asked and please don’t try to place a link to your website just for advertising purpose. Try to find questions that are focused about a problem that can be solved by your website or product you are offering and answer questions with a clear and useful solution.

You can even add a link to your website product or service page where more details about that service or product are available. And on your website, you can add links or banners for the product or service with your affiliate ID from where the product can actually be purchased. This way you can make as much money you want with yahoo Answers depending upon your knowledge about your niche and your answer giving skills.

How to use CPM networks for making money at home

Have you ever heard about a technique where you will be making money even if none of your blog or website visitor click on an ad? Yes, it’s possible with CPM (CPM stands for Cost per Mille or cost per thousand impression on an Ad) ad networks. Some CPM network pays you $3 per CPM, some $5 per CPM and even $10 depending upon your website niche and the kind of ad you place on your website and the ad placement.

But to make some good amount of money with CPM ad networks, you need a website with thousands of impressions daily. With CPM advertising networks, we are going to get paid for every thousand impression for an ad. And the amount of money you will be able to make depends upon your website niche. Finance, health or travel websites seems to be making more amount of money compared to education and entertainment related websites per thousand impressions. CPM rates also varies with networks, ad format and ad placement.

If you are working with a popular CPM network, you will be able to make high amount of money per thousand impressions as they have access to large number of targeted advertisers. And when we place CPM ads at the top of our website and use big banner formats, we will be able to earn more with CPM ads. CPM networks share revenue earned in the 60:40 or 70:30 ration with the websites they partner with.

Suppose you have a website that gets 50,000 page views per month and you are getting $2 CPM, then you will be able to make $100 in a month time with that ad.

Here is the list of some of popular CPM advertising networks:

- Adbrite
- Kontera
- Casale Media
- Burst Media
- Value Click
- Tribal Fusion
- Right Media
- Nuffnang
- Click Booth
- Vibrant Media
- Double Click

How to make money with direct advertising

What is Direct Advertising?

Direct Advertising benefits

Direct Advertising losses

How to find advertisers for your blog

Creating an ‘Advertise Here’ page

How to approach advertisers

How much to charge for advertising

What is Direct Advertising?

In Simple language, direct advertising is all about reaching the potential customer or buyers without any inter-mediator, sometime termed as direct marketing. Direct advertising is possibly the best way to make money from a website or blog. But its not as easy as many webmasters and bloggers think. We have to work really hard to make some decent amount of money by selling advertising on our blogs. To be really applicable for making money with direct advertising, you need a blog with lots of search engine traffic, good page rank and good Alexa ranking as well. And when we get some queries about advertising, we have to reply them with the kind of advertising we are offering on our blog and the price range for different advertising options. And when some advertiser buys some kind of advertising on our blog, we have to maintain a record of time duration, mode of payment and e-mailing when links or banners are going to expire etc.

Direct Advertising benefits

1. No Revenue Sharing: We are able to make more amount of money if we sell any kind of direct advertising on our blog. Because in this case, we are able to save big amount of money that we have to pay if we prefer to go through a advertising network like Text link ads, TNX, Linkworth or ReviewMe. When we accept advertising on our blog through these network, we have no alternate except giving 30 to 50 percent of our earnings to them. Suppose I sell a link on my blog via Text link ads for $50 for a month, they will give me $25 only and will keep the rest of $25 at them. And in case we had sold this link directly, we will be having full $50 in our pocket and will not be sharing even a single penny with them.
2. More control over ads: When we sell ads on our behalf, we have more control over how and where the ads will be shown on our blog.
3. Our own prices: We can decide the amount of money we are willing to charge for a banner, link or paid review in case of direct advertising. On most of advertising networks we cannot decide the amount of money we want to get paid for advertising.
4. Interaction with Advertisers: We remain in direct contact with the advertisers who are willing to get any kind of advertising, which we miss when we sell ads via advertising networks. In this case, we can negotiate with them about the amount of money we will be charging and also offer them additional deals if we have.
5. Fast Payment: With most of advertising networks, we are paid on monthly basis. But with direct advertising, we get the earned money instantly in our paypal or Bank account. So payment retrieval is really fast in case of direct selling.
6. More advertising options: We can sell any kind of advertising on our blog in this case. And when we sell ads via a network, we are forced with some fixed ad formats. With some networks, we can sell 125×125 banner ads only and with some we are forced to add 468×60 banner ads. But with this option, we can sell all kind of banners on our blog. Some of popular banner formats are 125×125, 250×250, 160×600, 468×60 and 728×90.

Direct Advertising losses

1. Lack of Advertisers: It’s really difficult to find new advertisers who will be willing to purchase some kind of advertising on your blog. And when we decide to go through an advertising network, we don’t have much problem in gaining some advertisements for us as they have large collection of advertisers with different requirement and pricings. So it will not be difficult to earn some advertisement for your blog through them.
2. Require lots of time: If you have decided to get some direct advertisers for your blog, you need lots of time finding them through Google search, other ad networks and from other blogs in your niche. And when you get success in getting few advertisers for your blog, you have to handle other issues like their requirements, payment system, report generation etc.

How to find advertisers for your blog

Once you are ready to sell some kind of advertising on your blog, you will need to start looking for advertisers who are willing to place their ads on your blog. And don’t feel discourage if some of advertisers turns down your request initially. If you have a good blog with good amount of traffic and Google page rank, you will surely get some advertisers sooner or later. Now lets discuss how and where to find advertisers for your blog:

1. Google Adwords Ads: are the biggest source of finding quality advertisers for your blog. Go to Google.com and make search with some of leading keywords in your niche or some of keywords your blog is ranking on. Browse through the sponsored links section and check these websites. Sites in sponsored section are spending money for their listing on Google adwords. With this they may be interested in other modes of advertising. Create a small list of such websites and note down their contact details like their E-mail ID’a and phone number’s. Once you have created a list, make a call or e-mail these websites with your offers. And if they find your blog can be good for their business, they will not hesitate in spending some money for doing advertisement on your blog as well. Suppose your blog is on top for ‘Make money online’ keyword, browse all the sponsored listings, contact website owners and try to convenience them that they will be able to get some real business if they agree to place some paid ads on your blog.
2. Other popular blogs in your Niche: Browse through the top blogs in your niche and generate a list of websites that have placed their banners or links in the sponsored section. When these websites are spending money to get advertisement on these blogs, they will surely be interested in placing their banners and links on your blog as well. If you offer them good advertising options at a reasonable rate, they will be interested in advertising on your blog.
3. Use Text link selling networks: create a publisher account on text link selling networks like Text-link-ads, TNX or LinkAdage and browse through their marketplace in categories your blogs fits in. Create a list of some blogs where some ads are already sold. And when you have created a list of like 50 such websites, visit these websites one by one and check the sponsored links on these websites. Sponsored section on these bogs will include the list of websites that have purchased links on these blogs by paying some fixed amount of money for a month. All these websites can be your targeted customers. Now add these websites as well in your advertisers list you are generating with their contact details.
4. Competitor’s websites: Browse through some of your competitor’s websites and create a list of companies that are advertising there. As they are advertising on your competitors websites, they will also be interested in buying some ads on your as well if you have a well designed blog and covers their targeted audience.
5. Using discussion forums: There are some popular webmaster and seo related discussion forums where there is a marketplace for selling and buying links. On these forums, there are always hundreds of open threads about buying/selling of links. And if you want, you can create a thread of your own with your pricing and other stats about your website like its page rank, Alexa ranking, rough traffic estimate and your website niche etc. And if you are new to these kind of forums, spend some time in their marketplace to know what kind of people are actually looking for links and how much they are paying for a link. Some of popular marketplace you are try are:- Digital point link selling place- Sitepoint link selling marketplace- V7n link selling place

Creating an ‘Advertise Here’ page

You should create an ‘Advertise here’ or ‘Your Ads here’ page on your blog if you are aiming at making some good amount of money from direct advertising. And once you have created this page, you should place this page in your navigation bar or in the header section like I added my ‘Advertise here‘ in my Top Navigation Bar. We do this so that all of our website visitors become aware about the advertising options we have on our website. Here are some points you should notice when you create an ‘Advertise here’ section on your blog or website:

• Traffic Stats: You should include stats like monthly page views your blog get on an average. And if you don’t want to share your exact traffic stats, give some rough estimate about your website traffic. This page should include the kind of audience your blog occupies with some popular industry terms your blog is doing well with. And if you want to share more information about your traffic statistics on the advertising page, can include details like unique visitors per month, bounce rate, locations from where you get most of your traffic etc.
• Alexa and Technorati Ranking: Your adverting page should also include your website page rank, Alexa ranking, Technorati ranking and compete ranking. And if your blog has good amount of RSS or Email subscribers, don’t forget to mention them on your advertising page. You can also include other stats about your blog like its age, number of posts you have added so far, comments count, number of posts you make on daily or weekly basis. You should keep it updated as you notice some changes in the parameters we just discussed.
• Mention Advertising options: You should include all advertising options available like text links, banners of different sizes in various sections on your blog and sponsored posts on your ‘Advertise here’ page. You can omit the pricing for various kind of advertising options if you want to keep your rates variable. But all advertising options should be clear and easily understandable to everyone.
• Testimonials: you can include the list of testimonials you got from previous advertisers. When advertisers see testimonials on your advertising page, they show more faith and confidence about advertising on your blog. You can even make a list of advertisers who have so far did some kind of adverting on your blog and show them on this page.
• Media coverage: Don’t forget to mention the list of newspapers, websites and blogs in your niche or general where your blog is mentioned.
• Contact information: And towards the end of advertising page, add a valid e-mail address or contact form where people can get in touch with you. You can even share your chat ID on all big internet messengers and your phone number as well.
• Payment system: And most importantly, include the mode of payment like Paypal, Check, direct deposit etc you are able to receive money. Paypal is the most popular method of sending and receiving money. If you don’t have a paypal account by now, create a premier or business account there to make high number of transactions in a given month.

How to approach advertisers

Some advertisers will directly approach you after seeing the ‘Advertise here’ page on your blog. And for the rest, you have to contact by e-mailing or calling them. If you think about approaching them via e-mail, create a standard template that you can use for all them. And if possible add some elements of personalization in your template. You can format your standard template as:

- First introduce yourself and your blog

- Reason for contacting them

- Other details about your blog like its traffic estimate, Google page rank, RSS subscribers count and Alexa ranking etc

- Describe the kind of benefit they will get if they chose to advertise on your blog and if you have some discount scheme explain that as well

- Introduce advertising options and their respective pricing

- Try to convince them for any kind of advertising they are interested in buying on your blog

- And keep your e-mail size small as advertisers will simply skip your email if you send a mail with lots of text.

And if you think of approaching them via phone, you can include all these points in your conversation with them. And if any of them is ready to buy advertising on your blog, try to serve them the best possible way.

How much to charge for advertising

In the last three to four months time, I got some advertising inquiries on my blog. I was really happy when I got my first inquiry. At that time, the only thing that was going through my mind was ‘How much I should charge’. If Charge too much, I was afraid of losing the only advertiser that I got. And if I thought about charging little, I would not be able to property utilize the only money making opportunity I had. I spend some time on internet looking at what other bloggers are charging in my niche, how much I would have made if I had added some PPC ad there and many more. There were many more factors that I took into consideration before deciding the final pricing for an ad on my blog:

• Fair amount of money: We should charge in such a way both you and advertiser remain happy. Advertiser should get the value for the money he spends in form of impressions, actual visits, form fill up or lead generation. The whole deal should not end in a way where advertiser feels that it’s was a bad deal or just waste of money on your blog.
• Charge on CPM basis: we could charge on CPM (cost per thousand) basis. We could start charging $5 per CPM and can increase the rates if we decide to place ads in the header section or above the fold in the sidebar on your blog. But before you send the advertising rates, It should be clear, what kind of advertising he is actually willing to purchase i.e. if it will be a text link or 125×125 banner and if the ads will appear on home page or will appear on all pages on your blog as well. There are many more factors we can take into consideration while deciding the advertising rates like your blog traffic, page rank, Alexa ranking, niche and demographic factors.
• Check other people’s blog: To get clearer idea about advertising rates, check advertising page of top blogs in your niche and industry. You can test the amount of money you should charge by placing a Google Adsense unit in your blog section where you want to sell some ad space. Keep Adsense ads on your blog for 10 to 15 days and get value for that space in your Adsense advance report section under eCPM.
• Offer discount: If someone is willing to buy advertisement for six month or for a year, offer 5 or 10 percent discount on the total amount you would have charged if they have purchased the ad space on monthly basis.

Earn cash and Build buzz with SponsoredReviews.com

Bloggers can earn money for their honest reviews and advertisers can build a lot of buzz for their product and services with SponsoredReviews.com. Bloggers, who are willing to earn cash for their blogging efforts, should join this pay per review service.

Advertisers – Advertisers can create a lot of traffic and buzz for their products and services with SponsoredReviews.com. What they have to do is post an opportunity for the bloggers to make bid on or even can directly search for the bloggers of their niche and get paid review for their products and websites. With this service, million of blog readers will read about their product and services, thus will generate a lots of targeted traffic. And for every review on blogs, advertisers will get links for their websites and thus will help in improving their search engine ranking and overall link popularity.

Bloggers – with SponsoredReviews.com, bloggers can earn cash for every review they make for the advertisers. Bloggers are supposed to write honest reviews about advertiser’s products and services. The greatest benefit to bloggers with this paid review site is that they can write review about the topic of their choice or according to their blog niche. To get a post for review, bloggers have to make bids for the opportunities created by the advertisers. There are lots of opportunities for the bloggers to bid for and thus the bloggers can be very selective about the opportunities they are willing to bid for. For every opportunity, minimum word count, min bid, max bid and lots of other information is available in ‘Find Advertisers’ section on this website.

Each time the bloggers write reviews, they will receive 65 percent of total amount. Suppose the bloggers write review for $100. So in this case the blogger will be paid $65 and the rest of money will go to SponsoredReviews account.

Bloggers can earn up to $175 per advertiser and $90 per blogger referral. Referral payments are all based on the amount of money spend by the advertiser and the amount of money earned by the blogger.

Rules and Regulations – Here are some rules that bloggers must read before submitting their blogs here for approval:

• Blog must have 10 non paid posts with 200 words in each of them
• Blog must be 3 months old at least
• Blog must follow the 2:1 ratio of non paid posts to paid posts
• Bloggers are supposed to complete the reviews they accepted within a week In case they are not able to make it in a week time; their account can be suspended on SponsoredReviews
• Blogs 3with little traffic or links may be rejected

Once we have created an account here, will submit our blogs on which you are willing to write paid reviews. When we submit our blog in related category with other details, we have to set the ‘Desired Price’ for each post. Here SponsoredReviews gives you ‘Suggested Price’ which is calculated based on your blog link popularity, Technorati and Alexa rankings. I would suggest one to set their ‘Desired Price’ within their ‘Suggested Price’ range.

Payment System – They send payments to bloggers twice a month for their reviews via paypal. If you don’t have a paypal account, create one today. To create a paypal account, what you need is just an email id. Bloggers can keep track of their earnings and payment schedules in their account home page on this website. And they send payments once a month to bloggers for their referral efforts.

So bloggers and advertisers both have endless opportunities to make from their blogs and websites with SponsoredReviews.com

Learn how to make money from your blog

Today post is for people who have their own blogs and working on them for some months at least. We need to be passionate about our blogs if we want to make any real money from it. With passion, we need lots of knowledge about the subject we are blogging and lots of hard work for doing content writing and link building kind of stuff. To start making money from a blog, we need to have a blog that gets lots of search engine hits on daily basis and have good page rank as well. We can earn lots of money from our blog if it’s about a particular niche and gets lots of visitors from major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ak.com.

But we should not expect to get rich overnight from our blog if we don’t have substantial amount of traffic on our blog. So the key for getting rich and making money with our blogs is generating lots of traffic on it. And when we have good amount of traffic on our blogs, we can expect of earning few hundreds to thousands of dollars every month from our blogs. So here are some techniques we can implement straight away on our blogs to start making money from it:

• Google Adsense: is a pay per click (PPC) program offered by Google where we get paid for every click to an ad on our blog. And the amount of money we make from Google Adsense depends upon the amount of traffic we generate and the kind of keywords we target on our blogs. Google Adsense has lots of advertisers who are willing to place their ads on our blogs. So if any of you don’t have an Adsense account applies for it now. Google Adsense is the easiest way to earn money from any website or blog. And if we already have a Google Adsense account, it goes not take much time to implement Adsense ads on a blog.
• Blogads.com: is a website where we can sell advertisement on our blog and can decide the amount of money we are willing to get paid for every sold ad on our blog. Best thing that we get with Blogads is that we have full control over the advertisers that will be placed on our blog which we were missing with Google Adsense. But to make any real money with it, we should keep ads rate reasonable. We will not be able to make any money from our blogs if we become too choosy about advertisers or keep our rates too high.
• Selling more text/banner ads: For addition revenue, we can sell private ads on our blogs by creating an ‘Advertise here’ kind of section on our blog. With private ads, we can sell text and banners in different formats on our blog. In this kind of advertising scheme, we have full control over everything and its up how much we charge from the advertisers and whom to show on our blogs. The only downside to this method is that we need bulk of traffic if we are looking to make any money with private ads on our blog.
• Paid Reviews: There are many paid review websites on internet where we are paid for every review about a product/website on our blog. Some of popular paid review/blogging websites are PayPerPost (PPP), SponsoredReviews.com, ReviewMe.com and Smorty.com. But we must do paid reviews about websites that are someway related to our blog. And if possible, we should do limited amount of paid reviews in a month time. If we keep on adding paid/sponsored posts on our blog, we are having the risk of using credibility and reader’s faith from our blog.
• Affiliate programs: We can try some affiliate program to earn some extra money from our blogs. Amazon.com is a popular affiliate program. In this kind of advertising, we have to place Amazon products on our blogs with our affiliate ID and when any of our blog readers follow those links to buy a product from Amazon, we earn commission up to 15 percent depending upon the sold product. Some other popular affiliate programs are LinkShare, CommissionJunction and ClickBank
• Adding a Donation Button: There are some websites like Paypal.com that helps you add a Donation Button on your blog. Asking some kind of donation from blog readers is the easiest way to make money online. Some of your blog readers may help you run your blog with some donation if they really love the content on your blog.

Beginner Guide for making money online

Idea of making money online looks really cool to all us as it gives us the opportunity to make great amount of money on internet and also gives us the freedom to work when we really wants to. This post is specially for you if you are beginner and looking at some ways to make money on the internet:

1. Filling online surveys – There are many survey filling websites on internet where you get make from $1 to $75 per survey. Filling a survey will take 5-10 minutes only and can be thought of an easiest way to make money on internet when you have no blog or website of your own. But you should take cautions when you go for online filling survey websites. There are many survey websites which are just scam and exists on the internet to waste your valuable time and money. Before taking any survey on a website, spend some time on internet to inquire about what others have to say about that particular website, payment proofs, and Minimum payout and whether they are asking some kind of money before you start taking surveys. So you should be extra careful when going for making money with survey filling websites.
2. Data Entry Jobs – Beginners can think of making some good amount of money while doing data entry jobs available on internet. Generally, we don’t require any experience or programming skills to do these jobs. There are many Freelancing websites available on internet where we can find some good data entry jobs for ourselves. Some of popular freelancing websites are Elance.com, guru.com, project4hire.com and getafreelancer.com
3. Writing content – There are many websites where you can write content about the topics you are knowledgeable and passionate about. On such website, you get some percentage of profit when a visitor visits the page written by you. Here is the list of some Adsense revenue sharing websites
4. Creating a blog – creating a blog gives us the opportunity to make money in many ways. And if you are new to blogging, I would suggest you create your first blog on Blogger.com. So chose a topic for your blog you are passionate or knowledgeable about. You should choose a topic you can write long post and at regular intervals. You don’t require knowledge of HTML to start a blog on Blogger.com and if you have some knowledge about HTML, that will help you create a more professional looking blog. And when we think about generating revenue from a blogger blog, you can always go for Google Adsense. With Google Adsense, we are going to get paid for every click made on an Adsense Ad. And to make more amount of money from your blog, increase the number of people that are visiting your blog on daily basis, coming from Search Engines, referral Sites or directly opening your blog.
5. Affiliate program – Join an affiliate program like Amazon, Clickbank or LinkShare and get paid for every sale that is made via your affiliate ID. Spend some time on these affiliate sites and find some products that are someway related to your blog niche. And when you find some products in your niche, add links and banners for those products in your blog header, sidebar, footer and if applicable in your post section as well.

How to use Google Trends to make money online

This post is helpful for guys who are new to blogging or looking for addition post ideas for their blogs to earn extra amount of money from their blogs:

1. Using Google Trends: Have you ever used Google trends, if not you are missing a big resource that can be used for new post ideas, driving traffic and making extra money for a particular searched term from different search engines including Google and Yahoo with your blog. What we get from Google Trends:
   • A line graph showing search volume trend with different time frames for a search term
   • Top regions, cities and language for that search term
   • Latest news items about a searched terms on Google news
   • Top 100 hot searched terms which changes frequently (within few minutes time)
   • When we make search with a website URL, we get:
     1. Visitor traffic trend for that website
     2. Top region and sub region where the website is most searched
     3. Also visited websites list
     4. Also searched for Terms list
2. Creating blogs: create a blog on Wordpress or blogger about the topics you are someway knowledgeable about and willing to blog about. If you find some hot topic in Google trend, you are passionate about, instantly start a blog about or around that topic.
3. Creating content: With topic in mind to blog about, create some post for your blog of 200 to 400 words. And if you are not willing or don’t have time to write, take help from some professional content writer. And get some quality links for your blog from your own resources and fellow bloggers
4. Drive traffic: now look for ways to bring some traffic to your blog. You can use social media websites like Digg.com, propeller, Delicious, StumbleUpon or Yahoo buzz to bring traffic and index your content in search engines. Don’t forget to ping Pingomatic and Technorati whenever you add new content on your blog.
5. Google Adsense: when you notice some decent traffic on your blog, look for ways to monetize it. And when we talk about blog monetization, the first thing that comes in my mind is Google Adsense. Adsense is a pay per click service offered by Google for website owners and bloggers where we get paid for every click that is made on an Adsense Ad on our blog or website. And the amount of money we will be able to make from Google Adsense depends on our blog niche. Google has lots of banners we can test on our blog and go ahead with the ad formats which perform best on your blog.
6. Affiliate options: if you have a blog about particular niche, you should look at the option of making money in affiliate marketing arena as well. First of all check if there is some stuff related to your blog niche on Amazon and eBay. You can also try other affiliate channels like ClickBank, LinkShare, Commission Junction, Shareasale, AzoogleAds.com etc.

Where to find profitable niches to make money online?

Making money online is everyone’s dream. But to convert these dreams into reality, we must have some online existence in the form of a website or a blog. And when we think about our blog niche, it should be profitable and have the ability to earn money. It becomes really difficult to monetize a blog which is created with no particular niche in mind. Before creating a blog, we must have its niche in our mind and the kind of monetization we will be doing with this blog. In today’s article, I’m going to introduce some free resource we can use to find a profitable niche to make money from our blogs. And when you visit these resources, you will know about many more profitable niches you were unaware about:

1. Google Trends: Google Trends is the first place we should visit to find the hottest topics for the day. List of hot topics changes within every few minutes and by clicking any of hot topic, we get lot more information about that topic like:
   • Its search volume graph
   • Peak time
   • Latest news articles about that topic
   • Coverage in the blogsphere
   • Web results about that topic
2. Lycos top 50 list: Lycos also offers top 50 list for this week which is updated every week.
3. Yahoo Buzz: Yahoo buzz gives the list of top 10 searches which is updated hourly.
4. Amazon and EBay: spend some time here on Amazon and EBay websites searching the terms you want to blog about. If you find some products available for the terms you searched, that niche is profitable. And if you see lots of products available for that term, your niche is highly profitable but highly competitive as well.
5. Classified websites: search classified websites and newspapers for additional product and service ideas.
6. Shopping.com top search list: Shopping.com has a list of top 100 searches that are updated after every two weeks. And for each search term, they have collection of around 5000 keywords related to that search term. So shopping.com is a must check website as they have lots of information about what people are actually searching to reach their targeted products.
7. About.com: About.com has lots of original content about every niche. They have hundreds of experts sharing their knowledge and experiences with their content on About.com.
8. Answer websites: while looking for more niches to blog about, you can try question answer websites like:
   • Yahoo Answers
   • All Expert Question Answers
   • Question Answers Wiki
   • Answerbag.com
   • Linkedin Answers
9. Dmoz open directory project: Dmoz is most trusted web directory used by all major search engines. Browse this directory to get a list of some of existing websites in any niche.
10. Popular groups: spend some time on popular groups like Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, MSN groups and Myspace groups etc. Make search with keywords of your niche and go through the results carefully to get more valuable stuff about your niche.
11. Discussion Forums: spend some time in discussion forums in your niche. Pick some popular forum in your niche with lots of users and when you have decided your niche, promote your blog on those discussion forums in your signature section.
12. Using keywords tools: By now you must have created a list of keywords or long tail phrases you want to promote your website for. Now its the time to check other stats like:
    • How many websites are actually competing for these keywords
    • Number of searches for these keywords
    • Advertiser competition
    • More related keywords and search terms etc

    Some of keywords tool you can try are:

    • Google Adwords keywords tool
    • SeoBook Keyword tool
    • Wordtracker keyword suggestion tool
13. Google search: Go to Google.com and type in the keywords you want to target for your upcoming blog. If you see some or lots of ads for those keywords in the Ads section, you have chosen a profitable niche. You can see an example of Dog training which is highly profitable niche:

How to Choose the Right Affiliates

The World Wide Web certainly lives up to its name – it’s a web that has spread its tentacles widely over the world. And it’s for this reason that most online marketers go in for affiliates, so that they get the maximum coverage and advertisements for their services and products. The virtual nature of the Internet makes it possible to connect Alaska and Australia by the mere click of a button – an Australian tourist to North America is happy to find a great holiday package in Alaska advertised on a local site, and the bed and breakfast in Alaska is equally happy that they were able to sell their services a whole world away without having to shell out too much money. That’s how wonderful affiliate marketing is.

But then, as with all good things, there’s also a downside to this marketing tool if you’re not careful about whom you choose to be your affiliates. Here’s what you need to worry about when considering potential affiliate marketers:

• Their marketing methods: Some affiliates may mislead customers about the goods and services offered on your site so that they are tempted to click on the banners provided on their site. This is especially possible when you pay them on a pay-per-click basis – the visit to your site does not have to translate to a purchase. When your affiliates adopt this kind of strategy, it’s bound to reflect badly on your business and not on them. You could end up losing customers if you don’t check out your affiliates’ web pages and put a stop to this practice.
• Illegal clicks: You need to figure out a way to find out if the clicks on your ad are genuine or if they’re just being used to generate additional income for your affiliate. Illegal clicks do not have the potential to translate into business for you, so you need to weed them out before you shell out large sums of money for affiliate pages from where they originate.
• Genuineness of the affiliate: It’s best to associate your products, services and business with legitimate and genuine websites that are known for their spam-free and clean operations. If your products are found endorsed on a site that has a shady reputation, it doesn’t matter how popular the site in question is, you’re going to end up being painted with the same brush too. So it’s best to check out the authenticity of your affiliates instead of just looking to see how popular they are.
• Similar interests: While it’s not an absolute necessity, it does help if you choose affiliates who own websites with content that’s connected in some way or related to the kind of products and services that you offer. This way, you can ensure that more clicks translate into purchases.

How to make money online as a Pay per click publisher

Pay per click (PPC) is the easiest and most popular method used by website owners and bloggers in their respective niches to make money online. We only require a click on any of PPC ads shown on our website or blog to make some money of it. We can make from few cents to some dollars for each click made on a PPC ad. And as we are able to increase the popularity and traffic on our website, we surely are able to make more amount of money with PPC ads.

There are many advertising companies on the Internet that offering pay per click services to website owners and bloggers. Some of popular pay per click advertising companies are Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Adbrite, Bidvertiser and Clicksor. And among all of these advertising companies, Google Adsense is the most popular and used pay per click advertising program.

We need to apply for these advertising companies with a website or blog of our own before using their ads on our websites. And once our account gets approved, we are able to show their Ads on our websites by adding some Java Scripts code on our website where we want to show their ads. These companies give us lots of ad format and ad customizations options so that we can customize the ads according to our website design and our own interest. We can even customize these ads in such a manner that they look as a part of your website content.

So here is some brief introduction about some of most popular PPC programs available today on Internet for us to make extra amount of money with our websites:

1. Google Adsense: is the oldest and most popular advertising program used by webmasters and bloggers around the world. Google offers many varieties of ads like text ads, image ads, ‘image and text ads’ and video ads. Adsense gives us the opportunity to make hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month with our website depending upon the kind of traffic and niche our website exists. Once we have added the Adsense ads on a webpage, Google shows ads according to the kind of content we are offering on that page and according to the user’s destination from where they are accessing our website.
2. Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN): is very similar to Google Adsense as YPN is also offering the same kind of adverting options to its publishers as Google Adsense is offering. But the only drawback that we have with YPN is that, it is available for publishers in America only. So if you are in India or any other county except USA, you are not eligible for Yahoo publisher network.
3. Bidvertiser: is not big like Google Adsense or YPN. But they have their own qualities and plus points like their online support. One more plus point they have compared to Google Adsense is that they send payments via paypal, which is a very fast method of sending and receiving money. Their minimum payout in case you prefer to receive your money via paypal is $10 and via Check the minimum payout is $25 only. Although Bidvertiser may not have many ads relevant to your website niche but we are remain with very few options when we get banned from Google Adsense or not willing to use Google Adsense and are not a US citizen.
4. Clicksor: is another small company like Bidvertiser in PPC advertising. I have heard from some publishers that that they don’t have many advertisers to show ads on our websites and many times we are left with no ad or some very low cost PPC ads. But the plus point that they have is they can send payments via paypal (that we are missing with Google Adsense) and checks as well and send payments once in 15 days time. Another positive point that they have is they share 70 percent of advertising revenue with its publishers.
5. Adbrite: is one of fast growing Pay per click and most customizable advertising company on the internet. They can be used as a good alternate to Google Adsense. Their click through rate is not high as Google Adsense or YPN are offering. But they have inline and full page ads which gives us an excellent way to monetize the traffic that we have on our website. They also don’t have any big condition compared to Google Adsense, YPN or Clicksor when you apply for a publisher account. They accept all publishers whether they are big or small website owners or even bloggers.

Some of other PPC ad networks that you can try are Chitika, Widgetbucks and Oxado.

Learn how to make money online with Blogsvertise

The best thing that I like about internet is that you can earn money online even by writing about the topics you are knowledgeable and even passionate about. And Blogsvertise is one of such service where we get paid for each approved post on our blog about the topics of our interest.

To make money with Blogsvertise, we should submit our most popular and active blog when we create a blogger account there. And once our account gets approved, we will receive notification on our e-mail address about the opportunities that are waiting for our approval. It’s up to us to decide to accept or decline an opportunity.

Payment System – Blogsvertise send payments via paypal in a month cycle for each approved post. Suppose your post was approved on 24th of March, you will be getting paid for this post on 23rd of April. So they keep a gap of one month between the post approval day and payment date.

Affiliate Program – They also have an affiliate program for publishers which give them an extra opportunity to earn money by referring new advertisers in their network. They pays 20 percent of an advertiser spending you refer on Blogsvertise. Suppose you referred an advertiser and he/she spends $1000 for advertising on Blogsvertise, you will receive $200 for referring on their network.

Blog Approval Requirement – They approve blogs that are two months old and are cached by Google. And please don’t submit blogs that are hosted on Wordpress because recently Wordpress decided to delete blogs that have paid content on them.

Guidelines for content Approval – You can make any money from $5 to $25 per review that you write for an advertiser available here. Here are some tips you must remember when you work as a publisher for Blogsvertise:

• You have to include at least 3 links to the advertiser website in your review. If you include less than 3 links in your review, your entry will be declined.
• You have to include at least 100 words in your post. Try to make a 2-3 paragraph post at least.
• You have to complete an assigned task within next five days
• And you cannot remove the post for which you are paid by Blogsvertise. So you have to keep all post permanent that you write for advertisers available here.
• Make sure all links are working correctly and are not tagged nofollow
• Don’t copy content from advertiser or other websites/blogs

Advertiser Benefits – Blogsvertise offers a great opportunity to advertisers to show and advertise their products or services on the top blogs in their niches. Advertisers are able to increase their sales and profits when they are effectively covered on a blog. So in case you to advertise or spread words about your services in the blogging community, join Blogsvertise today as an advertiser. When advertisers are able to get reviewed on quality blogs, they are able to increase their search engine rankings for the keywords they are actually targeting.

Blogger benefits – As a blogger, this is a great opportunity for making money with your blog by talking about the advertiser’s services on your blog website. So far I have written many reviews and have been able to earn good amount of money with Blogsvertise. So what you are waiting for, just go and join Blogsvertise today as a blogger to earn extra amount of money with your blogs.

Make money online with domains

A different way to make money online is in the stream of domains. There are different ways of doing it. The entry of dot com has turned many people into millionaires but there are still good chances to make plenty of money in the real estate and still there are some good combination available. A dot com domain has become a bit difficult nowadays. But there are good chances to get a lot from .info and .eu and they all present good opportunities. You can proceed to buy a famous word domain for some dollars and put that in the domain selling websites.

In order to make a living from the reselling of domains you can hang out to certain good technical forums and websites. You can learn there much about the market ad further recognize the bargains and thus make a good living from such online places where domains are being bought or sold.

People sometimes forget to renew their domains when they expire. Picking such crucial domains will give you some great traffic from the sites that link to those domains or from the people who have bookmarked those. In some of the cases the traffic is extremely high. In case you are very fast enough to get replace the copyrighted content placed there with something else then there are good chances to make a good profit from this activity itself. So domains are a good source to make online money.

Summary

Domains are also a good way to make fast money. You can buy a famous word domain and go for its trading by putting these in the domain selling websites. Another way is to grab those crucial domains which people forgot to renew when they expires. There are good chances to make good money from such domain related websites.

Actual work ideas to make online money

There are no doubts many ways to make online money but it is often not taken into consideration by most of online users. Some of these are listed as under –

In case you are good in web design, css and html then you can create certain designs and templates and make multiple different versions of it. You can sell each one multiple times to the webmasters who do not have the much time and patience to get familiar with the too much inner details.

Another way is to start directories. Webmasters often pay to get listed in your directory. The better the layout of your directory will be, the more can be your demand. Special theme based niche and manually managed directories are far far better than the search engine related directories and companies and general users are aware of it.

Other way of performing online tasks are the filing in surveys. There are lot of people and programs online that pay you for some mind blowing tasks like filing of surveys. In case you are not confused about your privacy and willing to disclose all your details of personal nature or fictional details there is always someone willing to pay you online. There are many incentive based freebie websites that pay for the online surveys.

Summary
Some of the actual ways to make online money are to perform the online surveys, start a directory and create designs and templates and sell it to webmasters. This will help you to earn an extra source of income with your actual work and ideas generated in it.

Some genuine ways to make online money

There are some genuine ways to make money online that could not be considered s fraud. Some of these ways are –

You can become expert in a particular stream that could be affiliate programs for kid’s products or services related to mailing list. Then you can give your advice in online webinars and at local business events and get paid for it. As becoming an expert in internet generally spending more time online in reading and absorbing and there is no school to attend and no fees etc to pay.

You can file in the online surveys and get paid for it. Apart from filing in online surveys people pay for all other kind of clicks. This is considered as CPA – cost per action. It is like clicking on the links.In case you have expertise in a particular subject, you can write regularly on that subject and thus give your knowledge for free. People of that stream could bookmark your blog and visit there regularly. The money allows the companies to advertise their products and services to your eager audience there many third parties like pay per post, blogvertise, loud launch etc, those handle the finding of advertisers.

Another way is to join the myspace type sites, you can built a lot of online friend circle there and advertise their tastes in the form of bulletins. Then you can send them to those pages where you generally promote the affiliate programs and thus could earn a handsome amount.

Summary
Participation in Webinars filing on online surveys and clicking on links is some of the ways to make money online. Other way are to write regularly and allow companies to advertise their products and services with your writings and participate in myspace type sites and send the pages of yours friends profile where you could generally promote the affiliate programs.

How to make money online with articles and content

Articles and content are a great way to make money online. You can start an article directory. Providing free articles surrounded with links is one of the way for the webmasters to create incoming links to their websites. For some webmasters these articles serves as a great way to fill out their blank sites. You can be a middleman. Popular article directories help you to make great money from contextual ads that they often post on the free articles that they display on their website.

You can also start a content website. One of the most common ways for webmasters to earn money is most likely by the way of contextual programs like adsonar and YPN. But generally Adsense is quick and simple and do not involve any complicated skills. You can create a website with some useful and informative content and with some Google provided code you can get some links to the page. After some time traffic starts coming to it. The volume of visitors depends on the topic as well as the quality of the content. Visitors can look at the ads that are served by the Google and related to the content of the page. Every time there is click on the ad you get around few cents to several dollars. Nowadays there are thousands of webmasters who earns a lot of dollars through this way.

Summary

Articles and content are one of the great ways to make online money. You can start an article directory by providing free articles. Another way to create a content website and earn money online by displaying ads related with the content on it.

How to make money online with Amazon Associate Program

Amazon.com, largest retail store in World is offering money making opportunity to all website owners and bloggers through their associate program. Amazon Associate program shares revenue for referring customers to Amazon website. Working as an Affiliate, we place Amazon links with our affiliate ID on the products we are willing to sell via Amazon and Amazon gives us some fixed commission for each sale that is generated through our affiliate link. To know more in detail about how one can make money with Amazon associate program, keep on reading…

About Amazon

Amazon.com is an American e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos as online Bookstore. But they, soon diversified to other product categories like Video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food items, toys, Music items, DVDs, Jewelries etc. Amazon has established separate websites for its Canada, UK, Germany, France, China and Japan customers.

People who want to make money from websites and blogs should join Amazon Associate program which gives them many money making opportunities in the form of banners, links, widgets and aStore. With Amazon associate program, we may earn up to 15% as referral fee when someone buys a product using our affiliate links. Amazon gives us the opportunity to earn money by adding:

1. Links and Banners – We can link to specific product on Amazon and also can show some details about the product. With banners, we can link to our favorite categories on Amazon and thus can earn more revenue. Banners are available in various sizes and styles like 125×125, 468×60 and 120×60.
2. Widgets – users can create highly customizable Amazon widgets within a minute using easy-to-use interface available at https://widgets.amazon.com and can add those widgets within their websites, blogs and social network pages.
3. aStore – with this facility, we can create our own product store on Amazon. We don’t need a website or technical knowledge to create an aStore. We can create up to 100 aStore in an Associate Account. When someone buys a product from our aStore, we get paid

Payment system

They send payments via Check, Direct Deposit and through Amazon certificate/gift card. Minimum payout in case of direct deposit and Amazon gift card is $10 and for checks, minimum payout is $100. Amazon sends payments every month to eligible associates for the referral fees earned during the past month.

To apply and learn more about Amazon Associate program visit Amazon Associate Program/

How to create an Amazon aStore within minutes

What is Amazon aStore

aStore is an Amazon.com affiliate product which website owners and bloggers can use to create an online store on their websites and blogs. With an aStore, we cannot sell our own products but can list favorite products and category pages from Amazon on our aStore and get paid for every sale that is made via our Amazon aStore.

Steps to create an Amazon aStore

1. Step 1: Log-in to your Amazon Associate Program and click on the ‘aStore’ link available in menu bar. This link will take you to a page where you can start creating your first aStore.
2. Step 2: Search products by keywords you want to include in your Store and can include as many product we want in our aStore. We can add up to 9 featured products
3. Step 3: Select and customize the themes of your choice. We can decide the page background color, Header (color, text, and fonts), text background color, body text and link color etc for our online Store. We can give it a name of our choice and even can use our own logo as like I used in my Buy Seo | Blogging Books aStore.
4. Step 4: We can select Sidebar left or Sidebar Right, Related products, Wish List and many more features in our Amazon Store.
5. Step 5: We can also add Categories and Sub-Categories of our choice. This is how we are able to create aStore of our own without any programming skills on Amazon and now we have one more way to make money with our Seo and Blogging skills.

Next time I will discuss some tips to promote an Amazon aStore which will help you bring to your aStore and thus will help you make more money of your online store.

Legitimate ways to make money online

Some people look for the legitimate ways to make online money. They really want to make money working from home so that they are able to help themselves with the state of economy. So they are always in search of the legitimate ways to make online money without having to pay for anything. They also do not want themselves to be caught in a situation like scam as such trends usually are found in the online medium. There are some of the websites that provide the source to earn online money.

If there is any website that offers you free online money and then you need to pay anything that is considered as a scam. For this it is necessary to do research online and find some legitimate companies that are in search of cyber agents. For this you need to have an office in your home, high speed internet and a landline.

As long term stable and steady income requires lot of patience and dedication and fast and easy money source are considered generally as scams. So it requires some patience on the part of people working online. There are some data and freelance sort of jobs options are available. It is required to find some genuine websites offering such sort of work. Also find the source for some good paying writing jobs.

Some people advise not to rely too much on referrals and clicking ads and it can take a long time to build up the adsense blogs. So look for those medium that offers some premium so that you get the credit.

Another medium to earn money through online source is online shares trading. They consider it as reliable way to earn money. One needs a minimum investment to start with and watch the markets closely and play short selling and day trading to start earning.

The risk involved in this medium states that too much speculation can be harmful and all your money can go waste when the markets crashes and share prices go down.

A good segment of society go for making online money by playing games, reading emails, completing offers and surveys and clicking on ads and even searching. For this they get paid by pay pal or check.

Summary

There are many legitimate ways to make money online. It is necessary to do the research and find the relevant sites offering medium to earn online money. Some of valid sources to earn online money are online shares trading, data and freelance jobs, playing games, reading mails, and referrals etc.

Everyone wants to make money online without scams, for that we all need to spread lots of information about online scams so that people are able to avoid scams before actually experiencing them.

Some Quick ways to make money online

The question that often comes in your mind is to know about the quick source to make money online or what is the fast way to make online money? This comes in the mind of those people who need an extra income and have been looking for a while.

One of the choices is the eBay stuff that you have around your house, old cds, clothes and jeweler etc. You could come across for pinecone research logo on various websites and they send you email surveys and pay you certain dollars for each completed survey. Generally it is send to you every week in the email or you can get paid via the paypal. There are also other ways that you can look up to make money online such as mystery shopping.

You could sell items on ebay.com or overstock.com. Membership is generally free and this serves as the good way to earn the extra income. Generally you find that you sell many items what other people also buy or sell on ebay. These could be household items, bay items. Clothing and accessories are also great items to sell on the ebay. Be careful while indulging in online programs as many of them could be the scams.

Another source to make online money is through friend finder websites. Such type of websites encourages you to give references about the friends online. In case you provide them the references though their email addresses you get the certain amount of dollars as your commission. This amount is often when references given by you get register in such websites. Your amount of commission increases in case they register in the paid or permanent type member ships. The more rewards you are able to get when you refer more number of friends. But there are many friend finder sites available online on the web so beware of those who indulge in the scam.

It can be said that there is no good way for the Average person to make online money on the net. . In case you are not average and have some special skill and capabilities then you can make money. If you are efficient enough at selling things then try to sell things online on E-bay. If you have good writing skills then set up your blog or such type of site to sell ads. In case you are good in computer programming then try to set up a site that uses your skills.

Summary

To make the money online quickly is through Ebay that requires some selling skills and capabilities. In case you are efficient enough then ebay is the good choice to make online money. Another choice is friendly search websites and you get the rewards for your references given in it. But be careful while indulging in such programs as some of them could be scams also.

Creation of successful webinar

Creation of webinar is a thing that should be taken seriously. You need to be creative and use the latest technologies like multimedia. It is also necessary to explain your theme and point clearly. So webinar can be considered unique way or selling or communication art.

In order to host your webinar you need to do a heavy planning as it is done by all creative minds. Then need to come up with a general format with events like flash media or soundtrack presented by co speakers and co-presenters. The next step comes for registration and promotion process. You need to have the budget that fulfils the objectives of the webinar so that you can later use to review it and then determine how successful it was and how you can improve the future webinar.

Conducting a survey is a great way to put together a highly effective webinar. When you start sending e-invitations, and ask general questions related to people response towards this webinar, you get back different answers. It is required to organize this answer, give grades to these and put them on a scale. Make the most refereed number one answer as the main theme of your webinar. Then use the top answer as the most talking points for your webinar/ generally people like to hear about what they want to hear about. People want those things to be shown that are important to them, not those things that are important to you. Do test market on some different themes to see which option works best. In case you find any feedback, message or tag that catches the great feedback from people, build your webinar around that theme and then, consider those survey responses into your companion.

All the above stated factors like hosting, organizing and for conducting a highly effective webinar are taken into consideration for Clickbooth Webinars.

Creation of webinar requires doing a heavy planning that requires the use of creative minds. You need to come up with fresh ideas to get the view of people and whey they really think about. A great survey is also requires to successfully launch a webinar, proactive your webinar to make it as more perfect.