Archive for March, 2008

Do you know that you can monetise your web site/blog? Want to earn some extra dollars per click from Google for displaying Adsense ads on them?

Many web site and blog owners are now realising that good money can be and is made from Google. Try the simple mathematical computation of multiplying those clicks for every page on your web site and you get a summation of earnings equivalent to a monthly residual income with that little effort you have made.

Google Adsense is a fast and easy way for web site publishers of all sizes to display relevant and text-based Google ads on their web site’s content pages and earn money in the process. The ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you both can monetise and enhance your content pages using Adsense.

How much you will be earning will really depend on how much the advertisers are willing to pay for their advertisements. It will also depend on the keywords required. If the keywords the advertiser have chosen are in high demand, you could receive more dollars per click. On the other hand, low demand keywords will earn you only just a few cents per click.

How to start making profits out of your web site or blogs using Google Adsense?

1. Sign up for an Adsense account. It will only take a few minutes of your time.

2. When the site is accepted, you will be receiving a piece of HTML code to include in your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites that you want. The AdWords will start appearing immediately after you have implemented the codes on your web pages.

3. You will be earning a few cents or some dollars per click when someone starts clicking on the AdWords displayed on any of your web pages. Trying to earn false revenues by repetitively clicking on your own ads is a no-no. This is a click fraud and will result in a penalty or the possibility of your site being eliminated. The money you have already earned may be lost because of this.

4. View your statistics. Google Adsense earnings can be checked anytime by logging into your web site account.

Once you got your account working, you may still want to model them to the many sites that are earning more money than you are. It is important to note that there are factors affecting how your web site will perform and the amount of money it will give you from Google.

It is a common practice that when a site is earning money, the tendency is for the owner to want to make more money out of what they are already getting. It usually takes some time combined with trial and error to attain what you want for your Adsense contents.

How do you increase your Adsense earnings?

1. Choose one topic per page. It is best to write a content for your page with just a few targeted phrases. The search engine will then serve ads that are more relevant which will then result in higher clickthoughs.

2. Using white space around your ad. This can make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can spot them easily. There are also other choices of colors you can use, provided by search engines, which can harmonize the colour of your ad with the web page colour.

3. Test your ad placement. You can also try both horizontal and vertical formats for a certain period of time to see which one will give you better results.

4. More content-based pages. Widen the theme of your web site by creating pages that focus more on your keyword phrases. This will optimise the pages for the search engines. It can not only attract traffic but also make them more relevant for the AdWords to be displayed.

If you want to keep in constant contact with your mailing list or your web site visitors, you will need a way to keep in touch with them.

There are many ways to do so but one of the most effective and popular way is via email. You can collect email addresses from your visitors, and send your messages to them on a periodical basis, to keep them informed of new updates for your Internet business, or web sites.

You can make use of an autoresponder service to help you automate the process of handling subscription and un-subscription of email addresses from your mailing list/database, to schedule email messages to be sent to your list automatically, to send email broadcast to your list via a mass emailing. The best part is you can also personalise your email messages to your recipients and track the deliverability and open-rate of your email messages through a centralized online system.

One of the most popular autoresponder services on the Internet can be found here!

One of the main benefit of having an Internet business is that you can automate your entire Internet business or at least majority of your online business processes such as collecting emails opt-ins, product delivery, payment acceptance etc.

And one of the key component to an Internet business is your autoresponder software. After researching and testing out a few free and paid autoresponders on the market, I stick to GetResponse because it is cheaper, easier to use even for newbies, availability of technical support from GetResponse.

Many people (myself included) may be tempted to buy an autoresponder software and install it on their own server and save more money in the long run. However, this approach will mean that you need to engage someone to install it for you or you do it yourself, you need to ensure that your emails can get delivered when ISPs block your mailing, you need to deal with spamming related issues etc when they arise.

In summary, you save more money but you also get more headache in the long run. So, I will suggest that you use a professional 3rd party autoresponder company so that you can focus your time on improving your online profits. Professional autoresponder company such as GetResponse usually participate in a number of industry initiatives, such as Email Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) and Email Sender Accreditation Program (IADB), which promote responsible, permission-based email marketing.

I am happy using GetResponse service. I hope you are too when you sign up here.

Important: I know what you are thinking now! Using a professional autoresponder costs money every month and I am starting new, so I can do away with having an autoresponder for the time being. You are absolutely wrong! Let me tell you why:

I spent 6 years considering if I should pay for an autoresponder service every month because I am so focused on paying the small cost of maintaining my online businesses with an autoresponder! This is the Most Costly Mistake that I have ever made for my Internet businesses!

Without an autoresponder, I was unable to fully automate the process of collecting opt-in email addresses from my prospects which is terrible! I cannot personalize my emails to my prospects and personalization is very important for online marketing! The worst part is that I have to spend so much unproductive time for the manual work of collecting email addresses, doing data entry to my email databases, manually sending out emails to my prospects.

Since I got my GetResponse autoresponder, the size of my opt-in list easily multiplied by 1000% (yes, 1000%, and I still think this is an understatement!) because I can now focused my time on driving traffic to my Internet businesses and watch my opt-in list grow exponentially! (Oh, BTW, before I forget, my online profits increased many times over too!)

BTW, I have used both Aweber and GetResponse before, and I have chosen GetResponse over Aweber

A lot of people took up the offer of free hosting from service providers like Yahoo Geocities, GoDaddy etc. In exchange, these service providers insert their own advertisements into your web site and often than not, they also impose very limited bandwidth on your web site. If you have slightly more visitors to your web site, you will realize that the traffic restrictions on your web site will start to kick in, and your visitors will have problems accessing your web sites. This is something that you do not want to see.

Web hosting is an extremely competitive industry globally. For consumers, these are good news for us because prices have been driven so low to less than USD$10 per month for a generously, huge amount of bandwidth, email accounts and other freebies etc. Instead of paying thousands to buy, install, maintain a web server, you pay only few dollars a month for the professionals to take care of everything for you, including supporting and ensuring that your Internet business or web site stays up 24 hours a day!

In fact, these days, some web hosts even give you free advertising credits with search engines, free web site templates and other freebies when you sign up for an account with them. You can find one ’super-value-for-money’ and reliable web hosting company that I highly recommend here! I am using this company for my own web sites and have recommended them to many of our clients, associates and students.

I recommend them because of the following reasons:

* you can pay for only one domain and host unlimited domains (so you can save hundreds or even thousands of dollars every single year if you own many domains. I myself hosted more than 10 web sites by just paying for one!)
* you get a free domain for your hosting plan (so you can save about USD$10 every year for a domain)
* you can install a blog, forum and many other web software within a few clicks of your mouse, without having to know any technical stuff such as HTML!
* you can get 24/7 technical support via online chat, email and telephone if you need any help with your web hosting account (I tested their technical support on many occasions at different timings of the day and I always get them either online chat or email support)
* you can claim free search engine advertising credits between $50 to $150 with Yahoo Search Marketing, Google AdWords and/or Microsoft AdCenter (free PPC credits will vary depending on existing promotions with the respective search engines) when you sign up here!

You can register a domain name by going to any of the worldwide domain name registrars. As long as the domain name is still available, anyone will be able to register a domain name for himself under normal circumstances.

Some of the popular domain name registrars are as follows:

http://www.godaddy.com

http://www.namesecure.com

http://www.hostway.com

Generally, you can register a domain for under USD$10 per year! Do not pay more than that for a domain name! There are some very established domain name registrars that provides domain name registration at rates which are 3oo% to 400% more expensive than the other popular registrars!

If you need to register a country specific domain name such as donaldlim.com.sg or donald.sg, you can go to any of the local registrars based in Singapore to submit your request for a localised domain name registration. Some of the registrars that offer Singapore-specific domain names registration are as follows:

http://www.webvisions.com

http://www.pacific.net.sg/business

http://business.singtel.com

If you are registering a Singapore specific domain name. you will need to have a company or business registration number with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore, also known as the A.C.R.A. This is a governing unit of the Singapore government. The mission of ACRA is to provide a responsive and forward looking regulatory environment for companies, businesses and public accountants, conducive to enterprise and growth in Singapore. You are required to have a business presence in Singapore before you can register a Singapore specific domain name. More details about A.C.R.A can be found at http://www.acra.gov.sg

Many of you have been asking me on how they can really start making money on the Internet because a lot of you do not know where to start!

So, I have taken the initiative to summarise everything down into 5 steps to start making some money for yourself even if you do not have your own products. You can start immediately by selling someone’s else products!

So, here are the 5 steps:
http://AffiliateMarketingSingapore.com

Step 1 to 4 are usually a one-time setup process (set up and forget), while Step 5 is where you will spend most of your time in order to make more and more money! However, depending on the marketing strategies you adopt, you can also automate the last step, making your Internet business on 99% autopilot!

Enjoy the 5 steps on Affiliate Marketing!

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