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I did a little bookmark scrub this morning and thought I would share the remaining content of my "Online Money" folder. To warn you, there are certain things that I don't like and never bookmark so: What's NOT included: Taking Paid Surveys, Getting Paid to Surf the Internet, MLM, Contest Sites, "Buy my DVD, CD, Audiobook", etc.
Showing posts with label make money working from home. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
I did a little bookmark scrub this morning and thought I would share the remaining content of my "Online Money" folder. To warn you, there are certain things that I don't like and never bookmark so: What's NOT included: Taking Paid Surveys, Getting Paid to Surf the Internet, MLM, Contest Sites, "Buy my DVD, CD, Audiobook", etc.Make Money Online Working At Home
It pays to cast your financial net online, where possibilities abound. Monetizing your expertise -- whether in social networking or transcribing -- is one way to make money while sitting at your computer at home. But others also are popping up, such as taking online surveys or even predicting election results. The good part: You don't have to pay a dime. And with some sites, you can start to make money online immediately. Most of these gigs are small, steady streams of cash. But they can add up to steady earnings over time. To avoid scams, forget unknown or untested sites with big promises. "Find out if the site is legitimate," says Nick Mokey, associate editor of DigitalTrends.com. "How long has it been around? And what are they asking you to do?" Also, keep a clock running so you can maximize your income without wasting your time. Follow these rules, and you'll find the Internet awash in moneymaking opportunities.Monday, June 17, 2013
Over the last few days, I’ve been experimenting with monetizing my blogs for mobile readers who view mobile versions of my sites.
Monetize Mobile Traffic on My Blogs
Those who read ProBlogger on an iPhone, Android phone, Palm, or Blackberry Storm will know that you’re given the option to view this blog within a theme designed for mobile devices. I use WPTouchto serve this up—it’s a WordPress plugin that I’ve found incredibly easy to use. I have it installed both here on ProBlogger and on Digital Photography School.
I had to switch it off recently while making some server changes, and I was amazed how many complaints I received. It seems a lot of readers these days read my blogs on mobile devices!
WPTouch offers a lot of great features that I won’t go into here, except to say that it lets you customize your display far beyond what I’ve done to date.
One feature that I will mention quickly is that the plugin offers those who view your blog on an iPhone a way to actually add a web app to their iPhone homescreen. This will increase the number of people checking out your blog on mobile devices.
One of the other great features WPTouch offers is the ability to monetize your mobile theme with advertising. Once you’ve got it installed on your WordPress blog, all you need is to open up the WPtouch area, and look for the Advertising tab.
In this view, you can select a variety of options. You can see here that I’m testing AdSense, and that I’ve put the ads below the header (you can also put them in the footer), and that I can select a variety of positions for them.
I did try the ads in the footer area initially, but they end up so far down the page that I doubted they’d ever be seen (note: it’d be good to have the option to display ads in the header and footer).
The ads are not the prettiest in the world, but here’s how they look on both the home page of the theme, and in individual posts.
The ad position is prominent, yet they don’t completely take over the page, and the ads are contextual—all a good recipe for performance (at least, it is in theory).
WPTouch also gives you a way to use AdMob ads on your blog, or even to show custom ads (so you could advertise your own products or sell ads directly to advertisers—something I’m yet to test.
I’ve had these ads working on the ProBlogger and dPS mobile sites for a few days now, and the signs are promising. Obviously their success on your site will depend a lot on how many readers you have and how many of them are reading your blog on a mobile device. However, already I’ve seen my ads earning more for each day of my test than I’m earning through RSS ads with AdSense.
In fact, the eCPM that I’m seeing is around five to six times what AdSense earns on normal ads on my pages. While the actual traffic numbers to my mobile site aren’t as high as traffic to the blog via computers, I’m excited to see the potential of this tool.
I’m averaging around $30 per day so far in earnings from mobile visitors, so the WPTouch plugin paid for itself in 24 hours. While that revenue figure isn’t huge in comparison to other earnings on my blogs, it adds up to over $10,000 a year. That’s $10,000 which was gained simply by installing a plugin and adding my AdSense account—certainly some low-hanging fruit that I’ve been overlooking.
Monday, June 10, 2013
I'm an online bookseller, so the primary way I make money on the web is through selling my used books and the occasional DVD. This requires me to store inventory and actually package and ship a product. I love my job and fortunately have a large house, so storing books is not a problem; I know not everyone has access to this kind of storage. As I've looked for other ways to generate income, I've discovered a few ways that people make money online, legally, that don't require you to store or ship a product. Instead, you need to be able to provide what many internet surfers are looking for: quality information or content. If you like to write or are good at organizing information into interesting formats, these methods might work for you to help generate some extra income.
Make money on the web through article sites like Associated Content and Bukisa:
If you enjoy writing and can write short (400-800 words are ideal) informative articles, you can post them on article sites like Associated Content and Bukisa and make money through either upfront offers and/or page views. The money from these sites tend to come in slowly, often pennies at a time, but as you build up your article library you can find a steady stream of income coming in. At the time of this article's publication I'm averaging about $25 a month on page views from Associated Content. Others on this site, I know, are making up to $200 or more a month on page views alone, as well as a steady income on upfront payments for their articles.
The next two legal ways of making money on the web without inventory require you to have your own website and/or blog site or newsletter that you update regularly, to generate a steady stream of new web visitors.
Make money on the web through Google Adsense:
Most people are familiar with the Google ads you see at the tops and side of web pages. The owners of these websites are actually paid each time someone clicks on these ads, anything from a few pennies to a dime at a time. If you have a website, online newsletter, or blog site, one of the easiest ways to generate a little extra money is to join the free Google Adsense program and incorporate Google's ads into your web pages. You will discover that you have considerable freedom in how you want to design your Google ads: in towers on the side or across the top, generated based on your web page's content, or as a result of a Google search engine. One powerful option of Google Adsense is that you can set up the Google search engine so that it will only search your website/domain and generate appropriate Google ads above the results of the search. You can see an example of this at my website: here.
Make money on the web through affiliate programs:
Affiliate programs are extremely popular on the web and can be tailored to just about any kind of newsletter, website, or blog. You include a link to the "parent" website with a special code on your web pages and if your visitor actually buys a product through the "parent" website you receive a commission (usually between 5%-10%) of that sale, and possibly any sales from that customer for a limited amount of time. (This is where the concepts of "cookies" come in; this is how your visitors are tracked and you receive credit.) The key to including affiliate links is to think of what products or sites your visitor is likely to be interested in based on your content. If you are reviewing a specific book, for example, that is likely to still be in print, it make sense to include an affiliate link to Amazon where your visitor can easily purchase this book. If your site is focused on the bibliography of your favorite author and most of her books are out of print, it makes sense to include affiliate links to Abebooks, Alibris or Biblio where your web visitor can search for used copies for sale. Most affiliate programs offer the option of tailoring their links and ads to meet a variety of needs: link to a specific product, link to a specific ad or banner, or link to a search engine. If you are interested in adding affiliate links to your web pages from your favorite online company, check their home pages for a link at the bottom or top that says simply "Affiliate Program" to read the relevant FAQs.
Concluding remarks: How much money can I make with Google ads and affiliate links?
That's up to you. Seriously. I have a friend who has a homemaking website who makes hundreds of dollars a month from affiliate links and Google ads. But keeping her website updated with new and relevant content is a part time job. She's also been at it for several years now and through her persistence and by providing a quality information product now has a committed and loyal following through an e-mail newsletter. Like everything else, these money making techniques require work and effort to succeed. If you enjoy writing about your content subject and find ways to incorporate your affiliate links and Google ads creatively and logically into your newsletter, website, or blog, I would expect that the money will eventually follow. As you are first starting out, consider advertising your content through such social networking sites as Facebook and Twitter.
Blessings!
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