Fresh Post at thingsidoformoney.com: How to make money online
What if there was an easy way to make money online and you didn’t have to pay to learn how? Well that’s the idea of my website, thingsidoformoney.com and I’m glad that you’ve taken the time to come by and read a little bit about how I personally make money online.
Watching a Google AdSense Webinar is a little like studying for a physics exam that’s being marked by Einstein, there’s a lot to catch and also a lot that you can miss so it’s wonderful that they post the video to YouTube as well so that we can rewatch it.
There’s an interesting article I was liked to over technews.com about Google AdSense publishers and their privacy settings, spoiler alert … most people have not updated their privacy policies. Here’s a hint to everybody … privacy policies are mandatory for all AdSense websites and Google can refuse to issue payments ( or terminate publishers for not updating) if you’re not meeting your TOS’s. (I’d better go check mine …)
Speaking of AdSense, I gotta say that I absolutely loved reading Do You Want To Increase Your Google Adsense Revenue? today. There’s a lot of content on the web dedicated to how to make money using the AdSense etc. but this is a pretty simple little piece, well written and easy to follow for people who are either just starting out or maybe need a refresher. You might also want to give Adsense Good or Bad?, Do You Want To Increase Your Google Adsense Revenue? and 6 Easy Ways to Increase your Adsense Revenue a read while you’re at it.
Today’s been a pretty busy day, so I haven’t been able to read as much as I’d have liked but if you’re looking for more help with AdSense, check out the AdSense Optimization Webinar.
A few days back I wrote a piece called What are the most expensive search terms? and talked a bit about the Google Keyword Tools which allows you to see how much keywords are worth. It’s designed to allow marketing professionals gauge the value of an ad campaign by allowing them to see which words are valuable and the volume of traffic which searches for a given keyword or key phrase but it can also be used by online publishers to make money online by understanding how to traffic shape our blogs for better keyword performance.
The tool allows you to select a number of factors when reviewing the value of a website or keyword pattern, first you may select the specific countries or language of traffic, this allows you to focus on a particular market when posting ads to potential blogs but that’s not what we want … after all as a blog owner I don’t mind if I make money from people surfing in Australia or Austria right? So the first thing you’ll want to do when setting your sights on new keywords is change the default settings from United States to All Countries and Territories. This will allow you to see the whole world’s value.
Next, as you can see from the graphic above you’ll want to review your existing website content for keywords. Specific descriptive words and phrases are great for people who want to sell something but as a blog publisher, you to understand what Google currently thinks your website is about so that you can assess how to steer your blog in the future.
For example, when I search for keywords on thisismyurl.com, I receive a list of keywords that Google believes I am blogging about. They are: make money on the (7), how to make money (6), way to make money (6), make money online (6), work at home (7), work from home (5), make money (30), to make (5), how to (8), at home (7), money making (18), from home (6), data entry (9), earn money (7), money (19), online (8), blog (10), business (6), website (7), Miscellaneous keywords (23)
Ironically, if you’d asked me what my website was about I’d have told you that it was about organic marketing, wordpress or even SEO before I’d have told you it was about making money online, so it just goes to show how cool this tool really is.
The next part of the puzzle is to look at the Estimated Cost Per Click (CPC) for keywords on the site but there’s a trick here, by default it’s not shown! Once you have the Estimated CPC column showing, you’re almost done. The next key to truly understanding the value of your keywords is to switch the Match Type to Exact (you can just see it in the graphic here). That will make sure the data you’re looking at is for exactly what you think you’re looking at.
The resulting list will provide you with a breakdown of both the estimated value per click and the number of times that keyword appears in Google’s search results for a given time period. For example, the phrase how to make money on the internet is worth $4.01 and is searched for 9,900 times globally in a given month. Sounds pretty good right? Well it is, except coming soon (which I just put up a free template for) is worth $1.30 and is searched for 201,000 times. Which is worth more? Luckily I’m pretty good with basic business math so here’s a comparison:
So using basic high school math, it’s easy to determine that a website would be much better off focusing it’s content on lower value keywords with a higher search percentage unless the total accumulated value of a keyword family outweigh the value of an isolated phrase. Let me explain. while an isolated keyword comparison would imply that coming soon is a superior subject to blog about (and earn money from) the phrase appears only once in the hundred phrases Google analyzed vs. dozens of variations of the phrase how to make money on the internet which while independently do not add up to much, combined far exceed an isolated phrase.
To compare the real value of key phrases and the true potential for making money on the Internet it’s important to look at numbers outside the Keyword Tools, for that I export the data into Apple Numbers, a spread sheet tool which allows me to group key phrases and do rapid data modeling to determine the most profitable avenue for an online site. In the case of my own blog, the top ten keyword patterns shape up to look like this:
While the above graph doesn’t group keywords and phrases into select groups it does provide an immediate and staggering visual tool to truly comprehend the value of some keywords over others. While combining keyword phrases would lower the impact, the keyword AdSense is clearly the most substantial value at nearly $10 million per month in AdWord placements.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this rather basic breakdown of my own website and I hope it gives you some insight into how to make money online with Google AdSense yourself. As always, I’m rather shameless in my self promotion and would love to remind you that I’m available for onsite consultation anywhere in the world assuming the temperature there is between 82° and 96°.
I think it’s fair to say that making money is the goal of most people on the web but not everybody has quite worked out how to make money using Twitter, so let’s take a look at 25 Twitter sized ideas that can help increase your revenue.
1. Sponsored Tweets
Charge companies money for your Tweets, sponsors will pay by the follower and should see a measurable return on investment very quickly.
2. Teach People About Twitter
If you understand how to use Twitter, send postcards to local businesses, marketing companies and business groups, they want to know too!
3. Designing for Twitter
Many designers are now offering custom Twitter packages as design incentives for clients, you can turn a fast buck making custom backgrounds
4. Affiliate Links
Use Twitter Search to find and suggest affiliate links to others. If you can push people to your site by helping them find stuff then great!
5. Twitter Sales
Offer exclusive sales and other offers via Twitter. A good promotion can spread like wildfire through retweets and costs almost nothing
6. Help Build People Accounts
Use your knowledge of Twitter to build other peoples Twitter accounts as a consultant and get paid by the follower.
7. Integrate Twitter With Websites
Help setup company websites to automatically Twitter the latest sales, posts or news items or teach people how to put their Tweets on a site
8. Keep Your Eye on Clients Reputations Online
Use Twitter to monitor the online reputation of your clients and alert them to dramatic shifts or reactions to their marketing efforts.
9. Keep Your Enemies Closer
Track what your competitors are doing and react to their careless Twitter traffic. Follow their official account as well as key staff
10. Paid Tweeting
If you’re an interesting writer, Tweet from home and make a killing by offering businesses the ability to keep fans loyal with fresh Tweets
11. Build New Toys
The Twitter API allows for external software to do almost anything, take advantage and write a great new Twitter app to change the world.
12. Paid Reviews
Have companies pay you to review their products on, some of the best Tweets I read are most paid placements from blogs, but they’re good
13. Find a Job Through Twitter
Finding work online is easy with tools like Twitter, people are always posting that they need something done, so keep your eye out for work.
14. Brand Building
People need to hear a brand name at least three times before they recognize it. Help brand products for money on Twitter by talking about it
15. Market Research
Find out what people want from a web website or product and ask around, search Twitter etc. to get the best ideas before you build it.
16. Fund Raising
Ask for small donations to a cause or project to see how many people are willing to support it in the community.
17. Twitter Reports
Help businesses understand how Twitter works, provide analytics and reports to business owners who need to understand the new tools.
18. Answer Questions
Help people solve their problems by posting links to quality resources. You may find that you gain a new follower, friend or future client.
19. Promote Your Portfolio
Artists can post links to their new works, songs, portfolios etc. to keep rabid fans entertained and linked into their activities
20. Build Twitter for Big Companies
Build custom Twitter style sites for companies who want their own gateway to Twitter or want a private Twitter network for themselves
21. Run Contests
Contests are a great way to promote a product or website, use Twitter to build a loyal following of contest hounds to make money
22. Recruiting Tool for Jobs
Companies pay money for referrals to help fill job vacancies, spend your day matching potentials seekers with companies who pay commissions
23. ReTweet Great Content
People are on Twitter to learn, so retweet other peoples great content and build your own follower base by being known for posting quality
24. Help Reporters Make News
Busy reporters need news sources, so help great writers make great news by using Twitter to find sources for stories, and get paid for it.
25. Remember the Secrets of Me Marketing
It’s about them, not you. Remove their pain, solve their problems and fulfill their needs. In the end you’ll make friends and profits.
When I got stuck I found a few great articles on the web that helped me round out my list so a great big thanks to:
So I received my first genuine question today from my new “ask a question” form and it was a doozy, Lisa from Southern Ontario wants to know how to make money with Google ads. This is a great question because it addresses a few others along the way.
An example of ads which appear here on my website.
Google runs two programs in tandem, the first is called Google Adwords and it allows business owners such as yourself to buy advertising on the Google network. Adwords allows people to bid on the amount they’d like to pay for an advertisement and then, if their bid is high enough to win out over the competition the ads appear on either the Google search results associated with the keywords or websites associated with the keywords.
This is where the second program, called AdSense comes in. AdSense allows website owners such as me to place Google’s Adword campaigns on my website. You’ll notice for example in my search results there is a banner ad (728×90 pixels) that appears as well as an ad in the comments below. These banners are created automatically from Google and appear in my site content, based on the keywords for the pages that I’ve included.
Once you’ve setup your ads by choosing the size, colors and type of ads that you would like to appear Google will present you with code such as the folllow:
[source lang="javascript"]<script type="text/javascript">
<!– google_ad_client = "pub-9144171931162286";
/* 728×90, created 9/21/08 */
google_ad_slot = "2146157422";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//–>
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>[/source]
To place this code into your website there are a couple of options. If you’re using WordPress for example you can place it into your sidebar using the text widget, or you can edit your theme files to place the code in the appropriate places. Sometimes this is a little difficult for non programmers, so if you need a hand you should post a request at http://jobs.wordpress.net/
That’s actually the best part! You don’t. Google automatically matches you with the most content focusses advertisers from around the planet. Essentially, Google takes all the matching requests from its Adwords program and searches for websites in the AdSense program to serve ads to, which means that you never have to sell anything.
That’s a tough question, Google ads work on two principles. First, how many times is a page visited and secondly, how many times does somebody click the ads on your website? Google ads are paid per click, so if a million people visit your website in a given day then you’re likely to attract a reasonable volume of click through traffic, which will result in increased revenue.
Each time an ad is clicked, you earn money so the amount you make is dependent entirely on how many people see and click the ads. To determine exactly what an ad on your website is worth, try visiting the Keyword Tools and generate a free report on your (and your competitors) website. Remember, you’re likely to receive a little less than half of whatever Google reports on this page.
Each month that your Google AdSense total is more than $100, Google will mail a cheque (or transfer funds) to you. If your account hasn’t reached $100 yet, no problem … the total simply carries over to the next month and will payout when it hits the $100 level.
No. Serious, don’t do it. If Google catches you (remember they’re REALLY smart there) they’ll not only close your account but refund any revenue you’ve earned to your advertisers … it’s simply not worth the risk.
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Well this morning was a momentous day, my blog has been operating for just a few months and I’ve been putting up content whenever I have a chance but today I received my one thousandth comment. That’s right, there have been 1000 comments posted here on thisismyurl.com and I wanted to celebrate by giving something to all of those who took the time to post here, not just the person who posted as Culinary Art School on my Want to Know How to Make Money Online? Stop Thinking So Hard. posting, so here are five free eBooks on Search Engine Optimization, thanks again everybody!
So you want to make money online and you don’t know how? Don’t worry you’re not alone. Most people dream of how make money online but don’t do anything about it, you’re already on the right road because you’ve taken the time to search for how. Let me show you some of the tricks that I use to make money online and you’ll see how easy it really is.
First, you need to read my article called Are You Online to Make Money?, which will tell you how to setup a Google AdSense account and begin selling ads for your website. Next you need a website, if you don’t already have a website, I build great websites with WordPress for people at good rates.
Secondly, as good as AdSense is at making people money online you will also want to look at various affiliate programs to help increase your revenue stream. Honestly, I have not had very much luck with affiliate programs in the past so I can’t recommend any good ones but there are a lot of great articles if you search Google.
Finally, you can setup your own ad server using OpenX. This will allow you to sell ads directly to people you know and make money. It allows you to sell ads per click, per 1,000 visitors or for a specific amount of time. This is a great way for you to increase revenue from your website very easily.
Now that you know how to sell ads and how to make money online, you need to know What Makes a Successful Web Site? and How to Create a Successful Web Site and don’t forget to read my article called How to make a website for free to help you understand how to put together an HTML website for free.
If you don’t have time to do a lot of reading yourself (everything you need to know to make money online is here on my website and free for you to read), you can always hire me to build you a great website or to help make your website more search engine friendly.
