Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Make Money from Home

Are you looking for a way to work for yourself from home? To define, let's get clear first on exactly what you are looking for.

Are you looking to:

a) build a "brick and mortar" business, meaning that you will be working with actual products and interact physically with people?

b) build a business online on the Internet to make money from home.

If you are looking to build a physical business from home doing sewing, baking manufacturing pottery etc, may I suggest that you do a search at a bookstore like Amazon.com. They have plenty of books on just about any business that you can think of doing from home. Most of these kind of books are written by people who are already running their own successful businesses on the topic that they are writing about and you can learn a lot from them.

If you are looking to find work from home doing typing, surveys, computer work, assembly work, affiliate marketing opportunities, reading email, placing ads etc, first a warning:

I would urge to you be very careful before selecting an opportunity, because there are a lot of scams out there.

There are a lot of sites that offer typing work, which you have to pay for before they will send you "assignments". Once you receive your "assignment" they have various rules and requirements that you have to follow to the letter before submitting your typing back to them. More often than not, you will probably receive a letter from them that your typing was not up to their required standard - even when you know you followed every instruction to the letter.

The end result? You don't get paid for your work and they have your registration fee safely in their back pockets. Most of these companies don't have real clients, so the "assignment" that they sent you was completely bogus and just a means for them to get their hands on your hard earned money.

If you are looking for assembly work, craft projects e.g knitting jerseys, booties, blankets, etc - re-read the warning above. Most of the companies that offer these kind of projects also send you bogus assignments, in the end rejecting your work. You will probably find that you have to sell the products that you made yourself - something that they did not tell you when you first registered.

Becoming an adplacer is even worse. You also have to pay for the "privilige" of joining the site, then all you do is place ads for more people to place ads. That is a typical pyramid scam.

Doing online surveys can make you a bit of money, but I wouldn't count on it making me rich. You should watch out for sites that ask you for payment to access their databases "with hundreds of companies that will pay you do surveys". You don't need to pay to find companies that will pay you for taking surveys. All you have to do is put in a bit of work and you will be able to find them yourself. Do a search on one of the search engines like Google for "get paid for your opinion". You will find loads of genuine companies that will not charge you to sign up for their surveys.

For your convenience I am listing a few here:

http://focusline.com/

http://www.greenfieldonline.com

http://www.harrispole.com

http://www.kellyresearch.com

http://www.acop.com

http://www.globaltestmarket.com

http://www.surveysavvy.com

http://www.surveycafe.com

http://www.opinionsquare.com/

http://www.zoompanel.com/

The best way to make money from home

However, the best way to make money from home is still to have your own website, centred around your own products, hobby or interests. For example, say you have a keen interest in cross stitching. You can create your own website where you can display your work, your own cross stitch designs, or even sell your designs to other people.

You can give hints and tips on how others can improve their own cross stitching products. If you don't have designs or products to sell, look for cross stitching companies that will pay you to sell their products for them as an affiliate. You can apply these ideas to anything you have an interest in.

Finally, apply for the Adsense program from Google, and you will have a website to be proud of as well as an excellent vehicle to earn a good income from the comfort of your own home.

I hope you find these tips informative, and that it will help you get started on building a successful home based business of your own!

Author: Joan Masterson - All rights reserved - Make money from home

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How Do You Make Money From Google Adwords?

Can you really make money from this?

Late 2003, I think was the first time an ebook popped
up that claimed that one could make money from Google
Adwords.

The main method that was revealed involved combining
Google Adwords and the Clickbank affiliate program, to
make money, online, everyday almost on autopilot.

Please allow me to very quickly outline how you can
make money on the internet, using this system.

Here are 2 things you need to get started...

1) You need a Google Adwords account.

=> http://adwords.google.com

2) You also have to sign up as a Clickbank affiliate

=> http://www.clickbank.com

Ok, so how does it work?

Well, you simply go to clickbank.com and on the main
page you click on "Promote Products" on the right.
You will be taken to the index page of all products
being sold via clickbank. Each product is listed with
a short description and the percentage you make as an
affiliate.

Just select the product you wish to promote, grab your
affilate promotion URL, by clicking on the [earn 50%].
Your personal affiliate link will pop up, just copy
and paste that, into a text editor like notepad.

The next thing I like to do is visit the main sales
page of the product I have selected, and select some
benefits from the sales copy, I can then use these to
write my Google Adwords Ad.

Alright then, how do you write your Ad?

The general profitable Google Adwords format that has
seemed to work for many is like this. Line one your
heading ask a question, line two mention a feature of
the product or ebook, line 3 give a benefit, then line
4 your websites address goes there.

Once you have selected your budget and you submit your
ad, it will probably start showing on the Google
network within the next 10 minutes.

When searchers see your google ad, they click on it and
google will charge you for every click, according to
how much you bid on a particular keyword.

If the searcher who clicks on your ad, then goes ahead
and buys from the site, you will receive the respective
commission from Clickbank, and you can check your
earnings when you login to your clickbank account.

However, There's 2 things to watch out for...

Your Return On Investment(ROI) and your Click Through
Rate(CTR).

The ROI helps you determine how profitable
your Google Ad is, when you subtract the cost of
running your ads from the amount earned in your
clickbank account.

The CTR helps you fine tune your ad so you can
increase the number of people clicking on it especially
if its a profitable ad, if more people are clicking on
the ad itself it would probably result in an increase
in your affiliate income.

That is a quick look at the "How to make money with
Google Adwords System". If you would like to get more
detailed information on this system, I would highly
recommened you grab yourself a copy of this ebook...

How You Can Earn $1,758 a Day with Google Adwords??

=> http://Google123.ontheweb.nu

In Conclusion...

You can also use Google Adwords to promote your own
websites and other non clickbank products too, you just
need to adopt and adjust the system I have outlined
above.

Munya Chinongoza is an up and coming internet marketing protégée. He is also the author of "Guru Traffic Secrets Vol.1" in which he recently interviewed 14 top internet marketers "gurus" and asked them to reveal how they drive unlimited targeted traffic to their websites everyday, usually with little or no effort at all on their part: http://www.GuruTrafficSecrets.com

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Google Image Ads: Get More Dollars Per Click

I tried text ads for a long time and was getting in the range of 10 cents to 70 cents per click, but after some time I thought of changing my strategy and started adding google image ads and was happy with the result.

My suggestion is, have one google image ad per webpage and 2 text ads. One text ad on the top left and above it a google image ad is recommended for good results.

Some websites benefit a lot from google image ads than others. Everything depends on the layout of the website. If the layout is attractive and matches the google image ads then the click thru rates would be high at the same time if the google ads do not match the website then the click thru's would be less.

Most people like to add the google image ads on top, but it is not bad to experiment by adding them at the bottom of the pages too. It is not recommended to add more than one google image ad in a webpage. You can have 2 text links along with one image ad which would get more click thru's. Make sure that you have one google ad on the top left side of the webpage.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

How to Set up Your Google AdWords Account?

As you may or not know, Google Adwords is now one of the fastest growing advertising formats that you will come across. Whether your a small local company or a world trader, You are just steps away from creating a ton of traffic to your website. First of all, let me just quickly explain what Google Adwords is - for those of you that don't know.

Adwords is Googles version of an advertising campaign. Basically put, Google is allowing you to advertise on their website. This means that you will have access to some of the multi millions of visitors that are searching on Google on a daily basis. Which could mean thousand of hits to your website.

Why Google AdWords?

One of the main reason that Google AdWords is so popular is quite simply the way it is structured. Instead of traditional advertising, where you pay for your ad no matter what. Google AdWords allows you to ONLY PAY when a visitor clicks on your ad and comes to your website.
This is the same as your advertising magazine only charging you when a reader gets in contact with you. This is very powerful stuff. It is know as Pay Per Click Advertising.

How to Set up Your Google AdWords Account.

Ok, First of all you will need to go to Google website: http://adwords.google.com.
Once you have loaded the screen, look for a button that says - Sign Up Now or Try Adwords Now. Once clicked you will be taken to a page that asks you whether you want to set up a 'Starter Edition' or a 'Standard Edition', I personally have never used the Starter Edition. Basically, the Starter Edition is only for complete beginners. You will need to upgrade to the Standard Edition sooner or later, so why not sign up now. I'm going to take you through the Standard Edition signup.

Once inside, you will be asked to select your language, this will determine the language of the text that you will be reading. Then you will be prompted to choose your target location. This section is going to depend on your business. Lets break these down.

Countries and territories

- Your ads will appear for searches made anywhere in the selected locations.

Regions and cities

- Your ads will appear for searches made in the regions and cities you choose. (Not available in all locations.)

Customised

- Your ads will appear for searches made within a specific distance from your business or other location you choose.

So, unless you want to target your, you will select Countries & territories. Other wise, choose an option that will only show your ad in targeted area. I normally choose Countries & territories as this will get me the most amount of explosure.

The following page will ask you which countries you want your ad to appear in. This is very important, as it allows you to chose which targeted countries you want to promote to. For most of my products, I always select - UK, America, Canada, Australia & New Zealand. You can select which ever countries are best suited to you. Simple high light the country that you want, click the 'Add' button. Once you have selected all of your countries, simply click 'Continue'.

Writing Your Ad:

Ok, now we start getting into the heart of the campaign, we can start writing our ads. This part is so easy to do, yet is has one of the biggest impacts on your campaign. Do this right, and you will gain massive rewards, Do this wrong, and it will cost you dig time!

Headline:

Make you headline stand out from the other adds. It must get the readers attention.

Description Line 1:

This line normally works best as a benefit line. What are the benefits of your products or service?

Description Line 2:

Create a sense of urgency! this should be a call to action line. Get them to click onto your ad.

Display URL:

This is the URL of your website. How ever, you do not need to add the www. And you can also add capitalization to the first letter of each word.

EXAMPLE:

www.articlereader.com - can become - ArticleReader.com

Destination URL:

This is the full URL of your website address.

EXAMPLE:

www.articlereader.com

Adding Your Keywords:

Your Keywords are the word that you want your ad to on appear when typed in. So, for example: If I'm promoting a free ebook give away, then I would want to bid on Keyphrase such as:

- Ebook

- Free Ebook Giveaway

- E- Book

- E book

As you can see, I'm bidding on different variation of the same word. This is because, you don't know exactly what a user is going to type in to the search engines. There four, you want to cover all related keywords.

This page also offer you a chance to find more keywords. Simply type your main key phrase into the 'Want More' text field, click search and hey presto, You have a new list of keyphrase that you can use. Your keyphrase should be targeted to your product or service.

Choosing Your Price:

One last section to complete then were done. There are three sections to this area, each of which are all based around the amount and currency of your advertising.

Choose a currency:

This is straight forward - simply select the currency of your country from the drop down menu.

Average Spend a day:

How much would you like to spend on a daily basis? I always set this to £1,000. Don't worry, you will never spend this much. But by setting a high daily spend, it will ensure that your ad is show through out the day. You then control the cost via the keyword bid amount.

Keyword Bid Amount:

Select how much you want to pay. Basically, what is the maximum that you want to pay for one click? This amount should be worked out based on your profit margins. The more profit that you have, the more you can afford to pay. However, a good starting point for most people is between £0.50 & £1.00. This however, will decrease if you can create a high Click Through Rate for your AdGroups. Check out my resource box below for more on CTR, and how to master your campaign.

Well Done!

Thats it, the next step just asks you to confirm your details, then give your account information over. Remember, you will be charged £5.00 to set you account, so have your credit card ready.

Good Luck! :-)

Jeff Spires

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Understand Google Adwords - Killer tips

Article Contents:

To get the most out of Google Adwords, first you must understand how Google works. By not taking these simple first steps, you could quite easily find yourself struggling to make a profit using Google Adwords. This is simply because Google wants to reward user that do everything by the book. So, the more that you understand Google, the better position you will be in.

Google Loves Relevancy:

So many advertisers forget what Google is all about, they forget that Google is a technology company, not an advertising company. In fact, the only department in the entire Google company that deals with paying customers is the AdWords department.

So, what does this tell us?

Google Loves Relevancy, they always have and always will! They will always be working for the end user. The users that search using Googles interface. This is where their main focus is, as it's these users that make Google what it is. Take them away and you have nothing. In fact, it's only because Google is all about user experience, that makes Google the number one search engine. When a user search's for 'Cheap Homes To Rent In Essex' Google does it's best to provide that user with the most relevant results.

What Does This Mean For Your AdWords Ads?

Make them relevant! Again, Google is all about relevancy, which means that they are happy to reward you for being relevant. Within the Google Adwords structure, Google will reward you by increasing your Click Through Rate (CTR) and your Quality Score (QS). It is these two factors that will determine how much you pay and your ad position.

Important Areas to Cover:

Here are a few things that you need to know about Google.

- Google WILL check your campaign manually! this is important to know because Google have a set guidelines as to what your landing page should be like. If one of the Google admin members comes to your website, and finds that your landing page is not in compliance with their criteria, then this will effect your quality score.

- Make Everything for the end users. Once again, this comes back to relevancy. If your landing page matches the content of your ad, and your ad matches the keyphrase that gets typed into Google. Then you will be seen as highly relevant.

Ok, now you understand what you should do, here's what not to do.

- Don't promote anything illegal.

- Weapons or Violence

- Sexual Content or Prostitution

- Drugs / Steroids / perscription

- Gambling

- Knock off or counterfeit goods

- Answers for educational tests

- scams

- AdSense Template

- Donation Site - Unless Government.

ReCap:

- Make your ads relevant to the search & make your landing page relevant to your AdWords ad.

- Avoid having AdSense & banner advertising on your landing page.

- Make everything about thee end user!

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Google Adsense: 5 Rock Solid Tips to Make More Money

Google adsense is proving to be probably the number one method of making money on the internet. Visit nearly any website today and you will see an array of Google Adsense ads being displayed. But if youre interested in displaying Google Adsense ads on your website how can you be sure that you are making the most return from your website visitors.

Let me tell you my five top tips to increase your Google Adsense income.

Tip one.

Use articles on your website that are of interest to your targeted market. Original articles written by yourself are best, however if you are not keen on writing why not look at obtaining some Private Label Rights articles. Most important issue here being to modify the articles extensively to make them original to you and not risk duplicated content issues.

Tip two.

Keep your web page layout simple and don’t include links to other products or services, which could distract your visitors from clicking on your Google Adsense ads. Remember this strategy is to increase your Adsense revenue, if you want to promote an affiliate product design a webpage with just your product links on and remove any adsense ads.

Tip three.

Design your Adsense ads to blend in with the background colour of your webpage and also position them in the most profitable positions available. You can get a clear idea of this layout by clicking on my website link below.

Tip four.

Keep track of your visitors and the income they produce to your website, you can do this by creating a channel in the Google Adsense backoffice. Again remember, that if your website is not producing a decent income then you need to look at different subject matters, subjects of interest that people want to read more about and are willing to visit your website in order to read more.

Tip five.

Traffic generation is the real key to success and without visitors to your website you wont make any money. This fifth tip is a complete subject on its own and I will be producing further articles on this subject which you will be able to read by visiting my website below.

I will be adding regular articles on all these subjects and more over the next few days and months so it realy will be worth a visit to see what tips and ideas you can use to increase your Google Adsense income.

Copywrite 2006 Terry Till

Visit my website for more tips and tricks on earning more from Google Adsense ads.

http://www.articlebliss.com/google-adsense/google-adsense-tips.htm

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The Truth About Google's Adsense Affiliate Program

The truth about Google’s Adsense program is that it is amazing. It’s the greatest affiliate
program ever invented. There is no affiliate program that even comes close. If you are not
using Google’s Adsense, you’re truly missing out on a great opportunity. I’ve tried several
other affiliate programs, and the only one that is creating revenue even close to Google’s, is
the Amazon.com affiliate program. Amazon.com’s affiliate program pays 5% commission
and up for shipped products. It’s not really clear how Google pays you, but let me tell you it
seems very fair. They do not pay per clicks, leads, or click throughs; they have a secret
formula that no one will tell. But trust me it works. I was making pennies off of clicks monthly,
until I joined Google. Then the pennies became dollars.

Here are some basic tips for signing up with Google’s Adsense program.

Tip # 1 If you search multiple websites in different categories you’ll find one thing in common.
Almost all of them have Google ads and nothing else. This is because most other programs
are a waste of time. Don’t take my word for it. Try other programs, but don’t skip Google’s
Adsense.

Tip # 2 Google’s search spiders are so specific, that the ads that appear on each page
correspond exactly to some element of that page. Therefore, having ads from other
companies is not a good idea.

TIP # 3 You can place text, image, banner ads and even a search box that will earn your
company revenue. Do not place a search box from another company on the same page as
Google’s search box. They may stop working with you.

In summary, the Adsense program is a great way to make revenue, has incredibly targeted
ads and don’t use other search boxes on the same page as a Google search box. If you have
any questions about Google’s Adsense program, you can email me at tech1@techpizza.com

Shawn Ventura is the CEO of http://techpizza.com. He lives with his family in New York, and is a freelance technology writer.

How My Google Adsense Earnings Dramatically Shot Up Using Free Information and Free Tools

Most seasoned Google Adsense Internet users and entrepreneurs do not believe that free information is of any real value. How can information in the public domain actually have an impact on their Adsense earnings?

They are of course very wrong because many Google Adsense affiliates, including the writer of this article have dramatically increased their Adsense revenue with the help of free information available on the net to everybody. I have even been able to get valuable Adsense keywords for free (but that is another story for another article).

However the secret of being able to turn free information into pure gold, lies in being able to know how to process this information from common dirt into gold.

Using Free Information As It Is Will Not Grow Your Google Adsense Earnings

The legendary Wright brothers in inventing mechanized flight displayed an uncanny ability for processing information. This was actually their strongest point. The brothers, who never finished high school approached their highly scientific task by gathering and analyzing all the information they could lay their hands on concerning flying and developments in aviation up to that point. There was no Internet in those days, so they had to gather magazines, books, papers and write for information through snail mail.

In analyzing the information they received, they discovered that not all of it was correct. One critical bit of widely accepted calculation was wrong and this led them to the creation and invention of sophisticated wind tunnels, which gave them a much more accurate calculation. This was no trial and error exercise and by the time the Wright brothers did their famous test flight at Kitty Hawk, they already knew, even before they started, that the crude machine they had put together would fly.

Free information as it is will not have a major impact on your Google Adsense earnings. However you can use the Wright brothers’ methods and analyze all the free information you can lay your hands on. I have done just that and discovered that lots of the free Adsense info available tends to hint without giving full details or critical fine points, which you will have to discover on your own.

How To Generate New Google Adsense Earning Ideas

The whole idea is that you should be able to use the free information to generate your own ideas to help you increase your Google Adsense earnings.

For instance, some basic free information I came across suggested that people tended to click more on the Google Adsense ads in subjects where there wasn’t enough free information available online. This led me to research on how best to ensure that there is just enough information available at my blogs to create an even bigger hunger for more information on the side of the reader. This additional information I then offer for sale at a very reasonable price, but there is also the option of visitors to my blog clicking on the Google Adsense ads for more information. It has taken me sometime to perfect this technique, but I am now getting it right and my Google Adsense earnings have shot up dramatically because of this single technique that I developed as a result of processing free information.

Carefully analyze every bit of free Google Adsense info you come across and find a way of applying it to your sites. The more you do this, the more you’ll increase your earnings.

Being A Writer Or Having Access To A Low Cost Writer Is A Clear Google Adsense Advantage

In other words what we are saying here is that to be able to benefit fully from the free information you come across, you will have to do a lot of research and development. The only way to do effective R&D (research and development) is by constantly testing and trying out new things. In the Google Adsense world, this will mostly involve the content at your sites.

Those Google Adsense affiliates who are good writers in their own right or those who have access to a low cost writer able to generate quality content for them have a definite advantage. Always remember that whatever you do, the more pages of useful content you have out there, the higher the number of clicks you will end up receiving. So for starters just generating loads of good content is a powerful strategy for earning more from your Google Adsense ads.

There are some smart Google Adsense affiliates who have found a way of maximizing on the revenue they generate from a single article or piece of content.

Christopher Kyalo is a successful online writer and entrepreneur. Read the rest of this article at his Google affiliate writer’s blog. He can be reached at strongwallafrica at yahoo.com