People Search Affiliate Website to Make Money Online

If you have followed this blog for a while, you should have heard of Acme People Search program provided by Tissa Godavitarne. Acme People Search program is a program that anyone can join to start learning and experiencing how to make money online. In this post, you will find specific details about how the program works.

When you join the program, Tissa will provide you a search engine website. You are going to use the website to make money on the Internet. Tissa will guide you in step-by-step to get your website started to generate income. Here's what you need to do:

Step 1
In step one you will sign up for affiliate programs that are free to join. These affiliate programs are linked from your free people search affiliate website (your search engine) for you to promote and drive traffic to. When people use your search engine or click on links offered, you could get paid commissions when they do free or premium searches. At step one, your affiliate links are displayed at 35%....meaning when folks use your search engine, you would have a chance to be credited for commissions earned around a third of the time. After completing this step one, you then upgrade your search engine through step 2 & 3 to increase your profits.

Step 2
This step involves branding your search engine with it's own domain name and hosting to make it more unique and professional. You must use the hosting provided within your Acme People Search back office to brand your website. After you have your own domain name and web hosting, you can now edit your search engine if you have html experience, along with adding more pages for displaying articles and such to make your affiliate website more SEO friendly. After completing step two, your affiliate links are displayed at 65%.

Step 3
This is the only step that Tissa charges a monthly fee for and is also totally optional. In this step, your affiliate links are displayed at 100 percent along with receiving free web traffic from Tissa to generate a guaranteed $125 commission credited to your account and you get access "secret sauce" ingredients. Having your affiliate links displayed at 100% allows you to earn any commissions generated through your people search engine. The “secret sauce” ingredients can increase residual income opportunities and the free traffic provided to you by Tissa gives you the chance to see your affiliate website in action. The minimum pay out to receive your guaranteed commissions is $200 so you will have to earn $75 dollars to get paid the $200 which would be paid to you via PayPal through Tissa's bi-weekly payout schedule. This step comes with a 30 day “risk free” period to help make your search engine a success.

If you are serious about wanting to make money online, you should sign up for your free acme people search affiliate website and complete all three steps located in your back Acme People Search back office for the best results. Visit search-affiliate.com for common FAQ's along with many of the available resources and income streams offered in the Acme People Search program.

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Make Money With Both Big and Small Websites

One of the greatest implied conflicts in the "make money online" community is the debate whether we should focus on creating small "niche" websites or larger "flagship" websites. As someone who has found success in both niches, I've found the debate to be completely wrong-founded.

This article will introduce you to the two most popular website business models, and will compare them for you to choose.

Small Niche Websites

A small niche website is a website that has just a few dozen articles and is written to rank well for a very specific niche. For example, I built a website that details the basics of information dealing with short term loans.

The website details the basics of student, personal and business short term loans. It isn't amazing. The content isn't breathtaking. But I still make $20 per day.

That website is geared towards the search engines specifically. I focus on content and links -- and that's it. By focusing on writing a good 20-30 articles, you have enough content to rank in Google. By building links, you'll be increasing your ability to rank in Google as well as the other search engines.

The total amount of time to build a website is less than 2 days if you're a fast writer. The time to build links depends, but I usually spend about a month working on a new niche site.

The income is usually limited. I usually make no more than $5-10 per day per website, with the exception of the short-term loan site. But when you build 20 or so small niche websites, you have a relatively easy income stream.

Here are the reasons people like to try small niche websites:

-You don't have to constantly update
-You don't have to constantly manage comments
-You don't have to build links for years
-You can expand as you see fit

Large Flagship Websites

Large websites are different from the small niche websites. They aren't written only for the search engines, but are wired specifically for people. The goal is to get a large following of people to read the website. These readers will give you a huge level of traffic every day.

An example would be my How to Make Money Online website. My biggest money-making page is the affiliate page, where I help others make a few hundred per day who aren't looking to actually create a website.

You make money specifically by selling products, placing ads on the website, etc. You don't make much per visitor, but the theory is that with enough traffic, you can still pull a profit.

The idea is that you generate traffic by writing and publishing fantastic content every single day. Some blogs publish literally 5-10 articles per day, trying to shock and awe the Internet into gathering them a great income and following.

-It takes a lot more work
-It takes more time to succeed
-The competition is usually worse
-But the payoff can be lucrative

This is where most people earn millions online -- by publishing a flagship website in a competitive and high-paying niche.

Conclusion

There you have it. If you are willing to work harder to get the money, a flagship website might be for you. Of course, if you're just starting out a niche website is probably the best bet. I have used both and both methods work just as well in the long run -- it's really just up to you.

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Setting Up a Money Making Membership Website

Idea #1: Charge a Subscription Fee
This will be the main and steady source of income to those who choose to run a paid membership website.

Charging a subscription on a monthly basis is a great idea, but you must be able to maintain your membership site well in order to encourage your members to renew their memberships.

Since membership renewals will be your first concern, you will need to keep on adding valuable content for your members to meet their expectation. Renewals will keep a site alive and generate ongoing income for the owner.

Idea #2: Sell Advertising Space
Whether your membership site is paid or free, you can sell advertising space on your site to companies or sellers that sell products relevant to the topic of your website. You may contact these companies directly to offer you ad space or through an advertising network.

Idea #3: Sell Your Own Product
Some people build a membership site specifically to sell their products or services. You too can use this method. The products you are offering to your members have to be related to the subject of your membership site. For example, if you site topic is about guitar, then you may offer products like guitar lesson, guitar equipments, etc.

Idea #4: Sell Affiliate Product
The idea is to insert your affiliate links and banner ads into your membership site so that every member can see them and click on them. Any sale results from your affiliate ID will earn you an affiliate commission. Like idea #3, the affiliate products you are promoting must be related to the theme of your site.

Promote Your Membership Site to Get Members
Like any other types of websites, you need to drive targeted visitors or traffic to your membership site. The number of members you can get and the amount of money you can make will depend on the amount of traffic you are getting. The more traffic you get the better the result.

There are plenty of Internet marketing techniques you can use to promote your site and generate traffic. Here a short list of them:

• Pay per click (PPC) advertising
• Article marketing
• Blog and forum marketing
• Press release
• Viral marketing
• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Social bookmarking and networking
• Buy text link
• Banner advertising
• Ezine advertising
  

Free lessons on the above online marketing techniques are every where on the Internet. Just do some searches on Google or visit Internet marketing forums and you will find free tutorials, guide, courses and content about these topics.

Apply what you learn to market and promote your website. Work hard to use some of these techniques to generate traffic. Take time to test and experiment these techniques to see which one are effective and which one are not helpful. Choose those effective techniques and use them repeatedly to generate consistent traffic to build your membership site.

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Quickly Increase Your Website’s Inbound Links By Spying On Your Competition

If you are a website owner or if you have a blog you know that getting inbound links can be a tedious process. Even more tedious is that you have to find relevant links. Most webmaster’s obtain their links from link exchanges, getting accepted into online directories, distributing articles to article directories, and submitting links to social bookmarking websites.

Those are all great ways of getting in pointing links to your website or blog. However, it is not an efficient process and can be quite time consuming. It takes a lot of time to find relevant websites to submit your articles to, directories to submit your site or blog to, and contact webmasters to see if they are interested in exchanging links. Social bookmarking is the only real method that does not take a whole lot of time.

Enough about that, the rest of the post is about how you can build links faster and more efficiently.

First identify exactly what your website is about. This should not be a problem if you built your site/blog around a niche. Then go to the four major search engines. They are Google, Yahoo, Live, and Ask which account for over 95% of all online searches. Type in your website’s primary keyword or the keyword of your homepage. Write down the four websites that rank number one in each major search engines results page. You will end up with exactly four websites, one for each search engine unless a website ranks at the top of more than one major search engine.

Then find out where they got their links from. That will explain a lot about why they are at the top. In almost all cases the websites at the top of search result pages have tons of relevant links. That is the only way to rank high for competitive keywords. To find where their links came from you can use a host of free tools that are available online. Do not pay for this information. You can get it for free.

I use a free tool called Search It. It is provided by SiteSell.com which is a popular online company that specializes in the website building niche. The tool was originally created only for customers of the company. Recently it has been used by the company as a marketing tool, a tool to build credibility for Sitesell and eventually lead to more sales. That is why it is now free.

You can use Search It for a number of things. One of the things you can use it for is to find the back links of your competition. That is what I primarily use it for and it has saved me tons of time. Instead of having to search for inbound link opportunities I can get a huge list of them in a minute. A search of a website’s back links is more like a link opportunity search than just wanting to know where they got their links from. Rather than having to perform tons of searches for relevant inbound links opportunities you will have a list of 10,000 or more and can zoom through the process.

Other than links from random websites who just happen to like that site, all other links will be prime link opportunities. Also, since you are researching the links of the top websites in your niche chances are those links will be highly relevant. Highly relevant links are given more weight and are worth more to the search engines. The higher the page rank and relevancy of the link are what determine how much a particular link is worth when ranking pages for search results.

When doing this you will still be obtaining most of your links through article distribution, online website directories, and social bookmarking. Instead of having to go out and look for them they come to you in less than a second. The only thing you will have to find on your own manually is webmaster’s that will agree to exchange links. As for link exchanges they may not worth the time and effort depending on who you exchange links with. As a rule if a website has more links than you it will be worth a exchange. If not it will not be worth your time.

Now days search engines are getting more advanced and it is important to have one way links. Those are links from a website that you do not link to, therefore making it not a link exchange. That adds a lot of extra weight to the links ultimately boosting search engine rankings. In short you want one way links because they are the most valuable links. This method will help you accomplish just that and do it in a timely process.

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How Flipping Websites can be a Lucrative Business

If you visit sites like Sitepoint.com or Digitalpoint.com, you will notice websites being bought or sold for a lot of money. Sometimes, sites are sold for a few hundred dollars and other times they are sold for a few thousands. The business of selling websites/blogs have known to be very lucrative for a long time.

What makes certain websites to be sold for a lower amount and others for a higher amount. This is what I want to focus on today's article. I hope this brief writing will serve as a reference guide, if ever you plan to get into this business.

There are certain factors that buyers look for when buying a website. Some of them are:

Domain name - If the domain name contains an important keyword or two, then it is more valuable in the eyes of the investor, as it can be easily remembered by the visitors and attract more returned visitors.

Content - I have seen sites that have had duplicate content that have been sold for couple of hundred dollars. These sites basically had a 1000 plus articles in them and were attracting some visitors from Google and other search engines. At the same time, I have seen sites with just 50-100 original articles that were driving tons of targeted keyword traffic from the same search engines. One such site got sold for about $9,000. The differences were the original content and the level of respect the latter site had achieved in Google database.

Traffic - These days you can start a site and get traffic from day 1 through media sites like Digg and Stumbleupon. Stumbleupon especially can get you 50-100 visitors per day easily. The point to note is, that social medial traffic has next to zero conversion. If you are looking for good opt-ins, trying to sell an affiliate product, or expecting few clicks on your AdSense ad, then social medial traffic isn't for you. They are simply blind to these elements. On the other hand, if your website get a steady stream of traffic from search engines, then the conversion percentage is higher. This add tremendous value to your site. There are many sites on the Internet that thrive on search engine traffic, they make over $20,000 in passive (almost) income every month.

There sure are other factors when evaluating a website for investment, such as RSS subscribers if any, bounce rate, average time of engagement, etc. Not everyone looks at these factors as much as they do the above 3 points I mentioned.

The next time you plan to develop a website for flipping (selling), pay attention to the 3 factors I explained above. They could make or break the deal.

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Quickly Increase Your Website’s Inbound Links By Spying On Your Competition

If you are a website owner or if you have a blog you know that getting inbound links can be a tedious process. Even more tedious is that you have to find relevant links. Most webmaster’s obtain their links from link exchanges, getting accepted into online directories, distributing articles to article directories, and submitting links to social bookmarking websites.

Those are all great ways of getting in pointing links to your website or blog. However, it is not an efficient process and can be quite time consuming. It takes a lot of time to find relevant websites to submit your articles to, directories to submit your site or blog to, and contact webmasters to see if they are interested in exchanging links. Social bookmarking is the only real method that does not take a whole lot of time.

Enough about that, the rest of the post is about how you can build links faster and more efficiently.

First identify exactly what your website is about. This should not be a problem if you built your site/blog around a niche. Then go to the four major search engines. They are Google, Yahoo, Live, and Ask which account for over 95% of all online searches. Type in your website’s primary keyword or the keyword of your homepage. Write down the four websites that rank number one in each major search engines results page. You will end up with exactly four websites, one for each search engine unless a website ranks at the top of more than one major search engine.

Then find out where they got their links from. That will explain a lot about why they are at the top. In almost all cases the websites at the top of search result pages have tons of relevant links. That is the only way to rank high for competitive keywords. To find where their links came from you can use a host of free tools that are available online. Do not pay for this information. You can get it for free.

I use a free tool called Search It. It is provided by SiteSell.com which is a popular online company that specializes in the website building niche. The tool was originally created only for customers of the company. Recently it has been used by the company as a marketing tool, a tool to build credibility for Sitesell and eventually lead to more sales. That is why it is now free.

You can use Search It for a number of things. One of the things you can use it for is to find the back links of your competition. That is what I primarily use it for and it has saved me tons of time. Instead of having to search for inbound link opportunities I can get a huge list of them in a minute. A search of a website’s back links is more like a link opportunity search than just wanting to know where they got their links from. Rather than having to perform tons of searches for relevant inbound links opportunities you will have a list of 10,000 or more and can zoom through the process.

Other than links from random websites who just happen to like that site, all other links will be prime link opportunities. Also, since you are researching the links of the top websites in your niche chances are those links will be highly relevant. Highly relevant links are given more weight and are worth more to the search engines. The higher the page rank and relevancy of the link are what determine how much a particular link is worth when ranking pages for search results.

When doing this you will still be obtaining most of your links through article distribution, online website directories, and social bookmarking. Instead of having to go out and look for them they come to you in less than a second. The only thing you will have to find on your own manually is webmaster’s that will agree to exchange links. As for link exchanges they may not worth the time and effort depending on who you exchange links with. As a rule if a website has more links than you it will be worth a exchange. If not it will not be worth your time.

Now days search engines are getting more advanced and it is important to have one way links. Those are links from a website that you do not link to, therefore making it not a link exchange. That adds a lot of extra weight to the links ultimately boosting search engine rankings. In short you want one way links because they are the most valuable links. This method will help you accomplish just that and do it in a timely process.

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How To Drive Traffic to a Newly Launched Website

After spending a great deal of time building your money making website, you finally can launch your website to the Internet. Now you will need to drive traffic to your website. Your website will generate nice income for you only if you can drive consistent volumes of traffic to your site.

As a new web marketer, getting traffic will be one of your challenges. Here, I will provide you a few tips that will help you build traffic for your new website.

Avoid Duplicate Content
Write unique content for your website. Don’t simply take those articles from article banks and re-publish them on your website. As your website is new, you want the search engines to crawl your site and subsequently get your website indexed by the search engines so that you get the chance to enjoy free search engine traffic later. A new website that contains a large portion of duplicate content could have a hard time getting indexed by the search engines.

Social Bookmarking
Bookmark your articles in large social bookmarking websites such as Digg, del.icio.us, simply and so on. This could generate some free traffic to you. If you want to get more traffic through social bookmarketing, you got to write more unique articles and book mark them.

Comment on Blogs
Post comments on the blogs related to your website. Find 5 to 10 related blogs which have gained massive amount of traffic, take the time to read the posts of these blogs and post your comments on them. You could possible get 10 to 20 daily visitors from these blogs from your comment posting effort.

Make Use of Article Marketing
Start creating 400 – 500 words articles that provide some useful info and then submit them to article banks and directories. The two main benefits you’ll get from article marketing are free targeted traffic and free relevant backlinks.

Build Backlinks for Google Traffic
Once you have used social bookmarking, blog comment posting and article marketing, your website will soon get into the index of search engines. These method should have increased your backlinks and by the time your website indexed by search engines, you might find that one or two of your webpages show up on first page in Google for long tail keywords.

These long tail keywords will send you very limited traffic, may be only 1 to 2 visitors daily, but you will be excited to see some of your web pages rank first page on Google. If you want more Google traffic, you got to work more on increasing your backlinks. To get the most backlinks for your site, you'll first need to learn all the possible ways of increase relevant backlinks for your website, then put hard effort on link building.

Conclusion
There are of course many other methods of getting traffic, but at the beginning, you might want to use the above mentioned methods as they wouldn’t cost you money to use. To get consistent traffic, you need to keep on repeating the process. i.e. If you prefer article marketing, you will write new articles for publication on article banks again and again. So, repeating the process will make sure traffic keep coming to your site.

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Drive Traffic to Your Website on a Low Budget

When people have their money making website ready and launched on the Internet, they need to drive traffic to their website in order to generate income. But, in most cases, people find that it is too expensive to use the powerful website promotion and advertising methods like PPC advertising, banner advertising and paid blog review.

You actually have numerous choices when it comes to marketing a website for generating traffic. This article will provide you some of the low cost ways you can use to generate traffic for your website.

Give Away Free Content
Create a free report or e-book. Write a compelling title for your report or e-book and also you should provide some quality info and content in your report or e-book. Then distribute it on the Internet. You can post the link to download your report on the related forums, publish a free press release on several free news sites to let people know about your free report, post it on social bookmarketing sites, use article marketing and etc. All these Internet marketing efforts will drive visitors to your website and download your report. Those who have read your report and found that it is interesting and useful will share with their friends and their visitors if they own a website or blog.

Create a Blog
New and fresh content can easily attract traffic, so you may consider Blogging. Set up a blog with the purpose of building traffic for your website. You can begin by posting content that will entertain your blog readers. Any info that will entertain and draw the interest of your targeted readers should be posted on your blog. Do these often will help you build a reader based for your blog. To send your readers to visit your website, you may include your website link on the sidebar of your blog. Occasionally, blog about your website, tell them your website have good info or good offers they don’t want to miss and more of your readers will start visiting your website.

Article Marketing
Publishing articles on article directories is really a good choice for driving long term free traffic to your website. Write at least one article every day and submit it for publication on articledashboard.com, goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com and isnare.com could possibly build a consistent stream of free targeted traffic for your website. The key to effective article marketing is to write articles that are interesting but don't tell the whole story. Make the readers feel or know that, if they want more info, they will need to check out your website by clicking your website link in your author bio.

Become a Guess Blogger
There are a lot of blogs looking for guess blogger. Just take some time to visit blogs that are related to your website, and you may find that a number of guess blogging opportunities. The bloggers usually request unique and useful posts; and give one to two live links back to the writer’s website. If you publish your posts on these blogs, your posts will be displayed on the top and read by many of their readers.

Set up Your Own Forum
Start a forum on your website. Encourage your visitors to join your forum and participate in discussions. This proved to be a way to increase returned visitors. Or if you offering a product or service, a forum can set up to help your potential and existing customers. With a forum, you will be able to help your customers effectively and also build up a good image. People will keep on come back not just searching for help; they will also browse on other topics in your forum and start their discussion.

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Practical Tips for Creating AdSense Websites to Make Money Online

Google Adsense is still one of the most reliable and efficient pay-per-click advertising programs for web publishers to make money on the web. This is because Google has continuously created new features for AdSense and changed the AdSense program policies to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the program.

The web publishers will be able to display content-targeted AdSense ads consistently on their websites and earn a steady income from the ads. The good thing about AdSense is that almost all the technical work is done by Google; the webmasters only need to plan and optimize carefully in order to make their sites compatible with the Google AdSense contextual ads.

Below are some of the tips for building a niche site to effectively make money with Google AdSense ads:

Focus on Publishing Quality Content
Plain content wouldn’t do any good for your niche Adsense site. You need to provide quality and unique content. The kind that your visitors are looking for.

The content will help your readers or entertain your readers and attract other site owners to link to you. The key factors to quality content are relevancy and value.

Setting up a niche website with some content only isn’t enough. Your site has to publish good and helpful content consistently. So, it is necessary to polish up your writing skill and do research on other articles to get good content ideas. This way you will be able to write and post useful content on an on going basis.

Structure Your Website Well
Besides quality content, the way your construct your website is also important. Both your website navigation menu and internal linking structure need to be designed properly. The site’s navigation menu or links should be easy to use so that your visitors can reach the content they want to read quickly and reliably. If your site have sub-topics, you should provide a list of links to all your sub-topics so that the visitors can easily find the information they want.

A well-structured AdSense website can ensure your visitors enjoy a good experience on the site and therefore they will want to stay longer on your site or bookmark it to come back next time.

Comply with Google Adsense Policies
Google keeps on making changes to their AdSense program policies in order to provide the best value to their advertisers. So, there is a need to re-read their program policies in every 1 or 2 months to make sure your site isn’t against any new rule. You may visit AdSense office blog to get the latest update on AdSense program development and policy change.

If you don't meet certain rules, your AdSense account may be suspended by Google and if that happens, all your hard work will be wasted.

Optimize Your Website for AdSense Ads
Seriously, if you don’t know how to effectively optimize your website, you wouldn’t earn much AdSense revenue even your site get massive amount of traffic. You will need to find the good locations of your website for placing AdSense ads. Placing your AdSense ads on the right locations will increase your AdSense Ads click-through rate (CTR) and improve your AdSense earning.

Google’s AdSense Help Center has explained a lot about AdSense optimization, ad placement and implementation. So, it is probably the best place for you to start learning how to maximize your AdSense earning.

Drive in Targeted Traffic
Quality content plus well website optimization and plus massive amount of targeted traffic will equal to AdSense success. Thus, you will need to drive as many targeted visitors as possible to your website in order to make the most out of AdSense. Your targeted visitors will read your quality content then part of them will click on your relevant AdSense ads and you will earn AdSense revenue.

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Setting Up a Money Making Membership Website

How to Make Money Online with Membership Site?

Idea #1: Charge a Subscription Fee
This will be the main and steady source of income to those who choose to run a paid membership website.

Charging a subscription on a monthly basis is a great idea, but you must be able to maintain your membership site well in order to encourage your members to renew their memberships.

Since membership renewals will be your first concern, you will need to keep on adding valuable content for your members to meet their expectation. Renewals will keep a site alive and generate ongoing income for the owner.

Idea #2: Sell Advertising Space
Whether your membership site is paid or free, you can sell advertising space on your site to companies or sellers that sell products relevant to the topic of your website. You may contact these companies directly to offer you ad space or through an advertising network.

Idea #3: Sell Your Own Product
Some people build a membership site specifically to sell their products or services. You too can use this method. The products you are offering to your members have to be related to the subject of your membership site. For example, if you site topic is about guitar, then you may offer products like guitar lesson, guitar equipments, etc.

Idea #4: Sell Affiliate Product
The idea is to insert your affiliate links and banner ads into your membership site so that every member can see them and click on them. Any sale results from your affiliate ID will earn you an affiliate commission. Like idea #3, the affiliate products you are promoting must be related to the theme of your site.

Promote Your Membership Site to Get Members
Like any other types of websites, you need to drive targeted visitors or traffic to your membership site. The number of members you can get and the amount of money you can make will depend on the amount of traffic you are getting. The more traffic you get the better the result.

There are plenty of Internet marketing techniques you can use to promote your site and generate traffic. Here a short list of them:

• Pay per click (PPC) advertising
• Article marketing
• Blog and forum marketing
• Press release
• Viral marketing
• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Social bookmarking and networking
• Buy text link
• Banner advertising
• Ezine advertising
  

Free lessons on the above online marketing techniques are every where on the Internet. Just do some searches on Google or visit Internet marketing forums and you will find free tutorials, guide, courses and content about these topics.

Apply what you learn to market and promote your website. Work hard to use some of these techniques to generate traffic. Take time to test and experiment these techniques to see which one are effective and which one are not helpful. Choose those effective techniques and use them repeatedly to generate consistent traffic to build your membership site.

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Tips for Creating a Website to Make Money Online

There are several choices in creating a website to earn money online, you can either choose to design a website from scratch yourself or use a professional ready-made web template to build a website for your online business. Whatever your choice is, there are several things to think about and ask yourself from the start:

1. Do you need a shopping cart or an e-commerce solution on your website?

2. Do you want to reserve some space to display articles?

3. Would you like to make money with advertising programs (such as Google AdSense, Kontera Ad Link and, etc)? If yes, you'll need to plan for on-site advertising space in the website design.

4. Do your website design need to be interactive for site visitors?

5. Are you going to use a content management system (CMS) to run your website?

6. Is there a need to add audio or video player on your website?

Once you have answered these questions, it is time to start designing a website for your online business. You have a few general options to consider when deciding how to design a website:

1. Pay a web design company or professional Web designer to design and create a custom website according to your requests and needs.

2. Design a website yourself if you already possess web design skills and experience or you can take a course to learn about web design and HTML code.

3. Search for a ready-made professional web template from free website template sites, or buy one from a web template provider. Then use the template to start building your site. You may customize the template to fit your needs.

Using a web template is probably the best option if you don’t need a custom web design, and don’t want to design a website from scratch yourself. The good things about using template are it saves you a lot of work in the website building process and you don't need to spend a hard time thinking about the background and layout for your website since web templates have all the design made ready. Below are some of sites that provide ready-made website templates where you can use to build a money making website:

1. Freewebtemplates.com – The website has a collection of 3937 Free Templates created by designers from around the globe available for download. They also provide free web graphics and links to professional website template.

2. Templates5.com – A lot of pre-made web templates created to fits the needs for different online business in Templates5.com. Most of the templates are well designed and in good quality. Each template in Templates5.com costs $50 to $90.

3. Aplustemplates.com – This is one of those subscription based template sites. For a yearly fee of $49.99, you can access to Aplustemplates.com's library to download different types of website templates. New templates are added weekly, so you have the chance to use fresh new template for your website.

Whatever your decision is in designing a website for your online business, make sure that the website design serves the needs of both your online business and its target visitors.

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6 Website Mistakes You must Avoid when Making Money Online

Have you ever heard from website owners that their websites getting thousands of visitors every day but making only a few buck daily? Something must be no right to their websites. They must have made some sort of website mistakes or they will not make that little with the massive number of visitors they get daily. I'm sure you don't want to become one of them that have spent a hard time on generating traffic but only earning little from the large amount of traffic they generated.

To make you money making website work, you must properly optimize your site and avoid making mistakes in your website. Speaking about website mistakes, below are some of mistakes you must avoid:

1) Too many outdated content - You should remove information and content that already outdated or no longer useful to your site visitors. And update your website when you have found latest information that your visitors like to read and know. Both, the search engines and visitors like fresh content. So you should consider publishing new quality articles on an ongoing basis. Publishing fresh and quality articles not only will help in keeping your traffic growing but also will increase your pay-per-click (PPC) advertising revenue as PPC ads work best with quality content.

2) JavaScript pop ups- A JavaScript pop up is a notification window that automatically opens when you visit a website that states and message ; and has an “ok” button at the end. This was very popular during the website boom, but quickly become a no-no because JavaScript pop up is annoying to many visitors and it has been over used by webmasters. Usually these pop ups aren't seen as important by the visitors. In most cases these pop ups do nothing but disturbing visitors thus easily annoying them. However, if you have a message that need to display to your visitors before they can go further on your website, then a JavaScript pop up may still be a good idea, but I strongly caution you to not overuse it, if you use it at all.

3) Too many graphics and pictures - Adding too many graphics and photos to your site can lower your website loading speed. Visitors don't like to wait too long to get into a site, many of them will choose to leave your site and look for another. Also a percentage of web visitors are still in dial-up connection, which means they will have trouble downloading websites that have large number of graphics. Unless your website is in flash, I would try to avoid using any type of animated graphic, since they typically have large file sizes.

4) Using heavy, high contracting colors- High contracting colors would grab the visitors attention but they can also hurt the users eyes, making them uncomfortable and swaying them away from the website. So you need to limit the use of high contracting colors. Areas that you shouldn't use these colors are your website background, the text areas and the navigation sidebar. For title and headline, using high contracting colors is a good idea to get your visitors attention.

5) Clutter up pages - If your website seems be cluttered visitors will be less likely to view further into your website, especially if they think they will have to weed out the information they need from the information that is useless to them. You do not want to have too much information and content in each page, and you don't want more then one topic on each. A good navigation system will eliminate any problem you have.

6) Too many ads appear on your site - Users usually visit website for information and not ads, so a website that has more ads than content will definitely drive people away. Visitors do not want to have to weed though the ads to find the content that they are looking for. You need to maintain a balance between ads and content that show on on your site. The irony of the situation is: A visitor is more likely to click on an advertisement link if they do not feel that they are being bombarded by them. This is defiantly a situation where the saying “less is more” is true.

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Ways To Improve Sales Revenue Through Your Website

Anyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of a business is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. However, here are some ways that you can tweak your sites with to improve sales without the need to get more visitors.

The first method is to weave in your personal touch in your sales message. Nobody wants to be sold to by a total stranger, but many people will buy what their close friends recommend to them. If you can convince your audience that you are a personal friend who has their best interest at heart, they will be convinced to buy your products. Remember to speak to an individual in your sales letter, not to your whole audience.

The second method is to publish testimonials and comments from your customers. A good idea would be to publish both good and bad comments; that way prospects will be really convinced that these testimonials are real. When prospects see testimonials on your website, they will have the confidence to buy from you because human beings follow the herd mentality; when others have bought and proven it authentic, they will jump on the bandwagon and buy too.

Use visual representations for the problems and solutions that your product offers. Not everyone will read your text copy from the head to the tail, but most people will pay attention to images on your website.

Offer quality bonuses to accompany the product. When you offer bonuses that complement your product, your prospects will feel it's a very good deal and it would be stupid to miss it. Be sure to state the monetary value of your bonuses so that people will be even more compelled to grab your good bargain.

Lastly, ask for the sale! Many people entice their prospects with the benefits of their product, sell to them with stories of how it has solved many problems, even offered killer bonuses but forget to ask for the sale. Give a clear instruction on how to buy your product (e.g. "click the button to buy now!").

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Upcoming Website Optimizer Online Seminars from Google

Google is inviting people to join their Website optimizer product manager, Tom Leung, for two online seminars. This two online seminars are opened to everyone and registration is free.

The first online seminar will introduce you the latest tool of Google AdWords called Website Optimizer where you can use to maximize your conversion rate and online revenue. Tom will discuss the importance and benefits of optimizing your website design and content.

And the second seminar will focus on teaching you how to use Website Optimizer to test and experiment your web pages to find out which of your pages works well and which one not working.

Register to attend both seminars

Google's Website Optimizer experts will be available to answer your questions during both seminars. So if you make money online using Google AdWords, you difinitely don't want to miss this 2 seminars.

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Boost Your Website or Blog Revenue with Online Videos

Are you using a website or blog to earn money on the net? If you are, you will be spending most of your time and effort on promoting you website or blog to get as much traffic or visitors as possible in order to generate online sales and advertisement revenue. Whenever there is a new traffic generating techniques, you will want to learn about it to find out whether it can increase your web traffic.

Speaking of new traffic technique, online video marketing is one of the newest techniques you can apply to explode your web traffic. Online video marketing is where you upload promotional videos to online video sharing sites to send the visitors who watch your videos in the videos sites to your blog and website.

Online video sharing sites are growing rapidly and very popular that their growth and popularity may be able to help you make your site or blog a success. Some of the most visited video sharing sites that host a huge collection of different videos are Youtube, Metacafe and Google Video. Many of these videos are considered homemade as they are made by people just like you.

When marketing your blog and website using online video sharing sites, there is one important thing that you need to know. Most internet users don't enjoy watching videos that appear as spam. So you need to try you best to make your promotional videos not to be too pushy.

Increase product sales with videos
If you are promoting or selling a product or service through a website or blog, you may think about showcasing that product or service. This can be done by showing samples of your work. Another idea is to tell people how long you have been creating the product or offering the services that you currently offer. This is to keep your video as general as possible and avoid your video viewers think that the goal of your video is only to sell your product. The only opportunity to promote your business is at the end of your video. Make sure you include your business, product or service information at the end of all your videos.

Increase advertisement and affiliate revenue with video
Video sharing sites aren't just benefiting to those who sell products and services on the Internet. For websites and blogs that make money with online advertisements (Google AdSense, YPN, etc) or affiliate programs, it is likely that the websites and blogs are content driven. Often these sites and blogs focus on a particular topic with a collection of articles related to their topics. So, if you have a content based site or blog, it may be a good idea to make a video providing information and even interactive displays on the topic that your site or blog covers, whether that topic is traveling related, weight loss, or something similar. At the end of your video, adding your blog and website address will help to gain more web visitors and increase your AdSense earning or affiliate commission.

These are just some of video marketing ideas, I'm sure that are a lot more ideas you can explore from the Internet and use them to explode your traffic.

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4 Web Design Tips for Increasing Your Website's Money Making Potential

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are four important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Have a simple and clear navigation
You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

3) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

4) Avoid using music on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some music looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

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8 Tips to Make Your Website Profitable

1. Your website's template and design should relevant to your site’ title and content. You wouldn't want to use a dog graphic header on an e-commerce website that sells cell phones.

2. Whenever you have added new articles and content to your site let your visitors know immediately. You can do this by alerting your visitors using email. This will increase the numbers of people revisiting your web site.

3. Let your visitors know about your email address or even telephone number on your website. This offers a way to visitors to contact you to ask for more information and assistant which will enable you to build good relationship with your visitors. And those who are in the same niches may contact you requesting for potential joint venture for making more money online.

4. Provide an option to your visitors to view your website offline. You can offer it by autoresponder or printer friendly version.

5. Make sure your web content is original and targeted to your audience to avoid being seen as spamming by search engines. Search engines are good sources of high quality targeted traffic to your website in long term. So you don’t want to be blacklisted by them. You don’t need to make your content 100% original, 60% original or higher is safe enough.

6. Give your visitors a good reason to come back to your site. You may try to give incentives to encourage them revisiting your site like providing free games, adding entertaining videos frequently, allowing free downloads such as ebooks and software that are useful to your visitors.

7. Customize you website in logical and profitable sequence. You don't want people to see your freebies before they learn about what products you are offering. Identify what actions you want people to take when they are visiting your website that will make you profitable and then organize your site accordingly to entice people to take that action. If you main purpose is to earn money with cost-per-click ads programs such as AdSense, YPN, etc; you’ll want your visitors to click on your CPC ads to earn money. So you’ll need to place your CPC ads in the areas that will be easily seen by people when they first landed on your home page.

8. If you’re selling products or services or offering something free to use on your website. Don’t forget to add a FAQs section on your website that will answer your visitors and users questions immediately. This will simply make your visitors more happier visiting your site or using your free service as they are getting immediate assistance reading your FAQs.

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8 Low Cost Methods to Promote Your Website and Blog Offline

1. Have a bumper sticker printed up with your web site address and other business information. Place it on the bumper of your car. People will see it when you're driving.

2. Have some t-shirts made with your web site address and other business information. Your family or friends could wear them almost anywhere.

3. Have some ball caps made with your web site address and other business information. Wear them to keep the sun out of your eyes and promote your business at the same time.

4. Have some business cards printed up with your web site address and other business information. Pass them out to people you meet or that might be
interested in your business.

5. Have a magnetic sign made with your web site address and other business information. Place it on your car door or roof when you are traveling.

6. Have some flyers printed out with your web site address and other business information. Keep a few with you to hang on bulletin boards you see.

7. Have some jackets printed with your web site address and other business information. Give
them away to family and friends. When it's too cold for t-shirts, you can wear jackets.

8. Have some mugs imprinted with your web site address and other business information. Use them when you have company or give them away to friends and family as gifts.

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Make Money from a Website Starts from Good Planning of Website Design

For anything to work well, care must be taken to make firm, workable plans to execute it and the same goes for website designs. With a well thought out website design, you will be able to create a site that generates multiple streams of revenue for you. In fact, may websites turn into online wasteland because they are not well planned and do not get much visitors. Gradually, the webmaster will not be motivated to update it anymore and it turns into wasted cyberspace.

The crucial point of planning your site is optimizing it for revenue if you want to gain any income from the site. Divide your site into major blocks, ordered by themes, and start building new pages and subsections in those blocks. For example, you might have a "food" section, an "accomodation" section and an "entertainment" section for a tourism site. You can then write and publish relevant articles in the respective sections to attract a stream of traffic that comes looking for further information.

When you have a broader, better-defined scope of themes for your website, you can sell space on your pages to people interested in advertising on your page. You can also earn from programs like Google's Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing if people surf to those themed pages and click on the ads. For this very reason, the advertisement blocks on your pages need to be relevant to the content, so a themed page fits that criteria perfectly.

As Internet becomes more widespread, advertising on the Internet will bear more results than on magazines or offline media. Hence, start tapping in on this lucrative stream of profit right away!

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Another Get Paid for Blogging Website

Smorty.com is the latest get paid to blog company I've seen. They provide blog advertising service to advertisers as similar to Payperpost.com and give bloggers an opportunity to earn money by blogging about the products, services and websites of the advertisers.

The Main Requirements to be an Approved Blogger of Smorty

• Your blog must have been indexed by Google and Yahoo
• Your Blog must have been stayed online for more than 3 months
• The content of your blog must be family-friendly
• Your blog must be active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week

How Much You can Earn and How to Get Paid
You can earn a minimum of $6 per approved sponsor post. Smorty uses a unique ranking system to calculate the amount you can charge for each sponsor post. Their system will combine the following factors in the calculation:

1. Googles PageRank
2. Alexa Rankings
3. Return rate of given tasks
4. Approval/Decline ratio of completed tasks and
5. Number of completed tasks

And Smorty pays on a weekly basis through Paypal to bloggers.

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