Are you trying to make money using the internet and don't know exactly what to do to make that elusive cash? Well, maybe I can help. I know personally of three proven techniques (that worked for me) that can help you to boost you income with a blog or website. Two of these methods you don't even need a web presence, just access to the net, email, forums, chat rooms will do just fine. Below is my top picks in the internet monetizing strategies I use, which are affiliate programs, online content, and rss feeds. I hope this article is helpful, send me an email to let me know how it turned out.
AFFILIATE PROGRAMS
This is a method of promoting web businesses in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. Compensation or commission may be made based on a certain value for each exposure (CPM), visit (Pay per click), registrant or new customer (Pay per lead), sale (usually a percentage, Pay per sale or revenue share), or any combination of them.
Merchants like affiliate marketing because it is a "pay for performance model", meaning the merchant does not incur a marketing expense unless results are realized. Classic affiliate marketing is based on relationship between advertiser and affiliate and it's maintenance is resource intensive because of that.
Unlike display advertising affiliate marketing is not easy scalable, which is one of it's weaknesses. The borders between affiliate marketing and other advertising and marketing methods, like display advertising and pay per click, became more and more blurry over the years, which can make it difficult to distinguish between an Ad publisher and an affiliate working on a performance basis.
Some e-commerce sites run their own affiliate programs while other e-commerce vendors use third party services provided by intermediaries to track traffic or sales that are referred from affiliates. Some businesses owe much of their growth and success to this marketing technique, especially small and mid size businesses.
Merchants who are considering adding an affiliate strategy to their online sales channel have different technological solutions available to them. Some types of affiliate management solutions include: standalone software, hosted services, shopping carts with affiliate features, and third party affiliate networks.
Revenue generated online grew quickly. The e-commerce website, viewed as a marketing toy in the early days of the web, became an integrated part of the overall business plan and in some cases grew to a bigger business than the existing offline business. Many companies hired outside affiliate management companies to manage the affiliate program (see outsourced program management.)
According to one report, total sales generated through affiliate networks in 2006 was £2.16 billion in the UK alone. The estimates were £1.35 billion in sales in 2005. [1] MarketingSherpa's research team roughly estimates affiliates worldwide will earn $6.5 billion in bounty and commissions in 2006. This includes retail, personal finance, gaming and gambling, travel, telecom, 'Net marketing' education offers, subscription sites, and other lead generation, but it does not include contextual ad networks such as Google AdSense. [2]
Currently the most active sectors for affiliate marketing are the adult, gambling and retail sectors. The three sectors expected to experience the greatest growth in affiliate marketing are the mobile phone, finance and travel sectors. A lot of different offers from various Advertisers are available to pick from. Hot on the heels of these are the entertainment (particularly gaming) and internet-related services (particularly broadband) sectors. Also several of the affiliate solution providers expect to see increased interest from B2B marketers and advertisers in using affiliate marketing as part of their mix. Of course, this is constantly subject to change. Contents
Here are my two top affiliate programs and the features they have.
Ultimate Wealth Package
Features Create Multiple Streams of Residual Income Earn a full time income from home working on your computer Step by step guide to making thousands of dollars weekly on the Internet Become Debt Free Internet secrets and strategies that can make you hundreds of thousands of dollars Be able to Quit Your Job Get your own money making web site Purchase that new home or car you want Free Updates for Life, Unlimited 24/7 Live Support. 1 on 1 coaching available Work at home part time, and earn a full time income Exclusive Bonus Items
PaidSurveysOnline.com
Features Online Companies will pay YOU from $5 to $125 for Each Survey! Get paid to participate in online focus groups $50 to $150 per hour! Get paid to try new products - keep the products and get paid too! Get paid to preview movie trailers $4 to $25 per hour! Get paid $5 to $95 per hour to take surveys offline! Get paid to travel! Earn $100's each month just for traveling! You get paid to drive your car $1000 to $3000 per month!
ONLINE CONTENT
Writing online content is a way for you to get tremendous traffic to you site and also interest readers in the article topic as well as possibly getting interested in the links (viral articles) you have embedded in the article. My suggestion for writing basic content articles is this:
In the intro: Tell them what you are going to tell them in the article.
In the body: Tell them!
In the summary: Tell them what you told them!
BIO Box: Very Important...give them a sentence of two about you...and then lead into your promotion...this is most commonly done like this:
"Did you find those tips on XXXX useful? You can learn a lot more about how XXXX can help you XXXX here."
Also if the site you are promoting is giving away a free course...or free tour...make sure you mention that in your BIO.
Here are my two top online content programs and the features they have.
Instant Article Submitter
Features Helps improve your search rankings (because of hundreds of quality backlinks that quickly add-up over time), Gets your pages into the search engines quick (because of search engine spiders pouring into your sites), Establishes you as the expert (and makes you "famous" in your market), And sends you FREE targeted traffic from website owners and e-zine publishers who pick up your articles.
Article Equalizer
Features Highly increase the overall value of your website... FAST Quickly and easily locate relevant subject-related content Build the kind of content-rich niche sites that search engines love Build the kind of content-rich niche sites that pull visitors like crazy Make your site "sticky" so visitors will keep coming back Tap into a continuous supply of quality targeted content Automatically insert content into pre-designed site templates Locate and gather content for the most popular and in-demand topics Optimize your site with the type of high quality content search engines demand Add content pages to your website even without HTML knowledge or expertise Keep your site "fresh" by adding new and unique content on a regular and ongoing basis
RSS FEEDS
Rss Feeds are another way to make money. RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. They are used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content. This information is delivered as an XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. Rss feeds can bring you money in two ways. One by bringing you traffic from your own site feed and two, by hosting feeds on your site (sort of like a refferral or affiliate program), that pay you.
Here are my two top rss feed programs and the features they have.
RSS Content Builder
Features Maximum search engine rank and listing Proper keyword density and optimization Webmaster credibility and trust Loyal and repeat website visitors One Time Installation! Build RSS feeds for all of your websites effortlessly from one easy to use control panel. Randomize the number of results for each feed on all of your webpages. Specify 2 different results values and the program will choose a random number of results each time! Open RSS links in a new pop up window. Also completely customize the look and behavior of your feed without HTML or CSS! Add as many RSS feeds as you want to one single page. Works with All RSS formats 0.9x, 1.x, 2.x and Atom Conserve Your Page Rank, add rel="nofollow" to your RSS links Get RSS Feeds in both PHP and Javascript format for your Webpages. Your Pages Will Write Their Own Content! RSS Feeds Provide Highly Relevant and Informative Content For Your Visitors. Keep The Search Engines Coming Back Often! RSS Feeds Get Your Pages Indexed More Often!
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Features Content incorporated into other sites Content indexed by search engines Content accessible by desktop readers Content accessible via online aggregators
If you are going to be doing a lot of work on the internet you are probaly going to need a way to easily handle all the different types of payments you will receive. My favorite solution to this minor dilemma is to use a third party vendor such as paypal. What!, you don't have a paypal account? I recommend that you get one right away, it will make doing business a whole lot easier. Get PayPal Now!!
Andrew Witherspoon is a freelance writer and also a staff writer for Literafeelya Magazine, Literal energy by way of ink. He is also an internet entrepreneur.
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About the Author
Andrew Witherspoon is a freelance writer and also a staff writer for Literafeelya Magazine, Literal energy by way of ink. He is also an internet entrepreneur.
