I personally am having some good success using WordPress and Google AdSense together on some projects and will give you a few reasons as to why I believe this is so. Firstly, WordPress blogs are very search engine friendly. Once you get the hang of the framework and how to edit and add various things within your admin panel there are plug-ins available online that can make your blog or site even more search engine friendly and a great chance of achieving decent rankings in the search engines. Getting good rankings in the search engines is important as most of your traffic will usually come from people using these engines to search on various topics.

Another reason WordPress is handy to use is that through the use of plug-ins or by editing the code you can have ads appearing on your pages and posts automatically without having to enter the ad code individually each time. With a normal HTML website this is more difficult and usually you need to add the code to display Google AdSense on each and every page within a website. This can become really time consuming as your site grows and painful if you want to experiment with different formats, colours or even change everything further down the line because you will need to edit each and every page. Not the case when you are using a cool WorPress plug-in or have added your AdSense code to certain PHP files within WP.

Once you have a blog or website set-up properly using WP then it becomes relatively easy to experiment with different ad positions on your site. Changing from displaying Google ads in the sidebar to within posts, in the header, below posts or in the footer of a blog and experimenting with different formats and colours can be done and changed within minutes. This all allows you to experiment over time so that you can optimise your earnings online and know exactly what formats and ad positioning is working the best for your site. Of course, and as I always stress, this is not a get rich quick scheme but when studied and implemented correctly after much experimentation it is possible to make a decent income online using the WordPress framework and the Google AdSense program together with each other.

WordPress and Google AdSense make good Bedfellows is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. A Google Adsense Tip To Increase Your Earnings
2. Make Money With The Google Adsense Programme
3. Make Money With Google Adsense

What’s exciting about this new record is that it proves that you can make money online in South Africa with the google AdSense program and get paid in dollars. Interestingly, most of my revenue comes from SA visitors to SA targetted websites. I should point out as well that not all my earnings come through this blog, I have other projects running online based on various topics which display ads. One of my main goals for 2009 is to be earning $100 a day with google AdSense on a consistent basis which will translate to a ‘good little earner’ as part of my online business ventures.

I feel that this gives my readers and casual visitors hope that earning an income online is a definite reality. It also (hopefully) quietens a few critics who kindly sent emails expressing how they do not believe that I am making a living on the Internet and should not be writing on the topic. I’m not the only guy in South Africa earning a reasonable amount of money online either, there are many other people making money with the google AdSense program in this country.

Screenshot of my new AdSense record… Stoked…!

Update: Tuesday 07 January 2009

It Happened Again…! Now I’m super stoked, two days in a row my AdSense earnings have been just over the 100 dollar day mark, I’m unusually lost for words..!

Screenshot

Not really into AdSense? Check out some different affiliate programs that are free to join and can help you earn some decent cash online.

New Record – First $100 Day With Google AdSense is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. The Google Adsense Change Will Produce Higher Revenue
2. Google Adsense Stats In Google Analytics Accounts
3. Make Money With Google Adsense

Earnings for publishers that are part of the Adgator affiliate program come in the form of the Cost Per Thousand (CPM) model which means that you will be paid for every advert impression served on your blog. No having to put in loads of effort in optimising adverts and positions or spending hours in trial and error and no having to rely on your visitors going on to buy something before you receive your commission. Basically, the more visitors your blog gets, the more money you will earn online.

Statistics of ad impressions and daily earnings can all be tracked from your blogger account dashboard once you are up and running. The dashboard is well laid out and very clear and simple to understand which I personally feel is great as I love simplicity when it comes to the Internet.

The team are hard at work scouting for some big advertisers to get on board so this exciting new opportunity is destined to grow from strength to strength. There are already one or two opportunities for South Africans to make money on the Internet but nothing as promising as this network looks, they really do have both advertisers and bloggers interests at heart. If you have been looking for ways on how to earn some cash online but have yet to find a solution to impress you then head on over to their official website and apply to sign up for the Adgator affiliate program now.

All Systems Go For Adgator Affiliate Program is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. Adgator Advertising and Affiliate Network
2. Affiliate Program To Make Money Online In South Africa
3. Offerforge – Affiliate Program For South Africa and US

Ok, joking aside, Justin Hartman is the MD and co-founder of Afrigator, ‘Africa’s largest social media aggregator and blog directory’. Afrigator has become a very successful model which was recently acquired by South African MIH Group/Naspers. CNN’s business 2.0 called afrigator one of 31 top companies to watch outside of the United States. So there you have it, Justin Hartman, and his colleagues obviously know what it takes to drive a successful online business and personally I have no doubt that the new Adgator project is going to be a huge success.

Advertisers and media planners are offered the opportunity to sign up and request a free custom proposal and will be given a shot at advertising to an estimated 1,770,000 + unique people every month across South Africa’s blog network. For blog owners looking at a new and great way to make money online in South Africa, the opportunity is available to sign up as a publisher and display those ads within your website. This unique opportunity offers a publisher a 50% share of the revenue..! That is awesome. The earnings are based on the ECPM model (cost per thousand impressions) so those who have massive monthly pageview figures are going to coin it..!

I have to admit, this is quite exciting and I have felt for a long time that SA needed a more professionaly run advertising and affiliate network available to people who are serious about online business. Could this be the one? Check out the Adgator Blog Network.

Adgator Advertising and Affiliate Network is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. Internet Advertising Companies – Are They Honest?
2. Network Online Business Cards With Other Blog Owners
3. Affiliate Marketing Is About Preselling

This may only hit home for the more experienced AdSense publishers but it pays to do a little research and find out which are the higher paying keywords and use these in your articles instead of rushing and knocking out one article after another in the hope that you got the right keywords in or even guessing.

Keyword enriched articles will pull in higher paying adverts on your site and lead to increased earnings because of the higher CPC for the advertisers which in turn gives you the higher EPC as a publisher. I personally have one website (not this one if you’re wondering) running AdSense that frequently gets $3 – $5 clicks because of the time taken to do a little research before writing and adding content.

In fact, I never really grasped the importance of high quality content until my online earnings started overtaking those of friends I know have been running Google AdSense for a few years yet still not broken the $1000 per month mark! Not to sound too big-headed though, if it were not for these fine fellows I would never have stepped on the bus I’m now riding.

If you are truly serious about making money online with Google AdSense and it has taken you more than a year to start earning $1000 a month then you are missing something.

All I’m really trying to share here is that spending a bit more time writing high paying keyword enriched content is going to help you a lot more in the long run than simply knocking out tons of half hearted ‘hope for the best’ stuff.

Not only will this tip help you increase your AdSense earnings over time but there are also SEO benefits to it. We all know how much a search engine like Google will lean over and give us a big ‘quality content’ kiss on the cheek.

Higher Adsense Earnings From Quality Content is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. A Google Adsense Tip To Increase Your Earnings
2. The Google Adsense Change Will Produce Higher Revenue
3. Easy Way To Write 11 Quick and Quality Articles

Anyway, I read many articles written by successful online entrepreneurs on how you need to choose a niche market that you are passionate about when it comes to earning any decent cash on the web. So if you are a cyclist, then you create your own site on cycling and constantly write articles related to that sport. Over time, visitors increase and you can then look at ways of monetising that traffic to earn the most money possible from your cycling website.

But what if your only passion in life is something like catching butterflies?!!

Exactly how much money are you going to make with a website about catching butterflies? Let me answer that…. Very little, probably none.

So although I can understand the thinking behind creating a website only on a topic you are interested in and passionate about it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for people that are into less popular interests and things in life.

My advice if you are serious about a proper Internet income is.. bugger that!
Unless your passion in life is an extremely popular topic on the Internet then don’t write on your passion but on something that is going to earn you some real money online and not waste your precious time. There are many niche topics on the web to research and choose from that will bring in large amounts of visitors and give you many options when it comes to the actual monetising of your website.

Take Insurance for example, highly popular topic and frequently searched in all the major search engines. If you created a website on this and could get a good ranking in the search engines (that’s for other posts) you would be off to a flying start. Of course, most people are not passionate about insurance at all and it would become very difficult to keep writing articles on this for years to come but who says YOU have to?

Once your website is getting traffic and you are earning a small, steady income from it on a program like google AdSense then find someone willing to write good content for you and pay them. From there you are simply building on the foundation that’s been laid. Over time your earnings are going to increase significantly and you can afford to pay a few more people to write for you. Or better still, find more popular niche topics, create new websites around them and build your empire.

Do You Think This Is Twisted? is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. The Very Rough Guide To Making Money Online
2. The Art Of Making Money With A Website
3. Earn British Pounds Online With These Six Steps

So whether you are viewing in 800×600, 1024×768 or whatever else, the site will try to adjust accordingly. Problem with this is that you get very unpredictable results and never really know exactly how your website is looking on other people’s systems. I couldn’t trust that anymore so decided to upgrade my site and chose a money making WordPress theme with a ‘fixed width’ instead which gives me the peace of mind that my site now looks the same for everyone.

I like this new theme, I have modified it a lot as it had a green colour scheme before which I wasn’t keen on and I’m happy with the blue, grey and black. It’s incredible to see just how many WordPress themes are available these days, those of us who use WP are spoilt for choice!!

The other new addition is the ‘Peel Away Ad’ in the top left hand corner of the site. I have heard great things about using this kind of model to help make money through advertising on a website so I thought I would implement it and give it a try. What I really like about this is it sort of grabs the visitors curiosity with the little animated corner gently swaying to attract attention.

When a visitor runs their mouse over the small corner it “peels away” displaying an advert which according to statistics and tests I have been reading offers a very high Click Through Rate (CTR). This is an un-obtrusive method of advertising on a site and much better than annoying pop-ups and other kinds of flash animated advertising models often used.

The potential of making money with this kind of advertising on your website is large in my opinion. You can use the space to advertise various affiliate products and services or offer to rent out the space on a monthly basis to companies that may wish to advertise with you. Personally for the moment I have opted to use it for promoting the excellent affiliate program Affiliate Window. This may change in future but I’m leaving it for now.

Want one for your site? Get Peel Away Ads Here

New WordPress Themes & Peel Away Ads is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. A WordPress Plugin To Help Search Engine Rankings
2. Great WordPress Plugin For Gaining Traffic

Millions of dollars worth of products are being sold across the Internet each month through various affiliate deals yet many of these are not happening through banner advertising. Why? Quite simply, banners don’t work. A much more successful method of using affiliate marketing to make money online is to set up a specific page from which you can presell products and services to your visitors. For instance you could set up a page within your website and call it something like ‘Latest Specials’. This latest specials page would be nothing more than a page full of affiliate deal links but needs to be presented in such a way that readers do not view it as advertising, text links work best for this. You basically want your reader to see it as a place that you are sharing some of the best special deals available at the moment on the Internet.

Setting things up this way leaves your reader thinking that you are helping them and not only are the chances high that they will purchase something but they will probably keep an eye on your ‘Latest Specials’ page for upcoming deals and bargains in the future. Most people won’t even realise you’re getting a cut out of the sale.

This is precisely what preselling is all about, you are subtly affecting a potential clients mind to make them become more receptive to an offer. This just cannot be done with banners. Trust is a big thing as well when it comes to successful preselling, your visitors need to feel they can trust you and your opinion. That way, when you share with them how different products can help them look younger, feel sexier, make them more money, improve their memory etc etc, they will be a lot more receptive to it. I run a number of affiliate based websites and if all I did was place banners on them I am certain that sales and my commission would become less than half of what it currently is.

You need to be aware that the targeted marketing factor comes into play here too. Apart from your presell technique, you should also make sure that the affiliate deals you are offering are matching the topic your website or blog is covering. It is no use having a site about cars with affiliate deals offering your visitors the latest in Dog Shampoos, won’t work. Look for campaigns that are related to the topic and niche that your website is focused on and combined with your preselling strategy you should see your affiliate marketing efforts improve greatly.

Affiliate Marketing Is About Preselling is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. Offerforge – Affiliate Program For South Africa and US
2. Affiliate Program To Make Money Online In South Africa
3. A Targeted Online Marketing Plan Works Best

Click Here to join now

The Offerforge affiliate program works very much like many others available to publishers on the web with the PPC, PPL and PPS models. PPC is short for ‘Pay Per Click’ and basically means you earn a small commission each time someone clicks on an advertisement on your website. PPL stands for ‘Pay Per Lead’ and means you will get a commission for each lead you send to a company through their ads or links. PPS is short for ‘Pay Per Sale’ and this is when you are paid commission for a confirmed sale as a result of someone clicking on a banner or link advertisement from your website or email newsletter marketing.

I have had some experience with all three of the different models and prefer the PPS (Pay Per Sale) model. There is much more potential in my experience to make some big commission by using some carefully targeted online marketing with PPS.

For example, say you have a website purely on insurance. Most of your website visitors will probably have found your site through the search engines and will more than likely be looking for some kind of insurance policy or at least a quote. By placing insurance affiliate banners and links strategically throughout your site you will have a percentage of people clicking on the ads. From those people a percentage should sign up and you earn the commission.

It is important to note that one of the major contributing factors to your success with any kind of online venture is traffic, the more people that are visiting your website, the more cash you are going to pocket so it helps to have a decent ranking in the search engines. Also, many affiliates achieve success through e-mail marketing instead of using a website although you will need to be careful with the Spam issue when it comes to this sort of thing.

If you have been looking for a legitimate way to make money on the Internet or using e-mail instead of falling for the work from home scams that are going around then this could be for you. I have been a member with them for some time now and I can definitely recommend Offerforge as a good affiliate program for people living in South Africa or the United States.

Click Here to join Offerforge now

Offerforge – Affiliate Program For South Africa and US is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. Affiliate Program To Make Money Online In South Africa
2. Make Money in South Africa With Traffic Synergy
3. Let’s Look Closer at Making Money with Affiliate Programs

There are loads of websites, especially blogs, that display affiliate ads here and there that are totally non-related to the content of the site. That’s fine if you are looking to earn a little extra pocket money but it’s a hit and miss approach and will rarely bring in any real earnings. If you are serious about earning an income using the Internet then you have to apply a more targeted approach, it enables you to make more cash with less visitors. On the other hand if you are getting a lot of visitors and your affiliate ads are relevant to the site content, you have a winner.

Having said the above then, if you are looking for ways to earn money online with your website it is a good idea to try and source affiliate programs related to your content. If you are in South Africa as I am, head on over to Traffic Synergy or Offerforge and have a look through the various campaigns available to see if there is anything related to your website. If there is, why not sign up with them and start displaying the ads within your site? You may just be amazed at the results and extra money you can bring in by joining these affiliate programs and applying a little targeted online marketing.

A Targeted Online Marketing Plan Works Best is an original post from: Make Money Online Ideas

ShareThis

You may also be interested in:

1. Maximizing Online Profit With Targeted Visitors
2. Affiliate Program To Make Money Online In South Africa
3. Let’s Look Closer at Making Money with Affiliate Programs