I recently started running few adverting campaigns on facebook and I am very impressed with the conversions. This is contrary to the popular belief that “facebook ads do not convert”.

Facebook advertising is tricky as it does wonders with some niches and absolutely do nothing for the rest.

It would have been nice if we can test run our campaigns without jeopardizing our advertising budget. As I have mentioned in this blog before, you need to burn at least $50 before making any decent judgments on PPC campaigns.

Let’s Cut To The Chase

Thanks to the good people at Visa business network, you do not have to spend this test money out from your pocket. They are making a very generous offer by giving you $100 worth facebook advertising credit just for joining their network. Signing up is absolutely free and they are throwing in another $75 worth yahoo ad credits just to make your smile wider :-)

You can join the Visa Business Network here and get your free advertising credits. The coupon will not work until you enter a valid credit card to your facebook advertising account. And you must utilize this credit within 30 days.

Perform a statistical analysis on conversions and if they are good, run a full-throttle advertising campaign on facebook. You only have something to gain from this whole experiment. Good Luck.

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You can make money online using your web site and a mixture of following money making methods. It took me lot of time to write this post as I wanted to give you the best. I hope you will be able to get the best out from this list.

If you do not have your own blog yet, I have given you step by step instructions on creating a blog site here. It covers all the information you needed for a start up.

01. Pay per click Networks.

You just have to copy paste the code given by them and they will start displaying ads in your web site. You will be paid for every click your web site visitors make or you will be paid a set amount for standard number of impressions ( Mostly 1000 views) their ads receive on your web site.

Recommended Pay per click/ Pay per impression Networks.

1.Google adsense.

Probably the most popular way to make money online. They pay up to $5 for a click although there are rumors that some clicks value over $100. Nowadays with too much popularity it is impossible to earn such high amounts from a single click. I average $0.40 – 0.50 per click in this web site and the highest amount received for a click being $4.73 last month.

2. Chitika

You can use it with AdSense or as an AdSense alternative and Chithika is one of my favorite ad networks.

3.Bidvertiser

Simply display the BidVertiser text ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other.They will always display the highest bidders to maximize your revenue so you will make more money.

4. Widget bucks

They display products based on the buying trends of 100 million U.S. shoppers. Spanning hundreds of categories and millions of products, WidgetBucks’ CPC-based shopping ad widgets give site visitors eye-catching designs to attract their attention and clicks.

5.LinkWorth

Their products include text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.

6.Yahoo publisher network.

Simply display ads that are relevant to the content of your site and earn money from qualified clicks. No investment is required and setup is quick and easy.

7.Adbrite

AdBrite can help you monetize your site with advertising that fits the content and user base of your site. Their base of advertisers includes top brands like Live Nation, GM, AT&T and Verizon—at the same time, AdBrite serves ads on nearly 1 billion pages daily, providing massive scale opportunities.

Worth a look Pay per click/ Pay per impression Networks.

8.Vibrant Media

Vibrant In-Text Advertising campaigns will increase your advertising revenue without adding more clutter, allowing you to expand advertising real estate with relevant in-text placements. A user must mouse-over a highlighted word to view a relevant advertisement. Vibrant In-Text Advertising is a 100% user-driven advertising experience.

9.Crsip Ads

Get listed in their blog catalog and they will shop us around to their advertising clients. Earn 70% rev share per click displaying keyword-targeted text ads. Choose from more than 6,000+ advertisers by keyword. Even small blogs can realize earnings faster than other ad networks. Minimum payout is only $5.

10. Value Click Media

Earn revenue through their ad network platform by running ads from hundreds of quality advertisers on your web site. Receive some of the highest eCPM rates with unmatched fill through a wide variety of standard banners, pop-unders and rich media.

11.Ad genta

AdGenta is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. AdGenta is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed.

12. Tribal Fusion

Tribal Fusion represent only the highest quality websites, so they can secure high CPM rates for your valuable ad inventory. They sell your site inventory at increasingly higher CPMs based on the level of targeting: Run-of-Network (untargeted), channel specific (targeted), and site specific (highly targeted).

13. Industry Brains

Their technology enables vertically-focused publishers to monetize their Web sites and deliver relevant pay-per-click and display ads. With their site-specific model, publishers can leverage their brands and charge a premium for their quality audience and content.

02. Affiliate Networks and Programs

You will be paid every time one of your visitor perform a desired action required by the advertising network.
This can be,
Filling up a form.
Sign up for a program.
Participate in a survey.
Email Submission.
Buy a product or service….ETC

If you have searched for a way of making money online, you should have come across the term ” Affiliate marketing”. Affiliate marketing concept fall in this cost per action category.
Wikipedia Definition for Affiliate marketing.

Recommended Affiliate Networks.

14. Commission Junction

My Favorite affiliate network and without a doubt the best in the business. Pays for leads, sales, clicks and they were the company invented most technologies related to affiliate marketing.

15. Retail FX partners

This is not an affiliate network as they only promote their own financial product. You get paid up to $200 per one lead and this has been my best money maker for the past 9 months.

15.2 HY Affiliate

This is also a network like retailfx and they offer 2 plans giving you a chance to earn from $75 to $200 per referral.

16. Never Blue

Over 3000 offers to choose from and they have high converting simple offers which your readers can complete at no cost. It makes them a network you should join if you are serious about making money online.

17. Market Leverage

Do not need to explain much. A must join network. This is the first affiliate network I joined after launching this web site and I have no regrets. You will get a very helpful affiliate manager who will assist you in every possible way to make you more money.

18. azoogleads

You will have access to many exclusive offers you won’t find from other networks and reap the many benefits that come from working with the unequivocal leader in affiliate marketing.

What are a few things that set them apart? Their superior tracking technology, new product development, and proprietary publisher tools to name a few.

They do have a cool iphone application for easy account access when you are on the move. They support social media campaigns such as facebook applications which make them a unique choice for a professional affiliate marketer.

19. Click Bank

A 11 year old company with a proven track record. They specialize in digitally deliverable items and payouts go as high as 75% per sale. They recently approached $1.3 billion in Payouts.

Founded in 1998, ClickBank is a secure online retail outlet for more than 12,000 digital product vendors and more than 100,000 active affiliate marketers. ClickBank makes a sale somewhere in the world every 2-3 seconds, safely processing more than 26,000 digital transactions a day. The company serves more than 200 countries, and is consistently ranked as one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web.

20. CPA Lead

Require your visitors to complete a survey to access your premium content or reward. When your user completes one of CPA lead surveys, your content is revealed. Every time a user fills out a four page survey, you earn about $1.

Their famous DP forum thread. Look what other web masters are saying about this program.

21. Link Share

You can make money online from your Web site traffic. Earn commissions from some of the world’s best known and fastest growing brands. You’ll be joining a trusted industry leader that has helped thousands of publishers earn millions of dollars. You earn commissions by simply linking to products and services that your audience is likely to purchase.

22. Amazon Associates

Advertise amazon products in your blog and get paid up to 15% when someone buys from Amazon.

Worth a look Affiliate Networks.

23. Link Connector

LinkConnector has introduced exclusive technologies to the market that give their merchants and affiliates a strong advantage.

24. Lead Pile

They are very different from other affiliate networks and based on a innovative concept. Give it a try.

25. Cafe Press

Earn money by selling your own personalized branded merchandise.
i.e T-Shirts, Mugs,Art and posters, Gift items

26. Clix Galore

You can browse around their offers and pay rates even before you sign up with them. Have a look.

03. Make money from your RSS feed

27. Pheedo

Pheedo retrieves your RSS feed several times an hour and updates your FeedPowered advertisements with any newly published items. Great for time-sensitive content and frequently updated offers.

Here is a PDF file explaining the overview of the concept of Pheedo.

28. Adsense for feedburner

Now you can link your feedburner account with adsense and start earning money through clicks generated from your feed.

04. Get paid for writing to your blog

How about getting paid to write blog posts? There are more than 20 companies do exactly that…. Pay you for your writings. I have listed the best pay per post companies here.

29. Pay per post

I know few people who are making more than $500 a month using this service.

30. Review me

This is the most popular company of this kind and have a proven track record. Came to the peak 2 years ago and now they have lost their edge a little bit. But still they are at the top of this particular industry. You get paid for reviewing and promoting products. Some product reviews comes with a very healthy price tag and when your site is getting popular you can get paid up to $500 a post. At the beginning of your blogging career you will find many $15-$25 per post offers.

31. Smorty

Write your opinion about peoples products and services to turn your daily blog updates into money.

32. Blogvertise

You will be emailed tasks/new assignments to write about in your blog. You do not have to endorse the website’s products or services, just mention it, discuss it, or relate to it somehow in your blog/journal entry. Once your blog entry is approved , you will be paid after 30 days for your entry via paypal.

33. Sponsored Reviews

You review their advertiser’s products and services and then post the review on your blog. Each advertiser has his or her own requirements (i.e. length, link info, etc.).

Earn hundreds or thousands of dollars writing reviews in your blog.

34. Loud Launch

If your blog and interests are aligned with an advertiser’s campaign, then write about them in exchange for pay. Not in exchange for a pre-determined outcome but for a fair assessment.

35. Creative web blogging

Monthly compensation: $84-140 paid via PayPal or Moneybookers. 3-5 posts per week are required and minimum of 70 words each.

05. Get paid for your uploads

You can earn money by sending traffic to your uploaded images, videos through your blog (This can be done without having a web site since all the page views will count.) The programs listed here could be included in some other categories.But I wanted to seperate all the download/ upload related programs in this section.

36. Rapidshare

Now you can earn money by referring customers to one of the world’s most visited web sites, ” rapidshare.com”

Whenever a new customer purchases a Premium Account using your ReferrerLink, you will receive up to ten ReferrerPoints.

Collect ReferrerPoints and redeem them in rapidshare’s rewards program or have them paid out in cash. You can Earn up to 20 Euro for gaining them a new customer.

37. Share a Pic

They pay $0.22 per 1000 picture views. They also allow you to add your Bidvertiser code to your image and gallery pages.

38. Uploading dot com

You will be paid a minimum of $1 and a maximum of $20 per 1000 downloads. Every successfully completed download will be counted.
The minimum payout amount is $30. Payouts are sent via Epassporte, AlertPay, PayPal and Webmoney.

06. Sell private advertising

This is one of the most lucrative method of making money online. You can sell space in your web site for banners or for text links for a monthly fee. 728* 90 leaderboard and the 300*250 rectangle are the most famous banner types.

You can determine your own prices. But you need to have high traffic and a well established web site in order to attract advertisers.

07. Create Premium Content and get paid

Who said all your blog content has to be free. You can always charge to access your premium content. Your readers can access most of your content free of charge and if you are offering quality content you can convince them to pay a monthly fee or a one time fee to get access to your most valued section.

08. Earn Money Through Job Boards

You can see a good example of how this works here at pro-blogger’s job board. Pro blogger is a very popular blogging related web site and it’s job board make use of that popularity to earn some extra money while offering a good service. You should be well placed in a highly targeted niche If this is to be successful.

The job boards normally charge a minimum of $10 per listing and there are web sites which charge even $100 per listing.

This is the best script I found for a job board.

09. Sell a product or a service

The most popular method of making money in this category is to sell an E-book. But it is not limited to do that. You can also sell,

Hardcover books
Softwares
Selling web design templates
Wordpress themes
Offer Consulting and Related Services

I listed only the most popular goods and services offered through blogs. But you can think out of the box and create a product according to your expertise.

10. Other monetizing methods.

These are my least favorite methods of making money through a blog but this article will not be completed without at least a mention of them.

43. Donations
Placing a donation button in a blog which do not use other advertising method can make you good amount of money if you are offering valuable content. A good example of a web site which made a 5 figure income through donations was Steve Pavlina’s blog.

44. Pop-ups and Pop-unders
If you do not mind annoying your visitors while making few bucks, go ahead and use them. But if your plan is to create a loyal readership base and if have long term plans for your blog please stay away from pop ups and pop unders.

45. Audio Ads
The reason I do not like this advertising method is, our visitors do not have an option not to listen this ad once the page loads. But due to this very reason there is a 100% conversion rate for each of your unique visitors. You can sign up with the company NetAudioAds and do a test run of Audio ads.

46. Private forums

Setting up a forum is a very easy task now a days with the kind of plugins provided by web hosts. I posted a video of how to set up a forum here.

Not all forums have to provide FREE content. You can build a forum around your blog and charge a monthly fee or a one time fee from your members. It is not advisable to do this when you first start out. But you can start charging a fee when your forum is filled up with adequate quality threads.

47. Selling your blog
This is a good way to make money especially when there are recent reports of some blogs being sold for a price tag of over one million dollars.

It is obvious that you should have a high quality blog site if you are to sell it for a good price. That is why I prefer keeping them once they reach that status. If you wish to sell your blog once it reaches a certain level, you can put it for sale at Digital point forum or at sitepoint market place.

I will keep adding new online money making methods to this list whenever I find good opportunities. You can share your experiences in the comments field. If your money making method deserves a place at the main article body, I will not hesitate to add it with a link to your blog.

Most of the methods discussed here needs you to have a blog or a web site. If you do not have your own blog yet, this “create a blog” series will assist you to build one TODAY.

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I knew the exact problem even before I made a visit to his site. But I did pay him a small visit and here are the facts,

1. He has an excellently written sales pitch and a very professional looking design to go with it.
2. The script he sells is a winner and a bargain for the low price of $15.
3. A demo and a video guide to installation is provided.

So basically he has a quality product to offer and he has presented it in a professional manner attached with a affordable price. Why isn’t he making any sales?

You need targeted traffic.

The problem is the way he is getting traffic to his product site. As he says, his main source of traffic is via his travel and living web site which has nothing to do with video sharing. That is why I said I knew the problem even before visiting his web site. He should be targeting visitors who are looking to start a video sharing web site.

But it is not easy to get such targeted group of visitors via organic traffic. Probably there are few dozen established script sellers already competing for the top places in organic results and it will be impossible to beat them in the short run.

But we are not out of the game totally. I believe you have heard a marketing method called PPC (Pay- per-click advertising). Imagine if Mr Nayagan can compete head to head with industry giants for money bringing keywords.

Keywords targeted for visitors who are looking to start video sharing web sites…..

What is pay-per-click-advertising

In ppc advertising model, advertisers pay only when their ad is clicked. They bid on keyword phrases to their target market. Their ads will appear adjacent to or above natural results on a search engine results page or anywahere the advertiser chooses on a partcipating content site.

There are many PPC providers exist but Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the three largest network operators.

Let me tell you a little secret which no other internet marketer will tell you if they are in their clear conscious.

Take a look at this blog post or this web site. Not only I am giving my readers valuable information on how to make some extra money, I am promoting a great product too. They are the best of the best when it comes to forex and metal trading so I do not hesitate a moment when introducing them to my readers.

But most of my blog readers had already started trading with them during the past year. So I had to focus my attention on a new audience. People who are looking to start forex trading or at least finding new ways of making some extra money. I knew if I had to rely on SEO, I will have to wait for ages before ranking high for these very competitive keywords.

I set $0.12 as my “maximum pay per click” and ran a campaign with Google adwords with a “maximum daily budget” of $5. I targeted keywords such as,

” how to trade forex online”
“make money using forex”
” trading forex online”

and created a seperate campaign for each key word. ( I had 8 keywords to start with.)

I ran each campaign for 5 days one after another. I had to do this test run for closer to 40 days. After I completed test runs for all campaigns, I put my Google Adwords data and affiliate leads performance data to an excel sheet and compared the results.

I picked up a winner and below is the screen shot of that particular campaign.

Out of these 366 clicks. 72 visitors made it to my affiliate product’s page. 8 visitors gave me sales resulting a $550 commission. ( They pay up to $200 a sale. Join their partners program here if you like to give it a shot.)

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I deleted all other PPC campaigns I tried and I am still keeping this winning campaign live. Results may vary from time to time but I always earn at least 10 times the money I spend. That is what happen when you couple a high paying affiliate product with a winning PPC campaign.

I use Google adwords for my pay-per-click-advertising needs. Organizing and launching a campaign with them is not difficult. But you need to be patient to get successful results .

Initially you will have to do lot of tests. Trial and error method is the best way if you want to learn PPC properly. It will cost you some time and money to do the tests but it is still the best way.

If you would like to get mentored by someone who is already a master of this. the only recommendation I can give you is the smart people at PPC Coach
team. This program is compiled by well respected group of Canadian Internet marketers and has a proven track record of over 2 years in helping newbie money makers.

If you do not like to go through the trouble of learning PPC by yourself, now you can copy the exact campaigns launched by the best in the business thanks to SpyFu
. I do not know how ethical this is, but I know few people making thousands of dollars copying other people’s PPC campaigns.

But as I said earlier, Trial and error method is the best way to learn PPC. Use Google search to find answers to any of the technical problems you might come across. I have replied to many of the emails I received regarding PPC and I do not mind helping you out when ever I get a free time.

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I started making over $1000 from this blog withing the first 3 months from it’s launch. I broke in to Alexa top 100,000k web sites list at the same time. Many of my posts went to the front page of popular bookmarking sites even at it’s earliest stage.

So, I know a thing or two about blogging. And making lots and lots of money from it.

Let me first tell you what I am planning to cover in this “How to create a blog and make money blogging series”

First I will show you what I am earning from this blog. Just to keep your motivation level high by showing what you can get. Today is 17th of April and what you will later see in this post is only an income report of 2 weeks.

Adsense used to be No 01 Income source for this blog when I first started out. That is the case with any blog and most probably it will be your best earner when you start your blog. But when you start getting loyal readers and a substantial traffic to your web site, affiliate marketing will become your No 01 cash generator.

Let’s see this blog’s performance so far from affiliate marketing this month.

(2 more weeks still left for the month.)

Commission Junction – $707.79

Retail fx partners – $150

Google adsense – 101.02

Miscellaneous Affiliate programs – $72.59
I am promoting 4 other in house affiliate programs through few of the old posts here. Combine income from all those is $72.59

As you can see this blog has earned $1031 for the last 17 days. Not too bad huh? This is nothing compared to what other well established blogs are earning per month.

Take a look at this income report from John Chow.He makes over $40,000 every month from blogging. If you take a look at his blog, you will realize that it is not that difficult to do what he does.

I hope it is clear for you that people (Not me) are making unbelievable amounts of money just by blogging. Can you do the same? Most probably yes. It isn’t easy but it isn’t impossible. If you have the will power and the believe in yourself , sky is the limit in www world.

By the end of this series, you will become a proud owner of a quality money making blog. ( Your blog content is not necessarily be about online money making. Blog about something you are passionate about.) You do not have to pay a single cent to learn all these. Just send me 10% of your first month’s income once you start earning. (Just kidding.)

Let’s start creating your blog.

You will get step by step guidance with illustrations when you follow the above links. You can lay the foundation for your own blog site in less than 15 minutes. If you leave it for tomorrow , you will never do it.

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Good people at Retail fx company sent me a new year present to my paypal account on 1st of Jan. There was $500 to greet me when I woke up to the year 2009. It was my partner’s account earnings for the month of December.

It was for a forex web site I launched on the second week of December. And there is another $200 pending commission to be released in the next couple of days. Not too bad for 3 weeks, right?

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Let me brief you little about the procedure I applied to earn $700 in 3 weeks. I didn’t spend much on advertising and relied heavily on natural traffic.

I bought a domain name which calls for action and have a monthly average search volume of 7100. I thought that would be more than enough since the keyword is highly targeted to prompt an action.

I could get listed in Google within 2 days and could get in to the first page within a week thanks to do follow blogs and smart “on page optimization“.

Other than that I did run a $10 a day adwords campaign for 6 days to test the conversions. (Only Placement targeting.) I paused the campaign when I realized natural traffic is treating me way more nicer than the ppc campaign.

To be honest, I did not do anything new or did not invent any strategies. The classic theories of internet marketing still pay you good dividends.

I did not want to bore you with fancy information and did not want to make simple things complex. I just wanted to let you know that most myths haunting in this industry is just bull and you come achieve anything if you have the will power.

The truth is,

You do not have to wait for ages to see your first sale/ lead.

You do not have to spend thousands in order to make thousands.

You do not have to be an expert.

I am not better than you. I do not have any secret information which you do not have any access to. If I could do this, you could have done this 10 times better than me. “JUST DO IT” like guys at NIKE saying all the time.

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11 Top Secrets Of Online Money Making.
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I have been busy with my new web site and still have lot of work to do. I will share it’s progress step by step once it is launched. It is an affiliate promoting web site and you will be able to witness its growth and hopefully copy down the marketing strategies I am using for your own success.

When talking about Marketing, one person I cannot forget is Seth Godin. Be it online marketing, be it offline marketing; he is a genius. Recently I stumbled upon a great video that I could not resist sharing with you. Some call this as “seth godin’s purple cow video“.

I can guarantee it will add value to the way you think and your approach to marketing.

What do you think? What is more important; the product it self or marketing? For me, if product is the king, Marketing is the queen. And as Seth Godin says, the unique approaches will always win. No body wants to see a cow, but a purple cow will get everyone’s attention.

You can catch him on seth’s blog. One of the few top blogs which carries the authors name as a brand name. John chow is the other one which comes to my mind. Do you think having your personal name as your blog brand is good? Do not hesitate to share your ideas and get a PR3 link back to your site.

Do not forget to read,
Murder your competition with killer “sales techniques”
How to cheat your visitors to sell more ?

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