Got a Website ? Looking For Content ?

Most of us that own websites know the importance of content creation and of having new content created on our websites weekly if not daily.

But what about the people that own websites and blogs like Wordpress and Squidoo that are either too busy to write their own stuff or don’t know how to write? I know it sounds silly asking a person if they can write but really I think this is a valid question.

Sure, almost anyone can "write" but very few writers can actually write something quickly, make it sound good and make it sound interesting. Well that is where content writers come in! There are a lot of different writers that are from other countries but for the most part I would suggest content writers in the US. This isn’t saying anything against people in other countries of course, but in my experience the people that are from the US and write in perfect English are the better or higher ranked writers.

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Asokans Free Affiliate Program

I have just launched a new free affiliate program for my money making blog. This program is aimed to create a group of individuals who are interested in making money online.

How does this program work?

• First let me tell you that this is a free affiliate program. Anybody interested in earning online can join this program.
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• If you have writing skills, you can write paid reviews for any advertiser and get paid if the advertiser accepts your review. You get another 20% of the of the sales for that.
• You will be receiving all the updates of latest earning programs online.
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How to maximize your adsense revenue

As I have described in my previous posts that Google Adsense is the best program for new blogs and the set up is very simple. You do not need to deal with the advertisers directly buy Google adsense serves ads to your blog your website. Google has two programs which connects advertisers to publishers. Google Adwords is a program for advertisers and Google Adsense is a program for publishers or webmasters. Advertisers buy ads and pay for it and Google servers these ads to publishers through Google Adsense.

Most of the publishers find that the revenue generated from Google adsense is not even enough to pay their hosting charges, but there are many website owners / pubishsers who earn good from this program

Factors deciding the revenue for Google Adsense

1. Traffic
2. Ad placement
3. Ad styling
4. Quality content
5. High paying keywords
6. Ad Sizes

Traffic

Traffic is the most important factor that effects your Google Adsense revenue. If you do not have much traffic, the do no expect much revenue. You get paid only for the clicks that are generated from the ads placed using the Google Adsense code. If you do no have good number of visitors then there will be less clicks and the revenue will be very low. You can even earn from Adsense using others traffic using adsense revenue sharing portals. I have given some tips to increase your increase your traffic in my earlier posts.

Ad Placement

Ad placement is very important for increase your Google Adsense revenue. You have the flexibility to place the Google adsense ads at places where you want to keep. You should place the ads in way that they are visible to your visitors. The biggest advantage of Google Adsense is that it shows ads relevant to the content of the page.

Ad Styling and right format

You can place different kinds of ads like text ads, image ads, linked units with different sizes. You also have the flexibility to style your ads. You should create the ads which look natural with the content. You need to blend the ads into your pages so that the visitors do not feel that they are going to click on any ads

Quality Content

Before even thinking of placing ads on your blog, you should have good content which should make your blog attractive to the visitors. Do not make people think that your blog is just a MFA site.

High Paying keywords

If you have used Google adwords, you should be knowing how much does a keyword bid goes. If you have content which has topic / content which has keywords with high value, then the payment for such clicks are very high. If you have checked the reports of your Google Adsense earnings, you may find that the pay rate for every click is different. I am using Google adsense in different websites and every website has different content. Some websites fetch me more than US$ 1.00 per click and some clicks, just less than US$ 0.02. There are many websites giving information about highly paid keywords which you can find by Googling. I do not want to go in details of that as its against the Google Terms and conditions

Ad Sizes

There is option to get different sizes of ads. I have found ads with size 300 x 250 gives good click through rate again that depends on the layout of your blog. You should select the right Ad size for your blog and go through the Adsense revenue sharing reports ad decide the best and try different ad sizes.

These are few tips that should boost your Google Adsense revenue. I would like to remind you that you should always work according to the terms and conditions of Google adsense and never try to get more earnings by clicking on your own ads or ask anybody to click on the ads or you will get your Google adsense account banned. You can even earn from Google Adsense using Revver if you have Video posts and Google Adsense revenue sharing portals are other way to maximize your google adsense income.

Directory submissions - Advantages and Benefits

Once you have your blog ready, enriched with contents, optimised for search engines, enhanced the blog look by a professional theme, you need to look for traffic. Unless you have traffic, there is no point in spending your time and writing posts and reading it yourself. You need others to read your posts, comment on your posts, subscribe to your posts. One of the accepted method to boost the visibility of your blog / website is to submit your blog to different directories. There are many free directories like Google Directory or Dmoz and some are paid ones like Yahoo Directory.

Why do you need to submit your site to different directories?

When you have a new site, you need to first indexed by Google or other search engines. The best way to get indexed is get some links from sites which are already indexed. Submitting your site to which has high ranking will surely increase your sites visibility as well as the Pagerank also gets better. But getting your site approved for listing is not that easy. There are many criteria’s which needs to be met for getting listed in Directories like Dmoz. Other biggest advantage of submitting sites which do not ask to link back is that you get one way linking which is very much useful for search engine ranking and getting your site listed in Search engine SERP’s.

Other advantage is the Traffic that you get from these directory links which is really accountable. There are many websites offering services for submitting your sites in multiple directories, but I have never tried it. For this you need to do some payment, you can try if you are interested, but I would advice to submit your sites manually in selected Directories.

Some of the other advantage / benefits of Directory Submissions are :-

• Increased visits by Search engine bots
• Keyword targeting
• Brand building
• Relevant Link Building
• Link Popularity
• Quick Indexing by search engines

I would recommend you to submit your blog to different web directories and preferably free one’s. If you have an Indian site, you can submit to my Free Indian Web Directory.

Social networking / bookmarking sites, free source of traffic

Social networking sites are one of the best sources of traffic. There are many popular social networking sites where you need to register as a member and participate in the site activities. The results will be good only if you create a good profile page and also be active. You need to post pages and comments to get noticed. Sites like digg can provide you with un-expected traffic if you have your page on the top, but will the traffic be useful to sell your product, that’s a question that you need to ask. You get lot of traffic but if you do not get any conversion, then the traffic is of no use.

Some of the best social networking and bookmarking sites

StumbleUpon - This is the latest social site that I have joined. Lots of things to learn, I know I am very late, but better late than never.

Myspace - This is again an online community website where you can meet your friends, make new friends, share photo, journals and lot of things. This is very popular and many make good use of this.

LinkedIn - This is another one, which I have joined. Here you meet high end professionals, can do business, connect to your friends, connect to your friends, friends, recommend others and lots. This portal is good for meeting great people. Recently Bill Gates joined this and he is linkedin.

Digg - One of the most popular and high traffic generating site. Its worth, just try it. I have been using this for long time

Pollo - A site, where you can get the revenue share. You get paid through Google Adsense program. The revenue sharing percentage is 50.

Reddit

Fark

Slashdot

IndianPad - This site is mainly dominated by Indians. The advantage of this site is it shares Google Adsense Revenue.

Linkinn - This is somewhat similar to the Digg, but the difference is that you do not need to be member to vote

Sphinn - This is another site, similar to digg. I have never used it. You can try this

Yahoo Buzz - As the name shows, its from Yahoo. A Buzz can be from a top site which could be interesting. Instead of having editors, the members decides the popular stories. The top stories are displayed on the Yahoo home page.

These are just few sites, which can help you in getting some traffic and help you in branding yourself. I will be shortly posting a page on Branding yourself.

How to market your blog with email signatures

I have been explaining different methods to market your blog and get some traffic for free. Just check how many emails do you send every day? Why don’t you use these emails that you sent to your clients to do some selling other than the content of the emails. Yes we can do that by adding an email signature to each mail that you send out. Every time when the recipient of your email gets your email, there will be a small text with a link to your blog web page. There are some chances that the recipient of that email may visit your blog. Its good to try it as you do not have anything to lose or you do not need to pay anybody

How to create an email signature?

You should not create big email signatures. A perfect email signature can be of 5-6 lines. I suggest to do as mentioned below

1. Your name
2. Your company name or blog name
3. URL of your blog
4. Your email ID
5. A short message or an advertisement text
6. Your phone number

Every email client has the feature to create email signature. You can create either as a plain text one or an html email signature with colours and images. You can mention some interesting features or your blog or if you have an offer, just mention it in the advertisement text. Suppose you give off some free e-books, you can mention that. You can also use email signatures in your profile for any forum or discussions. You can imagine how many visitors will visit such kind of forums and if your post is something different there are chances that the reader click on your blog URL and visit your blog. This is a sort of free traffic for your blog. Such visitor can even turn as your regular reader or even a customer if you are selling something.

How to create an email signature with outlook client?

I use MS outlook to read and send my emails.

Its very simple, go to Tools->Option and in that mail format, you will find the signature button. Create a signature and save it. You can find more information about creating an email .So to conclude, you should use email signatures with each and every email that you send out as its free advertisement and you do not have to do anything extra other than creating one. I would also suggest to keep changing your signatures periodically so that your email signature looks fresh and do some marketing for you.

Suggested Reading

• Creating an email signature

Do you have a question? I will be pleased to answer it or if you feel the above post has something lacking, you should comment on it.

RupeeMail, earn by reading emails

I recently came across an earning program called RupeeMail where you need to join as a member and read the emails sent to you. You get paid INR 1 per email.

How does this program work

First you need to sign-up as a member which is free. You do not need to pay any money or give your credit card details, its 100%free.

You start getting emails which will look like this from their registered advertisers

You get paid for opening and reading these mails. You get paid according to the stamp value.

You also get paid for referring your friends to this program

If you are interested, you can sign up for RupeeMail

How to create traffic by commenting on other blogs

You have a blog and you need traffic. Commenting on other blogs which are related to your blog is a good practice, provided you do it in the right way. Commenting on other blog, exposes your blog URL to others and help you in getting some traffic for your blog, but not back links as most of the comment forms are with “rel=nofollow tag“.

How to write a comment

Select the blog

Select the blogs that you would really like to comment upon. The best way is to subscribe to RSS feeds using at RSS reader like Google Reader. Spend some time to read the posts everyday and using a reader to read the posts is same like reading your emails. You should be aware of the blog, visitors, author of the blog that you regularly read and understand the post well.

Read others comment

Before you comment, just read the other comments posted on the blog post

Comment Uniquely

You should write a comment which should be something different from other comments. Just do not comment something which is already posted by some other visitor. You comment should attract the other visitors and they should react to your comment. Your comment should be something which the author should respond or the other visitors should comment upon. You should have good knowledge of what your are commenting and you should do some research on the topic of the post and if you can find something contradicting or something which is not correct, then that can really make your comment the best comment. If the author or other visitor or cementers reply to your comment, then you should surely reply to them also.

Other important factor that I would like to stress upon is to keep your name consistent in the Name field so that you get noticed and popular

Advantages of commenting on other blog posts

There are many advantages of commenting on other blog posts

1. You get noticed
2. Your Blog get noticed
3. You may get regular visitors or subscribers for your blog
4. You become a part of the blogging community and get popular
5. Your blog posts get more traffic and back links if your posts are worth it

All these are real ethical way of generating traffic and marketing your blog. I do this and I have got good, loyal and returning visitors from this method.

Don’ts

1. Do not just post comment like,very good post
2. Do not post more than 2 links as wordpress by default marks such comments as spam
3. Do not comment something which is not related to the post
4. Do not post bad or de-motivating comments
5. Use correct spelling, grammar
6. Do not just go randomly to some blogs and post a one line comment, very good post, I like the post

I am sure that if you regularly comment keeping these tips in mind, you can surely make use of the commenting feature of the blogging world. After all blogging is interaction and building community.

Alertpay, a paypal alternative

Many bloggers and affliliate managers are diched by Paypal, they either put the account on hold saying that there was a security threat by your account and your account is disabled for the time being. You cannot make any payment or receive any payments during this period.

This kind of emails are often received by small business accounts and I have received it twice. It take arount 1 month to this this sorted out.

There are many alternatives for paypal and one of them is Alertpay.

Account types in Alertpay

There are two types of account

• Personal Account
• Business Account

There are some limitation in personal account so for a blogger who want to use this for his business and get payments, its advisable to go for a business account

In a business account, you can do transaction under your business name, receive payments, send payments, use shopping cart, accept credit cards, use buy now buttons and IPN is also provided

Mass payment and unlimited emails are also associated with business accounts

HomeJob Referral Program

HomeJob referral program is an excellent earning opportunity with a very small investment of US$25. This is a multi-level marketing program with good cash returns. This program is run by myself and I have good number of members who are working for this program and most of them earning good.

There is a sign-up bonus of INR 1000 which is the same as what you invest to join this program, so literally, there is no investment. The minimum payout is INR 2000 and you can get this when you have 4 members in your downline directly.

Other highlight of this program is that you can earn the maximum by following this trick of multiple account sign-up

If you have problems signing up for this program, just refer to the tutorial for HomeJob Ref sign-up

Recently one of the senior member of HomeJob Referral Program is offering to pay your registration fees, so there is limited chance for getting into this program without any investment

This is a great program, check it out and act fast so that you do not miss the golden opportunities