Most of us when started we started making our first cents with Google AdSense to then work hard and increase constantly our AdSense earnigns, many of us failed while few of us are having a great success with AdSense and are making a living out of AdSense. The good part of AdSense is that the ads are relevant to the content on which the ads appear so people do see relevant ads and are willing to click. But what is that they do to become successful and you aren’t

The Niche of the Website

The niche which your site covers, or rather the topic you are writing about could be very important. Most of the high earners either know the niche very well or they are very good at building websites and give visitors valuable content, but not always this turns to be the best thing to get into a niche that you are familiar with. Many new enterpreneurs jump into a niche that is not as profitable, however it is easy to drive traffic, just to name some; proxy sites and gaming related sites.

The good thing about these sites is that you can easily drive traffic to the site. However the downside of such sites is that AdWords advertisers pay less per click on keywords relevant to gaming or proxy so the earnings would be less too and the effort would be bigger.

To put it simple, if you have a budget to hire a writer to write about a topic where advertisers pay big money per click and you are able to market that site online and drive quality traffic then you should chose a high paying adsense keywords for your niche, and here is an article on how to find high paying adsense keywords or another one on how to find high paying adsense keywords for your niche with Google’s Search-based keyword tool.

AdSense Ad Placement

The placement of the ad is anther important factor of the CTR, since the ads are closely related to the content that your visitors read it is good to keep the ads above the fold, right in front of their eyes so visitors could see the ads and if intrigued by the advertisement to click on it, as suggested by AdSense Team on their heatmap image to better illustrate the placement of the ad.

The formats that result in better CTR are the bigger rectangular ads, 326×280, 300×250, the leader board of 726×90 and the skyscrapper 160×600. However not always you should stick with these sizes, you can always try and test the best performing ad for your site. Another tip is to blend the ads with your content, however, even here do not always stick with it and try to diversify and test until you reach the best CTR you can.

Driving Targetted Traffic to Your Site

The keywords you might chose for your AdSense based website is not always going to be an easy one to drive traffic for, the competition might be too high or even too tough to rank for that your site might most likely not see the first page on the major search engines ever, and that means you might never have visitors to your site so no clicks, unless you are a great marketer and know what you are doing.

But for newbies I suggest that you try to find unsaturated niches with less competition, here is an article that explains how to find unsaturated niches. The key is in that to find a keyword where advertisers are bidding Top Dollars to have their ads visible in the AdSense program, but also that the competition in the SERPs of the search engines to be as low as possible so we could rank as easy as possible and drive targeted traffic.

To shortly explain what unsaturated niche is, the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing and there is a high demand (great search volume and possibilities to drive good amount of targetted traffic) but there is not many resources regarding that specific product/topic (means, less websites are tending to rank for that specific keyword).

It might take awhile to find a perfect niche that is not saturate and it would be easy to rank for, however with all the seo tools out there such data can be collected pretty easily. One seo software that I do recommend is the market samurai, you can read this market samurai review for more details on that seo software.

Now that you know what the successful guys are doing, which are their key points and you know the tool that can help you out, all it remains to do is START WORKING AND MAKE MONEY ONLINE.

The prominent fact is to win the confidence of the client. It might be corresponding back to e-mails, over the phone or if possible in person. You should comfort your client and assure them that you will never betray them. Make them believe that you can get things efficiently. Complete the work before the deadline and take them to a surprise.

In the virtual assistant business your correspondence with client will through e-mails, or over phone or in person. Here are few tips and tricks to enhance your business.

Queries and response through E-mails

When you are replying to a message make it short and clear. Let it be point blank. Nobody likes to read long mails. Make it professional. But be friendly, limit yourself to the borderline.

Be careful and give all the requested details. If you feel some data that were not asked for might be of little help send it as attachments. If the client feels those data is unnecessary he would not view it at all. This saves a lot of time. In the signature furnish your contact details

Reply through phone

Don’t talk irrelevant matters. Do not forget that all your clients are not at leisure. They have their own work. Let the conversion be to the point. While giving data to your client have the data in your hand. This will avoid stammering.

Do not compromise on rates. You should be paid a reasonable amount for your grueling work. When you are on a deadline, do not attend calls with a tensed frame of mind. Let the answering machine attend the calls. Call back when you are relaxed.

Never expose your mood in your voice wile talking to your client. When your client discovers you are not in a happy frame of mind, he loses faith in you.

Meeting the clients in person

Dress up neatly. This gives you enormous confidence. It creates an impression that you are professional. Be exuberant and make them understand that you are interested in taking up their business. Expose your knowledge. This will help you win their trust.

Be organized. Do not search for pens or cards in front your client. Carry something which is handy and descriptive such as a portfolio. This reminds them about you even after the meeting and gives them an idea about the services you offer.

In virtual business creating a best impression during the first meet is important .It is equally important to learn from mistakes. That helps your business flourish. Find out what went wrong and be careful in not committing the same business again. Though creating impressions is difficult, it is a pride to deal with an impressed client.

Get rich fast

People have a faith that the online home business can bring overnight richness. But it is impossible and it requires a constant hard work for years together like any other field. People are quickly attracted by the catchy wordings like “No Investment; Make money easily everyday by spending few minutes”. These get rich quick schemes are more suspicious than other online offers. Some websites will ask for investment before the job is granted. Before paying the money check out whether the website or the individual is reliable. In order to find this you can go through the forums and have a look at the feedback forms. You can have a discussion with your online friends who have experience in this field. In some cases they ask for your credit card details. Be more careful before feeding the details.

You are selling something

Online marketing is becoming more popular in the modern days because there is a myth that you need not strain too much to sell a product. But the fact is different. You should have a powerful and sharp marketing knowledge. It is difficult to sell all the products directly. So you should look for the distributing agent who can make more profit for you. You can enhance the business to a great extent. You can choose the potential distributors by interviewing their skills. You can choose the distributing agent for various sites and allocate them the target to be met. You can build a quality and enthusiastic network to promote your products.

All schemes are pyramids

Some people have the myth that all the businesses have a network involved in it and all are same as multi level marketing. This myth continues because it takes long time to get the product or the payment through online. In some cases this fact may be true and it may not be in some cases. Some marketers directly deal with customers to avoid the fraudulent activities. There is a belief that people can make money if they add a person into the network. But this can be made clear when we come to know whether people get paid if they sell the products or they get money if they sell the goods.

Similarly there are several myths that exist about the online home industry. Some other myths are people think that we can do an online home job if we are only a computer genius and it is easier than the manual labor. The aim of this article is to raise awareness about the myths and scams that exists in the online home industry and help people to get success in this field.

No offense to chatters, I do chat often too, but I believe that chatting is really a huge time waster, unless it is not a chat about work and similar. How ever, how do you turn that “boring” moments into bucks you might be wondering? Yeah exactly that famous say Time is money.

Today I had again that blank moment, I have it every day actually and recently more often then what I should permit to myself. However later on the day I did read a friends blog and he had a post about something called Bux.To. Nice name no? Bux.to…do what? Well I had heard about them earlier, but never saw the picture in the way I am describing it to you (time is money)..Bux.to is actually a pay-per-view program, where you get paid cents to view an advertisement (liked it or not, all you have to do is just view the ad for full 30 seconds and earn a cent for the view).

Before I even continue, you will need an account with AlertPay in order to get paid from Bux.to.

Now, you have already created your Bux.to account and you click on the “Surf Ads” button. A list will be presented with ads that you can surf and get paid for. All you have to do is click in the link, and stay in the page for 30 seconds (pay attention in the countdown at the top, it should change to Done when you can close the window).

Can you get rich with Bux.to?

Well, first of all it depends what “RICH” means for you. $300 a month won’t make me rich for sure, but for a student thats a good money especially if doing nothing. I bet you got confused now, I was first referring that you earn 1 cent for surfing an ad and now referring to $300 a month earnings, hold on..let me explain.

People like me do it when they have time to waste, some others got into this much deeper and actually pull even more then $300 a month, but to understand better read bellow how the system actually works.

Earnings Example

• You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
• 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00
• Your daily earnings = $2.10
• Your weekly earnings = $14.70
• Your monthly earnings = $63.00

So practically you view 10 ads a day and earn $0.10 cents for the day. But if you have 20 referrals under your Bux.to and all 20 referrals do the same your daily earnings becomes $2.10 a day instead of $0.10 a day.

The sweetest part is that if having referrals under your account is hard with any other program with Bux.to it is not hard at all actually. You can actually buy those “non referred” users for a fairly cheap price. For example you can buy

• 15 referrals for $16.98
• 35 referraks for $34.95
• 100 referrals for $98.00

Why I am telling you fairly cheap price is because the ROI is good. Presume you buy the cheapest plan, 15 referrals for less then $17 and all 15 referrals do view 10 ads a day thats $1.50 USD a day (plus 0.10 a day from ads you will view), in 10 days you have already pulled back the money you invested and all the rest is pure earnings. If you purchase 35 referrals you get back your invested money in less then 10 days and so on you can create an empire of users until you reach a point that you earn enough money a day without doing anything but simply buying some referrals from time to time, sit in your back, view some ads when you are bored and cash in the money.

Are you convinced that time IS really money and that even cents can turn out to become real bucks quickly enough? Subscribe to Bux.to and build your money empire (and don’t forget to get a AlertPay account too).

Once you start making some money online you realize your real potential to make money online which then influences you to raise your daily target and explore more monetization methods. If you feel happy with the current money you are making then you are probably losing a lot of opportunities and maybe you wont ever realize the full potential of your blog as money maker.

My latest experiment on making money online was with AdBrite an advertising marketplace that offers you different type of advertisement, CPC (Cost Per Click) or CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions). With AdBrite you can chose 3 different methods to monetize your site

• Place banner advertisements on your site
• Place textual links on your site
• Place In-Content Ads

Here at another night shift you will notice I am using only in-content ads as I want to check out how much I can actually monetize my content. The in-content ads are those double lined dark green keywords you will notice, that when you hover the mouse a an ad window will display.

So far I have tested AdBrite on another not so competitive niche and I have to admit that the PayPerClick is way much better then with Kontera, hence I am giving them a try even here on this blog to see how much it can really pull.

You can expect the results at the end of this month. You can subscribe to my RSS feed if you want to find out how well AdBrite performs in this site.

With adsense for search you can give the possibility to visitors of your website or weblog to perform a search query on Google.com right from within your site or let them perform a search query for your site/blog through Google search engine by simply querying your site and the visitors performed keywords in the search.

Some of the possibilities were limited tho with AdSense search and you could not really have much of control over the search button, but today, the AdSense team has announced that adsense for search has been combined all together with the custom Google search and a bunch of new features have been added such as

• Improved indexing of your pages
• Vertical search
• Tuning search results and ads with keywords
• Selecting ad location
• Quick and easy updates

These points are explained in details on the official adsense blog. This information is so hot that I took the time to first blog about it instead of go and modify my AdSense for search code and checkout how this will perform, but I am confident it will perform quiet well.

Don’t miss the opportunity to make few more bucks out of your site with Google AdSense, give a try to AdSense for search and don’t let the visitors go away from your site without making you any profits.

Amazon Associates came out with Carousel Widget just few days ago. This widget is built in flash and is interactive, you can list at least 6 eBook or any other type of products that can be found on amazon within the widget, users can then rotate the books and click the one for which they show most interest. Currently I have listed 6 very interesting and useful books for those that want to learn more about blogging, seo and making money online, the listed book as

• How to Do Everything With Your Web 2.0 Blog
• ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way To a Six-Figures Income
• Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond
• How to Make Money With Your Blog
• SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
• Blogging For Dummies
• Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP

Their new ads are simply lovely, clean and fast to load. It doesn’t slow down the loading time of your site/blog and yet they are attractive. I have not used Amazon affiliate program to make money online, but these attractive ads definitively intrigued me to get started with Amazon Associates and give it a try.

You should to.

What is ShoppingAds?

I would define ShoppingAds as a bridge between your visitors and the merchant that is selling products. Publishers of ShoppingAds can make money online by installing their small javascript widget code and displaying relevant merchant ads on your website. The program pays on CPC (Cost Per Click) and on CPA (Cost Per Acquisition), and the publishers are divided in two categories. Standard publishers and Premium publishers. The division of these two groups is based on country location and on the traffic quality of your website. If you signup now and get accepted you will start as standard publisher, and if your traffic is quality traffic (read: US and Canada) you can email ShoppingAds (in case they forgot to upgrade your account) and request to revise your account and upgrade you to publisher account.

It wasn’t a coincidence that I asked are you exploring all monetization options for your website, some times what looks a yucky program for you it could be the right money maker for your site, but you will not know that until you give it a try. Same happened to me with ShoppingAds, at the beginning I was skeptic about the program and did not thought it was worth placing their ads.

The fact is that today I believe I never wasted my time thinking if their ads look good or not and I should have gave them a try long time ago. ShoppingAdsShoppingAds you can’t never say “this month is not doing good” until the month is over. While I was giving a test ride to ShoppingAds it was making cents and the day when I thought to remove them..boom $16+ the same day.

One thing is for sure with ShoppingAds, if your site is tech related, gadgets or product related site and you do have a healthy traffic you won’t fail making money.

It could be hard for some, but there are endless ways to drive visitors to your websites, and if you are one of those but you are eager to have more visitors to your site, generate more sales and make more money online what you need is a search engine optimisation service company and thats exactly what the professionals at Data Dial are doing.

Digital Data is a web site design firm but thats not all what they do, as I mentioned above they also offer search engine optimisation services too and that is a great plus for a design company. You would be amazed to know how many website design companies do not know anything about SEO, and that is so wrong since the website design company is the one that builds your website and minimum knowledge about search engine optimization knowledge is required.

Internet Marketing To Increase Sales

If you already show interest about SEO you cannot miss internet marketing, they walk hand by hand all the way to your online success. Indeed it is impossible to have a company offering seo services and not internet marketing services as well, it would be simply…not serious. The guys at Datadial provide you with internet marketing services as well. Datadial provides you with internet marketing services, manages your Pay Per Click campaigns, analyzing your campaigns and driving targeted traffic to your site that will increase your online sales. In single words, you hire them and just sit watching the money flow from your PPC campaigns (and not only).

E-commerce Software That Will Guide Your Customers to Checkout

In Datadial Ltd’s ECommerce Software page I read something interesting and so true. The percentage of visitors that hit the back button on the last page of the purchase process is pretty high (roughly 60%). There are several reasons why this might happend

• Lack of Call-To-Action checkout page
• Visitors are being distracted from something else
• The checkout button is not infront of your soon-to-be customers nose

DataDial Ltd is as I mentioned is a website design company based in UK with good background on website design, search engine optimisation and internet marketing. All three aspects you would want the company you hire to have knowledge at as all three are so closely connected one to each other and may lead to success (read money) or waste of time (read failure). Each ECommerce website is different from the other one, hence each type of visitors acts differently while browsing a website or while purchasing a product through your ecommerce software, having a company that has experience is this field and knows the type of visitors will certainly help you increase the online sales = make more money online, and from their portfolio you can easily say that DataDial Ltd knows what is up to.

The reason for acquiring this site was mainly its small but useful for me at the moment daily earnings the site was pulling from Google AdSense. The second reason was the traffic the site has from different resources, including search engine traffic.

Acquiring a website with decent traffic is good for several reasons 1). you don’t have to build that traffic, its time saving 2). gives you the flexibility to test/try different monetization methods.

After the acquisition of the site and replacing of the Google AdSense code the earnings were $0 and $0 and $0 for a week or so even tho there were several clicks on the ads but for some reason for Google AdSense those clicks were counted as invalid and were not paying the publisher (me). My first thought after a week was to sell the site away and get rid of it.

Did I sold the site? Nope and the reasons are several, even tho I acquired the site because of the adsense earnings the traffic was big enough and the quality of the traffic was good, it has 99% of UK traffic. What I did was trying another way to make money out of that site so I tried couple affiliate networks that were related to rave music, dj equipment and similar stuff, but they were all just paying low commissions and I had to subscribe to different programs which was not in my intentions.

Again the thought of selling this site crossed my mind, but once again an alternative halted me from doing this. I knew I have been subscribed with a affiliate type of program which pays on commissions and on pay per click but I had never gave it a try really, because I was lazy. I decided this was the perfect timing to give a try to ShoppingAds.

After placing the ShoppingAds the idea of selling the site vanished out of my mind and the site is now pulling a decent revenue. If you want to know more about ShoppingAds subscribe to my RSS feed to read the following post on ShoppingAds on more details.