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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Making Money From Survey WebSites


Making Money From Survey WebSite

Money Making Surveys From Free Sites
At one time or another, every man and woman out there tries to make money making surveys from the plethora of free sites around the net. The sad news is that most, which my include you, give up completely and totally on survey sites, because they are only finding the lowest paying places. Let me show you the way to get to the high paying free sites, so you can make money making surveys that pay very well.
Not all survey websites pay bottom dollar. It's just that the web is so cluttered with these little copy cat type websites, which makes it very hard to work your way to the better ones. I can tell you one thing right now: It an get very frustrating, very quickly. That's why so many individuals give up on free survey sites. Well, I am here to tell you that you still have the option to find loads of top dollar places. You just need to change the ways you're "looking" for them. For starters, you need to kick search engines to the curb. They are pretty useless now. Secondly, you need to start using forums. Big forums to be exact. If you want to make very good money making surveys from free sites, you need to be here. No questions asked.
Best of all, you only need one particular part of any bigger forum. You need the archive section. It's a massive collection of hundreds of thousands of past topics. It's where you will have instant access to 100's of those topics that were started around the subject of the survey industry. You can even use the forum's search function to pull up all of those topics, making it that much easier. All you have to do is skim those topics. It's where you can get honest info on where others are able to make money making surveys and where they aren't getting much at all. Just a tiny bit of reading can lead you to everything you need. That's why I personally love bigger forums.
When you finally start to make money making surveys from high paying free sites, you will never have to search for these websites again.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Affilate Fraud

Affilate Fraud

If you don't outsource your affiliate marketing to an affiliate network, you can use some of the most common screening techniques in place, such as:
checking if the affiliate has an active Web site
checking if the site's content relates to what you're selling
checking if the affiliate's site is optimized accordingly for the above mentioned content
keeping in touch regularly with the affiliate.
If you have a CPC campaign in place, make sure you include some anti-fraud features, suck as cookies that can detect if a link was clicked on more than once from the same IP in a short interval. Such cookies will provide you with enough information to allow you to single out and eliminate unwanted fraudsters.

Even if it is more time consuming, you can go for manual approval of all the affiliate applications. This will allow you to review all the data provided by the applicants and immediately spot the "rotten apple" in the basket. You can even go as far as giving each applicant a phone call to see it they are real and if they mean business.

After carefully "trimming" the list of affiliate applicants, sort out the bad ones and add them to a red-flagged database for future reference. You never know when it may come in handy.
Also, join forums where you can discuss with fellow merchants various ways of putting into place anti-fraud affiliate programs, share opinions, filtering techniques, black list of fraudsters' URLs, IDs, etc. Communication is of utmost importance in this particular business.

Basics For Communicating with Affiliates

Use personal contact details. Of course nobody expects that a newsletter is really personal, but especially in the case of affiliates, it’s always a good idea to give them the opportunity to connect personally with the Affiliate Manager because you should be building a long term relation. It means:
Mails should be signed by a real person and not by “The Team”
If they want to reply to find out more, they should have a personal email address where they can write. Nobody likes writing to info@.
Content should be created for affiliates and not customers. Don’t try to sell the product but present the selling benefits for affiliates.
Frequency. Getting newsletters that help you do business are kind of Pavlovian. You expect them to come regularly around the same date and the frequency also has to do with the sales cycles (let’s assume the affiliates take a couple of days to read the newsletter and start selling – it means you can control the way your sales go cyclically).
Keeping more or less the same style. If the newsletter contains updated creatives, coupons and so on, keeping the newsletter style will help affiliates move quickly.

Paid Per Click Advertising

Pay Per Click Advertising

Pay per Click (PPC) in the Google advertising programme is a system devised by Google for showing text ads on a web site. Google was the inventor of this online advertising system and now dominates the online advertising market. Prior to Google Adwords and Adsense, the main method of marketing a website was with Banners and other individually placed text ads on accommodating websites where arrangements with various webmasters had to be instigated on a case-by-case basis between themselves.
Googles system was the first real way that text advertising on webpages and websites was able to be done automatically and since then Google has become the dominant search engine on the internet today with 61% market share.
Since Google devised the system to show text ads or as it is correctly known, contextual advertising, there have been and still are numerous other search engines offering contextual advertising like Yahoo and their paid search and also Bing offers paid search results but no one comes close to Googles Market share so we will stick to discussing their programme for this article.
Adwords is where advertisers advertise and adsense is where those publishers get paid for showing those adwords ads.
All contextual advertising online now works the same way. An advertiser picks their keywords, writes up an ad, gives it to a website search engine and that ad gets shown on a publishers website whenever someone asks for those keywords. It's a simple system for advertisers and publishers alike that works remarkably well.
Now if you were to advertise with one of these search engine networks, you would have to pay money to them every time someone clicked on one of your ads. When you took out the ad with whichever programme provider you decided to use, you would have had to say how much you were prepared to pay per click and probably how much you were prepared to spend each day or on each advertising campaign. As an advertiser, it is very important that you get this right because if you don't, you could be paying the account off long into the future.
All these advertisers need web sites on which to show their ads, so this is where the publishers come into play. A publisher is a web master or website owner who designs and publishes a website. They need a way to monetise it and make it make a return on their investment (R.O.I )
Websites are usually built with a purpose, but if there are ways to make more money from a website, naturally there are many willing webmasters prepared to show other ads as well as their own goods and services. This then becomes what in business is called "a value ad" to their business. For the sake of clarity here in this case 'a value ad' means an added value to their business.
The publisher/webmaster places a piece of code given to them by the PPC search engine provider on their website so this code will then insert relevant ads based on what the subject matter is in your website. So if I had a website about "poor little Widgets" I would see ads from advertisers advertising anything to do with "widgets" and the closer their ad matches the content of my page and if I as a publisher show their ad "above the fold" then I can expect to receive a nice payment when someone clicks on that ad.
The online advertising world has opened up in the past two years and now give Publishers a choice of whether to show contextual ads, video ads, image ads or a mixture of all types. The contextual ad is still the most common and no doubt you are quite used to seeing the "Ads by Google" inserted somewhere into websites as you have surfed the 'net.
Pay Per Click Affiliates are those webmasters/publishers who monetise their websites with advertising that they get paid for whenever someone clicks on one of the ads.

Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

Most people know that there are millions of dollars being spent every single day purchasing products and services online. But did you know that you could be earning a % on every sale made by simply referring and recommending the products that you like to people.
It’s one of the best ways to get started making money online – you don’t need a website, you don’t need a blog, you don’t even need any cash to get started, although these things can help, you can certainly start without them. By helping consumers research and choose products they already want to buy, which could be as simple as writing a 500 word article (just like this one) you could be earning a nice little second income.
It’s pretty ammusing for me, watching people make up excuses as to why they havnt done anything.
Personally I don’t really care if they do it or not, it doesn’t effect me at all. Although it would be nice to have more friends who arent working all week to play golf with and take the boat out. But other than that, it makes no difference to me.

How to Write a Blog

How to Write a Blog Post in 30 Minutes
Posted by Alan Liew |

Writing content for the web can be enjoyable, satisfying, fun and hopefully profitable but it can also be hard work at times. Every writer experiences those occasions when their output slows to a crawl, and the finish line seems to drift further into the distance. I've been there a few times, so here are my tips on how to beat the block and produce a new, quality post in less than half an hour - and to prove my point, I'll write this in 30 minutes.

Get into a Positive Mindset
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OK, first up is your attitude. If you have a defeatist approach, you'll likely be defeated. Look at the facts - you're only trying to write 500 words, not a novel. It doesn't seem that intimidating now does it?

And remember - in less than 30 minutes you'll have a piece of work that can start earning you money. So be positive, and get thinking.

Pick a Subject
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Next part is perhaps the one you consider the hardest - the topic. It's always easiest to write about what you know, especially if you want to write quickly. Research and fact checking can take time, so you're best sticking to opinions or advice. By the way, I've taken 10 minutes to get to this point.

Sketch out Your Headings
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This is the bit I find the most constructive, as it allows you to see a mental path to the finish. By listing 3 or four headings, you'll be halfway towards a completed post as you can expand on each one for a paragraph or two.

Add the Flesh to the Bones
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Now go back through each section and think about why you wrote that header. What point were you trying to communicate, and can you express it concisely to your reader? After all, they probably want to read as quickly as possible so be brief and succinct.

Check and Correct
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Finally once you have your finished draft, read through it. Assuming your post is around 500 words this should only take the last 5 minutes or so. You're checking for the obvious spelling and grammatical errors (which your spell checker should help with), but also for any problems with the flow of the text.

At this point you also want to try to make the article as user friendly as possible, so you could perhaps add some bold and italic highlights to help your readers to scan. And at that point, you're done! And so am I, 444 words in 28 minutes from start to finish. I thank you.

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Affilate Marketing

What is Affilate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a process of promoting another persons product and getting a percentage commission on any sale made to a customer that they introduce to the seller. It works well because it allows the seller to reach a wider audience than they can with their own efforts, and the marketer to make money through their marketing skills without developing a product of their own.

Affiliate marketing has been used for a long time in the adult industry. It was in 1996 when Amazon’s affiliate program brought affiliate marketing into the main stream. Because of this Amway and other online suppliers began to adopt the model, the popularity spread so more people began working as affiliates.

It is also not just big companies supplying physical products that have taken advantage of affiliate marketing as a delivery system but also small time entrepreneurs were quick to see the value of a system that allowed hundreds of people to promote their products for them, without paying advertising costs unless a sale was made.



Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting a website, in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber and/or customer provided through his efforts. It is a modern variation of the practice of paying finder's-fees to individuals who introduce new clients to a business. Compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit (Pay-per-click), registrant (Pay-per-lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (Pay-per-Sale).