All innovations that will make your blog profitable. Find your killer graphics for your business online, save money as well as marketing review, technology and much more








Make Money With Google AdSense Video Units

Google has taken the bull by the horns and launched the “video Units”, a new video-based advertising where you can embed any Partner video into your own site, and can make money!

If you are an AdSense publishers, located in North America and with a web site in English, take a
look at you ads dashboard inside, your Adsense account yourprobably you’ve noticed in AdSense Setup tab a video units” link.

For now the program allows only 100 companies to offer their video as part of the program.

google adsense youtube

Photo credit: Tony Ruscoe

Nowadays, website publishers realize that getting people to visit your website is only half of the equation. Growing your audience is important, but keeping your audience engaged and staying on your site longer is just as important, if not more so.

Video units enable AdSense publishers to display videos from several YouTube content partners. The video units are ad-supported, and the ads are relevant to both the video and the site content.

AdSense publishers can now enhance their sites with interesting videos, YouTube content partners benefit from a new distribution channel, advertisers have a new vehicle to distribute their messages to their target audiences, and people can tune in to interesting videos on sites they normally visit.

Of course one key question that shouldn’t be ignored is why there is need of a video adsense unit. The service, is the first major combination of a Google services like adsense with YouTube.

It’s a just way to get video through the largest world distribution of video, youtube. This is the thinking behind a new, totally free service that promises to combine the power of Youtube service with the better affiliate program service like adsense.

The end result is that you as an publisher have a very interesting opportunity to earn an extra revenue. Google video ensure you that video unit can be customized by choosing video unit format( site, color and so on). It allows also to change your content in some different keywords or even specific Youtube authors.

Which are the format?

There are two types of ads video unit:

1) Companion ads, they are put above the video content inside the player

2) Text overlay ads, they are appear in the botton of the video content.

AdSense isn’t just for ads anymore; it’s also a place to get video content for your site — and earn extra revenue at the same time.

– a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an embedded, customizable player. Simply embed a snippet of code and have relevant YouTube partner content streamed to your site.

You can choose categories of video to target to your site, select content from individual YouTube partners, or have video automatically targeted to your site content.

Companion and text overlay ads are relevant and non-intrusive. To further blend the YouTube player into your site, you can also customize the color scheme and layout as well as choose from three different player sizes.

How Do I Get Started?

To place video units on your site, here the specific steps you need to take.

1. Sign in to your AdSense account.

2. Go in AdSense Setup tab and click the “video units” link.

3. Once made it, Review and check off the Terms and Conditions box.

4. Click the Visit AdSense Video units button. You’ll go to the YouTube website.

5. Once your accounts are linked Go back to the AdSense Setup tab, choose video units as the product and click the Visit AdSense Video units button.

7. Create a new AdSense player. Give your player a name and description so that you remember when edit it in the future.

8. Choose a color theme. (you can change the colors without needing to update your code.)

9. Pick a layout. (the layouts can’t be updated; if you want to change a layout in the future, Google will give the chance to get a new video unit).

10. Choose the type of video content you want to display: by content categories, by individual content providers, or by automatically targeting your site content. The cool thing here is that you can also provide keyword hints to assist automatic video content targeting.

11. Click the Generate code button, then copy and paste the code into into the HTML code of your site.

The key point is that it allows you to find Youtube partners who have added their video with target ads. The ads displayed can be paid based a cost-per-click or cost-per-thousand impression basis.

Now it comes down to the final question: I don’t see how this service can be favorable for a publisher because I think there is an chance to get an Low profit by video adsense unit than traditional contextual adsense.

If there is one thing that lets things down with video adsense unit for me, is that both Google publisher and youtube content creators will receive a share of the ad revenue. Google also not specifies what percentage of the revenue will be kept by each party.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

Make Money Online: Widget Bucks Is Here

If was one of those times when your Google adsense don’t work like you want, to increase your overall earnings, you need to gradually develop a diverse income stream by experimenting with multiple ad programs. So, my quest to increase my affiliate income, carried me over a new PPC or Payperclick service.

If you’re looking to a new advertising network that features a widget that displays shopping ads, here where a deal site like WidgetBucks comes into play. WidgetBuck offers a PayPerclick solution for bloggers looking to monetize their work and advertiser looking to target their marketing message alike.

Someone sent me a link to WidgetBucks a few hours ago, and seems that this program can get from $3 to $6 eCPM in early test results. So, I throught I give it a quick mention on this blog.

How do you become a WidgetBucks users

To sign up for an account, all you have to do is enter your password and email address. Once made this, you must check only your ACCOUNT ACTIVATION email, and you can start poking around the site.

I didn’t realize just how simple it was to use until I installed it. I love the result, WidgetBucks can be integrated on any known platforms like TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, WordPress, and so on.

We only wished more customization options. WidgetBucks lets you work and create only five widget sizes, while present you with a nice dashboard similar to PubMat, to choose the color(117 max)of your widget that appears.

The widget sizes include:

  • 160×600 skyscraper,
  • 728×90 leaderboard,
  • 468×60  widget,
  • 300×250 widget.
  • 660×330 widget, probably worth check it.

widgetbucks

How You Can Make Money From WidgetBucks

When someone clicks on a WidgetBucks ad widget on your site, you can earn money. You can also earn money by referring people to WidgetBucks.

When I Receive My Paid

To get a payout, users must have a minimum of $50 on their account, so that WidgetBucks team can charge immediately all revenue earned during the previous month.

Once you sign up for WidgetBucks, you’ll automatically receive a $25 bonus into your account. This means you are half way to your first payout with widgetBucks.

WidgetBucks is a very good idea for people that want making money online. It can be useful to complementing others affiliate programs very well and can be an additional and effective way of monetizing your website.

Imagine how much your blogging productivity will improve with this baby sitting on your site. I feel it’s ok for blog to use this service to make extra bucks. However if you try it-give us a shout with a review in comments below to let us know how you find the service and features.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

How Top Bloggers Earn Money-John Chow dot Com Income Report-August 2007

If you came to this article looking for ways to “How Top Bloggers Earn Money”, you came to the right place. Most of the indipendent publishers that stay modest in their blogging journey and have worked without expectation have got thousand and thousand dollars rolled in. I’m sure guys like John Chow can attest to that fact.

Who’s John Chow? The story

John Chow(Vancouver, Canada), is a full time Blogger making a living from this new and dynamic work from  April 1999 when he created a site called “The TechZone” which became one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net. Now it’s also famous for the web blog JhonChow.com, the Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul, because that is what he’ll be doing, will continue writing anywhere.

Back in 2006 John has convert her blog in a resource to make money, and has earned around $352.94 in its first month, arriving at the end of may 2007 at a record $12,569.61 in total blog income.

Before embark on internet mission, he was a collaborator in a local Richmond printing company. After over a ten years of print shop, he decided to change her life, and the internet was where he was going to stake her claim.

Photo credit: johnchow.com

John Chow dot Com Income Report-August 2007- John Chow - $17,000 a Month From Just One Blog

Today, the guru of the blogosphere John Chow, has added another income report of her growing profit of the month of August 2007. Compared to another pubblishers, John uses several blog monetization systems to wrack up those impressive numbers however. I often I talk about this method of income earn, but it’s time for looking some blog income reports! Take a look at the monthly income stats below:

  • Affiliate Sales: $7,244.00
  • ReviewMe: $4,200.00
  • Private Ad Sales: $2,370.00
  • Text Link Ads: $2,157.88
  • Kontera: $1,000
  • Google AdSense: $490.94
  • FeedBurner: $131.18
  • Buy Me a Beer: $117.99
  • TTZ Media: $66.62
  • Subscription: $50.00
  • Grand Total: $17,828.61

How you can see affiliate sales continues to be the biggest way to make money while Google AdSense go down in performance. It now represent only 3% of total blog income. That has had to the fact that often web traffic for most websites drop during the month of August, according to John, in september more peoples will use the internet to look for information or checking their favorite website for new content. So advertisers will be a storm up for the fall/winter season and it’s the reason why need to start with a blog

If you haven’t already done so, John recommend you to sign up for free at her newsletter. The reason to subscribing is to get the official “Make Money Online” ebook, that contains a bunch of great advice for internet entrepreneurs in a way that just about anyone should be able to understand.

John Chow vs Google’s

Recently Google has intentionally changed the search engine result for the term “John Chow” directing users searching for John Chown to an article orienting out. Google is being punishing John, because of his questionable link building maneuver. Reading the Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, you can note the following:

Some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. Buying links in order to improve a site’s ranking is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results

I would to hear your thoughts on this especially if you have any other possible explanations for what might explain the horrible search results.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

How To Make Money With Your Blog Site: Top 10 Advertising Programs And Monetization

An increasing number of bloggers and online independent publishers today may attempt to make cash through a vaste range of ad programs. Most people attempt to use affiliate programs and they make many sacrifices to learn more about how make run ads to get a important profit from them site.

With the services and approaches that are seeing the light of the day, contextual ads in text, refferal, contextual ads in videos are just a few of the many new online advertising formats that have appeared in the net and as many of you already well know, are one of the primary monetization opportunities. In order to get the code, they force you to sign up for an account, so the services are available online to monetize your existing site.

 

Photo credit: vinodchattergee

AdSense, YPN or Chitika: Which One Works Best?

Until now, the way for most people to see which are the ads preview that may show on any web page is Google Adsense Preview Tool.

The Digital Inspiration Contextual Ads Preview offers a unique preview tool for YPN and Chitika publishers similar to the Google Adsense Preview Tool. It’s a free service that allows any online publisher to compare the relevance of Contextual Advertising services.

It’s a easy way to find out which, among the three most prominent contextual ads suppliers Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) and Chitika eMiniMalls, provides the most effective and relevant ads for any given web page or supplied text.

If there is one thing that lets things down with ads preview tool is that you may find that the result in the preview tool do not exactly represent to the ads that would display on a certain page because all the Google Ads appear in this preview tool are sample ads, based on standard AdSense targeting and filtering.

Top 10 Advertising Programs

If you are an online publisher concerned in getting an general list of the capability to earn online, and If you are serious about monetizing your online content, or looking to place relevant banner ads on target websites and blogs, here you can find some handy references that I want to offer to my readers.

Adsense-is perhaps one of the most popular ones for indipendent publisher because it is pretty simple to use. You’ve probably seen them around. Once Web publishers enroll in this program can add text, image and, video advertisements next to the content on their sites.These ads are distributed by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-impressions basis. Google also launched beta-testing a cost-per-action based service. On Google AdSense Referrals CPA is worth checking out the article of JenSense:

I have tested Google AdSense CPA, and sending them significant impressions over several months but earned $0 so I eventually removed them, since I was giving valuable ad space and branding to those CPA advertisers without being compensated for it.

Yahoo-It allows to display banner ads into a contextual environment of your site and earn money from qualified clicks. Yahoo has set up automated and efficient processes for sign up, site validation, ad targeting, and fraud detection. Generates an efficient marketplace by bringing together the most relevant and high-performing content from Advertisers and Publishers.

Chitika e minimalls-A young upstart company called “Chitika” has just They are a new type of ad that many of you will find quite beneficial for your blogs. Chitika goes far beyond the static banner ad concept and into the world of contextual advertising made popular by the Google AdSense program introduced in 2003. Chitika have just made a referral program of the program avalable for public where new publishers to Chitika’s eMiniMalls service and earn 10% of what the referral earns, for 12 months following each referral’s approval date.

Azoogle-”AzoogleAds is a performance-based online advertising network comprised of a variety of effective large to medium vertical sites, portals and email publishers. It provide advertisers with the targeted volume needed to generate high-impact direct marketing response coupled with ultra-fast ROI.

AdSonar-is a content-targeted, auction-based advertising network that helps premium-branded websites and their advertisers connect with customers to deliver superior results. delivers targeted adverts straight to your visitors. No investment is required and setup is quick and easy. I’ve not tested this program yet, but probably will do so soon.

Clicksor-At Clicksor™, our Contextual Advertising Technology will maximize your internet advertising dollar by displaying your advertisement only on relevant web pages and pay per click search engines. By matching your selected keywords and channels to our content-rich affiliate sites and search engines, we can deliver highly targeted contextual ads that go well beyond any traditional advertising method.

Kontera-They have a different approach to contextual advertising. Kontera is one of the most popular ways to get money with your website / blog. A link allow you to make money from advertising based on keyword that is discovered in real-time on a web page within a body of text.

Mirago-Context Stream® enables you to display content-targeted links on your website. It works by detecting the ‘theme’ of the pages on your website and delivers targeted adverts (Mirago Featured Sites) straight to your visitors. It uses a number of clever techniques to determine the content of the page. Firstly, it detects the theme of the page, along with any additional themes. Secondly, it prioritises the themes based on their coverage and then delivers adverts related to those themes. This ensures that the adverts displayed are relevant to the website´s content.

Oxado-acts as an two-way aggregator between publishers and advertising networks. For publishers, it gives them access to multiple advertising networks, displaying the best ads among millions coming from thousands of advertisers, based on the topics of each page, the country and language of each visitor, and numerous other parameters. For advertising networks, For advertising networks, it gives them access to tens of thousands of small and medium sites which they are not able to handle directly.

Amazon-Amazon’s Associate Program is perhaps one of the first online affiliate marketing programs. Anyone might buy books online, because there are books on a huge number of subjects but also   includes a wide range of products of electronics, to jewelry, to CDs and DVDs etc.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

My Recommended Kontera Wordpress Plugin. Maybe The Better!

Kontera is one of the most popular ways to get money with your website / blog. Kontera compared to known advertising programs have a different approach to contextual advertising. A link allow you to make money from advertising based on keyword that is discovered in real-time on a web page within a body of text.

Recently, I’ve noticed that many bloggers have problems installing the codes. I always get nervous when I change my Kontera contentlink plugin- especially when it comes to includes invisible links. Not trusted to you those plugins that includes invisible links because you could get you banned from Google. To recognize a good Kontera plugin, give it enough time to checking it, so you can tell quite well whether your candidate will shortly become just for you.

So, when I’m on the lookout for an Plugin for add ads banner on my site, the first thing I look for is had invisible links included. However, the best news is that Krizka.net  maybe has created one of the better Kontera Wordpress plugins. To see if all this focus on this plugin really matters, continue to read this post.

“The plugin automatically generates the Kontera Ad Code, which is configurable through the Wordpress admin panel, and inserts it at the bottom of the blog. The advantage that it has over Rodney Shupe’s Kontera ContentLinks / MIVA InLine Plugin[1] is that in my plug-in you can specify which posts to omit Kontera ads from. I did this because PayPerPost requires you to remove any ads that will overlap the content of the post, and I got too tired of having to add the HTML code to do it every time.”

Users are able to customize Kontera contentlink directly from their admin control panel. To see which is the value of this product, just think that not only you can decide which posts can have Kontera ContentLink, but Krizka’s plugin allows you to change the link color and so other.

How To Install It

First and foremost you must downloaded the kontera plugin from here. After you have uploaded it into the wp-content/plugins directory, browse into the Kontera the Options section of your WordPress admin panel. In the Kontera code you should find your Publisher ID that you should to set.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

The Top 10 Online Video Advertising - The3dtechnologies

I have approached a few times to write articles on the Online Video Advertising because I think be a interesting resource today, and because are developing more and more and I think that will replace the advertising model of traditional TV. Just think that the trading expense of online advertising in the US will triple in the next 4 years.

According to eMarketer, spending for online video advertising will cost around $410 million this year, a great gain compared to the $225 million of the last year’(a 82.2 percent jump). In next two years, US marketers will invest about $1 billion, and in others two years after Internet video advertising will become a business of $3 billion. an investment opportunity.

 eMarketers

What is the Online Video Advertising?

The Video ads are services that could enable video content creators to monetize their shows. Many advertisers simply use their TV onto the Web that run it in a 320 x 240 pixel window. The best share of the online video spend goes to in-banner advertising. While in-stream ads are widely considered most effective.

While we’re not exactly sure just how these models of advertising  will develop, I think that if there is one thing that lets things down with it now, is to find the content of the video relevant to advertising. This is far from ideal of video advertising like the classic contextual advertising. In a recent article, Chris pirillo, make a comment on the  intrusive model of this new advertising system. Chris said:

“There’s a vocal majority (or is it a minority?) up in arms about the addition of advertising to certain YouTube channels. In many ways, the community-at-large is upset for good reason - and in other ways, they’re shortsighted.

Lower-third “pop up” advertising doesn’t impress me at all - the model is intrusive and overtly unintuitive. Why would I want to interrupt the playback of one video to watch yet another video that I know full well is an advertisement? It’s a poor way to integrate sponsorship!”

 Top 10 Online Video Advertising

This is not the first time that I put a list about these different forms of revenue but I always like to revisit it. Below is a collection of my better ten Online Video Advertising services. I hope you find it useful.

 YouTube

youtube

Recently Google launched its first new advertising plan for the most popular video sharing site YouTube, which involves advertising inside YouTube videos. According to Google, the ads will be offered to YouTube’s premium partners, and Google will share the revenue. So no matter where your creativity travels, you benefit.

Videoegg

youtube

I like VideoEgg because it’s clean, simple and I think it looks great like showed on their website. VideoEgg has certainly made a splash in the online video market. A lot of advertising companies are using VideoEgg to execute campaigns for their leading brands. They serve over 487 million videos per month to users in over 70 online communities.  This service could be the best thing for those who want to get additional income.

Brightroll.com

brightroll

BrightRoll, a San Francisco company is one of best trusted video advertising aggregator to maximize your revenue. BrightRoll Serves 500 Million Advertisements in Video Players in first Six Months and it includes over half of top 250 websites in the United States across one of the world’s largest and most effective advertising networks.

Revver

youtube

Revver is a video-sharing platform which allows you monetize through Revver video ads and shares all ad revenue 50% with the company. It support the free and unlimited sharing of media. At first glance, Revver has some really excellent features. Their unique technology tracks and monetizes videos as they spread virally across the web.

Adap.tv

youtube

Adap.tv is a great online video advertising service was planned to offer publisher and sharers of content a way to fully white label and monetize their video experience - a service offered to each and every adap.tv.

Adbrite

youtube

Ad Network Adbrite, which we wrote about in November, has soft launched a new video product that allows to match relevant advertising with online video content.

BroadRamp

youtube

BroadRamp, Inc. provides content delivery solutions for online multimedia applications, creating multiple solutions for your online needs.

Everyzing

youtube

EveryZing is the most powerful digital media merchandising platform available today. Media companies of all sizes leverage our unique ability to drive the volume of online content consumption and create new and powerful revenue streams. Through our speech to text, search and optimization technologies, and consumer-facing website, we create greater opportunities for consumer and advertiser access to online content.

Valueclick

valueclick

ValueClick Media video is going to be very popular with bloggers and other sites that embed a lot of video. It give advertisers a wide range of options to achieve their business using video across one of the world’s largest and most effective advertising networks.

CastTV

youtube

San Francisco-based CastTV, comes to develop advanced video search. One  of the best video search engine in circulation on the net. We only wished the know how to incorporate advertising, however. Techcrunch has a interesting review of the company.

Conclusion

A lot of these services are started recently, and they will need of publishers, advertisers and a their marketplace to have their success. These services are set up to offer a very rich experience for people that want to make money from other alternatives to classic contextual advertising. Video should be a add component of any online marketing campaign, If you are serious about monetizing your online blog or looking to place relevant video advertising on targeted websites and blogs, it may well be worth checking out further.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

How To Increase Your Earnings With Some Easy Strategies

Many things happen to new bloggers when they spend their time to getting the success with their blog and more of it discourage after their first year of trying to make money online. It can happen that when blogger checks her own site to see which are the response on the earns, it are surprised to find out that their income go down in some periods of time.

The same thing is worth for me. This happen when asked me which is the reason because I made more money in a month than I did in another. The answer are: I worked on my sites, I was making sales, and I didn’t measure how well I was doing.

How To Market The Blog Well

The first thing to make, I monitor click-through rates and ad earnings at least once every week. For example Adsense provide a simple, free and effective way to monitor your Adsense CPM and CTR through your control panel. 

Use Adsense Channel

“Channels enable you to view detailed reporting about the performance of specific pages and ad units. By assigning a channel to a combination of pages or ad units, you could track the performance of a leaderboard versus a banner, or compare your motorcycle pages to your automobile pages. You can even create a channel to track each of your separate domains, so you can see where your clicks are coming from. While channels can be used to track performance and revenue, they won’t have any effect on your earnings or ad targeting.”

We all know one things for getting success online is to have a good conversion-rate. Have a look at the top products like for example Clickbank’s, is just way to have an high conversion. If a website converts at 2% for a $100 product, you’d know that every 100 visitors that land on the site will net 2 sales($200). So the average visitor value of this site is $200/100=$200.

So, if you want to getting a just income from your site for high pay keyword it’s better to target phrases which contain several keywords instead one or two because it’s less competitive. The reason of the success of the terms like Clickbank’s is because it making money for people who promote them. And that’s why they continue to promote them.

Try Other Affiliate Programs With Ad Format

My quest to increase my affiliate income, also has convinced to me to diversify my income using more than one ad program. So, has been this interesting use of great affiliate programs like adsense, Kontera and Chitika that has take me a additional income stream.

One of the methods easiest and one of the most underrated is to try experimenting with ad formats (colors and tables) and placement on your site.  As you know, there are a large number of ad formats that you can choose from while implementing Adsense on your website. Maybe what you can not know is that while some ad formats work well, others get low click number by your visitors. Personally, I focus my adsense banner using Square (250 x 250) and add it inside on my blog post  I think that is the placement better than others.

Develop And Increase Your Traffic

Traffic is always the best way to increase your earn. If you don’t have traffic to your site, it’s similar to opening a  market store in the middle of the desert! No one will find you. One key question that shouldn’t be ignored is if you should to choose between higher traffic or higher conversion, you what you choose? Personally I choose the conversion, however the happy medium is the challenge facing every blogger that develop a blog that are optimization completely (traffic and conversion).

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

You’re a Publisher? LiveRail Online Video Advertising Is For You!

 

If you want proof that the net are evolving, please read this article. I today had occasion to experience what is becoming in an rare instance of outstanding customer service of affiliate program.  The revolution is an change of the traditional contextual advertising , focusing the interests on the video advertising.

While contextual ads with text or image format is one of the most popular ways to monetize your blog, there also times when it is worth considering the new technologies that are available just now on the net.

Do you know LiveRail?

If you don’t know it, LiveRail is a step forward like affiliate programs because allows you to distribute your video content online and monetize with it with unobtrusive, relevant advertising. LiveRail covers along with highly targeted, relevant and unobtrusive advertising. Not only I was just impressed to the quality of the video playback, but also for switching subtitles.

To monetize with LiveRail is as easy as uploading your video. LiveRail allow publishers two alternatives. The first can add the video arvertising inside your content to monetize with it; the second can distribute it without signing away their copyrights or spending a fortune on bandwidth.

LiveRail Campaign

To create a campaign with LiveRail is very easy. LiveRail allows you to add the text for your contextual, and the link you wish it to take your potential audience to upon click-through.

LiveRail is leading the way in the accelerating convergence of video and affiliate programs. It takes a revolutionary approach to solve these problems and the result is a variation of the contextual model that has made Adsense as popular as it is today, and the key is in carefully targeting the interests of viewers.

As you already know that ads units works best if are placed above the fold, inside the content, inside the header or inside the side bar, LiveRail are nowhere in sight, either in or outside of the video player frame.

Contextual ads be placed down the main content so should to be present an high conversion rate, because users  only need to watch when it interests them. If the user clicks on the display URL at the bottom of the ad or clicks the ad while it is playing, he/she will automatically be taken to the advertiser’s website. Users can control the volume and can replay the video if they choose; the video will not automatically replay. LiveRail launched a unique approach to save people money from their website.

Interface

LiveRail interface is easy to use and it is evident that a lot of time and care has been put into making it as accessible and intuitive as possible. In term of functionality LiveRail is a success of platform, providing one of better ways to monetize their work and advertisers.

Conclusion

I think that LiveRail complements Adsense pretty well and can be an additional and effective way of monetizing your website and has a lot of potential to became a prime video advertising solution for enthusiasts of video publishers.

Obviously the efficiency of this approach remains to be  on accurate contextual ad placement. The result have proven that conversion increases when the contextual ads are placed below the content.

If you haven’t signed up for LiveRail, what are you waiting for? LiveRail is currently in beta release, and you can request an invitation to the service from the company website. If you missed out on LiveRail, you missed out on one of biggest shortcuts I’ve ever seen to starting your own online business.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

Monetize Your Website With Kontera ContentLink

 

This is not the first time I’ve talked about this alternative form of program to make money online, so today I’ve decided to talk about a great program called “Kontera” and I’ve also included some tips you can use to increase your revenue in the short run.

Kontera is one of the most popular ways to get money with your website / blog. Kontera have a different approach to contextual advertising.  This means that you do not need to put ad banners or anything like that. Instead, the pre-existing content on your blog can be converted into advertising. Some keywords in the text will become hyperlinked and the sponsored links are double-underlined to differentiate them from regular hyperlinks.

When a site visitor hovers his or her mouse pointer over the sponsored link, a small window pops up that displays the actual ad itself.

If at the start your CPM is just little cents there are some things you can do to increase it. For first, you must know that kontera unit placed inside the fold tend to get the most click, of course if the blog post includes quality contents. You must write at a level that is beyond most of your readers. Headers, sidebar and footer should not be included. Also, change your content in some different keywords and you could get completely different Kontera ads.

However, if you want better answer on how make money with Kontera, I can say that the main advice that is floating on more than one place on the internet, says that to have succes with Kontera you need to get a high traffic.

Looking this numbers taken from doshdosh.com, we can see how an increase number of impression and click correspond an increase amount of money.

$30.20 from 6063 impressions and 295 clicks
$18.88 from 5374 impressions / 218 clicks
$110.0 from 6,003 imp / 1270 clicks
$0.34 from 115 impressions / 7 clicks

Since setting up Kontera a few days ago, I’ve gotten a 2.75% CTR and have averaged around $0.20 per click, while my Effective CPM remained around $5.41 for each 1000 impressions, which I think is pretty decent. Note that this will of course vary, depending on your site content and traffic levels. The payout rate for Kontera is currently set at $100, which can be reasonable when you have a strong website that receives lots of visitors daily.

Also, the code below allow you to control what parts of your site gets spidered:<div class=KonaBody>The content you want Kontera to consider for ContentLink goes here.</div>

Make Kontera Links to the same color as normal links, the code which controls link color is var dc_AdLinkColor=’#xxxxxx’.

How Add Kontera ContentLink In Your Blog

First and foremost, you need to sign up for the Kontera program. All you have to do is enter Information about you and your website( First name, Last name, Email, Title, Website URL, Category, Website, Monthly Page Views).

According to Kontera website, USA, Canada and UK publishers can be accepted into their network. However I was been accepted like Italian publisher, therefore these limitations cannot be accepted for European publishers. According to Kontera, maximum page impressions per month required for your website should be 500,000. Also the main language that should be supported by your website are English.

Conclusion

I think that Kontera and Adsense can be used together into a website because Kontera can be an additional and effective way of monetizing your website but also because according to adsense policy, you can put Kontera and adsense in the same page. The only problem are that the banner pop-up could not be wished by users that visit your website because Some publishers may think that In-text advertising might devalue the worth of your content. I’m sure Joel Comm knows all about Kontera as it make an additional $75/day.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.

MediaWhiz Buys AuctionAds

 

Owners ReviewMe on a quest to expand like industry now owns AuctionAds after had previously purchased the famous advertising system TextLinkAds. The acquisition price was not disclosed. AuctionAds allows you to monetize your website by displaying live eBay auctions.  AuctionAds was created by a partnership between Shoemoney Media and MediaWhiz. MediaWhiz has bought majority ownership of AuctionAds company’s.

AuctionAds have impressed me because since launched it went over 25,000 publishers displayed in all in only 4 months. Who previously seen well for AuctionsAds he is now reviewing estimates because If there is one thing that lets things down with AuctionsAds is the her little experience compared with other services like BooBox and FavoriteThingz.

We basically came to the realization that we had to make a choice: AucitonAds/ShoeMoney Media Group INC could bring in a staff of people, train them and all that (which we had ZERO experience in doing) OR we could sell the company to someone who already has tons of experience in that area and can take AuctionAds to the next level.

According to TechCrunch, AuctionAds has been paying out 100% of eBay affiliate fees to publishers.to its publishers. Are You Making Money With AuctionAds? I’ve asked this because many publishers are making money with AuctionAds. I would love to hear your thoughts on this especially if you have used AuctionAds.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter!. If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my RSS feed.



Page 1 of 512345»