Earn money.. for Xmas!?

“At Bux.to, you get paid to click on ads and visit websites. The process is easy! You simply click a link and view a website for 30 seconds to earn money. You can earn even more by referring friends. You’ll get paid $0.01 for each website you personally view and $0.01 for each website your referrals view. Payment requests can be made every day and are processed through AlertPay. The minimum payout is $10.00.”

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

The above example is based only on 20 referrals and 10 daily clicks. Some days you will have more clicks available, some days you will have less. What if you had more referrals? What if there were more ads available?

Thousands of satisfied members that have received their payment. If you’re still not convinced, read the praise of our happy members.

Join now and receive a $0.05 Sign-up Bonus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Click on Ads for Christmas Money Haha or should I say Ho ho ho”

Google adsense has become a very popular tool for making money from your site by showing advertisements. But sometimes you see PSA - better known as Public Service Ads on your pages. These ads are displayed because adsense has not been able to find suitable ads for your page. Without commiting these 15 Adsense mistakes, here are some ways to remove PSA.

Why Public Service Ads are bad?

• Most important fact is that there are no payments for clicks on PSA’s. So even if you have a good CTR (click thorugh ratio), it is of no use.
• It spoils the look of your site. Lets say you decided to place a big 160×600 vertical banner on your site and no ad showed, the PSA ads will have big monocolour fonts since one big ad wil be shown instead of 5 ads there, which looks bad to the surfer.

How to remove Public Service Ads?

• Develop sufficient good content with keywords on your webpage related to the topic of interest. Google is a great fan of good content websites.
• Ensure that META tags like ‘title’ & ‘description’ and the headings tags like h1, h2 etc. have content which matches the rest of your site. They are main ways google judges your pages content.
• Add specific keywords in your text which will help the google bot to determine and understand the content of your website. Repeat related keywords which will better help to understand site content. Do not fill your page with simlar keywords, it might work against your favour.
• Try to keep the entire website focussed on a particular theme, so that even if the content on a particular page is lesser, the ads wil show.
• Do not place multiple ad units if there are not suffcient ads to display on all of them. Also Google TOS do not allow placing more than 3 ad units on a page.
• Use section targeting - you can target an ad unit to a specific section of your blog, as well as block out irrelevant sections like navigational links. Useful to get more targeted ads.

Is your site Still showing Public Service Ads?

• Google may take time to crawl your site. Although most of the times the ads show immediately, at times it takes upto 48-72 hours for google to assess the content of newly created webpage. This usually occurs if your site has not been indexed before by Google. The time is reduced on newer pages of a site already running adsense. Google claims the ads will get better and more focussed to your pages with time.
• Your page may contain objectionable content. This may be against Google Adsense policies. If you feel your page has no such content, then look for any objectionable keywords or phrases which may be present accidentaly. Removing such content can cause PSA’s to dissapear.
• Your site maybe using a robots.txt file, which will may not be properly set up and prevent the AdSense crawler from crawling your web pages. Add the following two lines to the top of your robots.txt file:User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow:
• Frames may occasionaly cause difficult in indexing your page. Always remember to tick the Framed page checkbox from the Ad layout code page when generating your ad code. Similarly IFRAME’s also prevent effective indexing and cause PSA’s
• There may not be any ads configured to show in your region. Lets say that these ads may be working in United States, but maybe showing PSA is Zambia. This is because Google Adwords payers can select regions where to display their ads, where they believe their target surfers are. After all why should an eye surgeon in US want to promote his service in Zambia? Try using the Google Adsense Preview Tool (works on IE only) which helps to determine probable ads in different regions.
• Recheck your Adsense code was inserted properly on your webpage. Do no attempt to modify the code in any way, as it is against their terms of service. Adsense gives enough options to cutomisethe ad colours and sizes to suit your site. USe only the official code available from their site.
• Remove session ID’s from urls - they changes every time a different user views a page, and the URL will not be in the indexed everytime.
• Reduce your filter blocked urls. This feature is in place to allow you to block competitors ads from showing on your pages. If you block too many such urls, there may not be any advertisers left to display ads.
• Use the Google Adsense Sandbox tool Simply enter the URL or keywords in the box below, and you will see up to 20 sample AdSense ads for the URL or keywords.

Official ways to hide Public Service Ads (PSA)

• Suggest as altenate colour to display instead of your PSA. This will show an empty space with the background colour you suggest.
• Suggest an alternate ad to display instead of your PSA. Your ad will show in that space instead of the PSA if their is insufficient content.
• Place a collapsible ad. This ad will collapse and not show any PSA at all.

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank, you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously, you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs, and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

http://www.blogmastermind.com/affiliates/index.php?Clk=2728855

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

http://www.blogmastermind.com/affiliates/index.php?Clk=2728857

eBay - Is probably the easiest and fastest way to get started making money online.  You can start by selling products that you’re not using around the house.  Garage sales, auctions, and estate sales are great places to find products to sell.  If you want to go big, Liquidation.com is a great place to buy products in bulk. 

Promote affiliate programs-You get paid by promoting other peoples’ products once and will get paid a good commission, usually over 50% once the sale has been completed.  I would recommend Clickbank, Commission Junction, Amazon, and Paydotcom for a starting point on finding affiliate products to promote.

Paid Surveys- If you can fill out simple forms, you can make money with paid surveys, just do a search for free paid surveys and you will find more than enough to keep you busy all day.  I have found that if you pay for a list from a company like SurveyScout, you will find much better quality and higher paying surveys to fill out.

Freelance work- Anything from data entry, web design, article writing, blogging, you name it, can be found online.  There are thousands of people making a good living from home doing freelance and contract type work.  The sites that I use are GoFreelance and AllFreelance both are very professional and easy to use.

Connect Suppliers with Buyers - Innersell is a unique concept in which you will get paid a commission by connecting suppliers with buyers.  Once the sale is complete you will get paid a good commission.

Virtual assistants: Each week Virtual assistants scours the Internet, newspapers and other resources for the best work at home and virtual assistant jobs.  Also, companies post their jobs directly to the web site.  These companies are then screened to make sure the jobs are legitimate and do not charge a fee.  Then and only then - the jobs are posted on the telecommuting job board!  You can immediately view and apply for these jobs!  New Companies are signing up all the time looking for good people to fill their work at home jobs!

Become a reporter: Creative Reporter is your online reporter desk that allows you to share and contribute news with the audience of Creative Weblogging.  In exchange all contributors will be mentioned when published and rewarded based on their contribution Page Views (actual US $10 for 1,000 Page Views).  As a reporter you will get access into ther newsroom and see statistics including comments on your contribution.

Write articles: Associated content Submit text, audio, video, or images on any topic you want, or choose a specific assignment from the Calls for Content page.  Get paid through Upfront Payments and Performance Payments.

If you implement one or all of these techniques, you could be bringing in a nice steady paycheck from the comfort of your own home BY THE END OF THE WEEK!

Making money with your blog is easy and actually almost automated once your blog gets a bit of age and ranking. This is mainly due to the fact that most blogs die a lot sooner than traditional websites and advertisers view them as “more volatile” investment but once you have proven that your blog is here to stay - You Got Yourself Blog Income Potential!

In fact I get nearly several requests each week for advertisements on pages of my blog. They come in multiple shapes and forms but have couple things in common, which we will get to in a bit. What I want to discuss here is YOUR blog goals, because it will help you identify which ads will stay and which will be declined!

What Are You Trying To Accomplish?

A core question you should ask yourself and one you need to answer honestly.

• Is your blog designed to get subscribers?
• Sell Your own product?
• Sell affiliate products?
• Monetize via AdSense
• Or simply deliver content you are passionate about?

And while I understand that multiple monetization options are and should be deployed at every blog - I’m sure you can identify one that works for you the best. That is the one that should become the center of attention - Your Main Goal.

And once you have established the main goal it becomes easier to understand what is one action you want your visitors to take and how to distribute other monetization options on your blog to not interfere with that action, not distract from it.

External Advertisement simply becomes one of those options and for some might even become The Goal, which will change the priorities but you will have to evaluate it for yourself! In case of this article I’m talking about external ads as an “additional income stream” and nothing more!

Put A Price On It!

Now that you have a clear understanding of your main goal - you need to evaluate your blog:

• How well does it lead people into taking an action toward Your Goal
• Do you have enough of the “Calls to Action” for your goal or do you have Too Much?
• Do secondary goals, which could be ads or subscription or just about anything you define, interfere with your primary goal or do they coexist nicely and perhaps even add to it?

Once you have that understanding - you know how much extra space you can dedicate to secondary goals or as is the case with my blog - affiliate ads and external advertisement!

This exercise just helped me to identify How Much Space I can Allow For Secondary Ads!

One other thing I still need to determine is how much blogs similar to mine and with comparable traffic ask for their advertising space, taking into account number of ads they have available and number of ads I’m willing to allow.

Nothing scientific here but simply understanding that if a “Blog A” charges $25 a month for a 125×125 banner on their blog while giving room for 6 ads - I can safely increase this price to $35 a month if I only provide space for 3 ads because with comparable traffic I offer HIGHER visibility to advertisers.

One last thing to consider is by doing this exercise on several of comparable blogs and coming up with a Ad Value or Price on my blog. It is my blog space to sell but I have to be competitive OR Not Participate At All!

Stick To Your Guns!

Now that we have the understanding of how much we value ad space on our blogs - we need to stick to that value, if it doesn’t sell well - we might have to re-evaluate it but still stick to it!

Create an Advertise page on your blog where you clearly explain how much it costs to advertise on your blog and options available. Your choices can be just about anything you are willing to offer and I’m not here to give you any ideas - just have a look at what options offered at the blogs evaluated previously. Craft your offer to be competitive!

One thing I see time and time again is that when people contact me for advertisement opportunity - they will try to low-ball the price, completely ignoring the guidelines on my page.

I guess some people might think I’m desperate for the money to accept the price a lot less than what I set.

Well, guess what…

External Advertisements are just a sidekick on my blog and its either my way or no way at all. In fact I have just removed the row of 125 banner from my sidebar to achieve my other objective - more important to me than selling ads space - offer people subscription to my eZine, which pretty much reduced advertising options on this blog to NOTHING but its OK with me…

My Main Goal Is Not Selling Ads Space!

Sticking to my guns in this case is not only a matter of getting the right price but also delivering a consistent message from the pages of my blog. I’m not hiding anything - I’m an affiliate marketer and I earn by providing relevant reviews on this blog, but not too often.

Main blog content is about sharing what I know and love and proving my right to speak on the subject. And once I have accomplished it and managed to deliver the content my readers come to expect - my goal is to sell the prime product I offer - Expert WordPress.

And to be quite honest - enough people take advantage of the offers provided for my product that I don’t need to sell Ads Space because my main goal delivers what I need!

Conclusion…

Oops, looks like I got a bit emotional in writing this post but it delivers the main message and hopefully shows Why and How to make determination of the basic ad value on your blog. I also tried to make a point that you Do Not Accept the low-balling ad offers!

• You have worked hard to create content optimized for search engines and written for people.
• You have spent time to bring the visitors to your blog
• You have invested effort into getting higher authority status for your blog

…don’t sell it off for pennies to “wannabe advertisers” who try to low-ball you. One click on their ad and you are loosing a visitor you have worked so hard to bring to your pages!

Know the Value You Present and Demand its Worth!

He reasoned that for all its supposed follies, Adsense does fetch money for his websites. Build a knowledge site with a blend of affiliate programs along with Google AdSense ads and earn several nice paychecks a month. Techniques he will mention will be things like blending the “look” of your ads into the overall design of the page are common knowledge, but Adsense Secrets shows you techniques that have been tried and tested by the author to make huge profits. The Fix master confided that he used to make a ton of money from adsense but had committed the cardinal sin of spending it just as fast as he made it.

Learning from the “legend”, they really treat their AdSense business as a REAL business empire. Google also lets you track your adsense code on 200 different urls (channels) so you can see which web pages or blogs are earning you money. Choose your best Ads colors: Adsense gives a panel control to change text colors, border colors and environment colors. You need to make your Adsense unit blend in with your content, so use rectangular boxes.

Building content websites with the aim of earning an AdSense income then you’ll know that the ads shown are dependant upon the surrounding content on your web pages. Techniques change on a daily basis, whether your niche is AdWords, adsense, free traffic generating, or affiliate marketing in general. The goal is to make your Google adsense ads as different as possible from your website. Paypal), Text Link Ads (sold for a fixed amount per month), Chitika e-Mini Malls ads (pay per click), affiliate programs like Amazon, Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer)“A number of factors come into play when AdSense tries to determine what the page is about: The URL of the page, the page title, the anchor text of links, the keywords that appear most frequently within the page, search engine queries that lead to the page or to another page that links to the page”.

Utilizing AdSense and then add one strategy at a time. Things like being able to have an opt-in box, auto responder set up on the back end, RSS feeds, daily new and fresh content that you write, You Tube like videos that are related to the subject matter, AdSense towers, membership capabilities, picture galleries and a whole host of other tricks and tactics. We now have software that will shell out a fully-fledged website in half an hour (and people expecting to bring online at least 5 of these a week), packages of ready-written Private Label Rights articles, membership sites where for a monthly fee you can get PLR packages on any topic that ranks high in keyword analyses, or ready-made content-rich sites already fitted out with Google Adsense codes. Keep updating your website, keep marketing the site, and you will soon see Google AdSense Profits.

The number one causes Google’s AdSense program has far outweighed Yahoo’s Publisher Network is because they’ve been able to spread out as far and wide as possible in as little time as possible. Firstly, you need software that can build hundreds of your adsense sites fast using reprinted articles. Google Adsense has become one of the best ways for small webmasters to earn online, and an entire industry seems to have grown up around it.

Try to research with the background color, font and text colors to achieve the desired click-through campaign and, hence, maximizing your adsense income. Are you in for the long term as a serious adsense publisher? The Google Adsense, will display ads relevant to your topics. There used to be a question that goes, “Is building Adsense sites a business? Well yes it is if you treat it like one.

Get a free copy of Joels’ updated indepth best seller to maximize your profits: Adsense Secrets 4

Before you can attract a lot of targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing website, it is crucial to use a few search engine optimization techniques.

When you optimize your website for the search engines, you are getting your website ready for search engine crawlers to visit your website. When your site is optimized, you are maximizing the amount of targeted traffic you receive for free from search engines such as Google.

In order to get good rankings on the search engine results pages for terms your visitors use to search, it is very important to know how to optimize your website.

Keyword Research

First of all, a little keyword research needs to be done. You can optimize your website by using the Overture keyword tool and the Google keyword tool to find the best keywords for your niche market or website theme. Make a list of these keywords and make individual webpages based on one or two of these keywords at a time.

You can also find variations on these keywords with the Google keyword tool. Optimize your webpage by inserting your keyword about 3% of the overall word count of the page. This is a a general rule for on page search engine optimization.

Meta Tags

Look these up on google to know more but in your HTML code you can insert special META information visible to search engine crawlers (not website visitors) so crawlers know more about the page topic (and can rank you better in the search results).

The title is the most important tag however and you should take care to fill this with 12-15 words of keyword rich content on each page. You can also insert a META tag telling search crawlers to come back every 5 days or so.

Add Fresh Content

To get and maintain good Page Rank and search engine positioning in Google, it is necessary to keep updating your website with fresh content. You can easily accomplish this by adding a new webpage of content every week. When you add lots of new and interesting content that’s optimized, search engines will send you more visitors and your visitors will be happy with all the great website content.

Keeping your website fresh with new and optimized website content will help you gain more trust by Google as an authority in your niche and you will get more targeted traffic. Just by adding more relevant pages, all the other pages in your site will gain a higher page ranking in Google and other search engines. You will also attract more back links from other webmasters with authority sites.

Getting Links Back To Your Website

When webmasters link back to your website from theres, this is called a “back link”. Backlinks also help improve your Page Rank as your site looks more trustworthy to the search engines. Other ways to get backlinks include article submission. You can write your own articles to submit them to article directories, or you can have someone else write them for you.

Article Submission

You can rewrite the articles you add to your website and submit them to article directories. Rewriting them is a smart idea because search engines do not like seeing the same exact content in two separate places. Your website might lose trust and therefore positioning with the search engines if it finds a copy of your content somewhere else on the web. So it is best to rewrite a few sentences in the page.

On every article you submit, you get to add what is called a resource box to the end of your article. This box says a little blurb about you and more importantly, it contains a link to your website or blog.

Article submitting helps you attract more targeted traffic in two ways. First, you get targeted traffic from the article directory site. Second, you can link back to your website from your resource box and boost your search engine positioning and therefore traffic.

Article submission services

There are hundreds of article directories you can submit your articles to. I save hundreds of hours that would be spent submitting articles by hand by taking advantage of the ArticleMarketer submission service. For a low fee, their system will submit your article to hundreds of quality directories, and other article posting places and this WILL bring you more traffic and sales. Visit ArticleMarketer to know more.

So how do you find lots of content to add to your website? You can use the MoreNiche affiliate program to take advantage of hundreds of free articles and advice on making money online.

They update each week with new articles on topics related to their 5-6 easy to sell products, so you can easily build websites, attract targeted traffic, and make $80-$100 commissions on very high demand products. You can simply modify these free articles for adding new pages to your website or for article distribution. Visit MoreNiche today for more info.

Technorati Tags: targeted website traffic, website traffic, website-traffic, blog traffic, affiliate marketing, website visitors, seo, search engine optimization, online marketing