Questions and Answers:
- What is Adsense ?
- What is Affiliate ?
- How much time it will take to earn ?
- Why we need a personal website ?
There are quite a few ways a blogger or webmaster
can make money from a website, the most popular being AdSense. This is because
of ease of implementation and its effectiveness as a revenue source. This
article will look at what AdSense is and a few important features.
What is AdSense?
This is a program that puts relevant advertisements
on a webpage by inserting HTML code into the site. A webmaster has to sign up
for the program in order to get the code, the ads and the revenue.
When a webmaster signs up, they become a part of
Google's display network where advertisers can run ads from AdWords. For
instance, if the website is about pet food.
An advertiser can choose to run ads about pet food
on the display network in the AdWords platform and they will automatically
appear in all blogs and websites that talk about pet food. Google shares the
revenue from advertisers with the webmasters registered in it.
The higher the traffic a website has, the more
clicks the AdSense ads will get and therefore the higher the revenues. This
means that webmasters have to look for ways to maximize traffic. Some common
methods for this include:
• Search engine optimization - Where a webmaster
increases a site's SERP ranking for related keywords in order to get more
targeted organic traffic.
• Buying traffic from high traffic sites e.g. search
engines, social media sites etc.
• Developing high quality content in order to
attract visitors to the site. This content can be written, video, audio etc.
• Link building - Where a webmaster looks for links
from high traffic sites so as to get more referred traffic etc.
AdSense is a very good way for beginners to start
generating revenue on the internet because they can only concentrate on the
most important aspects i.e. getting high quality traffic.
Some of the types of AdSense that a webmaster can
integrate into websites include:
• Feeds - This is where a webmaster can put ads to
RSS feeds. A webmaster has to have at least 100 unique subscribers and the
content must be completely unique.
• Mobile - This is where ads are run on mobile
websites. The ads, code and landing pages are optimized for the mobile web in
order to maximize earnings.
• Video - This are the ads seen in video content
e.g. on YouTube. This allows a video advertiser to generate income from content
created. A video advertiser has to have a minimum number of views per video in
order to qualify for this type of AdSense.
• Domains - This is where a webmaster can place ads
on domains being developed or not being used. This type is a good substitute
for 'page not found' error messages. Only domains that follow Google's
advertising policies are eligible for this type of AdSense.
• Search - This type allows webmasters to generate
revenue from Google custom search boxes on websites.
What is Affiliate Marketing ?
Finding a job these days is not easy. If you go to
job fairs, you will see long lines of people trying their luck to land nice
paying jobs. But at the end of the day, many of them will still remain jobless.
Staring a small business is also not easy. You would need a big amount of
capital and an equally big amount of luck to succeed. The good thing is that
there is now the internet where you can find solutions to make money.
One way to make money online is through affiliate
marketing. Affiliate marketing can simply be described as a marketing strategy
where a company shares revenues with one or more affiliates. From a company's
website, revenues are shared to other online merchants whose own websites are
attached to them.
How do you start to make money through affiliate
marketing? You need to begin by setting up your own website or blogsite. This
is not difficult to do nowadays. All you need is to have your own email account
and you can already setup one. You can open a blog account through the numerous
blog-hosting platforms available. Some of them offer this for free so you do
need to worry about a starting capital. You can also choose to have a personal
domain and this also does not require a big amount of money.
Once you have your own online site, you can already
start posting articles that are related to a certain product you are intending
to sell in your own small business online. There are a lot of products that you
can sell but you have to be very careful in choosing the one you would want to
focus on.
Usually, the best practice is to choose the most sellable product.
This means you need to find a popular product. But the thing with this is that
most probably, since that product is popular, a lot of affiliates have already
chosen that product ahead of you. So you also need to look at competition. Find
out if in your area, there are other affiliates specializing in that product
also.
To give you an example, cellular phones are sellable products. Many
people look for cellular phones to buy. Many people also change their phones
often because new models come out very often. Thus, you need to check for
affiliates doing that business in your area. Are there many of them already?
You can do this by using search engines.
After you have decided on a product, look for
companies that offer revenue sharing to affiliate marketing websites. Do some
research on these companies and find out how they do their revenue sharing.
Companies could either place their advertisements on
your site to help sell their products or they would allow you to create links
from your site to theirs where they can make the purchase. You earn money in
affiliate marketing either through the number of visits their website gets from
your site or from the actual sales made from the people directed to their site
from yours. Sometimes we could earn great money only send visitors to merchants
landing page.
How much time it will take to earn ?
It deppends on your real understanding and hard
working on proper way of earning.
Why we need a personal Blog/website?
There are many free blog sites, free sub-domain
sites are available on internet. You could use it free but it could be disabled
or blocked any time without any notice. You will loss all your valuable effort
and time you invested with those free sitse after being blocked or disabled. If
you have a personal website and you are the owner of that site, no body could
blocked it. You could work and seo your site without any frustration.
