An Update on Google AdSense

For those who haven't read Google AdSense blog since 18 Mar 2008, Google has introduced third-party ads on Google content network which means AdSense publishers can now display third-party ads. The third-party ads are ads from Google's qualified third-party companies such as DoubleClick, and ValueClick and a lot more.

Combining Google AdSense ads and third-party ads, it will mean more targeted ads will display on AdSense publishers sites. But, will the third-party ads help publishers make more money online? You wouldn't know until you test them. But, Google believes that they will result in increased revenue for many AdSense publishers.

If you like to optimize your site to display third-party ads, you may visit Google AdSense blog here and follow the instructions posted.

Affiliate Video Training - a Step-by-Step Blueprint for Making $6,643 in One Day

Here is a link to access two videos that show you an affiliate marketing method that has been used by a college student to make $6,643 Clickbank affiliate commission the first day he used it.

http://myacspage.com/players/video

The method has nothing to do with list building and online advertising. It is about using Google to send free and organic targeted buyers to different webpages of a site that promote popular Clickbank information products. I know getting a website ranked top in Google and receive free targeted traffic isn't something new. But have seen a website that can have several web pages rank top at the same time for different keywords in Google which generate affiliate sales commission?

This is what the videos is going to show you and they will provide you a creative link building technique which involves article marketing, Web 2.0 marketing and e-books marketing to help you make that happen to your website as well.

9 Quick Info Product Ideas You can Use to Make Money on the Internet - Part 1

There are so many people wanting to make money online by marketing information products these days because there is a huge demand for information on the Internet.

However, creating profitable info product requires a lot of time and works. You have to possess deep knowledge on a topic, take the time to gather more information needed and be able to write. But fortunately, creating info product doesn’t have to be this way. There are many other easier and faster methods for creating a profitable info product. And with some of these methods you don't even have to be an expert on the subject that you'd like to create a product on.

Conduct an Interview with an Expert
One of the fastest and easiest ways to develop a valuable info product is to do an interview with an expert on the topic where you want to write about. Or you can interview several experts and put together all the interviews into one info product that cover different aspects.

To entice the expert accepts you interview, you would let the expert know the free publicity he/she would get from your marketing effort for the interview later.

Turn Existing Content into Products
You can just contact numerous experts to ask them whether they can submit their articles or reports on a particular topic. Then combine them into an e-book or an info product.

You would let each expert to include website links at the end of their articles so that they will get free web promotion. This is a way to encourage the experts so submit content to you.

Another idea is to borrow or reprints sections of existing e-book. Contact the product creator and ask permission for reprinting the content of the product in exchange for free marketing and promotion to them.

For example, if you have decided to use 'copywriting' as the subject for your info product, you may contact a few copywriting experts and request them to send you a sale letter they have written for a product. Once you got their sale letters, you can combine them into one collection of 'proven effective salesletters'. And that's it you have created an info product that can make you money.

Use Private Label Rights Content
There are many websites providing private label rights (PLR) articles, e-books and reports. Some are free and other charge a fee for downloading the PLR content. What you can do is to gather as many PLR products as possible then bundle them into a package and sell the package at a low price such as $9.99.

You can set up a sale page to market and sell your package and also post your offer on forums and ads site to get more sell.

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9 Quick Info Product Ideas You can Use to Make Money on the Internet - Part 2

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Checklists or "Top 10" Lists
Create a simple checklist that people can use it as a guide to do something. For instance, you can come up with a 'travel checklist’ which travelers can use to make sure that they have brought everything they require before they leave.

Take some time to search for the information needed and do research so that you can create a useful checklist that people will want to buy.

Turn All Your Ideas into a Product
If you have a lot of ideas of creating products, you can write them down and then put them together into a report that contains a list of your creative ideas. This report will be helpful to those who want to create their own product, so you can sell your report to this target group of people.

Run a Contest
Example: If you plan to create a report about 'creative website designs', you can organize a contest and invite everyone to join your contest and submit their best web design idea. Ask them to give you the reprints rights for their submission.

After the contest ended. Combine all the ideas into one report or e-book.

Resources List
Find a popular subject, then compile a list of useful resources and turn that into a report or e-book. For instance: a list of drop ship wholesale companies websites, a list of article submission websites, etc. One report that provide a list of the social media sites are selling on Internet recently. The report costs about $8 to $10 and really generates profit to the seller.

"How to" Video Product
Most people prefer to be able to learn something in a way that they can watch and listen on how to do it. So if you know something well, you may go ahead and create a 'how to' video that records yourself while working on something. For example, you can create a video product that teaches others to use Microsoft Excel. Just record the whole process of using it and explain the feature people can use.

Offer Your Help on Incomplete Projects
Most informational product creators should have at least one unfinished info product creation project. You can offer your help to them with one condition. Tell the creator to give you a share on the profit if the product creation completed and ready for selling on the net.

Conclusion
Once you have your first information product created, it is time to launch it on the Internet and start marketing it to generate sales for you. Alternatively, you may include relevant affiliate links into the content of your info product and let people download it absolutely free. Work hard on marketing in order to get as many people to download your info product as possible, this way more readers will click on your affiliate links and part of them may be purchasing your affiliate products which will earn your sales commission.

And when you offer your info product free to people, it will have automatically become a viral tool that will generate free traffic for your website. People who love your product will spread their word all over the Internet.

5 Steps to Start Making Money Online with CPA Advertising Programs (Part 1)

As you may have heard of cost-per-action (CPA) advertising, it is an online advertising model where the website publisher will be paid only when a visitor sent by the publisher to an advertiser’s website takes an action. The advertiser would have specified what action that the visitor has to take to qualify for earning. The action can be a sale, a lead, a sign up, etc.

To make money with CPA adverting program, you need a website or blog. You will use the website or blog to display CPA ads and make money for each qualified action your visitors take in your advertisers websites.

Below is a step-by-step plan to help you get started in making money with CPA ads.

Step 1: What is Your Topic or Theme?
For any money making method that needs a website, the first step will always be choosing a right topic or subject. Before you start building a website, you are going to need to decide a topic that your website will be focusing on. Some of the topics good for CPA ads are insurance, debt consolidation, mortgage loan, entrepreneur, Internet & home business and travel.

You don’t have to use any of the above topics if you don’t like any of them. You can pick a subject that you have a passion in. But make sure you are using a topic that is commonly known by the public.

Step 2: Create Articles and Content
Once you have decided your website topic, it is time to start writing content about the topic for publication on your website. You will want to publish articles and content that your targeted visitors interested to read. So be sure to do some online researches before start writing about your topic. Go to Google and type in several keywords related to your topic, you may find some writing ideas. Another site good for getting content idea is Ezinearticles.com. Just go to the deepest article sub-categories relevant to your topic, click any article link inside the sub-categories and you will be sent to an article page. At the bottom of the article page, you will see a list of most viewed article titles in Ezinearticles in the past 90 days. You can think about writing some of these most viewed titles as they can attract a lot visitors and readers.

If you aren’t able to write articles, you can pay others to create the content you need for your website by using the services of freelance writers through a freelance website like Elance.com or Guru.com.

Another option to get content is to buy private label rights articles and re-write them to best suit your website.

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5 Steps to Start Making Money Online with CPA Advertising Programs (Part 2)

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Step 3: Create a Niche Website
There are a few of good web building software you can use to create a website. These web building software are designed to be very user-friendly. So you don’t have to worry if you don’t have the necessary web design knowledge and skills to create a site. These site building tools allow anyone to build a site without technical knowledge. Here are 2 good website building software available for you to build your own website:

• Xsitepro
• Hyper VRE – Free

Since you are building a niche content site, I would suggest you check out other sites that provide the similar topic and content to get some ideas on how you want your site layout, format and navigation sections look like.

You should also add a few pictures to make your site look attractive. If you can find some interesting instructional videos from YouTube and upload them to your site, that is even better because this will increase your website ‘general interest’ value.

Step 4: Drive Traffic to Your Website
Once you have purchased a domain name and web hosting package to launch your website on the Internet, you need to start generating traffic for the website as quick as possible. Those big CPA advertisers will surely interested to advertise on websites that can get a consistent amount of traffic.

To do this, you would use exactly the same techniques that most web publishers apply to generate traffic for their sites such as social bookmarking, article marketing, commenting on other blogs, forum positing and PPC advertising.

If you do want to use PPC advertising to get traffic, Bidvertiser.com may be a good choice to you. With Bidvertiser, you can get target visitors for as low as $0.08 per visitor.

Step 5: Join a CPA Advertising Network
A CPA network will typically contains few hundreds to thousands of CPA advertising programs divided into different categories where you can choose the most suitable CPA programs for your website topic.

Here are a few of the leading networks you can join in order to gain access to the CPA advertising programs available:

• Commission Junction
• AzoogleAds
• JellyFish

When choosing CPA programs in a network, try to register with those programs that offer pay per lead or per sign up instead of pay per sale because sale involves money being spent by visitors. It is much harder to generate income by creating sales for the CPA advertisers as compared with creating free lead or sign up.

If you are approved from applying a CPA program in a network, you can start placing contextual or other forms of ads of the program on your website instantly, and then of course you should increase your traffic-generating efforts to maximize the amount of visitors who come to your site in order to make the most from CPA advertising.

You CPA ads locations on your website are important to your success. You should place your CPA ads in different locations of your site to see which location gives you the most visitor clicks. Placing your ads within your content area is one the best ways to maximum your visitor clicks.

The more people clicking your CPA ads would mean the more visitors you have sent to your advertisers, and probably the more leads you will generate for your advertisers which mean greater ad revenue you’ll earn.

AdSense Tips from Google Helping You Improve Your AdSense Earning

Google AdSense Optimization Team has written two blog posts last week about finding the reasons of your AdSense earning fluctuations and helping you respond to the changes effectively.

Both of the blog posts are informative and provide a number of useful tips.

The first blog post teaches you analyze your AdSense data by looking at the figures reported in your AdSense account so that you know what are the possible factors can affect your AdSense earning.

When you have completed your analysis and find out the cause of your AdSense earning fluctuation, especially if the fluctuation is negative, you will want to take the right action to improve your AdSense performance. The second blog post will give you the info you need to improve your AdSense performance.