Wednesday, February 6, 2013

What are CPC CPM CPL CPA ads


Cost-Per-Click - CPC Campaigns are the ones that pay for every click you get.
Cost-Per-1000-Impressions- CPM Campaigns are the ones that pay a fixed cost every 1,000 impressions.
Cost-Per-Lead - CPL Campaigns are the ones that pay for every user referred from your site contacts the Advertiser.
Cost-Per-Acquisition - CPA Campaigns are the ones that pay every time a user referred from your site buys an advertiser’s product.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Advertising network AdBrite closing down

Online advertising network Adbrite
AdBrite the second largest independent advertising network is about to close down. Due to increased costs of operating, smaller profit margins and failure to find investors for its business, they have decided to close down operations. They've had big competition in the past few years with a lot of competition popping up and coming up with better solutions and more effective advertisement. 

Once the go to advertising agency for those looking for AdSense alternatives, these days easily dismissed for other networks, AdBrite has seen a slow and steady decline, culminating in their closure.

Friday, January 25, 2013

How to make money online

So say you found your best suiting publisher program and you must be wondering now what? Well this is only the first basic step, money won't come just like that and you have to monetize your website and use it to the maximum extent.

So you first need to build up your traffic. There are numerous ways to do this, such as submitting your website or forum to search engines, advertising it, link exchanging, optimizing your website keywords and text and adding a image-link from your website to various forums.

Submitting your website to search engines
Instead of looking to put your website to as many search engines as you can and loosing time and patience with that you only need to put your website in the top 3 search engines: Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines.

Advertising your website
Sometimes in order to get something you must give something, so you can call a little advertising as an investment in your website for huge return.The best advertising program for now is Google AdWords. But instead of paying a lot of money for a quick traffic boost you need to take the slow way. This means that you need to put 50$ dollars/euros advertising money. Choose the best audience; for example if you have java games website you need to advertise your website to some similar group, in this case another java games websites, entertainment website sand/or general games websites.You should choose minimum payment. For example if you put 20$ a day you'll get around 60-80 visits but if you choose 3$ you'll get around 15-25 visits. So you do the math but the best choice is 3$ a day and this way you'll get more visitors per week and plus the longer you advertise your website the more people will see it and know it even if they do not visit it through the ADS.

Link Exchanging
This is quite easy. What you need to do is find some website or forum like yours with similar content and then contact the webmaster/administrator of that website/forum. Make an agreement and you both show each-others image-link on your website redirecting to the others website. Note only affiliate/exchange links with websites/forums similar to yours who have worse content than yours as if it's other way around you may loose your website visitors!

Optimizing your website keywords and text
The easiest way to find out the best keywords for your website is to use Google AdWords program that scans your website and shows you appropriate keywords for it sorted by relevance.
Optimizing your text means that instead of using general terms for writing something you use specific words.
For example if you are running Xbox 360 games website instead of writing console games you write down Xbox 360 games in the description of your website as well as the news, review or other text you have/want to put on your website!

Showing your website
One of the free and easy ways of attracting visitors is by putting an image-link(image with link)on forums you have accounts and are active. This is a slower method and does not produce many returning visitors, in fact it will produce only around 5-15% returning visitors but it's easy and simple to do it and will boost some new visitors to your website!

Innovative ways of increasing traffic on your website
For some time now there are newer ways of showing your website. This are innovative and interesting ways but you can expect some increase in traffic.

The first way is using video hosting websites such as YouTube  yahoo videos, Google videos and so on... You need to create/edit an interesting video, something that will attract more people. For example you can do a slide-show type video named "TOP 20 best cars for 2006". You then choose your own best cars pictures and share it online.

Second way is using social/communication websites such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and so on... You can do this is number of ways. First you need to put a picture of your website in a banner form on your main profile page, second is to put a website image in your image gallery, third is to post your website link in all your comments and last but not least is to email all your Facebook friends telling them about your website.

Third way are websites such as: Digg, Delicious, Diigo, Reddit and so on... This way is when you have some stable traffic on your website. By making users post your website contents on these websites you'll get even more traffic to your website.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Achieving a successful website

Creating a successful and potentially flourishing website is not a walk in the park. It does take time, hard work, and a lot of thought. A website can be compared to a child. If you want to raise it to be a good child then it has to develop. In order to do so many steps must be taken and patience must be acquired. You need to learn how to function a website, how to engineer it, how to optimize it, how to rank it, how to get members, how to get quality, how to create ideas, and more things are yet to come.

Everything seems so monotonous doesn't it? Well that is what it takes to be a top webmaster. Here are some guidelines that are helpful to follow, which are written by me. Put your site in Web Directories, those are just like phone-books but with use to your website. Find ones that have good Page Rank, which is ranked from 0 to 10. So a Page Rank 3 or higher will give you a decent backlink.

Also to achieve a more eminence link there are more steps to follow. You have to find a website with a good niche; niche is defined in the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world as a category in what your website falls into. Such as Google would have a Search Engine niche, MTV has a music and entertainment niche, Comedy Central has a comedian type of niche and so on and so forth.

Next you have to do some research on the type of link you are receiving. This includes the four golden rules: pagerank, indexed pages, backlinks, and niche. It is mandatory if you want a quality link to find a website that has mastered those qualities. If you get a backlink that has a good PR but no indexed pages, and not the same niche, then there is not much use to it. If you have a backlink with indexed pages, but not the same niche and no pagerank, then it is not worth it. So it is necessary to find a website that has a link with those four qualities mentioned above. This is also helpful in the marketing world. People will try to sell links for a cheap price, and say they are quality, but without doing a background check (A good tool to use is Iwebtool) they might be just giving a poor link for a cheap price.

I call those wasted links, they have little or no effect on your SEO. I bought quite a few of them, and had experience, and I now know which links are quality. Also it is always better to find a website that has less outbound links as well.Another excellent way to acquire good links is to put your website in your signature. If it is a good website with the 4 qualities mentioned; pagerank, indexed pages, backlinks, niche (not necessarily niche required for this one) then you should go ahead and put your website in your signature.

I can’t stressed this enough, people tend to not realize the important of this. It is always good as well not to simple place the URL but to provide an Anchor Text. This is a keyword, and will help identify your website! Also if you can’t afford to buy a link, it is always a good idea to exchange links with partner website (remember to follow the four golden rules). Be sure to do a link exchange with a SEO friendly website, not a bad one.It came to me that I saw a plethora of people trying to use Free Search Engine Submitters, well that will get you nothing. It is better to index yourself in those major search engines by having quality backlinks.

Also submit a sitemap. Not many people are aware of this but if you go to google.com/webmasters you can find out how to submit a sitemap. Sitemap’s help Googlebot to crawl your website and have different pages analyzed and indexed. If you can’t figure it out be free to ask me or anyone else. I know most of you want to learn how to drive traffic to your website. This is one of the most difficult and intricate parts of developing a master website. It is always a good first push start to alert you friends and people that you know about your website. Chances are this will help quite a lot.

I had success using this as many of my top posters are personal friends. But you might want to stay away from those jocks and cheerleaders ; they probably won’t understand what a website is. Another good way to get a numerous amount of traffic is to do advertising. Aside from getting a link on a high SEO’ed website, try to get a link on a high traffic website. The only rule for this is have it related to your niche, the worst thing that could happen is having an Illegal Music Download site receiving traffic from a Government Justice website, it just doesn't fit eh ? It is good to have a banner placed on high traffic websites. There are many different ways to advertise including; content creation, Myspace bulletins, banner advertising, Google Adwords, blog posts, signatures, and more.
Trade is always a good way to receive something, especially links, anyone would want to have 50 posts on there forum for a monthly link on their high traffic, high PR, or highly indexed website. You can also trade many other things including links, posts, traffic, advertising, signatures, avatar space, and more. I think the best way to receive traffic to your website is something that draws attention.

Let’s take a look at some successful websites shall we? Digitalpoint has resourceful tools and a helpful community, Google has a massive search engine, Iwebtool has a plethora of SEO tools, Apple has the revolutionary iPod, AOL has the instant messenger and internet services, Youtube has video broadcasting, and there are more. If you have something that someone in the world likes, such as a videos, then a person will surely link to their website. I know on my Myspace I put certain videos that I like, and that is a plus for the video creator.

Now it is up to YOU to find a unique specialty that attracts interest for your website. If someone likes something, chances are they introduce it to others, then they introduce it to others, and a chain of free advertising occurs. It is also best to get fresh content. Improve your site more and more all the time! Everyone loves this and so will you. It makes your website look clean, sophisticated, cool, attractive, and fresh, just like you want your child to be right?Another crucial component needed is an excellent design. If your website has a simple and dull design then most people won’t want to visit your website.

Your banner, logo, theme, and forum should look neat and attractive, and should be matching. You cannot throw of design, and it is complicated to find the right theme for you. You should stick to your website as well. Be devoted, and it will be devoted to you, hopefully your members will also be dedicated towards it. If you don’t care for your website, no one else will either.I find it best to keep users entertained. The worst scenario is that users get bored, and this leads to leaving and finding another substitute website.

On my website I have an arcade, a news section, videos, contests, a lottery, and more. Find an amazing idea that keeps members attached. When they get attached they want to post, and posting leads to activity, which is a forums best friend. Also have special groups, such as an Elite Members club, as I have on my website Fantasy PC. This makes users want to feel special, and therefore find a liking to your website. I also have a currency in which you can earn by posting. It is called FP Gold, instead of real money it is a fake currency on my forums. These can be earned by posting more, and can be used for graphic designs, services, forum posting, script creation, website help, contests, link sales, signature sales, advertising, and more. Well, I covered as much as I could.

As I said earlier, creating a thriving website is difficult, takes an amount of time and dedication, you even may have the chance you can be unsuccessful, which I hope shouldn't happen. You probably noticed that I compared creating a website to raising a child. Even though I haven’t had any children myself as I am just a teen, I am pretty sure it is a pretty close comparison. You want your child to be successful and you have to develop him/her and put effort into it so if you keep to it, and learn and practice everything from my guide here to different guides, you can improve your website, to one day becoming a triumphant website.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Guide to increase website visitors


So my previous article about getting your site worth the stop was more general. Now i'll post step by step guide what you need to do in order to optimize your blog. Yes this is only for blogs, though it can be useful for website also. This is to generally optimize your blog and make it better looking, increase traffic and optimize your earning and i'm telling you this free, for this kind of information and guides you usually need to pay hundred of dollars!
If you have already published blog skip the first few steps!

Step 1
Before you publish your blog make it nice and content rich. No one wants to see 3-4 articles blog with nothing on it and they surely won't even think of clicking your ads.

Step 2
Add at least 5 quality articles on your blog before you publish, all articles must contain at least 500 words in them.

Step 3
Add widgets and useful script on your blog.
- add RSS/ATOM subscription button
- add blog archive
- add bookmark and Digg, Delicious, Reddit and similar buttons or just use "add me bookmark" button
- put a search script for your blog
- put related site links
- add a counter(this is also useful for keeping track with your traffic)
- add your slogan or logo at the top of your blog
-add your ads

Step 4
Go on through your keywords again and make sure all of the keywords are 100% related to your article content. Use Google keyword tool to help you choose keywords

Step 5
Publish your blog

Step 6
As soon as you publish your blog submit it to search engines and web directories.
Read my "submit to search engines" and "get your website through the ranks" articles to optimize your submission  text and keywords.

Step 7
Submit your articles to: Digg, Del.ic.io, Reddit, stumbleupon, spurl, Google bookmarks, yahoo myweb and feedmelinks.

Step 8
Your 6th or 7th etc... article should have 2-3 images or streaming video in it so it differentiates from your other articles.

Step 9
It will pass around 10 days until your blog is indexed by Google and up to 30 days to get indexed by Yahoo and MSN search engines so you don't really need to post in your blog every day but you also need to post a new article 5 days until your last.
So posting fresh articles on a 3 day scale would be perfect for starters, after your blog gets indexed you'll need to post articles at least on a 2 day scale

Step 10
Link exchange. This is a very important part in order to get a better page rank for your blog. Page rank is not crucial but it really helps in the later stages.
Make sure you exchange links with blogs that have similar content as your blog. You can make an exception if you have a link exchange offer from a pagerank 4 or 5 blog.

Step 11
Sometimes you need to refer your visitors to older articles you've posted in case they've heaven't seen them or just skipped them for some reason. So include a link to some older article you've made but make sure it is related to the new one you are posting!

Step 12
Always do little experiments, even if your traffic is high and you have nice earnings still experiment a little. Put a different blog template, change the text color, move your ads to a new place, add some other widgets and/or script and so on...

Friday, November 2, 2012

SEO tools collection

Page Rank
Rank Checker - Get a overview of your website's ranking
PageRank Lookup - check the PageRank for a website
Google PageRank Prediction - check predicted PR of a site
Multi-Rank Checker - View your Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking in bulk
PageRank Checker - View your Google PageRank on differnet Google serversLinks related
Bookmark & Blog Search Check - Find your backlinks in the major bookmarking sites and blog search engines
Reciprocal Link Check - check whether your link partners are linking back to your website
Link Popularity Checker - a popularity score given to a website based on inbound links
LinkPrice Lookup - check the price of your link
Link Price Calculator - another tool for checking the price of links
Link Checker - check your links to see if it's still valid or not
Link Popularity - checks the total number of web pages which link to a website
Link Price Calculator - help to determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website
Site Link Analyzer - analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text
URL Rewriting - convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs
Link Extractor - Extract links from a specific web page
Link Shortener - shorten a web address
Back Links Finder - Build relevant website back links
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer - check link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbiteKeyword related
Keyword Verification - checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword
Keyword Density Analyser - another SEO tools for keywords
Keyword Cloud - a visual representation of keywords used on a website
Keyword Density - another SEO tool for checking keyword density
Keyword Difficulty Check - see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or phrases
Keyword Optimizer - optimizer your keywords with this tool
Keyword Typo Generator - generate a list of suggestions for likely human misspellings and typos
Keyword Suggestion - Find related keywords matching your search
Free Keyword Research Tool - analyze the meta keywords of your competitionSitemap
XML-Sitemaps - Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML)
Gsitecrawler - Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows
Validate XML Sitemap - Search Engine Optimizion Tool for validating your xml sitemapsSearch Engines
Google Analytics - tells you everything about your visitors
Google Backlinks Check - Check Google and 9 data centers for backward link updates
Google Banned Checker - check whether a site is banned by Google or not
Search Engine Bot Simulator - SEO Tool to simulate search engine parsing of webpages and display discovered links.
Indexed pages - check the no. of indexed pages for your blog
Spider Simulator - simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a web page
Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker - checks the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with an HTTP response.
Search Engine Position - Locate your search listings on Google and Yahoo!
Search Listings Preview - Preview your website on Google, MSN and Yahoo! SearchHTML related
HTML Encrypt - Hide your HTML source code
HTML Optimizer - Optimize and clean your HTML source code
HTTP Headers - Extract the HTTP Headers of a web page
HTTP Headers Viewer - check HTTP headers for any specific URL
Meta-tags Extractor - Extract meta-tags information from a web page
Meta-tags Generator - Generate and configure your meta-tags
META Analyzer - analyze a website's meta tags
Meta Tag Generator - help you to generate meta tags
Meta Tag Optimization - Check your Title and Meta Tags for keyword optimization
Source Code Viewer - View the source code of a pageDomain related
Alexa Traffic Rank - View and compare Alexa Ranking graphs
Domain Age Tool - find out the age of your competitor's domains
Domain Stats Tool - get all kind of statistics of your competitor's domains
Domain Availability - Check the availability of domains
Domain Look-up - Retrieve a range of information about a domain
Domain Whois - Retrieve domain whois information
Instant Domain Checker - Check the availability of domains instantly
Ping Test - Check the presence of an active connection
Reverse IP/Look-up - Resolve a host to an IP address
Server Status - Check if your website is online or offline
Website Speed Test - Find out how fast your website loads
What Is My IP Address - shows your ip address
Class C Checker - check if some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP Range
IP to City - determine the Country, City, Latitude and Longitude of an IP Address
Website to Country - determine the Country in which the specified website is HostedWeb stats
Statcounter - famous free web tracker
HiStats - Free, real time updated web stats service
Addfreestats - provide free website statisticsMiscellaneous
FEED Validator - for Atom and RSS
W3C Markup Validation Service - check for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards
Kontera Ads Preview - preview Kontera Ads on your website
Online spell checker - simple online spell checking tools
Browser Screen Resolution Checker - shows what your site looks like with different screen resolutions
Your Browser Details - View your IP address and your browser details
Anonymous Emailer - Send e-mails to users anonymously
md5 Encrypt - Encrypt text to MD5
Online Calculator - A simple online calculator

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Make your website worth the stop


Increasing your website or blog's traffic is one of the key things to monetize, either by publishing ads, selling services or selling products. But one-way traffic is not what you need.
So before you publish your website make sure it's done properly. These are the things you should do before even publishing.

1.Make it functional
This means you need to have clean and properly done coding. As your page title put the best describing thing and then your own website name!
For example: lets say i'm selling shoes and i want to put a title on my page which contains woman shoes, so you do this - "Title: Woman shoes : yoursitename"
If it's a page with specific woman shoes you need your title to describe that. Title: Nike red snickers : yoursitename.
Other thing is that you need to have every link working and referring to where it's supposed to.

2. Make your website/blog look good
Yeah, instead of using one table or border use couple. In one you'll put latest news, in other field your latest product, in other filed you put your cheapest product or special promotion or similar.
So basically you need to display various things all sorted in a nice matter and all with your website content.

3. Make sure you've got the right keywords/tags
Add general keywords that have high search values but you need to have specific low traffic keywords.
For example lets say your site is about shoes so here are couple of keywords: shoes, boots, sports shoes, woman shoes, casual shoes (these are all high search keywords); red shoes, blue shoes, formal shoes, military boots, apex shoes (these are all medium search keywords); Nike red shoes, apex blue shoes, Nedi winter shoes (this are all low search keywords). Because your website is new you can't expect to be listed on the high search keywords so you need to put very specific keywords in order to get visitors!
Use Google keywords tools to help you choosing keywords for your site or other keyword tool.

4.Add some interesting widgets on your site
Add some useful and interesting widgets/scripts on your website such as calendar, guestbook, chat and so on... If you have for example music website add online music player, you can do this easily with ready flash scripts, add some downloadable demo songs and so on...
If you have for example news website make sure you put search button, add RSS feeds and so on...

Also read my older posts to find out how to submit your website to search engines and web directories, to increase your website, blog or forum traffic, how to advertise your website and more.