Sunday, July 22, 2007

Paying for SEO? Is it good or worthless thing to do?

Today i'm going to adress a widly asked question. Surley you've been at a point when your own developed and optimized website doesen't give good results. It can be that your site is just not interesting enough, it doesen't rank good in search engines, you don't have many, if any backlinks to your site and you've comed to the point when you consider buying SEO services.

Now to the point: SEO services can't guarantee high search engine results or high backlinks nor it can always redesign your site to be good looking and/or interesting. But then again you can't or don't have the time to do SEO yourself. So your best option would be to go in your nearest webhosting company and pay them to make you a brand new website. Paying for SEO services can cost you even more than paying for a new website development. Ofcourse you must know what you are looking for and what your site needs to be and behave.
Having a website developed is much more cost efficent and better beacose apart from the normal website development your website will also be optimized. So once again we come to the point when you need to have a clear vision about what your website is for and what you want from it. All you have to do then is transfer that "vision" to the ones developing your website so they have clear directions on how to build and optimize your website.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Google Q2 2007 earnings report

Google reported their earnings for Q2 2007 Tuesday.

Google reported revenue of $3.87 billion, up 58 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
Although Google revenue has increased overall from last year, there were some disapointments at wall street beacose google missed expectations by 3 cents per share.
Excluding traffic acquisition costs, or commission paid to content partners, revenue was $2.72 billion

The advertising earnings from google search advertising and also AdSense publishers grew by 47 percent compared to the second quarter of 2006.

Ofcourse this is not what some expected and part of the reason as to why earnings are lower than expectations can be put to the recent acqusition of DoubleClick and the opened investigation about googles acqusition of DoubleClick. Another problem is the two most significant lawsuits Google faces at the moment include those related to its book search project and the suit filed by Viacom related to YouTube.

Make money online

Make money online

This is just a reminder to check out some of the older articles on making money online. There is a lot of useful info on how to make money from start!

Sunday, July 8, 2007

June's top 3 Advertising networks

We at moneymaker99 have been closley tracking all of the major online advertising companies and based on average Cost-per-click, customer service and advertisement factor are going to post the top 3 advertising networks every month!

1)ClickBooth
- Having the highest paying ads in the industry, along with their robust and fast customer service with great advertising factor Clickbooth takes this months first place!

2)ReviewME
- Doing reviews that pay more than 10$ on average is top of the industry though they are beaten by Clickbooth customer service and advertising factor. Never the less ReviewME have pretty decent customer service and great advertising factor!

3)AdBrite
- While not having the highest paying ads, even minor paying text-link ads and extremly minor payouts by traffic(CPM) AdBrite great customer service and one of the best advertising factors puts it firmly on 3rd spot!

Saturday, July 7, 2007

The crazy ideas

Have you wanted to know how to make money online, searched google found hundred of sites that claim they will show you how to make money?
- Ofcourse you've been in this situation.

I want to clarify things a little about most of those websites or blogs. So nearly 90% of their articles and guides are pure nonsense. It is even funny to look at them beacose not only they post some ridiculous ideas and guids on making money but the funnier thing is there are people who bealive everything they are posting.

For example they have these strange ideas on making money on e-bay, with e-books, videos and similar things. This is all to put it simple false.

The best ways to make money are through advertising networks like AdSense, Adbrite, Bidvertiser and the rest of the advertising networks. Making money yourself and dealing with hundreds of advertisers, ADS, articles and all that stuff is impossible.

Second thing is even with the best advertising networks it's not easy to make money. The biggest issue is having large enough traffic and quality enough traffic. One thing is having a visitor spending less than one minute on your website or blog and other thing is visitor who is interested with your website or blog content! The issue with traffic itself can be spread to couple of categories by itself. Some of those categories are having a good website or blog with interesting or at least simple enough design, other thing is having good content on your website or blog, another thing is geting the people to come to your website or blog and so on...

When you put everything together you have a though and long way to go.
So you need to make your website look good, increase your search engine results, post good articles on your website as well as knowing how to do all of this.

So now you know what it takes and you need to do all of these things step-by-step. So thats why you need to look for articles and guides that explain all those things step-by-step and ignore some crazy ideas posted only to fullfil their daily quota of number of articles!

You could start by looking at my articles "Guide to making money online" and steadly going through rest of the articles.

Friday, July 6, 2007

Poll Results

Question was:
Which publisher/affiliate program are you using?

Answers/votes
1. AdSense 17
2. AdBrite 12
3. Bidvertizer 6
4. ClickBooth 5
5. Advertising.com 1
6. Yahoo publisher 2
7. Other 15

As we can see Most have answered they are using Google AdSense with 17 votes, second comes "other" advertising networks with 15 votes and third place is AdBrite with 12 votes