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.

What are interstitial ads?

Interstitial ads are full-page ads in between the pages.
- They can be configured to show up in different ways and times, meaning you can display 1 interstitial ad to a visitor for example once every 24 hours or 5 times in 24 hours. You can also have interstitial ads placed on any page you like to show as many times as you'd like.

Interstitial ads come in the form of:
• Popup Advertisements
The advertisement is shown in a new window, which opens automatically. It is a kind weakened circuit breaker advertisement.
A variation on the pop-up window is the pop-under advertisement, which opens a new browser window hidden under the active window. Pop-unders do not interrupt the user immediately and are not seen until the covering window is closed, making it more difficult to determine which web site opened them.

• E-mercials
Represent likewise a special interstitial variant. They appear as Full screen advertising spots between play sections (e.g. after a answered question).

• Superstitials
Its further developed Popup, which can merge large Multimedia elements (HTML, GIF, JPEG, Flash) without long waiting periods. The Spot loads in the background and appears by clicks, as soon as it is completely loaded.

• Easy Ads
Those are Flash Interstitials, which motivate in the context of a banner campaign to Clicks. They contain usually a music/video library, an active Chat Community and offer to the user of profit plays, Shops and interesting left. Their special attention is thus on the maintenance. Easy Ads are arranged in the market Design and transport so the mark image and offer at the same time user Benefits on-line.

All advertising and publishing networks

Find out who are the best publisher networks
Judged by:

• highest Payouts ad network
• easy of use and instalation ad network
• best customization ad network
• best support ad network
• most advertisers ad network

The results are:
1. Google AdSense
2. Clicksor
3. Clickbooth

Additional ad networks:
Primarily CPM Based Ad Networks
24/7 RealMedia
Accelerator-Media
Ad Solutions Network
Ad World Network
AdAgency1
AdBonus
AdDynamix / Pennyweb Networks
AdOrigin
AdPepper
AdSmart
Adtegrity
AdZuba
Ampira Media
Bannerconnect
BannerSpace
BlueLithium
BURST! Media
Casale Media
Claxon Media
Click Agents
CPX Interactive (Formerly Buds Media)
EuroClick
Experclick
FastClick/ValueClick
Federated Media
Gold Group
Gorilla Nation Media
Hurricane Digital Media
ImpressionUp
InterClick
Interevco (Interactive Revenue Company Ltd.)
Joetec
Mamma Media / FocusIn
MaxOnline
Oridian
Premium Network
Quake Marketing
Quin Street
RealCastMedia
RealTechNetwork
Revenue.net
Right Media
Rydium
The Robert Sherman Company
TMP
Tribal Fusion
Valuead.com
Yes Advertising
HyperBidder

Primarily CPA/CPL Ad Networks
Advertising.com
Amazon.com
Axill
Azoogle Ads
ClickBank
ClickBooth
ClickXChange
Commission Junction / BeFree
CoverClicks
DarkBlue
DrivePM
emarketmakers
Linkshare
Maxbounty
Meta Reward
ProfitCenter
Revenue.Net
ShareASale
Strategic Affiliates
WebSponsors

Primarily CPC AND/OR Text Based/Contextual Ad Networks
Google AdSense
Yahoo! Publisher Network
AdHearUs
AdKnowledge
AdSonar
Bidvertiser
CBprosense
Clicksor
IndustryBrains
Mirago
Miva
TextWise
Text Link Ads
Vibrant Media
AdBright

Shopping/Comparison
Networks
TTZ Media
PriceGrabber
Chitika
Shopping.com
CNet Shopper

“Non-Standard” Ad Networks (PopUps, Expandables, Pay Per Post, etc.)
7AdPower
Opt-Media
PayPopUp
PointRoll
PopUpTraffic
Tremor Network
WhenU
PayPerPost
ReviewMe
CreamAid

Specific Demographic Ad Networks
Absolute Agency
AVN Ads (*****WARNING: ADULT NETWORK*****)
BlogAds
CrispAds Blog Advertising Network
HerAgency
HispanoClick
Pheedo RSS & Weblog Marketing Solutions
Qumana Adgenta Blog Ads
WayPointCash

NON-US Primarily CPM Based Ad Networks
ClickHype
DMO Global

NON-US Primarily CPC AND/OR Text Based/Contextual Ad Networks
PeakClick

NON-US Primarily CPA/CPL Ad Networks
TradeDoubler
Commission Monster
Affiliate Future
AdLink

Learn how to make money online

Because of high interest and visits to my "Guide to making money online" guides I've decided to refine and extend it.

There are 4 ways to make money online:
1. Sell products or services on a website
2. Sell products or services by email
3. Make money on other people's sales.
4. Make money selling ad space, or largely known as making money with your website or blog

The fastest way is by becoming affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is a widespread method of promoting a website, in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber or customer provided through his efforts. It is a modern variation of the practice of paying finder's-fees to individuals who introduce new clients to a business. Compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit (Pay-per-click), registrant (Pay-per-lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (Pay-per-Sale).

Another way is by signing up with an advertising network such as AdSense, AdBrite, Bidvertiser, Advertise.com, ClickBooth and so on…

Depending on your traffic you may need to invest a little in your website or forum by buying a good webhost, doing link exchanges and advertising your website. Once your traffic is on the desired level you can become an affiliate and/or publisher.

This is the first step and you need to decide where you stand. Do you sell online services or maybe you are just planning so, do you own a website and want to make it profitable or you are just planning on doing so…
If you are like most out there who own a website and want to make money from it these are some basic requirements you need to make in order to monetize your website or blog:

1. Develop an interesting and user friendly website
2. Optimize your website
3. Increase your website traffic with SEO
4. Maintain and post fresh content on your site as often as you can

1. Developing and interesting and user friendly website

If you are planning on monetizing a website it needs to be interesting and user friendly for visitors. This motivates the visitor to return back to your site. You need at least intermediate HTML knowledge to create a website. If you do not have the proper knowledge I suggest you get professional developer to build it for you.

2. Optimizing your website

This is basically a part of the developing procedure. Main thing you should consider is having more than 70% text on your website and the other 30% being various codes (html, php, flash etc…).

Putting Meta tags is also very important, although Google search engine doesn’t need the Meta description tag it still helps at least in explaining your website content to a possible visitor.
Title tag: Here is where you put your website name

Keywords tag: Here is where you put keywords that are specific to your website and explain it best. You should start with “big” keywords and move to more specific ones, make sure you start with the best identifying keyword. Do not use more than 13 keywords as your site can get penalized and actually get lower search engine results with more keywords, instead focus on those 13 keywords or even less keywords if you can.

Description tag: Explain your website. Make sure you start with your website name.

3. Increase your website traffic

There are numerous ways to increase traffic. Such as submitting your website or forum to search engines, advertising it, link exchanging, optimizing your website keywords and text, adding link on various forums to your website and so on…

-Submitting your website to search engines

Instead of looking to put your website to as many search engines as you can loosing time and patience, you only need to submit your website in the top 3 search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN/live search.
The best way to do this is by actually going to each of these sites and submitting. Do not use automatic submitters or third-party sites as it’s only a waste of time and there is better chance to index your site faster if you directly submit it.

-Advertising your website

Sometimes in order to get something you must give something. You can call a little advertising as an investment in your website for huge returns. Here are some advertising networks where you can advertise your site: AdBrite, Google AdWords and so on… But instead of paying a lot of money for a quick traffic boost you need to take it the slow way. This means that you need to put 50$ dollars advertising money. Choose the best audience; for example is you have java games website you need to advertise your website to some similar group, in this case another java games websites, flash games website or general games websites. You should choose minimum payment. For example if you put 20$ dollars a day you'll get around 60-80 visits but if you choose 3$ dollars a day you'll get around 15-25 visits, though you will be advertising your site longer. 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 about it. Even if they do not visit it through the Advertisement they can still visit directly by url.

-Link Exchanging

This is quite easy. What you need to do is find some site like yours with similar content and then contact the webmaster/administrator of that site. Make an agreement and you both link your sites. Note only exchange links with sites similar to yours who have less or worse content than your site. If this is the other way around you may lose visitors. Link exchanging may also increase your pagerank.

-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 Xbox360 games website instead of writing console games you write “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 getting visitors is by putting links in your forums signature and posting little on the forums. 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 to increase traffic on your website

For some time now there are newer ways of showing your website. These 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 and communication websites such as Myspace, hi5 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 Myspace "friends" telling them about your website.

Third way is websites such as: digg, delicio, diigo, furl and so on... This 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, or alternatively you can post your site content on these pages yourself.

4. Maintain and posting fresh content on your site as often as you can

Make sure you maintain your website at least once in two weeks. This means checking for wrong codes or just getting rid of the extra codes.
Posting fresh content on your site is crucial to keep visitors interested. Fresh content also increases your site’s search engine ranking.

After doing all these things you need to put ads on your site. Whatever advertising network you choose, you need to find a good place to put your ads. The placing of ads is very important.
ADS place/s should be highly visible. This most certainly means do not put ads on bottom of your page. Place them top of your site. It can be left, right, center it just needs to be top. You can also place a smaller ad zone in the area where you post your content. You could experiment at first with different ad places, different ad colors and stuff until you find the best fitting position.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) updates

Search engine optimization updates:

• Google has dropped paid links importance
• Google has droped some link directories importance
• Meta tags keywords importance droped
• Unrelated backlinks importance droped
• Title tag importance droped a little

So you are wondering how to do effective SEO when so much things have changed.
Well whats increased in importance are the following things:

• related backlinks importance increased
• site content(text) increased
• domain name importance increased
• site updates (new articles) importance increased

Building quality and related backlinks is what counts more now.
Your site text counts more than keywords do.
domain name is more important, so make sure you register domains that are related to your site content
When you post new articles your site will increase in search engine ranking by few places

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