Detect Money

Unfortunately, making money online is a really difficult task. If you are not a marketing guru who can convert every 1000 visitors to $100 a day, you have to play the game according to the traditional rules. Rule #1 is simple but clearly explains everything. If you don’t have visitors you can’t make money. I will give you some clues (in no importance order) how I artificially increase my traffic when there is not enough Google search juice.

Don’t forget that these techniques are not for the long term but a quick and dirty approach to use for your specific pages to get cash as soon as possible. For example, you could be marketing an advertising network like Chitika etc. to get referrals as fast as you can.

• Use Google Analytics and look weekly where your visitors come to your specific page. Get the top list and stumble upon, digg them if you didn’t. If you have some time, post these articles using services like SocialMarker.com. You will get visitors as well because there are your links in those articles. If the traffic is from a comment you dropped before, write another useful comment on another popular article on the source site to refresh it.
• Use Facebook effectively. Create a page there and drop some useful content. Find some related forums and advertise your product page. Add new people from US cities to friend list. It is not hard but a little bit black hat. Find an attractive model photo, make your homepage to your ads page and your inbox will get hundreds of new friendship offers in a few day. Many of them will become your fans as well This is suitable especially if you are advertising a product page to get CPA cash constantly. It is quite popular in blackhat style moneymakers and Facebook seems to be not fighting with these evil money makers at all.
• Throw many Google Adwords campaigns on the network with the price of 0.01 dollar for a click with small broad word sets. Since most make money online bloggers are from Malaysia, Philippines and India limit the target to these countries. If your target page is a good opportunity to make money online, you will get back multiples of what you spend in terms of referrals.
• Do not check daily your earnings statistics for Adsense, statcounter or other income sources. Since you are not a media baron making millions of dollars, why to lose time with those little cash and dream for more. Don’t be slave to dreams. A weekly check is enough to see overall progress. Ok, it is a strategical thing, I admit.
• Do not waste your time writing usernames and passwords for the websites you extensively use each day over and over. Trust Firefox and save your information. It is quite useful if you use socialmarker because you don’t need to enter username and passes to every social network. This one is strategical as well.
• Don’t waste your Entrecard ECs in empty articles. Empty article is an article where you don’t get anything since you don’t have affiliate links inside. Instead, search for a profitable offer and if you believe you get many referrals chargeeeeeeeee with your 10,000 ECS in the network.
• Join free advertising networks like Mogado peel ads. This will bring a good click through rate because people wonder what resides under this cover.  Noticed the ads on the right top of my website?
• Advertise cheap on Adtoll with geo targeting. It is quite effective. There are many websites which you will pay only 0.01 for world wide traffic or 8 cents for targeted US traffic.
• Do not afraid to experiment with your money. I spend at least 10% of what I earn to increase my possibilities to earn more. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. The most important thing is it is calculated and in the budget.

As I said, it is a quick article (not strategical development) which I hope that it has given you some clues.

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Actually, I was planning to write about Facebook ads and SocialSpark but happened very urgent thing (which I was suspecting though).  Finally, I managed to be banned by Google Adsense program. Another Update : Currently I use my friend’s Google code to support him. Anyway, Google will pay my all pending earnings which is considerably large. Later, I will write about the mistakes (evil actions) that resulted in ban. Because I used their ads in my all blogs, I had to change them with other CPC and CPM advertisement networks and it took almost one month to update efficiently. At that time, unfortunately I couldn’t write posts on my blogs. I see that Adbrite and Chitika are the best alternatives to Google Adsense, even performing better for some blogs. I can’t suggest Bidvertiser much because it didn’t convert well for me and I have given up with them.

What I would like to tell is that Google Adsense ban didn’t affect me terribly because I didn’t put all the eggs in one basket. Since I have depended heavily on Amazon, RocketProfit, CJ and other money program affiliates my income didn’t drop drastically. Now, I have more motivation and can write more freely on my blogs without fear.

Do not forget that Google isn’t the only way to make money online. I will tell you how you can make money which is a little bit far concept to many bloggers. That’s Russian Dating Affiliate programs and I will tell about more after my next post about Facebook ads and SocialSpark.

John Chow was right always repeating the phrase. DO NOT PUT ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET because you can someday get the deadly email from the big boss ! Internet evolves every day and is full of opportunities for the people desperately seeking them.

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After a successful journey with Adwords for several blogs, I have almost come to limits there for my target audience on the profits. I need to increase my ad budget for further profit, so decided to use Facebook Ads and published an advertisement for $0,01 per click and a daily budget of $10 for testing. It awaits for approval. After this process, I will write about the results next week. It is a highly targeted ad, so I am hopeful with the results. We will see.

Another experiment will be with SocialSpark. I have registered two blogs for testing there and will publish my opinions soon.  I can beforehand say that it is one of the most attractive designs and has the best functionality in “paid to blog” websites.

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Many people complain that they can’t make a good level of money on Stumbleupon traffic. Actually, there are right points on their thoughts but you are not completely lost. I will give you the best tried method of making money with Stumbleupon traffic.

First of all, Stumbleupon users are more experienced than the others and are able to catch the advertisements on your pages, and naturally escape from clicking especially Google Adsense ads. If your website gets a page CTR of 1% on average for Adsense, for stumbleupon traffic, it can down to 0.10% level easily. So, forget about it.

Maybe, you will not believe much but the best way to convert is Amazon product links. You should write a very specific quality post including innovative, quality Amazon electronics that many people would like to have one. To be concrete, I will give you a real example that I experienced this month.

I have written an article about How to read books at night without disturbing your partner with the lights in one of my gadget blogs. I have given 2 related Amazon products namely LightWedge Paperback and LightWedge Mini as sample links. Stumble users much liked it.

Here is the screenshots of my earnings for latest 7 days only from this article. Amazon Sales Commissions totaled on $42.71

As you see, I sold only 5 of the products I directly advertised bringing commissions around $5. The other items are totally different. One person bought 15 books for $400 and this brought commission of $25.95. I earned around $12 for other products. Note that not all the orders were shipped yet, the commissions will increase. There are 1066 product clicks were at that period and experienced 3.75% conversion rate.

StumbleUpon Traffic + Amazon Affiliate Links Benefits

• StumbleUpon users like to shop on Amazon regularly. Even they don’t buy your direct link, some of them will buy another
• Even you don’t sell that day, you will sell another day because of the Amazon affiliate cookie set on their computers.
• They can’t always understand that it is an affiliated link because Amazon links are (hopefully) really long.
• There is always possibility of a huge spending some of StumbleUpon users at Amazon

These are only affiliate benefits of Amazon. You can make money extra with your traffic using Pay per Impressions Ads. Because your traffic increased, it is likely that you will get more reviews chances and advertisers will approach you naturally. You can convert to RSS readers for a future investment.

Note that if your article is not high quality your StumbleUpon traffic will never increase and die much faster than naturally.

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Maybe, you don’t know how important having good paths on established social networks and on websites that allow you to open SEO friendly login names or article paths.

I want to make it more clear with a concrete example.

MySpace allows you to get any user name like this. http://www.myspace.com/iphone

As far as I see, the owner of this path is also aware what he can achieve and drives natural traffic to his iPhone chat site. Search engines much like to index the pages on quality sites like MySpace, Digg etc. and with some clever tactics you can get considerable traffic for free. You can do it even with free blogspot domains. For example, http://appleiphonegames.blogspot.com is my blog and when iPhone was first appearing I made a clever step to register this path and have begun content making instantly. Now, I have everyday at least 50 impressions only comes from ‘apple iphone games‘ keyword search. The blog is on the 6th place in Google for this keyword. At Yahoo, I am 2nd. There are related keywords with different positions. By the explosion of future iPhone games after their SDK (Software Development Kit) release, the traffic will increase swiftly because I have the natural path which Google likes a lot

Anyway, I own Make Money Online path (http://apps.facebook.com/makemoneyonline) and the application on Facebook. Most of other good paths were also already grabbed, sorry folks!

It is a very simple application (actually a presentation let’s say) and has potential to grow more if I program it more efficiently and attractively. When the users add it, I show 10 ways of money making links. Conversions are high because it is targeted. To my surprise, I had many Chitika referrals there and even I don’t monetize Chitika ads on my blogs some referrals do it very nicely for me, hurraaaaa

Quiz applications on Facebook are also good money makers(still viral). I have severals of  them with related concepts and I use AdChap (Facebook PPC Advertiser), RocketProfit, CJ (CPA) networks to monetize.
For example: The Real You, Romantik (in Turkish)

Notice the several PPC, CPA (Cost Per Action) ads surrounding them on both canvas and action result pages. With the excellent Facebook invitation and news feed system they survive and become larger. And one confession, am I the invader of Facebook? Exactly, No. There are many applications with millions of users and hundreds of thousands page impressions a day with dedicated servers assigned to them. They just don’t make simple money. They make tons of them like a bank. What I do is running my brain’s evil motors to take my satisfactory slice from the big apple pie where I am not master and powerful!

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