Saturday, September 17, 2011

Amazon Associates


Hello to my blogger friends, i'v just added Amazon Associates to my.
I advise all my friends to use it.



How To Use Amazon Associates On Blogs & Websites To



Maximize Your Internet Earnings


Amazon Associates is the latest major affiliate programme designed to monetize your blog or website. How does it work and how simple is it to use? How can you maximize your online earning potential? This article answers these questions.
The Google Adsense affiliate programme has been around for years and there are already several competitors in activity, particularly for those resident in the US. However, there’s now a completely new affiliate programme for bloggers and website owners all over the world to mazimize their chances of earning money online.
Amazon Associates is similar to Adsense in that adverts will appear on your site, but gives you far greater freedon over which products you choose to display and how you can actually display them. This may prove very beneficial to bloggers, who are now able to promote products specific to their blog’s content (i.g. if you have video games realated sites amazon will display gaming consoles and video game products).
You are able to sign up to whichever Amazon Associates programme you prefer – US, UK, Europe, etc – or you can sign up for mutiple accounts in different currencies, which is very useful for those whose traffic is international. This means you can promote the best books available on blogging (if that’s your blog’s main subject matter) from various countries, ensuring visitors from all over the world will find your blog equally helpful. However, when advertising products in a currency other than your own you will be paid by cheque, so will require a bank account that accepts foreign currencies (usually a business account). Alternatively, you can choose to be paid in vouchers to spend on the appropriate site, but this isn’t going to boost your earnings so should be avoided if possible.
To benefit fully from the system you will need to spend some time choosing exact products, relevant to your blog content, then adding them to widgets and installing the widgets to your blog or website; if you don’t Amazon will automatically choose your products (in the way adsense chooses your ads) and will often repeat the same products in several widgets or posts, thus minimising your potential earnings. You can also add individual products (as many as you wish) to each blog post, in the form of a text link, an image, or both.
You are also able to add a full Amazon store to your site, filling it with individual proucts or choosing entire categories you believe will interest your readers. This store can be set to open in a new window or can be embedded into your website so it looks laike a part of your webpage. Setting up and maintaining the system is far more time consuming than running adsense ads, but I can see the potential for far higher earnings if the programme is used carefully and the blog or website recieves enough traffic.
Amazon has created all sorts of wonderful widgets to maximise you internet earning, from banner ads and favourite product collections to flash slideshows, and you can often change the size to help you integrate the widgets to your particular website/blog in a professional-looking manner. You are also able to add simple text links which display pop-up product reviews when hovered over. This means any product you might mention when blogging (book or album tiitle, or virtually any other product you care to think of, from Amazon’s vast selection) has the potential to become a link with all the information required by a buyer – price (new and used), average customer rating, stock level etc. – and a button to add the item to their basket without leaving your blog or website. As long as they pay for it within 90 days you get 5% commission, and this rate will increase as you provide more referrals. Brilliant!
Setting up an Amazon Associates account through Blogger is very simple: you simply click on the ‘Monetize’ tab as if you were about to create an adsense account, but choose Amazon Associates instead. Here you’ll be directed to set up an Amazon Associates account in your chosen currency in order to get started adding products or widgets to your site. If you’re not using Blogger you should visit Amazon Associates and set up an account. Full instructions will then be given as to how to proceed.

To see for yourself how the Amazon Associates product adverts look on a Blogger blog please visit the blog address on my profile page, where the programme is already installed and fully functioning. use this as it will help earn a lot more revenue.

TOP 10 PAYING TOPICS ON ADSENSE


Adsense is a way many bloggers earn money. Some bloggers deliberately write content according to the best paying types of keywords. Instead of quantity, they aim for quality. I took a look at the Top paying list and am pretty amazed that some companies would actually pay so much for just a click. The keywords vary but I have grouped them since it is easier to write for a group to topics instead of writing for keywords.

Interesting many of the top paying keywords are in the Financial, Medical and Legal industries. I guess these industries are really high margin and they can recover their cost from just having one customer. It also reflects a very American market as the products are heavily slanted towards the needs of the American consumer.

Top 10 Paying Topics for Adsense
1 . Loans
2. Attorney
3. Insurance
4. mesothelioma (a form of illness brought about by asbestos)
5. Lasik
6. credit cards
7. refinance
8. domain name
9. Singles ( in the context of dating)
10. Plastic Surgery

To see the full list, click here

Another thing that I would like to point out is that the highest paying keywords do not mean that a lot of people search for them. In fact these keywords do not even appear in the Top 10 Search terms. If you see here, you will see that most of the searches are about brands and have nothing to do with the above. This means that traffic to such a site dedicated to a high paying keywords might be too little to justify your effort. People will also not bother linking their blogs or websites to you as very little people are actually interested in reading or blogging about the topics above.

My personal feel is that the top paying keywords represent a shady but profitable part of both online and offline business word. However instead of having an entire site dedicated to the topics above, perhaps a better strategy will to do occasional post about the topics on your blog.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Earn more by promoting Google Affiliate Exclusive Opportunities


Earn more by promoting Google Affiliate Exclusive Opportunities

With the arrival of fall, the holiday shopping season begins. Give your readers an early start by posting Google Affiliate Network Exclusive Opportunities on your site, and also earn additional revenue. Over 40 great shopping opportunities will be available exclusively to Google Affiliate Network publishers. In addition, special opportunities will be live for one weekend only, from Friday, September 23 through September 26.

This limited time offer enables you to add a variety of great consumer opportunities to your site and earn a performance fee from orders that originated from your links.

Here are just a few examples of exclusive opportunities that you can post:





$15 Off $50

Free Shipping on all orders
Get $15 off Your Next $125 Purchase!


How do I promote these opportunities on my site?


To promote any of these exclusive opportunities, you’ll first need to be an approved publisher in Google Affiliate Network. Google Affiliate Network is available to all AdSense publishers, and while most advertisers in the program are based in the US and Canada, many have international shipping capabilities. For more details, view all
Google Affiliate Network opportunities available.

1. Apply for Google Affiliate Network with your AdSense Publisher ID (or sign in if you're already a Google Affiliate Network publisher).

2. Once approved, review the opportunities available (link to GAN Blog Post to be added once live) and click the "Apply Now" link for everyone that you wish to promote.

3. Tracking links will be available in your Google Affiliate Network account by viewing the Home tab. You can also search for “September Exclusive Opportunities†links in the Links section on September 23.

Need help applying or want more information? Review the Getting Started guide today.

When can I post these opportunities on my site?
All opportunities will be available on September 23, and all will expire at midnight September 26. Please note that it won’t be possible to post any of these exclusives until September 23.