How do you monetize your site?
You can do it by earning only a few cents per click for displaying Adsense ads on it. Many are now realizing that good money is made from this source of revenue. Try the simple mathematical computation of multiplying those clicks for every page on your website and you get a summation of earnings equivalent to a monthly residual income with that little effort you have made.
Google Adsense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant and text-based Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money in the process. The ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you both can monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense.
How much you will be earning will depend on how much the advertisers are willing to pay. It will depend also on the keywords required. If the keywords the advertiser has chosen are in high demand, you could receive more money per click. On the other hand, low demand keywords will earn you just a few cents per click.
How can you start making profits out of your website using Adsense?
1. Sign up for an Adsense account. It will only take a few minutes of your time.
2. When the site is accepted, you will be receiving a clip code to include in your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites as you want. The text-based Google ads will start appearing immediately after.
3. You will be earning a few cents or more per click when someone starts clicking on the Ads displayed on any of your web pages. Trying to earn false revenues by repetitively clicking on your own ads is a no-no. This will result in a penalty or the possibility of your site being eliminated. The money you have already earned may be lost because of this.
4. Adsense earnings can be checked anytime by logging into your web site account and viewing your statistics.
Once you have your account working, you may want to pattern your pages after the sites that are earning more money than you are. It is important to note that there are factors affecting how your website will perform and the amount of money it will give you. It usually takes some time combined with trial and error to attain what you want for your Adsense to achieve.
It is quite normal when you have your site earning money, for you to want it to make more money. Here are some important factors that you can practice and use to achieve your goals.
1. It is best to write only one topic per page. And concentrate on just a few targeted phrases. The search engine will then serve ads that are more relevant which will then result in higher click throughs.
2. Using white space around your ad. This can make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can spot them easily. There are also other choices of colors you can use, provided by search engines, which can harmonize the color of your ad with the web page color.
3. Test your ad placement. It is recommended to use the vertical format that runs down the side of the web page to get more positive results. You can also try both horizontal and vertical formats for a certain period of time to see which one will give you better results.
4. More content-based pages. Widen the theme of your website by creating pages that focus more on your keyword phrases. This will optimize the pages for the search engines. It can not only attract traffic but also make them more relevant for the Ads to be displayed.
5. Site Build It. This is the perfect tool to be used for creating lots of Adsense revenues. Site Build It has all the tools necessary to quickly achieve a keyword-rich site that can rank high in the search engines. This will also produce a flow of traffic to your site of highly targeted visitors.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
10 Secrets to Improving Your Websites Conversion Ratio
According to the so-called experts, a decent conversion ratio is right around one percent. In other words, one out of every one hundred visitors to your website converts to a sale.
Personally, I think you should ignore what the experts say, and strive to achieve as high a conversion ratio as possible. You should never be satisfied. You should always be looking for ways to improve your conversion ratio. My website can convert around 3 to 5 percent, and sometimes higher!
Unless you're selling a big-ticket item and making $200 or more per sale, it's extremely difficult to make any real money with only a one percent conversion ratio.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and if your website is attracting hundreds or even thousands of visitors a day, then obviously you can do quite well with a one percent or lower conversion ratio.
But what if you don't have that good of traffic - and most websites don't, then what? What if you're selling a $20 e-book and you're only attracting a hundred visitors a day to your website? With a one percent conversion ratio, that means your website is making a measly $20 a day. And believe me, that’s much more common than you realize.
However, what if you could improve your conversion ratio to 3 percent, 5 percent, All of a sudden; you're making $60 to $100 a day with the same amount of traffic. Improve your conversion ratio to ten percent and voila, that $100 a day turns into $200 a day!
So, how do you go about improving your website's conversion ratio? Here are some tips that should help:
1. Make sure your visitors know what you do, the instant they land on your website. Don't make them have to guess. Tell them right up front with a benefits-laden headline.
2. Make sure the design of your website is up to par, Make it easy to navigate. Get rid of distracting flash or meaningless graphics that are a waste of everybody's time and take forever to load, Simplify your website.
3. Use psychologically effective colours. The colour blue suggests quality, trustworthiness, success, seriousness, calmness - the perfect choice for sales pages. Avoid purple, which connotes uncertainty and ambiguity, and only use yellow to highlight key words and phrases. In addition, try to have as much white space as possible. This makes for a much cleaner looking, easier to read website.
4. Get your own domain name. URL's that contain names like, "Geocities", "Angelfire" or "Tripod" have amateur written all over them.
5. Prove what you say. Back up your claims with cold, hard, indisputable and verifiable facts
6. Put your name, telephone number and street address on your website
7. Use authentic customer testimonials, complete with first and last names. Just make sure you get your customers permission first.
8. Offer a fair and reasonable money-back guarantee. Thirty days is good. Sixty or ninety days are better!
9. Make it easy for your customers to pay. And offer a variety of payment options. I can assure you, if you're using PayPal only, you're losing sales. There are a lot of people out there, I included, that just won't do business with PayPal. It's too much of a hassle!
10. And last but not least, make sure you have a powerful sales letter. A strong and effective sales letter can blast your earnings into the upper stratosphere!
If you aren't capable of writing that type of sales letter yourself, hire a copywriting expert to write it for you.
Personally, I think you should ignore what the experts say, and strive to achieve as high a conversion ratio as possible. You should never be satisfied. You should always be looking for ways to improve your conversion ratio. My website can convert around 3 to 5 percent, and sometimes higher!
Unless you're selling a big-ticket item and making $200 or more per sale, it's extremely difficult to make any real money with only a one percent conversion ratio.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and if your website is attracting hundreds or even thousands of visitors a day, then obviously you can do quite well with a one percent or lower conversion ratio.
But what if you don't have that good of traffic - and most websites don't, then what? What if you're selling a $20 e-book and you're only attracting a hundred visitors a day to your website? With a one percent conversion ratio, that means your website is making a measly $20 a day. And believe me, that’s much more common than you realize.
However, what if you could improve your conversion ratio to 3 percent, 5 percent, All of a sudden; you're making $60 to $100 a day with the same amount of traffic. Improve your conversion ratio to ten percent and voila, that $100 a day turns into $200 a day!
So, how do you go about improving your website's conversion ratio? Here are some tips that should help:
1. Make sure your visitors know what you do, the instant they land on your website. Don't make them have to guess. Tell them right up front with a benefits-laden headline.
2. Make sure the design of your website is up to par, Make it easy to navigate. Get rid of distracting flash or meaningless graphics that are a waste of everybody's time and take forever to load, Simplify your website.
3. Use psychologically effective colours. The colour blue suggests quality, trustworthiness, success, seriousness, calmness - the perfect choice for sales pages. Avoid purple, which connotes uncertainty and ambiguity, and only use yellow to highlight key words and phrases. In addition, try to have as much white space as possible. This makes for a much cleaner looking, easier to read website.
4. Get your own domain name. URL's that contain names like, "Geocities", "Angelfire" or "Tripod" have amateur written all over them.
5. Prove what you say. Back up your claims with cold, hard, indisputable and verifiable facts
6. Put your name, telephone number and street address on your website
7. Use authentic customer testimonials, complete with first and last names. Just make sure you get your customers permission first.
8. Offer a fair and reasonable money-back guarantee. Thirty days is good. Sixty or ninety days are better!
9. Make it easy for your customers to pay. And offer a variety of payment options. I can assure you, if you're using PayPal only, you're losing sales. There are a lot of people out there, I included, that just won't do business with PayPal. It's too much of a hassle!
10. And last but not least, make sure you have a powerful sales letter. A strong and effective sales letter can blast your earnings into the upper stratosphere!
If you aren't capable of writing that type of sales letter yourself, hire a copywriting expert to write it for you.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
10 Great Ways To Source Low Cost Products For eBay.
I haven’t talked about eBay before but if you’re having trouble finding stock cheaply enough to sell it for a good profit - well, you’ve come to the right place. And these will work for any auction site.
Garage sales:
The chances are you’ve gone most of your life seeing ads for these and ignoring them. Go to as many as you can. You won’t find good things at every one, but when you find one person with good stuff, make them an offer for the lot – they’ll be so happy about it that you can get a real bargain.
Markets:
If your area has a market, then go there and look around for anything good. You could buy it there if it’s cheap enough, or try to make friends with the market traders and find out who their suppliers are.
Pawn shops:
Pawn shops don’t usually know what to do with the junk they accumulate (unless it’s jewelry, of course). Generally, they put their stock out on the shelves haphazardly, hoping that someday someone with a little money will just happen to come in, search around and buy wildly obscure things. Get them to offer you a discount for bulk.
Real auctions:
Go to a real auction, as the chances are that you can resell things for more than they will sell them for. After all, they only have a few hundred people in that room – you have a few million to sell to!
Local newspapers:
Place an ad in the local paper that reads “I pay cash for [your item type]”, with your phone number. If you can afford it, make it a big display ad, so it’ll be noticed.
Ad boards:
Get one of those little ads in the grocery store.
Friends:
Ask your friends if they have anything they’d like to sell you, and ask them to spread the word to their friends.
Become known:
Give out business cards, mention to people what you do. The chances are that you’ll come across someone who’ll say “Oh, really? I’ve got a load of [item] I don’t want”.
Shops:
This might be a little surprising, but some real shops even sell things more cheaply than they sell on eBay. Take a look around your local deep discounter, and pay special attention to any shop that takes trade-ins from customers. The chances are they take a loss on trade-ins as a promotion, and are dying to get rid of that stock.
And finally eBay:
When you’re looking at the completed items view, you’ll notice the massive range of prices that items can sell for on eBay. Try taking the highest-priced item and searching for it on its own, then sort by lowest price first: I can almost guarantee that you’ll see an auction for the same item where it sold for almost nothing. The trick is to find these flawed auctions before they close, win them using a bid sniping service, and then turn around and resell the item.
Garage sales:
The chances are you’ve gone most of your life seeing ads for these and ignoring them. Go to as many as you can. You won’t find good things at every one, but when you find one person with good stuff, make them an offer for the lot – they’ll be so happy about it that you can get a real bargain.
Markets:
If your area has a market, then go there and look around for anything good. You could buy it there if it’s cheap enough, or try to make friends with the market traders and find out who their suppliers are.
Pawn shops:
Pawn shops don’t usually know what to do with the junk they accumulate (unless it’s jewelry, of course). Generally, they put their stock out on the shelves haphazardly, hoping that someday someone with a little money will just happen to come in, search around and buy wildly obscure things. Get them to offer you a discount for bulk.
Real auctions:
Go to a real auction, as the chances are that you can resell things for more than they will sell them for. After all, they only have a few hundred people in that room – you have a few million to sell to!
Local newspapers:
Place an ad in the local paper that reads “I pay cash for [your item type]”, with your phone number. If you can afford it, make it a big display ad, so it’ll be noticed.
Ad boards:
Get one of those little ads in the grocery store.
Friends:
Ask your friends if they have anything they’d like to sell you, and ask them to spread the word to their friends.
Become known:
Give out business cards, mention to people what you do. The chances are that you’ll come across someone who’ll say “Oh, really? I’ve got a load of [item] I don’t want”.
Shops:
This might be a little surprising, but some real shops even sell things more cheaply than they sell on eBay. Take a look around your local deep discounter, and pay special attention to any shop that takes trade-ins from customers. The chances are they take a loss on trade-ins as a promotion, and are dying to get rid of that stock.
And finally eBay:
When you’re looking at the completed items view, you’ll notice the massive range of prices that items can sell for on eBay. Try taking the highest-priced item and searching for it on its own, then sort by lowest price first: I can almost guarantee that you’ll see an auction for the same item where it sold for almost nothing. The trick is to find these flawed auctions before they close, win them using a bid sniping service, and then turn around and resell the item.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Important Rules in Website Design
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.
1) Splash pages aren’t always good
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page. Splash pages are good for web site owners who are advertising their site on traffic exchanges or wanting to get sign ups and build a list.
2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements
Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.
3) Have a simple and clear navigation
This is very important. You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.
4) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!
5) Be careful using audio on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on, on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.
1) Splash pages aren’t always good
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page. Splash pages are good for web site owners who are advertising their site on traffic exchanges or wanting to get sign ups and build a list.
2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements
Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.
3) Have a simple and clear navigation
This is very important. You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.
4) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!
5) Be careful using audio on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on, on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.
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