Monetizing Your Blog

In making money with blogs there is one element that trumps all the rest in importance, advertisement placement. The actual spot where you put your ad is as important to your profits as any other thing you do with your blog, ever. The most successful people that blog for profit utilize special placement for their advertisements so to best get results from the site visitor, and from experience I can tell you this works like a charm.

Putting your advertisements at the top of the blog isn’t good enough anymore. Many people have been using computers long enough to train themselves to ignore the advertisement banners at the top of a website, or blog, and thus you the publisher must find new, and unique ways to get the advertisements read, and clicked by your visitors.

One place to put the advertisements for your blog is directly to the right hand side of the daily blog post. Research shows that the human eyes tend to gravitate to the upper right hand side of any page, which is where your advertisement should be in order to obtain maximum exposure. The more the ad is put in this spot, the better rate of clicks that you will get on the ad.

Another great place to put the advertisement is in the body of the text. This is commonly done by highlighting, and adding hyperlinks to some of the more popular keywords. By adding such keywords one can simply click on the highlighted word to learn more about a product, or service you might be promoting. In text ads aren’t ever very big as not to disrupt the text, but can pack a serious punch in terms of sales because of the natural curiosity of the reader to check out whatever it is you are promoting.

Finally one can place advertisements at the bottom of the blog, with more information about you, the author of the blog. Since blogs are typically personal, people enjoy reading about the author, and thus it makes sense to include a few ads near your profile, to capitalize on the profile checking nature of your visitors.

For more information about how to make money with blogs just click on the blue hyperlink in this sentance.

Google Adwords Help on video is now available

Google adwords is one of the most effective forms of advertising available to man…er and woman too Where does that “is available from man” come from anyways?

Anyways, back to google adwords. I am sure if you have spent anytime marketing online you have probably had your hand in google adwords and spent some unsightly amounts of money. I remember when I first started and I was looking to promote a VOIP software called Hot Conference. I took a look at the market and it was pretty competitive but I was so excited to just get in there and sell this incredible software (which by the way, it is awesome) that I just “knew” I could compete with the likes of Web-x and the other companies….

So Off I went setting up my campaigns and putting in my keywords. Just to get on the first page I had to bid like a buck or buck fifty (Now it is like 6.00 for this market) and so I set my daily budget to $150.00 and got my ads running.

Off to bed I went and when I got up, I was so excited to go check my inbox for all the orders that I am sure came in overnight…….

Zero sales….

I raced of to the adwords campaign to see what was happening and …..

HOLY GOOGLE CRAP !!!

That $150.00 was GONE!

MY Ads Were not showing cus all the money for the daily budget was toasted….ARF….

After explaining to my wife what happened, She banned me from my computer for a week! (j/k)

This is a story that has been repeated so many times it makes my head spin. I thought this google adwords thing would be easy as taking candy from a baby….

Wow was I wrong…

And through all of this, I vowed to make it part of my mission to help you not go down this road and find a way to understand google adwords…

So Adwords Video Tutorials Was brought forth to help you save thousands of dollars that can eailsy be wasted while trying to tame the adwords beast.

These videos cover over 3 hours of indepth, step by step videos that will help you become an adwords pro.

Just click on the big adwords tutorial picture below and find out how you can make your adwords campaigns rock!

Using Web 2.0 to get more web site traffic

Once in a while you stumble across incredible information that has a major and an immediate impact on your business. Usually you have to pay dearly for such information, but this story is about what many have found to be the best darn [tag]Internet Marketing book[/tag] of 2007 and best of all you can get it for free.

First off, let’s take a look at a couple of facts for those who are running a website.

Getting traffic to your websites is the request of many webmasters every day. To prove the point, Wordtracker which is one of the top keyword research tools online, shows that just one keyword phrase, “[tag]Increase Web Site Traffic[/tag]” gets a predicted daily search count of 599 searches. on overtures keyword tool, you have the phrase, “Web site traffic” gets over 29,000 monthly searches.

Now those are just 2 phrases of hundreds that web site owners are typing into the search engines to find out how to gain
more visitors to their websites, or blogs.

In 2007 we have been blessed by the release of the authority black book. This book, without any question, is the best
resource on how to drive boatloads of targeted traffic to your website utilizing the hottest Web 2.0 tools and tactics.

This Free 64 page no fluff internet marketing guide is loaded with resources for your business. It is the most comprehensive guide that will teach you how to use [tag]web 2.0 technology[/tag] to drive an insane amount of traffic to your website.

The topics covered include:

• Blogging
• Rss Marketing
• Social Bookmarketing Sites
• Social Media Marketing Sites
• Video Marketing
• Podcasting
• The Big List of Web 2.0 Resources
• And Much More

Get the Free Authority Black Book Here
There have been tens of thousands of downloads of the authority back book, with incredible review after review…There is a very popular internet marketing forum called the warrior forum, that has had over 6000 views about this book, and tons of positive comments about the Authority Black Book.

Here are a few comments…

Norcaldude says “The Black book is the best report I’ve ever read on Web 2.0″

Seltster says “Just finished reading the book and visited your website. The book is indeed very comprehensive and I am very impressed. The links directories are simply stunning.

Infoproductreview says “We were so impressed with the content contained within the Free Black Book that we made it a high priority for our team of experts. SO far we are very impressed.

StevenR Says “I personally have only been exposed to Jack’s Teaching through seminars and his books (including the “authority black book”). I’ve implemented only part of what he teaches in his book and have seen tremendous results…quickly.

A 2nd review from Infoproductreview says “The Black Book is outstanding. We are applying a small fraction of what they teach and are experiencing tremendous results.”

These are just a few of the comments that poured in about this free book.

There is over 500 links to the most powerful and useful web 2.0 marketing strategies that work.

The Author of the Book, Jack Humphrey, is a proven and seasoned marketer who has been,and still is, in the trenches of teaching and developing cutting edge traffic driving strategies that has helped thousands of marketers get [tag]more web site traffic[/tag] to their sites.

The Authority Black Book is without question the best darn internet marketing book of 2007 and best of all it is free to you. I recommend you immediately download this book,print it out, close the doors, turn off the phones, shut down your computer, put a do not disturb sign on your office door, and read this book today.

Click on the book to get it free
If you need to increase web traffic to your sites and you want to see results literally overnight. Download this book today and most importantly, implement what is in the book. You will increase traffic to your website.

[tag]Matt Cutts[/tag] Video Explains New Happening in the world of Google and How they look at your site.

Niche Blogs and How to Get the Most Out of Them

Having a [tag]niche blog[/tag] is something that can be profitable and easy, or challenging and difficult depending on how you handle the day to day posting. Niche blogs are typically blogs related to one or more specific industries or fields, including hobbies, illnesses, and sports. The more niche, or in-depth a blog is, the harder it might be for people not involved in that niche to get into. It is for this reason that one must think about the best way to make the most out of niche blogs, and finding the right niche is a good start.

When searching for the right night for any blog, be sure to look at the prospective audience, and your abilities to keep the blog up to date within that niche. If you are thinking about doing a blog about horse racing, yet you have no time to watch horse races, it might not make sense to try to do a niche blog on the subject. Instead a good way of finding a niche is by looking at what it is that you do have time to do, and then creating a blog based on that instead.

After you have selected your niche blog topic, it’s time to become an expert. No matter how much you think you know about your niche blog theme, chances are you could use some brushing up on the topic. One can brush up on a topic by simply doing research on the niche blog theme, and spending a few hours reading within the blog subject territory each day. Feel free to check out rival blogs, as they will give you an idea of what is popular in this niche, and what is not.

The most important part of getting the most out of a niche blog is becoming the go to place for information in this niche. That means creating a blog that is constantly updated, and is accurate in the stories relating to the subject. If you do this with your niche blog, expect big time results.