Mesin Cetak Uang

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Apa Itu Clixsense ? with clixsense you get dollar

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Clixsense adalah sebuah program affiliasi yang sangat simple, sangat sederhana & sangat mudah untuk dijalankan, dan yang paling penting untuk mendaftar di clixsense Anda tidak akan dipungut biaya seperserpun alias GRATIS !
Clixsense bisa dijadikan tambahan penghasilan dalam bisnis online Anda sambil anda browsing di internet, dimanapun anda dan kapanpun program ini bisa dijalankan. dan tentu saja pendapatan yang cukup lumayan untuk Anda.

Cara Kerja ?

Clixsense adalah salah satu program bisnis yang paling baru yang akan membayar anda untuk melakukan klik URL iklan yang mereka tampilkan. Untuk satu iklan hanya dibutuhkan waktu sekitar 30 detik. satu iklan dihargai sekitar $0.01 hingga $5.

Ada 2 jenis member yaitu Standar dan Premium.

apa perbedaanya ? Perbedaanya adalah, untuk member biasa atau standar (member yang melakukan pendaftaran/ sign up secara gratis ), iklan yang di tampilkan perharinya hanya 2-5 iklan saja. Tapi jika Premium member iklan yang akan di tampilkan 200 - 300 iklan yang harus Anda klik / di kunjungi, hanya saja kita harus membayar 10 $ untuk menjadi member Premium. Pembayaran via paypal dan bisa juga dengan google cek.

Program ini sangat cocok sekali bagi anda yang suka browsing dan ber-internet atau memiliki sedikit waktu untuk mendapatkan penghasilan dari internet. secara perhitungan sangat menguntungkan, karena jika dihitung secara logika dan dipraktekkan sebagai berikut :

1 iklan 30 detik dan kita di bayar 0.01 - 5 $, kita pilih yang per iklan $0.01 saja berarti patokan dari 1 klik adalah 0.01$ jika kita meluangkan waktu sehari 2 jam berarti dapat dihitung 2 jam = 120 menit x 2 (60 dtk / 30 dtk) = 240 Klik. jika dihitung 0.01 $ berarti dalam sehari = 2.4 / 2Jam. Jika dikalikan sebulan 2.4 x 30 = 72 $ lumayan bukan.

Disamping itu juga anda akan mendapatkan penghasilan lagi jika Anda bisa mendapatkan referal sebesar 10% dari orang yang mendaftar. dan mendapatkan 50% jumlah $ dari orang yang menjadi member premium melalui referal anda.

Pengiriman cek bisa diset dibagian profile. akan dikirim setelah mencapai 10 $ atau bisa diset menjadi 20$, $50, 100$.. %500 atau jumlah tertentu yang ada pada situs clixsense

Saya tidak akan berbasa-basi kepada Anda, silahkan lihat bukti cek dari clixsense dibawah ini.
contoh Cek dari Clixsense :

Jika anda belum mendaftar silahkan Daftarkan anda Disini !

Perhatian !

Anda mungkin sudah mengenal bisnis online semacam Google Adsense, tapi tidak sedikit yang mengalami kegagalan dalam menjalankannya karena Google Adsense mempunyai peraturan yang sangat ketat bahkan bisa dibilang Adsense adalah bisnis yang beresiko paling tinggi & tidak sedikit para publisher baik dari Indonesia maupun luar negeri yang tiba-tiba account Adsense-nya di disable/banned oleh Google dengan berbagai alasan dimana kita dituduh telah melakukan klik instant atau apalah & yang pasti program Clixsense ini tidak akan pernah membuat Anda kecewa karena sama sekali tidak ada resikonya, bahkan Anda malah disuruh melakukan klik iklan mereka !
Dan untuk menjadi member clixsense Anda tidak perlu membuat website/blog.

Bagaima apakah Anda akan menyia-nyiakan kesempatan baik ini, atau Anda sangat tertarik untuk bergabung klik disini

Adsense

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AdSense

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AdSense

Developed by Google

OS Cross-platform (web-based application)

Type Online advertising

Website http://www.google.com/adsense

AdSense is an advertisement serving program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and more recently, video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Google is also currently beta-testing a cost-per-action based service.

Contents
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1 Overview

2 History

3 AdSense for Feeds

4 AdSense for search

5 AdSense for mobile content

6 XHTML compatibility

7 How AdSense works

8 Abuse

9 Criticism

10 See also

11 References

12 External links

[edit]Overview

Google uses its Internet search technology to serve advertisements based on website content, the user's geographical location, and other factors. Those wanting to advertise with Google's targeted advertisement system may enroll through AdWords. AdSense has become a popular method of placing advertising on a website because the advertisements are less intrusive than most banners, and the content of the advertisements is often relevant to the website.

Currently, AdSense uses JavaScript code to incorporate the advertisements into a participating website. If the advertisements are included on a website that has not yet been crawled by the Mediabot, AdSense will temporarily display advertisements for charitable causes, also known aspublic service announcements (PSAs). (The Mediabot is different from the Googlebot, which maintains Google's search index.)

Many websites use AdSense to monetize their content. AdSense has been particularly important for delivering advertising revenue to small websites that do not have the resources for developing advertising sales programs and salespeople. To fill a website with advertisements that are relevant to the topics discussed, webmasters implement a brief script on the websites' pages. Websites that are content-rich have been very successful with this advertising program, as noted in a number of publisher case studies on the AdSense website.

Some webmasters invest significant effort into maximizing their own AdSense income. They do this in three ways:^{[citation needed]}

They use a wide range of traffic-generating techniques, including but not limited to online advertising.

They build valuable content on their websites that attracts AdSense advertisements, which pay out the most when they are clicked.

They use copy on their websites that encourages visitors to click on advertisements. Note that Google prohibits webmasters from using phrases like "Click on my AdSense ads" to increase click rates. The phrases accepted are "Sponsored Links" and "Advertisements".^{[citation needed]}

The source of all AdSense income is the AdWords program, which in turn has a complex pricing model based on a Vickrey second price auction. AdSense commands an advertiser to submit a sealed bid (i.e., a bid not observable by competitors). Additionally, for any given click received, advertisers only pay one bid increment above the second-highest bid.

[edit]History

The underlying technology behind AdSense was derived originally from WordNet, Simpli (a company started by the founder of Wordnet, George A. Miller), and a number of professors and graduate students from Brown University, including James A. Anderson, Jeff Stibel, and Steve Reiss.^[1] A variation of this technology utilizing WordNet was developed by Oingo, a small search engine company based in Santa Monicafounded in 1998 by Gilad Elbaz and Adam Weissman.^[2]^[3] Oingo changed its name to Applied Semantics in 2001,^[4] which was later acquired by Google in April 2003 for US$102 million.^[5]

[edit]AdSense for Feeds

In May 2005, Google announced a limited-participation beta version of AdSense for Feeds, a version of AdSense that runs on RSS and Atomfeeds that have more than 100 active subscribers. According to the Official Google Blog, "advertisers have their ads placed in the most appropriate feed articles; publishers are paid for their original content; readers see relevant advertising—and in the long run, more quality feeds to choose from."^[6]

AdSense for Feeds works by inserting images into a feed. When the image is displayed by a RSS reader or Web browser, Google writes the advertising content into the image that it returns. The advertisement content is chosen based on the content of the feed surrounding the image. When the user clicks the image, he or she is redirected to the advertiser's website in the same way as regular AdSense advertisements.

AdSense for Feeds has remained in its beta state until August 15, 2008, when it became available to all AdSense users.

[edit]AdSense for search

A companion to the regular AdSense program, AdSense for search, allows website owners to place Google search boxes on their websites. When a user searches the Internet or the website with the search box, Google shares any advertising revenue it makes from those searches with the website owner. However the publisher is paid only if the advertisements on the page are clicked: AdSense does not pay publishers for mere searches.

[edit]AdSense for mobile content

AdSense for mobile content allows publishers to generate earnings from their mobile websites using targeted Google advertisements. Just like AdSense for content, Google matches advertisements to the content of a website — in this case, a mobile website.

[edit]XHTML compatibility

As of September 2007, the HTML code for the AdSense search box does not validate as XHTML, and does not follow modern principles of website design because of its use of

non-standard end tags, such as and ,

the attribute `checked` rather than `checked="checked"`,

presentational attributes other than `id`, `class`, or `style` — for example, `bgcolor` and `align`,

a table structure for purely presentational (i.e., non-tabular) purposes,¹ and

the `font` tag.²

1: using a table structure for unintended purposes is strongly recommended against by the W3C^{[citation needed]}, but nevertheless does not cause a document to fail validation—there is currently no algorithmic method of determining whether a table is "correctly" used.
2: the `font` tag is deprecated but does not fail validation in any XHTML standard.

Additionally, the AdSense advertisement units use the JavaScript method `document.write()`, which does not work correctly when rendered with the `application/xhtml+xml` MIME type. The units also use the `iframe` HTML tag, which is not validated correctly with the XHTML 1.0 Strict orXHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPEs.

The terms of the AdSense program forbid its affiliates from modifying the code, thus preventing these participants from having valid XHTML websites.

However, a workaround has been found by creating a separate HTML webpage containing only the AdSense advertisement units, and then importing this page into an XHTML webpage with an `object` tag.^[7] This workaround appears to be accepted by Google.^[8]

[edit]How AdSense works

The webmaster inserts the AdSense JavaScript code into a webpage.

Each time this page is visited, the JavaScript code creates an IFrame with a `src` attribute set to the page's URL.

For contextual advertisements, Google's servers use a cache of the page to determine a set of high-value keywords. If keywords have been cached already, advertisements are served for those keywords based on the AdWords bidding system. (More details are described in theAdSense patent.)

For site-targeted advertisements, the advertiser chooses the page(s) on which to display advertisements, and pays based on cost per mille(CPM), or the price advertisers choose to pay for every thousand advertisements displayed.^[9] ^[10]

For referrals, Google adds money to the advertiser's account when visitors either download the referred software or subscribe to the referred service.^[11] The referral program will be retired in August 2008.^[12]

Search advertisements are added to the list of results after the visitor performs a search.

Because the JavaScript is sent to the Web browser when the page is requested, it is possible for other website owners to copy the JavaScript code into their own webpages. To protect against this type of fraud, AdSense customers can specify the pages on which advertisements should be shown. AdSense then ignores clicks from pages other than those specified.

[edit]Abuse

Some webmasters create websites tailored to lure searchers from Google and other engines onto their AdSense website to make money from clicks. These "zombie" websites often contain nothing but a large amount of interconnected, automated content (e.g., a directory with content from the Open Directory Project, or scraper websites relying on RSS feeds for content). Possibly the most popular form of such "AdSense farms" are splogs (spam blogs), which are centered around known high-paying keywords. Many of these websites use content from other websites, such as Wikipedia, to attract visitors. These and related approaches are considered to be search engine spam and can be reported to Google.

A Made for AdSense (MFA) website or webpage has little or no content, but is filled with advertisements so that users have no choice but to click on advertisements. Such pages were tolerated in the past, but due to complaints, Google now disables such accounts.

There have also been reports of Trojan horses engineered to produce counterfeit Google advertisements that are formatted to look like legitimate ones. The Trojan downloads itself onto an unsuspecting computer through a webpage and then replaces the original advertisements with its own set of malicious advertisements.^[13]

[edit]Criticism

Due to concerns about click fraud, Google AdSense has been criticized by some search engine optimization firms as a large source of what Google calls "invalid clicks", in which one company clicks on a rival's search engine advertisements to drive up the other company's costs.^[14]Some publishers that have been blocked by Google complain that little justification or transparency was provided. Webmasters who publish AdSense can receive a life-long ban without justification.^{[citation needed]} Google claims they cannot "disclose any specific details" on fraudulent clicks since it may reveal the nature of their proprietary click-fraud monitoring system.^[15]

To help prevent click fraud, AdSense publishers can choose from a number of click-tracking programs^{[citation needed]}. These programs display detailed information about the visitors who click on the AdSense advertisements. Publishers can use this to determine whether or not they have been a victim of click fraud. There are a number of commercial tracking scripts available for purchase.

The payment terms for webmasters have also been criticized.^[16] Google withholds payment until an account reaches US$100,^[17] but many small content providers^{[citation needed]} require a long time—years in many cases—to build up this much AdSense revenue. These pending payments are recorded on Google's balance sheet as "accrued revenue share".^[18] At the close of its 2006 fiscal year, the sum of all these small debts amounted to a little over US$370 million, money that Google is able to invest but effectively belongs to webmasters. However, Google will pay all earned revenue greater than US$10 when an AdSense account is closed.

Google recently came under fire when the official Google AdSense Blog showcased the French video website Imineo.com. This website violated Google's AdSense Program Policies by displaying AdSense alongside sexually explicit material.^[19] Typically, websites displaying AdSense have been banned from showing such content.^{[citation needed]}

[edit]See also

Google AdWords

List of Google products

Pay per play

Scraper website

Yahoo! Publisher Network, an equivalent Yahoo! service

[edit]References

^ Om Malik (1999-04-10). "How Google is that?", Forbes.

^ Paula J. Hane (1999-12-20). "Beyond Keyword Searching", Info Today.

^ Sherman Fridman (2000-05-25). "NetZero Acquires Simpli.com's Marketing Technology", Newsbytes PM.

^ "Google Buys Applied Semantics", Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC (2003-04-24).

^ "Google Acquires Applied Semantics", Press release (2003-04-23).

^ Shuman Ghosemajumder (2005-05-17). "Official Google Blog: Feed me". Retrieved on 2007-12-29.

^ Stu Nicholls. "Adding AdSense to application/xhtml+xml pages". Retrieved on 2008-02-02.

^ Roger Johansson (2004-09-01). "Content negotiation, AdSense, and comments". Retrieved on 2008-02-02.

^ "Google AdSense Help Center: What are CPM ads?" (2007-12-29).

^ "Google AdWords: All About Site-Targeted Ads" (2007-12-29).

^ "Google AdSense Help Center: What is the referrals feature?" (2007-12-29).

^ "Google yanks AdSense referral program, offers shoddy surrogate" (2008-07-01). blog.anta.net. ISSN 1797-1993. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.

^ Benaifer Jah (2005-12-27). "Trojan Horse program that targets Google AdSense ads", TechShout.

^ Charles C. Mann (January 2006). "How click fraud could swallow the internet", Wired.

^ Benjamin Cohen (2006-07-04). "The nonsense about AdSense", The Times.

^ Lem Bingley (2007-02-01). "Google keeps on coining it in", IT Week.

^ "When do I get paid?". Google AdSense Help Center.

^ "Google Announces Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2006 Results". Google Investor Relations (2007-01-31).

^ "Google AdSense Program Policies" (2007-12-29).

[edit]External links

Google AdSense

Google AdSense patent application

Inside AdSense — Google's official weblog on AdSense

AdSense knol - Introduction to AdSense in google Knol

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AdSense

Developed by	Google
OS	Cross-platform (web-based application)
Type	Online advertising
Website	http://www.google.com/adsense

Pay Per Click

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Pay per click

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Internet marketing
Display advertising E-mail marketing E-mail marketing software Interactive advertising Social media optimization Web analytics
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Pay per click (PPC) is an Internet advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites, such as blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an advertisement to visit the advertisers' website. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. When a user types a keyword query matching an advertiser's keyword list, or views a webpage with relevant content, the advertisements may be displayed. Such advertisements are called sponsored links orsponsored ads, and appear adjacent to or above the "natural" or organic results on search engine results pages, or anywhere a webmaster or blogger chooses on a content page. Content websites commonly charge a fixed price for a click rather than use a bidding mechanism.

Although many PPC providers exist, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the largest network operators as of 2007. Minimum prices per click, often referred to as costs per click (CPC), vary depending on the search engine and the level of competition for a particular phrase or keyword list—with some CPCs as low as US$0.01. Very popular search terms can cost much more on popular search engines. The PPC advertising model is open to abuse through click fraud, although Google and other search engines have implemented automated systems to guard against abusive clicks by competitors or corrupt webmasters.^[1]

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1 Categories
- 1.1 Keyword-based PPC
- 1.2 Product engines
- 1.3 Service engines
- 1.4 Pay per call
- 1.5 Pay per delivery
- 1.6 Pay per action
2 History
3 Use in "paid to surf" websites
4 See also
- 4.1 Notable PPC-based search engines
- 4.2 Related concepts
5 References

[edit]Categories

Pay per click campaigns can be categorized into two major categories: sponsored match (or keyword) and content match. Sponsored matchcampaigns involve the display of advertisements on search engine results pages, whereas content match campaigns involve the display of advertisements on publisher websites, newsletters, and e-mails.^[2]

There are other types of pay per click programs that target product or service searches and product comparison sites. Search engine companies may participate in more than one category. PPC programs do not generate any revenue solely from Web traffic for websites that display the advertisements: Revenue is generated only when a user clicks on the advertisement itself.

[edit]Keyword-based PPC

Keyword-based pay per click advertisers bid on search terms—keywords consisting of words or phrases, and possibly product model numbers. When a user searches for a particular keyword, the list of advertiser links appears, where the ordering of those links is based on the amount bid for the given keyword. Keywords are the very heart of PPC advertising, and are guarded as highly-valued trade secrets by the advertisers. Many advertising firms offer software or services to help advertisers develop keyword strategies. Content Match, a service offered by Yahoo!, distributes the keyword ad to the search engine's partner sites and/or publishers that have distribution agreements with the search engine company.

As of 2007, the following are notable PPC keyword search engines:

Ask.com
Baidu
Google AdWords
LookSmart
Microsoft adCenter
MIVA
Yahoo! Search Marketing
Yandex

[edit]Product engines

Product engines (a.k.a. product comparison engines or price comparison engines) are search engines for products, and let advertisers provide "feeds" of their product databases. When a user searches for a product, links to advertisers are displayed for that particular product. More prominence is given to advertisers who pay more; however, the user can typically sort by price.

Some product engines such as Shopping.com use a pay per click model and have a defined rate card.^[3] Other engines such as Google Product Search, part of Google Base (previously known as Froogle), do not charge for the listing, but still require an active product feed to function.^[4]

The following are notable PPC product engines:

NexTag
PriceGrabber
Shopping.com
Shopzilla

[edit]Service engines

Service engines allow advertisers to provide feeds of their service databases. When a user searches for a service, links to advertisers are displayed for that particular service. More prominence is given to advertisers who pay more; however, the user can typically sort by price or other criteria. Some pay per click product engines have expanded into the service space, while other service engines operate in specific vertical markets.

The following are notable PPC service engines:

NexTag
SideStep
TripAdvisor

[edit]Pay per call

Pay-per-call is a business model for advertisement listings in search engines and directories that allows publishers to charge local advertisers on a per-telephone-call basis for each sales lead (i.e., call) the publishers generate. The term "pay per call" is sometimes confused with click-to-call, which along with call tracking, is a technology that enables the pay-per-call business model. Pay per call is not restricted only to local advertisers: Many of the pay per call search engines allow advertisers with a national presence to create advertisements with local telephone numbers. According to the Kelsey Group, the pay per call market is expected to reach US$3.7 billion by 2010.^[5]

[edit]Pay per delivery

Pay per delivery is a variation on pay per click used in e-mail marketing. E-mail marketing campaigns are charged only on the basis of e-mails that are delivered successfully.

[edit]Pay per action

Pay per action (PPA) is a variation on pay per click adopted by many search engines. An advertiser pays a specified amount upon successful completion of some action (e.g., conversion, sales lead, or sale). PPA was a beta test for advertising distribution within the Google Content Network. However, Google announced in July 2008 that the program will be discontinued in August 2008.

[edit]History

In February 1998 Jeffrey Brewer of Goto.com, a 25-employee startup company (later Overture, now part of Yahoo!), presented a pay per click search engine proof-of-concept to the TED8 conference in California.^[6] This presentation and the events that followed created the PPC advertising system. Credit for the concept of the PPC model is generally given to Idealab and Goto.com founder, Bill Gross.

Google started search engine advertising in December 1999. It was not until October 2000 before the AdWords system was introduced, allowing advertisers to create text ads for placement on the Google search engine. However, PPC was only introduced in 2002; until then, advertisements were charged at cost-per-thousand impressions. Yahoo! advertisements have always been PPC-based since their introduction in 1998.

For a more in-depth presentation of PPC's history, see Fain and Pedersen (2006).^[7]

[edit]Use in "paid to surf" websites

Pay per click search engines enlist members, known as affiliates, to display webpages called portals, which display various keywords. PPC affiliates will advertise their portals to paid to read (PTR) websites, in the hopes that the PTR affiliates will click a keyword, and then click one of the results. The PPC affiliates receive a small commission for each search.

Owners of paid to surf websites may advertise their own search portals, sending more advertisements—and essentially more money—to their affiliates who click more keywords and search results. However, this process is frowned upon, as many consider these webmasters to be forcing their affiliates into committing click fraud, as the majority of the paid to surf website's revenue may come from the webmasters' PPC commissions.

[edit]See also

[edit]Notable PPC-based search engines

Ask.com
Baidu.com
Business.com
Google (Google AdWords)
Looksmart
MSN/Live Search (Microsoft adCenter)
Yahoo! (Yahoo! Search Marketing)

[edit]Related concepts

Ad serving
Click-through rate
Compensation methods
Cost per action
Cost per click
Cost per impression
Cost per mille
Cost per thousand
Effective cost per action
Effective cost per mille
Pay for placement
Performance-based advertising
Cost Per Engagement

[edit]References

^ How do you prevent invalid clicks and impressions? Google AdSense Help Center, Accessed January 9 2008
^ Website Traffic Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) Yahoo Inc., Accessed June 12 2007
^ Shopping.com Merchant Enrollment Shopping.com, Accessed June 12 2007
^ Sell on Google Google Inc. Accessed June 12 2007
^ Ingenio Set To Expand Pay-Per-Call Network BizReport, December 12, 2006 (Accessed July 16, 2008)
^ Overture and Google: Internet Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising Auctions, London Business School, Accessed June 12 2007
^ [1] Fain, D. C. and Pedersen, J. O. 2006. Sponsored Search: A Brief History. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 32(2), 12-13.

30 Days to Success

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A powerful personal growth tool is the 30-day trial. This is a concept I borrowed from the shareware industry, where you can download a trial version of a piece of software and try it out risk-free for 30 days before you’re required to buy the full version. It’s also a great way to develop new habits, and best of all, it’s brain-dead simple.

Let’s say you want to start a new habit like an exercise program or quit a bad habit like sucking on cancer sticks. We all know that getting started and sticking with the new habit for a few weeks is the hard part. Once you’ve overcome inertia, it’s much easier to keep going.

Yet we often psyche ourselves out of getting started by mentally thinking about the change as something permanent — before we’ve even begun. It seems too overwhelming to think about making a big change and sticking with it every day for the rest of your life when you’re still habituated to doing the opposite. The more you think about the change as something permanent, the more you stay put.

But what if you thought about making the change only temporarily — say for 30 days — and then you’re free to go back to your old habits? That doesn’t seem so hard anymore. Exercise daily for just 30 days, then quit. Maintain a neatly organized desk for 30 days, then slack off. Read for an hour a day for 30 days, then go back to watching TV.

Could you do it? It still requires a bit of discipline and commitment, but not nearly so much as making a permanent change. Any perceived deprivation is only temporary. You can count down the days to freedom. And for at least 30 days, you’ll gain some benefit. It’s not so bad. You can handle it. It’s only one month out of your life.

Now if you actually complete a 30-day trial, what’s going to happen? First, you’ll go far enough to establish it as a habit, and it will be easier to maintain than it was to begin it. Secondly, you’ll break the addiction of your old habit during this time. Thirdly, you’ll have 30 days of success behind you, which will give you greater confidence that you can continue. And fourthly, you’ll gain 30 days worth of results, which will give you practical feedback on what you can expect if you continue, putting you in a better place to make informed long-term decisions.

Therefore, once you hit the end of the 30-day trial, your ability to make the habit permanent is vastly increased. But even if you aren’t ready to make it permanent, you can opt to extend your trial period to 60 or 90 days. The longer you go with the trial period, the easier it will be to lock in the new habit for life.

Another benefit of this approach is that you can use it to test new habits where you really aren’t sure if you’d even want to continue for life. Maybe you’d like to try a new diet, but you don’t know if you’d find it too restrictive. In that case, do a 30-day trial and then re-evaluate. There’s no shame in stopping if you know the new habit doesn’t suit you. It’s like trying a piece of shareware for 30 days and then uninstalling it if it doesn’t suit your needs. No harm, no foul.

Here are some examples from my own life where I used 30-day trials to establish new habits:

1) In the Summer of 1993, I wanted to try being vegetarian. I had no interest in making this a lifelong change, but I’d read a lot about the health benefits of vegetarianism, so I committed to it for 30 days just for the experience. I was already exercising regularly, seemed in decent health, and was not overweight (6′0″, 155 lbs), but my typical college diet included a lot of In-N-Out burgers. Going lacto-ovo vegetarian for 30 days was a lot easier than I expected — I can’t say it was hard at all, and I never felt deprived. Within a week I noticed an increase in my energy and concentration, and I felt more clear-headed. At the end of the 30 days, it was a no-brainer to stick with it. This change looked a lot harder than it really was.

2) In January 1997, I decided to try going from vegetarian to vegan. While lacto-ovo vegetarians can eat eggs and dairy, vegans don’t eat anything that comes from an animal. I was developing an interest in going vegan for life, but I didn’t think I could do it. How could I give up veggie-cheese omelettes? The diet seemed too restrictive to me — even fanatically so. But I was intensely curious to know what it was actually like. So once again I did a 30-day trial. At the time I figured I’d make it through the trial, but I honestly didn’t expect to continue beyond that. Well, I lost seven pounds in the first week, mostly from going to the bathroom as all the accumulated dairy mucus was cleansed from my bowels (now I know why cows need four stomachs to properly digest this stuff). I felt lousy the first couple days but then my energy surged. I also felt more clear-headed than ever, as if a “fog of brain” had been lifted; it felt like my brain had gotten a CPU and a RAM upgrade. However, the biggest change I noticed was in my endurance. I was living in Marina del Rey at the time and used to run along the beach near the Santa Monica Pier, and I noticed I wasn’t as tired after my usual 3-mile runs, so I started increasing them to 5 miles, 10 miles, and then eventually a marathon a few years later. In Tae Kwon Do, the extra endurance really gave a boost to my sparring skills as well. The accumulated benefits were so great that the foods I was giving up just didn’t seem so appealing anymore. So once again it was a no-brainer to continue after the first 30 days, and I’m still vegan today. What I didn’t expect was that after so long on this diet, the old animal product foods I used to eat just don’t seem like food anymore, so there’s no feeling of deprivation.

3) Also in 1997, I decided I wanted to exercise every single day for a year. That was my 1997 New Year’s resolution. My criteria was that I would exercise aerobically at least 25 minutes every day, and I wouldn’t count Tae Kwon Do classes which I was taking 2-3 days per week. Coupled with my dietary changes, I wanted to push my fitness to a new level. I didn’t want to miss a single day, not even for sick days. But thinking about exercising 365 days in a row was daunting, so I mentally began with a 30-day trial. That wasn’t so bad. After a while every day that passed set a new record: 8 days in a row… 10 days… 15 days…. It became harder to quit. After 30 days in a row, how could I not do 31 and set a new personal record? And can you imagine giving up after 250 days? No way. After the initial month to establish the habit, the rest of the year took care of itself. I remember going to a seminar that year and getting home well after midnight. I had a cold and was really tired, yet I still went out running at 2am in the rain. Some people might call that foolish, but I was so determined to reach my goal that I wasn’t going to let fatigue or illness stop me. I succeeded and kept it up for the whole year without ever missing a day. In fact, I kept going for a few more weeks into 1998 before I finally opted to stop, which was a tough decision. I wanted to do this for one year, knowing it would become a powerful reference experience, and it certainly became such.

4) More diet stuff…. After being vegan for a number of years, I opted to try other variations of the vegan diet. I did 30-day trials both with the macrobiotic diet and with the raw foods diet. Those were interesting and gave me new insights, but I decided not to continue with either of them. I felt no different eating macrobiotically than I did otherwise. And in the case of the raw diet, while I did notice a significant energy boost, I found the diet too labor intensive — I was spending a lot of time preparing meals and shopping frequently. Sure you can just eat raw fruits and veggies, but to make interesting raw meals, there can be a lot of labor involved. If I had my own chef, I’d probably follow the raw diet though because I think the benefits would be worth it. I did a second trial of the raw diet for 45 days, but again my conclusion was the same. If I was ever diagnosed with a serious disease like cancer, I’d immediately switch to an all raw, living foods diet, since I believe it to be the absolute best diet for optimal health. I’ve never felt more energetic in my life than when I ate a raw diet. But I had a hard time making it practical for me. Even so, I managed to integrate some new macrobiotic foods and raw foods into my diet after these trials. There are two all-raw restaurants here in Vegas, and I’ve enjoyed eating at them because then someone else does all the labor. So these 30-day trials were still successful in that they produced new insights, although in both cases I intentionally declined to continue with the new habit. One of the reasons a full 30-day trial is so important with new diets is that the first week or two will often be spent detoxing and overcoming cravings, so it isn’t until the third or fourth week that you begin to get a clear picture. I feel that if you haven’t tried a diet for at least 30 days, you simply don’t understand it. Every diet feels different on the inside than it appears from the outside.

This 30-day method seems to work best for daily habits. I’ve had no luck using it when trying to start a habit that only occurs 3-4 days per week. However, it can work well if you apply it daily for the first 30 days and then cut back thereafter. This is what I’d do when starting a new exercise program, for example. Daily habits are much easier to establish.

Here are some other ideas for applying 30-day trials:

Give up TV. Tape all your favorite shows and save them until the end of the trial. My whole family did this once, and it was very enlightening.
Give up online forums, especially if you feel you’re becoming forum addicted. This will help break the addiction and give you a clearer sense of how participation actually benefits you (if at all). You can always catch up at the end of 30 days.
Shower/bathe/shave every day. I know YOU don’t need this one, so please pass it along to someone who does.
Meet someone new every day. Start up a conversation with a stranger.
Go out every evening. Go somewhere different each time, and do something fun — this will be a memorable month.
Spend 30 minutes cleaning up and organizing your home or office every day. That’s 15 hours total.
List something new to sell on ebay every day. Purge some of that clutter.
Ask someone new out on a date every day. Unless your success rate is below 3%, you’ll get at least one new date, maybe even meet your future spouse.
If you’re already in a relationship, give your partner a massage every day. Or offer to alternate who gives the massage each day, so that’s 15 massages each.
Give up cigarettes, soda, junk food, coffee, or other unhealthy addictions.
Become an early riser.
Write in your journal every day.
Call a different family member, friend, or business contact every day.
Make 25 sales calls every day to solicit new business. Professional speaker Mike Ferry did this five days a week for two years, even on days when he was giving seminars. He credits this habit with helping build his business to over $10 million in annual sales. If you make 1300 sales calls a year, you’re going to get some decent business no matter how bad your sales skills are. You can generalize this habit to any kind of marketing work, like building new links to your web site.
Write a new blog entry every day.
Read for an hour a day on a subject that interests you.
Meditate every day.
Learn a new vocabulary word every day.
Go for a long walk every day.
Again, don’t think that you need to continue any of these habits beyond 30 days. Think of the benefits you’ll gain from those 30 days alone. You can re-assess after the trial period. You’re certain to grow just from the experience, even if it’s temporary.

The power of this approach lies in its simplicity. Even though doing a certain activity every single day may be less efficient than following a more complicated schedule — weight training is a good example because adequate rest is a key component — you’ll often be more likely to stick with the daily habit. When you commit to doing something every single day without exception, you can’t rationalize or justify missing a day, nor can you promise to make it up later by reshuffling your schedule.

Give trials a try. If you’re ready to commit to one right now, please feel free to post a comment and share your goal for the next 30 days. If there’s enough interest, then perhaps we can do a group postmortem around May 20th to see how it went for everyone. I’ll even do it with you. Mine will be to go running or biking for at least 25 minutes or do a minimum 60-minute hike in the mountains every day for 30 days. The weather here in Vegas has been great lately, so it’s a nice time for me to get back to exercising outdoors.

http://www.stevepavlina.com

How to Make Money From Your Blog

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StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day(updated as of 10/29/06). I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. Would you like to know how I did it?

This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). I’ll even share some specifics. If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later.

Do you actually want to monetize your blog?

Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs. If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.

If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path. If you want to succeed, you must be congruent. Generating income from your blog is challenging enough — you don’t want to be dealing with self-sabotage at the same time. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog — you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. If, however, you find yourself full of doubts over whether this is the right path for you, you might find this article helpful: How Selfish Are You? It’s about balancing your needs with the needs of others.

If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. If you’re going to put up ads, then really put up ads. Don’t just stick a puny little ad square in a remote corner somewhere. If you’re going to request donations, then really request donations. Don’t put up a barely visible “Donate” link and pray for the best. If you’re going to sell products, then reallysell them. Create or acquire the best quality products you can, and give your visitors compelling reasons to buy. If you’re going to do this, then fully commit to it. Don’t take a half-assed approach. Either be full-assed or no-assed.

You can reasonably expect that when you begin commercializing a free site, some people will complain, depending on how you do it. I launched this site in October 2004, and I began putting Google Adsense ads on the site in February 2005. There were some complaints, but I expected that — it was really no big deal. Less than 1 in 5,000 visitors actually sent me negative feedback. Most people who sent feedback were surprisingly supportive. Most of the complaints died off within a few weeks, and the site began generating income almost immediately, although it was pretty low — a whopping $53 the first month. If you’d like to see some month-by-month specifics, I posted my 2005Adsense revenue figures earlier this year. Adsense is still my single best source of revenue for this site, although it’s certainly not my only source. More on that later…

Can you make a decent income online?

Yes, absolutely. At the very least, a high five-figure annual income is certainly an attainable goal for an individual working full-time from home. I’m making a healthy income from StevePavlina.com, and the site is only 19 months old… barely a toddler. If you have a day job, it will take longer to generate a livable income, but it can still be done part-time if you’re willing to devote a lot of your spare time to it. I’ve always done it full-time.

Can most people do it?

No, they can’t. I hope it doesn’t shock you to see a personal development web site use the dreaded C-word. But I happen to agree with those who say that 99% of people who try to generate serious income from their blogs will fail. The tagline for this site is “Personal Development for SmartPeople.” And unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your outlook), smart people are a minority on this planet. So while most people can’t make a living this way, I would say that most smart people can. How do you know whether or not you qualify as smart? Here’s a good rule of thumb: If you have to ask the question, you aren’t.

If that last paragraph doesn’t flood my inbox with flames, I don’t know what will. OK, actually I do.

This kind of 99-1 ratio isn’t unique to blogging though. You’ll see it in any field with relatively low barriers to entry. What percentage of wannabe actors, musicians, or athletes ever make enough money from their passions to support themselves? It doesn’t take much effort to start a blog these days — almost anyone can do it. Talent counts for something, and the talent that matters in blogging is intelligence. But that just gets you in the door. You need to specifically apply your intelligence to one particular talent. And the best words I can think of to describe that particular talent are: web savvy.

If you are very web savvy, or if you can learn to become very web savvy, then you have an excellent shot of making enough money from your blog to cover all your living expenses… and then some. But if becoming truly web savvy is more than your gray matter can handle, then I’ll offer this advice: Don’t quit your day job.

Web savvy

What do I mean by web savvy? You don’t need to be a programmer, but you need a decent functional understanding of a variety of web technologies. What technologies are “key” will depend on the nature of your blog and your means of monetization. But generally speaking I’d list these elements as significant:

blog publishing software
HTML/CSS
blog comments (and comment spam)
RSS/syndication
feed aggregators
pings
trackbacks
full vs. partial feeds
blog carnivals (for kick-starting your blog’s traffic)
search engines
search engine optimization (SEO)
page rank
social bookmarking
tagging
contextual advertising
affiliate programs
traffic statistics
email
Optional: podcasting, instant messaging, PHP or other web scripting languages.

I’m sure I missed a few due to familiarity blindness. If scanning such a list makes your head spin, I wouldn’t recommend trying to make a full-time living from blogging just yet. Certainly you can still blog, but you’ll be at a serious disadvantage compared to someone who’s more web savvy, so don’t expect to achieve stellar results until you expand your knowledge base.

If you want to sell downloadable products such as ebooks, then you can add e-commerce, SSL, digital delivery, fraud prevention, and online databases to the list. Again, you don’t need to be a programmer; you just need a basic understanding of these technologies. Even if you hire someone else to handle the low-level implementation, it’s important to know what you’re getting into. You need to be able to trust your strategic decisions, and you won’t be able to do that if you’re a General who doesn’t know what a gun is.

A lack of understanding is a major cause of failure in the realm of online income generation. For example, if you’re clueless about search engine optimization (SEO), you’ll probably cripple your search engine rankings compared to someone who understands SEO well. But you can’t consider each technology in isolation. You need to understand the connections and trade-offs between them. Monetizing a blog is a balancing act. You may need to balance the needs of yourself, your visitors, search engines, those who link to you, social bookmarking sites, advertisers, affiliate programs, and others. Seemingly minor decisions like what to title a web page are significant. In coming up with the title of this article, I have to take all of these potential viewers into consideration. I want a title that is attractive to human visitors, drives reasonable search engine traffic, yields relevant contextual ads, fits the theme of the site, and encourages linking and social bookmarking. And most importantly I want each article to provide genuine value to my visitors. I do my best to create titles for my articles that balance these various needs. Often that means abandoning cutesy or clever titles in favor of direct and comprehensible ones. It’s little skills like these that help drive sustainable traffic growth month after month. Missing out on just this one skill is enough to cripple your traffic. And there are dozens of these types of skills that require web savvy to understand, respect, and apply.

This sort of knowledge is what separates the 1% from the 99%. Both groups may work just as hard, but the 1% is getting much better results for their efforts. It normally doesn’t take me more than 60 seconds to title an article, but a lot of experience goes into those 60 seconds. You really just have to learn these ideas once; after that you can apply them routinely.

Whenever you come across a significant web technology you don’t understand, look it up on Google or Wikipedia, and dive into it long enough to acquire a basic understanding of it. To make money from blogging it’s important to be something of a jack of all trades. Maybe you’ve heard the expression, “A jack of all trades is a master of none.” That may be true, but you don’t need to master any of these technologies — you just have to be good enough to use them. It’s the difference between being able to drive a car vs. becoming an auto mechanic. Strive to achieve functional knowledge, and then move on to something else. Even though I’m an experienced programmer, I don’t know how many web technologies actually work. I don’t really care. I can still use them to generate results. In the time it would take me to fully understand one new technology, I can achieve sufficient functional knowledge to apply several of them.

Thriving on change

Your greatest risk isn’t that you’ll make mistakes that will cost you. Your greatest risk is that you’ll miss opportunities. You need an entrepreneurial mindset, not an employee mindset. Don’t be too concerned with the risk of loss — be more concerned with the risk of missed gains. It’s what you don’t know and what you don’t do that will hurt you the worst. Blogging is cheap. Your expenses and financial risk should be minimal. Your real concern should be missing opportunities that would have made you money very easily. You need to develop antennae that can listen out for new opportunities. I highly recommend subscribing to Darren Rowse’s Problogger blog — Darren is great at uncovering new income-generating opportunities for bloggers.

The blogosphere changes rapidly, and change creates opportunity. It takes some brains to decipher these opportunities and to take advantage of them before they disappear. If you hesitate to capitalize on something new and exciting, you may simply miss out. Many opportunities are temporary. And every day you don’t implement them, you’re losing money you could have earned. And you’re also missing opportunities to build traffic, grow your audience, and benefit more people.

I used to get annoyed by the rapid rate of change of web technologies. It’s even more rapid than what I saw when I worked in the computer gaming industry. And the rate of change is accelerating. Almost every week now I learn about some fascinating new web service or idea that could potentially lead to big changes down the road. Making sense of them is a full-time job in itself. But I learned to love this insane pace. If I’m confused then everyone else is probably confused too. And people who only do this part-time will be very confused. If they aren’t confused, then they aren’t keeping up. So if I can be just a little bit faster and understand these technologies just a little bit sooner, then I can capitalize on some serious opportunities before the barriers to entry become too high. Even though confusion is uncomfortable, it’s really a good thing for a web entrepreneur. This is what creates the space for acollege student to earn $1,000,000 online in just a few months with a clever idea. Remember this isn’t a zero-sum game. Don’t let someone else’s success make you feel diminished or jealous. Let it inspire you instead.

What’s your overall income-generation strategy?

I don’t want to insult anyone, but most people are utterly clueless when it comes to generating income from their blogs. They slap things together haphazardly with no rhyme or reason and hope to generate lots of money. While I’m a strong advocate of the ready-fire-aim approach, that strategy does require that you eventually aim. Ready-fire-fire-fire-fire will just create a mess.

Take a moment to articulate a basic income-generating strategy for your site. If you aren’t good at strategy, then just come up with a general philosophy for how you’re going to generate income. You don’t need a full business plan, just a description of how you plan to get from $0 per month to whatever your income goal is. An initial target goal I used when I first started this site was $3000 per month. It’s a somewhat arbitrary figure, but I knew if I could reach $3000 per month, I could certainly push it higher, and $3000 is enough income that it’s going to make a meaningful difference in my finances. I reached that level 15 months after launching the site (in December 2005). And since then it’s continued to increase nicely. Blogging income is actually quite easy to maintain. It’s a lot more secure than a regular job. No one can fire me, and if one source of income dries up, I can always add new ones. We’ll address multiple streams of income soon…

Are you going to generate income from advertising, affiliate commissions, product sales, donations, or something else? Maybe you want a combination of these things. However you decide to generate income, put your basic strategy down in writing. I took 15 minutes to create a half-page summary of my monetization strategy. I only update it about once a year and review it once a month. This isn’t difficult, but it helps me stay focused on where I’m headed. It also allows me to say no to opportunities that are inconsistent with my plan.

Refer to your monetization strategy (or philosophy) when you need to make design decisions for your web site. Although you may have multiple streams of income, decide which type of income will be your primary source, and design your site around that. Do you need to funnel people towards an order form, or will you place ads all over the site? Different monetization strategies suggest different design approaches. Think about what specific action you want your visitors to eventually take that will generate income for you, and design your site accordingly.

When devising your income strategy, feel free to cheat. Don’t re-invent the wheel. Copy someone else’s strategy that you’re convinced would work for you too. Do NOT copy anyone’s content or site layout (that’s copyright infringement), but take note of how they’re making money. I decided to monetize this site with advertising and affiliate income after researching how various successful bloggers generated income. Later I added donations as well. This is an effective combo.

Traffic, traffic, traffic

Assuming you feel qualified to take on the challenge of generating income from blogging (and I haven’t scared you away yet), the three most important things you need to monetize your blog are traffic, traffic, and traffic.

Just to throw out some figures, last month (April 2006), this site received over 1.1 million visitors and over 2.4 million page views. That’s almost triple what it was just six months ago.

Why is traffic so important? Because for most methods of online income generation, your income is a function of traffic. If you double your traffic, you’ll probably double your income (assuming your visitor demographics remain fairly consistent). You can screw almost everything else up, but if you can generate serious traffic, it’s really hard to fail. With sufficient traffic the realistic worst case is that you’ll eventually be able to monetize your web site via trial and error (as long as you keep those visitors coming).

When I first launched this blog, I knew that traffic building was going to be my biggest challenge. All of my plans hinged on my ability to build traffic. If I couldn’t build traffic, it was going to be very difficult to succeed. So I didn’t even try to monetize my site for the first several months. I just focused on traffic building. Even after 19 months, traffic building is still the most important part of my monetization plan. For my current traffic levels, I know I’m undermonetizing my site, but that’s OK. Right now it’s more important to me to keep growing the site, and I’m optimizing the income generation as I go along.

Traffic is the primary fuel of online income generation. More visitors means more ad clicks, more product sales, more affiliate sales, more donations, more consulting leads, and more of whatever else that generates income for you. And it also means you’re helping more and more people.

With respect to traffic, you should know that in many respects, the rich do get richer. High traffic leads to even more traffic-building opportunities that just aren’t accessible for low-traffic sites. On average at least 20 bloggers add new links to my site every day, my articles can easily surge to the top of social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, and I’m getting more frequent requests for radio interviews. Earlier this year I was featured in USA Today and in Self Magazine, which collectively have millions of readers. Journalists are finding me by doing Google searches on topics I’ve written about. These opportunities were not available to me when I was first starting out. Popular sites have a serious advantage. The more traffic you have, the more you can attract.

If you’re intelligent and web savvy, you should also be able to eventually build a high-traffic web site. And you’ll be able to leverage that traffic to build even more traffic.

How to build traffic

Now if traffic is so crucial, how do you build it up to significant levels if you’re starting from rock bottom?

I’ve already written a lengthy article on this topic, so I’ll refer you there: How to Build a High Traffic Web Site (or Blog). If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later. That article covers my general philosophy of traffic-building, which centers on creating content that provides genuine value to your visitors. No games or gimmicks.

There is one other important traffic-building tip I’ll provide here though.

Blog Carnivals. Take full advantage of blog carnivals when you’re just starting out (click the previous link and read the FAQ there to learn what carnivals are if you don’t already know). Periodically submit your best blog posts to the appropriate carnivals for your niche. Carnivals are easy ways to get links and traffic, and best of all, they’re free. Submitting only takes minutes if you use amulti-carnvival submission form. Do NOT spam the carnivals with irrelevant material — only submit to the carnivals that are a match for your content.

In my early traffic-building days, I’d do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month. You still have to produce great content, but carnivals give you a free shot at marketing your unknown blog. Free marketing is precisely the kind of opportunity you don’t want to miss. Carnivals are like an open-mic night at a comedy club — they give amateurs a chance to show off their stuff. I still submit to certain carnivals every once in a while, but now my traffic is so high that relatively speaking, they don’t make much difference anymore. Just to increase my traffic by 1% in a month, I need 11,000 new visitors, and even the best carnivals don’t push that much traffic. But you can pick up dozens or even hundreds of new subscribers from each round of carnival submissions, so it’s a great place to start. Plus it’s very easy.

If your traffic isn’t growing month after month, does it mean you’re doing something wrong? Most likely you aren’t doing enough things right. Again, making mistakes is not the issue. Missing opportunities is.

Will putting ads on your site hurt your traffic?

Here’s a common fear I hear from people who are considering monetizing their web sites:

Putting ads on my site will cripple my traffic. The ads will drive people away, and they’ll never come back.

Well, in my experience this is absolutely, positively, and otherwise completely and totally… FALSE. It’s just not true. Guess what happened to my traffic when I put ads on my site. Nothing. Guess what happened to my traffic when I put up more ads and donation links. Nothing. I could detect no net effect on my traffic whatsoever. Traffic continued increasing at the same rate it did before there were ads on my site. In fact, it might have even helped me a little, since some bloggers actually linked to my site just to point out that they didn’t like my ad layout. I’ll leave it up to you to form your own theories about this. It’s probably because there’s so much advertising online already that even though some people will complain when a free site puts up ads, if they value the content, they’ll still come back, regardless of what they say publicly.

Most mature people understand it’s reasonable for a blogger to earn income from his/her work. I think I’m lucky in that my audience tends to be very mature — immature people generally aren’t interested in personal development. To create an article like this takes serious effort, not to mention the hard-earned experience that’s required to write it. This article alone took me over 15 hours of writing and editing. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to earn an income from such work. If you get no value from it, you don’t pay anything. What could be more fair than that? The more income this blog generates, the more I can put into it. For example, I used some of the income to buy podcasting equipment and added a podcast to the site. I’ve recorded13 episodes so far. The podcasts are all ad-free. I’m also planning to add some additional services to this site in the years ahead. More income = better service.

At the time of this writing, my site is very ad-heavy. Some people point this out to me as if I’m not aware of it: “You know, Steve. Your web site seems to contain an awful lot of ads.” Of course I’m aware of it. I’m the one who put the ads there. There’s a reason I have this configuration of ads. They’re effective! People keep clicking on them. If they weren’t effective, I’d remove them right away and try something else.

I do avoid putting up ads that I personally find annoying when I see them on other sites, including pop-ups and interstitials (stuff that flies across your screen). Even though they’d make me more money, in my opinion they degrade the visitor experience too much.

I also provide two ad-free outlets, so if you really don’t like ads, you can actually read my content without ads. First, I provide a full-text RSS feed, and at least for now it’s ad-free. I do, however, include a donation request in the bottom of my feeds.

If you want to see some actual traffic data, take a look at the 2005 traffic growth chart. I first put ads on the site in February 2005, and although the chart doesn’t cover pre-February traffic growth, the growth rate was very similar before then. For an independent source, you can also look at my traffic chart on Alexa. You can select different Range options to go further back in time.

Multiple streams of income

You don’t need to put all your eggs in one basket. Think multiple streams of income. On this site I actually have six different streams of income. Can you count them all? Here’s a list:

Google Adsense ads (pay per click and pay per impression advertising)
Donations (via PayPal or snail mail — yes, some people do mail a check)
Text Link Ads (sold for a fixed amount per month)
Chitika eMiniMalls ads (pay per click)
Affiliate programs like Amazon and LinkShare (commission on products sold, mostly books)
Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer)
Note: If you’re reading this article a while after its original publication date, then this list is likely to change. I frequently experiment with different streams.

Adsense is my biggest single source of income, but some of the others do pretty well too. Every stream generates more than $100/month.

My second biggest income stream is actually donations. My average donation is about $10, and I’ve received a number of $100 donations too. It only took me about an hour to set this up via PayPal. So even if your content is free like mine, give your visitors a means to voluntarily contribute if they wish. It’s win-win. I’m very grateful for the visitor support. It’s a nice form of feedback too, since I notice that certain articles produced a surge in donations — this tells me I’m hitting the mark and giving people genuine value.

These aren’t my only streams of income though. I’ve been earning income online since 1995. With my computer games business, I have direct sales, royalty income, some advertising income, affiliate income, and donations (from the free articles). And if you throw in my wife’s streams of income, it gets really ridiculous: advertising, direct book sales, book sales through distributors, web consulting, affiliate income, more Adsense income, and probably a few sources I forgot. Suffice it to say we receive a lot of paychecks. Some of them are small, but they add up. It’s also extremely low risk — if one source of income dries up, we just expand existing sources or create new ones. I encourage you to think of your blog as a potential outlet for multiple streams of income too.

Automated income

With the exception of #6, all of these income sources are fully automated. I don’t have to do anything to maintain them except deposit checks, and in most cases I don’t even have to do that because the money is automatically deposited to my bank account.

I love automated income. With this blog I currently have no sales, no employees, no products, no inventory, no credit card processing, no fraud, and no customers. And yet I’m still able to generate a reasonable (and growing) income.

Why get a regular job and trade your time for money when you can let technology do all that work for you? Imagine how it would feel to wake up each morning, go to your computer, and check how much money you made while you were sleeping. It’s a really nice situation to be in.

Blogging software and hardware

I use WordPress for this blog, and I highly recommend it. Wordpress has lots of features and a solid interface. And you can’t beat its price — free.

The rest of this site is custom-coded HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. I’m a programmer, so I coded it all myself. I could have just as easily used an existing template, but I wanted a simple straightforward design for this site, and I wanted the look of the blog to match the rest of the site. Plus I use PHP and MySQL to do some creative things outside the blog, like the Million Dollar Experiment.

I don’t recommend using a hosted service like Blogger if you want to seriously monetize your blog. You don’t get enough control. If you don’t have your own URL, you’re tying yourself to a service you don’t own and building up someone else’s asset. You want to build page rank and links for your own URL, not someone else’s. Plus you want sufficient control over the layout and design of your site, so you can jump on any opportunities that require low-level changes. If you use a hosted blog, you’re at the mercy of the hosting service, and that puts the future of any income streams you create with them at risk. It’s a bit more work up front to self-host, but it’s less risky in the long run.

Web hosting is cheap, and there are plenty of good hosts to choose from. I recommend Pair.com for a starter hosting account. They aren’t the cheapest, but they’re very reliable and have decent support. I know many online businesses that host with them, and my wife refers most of her clients there.

As your traffic grows you may need to upgrade to a dedicated server or a virtual private server (VPS). This web site is hosted by ServInt. I’ve hosted this site with them since day one, and they’ve been a truly awesome host. What I like most about them is that they have a smooth upgrade path as my traffic keeps growing. I’ve gone through several upgrades with them already, and all have been seamless. The nice thing about having your own server is that you can put as many sites on it as the server can handle. I have several sites running on my server, and it doesn’t cost me any additional hosting fees to add another site.

Comments or no comments

When I began this blog, I started out with comments enabled. As traffic grew, so did the level of commenting. Some days there were more than 100 comments. I noticed I was spending more and more time managing comments, and I began to question whether it was worth the effort. It became clear that with continued traffic growth, I was going to have to change my approach or die in comment hell. The personal development topics I write about can easily generate lots of questions and discussion. Just imagine how many follow-up questions an article like this could generate. With tens of thousands of readers, it would be insane. Also, nuking comment spam was chewing up more and more of my time as well.

But after looking through my stats, I soon realized that only a tiny fraction of visitors ever look at comments at all, and an even smaller fraction ever post a comment (well below 1% of total visitors). That made my decision a lot easier, and in October 2005, I turned blog comments off. In retrospect that was one of my best decisions. I wish I had done it sooner.

If you’d like to read the full details of how I came to this decision, I’ve written about it previously: Blog Comments and More on Blog Comments.

Do you need comments to build traffic? Obviously not. Just like when I put up ads, I saw no decline in traffic when I turned off comments. In fact, I think it actually helped me. Although I turned off comments, I kept trackbacks enabled, so I started getting more trackbacks. If people wanted to publicly comment on something I’d written, they had to do so on their own blogs and post a link. So turning off comments didn’t kill the discussion — it just took it off site. The volume of trackbacks is far more reasonable, and I can easily keep up with it. I even pop onto other people’s sites and post comments now and then, but I don’t feel obligated to participate because the discussion isn’t on my own site.

I realize people have very strong feelings about blog comments and community building. Many people hold the opinion that a blog without comments just isn’t a blog. Personally I think that’s utter nonsense — the data just doesn’t support it. The vast majority of blog readers neither read nor post comments. Only a very tiny and very vocal group even care about comments. Some bloggers say that having comments helps build traffic, but I saw no evidence of that. In fact, I think it’s just the opposite. Managing comments detracts from writing new posts, and it’s far better to get a trackback and a link from someone else’s blog vs. a comment on your own blog. As long-term readers of my blog know, when faced with ambiguity, my preference is to try both alternatives and compare real results with real results. After doing that my conclusion is this: No comment.

Now if you want to support comments for non-traffic-building reasons like socializing or making new contacts, I say go for it. Just don’t assume that comments are necessary or even helpful in building traffic unless you directly test this assumption yourself.

Build a complete web site, not just a blog

Don’t limit your web site to just a blog. Feel free to build it out. Although most of my traffic goes straight to this blog, there’s a whole site built around it. For example, the home page of this site presents an overview of all the sections of the site, including the blog, article section, audio content, etc. A lot of people still don’t know what a blog is, so if your whole site is your blog, those people may be a little confused.

Testing and optimization

In the beginning you won’t know which potential streams of income will work best for you. So try everything that’s reasonable for you. If you learn about a new potential income stream, test it for a month or two, and measure the results for yourself. Feel free to cut streams that just aren’t working for you, and put more effort into optimizing those streams that show real promise.

A few months ago, I signed up for an account with Text Link Ads. It took about 20 minutes. They sell small text ads on my site, split the revenue with me 50-50, and deposit my earnings directly into my PayPal account. This month I’ll make around $600 from them, possibly more if they sell some new ads during the month. And it’s totally passive. If I never tried this, I’d miss out on this easy extra income.

For many months I’ve been tweaking the Adsense ads on this site. I tried different colors, sizes, layouts, etc. I continue to experiment now and then, but I have a hard time beating the current layout. It works very well for me. Adsense doesn’t allow publishers to reveal specific CPM and CTR data, but mine are definitely above par. They started out in the gutter though. You can easily double or triple your Adsense revenue by converting a poor layout into a better one. This is the main reason why during my first year of income, my traffic grew at 20% per month, but my income grew at 50% per month. Frequent testing and optimization had a major positive impact. Many of my tests failed, and some even made my income go down, but I’m glad I did all that testing. If I didn’t then my Adsense income would only be a fraction of what it is now.

It’s cheap to experiment. Every new advertising or affiliate service I’ve tried so far has been free to sign up. Often I can add a new income stream in less than an hour and then wait a month to see how it does. If it flops then at least I learned something. If it does well, wonderful. As a blogger who wants to generate income, you should always be experimenting with new income streams. If you haven’t tried anything new in six months, you’re almost certainly missing some golden opportunities. Every blog is different, so you need to test things for yourself to see what works for you. Failure is impossible here — you either succeed, or you learn something.

Pick your niche, but make sure it isn’t too small

Pick a niche for your blog where you have some significant expertise, but make sure it’s a big enough niche that you can build significant traffic. My wife runs a popular vegan web site. She does pretty well within her niche, but it’s just not a very big niche. On the other hand, my topic of personal development has much broader appeal. Potentially anyone can be interested in improving themselves, and I have the flexibility to write about topics like productivity, self-discipline, relationships, spirituality, health, and more. It’s all relevant to personal development.

Pick a niche that you’re passionate about. I’ve written 400+ articles so far, and I still feel like I’m just getting started. I’m not feeling burnt out at all. I chose to build a personal development site because I’m very knowledgeable, experienced, and passionate about this subject. I couldn’t imagine a better topic for me to write about.

Don’t pick a niche just because you think it will make you money. I see many bloggers try to do that, and it’s almost invariably a recipe for failure. Think about what you love most, and then find a way to make your topic appealing to a massive global audience. Consider what will provide genuine value to your visitors. It’s all about what you can give.

A broad enough topic creates more potential advertising partners. If I keep writing on the same subtopic over and over, I may exhaust the supply of advertisers and hit an income ceiling. But by writing on many different topics under the same umbrella, I widen the field of potential advertisers. And I expand the appeal of my site at the same time.

Make it clear to your visitors what your blog/site is about. Often I visit a blog with a clever title and tagline that reveals nothing about the site’s contents. In that case I generally assume it’s just a personal journal and move on. I love to be clever too, but I’ve found that clarity yields better results than cleverness.

Posting frequency and length

Bloggers have different opinions about the right posting length and frequency. Some bloggers say it’s best to write short (250-750 word) entries and post 20x per week or more. I’ve seen that strategy work for some, but I decided to do pretty much the opposite. I usually aim for about 3-5 posts per week, but my posts are much longer (typically 1000-2000 words, sometimes longer than 5000 words, including the monster you’re reading right now). That’s because rather than throwing out lots of short tips, I prefer to write more exhaustive, in-depth articles. I find that deeper articles are better at generating links and referrals and building traffic. It’s true that fewer people will take the time to read them, but those that do will enjoy some serious take-away value. I don’t believe in creating disposable content just to increase page views and ad impressions. If I’m not truly helping my visitors, I’m wasting their time.

Expenses

Blogging is dirt cheap.

I don’t spend money on advertising or promotion, so my marketing expenses are nil. Essentially my content is my marketing. If you like this article, you’ll probably find many more gems in the archives.

My only real expenses for this site are the hosting (I currently pay $149/month for the web server and bandwidth) and the domain name renewal ($9/year). Nearly all of the income this site generates is profit. This trickles down to my personal income, so of course it’s subject to income tax. But the actual business expenses are minimal.

The reason I pay so much for hosting is simply due to my traffic. If my traffic were much lower, I could run this site on a cheap shared hosting account. A database-driven blog can be a real resource hog at high traffic levels. The same goes for online forums. As traffic continues to increase, my hosting bill will go up too, but it will still be a tiny fraction of total income.

Perks

Depending on the nature of your blog, you may be able to enjoy some nice perks as your traffic grows. Almost every week I get free personal development books in the mail (for potential review on this site). Sometimes the author will send it directly; other times the publisher will ship me a batch of books. I also receive CDs, DVDs, and other personal development products. It’s hard to keep up sometimes (I have a queue of about two dozen books right now), but I am a voracious consumer of such products, so I do plow through them as fast as I can. When something strikes me as worthy of mention, I do indeed write up a review to share it with my visitors. I have very high standards though, so I review less than 10% of what I receive. I’ve read over 700 books in this field and listened to dozens of audio programs, so I’m pretty good at filtering out the fluff. As I’m sure you can imagine, there’s a great deal of self-help fluff out there.

My criteria for reviewing a product on this site is that it has to be original, compelling, and profound. If it doesn’t meet these criteria, I don’t review it, even if there’s a generous affiliate program. I’m not going to risk abusing my relationship with my visitors just to make a quick buck. Making money is not my main motivation for running this site. My main motivation is to grow and to help others grow, so that always comes first.

Your blog can also gain you access to certain events. A high-traffic blog becomes a potential media outlet, so you can actually think of yourself as a member of the press, which indeed you are. In a few days, my wife and I will be attending a three-day seminar via a free press pass. The regular price for these tickets is $500 per person. I’ll be posting a full review of the seminar next week. I’ve been to this particular seminar in 2004, so I already have high expectations for it. Dr. Wayne Dyer will be the keynote speaker.

I’m also using the popularity of this blog to set up interviews with people I’ve always wanted to learn more about. This is beautifully win-win because it creates value for me, my audience, and the person being interviewed. Recently I posted an exclusive interview with multi-millionaire Marc Allen as well as a review of his latest book, and I’m lining up other interviews as well. It isn’t hard to convince someone to do an interview in exchange for so much free exposure.

Motivation

I don’t think you’ll get very far if money is your #1 motivation for blogging. You have to be driven by something much deeper. Money is just frosting. It’s the cake underneath that matters. My cake is that I absolutely love personal development – not the phony “fast and easy” junk you see on infomercials, but real growth that makes us better human beings. That’s my passion. Pouring money on top of it just adds more fuel to the fire, but the fire is still there with or without the money.

What’s your passion? What would you blog about if you were already set for life?

Blogging lifestyle

Perhaps the best part of generating income from blogging is the freedom it brings. I work from home and set my own hours. I write whenever I’m inspired to write (which for me is quite often). Plus I get to spend my time doing what I love most — working on personal growth and helping others do the same. There’s nothing I’d rather do than this.

Perhaps it’s true that 99 out of 100 people can’t make a decent living from blogging yet. But maybe you’re among the 1 in 100 who can.

On the other hand, I can offer you a good alternative to recommend if you don’t have the technical skills to build a high-traffic, income-generating blog. Check out Build Your Own Successful Online Business for details.

StevePavlina.com

Cara Cerdas Pasang Iklan ke Ribuan Iklan Baris Gratis

2008-08-18T08:17:00.001-07:00

Kalau Anda seorang internet marketer. Apakah anda menjadi reseller, menjual barang secara online atau memiliki web perusahaan, Anda perlu mengiklankannya.

Alasan utama untuk Anda mengiklankan web Anda adalah permainan Angka. lebih banyak orang tahu web Anda, lebih banyak yang melihat produk Anda. Akan lebih besar kemungkinan terjadi penjualan.

Ada berbagai cara untuk mengiklankan web Anda. Bisa melewati milis, web iklan baris, banner, dsb. Dengan menggunakan iklan baris gratis yang banyak bertebaran di internet, Anda memiliki berbagai keuntungan.

Selain gratis, web iklan biasanya disertai SEO sehingga web Anda bisa cepat dilacak keberadaanya oleh mesin pencari. Namun sering kita tidak menggunakan iklan baris karena malas mengisi berbagai form yang ada di halaman pengisian iklan.

Kalau Anda mencari sebuah tools atau alat untuk promosi online secara gratis, ada beberapa web yang menawarkan jasa pemasangan iklan Anda secara Online GRATIS.

Bahkan, beberapa memberikan Bonus Rp.25.000 setiap kali Anda mendaftar. Kelebihan lainnya, beberapa website menawarkan pemasangan iklan secara otomatis ke ratusan iklan baris yang tergabung di dalamnya tanpa campur tangan Anda sama sekali.

Tanpa script, tanpa download

Hanya perlu mendaftar dan mulai memasang iklan Anda. Berikut beberapa website yang menyediakan layanan ini. Anda bisa saja mengiklankan web Anda tanpa mendaftar, namun coba cermati tawaran fitur mereka jika Anda mendaftar.

1. Growurl.com

Di antara semuanya, Growurl adalah web penyedia jasa pemasangan iklan gratis pertama dengan total website yang sudah 'ditumbuhkan' sebanyak 9438 website (per 24 Juni 2008). Warna dasarnya putih dengan siluet sejenis tanaman

Growurl.com memberi nama pemasangan iklan otomatisnya dengan nama SubmitZzz, yang mampu memasang iklan ke lebih dari 100 web iklan, blog dan mail list seperti publish.web.id dan suryaiklan.com. Selain itu, Growurl.com menawarkan juga fitur pengiklanan seperti Google adwords atau yahoo sponsored search bernama Growurl Text Ads Service.

Fitur Growurl.com bisa membuat membernya tidak perlu membeli kredit dari Growurl.com. Caranya antara lain dengan memasang logo Growurl.com, menulis review, mereferensikan teman untuk bergabung, memasang script Mini Ads di halaman website, atau mendaftarkan web iklan kita menjadi salah satu bagian dari pengiklanan Growurl.com.

Growurl.com juga menyewakan script website jasa pemasangan iklan serupa. Sehingga diharapkan ke depannya banyak website pemasangan iklan secara otomatis dan gratis. Diharapkan, ke depannya pesaran dalam bentuk online dapat menjadi lebih semarak lag

Tumbuhkan traffic dengan Growurl.com

2. Kirimiklan.com

Ciaaaatttt !!!

Itulah kilas pertama melihat home page milik Kirimiklan.com. Web jasa pemasangan iklan ini menampilkan logo seorang pesilat yang sedang 'in action'. Logo mungilnya juga berbentuk siluet seorang pesilat sedang menendang.

Fitur pemasangan iklan otomatis Kirimiklan.com diberi nama KirimZzz, yang bisa memasang iklan kita ke lebih dari 100 website iklan gratis dan direktori seperti wulansari.com dan barisindonesia.com. Hingga hari ini, Kirimiklan telah men "Ciiaatttt !!" 101 website milik membernya.

Hingga 30 Juni 2008, Kirimiklan.com masih memberi Bonus Rp.25.000 bagi member baru yang mendaftar. Selain itu, Kirimiklan.com memberikan kesempatan menambah kredit sehingga membernya dapat menggunakan fitur-fitur Kirimiklan.com dengan GRATIS selamanya.

Fitur itu antara lain dengan menulis review, mereferensikan teman untuk bergabung dan meletakkan logo di halaman depan website/blog kita, atau mendaftarkan web iklan kita menjadi salah satu affiliasi dari Kirimiklan.com.

Kirim iklan ke Kirimiklan.com

3. Domorepromo.com

"Promote Your website Now !!" Begitulah tag line dari domorepromo.com. memiliki logo seperti tanda seru yang bersinar, domorepromo.com sepertinya benar-benar menginginkan agar semua membernya memiliki website yang "terlihat" setelah menggunakan layanan Domorepromo.com.

Fitur pemasangan iklan otomatis Domorepromo.com diberi nama Autopromo, yang bisa memasang iklan kita ke lebih dari 100 website iklan gratis, blog dan direktori seperti iklanadvertise.com dan iklanbarismu.com. Hingga hari ini, Domorepromo "menerangi" 49 website milik membernya.

Domorepromo.com masih memberi Bonus Rp.25.000 bagi member baru yang mendaftar hingga 14 July 2008. Selain itu, Domorepromo.com memberikan kesempatan menambah kredit sehingga membernya dapat menggunakan fitur-fiturnya dengan GRATIS selamanya.

Promosi kan web mu dengan Domorepromo.com

What is Google AdSense?

2008-08-07T09:19:00.001-07:00

Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your users are looking for on your site, you'll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages. Learn more about AdSense for content.

It's also a way for web site publishers to provide Google search to their site users, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages. Find out more about AdSense for search.

The program is free, and combines pay-per-click and pay-per-impression advertising - meaning you get paid for valid clicks on the ads on your site or search results pages as well as impressions on your content pages. So go ahead and try this program. If you comply with our program policies, just complete our online application and select either or both of AdSense for content pages and AdSense for search. One application gets you approved for both AdSense and AdSense for search - you can decide to use any combination of these products on your pages.
We'll review your application and follow up with an email within 2-3 days. If you are accepted into the program, you can log in to your new account and get the HTML code to insert into your webpages.

Keep in mind that participation in AdSense requires you to have a website. If you don't have one, you can sign up for a free blog at www.blogger.com or create and publish useful, attractive webpages using Google Page Creator, at pages.google.com.

How do I generate earnings?

There are many ways to earn revenue with Google AdSense -- AdSense for content and AdSense for search are two of the most widely available ways.

With AdSense for content, you'll display Google ads on your site. These ads can be either cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-thousand-impression (CPM) ads. For CPC ads, you'll generate earnings when your users click on the ads. For CPM ads, you'll generate earnings in your account every time the ad appears on your site.

How do I earn with AdSense for search?

AdSense for search lets you offer your users Google web search directly from your pages. By placing an AdSense for search box on your site, you'll generate earnings from ad clicks made by users on the search results pages.

You won't, however, receive revenue from user searches through your AdSense for search box. When users perform searches on your site, but choose not to click on the ads on the search results pages, you will not receive any earnings.

Peluang Mendapatkan Uang dari Internet

2008-08-07T08:15:00.000-07:00

Sahabat,

Anda pasti sering membaca tentang peluang mendapatkan uang dari Internet. Anda boleh percaya, boleh juga tidak, toh, makin hari makin banyak orang yang terjun dalam bisnis mengasyikan ini. Yes ! Bisnis via Internet ! jika belum percaya, silakan terus menjadi penonton, jika sudah percaya, silakan ikut jadi pemain !

Pasti anda sering membaca tulisan-tulisan seperti di bawah ini !

Rahasia Tersembunyi Metode Mencari Uang
di Internet Akhirnya Diungkap...

Jika Anda Bisa Mengetik dan Mengakses Internet, Anda Sudah Memiliki Syarat yang Cukup untuk Menghasilkan Uang Melimpah dari Internet... Hanya Jika Anda Tahu Caranya!

Saudara pencari income melimpah di internet...

Apakah anda sudah bekerja keras membanting tulang, mencari uang kesana kemari, namun hasil yang didapat belum juga memuaskan?

Apakah waktu sisa yang anda miliki terlalu sedikit untuk keluarga hanya karena terikat dengan pekerjaan rutin yang melelahkan dan membosankan? Anda stress setiap hari, tertekan karena intimidasi bos anda, berangkat kerja di pagi hari dan kembali di rumah penuh dengan rasa lelah di malam hari... dan besok anda akan ulangi lagi rutinitas ini.

Apakah seperti ini hidup anda?

Jika jawaban anda adalah "YA", maka teruslah membaca!

Saya akan tunjukkan bagaimana mengubah kondisi
finansial anda dengan cara sederhana, yang tidak pernah anda bayangkan sebelumnya!

Setelah anda membaca informasi ini, anda akan temukan RAHASIA meraih INCOME MELIMPAH... dari internet!

		dari bisnis sederhana yang dijalankan di depan komputer,
		dimulai dengan modal kecil untuk menjalankannya,
		hanya dengan bekerja 2 jam sehari, tidak perlu lama-lama,
		tanpa perlu meninggalkan anak dan istri tercinta,
		dan bisnis berjalan secara otomatis!

Menyenangkan bukan jika kita bisa mencapai itu semua?

Jenis Bisnis Internet

Ada beberapa Jenis Bisnis Internet yang dapat menghasilkan uang, mulai yang gratisan alias tanpa modal sampai yang memerlukan sedikit modal rupiah. Baik, saya akan tunjukkan.

Bisnis Internet tanpa Modal alias GRATIS

1. Google Adsense

Anda cukup mendaftar menjadi member di Google adsense, setelah mendaftar, tugas anda hanya meletakkan link google adsense di website atau blog pribadi anda. Untuk Mendaftar, KLIK saja di SINI...

2. Amazon

Anda bisa menjadi afiliasi di Amazon, setiap orang yang membeli buku/majalah atau produk lainnya dari website afiliasi anda, maka anda akan mendapatkan fee dari Amazon. Atau jika ada orang yang menjadi afiliasi melalui website afiliasi anda, anda akan juga mendapatkan fee dari Amazon. Jika tertarik menjadi Afiliasi Amazon, Klik saja di SINI...

Bisnis Internet dengan Modal

Banyak sekali bisnis internet yang memerlukan sedikit modal, diantaranya :

1. Formula Bisnis

Jika anda menjadi member, anda mempunyai tugas mengiklankan website replika yang diberikan, jika ada yang mendaftar melalui website replika anda, maka anda akan mendapatkan 50% dari biaya keanggotaan. Jika tertarik menjadi member, Klik saja di SINI...

2. Software Bisnis

Sama seperti Formula Bisnis, Jika anda menjadi member, anda mempunyai tugas mengiklankan website replika yang diberikan, jika ada yang mendaftar melalui website replika anda, maka anda akan mendapatkan 50% dari biaya keanggotaan. Jika tertarik menjadi member, Klik saja di SINI...

3. Resep Bisnis

Sama seperti Formula Bisnis dan Software Bisnis, Jika anda menjadi member, anda mempunyai tugas mengiklankan website replika yang diberikan, jika ada yang mendaftar melalui website replika anda, maka anda akan mendapatkan 50% dari biaya keanggotaan. Jika tertarik menjadi member, Klik saja di SINI...

Contoh di atas hanya sebagian dari bisnis internet yang patut anda coba ! jangan hanya jadi penonton ! jadilah pemain ! jangan sampai anda hanya ikut menonton sahabat-sahabat anda mencetak uang dari internet, sementara anda hanya cukup puas sebagai penonton ! mulai ambil tindakan, sekarang juga !

Cara Beriklan yang efektif

ada banya cara promosi, diantarannya :

1. Milist

Memanfaatkan Mailing List Yahoogroups, mendaftarlah di beberapa Milist besar diantaranya :

Indonesian-Business@yahoogroups.com

Head-Hunter@yahoogroups.com

Job-Vacancy@yahoogroups.com

Komunitas-Entrepreneur@yahoogroups.com

Marketing-Forum@yahoogroups.com

Manager-Indonesia@yahoogroups.com

dan Lain-lain

2. Iklan Baris

Pasang Iklan Baris Gratis yang sangat banyak jumlahnya di internet, diantaranya :

www.SentraBisnis.com

www.BayiKita.net

www.Iklanbaris.co.id

dan Lain-lain, ada lebih dari seratusan situs iklan baris di internet.

3. Guestbook

Hampir disetiap website/blog pribadi, kadang mempersilakan pengunjung untuk mengisi guestbook, isilah guestbook disetiap website yg anda kunjungi, tuliskan link-link penting anda, agar pengunjung lain mengunjungi web anda.

4. Search Engine

Daftarkan link anda di search engine seperti google, altavista, lycos, yahoo dal lain-lain.

5. Cara lain

Masih banyak cara lainnya untuk berpromosi, baik secara online maupun offline.

Selamat berkarya ! selamat & Sukses selalu untuk anda !