Ways to make money online without investment: September 2010

September 26, 2010

Learn About Affiliate Programs Types

Affiliate programs can be an effective tool to use on your blog or website earn extra money for you. But it is important to choose the right affiliate program based on the nature and content of your site and one that offers the most earning potential.
To understand how affiliate programs pay, it helps to know a few terms first:

Customer: A customer is someone that clicks through from your website to to another website (a merchant site) from yours. A customer may or may not have to make a purchase for you to be paid depending on the terms of the affiliate program.

Merchant: The merchant is the business that that you generate sales, click-throughs, or leads for. Simply put, merchants are the businesses that you are making money or generating business opportunities for.
Affiliate: In an affiliate program, you are considered the affiliate (or you may also be referred to as an "associate").

Types of Affiliate Programs

The three most common financial arrangements affiliate programs offer are:

Pay-per-lead: Affiliates are paid a fee for each customer they refer to a merchant site that completes some sort of information query. Information gathered from lead generations may be used by the merchant site itself, or sold to another party. In all fairness to your own site visitors, you should offer a disclaimer that the information they provide in a lead query is captured and could be sold to someone else. I find this type of affiliate program the least effective for generating income because unless you have a very specialized website that serves a focused purpose (i.e., offering information about insurance) most people are not going to take the time to fill out lead queries.

Pay-per-sale: The merchant site pays the affiliate when a customer referred by the affiliate makes an actual purchase. Pay-per-sale programs may offer a flat fee for each sale, or a percentage based on a variety of factors, or even a combination of flat rate and percentage payments. This is the most reliable way to earn income from affiliate programs. It is easy to track what people are buying, how much you are earning, and make adjustments in your affiliate program ads to maximum selling potential.

Pay-per-click: A merchant pays you for every click from your site to the merchant site whether or not a sale results. This may sound like an easy way to make money but it is not. Unless you have very high traffic to your site, this is not an effective tool to use and may actually detract from the quality of your own website. There are many flaws in the pay-per-click system and even Google was sued in a class action lawsuit for misleading advertisers by deliberately using “parked websites” to create an illusion of the number of paid ads being placed, and for failing to disclose click-through information on customer bills, thereby inflating AdSense profits for Google. Merchants are often targeted by individuals who sit and click repeatedly from their own sites or ask family and friends to click for them – people who have no intention of ever buying anything. This practice is unethical and unfair to other business owners. If a merchant believes you are artificially inflating click-throughs or using automated methods to increase clicks they have the right to refuse to pay you anything at all.

Affiliate programs should be used as a business tool, not as a substitute for a business. If you work hard to create a blog or website that offers something of value to your own site visitors, you are far more likely to earn income by using affiliate programs

September 23, 2010

Affiliate Program

Many people want to earn money from affiliate program but they don't know exactly what is affiliate program.
An affiliate program is a great way to make money on the Web. You write the content that you typically write and then link to the products that you talked about. When one of your customers clicks on the link and buys the product, you get a small commision of the sale.
The reason affiliate programs work so well is becuase you're not relying on a computer to match up ads to your content. You do it yourself. You know best what ads would work best on your content and which products and services recommend. And when your readers see that you've taken the time to review a product or service, they're going to feel more comfortable buying that product.

How Do Affiliate Programs Pay?
Most programs have very specific rules about how they pay, but there are two common ways that you can expect to see:

Pay per click - This is similar to most online advertising, and you get paid whenever someone clicks on the link, button, or image you placed on your site. Pay per click is usually fairly low paying.
Pay per action - Instead of paying you everytime someone clicks on a link from your site, this method of affiliate payment tracks what the customer does once they leave your site. You might be paid a percentage of any sales they make or you might get paid every time someone moves deeper into the target site. This method, especially when you get a percentage of sales, can be very lucrative.

Before you ask, it can't really be answered the question how much do affiliate programs pay because it varies so much from site to site and program to program. Here many programs where people made thousands of dollars per month and others where they barely made any money.

Ways to get good traffic to your blog/website

"I have a site full of rich contents. What I don't have and am dying to get is VISITORS..."Almost every site owner faces such trouble. If you are one of them, then read this article carefully. Every site owner has his own way of promoting and bringing valuable visitors to it. There can be hundreds of ways that can be implemented to promote a website. But surely there are some ways that every site owner can follow to drive more traffic to their websites.

Using MY Yahoo service – submit your website rss feed on My yahoo as that will help your website to get indexed quickly on Yahoo.
Submitting to Google Reader – when you submit your site rss to Google reader, it will be fastly crawled by Google blog search.
Using the pinging services – Use the pinging services like ping-o-matic every time you add new content on your website for getting more visibility and links for your website.
Submitting to search engines – Don’t forget to submit your website to big search engines like Google, yahoo, msn, AltaVista, Ask.com etc.
Submission to web directories – Submit it to top web directories like dmoz.org, Yahoo Directory, Business.com, Best of the web.
Free SEO services- There are many Free SEO service providers online. Search then out and submit your site to them. In return, they may ask you to link their site in your website or blog.
RSS submission – Add your website/blog to as many rss submission directories and search engines you can.
Value added comments on websites/blogs – Commenting on other websites and blogs of your niche is also a great idea to get some valuable links as well as traffic to your web page. If you leave a value added comment there, many people will click on our website to know more about you and your website. But don’t spam other people website/blog and don’t get lazy in writing comments on related sites. When you regularly visit and comment on a website, that will be noticed by its readers. So commenting on other people page can give many valuable readers as well as link to your website
Using in E-mail signature – link back to your website in your e-mail signature section. When you use it regularly for all of your out-going mails, you will see that you start getting some traffic through your signature that is clicked by people whom you send your e-mail
Using Groups – You can use Yahoo group, Google group, msn group and many more group for building more traffic for their website. when you think of getting visitors from such groups, go for your niche specific groups and if possible create your won group there and continuously work on that to bring more people to your site.
Using forums – Forums as well can be used to drive more links and visitors to your site. Join any forum related to your site and share your views and invite others to visit your site/blog.
Article submission – You can use article websites like ezinearticles, americanchronicle, findarticles, goarticles, articlecity etc kind of top article submission websites to get quality links and visitors from their sites.
Link exchange – Link exchange is still effective. There are many website owners who still use link trading as their main source of getting quality links for their website. And when your website has good back links for their targeted anchor text, your site will surely drive high amount of traffic from search engines.
Social media marketing – Create strong profile on social media sites like Digg, propeller, Reddit, Newsvine and submit your favorite stories there. Never forget to link your site/blog there.
Squidoo, Hubpages and InfoBarrel– Go to these websites and create your lens and hubs there. It will not take more than 15 minutes to setup a hub on hubpages.com and a lens on squidoo.com.
Wikipedia kind of open sources – If you have a popular website, why not create a page for your website on wikipedia.org. With this one can add their website pages link in the existing wiki pages. But add only relevant links on wikipages otherwise your link will be removed from there. And if you tried to over spam it, your site get banned and then you will not be able to add any link from that domain on wikipedia.org. There are some more wiki about how to manual including ehow.com, wikihow.com
Mybloglog typy communities – Create your account on mybloglog, blog catalog, bumpzee some of cool blogging communities. These communities will help you het in touch with other people/blogger of your niche. You can use these kinds of communities to drive traffic and valuable link for your website. Create communities, make friends, add people as contacts, join others communities, messaging and add their widget to your website/blog
Using press release – Press releases are great tools for traffic building and brand building for a website. This will bring lots of traffic and valuable links to a website. So write a press release for your website and submit it to PrWeb.com & Webwire.com
Traffic Exchange programs – There are many traffic exchange programs available on the internet one can use to add more traffic to their existing visitors count. When you search on Google for ‘traffic exchange’, you will be able to get lots of traffic exchange sites there.
Free and paid classified programs – You can drive more traffic and links for their website using free and paid classifieds. Search Google.com for free classifieds, you will get lots of classified sites there.
Yahoo Answer type of services – You can use Yahoo Answer, Answerbag, and allexperts.com kind of question answering websites to bring more people to your web page.
PPC programs – Use pay per click kind of advertising to get more results for your site. When you use such kind of programs, your site will be listing in the sponsored section in search results on a search engine. All major search engines including Google, yahoo, MSN have their advertising programs.

These are some of ways to bring more people to your website. There will be many more ways for traffic building on a website. Try these out and search on net for any other ways to get high amount of traffic to your site/blog. Best Of Luck.

September 7, 2010

Good 10 tips to Increase blog traffic

After setting your blog or website every body want to have a good traffic to their blog.Its a dream of every blog owner to have good traffic on his /her blog.The world of blogs is very big and busy world with over 1000 million blogs and increasing.So here are 10 amazing tips to increase traffic to your blog

1) Comment on Other Blogs
commenting on other blog is an easy way to increase your blog traffic.post your blog link after your comment doing so will increase the probability of search engine to find your blog.When you post interesting and useful comments on other blogs (particularly those that are related to your own blog's topic), people will notice and follow the link back to your blog to learn more about you and read more of what you have to say

2) Write often
Post frequently can increase your search engine traffic. Each new post acts as a new entry point for search engines to find your blogs. Writing with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind can also increase the potential each of your posts has to lead traffic to your blog.

3) Participate in Online Forums
Join forums related to your blog topic and become an active, contributing member. Include a link to your blog in your forum signature, so it's always available to other members.

4) Social websites
If you have a social networking website account like facebook twitter than you shoulad promote your blog with these sites.Add the link of your blog post to these sites will give you increase in your blog traffic.Join social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious and submit great content (not just your own).All of these efforts will increase awareness of your blog and give it added exposure.

5) Link to other blogs in your own blog posts
Try to include links to other blogs in your own blog posts. Refer to other blogs you enjoy reading or specific posts you found particularly interesting. When those other blogs have the trackback feature turned on in their blogging software programs, you'll automatically get a link back to your own blog in the comment section of those posts. At the very least, the other blogger will see the incoming links from your blog in their blog statistic reports, putting you and your blog on his or her radar, and that means more exposure for you.

6) Include Your Blog Link in Your Email Signature and on Business Cards
Basically, include your blog URL everywhere you can. Your email signature and business cards are two of the most obvious places to promote your blog with a link or printed URL, but don't be afraid to think out of the box. Promotion is key to success when it comes to blogging. Don't be shy about tooting your own horn.

7) Write Multiple Sites and Link Them Together
The more blogs or websites that you write, the more interlinking is possible. That interlinking can be used to promote your blog through different channels that might attract different audiences. Create an integrated blog marketing plan by aligning your promotion efforts across your various blogs and websites to reap the biggest rewards.

8) Hold a Blog Contest
Blog contests are a great way to attract new visitors to your blog. The most important thing to remember when using a blog contest as a promotional tool is to get the word out about the contest by announcing it on contest websites.

Online jobs

If you have some good skills with computers like photo editing,pdf conversion,good typing skills,data entry,web design,html,C++ and you think you are good in technical writing skills like article writing etc than you can make a lot of money with these sills.All you have to do is to register with the sites i mentioned below (registration is free).All kind of jobs are available in these sites.There are lot of projects available in these sites if you are interested in any project you have to write a short proposal for it.
(tips for writing a good proposal will be discussed in next section)

1.freelancer (free registration)
2.Scriptlancer (free registration)

September 4, 2010

Make money from your website or blog

You can make money from your website or blog.Making website or blog is very simple now a days you don't have to pay anything for it.You can get a free sub domain at different well established sites just like my site it is under webs.com so it is a sub domain.

Here is a list of sites where you can get a site for free

Making a blog/site at the above mentioned sites is very easy. You just need to explore all the options that are available. In case you need any help, you can ask questions in Guest book or join member area.
You need to make a website that will have no errors of any kind.

Submitting your site to search engine

Remember that the most important source of traffic for your website will be the search engines.So after completing your website you have to submit it to search engines like google , yahoo , bing.

In order to see your website to rank good in search engines, you will have to wait for some time. For new sites, one needs to wait for days/weeks or even months to see any positive results.

Make money with your created website

Now after completing all these steps its time to make money from your website.It can be done by adding advertisement to your site.You can add advertisement before launching the site or you can do this after you start to get some traffic. You can make money from your website via different things. You can put advertisements in your site or you can join some affiliate program.

Advertisement or Affiliation

Some people think that we should add advertisements and other things in our site, after we start to get some good traffic. But I personally think that, we should just add these things as soon as the site is ready to launch.
Here are the top companies offering web based ads to put in quality websites.

If you have any questions feel free to ask in guest area.
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GET PAID BY SHARING YOUR LINKS

Its the easiest way to make money online.Earn cash when you share your links or another person’s links with your friend and family. You can share your blog link, website( own by you or another person) link ,affiliate link, referral link, a links that contains funny content or any other link that you want to send to your friend and family and earn money when your friend and family click on the link you send to them. But before you send the link you have to make it a pay link its for free

1. LINK BUCKS

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Paid to survey

Paid surveys are a great way to get paid and earn extra cash. Fill in a paid survey online and make money for giving your opinion.Real and easy way to make money.No survey will last more than 15 or 20 minutes.It is the most famous known script about which everyone knows. The paid to survey programs pay money to their users for taking participation in a survey where you will give your opinion about something. Around 8 to 10 billion dollars are spent every year by the corporate world on online paid surveys to get the statistical market research reports. Hence a great opportunity to earn money online.

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