Wednesday 2 September 2009

Affiliate Marketing and Pay Per Click

Do you want to make more money? Do you want to turn that computer you spent so much money on into a cash cow? Well it is possible. It won’t happen overnight but with time and hard work you’ll soon be working from home if you so choose.

Do you currently have a website? Do you wonder why it isn’t making you any money? You keep posting great content, great writing samples and articles, but still your balance stays at zero, zilch! Well perhaps you need to expand your horizons. By signing up for pay per click affiliate sites you can soon see cash going into your account simply by maintaining your site.

One of the most popular pay per click programmes is Google Adsense. Google Adsense will take care of the advertising for you. When you sign up, your site will have new advertisements and banner places in the open spaces. If anyone visits your site and clicks on one of the ads, you get a referral payment. Again, Google takes care of the ad placement allowing you to concentrate on increasing the traffic to your site.

Joining a scheme such as Google Adsense is an excellent idea. They will help to promote your site and advise you on how to increase your traffic.

If you have been maintaining your website for a while, you probably know that one of the best ways to attract traffic is through the use of keywords. The right keywords should have visitors flocking to your site. The wrong words will not attract anyone, believe me! Sites such as Google Adsense can help with this, of course. They operate Google Adwords, which helps to maximize the key word usage and help get the correct one for the most traffic. Google does charge for this service so you need to be sure it is worth it before you buy. You don’t want all of your profits eaten up by what you are paying for Adwords.

When you sign up for Google Adsense, you can be assured that appropriate ads will be placed on your webpage. If you have a pet care site then things related to that topic will be placed. Obscure ads that have nothing to do with your page are not likely to impress or interest your reader, or increase your earnings.

Google Adsense is only one example of search engines that offer a pay per click money making service. There are hundreds of others. One of the most notable is Yahoo Publisher. It functions in much the same way as Google Adsense and offers a similar style of service. Which one you choose will depend largely on you. If you have several sites, you could try both schemes. See which one is doing best for you, and go with that one.

If you have several web pages that just seem to be doing nothing, then have a look at pay per click programmes. Sites such as Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher will do most of the hard work for you. They will place the ads and decide which ads will be best for your site. This will leave you time to get on with the most important thing; increasing your site traffic and eventually your ad revenue. If you have websites, look into pay per click. The service is free so you have nothing to lose.

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