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There are thousands of directories and only some of them are successful. The mark of success is not necessarily having thousands of listings but on how many ‘humans’ use the directory to find what they are looking for. Obviously when people use the website and benefit from it the webmaster also profits from it. And we have a successful directory website.

This brings us to the question what type of directory can be useful to ‘real humans’. It has to be ones that have information and links to sites that are what the people are looking for.  General directories usually do not fit the bill because they are too vast to be really targetted. Exceptions though are the real pioneers of the directory segment. But for new entrants to this business, it is important to build a niche directory. A niche directory will necessarily have better targetted sites listed and will be more useful to ‘real humans’. Read the rest of this entry »

We have seen so many link price calculator scripts that tells how much a link on a page is worth. For example, the link price estimator at Text Link Ads. But this one at Celebrity Contest impressed us. If you are a prospective link buyer or want to sell links/posts on your blog, then you must try out this cool tool. As an input, you must specify the url of the page where you want to place the link, whether the link is sitewide or on one page and whether it is a text link or a blog post.

The tool calculates the price based on the following five main factors - Google PR, Alexa rankings, page visibility, Yahoo! backlinks and outbound links. Since each factor is quantified clearly, you, as a webmaster know clearly how you can improve and increase the worth of each link. Read the rest of this entry »

In case you have an online business selling goods or services it is extremely important that you can accept payment via various methods. Not all customers can pay through PayPal while mailing a check may take too long for some occasions. Some customers may not prefer to pay using a credit card via PayPal while wire transfer may not be an option for others. As an online entrepreneur, it is important that you do not lose any customer because you cannot accept payment in a certain form.

While PayPal is widely used, it is also a good idea to tie up with an online credit card processing company so that you can start accepting credit card payments on your site itself. This combination of PayPal with credit cards will cover nearly all prospective customers - so you do not have to worry about losing customers. Read the rest of this entry »

As a blogger you are usually looking for different ways to monetize your website. Some of the most common ways to do this are through contextual ads, like the Adsense program by Google and the sale of text links on the blog. While contextual ads pay you a certain variable amount per ad clicked by the user, text links usually pay a fixed amount per fixed time slot.

Another way that is fast catching up with bloggers and advertisers alike is the concept of paid blog posts. This means that advertisers pay the blogger to blog about their products. How much each advertiser wants to pay depends on the quality of the blog and the traffic it receives. What better monetizing method could be there than to make money blogging! Read the rest of this entry »

More and more webmasters are opting to sell a part or the full advertising inventory directly. This means that they solicit (directly or indirectly) the advertisers, finalise the terms and conditions of the deal, implement the advertisement and handle the billing and complaints, if any. This benefits both the publisher as well as the advertiser since they save on the cost that would otherwise have paid to the intermediary. Also with direct contact between the advertiser and publisher the needs of each other are understood in a better way. Also a number of webmasters have used this model to sell other services from their online store/site. Read the rest of this entry »

We have been looking at various options to monetise your website. Google Adsense continues to be the most popular among the webmasters. No doubt Adsense is a very good revenue generator but as a serious entrepreneur, one must take care to ensure that all the eggs are not put in the same basket. We come across so many Adsense publishers getting banned, some of them for no fault of theirs. As a webmaster who looks at his site not just as a hobby, it is important to ensure that his risks are distributed. Other ways to monetise, like CPM advertising, direct advertising, affiliate marketing and text ads must also be explored. Also with the change in Adsense TOS, you can put other contextual ads on the same page as Adsense. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes we keep searching for things and finally find them right under our nose all the time! Webmasters keep looking for new unique content and some of them spend a lot of money and time to get some. This post, we disuss a source of free content (obviously with some effort) that can be profitable too.

We will discuss about how affiliate programs can be used as unique content. If you are part of an affiliate program (and most webmasters are), you will see that there are campaigns in multiple categories. If you find some advertiser campaign on a related niche to your site, why not write a small review on the subject with the advertiser’s link embedded. Not only do you get unique content but also scope for some monetizing. Read the rest of this entry »

Listed below are 6 common mistakes/oversights webmasters do and have their accounts terminated.

1. Click on your own ads
The easiest way to get banned from the Adsense program. Repeatedly click on your own ads till Google bans you.

2. Ask your friends and/or visitors to click on Google ads
This is another popular way to get your account banned from Adsense. People ask their friends to help them out; all the friends do is finally cause the maximum damage.

3. Offer incentives to visitors for clicking ads
Somewhat similar to point 2 above, these webmasters offer visitors some incentive to click on Adsense ads. They could also appeal to the sentiments of the visitor by requesting them to click as this will support the site. Sure way to get your account terminated. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you have a new website which is barely getting a few visitors everyday? Would you like to place some advertisements on the site so that your hosting costs are covered?

Today, we show you an affiliate program that will pay you $10 for showing their banner ads on three of your pages. The banner ads are not flashy and will not be intrusive on your site. And as said earlier even low traffic sites are accepted. This company is called Better Than Banners.

They pay month on month in either of two ways. You can either choose to receive Amazon gift vouchers or cash.

The site is very simple to navigate and for a low traffic site, this program is perfect.

If you are interested to join this program, click here.

There are different ways to monetise your website and the most common one is to display advertisements. These could be via affiliate programs or other online ad networks like Adsense or CJ. When a visitor to your site performs an action using the ad links on your site, you receive a commission from the company who provided the links. Obviously, you receive the commission minus the affiliate network cut. Some networks take a fixed cut while others charge a percentage that could go up to 50% or even more. Read the rest of this entry »