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We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate your patience during this transition and here are some alternative options to consider:Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. For further details, please visit: http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/.AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace the referral ad units with standard AdSense for content ad units.If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August. We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is retired:Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your ad space.Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create and save all reports related to the referrals program on your desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign information.Thank you for your support of AdSense Referrals in the past. If you have any additional questions, please visit our Help Center.Posted by Anuj Srivastava - AdSense Product Marketing

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Many people have a type of websites which hardly converts with affiliate networks. Such sites includes (but not limited to) wallpaper sites, celebrity gossip sites, lyrics, freebies etc. Most of these people run Adsense as their only advertising network. Then they look for other networks like ValueClickMedia and CasaleMedia to run some CPM and CPC based banners.

But such sites are not always accepted in such networks. So what are your options? Can you run affiliate programs on your website? Can they convert? Well, mostly the answer is no. The reason behind this is that, when a person is visiting such websites, he or she is not at all in a buying mood. He is just sort of having free time, which he/she is enjoying online.

But, there are few affiliate programs which is actually targeted for these type of people. They don’t ask people to buy anything. They promise to give people something free. Which people in such mindset like to opt for.

So what are such offers?
There are many offers like this being run by affiliate networks. For example NeverBlueAds offers many such offers. Here are few examples:

Nike or Adidas - $500 Shopping Gift Card Free
Free $500 Gap Gift Card
Consumer Gift Cards - $250 in Marshalls Gift Cards Free
$500 Gas Card Free

Any many more (at-least 20 more) other similar programs. What these program need is that the user submit their email address or ZIP code into the form. There is only one field in that form. So there offers are quite easy to convert and they convert on almost all types of sites. The main reason behind it is that they offer something as “free” which people surfing such sites would love in that mindset.

These offers are called “Zip Code Offers” or “Email Only Offers.” They mostly pay around $1.20 per email entered or ZIP code entered.

So go ahead and run these offers on your such websites and see how they perform. I am sure you will make some extra money to your Adsense ads, as these offers are very easy to conver. Please note that these offers are not good for website which don’t have much of US traffic. They are mostly good for US traffic only.

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This week, the 50,000th person subscribed to the English AdSense Help Group. To mark this milestone, the AdSensePro Team would like to extend a special word of thanks to all the folks who use our forums, particularly everyone who takes the time to share their knowledge with other publishers. Thank you for providing useful help and advice, and for contributing to the AdSense community.If you’re not familiar with the Help Group, do check it out to share your AdSense experience. Members of the AdSensePro team will also be on hand to help answer questions, raise issues to our product and engineering teams, and collect your valuable feedback. And if you’d prefer to discuss AdSense in a language other than English, feel free to visit one of our international forums: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Turkish.Posted by the AdSensePro Team - AdSense Help Group Support

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Two Australian AdSense team members, Mel Ann and Tim, have put together a good introductory guide to optimizing AdSense.

It’s not advanced but if you’re just starting out with AdSense it’s worth a watch.

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“I want to improve my AdSense performance, but I don’t know how to get started!”We hear you. The myriad of optimisation tools and options AdSense offers can be a bit overwhelming. Colors, placements, channels, ad sizes — there are more options to choose from than you can poke a mouse cursor at! Ideally, we wish you could just click a button and have a fully optimised webpage published to the Internet. But until that magical day comes, we have a solution for you.The Australian AdSense team has put together a short video that takes the confusion out of optimising. The video goes through a step by step guide to optimising AdSense performance - from analysing your page type, to choosing the right ad sizes and colors, and tracking your results. We also cover our most popular tips to increase eCPM, without adversely affecting your community’s experience on your page. So if it’s been a while since you’ve refreshed your AdSense ad units, or if you’re confused on how to use channels to optimise, invest ten minutes into the video. It’s the closest thing you’ll get to that magic button.Posted by Mel Ann Chan - AdSense Australia Optimisation Team

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Advertising Rates and InformationI have a steady stream of people and businesses asking to advertise on this blog. To this end I have run several tests in order to gauge my readership and my search traffic so that I can set a fair value for your ads and glean information as to what type of ads will garner the best results.At present I will not be posting ads above the fold. The reason is simple - I make a good income off of my Adsense ads and if I was to place ads in competition with Adsense I could potentially lose a good number of clicks. This would be fine but I don’t believe anyone will be willing to pay $50 - $100 per day for their ad in order to offset my losses. If you want to place a banner ad then be aware that they will only be placed below the posts. This is not a great spot and you will only average a few clicks daily. If interested the banner must be 468 x 60 and the cost is $20 per month. The Banner is site wide and not just page specific.By and large I have found that text link ads have produced the best results and will be located in the “Sponsored Links” section just below the fold. My tests have shown that you can expect 10-30 clicks per day for most links. Those links that are focused on the “Make Money Online” niche, “SEO” and software products tend to do better than those with a more generic focus. If your text is catchy you can potentially drive over 100 clicks daily. The cost is $45 per month. You have 32 characters (inc. spaces) to use for your link.If you wish to advertise a content link within a particular post that is relevant to your product please contact me and we can discuss this on an individual basis. Some pages (topics) draw a large number of daily visitors while others do not so the rates will vary.All Advertising on this site will have a no-follow tag attached. I am not selling PR - just traffic. Please do not contact me if you are looking for do-follow links. How my Traffic breaks down.Many of you will notice I have a decent readership of over a thousand subscribers. Be warned that this is not the type of traffic that will be buying your products. If you are looking for readers to your blog then they are ideal. Just don’t expect them to convert into sales.My readers make up about 1/4 of my total traffic. The bulk of my daily traffic comes from the search engines with the great majority sent by Google.This blog currently ranks on page 1 for more than 50 “Make Money Online” keywords as well as dozens of other terms that I have targeted related to Internet Marketing and SEO. In my opinion this is the traffic you should be targeting your ads for as it is the type of traffic that will produce sales. My tests have shown an average 3% conversion rate for affiliate products listed in the “sponsored links” section and a 26% conversion rate for lead generation links (collecting email lists and sign up programs.) Your success will vary of course and will depend on the keywords you use and the type of product or site you choose to list.It is not my intention to just take your money. The rate is for the month but if you find that your ad is not pulling traffic then feel free to make changes to the text or change the link altogether to target a different site or product. You are buying a spot and are free to play with it as much as you like. I have not set a cap as of yet but will decide how many ads will be listed once I determine the best ratio of ads vs. clicks. If the 5th spot generates 10 clicks a day and the 6th spot generates 1 click per day I will limit the ads to only 5 spots.If you are interested in advertising please email me at Grizzly and I will give you my paypal info. I reserve the right to decline any ads that I feel are inappropriate to this blog.Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.Cheers,Griz

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The following links contain articles written by my readers and friends who have been kind enough to write reviews of this blog - How to Make Money Online for Beginners.What goes around comes around and I want to send back some link luv to those who have supported me and this blog. I don’t always catch all the sites linking in to me so please drop me a comment or email if I haven’t added your blog to the list. It is my intention to raise the PR of this page so that you gain some benefit but this may take a little while. Those of you who write a review using my keywords in the link and are on topic with this blog will be posted on the home page first before being transferred here as new reviews are posted. I will use your keyword in my links when obvious but if you prefer a different keyword please let me know.Again thanks for all the support and I wish everyone success online.————————————————————————————-Reader Reviews of Make Money OnlineThis post comes from Martin’s make money blogging site called gHacks.netBlogging Tips There are three types of bloggers. Those that do it for fun, those that want to become rich and those that do it because they want to market themselves. The first group can do whatever they want and will still be happy with it. The other two groups need knowledge about blogging if they want to become successful. Someone who wants to earn money from blogging needs traffic more than anything else. It is not hard to put Google Adsense on a blog and earn money with it. The ad might not be optimized but it will still earn money if the blog receives traffic. Without traffic, there will be no money no matter how optimized or clever the ad units are. More…This post comes from Lissie at her how to make money online hubpage.Making Money Online There are a few things I wish I had known when I started trying to make money online. Its taken me almost a year since I decided to seriously make money on-line. I still am not making a full-time income at this game: and I feel as if I am finally starting to understand which way to go. However I think I have finally got to the point that I know what I need to do to create my own More …This post comes from Terry over at his make money blog - Make Money Blog dot com.How to Make Money Online for BeginnersHow to make money online for beginners is a question that a lot of people completely new to the whole aspect of Internet Marketing type into Google’s search engine and expect to find answers. Here at this Make Money Blog following on from my last post How to Make Money Online Then Blow a Fuse, I’m going to give you some of those answers.

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This post comes from Pat Doyle’s Internet Business Blog and expands upon one of my favorite topics - Adsense.Is My Adsense Being Smart priced

Ever since I read that Grizzly had doubled his income by eliminating Smart Pricing from his AdSense, I decided it was well worth my while to see if I had been smart priced too.

In case you don’t know, AdSense’s Smart Pricing is when AdSense reduces the price it pays you per click, based on some not totally understood method which takes into account how well your site’s traffic converts for the advertiser. Some people think it is based on click-through-rate (CTR), but this is not true.

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This post comes from Simon over at his resources for web developers blog called Pingable.How to Earn Money OnlineChances are that heading made most people move on. Articles about making money online or about How to Earn Money Online are a dime a dozen. People see what A-list bloggers like Shoemoney, John Chow and Problogger have achieved, start up new blogs, start posting about topics with article headings like the heading of this article, and just wait for the money to come in. I know, because, to some degree I was one of these jackasses. I started this blog with the intention to make a bit of money. I wanted 1000’s of visitors, I wanted them to click on my ads and I wanted to make some cash to support my full time job.More …I have talked at length about not following the advice or lead of the “Gurus”. Here is a case in point; Stephen Cronin from his web development blog, rightly questions Seth Godin and the advice Seth gives.Seth Godin May be Costing You MoneyThis morning I noticed an entry on Sphinn highlighting GreyWolf’s Seth Godin Wants to Cheat Advertisers with Fake Clicks post. It discusses Seth Godin’s Ads are the new online tip jar post, which suggests that readers should click ads to reward bloggers for their writing. To quote Seth: “If you like what you’re reading, click an ad to say thanks.”GreyWolf condemns Seth’s advice and rightly points out that anyone following this advice is guilty of click fraud: “If you click on an ad and your purpose is to make sure the site owner or blogger gets money from the click, and you had no intent to buy or research, that is click fraud.”As you’d expect, given they are Internet Marketing / SEO communities, comments on GreyWolf’s post and on Sphinn strongly condemn Seth’s statement. The majority of commentators agree that this is click fraud. I concur! More…This post comes from Fiar over at his political humor blog - Radioactive Liberty.To Make Money Online You Need to Know… Maki at Dosh Dosh asks readers, “What’s the best way to make money online?” One of the things I like about Dosh Dosh is that it really covers just about every method you could use the internet as a source of income. It’s not just about blogging for money, but includes things like: membership sites, selling your own product, eBay, affiliate sales, and leveraging an existing business. It really is a site about making money online. Maki went on to ask: More …This post comes from Jake Dylan who pens a make money online blog called Copymastermind.Why You Need to NetworkIt’s never easy to get anything in life 100% on your own. The facts are that you need other people to advance whether you’re trying to climb the corporate ladder or Google’s serp. Making connections with others is key to success.With that said, I’d like to do for my readers what Grizz has proposed to do for his: I plan to send out links to anyone who has written “an on topic” post about my blog, copymastermind.com. By “on topic” I mean anything related to “making money online”. For example, you could have a “book” blog-as long as your post is about making money selling/writing books or ebooks and you link to me, I will link back to you.More …This post comes from Bruce over at DayJobNuker who pens a Work at Home Jobs blog and discusses several of his most trusted resources for making money online.The Most Trusted Make Money Online Resources “If you are looking for ways to make money on the Internet, where do you turn to learn how? Do you buy an overpriced ebook that some smuck is selling for $49.95? There are tons of them out there and they all promise to “unlock the secret” of how to make money. Please don’t buy those. Do you read all the how to make money A-List blogs that tell you how they make money online by telling people how much money they make online? Many people waste months of their lives reading these blogs before they figure out they are mostly a waste of time. Save your time!”More …One of the most important aspects of making money online is SEO. This involves many things but optimizing Keywords and Backlinking are central to any success you might have. Carla from Wordplay relates her experience with SEO and the importance of keywords below.Search Engine Optimization 101“Those who truly seek to understand and implement SEO know it takes study, a time investment and even some experimentation to achieve good results. It also helps if you can follow the advice of someone who has already achieved that success. Actually, that can make all the difference in the world.When I began this blog, I had no idea what I was doing. I made every mistake in the book, SEO-wise. And I thought I didn’t care whether I got traffic, because I created WordPlay as a showcase for my editorial consulting business. I just wanted a blog that looked somewhat pretty and had interesting content that I could link to my company Web site. But then I made a few tweaks that brought me more traffic. Before long I was hooked on hits.” More…This post comes from Bigcat at Traffic Searcher who pens a Free Game Download blog and discusses ways to make money in the casual gaming market as well as how to set up your own money making games site.Free Game Downloads“A quick search of one of my favorite keyword tools tells me that the phrase “free game downloads” gets over 80,000 searches per month. If you could get a good ranking in the search engines for that phrase you would be getting a ton of traffic. Unfortunately, there is a lot of competition for free game downloads so it will we a tough fight to make it to page one. You may want to choose a related long tial keyword for easier pickings.”More …This post comes from Justin at SEO Zombie who pens a SEO blog and was kind enough to help me launch my new blog called Make Money Online with Grizzly. This exemplifies why friendships are so important when building your online business.Make Money Online with Griz“Griz, he’s the guy who ranks on page one for Make Money Online with his blogger/blogspot blog. I’ve been reading Griz’s blog for a while now and he knows his stuff. In addition, he’s a legit internet marketer and a nice guy who likes helping people out. He’s more than proved his worth on his blog, since he ranks for a whole range of Make Money Online terms that hundreds of others would kill to rank for.”More …This post comes from an old friend BloggerNoob who pens a make money online blog called Bloggernoob.com and he discusses the importance associated with backlinks.Know the Value of Links “Google does not condone this, but a lot of web masters buy and sell links. SEO specialists help you buy and sell links. That’s all they do. So, it makes sense to research up on the value of links. When i first started out, I couldn’t believe how much John Chow was making. I didn’t understand how it was possible. But, I now understand why he makes so much money. It’s because he has a lot of noobie fans. A lot of other MMO bloggers kiss his arse to get some of his crumbs. This whole economy is supported by the ignorance of noobie bloggers.”More …This post comes from madWAHM who pens the blog MadWAHM.com and she discusses the “Ugly” blog techniques that are known to work for many well known sites in spite of all the hype surrounding flashy looking websitesUgly Blogs and Websites Make Money“If you’re spending a lot of time worrying about how flashy, cool and hot your website or blog looks, it may be costing you potential revenue.Early last year I read “The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites” by Mark Daoust. This startling and provoking read examines the ideas and theories behind why ugly seems to sell.Now, I’m not talking about “ugly” as in using those huge bolded fonts, in all caps or harsh and clashing colors. I’m talking about ugly in the sense of plain, basic and without frills. Like sites that are extremely clean, simple and highly functional and that don’t focus on design aesthetics, but rather on making their sites unbelievably user-friendly.” More…This post comes from Markk who pens the blog The Next Post and discusses the fascination people have with the A-List bloggers.Do You Follow The Herd?“Everyday there’ll be thousands of new bloggers coming out of the woodworks and you bet many have one main thing in mind - how to make money online. Many of these bloggers are like regular visitors to the A-list blogs. You would think they have learned a lot from these visits but when you check them out at their own blogs one can conclude that there’s a lot to be desired. Pretty dumb! They must be wearing blinkers!What can you do to be different and set yourself apart? Think differently (out of the box) and be more unique than what the masses are doing.” More …Here is a short post from a new friend - Zania.The Best Make Money Online Blogs“There are thousands of blogs in the Make Money Online niche. Most of them are poor and reading them will not help you learn how to make money at all. Every day, new blogs are ‘born’, with their writers either saying they ‘can tell you the secrets of how to make money online’, or that they are ‘blogging newbies’, who will ‘tell you how they are learning to make money’ as they go along, but fail miserably.” More…This post comes from April and she discusses a topic most of you are familiar with - information overload and who you should be reading rather than wasting time with sites that don’t teach you what you need to know.How to Make Money Fast “Lots of people turn to the internet as a way to make money online. However the biggest problem people face is being overwhelmed by information. They read, read and read even more and the end result is total confusion. Months can go by with very little action being taken and when people do get started they seem to think that they’ll make money fast. This just isn’t the case and if you think you’ll be able to give up your day job in a matter of a few weeks you are very much delusional. Unless of course you already have skills in internet marketing and SEO etc.” More…Here is a post I liked that probably sums up how a lot of you feel about the “Make Money Online” Niche. I don’t know the author (yet) but his name is Beau Hooks and his blog is called tzuvelli and here is the post that got my attention…The Truth About Making Money Online“When I first started researching and learning how to blog I put a lot of time and effort into reading the traditional blogs about making money online. One thing I realized was that none of them really taught me how to make money online. Out of the three hundred blogs that I read, at the time, not one blogger laid out a plan a true strategy for making money online. most of what I learned centered around building readership, RSS, and social media traffic so you can sell ad space. It made sense, at the time. But, selling ad space is not a strategy for making money online, it is a strategy for selling ad space online.” more

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Tomorrow, our engineers will be performing site maintenance from 10am to 3pm PDT. You won’t be able to access your account during this 5-hour time frame, but ad serving and ad targeting will not be affected. In addition, your reports will continue to track your earnings as usual. We’ve converted the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world:London - 6 pm SaturdayPretoria - 7 pm SaturdayMumbai - 10:30 pm SaturdayKuala Lumpur - 1 am SundayBrisbane - 3 am SundayIn the meantime, we hope you enjoy the first weekend of summer — or winter, depending on where you are :)Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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PrivacyI respect your privacy and I am committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at this site makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com The following discloses how I gather and disseminate information for this Blog.RSS Feeds and Email UpdatesIf a user wishes to subscribe to my RSS Feeds or Email Updates (powered by Feedburner), I ask for contact information such as name and email address. Users may opt-out of these communications at any time. Your personal information will never be sold or given to a third party. (You will never be spammed by me - ever)Log Files and StatsLike most blogging platforms I use log files, in this case Statcounter. This stores information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring, exit and visited pages, platform used, date/time stamp, track user’s movement in the whole, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.CookiesA cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. This blog doesn’t use cookies. However, some of my business partners use cookies on this site (for example - advertisers). I can’t access or control these cookies once the advertisers have set them.LinksThis Blog contains links to other sites. Please be aware that I am not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. I suggest my users to be aware of this when they leave this blog and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Blog.AdvertisersI use outside ad companies to display ads on this blog. These ads may contain cookies and are collected by the advertising companies and I do not have access to this information. I work with the following advertising companies: Google Adsense, ROI Rocket, Project Payday. Please check the advertisers websites for respective privacy policies.Contact InformationIf you have any questions or concerns please contact Grizzly Brears at brears@mts.net. This privacy policy updated February 2008

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I never set out to create a social blog - for the most obvious reasons; it doesn’t provide the kind of traffic that pays and I am using Blogger and not a fancy looking wordpress theme to demonstrate that absolutely anyone can build blogs for free and make money online. If I can turn a plain ugly Blogger blog into a money maker then so can you. This blog isn’t trying to develop a readership ala the “A List” in order to make money selling ad space to other Bloggers.This blog is a working demonstration of how I create free blogs, optimize them for the Google - called search engine optimization or SEO but should really be called Google Optimization as they are the only engine that counts - and then develop the kind of backlinks that count. This blog - ugly as it is, ranks really well for a lot of very competitive keywords - that is how you get organic traffic and organic traffic will click on Adsense and they will buy product. Organic traffic doesn’t consist of just bloggers - it consists of everyday people who don’t know and don’t care what an affiliate link is. If you want to be the next “A Lister” then this blog isn’t for you. If you want to know how I create blogs that just make you money (but no fame) then please read through the archives.Ironically I seem to have developed a steady readership in spite of myself and the readers put up with the ugly Adsense set up I use. This has made this blog interesting to say the least - I’m trying to make money with Adsense while trying to post something that is actually useful. When was the last time you were on an Adsense site and found anything useful? Long story short - I have met a lot of great people because of this blog and I never have the time to get around and thank everyone for their support. Many have written very kind things about this blog on their own sites and as a thank you I want to publish some of the blogs from time to time. To that end I have added a “What My Readers Think” section below the post and hope to give them some luv back.

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Back in 1995, Gary Rosenzweig published some of the world’s first web-based games. Some of his early games as well as more than 100 created by CleverMedia, the company he later founded, are available at GameScene.com.”Even in those early days, it was clear to us that web advertising was the best way to earn money from our content,” says Gary. Revenue from ads offered him creative and financial freedom to be both a game developer and publisher. But the early ad banner market was volatile and fluctuated constantly. It wasn’t until he joined the AdSense program in August 2003 that Gary was able to get consistent high-level performance from advertising.”AdSense not only performs better than banner ads, but is also much better for site visitors,” Gary notes. “The text ads and high-quality display ads used by Google were a far better experience than the pop-ups, pop-unders and interstitial ads still used today by our competitors.”At GameScene.com, CleverMedia uses 160×600 wide skyscrapers next to the games, and 300×250 medium rectangles on instructions pages. Gary encourages other publishers to test different ad formats and placements on their own sites, especially as their users grow and change. Having non-obtrusive but relevant advertising on high-traffic pages provides the revenue CleverMedia needs to keep making innovative web games.Have your own success story to share? We’d love to hear from you.Posted by Sunil Subhedar - AdSense Publisher Support

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YouTube is probably one of the most popular services online. But, how do you incorporate its use in helping you to make money online?

1. Add Premium Partners’ Videos on Your Blog or Site. If you have an Adsense account, log in and get the code for ‘video units’. You can create a YouTube Video Player and customise it according to various categories, key words, and content providers.

2. Run affiliate ads on YouTube videos. Chris on Making Money Scoop has some tips on how to do this using various tools.

3. Provide regular quality video content. Perhaps, you can become a ‘premium’ publisher and Google will split ad revenues with you.

4. Start a video blog or site that features various YouTube content. These blogs and sites can be anything from cute animal videos to craft tutorials. Then, run relevant ads and affiliate programmes on your blog or site.

5. Accept direct ads on your YouTube content. If you upload your own videos on a regular basis and you have a decent following, you might want to accept ads on your videos.

6. Enrich your sales using YouTube videos. If you sell an item on an online shop and you are able to compliment your listings with YouTube videos, then it will be useful. Also, you can link to your sales page on your YouTube. This might help bring video viewers to visit your sales page.

So, do you use YouTube at all in your online business? Can you think of other ways to use YouTube videos to help you to make money online?

Tags: advertising, affiliate, online videos, premium partners, videos, YouTube

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Following our recent testimony in front of the U.S. House Small Business Committee, we revisited Washington D.C. to deliver our first seminar for small businesses on the web — specifically those in the Hispanic-American community. The Spanish-language seminar, co-sponsored by both the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the League of United Latin American Citizens, focused on making the most of AdSense and other Google tools to effectively and efficiently manage a small business online. We know a number of our publishers are Hispanic small business owners, so we’d like to share the video of the event with you (in Spanish with introductory words in English): If you’re a small business owner, we also recommend taking a look at our small business resource page, available in both Spanish and English.Posted by Carolina Shea - AdSense Publisher Support

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Never put all your eggs in one basket. John has stated time and time again that you should look into as many different monetization methods for your blog as possible.. If you rely solely on Google AdSense, you could be leaving a fair bit of money on table. You could look into affiliate programs, sponsored reviews (like this one), and ad banners, for example.

Another way that you can make money from your blog is through in-text advertising, like the solution offered by MediaText. The concept behind MediaText is going to sound like a familiar one for those who are regular readers of John Chow dot Com.

How Does MediaText Work?

Unlike other ad networks that take up valuable real estate on your blog, MediaText is an in-text advertising solution. What this means is that you do not need to dedicate a section for ad banners or anything like that. Instead, the pre-existing content on your blog can be converted into advertising. Certain keywords in the text will become hyperlinked and the sponsored links are double-underlined in green to differentiate them from regular hyperlinks.

When a site visitor hovers his or her mouse pointer over the sponsored link, a small window pops up that displays the actual ad itself. If the visitor chooses to click on this link, the publisher (that’s you) gets paid. It is not clear whether clicks through the MediaText ad network are based on a bid system or if they are a set rate.

You might find that the mechanism and appearance of MediaText is familiar. Yes, it’s pretty much the same as one of John’s recommended moneymakers. I’ll let you figure out which one.

Qualifications and Requirements

To sign up as a publisher with MediaText, you will need to fill out a three-part application form. The first part asks for basic contact information, like your phone number and email address. The second part asks for your mailing address and preferred payment method. Payment can be arranged by cheque, bank wire, PayPal, ePassporte, and StormPay. The minimum payout level is $25, though you can set the threshold as high as $5,000 if you prefer.

The third and final section asks for your website name, URL, and description. It also asks for the number of page views you get each month. From what I can gather, there are no minimum traffic requirements. I tried to register using my fighting games blog, which gets minimal traffic, and the account was still approved within 24 hours.

Three Ways to Get Paid

MediaText boasts that it offers 3 ways to earn additional revenue. The first is the in-text advertising solution described above. The second provides a paid text link that can be inserted anywhere on your site. The formatting of this second method, called VisioMedia, is identical to the standard in-text advertising.

To implement either of these money-making strategies, you need only insert a small piece a code below the tag on your website. At default, the MediaText ads will be served throughout your content. To define where you would like the ads to appear, you can either insert code for inclusion or exclusion.

The third and final way to make money with MediaText is through their referral program. Publishers automatically earn 5% of all revenue earned by publishers that they refer to the program.

Setting Parameters, Checking Stats

The in-text advertising served by MediaText is not contextual. Instead, the ads are determined by the category you choose to describe your website. There are 15 categories in all, including automotive, education, finance, shopping, and travel. You set the initial category during the registration process, but this can be adjusted through the control panel as well. It is also here, under the “Group Tag” section, that you set the maximum number of ads per page, whether ads open in a new window, and so on.

To access stats, you use the widget located near the top of the control panel sidebar. Information is updated every hour and gives you the number of page views, ad impressions, ad clicks, ad click-thru rate, impression percentage, and revenue. It is also through this widget that you can track your referral income as well.

What Makes MediaText Different?

Realistically, MediaText is not all that different than some of the other in-text advertising solutions out there. The VisioMedia option is a nice inclusion, because it means that you can quickly and easily deploy a text ad in a sidebar or footer. Perhaps the biggest appeal to MediaText, at least for now, is that they are currently offering a lucrative introductory offer wherein you can earn a 100% revenue share for the first three months. The caveat is that you need 5 million monthly page views to qualify.

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