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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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