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PTC SITES FOR EXTRA MONEY

I have listed some of PTC sites on my REFERRAL PAGE! So why am I promoting PTC now? Honestly speaking, being new to blogging is really tough! You won't earn enough just by putting ads on your website unless you have an avalanche of traffic! And since my blog is all about making money on the internet, why not advertise PTC? It is also another great way of earning money online. Just choose those who are legitimate and beware of those scam sites who gives "too good to be true" offers. What listed on my referral page have forums where members can communicate meaning I hit two birds in one stone! I get to promote my blog in the forum and at the same time, I earn! Isn't wise! So in any case you are interested, then you could drop by anytime on my referral page. I will keep that updated! 

"The only thing that 

overcomes hard luck 

is hard work."

WHAT IS SEO?

Yeah, what really is SEO? Why do I need to study SEO? Well, for people who wants to be on top of the search engines like Google, Bing & Yahoo, you really have to. And if you really want to have a decent income from your blog you have to be "searchable."  According to wikipedia-- 

"SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or webpage in search engines via "natural" or "unpaid" search results. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML." 

Personally, I don't have any idea on how  editing HTML was, so maybe I will focus more on the content of my blog. But in the long run, i will try to understand more of the HTML thing. I just need to do it one by one or else my head will explode! Hahaha! So why is it important? Simple! If you are searchable, then traffic to your website will come naturally. And TRAFFIC means MONEY! For bloggers like me who wants to earn from blogging, traffic is the main factor! It's as simple as that. But if you want to have a further study about SEO, wikipedia has the answer just follow this link or just Google for it!


Let me now introduce to you the tool I am using to help me optimize the content of my blog. The seotoolscentral.com. You get optimization advice, you get to monitor & analyze your site performance. And the great thing about this is, it's completely free!


I now realized that blogging is really tough but in the same way challenging. Just put your heart into it and everything will be just for fun. Don't pressure yourself too much for money. Just take it slow, cause there's a saying:


"There is no one giant 
step that does it... 
It's a lot of little steps."

UNDERSTANDING ADVERTISING CODE

With my recent post, I introduced you to different company which gives you opportunity to monetize your blog. Let me now discuss the meaning of their advertising code to help beginners like me to understand it on a much simple terms. Now let's do math!

• IMPRESSIONS - the number of times the advertisement was shown or delivered.
• CTR -  click through rate - this is the rate in percentage format which is   obtained by dividing the number of times the ad was clicked by the number of impressions. (ad clicks / impressions = CTR%).
• CPM/CPT/CPI - cost per mille/cost per thousand - cost of an advertisement for every 1000 audience or impressions . Used as marketing benchmark. This is obtained by dividing the cost of running the advertisement by the number of audience and then multiply it to 1000. (ad cost / impressions * 1000 = $CPM)
• EARNINGS - this is calculated by dividing the CPM by 1000 then multiply by the number of impressions. (CPM /1000 * impressions = $$$)
• PPC - pay per click - host are only paid when the advertisement was clicked. 
• CPC - cost per click - the amount of money the advertiser pay to the publisher for every single click.

"The essence of mathematics 

is not to make simple things 

complicated, but to make 

complicated things simple."

MONETIZING YOUR BLOG PART 3 - CLICKSOR & ADBRITE

Clicksor.com is another great way of monetizing your blog. Just like infolinks they also have inline text advertisement. But aside from that, publisher just like me, have much more potential in earning big by adding their high paying ad formats. For a beginner like me, my personal favorite is the pay per view, where the advertisement pops-up under the browser each time someone visits your website. No need for ads to be clicked because it is rated on how many times it is viewed and its frequency is controlled by you meaning you control how much you want to earn from this. They also have banners available in different sizes and referral program either for advertiser and publisher. Adbrite is also a great alternative if ever you're not approved by Google Adsense. Although they are slightly smaller company, they are just as trustworthy as to their reputation. And with their optimized advertisement, you could never go wrong. 

"Optimism is the

 foundation

 of courage. "

MONETIZING YOUR BLOG PART 2 - AFFILIATE PROGRAM

Affiliate program is famous nowadays for people who want to earn online. But I tell you it's not that easy if you're not that eager to promote your product. But there are also marketing affiliate program which I think is easier to promote because you don't need to promote at all. I'm talking about amazon.com. They have been in the business for 16 years and everybody knows about them. All you need to do is display the products that they sell on your website. I  know amazon.com has established already their reputation when it comes to giving their online shoppers a wide variety of  items in different category. And since Christmas is very fast approaching, why not check the SHOP page to see what's on display. You could find gifts to give your loved ones or to yourself. And if you don't see what you're looking for on my display, go ahead and use the search engine provided for a more convenient and easy way of shopping. And if you're looking for a big sale or bargain items, this maybe the right one for you -- tripleclicks.com. They also have a wide variety of items in different category. And what special about them is that everyday they have different "DEAL OF THE DAY" that you could really say a bargain! This is also another affiliate program I've joined which is sponsored by SFI. Let me give you a brief information about SFI. SFI was first launched year 1998 with only one product which is only available in the United States. And now they have more than 28,000 products and services that can be sold in more than 190 countries all over the world.  You could always check their business track record on their website. In here you could choose how you would like to earn. Either sponsoring another person to be an affiliate or referring people to buy online at tripleclicks.com. It's your choice where you would like to concentrate but it would be better if you could do both. Links and banners are available on my SHOP page.

"Whoever said money 

can't buy happiness simply 

didn't know where to go shopping."

PROMOTING YOUR BLOG

Joining different bloggers community and forums on the net is one way of promoting your blog. Aside from always publishing it on the wall of Facebook and tweeting about it on Tweeter. One of them is bloggers.com which I joined recently. In here, you get to meet and promote your blog to millions of other bloggers from all over the world. But other than that, meeting new friends with same interest is a plus. In that community you get to talk and express yourself about other blogs and gaining comments in return, that I could say helpful  because you get to know other people's opinion about your topic, be it negative or positive. It all depends on how you accept criticism. There are also lots of newbie like me in there so no reason to be intimidated because everybody is very much welcome. Another community I've joined is mybloglog.com which is powered by Yahoo. In this community you could join different groups which is relevant to your interest. They have also widgets  that you could embed in your own blog. This is what I love about blogging. The world is widely open for you. Not just for an opportunity in making money but also in winning friends and I mean millions of friends with the same field of interest. Aside from that you would also gain "genuine traffic" to your website. I mentioned "genuine" because they wouldn't just visit your blog but they would read what you're posting and who knows they would become your followers too. Unlike on traffic exchange sites, they just surf for credits. But I'm not saying that I don't like traffic exchange sites because I owe them a lot for increasing my page views. I'm just trying to differentiate the kind of traffic they would both give to your blog. Nevertheless, they are both beneficial to you.

"A friend is one of the 
nicest things you can have, 

and one of the best things you can be."