Make Money Online with WidgetBucks - A New Revolutionary Advertising Option

My friend from the states just sent out a mass email on a new widget which he thought i might be interested since blog on money making programs. While i was reading on my emails, coincidentally i was also catching up on both Darren Rowse and John Chow's blog and this topic is starting to become interesting because all 3 happens to talk about the same monetizing effects on WidgetBucks which was a new advertising shopping ads network.

This new money making machine looks like a spawn of Chitika, just better and much easier for us to make some cash out of the ads. Why is it much easier than many other programs out there? The way you earn money is exactly the same way you run your contextual ads on Google Adsense, you earn for every click on the ads.

Why your earnings will be much better than Adsense
Adsense runs on contexually ads so there is no way you can be interested unless you read what they ads are offering but with Widgetbucks, the ads shown is very enticing it shows you the actually product you are looking for so once you see the product you want to purchase, you will click on it to read right, i will highly recommend this widget if you are running a blog related to those relevant categories. For example if you run a photo blog, placing Digital Camera Category will surely increase your click rates and WidgetBucks claims $3 to $6 eCPM in early test results.

Widgetbucks gives you $25 for joining their program
Without even advertising for them, Widgetbucks drops $25 into your pocket but there is a condition you need to earn another $25 to cash out this incentive they have given you. Why not? Wouldn't that be $50 in total that i will be getting.

Paying you fast

As quick as you receive your widget code to monetize your blog, once you hit the minimum of $50 you are able to cash out your check the first of every month for all revenue earned during the previous month. I have not heard anything from Paypal, but it seems they will pay you instantly once you hit the minimum amount.

It works for all platforms

The 3 major Blog platform Typepad, Blogger and wordpress could be directly integrated with the widget and you also have a choose to add the Code manually into your choice of platforms or websites you own.

Where do these products come from

Product offers from 30,000 merchants, including top brands such as Amazon, Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, NewEgg, Macy's and Gap and the Flash-based widgets, presented in part as top 10 lists, cover 100 different categories, 300+ configurations and buying trends of 100 million online shoppers.

What i like about this new program

• There are 100 over colors to chose so that it can blend with your blog colour

• The ad units are all very clear and very clickable

• You can run multiple ads on your blog

• Like i have said, it will work very well on relevant blogs

For those who are not US base residents

After you have signup with Widgetbucks, you would need to go to 'settings' to get your details all updated and one one of the details that i need to fill in was whether i am Tax exempted? Of course i am one lucky bastard living outside the US that do not require to fill this up but even when i submit as 'Yes', the update still required me to include 9 characters for my Tax ID, one of the dumbest form i even encountered!

So i go ahead an put in my 9 characters required and everything could be updated, make sure you do it so that you don't have to jump around saying this is a stupid form twice!

The referral dollars don't look attractive at all, don't they?

At one glance i thought for every referral, i will automatically receive $5 but you got to read on cause you will only receive the $5 if your hard working referral actually makes $25 first before they deposit the money to you.

The Flash Widget is the weak point

If you had this widget running on your blog, you would have notice how slow it is to load, it takes a much longer time to load compared to programs like AuctionAds and Adsense Ads, you just got to bear with it.

*update: it took around 5-10 seconds to load the full widget up.

Signup with WidgetBucks to experience how they can make money for you! Are you on widgetbucks, were these the only problems faced and what do you think about widgetbucks?

How To Monetize Your RSS Feed

What is a RSS Feed?
In simple words, a RSS Feed is mainly a content delivery and syndication system that allows readers to have access to your content without visiting your website.There is an ever increasing amount of web surfers who prefers to favorite blogs via RSS Feed rather than visiting the blog. If you have a huge amount of Rss readers subscribed through your blog, unleashing the full potential of ads impression is affected because a portion of readers have connected your blog with their reader application and thus your optimized contextual ads are not fully monetized.Feed advertising allows you to integrate ads within your community of readers who frequently reads your post through their reader application. Here i have a collection of Feed advertising network that provides you with options to monetize your feed.

Feedvertising
Allows to run Broker Text Ads on your rss feed. Apart from the Feedvertising ads, you can also choose to run your own in-house ads or affiliate links. Feedvertising is currently on open for wordpress 2.0+ users and the service is free! Tubetorial actually made a short video clip explain step by step on how to use feedvertising on your Rss Feed.

FeedBurner Advertising Network

This network is upon invitation and even when you contact them, which i have spoke to one of their team editors, chances are you will be decline due to the size of your Rss Feed, i think they only accept blogs that have big Feed counts. Unless your blog is the meanest and baddest blog, chances are unlike you will be accepted. Type: Text ads, Banner Rates: CPM Payment:Unknown

Thankyoupages

RSS Interstitials that allows publishers to insert advertising into the links contained within their RSS feeds. When a user clicks a link from your RSS feed, they will are shown a short, fully branded, interstitial advertisement between the click of the link, and the final destination. They only accept US publishers for now.

Type: Full page interstitials Rates: CPM & CPC Payment:Check

Q-Ads

Q-Ads is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. Q-Ads is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed. Using your keywords on post, you are fully in control of your ads.

Type: Text & Video ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check/Paypal

MediaFed

It allows you to monetize your Rss Feed through adverts are inserted every x articles where you control the value of x or by matching keywords to your article contents to target relevant advertising. The network provides adverts for a large range of channels but the system also works with most industry leading ad serving solutions allowing you to provide and control your own creative if you wish. They don't accept public application so you need to contact Ashley Harrison on email.

Type: Banner ads Rates: Unknown Payment:Unknown

Kanoodle

Advertisements are served based on topics, not to keywords. Kanoodle shares 50% of the revenue generated from the advertisements with the publisher serving the ad. It takes about 15mins to complete your questionaire which is full of questions to apply and only when you are accepted then will they disclosure further information.

Type: Contextual ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check

Pheedo

Pheedo's advertising platform converts your RSS feeds into rich, dynamically updating advertising that engages your audience. Leverage your existing RSS assets to extend your brand, drive traffic, and acquire new feed subscribers.

Type: Text, Banner ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check

Google FeedSense

Google's AdSense for Feeds Beta offers contextually targeted advertisements, with a wide selection of advertisers. They do not want to disclose how much percentage of revenue you will earn so it is purely impossible to know how much you will be earning. You need to have at least 100 feed subscribers to apply for this beta feed ad service.The current Google AdSense system for feeds is tied to blogs and does not appear to be overly flexible.

Type: Contextual ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check

Yahoo Publisher Network

This services does not work for me since i don't stay in the US as participants of the program must have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax ID number, and web site content that is predominantly in English and targeted at a U.S. user base. Yahoo! will contact you about your eligibility to participate and about availability of the program. Talk about being friendly, If you want to know more of this beta service, loren baker of searchenginejournal have provided a post on how YPN can work for you.

Type: Text Link Ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check

FeedDirect

FeedDirect will allow content owners to not only monetize their assets with content-targeted sponsored links via Kanoodle but also get maximum distribution through the moreover network.Using a Service called Brightads to generate revenue on your Rss Feed. It seems to me this is the only advertising feed network for adults.

Type: Text, pop under,banner ads Rates: CPC Payment:Check

Debates on whether you should use them

Web Surfers who subscribes to your Rss Feed basically do not want to have those pesky ads floating around your blog or site, that is why they choose to read it in a application that does not apply primary ads and images to show. By force inserting ads on your feed, you can lose a number of readers if you do not handle the situation properly. On the other hand, you can start to reduce the your ads that are cluttering on your blog and balance them on your Rss feed to encourage web surfers to read your blog daily instead of reading your updated post from their reader application.Are you ready to monetize your Rss Feed and make more money, here i have listed out 10 great feed advertising networks which i know, if you have another amazing network which you would like to share, drop me a comment or contact me and i will have it added in this extensive list.
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How To Make Affiliate Marketing Work You

Those who want to carve an income through affiliate marketing must remember that choosing the right niche is important, you will not want to market a list of junk products that do not sell well on the internet so how can we find the right product to sell then? Are there any secrets to selling the the hottest product on the internet like what many guru's claim?

Yes you can find the right product to sell by doing your homework, but there are no hidden secrets like how the guru's claim they have on hand. With the right product and a well crafted presell page there is bound to be sales.

There are a number of sites that offer products which you will earn a certain percentage from promoting the products. A marketplace holds these products and you can use your userid to tag on the product to become one of the affiliates. I highly recommend these sites to do affiliate marketing with because there is thousands of potential products that are able to make money.

1. ClickBank
2. Commission Junction
3. Link Share
4. PayDotcom
5. Amazon

After you have applied and approved of using these marketplaces, do a research on the product that you would like to promote, let me use clickbank as an example to explain to you how you can look out for products that are selling like hot cakes!

I used Clickbank marketplace to search on the keyword "Google" and here you have list of the products. Notice those which i have underline in red. Those are the important facts that you need to know whether this product is worth promoting or not.

When you use the marketplace to search for a keyword, use either "High Gravity" or "Popularity" to source for the best product. After you have sourced for that, take note of the affiliate sales percentage which i have underlined as 75%.

High Gravity is nothing more than the amount of affiliates that are currently promoting the product, and is an indicator as to how popular that product is. Some affiliate marketers like to see a high gravity percentage, because it means many top affiliates are promoting that particular product.

Percentage in affiliate sales is what you will be earning from the final product sales. If the product sells at $100 and you have a 75% earning that means you earn $75 from promoting this product if it sells. Try to source for a high paying product, those that are below 60% are not worth promoting because you will not be able to earn much.

Once you have chosen the product that you want to promote then it is time for you to read on what are the benefits your buyers can gain from buying this product, it is always good that you purchase this product and show a little more insider of what they can get from this product. Learn more from my presell page article that i have written previously.

10 Affiliate Marketing Tips which should be on a sticky note
Whether you are new or experienced in this line, i am sure another advice to be successful in affiliate marketing will not be a harmful tip in your bank of great affiliate marketing tips.

1. Being New in affiliate marketing is not going to hinder your sales because what you need is a product that you are able to promote with confidence. Promoting a product which you have knowledge on is the best way to make sales count.
2. Promote single or multiple products on my website? Single product promotion gives the benefit of being able to devote more resources to one highly profitable affiliate program. By promoting only one product you are able to concentrate the keywords, keeping your site devoted to one idea. Chances are your traffic will be driven to the keyword you have choosen and there is a higher chance of making a sales directed to just one single product.
3. Can i know which is the best Merchant program? I am so sure every forum which have a discussion on affiliate marketing will see this question asked and the common reply to it will be 'try this program, it worked well for me' and another person will say 'this does not work at all, it's a scam!' Now who should i believe? Not everyone will succeed on promoting that product always, so if you don't see results over the months, it is time you switch to another product to sell.
4. Your Blog is the best place for affiliate marketing. Firstly blog are able to get on the SERP quickly and effectively, doing a review on a product that you are promoting is ideal because you have a gradual flow of traffic visiting your blog already, so why not promote a merchant program that you feel is suitable for your readers.
5. Ebooks are dead, promote softwares. I am not sure how well ebooks and reports are selling for now but softwares that help webmaster and bloggers are actually doing very well. I will rather pay for a services which i can see results than a list of words which is some secrets that i can source over the net if i have the right keywords.
6. Popular Trends in Affiliate Marketing. Doing your homework means having profitable sales, and i will suggest you look out for products that are hot for the season and also take note of the newest merchants that have been going around the market. Selling an upcoming product which have a great benefit to your customers is what you need to sort out for.
7. Banners that don't make sense. If every affiliate marketer is to place a banner and expect cash to roll in automatically then everyone will be a millionaire in no time. Placing banners is one way to attract customers but too many cluttering on your website is not going to make any money and worst you might see a decline in traffic.
8. Use a Newsletter System. Promoting on a newsletter system is one of the easiest way to get more potential customers. To attract subscribers to be on your opt-list, try to give out free ebooks on your site and slowly build your subscribers.
9. Tracking Software. If you want an accurate sales report card, you should consider the type of tracking used by the merchant. This will allow you to account for all the sales made on your referral id.
10. Being Innovation in cashing on Merchant Program. Promoting and doing a in depth review on a new program is another source of income which does not fall under affiliate marketing but it is another way that you can make additional cash from the program you are promoting, drop an email to the owner and give your resume and rankings of your site and offer them a deal which included a Review of the product and a banner space which is priced at an affordable fee. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain!
    

The game is research, improvement, innovation, listening to your customers, action your follow ups, staying on top and hard work. Is affiliate marketing easy at all like what those guru's have claimed? Some say yes and others say hell no! Focus on being successful and time will tell whether your efforts are worth it or not.

Source: etienneteo.com