Google Referral Ads

Google has newly introduced an ad system called Referral Ads under Adsense. From its first view, it's quite clear that it's an attempt by Google to poke into the affiliate marketing niche which has already been congested with many other competing companies. Why? Because affiliate marketing is actually one of the hottest segment over the web today.

How Referral Ads work is pretty simple. Basically like the regular Google Adsense ads, referral ads display items which you the owner of site select to display. For example if your website is about bike and you prefer displaying ads about bikes they will display exactly ads for that and nothing else. It also provides you the option to display various other ads and you the owner of the site can let referral ads autopick as to which ads "convert" the best. When I say the word convert, I mean a customer either signing up for a product or buying it. This term is defined differently with various types of advertisers, it just depends. The payout is based on the amount of visitors that actually buys the product that your site is advertising through referral ads, whenever a customer buys something you get paid a certain percentage as the result.

Now imagine if a visitor that goes to the ad displayed on your site and buys a tv and let's just hypothetically say that the payout is 3% and the TV is $300 you have just earned $9 right on the spot. Instead of you getting paid on pennies on the dollar per click with regular Adsense this program seems to be paying a lot more and in many ways better in comparison right? WRONG! Dead wrong and the here's the reason why. With your regular Adsense you get paid per click from your visitors going to the advertiser, however with referral ads you don't get paid for that and that is a very big deal!

Now, let's do some math together. How much are you currently getting your clicks with Google Adsense? If you blend in your ads and optimize it, you are probably sitting at 1-2% tops. The percentage is awfully low. From these percentage of people, how many of them do you think would actually buy something or sign up with someone? Extremely low and you're looking at something close to 1% but less than that. In another words, every 1000 visitors that come to your site 10 visitors will visit your ad and close to none will sign up. To get any sign up with our math, we are looking at at least 10000 visitors.

I have tested referral ads in one of the site that own that is filled with visitors. You are probably curious as to the results right? Out of 9000 unique visitors in the day that I've tested it, only 9 people have actually "clicked" on the ads and obviously no conversions. If you are considering using referral ads, I would suggest looking elsewhere to make your money online! -Swapw


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Yahoo Publisher versus Google Adsense

It's been a while since I've blogged, just to give you guys some clue about what's been going on in my life is pretty much projects after projects. I've personally acquired a few sites recently and I thought it be a good idea to kind of test and play around with it. Therefore I have been spending quite a bit of time on them as well as implementing some of the things that I've learned over time.

I thought I share with you guys something that I hear a lot of debates and buzz about and that is the whole ordeal with Yahoo Publisher versus Google Adsense. It's really not that complicated actually, basically Yahoo Publisher is Yahoo's version of Adsense to really sum it up. You can check out my video today to see some of what I think and feel about both Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher but if you don't feel like watching me talk through Youtube, read on.

Google Adsense is undoubtedly the number one advertiser over the internet. No one will dispute its' presence and influence throughout the whole advertising industry. In terms of pay, they fluctuates upon the topic that you blog or write about and obviously the more popular topic will get you less click per advertisement versus a topic hardly spoken a higher share of click per advertisement or CPA. The real advantage of Google Adsense is their variety of ads that are available for the public to use including text ads which have yet to be seen from their competitors surprisingly. The idea is not unique that it's been around for some time, but it's success is undoubtedly indisputable. Most people still uses Adsense as their primary source of advertising and if you're looking for something that's proven for many as well as its availability of help out there, then Adsense is the way to go.

Yahoo Publisher is a little bit different to the extent that they're one of the newest advertisers on the block. The general format is actually very similar to Google Adsense in what they have to offer. The commonly used leader boards, box, etc are just some of things that's available with Yahoo Publisher. Yahoo Publisher does in many cases pay a lot higher then Google Adsense when it comes down to advertising similar topics. Yahoo publisher does however offer targeted ads. What this means is that you can set it where only a certain type of ads show up in your site. From my personal experience however I don't find this functionality to be quite useful for the topic which I place it with. This could be due to the age of Yahoo Publisher's existence as well as its awareness around the web.

In conclusion, I would say if you know what optimal ad placements to maintain the high CPA which involves ads that Yahoo Publisher has to offer then go with Yahoo Publisher by all means to maximize your earnings. However, if you are looking for something solid which many others do blog and talk about at a regular basis then stick with Google Adsense. It'll take time but take some time and test them out to see which one out of the two makes you the most money is how you make money smart. Last but not least, you can use only one of the two advertisers between Yahoo Publisher or Google Adsense. It's against their TOS and the reason and logic behind them is simple, they are competitors against one another! -Swapw


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Pop-up ads, does it work?

Instead of doing a video today I thought I take a different approach. Let's examine some videos that I have found through Youtube about pop-up ads. Do you guys think that it'll make you tens of thousands of dollars through it? Watch it and tell me what you think. My personal opinion is that this technique will NOT work and I will explain to you why I believe this technique will not succeed. Here are the videos:

Here's the first video:


Second video:


Last video:


Now after watching this video, do you think that it will make you tons of cash? :) Honestly I can't really say that this technique is going to work if at all. Let's examine the videos a little bit. There are a few critical areas that I think is good to take a look at. On his first video, he has mentioned about creating a web site that has a general public interest to it IE: jokes, videos, pics, and things of this area. Do you think a good old pop-up ad is a great venue to add additional value to your web site? Any successful web site in this realm will most likely NOT have these type of pop-up ads. Why? Because it simply kills traffic. Let's just take my blog site for example, if my blog is filled with splash pages, pop-up ads everywhere before you can even navigate into the main content of my posts how would you feel about it?

Chances are that you would most likely shy away from the page because we all hate pop-up ads and that includes those of us that know nothing about the net! Besides the fact that more and more people are afraid of encountering pop-up ads due to the increase of trojan variants and now robots let's talk about the effectiveness of these pop-up ads.

There is an assumption of one thousand visitors a day to the web site from the author of this video. How would the person building the web site achieve that? Unless there are incentives, the visitors of the web site will most likely NOT come back due to the bombardment of ads. Let's assume that the owner of the web site spends some money in advertisement to gain visitors interested in his or her site. For what it is worth, a $0.03 gain per customer will simply not recoup the cost of advertisement even if every single of of your traffic clicks on an assumption of three ads.

From the looks of the author, he does seem to be a pretty credible source prior as a blogger or a big myspace guy beforehand. Unfortunately for many of these popular giants that have gained an immense amount of popularity, a very big trap that they almost all fall in is with the problem of over monetizing through techniques that they've discovered or learned. Their loyal reader would eventually abandon their web site and it is most likely that newbies will fall into the traps of what these guys are selling into. What usually happens like most scams is if properly marketed, they almost always make a lot of money. However, this always bottoms after these types of scheme is being figured out and earnings essentially bottoms.

Instead of jumping toward the result, had they continue with a continuous effort to enhance their web site or techniques they would continued their readership increase and this would go with the profit and benefits that comes with it. It's easy to say then done, if I was in their shoe I really don't know if I would be tempted for all the cash that is out there. From my view this is just a more recent case of a potential red flag over the internet and I would recommend readers be watchful of these advertisement or techniques. If it is being advertised to be a huge successes for common people like you and I, it is almost always screaming trouble.

-Swapw
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Domain parking, a real Monetizing solution?

There are quite a few advocates out over the web for those who would like to pursue the option of domain parking. Through the video, I will explain to you what domain parking is and my opinions about domain parking in general. There are three primary disadvantages with domain parking:

1. It will not be indexed by major search engines - This is a major disadvantage, any site without being indexed will hardly be noticed by natural traffic.

2. No help using traffic exchange sites - It is against TOS to most domain parking hosting sites to join traffic exchange sites. Even if the web site is not caught by domain parking hosts, there's little or no effect to enhance traffic into domain since no benefit is brought to the visitors visiting the web site itself.

3. Expect very little organic traffic - Since most major .com or names of the web sites are taken, secondary names makes it harder for organic traffic to flood into these domain parking sites.

I would personally advise shying away from Domain parking unless you do currently own a lot of web sites yourself or is offered a real good deal from another owner of mutiple good sites. Be sure to be real careful if you do pursue the path of domain parking for it is a lot less profitable then it was a few years ago.

-Swapw
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* Intro and Domain parking (0:00 - 0:32)

* Domain parking explained (0:33 - 2:13)

* Issues revolves around Domain parking (2:14 - 4:54)

* Wrap up (4:55 - 5:18)

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Don't bombard advertisements

It has been sometime since I have gotten back and blog but I'm glad to be back from my brother's graduation and life in CA.

Advertisements are the main income for many bloggers like myself and web sites, but I've seen it done over and over again from both new bloggers and experienced bloggers a fatal mistake that is surprisingly not uncommon and I have decided to talk about it today. We've all seen web sites where advertisements are everywhere in that it completely confuses the readers of where to navigate which causes the most of us to close the window immediately. Other web sites where it provides with very little or no content making the web site seemed very irrelevant and others with good content but so hard to navigate that it eventually loses all of its reader's interest.

Through my video, I do go in depth of why these type of money generating techniques are extremely unsuccessful ways to generating a profit and what you should do to really generate consistent profits over your blog. You might be surprised, sometimes having very good selections in a few advertisements may actually generate more profits then you ever thought it would making it a smart way to generate money!

-Swapw
"Making money smart"

* Intro and advertisement congestion (0:00 - 0:50)

* Common temptations (0:51 - 1:52)

* The problem behind it (1:53 - 2:31)

* How to make real money & my advice (2:32 - 3:36)

* Wrap up (3:37 - 4:13)

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Balancing Kontera ads with other ads

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After introducing Kontera ads while applying for it I was accepted and I had a chance to really play around with it. The links worked great but I did notice however that one of my title was hyper linked which really bothered me. After finding close to literally no source on describing the exact "how to's" on implementing it onto my web site I thave decided to post it as today's topic.

As my video have shown, some of the details of how you can eliminate Kontera ads in some of the content was provided directly from Kontera from their PDF file. In regards to the specifics, I will go in details below for you guys to look at.

As you can see, it's quite easy so as long as you make your modifications accurately you'll be on your way into taking advantages of Kontera's great ad system and not be in trouble with your other hyperlink or texual based advertisers. Their click through pay are considered very high in the industry and some have even claimed that it will become the next Adsense. Due to the highly successful way of their contexual system and accuracy in its relations to your blogs, it is definitely not a advertising source you want to overlook to rake in some cash!

* Intro & possible problem with Kontera (0:00 - 0:47)

* Resoluting solutions (0:48 - 1:45)

* Conflict of interest prevention (1:46 - 2:29)

* Payout rate (2:30 - 2:52)

* Wrap up (2:53 - 3:27)




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The Cash Grab review

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Cash Grab, another company who provides users big cash rewards after users complete offers from the web site. Through the video, I will point out a few things you will need to watch out and pay attention when you are completing these offers. Once you avoid those potential problems, it's a fairly easy cash generating program which gives you immediate results. There are a few things that the web site requires users and I will point them out below:

1. At least 13 years or older to apply for an account and 18 years or older to complete offers
2. US Citizens only
3. Accounts will terminate itself if its in activity for 6 months
4. 5 days in advance before cash out date
5. $15 minimum to cash out
6. 20% on all referrals

Most of these requirements are pretty standard for most cash offering completion companies, I do however want to point out that due to how new the company is that there's a lot of potential to have more offers to complete and less competition to compete for offers which is always good. I do want to also point out that they have a forum and they have actually provided their own AIM? Now that is very rare, in general no one offers their own AIM or help. Cash offering companies usually goes through a "support ticket" or in another words e-mail help and often times no telephone number where you can call. However, The Cash Grab offers their AIM and Forum support which I find rare in their field and it is definitely a positive way of achieving instant customer service. So if you are interested in joining the company, here's it is http://www.thecashgrab.com/?ref=700 .

* Intro to The Cash Grab (0:00 - 0:29)

* Info on Cash Grab (0:30 - 1:08)

* How to avoid potential probems (1:09 - 1:54)

* Understanding your objective (1:55 - 2:33)

* Some additional things to double check (2:34 - 3:18)

* Wrap up (3:19 - 3:22)

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Clicking ads for cash

Before I get into the topic of clicking for cash, for those of you that are thinking of getting rich from it..well it's most likely not going to happen. However, if you have some time to kill whether it's watching TV or waiting for someone; generating some cash doesn't hurt a single bit.

There are currently many web sites out there that provide users for clicking their ads and in turn provide a small payment to the clicker. I've actually tested a few of them out myself and here's what I found.

1. These clicking ad agency usually does not have enough ad to meet the minimum payment they promise users for to cash out

2. These clicking ad agency usually requires tideous amounts of work for users, literally requiring them to be at their desk

3. For advertisers, the audience is almost not targeted and usually does not turn into a sale

4. The amount of payout is not very significant

These results from what I've found are very common in the clicks for cash type companies and many of these companies do not survive in a long term basis. However, if you are a person who's got some free time and do not mind trying out these type of companies there are two companies that I would recommend checking. The first company is clixsense and the second company is Adbux.

Why clixsense? Well, the reason is fairly simple. They are currently one of the biggest clicking for cash companies out there and they have numerous amount of ads to choose from. They are also updated daily with new ads. This fact itself is a great because most of these clicking companies do not update frequently enough for their users. clixsense provides users with an available one step upgrade to the "premium account", which it charges for an one time amount of $10 for additional ad availability. Personally, I wouldn't recommend going that route and instead I would just join under the free account which is the basic account available for all of its users. The pay out options from clixsense is only by a check; a pretty normal and standard payment solution. The award rate is $0.01 per 60 sec. of viewing an ad and their current referral payout rate is 10% for each referral each person that you bring.

Why Adbux? This clicking company is still relatively new. As a matter of fact, they have just started being active for the second week. The good thing about Adbux is that they have one of the best pay rates in this industry of clicking advertising. They currently pay their users $0.01 per 15 seconds of viewing an ad, so in one minute you can potentially make close to $0.04. Because Adbux is still relatively new, they only offer an finite amount of ads for their users to view. However, Adbux allows users to click on ads again after a 24 hour period of time which is unheard of in the field of clicking advertising. Their payments are processed quite easy for their users through Paypal and the referral payout rate is $0.01 for each referral member clicks.

These two would be my recommendations to you if you are interested in this field, good luck!

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Get paid for blogging

If you are visiting my site, you're most likely to be a blogging enthusiast youself. In whatever field of your interest it may be, through blogging it's always a real cool channel to share your point of view with the rest of the world. What if I tell you that you can make cash while blogging? That's right, there are companies out there that are willing to pay their bloggers to do nothing other then to blog! The company that I have encountered is called Blogvertise.

How does Blogvertise work? Basically advertisers pays Blogvertise to promote the company, product, or service that they are trying to sell to the general public and Blogvertise then in turn comes to bloggers like you and I for the solution. For bloggers, we are basically being asked to help advertise these companies coming to Blogvertise by writing a blog about them. You might think that means spamming your whole blog or changing the nature of the blog into an engine basically as an additional avenue for nothing then advertisers right? The answer is no, because if that was the case then I wouldn't join them myself either. The requirements are very easy, Blogvertise asks their bloggers to something in the nature of three paragraphs pointing out the advertisers and the rest is free game. You may go on and talk about what you blog best and continue engaging with your readers. Isn't that such a cool idea? Personally, I think for bloggers it can't get easier to rake in some extra cash close to doing nothing extra.

How much does Blogvertise pay? It is based on many factors from the advertisers such as the amount of traffic coming to your blog, popularity of the subject, and the advertisers in your field. Don't worry, Blogvertise pays their bloggers at least $5 or more per advertisement entries that you write about from my personal experience so it's pretty darn good for a blog.

I would say that I'm a pretty skeptical guy, but then I'm going to receive my first check from

Blogvertise soon so I think it's pretty fair to say that they're legitimate. Have a great weekend and good luck making money! :)

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