Earn Money Online Step by Step
There are a lot of ways by which you can start earning a regular income from your blog to pay off your credit card bills,electricity bills,phone bills and more.The main source of income from your blog will primarily be from websites offering Pay-per-click programs like google adsense,chitika,valueclickmedia,yahoo publisher network,bidclix,clicksor. Since it is not easy to get approved by google adsense,small webmastes can easy money by other alternatives.Once you start getting a regular traffic to your blog,you will also start earning more.The basic strategy is to get more and more traffic to your blog,which also means earning more and more at the same time. More traffic means more clicks,and thereby more income.
1. Google Adsense - It still remains to be the most trusted source of income for most webmasters and bloggers. You make money by mainly 2 ways, first is CPC which means cost per click i.e. making money from the clicks that people make on your site on the ads. The second is CPI which means cost per 1000 impressions. The good thing about adsense is that it displays only relevant ads on your blog depending on what your blog is about. The cost per click that you can expect to get is about 10 cents per click on an ad ,which means if 100 people click on your ad per day ,you can easily make 10 $ a day or 300 $ a month. Obviously this amount get higher as you start getting more traffic and more clicks. Payments are made on a monthly basis by check . The minimum payout is 100 $.
2. Yahoo Publisher Network - It is also coming into limelight these days for its good CPC’s and as you know,yahoo is already a trusted company.This promises to be an excellent alternative to Google Adsense but in reality is likely to be a simple copy with the same restrictive terms and conditions as Google, including $100 minimums on payouts.At present the system is still in beta test and while you can visit their site and sign up to register your interest it appears at present that they are not accepting new advertisers. In fact most applicants won’t even receive a reply. Thus until it goes live and it becomes clear what type of website owners Yahoo will be targetting I can only place it in second place. Yahoo only accepts US publishers !!
Advert wise Yahoo Publisher Network will feature:
Display ads related to the content on your site. You’ll earn revenue from qualified clicks.
Integrate other Yahoo! services into your web site, including Add to My Yahoo! (RSS), Y!Q and much more to come…
This beta program is just the beginning. Our mission is to deliver products and services based on the needs of the publishing community.
3. BidVertiser - It has also been in the industry for quite some time now,and as you can see ,my own blog features BiDVertiser ads. It is by far the best alternative to google adsense.
Bidvertiser can be a useful alternative to Google and offer some intriguing ad formats including what they refer to as free design. This lets you specify the look and dimensions of your text ads. While a useful feature I have not investigated how well it works but imagine that while it sounds good on paper it could result in lower priced ads being displayed. I.e. most advertisers will probably want to keep control of the layout of their ads and so turn off support for Free design ads.
Bidvertizer pays you either in $50.00 increments by check or $10.00 increments by PayPal.
Customize the layout of your ads: BidVertiser gives you a simple point-and-click tool to help you customize the layout of the ads to fit your site’s look and feel, in order to retain the high quality of your website. Bidvertizer also offers the opportunity to block unwanted ads. The reports provided by Bidvertiser are adequate but not outstanding. The only real problem is that they can be picky with who they accept into their program and can be quick to ban users whose websites show what may be perfectly valid fluctuating visitor behaviour.
4. Chitika - Chitika takes a different approach to internet advertizing. Instead of displaying the ‘industry standard’ advert boxes with text and image ads that all look the same they instead provide active boxes that show targeted products from different manufacturers. If you run a blog for example and discuss a product you may find the chitika box showing links for this product and competitors products. If people purchase these products you get a paid a commission. This is refered to as impulse marketing in the form of eMinimalls. Feel free to give it a try although I think the ideal use of this service would be as a compliment to another advertizers service. E.g. you could show Clicksor context sensitive ads on your site and then compliment these with Chitika’s eMinimalls.
5. Clicksor - Clicksor is easily the current leader of the small publisher Adsense competition. They have payouts upto a market leading 85% and unlike a number of alternatives the cost per click bid values are high enough that you can earn a decent income. They are also, in my experience, much more tollerant than Google. Their terms and conditions suggest that you should only place one copy of their code on a page but as long as you only place a single pop-up or DHTML code on a page they seem happy to let you place many context sensitive ad blocks on a single site.
Clicksor also has a big advantage over a number of the lower ranked alternatives on this site in that their ads are truly context sensitive. Thus while you can provide keywords they have technology that will also show ads targeted to the content of your site. This means your visitors are exposed to ads of the same subject as they were searching for when they reached your site and thus vastly increases the click thru ratio and thus your sites earning potential. The context sensitive nature also saves you the hassle of having to specify keywords for all of your sites and decide in advance what people might be looking for.
6. Value Click Media - Join ValueClick Media, the best advertising network partner for publishers, and benefit from the following:
Maximum RevenueOur commitment is to helping you earn the maximum yield for your display and registration path inventory by giving you expert tools to earn the highest payouts and effective CPMs possible.
Quality AdvertisersOur experienced national advertising sales team consistently generates high quality, high performing campaigns from recognizable brand advertisers, giving you the benefit of a top-notch sales force selling your inventory.
Advanced Technology Our advanced user interfaces, optimization technology and reporting systems give you all the controls needed to ensure that you earn the highest revenue possible.
Superior SupportOur experienced publisher support team is well known throughout the industry for providing consultative services that increase your earnings and performance, in addition to all general customer service and account maintenance inquiries.
Display AdvertisingEarn revenue through our ad network platform by running ads from hundreds of quality advertisers on your web site. Receive some of the highest eCPM rates with unmatched fill through a wide variety of standard banners, pop-unders and rich media.
Lead GenerationEarn revenue through our affiliate and co-registration platform with some of the highest payouts and new offers to choose from daily. Increase your yield on registration paths, web sites and e-mail lists with lead-based direct offers and our registration path managers.
7. Bid Clix - It is relatively new in the industry,but it promises to be a good one !
With BidClix you can:
Decide how much you want to charge. Set your own price.
Sell advertising directly to advertisers.
Have complete control over which ads appear on your site.
Continue to use Google AdSense or any other ad network.
Gain a free listing in the BidClix Advertising Marketplace with exposure to 11,000+ advertisers.
It takes 5 minutes to signup and start selling your ad space today.And of course, it’s free. Publishers are turning to BidClix because we deliver the highest yielding ads. Our ad marketplace is designed specifically to connect you with the ads that will earn you the most revenue, using our unique optimization technology. This proprietary technology is always looking for the ad that will maximize your revenue. Other ad networks use geographic or contextual criteria to target ads. We use some of these criteria too. They can be effective, but they aren’t good enough. By focusing our efforts on finding which ads will earn you the highest yield, we earn you more. In fact, many online companies use BidClix as their exclusive revenue partner because we consistently earn them more each month. With thousands of advertisers in the BidClix advertising marketplace, your site will have access to a large source of fresh ads - keeping visitors interested and clicking, and ad revenue higher.
Read the top 10 reasons businesses choose the BidClix marketplace to sell their advertising inventory.