Web Site Monetization

“Tips and resources for monetizing your web site”

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    The purpose of this site is to give web site owners and publishers, resources and insights into web site monetization. Browse numerous tips and resources for improving your web site's monetary potential. Feel free to join in the discussion and post your own ideas and tips for Web Site Monetization.
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    Google Search Tools

    Posted By admin on May 5, 2008


    Official Google Search Tools

    Special Searches

    Google Topic Specific Search

    Google For Webmasters

    • Google AdSense for search – Opportunity to earn money by Google whenever your users click on the targeted Google adsense ads on search results pages.
    • Google Free – provide Google search results to users who want to search the web or just your website.
    • Google Custom Search Engine - Specify the websites that you want searched and integrate the search box and results into your own website.
    • Site-flavored Google search – delivers web search results that are customized to individual websites.
    • Customizable Google Search – you can customize your results display to include background, text and link colors you select.
    • Google Search Appliance – is a hardware and software product designed to offer large businesses the productivity-enhancing power of Google search.
    • Google Mini – Google search for your website and intranet

    Google Desktop Search Tools

    • Google Deskbar – Search using Google without opening your browser
    • Google Desktop – a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed.

    Google Mobile Search Services

    Google Search Toolbars

    Third Party Google Search Tools

    Search Google with Firefox Extensions

    • CustomizeGoogle – enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
    • Googlebar Lite – A light-weight Google search toolbar for Firefox.
    • GoogleTabs – Adds a context menu option to open Google search results in tabs.
    • Advanced Dork – Highlight a word or phrase, right click, and choose from over 15 Advanced Google Operators, A google search page is opened in either the same tab or a new tab, the results contained in the search will contain the highlighted text inside the chosen Operator.
    • GooglePreview – Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.
    • Feeling Lucky – Performs Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search with any selected text and opens the result in new a tab.
    • Aggregate Yahoo! and Google – Search Yahoo and Google simultaneously
    • GooglebarL10N – is the localized version of Googlebar with Menues & Texts in German, Italian or Spanish.
    • Google Advanced Operations Toolbar – provides a shortcut to some of Google’s advanced search functions.

    Google Page Modules / Scripts / Widgets / Bookmarklets

    Multi Search Tools

    • Simply Google – search all Google services on one page. Lots of forms.
    • HotDaddy – search all Google services on one page. Lots of icons.
    • Google Total – search all Google services on one page. Drop down menu.
    • GahooYoogle – search multiple Google and Yahoo services together side by side.
    • Twingine – Google and Yahoo search side by side.
    • Soople – performs all advanced search functions of google in separate forms

    Miscellaneous Google Search Tools

    • Google Cloud – displays search results as a tag cloud
    • Babelplex – enables users to search Google’s web index across two languages.
    • Google Current – airs every half hour on Current TV and provides a look at what the world is searching for on Google.
    • Googlewhack – a query consisting of two words (without quotation marks) entered into Google’s search page that returns a single result.
    • Cookin’ With Google – allows you to provide a list of ingredients and get back a list of recipes that Google finds for you.
    • Goofresh – is a way to search for sites added today, yesterday, within the last seven days, or last 30 days.
    • Google Fight – Compare the number of results for two competing keywords.
    • GoogleDuel – a popularity contest using the Google search engine.
    • Random Web Search – it generates a random word, then searches that word on the web using Google.
    • Googlematic – Enables searching of Google via AIM or MSN Messenger.
    • Googlism – will find out what Google.com thinks of you
    • Google Tool – Search multiple google datacenters simultaneously.
    • elgooG – a mirror image of Google
    • LostGoggles – adds search site preview images, Amazon pricing, site info links and the Open-in-New-Window-button. Formerly “More Google”.

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    How To Monetize Your Blog

    Posted By admin on February 27, 2008

    Before we can learn how to monetize our own blogs it’s important that we know what monetizing a blog consists of. People seem to have a misunderstanding over what monetizing a blog actually is.

    The idea behind monetizing a blog is the process in which we customize the blog with ads to make money with our blog. If you’re not attempting to make money with your blog then you’re not monetizing it.

    From my point of view every website you own should be monetized to make money, otherwise it is pointless to have and it simply takes up time that you cannot afford.

    If this is your case then the below article is for you, but if you just like having some fun sites but your main goal is not to turn a profit from them then just skip this post and go directly to our SEO Tools section where you can learn how to do SEO to your site or blog and gain readers / traffic and stuff like that.

    Basic Monetizing Principles

    If your just starting to monetize your blog for some income then here are a few ways you can do that and get your feet wet.

    Adsense

    Adsense has long been used as a form of advertisements for monetizing blogs. However adsense only works really well if you receive lots of traffic to your blog already.  To find out more about Google Adsense check out our Google Adsense section.

    Banners

    Banners are your key to monetizing success, banners are what people will pay for our regular basis. Most banners run at a monthly fee meaning you get a recurring income every month. This is a great way to monetize your blog because the banners you place are going to be relative to your blog and you get to pick and choose what sites you want and don’t want on yours.

    In Text

    In-Text advertising is a new form of advertising which allows you more control over monetizing your blog. Basically the way it works is through programs like kontera which solely provide in-text advertising. In-text advertising is basically text links that have no-follow on them and when you hover on them as a visitor the site appears in a pop-up flash bar. It shows a screenshot of their website and if a visitor clicks on that flash ad you will get a percentage of each click! Anywhere from $.10 to several dollars per click, as you can see this is a great way to monetize your blog as its not in-your-face advertising as most visitors detest.

    Text Links

    Text links are the old way of monetizing a blog, people would sell text links for page rank, traffic and various other reasons. However now that the Google link penalty is in-place text links are of the past and not worth selling on a website. Instead replace that links section with banners and you’ll have much more success plus a better monthly income.

    Reviews

    Reviews are a great way to monetize your blog, you can charge any amount per review as long as your blog gets decent traffic and has a decent readership following. I have seen people charge anywhere from $10-$500 per review! Just be sure when doing reviews that you include a few negative ones as well, the reason I suggest this is because people love to jump on the negative bandwagon and there is no better way then with a negative review!

    Summing it up

    So the main point behind monetizing your blog is to make money, luckily for you we have tons of articles throughout the whole blog which explain various ways to monetize your blog and in turn earn money for those techniques you’re implementing.

    One thing to keep in mind is that there is no one way to do it, feel free to experiment with different click and product affiliates, just because it doesn’t work for one person doesn’t mean it won’t work for another.

    What about you? What ways do you monetize your blog? Do you make much money from monetizing your blogs? Tell us below!

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    Monetize using Google AdSense

    Posted By admin on February 26, 2008

    Google AdSense is one of the most popular methods for web site monetization. Each time a person visits a page on your web site that contains an AdSense tag, an ad that has been approved through Google and this relevant to your site will be displayed. 

    This is done through the software developed by Google, which uses a cache of your web site’s page for either the keywords in the URL or the actual URL in order to determine the keywords that are most appropriate for your site. If the keywords have already been cached, the ads that are appropriate for the specific keywords is based on the bid system utilized through AdWords.

    Getting Started with AdSense
    Getting started with AdSense is a simple process. If you have a web site, you only need to sign up with the Google AdSense program. You can also choose to run ads in a variety of formats. For example, you may choose to only enable text ads on your site, or you may be willing to include ads containing images on your site. More recently, Google has also added the option to include video ads on the site.

    Making Money with AdSense
    AdSense is a pay per click form of web site monetization. Each time a visitor to your site clicks on one of the ads, you receive a certain amount of money. The amount of money that you receive depends upon how much the advertiser agreed to pay.

    In order to improve your chances of making money through AdSense and in order to give the advertiser the best opportunity of reaching its target audience, Google uses some complex software applications in order to determine which ads will be placed on your site. Of course, the content of your web site is an important consideration, but the content alone is not enough. For example, the software determines the geographical location of the person visiting your site in order to display ads that are the most relevant to that person’s location

    Why Businesses Would Want to Advertise Through AdSenses
    AdSense is a popular form of advertisement because it helps the advertiser reach a more targeted audience. This is because their ads are placed on sites that are relevant to the goods or services they provide. In addition, AdSense advertisement is generally considered one of the least expensive methods for marketing. Finally, getting started with AdSense is easy. All a business has to do is visit AdWords, perform a little research surrounding the popularity and use of certain words, and bid on the keywords that are most relevant to their business.

    Why Site Visitors Prefer AdSense to Other Forms of Advertisement
    Most site visitors prefer AdSense to other forms of advertisements because they are not obtrusive or annoying. Many actually like these ads because they are relevant to the topic they are researching and can assist them with their search. Unlike pop up ads that get in the way of web navigation and need to be closed out, ads posted through the AdSense system are simply located to the side on the page. In addition, as the site owner, you can determine where and how you are willing to place your AdSense ads.

    What to Expect When Signing Up with AdSense
    After signing up for AdSense, your site will first display ads for charitable causes. Obviously, you will not receive money when these ads are clicked. After the Mediabot has the opportunity to crawl your web site, it will determine which types of ads are best for including on your site. At this point, relevant ads will be included on your site and you will receive payment when a site visitor clicks on one of the ads.

    Maximizing your AdSense Income
    In order to increase the amount of money you will make through the AdSense program, you will need to take steps to increase the amount of visitors you have at your site. After all, the more people to visit your site, the more chances you have of having your links “clicked on.”

    There are several steps you can take to help increase the amount of traffic to your site. Getting other sites to display a link to your site is one way of accomplishing this, though it is important that you find quality sites to display your ads. The more popular are high-quality the site is considered to be, the better it will help with your search engine results.

    Building quality content for your site is also a necessary step for increasing your site traffic. Not only will quality content boost your search engine ranking, web surfers will be more likely to revisit your site in the future. You can also include content that encourages your site visitors to click on the ads in order to learn more about a topic. Be aware, however, that you cannot explicitly say something such as “Click on my AdSense ads.” You can, however, refer to your advertisements or sponsored links in a general sense.

    You can further monetize your site by including Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) ads as well. Care must be taken when working with both AdSense and YPN because these forms of advertisement are technically in competition with one another. While you cannot place ads from both AdSense and YPN on the same page, you can included ads from both companies on the same web site.

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