A lot of people are drooling for the fat Google cheques. Google Adsense can be a bit of a catch-22 in internet marketing.  When you display Adsense ads on your website or blog, you’re offering your competition a chance to grab your customers. When you use the ads to promote your own site, they’ll often be displayed for your competitors as well.  A lot of people sell affiliate marketing products on their site and therefore optimize their website for traffic in a specific niche with particular keywords. When you display Adsense ads on the same page, you’re competing with others who may grab the sale you worked so hard for just because their twenty word ad is more compelling than your whole page.   Should you use Google Adsense?

Internet Marketing Strategies

Many internet marketing experts do monetize some of their sites with Google Adsense ads in order to have multiple chances at income. They figure that if they don’t get the sale for a product advertised on the page, perhaps they’ll at least get some click revenue.  The choice is yours.  Some marketers are very strategic about what types of ads they’ll place on certain sites and reserve competing ads like contextual advertising for very specific types of internet marketing opportunities while leaving specific sites with nothing but internal links to avoid having people venture off to see their competitor.

The best site monetization advice? Research your options and closely watch your analytics to set your own strategy.  Multiple streams of income with varying strategies is always a good idea!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

They say you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket but it’s also important that you don’t bite off more than you can chew too quickly. The idea of multiple streams of passive income is a great one but success won’t happen for a newbie straight away and definitely won’t happen if you blaze a trail down too many roads at a time.

When deciding to start your affiliate marketing career, it can be tempting to sign up for everything under the sun and go crazy.  The problem with this is that it’s the equivalent of trying to juggle with not enough hands and too many balls.  Instead, consider starting slow, perfecting your skills and then adding to the mix.

Affiliate Marketing: Fine Tune Your Skills

Concentrate your efforts on one program at a time until things are kind of on autopilot. You can always come back later and tweak or improve your efforts on a money making program but until you’re making money consistency on one program, don’t be tempted to start on something new. There are so many profitable niches and programs that it can be difficult to be patient but patience and focus will pay off.

Start off With Small Goals

If you want to sign up for five different programs, you might set small goals of trying to hit specific milestones with one program before adding another to the mix.  By learning the ropes and fine tuning your skills in one area, you can move forward confidently into a new revenue stream before long.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

There is a lot of information available for free when it comes to making money on the Internet. There is a lot of basic information that you’ll find on blogs and websites and some experienced marketers will even give away a lot of information for free as well. There are also things available for a fee.

When are you ready to go from learning about earning for free to paying for secrets?  The answer is simple.  When you have a thirst for more and can’t find the information for free it might be time to find an internet marketing guru.  Once you’ve started earning some commissions or hit payout with Google Adsense, you might be ready to take your internet marketing career from that of a newbie to the path of becoming a guru.

Never stop reading the free stuff as you’ll find that new information and new angles continuously develop but there may come a time when you decide you’re ready to pay some money for information. Do yourself a favour and spend time researching before you take the plunge!

Reading Product Reviews

Product review sites are all over the Internet.  Some of them offer great information on what’s available. A good product review site will have purchased the products they review and offer valuable positive and negative information as well.

It’s a good guess to assume you’ll find affiliate links on these sites but that doesn’t mean the information isn’t valuable. Take time to look at a few reviews before you make your decision about buying an affiliate marketing e-book or a membership.The reviews should do more than tell you a product is great. They should provide insight about how to use it, what features and benefits it has as well as what type of results the reviewer got.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

If you’re using a niche blog to make income through various revenue streams like affiliate marketing and Google Adsense,  make sure your blog is friendly to humans and to search engine spiderbots.  Here are a few tips for making it both search engine friendly and reader-friendly.

SEO Tips For Your Blog

On your blog you’ll want to do on-page and off-page search engine optimising. This means that on the blog you do things that make search engines want to crawl you such as having blog tags, categories, using links inside your blog to other blogs posts as well as links to outside sites through your blogroll and your blog entries.

In terms of off-page SEO, you might consider visiting other blogs in your niche and linking back to your blog through blog comments.  Also use sites to catalog your blog such as Blog Catalog and MyBlogLog which can draw visitors in from other pages. Being friendly to search engines with SEO will get you more rankings and more visitors.

Visitor Tips

Once the visitors arrive, give them a warm welcome! Talk to your visitors in a friendly tone in your posts and stop by and visit their blogs to return the favour when they’ve been kind enough to comment or to link to you on their blog.  When someone leaves a comment that asks a question or compliments your site answer them and consider leaving a comment on their site as well.

Don’t overdo it on the advertisements. You may be in the blogging business for the ad revenue but if your blog doesn’t provide any value, you won’t have many visitors and you definitely won’t get any subscribers. Carefully managing your blog to appeal to the people and the search engines will help increase your chances of online success.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

In internet marketing, there are two schools of thought with respect to link cloaking. Link cloaking involves making your links to affiliate websites look like regular links instead of affiliate links which many people recognise by strange letter combinations or URL names.

With school of thought number one, you might think it’s better to be up front about being an affiliate selling a product either by saying so or simply by presenting your link with your code in it without worrying about cloaking. On the other side, some  suggest people are more likely to buy your product if they don’t think they’re being sales pitched or sold to. For some reason, a lot of people don’t feel good about someone getting a commission off their purchase. Some will even try to avoid your affiliate link if they really want to buy it and you led them there. This is why many affiliate programs will credit you with the sale due to a ninety-day http cookie.

You might consider conducting experiments and seeing what bodes better for you. If you choose to cloak your links, there are free tools like Tinyurl.com that can take a long URL and turn it short as well as make it difficult to see where someone is about to click through to.  This type of tool can be useful for more than just affiliate marketing. It can be great in micro blogging environments like Twitter and Plurk or anywhere else that has a 140 character maximum.

Link Cloaking Tools

If you’ve decided that cloaking is something you want to do, there are link cloaking tools that are free and available for a fee. Do be careful you’re not cloaking beyond recognition or you could impact your ability to get paid through companies such as ClickBank.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009