Why Ad.ly is the better Money Source for Tweeter Users
In my last post I have showed you one of the examples of how to make money with Tweeter via sponsored tweets and how much Ad.ly is paying some of the mega tweeter users. Today I will share some of my thoughts explaining why everyone thinks that they will do a better job than any other Sponsored Tweet companies. Keeping in mind that if a company is successful, the investors aka the tweeter user will have a hefty return aka higher pay out per tweet and more referral bonus.
Information is the key to marketing, more targeted audience that you will have, more revenue you will generate. As of now, most of the advertisers found a way to display their content within 140 characters at a time, but they don’t really know who they are reaching and what their habits are. Ad,ly, started by Sean Rad, a 23-year-old entrepreneur, appears to have found a way to deliver what any marketer wants: targeting. Ad.ly gathers information from Twitter users’ accounts about their tweeting subject histories and makes it available to advertisers. The advertiser, therefore, can make better, more educated decisions that will lead to targeted advertising with a better result. And for the tweeter user’s standpoint, Ad.ly pushes a tweet every other day from a Twitter user’s account (of course with user approval). The tweeter user sets the price that the advertiser will pay.
Take a look at the images above and you will find how quickly the ad.ly website went up the ranking based on the belief that they will be one of the top paid sponsored tweet company. So, I say go to the Ad.ly and open up an account for your tweeter account so that you can start making some money on the side 
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Get paid to use Twitter – Sponsored Tweets by Ad.ly
Look around and sometimes you will be surprised that how many people have thousands and thousands of twitter followers. Since using twitter we can constantly updating our status, more and more companies are trying to convince Twitter users and advertisers with in-stream advertising options, where instead of updating a “true” status the user will tweet an advertisement and will get paid. Simple but it works.
Now, we know how the “sponsored Tweets” work, let’s look into one of the how you can get paid doing sponsored Tweets. At the early stage of Sponsored Tweeting, this type of service started off targeting all the celebrity Twitter users and then was available to everyone. And Ad.ly is one of the startup based on this business model. Started in Q4 of 2009 and quickly backed by a $500,000 investment, they already books a bunch of celebrities (look below).
Ad.ly offers pretty much the same service but its offering a little more $$$$ per tweet since its platform is better to target the audience thus delivers a better results for any ad campaign. Take a look at the examples below from Shoe Money’s and John Chow’s Ad.ly account and how much they are getting paid per tweet.
I am not saying that you will earn that much right away (unless you have tens of thousands of follower) but still it can be a great revenue source for any tweeter user. On top you tweets Ad.ly is now offering referral bonus on 12% of whatever they make/earn. Imagine you refer only 10 people then you will make roughly 100% of what they are making. Also, they even simplified the sign up and/or the referral process. All you have to do is go to Ad.ly and sign up.
So, is you have a tweeter account (I assume that you do) go to ad.ly and start making some money.
5 Ways to Attract Expensive Google Ads: Optimize Your Adsense Ads
5 Ways to Attract Expensive Google Ads: Optimize Your Adsense Ads
Last month I have posted a how I earn the highest CPM for my websites using adsense and chitika. And today I will share some of the ways that you can attract higher paid ads for your websites.
- Make the ads more relevant
Use se Section Targeting when you work with Google Adsense. Use <!– google_ad_section_start –> at the beginning and <!– google_ad_section_end –> at the end of your Google adsense code. Also ignore reader comments and navigation by putting <!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –> at the beginning and <!– google_ad_section_end –> at the end of the adsense code. - Targeting expensive keywords
Check bids and revise content accordingly – e.g. house painting vs. home improvement. Try it and you will find an improvement. Also, if you don’t know what keyword to choose, go to the Google adwords tools section and choose for there. - Put competitors and low CTR advertisers on your block list
It’s a no brainer. - Dispense with Flash-based or graphics-rich approach
You already know that search engines do not like flash based or graphic rich websites. Content is the king, add it as much as you can in your site. - Keywords in URL, H1 tag, body copy, title tag
Use the keywords wherever you get a chance. Be consistent and precise with the keywords.
Finally one might ask, did I see them work? Yes most of the time. But it also doesn’t mean that you will rush into making changes. I need you to think about all the above and then decide if you would like to implement those or not. Before i go for today, please keep in mind that you should try as much as you can to optimize for the better paid ads for your blog BUT don’t try any black hat ways to do anything. It will be a real shortcut to the end of you blogging career.
How to Make Money Tweeting: Sponsored Tweet
How to Make Money Tweeting: Sponsored Tweet
Yes, it’s no secret that Twitter can be a tremendous time-suck. But imagine getting paid for wasting those precious minutes of your day. Thanks to companies that are desperate to reach consumers in the social-media crowd, it’s now possible to make a buck or two — or much more — on Twitter by something called “Sponsored Tweets”. The way it works for Sponsored Tweets is that Twitter users can sign in, set the price they want companies to pay them for the privilege of tweeting an ad on their behalf, and wait for the offers to come in.
So, you can be any Billy Bob or Joe Blow but as long as you have followers you have a potential of earning. Now, you wonder how many tweeter users will use or actually use this service. Let’s take a look, Ted Murphy, founder and CEO of IZEA, says more than 7,000 Twitter users have signed up for Sponsored Tweets in its first month. He also has paid more than $100,000 to twitter users in his site’s first month of operation. Yes, I know the average per user is only $15 but keep in mind that given the current economy this could be a great way to earn spare change on the side. So far if you are interested to try this out then try out Ad.ly . They are one of the best rated sponsored tweets company. Also, stay tuned for more on Ad.ly and how you can make money by sponsored tweets.
Best CPM Rate for Your Blogs Page View : Adsense Plus Kontera Plus Chitika
Best CPM Rate for Your Blogs Page View
Unless you are the top 100 websites in the USA and you have a group of dedicated sales people trying to sell you ad slots, probability is that you are not really that happy with your CPM rate that you are generating through your advertising network. Unlike you guys I also have tried out a bunch of online marketing companies. I have tried them individually, as well as mixing with each other. After trying them out for a while with different variation I will suggest the following advertising networks for anyone who is trying to generate a HIGH CPM rate for his/her website/blog.
Google Adsense:
Google Adsense, by far the best payout for ECPM. Google adsense program is easy to get approved and they pay on time and so far they paid every time. I have seen up to $5/ECPM with Google. But again, on average it’s safe to say that about $3/ECPM is what I was making on average. Since Google was pretty continuous with its revenue, I was happy but not satisfied. So, the only things that I could do is the raise the number if impression by increasing the number of ad slots. This also has a limitation since Google will allow only 3 ad slots in a given page. So, I moved forward by trying the following.
Kontera:
Thanks to DP I found out about contextual ads and I started to look around. Based on the user reviews I went with Kontera, which so far has treated me, nice. I am generating a decent amount of revenue through them every month. But as far as the $/CPM goes, Kontera has been consistent with around $1/CPM using 2 links/post. It’s really easy to get approved with Kontera and you can get paid via paypal as well.
Chitika:
Since the banner was ads were not much a revenue generating sources, I decided to try out Chitika by replacing one of the slots for banner. Looking at the result I was about to kill myself just because I didn’t go with chitika a long time ago. Chitika has been and still is a nice compliment to Google Adsense ads for all of my blogs so far. I have a variance of $/CPM with Chitka but I would say, at the least you will get $1.50/CPM. And if you find a good placement for Chitika ads resulting a good click through rate then it will go up even more.
Keep in mind that from the very beginning I tested different revenue generating sources, which will comply with Google Adsense. In other words, I always looked and tested ONLY those sources, which can be used in addition to Google Adsense. Now you tell me, would you be happy with at least $5/CPM for your page views from your blog. I know I would.
6 Reasons for White Hat Link Cloaking: Don’t Leave Money on the Table
White Hat Link Cloaking
If you want to generalize, Link Cloaking or Link Masking describes the technique of serving a different page to a search engine spider than what a human visitor sees. Usually this technique is abused by spammers for keyword stuffing. And that’s why Black Hat Link Cloaking is a violation of the Terms of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning. Just incase you wanted to know the difference between them, read through my “SEO Ethics: White Hat SEO vs. Black Hat SEO” post. Having said that, cloaking links in any Internet Marketing activity is important, especially if you promote lots of products. But its needs to White Hat cloaking. Today i will talk about 6 reasons to cloak you affiliate links as a blogger and in future how to do it.
Spam Complaints:
When a visitor clicks on an un-cloaked affiliate link, the affiliate’s link details will be displayed in the address bar. This serves to alert the visitor that they are not at the official website they believed they were being directed to. And if a subscriber files a spam complaint with their ISP, the ISP could get the website shut down. So, to mitigate this issue, it is recommended for websites owners to use a link cloaking system to convert all direct affiliates link into a link with the domain name.
Example: Instead of link http://abcd.dot.com/aff3453 , you can have www.your-domain-name.com/product link.
Link Hijacking:
In the competitive internet marketing world it happens all the time and may or may not happen to you yet but probability is that it will happen. There are a lot of black hat way for the link hijackers who will simply substitute your affiliate ID with their own in the link, – stealing the commission at point of purchase.
Conversion Rate:
Usually the merchants landing page or sales pages contain extra bonuses and newsletter subscriptions which may deviate customers away from buying and allows the merchant website to overwrite the affiliate’s link at the last minute. If you use an affiliate link cloaking service then you will be able to send you r subscribers to the specific product page resulting a high conversion rate.
Building Trust:
Often, a product that you are promoting at your website is withdrawn. And if you have used a direct affiliate link for that product then you will be sending all of your subscribers to something which doesn’t exist, losing your credibility. However, if you use a link cloaking system or service, then all you have to do is change that link for your destination page and you will be sending your subscribers to an alternate page.
Branding:
As you will be moving forward with your website, keep in mind that you also will be branding your website. By cloaking you affiliate links you will expedite your website’s brand building process. Once simplest way to perform this task is to format your link where your domain name stand out .
Example: http://www.Your-Website.com/Reviews/Product
Performance Tracking:
“We pay for our ignorance”, which is why as an internet marketer you need to be tracking you affiliate links click reports. You need to know how your keywords are working or you so that you can optimize them and make them more profitable. A decent link cloaking system will provide you with click tracking records. You can track your links click through rate, followed by conversion rate and you can also perform a lots of tests to optimize your profit.
Hopefully by now, you will have a decent idea about the importance about cloaking while blogging about other stuff. So get you cloaking script and start enjoying the benefits.