Know How to Make Money Online without a Website

Know How to Make Money Online without a Website 

A pay-per-click affiliate program is a great way to leverage the keyword skills you already have.

If you've got some successful keyword research and PPC advertising under your belt for your own website, why not capitalize on that and make money online without one? Affiliate marketing through pay-per-click makes it possible.

MSN ad Center and Yahoo Search Marketing both allow direct linking to sites that are not your own. (But don't try this with Google AdWords.)

Direct linking means that you can join affiliate programs, create ads for their products, and send click-through directly to the merchant's site. There's no need to build an intermediary site or use your own site to direct traffic. When your click-through converts, you get a commission.

It's a way to create an extra stream of income--or several--with some big advantages:

• It eliminates the time, effort, and costs of building and maintaining web pages. The only time you'll have to pay is when someone clicks on your ad.
• It allows you to do affiliate marketing without cluttering up your own site with links that might send potential customers away. You can keep your site clean and focused on its job of selling your product, but still make commissions off other people's products.
• It eliminates an extra click for users. One click less for them means more commissions for you.
  
  While direct linking is a good opportunity, though, it's not a walk in the park. The PPC programs that allow it restrict the number of affiliate ads that can point at the same display URL that shows on the ad itself. So ads by experienced affiliate marketers who know exactly what they're doing can bump less skillful ads.

If you want your ads to be seen, here's what you have to do.

Step 1: Start with a big, broad market
Choose a broad market where there's a lot of searching going on. You want to get as many eyeballs as possible.

Step 2: Do some keyword research
Don't build your ads on broad, untargeted keywords, though. The competition for those will be fierce--and expensive. Your objective here is to find neglected, low-cost keywords within a broad, high-traffic market--and that's why it really helps to have keyword research experience.

And as I mentioned in an earlier article, you need to look for specific problems that are shared by a lot of people within a market. Then find relevant keyword terms that clearly shows a clear intention to buy or find out more information. Those terms are much more likely to convert. And remember, you pay for every click, but you get paid only when they convert.

The Microsoft Advertising Intelligence tool can show you almost anything you'd like to know about any given keyword, including similar keywords, traffic, cost per click, and much more. The free Google AdWords Keyword Tool is also a quick and handy way of getting ideas for keywords with high search volume and low cost per click; just keep in mind that you can't use this strategy with Google.

Step 3: Find a good affiliate merchant that targets your niche
In order to find a merchant that offers a relevant product and pays you a good commission, check out these affiliate networks and directories:

• www.associateprograms.com
• www.affiliatesdirectory.com
• www.ecommerce-guide.com
• www.cj.com
• www.clickxchange.com
• www.linkshare.com

When you're choosing affiliate merchants, ask these questions:

1.     Do they offer a product that directly solves a problem you've identified?

2.     Do they allow direct linking to their sites? Some don't. Check the terms and conditions before you commit.

3.     Does the landing page generate pop-ups? If so, then forget it. This is not allowed. The back button on the page also has to be functional.

4.     Is there a strong landing page for the product? If you send click-through to an irrelevant page, a confusing sales process, or a site that's just plain unappealing, then they won't convert and you'll end up wasting your money.

Step 4: Write a PPC ad that drives buyers to the affiliate merchant's site
Take a good look at the landing page your ad is pointing at and make your ad directly relevant to it. Your ad must:

• Address the specific problem you've identified.
• Include the keyword you've bid on, preferably more than once.
• Reflect the keywords of the landing page.
• Highlight a benefit of the product.
• Include a strong call to action.

You can give your ad an extra boost by adding your keyword, or part of it, to the display URL at the bottom of the ad The actual target URL will contain a big, ugly affiliate ID number, but the display version can show the domain name plus a subdirectory with a word or phrase that makes it look relevant to the search,

Before you create your display link, check out the PPC competition to make sure it's unique so your ad won't be bumped. The better your ads, the higher the click-through will be which means your ads will be rewarded with better positions for the same money. It's worth polishing them, and then testing them to see which ones are performing the best.

Running a pay-per-click affiliate campaign probably won't generate hundreds of thousands of dollars for you right off the bat--but it is the easiest way to leverage the keyword research and PPC skills you've developed in building your own site. And when Microsoft ad Center and Yahoo Search Marketing join forces sometime this year, you'll get the traffic from both, even if you only advertise on one. That makes direct linking even more appealing.

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Know How to Make Money with Mobile Phones

Know How to Make Money with Mobile Phones

The thought of making money with mobile phone brings a cheer on every ones face. This is because nearly everyone has a mobile phone. The days where a mobile phone was used only for voice calls or for text messages has gone. Everyone has to agree that mobile phone has the potential to change things in future. Now it has everything in it, what ever you need.

This is all possible because mobile phone is the only appliance where all the applications are moving to. Earlier we used to use different appliances for different purposes.

Walkman then i-pod for listening music, watch television for live matches, computer for browsing; now that time has gone.

Before we could imagine something new, it is already present in the mobile phone, it so fast now a days.

All these appliances and much more are embedded in the mobile phone. The entire world is in your palm. That is the future of mobile. Competition between I-Phone from Apple and Android from Google will make things possible which are literally impossible.

Earning from mobile phone is based on the fact that nearly half of the world population is using mobile phones and it is increasing every day. Recent Surveys shows that the mobile phone industry is booming. It’s becoming hard to find any person without a mobile phone even in the developing countries. This is providing a lot of scope to earn money from Mobile Phone.

There are many more ways to earn money from your mobile phone; some of them are:

Paid to receive Message (SMS) and Video Clips (MMS):

What many people know is to earn a free coupon or free mobile downloads like games. What many do not know is that it has a lot of untapped potential in earning money.

There are a lot of sites already present on the web which pays the mobile users for receiving text and picture messages. This kind of advertising is different over other types. Advertisers are ready to pay to this kind of advertising as the message reaches directly to the target person. Messages cannot be ignored unlike emails; every one opens the message to see what it is.

In recent days they have included the video clips in MMS format. These may be short video clips with commercial interest but in fact a big hit. Messages or video clips, you read or watch them if you like or simply delete. You will be paid only to receive the message and the rest as you like; you buy the product or not. You can check the balance in the mobile advertisement websites.

Mobile Marketing:

You might have seen ads while browsing internet on your mobile phone. These are small size ads which are made to attract mobile users using internet. These ads are compatible for different mobile browsers, when you click them; they resize to fit in the mobile screen. Everyone started to advertise their products on the mobile sites due to the huge potential in it. The best form of mobile marketing is to do affiliate marketing programs on the mobile sites. You can do the affiliate marketing programs like CPA advertising (cost per action). 

Mobile Sites:

With the boom of the mobile marketing there comes the opportunity for mobile sites. These sites are designed for the mobile users as we have the websites for a computer. The mobile sites are about 1/5 smaller than the normal website so that they can fit in the screen of the mobile phone to give the user a complete experience.

You can literally create a mobile site for any purpose. You can sell products, sell music or sell wallpapers which are quite a demand now a days or any product of your choice.

Mobile games are fantastic opportunity as I have not seen a mobile without games in the recent times. This is a good choice as the mobile users tend to play games while waiting for someone or while travelling.

To sell these games you can either tie up with the mobile service provide or can directly sell on the internet.

To gain more revenue you can also use programs like Google ad sense in your Mobile site.

Mobile Applications:

Applications are the utilities or the programs running on a mobile phone.  There are already a lot of them existing and many more are created every day. Users always like to have the latest mobile application on their phone which is actually creating a lot of scope for the sales of mobile applications.

Each icon what you see on your mobile are called applications or Apps, there are a lot of them already on your mobile phone and you can download more if you like, there are plenty yet to come.

You can either create mobile applications using free software tools found on the internet or you can help in the sales or downloads of some ones applications using affiliate marketing. The potential is unlimited as the future rests in these mobile applications.

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