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Make Money With your Blog

Blogging is one of the most popular ways to get your ideas across to the general public. I use it, and there’s probably more than half of the webmaster population using a blogging platform as well. It’s a good thing though, a lot of blogs means there are a lot of good tips, information, and news that circulates around the web. Blogging is easy too, with just an update or two per day, and a little bit of help from your social networking friends, you can get your blog popular and make money with it in days.

Step 1: Traffic
I’m going to assume you already have traffic to your blog, and continue with this post. If you don’t have a steady flow of traffic coming to your blog yet, then check back next time for the Blog Traffic post, which I am due to release pretty soon.

Step 2: PPC Ads
By far the most obvious way to make money on the internet. Go and make your self a publisher account on Google Adsense to get started. You can customize your advertisements, and paste the javascript code into your page. Make sure to blend your ads in with the usual color scheme of your site, for maximum click potential. For every click, you get a certain amount of money (based on your keywords). You can also make money for getting large amounts of impressions. Don’t click your own ads, or ask your visitors to click ads!

Step 3: Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing, is simply getting someone elses product, and referring new users to it. Lot’s of sites on the internet have affiliate programs you can join. You can check out Affiliate Scout for several different sites that have affiliate programs. Sometimes affiliate programs have flat rates, like… $65 dollars per sign up. Or, they will pay you a % of the money the person you referred ends up making.

Step 4: Link Sales
If your blog has a high page rank. Which is Google’s interpretation of the value of your site. People will start getting interested in having their link on your website. The higher your page rank (pr), the more you can sell links for. The easiest way to sell links, is to join a forum like Digitalpoint or Vitalpixel Forums, and create a thread giving the details of your site, and how much you are willing to sell link-space for. Never fill up your site with too many links, and make sure to sell links monthly. Don’t offer life-time links unless you’re a directory, because you may want to take them down at some point.

Step 5: Products
If you have your own products that you’d like to sell, you probably know more about how to sell them than I do. But, the way I would go about selling my products, is to post a link to my website on a webmaster forum (in the buy/sell/trade section). Then, I would give details about what I was selling, and offer my services to those willing to pay. For Example;

I would say, Selling webmaster tip comics for $5 a piece. They would give me what they wanted the comic to be about, I would make it, give it to the buyer, and they would pay me. It’s pretty simple, and self-explanatory really.

Step 6: Blog Reviews

Once your blog starts to get a decent amount of visitors, and has a pretty good page rank, you can start selling reviews. When I start making reviews, I’m sure I’ll be using reviewme, which is the biggest name in blog reviews at the moment. You’re site will have to be reviewed by them, before being accepted into the program, but once your in you can make quite a bit of money.

Tags: affiliate, blog, internet, link sales, money, pay per click, ppc, profit, Reviews

Ad Placement

Where you put your advertisements is one of the most important factors when trying to make money on the internet. You need to make sure and keep your ads in places where people can see them, but also make sure they’re not an eye sore. Blending your ads in with the usual appearance of your website is also important. For example, if you had a green theme, and your google ads were red, there’s no way you would get as many clicks as you should.

The Comic:

Tags: ad placement, comic, google, internet, money, online, optimization, profit, vitalpixel

First $0.01 on Vital Pixel

After about 1 week, and 1500 google adsense impressions, vital pixel has made its first 1 cent.  Not from a click… but from impressions apparently.  After breaking the first cent, the profits should start coming in easy right?  I certainly hope so, because I don’t want to go another week without making a cent again.

Luckily, along with adsense money, the sites traffic is going up a lot as well.  Anyways, just a little site announcement.

To turn this into some sort of advice…

Don’t give up on your site if you don’t make any money the first week you make it.  Traffic and profits continue to grow if you work hard to improve it.

Tags: cents, profit, site, vitalpixel

Porn Sites Are Saturated

I always read things in the digitalpoint sales forum where webmasters of adult websites seem to be very profitable. The truth is, it’s not as easy/turnkey as it seems to make an adult site profitable. It takes a lot of time, dedication, and startup funds to make an adult site that profits. Barefootsies writes great information on adult websites, and he has the experience to back it up.

You can still make a lot of easy money in adult, but many R-E-F-U-S-E to think outside the box. Clips4sale as an example is a gold mine for a thousand plus dollars a month depending on your content, number of stores, niche, and many refuse to pursue it. Or they try it for a month, and give up.

I have launched many paysites off of c4s. Posting content every few days with a watermark for the site, and in 45-60 days launching a paysite behind it. This builds up the momentum before launch, and you already have a customer base. Plus Neil (owner of c4s) buys a lot of traffic that he throws at the main page of the site on top of that. So it’s a very good place to start.

Even if you MAKE your own content, you should be able to recoup your expenses in 45-60 days if you are doing right. Then in another 45-60 you are making PROFIT. Launch your paysite, sell some DVD’s, now you are making even MORE money on residuals. Start doing some custom orders at $100-300 a pop for your mem

bers, and fans, and you have even more money coming in. Launch another, rinse, wash, repeat, and you are making $XXX,XXX in a few years.

That said, you also have to be willing to do the work. This means submitting galleries using a submitter program 4-7 times a week CONSISTENTLY. As well as link dumps, and link building. You have to be tweaking the formula every week to get a few more links for SEO, or traffic streams by submitting 30 second clips to tube sites. The job is never ending… just like ANY JOB.

Many fail because they refuse to treat it as a business. Online is no different than any other, and if you can’t buckle down and keep up the consistent work, you are going to fall into buying traffic. Which is a fool’s errand. Most of that shit is crap. Skimmed stuff, or unfiltered Chinese mess that will not convert.

CONVERSIONS is the name of the game, and getting GOOD FILTERED traffic is the key. If you can convert 1:100/300 uv a day. It’s better than burning your bandwidth trying to chase a 1:10000 conversion. Which many do, and burn their wallets out, and give up. I’ve seen it countless times over the years.

Doing affiliate stuff is harder I agree. I have dumped most of mine, and just promote my own sister sites now, or sites that have a direct benefit in one way or another. However, with the shaves cranked up on a lot of programs because they are hurting, chasing that dollar is becoming hard in both adult and mainstream.

It’s about working smarter, not harder. Many blow their budgets on some of the most asinine things when all you have to do is spend the TIME and doing something DAILY. Submit a gallery, get some links, post a video, make some posts on message boards. There are a hundred ways to skin that dollar. But you have to be willing to work. Buying traffic, and not doing the little things that make big cents is not going to cut it.

Posted By: BareFootsies

Thread: Here

Tags: digitalpoint, forum, porn, profit, traffic

Private Game Servers

When looking deep into the moralities of things, one could probably easily realize that Private Gaming Servers are wrong.  Then again, the only thing I look at is how much money that the original game is making, and how much money I could be making if I made a private server of the game.  Of course I probably wouldn’t make a private server because it’s illegal and there isn’t much money to be made in the market.  Plus, there are multiple private servers for each mmo out there.

The reason I’m bringing this up, is because at some point in a gamer/webmaster’s life… he/she is going to want to make a private server for his favorite mmorpg.  I’m here to rage against your dreams of profits, and bash some sense into your head.

1. First of all, to create a successful private server, you must have coders that can help to fix source codes, and create new unique features for the game.
2. You have to have a dedicated gaming server, or purchase your own server.  Each one of these servers, which cost about 1000$ each, could probably only hold about 500-600 people on it.
3. You won’t be able to provide good service, plain and simple.  Your server will crash constantly, you’ll always have to have someone there to restart it.  If you’re not spending every single minute of your time on it, then your members will leave.

How do you profit from these sites, if you’re planning to profit at all?:

• Charging people to play on a private game server is extremely illegal, since you are making them pay you for someone else’s content.  So don’t try making any money that way.
• Donations, you could kind-of consider this a form of profiting.  Then again, if you spend the money that members donated on anything other than new servers, software, and hardware to make their experience on the server better, they’re gonna be pissed.
• The most common way to profit from a private game server, is to set up your own website, with a forum… plaster it with ads from.  (Google Adsense, bidvertiser, or etc…).  By plaster I mean put over, but your going to need to make the site look nice as well, other wise your members could move to the nicer-looking-sites that they click onto from your ads.
• Then if your private server becomes big, affiliate with other private servers.  If your server is full, you could have your registration link to other servers.  In return, the other server could pay you a fee for every member they receive from your site.  (this idea is far-fetched I admit)
• The only other way I’ve seen people make money from these type of sites is with affiliate ads.  Often times the administrators can push the users towards wanted to do something.  Like make a website to advertise their guild?  Then they could refer the members to a webhost with their affiliate link, and make a few bucks there.

I’m not sure about WOW private servers, but I know a couple of maplestory private servers that have been able to pull of the whole thing quite well.  These would be; Maple Geek (Which I own the Market to), and OdinMS, the very first Maplestory private server.

None of these sites can every stay profitable for very long.  The owners always find themselves spending the money they make on upgrades for their hosting, and the site… so retaining money isn’t easy.  Plus, hype over the games is always lost as newer-better games come out.

So… I don’t recommend private game servers!

-but, if you want to learn more about private servers, and how to make them.  Then check out Rage Zone.

From the Vital Pixel Scott

Tags: game, Gaming, maplestory, mmo, mmorpg, private, profit, server, world of warcraft