I’ll be telling you now that how you can monetize your blog and it’s traffic. Basically this is how you start earning money by blogging, that is by displaying ads which is the most easiest and common way. However, if done in the right way it can help you earn a lot! There are many people earning more than $10,000 by displaying ads on their websites / blogs.

Using PPC Ad Networks

Basically, PPC stands for Pay-per-click. Advertisers pay the PPC Ad Network for getting visitors on their websites based on the number of clicks their ad gets. Their ad is displayed on the websites of the publishers and hence the publishers get paid per the number of clicks gone from their website to the websites of the advertisers. Before PPC Ad Networks emerged, usually private advertising was done. Like companies come to me and pay me money for displaying their ads on my website. But with PPC Ad Networks on the scene the number of advertisers has significantly increased as the process has been made so easy, as well as the number of publishers. In the past only really famous websites got advertisers, but now no matter how famous your website is, according to PPC Ad Networks your website is usually approved and you will earn according to the amount of traffic you get on your website.

As it is traffic which evolves into clicks. The system purely makes it easy and logical to earn money, you will not get a fixed rate advertising revenue per month, it can vary from $0 to a lot more than you could expect from it. This way the system becomes very fair and does not involve rate problems like in private advertising. Plus you can add/remove the ads anytime you want. The most famous and rated PPC Ad Networks for blogs are as follows:

1. Google Adsense
2. Bidvertiser
3. Chitika
4. Clicksor

These are those which work best with blogs, many more can be added but these are the best of them. There are different ad sizes with the most famous ones being 486×60 and 120×600/160×600 or maybe even 125×125 for small boxes. The ads can be with image or text. Many people argue that text ads get more clicks as compared to image ads, but I firmly believe that a good image ad is worth a hundred text ads. You have a choice to choose either Text-Ads only, Image Ads only, or both. So if you’re not sure you can choose the last option. However, where the main work stands is that how can you use make the maximum readers to click the ad and generate maximum revenue.

If you place the advertisement deep down the valley and expect to make money, you won’t make a single penny unless it pays you per impressions instead of clicks, but that pays very less like $0.3 per 1000 impressions. How you place the ad and how you make it either very unique on the page or make it blend in with the page, that matters most in getting clicks. The following image shows the regions on a page where you are most likely to get maximum clicks if you place the ad over there. The darkest areas are the best and the lightest are the worst.

In the next part I’ll also tell you some blending secrets and how you can get more clicks off an ad without ever having to change its place or doing something wrong with it. You can click here to subscribe to the blog by mail in case you don’t miss it.

Lately, I have been upto trying a lot of new things. I will write about my experiments, but I have not been able to keep up with paid to click websites for a long time again. So yesterday I go to check my account balance and I see no big gains. Well, my next target is going to be paid to click websites, and I am going to make that big in terms of new sign-ups and earnings. I will tell you about the start and end date and I will tell you my target for the whole thing.

This is another time I’m telling you to join the paid to click websites that you find on the list on the right. I see big potential, because people actually are earning thousands of dollars a month through this. If you have lost faith in these paid to click websites and are not clicking ads, remember clicking ads is what makes the system work. If you stop doing that, sooner or later you’ll earn almost nothing. That is what I learned from my experience. I’ll also write about the biggest problem I faced using these paid to click websites, and how you can get rid of it.

We all know that Google just launched their own browser called Chrome. Everybody including you and me were excited about the whole thing and wanted to be updated with each and everything on it. Unfortunately Google was the only one knowing about it and so they were the only direct source of updates related to the browser, so that meant people were going directly to them. The browser launched on 2nd Sepetember and then again who was the one to give updates? Google itself was making use of it’s blog as a source of updating people. Well despite the big reader-base of Google’s blog their traffic has been always with the other normal blogs on the Net. But now I’m about to show you what Google Blog experienced on the day Chrome was released:

That is at least a five-digit visitors in one day. The one above is just one example, you can think of all the blogs that were totally dedicated to firefox before its launch and you should have seen the rise in their traffic during those days, it was completely massive. If you consider Chrome and Firefox as products you’ll get to know a little better about how you can hit a traffic jackpot. A recent example is that of olympics, dozens of olympics related articles were on the front page of digg couple of times everyday and you had 90% more chance of hitting the front page on digg if you wrote a unique article related to it during the olympics.

The smart move should be that when the next ‘big’ thing comes up, the first hot thing about it should be up first and submitted to stumbleupon and Digg and then watch what happens, you also have a chance of hitting big on search engines. Remember, when something becomes old, even a few hours, you have less chances of getting traffic as the one with the most early and best content is more likely to get majority of the traffic.

Some Internet Marketers also consider buying domain related to the keywords, as that can get you a pretty sweet landing page for some good related offers so you can make money availing this opportunity as well. Although it may be impossible to get such an effect on traffic as that of Google Blog but , you can get a lot more traffic than you think you can.

It has been a while since I last talked about paid to click websites. I am not talking about top earners this time, since it has been a long time, I’ll just give some news of what’s been happening. I have been inactive on paid to click websites for more than 3 weeks, but still my referral earnings kept it up for me. Now that I have gotten back on paid to click websites, I am going to do some serious money-making ideas on it to speed it up.

I am also going to filter the list of paid to click websites again as they are a lot to take care of and if they’re not as good as they should be, just put them aside. As for bux.to I’m thinking of upgrading my account and getting a master card to get my payments a little quicker from them because right now payments to standard members are extremely slow. So if you still have not joined some of the paid to click websites you can find the list in the sidebar and join them.

If you haven’t switched to firefox yet then you must do so because as I tell people how they can make money online, now I’ll tell you how you can speed up that process using firefox. Moreover, that is not only for those who are involved in money-making, this can speed up your overall internet experience. Although the majority of the readers of this blog are already using firefox, but 38.52% of the readers are not. So this is for this minority representing almost 1/3 of my readers, so I can help them out with the best for them.

Although, you might be using any type of a browser like Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, Konqueror, etc. I will be focusing on a comparative study with Internet Explorer as that is the second biggest biggest majority of the readers. If we just focus on paid to click websites. If it normally takes you up to 8 minutes on each website clicking ads, you could spend 10 minutes clicking ads on 5 of them at a time. Of course, you may also open five windows of internet explorer to do that, but at firefox you could make that more quicker using tabs. You can open any website in a new tab by simply clicking on it with the scroller button on the mouse. Moreover, that doesn’t make your computer as slow as Internet Explorer does. If you use Internet Explorer version 7.0 or above you can use tabs there as well but it will not be as fast because switching through tabs and opening them is very quick in firefox as compared to internet Explorer.

What I am trying to tell here is not that you can save hours of extra time you spend on the internet, but at least minutes to be concise which you spend on the computer waiting for the window to open, or waiting for the frozen computer to respond. It may be a little too complicated for some, but internet Explorer downloads the contents of a website in a different way from firefox, firefox usually shows up the structure of the website with the images and other media types still loading in it, whereas internet Explorer usually shows up a website when most of the downloading is done so that means if your work is very little on the website and the website is very heavy, you waste a lot of time there. This way you can save time not only on paid to click websites, but related things like dropping entrecards at websites, you can bookmark websites and then with a simple click of you scroller button they’d be added to your tabs. I’m writing this because time is very precious and we should try to maximize the work with the least time on the Internet, and if just switching a browser can help you do that then I think it is completely worth using Firefox as your browser.