Make Money Online for Job Seekers

Hello everyone, Hope things are going great. The oppurtunites to earn with a Blog/Website is enormous - Blogging, Advertisements, Affliate programs, survyes, Pay to click, pay to surf.. the list goes on. But the whole idea is to make money effectively and quickly. This post deals with a few effective ways. Hope this helps you get started with the path of earning money.

Direct Methods

1. PPC Advertising Networks

Google AdSense is the most popular option under this category, but there are also others. Basically you need to sign up with the network and paste some code snippets on your website. The network will then serve contextual ads (either text or images) relevant to your website, and you will earn a certain amount of money for every click.
The profitability of PPC advertising depends on the general traffic levels of the website and, most importantly, on the click-through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC). The CTR depends on the design of the website. Ads placed abode the fold or blended with content, for instance, tend to get higher CTRs. The CPC, on the other hand, depends on the nice of the website. Mortgages, financial products and college education are examples of profitable niches (clicks worth a couple of dollars are not rare), while tech-related topics tend to receive a smaller CPC (sometimes as low as a couple of cents per click).
The source of the traffic can also affect the overall CTR rate. Organic traffic (the one that comes from search engines) tends to perform well because these visitors were already looking for something, and they tend to click on ads more often. Social media traffic, on the other hand, presents terribly low CTRs because these visitors are tech-savvy and they just ignore ads.

2. CPM Advertising Networks

CPM advertising networks behave pretty much as PPC networks, except that you get paid according to the number of impressions (i.e., page views) that the ads displayed on your site will generate. CPM stands for Cost per Mille, and it refers to the cost for 1,000 impressions.
A blog that generates 100,000 page views monthly displaying an advertising banner with a $1 CPM, therefore, will earn $100 monthly.
CPM rates vary with the network, the position of the ad and the format. The better the network, the higher the CPM rate (because they have access to more advertisers). The closer you put the ad to the top of the page, the higher the CPM. The bigger the format (in terms of pixels), the higher the CPM.
You can get as low as $0,10 and as high as $10 per 1,000 impressions (more in some special cases). CPM advertising tends to work well on websites with a high page views per visitor ratio (e.g., online forums, magazines and so on).

3. Direct Banner Advertising

Selling your own advertising space is one of the most lucrative monetization methods. First and foremost because it enables you to cut out the middleman commissions and to determine your own rates. The most popular banner formats on the web are the 728×90 leaderboard, the 120×600 skyscraper, the 300×250 rectangle and the 125×125 button.
The downside of direct banner advertising is that you need to have a big audience to get qualified advertisers, and you will need to spend time managing the sales process, the banners and the payments.

4. Text Link Ads

After Google declared that sites selling text links without the nofollow tag would be penalized, this monetization method became less popular. Many website owners are still using text links to monetize their sites, though, some using the nofollow tag and some not.
The advantage of this method is that it is not intrusive. One can sell text links directly through his website or use specialized networks like Text-Link-Ads and Text-Link-Brokers to automate the process.

5. Sponsored Reviews

PayPerPost pioneered this model, with much controversy on the beginning (related to the fact that they did not require disclosure on paid posts). Soon other companies followed, most notably Sponsored Reviews and ReviewMe, refining the process and expanding the paid blogging model.
Joining one of these sponsored reviews marketplaces will give you the opportunity to write sponsored posts on a wide range of topics. Not all bloggers are willing to get paid to write about a specific product or website (because it might compromise the editorial credibility), but the ones who do are making good money out of it.
If your blog has a big audience you could also offer sponsored reviews directly, cutting off the commissions of the middleman.

6. Paid Surveys and Polls

There are services that will pay you money to run a small survey or poll on your website. The most popular one is called Vizu Answers. Basically you need to sign up with them, and select the kind of polls that you want to run your site. Most of these services operate under a CPM model.

7.In-text Adverting

In-text adverting networks like Kontera and Vibrant Media will place sponsored links inside your text. These links come with a double underline to differentiate them from normal links, and once the user rolls the mouse over the link the advertising will pop. Should the user click on it the site owner will make some money.
Some people make good money with this method, but others refrain from using it due to its intrusiveness. It is also interesting to note that very few mainstream websites have experimented with in-text advertising.

Make Money With Google Adsense

Google Adsense is considered to be one of the most powerful online cash generator that can be utilized to build or generate completely passive income in internet. It can actually enable a person to monetize their sites easily and if it is used properly, it can actually generate very significant and healthy income. If you want to start earning extra money online via Adsense, here are some four steps that you should put in mind before you begin setting up your site and implement the Google Adsense program:

1. Keyword search

Try to do some research on the internet on some popular keywords, subjects or phrases. Select the ones which you think will attract visitors to click through. For example, using the Wordtracker suggestion tool or Google Adwords keywords tool are some great options that you can consider to get some insight on number of searches that particular keywords or phrases get. Other option is to visit Google trend and find what are the hottest topics or subjects that people are searching right now and create a fresh content about that topic.

2. Writing articles

Write original content articles and try to incorporate the keywords that you found in your previous search. Remember that unique articles are much preferred by the search engine, so try to spend some 20-30 minutes every day to write your own articles and post them to your blog/site. By having original articles, you can also be rest assured that search engine will start to pick up and index your site.

3. Quality content site

Build a quality content website which is integrated with Google Adsense ads that are targeting the topics or keywords that are related to your site or blog. These are actually the main objectives of all the efforts that you did initially and this website will also become your autopilot cash machine that will generate passive income for you in the long run. So try to create a well designed site with high quality contents to actually attract the website visitors to click on your Adsense ads.

4. Proper positioning of your ads

Try to place your Adsense ads where the visitors are most likely to click on them. According to some research, visitors will usually look at the top left or top right side when they first visit a website, so these parts can be great locations that you should consider when you want to position your ads. Other aspect that should pay attention is the formatting of the Adsense ads in your site or blog. Try to implement one ad format that you found effective, for example I found that the format of large rectangle (336x280) ads is a great option that you can incorporate since it looks like normal links and people won’t even realized that they are clicking on Ads.

Finally, if you want to start building passive income with Adsense, you should have a clear focus on your goals and apply all the necessary steps and strategies to achieve your desired goals. It is similar with other business ventures, i.e. time, effort and patience are always required to achieve great success.

In addition, don’t just ignore your site/blog and your Adsense ads once you have finished creating them. Spare some time every day to do testing and make all the necessary adjustments to your Adsense ads to start boosting your Adsense income. Give it a try and you would see how profitable Adsense is and how it can also add another source of passive income in your online ventures.