Now I will admit yes my status with adsense is currently suspended/prohitbited. One of the other reasons I can speak about other ad networks here, since I had to search for other networks to start generating a income online. Now while there are other choices out their, adsense is still one of the best ways you can start making money online.

If you never joined, you can do so by clicking here.

A few things I would like to say about adsense.

1. It is not for all sites. If your website is poor in quality (brand new with no traffic) then expect low results from adsense. Maybe you would want to read on this journal some more for other ad networks that might work for you.
2. We all know this one but never click on your own ads on your site.
3. Adsense allows you to place multiple ads in different locations on your site. Which when placed properly can effect your CTR with the ads that are displayed.
4. The more pages within your site you have indexed in the search engines can increase your earnings dramatically. Seeing as quality is a main key here to what you publish online.
5. There are programs & sites online that help increase your overall adsense earnings with adshare type features. Keep reading for more info...

Now before I finish I would like to speak a little more about what I called "Adshare' above. Like mentioned before, Triond participates in this. Basically what you have published their once you have added your publisher code to Triond will start displaying ads in your favor. So every time someone visits your published writings online they will also generate impressions & clicks for you on adsense.

So back to the number. If you did sit down and follow like this journal entry here says. Not only would you have 300 published pieces & backlinks online, you would also have 300 chances of generating money from adsense.

So not only does adsense add another program to my list, it also adds $100 to the total since that is the minimum amount you must earn to be paid. Plus I just gave you a idea on how to use one program, Triond three ways to benefit you.

You know I have had plenty of dreams like this. It always starts out the same with me rolling out of bed. Getting myself started for the day and then checking my accounts online. I look at my screen in amazement when I look at all my affiliate accounts; Total Sales: 43,002, Total Sales: 125,021, and so on. Totaling up to 999,999 sales generated through my links.

Yeah that is just a dream...

What if to date all the clicks ever generated through my links converted over to a sale. How about only from the start of this year to this post date? I know from one affiliate network that would be 892 generated sales, and another network would be 3,082 generated sales. Once again it would be nice but is only a dream.

I honestly wonder if and how many people promoting with affiliate networks actually see these huge conversion of sales?

Oh just on a quick side note. The site mentioned above with the higher number of generated sales (actually just generated clicks) is from LinkShare. They just have so many advertisers you can promote.

But back on subject. Yes I wish I saw something like that. I would be happy with each one being a sale of at-least a $25 item where I earn 6% on the sale. That there would already be $5,961 for the start of this year. Wouldn't be bad huh?

Here is one of my biggest downfalls I feel that ever happened to me dealing with online marketing. It was knowing when to have a free hosting account vs. a paid hosting account. Now doing my searches online I even found free host with decent disk-space, bandwidth, and even supported PHP scripting. Even though I found these they did not really benefit me much as they still had certain limitations. Like if you tried adding a Amazon Associate link to your website it would start returning 404 not found page. Heck on some it does the same if you attempt to embed a YouTube or MySpace video on your site or blog. So this type of limitation isn't a good thing for affiliate marketers.

With all that being said above. Also remember there is a time frame where you don't really need no bells or whistles for your site. All you need is something basic. More then likely there will also come a time when you start looking for more.

My first time hosting my own website was done via GoDaddy. Extremely first time was a free hosting credit which I learned also came with a yellow bar in my header that was displaying ads for the site. I didn't like this so I started using there paid hosting which at the lowest plan provided me with what I needed for the start of my site. The economy plan was only $4.99 a month which I paid with paypal (once again money from PaidTheFastest was used). Wish I could have bought it with a contract of 36 months so I could have only paid $2.99 a month. Yeah a decent amount from the start but I wouldn't have to worry about hosting renewal for three years.

Wanting more offers and advertisers to promote online? Remember adding another program to our list is just like adding a new income stream for ourselves. So how about one with minimum payout of $50 which is paid via paypal? PeerFly has plenty of offers to help monetize your website or blog traffic. Like a few others they have tons of easy offers to promote that cost visitors nothing but maybe a submit of their e-mail.

Think about it though. What if you are promoting a offer on your site from PeerFly and this offer earns you $1.25 every-time a valid user submits a e-mail address or takes a short survey. Now say you get 1,000 views a day to your website or blog and 1 convert to leads a day. In 30 days we have generated $37.50 just from that one offer. What if you had more traffic or was promoting multiple offers? What if more leads were converting daily?

Plus PeerFly offers bonuses that are worth taking a look at.

I just wanted to take a moment to re-cap on the overall goal here of this journal. All this information is free. This information will remain free for the life of this journal. I will not ask you for any money for this information. If this information helps one person then I am happy and have achieved my purpose here.

This information will not make you rich nor is it promising that. This journal is here to share ideas, information, and experiences from me... one marketer out of a list of many.

What got myself started? I started playing with affiliate marketing close to 6 - 7 years ago. Learning from others that are willing to share and the experiences I gained personally. The first affiliate marketing book or guide I ever purchased was Advertising Profits from Home and The Hidden Millionaire by Anthony Morrison.

Which in all honesty I enjoyed reading both books. The Hidden Millionaire turns out to be a story mainly on how he got started and Advertising Profits from Home goes into a-lot of detail on earning online promoting offers and affiliate links using ppc advertising. Worth the read in my opinion.

One of the things we hear a decent amount of discussion online about in the affiliate marketing world is building back-links. We also here a-lot about this subject if we are wanting to develop sites.

Using the program Triond mentioned before who pays you for publishing online. Can also be used to increase your number of back-links online pointing to your site. Back-links can increase the overall value of our website, send more visitors to our website for free, and increase our search engine rankings.

So before I spoke about earning with Triond and the idea of writing 10 articles a day for 30 days. Trying to focus around how much a total of 300 published items could earn us. Now let us look at it a little different.

How much can these 300 published pieces help us more if each one of them have a link pointing back to our website or blog? What if each published piece is getting 5 views a day and 2 people a day click our link to visit our site or blog. That can be 600 visitors a day visiting you that cost you nothing. 

Once again this is only a idea for you to work off of. A easy a simple way it sounds to build back-links for free.

I have written a e-Book earlier on this subject and decided I wanted to share this information here as well. So you found this because you want to get a website or domain name for free. Wouldn't we all love for it to be free? Well I can't promise you one exactly for free. What I can tell you is one of the quickest paying programs I have spoken about on here so far is PaidTheFastest who already has paid me over $300.

Once more PaidTheFastest is a GPT program where you are paid to complete surveys and such. They are the quickest though because of instant paypal payments. So here is the simple plan. We are going to use the money earned from PaidTheFastest to purchase our domain name.

Join PaidTheFastest and start earning your money. Make your first cash-out request at $1.00 to go ahead and get the verification of your paypal account done. Now if you decide to go with Godaddy.com you know you have to earn around $8.00 just for the domain name purchase. If your also wanting to host your website with Godaddy.com we know this amount increases.

I wish I would have thought about this before I ever started this this GPT program. $300 could have purchased about 37 new domains for myself. All domains which would have been used to generate more money online.

So before I start discussing more programs and adding to our list of programs to join. I would like to take a minute to discuss a idea on generating more leads and sales online. Something that can easily be done a few ways... maybe more ways if you think about it. So basically I am sharing a structure of a idea for you to build off of.

If your learning about affiliate marketing online you may have noticed the speak of conversion rates. You know how many visitors you send to your site, compared to how many visitors click your link, and even to how many people who clicked the link actually make a purchase of the item your promoting. These numbers generally increase as the total number of visitors increases. More visitors simply increase our chances of making a sale.

There are two ways I have been experimenting lately with generating sales online. The first method is promoting a single product review and the second method is promoting one page which covers all affiliate programs I belong to.

First I have noticed when promoting a product review that I convert more visitors over to make a purchase. Not always for the product I am promoting but I guess I am getting someone's attention enough so they visit the merchant and make a purchase of something anyway.

Another way I have used to attempt to generate more sales online is simple. I call it a page of links. A special page I made on my website just for the display of all affiliate programs I belong to at once. So imagine a page lined with 120 x 60 banners of affiliate links. Simple goal here is to send visitors and hope someone visits a merchant they see being promoted.

Now here is where our spend will come in. We need traffic to our promotional pages. We need targeted traffic to our promotional page. So now where do we get that?

So I have been sending traffic to my promotional type pages for a while now using Adf.ly itself. Yes the service I last spoke about that earns you money just for shortening your links. Now we are going to use them to make even more money.

Say 1,000 interstitial visitors from the U.S. currently is costing $5.00 per thousand. Say we currently have $20 in our budget to spend. So with Adf.ly that means we can purchase 4,000 visitors to our site. That's 4,000 visitors to see our promotion. Which we do want to spend on interstitial ad views because we are wanting our promotion to be right in front of the user.

On a side note : If you decide to go this path of advertising online. DO NOT promote your affiliate links directly. This may end up in the lost of your affiliate account. Once more we want to send them to a product review page or a promotional type page.

If you decided you wanted to try affiliate marketing online you may have have heard something about protecting your affiliate links. Here I would like to share one of the easiest methods I have found to do this. This one is for website owners who have access to their server and can modify their .htaccess file.

So let us say we have our affiliate link for our product we want to promote, and it ends up looking something along the lines of "http://www.blah-affiliate.com/product?=29233_subid=?39393". What we want to do is to take that and make the link a little shorter and make it look like "http://www.our-site.com/blah-affiliate/". This can simply be done by editing your .htaccess file.

Add this line per affiliate link you would like to setup, changing what you need to...

Redirect /blah-affiliate-product/ http://www.blah-affiliate.com/product?=29233_subid=?39393

So as you can see there are two parts of the code you need to change. The red colored text is the directory. What you need to do is create a directory named whatever we want for that specific affiliate link on your server. This directory must be empty and include no files.

The second part of the colored code is in blue, and this is our affiliate link. This is the affiliate link location that we want to send our visitors after they have clicked our new link.

So now for the last part of getting this to work is building our links. So when creating our link online to our product or advertiser we are promoting. We no longer have to send them to that long affiliate link. We can simply send them to... http://www.our-site.com/blah-affiliate-product/ instead.

What's being done here is simple to understand. Using our .htaccess file we have setup. When a user clicks our new link and as the user is sent to this empty directory link. Our .htaccess file takes over and redirects the user to our original affiliate link.

So today has started and I will start posting here again shortly. Time to take a personal break since I woke up and get some coffee in me. So far I have shared 9 programs that help you earn $100.00! Not bad for a first day of writing.

Today we might discuss some on a technique to help you push more leads and sales online to affiliate programs. A low cost advertising solution. Also will be discussing a simple method to build back-links to your website or blog.