My 3 Day Experience with Kontera ContentLink

Pay per click advertising has been an effective way for this blog to generate income. Before Google disallowed me to display AdSense pay per click on this blog, I was able to make USD2,000 to USD2,800 per month depending on the traffic level.

Google stopped me from using AdSense, so I sought for some alternatives. Kontera is one of them.

Applying for a Kontera account has been easy and convenient. There is no review process I need to go through. I just have to fill out and submit the application form; and they will automatically send me a welcome email with an activation link that I can click to start accessing Kontera and use their Content link ads immediately.

I successfully generated the Kontera ad code and placed it on my blog. The Kontera Content links showed up on my blog with 24 hours. I saw the keywords such as pay per click, money making opportunity and some other unrelated keywords got converted into Kontera Content links. Non of my main keywords converted into Kontera links. Seem like Kontera is lacking ad inventory for my niche 'make money online'.

So far, I'm getting 40 ad clicks and guess how much I earn from this 40 clicks. Well, no even $1. The pay is so low. There is no way Kontera can compare with AdSense where I used to earn $0.35 per AdSense ad click in average.

I decided to remove Kontera. It is not for my niche. They actually don't have any ad that is relevant to my topic and niche. The keyword 'money making opportunity' which has been converted into Kontera link, when I point my mouse on it, a small box will pops up giving the ad description. The ad is actually promoting a dictionary, it is not money making opportunity of any sort.

It is no point to send visitors to the offers that they have no interested at all. So, I will stop using Kontera.

I think Kontera is more for topics like shopping, technology, electronic products...etc. Blogs with these content topics might earn much better ad revenue with Kontera.

Make Money Online by Sharing Great Deals in Buxr.com

I was recently told by a reader about a shopping information site in a comment that the reader posted here. If you are the reader, sorry.. I can't give you a link back now because I forgot which post you posted a comment.

Buxr doesn't sell products or services. The site simply provide shopping information to let visitors know about the latest best deals on the Internet and help them make better decision when buying online.

Buxr is open for anyone to submit best deal and the best freebie of the day. Every day Buxr will review all the deals submitted by members and pick the best deal of the day. If your deal gets chosen and published as best deal of the day, you will earn $10. For best freebie, you will get $5.

You can submit any kind of product. It can be a discount coupon, free gift, DVD, computer sale and etc..

$10 for submitting a hot shopping deal seems like a nice earning opportunity. But, the downside is that you need to be picked as the best deal of the day. There can be many people submitting deals every day and only two will earn cash. So, your earning are much depending on your luck.

Perhaps you will be more interested to submit deal to Beatthat.com. The site pays between $0.50 to $2.00 for each each hot deal you submit. The deal doesn't have to be best deal of the day. As long as they approve it, you'll get paid. Beatthat only accept deals about electronic products. They often like to accept low price deals from quality store. You might want to know about submitting deal to Beatthat, here are some links for more info:

http://beatthat.com/blog/ways-to-manage-in-todays-uncertain-economy
http://beatthat.com/home/make_money

Advertise

If you want to promote a program, an opportunity, a website or a blog that is related to making money online, MoneyMakerInfo is the place for you to do it.

MoneyMakerInfo gets between 1,800 to 2,200 unique visitors daily. About 95% of the visitors are from Google search engine. These Google visitors have real interest to know how to make money online. They are actively searching for money making opportunities, programs and information. The rest of the 5% are bloggers and webmasters.

Latest Stats:

• Daily New and Unique Visitors: 2,000 in average (About 60,000 per month)
  
• Google Ranking: No 1. for keyword 'Make Money Online' in Google.com and several other related keywords.
• Alexa Traffic Rank: Near 30,000
  

Advertising Options

125 X 125 Banner Ad
Your banner ad will appear in the top right sidebar of MoneyMakerInfo. The visitors often pay attention on the banner ads in this location. Thus, your 125x125 banner ad can potentially attract good amount of traffic.

Price:
$140/month, $75 for two week trial (Sold)

468 x 80 Banner Ad
The location for the 468 x 80 banner ad is at the top within the blog post area. This means it will always stay above the first blog post of MoneyMakerInfo's homepage and each single blog post page. So each visitor comes to MoneyMakerInfo will notice the banner ad.

Price:
$220/month, $58 for 1 week trial (Sold)

468 x 60 Banner Ad
The 468 x 60 banner ad will display on the right of the header of this blog. Ad will appear on every page of MoneyMakerInfo.

Price:
$125/month (Sold)

Text link on Top Green Menu Bar
If you want to attract traffic using text link, this is the advertising option for you. The text link in the green menu bar is easily noticed by the visitors. Those visitors who are interested will click on your link to get more info.

Price:
$210/month, $55 for one week trial (Sold)



Text Link
Your text link will appear in right sidebar just below the 125 x 125 banner ads. You will choose the anchor text you prefer.

Price:
$50/month (Available)

Paid Review
This will be a blog post about your products, services, business or website. I will include at least three anchor text links and one image into your paid review post. The review post will be posted on the homepage as the first post to attract maximum traffic. Paid review will generate an amount of highly targeted visitors for your website, program or online business.

Price:
$135 per review post (Available)

To order an ad space on http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com, please send your banner ad, link and PayPal payment to:

homeworker05@hotmail.com

All ads will be live on http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com within 24 hours of receipt.

If you have question on any of the advertising options or like to reserve an a spot, please email me at:

homeworker05@hotmail.com

I will reply you within 24 hours.


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Alan, keep doing what you're doing! I've been advertising on your blog for at least 8 months consistently and I've never done worse than breaking even! In fact I nearly always make profit from a simple 125x125 banner. Thanks for the great prices and highly targeted AND qualified traffic.

Rich Boy

http://www.TheRichBoy.com
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I was pleasantly surprised with how much success I had using the Money Maker Info Blog for the advertising of my Affiliate Program. Alan did a great job and answered the many questions I had before I moved forward with payment. If you have a program that you want to promote to make money online then I suggest Advertising here for great results:)

Chad Timms
Tissa Godavitarne & Acme People Search Affiliate Program
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"Only 24 hours after purchasing the review, I have 200 visitors, 15 new leads, and 3 sales to credit to Alan. This has been by far the most effective advertising I have purchased in growing my informational money making opportunity site. Thanks Alan!"

Jeff
http://www.onlinemoneymakinginfo.com
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Hi Alan,

Just wanted to say my review on your site has been awesome. I've tried advertising on alot of blogs and yours has so far provided the best ROI by a LONG shot. I got alot of targeted traffic to the site and it really converted into opt ins so my investment will be paid for many times over.

Andrew Hansen
http://crapcuttermarketing.com
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MoneyMakerInfo Has A New Look

I have completed the template change process for MoneyMakerInfo. Now when you visit MoneyMakerInfo.blogspot.com, it will looks completely different. All the previous information, articles and content about making money online have also successfully transferred to this blog.

Hope you will like this template and it is more user friendly to you when browsing on moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com to find the money making information you are looking for.

The template change process isn't easy as I thought. I thought I just have to download a new template, upload it to Bloggers and make some minor modifications to the template. But, there are a lot more steps I have to take when really doing it. There are a number banner ads that already pre-set on this new template. I have to search the banner code inside the template to delete them. Then, the template code is in XHTML format. It wouldn't work on all kinds of HTML code you add in. I need to keep searching on Google for help about how to add html code to the XHTML template.

A lot of trial and error I have to go through. Even making a little chance to the sidebar took me an hour.

Now, the new template is all up and running. So, for next one or two days, I will continue to write and post articles, tips and latest online money making methods on this. For now, if you are searching for information about how to make money online, you may take some time reading at my previous posts in my 'Blog Archive' section. There are loads of posts and info in the archive.

You wouldn't see a single AdSense ads in this blog anymore as I'm no longer able to put in AdSense ads to this blog. I will now try to sell as many as private ads as possible in this blog to replace the income that I used get from AdSense.

I'm No Longer Can Make Money Online with AdSense Using This Blog

Early I told you that I was warned by Google AdSense Team that some of my blog posts have been formatted to look like AdSense ads and Google gave me three days to fix that or I'll will not be able to display AdSense ads forever in this blog.

I made the changes and after three days nothing happen, so I must have past that.

But, yesterday, just after 5 minute I published a new post, all my AdSense ads gone. I think the Google AdSense team automatically detected the new post was against their policies, so immediately remove my AdSense ads from this blog. But I swear the post isn't against any of their policies. I then deleted the post to see whether the ads will come back. No, still blank in the space after hours of waiting. I think this simply means I can no longer show AdSense ads on this blog.

AdSense has been a great source of revenue for this blog and I have lost it. I started to thinking to retire this blog. Stop working on it and let the blog falls from No. 1 ranking for the keyword 'make money online'.

Yesterday night doesn't sleep well. Thinking about how to make this blog to generate income in the future as I still get a lot of search engine traffic from this blog. And today morning I finally decided to make some major chances to this blog.

Firstly, I will chance the template of moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com. I have picked a professional template, it is three column and looks better than this one. I will change the template in these coming two days. Then I will focus on private ads selling, leads selling and signing up one to two pay per click programs such Kontera, and etc. May be also selling text links or paid reviews. But, all these new income sources I added in to http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com wouldn't be able to replace the income that I used to earn from one Google AdSense program.

Google AdSense is really a powerful money making program. If you get good amount of targeted traffic and optimize the ads well on your site, AdSense will work very well for you.

Comprehensive Study Materials for Making Money Online with a Website

Bryan Doyle, owner of http://www.minisitevideos.com has put together a package of study materials for building a minisite to profit online. The package contains three free products which include a step by step minisite video tutorials guiding you to build a minisite from scratch, a quick start guide on how to generate income using a minisite and an e-book providing you the free strategies for generating traffic for the minisite.

There were so much training info in this package. Seem like Bryan is trying to give everything you need to know to start building and growing a money making minisite. There is no cost to get access to all these training info. You can get immediate access from this page:

http://www.minisitevideos.com

There will be also a free software tool available for you to create a profitable minisite after you signed up for the free resources.

Google AdSense Tips: Formatting Your Content Looks like AdSense Ads is Disallowed

Last Tuesday morning when I checked my email, I found there was an email from the Google AdSense team sent to me. I quickly opened the email to find out what it is about.

Well, it was a bad news to me. It was a warning from Google AdSense team. They said when they were reviewing my AdSense account they found violations of AdSense policies on my pages such as http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com. They then further explained that I cannot implement AdSense ads in a manner that disguises the ads such as formatting neighboring content to look similar to the ads, or by making ads look like games or forum threads. Additionally, images cannot be placed close to the ads. And I was given 3 days to make the necessary changes. If I choose not to make the changes I will no long allowed to display AdSense ads but my account will still remain active.

After finished reading the email, I really feeling worry and confuse. How come I can against so many policies since I have read their policies and add the Adsense ads carefully? This made me headache a while.

I browsed my own pages to find out what really went wrong. I thought back what types of content pages I have created. Fortunately, I managed to figure out and conclude that the violation of AdSense policies is due to some of my content pages formatted to be look similar to AdSense ads.

Once I found out this, I immediately started checking all my pages. I clicked on my own archive pages to review each post and make changes to the posts that disallowed by Google. There are total of 772 posts I have to review and it took about ten hours to review all the blog pages and modify the problem pages. My head is spinning doing all these works.

After three days, I saw my AdSense ads still appear on my pages. So, Google has probably satisfied with the changes I have made and let me continue to make money with AdSense.

Why I'm telling you this?

I hope that you didn't make the same mistake just like I did when implementing AdSense ads on your site and blog to make money online. It is painful to make changes especially if your site have hundreds of pages. It is a tedious work to check back each of your pages.

So, don't format your neighboring content look like AdSense. Google actually spend the time to check AdSense publisher accounts. I think they are checking each publisher account, just don't know whether they are doing the checking manually or automatically.

The 21 Day Formula - Your Guide to Making Money Online within 21 Days

There are a lot of e-books teaching people to make money online with Internet marketing. You can read them to learn how to do it. But reading e-books can be boring and harder to understanding. If you can watch and listen to someone showing you how to do it, you probably will pick everything faster and easier.

Here's an opportunity for you to have someone guiding you all the steps to making money on the Internet with AdSense, blogging, afffiliate marketing and etc:

The 21 Day Formula Live Video Training

This 21 Day Formula Live video training is held by an Internet marketer who has made big money on the Internet. His name is Matthew Glanfield. When you join, Matthew will teach you how to make money online in 21 days. You wouldn't get theory, the information you gain can be put into work after you learned them.

How to Generate Passive Online Income Using Articles - Part 2

The part 1 of this article has been shared with you two ideas of using articles to earn passive income. Below is another two ideas for  you.

Contribute in HubPages

A huge content network that you probably have heard about is Hubpages.  Hubpages has articles and information in a wide range of topics. All the content are contributed by HubPages Community of authors around the world. Hubpages is opened to anyone. If you have information or content to share, then you may join Hubpages. Each article page you create is called hub. You can add in your AdSense code to have your AdSense ads automatically displayed on your hubs. If you are also an affiliate of eBay and Amazon, you can choose any product of eBay and Amazon; and feature them in your hub.

The good thing about Hubpages is that it attracts search engine attention because there are loads of content published in Hubpages.  So, with some informative and keyword-optimized hubs that you built, you can attract constant traffic from search engines like Google. Part of the traffic may convert into AdSense and if you are lucky, your hubs might generate a few eBay or Amazon sales that will further increase your income.

Hubpages makes no promise on how much the authors can make. The income you can earn is much depending on the volume of content you contribute. The hubs you created, the greater your passive income potential might be.

Build You Own Content Website

This is an ideal option for you if you don’t want to write content for other sites. You can use a website builder such as Xsitepro to build you own niche content website.  The topic of your website should be popular or it is the one that you interested. Then write good articles for the chosen topic and publish them on your niche content website.  Each of your content pages will be optimized with AdSense ad and link units to generate income.

You have full control when publishing articles on your own site, but you are going to need to market the site yourself. Targeted traffic will generate AdSense revenue. You have to keep on marketing your site to drive targeted traffic to your site in order to make thing works. That certainly will involve a learning curve and a lot of hard work on your part. So, be prepared for that.

How to Generate Passive Online Income Using Articles - Part 1

The webmasters and online marketers are seeking unique articles for their websites. You can write unique articles for them to get a one-time payment for each article you send them. It is nice to get paid for each article you write, but do you know that you can also use your articles to generate passive income.

If you weren’t already known about using articles to earn passive income, it is where you write and publish articles once and later they will earn money for you continuously. This means that you can make money from an article that you wrote 6 months ago.

There are a number of options of generating passive income using articles. Before looking at these options, it is important for you to know that the articles written for this purpose wouldn't earn you profit instantly. The earning will start coming in soon, but it may take some time (5 days, 10 days, 1 month, etc).

Publish Articles on Revenue Sharing Article Directories
One of the most common ways to earn passive income is by publishing your articles on the AdSense revenue sharing article directories. These are the article directories that let you place your Google AdSense ads on your article pages to earn Ad revenue. Usually the sharing term is your AdSense ads will appear on 50% of the page view of your article pages. So, once you published some interesting articles, these articles will attract traffic from time to time which will earn you AdSense revenue constantly. The article directories that share revenue are Articlesrevenue.com and Articlecodex.com and Shareyourexpertise.com.

Write for WorldVillage Bloggers Network
There is also a blog network called WorldVillage Bloggers Network that shares 50% of AdSense revenue. It is owned by the famous AdSense e-book author, Joel Comm. Joel has been building up his WorldVillage Bloggers Network for years and now it is generating thousands of visitors daily. If you become an author of WorldVillage and contribute informative and keyword optimized articles for some time, you might be enjoying nice passive income from those articles.

I was an author of WorldVillage Bloggers Network and published about ten articles on the network one and the half year ago. Those articles that I published really generate traffic and they earned me about $35 monthly AdSense for a consecutive of 6 months. If I have the time to write on a regular basis, then I may be able to earn tripple or more of that AdSense figure every month from this network.

To become an author of WorldVillage Bloggers Network , you may got to http://blog.worldvillage.com/sys/signup2.cgi to send your application. You need to include a sample of your work in the application.

Blogger Blog Tip: Increase Your AdSense Revenue by Displaying AdSense Ads Within the Post content

Blogger.com has got out of beta last year. The new platform of Blogger.com provides more features to users in optimizing their Blogspot blog without having to know much about HTML code.

One of the good features added in is the 'Show Ads Between Posts'. With this feature, you can place your AdSense ad units between blog posts to increase your AdSense ad revenue. But, this optimization technique doesn't actually increase much of the AdSense revenue.

There is a better way to boost your AdSense income. It is by placing your AdSense ad unit within your blog post. The AdSense unit can be in the top left, top right or just the end of your post content. This makes your AdSense ads easily noticed by visitors. The highly relevant AdSense ads showing up within your post content will catch the attention of your visitors. The visitors will become interested to click on your AdSense ad to find out what the advertiser is offering. And you will experience a nice increase of click through rate and AdSense earning.

But, Blogger doesn't provide a feature or tool that lets you place your ads in various positions within your blog post. So, how you are going to do that?

The Blogger templates are now XML-based. To put in AdSense ads into your blog post, you must have a special technical knowledge. But don't worry, it is not very difficult to learn it. Mydigitallife.info has published an article about this. The title of the article is 'Place AdSense Ad Unit In Various Positions Inside Within Blogger Post Contents'.

The article teaches you exactly what you need to do to get your ads displayed on the position you want within your blog post. It will involve copying your AdSense code and directly pasting it into your blog template.

When you implement this AdSense optimization technique, remember that you can only have a maximum of three AdSense ad units placed on a single page. Adding more than three ad units is against the program policies of AdSense.