Affiliate Programs You Must Join

After reading advices by some gurus, I make these list of affiliate networks that we should really join.

1. Clickbank - Dedicated to digital products, i.e. products that are available by download.
2. Commission Junction - The top affiliate network for companies that sell physical products like computers, credit cards, clothing, etc. Some of the biggest internet properties in the world have programs here. You can apply for many advertisers of you'll be emailed if an advertiser invite you or want to advertise in your site.
3. BidVertiser - Options for advertiser, publisher, and referer. Make ads to promote your site, or earn money by putting ads to your site, or get paid when referring people and when they make money. BitVertiser offers $20 free advertising for your site. Minimum payment for publishers or referer are $10 for PayPal or $50 for check.
4. Text Link Ads - These ads don't disturb you blog contents and you can exchange your revenue to buy ads on the site with discount.
5. BeFree - Also owned by Commission Junction.
6. LinkShare - Some of the top companies on the web have their programs available here.
7. Dealdotcom - A very good tier program because you are paid forever when people you refer make money or people they refer make money. Recommended by a successful person.

Programs I've Joined

Amazon Affiliate Program - Getting popular currently. A lot of people are buying products from Amazon.com, why don't get something from the purchase.
SFI - An MLM affiliate program that I joined.
Commission Junction
Clickbank
BidVertiser
Dealdotcom
Spread Firefox - Hope to get free T-shirts

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Join Affiliates Programs

To make profit other that advertising, we can also enter affiliates programs offered by various companies. Affiliate Programs is like a referral program where you help bring people to fixed sites or products that you linked in your blogs or sites. In Affiliate Programs, you are usually paid in commissions either for every lead to the advertiser, when visitors buy or subscribe to product or service of the advertisers, or sometimes the advertiser also pay you for every click on the ads. You'll be paid highest when there are product or service purchased or subscribed.

I just found several sites that offer free chances to become an affiliate and I'm still looking. Not all the sites offer free registration and some are just links you to an ads loaded sites with no actual contents at all. I had just registered with Commission Junction and the site have loads of advertisers participating in the affiliates program. You can also try eBay Partner Network, Google Affiliates Network, Amazon.com Associates, Apple iTunes Affiliates, Clickbooth, Microsoft Affiliate Network, Avis Rent A Car -Affiliate Partners, Affiliate Junktion, RevenueGateway, or you can just help Spread Firefox to get some freebees.

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SEO - Search Engine Optimization

Listing our site in the search engine directories can help to increase traffic to our blogs but still not good enough to make our blogs in the top rank. What we really want is when people search some keywords related to our blogs, the top of the list that comes out should be our blogs or site. When this happens, chances of getting a lot of visitors will be high not only because top rank sites are what they will see first but being in the top rank also shows that our blogs or sites are better than others.

One of my blogs is in the top rank in Google Blog Search and Google Image Search but in Google Site Search, it is still no where to be found. That is because the topic and keywords for the blog were specialized and focused to a certain audience and only those people are visiting that blog. The blog cannot be in high rank in site search because there are also a lot of websites that is related to the contents of the blog.

We don't actually need to search deep on how to improve the rank of our site. Google or other service providers already supply some basic tips on how to do this but of course not to the highest level. What I found just now is an article of Google's SEO Starter Guide that include guides to improve our sites' interaction with users and search engines. The article is very useful for beginners of SEO.The article contains a pdf file that tells about basic site optimization such as title, meta tag, url, and links. Google Webmaster Central Blog covers topics of accessibility, crawling and indexing, events, feedback and communication, general tips, products and services, search results, sitemaps, webmaster guidelines and webmaster tools. These topics are important either to increase the site traffic or to optimize the contents of of our blogs or sites.

If you are advance enough, you can edit the HTML codes like being done by SEO professionals and consultants but this is only useful if you really knows how each search engine works. Search engines use crawlers that will scan your sites for keywords, descriptions, links, and contents and integrates them with algorithms that will place the sites on their respective positions. Sites with a lot of links from other sites or backlinks are mostly will have higher rank. These backlinks really helps because if your site have backlinks from higher ranking sites, chances for your site to climb the rank chart will better.

I've found some interesting sites for your further references about SEO and these sites contains a lot of other informations of tools that you might need to optimize your site ranking. Please share if you found other sites that is related to this topics.

www.seochat.com
www.webconfs.com

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How to Attract Visitors to Our Site

Attracting visitors is very important to make our content reach a lot of people especially when we are selling something through our blog and to increase our profit from advertising. We would also want people to comment on our writings, ideas, or artworks. I have a blog about my artworks and i always want people to comment about the artworks so that I can improve myself. There are various way to promote our site and attract visitors. What I can write here are just the methods that I know. Feel free to share if you want to.

Search engine listing is the easiest way and I think it's worthy. Most of visitors to 1 of my blogs came from search engine and they are from around the world. What I just found yesterday is dmoz that will automatically put our site to some internet search engine. We can also manually put our blogs to search engine directories. For Google, we can either put our site in Google Directories or at a little hidden place here because I can't find this anywhere in Google.com and only found this through Google support pages. Yahoo offer several listing option that include free and paid services here or you can submit site feed here. I don't really sure about listing in MSN because it seems like requiring registration and I don't want to that for now. It is also because using the dmoz listing can also put our site to MSN (I believe).

Another way is by using blog listing sites which functions almost like the regular search engines but mostly focused on blogs only. These sites allow our blogs to be listed for either free, with reciprocal link exchange, pinging service or paid. Reciprocal link exchange means that we have to put a link to their site in our blogs. Pinging is a process of notifying servers that our contents are updated. You can check the list of these site here at www.toprankblog.com.

The other ways include leaving comments on other blogs or forums that are related to our blogs. Leaving comments is a very good way of promoting our blog because through this, we can also make a connection with authors of other blogs and exchange ideas, informations, and links. I hope we can do a lot of this. Why exchanging links is important? Reciprocal links or backlinks really helps to increase our ranking in the search engine and also increase the value of our blogs. Those links are important because they can bring visitors of other sites to ours.

Using advertisement such as Google Adwords and other services to popularize blogs really pays up but we'll also have to pay to use it. I don't want to use this method because the purpose of this blog is to make money online without spending any. Of course the internet and electricity bills are not counted. You can also tell you friend and ask them to tell their friend or use the social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, Facebook, etc. This method is quite good actually but don't spam. Spam not good.

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How Blogging Can Make Money?

Blogs, website, feeds, or anything shown in the internet can make money. The methods are advertising, auction, selling-buying, anything else that I don't know. What we are going to focus here is advertising. Advertising company such as Google Adsense, Adbrite, Advertlets, Nuffnang, etc can easily provide advertisement for our blogs. Each company have their own advantages so it's up to us to choose. e-bay is an online auction site but still it makes a lot through advertising. Myspace is a networking site but the income is from advertising. Amazon.com is an online store but it also use advertising as a source of income. I don't know about Wikipedia because I don't see any advertisement in the online encyclopedia and right now the site is asking for people to donate.

When sites or blogs have so many visitors per day, the value will increase and some people use this to make money. They just attract visitors until the blog/site value increased and then sell it. You can check the value of your site at Websiteoutlook.com. People also use blog to sell their personal items or to promote their business because they don't know how to make a website. You can also beg people to donate to you but in this case, your contents should be worthy. Maybe you have a new idea on how to make money from blogging.

What method shall we use to make advertisement pay us good? Put some advertisement in our blog and wait. Of course not. We need visitors that hopefully will click on any of those ads. The more visitors to out site or blog the more chances the ads will be clicked. Therefore it is important to drag visitors to our blogs. How to do it? If our contents are so great and people around the world are so looking for that, we can just write and wait because visitors will automatically found us. But if our contents are not that great as most of the time, we have to advertise ourselves by using the search engine, blog or site listing, tell our friends to tell their friends, or write spam to anybody we don't know (that's not recommended because I believe spamming is against the law).

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