One of the people doing the challenge has already made their first money online from the website they started as part of the crashed challenge. Now that we have some decent content, and are building traffic it is time that I talk to you about money so that you can turn that traffic into $$$. I was speaking with someone earlier and came up with the following formula...
$50,000/year = $4166.67/month = $138.89/day = $5.79/hour = $0.10/minute
Today's going be a little long, however I think it is plenty worth it... We are signing up to different services to moneytize our site. And then looking at how we can use Simple Ads Manager to show the banners on our site. Today lacks videos at the moment, however I will add these later as I still have to edit them.
Also I've added a competition to win 10 articles for your site, check it out here.
Spam?
I hate to say it, but I hate spam. Now that we are listed in search engines we are going get automated tools leaving comments on our blogs to try and make the spammers sites more popular. Or even more cunning to try and sell you secret methods to increase your traffic or make your blog more popular. Now I am lazy and cannot be bother manually reviewing every comment so lets make it harder for the spammers.
The simpliest solution to stop this is to activate Akismet.
- In your Dashboard, click Plugins on the menu.
- Find Akismet in the list and click Activate.
- You then have to goto http://rfurl.net/akismet to get a license key, click get and akismet API Key. Scroll down and click Personal Site. For a personal site you can select to choose how much you page, and just slide the slider across and select $0 (free).
- Goto your email, and find the email from Akismet, open this and copy the API Key into the plugin settings. Click Save.
- This will automatically mark suspect comments as spam, and 99.99% of the time is pretty accurate. However if you are worried about missing genuine comments it may be worth reviewing the spam list once a week.
The video is coming soon...
Affiliate CPA Marketing...
We covered what affiliate marketing was in Day 4, where we looked at getting paid a commission for each sale we make. Now however I want to introduce you to CPA (Cost Per Action) marketing, where we get paid a commission each time we get someone to do something. This may range from getting a user to enter their email address or zip code, to getting them to download and install a software program.
There are affiliate networks dedicated to this, with varying degree's of exclusiveness. I've spoken to a few of my affiliate managers, and they have agreed that if you are doing the crashed challenge you will be approved by them(so long as you havn't already been banned!).
The first network I want to introduce you to is MaxBounty...
- Goto http://rfurl.net/mb (If you do not want to use my affiliate link just Google MaxBounty... However in this case their normal approval process will apply)
- Click Become a Publisher, fill in the details and enter your website in the Website Url box, say that you are doing the Crashed Challenge in the description and a little bit about what your site is. Select No in the "Is this account for Incentive Traffic" box.
- Read and Agree to the terms and conditions, and then click Submit Application.
- Email your assigned Affiliate Manager saying that you have just signed up, you are doing the Crashed Challenge, (or for a quicker response message them on their AIM address).
- Once you are approved, login and click Search Campaigns, type in the topic of your site and click search. Make a list of products you think are related to your Niche for Day 10 tommorow.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you use any affiliate tracking links on social networking sites you must use a short url service such as
http://bit.ly - You will get banned if you just use MaxBountys own urls as they are.
Another Affiliate Network
Just like we signed up to Clickbank, there is another Affiliate Network which is similar and having access to more offers is never bad is it?
- Goto http://rfurl.net/p (Not an affiliate link)
- Goto the Affiliates menu and click Register, then Register now.
- Fill in the form and click Create My Account.
- Confirm your email, login and have a look at the range of products on offer here. Make a list of products you think are related to your Niche for Day 10 tommorow.
Amazon Affiliate Network
The next source of income is the Amazon Affiliate Network. Generally I find that I can find something on Amazon for every single niche possible no matter how weird it is. And the best thing is that Amazon is great for upselling people into buying addition things at the same time.
- Goto http://rfurl.net/amazon (Not an affiliate link)
- Click Join now for Free, fill in the form, read and agree terms and conditions and click Sign up.
- Confirm email.
- Log in and browse for products related to your niche. Make a list of these for Day 10 tommorow.
And we can't forget the Overrated Google Adsense...
There is yet another type of affiliate marketing known as CPC (Cost Per Click) where you get paid just for people clicking on the advert on your website. The best known and biggest is Google, and applying now you have your website is easy.
- Goto http://rfurl.net/as (Not an affiliate link)
- Click Sign Up Now
- Fill in your details, read the terms and conditions and click Submit Information. Usually this will be processed within 24 hours.
- I will cover how to add the Adsense to Simple Ads Manager in Day 10.
Summary
This is a good list to get started with, I will introduce some new networks next week, however I am trying to avoid causing information overload...
Tommorow I will cover different ways we can use these companies to make money through our sites!
I apologise for the lack of videos, I have my final exam in 6 hours so have to get some revision done. I'll add some videos this afternoon after my exam. My internet crashed the first time I tried to post this so I've not had the chance to preview n proof the post as I normally would so please leave a comment with any errors
