Archive for the ‘Making Money Online’ category

Tracking Amazon.com Affiliate Performance for Multiple Sites

November 15th, 2006

If you run Amazon.com affiliate links on multiple sites, some of you are probably using a single Associates ID across your sites. This only allows you to see a combined view of your affiliate activity in the reports.

To track the performance of each site, you’ll need a unique Tracking ID per site. There’s no need to create multiple Associate accounts. Multiple Tracking IDs can be added from within your single Associate account.

» Read more: Tracking Amazon.com Affiliate Performance for Multiple Sites

ReviewMe: Write Reviews and Get Paid

November 11th, 2006

ReviewMeI just received an email from Peter Gavin of Text-Link-Ads.com (TLA) notifying that my site (not this one) has been pre-approved at the newly launched Reviewme.com.

The email message goes like this: » Read more: ReviewMe: Write Reviews and Get Paid

Google AdSense in Password-Protected Areas?

November 4th, 2006

At present, Google AdSense does not support ads in password-protected areas. There is hope however that this limitation or restriction would go away.

According to Dave Taylor, the AdSense team is testing out a new capability called Site Authentication. A colleague of his received this invitation from the AdSense team: » Read more: Google AdSense in Password-Protected Areas?

MySpace Bans Affiliate Marketing

November 2nd, 2006

MySpace is coming down hard on members exploiting it for commercial purposes as highlighted in Allan Gardyne’s latest issue of his newsletter.

So, if you’re considering making money blogging on MySpace, you better now ditch that idea or rather, be very subtle about your marketing endeavor.

This will be bad news for affiliate marketers who had been successful at cashing in on the use of a huge social networking club like MySpace as a marketing platform.

It will also be bad news to the publishers and affiliates of products dealing with marketing on MySpace; these products are rendered irrelevant in an instant.

» Read more: MySpace Bans Affiliate Marketing

AdSense for Audio On the Way?

November 1st, 2006

Wow! Contextual advertising over podcast? Is this a rumor?

A little over month ago, Jennifer Slegg (a.k.a. JenSense) stumbled upon an interesting job posting in Google. The position advertised is for Strategic Partner Development Manager for AdSense for Audio.

Some digging revealed that AdSense for Audio was originally slated for Q3 release, but it’s apparently going through some delays.

» Read more: AdSense for Audio On the Way?

Google Wants Feedback on How to Improve Measuring AdSense Success using Google Analytics

October 31st, 2006

If you are both a Google Analytics and Google AdSense user, Google is seeking your feedback on the following:

  1. Which Google Analytics reports do you use most often in conjunction with your AdSense account?
  2. Which reports or metrics would you most like to see added to Google Analytics to help you succeed with AdSense?

Google has created a topic thread in Google Group “Anaytics Help” for users to post their feedback.

» Read more: Google Wants Feedback on How to Improve Measuring AdSense Success using Google Analytics

Firefox 2.0 Not Supported by Google AdSense Referrals?

October 30th, 2006

I came across Barry Schwartz’s post saying that the recently released Firefox 2.0 is currently not supported by Google AdSense Firefox Referrals program.

Google AdSense program pays $1 per download of Firefox plus Google Toolbar from a referral. At this time, the referrals program only covers Firefox 1.5. [Update: Google has retired its referrals program in August 2008.]

» Read more: Firefox 2.0 Not Supported by Google AdSense Referrals?

Redirect Affiliate Links to Increase Click-Through Rate

October 27th, 2006

If you are using regular affiliate links to promote an affiliate program, chances are you are missing out on traffic and commissions. You might want to use redirection links instead.

Here’s how a direct affiliate link and a redirection link look like:

Direct affiliate link: http://www.example.com?id=123 (where 123 is your affiliate ID)
Redirection link: http://www.yoursite.com/product.html

Notice that the redirection link appears to be like a regular static page on your site. » Read more: Redirect Affiliate Links to Increase Click-Through Rate

Create a Google Custom Search Engine and Connect to AdSense

October 26th, 2006

Google has just unveiled the Google Co-op Custom Search Engine. Well, Custom Search Engine allows you to:

Create a highly specialized Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests. Place it on your website and, using our AdSense for Search program, make money from the resulting traffic.

With Google Custom Search Engine, you can restrict sites that appear in your search results or simply give your chosen sites a higher search rank or priority. You can even later add sites for inclusion using Google Marker. Google will give you a piece of code for a search box for you to embed in your site or blog. You can also customize the presentation and functionality of the search engine. Also, you can invite others to co-edit your search engine using the collaboration feature. » Read more: Create a Google Custom Search Engine and Connect to AdSense

The AdSense Code is Amazon.com Bestseller

October 21st, 2006

AdSense guru Joel Comm is making big waves on Amazon.com with his 260-page book, The AdSense Code.

The book has been recently ranked as high as #56 of all books sold on Amazon.com and #1 in the Computers & Internet category. » Read more: The AdSense Code is Amazon.com Bestseller

Subscribe and get free Internet Marketing updates!