I took 5 mins from my life to go to Text-Link-Ads, sign up for free, get the code, place it on my site. That’s it. They do the rest. After a few days they sold the first link on my site, then another, then another, now all the spots are filled month after month and generate well over $100 each time.

Yesterday I spent another 30 mins of my life applying the same thing to a few other sites that I have, and this should soon add up to over $1000 extra income a month for doing nothing more. No strange CPC, adsense mumbo jumbo, just simple ads sold on your website.

What is better is that the price they pay can increase as your traffic increases. Additionally they offer extra “feed” advertising that lets you put ads in your wordpress feeds, thus even more money for doing nothing. You can reserve a number of these “ad spots” to put your own ads into so you can promote other products or affiliate links via your feeds… top stuff!.

So, if you are still reading this, but you have a website, what the hell are you still doing here? Get over to Text-Link-Ads, grab your free account, and make more money!

I am talking about a very simple and quick way to make some money from your website, repeatedly, and not using adsense!

I have a number of websites that I have set up over the years. Only one is anywhere near being an “authority” in the area, the others are just standard sites with information on that are indexed in the search engines. Many of them get few hundred visitors a month and others get even less.

At the start of this year I took a plunge into a free online service and applied it to one of my sites. Around a week after doing so it now makes well over $100 per month for around 5 mins of work. Litterally!

Today I decided that I would now revisit this and apply the same thing to my other sites, including netdosh.com. The keen eyed folks that are reading this will have already spotted what I am on about. If you are still concerned about why you have not spotted the place to make this extra cash then check back tomorrow when I will not only tell you exactly what I did, I will send you to the place to get it on your site for free.

Be sure to get netdosh into your rss readers asap as there is lots to come in the way of money making advice!

What does optimizing a website actually mean? It means you optimize a website so that the search-engines and web-crawlers can have a better look of the website. It means the website has got a high targeted keywords density and a targeted traffic. High targeted keywords density? If you have advertisements on your website, you should be aware that targeted ads make more money than random ads.

What are targeted ads? For an example, Manfred has a website and it’s topic is guitars. He has targeted ads on his website, which means that most of the ads are on the same topic, guitars. So how do targeted ads guarantee the most clicks? Think logically, if the website’s topic is guitars, it should be obvious that majority of the website’s visitors are interested in that particular topic. If not, they shouldn’t be visiting the website. Interested visitors mean targeted traffic.

If Manfred didn’t know about SEO (search-engine-optimization) and the importance of targeted keywords, his ads were on random topics, eg. want to join the army? or get the best mortgage or something like that… and since the majority of the visitors were interested in guitars in general, he got low click rates, his ads were not targeted.

If you have the right keywords on your website (targeted keywords), the ad-server does the rest to show the right ads on the site. How to get the right keywords or should we ask where to find the right keywords? Hold on, first i’m going to tell you where to use them.

You can use the keywords in titles, in the website title and in descriptions. It is recommended that you use the keywords also in article titles. Why? This is for search-engines. If search-engines can’t find your website, then who can? It should be logical that for the best ad results you should use the keywords in the content pages, too.

I’m going to show you how to optimize a short text with some tools. The text is:

Are you interested in earning money? Well, you could join a hype program if you don’t want to read our article. You can earn money by selling products that you do not own. That’s called affiliate marketing. You need to invest a little to get started with affiliate marketing but you don’t need to invest anything into this thing we’re learning at the moment.

I’ll convert this text into an HTML document so that i can use the tools. First i have chosen to use Keyword Popularity Tool. I’m going to check two words at the same time: earning money. The results show that Per Hour (average) is 2.82. That’s really low.

I’ll open another tool, Ontology Finder. What does this tool do? This tool tries to find synonyms of the keywords you enter. I’ll enter the same two words into the field. We now see that the best keywords are earn and financial.

Hey wait, so i change earning money into earn financial? Sometimes you have to choose another keywords, your website can’t be filled with keywords. Let it be earn money instead.

So, are these two words better then? Well, i don’t know, you have to check yourself, lets open our first tool again, the Keyword Popularity Tool. It is better indeed, because it’s Per Hour (average) is 25,79. And see, that tool also shows you another word combos that you should think about (though the first one is the best).

Now you know how to get keywords and how to replace your keywords with them. Don’t get over accelerated, too many keywords often show bad results as it confuses the ad-servers. I’ll open a third tool to check my keywords’ density. I’ll try Search Engine Spiders and type our URL page into the field.

Our result shows that we got only 2 keywords that the ad-server will see and those are marketing and affiliate. The ads will be targeted to those topics, if you’re lucky. Well, you can optimize those keywords, too, but for the best result it is recommended that you raise the amount of the first keywords. How? Never buy an e-book to read how to do that. There are tons of free articles that’ll teach you to do this. The best tip: Use your head.

Do you own a High CTR website?
Yes! CTR varies from Industry to industry too. It depends upon the keywords you are using to make your web page. It has been observed that more technical the topic is (but not necessarily) less CTR it will give you (for example Search Engine Optimization, Affiliate Network - exceptions are always there), but still works if the Ad content is well written.

However, this is only one condition; there are many undiscovered conditions that affect the CTR of keywords. At times, a particular season also has an effect on the performance of keywords. For example family of ‘Turkey recipe’ keyword is more active around November and December only and a quite sluggish rest of the year. It becomes really necessary to study the behavior of keywords before starting a massive website of Adsense around a topic.

Your Ads position and color: Old but very effective
Google heat map helps improve the CTR (Clicks Thru Ratio) of your website by suggesting you the most converting areas for your Adsense Ads. You can have a glance at the Google’s Survey that illustrates the ideal placements of ads on your web page. https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html#17954

The above link talks a lot about position and color. I would like to leave this here and concentrate on other points.

Get targeted traffic - Most essential part
Traffic that is interested in your content (also called targeted traffic) is interested in your ads too. Thus, there is every likelihood that your ads will be clicked more frequently. Targeted traffic means more CTR, more earnings, and enhanced ad convertibility. On the other hand, the untargeted visitors are not interested either in your content or your ads, so keep your website’s traffic targeted.

You can gather highly targeted traffic for your website by web promotion strategy and effective optimization of your web page structure. Effective web promotion strategy requires an appropriate Anchor text and more back links from relevant websites. And, to develop an effective web page structure, you have to optimize your Title Text, internal linking of your website, and most importantly your web content, in the best possible manner.

Choose the Right Anchor Text for Back Link Campaigns
Choosing the right anchor text for back links promotes your website to the traffic you exactly need from the search engines. Choose the Anchor text that directly speaks to your visitors and pulls the traffic that your web page requires. Targeted traffic results in increased CTR of ads.

Help Google detect theme of your webpage
There are many on-page and off-page elements that affect your ad relevancy. Better targeted ads increase both your CTR and EPC. Use keywords in your Meta tags, Title text and inject them in the first and last paragraph of your content. Also, wherever possible, divide your article in headings and sub headings ( H1 and H2 ). After Title text, here is another chance for you to dictate keywords to Google Mediabot.

Boost Relevancy Artificially - Use Google’s Section Targeting
Now, you can enhance Ad relevancy by using Google’s Section targeting. Using this technique you can advise Google mediabot about the areas of your content which should be considered or ignored while matching the Ads with your content.

For more information on the same topic, visit: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&topic=371

Block Junk Websites and Competitor Websites from Showing Ads
There are many junk websites that might be displaying ads on your website. These websites steal the traffic from your website and recycle it on their own Adsense ad blocks. Recognize such websites and stick them in Adsense Competitive Ad filter. Also, you can block your competitor websites using this competitive filter.

This trick can sometimes double or triple your Adsense income, augment user experience, and makes look your Google ads more genuine. For more information about this tool, visit: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=21593&ctx=sibling

He is very popular within the internet marketing community, and he’s selling tons of copies of his ebook. ( I can’t even imagine how many he’s sold). If you are serious about making money on the internet, then the Rich Jerk ebook is a must have. He practically hands his secret money making strategies down to you on a silver platter. His ebook is not another ‘get rich quick scam’. If you don’t believe me, type in ‘rich jerk reviews’ in google and you’ll notice how many positive reviews you will find about him.

It doesn’t really matter if you are new to internet marketing, or an expert, this ebook can make anyone successful as long as you follow the strategies. I was a complete newbie when i purchased his ebook, and by the time i was finished reading it, I felt like I had been an expert for years.

What compelled me to purchase the Rich Jerk Ebook was the way this guy wrote his sales letter. He sure sounds like a jerk, and I’m sure you will agree once you read what he has to say, but once you read his ebook you will think of him as a god.

His ebook covers the following chapters:

Chapter 1: Creating an affiliate website that sells like crazy- Chapter 2: Unique Search Engine PPC strategies - that kill your competition Chapter 3: Search Engine Optimization Strategies Chapter 4: Selling your own informational product Chapter 5: Buying wholesale and selling on ebay Chapter 6: Websites you can make profitable right now chapter 7: ventures to consider in the future Chapter 8: Supplemental for beginners

If you are serious about making money online, than I highly suggest you check out the rich jerk ebook for yourself. If you follow his strategies you WILL be successful.

As a goal of earning extra income of $50 a day may seem small and non lucrative, but it is achievable and affiliate marketing being a continuous learning process, it is a good place and budget to begin with. Remember, you are also learning how to do things successfully at the same time. Give it some lead time and you could substantially increase your extra income using affiliate marketing.

Keep revising your goals periodically, as often as fortnightly or monthly. Remember these goals should point in the direction of one larger single goal that you want to achieve in terms of success or in terms of amount of extra income you want to earn. Put these goals on paper and make sure they are in visible range on your table all the time. This will help focus your energy towards your goals.

A lot of literature is available on focus and goal setting by renowned and successful people like Zig Zigler and more. Reading them would help you not only to add to your knowledge base but also to work in a better and more efficient way towards achieving that extra income goal of yours.

The next step would be the most important in your career as an affiliate marketer to earn extra income. Go out of your way and into the field to make connections and contacts with relevant and useful people in the affiliate marketing industry.

Connections to Your Future

The professional affiliate marketing people are well knit and close group of individuals connected constantly and regularly with each other. A constant stream of information is shared helping each other. All these successful marketers strongly believe that everyone benefits by learning from each others mistakes.

Getting out there to help people would be a better attitude to take rather than just looking for business, since this field of marketing works on a principle which says “Help yourself by helping others.” This is a better philosophy to follow in the long run to make long lasting friends and building a business that gives long lasting extra income. People out there will certainly help you when you are willing to help and extend the hand first.

If you can try and relate to these people, which I am sure you can, since you will be sharing the same objectives as they do in the long run of generating a good extra income, will relieve a great deal of work stress and as a result you will be able to perform better.

The moment you invest a little money in someone else’s business, you cannot be ignored. They will take you seriously and you will shine… all the time making that extra income!

Nowadays you can find e-books everywhere on the internet. There are even libraries where you can download them directly to your computer. While some e-books are free, because they are in public domain, there are some that are written specifically to boost advertising.

It is well known that everyday people log on to the internet in search of information and the best way of giving it to them is through e-books as they are quickly and easily delivered. Their contribution to the marketplace is one of the forerunning advertisement methods in use today.

How to use e-books to promote your business?

When you offer free e-books to those people who visit your site you are allowing them to know more about the product/service you are promoting. By writing on a topic that you are familiar with you set yourself as an authority in your particular field. Surely you are wondering how to get an e-book written for your customers to help boost the traffic and sales of your website. Can anyone write an E-Book ? YES. Even if you consider you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, if you try you’ll see that it is not that difficult.

The main idea is to write about something you are familiar with, to find the perfect niche for your business. If you love video games, then write about video games; if you are good at fishing write about fishing techniques - you get the picture. When the readers see that you are an expert they will develop a trust in you and they will be more eager to do business with you.

After your e-book is finished all you have to do is convert it to a PDF format. You can use any PDF converters that are available on the internet. Now that you have this knowledge I recommend getting started as quickly as possible. Remember - Time is Money

Do not be under any misconceptions, though affiliate marketing is an easy and entertaining way to earn extra income, it is serious work, and just like any other job that requires effort, perseverance, and above all, a clear line of sight and plan of action from start to finish line.

Small things like setting up your home office properly, getting up to date on know-how, setting achievable goals, making people connections, and investment in your business will ensure that you are one-up on your competition, and also make sure that you firmly stand over them.

Home Office Setup

The most important step to take before becoming an affiliate marketer is to set up your base - little home office you’ve always wanted.

You can find many resources on the internet about ergonomic design. Ergonomic because anyone intending to spend a major amount of time working on their computers need space which promotes good posture at the same time takes care of safety issues involving their office workspace.

Learning the Trade

Nobody gets into work untrained. Even when you applied for your first job, you had made sure that you are qualified and can do justice to it. Putting in a nutshell, no one hires you for giving you a free extra income without basic training.

What you need then, is to get some training on how to become a professional affiliate marketer. You can start by finding another one and check what they can do to help you. There are many professional affiliate marketers already earning a substantial extra income, who would be willing to teach you by passing o their knowledge so that you can augment the extra income they are already earning. The internet also offers a lot of resources and conference time tables which you can attend to learn.

The secret is to become a student of your own business; you will get to learn something new day after day. Now you are ready to begin by setting some realistic goals for yourself.

Goals

The major problem that plagues most affiliate marketers is that they tend to set themselves unrealistic goals by being over confident about their skills and plans. This results in becoming disenchanted very quickly due to non attainment of goals. Being realistic removes a lot of pain in this context. For example a goal of $5,000 a month realistically attainable, but a first time affiliate marketer is not likely to attain it when starting up.

thought I’d share a little secret that I have starting using a few weeks ago to get a good quality back-link for each of my content sites.

Wikipedia. Plain and simple! It’s a “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”. The nice thing is that a lot of the pages are PR3 or higher and I would guess that it’s considered an “authority” site by the search engines

He goes on to explain how you add your link along with some of the pros and cons that come with using WikiPedia for your evil doing. You can catch the post over at One Dollar a Day now.