So Google tells me that I’m not earning as much as I could and that I should start using image ads. Ok, I’ve tried this experiment a few times. This doesn’t seem to be the case, for me at least. Here is the email they sent me:

We just reviewed your site,yourdomain.com, and noticed that you’re not opted-in to show both text and image/rich media ads on at least 148 units.

Enabling all of your units to display both text and image/rich media ads can significantly increase your revenue. Your 336×280 ad unit on yourdomain.com/ is one example of where you can make this change.

Click to upgrade your units now!

Once you’re logged into your AdSense account, click the “My Ads” tab
Select all ad units
From the Actions dropdown, edit ad type to “Text & Image / rich media ads”

Need more proof?

Opting into text and image/rich media ads increases the pool of advertisers competing to appear on your site. More competition means a higher eCPM for you. Units that are opted into all ad types typically see an eCPM that’s 4402% higher than text or image only units. Check out our case study to see how sf.funcheap.com started earning 51% more by making this change.

I think that’s a load of bull… for me, at least. I’m someone going for optimization and not just throwing as many ads on as many sites as I can – a theory that I’ve seen pay off.

Going with text and rich media ads seems to actually give you a wider group of advertisers but also a wider group of ads. Image ads are pretty much like $0.10 each for advertisers (good, cheap advertising if you’re a business), so they’re not going to earn more, sorry. You’d think that demand would be higher but it just doesn’t work that way for me and I’ve tried this a number of times. It takes about a week to recover once I go back to text ads only so I don’t like testing this too often.

Next, what I found is that if you go with a different ad group (channel?) for your home page than your inside pages, you won’t earn as much. Keep them all the same. It seems that advertisers that will want to get on your home page will then also have to advertise on your other, good pages, too. I thought Google had more per page kind of control but maybe not.

The other experiment is the number of ads per page. For my best website, only 1 ad per page. If advertisers want to get on that page, they’re going to have to pay more. I get more revenue this way. For other sites, go with the max amount of ads (3 of each kind) – go for volume.

So what I’ve found works best (for me, at least) is going with text ads only and have all your ads for one website in the same group and only 1 ad per page.

This analysis is not scientific. I’d be interested in what others have found.

-T

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There’s a website called IncomeAtHome.com and I’m wondering if anyone has used it and what they think of it. Is it a scam? Is it just for some people and not most people? Is anyone making money with it?

From what I can tell, it’s a marketing system by a company called Online Business Systems for selling Herbalife or something like that. I have heard the ads on Sean Hannity and other radio shows. They seem to advertise on CareerBuilder and Monster.com as well.

It would seem that any business that wants some huge upfront cost to get you into it would be a scam. They would just want to make money off of people who really want to make some money at home but then not support them or have them buy into even more. This would be in poor taste in my opinion since times are really tough and some people really need a good, at-home business opportunity.

• home income scams
• incomeathome

Times are tough. People are unemployed and looking for work. The ambitious will decide to work for themselves.

I had someone ask me a little while ago what I thought the best kind of business would be to start. My answer was that anything that would help people save money or earn money would be the best kind of business to start.

Think about it – what’s doing well are sites like Groupon and all the copycats. I’ve been reading how the Groupon model could easily fail and I’m not convinced that model would be the best one to follow. But come up with a new idea where you help people save money and you’ll have a winner. I’m thinking about it too, of course.

-T

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Internet Marketing

Back in November and December 2005, I set up some software on a website that made an Amazon store on that website. It was the perfect storm because the domain had some age, it had another store on it previously that wasn’t doing so well and it was Christmas. In just 2 short months I made $4400. I remember checking my Amazon account every day and seeing over $100 in earnings per day. That was pretty cool.

I then kept trying some things without too much success but I had a taste of success for sure. I was running Google AdSense on a site and it was doing ok. I was making like $300 a month with it. I then thought that if I had 45 websites making $1 per day, I could have my mortgage paid every month. I bought some domains and then started working on some small websites with content. This was in 2008. I set them up but I really didn’t have a roadmap or plan, so I was searching for that.

In March 2008, I found an article online after doing some searching for making money online. Here it is (Court, I’m linking over to you on this so I hope it’s ok to borrow it):

How to Make Money at Home (courtneytuttle.com)

Welcome to Court’s Internet Marketing School…we have mountains of information to share with you about creating a low maintenance income on the internet, and the best place to start is with my free ebook: “The Keyword Crash Course.”

In 30 short pages my ebook shows you exactly how to set up a low-maintenance income online using free traffic from Google. You’ll learn:

* How to discover keyword sets where the traffic potential is high but the competition is limited.

* How to set up quick, easy, search-engine friendly websites with no programming knowledge whatsoever.

* How to build those websites around high-paying keywords that will give you your first passive online income.

The ebook is free, but there is a catch – you have to actually download it, read it, and implement what it teaches. I’m not giving you this book for intellectual stimulation; I’m giving it to you so you can make money. Hundreds of my readers have used these principles to either create or increase their online income. You can do the same.

Just fill out the easy form below you’ll be redirected to the download page. As a bonus I’ll follow up with an email mini-course that outlines some of my biggest successes, failures, and key insights I’ve gained over the years as a full-time internet marketer. I’ll send you the first installment right away. And don’t worry – all you’ll ever get from me is value-packed content. I’ll never share, rent, or sell your personal information. Enjoy…and thanks for visiting!
So you want to learn how to make money at home. If you’re like most people in your position, you will waste hundreds or even thousands of dollars trying to learn a process that will provide you with income from home. See, there are thousands upon thousands of money hungry, selfish, and unethical people who are looking to take advantage of a person on your position. They see you as nothing more than an easy way to make a quick buck.

You may think that you are immune. You may think that you can smell a rat. If this is what you think, I would recommend going ahead and trying some of the worthless garbage that’s out there. At some point, you’ll figure out that you get about 500 emails per day from people that aren’t telling you anything worthwhile. At that point, come back.

I can tell you that less than 5% of you will make it. Why? Because most of you are looking for easy money. Most of you are probably too lazy to make this work. What will you do? You will keep looking around for the easy money. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you will probably spend more than you make. You will keep buying crappy products that are supposed to make you rich. Trust me, they will make someone rich, it just won’t be you.

Learning how to make money from home in reality isn’t that different from the process any business owner goes through. You will have to find something that is in need, and figure out a method that you can use to fill that need. That might sound difficult right now, but I think that I can help you with that process.

Why Learning How To Make Money at Home Is Freaking Hard

1. 99% of the supposed ‘teachers’ are mad scammers, that happen to be extremely good at what they do.

2. Working from home requires supreme discipline.

3. You will have to learn something from the ground up – this will take a lot of time and energy.

4. Running your own business takes a remarkable amount of patience.

5. You may be working with absolutely no results for a year or more.

6. There can be constant distractions from kids or a spouse.

For the last three years, I have made 100% of my income working from home. I’m not going to fill you full of fluff and tell you that it has been an easy process. During almost an entire year, I spent more than I made. That was freaking hard. Part of me wishes that I had created the income while working on the side, but that’s another topic altogether. The point is, I made it and you can too. However, it’s going to take a lot of work and a commitment to excellence.

How I Make my Money From Home

I have a very strange business. I provide free information that brings people to websites, and then sell ad space on those websites. It works great for me because I have a knack for filling needs that aren’t being taken care of very well. Once I have identified an area that could use some good information, I create a website and start posting that information.

You probably found this article by doing a search for ‘how to make money at home’, ‘how to make money from home’, or something similar. See what I did to bring you here? I created some useful information and what happened? You and hundreds of other people find me in Google, or Yahoo, or MSN. You come to this site, where I can sell ad space to advertisers who are looking for people like you. Interesting, isn’t it?

As you read this article, I am probably asleep or messing around with some friends. I still make cash because I have created a valuable asset. This last year, I went to Cabo with some friends. We had a really fun week. I made more while I was gone than it cost to go. What happened to my friends? They lost money because they took work off. Hmm… I took work off and made money.

This is where other people will start to butter you up telling you how freaking smart they are. They will tell you that their ’system’ is the only way to internet millions. Their system probably is a way to internet millions – to them. $100 or so dollars at a time taken from good people like you gives them all the money they will ever need. They will even provide you with proof.

I’m not going to blow smoke – if you want to learn this business it will be hard. I will show you the basics of what you need to know, but it won’t be that easy. The first thing you need to do is read about SEO on my site – it all starts there. Without knowing it, you probably found this article because of that concept. You searched for something related to making money from home and bam, I came up in Google in a location where you could find me. I teach people how to do that.

The series of articles I wrote about SEO have become so popular that I’ve summarized them in an easy to read email mini-course. It’s called “5 Days to Success With Keywords.” I promise you’ll find some highly valuable, thought provoking information in the course. If you apply what it teaches, you will create your first significant income from home.

This really spoke to me. I had looked at other programs and I liked the honesty and how this was written. Perfect! This is worth trying!

I signed up and paid like $600 to get into a short, online training class where I’d learn Court’s techniques. It was a bit to take in but it made sense. It was worth it. I finally had a heading and started using Court’s program.

Shortly after that, they started The Keyword Academy. I then basically became a charter member of that group and that’s where I remain. The cost right now is just $33 per month, so it’s much cheaper and it’s the same thing.

I’m making a few times more than my mortgage now and am doing it right. It took some time, yes – I’d say 10 months before I started making decent money. That’s why most people will quit. They want money tomorrow. Well, if you’re willing to work for free for a while, then it’ll pay off – big. I started my parents on this program, too, because they wanted some extra money as they retire and now that they are 10 months in, they are starting to make some money, too.

What I couldn’t get over once I got into this was the fact that there are people who do not have 9-5 jobs. Their job is to work whenever they want on whatever they want. They make enough money to cover all of their monthly expenses and more. It’s a job that builds on itself. You continually get paid for the work that you put in months ago – not just the last 2 weeks. That is how work should be. Why would anyone want to get stuck in a job where they are not building something for themselves?

The way I explain this to my friends is that I’m like Donald Trump online. I have properties (website and web pages) in prime locations (at the top of search results). I have tenants (ads that run on my websites) whom I collect from every month. There’s not much you have to do when you own the property except keep things current and make sure you always have the best location. It does take some time to build that property (construction) but after that, it’s yours and you can build as many as you want.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, then check out The Keyword Academy for just $1.

-Tony

If you’re an Internet Marketer that is writing original articles and then emailing website owners to publish them on their websites, then why are you wasting your time?

You could have access to over 1000 such websites for just $33 a month! Heck, it’s just $1 for your first month!

I should know, I own 6 of these sites myself!

This is a unique group of websites (private network) that only accept well written, original articles of over 300 words. You get 2 links in each article and the links are in-content if you want (or put them at the end). There are now different niches to choose from as well as general article websites.

Get Free, Quality Content!

And, if you want to own a site that accepts original articles, you can do that as well. People will be submitting quality, original content to your site! You just need to be a member and you get this content forever. Promote it, run ads on it, whatever!

Again, it’s just $1 to join for the first month and get access to this exclusive group of websites. Find our more:

Check out The Keyword Academy

Note: If you’re someone who has emailed me about putting articles on my sites and I’ve directed you here, then this is definitely something you want to check out – and thanks for the articles you’ve sent!

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