Firefox Referrals now available for international AdSense publishers

I admit, I was disappointed that the Firefox referrals program was limited to US publishers only when it launched on November 4th. But looks like they have listened to publisher feedback and have now rolled it out to all international publishers.

International publishers can now refer users to Firefox plus Google Toolbar through the AdSense referrals feature. As you connect your users with Firefox to improve their web browsing experience, you can generate earnings - up to US$1 for each new Firefox user who downloads and runs the product for the first time. To add a Firefox referral button to your site today, visit the 'Referrals' tab in your account.

Many international publishers were upset that AdSense originally restricted it to only US publishers, regardless of where the site's traffic was from. So it is nice to see AdSense make it available to all.

Tags: AdSense, Google, Firefox, referral, international

Introduction to Affiliate programs

So how exactly do you make substantial profits on the
Internet?

Well there are literally thousands of ways to earn a living online.

But many of those require things that you and I would never have access to such as, corporate bankrolls, and corporate manpower. I'm just a one-man business and I'm guessing that you are
too.

So with that in mind I am going to show you a very powerful way to make profits online. With this extremely powerful method, your profit making potential is limitless.

-Intro to Affiliate Programs-

I know many of you are making great profits using affiliate programs, but I need to explain what they are and the power they hold so that everybody is on the same level for thenext few lessons.

If you haven't discovered affiliate programs on the Internet yet, you are missing out on an extremely powerful profit-making source.

So what the heck are affiliate programs and how do they work?

Affiliate programs can vary from website to website, but the main idea behind affiliate programs is that a website will pay you for sending them buying customers.

You send people to a website, if they buy something from that website you get a cut of the purchase.

You will usually be paid either a percentage of the sale or a flat rate.

Here is a random list of websites that have affiliate programs. The dollar amount shows how much ONE SINGLE PERSON is earning every month with that affiliate programs.

- Posters.com------------ $5,000/mo
- Sitesell.com------------ $10,000/mo
- 1HideOut.com--------- $3,000/week
- Marketingtips.com---- $8,000/mo
- Gen-fit.com------------ $18,000/mo
- Pillstore.com----------- $50,000/mo
- Keycode.com---------- $5,000/mo
- PartyPoker.com------- $15,000/mo

I could go on forever with these amazing figures.

Everywhere you look, people are making massive profits on the Internet. I'm showing you these figures in hopes that you will get excited about affiliate programs. If you can become successful in just one affiliate program, your life will changedramatically.

I personally am an affiliate with at least 40 different affiliate programs. Granted not all affiliate programs you join will be profitable, but if you can get just a few affiliate programs that are profitable, you can make a ton in profits.

Can you imagine working with ten different affiliate programs that convert 5 - 20 sales a day? If you were paid $15 for each sale, that would mean you could be making $22500-$90000 per
month.

Even if you had a bad month and only made one sale everyday for each affiliate, you would still be making over $4500 per month. You may think all of this is outrageous, but trust me;
there are tons of people out there just like you and I that are utilizing affiliate programs on the Internet and making huge profits from them.

How can all this be possible? The Internet of course!!! It's possible to advertise to hundreds of millions of people worldwide with the single click of the mouse button. The Internet is probably the most powerful marketing tool in the history of the world. Best of all anyone can use this powerful marketing tool.

Anyone with a computer and Internet has access to millions of customers worldwide and the opportunity to convert sales on a very largescale.

It is becoming very evident that affiliate programs will have a huge role in the future of the Internet. Billions if not Trillions of dollars are spent through online purchases every year, and thisnumber will continue to increase at an amazing rate.

It is also forecast that within 2-3 years, 50% of all online sales will be made through the help of affiliate programs. You don't have to be good with math to figure out that there is an
enormous opportunity waiting to be tapped.

But don't wait, act now!! Now is the best time to get rolling, if you can establish your self with online affiliate programs now, you will have good positioning to just sit back and watch your profits increase as the Internet continues togrow, which is inevitable.

Now I'm going to tell you the best part about affiliate programs. Once you get everything up and running, you can basically sit back and let the computers and the Internet do everything for you
automatically.

You can spend as little as 3 hours a week and still bring in well over $5000/month. Affiliate programs are awesome!!

But remember, the more time you spend working, the more income you will make.

Think of it as a business, try to set some hours aside and write out some goals that need to be accomplished every week. Before you know it you will be making much more than you ever
dreamed.

Here are a few more reasons why affiliate programs are so great.

First of all, you don't need your own product. The owner of the affiliate programs will take care of dealing with the customer for you.

They will also collect the payments, shipping and handling of the products, deal with any complaints or questions by customers, they take care of pretty much everything.

The only thing that you have to do is send them customers. When that customer buys, you make a profit. It's as easy and simple as that. Just promote and receive a check.
affiliate program,

Related Topic: Five day sucess to google adwords

Tags: adwords, affiliate program

Five Days to Success with Google AdWords - Day 1

This is a five day sucess guide from Perry marshall Day:1

There is ONE central idea, one key concept that Google wants you
to understand.

If you have this right, Google will literally reward you by giving you
lower prices on clicks, and your customers will reward you by buying
what you have to sell.

If you DON'T have this right, you'll pay way too much for clicks, your
campaigns will get disabled, and your whole Google experience will be
unpleasant.

The one thing that matters on Google is relevance.
You might think of this as "message to market match."
This will make complete sense once you understand a bit of
Google's history.

Google started in 1998, after the "big boys" in the search engine
game like Yahoo and AltaVista were well-established.

At the time, few people would have bet that Google would overtake
them all - but in five years they have done exactly that.

What's even more remarkable is they did so without a bunch of hype
and loud marketing. They literally built a better mousetrap and the
world beat a path to their door.

So what happened?
Google's mission in life was to build a search engine that would give
people exactly what they were searching for, as fast as possible. If
you were searching for "California butterflies" they wanted to give you
the very best and most popular California butterfly websites on the very
first page of results.

They developed an amazing mathematical formula for figuring out
who visited websites and why, and using that information in their
search engine.
So.... when they began to sell Pay Per Click advertising, they were
extremely concerned that advertisers also put out messages that were
highly relevant.

Google rewards you for being relevant, and they let people who are
searching vote for you. If your ad gets clicked on, it's relevant. If it
doesn't, it's not. It's that simple.

If you can't get 5 out of 1000 people (0.5%) to click on your ad,
Google disables your ad. The higher your click thru rate, though, the
less you have to pay for the position you want.

So this creates a "Darwinian" effect, a deliberate natural selection
that weeds out bad advertisers and rewards good ones. What's good
for Google's customers is good for Google and good for you.

When all the dust has settled, what really matters is that your ads
and your content be relevant to the keywords you're bidding on. Your
message must match what the person is thinking.

So... what were they really thinking when they typed in "California
butterflies?" That is the question. Figure that out and put it in front of
them, and you'll win on Google. Write an ad that matches exactly what
they're searching for and you'll beat your competitors by a country mile.

Tags: google adwords, perry marshall

MSN AdCenter just launched for the US

It has been long suspected that MSN would eventually jump into the contextual ad game with their own competitive program to Google AdSense. And quotes from Yusuf Mehdi of Microsoft in today's New York Times seem to officially confirm the fact it is a program they are working on in conjunction with their soon-to-be-released AdCenter PPC program.

Microsoft also expects to use its new system to sell ads on other Web sites, just as Yahoo and Google do with their systems.

The article also goes on with specific comments by Mehdi:

He said that once Microsoft had a large number of advertisers and had refined its ad placement formulas, it would be able to compete with Google and Yahoo to sell ads on other Web sites because it would be able to offer higher ad revenue.

There is a virtuous cycle in this business, Mr. Mehdi said, because the more sites in an advertising network, the more advertisers are attracted and the higher the potential advertising prices. For Microsoft, running such a network has another benefit - the building of relationships with Web site owners, many of whom are users of its software and online services.

MSN launching their own contextual ad program comes as little surprise to those familiar with the industry. After all, Google generates a significant amount of income from their content network partners and Yahoo launched their own beta program YPN last month. However, if MSN gets plenty of advertisers on board with AdCenter, they have some advantages over both Yahoo & Google.

Because MSN AdCenter will feature options of target ads to particular demographics, including age and gender, this could allow publishers greater flexibility in what ads they show. For instance, I have a few sites targeting female audiences... if I could include this information in the MSN contextual ad platform, these sites could be given higher priority to showing ads that advertisers are targeting female audiences. This combined with other targeting methods could result in high paying ads for publishers and good CTR and ROI for advertisers.

How far away could the MSN contextual ad program be? We probably won't see beta for a while. They not only work out any potential kinks in AdCenter once it starts its US beta in October, but they also need to build up ad inventory as well. When they launch, they will still be using Yahoo ad inventory as well as their own, with plans to have fully replaced Yahoo by the spring.

It will phase in the system in the United States, using its own ads on some pages and ads sold by Yahoo on others, starting in October, said Joseph Doran, MSN's senior director of monetization. The company hopes to replace the Yahoo ads entirely by next spring.

And as the MSN AdCenter US beta will start relatively small as an invite-only beta, it would be very likely that they would do something similar when they do launch a contextual ad program. It could end up being something similar to the limited beta release YPN is currently doing.

So while you won't be able to sign up for an MSN contextual ad program tomorrow, the good news is that it is in the plans of AdCenter to eventually offer their own program to compete with AdSense and YPN. areticle from jensense

Tags:msn contextual ads, msn adcenter

Adgenta embed ads in posts, feeds etc

AdGenta is a new, innovative ad network tailored especially for bloggers. Tired of having to code your template to place ads on your blog? Tired of poor revenue? AdGenta changes that ... starting now.

AdGenta is a post-centric advertising system. Post-centric ads appear wherever your post does: your blog, your feed, and search results. Each ad is based on what you think it should be, using keywords you define, not context a computer thinks up.

AdGenta has worked to bring bloggers a wide variety of ads, all keyword-driven, that you can leverage to earn money from your content. To learn more about the power of advertising in blogs.

Adgenta & Qumana

Qumana is a free, easy-to-use blog editor that combines powerful WYSIWYG capabilities with easy one-click ad insertion. With Qumana, you can insert AdGenta ads when and where you want. It's that simple.

Qumana works with almost every blog platform, letting you post and cross post your content and your ads, wherever you want. Adgenta offers bloggers and DIY personal publishers more freedom of choice and greater control over how they use online advertising. Qumana: freedom for bloggers.

AdGenta + Qumana: Easy blogging, easy money. To learn more about Qumana, or to download it free, please go here

Getting started with AdGenta is simple. Fill out our easy application form, and in a few minutes you will be ready to insert ads into your blog posts.
Tags:adgenta, qumana, Post centric ads

Animated background ad units in AdSense

I saw these ad units a few days ago on SERoundtable, but I didn't want to draw more undue attention to them. But now SearchEngineJournal and ThreadWatch have both picked it up.

The ad unit is a custom sized ad unit, but instead of a normal static background, these ad units have an animated arrow in the background, drawing a visitor's attention to the ads.

Here is screenshots of how they cycle through with the animated arrow pointing out the ads.

ThreadWatch points out these are "Made by Barry" of SERoundtable, using this image:

There are custom style ad units available to premium publishers and on a very limited case-by-case basis for regular publishers. But since all publishers must receive permission and approval from AdSense for each custom ad style before they put them live on a site, this means that this animated background ad unit style must have received the AdSense stamp of approval.

AdSense has done some testing with images in the background of ad units before, primarily special edition single day runs around holidays, such as the Hallowe'en themed ads and the US Thanksgiving ads. But I have never seen animated background images in ad units before.

What do I think of them? Personally, I am not a fan of this. As an advertiser, I would worry that it would unfairly draw attention to the ads and result in an increase in clicks from that particular site. Depending on the site, I would consider going as far as blocking my ads from appearing on publisher sites that would use this style of ad unit. I suspect publishers would be unhappy to see such unfair attention drawn to ads... after all, it is against the terms to have an animated arrow next to the ads pointing to them.

One of the ads I saw happened to be for SEOBook.com, so I asked Aaron Wall how he felt about his ads appearing in this style of ad unit:

I don't like the idea of click incentivizing on ads that I pay for by the click. It can increase ad spend and lower ROI. I don't think it is fair to charge advertisers by the click and then use various techniques that encourage people to click on them.

Yes, many people are using various techniques to entice clicks, both tricks that are against the AdSense terms and techniques I think should be disallowed. I would prefer if my ads did not appear on pages that did.

While I did love the themed ad units with images in the background, I do not like animated gifs in the background of ad units. And to keep advertisers opted into the content network, I hope this ad unit style gets pulled quickly by AdSense, even though it did get initially approved.

I do think custom ad units are a good thing for premium publishers and the high end regular publishers that need to utilize custom ad units for specific placement issues. But I think some of the flexibility allowed with custom ad units needs to be trimmed back a bit if publishers are receiving permission to use these kinds of click enticing background images in their custom ad units. If not, it could end up affecting more publishers than just those using it.

Tags:Animated , Adsense animated ads, Adsense

1 Million Dollars In Google Adsense Earnings

They are calling him the million dollar man. Jason Calacanis recently revealed in his blog that he is on track to earn a million dollars from AdSense over the year ahead.

And if that number doesn’t wake you up and have you sitting on the edge of your seat, consider for a moment that he reached this level in less than a year. His company only started using AdSense in September 2004.

Calacanis runs Weblogs Inc., a network dedicated to creating trade weblogs across niche industries. And he’s quickly proven that AdSense is a credible advertising partner.

As their network has grown, so has their AdSense revenue. In January 2005 they earned an average of $580 per day. In March it was $737. In May it was $1,585. One day in July, just before he made the blog entry referred to above, they earned $2,335. Remember that is just for one day. If they can take that daily average to $2,740 they’ll be earning a rate of $1 million for a year. And Calacanis predicts that reaching daily earnings of $3,000 or even $5,000 is quite achievable.

That’s quite an achievement. Keep in mind that Calacanis has 103 bloggers on the payroll and nine staffers. Even so, many webmasters would give an arm or a leg to have even a third of that.

Google’s AdSense has been revolutionary. It has become firmly established as the darling of the online advertising industry. Although rumors are heard of major competitors launching a similar service, AdSense’s premier position seems secure for now.

In essence, AdSense has made it possible for almost anyone with a web site or blog to earn some revenue from advertising, without having to employ sales people or spend precious time searching for advertisers.

AdSense works like this. Webmasters sign up for an account in just a few minutes. They receive a small snippet of code to include on their web pages. Google will then automatically serve advertisements that are relevant to the content on the webmaster's pages. When someone visits the webmaster's site and clicks on one of Google's AdSense advertisements, the webmaster earns a fee. Advertisers can pay anywhere from five cents to a hundred dollars per click, and the webmaster receives a percentage of that fee.

Many webmasters are content with earning five to ten dollars from AdSense to cover the cost of web hosting. But many, unsurprising, have higher ambitions. At a popular WebmasterWorld forum, participants share tips and encouragement on reaching a goal of $300 per day from AdSense. So it is no wonder that Calacanis created quite a buzz when he made his million dollar blog entry.

Google have proven once again that they excel at designing innovative Internet services. If you are in the web industry and have not yet used AdSense, then perhaps you should try it out. Or if you are already using it, perhaps Calacanis’ impressive results will encourage you to track the performance of your AdSense units more closely, fine tune their positions and formats, and take your earnings to a new level.

Calacanis’ million dollar blog entry can be viewed at: http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000403051129/

Tag: 1 Million Dollars In Google Adsense Earnings

Onsite Advertising is Goolge new Adsense feature

Onsite Advertiser Sign-up is an extension of Google site targeting that makes it easier for advertisers to bid on your site.

When you use Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, your ad units will display an 'Advertise on this site' link that takes advertisers to an informational landing page with details about your site and the Google AdWords advertising program. Advertisers who sign up through this page will be guided to create an ad targeted specifically to your site, and only your site. When more advertisers create and target ads to your site, you'll benefit from the competition as it drives your potential earnings up.

Your content is valuable. And starting within the next two weeks, advertisers will be able to bid for placement on your site right from your web pages. With Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, a new feature of AdSense, your AdSense ad units will display an 'Advertise on this site' link that takes interested advertisers to a page which you can tailor for your business. On this page they can see your details about your site and the Google AdWords program. Advertisers who sign up for AdWords through this landing page will create an ad automatically targeted to your site, and your site alone. And more advertisers competing to display ads on your site means more revenue for you.

Before Onsite Advertiser Sign-up becomes active, we recommend you customize the landing page advertisers will see when they click your 'Advertise on this site' link. Just follow these simple steps to customize the landing page with your logo, color scheme and site description today. You can also view our demo for additional feature information and images.

If you'd prefer not to participate in Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, you can opt out before it starts by visiting the My Account tab.

Empower advertisers to bid for your inventory directly from your pages.

"Advertise on this site" links in your ad units let advertisers know they have the opportunity to place ads on your site, and enable them to act precisely at their moment of interest with the click of a mouse.

When advertisers click on these links, they'll be taken to a landing page from which they can quickly open an AdWords account and create an ad targeting your site. More advertisers competing for your inventory means more revenue for you.

Advertisers signing in through your custom landing page will create site-targeted ads that automatically target your site, and your site alone. As they do with all site-targeted ads, advertisers will bid for your inventory on a pay-per-impression basis, and the ads they create
will compete against all other Google site- and content-targeted ads relevant to your site — which means higher revenues for you.

Technorati Tag: goolge onsite advertising

Link Popularity Software that increase page rank

What is Link Popularity?.

Link popularity is the total number of web sites that link to your site.

Because good link popularity can dramatically increase traffic to your web site. Well placed links are an excellent source of consistent and targeted traffic. And due to recent developments, they can even generate additional search engine traffic to your site.

Most of the major search engines now factor Link Popularity into their relevancy algorithms. As a result, increasing the number of quality, relevant sites which link to your site can actually improve your search engine rankings. There is still no one "secret trick" to getting good rankings, but boosting your site's popularity may give it the edge it needs.

Knowing who links to your site and increasing the number of quality links is an important part of any web site promotion effort. This free service allows you to query Google, Altavista, and Hotbot and reports on link popularity.

Link Popularity Softwares :

1. OptiLink is a link analysis tool for checking, monitoring, analyzing, predicting, and spying on your competitors' web page links, to reveal how web pages achieved their high search engine rankings, and find Super Affiliates and link exchange partners.

2. Arelis is a link popularity software program for finding and managing reciprocal link partners to increase web site link popularity ratings, which in turn improves search engine rankings.

3. OptiSpider is a website link structure analyzer that spiders a web site, provides a keyword count on every page, records the link text of every internal and external link, analyzes the page topic and link reputation, and summarizes the inbound, outbound, and offsite link counts.

4. PR Prowler is a software program that analyzes top search engine listings for link partners with high Google PageRank values.

for free SEO tools visit seochat.com

Technorati Tag:link popularity software

The FeedBurner Ad Network

Feedburner Launches Ad Network Following the likes of the highly successful Google AdSense networks and the recent small fish Chitika, Feedburner has Launched their own sd network for Feedburner feeds. If you look through their Publisher Services page and into their “Monetize” section, they tout both Google Adsense and their own network (Which does not have a catchy name, I think it should. A catchy brand name would make it more pallatable and easier to assimilate. Adz-n-Such just does not cut it) Some big names such as Gawker networks, CIO, BuzzMachine etc have signed on.

Today we formally announced the FeedBurner Ad Network, another addition to our expanding suite of services for publishers.The ad network was developed to help publishers monetize content and is backed by the trustworthy subscriber statistics we've been providing for years (well, almost years....18 months...well, a little more than 18 months). A handful of early participants are called out in today's press release, including CIO, SmartMoney, BuzzMachine, PC World, Computerworld and the Gawker network to name a few (naming only a few is better because naming the many would result in a list that would leave you thinking "couldn't they have just named a few?")

Publisher Participation

We will continue to take a measured and methodical approach to expanding this service. While the network is geared towards larger, well-subscribed publishers today (500+ subscribers), we're not leaving more targeted publishers behind. This is just our first announcement, we'll have more to talk about in the near future that will include any publisher who wants to jump in. In the meantime, many of our services are specifically designed to help you expand subscriber reach, attract fans and promote your content.

As always, FeedBurner will never do anything to your feed that you haven't explicitly asked us to do. It's your feed. We will soon roll out the tools that will provide a variety of monetization options. Don't want ads? No problem - don't select any of the monetization options. As we have said many times in the past, the free services we provide will remain free, and all of our services are and will always be optional.

Lastly, we know that many of you are gobsmacked by the creativity and subtle wordplay in the name of our ad network. We want you to know it was a close contest between "The FeedBurner Ad Network" and "Adz-n-Such." tag: The FeedBurner Ad Network