Ways 2 Earn Online

This question raised in my mind after getting some experience of having a Make Money Online blog like this one. It’s very difficult to apply income techniques to a blog or website related to the niche, which attracts Internet-Savvy people, like IT, Make Money Online, Open Source etc…

The difficulty lies in the approach. You can’t just put Adsense code and get clicks. Most of the visitors know that the links with small description are nothing but the ads. So, there are very low chances of getting clicks as compared to Entertainment related sites (or blogs).

There are some ways to overcome this. Let’s see some possible ways:

Direct Flat-Rate Advertising

This way certainly eliminates the element of clicking. If you think that clicks are also very important in this type of advertising, I suggest you to see my post about comparison between flat-rate ads and other types like PPC and CPM here.

But the main disadvantage of this advertising is the amount of efforts needed, if you are not so much popular. And there is certain limit on income also. You can’t convert your increasing traffic into increasing income, unless you increase ad-spot price on your site.

This also includes paid links. But you have to be careful here. You can be punished by Google, if you put direct links to non-related sites. Punishment generally includes lowered PageRank and decrease in the rank at Search Engine Results Page (SERP).

CPM ads

This type of ad is very comfortable, if you have high traffic site. The key factor also includes origin of traffic, that is, from where you are getting traffic. Most of the advertisers prefer USA, Canada and European countries.

Support My Advertisers!

And if you are getting good amount of traffic and page-views, but can’t see a conversion of it into income, why don’t say Support Me Please!

You can easily say these words, if you have more than one Ad networks active in your blog, as I had read it in Adsense support forum. These words don’t point to any particular ads, and so there should not be any problem with it.

But there should be some etiquette here. You should keep your site or blog free from intrusive ads, generally seen within blog posts and in interstitials. Excessive amount of Referral links within your posts or sidebar should not be used.

The actual message that these words should convey is like this: “You are visiting my site and are happy with it. If it is so, politely look at the ads, and if you find something interesting there, just click on it!”

Conclusion

You have to have a different approach in creating income stream from your blog or site, if your niche is related to internet-savvy people. You can’t afford to rely just on PPC ads, rather you have to make a shout – Support My Advertisers Please!

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This is a Resource Post about Alexa ranking and ways to improve it. If you do not know what a type of post is this, just read my post giving the introduction to Resources Category.

So, here is the post about Alexa, which is so comprehensive that I really need not to say anything else about Alexa!

http://www.doshdosh.com/20-quick-ways-to-increase-your-alexa-rank/

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Just about 3 days ago, Entrecard’s advertising pricing structure has been changed thoroughly. Dropping the cards on a blog’s widget will no further affect the advertising cost on that blog; which is the only good move of Entrecard. In this post, I have mentioned two problems caused by this new structure and their solutions too.

Let me just introduce Entrecard’s new mechanism for advertising price quickly. Now on, the advertising cost on your blog is simply 2 to the power n, where n is the number of ads that are in queue. So if you have 4 advertisers in queue, then the advertising cost for the fifth one would be 2^4 = 16 ec/day.

If you want, you can read more on Entrecard’s blog.

The only thing that is good in this new structure is that, it will terminate the activity of gaming with the system; that is, dropping cards in excessive amount daily. Now on, famous blogs will have much higher cost than others, which was not the case before. But except this good thing, there are really two serious problems with this new structure, which are mentioned below:

Problems caused by the new pricing structure

First problem – I really can’t understand why they have chosen such exponentially rising advertising cost. If you advertise on a 1024 ec/day charging blog, the next advertiser will have to pay 2048 ec/day for the same spot. How can this be fair in anyway? Is the popularity and traffic of that blog is doubled in one day? No! Then why one should be charged the double figure?

Second problem – Due to sky-touching cost, the advertiser will have to wait for the price to come down and so, they will be checking the advertising cost frequently. And the one who is first to see new lower figure, will become the advertiser. Others will have to wait again one day, fielding for the lower cost. Isn’t this annoying and wasting of time for advertisers?

Two simple solutions to these problems

Solution to the first – Let the advertising cost be somewhat linearly rising. I have personally thought of a scheme for that. It’s described below:

Let the cost of advertising be zero, only if there isn’t any ad in queue. Then after, cost increases by an adding factor 10 ec up to 5 ad-queues. So, if there are 4 ads in queue, the price will be 40 ec/day. Then after, let the adding factor be 20 ec up to 10 ad-queues. Then after, adding factor is 50 ec for up to 15 ad-queue and for the rest of the ad-queues, adding factor is 100 ec.

For the sake of convenience, I have put the whole idea in the form of table as below:

Cost	Ad-queue
10	1
20	2
30	3
40	4
50	5
70	6
90	7
110	8
130	9
150	10
200	11
250	12
300	13
350	14
400	15
500	16
600	17
700	18
800	19
900	20

This is just an approximation from me; about how should the pricing structure behave.

Solution to the second – To resolve the second problem, let the bloggers be allowed to put up to 4 Entrecard widgets (Each widget showing different ad). The number 4 is again an approximation, based on the number of advertisers that are willing to advertise. That number can be more, but should not be less. Also, a square spot having 4 Entrecard widgets in 2 rows and 2 columns will look fine.

If this step is done, more advertisers will be able to put their ads at quite lower price, though resulting in comparatively more income for the blogger. Evidently for the prices to be low and stable, each widget must have its own ad-queue.

So, this is my opinion for the pricing structure in Entrecard. I am eager to see your comments about this idea.

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