Showing posts with label Make Money Online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Make Money Online. Show all posts

November 17, 2011

Google Adsense Approval Trick Through Third Party Sites?

Quite a lot of new bloggers still find it difficult getting their google adsense account approved due to one reason or the other. Lots of people get desperate typing search queries in google such as google adsense approval trick, 24hrs google adsense approval and so on. Lots of people even paid some individuals in a bid to buy an already approved google adsense account. It's undisputed that google adsense remains the easiest way to monetize a blog and for this reason, there's so much clamor just to get an approval from google. In recent times, google adsense team even tightens up the approval thingy by making it a two-stage process.


Just of recent, thousands of publishers were banned from the adsense program and lots of hopes were dashed. Some of my friends in bloggers lab on facebook were affected by the massive ban. Relating closely with some of them made me realize most of the banned accounts were approved through third party sites. You can apply through some third party sites and get your google adsense account approved but I never wrote about any of these sites once. I'm quite aware of them but i never considered them a good option because it all looks shady. Some of these sites include:

1. Fixya
2. Hubpages
3. Docstoc
4. Indyarocks

They are all independent publishing platforms where you can get your google adsense account approved in 24 hours, or even less, and I'm not implying that all accounts approved through third party sites always get banned eventually, I'm only saying it's not such a good idea getting your adsense approved via third party sites. The adsense team always review sites from time to time and any discrepancy might make your already approved account get suspended.

To get your blog approved by google directly, you can follow these guidelines:

1. Give your blog some time to grow, I suggest three months and be sure you have a decent traffic. A couple of hundred pageviews daily gives you a better chance

2. If you're on blogspot, you have a better chance of getting approved with a custom domain but that doesn't mean you won't get approved with a blogspot sub domain either.

3. You should have up to 20-30 original posts/pages. Copying contents from other blogs won't get you anywhere.

4. Your design also matters. Be sure your blog's is designed in a way to make it look attractive. A blog with poorly arranged widgets scattered everywhere doesn't stand much chance.

5. I suggest you shouldn't have ads from other advertising companies like bidvertiser or chikita running on your blog when google comes to certify your blog. It's only a suggested precaution though.

6. Be sure your blog complies with google's terms of service. Your blog posts must not be based on topics not allowed by google such as, hacking, pornography, drugs, ammunition, warez, cracks, keygens and so on.

With the tips above taken into practice, I'm sure your adsense account will be approved and in case they reject your application, you can always try again. I know those who applied up to five times before getting approved. Good luck!

October 4, 2011

Alternative Ways To Make Money With Your Blog Apart From Google Adsense

Lots of people got their google adsense account suspended in the last couple of weeks due to reasons best known to google and google alone. Most of these people claimed they did nothing wrong and stuck to the rules and just wondered why google went on a banning spree without taking anyone's feeling into consideration. Taking a closer look, I found out most of these suspended accounts were opened in the last two to three months and some through fixya. Most of these people got an email saying they their adsense account had to be disabled so as to protect advertisers and this type of email is often related to click fraud. Some of these people haven't even earned any reasonable amount yet and I know a couple of the victims who couldn't have done anything of such. That actually got me wondering what actually went wrong. It's not surprising though because I got my google admob suspended about two months ago despite sticking to the rules for two whole years. The main reason behind that was because Google Admob was moving over to Google Adsense for mobile and many publishers like me got their accounts suspended without a valid reason.

It's even more baffling that some of those who got their account suspended re-applied using the same email and same blog and got re-enrolled into the adsense program. This raises the question whether most of those suspended account happened by mistake or something.

Google adsense
is one of the easiest way to monetize your blog but it's definitely not the only way. There are alternatives to google adsense to make money from your blog.

1. Using alternative advertisers:

There are many other advertising companies out there like google adsense. The simple truth is just that I don't think they pay as much as google adsense does. These other advertisers too also offer contexual ads like google adsense and you might want to try them out. Some of the top rated include:

i. Bidvertiser
ii. Chitika
iii. Adbrite
iv. Clicksor
v. Kontera
vi. Infolinks
vii. Pocket Cents
viii. Exit juction
ix. Dynamic oxygen
x. Adbull

Some of these are also as good as google adsense and you can get a even more detailed information about each of them here.

2. Selling Advertising Spaces On Your Blog:

You might not realize it but some of your visitors are actually in love with your site and wouldn't mind advertising their product with you. Selling advertising spaces on your blog is one of the easiest way to convert your traffic to dollars without doing much. All you need to do is to let your visitors know you sell advertising spaces and you will get good offers especially if you command a reasonable amount of traffic and you've already worked on your page rank. Create an advertising page and let create awareness by making advertising banners visible in good positions.

3. Affiliate Marketing Programs

With affiliate programs, you can make even more than you can ever make from google adsense but this depends largely on the category of vistors you get. An affiliate program such as the hostgator affilitate program can fetch you up to $2000 in a month. There are other affiliate programs you can use on your blog. If you're on blogger, click on the monetize tab and sign up for an amazon associate account. With this, you can receive a commision for every product sold on your site.

4. Selling E-books

I'm pretty sure you have a clear idea on what you blog about, right? Have you ever thought that gathering your ideas into a .pdf file can be a major source of income? Most of your blog visitors believe in you and that's the reason they comment on your posts, subscribe to your rss feed and share your articles. Offering them a comprehensive e-book for some amount can be just another way to make money from your blog.

5. Sponsored Posts


I was surprised the first day I got an email from someone asking me to write a blog post about their product and I would be compensated. I actually didn't know writing a sponsored post could be a way to monetize my blog until that day. I wrote the post since it fell into my blog's niche and had some dollars flowing into my paypal account. Writing sponsored post can be another major way to monetize your blog traffic and you should create awareness about this. Let your visitors know you can write for them but you have have developed your writing skills to a certain level before getting this kind of offer. Your traffic too must be reasonably too.

6. Donations


If you're having a site that dishes out free information that's extremely helpful, a couple of your visitors might be willing to donate some money to you through paypal. Although most people wouldn't do this, I still believe one or two people would deem it fit to reward your for your hard work.

7. Consultation And Other Related Services


Depending on your niche, you can offer consultation to your visitors. This can be personal but you have to make it clear that you can be consulted personally to solve their problems for a fee. I guess you can see a Hire Me link at the header of this blog.

8. Selling Your Blog

As a last option, you can sell your blog.

There are other ways to make money from your blog and each of the list there can be expanded. Google adsense is still the easiest and in case your account got suspended, there are ways to get back in the program. This will discussed in one of my future posts.

September 24, 2011

Make Money Online With Hostgator Affiliate Program

Hostgator has turned out to be one of the most successful webhosting company over the years with so many features hard to find on other webhosts. Hostgator was established in the year 2002 with its headquater in Houston, Texas but it's service has touched almost every continent with clients in over 200 countries. Last time I checked their statistics, they're hosting over five million domains! They have a reasonably cheap but reliable webhosting service, my web forum is hosted with them and I haven't experienced a major downtime since. All their hosting plans comes with unlimited bandwidth and disk space.

Hostgator has an affiliate program of which I've been a beneficiary and I thought posting this easy way to make money online isn't such a bad idea. With hostgator affiliate program, the only thing you need to do is to refer clients and get paid. You don't even need to have a hosting account before you're qualified to open an affiliate account. Depending on how many clients you can refer to them, you can make over $2000 in just one month. There's no minimum payout as you're paid whatever you earn every month and membership is absolutely free.

Based on how many hosting accounts sold through your affiliate link, you can earn between $50 to $125 per sign up. The details are shown in the table below:

1-5 per month ————— $50 /signup
6-10 per month ————— $75 /signup
11-20 per month ————— $100 /signup
21+ per month ————— $125 /signup





How Do I Sign Up To make Money Online With Hostgator?

Signing up is easy and there's nothing needed except a couple of personal details and your email address. You need to verify your email and your account is activated. Like I said earlier, you don't need to have a hosting account before you can sign up. Click here to sign up.

How Do I promote My Affiliate Link?

Promoting your affiliate link is easy whether you have a website or not. If you own a blog, you can use one of the banners provided here. It's even easier if you're a webmaster as you can make some extra money off your clients. You only need to buy their hosting account through your affiliate link. You can as well promote your affiliate link through web forums with having webhosting as an area of interest though spamming isn't advised. You can as well promote your affiliate link through facebook advert though I don't think this is in line with their terms of service. Making money with hostgator is made quite easy, click here to sign up.

September 9, 2011

Fund And Withdraw Paypal Funds Easily In Nigeria

Carrying out some online transactions without a paypal account is almost impossible since it turned out to be the most widely used form of online payment solution over the years. Paypal is not supported in Nigeria and you have to go through certain steps just to open and verify a paypal account as a Nigerian and I made a post earlier on that. Despite getting a paypal account through the backdoor, withdrawing your money earned online and funding it to facilitate your online transactions and purchase items remains a problem to most people. There are lots of Nigerian internet marketers parading themselves as paypal gurus but you'll definitely think twice if you happen to witness a scam. I'm not saying everyone of them is not trustworthy, there are some I've even done business with in the past without regret but I only need to emphasize the fact that there's still that slight possibility of getting scammed trying to fund and withdraw from your paypal account in Nigeria through a total stranger you only know on the internet.

With the increasing demand of paypal funds and means of withdrawal, Nigeriagoldexchange and OnlineNaira resolved this issues with the service they offer.

NigeriaGoldExchange.com
I knew this site way back in 2009 when I needed to fund my Liberty Reserve account. They've been funding liberty reserve accounts since and they recently started funding paypal too. The last time I checked, they sell a dollar for 195 Naira. They also buy and sell alertpay and webmoney funds as well.


OnlineNaira.com
I came across onlinenaira recently through a friend and they offer an excellent service too. It's very easy withdrawing your paypal funds as you 're allowed to even get your payment through liberty reserve. You can fund and withdraw from your payapl account through your Nigerian bank account. They require you to verify your identity though before you can use their service and the steps include submitting a scanned copy of your recent utility bill and a goverment issued identity card.

June 3, 2011

Google Adsense For Content Now Displays on Opera Mini and Other Mobile Browsers

I was suprised this morning when I logged into my mobile site through Opera Mini to see Google Ads for content meant to display to PC users showing on Opera Mini. I also checked here just to find the same thing.

Before, the only mobile browser I knew that could render adsense for content fully is Bolt Browser which is also a java based browser like Opera Mini but with a more desktop-like browsing experience.

It's rather a good news that Google Adsense for content which is javascript based now displays on mobile browsers like Opera Mini. There are lots of visitors using mobile devices and this definitely means increased CTR.

I hope this javascript based ads will also be extended to Adsense for mobile since javascript based mobile ads is only presently availabe for iphones and other high end Android smartphones.


UPDATE - 28th June, 2011

Google has since disable this. The ads stopped showing on opera mini barely ten days after this post was made. Perhaps they realized there was increased CTR which means they were going to pay more than they usually do. lol.

May 25, 2011

Google Adsense For Mobile Now Available in Nigeria and 14 Other Countries

Google Adsense for mobile is now avaailable in Nigeria and fourteen other countries according to google adsense official blog yesterday. These countries include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Slovenia, Thailand, and Turkey.

In case you are new to google adsense for mobile, this more or less like adsense for content. Google displays ads relevant to site's content but in this case, mobile sites. You earn some money when a valid click is made on the displayed advert.
Google adsense for mobile will definitely be useful especially if you've read my previous post on how to make money online with your mobile phone. Adsense for mobile automatically detects phone type and delivers ads specific to that particular type of phone.

Google, however, stipulates that adsense for mobile may be used on mobile websites only and not in mobile applications. Application developers are expected to use Google Admob (which google acquired last year). Admob is also a mobile advertisement platform which I've been using on my mobile site for close to two years.

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