More Followers on Twitter

Want more followers?
How do i get more followers?
Use twitter to make money?
More traffic to your blog with twitter?

If your interested in using Twitter to make money or gain traffic to your blog then follow these tips!
My favourite is use this
http://twitter.xaviermedia.com/t/Willi_Am
Get 50 followers instantly!

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1. Leverage Other Profiles

Do you have an existing online profile somewhere outside of Twitter (big or small)? Use it to springboard into Twitter. If it’s a blog, mention that you’re using Twitter in a post and link to it from your profile and contact pages. If you’re on Facebook use one of the numerous tools available to drag in your Tweets to facebook. Add it to your email signature, business card, mention it in interviews or guest posts that you might do…. etc. The same applies with any online (or even offline) presence that you have - link to your Twitter page and link to it often (if you’d like to connect with me on Twitter my feed is here).

2. Tweet and Tweet Often - But Create Space for Reactions

The more active you are on Twitter the more likely you are to have someone find you from within Twitter and add you as someone that they are following. Every Tweet you do comes up on the Twitter Public Timeline - so upping your Tweet numbers can help have you appear more often there.

Warning - Tweet too regularly and about nothing worthwhile and you run the risk of loosing followers. What I’ve found is that on days that I’m more talkative than others that there can come points where I’m talking so much that my followers don’t have room to respond. Twitter can actually become quite confusing once you have too many trains of thought going all at once so I try to stick to one topic at a time and create pauses between them to let others interact.

3. Be Conversational

Apart from a good influx of new followers when I announced I was using Twitter at first the days that I get most new followers are those days that I interact with other Twitter users. Everytime you reply to someone and have them reply to you your Twitter ID appears in the feeds of others which exposes you to potentially thousands upon thousands of other Twitter users. Asking questions is perhaps the best way to get conversational on Twitter. Get 10 people to answer a question you’ve Tweeted and if even just one person signs up from each of those 10 people’s replies to you you have 10 new followers. Just as important is to participate in other people’s Tweets also - reply to their questions and ideas as much as possible.

The key with this approach is to be conversational about topics that will interest others. For example if you ask a very general question like ‘what cereal do you use’ and get a lot of answers - but i suspect you’ll get more answers AND new followers if the question was more relevant to people’s lives in some way (read on for more on this).

Another thought on the ‘art of conversation’ on Twitter is that I find I do better when I’m not talking about me. No one likes to hang around with people who just talk about themselves - so get the balance right between talking about yourself and talking about others and other topics of interest.

4. Provide Value

Tweeting on a personal level is fun and for many that’s as far as it goes - but if you’re interested in growing your Twitter influence you need to provide your followers (and potential followers) with value. It’s the same principle as growing a blog - if you help enhance people’s lives in some way they are more likely to want to track with you and read more of what you have to say. As a result your conversations should ‘matter’ on some level. Sure you can throw in personal tweets and have some fun with it - but unless you’re providing something useful to people (information, entertainment, news, education etc) they probably won’t follow you for long.

5. Tweet in Peak Times

Last week I tracked when I had new twitter followers add me and found (as I expected) that the frequency of ‘adds’ where made during business hours in the USA. My being situated in Australia can have some positives and negatives but one of the things I don’t enjoy about it is that I miss out on a lot of interaction with my followers who are on the other side of the world from me. I try to be online when the US wakes up (evenings for me) so as to make the most of the opportunities of being awake in this overlap time (similarly first thing in the morning for me can be good as my US friends are sometimes still at work or online at home in their early evenings). Tweeting during these times only increases the chances of someone finding you and adding you as someone to follow."

That was taking from http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/05/08/5-tips-to-grow-your-twitter-presence/

so please say thanks

Adsense Alternatives

While trying to improve the money flowing, you could try an alternative to adesne!
The best reviews of these alternatives i found was on another blog:
AdBrite

AdBrite, is currently one of the best alternatives there is to Google's adsense. While they do not offer the same large selection of ad formats that Clicksor and Google Adsense provide you they do offer the most commonly used ones. In addition they offer inline page links with have some great click through ratios as well as interstitial full page ads which offer an excellent way to monetize all traffic to your site not just traffic that clicks on your ads. Their payouts are also very competitive. They have more relaxed terms and conditions than Adsense and are much more accepting of smaller publishers including bloggers.

If you're a publisher, use AdBrite to set your own ad rates, and approve or reject every ad that's purchased for your site or just have AdBrite auto accept ever ad. AdBrite enables you to instantly sell ads to your visitors via a "Your Ad Here" link, in addition to selling through AdBrite's marketplace and sales team.

Revenue is typically split 75/25 in your favor. Through a small snippet of HTML placed on your site, they handle serving, scheduling, billing, customer service, and sales. About half of AdBrite's sales are generated from the marketplace and sales team, while the other half are generated from users clicking "Your Ad Here" on your website.

While AdBrite can provide publishers with more revenue and better ads than traditional ad networks such as Google AdSense, they work fine along-side them as a way for you to generate additional ad revenue by selling ads directly to your visitors -- something the other ad systems don't do. Ad Brite also lets you select your own minimum bid prices and give you the option of showing an alternative ad service such as Clicksor when bid prices fall below your minimum.

If you're using AdBrite on your website you also have the option to turn off AdBrite's "run-of-network ads" and AdBrite will only display ads that have been approved by you allowing you to prevent competitors ads being shown on your site. If you have no ads running, AdBrite will display nothing but "Your Ad Here" or your alternative ad provider.

Note, from my experiences it can take a day or so from when you signup with AdBrite and put their code on your website to actually start seeing relevant ads showing up. So if you see the message "Advertize on this site" just be patient and give it a day or so and you should start seeing relevant ads showing up.

Clicksor

Clicksor is one of the current leaders of the small publisher Adsense competition. They have payouts upto a market leading 85% and unlike a number of alternatives the cost per click bid values are high enough that you can earn a decent income. They are also, in my experience, much more tollerant than Google. Their terms and conditions suggest that you should only place one copy of their code on a page but as long as you only place a single pop-up or DHTML code on a page they seem happy to let you place many context sensitive ad blocks on a single site.

Clicksor also has a big advantage over a number of the lower ranked alternatives on this site in that their ads are truly context sensitive. Thus while you can provide keywords they have technology that will also show ads targeted to the content of your site. This means your visitors are exposed to ads of the same subject as they were searching for when they reached your site and thus vastly increases the click thru ratio and thus your sites earning potential. The context sensitive nature also saves you the hassle of having to specify keywords for all of your sites and decide in advance what people might be looking for.
The online stats provided by Clicksor are not perfect but they are enough for you to keep track of the trends with your site. They also allow you to add as many sites / domains as you want under a single account. You also only need the root page of your site approved. Once this is done you can place ads on all of your sub pages.

The payment schedule with Clicksor is also much better geared to the small site owner. In any pay period in which your earnings exceed $50.00 ($20.00 with PayPal), payments are made either by check or instantly through PayPal ($20.00 minimum for PayPal). Revenue totaling less that $50 (PP $20) will rolled into the following period. The pay period is based on a 15 day schedule so you can get paid much more frequently. Clicksor also do not require a Social Security (SSN) or Individual Tax Identity Number (ITIN) to join and so while this 'technically' does not help US site owners with their tax liability it does make it much easier for non US citizens to join up and start earning revenue.

Advert wise Clicksor features:

Multiple formats available including text, image and animated ads.

* Text Links
* Image Ads
* Flash Ads
* Animation Ads
* Banners
* Pop unders
* Interstitial Ads (NEW)
* Dynamic (DHTML) highlighting

Click here to visit Clicksor's website and sign up for an account to try it out. There is no obligation and no fees ever. Note, once you start adding the advert code to your site it can take up to 24 hours for Clicksor to get up to speed as it were so initially you may see some ads that don't appear to be relevant. Once their contextual engine kicks in, however, the relevance quickly improves.

Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser can be a useful alternative to Google and offer some intriguing ad formats including what they refer to as free design. This lets you specify the look and dimensions of your text ads. While a useful feature I have not investigated how well it works but imagine that while it sounds good on paper it could result in lower priced ads being displayed. I.e. most advertisers will probably want to keep control of the layout of their ads and so turn off support for Free design ads.

Bidvertizer pays you either in $25.00 increments by check or $10.00 increments by PayPal.

Customize the layout of your ads: BidVertiser gives you a simple point-and-click tool to help you customize the layout of the ads to fit your site's look and feel, in order to retain the high quality of your website. Bidvertizer also offers the opportunity to block unwanted ads. The reports provided by Bidvertiser are adequate but not outstanding. The only real problem is that they can be picky with who they accept into their program and can be quick to ban users whose websites show what may be perfectly valid fluctuating visitor behaviour. Click here to visit Bidvertiser's website where you can either sign up as a publisher (show peoples ads on your site) or as an advertiser (show your ads on other sites).

WidgetBucks

Widgetbucks is a fairly new ad network but is a product from Mpire Corporation. Their ads are pretty unique and a nice change of pace from many of the other ad networks.


Chitika

Chitika - The Leader in Impulse Merchandising
Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) was founded in 2003 and is the industry's leading impulse merchandising company. Chitika was founded in May 2003 and is based in Massachusetts. Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) helps web publishers generate revenue using innovative publisher-side advertising and merchandising solutions and services.

Chitika doesn't really stand alone as a single advertising solution but instead provides you with a way to compliment your existing advertising / publishing program with some additional Ad Units which are altogether different from the standard ad boxes, pop-unders etc that everybody else provides. Instead of displaying these 'industry standard' advert boxes with text and image ads that all look the same they instead provide active boxes that show targeted products from different manufacturers. If you run a blog for example and discuss a product you may find the chitika box showing links for this product and competitors products. If people purchase these products you get a paid a commission. This is referred to as impulse marketing in the form of Premium Ad Units (eMinimalls). Feel free to give it a try although I think the ideal use of this service would be as a compliment to another advertizers service. E.g. you could show Clicksor context sensitive ads on your site and then compliment these with Chitika's eMinimalls.

For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line consumers and qualified buyers. For all publishers, Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad revenue. If you visit a site showing Chitika's ads from a search engine then the Chitika premium ad unit kicks in showing you ads that are specific to your searching - otherwise you can have it show an alternative ad provider, such as adsense, or you can just have it collapse away to show nothing.

Chitika allows you to display targeted products based on what people searched for to get to your page and you get paid for clicks. It provides a robust comparative shopping experience for your visitors. Visitors will love the interactive search code -- and it makes you money

Click here to visit Chitika's website and sign up today.

AdToll

AdToll pays on a CPC basis. Their user interface is great and navigating through the user panel is both easy and pleasant. Payments are available via Cheque, Paypal, ePassporte and Wire/Bank Transfer. It is also possible to use the revenue you earn as a publisher to advertise your website further. Such integration is something that is entirely missing from Google's adsense-adwords.

The newest technology by AdToll is a Peel Away Ad technology that shows a peel on the top right hand side of a web site. When the mouse moves over the peel it opens smoothly to reveal the advert within. This new ad format allows you to make use of the lesser used, yet highly visible top corners of web sites. It is very non intrusive to the site visitor. Since it uses a small amount of space, it is efficient use of web site real estate. An additional plus is that such a new advertising format always draws curious clicks for visitors.

Exit Junction

Exit Junction is relatively new and, I believe, a spin off from the now defunct Revenue Pilot. While Revenue Pilot has stopped running, however, Exit Junction is going from strength to strength. Exit Junction offers a unique approach to advertising that is compatible with all the other Ad Networks included Google Adsense. The key to Exit junction is that they focus on showing ads to users as they leave your site rather than as they arrive or as they browse. This approach offers you an additional way to monetize your traffic and also capture ad revenue from those that stumble upon your site from a search engine and then immediately leave.

By adding a small piece of Exit Junction code to the header section of your site users are shown an advert as they hit the back button. For example, if a user came to your site from a Google search and then immediately hit the back button to return to that search they would be shown an Exit Junction Ad in between your page and the Google search and you get paid for this impression. The ad is directly targeted to the search term that brought the visitor to your site in the first place. Hence Exit Junction is an ideal way of complimenting your existing ad services and so increasing your sites revenue without having to switch from your current ad provider.

Exit junction also covers all countries. You get paid for all traffic exiting you site regardless of its origin.

They offer fee free payout via Check or PayPal with earnings of as little as $25 on a monthly basis.

Yahoo Publisher Network

Yahoo are currently playing catch up to Google and are trying to release their own context sensitive advertising service. This promises to be an excellent alternative to Google Adsense but in reality is likely to be a simple copy with the same restrictive terms and conditions as Google, including $100 minimums on payouts. The system seems to have been in beta test for several years now, perhaps explaining why Yahoo as a company is suffering. Unfortunately while you can visit their site and sign up to register for an account don't expect to actually hear back from them. They are either extremely selective or are simply not accepting new publishers and advertisers, either way they won't even bother to get back to you to let you know this and most applicants won't even receive a reply saying their application has been rejected. Thus until it goes live and it becomes clear what type of website owners Yahoo will be targeting I cannot place it any higher in this list.

Advert wise Yahoo Publisher Network will feature:

* Display ads related to the content on your site. You'll earn revenue from qualified clicks.
* Integrate other Yahoo! services into your web site, including Add to My Yahoo! (RSS), Y!Q and much more to come...
* This beta program is just the beginning. Our mission is to deliver products and services based on the needs of the publishing community.


TargetPoint

Targetpoint's services are particularly publisher-oriented, you have absolute control over the appearance of your ads. They provide supervision over ad content. The payouts tend to be reasonable but they can be quite choosey regarding which sites are accepted.

Advert wise Target Point provide:

* Adpoint generates content-relevant, revenue-evaluated ads.
* Exitpoint helps utilizing the full capacity web exit traffic.
* Imagepoint serves visual ads. Known to the rest of the world as Image ads.
* Underpoint serves pop-under ad windows.
* Searchpoint (beta) features enhanced search capabilities, which enhance your users experience and generate additional profit.

Registration is free and they pay back a minimum of 60% of the total on-click revenue. Payment options include Bank checks, PayPal and Wire transfers (if eligible).

FastClick (Now known as ValueClick)

At first look FastClick would appear to be one of the better alternatives to Google's Adsense however, they are one of many online advertising companies that tend to favor the large customers. You'd think companies would have learnt from Google's success and accepted that the way to make money is to target both large and small. Remember Excite? They went the way of the dodo because they only targeted the top 100 companies rather than the small guys who can't afford large TV adverts and have to advertise on the Internet instead. Anyway, I digress. If you can get yourself accepted to FastClick (now called ValueClick) then you will probably be able to run some reasonably high paying adverts on your site but most small website owners will find that FastClick simply aren't interested.

Advertising wise FastClick (ValueClick) offer an industry-average 65-percent monthly payout on all advertising revenue your website generates. Fastclick pays by the 25th of the month for the previous month by check or PayPal.

Formats include:

* Text Ads
* Image Ads
* Interstitial
* Pop-Under
* InVue

ClickThruTraffic

Not the best alternative but if you can't get accepted by any of the above you can always try these guys. They claim that you will earn between 6 and 20 cents everytime a surfer clicks on an advertisement on your site but in reality I think you are more likely to see rates around the 0.5c to 2c range. However, feel free to try it out and see how you get on. Advert wise they offer text links, buttons and banners.

the infomation was scourcef from http://earnmoneylive.blogspot.com/2009/04/top-google-adsense-alternatives.html

Want More Taffic?

Want more traffic?
Other Peoples Views?

Then use this...http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/
It allows you to ask for the following:

Request guest posts
Request sources for interviews and round-ups
Offer guest posts to bloggers
Offer products to bloggers for review

This can then allow other peoples views to get on your blog, which will increase the traffic

OR

write posts for others, this is a must for any true bloggers because then you get to leave your blog's addy at the end of the guest post. So others can view you blog but you also have deep inside links, which will help increase your Google rank.

Maximise You Earnings!

HubPages

I have found a new site which is a bit better if your only blogging because of the money!
It places the ads in the 'hub' which is like a post, but also allows you to add many different ads or affliates programmes. These include adsense, amazon, ebay and many more!
You can even then set up a referal programme, which means if you get someone to sign up, you can get a cut of there earnings. Easy!
For more info Will I Am on HubPages

Make money from Blogs!

Earn money from your blog?

Still not earning enough through AdSense? But enjoying blogging?
Then get paid to blog, there are loads of sites that will pay you good money just to create a Post for one of there blogs. Its better of you have experience in a certain niche because the more in-depth the post the more likely your post will be chosen.
My favourite sites for being paid to blog are:

1. 451 Post (click)
2. Be A Guide (click)
3. Blog Burner (click)
4. Blog Feast (click)

Some make money through AdSense while others will host your blog but take a percentage of your AdSense earnings, but do divert traffic to your site, meaning your traffic will be higher.

Free Adsense E-Book

I am Writing an E-book on the tips and hints i used to start the money rolling in!
It will include tips and techniques i payed for, but will give to you for FREE because why pay?
Money is tight and we all want some extra income, so i will help you earn those extra $$$$
I am only sending out a 100 free copies of this E-Book, and will be the first 100 followers and also leave me there email address.
People don't miss out on this chance, I just wish some-one had done it for me!
Tell your friends-if you want!
Times ticking away.....

More Traffic means more money

Want more Traffic?

Everyone wants more traffic and the best way to receive traffic is through search engines. I no blogs are included in search results but .coms and .co.uk's seem to get more attention. So i would advise any blogger to buy a domain.

There are 2 types:

1. Free domain: Free domains are a good way to start, but make sure that its DNS supported, this allows you to bind your existing blog to your new domain. Rather then starting all over again. The Best site i found for help is: HERE!
2. Buy a domain: This is the most used way to enhance your blog, there are many different sites that sell domains buy the one i most use is GoDaddy because it gives you support and has good technical help 24/7

So everyone start buying these domains if you want more money!

What colour to have my ads?

What colour ads make the most money?

This is a well discussed and argued topic. Many people believe that having your ads LOUD will generate more interest. This will drag peoples eye's away from your posts, but do you want this? If people come on your blog and only see the ads are they likely to come back? I don't think so, so that's the reason i don't use this style.

I personally think blending the ads and the blog together is the best way. This way people will click the ads if they want to which has 2 good points.

1. Doesnt put your account at risk! Nothing is worse then putting all this effort into making a good blog and then for adsense close your blog.
2. Makes your blog look better, I hate going onto blogs and seeing ads screaming at me. This way the readers look at your posts first and then the ads. The way you want it to be.

But this is only for my blog that this works for, so all i can say is pratice and pratice. One week try making your ads loud and see how much you generate from then, then the next week blend you ads.
Whatever one brings in the most money use!
Simple!

More Traffic

Want more traffic?

I just thought of a good way to get a lot of traffic quickly and can be easily. Make a funny viral video and post it on youtube. Then firstly get your mates to watch it and also post the link on blog catalog, and if it takes off your blog or site will get hits!

Just a quick thought,
Will be giving you more later!

How To Improve My Click Through Rate?

Get a better Click Through Rate?
Make Money From AdSense?
Earn Money Online?
Sorted!

If you search 'how to Improve My Click Through Rate?' You will get millions of results! But today i will give you hints about matching your ads to your blog, which will improve you CTR.

The first rule i use is always match the ad colour to the colour of your blog. You want the ads to blend into your blog, subtlety is the key. So as you can see from my ads that are all bordered in black the same colour as my blog. This not only makes your blog look better, as its all blended together, it also can help make the ads stand out but not screaming out. This is what you need to aim for.

My second rule is a common sense rule, but a lot of people don't do it. USE YOUR KEYWORDS! If you have a blog about hairdressing you want ads about hair dressing. My blog is about making money and blogging, so you wouldn't expect to see hairdressing ads on mine. It seems really simple but the best way to get this is buy using the same word in each post. So if my next post was about 'explaining AdSense' Then my title would be something people who search google and expect this as a result. So the title could be What is AdSense?
The first line would be very similar to you could use something that is the same niche as AdSense, so maybe Making the Most Money From AdSense!
Then in your main content of your blog you want to repeat these key words a few times within your first few lines.

My final hint is trial and error. This is the best way to see what ads make you money! So every so often move your ads, move them further up the page for example. I found the best place on this site is next to my newest post. So as you can see the ads are there. But when you do change your blog format, make sure you create a new channel as then you can clearly and easily see the differences.
So if you want to be more like me and Lisa
Then use these sites for more info: 1 2
Or just use my pre-searched results which can be found here!

How To Get More Traffic?

Easy way to get traffic!

A very easy way to get more traffic and maybe more clicks is to link other blogs to yours and allow them to do the same. For instance you could do this:

Every Friday I will bring you my favourite blogs from the Past week! Ranking from 5 (being good) to 1 (not to be missed)

1. ITS SUMMER! Summer time means holiday time and their is only one site- FindHolidays4U-Find your ideal holiday!
   
2. Freedom Spot (FS) is an independent, non-commercial, online-publishing blog and database dedicated to democracy and human rights in Georgia. A good read and makes you relise how lucky we are! freedomspot.com
3. Free Games- This blog can keep you entertained four hours! http://eatgames.blogspot.com/
4. Looking for laptops? Then i have found an amazing blog that gives you an honest opionion for all us bloggers out there, have a look http://friedpal.blogspot.com/
   
5. Ever seem down and want a chuckle? Sorted with this blog. Its a truthful look at people in a quirky and sometimes obnoxious but will make you chuckle for sure! Would suggest looking now:http://glaringmadness.blogspot.com/
   
6. To make more money you need more traffic! One way to get this is use peoples blogs for their hints and techniques. The site i use is http://www.blogtraffictips.net/ it has helped me earn a lot of money from adsense!
   

Best way to set it up is the following- ( will use my other blog as an example)

1. Men's Needs Solved- This was my favourite blog this week because every time i read the posts i couldn't help but crack a smile. Would advise it to anyone that loves a good laugh. If you wanna read the blog you can here-http://mensneedssloved.blogspot.com/

Sounds easy! It is! It not only makes you look like a good person helping others out, it also will improve your rankings in the search engines because you will be linked to more sites/blogs!

What Not To Do?

A lot of people think this is an easy way to create quick cash, but it takes a lot of time and effort.
Yes there are ways to boost your income but they all break the conditions of using AdSense, so i will now tell you the top 5 things not to do!

1. NEVER CLICK ON YOUR OWN ADS-this is the number one NO NO! All the clicks are checked by using your IP so don't go clicking your own. You will be banned for life and will be missing out on a lot of money!
2. Don't get your friends to click your ads- People pay for these ads and its unfair for you to abuse it. You are also breaking the conditions you accept when you sign up for AdSense!
   
3. Don't get your viewers to click- NEVER post anywhere on your site things like 'show your support' 'Click the ads' etc. Google will not tolerate this and once again you will be banned.
4. Be careful on what sites you mention your blog, this can send unwanted traffic to your site and will give you clicks but 100's which will get you banned. So only ever use well represented places to promote your blog. Also while promoting make sure you don't do Number 3.
5. Respect all google trademarks. If you copy or try to blend ads sneakily into your website by using the google trademark. Google will not like this and could mean you end up in court as you are breaching a lot of copyright laws.

Please do read the Google TOS (terms of service) which can be found easily here!

Remember if you get banned, that's it your banned for LIFE! And you are loosing out on a lot of Dollars, so its up to you?

Make Money Online

Can Adsense Make You Money?
YES!

Adsense can make you money but it takes a long time and a lot of hard work. Of course to get more clicks you need to generate more traffic and their are 5 easy ways to do this!

1. Submit your website or blog to google (here)
2. Use social netoworking sites, because these can generate a lot more views then you think. You can use either Facebook, Twitter, MySpace even other blog's etc
3. Get involved in as many different blogging sites as you can, i personally use mostly Freedom to blog then BlogCatalog, My Blog Log and as many more as you can!
4. Get good content on your blog!- This is one of the most hardest but best way to get traffic to your blog. If people enjoy your blog they will come back? Simple!
5. Get comments on your blog- this is one of the best ways because the search engines look for comments and they can link back to your site or blog. So get commenting! You can even go onto other's blogs and write a comment, best to ask a question or something with a response. This way they will comment back, not only giving you another comment but also more views!

These are only 5 steps out of hundreds to keep the money rolling in!
I will give hints and help everyday to help you make the most money you can.
This is only one of my few blogs and i will explain about this later on, but if you want to visit it you can :)
http://mensneedssloved.blogspot.com/

Anyways happy making money
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