How generate income from you site via Amazon Affilliates

One of the most often asked questions by newbies in webmaster forums is how to make money from a website. The popular answer to this is usually Adsense, which is a good answer, most people seem to forget other tried and trusted ways to generate income from a website such as affiliates and other sources.

Team Player, an experienced webmaster at Webmaster Serve who has been generating revenue via Amazon affiliates for year wrote a brilliant post about this in the Site Monetization section of Webmaster Serve, excerpt from his post follows:

I doubt there are many people who haven`t heard of the online retail giant, Amazon. And as far as affiliate programs go, it has to be one of the most successful companies of all time.

Amazon is in the U.S., the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan, so it is an international company in every respect, though the affiliate schemes run separately for each country.

Amazon is one of the most proactive companies I know of for promoting itself, either through online advertising, or through helping its affiliates to drive traffic to it.

How do you go about joining their affiliate program, or, as Amazon calls it, their Associates Program?

First of all the numbers. Commission rates are stepped from 4% to 8.5% under their `Performance` scheme. It isn’t the highest by any means, but, since most people know and trust Amazon, sales can be easier than with other lesser known programs.

Basically there are three ways to set up a site in order to sell Amazon products. Own site; storefront; Amazon`s own web store.

To get commissions from them, you need to sign up to the relevant Associates program for the country you are aiming their products at. That means that if your site is predominantly visited by people from the UK, for example, you need to be an Associate with the UK Amazon program. You can be registered as an Associate with ALL the countries, there`s no limit. If someone from, say, the US, clicks on one of your links, and they end up at the US Amazon site and make a purchase, you won`t receive any commission from that sale, unless you are also registered with the US Amazon, with your appropriate Associates code, or tag, in the link.

You can read the full article here.

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Google AdWords Pay Per Action (PPA)

Advertisers are reported to be very interested in the new AdWords PPA (Pay Per Action) program as Google began beta testing PPA. Pay Per Action is billed as click fraud killer because advertiser pays only when a predetermined conversion has taken place, very similar to affiliate program really.

In a response to questions advertisers has been asking Google PPA team, it becomes clear that only US advertisers may use PPA at present and the option to pay a percentage of the value of the transaction like some of the advertisers requested is now available. Advertisers will have to pay a fix cost per action.

Google’s PPA team also said that PPA ads will only show up through being displayed on sites that participate in Google’s content network. PPA will not appear on Google or on its search network. (I wonder why not?)

Highest Paying Adsense Keywords

This is the second part in a series of blogs about PPC advertising and how to generate maximum revenue for your website thorough PPC. This part focused on what some Webmaster calls the “money keywords” this is a acronym for highest paying search terms. Highest paying search terms vary from network to network.
This blog brings you the highest paying search terms for a number of advertisement networks including the largest of all PPC networks: Google Adwords.

Some caveats to this keywords includes the fact that is only a guide and there is no conclusive prove that any of this keywords actually pays the alleged sum, most advertisement networks guide this price closely for operational reasons and to prevent click fraud.
This keywords are also for Webmaster to use to measure potential revenue they could expect, webmasters are not advised to build website purely for advertisement purposes, it should be the other way round, you should have a website and then monetise it with Adsense or contextual advert from other networks.

Here is a list of High Paying Adsense Keywords

1. auto insurance comparison
2.lancaster personal injury attorney
3.greenville personal injury lawyer
4. hosting
5. live answering service
6. online college education
7. thruxton track day
8. life insurance term quotes
9. term life insurance quotes
10. alamo car rentals
11. scranton car accident attorney
12. lemon law lawyers california
13. family lawyers los angeles
14. auto dialer service
15. appellate lawyer
16. canada fishing fly in lodge
17. standby electric generators
18. san francisco facial plastic surgery
19. online currency trading
20.small business hosting
21.medical billing and coding software

Some useful links:

Google Adsense Keyword Tool
UK Webmaster Discussions UK SEO Forums

High Paying Keywords - The Key To Making Money from your site

Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising is one of the keys to making money from your website apart from you selling direct adverts yourself. Most webmasters favour placing third party contextual advertisements on their website via advertisement vendors who provides a code that reads the contents of the website and them places advertisement that goes with the contents of the site.

The site owner is the paid by the advertisement vendors based on the number of time the advertisement placed on his website is clicked (hence the term Pay Per Click). The advertisement vendor in turn charge the client agreed amount for each click, the vendor takes some commission and the proceeds are then passed on to the site owner.

Though various forms of PPC exists from various vendors such as Yahoo Network, AdBright and Google Inc. Google’s PPC network is by far the most popular and the largest on the Internet making getting your advertisement on Google network if you are and advertisers a very important part of your marketing mix, and if you are a webmaster, Google Adsense is one of the ways to making money from your website.Though its useful to touch on the various PPC program available to webmasters, only Google Adsense is discuss because most of the other PPC program are not available to UK webmasters, however Google Adsense has been available to UK Webmaster for a few years.

The theme of your website will determine how much you get per click of the advertisement placed on your website, this in turn is influenced by how competitive the keyword. Keywords to do with the financial industry are said to be more expensive than keyword in other industry.Google discourages speculation on the value of keywords but some other PPC vendors are quite happy to disclose how much they pay webmasters per click, for example 7search.com published a list of its top paying keywords on this page

The second installment of this article will focus on how to make money from the Pay Per Click (PPC) revolution and a list of top paying Google Adsense keywords, which is popularly dubbed “Money Keywords” by webmasters.

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PPC Adword Yahoo Network Click Fraud

It appears most webmasters do not trust PPC. One of UK webmaster forums senior member Maxseo from Australia criticise the response he received from Goggle when he got and usually large number of clicks to his adwords adverts, ever since he stopped using Adwords.

The largest groups of search engine and web directory network on the planet ISEDN uses the fact that there is not such thing as click fraud on their network as one of their USP. All this discussion makes me wonder how wide spread click fraud is.

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