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Making Money with affiliate programs

If you are looking for good ways to monetize your website or blog you might try the following affiliate programs:

I’ve been using Amazon since 1998 or so. I have Amazon banners and buttons on a few of my blogs but the majority of sales that I make through Amazon are on my main website. My earnings have slowed in the last few years, but I’d say that I’ve probably sold about half a million dollars worth of merchandise for Amazon in the time I’ve been working with them and I’ve made several thousand dollars as a result of those sales. Amazon has worked fairly well for me.

Chitika on the other hand is something that I only started to try on my blogs about eight months or so ago. Over all it has not been all that successful for me. Perhaps if I put it on my large and busy website I’d do better. Certainly Chitika works well for many web site owners. In fact I’ve heard many state that it brings in as much or more as Amazon or Google Adsense for them. It does not for me.

As far as affiliate programs go Google Adsense is fast becoming my best money earner. Now, compared to A list bloggers I’m not making thousands each month or anything, but I am making enough that I get paid by them each month. I can’t say how much I’ve made because that is against Google Adsense’s terms of agreement.

I use Google Adsense on all of my websites and blogs. Perhaps that is one reason why I earn the most from them as affiliate programs go.

I’ve found that blending the ads into the site, and not over using Adsense works best. Glaring ads turn people off. For some, the amount of Google ads that I have on this site might be too much, but there are many sites out there with huge ads in their posts, that to me, just seems to ruin the reading experience. My suggestion is to not have ads obstruct the flow of your post or article.

Give these affiliate programs a try for a month or longer. More than likely one will work better for you than the rest.

Use C-Panel to create email account

by Tricia

When website owners first decide to host their site with a web host it can be very confusing. Does the site have C-Panel? If so, this will make setting up and maintaining your sites so much easier. I’m not going to go into a full discussion of what c-panel is or all of it’s features in this post. Instead I thought I’d concentrate on one of the basics – setting up an email account for your website in C-Panel.

When you view C-Panel in your web hosting account look for an icon that says Mail and click on it.

Once you are in there select – Add/remove/manage accounts

Click Add account at the bottom of that page.

Fill in the name of the email and the password. You can probably leave the quota alone. I think the default is 10 mb.

click on Create.

After you click on Create you’ll get some instructions as to how to log in to use that email account in webmail (another C-Panel icon and feature). Write this information down or use it immediately to set up your new email account in your regular email application.

This really is quite simple to do, but it can be confusing for a first time C-panel user.

Blog designs – make it personal

by Tricia

About a year ago- when I started blogging, everyone started to complain about all the cutesy blog designs with cartoon women etc. I had already created my own design and this made me feel really bad, but like your idea for your design, mine is very personal. It’s Tricia’s Musings that I’m referring to by the way.

Tricia’s Musings header has a photo of my husband and neighbor in the background being silly, the photo also represents my love of gardening, the iguana on the couch represents my love of reptiles and that actually is my iguana Napoleon who passed away in 2004, the telephone table to right looks very much like an antique on I own (antiques are also something I’m interested in), and the nurses cap and stethoscope on the table represent the fact that I’m a nurse. Oh and the cartoon “me” does look a fair bit like I do.

I’ve posted on my site, not recently, about my design choices and everyone seems to get it. The majority don’t include my blog design in the general distaste for “cutesy” cartoon blog designs. Although some don’t love it.

Personally, I don’t mind the cutesy cartoon designs that much- but if the design is well chosen to fit the blog or blogger I think it works better. All those sex kitten cartoony women? Is that really you? LOL

Whatever anyone chooses to do, it’s your blog, your design choice. Remember that. However I do think that you should choose a header that reflects what your blog is about, or describes who you are in some way.

It’s always a good idea to try to customize the standard blogger or wordpress or other blogging platform designs if you choose to not get a custom design for your site (there’s lots of free blog themes out there- just search!). There’s days I’m surfing blogs and I sometimes see the same design, totally un-customized 100 or more times. There’s nothing wrong with the design but it really doesn’t tell me who YOU are – especially if I’ve seen 99 others just like it that day.

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