Website/blog design

Well I was looking for a good site where I can get some information about web design and make money and I found a good website Stylishwebdesign.us which is best place to learn Web design and Money making. StylishWebDesign is a great web blog on web design, money and life throughout and provides a lot of in-depth information on each subjects. You can
design blog with help of this site as they provide some good information about blog design. I read an article on site about
User Account Control Behavior and I was surprised to see information provided by them which I never know before.

There are 6 categories provided in this web blog which are:

o Finance
o Internet
o Personal
o Programming
o Technology
o Tools
o Video


Each one of those categories has very useful information in them with latest available information and they put new articles everyday. You can also get information on spyware and
spyware community which discuss on Spynet membership. Check their tool section where you can find many tools which you can use for your site.

They updates website daily so I would suggest you to make your visit daily so you will get all information on time.

Tips to improve traffic to your blog

1.Send your blog to directories
You need to submit your blog to all blog directories.Use this lists:
http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/ http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ http://www.blogupper.com/

2 Submit your blog to search engines
Place your blog on all major search engines.Manual submit it to Google.com ,Yahoo.com , MSN.com, Lycos.com .To do a free submission,use this services
:http://addme.com/submission.htm http://submitexpress.com/http://submitfire.com/

3 Promote your blog on public forums
Go and register to public forums related to your blog and add your creative comments to posts. Do not mention your blog in your post as most forums do not accept self promotions.But instead, add a link to your blog in your signature.
Post as many comments as possible so people will see your link in your signature and click on it.If you write useful and creative comments that would actually spark some interest in other readers, then this will help your blog traffic but if you were to go in and just add things like "I agree" or "great post" or worst some comment that is going to cause huge conflicts, then this could be very bad for your reputation and your blog traffic!DO NOT SPAM OR YOU'LL GET YOURSELF BANNED !

4 The money lies in the list !
First of all,build your email list!This is the most important thing you could ever do if you are planning on making ANY money on the internet!The money lies in the list!You have a fantastic blog all set up, you are posting useful information daily, so start getting people to sign up or subscribe by adding a form on your blog!Start building your list immediately!

5 Visit your competition
Go to other blogs that are related to yours and write comments withyour blog link in your signature.

6 Write articlesWrite articles relavant to your blog and submit them to article directories.Write at least 2 articles a day, every single day! Here are some article directories you can submit to :
http://ezinearticles.com/ http://goarticles.com/ http://articlebase.com/http://isnare.com/

7 New content on your blog
And just as you should write articles everyday to promote your blog, you should make it a point to blog everyday.All it takes is 10 minutes to make a new post to your blog but the rewards are multiplied by 10 because search engine spiders love new content and this will make them crawl your site and get you much more traffic than you can imagine.

8 Use social bookmarking
Add your blog posts to Digg.com ,DropJack.com , del.icio.us, spotplex.com and other social bookmarking sites.If members will like your content then your blog will go to first page and you'll receive thousands of FREE visitors.

9 Promote by emailAdd a link to your blog in your email signature. This means that every email you send out will have your blog link at the end.
Original article from: http://gettraffictoyourblogtips.blogspot.com/

7 necessary step for newbie

This is very famous question for the blog/site owner. The basic you need to do are as listed.

1. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
The will improve your site position listed on the search engine. According to the research, the site listed after the first 5 pages, the chances on getting visitor is very very low (or we can say just forget about it). That's why we have to do soemthing to make our site show at least in the first five pages on the search list.
(More details go for SEO Tips)

2. Read more and learn more
You shall always go to get new information about what you are writing. Keep on upgrade yourself to provide better and updated information. At the same time, learn more about the how to improve your blog as well.

3. Leave comment
When you see some great article, leave a comment (Not spamming please). This might help you to get visitor and owner from the blog. Especially for those blog have some relted topic as your blog, dont miss it.

4. Forum signature
Do not forget to put your link in your signature. While learning and enjoying posting in forum, you are actualy doing some promoting about your blog, why you miss it?

5. Social Network
Social Network is one of the powerful spider. Tell your freinds about your blog, and ask your friends to tell his/her friends. Can you imaging how many people know about your blog after the pyramid getting bigger and bigger?
You can use your instant massager, myspace, friendster, email and whatever you can. Again, remember------DONT SPAM

6.Bookmarking and Directories.
Find some high PR directories and bookmarking, this is the way to improve your PR and link. Then, the hghest chances people will get your blog.

7.Request
What to request? When you found great article or great blog/website. You might request for the article by putting the link and email/massage to the site owner about the link exchange.

This is what the newbie shall do, and might not involve many technical knowledge. After get more related techinical knowledge then implement step by step.

Finally, always be patient since Roma not build in just a day. Your knowledge and your hardworking will definately get you rewards.


Originally from http://blogbloging.blogspot.com/

The Way of adding RSS Feed

1. Log into Blogger

2. Click on Layout

3.Click Add a Page Element

4. Scroll until you see Feed- Click on "Add to Blog."

5. Paste the feed url in the "Configure Feed" box that appears.

6. Click continue.

A message will appear that Blogger is retrieving the feed. Once the feed is retrieved by blogger, you can now customize it:
Create a title for the feed. Choose to show between 1 and 5 items.
Click in the box to include item dates. Click in the box to include sources and authors.
Now click "Save Changes."

Click and drag the RSS feed box to where you want it to appear on your blog. Click View Blog, to see the RSS feed that you have just added.

How do bloggers make money from blogs

Advertising Programs - Perhaps the most obvious changes in the past few months have been with the addition of a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers looking to make money from their blogs. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google - Adsense. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika’s eMiniMalls and WidgetBucks, Text Link Ads.
Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click (to name just some of the options) and there is a smorgasbord of options. Of course there is more to come with MSN Adcenter and YPN both in beta testing and with a variety of other advertising system currently in development (YPN is only available to US publishers).


Lastly there’s BlogAds - one of the first blog specific ad networks.
RSS Advertising - The past 12 months have seen some advances in RSS Advertising also. I’m yet to hear of any bloggers making big money blogging through it to this point - but as improvements are made to the ad programs exploring this I’m sure we’ll start to see examples of it being profitable.


Sponsorship - In addition to the array of advertising programs that are available to join there is a growing awareness in the business of the value and opportunity that exists for them to advertise directly on blogs. I’m hearing more and more examples of this and have been fortunately to have a couple of ad campaigns of my own in the past month . These are not isolated cases - as I say I know of many blogs exploring sponsorship with advertisers at present and suspect we’ll see more of it in the year ahead. Sponsorship is also happening on a post by post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies - either in one off or a regular fashion - and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so.


Affiliate Programs - There are larger affiliate programs like Amazon, Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction but also literally thousands of others from the large to the very small.
Digital Assets - Increasing numbers of bloggers have been developing other digital assets to support and add revenue streams to their blogs. By this I mean that I’m increasingly seeing e-books, courses and tele-seminars being run by bloggers. My recent foray into this with the first series of the six figure blogging course that Andy and I ran a few weeks ago and have just released the study version of. This type of activity will only increase in future - in fact this week I’ve seen numerous examples of bloggers running courses.


Blog Network Opportunities - with the rise in popularity of Blog Networks - bloggers are also being presented with more places to earn an income from their blogging - by writing for and with others. While it might be difficult to get a writing gig with one of the bigger networks - there are plenty who are always asking for new bloggers to join and who are willing to pay bloggers using a variety of payment models. While there are distinct advantages of blogging for yourself - blogging for an established network who will handle a lot of the set up/promotion/admin/SEO etc has it’s advantages also. More and more bloggers are combining writing for themselves on their own blogs with taking on blog network blogs as additional income streams.


Business Blog Writing Opportunities - as blogging has risen in it’s profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties - but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. I know of a number of bloggers who in the past month or two have been approached for such paid work. Check out Bloggers for Hire if you’re looking for this type of work.


Non Blogging Writing Opportunities - Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non blogging mediums. Manolo’s recent coup of a column in the Washington Post is just one example of this as bloggers are increasingly being approached to write for newspapers, magazines and other non blog websites. Along side this is the rise of bloggers as published book authors - this is to the extent that one blogger I spoke with this week complained to me that they were one of the few bloggers than they knew who didn’t have a book deal!


Donations - Tip Jars and donation buttons have been a part of blogging for years now but this last year saw a number of bloggers go full time after fund raising drives. Perhaps the most high profile of these was Jason Kottke of kottke.org who through the generosity of his readership was able to quit his job and become a full time blogger.


Flipping Blogs - Also more common in 2005 was the practice of ‘Blog Flipping’ - or selling of blogs. This has happened both on an individual blog level (I can think of about 20 blogs that sold this year) but also on a network level (the most obvious of these being the 8 figure sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL).
Merchandising - My recent attempt to sell ProBlogger.net T-shirts wasn’t a raging success, but it is an example of how an increasing number of bloggers are attempting to make a few extra dollars from their blogs by selling branded products through programs like Cafepress. While I didn’t have a lot of success with merchandising - quite a few larger blogs are seeing significant sales - especially blogs with a cult following. I’m not at liberty to discuss details - but I know of one largish blog which will see sales over $20,000 in merchandise for the calendar year of 2005.
Consulting and Speaking - While it has been popular for established consultants to add blogs to their businesses we’re also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background able to make money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios BECAUSE of the profile that their blogs have built them. Blogging has the ability to establish people as experts on niche topics and we all know the value of being perceived as an expert. I spoke to one blogger last month who charges himself out at over $200 an hour for speaking and consulting work - his area of expertise was something that he knew little about 18 months ago - but through his blog he’s become a leader in his field and a minor celebrity in his industry.

Blog not making money? Read this

Some blog for money and some blog for fun, but it’s not fun to lose money blogging. What do you do if your blog is costing you more than it makes?


More Advertising
If you only have one well-blended block of adsense, maybe it’s time for a more prominent ad placement. Or if adsense isn’t performing well in a prime spot, maybe it’s time to try to sell that spot directly to an advertiser.


Affiliate Programs
There are many affiliate programs that you can make to fit your niche. I have been experimenting most with NeverBlueAds. NeverBlueAds has a lot of freebies, so it’s perfect for my blog It’s All Free Online. Not only can I display text and banner advertising for the ads, I can also post about them. I can still get paid to write about freebies


Expand Your Niche
If your niche is too specific, it could be limiting what you can do. If you’re blogging about tree frogs (bad example) try blogging about all frogs. You could even take it a step further and include other species of animals. Then you’re content isn’t as limiting and you can expand your niche.


Paid Blogging
Maybe you don’t want your blog to make money, that’s fine too. There are other ways on the internet to cover your costs. Some bloggers offer incentive to ‘guest bloggers‘. This month we are offering our two top bloggers 15$ each, which is enough to cover hosting costs. Not only do you get to earn money, you can further develop your blog and brand.

Those are just a few things you can do until your blog starts making money. What did you do before your blog started making money?

6 Tips for Hosting a Blogging Contest

The contests on blogs have been growing daily, and many bloggers are considering starting there own contests.

Blog about your Blog is definitely receiving some buzz, not only for the reviews we’ve purchased, but the contests we’ve hosted as well. I read every post about our site, and usually we get comments from their readers, saying they are glad they found our blog. This is just from people mentioning our contest on their blog.
Hosting contests can not only give you SEO for a key term with link back competitions, but they can also generate buzz for your website. However if you want to run a contest, you better make sure it is successful.

1. Have a Deadline
Make sure to have a deadline for your contest. The number one reason I will not participate in a contest, is if there isn’t a deadline. “Contest closes sometime” doesn’t work for me. I also may not participate if the contest deadline is months away. Why should I enter now… there’s months until it closes…


2.Make People Want to Enter
You don’t want your readers to wait, forget, and not enter your contest. Give them a reason to enter NOW. Limited time only, contest will end in 3 days! I’ll never run this again, it’s the best prize! You get the idea. If you are running the contest to generate buzz or SEO, you want it NOW not in 3 months. At least I do.


3. Offer a Prize
Any prize will do. If it’s free I’m there! You can never go wrong with cash. If you want to be different, being unique may also work. Have something you never used that would be great to giveaway? I have several items that are going to be “prizes” soon, still in the box. Not just the day planner, but there is also a digital picture key chain, and a nice thermos set that I will give away soon. (they were all free)



4.Make it Easy
If you want a big response, don’t make your contest complicated, make it fun. Leaving a comment on the contest post is the easiest contest there is. Asking for a 200 word review and 3 linkbacks to your website, is not as appealing. Why would I review your website/blog for FREE with the CHANCE to win 20$, when we charge 35$ for a review direct?


5. Pick What You Want to Promote
Make sure the contest has benefits for you. Whether you are trying to rank for a certain keyword in google, or get your RSS Feed Readership up, base your contest on that. You can even get that all in one. “Linkback to our website saying “Increase Website Traffic” and subscribe to our RSS feed to get extra entries!”


6.Publicize your Contest!
This is the most essential for a good contest. If no one knows about it, there won’t be many entries. Just for this reason there are many contest blogs that blog only about contests (too many to list here).
Forums are also a great way to promote your contest. Don’t underestimate the power of posties at PayPerPost. Try other forums as well, you can use forums to promote our day planner contest, I also posted about the contest on other blogs I contribute to.


The perfect blog contest is pretty easy, you just have to determine what you want. Make sure to have a deadline. Offer a prize, any prize! Publicize, promote, promote, promote. And last but not least, be sure of what you want. Don’t start the contest and figure it out as you go. Set the rules, prize, and deadline from the beginning.

25 Tips of marketing your blog

1.Decide on a stand alone domain name www.myblog.com or directory of existing site www.mysite.com/blog. Sub domain is also an option blog.mysite.com. Avoid hosted services that do not allow you to use your own domain name!

2.Obtain and install customizable blog software - WordPress and Moveable Type are my favorites.

3. Customize blog look and feel templates - aka design.

4. Research keywords and develop a glossary - Keyword Discovery, WordTracker, SitePoint, SEOBook Keyword Research.

5. Optimize the blog:
Template optimization - RSS subscription options, social bookmark links, HTML code, Unique title tags, URLs, Sitemap
Add helper plugins specific to WordPress or MT

6. Create keyword rich categories (reference your keyword glossary)

7. Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality.

8. Create Feedburner Pro account and enable feed tracking.

9. Setup a Google account for Sitemap, validate and prep for future submission.

10. Identify authoritative blogs, web sites and hubs for outbound resource links and blogroll.

11. Format archived posts, related posts.

12. Enable statistics for tracking - Google Analytics, ClickTracks.

13. Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories / search engines.

14. Engage in an ongoing link building campaign.

15. If podcast or video content are available, submit to Podcast and Vlog directories.

16. Submit blog url to paid directories with categories for blogs - Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, JoeAnt.

17. Optimize and distribute a press release announcing blog.

18. Request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, discussion threads. If you have a resourceful post that will help others, point to it.

19. Research and comment on relevant industry related blogs and blogs with significant centers of influence.

20. Post regularly. If it’s a news oriented blog, 3-5 times per day. If it’s an authoritative blog, 3-5 times per week, but each post must be unique and high value.
Monitor inbound links, traffic, comments and mentions of your blog - Google Alerts, Technorati, Blogpulse, Yahoo News, Ask Blogs and Feeds.

21. Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, thank that blogger in the comments of the post.

22. Make contact with related bloggers on AND offline if possible.
When making blog posts always cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. Use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made.

23. Use social networking services, forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.
Remember when web sites were a new concept and the sage advice to print your web address everywhere you print your phone number? The same advice applies for your blog.

24. If your blog’s goal is to promote you as an authority, interview other prominent bloggers in your industry. Your own credibility will improve by association.
Build out your online networks through services such as MyBlogLog, Twitter and Facebook and leverage them to promote particularly useful content on your blog.
Once your blog has 1000 or more subscribers, show your Feedburner badge
Host images with Flickr making sure to include an anchor text link in the image description back to the post where the image is used.

25. Use your blog to gain press/media credentials at relevant industry conferences and use the event to create content, connections and increase your knowledge.

5 steps to optimize your blog

There is so much talk out there about what the ‘perfect’ web page looks like. In this article we give you tips on what we consider perfectly optimized as well as tips on helping turn the page into a great conversion tool.

Step one – Know who you are targeting
As with any marketing campaign the first step in optimizing ANY web page is to know your target audience. Is your site B2B (business to business) or B2C (business to consumer). This is important because this not only affects the tone of your site, but also the keywords you chose.

It is imperative that you nail who your target is before you do anything else because if you don’t it doesn’t matter how big your site is, or how many pages you have. If you don’t write to the right crowd you aren’t going to get too much business.

The best thing is to write down who you think the target is. Be as detailed as possible. For example, your target may be a 30-45 year old female, in middle management, who drives a mini-van and takes her 3 kids to school before she goes to work. She makes $45,000 per year and has a bachelors degree in finance. This is the type of detail you need. You should be able to picture this person in your mind. Not just the abstract idea of her, but a physical look as well. the better you can picture them in your mind the more successful you will be.
Once you know who you target is the next step is choosing keywords.



Step two – Choosing the right keywords
This may be the most difficult part of your journey, especially if you don’t fit the target profile. That is, picking the keywords they will use to find your site.You can start by using free tools like Yahoo!s keyword suggestion tool. It gives you a good place to start picking keywords.

Start with a phrase you know your site is about (i.e. if you sell widgets, then simply put “widgets” in the search box). The tool will then not only spit out other related words, but also the search volumes associated with each for the previous month.

A word of caution however: Sometimes, depending on when you use the tool, the search volumes are from a couple months ago. So if your product is seasonal based, the numbers may actually be lower or higher than represented.

Don’t be afraid to get a few hundred words to start. Remember, right now you are just gathering ideas – phrases that could drive traffic to your site. They aren’t all necessarily being used by your target customer.

You can also go to Google’s Adwords site and perform the above steps. Start with a phrase or two which describe your site or product and use Google’s suggestion tool to help expand your list.

At this point you want as many phrases on your list as possible. Don’t worry, you will cull the list pretty quickly.Once you have a huge list of words, the next place to go is a site like Wordtracker, which has a keyword analysis tool. This tool can be used for a one time fee, or if it’s something you might want to return to you can purchase a subscription. It is a fairly simple tool to use and will give you a good idea of just how likely your site will be able to compete for a phrase.

A warning about Wordtracker: The software uses search volumes from some fairly minor sites such as Dogpile, so the estimates could be a little skewed. But again, unless you deal with an SEO firm that has their own proprietary software, this is about your best alternative.

Also remember as you are culling your words, don’t just focus on the competitive factors. These won’t account for your target audience. Therefore you need to have that picture in your mind of the target as you are selecting phrases that they might use. If you are unsure, you could always as for help from friends and family that fit the target profile.

A good rule of thumb would be to chose about one phrase per page. That doesn’t mean that you will only have one page per phrase, but it gives you a good target. So if your site is 300 pages, consider having a list of 300 phrases.


Step 3 – Write your pages
Now that you have your keywords its time to write, or re-write, your content to make them more appealing to the target audience, inserting the key phrases you’ve selected whenever possible.

Keep in mind that you don’t want to over do it. Also now is a good time to ensure you have proper keyword density’s and page length.

I recommend pages that are 400-500 words long. If they are a little longer or shorter that is fine, however if they are approaching 1000 words or more you should split them up, trying to hit that 400-500 word limit.

On this 400-500 word page you should have 2 or 3 occurrences of a key phrase, and you want to limit the key phrases used to 2 or 3. In other words you could have between 4 and 9 occurrences of all your key phrases per page. This should provide you with optimal keyword density.

Above all, make sure the pages are readable. Don’t optimize for optimization’s sake. If only one key phrase applies to the page, then only use one.


Step 4 – Optimize your Pages
This can be done in conjunction with the writing. In fact it should be done at then to save time. I purposely made this a separate step so that I could outline the finer points of optimization.

Provided that you are following the guidelines found in step 3, your pages should already have good keyword density, now is the time to improve that optimization by adding optimized meta tags and if appropriate, some image alt tags.First is to write the meta description tag. While many engines will index thousands of characters in your description, I recommend no more than a couple hundred characters.

That is about how long this paragraph is.The meta description should be a readable sentence or two with the same keywords that you wrote the page for. In other words, the same phrases should appear in the meta description as the body. They should also appear as near to the front of the tag as possible however don’t sacrifice readability for this.

If the tag doesn’t make sense with them at the front, then reorganize until they do make sense. Be sure to use proper punctuation as well.Also preferred but not mandatory is a meta keywords tag. While none of the major engines use this tag, other smaller ones, and some specialty engines do use the meta keywords tag.

If your target uses one of these engines then it makes sense to have that tag in place.Also, with the keywords tag there is a lot of debate over using commas or not. Personally I do not use commas. I just combine the phrases and remove duplicate words. For example, if the page is about blue widgets, yellow widgets and red widgets then the keywords tag could be: “blue yellow red widgets.”Common sense should be used when deciding if you will use image alt tags as well.

If your keywords match the image and you can make a compelling image description, then do it. Otherwise don’t.


Step 5 – Write a compelling title tag
I purposely left this as a separate step from meta tags because this is the most important part of your optimization program. Again, it can be done at the same time as the previous two steps, but it’s importance can not be over-emphasized.

This is because the title tag is the tag which is displayed in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). It is the link that people click on, and also the tag which is generally read by the visitor before they decide to visit.Therefore, if your title tag isn’t compelling, it doesn’t matter how well optimized your page is, it may not get that click.

For this step, you need to look at your competition to determine what they are doing. Perform a search to see what is compelling about their listing? Is there one that stands out? If so what are they doing? For example, if on every other site the keyword is the first phrase on the title, then consider moving your keyword in to the second or third phrase.This is because, as you will notice, engines like Google bold the search term in the title and snippets or description.

One way to make your title stand out is to have the term in a different position than the competition. That way the bolding stands out like this:key phrase in title tagkey phrase in title tagtitle tag with key phrasekey phrase in title tag

Notice how the third one stands out from the rest?I can not emphasize enough how important that title tag is. As I said, it is the “hook” to get visitors to your site. If the title is ineffective, then it won’t get clicked which means you don’t get the opportunity to woo that client.


SummaryAs you can see, optimizing a page has less to do with optimal keyword density and more to do with knowing who it is that will be using that page.
If you don’t know who your target audience is you will never be able to properly optimize your pages. Sure you can optimize it for whatever keywords you choose, but if they aren’t the words that your customer will search for, what’s the point?
In the end, the more you know who your customer is, the better you will be in all your online ventures, from introduction of your product or service, to closing the sale. It is up to you to cater to them, and not force them into a more generic mold. This is because todays web searchers are much more savvy and willing to browse more if a site doesn’t appeal to them.

How to earn from blog

There are various types of advert that can be used to earn money from your website. If your site has a lot of visitors, it can be very worthwhile using discreetly integrated advertising to 'monetize' your website content.

There are basically 3 levels of advertising: Pay-per-impression (CPM), pay-per-click (CPC), and pay-per-action (CPA, CPL, CPS).

Pay-per-impression pays you a certain amount for every 1000 times an advert is displayed to your site visitors. The payout is low, but you can be sure of a certain level of return - based on the number of visits your site receives per month. Also known as CPM (Cost per 1000)

Pay-per-click pays you a certain amount every time someone clicks on an advert on your site. The payout is higher than pay-per-impression, but you can't be sure how many visitors will actually click on the adverts. The more relevant the ads are to the page content, the more likely the visitor is to click on an ad.

Also known as CPC (Cost per click) Pay-per-action has the highest payout, but you only get paid if the visitor you refer goes on to perform some pre-defined action, such as placing an order on the target site. Unless the ads you server are very closely related to the subject of your website, the chances of this happening are pretty slim, so you would need to have a very high level of website traffic (visitors) to make this worthwhile. Also known as CPA (Cost per action), which in turn can be divided into CPL (Cost per lead) and CPS (Cost per sale).

On balance, pay-per-click is probably the easiest way to start earning money from your website quickly. It won't make you rich, but every little helps!
One very quick and easy way of earning money through relevant advertising, is the hugely popular Google Adwords programme. You just sign up for an adsense account, specify some basic details about your site, and Google will generate some code for you. Simply place the code on your site to start earning money every time someone clicks on the adverts.

The good thing about adwords is that the adverts that are displayed are automatically selected to be relevant to the content of the page they appear on. This makes the ads much more appealing to your site's visitors. The downside is that the payout is not that high - generally just one to a few US cents per click.

Another alternative, is using an advertising agency. The principle is similar to adwords, but you choose specific adverts from a range offered to you, rather than the ads being automatically generated depending on the page content. The payout per click is generally higher than with Google, but the range of adverts and their relevance will be more limited, so your CTR ('click through rate' - ratio of clicks to visitors) might be lower.

If you can find individual affiliate programs with a high degree of relevance to your site, this can generate an impressive stream of income. For example, if the visitors to your site are interested in Joomla, you could try a scheme like the Rocket Theme template club, or Magazine.

Some site for you to earn from blogging / Writing

Weblogs, Inc. - Apply to blog for one of their ninety plus blogs or submit your own topic idea. They will pay you per post that you write and you must meet their minimum post requirements.

PayPerPost - Get paid as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews of their sponsors on your blog.

Blogsvertise - Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites, products and services in your own blog.

Review Me - After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you $20 to $200 per post that you write.

Smorty - Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.

SponsoredReviews - Write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your own blog. They charge a 35% transaction fee for their services.

LoudLaunch - Blog about the advertisers campaign releases that meet your interests. They pay once a month.

Blogitive - Get paid weekly via PayPal for posting stories that interest you.

BloggerWave - Select the advertiser opportunities that best suit your blog and write reviews on their products and services.

InBlogAds - Write about websites, products, services and companies on your blog and get paid for it.

BlogToProfit - Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.

Creative Weblogging - Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will pay you $225 per month.

WordFirm - Make money publishing books as a freelance writer from home.

451 Press - Write for a blog within their network and receive forty percent of all generated revenue.

Digital Journal - Network of bloggers that get paid to report on newsworthy articles through their blogs.

BlogBurner - Sign up for a free blog and get paid for writing new posts. Your commissions are generated through Adsense clicks.

Squidoo - Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to charity.



About.com - Become a paid guide writing articles for About.com. Compensation depends on the growth of your page views.

DayTipper - Earn $3 for every short tip you write and get published.

Helium - Earn a share of their advertising revenue by writing articles in their channels.

Dewitts Media - Get paid to write your own blog. This site requires you have a minimum page rank of 3 to sign up.

BOTW Media - Make money writing a blog for their blogging network.

CreamAid - Get paid to submit blog posts in their directory.

BlogFeast - Generate revenue from pre-installed Google Adsense ads when you blog in their network.

Mashable - Mashable hires freelancers and new staff, offering one of the largest platforms for tech bloggers.