Easy Money Making Website
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Lesson 4 - Add Revenue Sources to Your Website
Here's the best part.  The part where you start to add things to your website that are going to generate revenue for you.

You may need to set up an account with PayPal in order to receive payments.  If you don't have one, you can go and sign up for a Premium Account now at PayPal.  You will want to get the Premium Account so you can transfer money from PayPal to your bank account.  There is a fee for PayPal's service but it the most used financial payments system on the Internet and it is secure.  
Google AdSense

The first thing we are going to do is add Google AdSense to your website.  Google AdSense is a method of adding Google advertisements to your website.  Each time someone comes to your website and clicks on one of the ads, you will be paid anywhere from a few cents to a dollar or two depending on the ad. 

You can see an example of a Google Ad at the bottom of this page.   I'm sure you have also seen Google ads on almost every website you visit these days.  They are everywhere!  Why?  Because they make money!

Once you have you account, you will want to watch the following video "Generating Ad Code":

Now that you have generated Ad units, you will need to put these into your web pages.  If you don't know how to do this, here is a brief tutorial on how to do it using NVU.

Place your cursor at the section in your web page where you want the Google Ad unit to appear.  Click Insert (top of your screen), then select HTML.  A new window will open up looking like this:
Easy Money Making Webstie - How to Insert Google Ad Unit.

Paste the Google Ad Unit code into this box and click the Insert button.  There, you have pasted your Google Ad Unit into your website.  You will not see it but trust me, it is there.  You won't see it until your website goes live on the Internet because it is when your web page is displayed in a web browser that this script code is "rendered".

I also suggest that you take a little time to read some of the Google help particularly tips that Google offers for placing advertising on your website.  The more money you make, the more money Google makes so it is in their interest to help you get the most money out of your website as possible.

WARNING:  Never, ever click on a Google Ad that is on your website.  Google is very strict about this practice and your account will be deleted and you will lose all future opportunities to earn money with Google AdSense.  So don't do it!


Join Affiliate Programs

Another way I get my websites to generate income is to sign up for affiliate programs where I can promote products on my website that compliment what my website is about.  For example, putting the motor scooter comparisons on the Best Scooters Mileage website allows me to provide information to my visitors but I also provide a link from each of the scooters in my comparisons to the seller of that motor scooter.  Since I have joined the "affiliate program" for each seller whose products I review, if one of my visitors clicks on the link to the sellers website and buys a motor scooter, then I get a commission (and I really didn't do any "selling").

Some companies run their own affiliate programs and do all the tracking of sales made by their affiliates (like you).  Many others use intermediate companies to do that work for them.  Although you can certainly join an affiliate program run by the individual company, for our purposes we will use an intermediate company because they will provide us with a quicker and easier way to do our research, to select and join the affiliate programs and to get paid.

My favorite place to find available affiliate programs is at ClixGalore.  Currently, ClixGalore has over 4500 companies that accept affiliates, so finding a company whose products we want to sell will be easy.  Other companies are Commission Junction and Link Share which you may want to check out in the future.  For the purposes of this course, we will start with ClixGalore.

Step 1:   If you haven't already done so, you will need to sign up for a Pay Pal account in order to get paid by ClixGalore for sales you make from your website. When you sign up with Pay Pal you will be asked what type of account you want to open.  You will select a Premium Account. Each month, ClixGalore will send your commissions earned to your Pay Pal account. You will then receive an email notifying you that your commissions have been deposited in your Pay Pal account.

Step 2:   Go to ClixGalore and click "Search and Join Our Top Performing Merchant Programs".  When the page loads, use the drop down list to sort merchants by Merchant EPC (see diagram below) and click "Search Active Merchant Programs".   This will reload the page and the list will be sorted by Merchant EPC.  The Merchant EPC figure shows the average commission paid to Affiliates for every 100 clicks sent from the affiliate's website to the merchant's website.  The higher the EPC, the more likely you are to make money with this merchant.  A merchant with a high Merchant EPC will do a good job of converting the visitor you sent them into a buyer - and that means you get paid.
Easy Money Making Website - Clix Galore Affiliate Program
Step 3:  As you browse through the merchants, you will need to think about the type of website that you have built to determine what kind of product you will sell.  Most people search the Internet for information, not specifically to buy products.  Because this is true, we want to have products for sale on our website that relates to our website topic.  It's not much use trying to sell linens and towels to someone on your website looking for tips on restoring an old mustang.  Just keep it relevant to what your website is about.

HINT - for this first website - look for a merchant with an Affiliate Approval Rate of 100% so that you will be sure you can sell this merchant's products within having a perfect website.  

Step 4:  Decide on a merchant that you feel that your website relates to the products they sell and apply to join the affiliate program of that merchant.

Step 5:  Place he merchant's banners or ads on your website using the same method that you used to insert the Google Ad Units.

More Tips on Selection of Products and Merchants

There are some other pieces of information provided about a merchant that you will find useful when doing your evaluation.

Offered Rate:  This is the amount you will be paid per sale,  it may be a percentage, or a set amount per sale.

Program Description:  This is what you will be paid for - per sale, or per lead that you send to the merchant.

Cookie Expiry Period:  This is the amount of time that the merchant will consider the sale to be from "your customer".  For instance; when a customer goes to a merchant's web site from your web site, he may not buy the merchants product that particular day.  Instead, he may go back to the merchant's web site a week later and buy the product.  If the customer buys a product from that merchant within the stated cookie expiry period, he will be considered your customer and you will receive the commission.  The longer the cookie expiry periods are; the better it is for you.  I have often had people make purchases a month or more after first visiting my web site.
Affiliate Approval Rate:   This is the percentage of affiliates that apply for the merchant's affiliate program that get approved.  Some merchants approve all affiliates and others approve only those who have websites that meet their criteria (usually they need to be relevant to the product that the merchant is selling).

To learn more about a merchant and the products they sell, click on the merchant's name and you will be directed to more information about the merchant where you can visit their website and see the products they sell.

WOW!  That was a lot for a single lesson but it is your money making instruction so make sure you go over it and understand it.  If you skip this lesson you skip making money.  Spend the time you need to get this down before you go on.



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