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Two people, one in her 50’s – the other in his 70’s are making a good amount of money with Google Adsense!
How does an extra $1,200 – $2,000 per month sound to you?
Check out the full interview on ABC News…Making Money From Home – Google Your Way to Extra Cash
HubPages is a revenue sharing community that allows you to create web pages (called hubs) on topics of your choice. You can earn money with Google Adsense or by promoting Amazon and eBay products. When someone makes a purchase through your Amazon or eBay links, you’ll earn a commission from that sale.
Your Adsense ID shows ads on 60% of the views of your hub. Ad revenue from the other 40% goes to HubPages.
What Can You Do With a Hub?
While I’m sure there are additional benefits of setting up a hub – here are a few I find most beneficial:
Making the most money with Hub pages
Revenue sharing through Adsense is not a very reliable way to make money. I’ve tinkered with similar revenue sharing programs off and on and have concluded that you’ll make a little – but it won’t be anything major to write home about.
Personally, I would recommend including affiliate links that will allow you to earn commission earnings based on action. Readers tend to click on a contextual links or act on a specific promotion if it is integrated well within your content.
Four Ways to Integrate your Hub Page with Affiliate Programs
These suggestions focus on using Hubs as a means to promote your affiliate links.
1. Only focus on a specific niche to make it easier to aggressively promote complimentary affiliate programs. I’ve heard Clickbank is quite popular to use on hubs.
2. Include affiliate text links within your content. You may also wish to direct readers to your blog, website or squeeze page.
3. Monetize your outgoing links by using adf.ly. This can make you money every time someone clicks your link. use this sparingly, some visitors might be turned off by the ads and while you’re trying to make money, you’re also trying to gain loyal readers.
4. Use image hosts that pay to put up thumbnails, screen shots or mini picture galleries. You’ll earn money for every one who clicks on your pictures. These usually works best on topics such as celebrities, entertainment or humor. A new one on the scene I’ve been hearing about is Picq.us
HubPages does provide a nice means of promoting affiliate products, a means of linking back to your own websites and building community and brand recognition. It’s absolutely worth a look if you have a little spare time and would like to give it a test drive. HubPages has worked very well for some writers I know.
A couple of days ago, I introduced you to VigLink, an amazing program I discovered recently that allows you to monetize the majority of merchant links on your blog or website. As I processed through my own setup, I had my goto girl for micro-analyzing, MJ, take a look to gather her thoughts.
Between the two of us, we came up with a nice list of questions that weren’t so readily answered on the VigLink website. If answers existed, I wasn’t able to locate them and frankly, patience is not a virtue I ever developed and appreciation for.
With that list of questions, I set out to get them answered. Hopefully you’ll find these answers of benefit in deciding if VigLink is right for you or when setting up your own account.
Things You’ll Want To Know About VigLink:
Payments: When signing up, use the email address you use for your paypal account. Payments are issued via Paypal and VigLink doesn’t have a place to list the Paypal associated email account specifically – so to avoid any possible confusion come payment time, just use that email address. You can always add another email address to your paypal account if need be – just make sure the association is made at some point before payday.
Affiliate Networks: It’s neither necessary or required to sign up for all the affiliate network merchants partnering with VigLink, which happens to be over 25 worldwide. VigLink manages all the affiliate relationships from the backend. The affiliate credentials used are theirs. Basically they serve as a super affiliate and publishers like you are sub-affiliates. In the event you do wish to join individual networks, I provide a list of the networks below.
Cloaked Links: The Javascript library will see those links as internal links, and so it will skip them. Instead of using the Javascript library you could integrate with our API directly in your redirect script, and then redirect to the rewritten URL yourself. Take a look a the API docs.
Linking Options: VigLink is carefully designed so that your user’s experience is not changed at all. Whether you link to a homepage, a landing page, or a specific page deep in the site, the link will be affiliated and the user ends up on the exact same page you linked to. If you’re talking about a specific cell phone, you’ll want to link to the product page in your post and VigLink will convert it to an affiliate link if the merchant is an active partner.
Affiliate Networks:
UPDATE: If you do sign up for VigLink, be sure to sign up for my newsletter. There’s some very exciting news coming that you won’t want to miss out on!
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