Make + Money + Online = Not always easy 

If you are like a lot of people, you want to make money the easiest way possible.  Some argue that making money online isn’t as easy as people make it look.  I would say there is a little truth to that, but if you do the research and read, read, read, you learn quickly that there are many ways to make money online the easy way.

Get Your Blog On

Let’s start with a blog.  You know that it’s easier than setting up a regular website.  Wordpress.org is an excellent place to start, but if you don’t want to shell out a couple of bucks for a domain name, then head over to blogger.com and get a free one setup.

Choose Affiliate Network 

Affiliate networks are all over the place and have tons of offers for you to choose from.  But if you do not take the right ones, you will make no money quickly.  You don’t necessarily have to have a specific niche on your blog, but it does help when choosing offers.

You might not think that it is very easy to choose the right offers, but just sit and think about it for a minute.  Is the offer relevant?  Will the traffic coming to this post want to click the text link or banner for more information?  Those are just two of the questions that will help out a great deal when trying to decide what offers to promote. 

The Rest of the Story 

This blog has a couple of niches, if you will, and I have had some success with a couple of ads you might see around.  The reason?  Well, I watched my stats, checked keywords and targeted the ads directly to the traffic that is coming in from search engines.  With the right analytic software, this is fairly easy to do.  Google Analytics is a great place to start and they are offered free.

Once you have chosen an offer, set up a post directing traffic to it, keep an eye on how well it does.  Watch impressions, clicks, conversions of that ad each day.  You will want to make sure it’s worth the space to have that ad there.  Your Most affiliate networks provide many reports to track this.

If you see that your ads are not converting well, don’t get all crazy and remove the ads, just try and come up with a reason it might not be doing well.  Do you have enough traffic?  Is the ad placed in a good area of the post or page?  Is the text hard to read or the banner flicker like mad?  All of these could be factors, but in the end you will want to test, test, test.

Maybe put 2-3 different banners in rotation on that spot and track the results.  Once you find which banner converts better, you can show just that one.  Do the research on your offers, it pays in the long run.

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