Showing posts with label adsense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adsense. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010

"Facebook Doubles Down on Social Actions"

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Author of Original article- Brian Morrissey (linked to his twitter account)
  • Found in the digital news section of adweek.com



The industry of social media has become one of the biggest sources of advertising revenue in the world. With a database of users that grows larger everyday,  Facebook is at the forefront of the Social Media world.

That's why the developers at Facebook have come up with a way to make the ads on its site even more effective, thereby making affiliate markers even more money. Ad managers can now track a particular ad's effectiveness through rates, total clicks and impressions.

This article is very interesting to me because I use social media at my job. We all have to have Facebook and Twitter pages for the respective sports that we cover, so I manage a Facebook page and Twitter account for Memphis golf. 

The fact that people are making money through advertising on Facebook and other programs such as Google AdSense is a really interesting concept.

For example, I registered this blog with Google AdSense and placed a few ads on it based on the HTML code given to me by Google. This blog has been up for about three weeks now, and I have about 20 posts.

I'm certainly not a dedicated poster, yet I have made almost $15 through people clicking on the ads on my site. The fact that I can make money simply by posting my thoughts to a free blog website is a concept with limitless possibilities, and Facebook is on the forefront of making it even easier to do.

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Affiliate Marketing

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Since I started this site and entered through the portal in online blogging, I've realized that there are tons of people out there earning a nice little check just through affiliate marketing on their respective blogs and websites.


Of course, I was extremely skeptical at first, and still and to some degree. Yet, a lot of this stuff is actually pretty genuine. You just have to work to drive traffic to your blog in order to make money.


I started this blog a couple of weeks ago and now including this post I have 12 unique postings to go along with a little additional content on some other pages within the blog.


I've tried to update with something each day, hoping that would be enough to drive traffic to my site and thereby make some money though the Google Adsense application. 


Google AdSense For Dummies


I couldn't have been more wrong. Simply updating content and pasting html Adsense code into your blog is nowhere near enough.


I've been trying social bookmarking so that my blog will show up on sites like digg.com and stumbleupon.com and have also built a couple of hub pages that help drive traffic to your site. 


Aside from that, I've been trying to get my blog into as many social media news feeds as possible. I still haven't made a whole lot of money through the Adsense application, but my page impressions and clicks on the ads are slowly increasing.


Hopefully, at some point, all this will translate into some kind of tangible monetary gain, but I'm only cautiously optimistic at this point. 


I will continue to post occasionally on my success or lack there of from using Google Adsense and let you know if it really is as easy to make money online as people say.


For those of you wondering how to get started with Adsense, I've included a good video that should help you get things started with your blog as well as some helpful links. Good luck!




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