Dreaming About Money ??

To all the Newbies to Blogging, I know that each one of you are so keen, eager, overexcited to know all about making money, money in the sense not just one or two cents but huge amounts. We all dream of making money easily and feel blogging is the ample platform but what we forget to realise is the smart way to do them so, I personally even dreamed a lot more, i  was drawn into this blogging world on my own interest, well I was always greatly inspired by those cool headed blog people ( what to call them - Blogmaniacs who just blogged,blogged & blogged more and well made some cool bucks in the end, recieving three to four figure cheques home.. pocket full of money to party.. umm.. well we need some too. So lets all get started here, right now.

The things you need to know first to make online money (a lots )

1. A website for blogging

For this, My best recommendation are Hub Pages or Blogger. Blogging becomes easy using these two great sites. Word Press is good but when it comes to inserting ads it troubles you a lot, like you need to pay them and become a premium member and after which only you are allowed to edit the web part and insert. I personally feel Blogger and Hub Pages are equally good and great, hats off to them,kudos.

2.Signing Up with ad networks

A list of the ad networks (the good ones)are below :

Adsense - The Best One till date

Adbrite

Bidvertiser

Kontera

Clicksor

Chitika

Yahoo Publisher Network

Adguru(Guruji ads ) Indian Affiliate Advertising

Okay now lets know all about each of the individual ad networks mentioned above, in detail

GOOGLE ADSENSE 

East or West Adsense is the Best 

Adsense, I would say is the first ever ad network that revolutionised the concept of " BLOG TO MAKE MONEY ". It's the best ever ad network up to date and although there are a quite a lot of ad networks popping every now and then, every blog people's ultimatum is to get an approval from the Big G's ADSENSE ( can you ?). They are perfect,pay you good and more than all of it,wow what a mechanism of quality targeting.

To be more clear, I will explain the quality of targetting of Google Adsense.

Suppose say you own a blog regarding vista tweaking and optimising, and you sign up with their network ang got luckily ( very ) into their approval, the next minute you ought to see some beautiful ads proping up on your blog and all these blogs are so well related to Microsoft, Vista, XP, Windows.That's Google !! Those Guys Rock !

Google Adsense can be easily used with Blogger & Hub Pages

Sign Up with Google Adsense here 

Getting an approval from Adsense ( not that hard folks )

 To get Adsense approval is not that as many of you think.I had seen many people complaining that they have been disapproved many a times and are fed up of adsense,my kindest advice to all such people, the "MISTAKE IS YOURS".Be optimistic in correcting the past and apply systematically to them, they will surely approve.

The reason why many people are being disapproved..

The greatest sin in the blogging world   is copying other's contents i.e. being a Copy Cat.And as a strict rule ADSENSE hates such copy cat work.So my request all especially the new ones dont  just copy anyone's work.So go now,pick a scrap paper and start writing down your contents,its always better to write down your thoughts rather to type,because you tend to copy when ideas just dont pour out.But all that is upto you,whatever your methodology ,let all that be yours and yours ,good original content

Don't try to alter and reformat the copied content to publish it as yours,remember the google guys are smart,they trace out the copied easily and your efforts to fool them can only be futile so be smart enought not to copy.

Thus,the golden rule,"DONT BE A COPY CAT"

Some tips in composing your content :

-->Have your own style of writing,try to be formal but not strictly adherent

-->Try to be jovial and a bit ironical in between,all these stuffs dont bore your visitors

-->calibri & verdana are the hot fonts now

-->Choose a color that goes with your template (Hub Pages have their default ones so don't worry here)

-->Use Flickr or Picassa links for photos rather than adding them directly,since it decreaes the blog loading time & doesn't scare away your visitors !

I recommend Picassa links for Blogger for it becomes much easier if you want to create a slide show.

Choosing the right template

Be a professional in choosing the right template.I would suggest you to use a two column template,that is clearly demarcated into zones.Preferably the ad zones are good if they are on to the left side for they get more clicks according to a survey.So try choosing one of such templates.

As a default blogger template,the best one is left minima strecthy which can be chosen by clicking the pick new template button in layout button.

Or try finding a template colorful,web 2.0 of your taste from the loads of free template   downloads available from several websites.

ADBRITE - THE BEST ALTERNATIVE TO ADSENSE 

ADBRITE is a california based advertising company and can be said one of the best alternatives to google adsense.As we all know none can match the deadly adsense, adbrite is for people who have been disapproved by adsense. Adbrite's approval process is almost instant,no waiting for weeks, no regrets of disapproval.

Ad Space is shown instantly as soon as you sign up your blog for monetizing.Initially "YOUR AD HERE" may be shown,but within 24 hours period ads start showing on a regular basis.

Fast Instant Approval 

Join Adbrite

What the most i like about adbrite is,they accept anything, a blog with a single post or one that's flooded with quality posts,whatsoever may be case, they approve you. It's that easy folks !

They do serve a wide range of ads like

1.banner ads

2.text ads

3.inline ads

4.full page ads (They were the pioneers in introducing and it is a very good earning tool for the publishers like us)

5.brite pics

and well of course, their cool referral program

Join Adbrite

The Positives of Adbrite

-->Instant approval

-->Customizable ads

-->High  PPC

-->The Referral Pragram

-->Minimum Payout is from $ 5 ( that's really the best feature of Adbrite )

The Negatives of Adbrite

-->Poor site targeting ads

-->Low CTR

-->Ads are bit slow in loading sometimes

-->Not very attractive

-->Fair chance of adult ads being shown

In my experience I feel their Rectangle & Skyscraper ads are high earning favourites.The PPC is quite Good,its infact higher than adsense,but CTR tends to very low when compared to Adsense.They pay by both Paypal & Cheque