Which Niches Make the Most Money

If you want to build a blog you are going to need a topic to write about!

Obviously you need to be interested in your topic or else you will soon get bored of writing it. We have already discussed that the key to making money online is generating traffic to your site or blog and the key to driving traffic is content. The content you write and the frequency you update that content is crucial to the future success of your blog, therefore you need to have an interest in the topic that you are going to write about.

I'm sure that it will come as no surprise to you that Making Money Online tops the list of profitable niches.

So which Niches do make the most money? Find out below:

1. Making Money Online.
2. Weight Loss.
3. Quit Smoking.
4. Credit and Credit Repair.
5. Weight Gain and Muscle Building.
6. Running a Home Business.
7. Training Pets.
8. Learning Techniques such as Memory and Speed Reading.
9. Learning a Language.
10. Relationships and Divorce.
11. Gaming such as Runscape or Warcraft.

I found this list on a blog called More Money Blog and felt that I had to share the information; it's such an important piece of information to help give an understanding of the niches that provide the most significant income to the wannabe blogger.

It is also worth noting that all of the above list provide products or information that help to solve a problem. The exception is gaming of course which is a form of entertainment.

The main issue will be that the more successful the niche the more competitive it will be, thus rendering it harder to conquer.

I am pretty sure that in order to make a significant amount of money from blogging (especially via adsense) you will need to have a number of blogs in various niches. Personally I would build one or two blogs initially, then once you can update them simply (preferably once a day) and have carried out all of the relevant SEO work required start another one. Keep doing this writing articles that will be interesting for time to come until you have a large base of blogs for readers to visit.

Google Adsense - Introduction

Whilst many of you will know all about Google Adsense there may be a number who don't. This brief introduction to the programme is dedicated to those who do not have a clear understanding of the programme and wish familiarise themselves with it.

As the title suggests, Adsense is an advertisement application run by Google (there are a number of other less popular advertisement applications out there run by other companies such as Yahoo but we will deal with them another time).

Website owners or bloggers who wish to enrol in the Adsense programme can display text, image and video advertisements on their sites. The adverts are administered by Google and generate income, usually on a per click basis (this is commonly known as Pay Per Click or PPC).

Adsense is a great starting point for bloggers using the free blogging platform blogger (as I am) due to the simplicity involved in uploading Adsense to the blog. This is mainly due to the fact that Google also owns Blogger.

Although this is only a brief overview of Adsense as a whole, the purpose is to simply offer readers a brief introduction to the programme. You can read all the Adsense related articles on this site by click the link below:

Blog Addick Adsense articles

Ei42 Shop Update

Here is some more Information about the Ei42 Shop.

For anyone that is interested Ei42 stands for: E is for Everything I is for Internet and 42 is the supposed answer to Life, The Universe and Everything else.

Click here to build your Ei42 shop, receive cashback on online purchases and start building your online network to start earning some serious cash.

Watch and listen to the vision of Ei42's Managing Director below:




The basic description of the Ei42 business model is that:

Ei42 is a business opportunity that gives you the chance to earn commissions as an affiliate and earn money by introducing others from your ‘social network’. You also receive money back on your own purchases.

You tell your friends and colleagues about this free affiliate shopping site and hopefully they will sign up and tell their friends about it. Any purchases they make that qualify for affiliate commission you get a 10% cut. Then if your friend invites someone else, you get 4% of their purchases and so on. This continues for 7 affiliate tiers (which will involve a considerable number of affiliates).

You can see my store here: Drews Bargain Shop

Read my previous article's about Ei42 shops.

To Donate or not to Donate

In the beginning I thought offering visitors the option to Donate was a bit cheeky!

However, after reading an article by Steve Pavilina, I am starting to come round to the idea being a valid option to make money online. I have therefore decided to put a Donate button and page on this website.

In his article Steve Pavilina informs us that Donation's are in fact his second biggest earner behind Google Adsense (his site currently brings in $1000 per day, a very impressive sum!).

In fact his top six income streams are:

1. Google Adsense.
2. Donations.
3. Text Link Ads.
4. Chitika Mini Malls.
5. Affiliate Marketing Programmes like an Ei42 Shop.
6. Individual Advertising.

To date I have only begun to use Google Adsense, Donations and Affiliate Programmes in my quest to develop money making strategies.

It's great to imagine a blog or site bringing in $1000 per day but it is also impossible to achieve without large volumes of traffic passing through. I have started to document my ways to generate traffic and will see how many visitors the methods described bring to this blog.

Anyway back to Donations!

The article continued, stating that an average donation is around $10, but that Steve has also received a number of $100 donations too. It is very simple to add a donate button via your PayPal account. Simply sign into or create your account, merchant services, click donations in the useful link section and follow the instructions.

By providing your visitors with a donate button you are offering them a means of voluntary contributions, should they wish to support your site/content. It is definitely a win-win situation as it doesn't cost you anything to set up and therefore qualifies as a genuine possible way to make money online via a blog.

Donations will give you a sense of pride in your Blog as it will give you an indication of the value readers put on your site. After all if they are willing to give money for something that could be free to them, then surely that has to be one of the highest complements.

Donate to Blog Addick

If you find the information on this site helpful and you would like to make a donation to the Blog Addick cause, then please click the Donate option which can be found on the left hand side of this blog (below the suscribe button). The amount you donate is entirely up to you.

Why donate? We here at Blog Addick want to spend our time directly helping people by creating new blog posts and articles to aid our visitors with their mission to make money online. If you want to support Blog Addick in the quest to discover and inform our readers of ways to make money online, please make a contribution. Any amount is appreciated.

To make a donation via PayPal please click the donate button which can be found on the left hand side below the suscribe button.

Thank you for all of your support!

Easy ways to Make Money Online with an ei42 shop

An ei42 shop could be a great little money spinner! The only problem is that it is currently only available in the UK.

I personally came across the site whilst reading Mikes Money Making Mission Blog (he has just begun a test to see if owning a shop does to prove to be a good source of making money online).

The Great thing is that setting up a shop is Easy and Free meaning that it is Risk Free!

What is ei42?

Essentially ei42 is all about shopping.

There are 1,507 retailers to choose from and not just any old shops. These are the UK's biggest brands including the likes of Debenhams, New Look, HMV, Tesco, Amazon, CDWow, ebay, Play.com, Boots, Waterstones, Currys, Marks and Spencer, the list just goes on and on.

Basically any shop that you would visit whilst shopping especially leading up to Christmas.

Once you sign up you get your free shop, which is created with ease via their basic template. You can choose the colour. Here is my shop to view: Drews Bargain Shop

Getting Paid.

You get money back through commission earned, these are:

1. Personal Commission; Purchases made on your own shop (you will of course need to market your own shop to get people buying). You will also receive commission on your own purchases giving you discounted shopping.
2. Team Commission; You earn a percentage of sales from sales generated by people you introduce. The commission earned is on 7 tiers of introductions which could lead to a large network (this is of course a form of MLM or Multi Level Marketing).

When you share Ei42 with your friends/readers of your site you automatically qualify to earn a percentage of the commissions generated from sales made by your whole team up to and including seven levels (which is a lot of people).

Some other benefits of an ei42 shop include:

• With other loyalty schemes your earnings are limited by the amount you personally spend but with Ei42 those limits don't exist because your team of friends is getting bigger every day.
• Every time you refer a friend to Ei42 you grow your business because every new friend adds a new shop to the Ei42 shopping network. More shops equals more sales and more profits that you can share in.

Commissions rates offered by each vendor vary but the Affiliate control panel is very clear and concise.

I will of course update how the shop has been working for me and if it is a viable form of earning money online. I will also inform via Blog Addick if there are any major issues with the site.

At the very least it will be a discounted form of buying products online from the top stores.

Affiliate Marketing - Introduction

Affiliate marketing is an internet based form of marketing where the seller of a product (be it an individual or a business) rewards it's affiliates (which can be numerous in number) for each new customer or visitor that is a direct result of the affiliates marketing efforts.

The growing trend of affiliate marketing has evolved as a direct result of the internet and therefore lends itself perfectly to websites and blogs alike.

Affiliate marketing has become an industry in it's own right with many individuals earning significant income as a direct result. Many of the top bloggers on the internet state that the income received from affiliate marketing is in fact their top earner.

Internet marketing is of the utmost importance to companies trying to make a name for themselves and their products. Affiliate marketing is the perfect tool to get a brand out there, which has led to a great number of companies and individuals getting involved, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies, affiliate mangers (within companies), specialised third party vendors as well as many other types of affiliates/publishers who try and sell the various products available.

Web 2.0, including blogging and online communities has led to a rise in quality of the affiliate products that are available to promote, this is a direct consequence of the fact that a poor quality product can be exposed across the entire web in double quick time.

In this day and age affiliate marketing is rightly seen as a crucial part of product/service promotion. The other advantages of an affiliate programme is that it doesn't cost much to implement and will generate a consistent source of online profit. On the other hand it is also a great tool for affiliates as it is a way of generating an income using someone elses product.

It is usually accepted that Affiliate programmes will fall into two basic categories, these are:

1. Pay Per Performance.

2. Pay Per Click.

Pay Per Performance or PPP

Is the most commonly used form of affiliate marketing by individuals and companies trying to promote their products or services. The company/individual only has to pay the for an affiliate referral when it leads to a direct sale. Look out for multi-level or tier affiliate programmes, they will reward you for other affiliates that you sign up, meaning that you get commission for your direct referrals as well as that of your sub-affiliates.

Pay Per Click or PPC

PPC affiliate programmes are by far the most common place and are very simple for an affiliate to implement. Google adsense and Blogger are a perfect example (adsense is ready made to be added to your blog via your blogs layout). You get paid a small amount for every click on an advert that is featured on your site. Remember once someone clicks an advert on your site, they are gone!

How you implement affiliate programmes into your blog is entirely up to you. From what I have read and can ascertain from the top bloggers out there, they all seem to say that there main source of income is via the sales of product and not through adsense. Personally I have started with adsense before moving on to the product side of affiliate marketing. Find out more about adsense by clicking on the adsense page link.

Affiliate Programmes

You can sign up and promote various affiliate products via PayDotCom or Click Bank. They are by far the most popular site to promote affiliate programmes, are well established and therefore a reliable source.

Write an Article - Build a Reputation

Do you want to build your online reputation?

Do you want to inform the public about a specific topic?

Why not write a featured article for Blog Addick.

You Get:

• A Life Time Link on Blog Addick.
• An article on the web for free.
• Your message out there.
• A small piece about you and your blog (one short paragraph only).

Quality, Quality, Quality:

Don't forget you are in the spotlight here, so write a quality piece about your chosen topic. The better and more interesting the article the more people will visit your site and remember your name!

Article Requirements:

• At Least 250 words per article not including the short paragraph about yourself.
• A uniquely written article by you.
• Exclusively written for this blog (not to be posted anywhere else).
• Your allowed 1 affiliate link per article.

The Way Forward:

Simply write your article and send it here. I will do the rest!

Build a Money Making Blog

The whole point of Blog Addick is to see if it really is possible to make money from blogging.

I am only a week or so into the development of Blog Addick as I write this post and am now sure that you can make some money blogging; the questions on my mind now are:

• How much can you generate?
  
• Is it enough to live on or is it just going to be pocket money?

The great thing is that you can start to build a blog for free so any money you do make will be profit. Whether or not you start to spend money to further enhance a blog depends on how quickly you wish to drive the blog forwards.

The purpose of this post is to act as a guide in developing a blog that will generate some form of income. Of course as I keep building Blog Addick and hopefully keep increasing the amount of money I generate from this Blog as I do I will share that information with you via posts.

Here are the steps that I have taken so far:

1. Choose a topic to Blog about.

This is crucial! You don't want to start writing a blog about something that you have absolutely no interest in, your readers will soon get bored and stop visiting. You don't need to be an expert in the matter that you are blogging about, the blog can be a journey describing how you have learned about the topic, your readers can help you to learn. I definitely do not claim to be a blogging expert, but the web is a great tool that can help you to learn a great deal very quickly.

I have a blog that I have started about cricket and in particular the ashes series between England and Australia. You see the site here The Ashes 2009 News. It's just something that I love and want to write about.

2. Create your free Blog.

You can do this for free (like me) with Blogger, all you need to do is follow the instructions. I have chosen blogger for the very reason that it is free! Many of the experts out there say that you can build better and more successful blogs via wordpress and your own domain name. Whilst this may be true, it is not for me at the moment, it may well be another blog building journey for me somewhere down the line. Right now I want to see if I can build a blog for as little money as possible and to make it as popular as possible. Try and think of a good original name for your blog that means something to you!

3. Optimize the Layout and Colours of your Blog

Once you have your blog created you will need to start optimizing the layout etc of your blog. I changed the template to a four column one in order to create more room on the page. I would suggest that you decide on three or four colours that you are going to use in your blog, you can mess around with this in the web layout page of blogger.

I visited two sites that have helped me enormously. They both provide blog development tips specific to blogger.

They are Tips For New Bloggers and Blogger Tips and Tricks. I think it's great that these guys are willing to share their secrets and tips with us, otherwise I know I would be lost. I strongly suggest that you add both of these sites to your favourites so that you can refer to them whenever you need them.

4. Keywords

I have used Traffic Travis to generate keywords. The programme has proven very useful throughout the building of Blog Addick. Find out more about Traffic Travis by reading the article dedicated to Traffic Travis.

5. Content

It is crucial to provide you readers with some decent content to make sure that they keep coming back. Search engines also scrutinize the quality and information provided in a blogs content to ensure that it provides it's customers (the people searching information on the net) with the best service.

There are many providers offering Blog content, the issues with these is that the content is often not that unique.

Experienced and established Bloggers usually have a number of people they use to write articles/posts for them; this is fine if you have the money. Personally I am going to build my blogs with my own posts (initially anyway).

Tip: To find decent and informative content on your niche subject search the web. Break down the category's that you consider important to your subject and put together posts on those topics. If you want to write about breaking news in your niche, simply set up a Google Alert, that way everytime a story breaks on your topic you will be able to upload a post onto your Blog. Re-write it of course to make it your own, using a story is fine as long as you give credit to the author.

How to make Money Online

Is it all in the Title?

I have just read a very interesting article about how to make money online using adsense. The article suggested that the title of a post plays a huge part towards the amount of traffic that will find it's way to your site.

This post will provide me with first hand evidence whether or not the post title does indeed generate more traffic or not!

The article went on to say that, a post entitled "How to make Money Online" generated twice as much money as a more descriptive article Heading. I'm not sure that you should be starting every post "How to make money online" as that would become rather dull. However if your not particularly interested in keeping the attention of your reader then it could be the perfect way to lure visitors to your site.

The other issue is that there must be literally thousands of posts entitled "How to make money online" so the odds are that you will be down the list on that particular search. The competition will be fierce so you better make sure that your SEO etc is all up to scratch.

You can read my ongoing article on Ways to Generate traffic and Make Money online to help optimize your blog.

The other issue with the headline is the relevance to the adsense ads. Of course there are many adverts related to "how to make money online" which will pay very well and will probably be clicked very often. The more out-there the post heading the less likely google is likely to find a relevant advert; if an advert is not relevant to the reason your visitor searched and found your site via the search engine, then why on earth would they want to click the ad. Very simple Eh!

As with all of my other stuff I will keep you up to date with any results I get from any of the discussed topics.

Adsense Ready Sites

I've just started to read a few articles on Adsense Ready Sites and the question is:

To Buy or Not To Buy!

There have got to be advantages and disadvantages with regards to buying a pack of these ready made sites.

Could these ready made sites provide us with an easy formula to make money online? Or are they just another form of corner-cutting that will ultimately lead to making someone else a lot of money instead?

Disadvantages

I have already discussed that google is looking for unique quality content to send it's visitors to. If you are buying websites that give no guarantee of being unique and are duplicated all over the web, then how are you going to get traffic to your site?

Search engines will pick up on duplicate content and will not feature the site very highly or will not feature the site at all. To earn money through adsense you need clicks, to get clicks you need traffic and so on. As far as I am concerned Search engines are currently a vital part of the traffic generating model, so you need to keep them happy with quality content.

The other issue I foresee is; can you guarantee that the site and content are legal. Many articles on the web have copyright's which of course means that you cannot use it. How are we to know if the entire site that we have just purchased is not a copy of an existing site. If our sites are copies of existing sites then, once we upload the site and content we will be breaking the law.

I have recently read a number of articles that have indicated Googles heightened attention towards MFA or Made For Adsense sites. It appears that the search engine is trying to clamp down on sites that don't really offer it's visitors any valuable information. If this is the case then you have to ask yourself if it really is worth spending money on a site that may not be featured on some of the main search engines.

Advantages

As far as I can see it is possible to buy packs of websites that guarantee unique content. If this is the case then it would be a dream to be able to pay for 10,50,100 or 150 sites that were ready made. I suspect ,like anything in life, that you would have to pay through the nose for premium content sites. I am a great believer in getting what you pay for; if you pay very little for something then the likelihood is that the quality will not be there.

Conclusion

As far as I can see Adsense Ready Sites would be a good idea if you can guarantee unique quality content. The question I keep asking myself is, why if someone has produced 150 sites with unique quality content, that will bring in a significant residual income from adsense, why would they sell them?

I personally believe that it is a far better method to create blogs one at a time. Pick a subject that you are interested in, get the site looking how you want to, do all the steps to generate traffic, incorporate google adsense into the blog or site and then update the blog once a week or month.

Of course this means work, as I haven't found a work free route yet, then my opinion is that putting work in initially is the only way forward.

Easy Ways to Make Money Online

Are their easy ways to make money online?

As far as I can see there is always work required if you want to make money online!

Sure it is easy to create a blog with Blogger, but you need visitors to visit the blog if you are going to make money.

It is also very easy to add Google adsense to your site but again without visitors your blog will not make you any money.

Traffic to a blog is crucial!

Getting Traffic to your site will inevitably require work. This includes listing your site on submission directories for one way links. The same has to be done for the blogs RSS Feeds.

The layout of the site is also very important, whether you are trying to make money via affiliates or adsense. To optimize the site and make any form of meaningful money will require time and effort.

Content is also of the essence. Even if you only want visitors to come to your site to click google ads the content is crucial. Search engines such as Yahoo, Google etc no longer base their rankings solely on meta tags, they now have a far more refined search that picks out the most relevant sites for content relating to the visitors search query. Therefore if you want your site to be the one the visitor and the search engine selects then you need quality and unique content.

Of course you can play the numbers game and start up as many blogs as possible skirting over the various web 2.0 issues but are you going to get rich by doing that. My guess is no!

The moral to this post is that in order to create a blog that is going to bring in some extra money you are going to need to put in time and effort. There is no way round this fact. Of course as you become successful you can pay people to write articles or look for advertising etc, but I fear this is a little way down the line.

Ways to Generate Traffic and Make Money Online

If I or anyone else for that matter, is going to make money online then we are going to have to generate traffic to our sites or Blogs.

The other point is that small amounts of traffic won't suffice either; to make lot's of money we will need to generate massive amounts of through traffic.

I have been reading many blogs on the subject and come up with some sort of a plan to begin my traffic generation to this blog.

1. Directory Submission

By submitting this Blog to various directory's I will be able to generate lot's of one way links, which in turn should significantly improve the Blog's Search Engine rankings.

I am going to use a tool to submit my blog to the different directories, it still takes time to do but should be worth it once I see the site being recognised. The tool is called Directory Submitter and can be downloaded for free.

I will add more method's to my list once I have submitted Blog Addick to all of the sites featured in Directory Submitter (350 I think).

I'm back from submitting this Blog to the 350 sites, some worked and were for free, others required a fee to submit. The submissions did prove to be rather time consuming but should help to push the blog up the rankings (fingers crossed).

2. RSS Feed

The next thing I have done is create an RSS feed. I have done this using feedburner, it is very easy to do you can visit the feedburner site here.

The idea behind an RSS Feed is to allow visitors to sign up and be notified of any updates or new posts to your blog.

As with submitting your blog with directroy submitter it is also an idea to submit your feed to various feed directories and aggregators.

The other thing that feedburner does is a PingShot; automatically notifying various directories and aggregators when you publish new material to your blog/feed.

There is a great list of RSS feeds and pings at Tips for New Bloggers; you can visit the relevant page here: RSS feeds and Pings. This is the next thing that I am going to do, I am going to trawl through the list and submit my RSS feed to the various directories.

When you have registered your feed with feedburner, make sure that you add feedburner on your blogger settings.

You can do this by:

• Clicking settings for the relevant blog.
• Selecting site feed from the menu.
• Where it says Post Feed Redirect URL you have to enter your feedburner feed address. E.g. the feed address for this site is http://feeds.feedburner.com/BlogAddick

In addition to submitting my feed to all of the sites listed on Tips for New Bloggers I have also downloaded a RSS Submit Software called Allscoop RSS Submit Pro you can download it for free. Just follow the instructions to submit your blog to a few more search engines.

3. Bookmark

Give your visitors the option to bookmark your site or each individual post. Social Networking sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter as well as many others have become very important in driving huge amounts of traffic through the most successful site.

A great site that you can use to bookmark each individual post yourself (as the webmaster) is Onlywire it's a free service, all you need to do is promote the the onlywire site by displaying a bookmark and share button on your site.

I have read a free ebook that is recommended as an essential read on a number of highly regarded sites including Carl Ocab who tips it as a vital part of social networking to drive traffic to your site. I found the book very informative and have used it to get a better understanding of Web 2.0 which has become an integral part of owning a successful Blog/site. Click the book title to download your Free copy of the Authority Black Book.

4. Post on other Blogs

This is a great way to get some attention and a few links to your site!

If you read a post on a Blog that you like, then comment on it. Bloggers love to see a few comments on their Blogs (especially if they are good ones). Likewise, if you disagree with a post then also say so (after all it's good to have an opinion). Personally I like anykind of feedback as it allows you to make corrections and improve the blog/site that is being developed.

If people like your posts and find them informative then they will no doubt visit your site to see what it is about. Don't be too much like an advert in your posts though, there is plenty of time to sell once you get them to your site.

5. Build a Squidoo Lens

If nothing else, building a squidoo lens will add another link back to your blog, it doesn't take very long to do and should increase traffic via other squidoo users. Building a lens is a very simple process as squidoo walk you through step-by-step.

You can click here to view my squidoo page for Ei42 shops.

Search Engine Optimization - Introduction

For all of you fellow bloggers beginning a journey out there here is a brief description of SEO or Search Engine Optimization and why it is so important.

Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN provide Blogs with a great source to generate huge volumes of traffic. There is enormous amounts of traffic to be sourced from search engines.

SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website or in this case a Blog from Search Engines via organic search results. This allows readers to find high quality websites that are discussing products, topics, events etc that the reader wishes to find out about.

SEO is so important because the higher a website ranks, the more visitors it will generate from the Search Engine.

So if you are trying to make money from a blog via adsense or affiliate programmes you really need to nail the SEO side of things. Equally imprtant if you are trying to discuss a topic that you are passionate about, you want and need visitors to your blog so SEO is no less important.

Blogs suit Search Engines and can rank very nicely due to the fact that they are usually updated frequently, targeting "niche" topics, have a interlinking structure and the ability to generate links from other blogs and bloggers etc. There are many ways that blogs can be enhanced effecting where the blog ends up indexed and ranked. These techniques are referred to as Search Engine Optimization (or SEO).

Now I just need to discover how to optimize this Blog for the search engines initially.

What seems to be highlighted over and over again by everyone is that keywords are no longer the be-all and end-all of SEO; nowadays content also plays a crucial role.

I read a post on Problogger by Darren Rowse who recommended Aaron Wall's SEO book as a valuable resource. My aim is to emulate what the successful bloggers out there have done!

I have found that Traffic Travis is a very useful free tool (I personally upgraded to the pro version after trying the free version). You can read about Traffic Travis here.

I will write a number of articles on various forms of SEO as I go along, I will then add a list at the bottom of this page to be easily directed to relevant pages:

SEO Tool pages on this blog:

• Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis

Traffic Travis is the one tool that I have purchased to date to enhance the SEO of my Blog.

There are two forms of download for Traffic Travis:

1. Free Download
2. Pro Download

I personally started with the free version but found that although it was very useful to find out lots of information regarding Keywords, it didn't allow me to do the competition analysis.

There are a few reasons that I have found Traffic Travis a very useful tool. I must admit that I hate parting with money but once I had the free version and had reached my limits with it, I really wanted to expand and continue to progress.

As a novice to Blogging I love the fact that every time you click on one of the Traffic Travis categories you can watch a clear instructional video explaining the step in detail. These short videos can be viewed every time if you so wish (especially if you are like me and forget what you did the last time).

Traffic Travis Pro (which is the one that I am looking at on my computer as a reference while I write this post) has six main categories with a number of sub-categories when you open it up.

These are:

1. Keyword Tools with Keyword finder and Keyword Sorter as sub-categories.
2. Search engine tools with Position/Ranking, Top sites for keywords, Backlinks to site and Project report as the sub-categories.
3. PPC Analysis with Keywords/Details, Top Sites for Keywords, Most Popular Keywords and Website Keyword list as the sub-categories.
4. Page Analysis which analyses your Website.
5. Settings - General and Internet connection.
6. Useful Resource - These are resources that they guys at Traffic Travis recommend such as Matt Cutt's Blog, SEO Book etc.

As I said earlier in this post, I have found Traffic Travis really useful and therefore purchased the pro version. The best thing about this SEO tool is that you can simply download the free version and then upgrade to the Pro version if you like it and need it.

Make Money Online with Surveys

Paid Surveys

This page is dedicated to looking at getting paid to fill in online surveys. I am yet to be convinced by this method and there are a number of precautions that I would advise before starting to par take.

When starting to submit surveys, make sure that you set up a separate e-mail address that is specifically dedicated to the survey submission; the main reason for this is that you are likely to start receiving lot's of e-mails from the sites that you have registered with.

There are lot's of sceptics out there who are saying that paid surveys are a scam! This is mainly due to them being relatively easy to fill out for good returns. In my opinion the main thing to look for is an established and well know site that is proven and has been around for a long time.

That way we will be sure that we will get Paid!

The site that seems to get the most recommendations is Cash Crate. As this company is established and trusted I will use them as my survey filling site.

Although you get paid to fill out surveys, this is not the most attractive part of the site. The main benefit is their referral system.

You earn 20% of what your referrals make and 10% of what their referrals make.

You also receive a $3.00 bonus for each referral who meets the $10 minimum payout. Once you get 50 active referrals, that commission rises to 25% of whatever your 1st level referrals make!

Getting the initial $10 payout is easy to reach and worth a try! Again it's not going to make us millionaires but it is one step closer!

The other thing that has made my decision to use this site is the fact that all the reviews say that not only do they have a good reputation but the website is very user friendly with a smooth interface.

So from what I can see so far Cash Crate seems to be the best survey option. I will use them for now, if I find more good survey sites I will write about them here.

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Ways to Make Money Online for Free

This is where I am going to write about other ways to make money online for free, other than with Google Adsense etc. I will update this page every time I find a new method of earning some extra money; after all it all counts.

Get Paid to click Ads

The first method I have tried is very simple in deed, all you have to do is view a website for 30 seconds and after that time expires, you are credited with $0.01. Of course this is not much money, but if you do it once a day for around an hour or so it will soon build up.

Getting paid $0.01 is not the only benefit of Bux.to as you also get commission for referrals. So the key is to get as many people as you can to sign up via you and get paid for their clicking as well as your own!

There are quit a few sites that pay to click, but the site that keeps on cropping up is Bux.to so I will use them to start generating a bit of income. The main thing about Bux.to is that they are proven, having already paid Lot's of members money. These figure range from 2-5 figures!

You can visit their forum to find out some of the Bux.to success stories.

Blogger Tips

I found two sites in particular that I am going to use to help me improve this blog they are:

1. Tips for New Bloggers
2. Blogger Tips and Tricks

I will add more useful sites as and when I find them.

Blog Addick

The idea behind Blog Addick is to describe a relatively computer ileterate's journey and effort to try and make money from blogging.

I will try and share each step of my journey towards making money from nothing.

If I can do it you can too. I will try and read as many of the experts blogs as possible, put into practice what they advise and then share what I find works here on Blog Addick.

The questions I am asking myself are:

1. Can you make money blogging online?
2. What are the different ways to make money through a blog?
3. How do you generate traffic through the blog?

I will update and add to these questions as I come face-to-face with more.

Adsense - The Easy Way to Start Making Money Online

Adsense has got to be the easiest way to start making money from a blogger blog!

The best thing with Blogger is that adsense is set up for you once you have registered for an account and picked your Blog name.

Although many expert bloggers choose wordpress as their Blog tool of choice, I have decided to go with Blogger as it is free and very simple to start with.

A very simple and basic equation that I found on Problogger is that:

Adsense Revenue = Traffic Levels + High Paying Ads + Relevant Ads + Optimally Positioned and Designed Ads

Here are a few things to remember when you are adding adsense to your Blog:

• When looking to implement Adsense into your site remember to keep it simple.


• Simple Blogs make more money from Adsense - Fact!


• Look at other adsense advertisers, click on a adsense links to get idea's from other sites and users.


• Position of Ads - The great thing about the Adsense programme is that you the freedom to choose the best position for your ads. Positioning is a key element to an ads success, make sure that visitors to your blog can see the advert; underneath your heading or on the top right of the page is usually a very visual and successful place to locate them.


• Design of Ads - Google also alows you to choose the color scheme for your adverts. It is usually wise to make the ads blend in nicely with your blog so that they don't look too ugly.


• Make sure that the adverts are relevant to the information on your Blog. Remember though, once a visitor has clicked an ad, they are lost to another site!


• Once you have positioned your ads, start to work on improving the traffic to your site. Remember content is as important as SEO (search engine optimisation) these days. I will go into trying to generate traffic in a separate post once I have started to try and drive traffic to this site.


• Ads vary in the amount they pay, search the web to find the best paying adverts. Forum's may be a good place to start. I will go into this once I have tried to ascertain the information myself.


• Try new things - If a position of an ad isn't generating any clicks then try various other one's. Don't be afraid to mess around with your adverts until you find a formula that works.


• Block ads that have no relevance. It is possible to block adverts that are not relevant to the content on your site, I have not had to do this yet but I am told it is quite simple.

If you have any other tips or advice that you feel is crucial to running a successful adsense campaign add them below.

One ebook that I have been told to buy over and over again is Rob Benwell's blogging to the bank 3.0. If you have any feedback on this book let me know.