If you’ve tapped on the way of how to make money online and you’ve been making quite a lucrative income from the Internet, then you should have been safe from getting all the shit such as hectic lifestyle which you’re always on the run and traveling and the risk of getting infected with H1N1 Influenza A.

As bringing in a lucrative stream of income from Internet reduces the need to interact with people face to face and lower chance of getting infected with H1N1 virus. Yeah, you can stay at home if it isn’t too boring for you, what you need is a computer and a high-speed broadband connection.

Occasionally when you get little bored, you can go to StarBucks or CoffeeBean cafes to continue your work. The next topic of SmartBorneo here will cover how you can create a few or more niche blogs and how to make each of them to make at least USD $1,000 per month for you. Imagine if you have ten of these niche blogs or online stores and each makes about USD $1,000 a month for you, then you will get about USD $10,000 per month. This is either equivalent or much more than your current high-paying job which needs you to travel a lot; getting exposed to risk of getting infected with H1N1 and being away from your loved ones always.

Please note: Making money online is not instant, you’ve gotta be disciplined and strive through it over a couple of months and years, and you need patience and passion. But you can see a lucrative stream of income if you’ve managed through it. It guarantees the return is much better than your current job that always brings you hectic lifestyles. Stay tuned, will gradually feed you the ways on how to achieve it.

I was approached as well with my gadget blog which was making pretty good income last year from AdSense. And of course, the first few questions to ask is that whether Ads such as Chitika Premium and Kontera will conflict with AdSense’s TOS. And the answers are of course they’re not, and according to AdSense’s TOS, they are NOT either, so you’re safe to run those ads together with AdSense to increase the very little income. And those Ads players will suggest you to run those ads with your existing AdSense to increase your income.

Such as Chitika Premium, they’ve even run a few contests before for who have a website or a blog that blends the best for AdSense and Chitika Premium together.

My point is here if you’ve been running AdSense for quite some times, and AdSense has been making pretty much for you, it’s best NOT to run those ads such as Chitika Premium and Kontera, although they’re quite tempting. As after running them for a couple of months, you’ll have noticed those ads will bring in pretty low income for your blog.

I ran Chitika Premium for my gadget blog that was targeted for US search engine traffic. But the Ads could bring in about only more or less than 10% of my daily AdSense income.

I got about an average of 30-40 clicks from Chitika Premium daily, I had it placed under my AdSense ads, as I still favored AdSense as it was the most making for me. I couldn’t afford to sacrifice AdSense. But I’ve found after a couple of months that my AdSense ads dropped even though my traffic has increased for almost 70% compared to last year’s traffic, but my CTR of AdSense has dropped almost 50%.

It’s obvious that Chitika Premium and my Kontera have stolen some clicks away from my AdSense. Actually this is fine for clicks on ads on your website or blog. But the main problem is Chitika Premium and Kontera have very much lower CPC (Cost Per Click) compared to AdSense.

If Chitika Premium has taken away an average of 40 clicks+ average a day from my AdSense, and they could only produce about 10% and very low CPC, which quite a number of them less than $0.10 per click, why NOT take a away these low-performing ads and let those 40+ clicks to go to AdSense, as AdSense could actually bring in much higher CPC with those 40+ clicks a day. And this is similar to Kontera. So, I’ve done that for my gadget blog, and the AdSense shows improved CTR and my monthly income is getting more and more.

So the best is NOT to run other ads together with your AdSense on your blog, although they sound tempting or may bring in extra little income, but they’re definitely NOT worth to run as they will affect your AdSense’s CTR!!! Drop those ads to favor only AdSense from today! Google has always been the best!

Bloggers shall be considered in making long-term income, or maybe one day you can drive your blog into some semi-passive incomes. Bloggers continuously write great contents for their blogs. Some write a couple of blog posts a day. But it really takes time for a blog to be successful, making lucrative or sufficient income to let a blogger to quit his or her job and become a full-time blogger.

It all depends how much you need that you can survive to be a full-time blogger. If you’re single, and you don’t have a family which you need to sustain and bear all the costs, then it shall be around USD$1.5K to USD$2K a month is enough to stay as a fulltime blogger. And it also depends where you stay. If you stayed at those expensive areas that you need more than that.

One thing you need to know it’s not easy to become a full-time blogger these days. Some blogs may take a few years to start making an okay income but it might not be sufficient to quit your day job or be a full-time blogger. And you need lots of traffic these days to make a good income from blog. I’ve blogged for two years on my tech and gadgets blog, only now I see about USD$2K per month from total ads income (I was only making a mere few hundred dollars from my gadget blog about a year ago) . But I haven’t quit my day time job yet. In fact, I don’t have to, as I’m also one of the bosses of my day-time job. It’s a company that I partner with a few for developing software applications. It’s quite a good business although some times you have to face with great pressure of facing fuzzy people for unreasonable requirements for the software they want.

So in short, bloggers shall be continuously writing good content, hoping to gain more organic traffic, and through out many years that you’ve blogged, you blog shall come to a stage that is able to generate a more or less consistent income for every month. And your continuous effort is to bring your blog to a further stage, hoping to make it to bring more incomes as more contents that you’re adding into it, shall mean more traffic.

How about an Internet marketer? Internet marketers don’t really blog. They use various tools such as email marketing, writing landing pages, driving sales lead, and they also make use of blogs to promote certain products. But they will NOT continuously update or write new contents for their blogs. As after they’ve achieved what they want, lets say having managed to create sales lead using their blogs, they may just leave the blogs aside without further updating anymore.

In short, Internet marketer doesn’t have to depend on huge traffic, maybe just a few hundred of them as long as they managed to create sales lead, such as they blast out emails, using pop-up ads, text link ads etc, which will usually be considered as spammers by bloggers.

But if you wanna be a fulltime blogger in short period of time, you may wanna combine Internet marketing skills into your blogging, i.e. promoting your blogs as you promote products to generate sales lead over the Internet. Use other possible means to drive traffic to your blogs. Or you can even write blog posts about products, become the affiliates of certain online stores, write blog posts for them, and drive traffic to these blog posts, direct the readers to what you want, lets say convert a blog post read by readers into sales. Doing so, you don’t only make money from ads, you also make money from affiliate sales as well as gaining more readers sooner than only writing contents for it. Eventually, you’ll become full-time blogger making 6 figure income a year. Post By SmartBorneo, inspired by Problogger

The MFA sites are those sites or blogs that are fully loaded with AdSense Ads instead of contents. The owners of these MFA sites will advertise on Google Adwords to look for sites to place their lower-cost ads and in exchange they hope to gain much higher return ads on their sites.

For example, they get on AdWords and place an ad on your site with very low CPC, lets say less than $0.10. And when a user clicks on these ads on your site, the user will then be directed to the MFA sites which carry much higher CPC ads. And the MFA sites make much more money than you do.

And some more some of these MFA sites are having low CTR (Click Thru Rate) as they do not show ads that are so relevant to your site’s contents. Therefore users tend to click less on those ads on your site.

In order to gain much higher CTR and also CPC to maximize your AdSense income, you can make use of the AdSense competitive ad filter in your AdSense account. Login into your AdSense account, and on AdSense Setup menu, you’ll then find the Competitive Ad Filter. And there is a text box which allows you to enter up to 200 sites that you wanna filter out.

Of course, it’ll be hard for you to manually trace those low CPC or CTR or MFA ads. But, thanks to AdsBlackList.com, which it scans your site and generates a list of 200 sites to let you add into your competitive ad filter.

To generate the list, you must first sign up for an account with AdsBlackList.com. After that, sign into your account. But you may find it’s hard to get started as the menu of the AdsBlackList.com seems to be not-so understandable to most users. But I give you an easy steps here where to get your 200 sites.

Just click on the side menu, “My Account”, you’ll find “Add New Domain” on top, which is not so obviously shown. Click on “Add New Domain”, and key in your website or blog that you wanna have AdsBlackList.com to generate the 200 sites for you. You must provide the site’s URL, title and description. After submitting the site, you;ll then be redirected back to the account main page.

You can then proceed to “Generate Filter List” to generate the 200 sites. Drag and drop the available domains to the box “Keywords from selected domain”. Be sure to click the boxes MFA and low CPC, then click on “submit” to generate a list of 200 sites that provide low CPC/CTR ads on your website. And then copy the 200 sites into your AdSense’s competitive ad filter. It takes a couple of hours for AdSense to take effect. Then wait and see, you shall see some improvements of your CTR or CPC in the next couple of days, and shall be making more money then! By SmartBorneo.com

Please note Chitika Premium is different from Chitika miniMall Ad. It appears only when someone searches on a search engine (Google, Yahoo etc), and from the searched result that leads the searcher to your blog, then only the ad unit appears. If the visitor doesn’t come from search engine, the ad unit will NOT appear. And also Chitika Premium works great if your blog attracts lots of traffic from the United States.

One of my gadget blogs is able to make an average of USD $200 per month from Chitika Premium. The ad unit is placed at the bottom of each blog post, as the top is loaded with AdSense ad unit. As an additional income, although it manages to grab about only 15-16% of the income brought by Adsense on my tech blog, but it should be considered quite good in bringing in some money to a blog.

Remember that I place Chitika Premium Ad unit at the bottom of each blog post, leaving the top for adsense ad unit. If Chitika Premium Ad was placed at the top of each blog, it should be able to make more than $200 per month.

Comparing the CPC, Chitika Premium managed to clock at $0.10-$0.15 per click, which is far behind what Adsense offers. But I’ve heard that you will be able to negotiate with Chitika, if you managed to make USD $200 per month consistently for three months. Since my tech blog takes AdSense as tehe main revenue stream, and Chitika as the secondary stream, I’m quite happy with the current performance.

If for some unknown reasons, you can’t get an AdSense publisher account, you can consider Chitika Premium as the alternative if your blog has good search engine traffic. Use Google Analytics to trace the traffic source of your blog, if you could grab 1,000-2,000 from search engine a day, it shall let you make pretty lucrative income from Chitika Premium. If you haven’t had an account yet, click here to sign up now. By SmartBorneo.com

In 2007 the online ad growth showed a sequential 12.7 percent in the fourth quarter. But starting in 2008, the 1st quater only had a 2.8 percent and followed by a mere 1.1 percent in the second quarter. The report is based on the big four, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL. During the 4th quarter, the increase in combined ad revenues for the big four only by $50 million to $8.2 billion.

Here are the charts showing the ads revenue for the big 4. Although the growth is not as good as last year, at least it still sees a growth in each quarter. Q3 2008 only had a mere 0.61 % increase, total ads revenues of the big 4 only shows $50 million increase from Q2 to Q3.

source [techcrunch]

As the higher the page rank the higher organic traffic from Google. If your website carries ads like Google Adsense or Chitika Premium, it’s sure then you need high search engine organic traffic for your website. AdSense and Chitika Premium mostly get clicks from those who come from the search engines. In most cases are, some one searches for a something on the search engines such as Google or Yahoo, and it will lead to your website, and subsequently they’ll then click on the AdSense or Chitika Premium on your sites/blogs.

In order to rank well on search engine, you shall try to build up your site/blog’s Google Page Rank. We only focus on Google, as Google occupies more than 60% of the total search engine traffic. If you can capture Google, then you’re on the win-win situation.

These days, increasing Page Rank will not be as easy as the old days. In the old days, many seem to be crazy about exchanging links. But reciprocal link buildings seem to be no much use these days. As you’ll also need to have lots of outgoing links on your website/blog to other websites/blogs. And Google will mostly consider these outgoing links are like link farm and also you will face risks that certain outgoin links to certain websites will probably change to a spamming websites a few months or years later without your notice. And you’ll get punished by Google and your Page Rank will be lowered!

Today, the effective way of increasing your page rank is to build more one-way incoming links to your website/blog. If you have lots of quality websites linking to you without needing you to link back to them, then you’ll get lots of quality incoming links. And Google considers this very good and for sure you’ll then get higher pagerank for your website or blog.

Here are a few ways to build more incoming links to your website:

1. Write articles and submit them to article directories. You’ll be able to find lots of article directories by simply searching for “Article directory” on Google. Look for those with Page Rank 5 and above. And write your articles to submit to them. Be sure NOT to forget to add your signature that has a hyper link back to your website/blog. One little example is as follows, at the end of the article you’ll have:

Please note when you submit an article to article directory, it will not et published immediately. It may take 1-7 days or more. And some times it doesn’t even get published. But just keep continuing to submit more and quality article shall get published eventually. Basically they shall get published if they’re up to par or maybe after 2-3 of your submissions.

2. Be a guess blogger, if you intend to increase Page Rank of your blog. Look for those more popular blogs that want guess bloggers. So, you join them and start publishing your blog posts for them, and also do remember to add your signature at the bottom of your blog post as shown in the example one. And even some news site today also want guess writer, you can also do the same.

And of course, besides submitting to article directories, you’ll also have to keep your website’s or blog’s contents fresh so search engine will always come back in high frequency in visiting your site.

You can trace up the traffic pattern, traffic sources etc and even combine with adwords to trace the conversion rate. Now it says that Google has announced this tool to be availalble for the adsense. Meaning that you’ll be able to use it track which pages in your websites/blogs generate the most clicks, have the high CPM, so you can adjust and take off ads from pages that have lower CTR/CPM to avoid being squeezed to a side by smart pricing. As a result you’ll be able to make more money from Adsense using the Google analytics to track your Adsense traffic.

The AdSense integration has not been rolled out fully. Currently, publishers are not able to use this function yet. But it’ll be eventually an invitation link on your account, so you’ll have to keep checking your account if you’ve been invited. I wonder if an email will be sent out to tell you so. It’s definitely the best tool, so you can optimize your AdSense to make more money online. Take a look at video how Google Analytics help to further analyze your adsense income pattern.

via [moneymakerinfo]

If you always bring a digital camera out with you, it’s always great to have a couple of snap shots, then upload it to Shutterstock.com. Shutterstock.com has lots of web designers, graphic artists, and magazine editors keeping a frequent eye on the photos uploaded here. So, when they buy and download your photos, you get $0.25 each time.

Imagine your photos are damn hot, and you get about 2,000 downloads or more a month, then you can easily make up $500 per month for easy money. Nice sceneries or the cute actions of your puppy, baby etc are hot photos that most designers want to spice up the designs of their web page, books, ads and mag etc.

Payment is made through Paypal or Moneybookers, and there is a min payout of $75. But you exceed $300 per month, then they’ll pay by paper check. Check out more about the payment FAQ here. By the way it’s not restricted for the American only. People from other countries can join too.