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Posted by: MsMedia on (Feb 19 2008)

“As new small business entrepreneurs face many challenges in today’s economy, locating value and revenue from Web traffic is increasingly critical. One company provides tools and services for survival amidst major competition.”

Saugerties, NY February 19, 2008 - MsMedia Network has already earned the title as the fastest growing CPA network by many of their publishers and advertisers. This national and international company has discovered a vital tool designed to assist small business entrepreneurs to survive and edge out competition.

Whereas ad revenue is expected to increase by 17% in 2008, and despite the renewing fears about an economic slump, the development team at MsMedia Network has taken conceptual planning to the highest level by determining feasibility and constructability of a modern CPA network geared toward small business entrepreneurs.

The beauty of this process is that it costs less time to generate a first-time customer, and it’s free to join. The company has proven management techniques that monitors accuracy for all three of the cost-per-click (CPC), cost-per-lead (CPA), and cost-per-sale (CPS) campaigns.

“It’s the only CPA network that specializes in todays small business entrepreneurs. Online advertising and creating ad revenue is now easier than ever. Our superior tracking and user friendly interface allows, both publishers, and affiliate partners to see the clicks, leads and sales they’ve generated in real-time.” says Abe Cherian, President of MsMedia Network.

MsMedia Network offers reviewable operational perimeters for relevancy and ad matching that benefits both parties. The company also provides more efficient CPA model advertising, and has become more advanced as a marketing and advertising channel. Advertisers are utilizing this opportunity to leverage the Internet as a powerful medium that drives, both branding, and sales results.

About MsMedia Network - Multiple Stream Media is an agency solely specializing in E-commerce, Online Tools, Lead Generation, and Direct Response Marketing since August 1999. MsMedia Network provides various advertising platform specifications designed to drive high volumes of traffic to the advertiser, and action opportunities by offering financial incentives in the form of a revenue share percentage to publishers.

For more Information Contact:

Kristin Hilton
Affiliate Manager
Multiple Stream Media, LLC.
http://www.msmedianetwork.com
Phone: 845-247-2567? Ex.3
Fax: 845-247-2569

To my surprise and delight I got an email from MSN adcenter today concerning bidding and using trademark terms. (cough Google… I hope your listening) The stance from my point of view is in favor of publishers and puts the responsibility where it is back on the trademark owners and not using the Search engines to police their trademark for them. The Official email:

Microsoft adCenter is changing the way we manage our trademark policy starting September 10, 2007. While no change will be made to the trademark policy itself, this update aligns better with marketplace practices, speeds up editorial review to get your ads live faster, and ensures consumers see relevant ads.

Microsoft adCenter’s Trademark Policy

As stated above, we are not changing the trademark policy itself. You may still use trademarked terms
in your ads? when you, as the advertiser, are the owner of the trademark, an affiliate or reseller of trademarked products or services, or a site that uses the trademarked term in an informational,
descriptive, or non-competitive manner. Infringing use of trademark terms by direct competitors remains a violation of Microsoft adCenter policies.?

What’s changing?

It will now be the advertiser’s responsibility to obtain permission from the trademark owner to use a trademarked term in their ads. It will also be the trademark owner’s responsibility to address ongoing
incorrect usage of their trademark term(s) directly with third-party advertisers.? Microsoft adCenter will no longer intercede to obtain permission for the advertiser wanting to use a trademarked term.?

What does this mean for my search advertising?

Your ads may display next to other ads that contain your trademarked terms.
Affiliates, resellers, and third parties may show up against queries for your trademarked terms.
Competitor’s ads may show up in search results against queries for trademarks in certain scenarios, due to match types other than exact.

For example, if a generic term is included in the overall search query, advertisers who bid on the generic term may show up in the search results.

If you are a trademark owner and you believe your trademark is being misused in Microsoft adCenter, you can submit a report by following the instructions on our Trademark Concern Form.

Sounds like good news for publishers/affiliates when it comes to bidding on trademark terms. While I agree using trademark terms without persmission is bad but there is no reason that for instance a Target ad shouldn’t show up when someone is searching for Wal-mart.

As Many of yall know I attended the First Elite Retreat, I am sure i will attend others in the future, but I am still to busy implementing things from the first Elite Retreat to attend this one. But i was searching the internet and came across two blogs that are updating with some of the information they are sharing at the Elite Retreat. So far Jeremy Schoemaker and Neil Patel have spoken. ?Of course they aren’t giving the real goods in their updates, but maybe even the blog tidbits will spur on some new ideas, or maybe it will tease you enough that you go to the next one (More than worth the money).

So check out the Elite Retreat San Francisco?Recaps on PepperJams Blog and Emomsathome Blog.

When it comes to affiliate marketing there seems to be a fine line drawn between those who promote online gambling brands and those who do not. Unlike retail marketing, where the cross promotional scheme is almost endless, gambling affiliates tend to not diversify so much. This may be due to the centralized focus taken developing their sites; or emphasis on ‘niche’ they strive for. Another possibility is that gambling affiliates seclude themselves purposefully due to the legal and restrictive regulations placed on how they can promote their products in the United States and abroad.

Flashback September 30th, 2006 in Washington DC; the United States Congress passes the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. This new list of regulations was basically snuck in as a ‘rider’ to the real law, the SAFE Port Act.? Here is the text that is the important to you as an affiliate:

SEC. 802.
PROHIBITION ON ACCEPTANCE OF ANY PAYMENT INSTRUMENT FOR UNLAWFUL INTERNET GAMBLING.
Now that we have the obstacle identified it’s time to discuss if taking up a new ‘project’ is a good idea when it comes to developing a gambling portal/affiliate website.

Certainly there is a buzz right now when it comes to gambling, especially poker. Just think back five years ago and look at the travel industry to Las Vegas. While LV has always been a hot place to be never has it been so ‘cool’ and attractive to the average American. These two words will sum it all up for you when it comes to identifying why this changed have occurred; Las Vegas, Poker and Gambling have become SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE. Once our population as a whole decided it was alright to spend money on gambling and play cards the boom happened. From a marketing perspective it sounded like an atomic bomb exploded and the fallout was dollars hitting the ground. Life was grand for affiliate marketers and poker rooms were looking to rent storage just for a place to store the money. Besides demand (obviously generated from the mainstream exposure of poker), players had a plethora of ways to get their accounts funded and start tossing the chips on the table (virtually of course). Now we are faced with a different situation. While demand has stayed high, solid payment processors like Credit Cards, PayPal and Neteller have gone to the wayside. Also most major search engine companies do not accept PPC campaigns for gambling related terms.

Do not despair yet, there are still ways a people can play and more importantly there are still players playing!

A good place to start is simply reading on message boards where players post their concerns, tournaments and praises. Don’t worry about understanding all the details of then to fold pocket queens and the technical jargon. Look more for which poker rooms (affiliate programs) the players are talking about and playing in. The best place to find these players is 2+2. When it comes to looking at marketing these rooms there are plenty of good forums designated for gambling as well as land based conferences. Once you have decided this may be a good new project/product to invest some time into choosing a smaller niche (not just online poker) and developing content accordingly. Like all areas of affiliate marketing there are plenty of good resources, tools and SEO staples that apply to traffic and player acquisition.? Another nice attribute is most credible affiliate programs will pay you about $200CPA for each player that makes a deposit on their sites. Once you can narrow down a nice traffic stream, and find a CMS that keeps your niche new fresh and entertaining you can be on your way to diversifying into the wild world of affiliate marketing – Vegas Style!

About the Author:
Greg Powell is the General Manager at Poker Affiliate Programs and is the lead writer for the Affiliate Blog on the site. He began affiliate marketing in 2002 and moved to affiliate management for several prominent poker rooms from 2003-2007.

If you’re a regular reader of my blog you know this blog is my personal journey through and reports of the affiliate marketing and internet marketing industries. I’ve had a broad range of experiences over the past few years. Recently I’ve done dropshipping and ecommerce sites and learned some things.

Dropshipping has one huge drawback at first - inventory. All new relationships are rocky. There is no trust built and there is unfamiliarity. For drop shipping to work it’s got to become a real business relationship, not hands off. If you want to have a profitable drop ship business - like many of my friends have - you ride this time out.

Small retailers run out of stock on their products more often than I thought. I made a sale on my site and I didn’t know the item was out of stock until weeks had gone by. Tough to provide good customer service when you don’t know what’s going on. Babysitting job.

Then I recently won an eBay auction for a tent. They didn’t tell me they used a dropshipper until I complained that I hadn’t heard from them. It’s been over a month and no tent. No refund (the dispute is in process).

Affiliate marketing means I don’t worry about fulfillment at all. The merchant does. No customer complains or worries. I don’t have to think about my site while I’m on vacation or a business trip. I get a check for ebooks I sell and they NEVER run out of stock. Instant delivery.

Publication: Date: Tuesday, November 7 2006

Turn’s Revolutionary Technology and Bidded Cost Per Action (CPA)

Pricing Deliver Amazing Simplicity, Dramatically Better Relevance and Higher Revenue for Advertisers and Publishers

Turn Also Announces It Has Secured Funding from Leading Investors Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital and Shasta Ventures

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Turn[TM] Inc. today introduced the world’s first automatic targeting advertising network. Two years in the making and currently in beta, Turn revolutionizes online advertising by simplifying ad management while reducing risk, improving relevance, and increasing revenue for advertisers and publishers. With more than 1,000 advertisers already participating, the Turn ad network offers automatic targeting of ads and unique bidded Cost Per Action (CPA) pricing based on advanced, patent-pending technology that eliminates the need for manual targeting or keywords. The company also announced today that it has received $18 million in financing. Investors include Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Trident Capital and Shasta Ventures.

The Turn automatic targeting network provides advertisers a revolutionary option for online advertising campaigns. An advertiser simply inputs its ad into a self-serve console, and Turn does the rest. Turn goes beyond manual targeting by blending over 60 variables including site analysis, past performance, categories, audience, and action type to select the most relevant graphical and text ads. Turn’s technology dynamically selects and weights these variables to determine the best targets for each ad, eliminating the guesswork, time and complexity of manual targeting.

“We built the world’s first automatic targeting ad network in response to advertiser and publisher demand for a simplified, lower risk solution for online advertising that also improves relevance and revenue,” said Jim Barnett, CEO, Turn Inc. “The result is a revolutionary improvement in online advertising.”

An Online Advertising Revolution

Turn Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jim Barnett and Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Product and Technology John Ellis created Turn after transitioning AltaVista[TM] into Yahoo!(R)Search. Upon turning their attention to online advertising, they heard recurring themes from advertisers and publishers about the complexity, mediocre relevance and broken models of online advertising. Advertisers were overwhelmed by the cost and complexity of working with numerous manual networksCoeach with a single or limited targeting approach. Publishers similarly complained of the complexity of optimizing every ad placement on each of their pages and of the need for significant improvements in relevance. Barnett and Ellis believed that they could apply advanced search-like technology to solve these problems and revolutionize the world of online advertising.

Hey Geeks,

I am wondering when CPA ads are most effective? I personally don’t like them,because most companies use CPA ads as free branding.
Thanks.

Comments (When are CPA ads most effective?)

1.The most effective ways of running CPA ads are through text links, newsletter ads, or anything where you can give a personal endorsement of what you are trying to sell/get people to sign up for. Probably one of the least effective ways to do it is to just run a simple banner/other graphical ad.

2.

CPA are efective where you can target them.

If you have a site about a spesific topic with articles about special items then it’s very good to use CPA ad’s targeted to the topics/products at your site.

Showing CPA to a big general audiance (Humor/Entertainment) will probably not yeld good results (Like Lil_Red can tell you).

3.

CPA ads can work when:

1. They are TIGHTLY targetted. This also means having a very very clear, focussed idea in your own head of exactly what your site is about, and exactly what each individual page is about.

2. You use text links, preferably integrated into the content. Lots more work than just slapping in a banner, but also lots more money potential.

3. Some CPA banners may get some results, but only if very targetted and with lots of traffic. And, if possible, I just use them as a last resort after at least one or more CPM network defaults, or on a forum where I can’t qualify for CPM banners.

I know that it may sound crass, but you should design your sites and your content around pushing a certain category of sponsors. When you are mentally conceiving a site, with its topic/focus, think, “Are there sponsors out there that would be compatable with this content?” Make your site content condicive to visitors who might want to buy related products/services. Make your site’s structure flow towards sales pages pushing your sponsors, and how they can meet specific needs/desires.

As in many things, it is important to diversify. I use every ad format and payment structure that I can get.

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A few weeks ago I started a live case study of launching a website aimed at earning advertising revenue, the VoFiles Project. It’s time to talk about how to determine a website’s initial advertising strategy in four easy steps, as well as our first update on the progress of VoFiles.com.

I’ll talk in general terms about determining advertising strategy, and also describe how we went about it for VoFiles.com.

1. Evaluate advertising opportunties
Anytime you launch a new website, you should already have an idea of what plans you have for earning revenue. For the purpose of this discussion we’ll assume advertising is one of the main revenue strategies for your site. Now, where do we go from here? It’s not as simple as just deciding to go after advertising, there are many choices as to how you go about it, and you can often work with multiple strategies.

Premium Advertising
Also known as brand advertising, directly-sold advertising, sponsorships, or endemic advertising, this is advertising you sell yourself, most likely to companies within your topic or industry. There are a few companies that can help represent your inventory for you, but most of them actually classify more as small ad marketplaces. This is generally the most lucrative form of advertising, but it usually requires a high traffic site or a site that is a leader in it’s topic. It also requires the most amount of effort to sell, manage, bill, and invoice. The bottom line is that very few new sites can sell premium advertising right off the bat unless they start out with a lot of momentum and a connected management team. I’d generally suggest planning for this later down the line when a site is more established.

Contextual Advertising
Most people will simply know this as Google Adsense, but there are other players of course like the Yahoo Publisher Network. This type of advertising can be a huge success for a lot of focused sites in certain industries. The pages of your site need enough content to allow the contextual engines to find appropriate ads, and you need users that will take some action and click on ads. This is a common choice for a lot of new sites, and it’s generally easy to setup. One thing to be aware of is that it can give your site a less than professional feel if you’re really looking to sell high quality targeted ads in the future. There are some other contextual solutions that offer some different things like Amazon Omakase, Chitika, and Quigo Adsonar.

General CPM Display Advertising
One of the most popular forms of advertising is general display ads like banners, leaderboards, skyscrapers, and rectangles that are supplied by a bevy of ad networks. This is very easy to set up, and because most of the networks pay on a CPM basis you earn revenue whether uses click on ads. Sites that don’t have much content or may be more general in nature will usually find better results with this than contextual networks. Many networks do have strict requirements on what type of sites they’ll accept and also have minimum traffic requirements. It’s also a very natural lead in to selling targeted display advertising in the future as your users won’t notice much difference except an improvement in targeting and relevance most likely. The networks in this space have different specialties, strengths, and weaknesses. Some of the major players are Remix Media, Burst Media, Valueclick, Tribal Fusion, Advertising.com, CPX Interactive, Tacoda, and more. Of course, I could talk for hours on how this type of advertising should be auctioned through an exchange like the Right Media Exchange using a product like RMX Direct, but we’ll save that for later.

CPA/Affiliate
Cost Per Action (CPA) and affiliate advertising is a high risk/high reward form of advertising that works amazingly well for certain publishers, and horribly for others. The premise is that you get paid when you drive a user to an advertiser who pays you when that user performs the action the advertiser wants them to perform. This works really well for sites that recommend users buy things, or other classic affiliate sites like ring tones, software, ebooks, etc. There are actually affiliate networks like AzoogleAds and Commission Junction, but often you can work directly with an advertiser like Amazon.

Text Links/Ads, RSS, and Marketplaces
There are companies that sell text links on your site like Text Link Ads and Adbrite. Also companies that can sell ads in RSS feeds like Feedburner and Pheedo, or other marketplaces like Adify, Adster, and Performancing.

For VoFiles, we knew that selling premium advertising was probably unlikely because of general content as well as the social network audience not being the most desirable to advertisers. The trade off is that because VoFiles is in the booming social networking space, we’re hoping to use sheer traffic volume on ads that pay less to generate revenue. Which is easier? A targeted site is probably easier, but we wanted to explore the social networking “studio space”. Now that we know that our goal is to aim for traffic volume we can plan accordingly. Because our pages are not filled with focused content, contextual advertising is also a bit of a challenge, but still possible. The obvious choice was to start off with display advertising networks, with an eye toward the future in contextual ads as well as text ads and joining a few marketplaces.

After evaluating all those options, it’s time to choose your tool.

2. Choosing a Tool to Manage Ads
Depending on what type of advertising options above you choose, you’ll need a good tool of some type to manage your ads. Most of the above solutions provide an “ad tag” which is basically some type of javascript or similar code that puts the ads on your site. However, if you plan on running multiple types of advertising, you’ll need a tool to manage it all.

Ad Servers
The most common tool used to manage web advertising is ad servers. They generally can manage graphical display advertising whether it’s premium or ad networks, contextual advertising, and affiliate advertising. Very few do much with text links at this point. There is quite a range of ad serving options. You have everything from an ad server meant for premium like DART from Doubleclick, to a smart ad server like Right Media’s PMX product made for yield management and maximization or remnant inventory, to something free like phpAdsNew. Most ad servers do have fees associated with them since they provide bandwidth, support, hosting of data, and other services.

Revenue Management Platforms
If you are just getting started with advertising on your site, or you are primarily working with contextual or display ad networks, then a revenue management platform like RMX Direct is the best choice for you. RMX Direct is neither an ad server alone or an ad network, but combines the best of both worlds while allowing you to manage and auction your inventory to any ad networks you’re working with, as well as work directly with ad networks on the Right Media Exchange through the tool. It’s a free tool which makes it easy to get up and going and monetizing your ad inventory right away, while also not locking you into working with one ad provider.

Other Random Tools
There are quite a few other random blog plugins, PHP scripts, and purchaseable tools that can be used to help manage your ad inventory in various ways. There are too many list, and not that many I’d really recommend.

When we looked at tools for VoFiles.com, we knew that premium advertising was most likely not going to be a huge part of our advertising mix, so RMX Direct made the most sense for us as a way to manage our ad network relationships. It not only allows us to get all the networks and advertisers on the Right Media Exchange auctioning for our inventory, but allows us to auction ad networks like Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Valueclick, and more.

If we end up using some of the various ad marketplaces, we will most likely just have to place their code directly on our pages as they don’t fit their ads in standard ad sizes.

3. Placing Ads on your Site
After you have your types of advertising picked out as well as the tools in place to manage it all, it’s time to choose where to place your ads on your site. This is something I refer to as the “advertising balancing act”. As a publisher, you want to make as much money as possible. In order to reach that goal you need to place ads where users are most likely to see/click/act on them. However, this usually leads to a worse user experience on your site as ads can make your design and usability worse, they can distract users from their core tasks, or generally just get in the way. An argument can be made that really highly targeted and useful ads can help a user’s experience, but generally this isn’t the case. So how do you balance the need to make money with the need to please your users and keep them coming back?

Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to this equation, it’s really up to you as a publisher to analyze how much advertising your users will put up with and where it should be placed on your site. I’ve seen sites that are successful with very little advertising that blends in perfectly with their site, and also seen sites that have blatant and annoying advertising all over the place that users seem to deal with just fine.

I can recommend look at the heat map provided by Google Adsense to get a general idea for which areas of a web page usually see the best ad results. The darker the color on the map, the more successful ads are in that area. As you can see from the map, the best place to put an ad is smack dab in the middle of a page where a user is used to seeing real content. So that ad space is the most valuable, but also the most annoying spot for users to see an ad.

For VoFiles.com we decided to place our ads in standard locations without getting too much in the way of the user. Our 468×60 banner ad is placed in a central location near the top of the page. 728×90 leaderboard ads usually pay more, but didn’t fit into our design. We put a wide 160×600 skyscraper about middle way down the page on the right side in the column, and then on the actual profile content pages we add a 300×250 rectangle box in the middle right under the meat of the content. We will most likely add more ad placements on the page over time, as well as some text ad advertising in the right column.

4. Monitoring Your Results and Testing

The last piece of the puzzle which often separates publishers from decent success to great success is continuing to monitor your ad results and continually test.

Monitoring Results
Just like with web analytics, analyzing advertising results is very important to recognize changes and make the most of your ad inventory. Using a good ad server or revenue management platform like RMX Direct will help you have access to good reporting data that will allow you test different ad placements, geotargeting, frequency-capping, and other techniques to squeeze the most revenue possible out of your inventory.

Testing
Most people just think moving around where your ads are located is all there is to testing. While that is a great thing to test, don’t forget to test other ad sizes, and most importantly test as many ad networks, ad marketplaces, and different advertising avenues as possible. Also, tests should be rerun in different times of the year, because what worked in January might have different results in July.

VoFiles Progress Update
Instead of weekly statistical updates as I had suggested, I’m going to do monthly updates on VoFiles statistical progress. It’s unlikely I would really get weekly updates accomplished, and in most weeks there probably wouldn’t be much change worth noting. December will be the first full month of stats for VoFiles, so we’ll do a first month stat update at the beginning of January.

Regarding the progress of the site, we haven’t really done much marketing at all yet. We’ve added some profiles, and done some informal user studies which has taught us that many social network users don’t really get what to do on VoFiles since they aren’t used to the voting concept made popular by Digg. The quickest solution is to add more obvious instructions, but I think for long term success we need to change to something along the lines of a monthly voting model. Basically, the votes will last for a month so that a user could be voted “Best Profile Layout” for the month of January. This should be easier to understand, provide something for users who have profiles submitted to shoot for, and hopefully lead to more viral spreading of the site among social networks. We also need to develop some badges for profiles to promote voting or show that a user has won a VoFiles monthly category.

It has proved to fill our needs in some ways so far to test various parts of RMX Direct, but we definitely need more traffic and users to be accepted by other ad networks and get a full geographical spectrum of users.

How do you do it right? The same way like in the old economy: Earn more than you spend, and you are bound to make a profit.

So, how do I go about making money on the Internet?

As you know, large corporations utilize advertising agencies to plan their advertising campaigns and place their ads in magazines, newspapers, and on TV.

A few years ago some advertising agencies began to plan advertising campaigns on the Internet aswell. Soon industry standards for ad sizes were established. The most common size for advertising space is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high, also known as a “banner.”

Now national corporations use respectable Internet advertising agencies like Casale Media or Interclick to place millions of banners on websites all over the World Wide Web.

Any webmaster, including you, can contact these advertising agencies and become part of their affiliate network. Before approving your application, they will check the suitability of your website. Usually sites with adult content will not be accepted - unless you specifically apply at an adult affiliate network. Once your site has been approved, the advertising agency will automatically supply you with a steady stream of banner ads. Basically, you - or your website - will be your own media outlet, just like a newspaper or a TV station. The more readers, viewers, or visitors you have, the more money you will earn with the paid advertisements on your website.

There are several payment plans, depending on the advertising campaign of each company. Some companies will pay money, simply to have their banner displayed on your site and seen by 1000 people, regardless of whether someone clicks on the banner or not. This type of advertising is called CPM (cost per 1000).

Others will pay you anywhere from 5 to 10 cents for every person that clicks on their banner on your site. This type of advertising is called CPC (cost per click).

Other campaigns will not pay just for displaying a banner, and not even for a click, but only if someone actually buys something, or orders a free product sample. This type of advertising is called CPA (cost per action).

While CPM advertising agencies prefer to deal with large established websites only, CPA agencies welcome smaller sites and start-ups aswell.

What else do I need to do after I put some advertising on my website?

Nothing. Once you place advertising on your website, the advertising agencies will automatically track how much you earn, and once a month they will send you a check. So, all you have to do is concentrate on your website and do what you have always done.

How much money can I expect to make realisticly?

It all depends on the amount of visitors your site gets. The more people visit your site, the more people will see the banners on your site and click on them. If your site gets less than 30 or 40 visitors per day, you won’t make much money. Maybe 20 Dollars per month or so. If you get between 200 and 400 visitors per day, you could make about $100 per month… or more, if you choose the banner ads wisely.

Here’s an example: If your homepage is about hotrods or NASCAR racing, your visitors are obviously interested in cars, otherwise they wouldn’t be visiting your website. So a banner from a car radio manufacturer will raise more interest and make more money, than the banner of a flower store. Most advertising agencies represent advertisers in many different categories. To earn the highest revenue, try to pick banners that most closely resemble the content of your website.

What’s the limit?

The sky’s the limit. If you have a very popular site with thousands of daily visitors, you can earn thousands of dollars per month.

There are many privately owned websites that earn tens of thousands of dollars per month and they have practically no expenses. At the same time large corporate websites go out of business, because although they earn a lot of money from advertising or sales on their website, they spend even more on salaries, office space, and promotion, so they end up making a loss.

As long as you always make sure you earn more than you spend, you WILL make a profit on the Internet, and you don’t have to have a giant advertising budget or a staff. Many websites are private one-man operations, and they earn more money than most regular office jobs.

I have a website, but it doesn’t get many visitors. Can I still make money on the Internet?

Yes. Even small websites can apply for a free affiliate account with a CPA advertising agency like Loud Cash. You may not make a fortune, but you will make a little bit of money. And there are ways to make money even without placing ads on your website. You can open an affiliate account with an advertising agency, so that you have access to their banners, and then buy banner space on other websites. As long as you spend less on the banner space than you will earn with the banners you promote, you will make a profit.

How do I know I can trust these advertising agencies?

Good question. Since the Internet is still a relatively new medium, there are still a lot of legal gray areas, and sometimes a dishonest advertising agency might try to trick its affiliate webmasters by falsely lowering their earnings reports or by simply not paying them anything at all.

There really is no way to know in advance whether the agency you’re dealing with is honest, or not. All you can do is ask around on webmaster forums or read tips and tricks pages like the one you’re looking at right now, and try to find out what other people think about certain advertising agencies. If an agency is dishonest, other webmasters will have already run into problems with them, and they will be more than happy to warn you to stay away from a particular advertising agency or affiliate program.