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There are so many posts about “making money online”. Some people tell you “adsense”, then they say “text link ads”, then they say “affiliate marketing”. Im going to clarify a few things about each of the previously mentioned so you can pick the right way to make money online.

Adsense

To make money online from Google Adsense, you need two things.

1. Decent Traffic
2. Appropriate Niche

Adsense only works if you have decent traffic. (more…)

Its a webmasters dream of receiving traffic exactly tuned to their website. Its no good having thousands of visitors intersted in football looking at your web development blog. Whats the point in that? What you ideally need is, believe it or not - is people interested in web development to be browsing a web development blog like this one. Putting this idea into a commercial perspective, if an ecommerce site is selling books about history, its not good attracting an audience interested in science fiction action DVD’s - the website simply wouldnt sell anything and would fail.

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Perhaps the top 2 schemes for monetizing your website at the moment (from the perspective of a webmaster who is a publisher - a person who earns money from publishing schemes on their website) are:

• Google Adsense

AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful. - https://www.google.com/adsense/

• Text Link Ads

Make more money by selling text based ads. Sell simple, relevant text ads on your website. Retain full editorial control over the advertisers that appear on your website. http://www.text-link-ads.com/

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You should use this tool to calculate earnings based upon page impressions.
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Use this tool to preview what ads are targeted for your site.
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