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 Following on from successes and mistakes made from my blogging I’m pleased to have launched Internetmoneymakingblog.com.

A site which specifically looks at using the Internet to make money and blog promotion. Check it out.

Sponsored Blogging is a way of creating income from your blog or website.

By writing articles about specific topics including keywords from advertisers you can earn credit, and it can pay quite well.Even if you don’t have a very popular blog you can still make decent beer money from sites like pay per post and Social Spark.

However there are some rules that you should follow for all your hard work to pay off. Make sure you make regular non sponsored posts, each provider of opportunities will have different rules around how many non sponsored posts you are required to make in between sponsored, but importantly you also need to keep your readership happy with your own posts.

If you have your own domain name then you will get more opportunities, so this should be considered a must do.

Make sure you don’t put Ad’s, eg banner Ads ( Google Ads) or context sensitive pop ups in sponsored posts, as these will get your posts rejected.

Finally Make sure you follow any disclosure rules set by the provider, if you make sponsored posts you must let your readership know.

Welcome to the November 21, 2009 edition of blog it and earn it.

Redfire Atkinson presents Top 50 Blogs for Sports Agents & Sports Managers posted at Sports Management Degree.

kaisan hogda presents Profitable Website Ideas – In Just One Click? posted at Big Selling Website Design, saying, “7 step checklist for assessing profitable website ideas”

Barbara Williams presents 100 Educational Lectures for the Small Business Owner posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

Anthony Stewart presents Top 50 Journalism Blogs posted at Journalism Degree.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents American Express Rewards Credit Card Offers A $25 Sign Up Bonus posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Thanks!”

KCLau presents Are You Rich in Internal Assets? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “pay attention to the internal assets”

Harold Gelien presents The World’s 50 Best Open Courseware Collections posted at Online University Rankings.

Harold Gelien presents Top 50 Free Open Courseware Classes for Journalists posted at Journalism Degree.

The Smarter Wallet presents Do Debt Consolidation Programs Work? Reviewing Debt Consolidation Care posted at The Smarter Wallet.

Effective Blogging

Kaitlyn cole presents 100 YouTube Videos for Your Business Education & Enlightenment posted at Online Colleges.net.

Barbara Williams presents 75 Coolest iPhone Apps for Lifelong Learners posted at Online Degree Programs.org.

Linda Jones presents 100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators posted at AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.

Brian Terry presents Profitable Website Ideas – In Just One Click? posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Linda Jones presents 100 Great Twitter Tips, Tools & Tutorials for Serious Students posted at AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.

Monetizing Your Blog

MBB presents Net Worth Report With New Home Update posted at Money Blue Book Blog.

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Videos can be a useful addition to a blog or website, they add interest for your audience and drive repeat visitors to your site, videos can be a very useful form of sticky content.

There is also a way to make money from videos using Voxant Newsroom who provide a wide selection of individual video articles and also Video feeds. The videos carry advertising and some of the revenue generated gets passed back to you.

For every 1000 views of a video you get $3.50.

There is also an option to auto play videos where the videos automatically start to play when your site loads, these carry a lower rate of pay pf $0.50 for every 1000 views, but if you have high traffic this may work form a good source of income.

The video belows shows how the video can be integrated into your posts.

Many web sites and blogs use Google Adsense as a revenue stream to monetize their pages, but how many actually read the terms and conditions that you are required to accept when you sign upto Adsense?

One of the terms and conditions is that you need to publish a Privacy Policy on your site. If you haven’t done this before then you can view an Adsense compatible Privacy Policy Template  by clicking here.

Make sure you follow those Adsense  Terms and conditions or you might get a nasty suprise.

YouGov is a well known and respected survey company who produce surveys for many large organisations, their findings often appear on news reports.

What’s more is that they pay you to take part in their surveys. Today I completed another YouGov on line survey and was rewarded with 50 points (50p), when you get to 5000 points then they send you a nice £50 cheque in the post.

I’m currently averaging over 1 survey a week from Yougov.

To join YouGov click here.

Its now been a month since my last update on how Kontera compares to Adsense so I thought I would see how the comparison is going but over a slightly longer Time Frame.

I’ve install both systems on a number of my sites and here’s the results between 2nd August and 13th October.

Adsense:
Total Page Impressions: 6953
Number of Clicks: 30
Earnings ($): 4.22
Average earning per click ($): 0.14
Average number of impressions per click: 231.77

Kontera:
Total Page Impressions: 6,014
Number of Clicks: 64
Earnings ($): 1.42
Average earning per click ($): 0.02
Average number of impressions per click: 93.97

In summary, my comparisons continue to show that Kontera gets significantly more clicks then Adsense but Adsense has significantly better rates of pay.

Most of us would like to make money from our blogs, but it’s not always easy – especially when starting out with a blog, as it can take years before a significant amount of traffic reaches our sites to make schemes like Adense very profitable.

However there are revenue streams out there that you can join to start the revenue flowing to your site or blog, one of them is The AdNetwork.

The AdNetwork will pay you a regular sum (currently £5)  every month for displaying their adverts on 3 of the pages on your site. This may not sound like a lot of money but it’s a regular set income, at the very least it’s £60 a year which should cover any hosting or domain costs that your occur.

There are no limits to how many sites you submit the The Adnetwork  so for those of you that run several sites it could become quite profitable. They do perform checks on your submitted site to make sure that you meet their criteria, but this is normal practice.

  The Adnetwork  provides a second potential revenue stream, for every visitor that you send them that then starts showing their Adverts you will receive £10.

To Join the Adnetwork and start earning money from your Blog click here.

I’ve been running both Adsense and Kontera on some of my sites (including Netbook Experience) to see if it’s possible to make any money from small blogs, so I thought I would report back here.

Google Adsense allows a number of different types of context sensitive adverts to be place on a webpage or blog in distinctive Ad boxs. Adsense Ad placement is a hot topic as better results are obtained with better site integration. The site owner is paid money each time a user clicks on a Advert.

Kontera provides a context sensitive service where keywords are underlined, when the mouse rolls over a keyword an advert pops up, and again the site owner is paid money each time a user clicks on a Advert.

I’ve install both systems on a number of my sites and here’s the results over a 2 week period.

Adsense:
Total Page Impressions: 1,494
Number of Clicks: 4
Earnings ($): 1.16
Average earning per click ($): 0.29
Average number of impressions per click: 373.5

Kontera:
Total Page Impressions: 1,441
Number of Clicks: 23
Earnings ($): 0.63
Average earning per click ($): 0.027391304
Average number of impressions per click: 62.65217391

In summary, in my experience Kontera gets significantly more clicks then Adsense but Adsense has significantly better rates of pay.

I had been trying a few different plugin’s to implement Google AdSense and Analytics, with varying success – especially with AdSense ad’s not being relevant to my Blog.

I’ve found a different plug in called Google Integration Toolkit, you can find it by searching the available plugins through the admin dashboard.

In one plugin you can set your Analytics Code, set your tracking code for the Google WebMasters toolkit and also insert a couple of settings to help your AdSense plugin.

Certainly since I made the change Adsense is definitely becoming more appropriate to my content.

Kontera is an easy and attractive way of adding contextual advertising to your site or blog.

After you add the Kontera to your site, some of the keywords in your posts will have a blue hyperlink underneath them, and when hovered over an appropriate  advert is overlayed above the text, you then get revenue when the advert is clicked.

Adding Kontera to Blogger sites is easy as you have direct access to the HTML code, but to WordPress sites it’s a little more difficult.

I’ve found a plugin which makes it a little easier called Ad Rotator, which you can search for through the WordPress Admin dashboard.

After you have installed and activated the plugin you can add the Ad Rotator Widget to your layout in the Widgets tab. The purpose of the Widget is to rotate through different html scripts, but if you only add one script to it then that script gets used all the time. Copy your Kontera code into the widget then it gets activated every time someone views your site.

I’ve added another post to Netbook-Experience.com

In today’s post, I’ve explained how to install Picasa on the Linux Version of the Acer Aspire One.

The next step for me is to look into the Monetization of my blogs, there are 2 methods that I’m investigating at the moment, Adsense & Kontera.

There are different ways to implement either method in WordPress, so I’m currently investigating which method generates the best results.

I’ll also be looking into other methods of using the Internet to generate money.