A friend of mine, about to get married sent a joke to me entitled “Desperately seeking technical support” totaling 8 Issues. It talked about losing his bachelorhood, girlfriends issues, past relationships. I thought for a moment if they could relate to the challenges of our home internet business in which we always seek answers too. I decided to take up this challenge. Here is his joke (in blue) and my answers (in black)

8 Top Internet Marketing Tips For Your Home Internet Business

Internet MarketingTip #1- Get a Good Web Host

If you are running an Internet Marketing website and have recently changed to another hosting account like Hostgator from your existing account like Hos4Profit, the very first thing you will experience is that after setting up your site on HostGator, neither FireFox or Chrome worked on either of their editors and may just have to contend with using the much hated Internet Explorer. If you are still adamant about changing to Hostgator, you should keep both hosting accounts for the time being. Then when you are satisfied with the performance of Hostgator, then cancel Host4Profit. A note of caution, before shutting down Host4Profit make sure you have completed the files transfer to your new host or you will lose your online marketing website completely. That’s even worse than a system crash!

While the merits of changing hosts maybe justified, do remember to make relative comparisons and not just because one host charges $25 while another $7.95 per month. There is a “limit” to the number of domains a server can handle. Do you know that Host4Profit put no more than 250 accounts (full or multiple) on a server? HostGator I heard put thousands of accounts on a single server in order to off set the costs. Personally I think having thousands of clients on a single server may well lead to slower processing.

Internet Marketing Tip #2 – Choose Good Affiliate Programs

There are just too many affiliate programs out there that allow you to pick the most suitable one to promote. It is important to find one that is of good quality product, which ultimately pays good commission, with a good refund policy. Our recommendation is to choose affiliate programs which are relevant to each other so that the customer may eventually buy more than one product from you on your same website. Many new internet marketers make the mistake of choosing the wrong affiliate program or those that do not compliment one another. Another mistake that some bloggers make is they expect instant commission from affiliate programs to the extent of hopping from one affiliate program to another to find the best performance. You really need to first understand how the affiliate program works, the market conditions and demand for this product to have a good chance of making money from affiliate programs.

Internet Marketing Tip #3-Good Make Money Online Tip

Well after many months of not making money on the new affiliate product that I bought, I checked with my forum buddies as to what may be the reason for the poor sales conversion. After a few rounds of discussion, I eventually found what may be the cause of my problem. The issue was not the affiliate product but the way I promoted it. I had made the mistake of doing cold sale that is pushing too hard on this new product. As soon as I stopped all my aggressive online promotions, I had a sale.

Internet Marketing Tip #4-Avoid Too Good To Be True Schemes

I came across what sounded like a good affiliate program that requires me to pay only $1.00 upfront fee to join. Sounds really good I thought. After one month I had a shock when I realized that my credit card was billed $50.00 by this affiliate company. I found out that this was due to my not reading the fine prints when I joined the affiliate program. If I had, I would have realized that it’s $1.00 for a month long trial period and subsequent months the company will charge me $50.00 unless I opted out. After many exchanges of email with this affiliate company I got my money back. The lesson I learned: If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I then found one excellent free affiliate program called SFI Marketing Group and before long upgraded to Executive Affiliate status.

Internet Marketing Tip #5- Always Back-up Files

I found out about one good threaded comment plugin called Brian’s Threaded Comments Plugin. As threaded comments feature is good at attracting more comments on your blog, I installed it on my blog. Somehow during the installation process, something went completely wrong and that fateful night I made history by having hacked my own blog. Host4Profit recovered my blog within 4 hours, giving their top service something for me to rave about. Well naturally, once bitten and twice shy I had this plugin removed and subsequently found and installed Disquos which also had the threaded comment feature.

Internet Marketing Tip #6-User FireFox Internet Browser

Between Internet Explorer and Firefox, which do you prefer? For me and for most of my friends, it’s Firefox of course. From my experience I’ve found that internet Explorer does not welcome many changes that I make on my blog. For me particularly I’m constantly having problems with loading image files on my sidebar. They somehow break the sidebar too often. I’ve learned to reduce such changes to a minimum to avoid wasting time on fixing such problems in Internet Explorer.

Internet Marketing Tip #7-Google Adsense Alternative

A year ago I had my Google Adsense account suspended by Google just barely after 2 months. The brief reason given as ‘your account prove a risk to other users’ without offering a better explanation or suggesting what ways I should take to eradicate the risk to users, totally frustrated me till this day. Well just one month ago I found an alternative to Google Adsense. I joined as a free member but after one day when I learned that a paid member stands to earn more affiliate commission, I upgraded my CBadPro account to a paid account. That was a good decision as I’ve since had a few sales as well as paid affiliate members who have joined under me.

Internet Marketing Tip #8-Beware The Google Ban

I’ve always followed the Google Webmaster Guidelines all the time and applying only white hat SEO as apposed to Black Hat SEO. You definitely don’t want to get the Google Ban and lose page rank, Serps and everything that you’ve worked so hard for. You really don’t think you’ll get away with trying to game the system and trying to achieve results too fast too soon do you?

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Pay Per Lead programs or sometimes called Cost Per Actions (or Aquisitions) Affiliate Networks seem to be taking the net by storm judging by many that have sprouted up of late. While the good news is that they offer good income streams for affiliate marketers, many are inundated by just which CPA to choose.

Pay Per Sale and Pay Per Lead – What’s The Difference?

While there are several online marketing programs helping marketers in their business today, the most popular or common ones are pay per sale and pay per lead affiliate programs. Pay per sale is a type of the affiliate marketing model where the advertiser pays an affiliate solely for sales of products. Pay per lead affiliate marketing however works where the advertiser pays the affiliate for a certain action like signing up of a newsletter or subscription or simply filling out an application form. If the customer uses an affiliate link to the advertiser’s website and makes the required action, then the affiliate receives a certain amount of commission. T3Leads has ordered this review so as to get the word out for those not in the know, especially marketers looking for exciting profitable affiliate programs.

So How Does T3Leads.com Work For You

The registration process is pretty easy, which uses AJAX to validate your entries and  you’re brought to the admin panel page. Here you get a drop-down-on-hover navigation bar at the top. I haven’t figured out what “Public” and “Private” websites mean in this context and the admin page doesn’t seem to give any clue.

Customized Landing Pages

When you click ‘Public Websites’ there is a good list of fairly generic landing pages. Your unique URL is shown in every landing page which you can use to refer people to (example http://411payday.com/?affid=6808). These custom made landing pages present a very a unique feature of T3Leads that I’ve not seen in other CPA sites. They do look quite appealing and has a professional looking image that can easily blend into any blog or website.

T3Leads -Here’s A Quick Way To Monetize Your Blog

If you are thinking of new ways to monetize your blog or you have a niche blog it could be a good idea to use some of the great looking niche landing sites. Just grab the source code of these banner ads and put them at the most perfect locations on your blog. It may offer yet another alternative to Google Adsense. Or simply promote the affiliate link given to you when you signed up. It’s generous payment of 5% monthly extra passive income when you refer new affiliates who signed up is one of the first things that attracted me.

T3Leads – Some Advantages Working With This CPA Network

” T3leads does not resell generated leads. Our affiliate program directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions. We sell generated leads through a unique auction system that allows our affiliates to make maximum profits. We pay for each customer sent to us when they respond to your offers for qualified products and services – T3Leads“

How Much Do I Get Paid?

There are no fixed payouts and the publisher (affiliate) could earn “from $5 up to $150 per lead”. Well another unique feature of T3Leads is that this payout is determined by an auction basis. Here advertisers bid for the highest amount to get your leads for their business which just means publishers stand to receive the highest earning potential from this payment model.

When Do I Get Paid

Payment is made every 15 days so that’s a very decent interval to get your affiliate commission through your paypal account.

My Final Thoughts

T3Leads does have some very unique features although this uniqueness brings in a few questions like not knowing how much exactly one can expect to receive in each campaign that is promoted. I would say for pay per lead programs, the commission is smaller compared to pay per sale programs but pay per lead affiliate programs tend to result in much higher conversions. In fact T3Leads guarantees the highest conversion rates in the industry – ranging from 1:6 to 1:9. As a result this eventually translates into big affiliate revenues.

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After seeing many other blogs post their monthly blog income stats, I’ve decided to do this too on this home business blog for 2 reasons. Firstly if you want to make money blogging, you really need a way to keep track of how your blog is performing in terms of income generation. Only then can you focus on specific areas that need more attention and changes so that you ultimately achieve consistent blog income growth.

Secondly, it goes well with this blog‘s mission which is sharing with others whatever changes, tweaks I have done or will do to increase my blog income. It may help some people in some small ways and fashion in their blog monetization efforts. It’s also giving this blog a more focused direction as it is growing steadily in terms of traffic and income.

Blog Statistics:

• 167 RSS Readers
• 3188 Visits
• 6,945 Pageviews
• Technorati Rank: 37,135
• Technorati Auth: 118
• Alexa: 80763
• Inbound links: 13,071

Traffic from search engines amounts to 43% while referring sites and blogs contributed 34% and 23% come from direct traffic. I guess I’m quite pleased with the search engine traffic and it shows that my seo work on this blog is starting to take effect. I haven’t done any study to determine what is a good ratio among these 3 components of statistics. But I did check up one reputable blog of Caroline-Middlebrook just for comparison and she had hers as 45:29:26 for Feb month. So I guess I’m not too bad for now.

Blog Income:

• Private Advertising: $12
• Affiliate Marketing: $30
• Text Link Ads: $16.72
• Backlinks Ads: $12.00
• Squidoo: $1.02
• Links Transaction: $90.00
• eBooks: $47.00

Total Revenue: $208.74

Private Advertising and text link ads continue to generate my blog income and I hope it continues. I’d like to thank everyone who may have purchased advertising or contributed to my blog income one way or another.

My immediate focus is to increase my affiliate commission and I found an alternative to Google Adsense for this blog towards the end of February. It looks like a very good affiliate program to increase my blog income with.

How much money did you make off your blog in February?

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