Awardspace Adsense - are you allowed?
You can use Adsense with Awardspace.
First you must sign up for Adsense at http://adsense.com.
You will need to create a Google account if you don’t have one already.
Second you need to sign up for Awardspace at http://awardspace.com.
Make sure you read the Terms and Conditions.
Amazon affiliate cannot work with Awardspace
If you want to make money with a website that is free hosting then you must read the Terms and Conditions (TOS/T&C/Terms).
In the case of Awardspace, you arn’t allowed to link to PayPal or Amazon, Ebay etc. because they will do whatever they want in order to get you to PAY for the hosting. They only offer small amounts of free hosting to make money with paid hosting…
This is an example of TOS from Awardspace:
You acknowledge and agree that based on its sole discretion AWARDSPACE might filter abusive words and/or links due to security reasons (i.e. words or links of PayPal, eBay, AOL, Amazon).
What a load of crap… it’s not security reasons but they want you to upgrade so you can use Amazon and eBay affiliates, and accept money through PayPal.
So swap to HostGator for $0.01!
How to get a free domain (TLD, .com)
The moment you have been waiting for. A 10 minute solution that covers the only cost you have to pay to start up a website.
Why do you want a free domain?
If you have an ebook website, or want to make a website to make money, then you need a domain name. To start up this website for absolutely no cost, you need a free domain. This is extremely hard to come by.
Instead of paying, you can complete offers to claim rewards. It is an easy process. I will explain to you in steps.
Step 1: Sign up at Ezyrewards for an account.
Step 2: Fill out offers to get 1,000 points (takes around 30 minutes, if there arn’t enough offers then refer another account/yourself).
Step 3: Click ‘claim reward’ and choose ‘1,000 points on Optinom’.
Step 4: Log in to Optinom.com and buy your domain!
That’s it!
10 reasons to use Google Adsense: Review
This is my review of Google Adsense for publishers. I have included 10 reasons to use Adsense instead of other advertising companies, and that’s what I am going to start with in this post.
Pros of Google Adsense:
- You do not have to sell the space, therefore you don’t have to wait a year before someone buys a link.
- Google scans your website and displays content which is relevant to your content, thus more people will click on the links.
- Advertisers pay very high rates (some more than others). You can receive $0.5-$1 for just 1 click.
- Adsense offers video units where you get paid if someone watches videos on your website which are related to your content.
- Your account can be used on many different websites. If you have a blog at Blogger.com (Blogspot) then you can use your Google account for both advertising and posting, thus it is much quicker.
- The servers are very quick. The ads load extremely fast, and when you click on them, it takes a split second to record (unlike other sites which can take up to 10 seconds)!
- You can create advance reports to see how much money you have earned using Adsense.
- Google don’t mind if you make $5 a month! You don’t have to be a big-time, 10,000 click-a-day website in order to use Google!
- Most countries are accepted. Some advertising companies only display ads in your region. Although Google does not display languages in other languages (because that would just be plain stupid), someone from the US can click on UK ads.
- Your account updates quickly, so you can see how much you have made within the last few hours (unlike some sites which are updated MANUALLY or take about 1 day).
Of course, a review would be nothing without posting the few cons of the website.
Cons of Google Adsense:
- Minimum of $100 before payout. Although Google doesn’t mind if you spend 3 years making this sum, it can get quite annoying. The only way to get it out is to close your account… so I suppose it is a google thing that they let you take your cash out if you are closing your account, instead of stealing your money!
- Payout is once a month. This means if you get $100 you have to wait between 1-2 months for your cheque to come.
- The only method of payment is cheque, otherwise you are charged for bank transfer.
- If you get no clicks, you make no money, even though Google is taking up your ad space.
In the future, there might be other pros and cons of Google Adsense, although I believe it is the BEST advertising company out there for publishers (and most advertisers alike).
Please comment if you think there are other good and bad things about Adsense!
How to make money with Google Adsense
Google Adsense is the most advanced advertising company in the world. It is used on thousands of websites. REMEMBER: Do not get confused between Adwords and Adsense. These are completely different things. They are 2 different sides of Google Ads. Adwords is for advertisers and you will be paying money, and Adsense is for publishers and you will be making money.
Here is the non-referral link to Adsense for publishers: http://adsense.com/
One of the best parts of Adsense is that is is extremely easy to retrieve ad code and put it on your site. You will be displaying ads in a matter of minutes and can start making money instantly.
There are many different types of ads, so you don’t have to put hundreds of text-advertising on your website, cluttering it up - instead, you can create user friendly ways of showing ads (sometimes without them even knowing it)! Firstly I am going to go into detail about what they all mean, how to use them, and then I will explain how to make money with them.
1). Adsense for Content
Adsense for Content is the normal advertising you see on websites. Although it is named “Adsense for Content”, you don’t just have to have it in the middle of text. It is also for vertical and horizontal navigation bars. Once you have logged in to your Adsense account you can see that a page of information displaying your current Adsense earnings is displayed. There is simple information so you can see an overview of your account, although you can go in to much more detail later. If you want to view more images and information on Adsense, then see the Adsense review. I have included pictures of the account overview, and also in-depth information. This article is on HOW to make MONEY using Adsense.
2). Adsense for Search
Adsense for search is basically a custom Google search engine you have made, where you get a % of whatever Google make from the ads. It’s just like displaying ads on your website, but you can also use it as a search bar, and a way of making money without cluttering up your web page. You can make pages of a higher priority and therefore pages that you choose will appear higher in your own customized search engine.
3). Referrals
On the image I posted it shows the following message:
Note: Referrals will be removed during the last week of August 2008.
Unless you are in North America, Latin America, or Japan, you will not be able to use referrals for much longer! If you look at this Google post on Blogspot, you can see that they will be stopping referrals and reducing the amount of money you earn. I won’t bother saying how to make money with Adsense referrals because you won’t have time to implement any methods.
4). Video units
You get paid $0.15 every time someone watches a video. If you can get videos on the bottom of your pages which are related to your content (which is extremely easy), then this is a potential for massive money. Seeing as 100 MILLION videos are watched on YouTube every day, one someone has viewed your content there is a high chance they will want to watch a video.
5). Adsense for Mobile Content
I am not going to go into any details on this, because it is simply ads for people who are viewing your website on their phone, therefore it is not a higher money making potential than normal ads (so you can follow that tutorial).
How to make money using Google Adsense for Content
Adsense for content is advertising links or banners displayed vertically, horizontally or square boxes in the middle of text.
To make money you need to first go into Adsense account and press “Get Ads”. You need to customize them in one of 3 different ways:
- Make them the same colour scheme of your website so they blend in.
- Make them stand out from your colour scheme.
- Make them standard format which many people regard as links (meaning more chance of clicking on the ads).
Google ads are PPC, meaning Pay Per Click. If you get 10,000 people on your website a day, and no-one clicks on them, then you will get no money. Although this won’t happen, because Google scans your page and displays ads of relevant content, the theory means that the more people that come on the website, the more clicks you will get on your ads, and the more money you will make.
There are of course, exceptions. Traffic which are not looking for the information you have will not click on the ads, and the target audience of your website (this is the people who you are writing your information for. They are “targets” because they have different variables for different information, e.g. age, gender, interests. E.g. Golf products are most likely targeted at males ages 20-60).
The principle idea of more traffic = more money is becuase of the CTR (Click Through Rate, which is a %). This is the amount of people that enter your site, compared to the amount of people that click on ads. The following calculation is your CTR:
Visitors (1 day) ÷ Times ads are clicked (1 day) = CTR
Here is an example of the calculation:
1000 unique visitors go on the website ÷ 100 ads clicked = 10%
10% is excellent. A good target is 5%. It sound quite bad but Google Ads normally pay a lot, so you will make quite a bit of money. To make money using Google Adsense you need to increase the amount of clicks on your ads (CTR).
To do this you must customize your ads so more people will click on them.
How to make money using Adsense for Search
It’s a pretty simple idea that if you get visitors to click on Google’s search ads they give you a cut. It won’t make anywhere as near as much money as if you have it inside your content, because someone has to search. The only part of Adsense for Search which is better that there is a higher CTR if the ads have the exact keyphrase of the search, there is more chance that they will be clicked.
So why should I use Adsense for Search?
This is a common question, but if you don’t want ads, then you can use this as an alternate method. -OR-
You could have this as well as ads! Instead of downloading/creating a software script to search your website, you can use Google and make money at the same time, because of the new Custom Search technology…
Google custom search is where you can choose the sites that your customized search displays results of, but you can also prioritize websites. You can change the colour schemes and do much more. Here is the link to Adsense (no referral).
Video Units
One of the latest and most amazing ways of making money! Because Google now owns yet another popular site, YouTube, you can get paid to display videos! You get paid $0.15 if someone watches a video on your website. Sounds crap, but…
The video’s arn’t autoplay, but best of all:
THE CONTENT IS RELATED TO YOUR WEBSITE!
Just like Adsense for Content, the Video Units are displayed once Google searches your site for keywords and displays relavent ads/videos. This means there is a high chance that people will view a video. If you can get enough people to view, think about how much you can make:
100 × $0.15 = $15
If you got 1000 hits on your page a day, and the video CTR was 10%, 100 people would view a video. This would make $15 a day! Which is the same as $105/week, $420/month or $5460/year!
So the saying “Every little helps…” is actually true in this case. Remember, 1000 hits a day is easier than you think. The CTR of videos is extremely high on my on of my websites which has a small target audience.
Adsense for Mobile Content
This is the same as Adsense for Content, although I am not using this on any of my sites, purely becuase they have no relavence to mobile content. I was going to post an article from another blog or website, but I can’t find one. Adsense for Mobile Content isn’t that popular so I wouldn’t bother!
Well, those are the different ways. Of course, there is Adsense optimization for higher CTR, etc. etc. and a new website called SimpleHonestInfo gives away ABSOLUTELY FREEhigh quality ebooks! They are worth hundreds of dollars but I’m giving them away!
10 ways on How to make money blogging
So how is it possible to making money writing free information for others?
1. Website Advertising - Advertising is the best way of making money. Even though people are actually being linked away from the website, every time they are clicked the owner makes money. In order words, if you get someone to go on someone else’s website - they pay you! Hopefully the user might return to your website at a later date, and maybe click a different ad!
The more people that come on your website, the more money you make!
There are many advertising companies that will get advertisers for you. If you are putting adverts on your website you are the publisher, and if you are putting adverts on someone else’s site you are the advertiser. It is very hard to find people who will put adverts on your website, especially if it has recently been created, although these websites get advertisers for the publishers (although take a little bit of the money the advertisers pay as a fee). Here is a list of very well known advertising companies:
- Google Adsense
- Azoogle Ads
- DoubleClick
- Intelli Txt
- Tribal Fusion
- Value Click
- Clicksor
- AdHearUs
- Fastclick
- Kanoodle
- Pheedo
- Adbrite
- TextAds
- Bidvertiser
- and many more.
There are many other advertising companies although Google Adsense is one that I would like to look into. If you want to read a post on this, please look at the Google Adsense review post.
Although I go into detail about Google Adsense on that post, I would like to point out that it is the best by far because it scans your page and displays ads that are relevant to your content. Also most of the advertisers pay more because they know that the people who click on their links will be searching for what they have to offer (because of the point above).
Also, another ad company is BlogAds which is the first advertising company just for blogs.
2. RSS Feed Advertising - Although this is yet to be an area of money making ideas, it has not yet grown to make as much profit as website advertising as it is a newly developed idea. It will continue to be developed and in the future will probably be more profitable.
3. Sponsorship - If you have created a blog in a specific niche, then companies related to the niche will pay high amounts of money to advertising space and links to their products. This is called sponsorship. It is like Website Advertising although you make more money as it isn’t Pay Per Click (PPC), instead they pay you each month for the space on your website.
4. Affiliate Programs - This is where companies/people pay you to sell their product. They keep the money, although will pay you a percentage of the product price/profit. Normally large companies like Commission Junction (who stole the domain I wanted :-P) and Amazon will pay large amount of money, although there are tonnes of companies who will pay smaller amounts for less known products.
The company that brings eBook affiliates together with product sellers is Clickbank.
5. Digital Assets - These are items that you buy online. They include eBooks like I was saying above, information products, but can also relate to real life items that are related to your niche.
6. Blog Network Opportunities - People PAY YOU to post in their blog. This is because they make tonnes of money, up to 6 figure incomes. Normally this involves multiple blogs and therefore it is hard for them to continually update them. (If they don’t update them then they will not make any money from them). You can also get paid to post in your own blog by companies such as PayPerPost (PPP) and Smorty. Although I do recommend you starting up your own website, it will make more money.
7. Donations - Donation buttons generate a substantial amount of revenue. When it comes to useful information people have money to throw away and donate sums of up to $100 or more! People even donate regularly and thanks to PayPal’sdonation buttons, it’s simple to do donations and recurring donations! The biggest and most well known donation funded website is Jason Kottke’s kottke.org who quit his job and became a full time blogger because of the donations!
8. Flipping Blogs - Otherwise known as ‘buying/creating and selling blogs’. I won’t go into any detail becuase this is a massive section on it’s own.
9. Merchandising - The usual stuff you buy like T-shirts and mugs sell extremely well when it comes down to dedicated readers. A massive company who specializes in merchandise items is Cafepress. Big blogs can make thousands of dollars with merchandise, although smaller blogs have a big change of success too.
10. Creating eBooks - Writing information products in the niche you know well because of blogging opens up a massive tunnel for success. If your website is popular then you can write minute details and information you havn’t released on your blog yet and sell it for a small price of $10-20. You can do special bonuses for those who are signed up to your newsletter/blog, which is a great source of income. The best part about this it is totally free, so Gross profit = Net profit! One of the only businesses to have this feature! No investment needed! Read more on how to create eBooks for free in the make money with eBooks category of the blog.
Once you have opened 1 blog and started posting, if you see traffic, that’s great! Sometimes it is best to wait for a few months before you put advertising on your website. Another great idea is to start multiple blogs even if your first one isn’t too successful… you never know, it might just be a dying niche!
Free domain for life
So you want a free domain? Just like many others!
The first thing you must do to get a free domain is to sign up to HostICan. If you would like a little information read this post before continuing to HostICan.
You WILL have to buy a package although thanks to the coupons, you can get $50 off and get your domain for almost nothing. If you transfer to them as a host, then this money will be used wisely.
Of course this domain isn’t ABSOLUTELY free, but this is one of many ways.
HostICan is just one way, although if you want to learn others you will have to check out the Free Domain category of this blog.
Cheap hosting review: HostICan
Unlimited bandwidth meaning you can have as many visitors on your website as you want and not get charged a penny for going over the “limits”.
There is not much of a difference between HostGatorand HostICan. I have prepared a comparison table. The only reason you may pick HostGator as it is cheaper if you don’t need the extras that HostICan has. In case you wondered why I didn’t include the “Hatchling” plan from HostGator in the table, it is becuase you cannot have addon domains (meaning you cannot use multiple sites in the 1 control panel).
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| Storage | Baby | Swamp | 2000GB (2TB) | 3000GB (3TB) |
| Bandwidth | 6000GB (6TB) | UNLIMITED | 20000GB (20TB) | UNLIMITED |
| Price | $7.95 | $12.95 | $6.95 | $10.95 |
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Both hostgator plans and the TeraHost plan offer unlimited SQL databases + storage. HostICan includes 2000 free templates, although HostGator has a sitebuilder. Both have Fantastico and the same features. HostICan offers the free *SPECIAL OFFER* of a FREE DOMAIN FOR LIFE! |
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So why bother with HostGator? Well if you can put in the effort you can get it for FREE! Just use a coupon by visiting this blog post.
So, HostICan is VERY GOOD!
HostICan Coupons
Here are come HostICan coupons I collected:
- “TAKE50-12” - $50 off Base-Host plan
- “TAKE50-12” - $50 off Tera-Host plan
That’s about it really, but you can get a FREE domain!
Use them through this link: HostICan
Cheap hosting review: Hostgator coupon
Want to get 6GB of space and 600GB bandwidth for just $0.01 (1 cent), then order Baby package on HostGator.
You can use hatchling but if you use Baby you can host as many sites as you want (and the space you get is ABSOLUTELY PLENTY)!
Use the following HostGator coupons to get your first month of “Baby” for just $0.01:
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Here is a quote from HostGator to show their quality of service:
HostGator is one of the world’s top 10 largest web hosting companies with more than 1,000,000 hosted domains. We have over 160 employees to provide you around-the-clock superior support. We are the perfect choice whether you are looking for business, personal, or even Fortune 500 hosting.
Every web hosting plan comes with a 45 day money back guarantee, 99.9% uptime guarantee, and is fully guaranteed by the owner himself. If you ever have a problem with regular support just ask that your ticket be assigned to Brent and he will personally take the time to give you the VIP attention that you deserve.
And, it’s extremely fast! Even this blog with SQL (database) connections and massive loads of files is extremely fast loading time! Included in the price!
What is their support like?
It is extremely good. Normally, I would ring a support team or use the live chat, and sit waiting for about 15 minutes before I connect to someone, then wait 5 minutes between each time they reply. They also only get trained to answer the FAQ questions (which I have already looked at), and then I get passed on to a higher-trained person until someone can answer my problem (if anyone in the company seems to be able to).
HostGator is different. I can start chatting on Live Chat straight away, and only have to fill in my name to start, not 5 different questions. Just today setting up this website there was an Internal Server error. Although I managed to fix it myself, the support person was going to get the tech team to take a look straight away.
When my error pages wern’t working (part of cPanel that HostGator includes in their price), I contacted the support team and they told me how to fix it within 2 minutes.
This is what you want from a host!
How much did I pay again? $0.01. This will last AT LEAST 1 month, but sometimes HostGator don’t even ask for payment for 2-3 months.
Not bad… and next month I’ll pay under $10.
Free hosting review: Awardspace. No ads
Free hosting WITHOUT advertisments!
Awardspace is a very good free host becuase they provide 200MB webspace which is just enough for you to make a complete website and store it.
Again they have 5GB bandwidth, and they also quote to have the following:
AWARDSPACE offers web hosting, domain names, free web hosting and email adress services. Our Free and affordable hosting makes AWARDSPACE the best service to host your small business website, personal web site, forum, photo album or blog. Our free web space services are also the best for new webmasters. We are the web host for everything from web design, internet marketing tools, domain names, email addresses and powerful web hosting service.
Although, this is a keyword spam in my opinion to get them ranked higher in Google. Personally I believe Awardspace can be used for the following:
- Personal website.
- Photo album.
- Email address.
The reason for this is becuase they only give you 1 SQL database where you can only store 10MB of data in it. Can you use this for anything? Well definitely not a proper blog or forum becuase there just isn’t enough room in the database in order to do this.
So where can you sign up?
Do I reccomend?
I would prefer to see you sign up to HostGator for $0.01 rather than try and make do with Awardspace. I mean, free hosts are good, but they arn’t just good enough!