Earners Club

When you apply for a Google Adsense account, you also include your website as it is a one of the requirements for approval. Once approved, you can now put Adsense ads on your website and get paid for clicks or impressions on the ads. However, we cannot always predict the future. What if your site needs maintenance and must be closed down temporarily for a few days, weeks or even months? Or in worst case, you will have to shut it down permanently for your own reason? If you’ve got no site running, you will also have zero income in your Adsense account. However, it’s different this time.

You can now earn in Google Adsense even if you don’t have an active website. This idea (or whatever you may call it) is called Adsense Revenue Sharing. I don’t know who started this idea but I knew first this concept at DigitalPoint Forums - that’s how intelligent Shawn is :D.

Details & Process
Adsense Revenue Sharing is a way where you can have a chance to display your Adsense ads on another websites. These websites that allow you to display your Adsense ads are mostly community websites, thus, you contribute contents and get percentage for your ads to show. The process are pretty simple, let’s generalize it this way:

1. You must have already a Google Adsense account before you can participate.
2. Sign-up on websites (listed below) and put your Adsense ID (or even a custom Channel). Please see individual details on the sites you want to join on how to do this.
3. Contribute contents, i.e. create/participate a forum thread, submit articles, submit videos and among others.

Each time your submitted content viewed, you have a chance that your Adsense ads will show on that particular content and get paid if there’s someone that clicks on the ads.

Pros and Cons
With Adsense Revenue Sharing, you don’t need to have an active website to earn (take note that you need to have an active website when you apply for a Google Adsense account). Second advantage of this concept is you don’t have to promote the websites in which you put your Adsense ID to, the owners/administrators will responsible for this one. Last advantage of Adsense Revenue Sharing is that most of the websites that offer this opportunity have high traffic.

However, there are also a couple of disadvantages. First, you must contribute content to the website, no contribution - no earnings. Second, you will not earn 100% of the clicks since you only have a certain percentage to show your ads, therefore, expect a very low earnings. Also, there are some sites that has contribution restrictions, i.e. you need to have at least 100 post before you are eligible to participate the revenue sharing.

Adsense Revenue Sharing Sites
Listed below are some of the sites that offers Adsense Revenue Sharing. Out of the lists below, I only joined DigitalPoint (but not for this purpose), thus it is at your own risk and responsibility if you join them.

• DigitalPoint Forums
• NamePros
• Webmaster-Talk
• Domain Name Portal
• IDNForums
• NamesLot
• The Online Developer
• HTTPPoint
• HostNode
• Webmasters.org
• BlogUserhelp
• Work From Home Forums
• AuctionCut
• KernelTrap
• The Rant
• SoundChilds
• The Zizula Forums
• Article Wise
• Article Codex
• HotWebTools
• Article Trader
• Xomba
• Flixya
• MediaFlix.net
• Plug IM
• FreeRange
• Joomlaya
• ScratchProject
• Build Reciprocal Links

You Should Not
There are also a couple of sites that have Adsense Revenue Sharing but thier method makes the concept void. Let’s take for example a free blog hosting site, say call it an ABCDEF Free Blog Hosting. At ABCDEF, they stated that your Adsense will have a chance to display on the blogs that you created. Where’s the logic there? You created and write your own blog (but the thing is you are hosted from them) and then let them have their Adsense ads displayed on your blog, NO WAY!!! Avoid these things if ever you meet something like these. If you can’t afford to buy your own host, then just join Blogger where you have the total control on your Adsense ads.

written by Ramil Alcibar

We cannot argue the fact that Google Adsense is on the top list on publishers’ opportunities for contextual advertising. However, even if Adsense is the most excellent contextual ad program (I considered them the best of all), there are still a couple of things that I would like to have and probably you wanted it too. I listed below new features for Adsense that I would like to have even though I know some of these will not going to happened.

URL Tracking
Have you tried to differentiate the total impressions of you channels versus the overall total page impressions? It just happened to me that the overall total page impressions exceeded my total page impressions on all channels. And that happened everyday, and to make things bad, I also got 3-7 clicks on that untraceable impressions. Where do these impressions and clicks came from? What if someone envied on you, steal your Adsense ID and put it on not-allowed websites or just put it anywhere else and click and click on it until you get banned? These things cannot be trace in Channels. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what websites are using my Adsense ID? Yes, the only solution that I can think of is to track what URLs installed my Adsense ID.

Decline/Approved Onsite Advertisers
Not all onsite advertisers are high-quality advertisers. For example, if ever I have adsense in this blog (which talk about money-making), there maybe HYIPs that would like to avertise here, which I do not want to appear or even talk about it here. It would be great if we, publishers, have the ability to control what ads would appear on our site in addition to content-targetting.

Transfer Fund To Adwords
As it says, it could be like a cycle of our money. I earned in Adsense, transfer it to Adwords and advertise there, many visitors will come to my site and again I’ll be earning on Adsense and the cycle goes on. Not only I earn on Adsense, but it would also help build my loyal visitors. This is impossible to happened I think
Ad Filter By Keywords
Maybe not a good idea but I would like to filter ads by keywords. For example, I can filter some money-making keywords such as hyip, autosurf, investment, forex and among others not to show on my site.

Geographic Earnings Tracking
What country has most clicks? What country has less clicks but more money or vice versa? This would also be nice for us publishers so that we can target our audience properly when our aim is to have more Adsense income.

Payment Options
I suggest Adwords (stated above) and PayPal. I would like to have it in PayPal because I have something to buy, maybe a web hosting plan.

Custom Fonts / Transparent Background
It can be used to blend our ads to the fullest.

NO URLs on Rectangles (300×250 & 336×280)
It’s not that others (esp. Adsense publishers also) just type the URL and don’t click on interesting ads but it is just my likeness, no other reason for that. It’s cool when I see no URLs on it
So far, those are the features I wanted to have. What’s yours?

written by Ramil Alcibar

Do you enjoy taking photos? Or is it your special talent? If so, you may have great shots on images you’ve taken and maybe many will admire on it. But what would you do to that pictures - hang on your room, as a remembrance or what else? Whatever you will do to that photo, there’s one more thing to that - earn money. I have selected and listed very few articles here that shows you how you can get paid from your taken photos and images.

PhotoSecrets How To Sell Your Photos. This is a very comprehensive guide on how to sell your photos. Topics covered selling your photos on stock agencies, microstock, direct sales, on magazines; pricing; and even on law and copyright issues.

Selling Photos Online. From Digital Photography Journal, this tackles on selling your digital photos online in places such as in Shutterstock, Fotolia, Dreamstime, BigStockPhoto, 123RF and iStockPhoto.

Worthy To Mention
Freeimages.co.uk
AssociatedContent
Randomn3ss
Nimisis
Online Money Adsense

written by Ramil Alcibar

Forum is such a nice community to hang out. You can get lots of useful information on whatever interested topics you want. You can find valuable info FREELY that others charge you a fee in the form of eBooks. But are you only up to getting information? Be kind, share also to others what you have learned, this way you are not only helping others but you are also helping yourself to earn money. Below are simple ideas how you can turn your habitual forum posting into money.

Selling Your Own Products and Services
Most large forums has a marketplace for buying and selling your products and services. Owners usually offer this added service in their forum for free and even they didn’t get any commissions if ever you make a sale or earn money on your services offered. I highly recommend http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ marketplace in which you can buy/sell/trade almost all of your stuff.

Free Advertising - Earn Money With Your Affiliate Programs
If you have no products/services of your own and are just selling other’s products (you are an affiliate), it’s impossible to sell it on the marketplace section because referral links will not be allowed (an owner might be st***d if he allow such) in that area. In this case, the Advertising section of the forum might be the proper place to sell your merchant’s stuff. Not only you can sell, but you might also recruit new affiliates.

Free Promotion - Earn Money With Your Affiliate Programs
When you advertise your affiliate programs in the advertising section of a forum, it will be buried down to pages in the next couple of days or a week. No once can see and read now your ad. What you have to do is participate and participate in the forum, posting and creating threads in categories where you have the knowledge. So where’s the promotion? Simple. Just append the products/services you want to promote in your signature. You will then have more visibility dpending on your participation of a certain forum.

Revenue Sharing
Maybe an idea pioneered by DigitalPoint, forum members will have a (%) chance of having their Adsense Ads displayed on the threads they created or participated. And if your ad show and visitors click on it, then you will earn in Adsense.

Get Paid To Post
Yes, you can get paid by just posting in forums. This may applicable to new forums where owners hire posters to post on their forums and pay for each posts made. This method is used by owners to boost growth on their forum both members and content, because the more the content the forum has, the more people will likely to join.

Sell/Lease Your Links & Places
Signatures, location and avatar can earn you a little money. If you have good participation in the forum and you have a quite number of posts, you can sell or let others rent your signature, location or even your avatar. The price will depend on the number of posts you have. Will there be a buyer? Of course. If you actively participate in the forum, many buyers will buy for the promotion of their links.

Recommended Forums List
Here are some of the few great forums I would recommend that is worth for your visit. Forums in bold-italic has a revenue sharing.

• http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/
• http://www.v7n.com/forums/
• http://www.dnforum.com/
• http://www.namepros.com/
• http://warriorforum.com/forum/
• http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/
• http://www.wickedfire.com/
• http://www.webmaster-talk.com/
• http://www.idnforums.com/

written by Jane Alcibar

TemplateMonster offers professional (yes, their designs are quite good) web templates, flash templates, CMSs themes and other high-quality web design products. These templates are ready-made web designs, that can be used as a basis for your website. They also offer an affiliate program where you will get paid for referring customers. They pay 20% for each sale that you can make.

What Makes Them Different
If you have already a website, you can sell their templates immediately by using their tools. Within your site, you can easily display their templates, sample templates, search form, free clipart library and order status form on your web pages. If you don’t have a website, you don’t need to create your own (though creating yours is more advantage) because they provide you a ready-made affiliate shops (image below). These affiliate shops are completely functional websites, all you have to do is upload them to you host and you can start promoting and earning 20% commissions on every of your sales.

Let’s Do The Math
Prices of their templates range from $50s to $2000+. Low price is the price of the template that if a customer buys the template, they will still continue selling it. $2000+ is a unique price in which it will be removed from the shop once there’s a customer that will buy it for that price. Now, if you can sell at least 1 template in one month for a unique price, you’ll be earning $400+ - but maybe if you have a lucky day. Usually, customers may buy the template for the low ($50+) price in which you can earn $10+ every sales you can make.You will receive your earnings either through PayPal, MoneyBookers, ACH Payment (Direct Deposit - US Bank Accts.) and Wire Transfer.

Web templates are very marketable nowadys because most of the designers have high rates on design jobs. Plus, the fact that almost everyone wants to have a web presence but can’t do by themselves, they will probably but ready-made sites such as at TemplateMonster.

written by Ramil Alcibar