Make Money: trade old cell phones for cash

Easier to make money online: By going GREEN!

This is the time and the day - you want to make money online but you don’t know how? Not sure if you want the added expense. Or you don’t have a brilliant idea to sell… Well let me help you out - you can be making money online with a simple business and little to no effort. Well, there is work involved but nothing that would or should cause you loss of sleep or money.

Imagine if you will getting paid to help save the Earth! Or help someone make a little extra cash for some old junk they have in a junk draw. Did you know you could make money by helping eco conscious people plant more trees?

Make money online : Trade old cell phones for cash

It’s Simple
A link on your website will take your customers to a cell phone trade-in site, custom designed with your company’s graphics and logo, where they can trade-in their phone for cash or credit on your website. Plus, a percentage of the value of every phone traded in on this website goes directly to your company’s bottom line. And, with an estimated 500 million old cell phones lying around in homes and offices across the country, odds are your customers have at least one.

New York Times: Get Paid for Recycling Your Phone
If you are considering a new phone for the holidays, that means you have to get rid of an old one. But instead of contributing to the toxic waste in landfill, you can recycle your phone, and get paid for it.
[via Gadgetwise]

Whether you’re a cell phone retailer with thousands of phones to trade-in or you just have one rattling around your junk drawer that you’d like to get rid of- it’s absolutely free. They don’t charge for shipping, handling or any service fees, but it would be wise to take the extra step of paying the post office to track or insure your package. Company cannot be responsible for items lost in the mail. If you have a cell phone, you can trade it in absolutely free. We’re not crazy- we’re just really nice.

It’s Green
In addition to boosting your sales, you are also helping to keep our landfills free of the toxins that are contained in these old phones. ‘Going Green’ is big right now, and your customers will be excited to know they are dealing with a responsible company that cares about our environment.

ShoeMoney Reveals How He Made $132,994.97 From AdSense In a Month

I couldn’t help but felt totally in awe while reading a post over at ShoeMoney.com where he answers several frequently asked questions about the AdSense Check in his Gallery that showed him holding one worth over $100K. Keep in mind that the check was for August 2005.
Sure, it’s a link bait post but a good one at that, so it’s worth linking to. If you are looking for a real life example of publishers making insane amount of money from AdSense, check this one out. Posting the picture again will continue to “resurrect” readers’ interest and certainly create an opportunity for him to promote his sites.

I quote the FAQ in full below:

What site was it for? What does the site do?
The site is nextpimp. The name was kind of a joke at first… next-pimp like pimp out your nextel phone. It started as a wallpaper site for nextel phones which grew into ringtones and other stuff. All content is 100% user generated.
How much of the check was profit?
At the time my expenses were 1 server @ 299$ per month for hosting. I would say atleast 130k was profit.
How much of the traffic was pay per click?
None of it was pay per click. Back then I did not know anything at all about pay per click.
Where did all your traffic come from?
About 70% of the traffic was direct 15% from search engines and 15% from referrals.
How much traffic did the site get to get that much money?
About 75k uniq per day.
Why did you get a paper check and not wire?
Back then Google did not do wire transfers for amounts of $10,000.00
Do you think its possible to still earn that kind of revenue?
(most often asked question) Yes.
How long did it take to make revenue?
I never tried to make any money the first 1.5 years it was running. I just concentrated on providing a good service. About 2 years after I started the site It started to do good revenue from AdSense
Can you show the full month report from AdSense for that month? Sure.

He even includes a screenshot of his AdSense report for that particular month. With permission from Google, he discloses his CTR and CPM. Can you imagine making such insane amount of money while only spending $299 monthly on web hosting? Check out his daily income below. Now convert those to Malaysian ringgit, are you thinking what I’m thinking?

And that’s not even his main income, according to him, AdSense has accounted for less than 5% of the incoming revenue for his companies. In addition to that, his blog at ShoeMoney.com is pulling just under $30,000 in October from direct ad sales, 30% from affiliate programs and other sources. Obviously more than the amount John Chow made from his blog. It made my head spin just thinking about those seriously mad figures.

But it doesn’t stop there, in March 2007 he made USD709,626.81 in commission from Commission Junction. I hope that’s a typo because I started to feel a little depress right now LOL. Just joking, it’s great inspiration for everyone. I don’t know if he earned that amount as a vendor or affiliate, regardless, it’s just insane to make that much monthly.

So did you notice a running theme here? He doesn’t make money by serving AdSense or selling paid links on his blog. While creating a blog can make you rich if it’s done correctly, I believe you’ll have to explore other monetization options in order to go to the next level.
You’ll need to create sites that serve certain purposes like PlentyOfFish.com or NextPimp.com, then learn PPC and do affiliate marketing. Remember Ashley, the 17 year old teenage girl who pull in over $70K monthly from AdSense by offering free MySpace templates on her site?
That goes to show that offering a service or products that lots of people are interested in will help you make money online faster.

Now I‘m not suggesting you drop everything you are doing now and start brainstorming similar ideas and hopefully get rich next year. I am aware that there are tons of other ways to make money online and not everyone can be as successful as those above even when they create the next free dating site, or free ringtone download site or give away free Myspace templates.
Often people become successful because they are able to offer the right products/services at the right time. Some may call that luck, but I call it knowing when to act when opportunity presents itself. If we can do that, we’ll be the next ShoeMoney.

How To Get Traffic on your site For More Adsense Profits?

How To Get Traffic on your site For More Adsense Profits?
If you want to earn profit from your site through adsense, you have to get traffic to your site. From the following points you can get good number of traffic without investing a great deal of money.
Always keep in mind that the traffic cannot be generated overnight, and you have to give your time to your site.
We are going to tell you the best practices in the Search Marketing World to build long term traffic to your site.
On page Optimization
Make your site search engine friendly (don’t over rule search engine rules)
Submit site to search engines.
Submit your site to major and important directories
Link popularity – Oneway and Reciprocal links – Avoid Link Farms
Write Articles and submit your articles to article directory
Email Marketing
Auto responder marketing
Blog Marketing
RSS Feeds
Create Forums And Massage Boards
Social Media Optimization – Book Mark, Tell a friend, Digg News
Give Something to your customer (for example - ebook, software etc.)
Get your customers reviews - Start poll on your site
Get paid visitors – Arbitrage, PPC, Adwords
Always refresh your contents

Some more Important Points to be looked on;
Look at your keywords, which you have targeted, are they really useful and traffic driven keywords? Check it in different keywords tools like Google Adwords, inventory overture etc.
Bring more traffic and gain search engine rankings by building some good one way links to your site.
Increase your click through (CTR) rate with best ads. According to me the ads in your content (336×280 large rectangle) has the highest paying ad group. Skyscraper ads (728 Leader Board) also do well in you right site navigation. Try to focus one topic at one page so you will get relevant ads and your CTR will increase.
Monitor your ads group. See which ad is doing well for you. Change the position of your ads till you get satisfied CTR.
Add more keyword rich pages to your sites, which will increase the traffic as well as your earning through Google Adsense. Write content with high CTR pages so that you get higher rates even clicks rate are low. You can see Adwords Keyword Tool for high CTR keywords.
Keep Your Google Adsense at the top of your page and mix it with layout so the link's aren't recognize as ad's but hyperlink to other pages on your site. Make sure the links are relevant to your site. It has more chances to click and Adsense profit will increase.
If you are using adsense on Login protected pages, you can tell Adsense to crawl your content using their Site Authentication Feature.

Rules for Adsense - "to make money"

Rule #1
If you are going to make money with Adsense then you build your site for that purpose. You don’t slap Adsense on an unoptimized site and expect to make much money with it.

Rule #2
Adsense works best when you drive targeted search engine traffic to your site and the visitor clicks an ad targeted to the term that the user found your site with. Or a related term.
ie. John is searching for “Adsense Tips” using a search on Google. He finds your site listed for that term. He visits and at some point he sees an Adsense ad on your site for “Adsense Tips” or “How to make money with Adsense” or “Adsense for beginners” and clicks one of the ads.
That is a targeted click. You will receive the best CPC. (cost per click or in simple terms this is the amount of money Google will pay you for the click) In this case let us say you get paid $0.50 for it.
Now Bob drops in on your site because someone (maybe you if you don’t know any better) stumbled your post on stumbleupon. Bob isn’t looking for anything - he’s just aimlessly surfing the stumble sites. He doesn’t see much that interests him but clicks on an Ad just out of curiosity. He doesn’t convert for the advertiser - why would he (but sometimes it can happen) as he is just checking things out. He spends two seconds on the advertiser’s landing page and leaves.
Bob is an untargeted click. Google will pay you $0.01 for the click.
Do not get hung up on all the variables at work here. Just understand that you want to drive as much targeted traffic to your site and avoid as much untargeted traffic as you can. You want to rank well in the search engines for as many keywords as you can that are related to your niche and you want to avoid driving traffic to your site from untargeted sources. No stumbling, digging, reddit, etc. If others do it you have no control so don’t get in a flap - it happens. Just don’t chase that traffic yourself.
Overall you will get both kinds of traffic - as long as the majority of your clicks come from targeted sources you will average a decent CPC. They will never all be perfect clicks. If the majority of your clicks end up coming from untargeted sources of traffic then eventually you will be smart priced and all you will see will be the 2 cent CPC. If that happens then pull Adsense off the site and leave it off until you can change the traffic source to more targeted visitors.
Now, before you all ask, yes you can get direct traffic from other blogs linking to you or from people bookmarking you. In general these people are interested in your site’s niche and probably have related niches. Whether they are targeted or not is usually not a concern as they will be readers and are not likely to click your ads anyway. You can have a million stumblers show up too as long as they don’t click your ads you will be fine. I am not telling you that you can’t have untargeted traffic - you can - you just don’t want them clicking ads. There are programs available that allow you the option to only show ads to search visitors. If your site has a lot of untargeted visitors then use them. I am too lazy to go find the links but I am sure some of my readers will supply them in the comments. If you are new here then you may as well learn this now - I yak a lot and my friends roll in to do the leg work. I encourage it because it gives them a chance to introduce themselves and they are people you should get to know - they help me, I help them and they will help you. If you have no online friends then make friends with some of mine as they will be your best resource. Just be sure to give as much as you get.
(Don’t be shy - get involved. You will notice by the abundance of comments that I belong to a growing community of like minded folks who all help each other and are far more knowledgable than any other group you will meet online. We were all beginners at one time and we don’t mind passing along our knowledge to others - take advantage of it and pay it forward when you can.)

Rule #3
Do not click your friends ads and discourage them from clicking yours. You will get banned. Google can tell when multiple clicks come from the same IP. It is un-natural and sticks out like a sore thumb. Never ever get involved with click fraud. It is not worth it and yes - you will get caught! Yes you will… you beginners had better listen to me as you are all going to try and think of a way to inflate your clicks. DON”T!!!

Rule #4
A successful Adsense site is a site that doesn’t look like an Adsense site. No splogs. It must contain legit information and serve some purpose other than simply displaying Adsense. It is against the Adsense Terms of Service to create a site for the sole purpose of slapping Adsense on it.
How you create an Adsense site for the purpose of making money with Adsense without looking like you have just created an Adsense site for the sole purpose of making money with Adsense will be discussed in the next post. (say that 5 times fast)

Why I Believe AdSense Works So Well

Why I Believe AdSense Works So Well
For years, website owners have tried to make money from their sites by putting up banner ads in hopes of visitors clicking them. The problem with banner ads is that the Internet audience is so immune to them, people do not click on them anymore.
When's the last time you clicked a banner ad?
...Exactly!

Second, in order for the web site owner to earn money from that banner ad, usually the web surfer that clicks has to purchase something. With AdSense, your visitors just have to click the ads. They don't have to purchase a single thing.
Third, most people that use banner ads do not do a good job of matching the ads to the website's content so the click thru percentages are dismal.

With Google's AdSense, not only are you displaying text ads, (which tend to receive a much higher click-thru rate than banner ads), but you are displaying contextual ads that match your website's content....thanks to Google's advanced technology.
Lots of times people think the ads are part of your site's content so they click because the information is relevant to your site. Whereas with banner ads, they often have little relevance and people tend to ignore them no matter how much they flash and fly across the page.

How Much Can I Earn With AdSense

"How Much Can I Earn With AdSense?"

Google does not disclose exactly how much you'll earn per ad that is clicked.
The commission you receive per click depends on how much advertisers are paying Google for the particular ad. You will earn a share of that amount. I've heard of earnings anywhere from 2 cents to $15 per click.

So it is logical to believe that keyword phrases like debt free, employment, make money, mp3, sex, etc. will earn you more per click since these are highly competitive keywords that are searched for quite a bit on the web.

Advertisers generally pay more for popular terms because they are searched for more.
Even though Google will not reveal how much you are earning for each ad that is clicked from your site, you can still login to your account at any time and see the total amount of revenue you've generated that day, week, month, year, etc.
For example, if you see that you've made $12.60 today from 9 clicks then you can calculate that your average click-thru commission was $1.40 per click. That's as detailed as their stats will get. Also remember, that's only an average. You won't know how much each specific ad brought in.

The amount you'll earn also depends largely on the amount of targeted traffic you receive to your own site, how well the ads match your audience's interests, the placement of the ads on your pages, and of course the amount you receive per click.
Ideally, you should create a site on a topic you know a lot about. That way you'll have a much easier time creating a generous amount of content on that subject.

What is AdSense?

What is AdSense?

Google.com earns most of its revenue by allowing other website owners to advertise on their search result pages. All this is managed through a program they call AdWords.
Now you can earn a share of the revenue that Google earns from AdWords by displaying these same text ads on your site. In other words, you're helping Google advertise and they pay you a percentage of what they earn.

This program is called AdSense.
Every website owner should at least consider the program. Even if your site is just for information purposes, you can still participate and make decent money with AdSense -- or at least enough to fund your website.
So if you are one of those people that don't like the idea of paying for a site, this is an excellent way to earn your money back and then some.