The Winner of The Free Blog…
If you want to make money the easy way subscribe to my RSS feed, and learn how to make money from your feedreader.
Sorry Randy, unfortunately you didn’t win this time around. Although Im sure the readers would have thought the process was rigged worse than a GWB election in Florida if you had won.
I am really regretting giving away this site now as it is ranking really nicely for some great keywords. A promise is a promise though, and I promised my readers a free blog and by God that is what I will give them.
The winner of the free blog is: Adam Dempsey, Adam please get in touch with us within 24 hours or we will have to give up the blog to someone else!
How To Make Money Online With A Image Host Part 4
It is time ladies and gentlemen for the post you have all been waiting for! This section of the make money online with a image host series will show you how to get the targetted traffic to your site!
TRAFFIC!
Before we get started on this, I want you all to take a look at the screenshots of the traffic you can expect to receive from your image hosts.
Monthly Screenshots:
For those of you that can’t read it shows August stats of 17 Unique visitors. And September stats of 36,025. That’s about 1k unique a day, but I only started promoting after the 10th of September. Now you are all probably thinking that Im lying right? Well here is another screenshot with the proof that I started after the 10th and stopped promoting on the 24th of September. Here is the screenshot for September:
Made it a bit bigger so that you could see the daily unique.
Now come the part where I tell you all my dirtly little secrets on how to get traffic to your image hosts. This is what you have all been waiting for.
The way to get traffic to your site is very simple. People come to an image site looking for PICTURES! You just have to post pictures on forums and people will click through them and I am going to show you how exactly.
Step 1: Getting Pictures: You have to get the pictures before you can actually post them anywhere. The best source for getting celebirity pictures is http://www.forum.phun.org. These are all updated daily and they are mostly brand new. Now make sure that the pictures you source are not already posted on the other forums where I tell you to post them. So now you have your pictures.
Step 2: Upload the Pictures: Now this is kind of obvious but the pictures that you get have to be re uploaded on your site, I was about to skip this step but then remembered that there are actually people out there that would skip this step. The reason you have to reupload them is so that you are actually using your own site in step 3.
Step 3: Posting your Pictures: I only use 3 forums to post pictures on, and the traffic has sustained itself. The forums to post the pictures on are:
That’s it. Take the pictures from Phun.org, download them, reupload them to your site, and post them on the other forums in step 3.
It might also be a good idea to put your site in your signature on these forums. Since people are actually also posting pics on these forums they may be inclined to start using your site. That way you have people doing the work for you.
Another method that could be successful for you is to post funny/interesting pics on digg, it might not always lead to a front page dig but it will lead to a backlink and SOME TRAFFIC. First thing you need to do is get some funny/interesting pictures. Once you have those you have to upload them all to your image host. Than 3 times a day post an article on digg with a link to the image. If you are lucky enough to get dugg to the FrontPage you are looking at over 10k hits to just that image. But that’s not it, diggers have websites and they use forums. So the pictures would go viral and you would see a crazy amount of traffic. This is not something that is guaranteed but is good if you get it done. The forums should be enough to keep you happy with regards to traffic.
There you have it ladies and gentlemen. A tried and tested method that will make you money, and all you have to do is spend less than 15 minutes a day to make sure that you continue to make money. The proof is all there in the screenshots, and if you are still not able to make money with this method than you sir is a nincompoop! Also remember when you get tired of working those laborious 15 minutes a day you should be able to resell the site for 10X monthly revenue very easily.
Do You Believe in the GooGle Sandbox?
After getting a site ranked on the first page of GooGle for the terms “firefox promotion” I am starting to have doubts about this theory on sandbox promotion.
I am starting to believe that the term was something invented by frustrated SEO’s to convince clients that had sepnt 1000’s that the reason that the site is not ranking for the term “home loans” is because of the ever omnious GooGle Sandbox. What they fail to mention is that some sites get indexed and ranking for top terms WITHIN hours of DOMAIN REGISTRATION.
Yes, it is harder to get a site about “credit card repayments” ranking on the first page. The reason? First there are over 1000 credit card companies that deserve to be there before your spammy site because they actually have the qualitity content that the searcher is looking for. Obviously visa or mastercard are going to rank on the top because they are an authority/trusted site. They have people linking to them on an hourly basis for no particular reason. They have people on their site staying on their site for more than the 30 secs that they would on your site.
So there you have it ladies and gentlemem. I have officialy claimed that there is no such thing as a GooGle sandbox.
Would You Give away a site ranking number 6 for the term “firefox promotion”?
Being that I am nuts and I love my readers, that is just what I am about to do. You see we had a promotion here at MubinAhmed.com that anyone that was subscribed to me via RSS and had taken a screenshot and posted it on my free image hosting site. Would be entered for a chance to win the free blog about firefox that I had setup.
Little did I know that this little site of mine would soon start to rock the serp’s.
If you do a search on GooGle for “firefox promotion” please take a look at the number 6 positions and think about that the next time you decide not to enter into one of my contest!!
The winner will be picked on Friday. Entries for that particular contest are now over.
How To Make Money Online With A Image Host Part 3
Hi Guys, in case you missed part 1 and part 2. Go back and read them first before you start reading this part about how to make money online with a image host. This is a pretty long post so I have kept it on its own. This sections has to do with monetizing that damn image host! After you read this section you should be able to have a fully MONETIZED image host.
Monetization:
1. Adsense
2. Adbrite
3. Azoogle
4. Link Sales
As you can see from the screenshot there are a lot of impression but no earnings. This is not to say that you should not have adsense on your site because every once in a while you will get a click for $1.00+ that makes it all worth it.
Here is a screenshot from my second site that should drive the image home for you:
Adbrite is what you will have to use to pay your server bills. After finding out that I was not making enough with adsense to cover the overheads I started looking into other advertising mediums. I thought that a CPM advertiser would be a good way to go because of the fact that I was getting over 12k Impressions a day. So I decided to give some of my advertising to adbrite. The good thing is that you don’t have to worry about users clicking on ads for you to make money. You just have to have the ad displayed there and you will get paid. Another thing that you must remember to do is turn ON the interstitial ads so that if a user is viewing more than one page you will also get paid for that. I started out with one banner in my footer and then added 2 more. On top of that I also removed all the adsense ads and replaced them adbrite.
And here is a daily screenshot:
Azoogle. Now this is a big boy. You only have to consider this if you have found a good campaign that you think will convert well on a image host. Because you wont get paid for impressions, and you wont get paid for clicks. You will only get paid when and if a customer converts for the advertiser! So think of it like this, they come to your site. See an ad that interests them, click on it, and fill out a form as simple as submitting a cell phone number or there zip code. Or as complicated as a 4 page questionnaire. Obviously you will get paid more if it converts but it is also a lot harder to convert. Think twice before giving up your adspace to this one.
