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Make Extra Income On Vacation
This past weekend I spent the day with my wife and kids at a beautiful state park and the whole time I was also making extra income. Not only were the sites I already have established making me income using adsense, ebay , amazon and other affiliate programs but the actual vacation was providing me with the opportunity to get some great new content. Now you might ask what kind of content could I possibly get on vacation that would make extra income. If you read my last post on how to make extra income using AdSense you might understand a bit more. The key to making money with adsense is getting search traffic that is targeted for your specific topic.
You see advertisers pay google a fee to advertise on their search and the sites of those who use adsense to make exta money. Travel and vacation related search traffic as you can see using google’s adwords tool pays a pretty good cost per click. That is to say you make a pretty decent amount of extra income every time someone clicks on the ads you display. The only way you will be sucessful doing this is by getting the targeted type of traffic that the advertisers want. It wouldn’t do you any good trying to get income from a topic that doesn’t have anyone using adwords.
Lets use family vacation ideas as an example. As I mentioned earlier I was using my time with the kids and wife not only for enjoyment but also to make extra money by gathering quality content. This content can be photos of the park we visited, information gathered from the nature center, details about our trip to the Thomas Family Winery in Indiana or even reveiws of the resturants we eat at for dinner. If you get a chance definately stop in and do some wine tasting you won’t regret it. Looking back in this post you will notice how I mentioned a site using a very specific keyword “family vacation ideas”. Hmm now If I were wanting to make extra income from adsense and had a site about my family day trips or vacations that might be a good term to get search traffic to my site. A look at google’s adwordskeyword research tool will show how I can make extra income by getting a site ranked #1 for that term. If you bother too look up the term you’ll notice that that estimated cost for the top three advertising spots has a cost per click of about $2.50. That means that each time you send a user to an advertiser by using adsense they(Google) will make approximately $2.50 for each click. Now that amount does decrease when you drop below the top 3 in the google search for your keyword. In order to make the most extra income possible you will have to get your site ranking in the top 3 searches for your term. I’ll discuss later on some way to get ranked in the searches. You’ll notice the site I mentioned above does not yet meet that criteria and as such doesn’t make much money. I’m just using this as an example of how you can make extra income even while on vacation.
Now as the publisher of the adsense ads you will make a portion of the cost per click that the advertiser pays google when they click on an ad from your site. The higher the cpc and the higher you rank for your given key terms the more money you will make. I know this isn’t a great explaination of how you make extra income on vacation but if you look at the site used in my example you’ll get a general idea of how it’s done. I have listed several good resources of other sites throughout my blog and you can find more here on my links page
Making Extra Income With Adsense
If you’ve been reading the site you’ll realize that I dont spend a bunch of time teaching you how to make extra income or show you exact steps that you must to do become sucessfull at creating income on your own. It’s not that I don’t want to share with you the many thing’s i’ve learned over the last few years about how to make money online, I just don’t have the time. I’m too busy creating my own sites to make extra money with adsense , ebay , amazon , cj and many other affiliate programs online.
I started this site with no intention of actually using it to make extra income it was part of an SEO contest. That I didn’t win unfortunately but it did teach me alot about what I was doing wrong in how I was trying to get traffic to my site. Ok back on point, making extra income with adsense. First you need to understand that Adsense is a google advertising program that companies use to promote their sites using Google. Everytime you do a search using google on the right hand side of the screeen you will see advertisements relevant to your search. These are the people who keep Google making money. Google could be greedy and keep all the advertising revenue to them selves but they have realized over the years sharing that income and allowing others to help them will increase their overall profits.
Like I mentioned I’m not here to teach you how to make extra money with AdSense but just to let you know it can be a great part of your income if your running a website. You don’t have to be a full-time Internet marketing specialist to take advantage of the adsense program. If you have a personal or business website or blog and are looking for alternatives to cover your hosting, development and maintenance costs you should read make money with adsense to get a better understanding on how you can benefit.
If you don’t own a website and are looking at ways to get started making extra income with AdSense there are plenty of free hosts available to use. blogger.com is one of my favorites for long term use but for the beginner you might consider some revenue sharing sites like squidoo, today.com, hubpages and many others. Starting out using one of these revenue sharing sites allows you to experiment with creating your sites, getting ranked in search engines and at the same time you can make more money than you are currently.
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