Bidvertiser Review

Here's my Bidvertiser Review, Bidvertiser.com also Known as Bidvertiser is an Advertising/Ad-publishing network which does not need any requirements from its publishers. Yeah!! Really, its good for those publishers whose website are on a sub-domain, like alik-blogs.blogspot.com, and they really want to earn money from their site's content with little traffic.

Bidvertiser Review

This is easy and bidvertiser can make a lot of money for you, but the basic requirement is still the same, i.e., you need high website traffic, high number of viewers will work for any advertising company on the web.

Bidvertiser Review, is it even necessary? You just need to "Sign Up" at Bidvertiser.com and your account will be active the moment you confirm your account through your e-mail, and you can instantly place ads on your website and start generating revenue from it.

Is Bidvertiser Contextual?

But a problem with bidvertiser is that you need to give them some keywords and the category of your website, otherwise they don't have the ability to display ads related to the context of your webpage, on the other hand advertising networks like Google Adsense and Chitika get the keywords of your website themselves. When you submit a website to Bidvertiser, Bidvertiser demands some keywords and a category for your website.

Placing ads on your Website or Blog through Bidvertiser

After signing up, you need to add your website or blog to your account. Simply go to the "Manage Bidvertisers" tab and choose "Add new Bidvertiser" option. On the opening page, you will be prompted to add a new bidvertiser ad under a new domain.

This "New Bidvertiser" is like an ad-unit. Give your bidvertiser ad a title, write the URL of your website (only enter the top-level domain of your website like AKBlogs.com), language of ad unit and the last part the category and sub-category of your website.

After adding your website to Bidvertiser, come back to "Bidvertiser Centre" tab, choose your website and click "Choose Template," button below your bidvertisers list, on the opening pop-up window you'll be prompted to choose an ad size for your ad-unit. One ad-unit can accommodate one and only one ad-size. Although it can be altered later.

After choosing your ad-unit size, you can choose the preferences for your ad-unit by clicking "Preferences" option next to "Get Ad Code" option, here you can choose like whether you want to display eBay ads, image ads, pop-up ads or not. Now they even have an option for showing slider ads which will start to show slides of ads from September 1, 2011.

After the preferences, click "Get Ad Code" and take the code and place the ad-unit on your website.
Choose any ad size that fits your website, they have a large variety of ad units. Most people prefer placing their ads right above their website's content. It becomes easier as you go by trying different ad placements.

What are Valid clicks?

But the bad thing about Bidvertiser is that they don't pay you for every click. Just the "Legitimate clicks" or "Valid Clicks" are paid and the rest are called as "Invalid Clicks". If your website's visitor clicks on an ad and then interacts with the page to which he is taken, than you get paid for that click. All other clicks which do not result in the visitor's interaction with the ad are valueless and are termed as "Invalid clicks."

This sounds difficult but with high website traffic, it becomes much easy. Well, it depends on you that whether you want to sell your ad space to Bidvertiser, if you want to, or not.

Bidvertiser and Google Adsense

Some people want to compare Bidvertiser with Google Adsense but Adsense and Bidvertiser are approximately the same. It sounds strange, but it is true. You can read other reviews about Google Adsense or Bidvertiser only, you would get these two as the most competitive advertising networks on the web. People that get high website traffic and run some of the world's popular websites or blogs, rank Google Adsense and Bidvertiser at the same number. They are the best alternatives of each other.

Bidvertiser has a PPC (Pay Per Click) or I should say (Earn Per Click) ad displaying system for publishers. Its main system through which it targets ads for your website is a bidding system. The advertiser which pays the most for your ad space gets to place his ad on your website via Bidvertiser's bidding system.

If you get more than an optimum number of advertisers, who want your ad space, than Bidvertiser selects the highest paying advertiser's ads for our website. Much like Buy Sell Ads. Although it is an ad affiliate network, not much heard of before, but it earns as good as Google Adsense does.
You might see posts for Bidvertiser as a scam but those are just to drive people away from bidvertiser written by some foolish people.

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Is ClickBank a Scam?

I have seen many people writing posts and reviews about the topic, "Is ClickBank a scam" just because they don't know some basics of being a Clickbank affiliate. The phrase "Is Clickbank a scam" has become more popular in google search than expected.

Mainly due to some reasons which I have mentioned below. Clickbank has a little system through which it deducts money earned by its affiliates in a manner the affiliate has agreed to, but does not realise it.

But first let me tell you:

Over 90% of Clickbank's affiliates are inactive mostly during a year

This is the biggest reason why people start leaving Clickbank, their own inactivity. The affiliates after working on Clickbank products and even getting sales don't go back to their account for a long period of time and eventually loose their income because of their inactivity from Clickbank.You may know about Dormant accounts:

Dormant accounts are those which have a positive balance but without any earnings for an extended period of time

Dormant accounts are subjected to pay a 1$ fine per day after 90 days of inactivity. 5$ fine a day after 180 days of inactivity. 50$ fine a day after 365 days of inactivity, this also goes for not earning for the same time period.

This results in a loose of trust from Clickbank by its users (affiliates mainly) just because they don't know some simple rules of using Clickbank, which the affiliate has already agreed to by tick marking the statement that he has read their program policy.

The other main reason that people find annoying and then start calling clickbank a scam is that a person needs to get atleast five sales before he gets paid by Clickbank. Even if you have made about 200$ commission by getting 4 sales and you have given Clickbank a minimum of 100$ to send you your cheque.

Even than you can't get you money because you still haven't got 5 sales yet. This is a bit annoying but you have already agreed to that by agreeing to the Clickbank Client Contract. A visitor commented under this post that this is because the user may not buy his own product and get commissions for it, I agree with this reason too.

Related: Best Ad Networks 2018

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Earn Skrill Money by Referring Friends

Money Bookers (now known as Skrill) is a very popular way to send and receive money online. Many of you will be thinking how you can earn skrill money from a money transferring company or earning money by referring friends but let me tell you that people can find easy and reliable ways to make money through different ways. Money from Money Bookers can be accepted in shops in more than 80 nations world wide.

Earn Skrill Money by Referring Friends

Money Bookers is the actual alternative for PayPal because if you live in Pakistan or any other country that PayPal does not support, you cannot send or receive money easily as PayPal does it. So Money Bookers can prove to be a good alternative for that. The other thing is their referral program, which is the main source of income for you, any person who refers a friend gets 100 Euros for that referral, which is equal to 127$. This is a very easy thing to do. 

The easiest way is to place their referral link in your e-mail signature. This way your referral link gets spread like jam on a sandwich. You can also put its referral link in ads and place them on your website. 

Related: List of Top 7 Google Adsense Best Revenue Sharing Sites in 2018

I hope this article helps you, I will be writing more on these sorts of articles and don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook at Akblogspk.

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Top 16 Biggest Ad Networks for Publishers

You might have searched for "Earning through Internet" or "Getting rich through Internet" or "How to earn through Internet" on different search engines and would have gone through a lot of rich in text documents but in the end you get depressed over your hard work and time spent over useless stuff and getting nothing in the end.

I am going to tell you something much better then any of the things you have read before and that is "Monetizing your website through Advertising Networks", which is a far more easier way of earning on the internet. You can even thousands if you get into monetizing correctly.

The first advertising network I would like you to sign up to is Google Adsense which is by far the best when it comes to contextual advertising. Some other important advertising websites for publishers are listed below.

Biggest Ad Networks for Publishers

1. Bidvertiser
2. Media.Net
3. Chitika
4. Conversant Media
5. Exponential
6. Banner Connect
7. Casale Media
8. Click Bank
9. Commission Junction
10. Rakuten Marketing
11. Adversal
12. Amazon Associates (US)
13. Amazon Associates (UK)
14. One by AOL
15. InfoLinks
16. ClickBooth

See "In-Text Advertising Networks" for more of the biggest Ad networks for publishers. The very first thing you need to sign up into most of these Advertising networks is a website or a blog of your own with a custom domain, you can learn to make a blog on my blog post "Creating a Blog".

After creating a blog or website you need lots and lots of content and information for your blog to become popular on social media and search engines. You can use social networks like facebook, twitter, etc. to spread your blog or website's link or create a page or account for your fans to ask questions related to the content or subject of your blog.

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Define Contextual Advertising | What is Contextual Advertising?

Contextual advertising as the name suggests, is advertising based on the text of an article or webpage, (includes both website pages and blog posts) it can be more briefly defined as:

Advertising based on the context of a webpage is called contextual advertising

Mostly people don't understand the correct meaning of context advertising so that's why I'm writing this brief post.

Define Contextual Advertising | What is Contextual Advertising?

Contextual advertising refers to displaying ads on a website related to the text, images, videos, graphics and other media of your webpage. Advertising websites use different techniques like crawlers and sitemaps which lets them know about the niche of your website.

Related: Beginner's Guide: Define Ad terms and Ads definitions

The quantity of words helps those crawlers to determine the exact niche of websites. That is why it is recommended to write long articles which use more and more of the key words which best describe your website. It helps them to get better idea of the niche of your website.

What is Niche?

Niche is defined as the specialty or distinct direction of a website. Like there are different categories a blog can be divided into:

• Technology
• Lifestyle
• Cooking
• Designing
• Vlogs (short for video blogs)
• Parody Blogs
• Business Related
• Professional Blogs

And there are so many other types of blogs. You can almost say that if a person started to write about a new topic it would fall in one of these categories or niches is the right word.

Once the topic is decided, the content inside the blog acts some what like a branch of a big tree.

Internet Advertising Giants

There are advertising websites on the internet that use this information from the website to show relevant ads. To name a few Google Adsense, Infolinks and Chitika are a few of them. All these are using the concept of contextual advertising to make millions of businesses find their relevant audiences through different campaigns. But one special website that is also using this concept is 

Facebook

Yes, it is facebook. In the second quarter of 2017 facebook gained a hefty sum of 9.32 billion dollars only through online advertising. With over two billion users facebook is definitely the world's largest social network. But how does facebook use the concept of contextual advertising?

Its not like we share our interests with facebook or anything... oh wait. Every page you like describes your interest, even its educational or entertainment, facebook can use this information to categorize you.

Ever had a page on facebook, every now and then facebook gives page owners the option to "Boost  Post" or "Boost Page".



Facebook then prompts you to select type of audience that best suits your page according to the interests you point out for your page.



This not only works for facebook pages and posts but also independent websites and blogs that want to gain audience attention through social media marketing. Although according to experts of social media marketing "if you are paying for it, you're not doing it right," but it does get the job done.

Related: Beginner's Guide: Define Ad terms and Ads definitions

Google Custom Search Engine

I wrote an article about Google Custom Search Engine, how useful it is for people who have blogs and websites and can easily earn money. Click here to read it.

The concept is basically the user telling you what he wants to search through you blog or multiple locations and contextual ads appear as first results of search. This is helpful for those who have Google Adsense accounts as this helps them earn more from their website based on the user's interest.

Related: Best Ad Networks 2018

I hope this article helps you, now you know What is Contextual Advertising & how to Define Contextual Advertising.

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Understanding Online Advertising - Beginner's Guide to Blogging

I am going to tell you about Ads, Advertisements and about some basic and special things regarding Advertisements that will help you in understanding online advertising in this post. Since the past 10 years or so internet advertising has sky rocketed and it has become a source of income for so many people.

For both publishers and advertisers it has been a good time to earn through online advertising.

Understanding Online Advertising - Beginner's Guide to Blogging

For understanding online advertising lets look at the basics first. First of all you should know what is the definition of Ad:

Ad

Ad actually stands for "Advertisement", which are usually used to persuade audiences to purchase stuff, like sports goods, etc., which are not very popular among people. An ad can make a real boring product famous quite easily.

We see some major examples of advertisements in our daily life like banners on different buildings and boards of different sizes placed on different buildings, buses, ships, planes and many other places. In this process of advertising there are two major types of people involved, the Publishers and the Advertisers.

Related: Ad Terms and Definition for Newbie Bloggers

Advertisers

Advertisers are the people who pay money to make their brand popular. They make banners of their products and place them on different places, through publishers, like on top of buildings and/or on buses and other places that they think will make their product viewable to the people and also make it popular.



In the World Wide Web, Advertisers are the people that pay money to make their websites, products and blogs popular and even make their products sell by publishers and different affiliates.

They have different terms through which they make their products sell by selected affiliates. Some provide different tools to their affiliates and publishers to make their products sell easily.

Related: Websites to help you earn from your Blog

Advertising Networks

"Google Adwords" is an example of an Internet advertising network to which we pay money to make our blog/website or our products popular by viewing our products at a google search result and directing targeted traffic to the product which may be a website or blog. This is also called "Search Engine Marketing".

Now, the advertisers in the World Wide Web don't only pay to make their ads viewable by people, they actually pay more money to the publisher for someone clicking their ads. If you use Google Adsense you would rather know about all this.



They pay the publisher a rather low or sometimes high amount of money per a single click because this continuously changes according to the ads supplied by the advertiser, it generates a huge revenue to the people publishing ads on their websites and blogs.

Related: Websites to help you earn from your Blog

Publishers:

Publishers are the people that are paid to put ads on their products or property like websites, blog, feeds, etc. In the real world the publisher may be a house resident paid to put a leader board on his roof top or the owner of a five star building paid to put ads on his building.

In the World Wide Web publisher are of two types generally, affiliates, who sell products through advertisements, and the simple publishers who get paid for every single click made to their advertisements.



Publishers earn a huge deal of money from their websites regularly because there are a huge number of advertisers that are ready to pay publisher for putting their ads on their websites.

"Google Adsense" is one of the most popular publisher network now-a-days that has a huge number of advertisers and also some top quality ads and the best thing about Google Adsense is that they always put ads on your site that are relevant to the topic or content of your site, i.e. contextual ads.

Suppose if you have a site or blog about "football" and you place Google Adsense ads on your site than generally Google Adsense would put ads related to football on your site.

Suppose an advertiser pays you 0.03$ or 3 cents for a single click made through your website, after 2 to 3 months you could be making 30 dollars a month through that single advertiser and that advertiser also gets targeted traffic to their sites from your website or blog.

Types of Ads:

CPC Ads:

CPC (Cost Per Click) ads are the Ads in which a publisher is paid when a visitor clicks on the ads placed on his website. A publisher can get from a cent to 15 Dollars per click. This depends on the ads you are displaying and to the audience you are displaying ads.

According to some stats, keywords like "web hosting", "mortgage", "Business", "buying and selling" are the most popular keywords searched for so if you make a website or blog regarding any of these topics and place relevant ads, then you can have a lot of valid clicks on your ads and each valid click would generate about 1$ to 3$ or even more, but remember that the more a keyword gets popular the lesser you earn for that ad when it is clicked.

So even if you have a few people coming to your website or blog even then you can earn about 5-10$ a month and even more or less because this cannot be guaranteed that you earn lots of money with low traffic.

It merely depends upon the visitors that they want to click on ads or not and also the geographical location of the user.

Related: Ad Terms and Definition for Newbie Bloggers

CPM Ads:

CPM (Cost Per Mille) ads are the ads in which a publisher is paid when he gets 1000 impressions of a specific ad. CPM actually stands for "Cost per 1000 Impressions". CPM ads are very useful when you have people coming to your site and they are not clicking on the ads.

Even though you get paid when people click on ads. Each Person coming to your site would generate 1 impression per ad in one page. I would suggest to place CPM ads on the top of your website so that you get maximum amount of impressions through these ads.

Hope you liked the article. I hope this article helps you in understanding online advertising, I will be writing more on these sorts of Articles. I have started a Beginner's Guide tag so as to help new Bloggers and Youtubers. Don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook at Akblogspk.

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What is Affiliate Marketing? Step by Step Guide

Affiliate marketing has helped hundreds and thousands of ordinary people to become millionaires. It has been one of the very successful businesses of modern day. The successful marketers who have mastered the art of affiliate Marketing have earned a lot. But the question remains, what is affiliate marketing? And what are the terms you should know about affiliate marketing before starting your own business as an affiliate marketer, either as an affiliate or a merchant.

What is Affiliate Marketing? Step by Step Guide

It is the process of promoting someone’s products or services by introducing them to the potential customers, generating big sales for organization and earning commission on these promoted products. 

In this article I am going to discuss with you a step by step guide to Affiliate Marketing. For an online affiliate marketer, mainly four things combine to make a cycle of affiliate marketing.

A Website

A website containing products and their reviews called an affiliate website is the first requirement for an affiliate marketer. The website doesn't really have to have product reviews in it but does have to be product related so you can generate sales.

If your product placement is not good you might not generate sales. Also, if your placed product and website genre, you might not get sales and leads. Don't know what these advertising terms mean? Read this.

Related: Beginner's Guide: Define Ad terms and Ads definitions

Ad Suppliers

Firstly what are Suppliers in Affiliate Marketing? Suppliers are people who supply these product to you so that you may sell them. In online affiliate marketing, ad suppliers are websites that give away ad code for a certain product that you place on your website.

These websites maintain a track record of ad activity through cookies. They are basically called an affiliate network.

Related: Websites to help you earn from your Blog

The Affiliate Networks are the one that drop cookies on buyer’s browser to keep track of products sales and purchases. When any client clicks on any advertisement published on the affiliate's website, it sends record of that customer's sales to the affiliate network. The affiliate network maintains a record of sales and clicks of every purchase made by that affiliate's website.

Related: Biggest Ad networks for Publishers

Buyer

The one who buys the product called buyer. He does it by clicking the ad on your website and making a purchase on the subsequent link.

Affiliates

The commission receivers who receive commissions for sales generated are called Affiliates or Affiliate Marketers. The affiliate owns the website and allows different people from different affiliate networks to make sales by using that website.

Two main rules of affiliate marketing

• Only recommend that product to a buyer whose quality is best and you being an affiliate marketer, are aware of it. This will build a trust level between you and your client.
• Never force someone to buy the product, just give good recommendations based upon your experience.

The best way is to describe the product's use and write a few lines of reviews from different sources. However, writing your own review will help a lot. It builds trust among you and your client.

Affiliate Marketing is not about becoming an affiliate, you can even become a merchant and make your own products and sell it through your own sources or different affiliates. Here's a step by step guide for you to become an Affiliate Merchant.

Related: Biggest Ad networks for Publishers

Step by step guide for becoming an Affiliate Merchant

An affiliate merchant is a person who creates a product and sells it online. They are usually called merchants. As affiliates get a commission for each sale made, merchant get a bulky sum for each sale. For a merchant there is always a pool of affiliates waiting to sell his product.

If you want to become an affiliate merchant, you must make a nice and worthy product to sell. To create a worthy product follow these steps:

You must possess whole knowledge about your product

Having little know-how or incomplete know-how of a product you are making and selling online will not only be a major let down but it will also damage your reputation as a merchant. Having complete knowledge of a product will give you a better chance of selling it to the right type of audience.

You must validate your idea among people

You must validate your idea among people, make the concept about your idea in peoples mind crystal clear, so that they can support your idea. Get reviews for your product from your close ones and make appropriate changes so your product becomes worthy of selling online.

A physical product must exist

A physical product must exist against your idea. Either it is something physical or a coded file which you programmed. In online market usually it is a software which consists of a series of codes that are executed to perform a specific task or something physical like a lighting lamp or a table, etc.

Selling fake products will get you into trouble and make a problem for you if you want to become a long time affiliate merchant.

You need to promote it among people

Once you have created your physical idea now you need to promote it among people. You can do it using an affiliate network but you should also use your own networks to get more sales. Here is a list of biggest ad networks to sell your product.

Tips for becoming an Affiliate Market Success

Becoming an affiliate marketing success requires hard work and a lot of technical know-how. These are some basic tips for becoming an affiliate market success for both as an affiliate and a merchant.

There are a lot of people on the internet buying new products everyday. You need to make marketing strategies for your product for it to perform outstandingly against other products of the same category. You need to follow the following steps for becoming an affiliate market success.

Related: Biggest Ad networks for Publishers

Generating ideas for physical products

Ideas are always easy to generate because they are random. However, if you want your idea to be unique it must be validated among your clients. You need to ponder and think slightly hard and brainstorm ideas as much as you can before starting to make a product happen.

You can also ponder upon what products are already in market and how you can improve them and make something that helps users from all over the internet.

Validating your idea

With the help of the internet you can easily validate your idea about business products. You need to validate your idea before you start working on it.

You can use social media and other websites or make a youtube video to spread the idea of your product. Make a youtube video, SEO it and post it on your social media. This way you can spread your idea easily. Interested people will contact you. Just fix the product according to their requirements.

Don't forget to write terms and conditions with required amount before selling your product.

Creating the actual product

Now there are tons of ideas throughout the internet. Also there are so many tools which can help you generate your product. You can take crash courses that will guide you on how to create that product. Also its variations which will be accepted among people as a different version of your original product.

For example you can create e-books, write any research paper or make any software. It all depends upon your skill set.

Finding your affiliate partner

Now find your affiliate partner in market who can actually promote your product and fix his commission. You don't always have to go to a high profile affiliate network. You can use freelancing platforms and social media groups to find the ideal candidates for spreading your product among people of your product's niche.

Related: Biggest Ad networks for Publishers

However if you want to do it yourself and also have someone else spread your product. Follow these steps:

Steps for becoming an Affiliate Market Partner

If someone calls you personally on your freelancer gig or contacts you through your social media accounts asking for help regarding a product that isn't selling as well as it should. Here's how you can help him as an affiliate.

• You need to review all your products under the niche by using YouTube or your blog/website or any other source or even social media. 
• Prepare a list of emails of your contacts so that you can email product related information to them about the product.
• Once you start getting sales and start growing you can create links of your own “paying per click advertisements”.

Conclusion

I hope you know what is affiliate marketing now. I have written a lot of different post regarding affiliate marketing here on Ali Khan Blogs - SEO Blogger, you can search for them if you want to. I will be writing more on these sorts of articles and don't forget to follow my blog on facebook.

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Beginner's Guide: Define Ad terms and Ads definitions

If you are new to blogging, i.e. newbie blogger, and you want to earn a huge amount of money from your blog via monetizing it with some popular advertising or publishing agency. Then there is no solution to your problem that I know.

What you need is patience, if you remain patient and keep doing your job on your blog, i.e. writing content rich blog posts and giving relevant information about some topic, only then you can achieve success, which is every blogger's main target.

Beginner's Guide: Define Ad terms and Ads definitions

Earning from a blog is now a much profitable source of income as compared to what blogging was in the past due to the increased opportunities of earning given by different websites which mainly constitute advertising and ad publishing websites.

Although apps like AdBlocker have somewhat reduced the profit margin but that does not mean that bloggers can't earn. Also affiliate marketing tends to be a source of income for bloggers which have lots of pageviews.




Before telling you about those sites that tend to help to increase earning opportunities from your blog. I will tell you about the things that matter when you publish ads and how they are interpreted. You need to have an idea of these things, although you will cater them at one point or another in this field. But it would be better if you know about this stuff ahead of time.

Website Traffic

After entering the "blogging industry" your main goal becomes getting as much traffic as possible for your blog. The word "traffic" here describes the number of visitors your blog gets. With over 2 billion internet users in the world, internet traffic tends to grow more and more everyday. However, there are different ways to get taffic, one of them I mentioned in this article.

Website traffic is divided into two main categories. One is the valued one called targeted traffic, that visits the blog for information and service, spends some time, comments and/or share to social media, and eventually makes a purchase or clicks an ad (not every time though). The other category of visitors is the one that has no value for your site and is there because of a misclick.

Why you ask is website traffic important? Because some advertising companies don't give ad access to publishers so easily, you need to have a blog that gets at least the minimum amount of traffic required for approval. Different sites have different requirements.

Some have a requirement of five thousand pageviews a day, and some have more, to qualify for these websites. Check the picture below for reference from AdRecover. A popular advertising company:





Getting to 100,000 pageviews takes a lot of time and hardwork. However it gets easy as time passes by. The blogger in turn becomes the publisher for these advertising sites. And gives them ad space within his blog.

Pageviews

Pageviews is the number of times the browser has opened your website (including all its pages inside) it determines the quality of traffic on your website. If a visitor tends to stick around your website for long and also visits different pages before leaving, he is said to be quality traffic.

You can say someone interested in your content is quality traffic. On the other hand people who skim through your posts and leave as soon as possible are low quality traffic. Your blog's popularity determines the quality of traffic you get.

Related: Websites to help you earn from your Blog

Ad Clicks

If you place an ad of an advertising company on your blog and your blog's visitor is interested in that ad and he clicks on it, then you earn a small amount of money for that click from the advertising company. This earned income for a click is between 0.01$ to 3$. Some say that they earn about 15$ for a click, but those are different kind of ads and I don't want to get in that type of industry.

On the other hand, this is the best way of earning from your blog. If you have a stream of visitors coming to your blog, your blog will start earning more and more steadily.

Ad clicks are very important as they determine the Cost Per Click (CPC) and Click Through Rate (CTR). Most blog revenue is generated by ad clicks and impressions.

Click Through Rate (CTR)

Ad clicks generally have a Click Through Rate (CTR) which is the percentage of ratio of number of ad clicks to the number of ad impressions. i.e.,

CTR = Total no. of Clicks ÷ Total no. of impressions x 100%

Usually the CTR is very low, almost 0.1-2% because not all visitors tend to click on ads. Also the visitor doesn't just come to your site for ads. They surf around your website for interesting content until they finally finds the ad interesting.

Different ads have different rates but this does not effect the CTR. A high CTR is actually dangerous as it implies invalid clicks. Advertising agencies take the matter of invalid clicks quite seriously.

Cost Per Click (CPC)

As the name suggests cost per click is the cost of each ad click. It is the amount of revenue an ad earns you when it is clicked. Ads have different CPCs depending on the advertisers, the ad type and the visitor that clicks on it.

How do they effect the CPC you ask? Here's how:

• Advertisers determine the budget of an ad. So it is pretty much controlled by them. Their budget defines your earned CPC.
• The ad showing on your ad space also defines your CPC. Video ads tend to have higher CPCs as compared to text ads.
• If you are using contextual ad services, the visitor also determines your CPC. Visitors from western countries tend to give out higher CPC then from the subcontinent or any other place.

CPC is also referred to as EPC (Earning Per Click) in some websites.

Related: Websites to help you earn from your Blog

Invalid Clicks

Do not ever try to click on your own ads for money, because some advertising companies call these types of clicks as invalid clicks and your account of that advertising company gets taken away from you at the moment you make an invalid click.

Although, you can try to make a new account on that advertising website through some other ID, but companies like Google Adsense readily disapprove accounts like that and there remains no way that you can get back to that advertising company again. We can say that you get blacklisted for invalid clicks.

Ad Impressions

Ad impressions are the number of impressions your ad gets by a visitor when he opens your blog. For CPM ads, showing these ads determines your earned revenue. But now-a-days advertising agencies dont pay for all impressions. They have further divided these impressions into categories like:

Blocked Impressions

Ad impressions for which no auction was placed by the advertisers and ads were not served for these impressions.

No Bid

Ad impressions for which an auction was held but their were no advertisers who bid on it and ads were not served for these impressions.

Your blog's income is determined with ad impressions which are calculated by their average cost per thousand impressions (eCPM).

Average Cost per Thousand Impressions (eCPM)

eCPM is the average amount of money earned for a specific ad unit divided by the total number of impressions that ad gets times thousand. eCPM stands form "average Cost Per Mille," which means the total amount earned for thousand views of an ad. The word "mille" means thousand in Latin. It is calculated as follows:

eCPM = Total revenue ÷ Total impressions of ad * 1000

For example, if your ad unit earns you 5$ and gets 5000 views during that then your ad's eCPM is

eCPM = 5 ÷ 5000 * 1000 = 1$

Page Revenue per thousand impressions (RPM)

Page Revenue per thousand impressions is the revenue you earn for thousand impressions of ads. It is directly related to the number of ad impressions you have in a day. Usually the RPM is calculated as follows:

RPM = Revenue earned ÷ Total Ad Impressions * 1000

This is somewhat a new terminology, that has not been used by many ad networks except Google Adsense. 

Active viewable CPM

This is a type of CPM earning technique  for which publishers earn when an impression is recorded to be atleast 50% viewable for atleast one whole second. 


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Sales and Leads

Sales and leads are two terms that are related to affiliate marketing. These terms requires visitors to do more than just click ads, instead they have to perform specific tasks only then is the publisher paid for task.

Sale

In order to generate a sale revenue, the visitor must make a sale in the appropriate ad. The publisher then gets his commission from this sale.

Lead

In order to generate a lead revenue, the visitor must perform a specific task in the appropriate ad. This task may vary from advertiser to advertiser like making a download, getting a sign up on the website or newsletter, etc. The publisher then gets his commission for this lead. The advertisers that support this are called pay per lead. 

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Conversion Rate

Conversion rate is another term used in affiliate marketing. It represents the number of sales you get to the total number of clicks. It can be represented as:

Conversion Rate = Total no. of Sales ÷ Total no. of  Clicks * 100

Conversion rates are usually low, almost 0.1-1.5%. But this doesn't mean people can't get sales with low traffic. This is just an average value. It totally depends upon the nature of traffic and visitors on your website.

That's all folks, these are almost all the general ad and affiliate marketing terms you could encounter within the future. However, it would not be wrong to say that these terms keep on changing with time and also some websites have some terms specific to them.

Hope you liked the article. I hope this article helps you, I will be writing more on these sorts of Articles. I have started a Beginner's Guide tag so as to help new Bloggers and Youtubers. Don't forget to follow my blog Ali Khan Blogs on facebook at Akblogspk.

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Using Clickbank ads as In-Text advertising ads

If you know about in-text advertising ads, you would also know that they have a relatively low CTR (Click Through Rate) and less revenue is earned from these ads when they are clicked, most probably.
You would also have heard of ClickBank, well it's the world's biggest online digital product selling portal.

Using Clickbank ads as In-Text advertising ads

There is a deep relation with these two things that I've just mentioned, one is in-text advertising and the other is Clickbank. Both when used together can make a huge amount of money for a website developer or a blogger, mostly bloggers because their blogs consist of text mostly.

Even though Clickbank does not offer in-text advertising but you can still make the product links of clickbank into in-text ads by just making them links of your blog in another colour and font so that they appear different and attractive to the visitor and the visitor may click on it, like if your template colour is blue and your links are shown in blue than you can add links of your clickbank product as red or green to make a slight difference between the original links and the custom clickbank product links you are creating.

This method helps a lot to increase your clickbank sales, you can also see what products get more sales for what sort of keywords, and also you can add custom ads, obviously, if your contextual advertising service does not have ads relevant to the context of your blog post or webpage. Even though it sounds difficult but 5-15 links a post are enough for the visitor to see and click.

Related: Ad Terms and Definitions

The other good thing which can be done is placing Clickbank link ads at the end, middle and start of a post or webpage, it also helps a bit.

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Top 10 best In Text Advertising Networks of 2018

The Top 10 best In Text Advertising Networks of 2018 is detailed below along with the links to these websites. Make sure to check all of them. In text ads can be a great way to generate extra income from text based blogs.

Since most blogs are text based mixed with images and videos and different apps. The text based ads
provide additional information about specific terms and link them to relevant pages from outside the website.

People have been getting issues with getting Google Adsense approval, but there are other alternatives to that too.

The Top 10 best In Text Advertising Networks of 2018 are:

These links are somewhat old but I try to keep refreshing them by adding new ones and removing the old ones. Sometimes I can get lazy and forget to remove the old ones and they appear as a broken link. 

• Infolinks

• Clicksor (Also has Ad advertising)

• Skimlinks

• Vibrant

• TeliAd

• TextLinkBrokers

• MIVA

• InTopicMedia

• LinkWorth

• Affinity

You can also check the list of ad networks for your website. These alongwith in text ads can provide a good revenue stream for your website. Also try to keep changing the ad networks just to find out which has the best result for your blog.

It doesn't mean that you completely remove ads from previous ad networks but instead add more ads where your revenue from the previous ad company was low.

You can try A/B testing with these and formulate an ad campaign that works best for you.

These are the top 10 best In Text Advertising Networks of 2018. Make sure to try as many of these as possible. Some of these have payouts as low as 25$ which is great. Mostly use Paypal to transfer funds. So you can choose the one with the most suitable means of transferring money as well.

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