Bill McRea

Affiliate bloggers know the power of WordPress for creating and managing their blogs, and affiliate marketers know the challenges of dealing with issues such as ad blindness when trying to find ways to capture visitors attention and click where you want them to click. Well, UContext is a contextual advertising program that uses the keywords on your blog and transforms them into text links to ClickBank products.

With other contextual advertising programs you might earn a few cents when visitors click on the ads on your site, so why not set up ucontext and earn $15. and more when your visitors click on your links and make a purchase.

With Ucontext you get to decide how many links are created and what the links will look like on your blog. If your visitors have been suffering from ad blindness and ignoring the banner ads on your site, these in-text links will get clicked because they are a part of the content that the visitor is reading.

If you’ve had your blog for a long time and have lots of old post moldering away in the archives, this is an efficient way to monetize them and have them generate some revenue for you.

Ucontext saves you time because now you no longer have to go digging through the vast selection of ClickBank products to find those that match your blog’s keywords. Now once you have the plugin installed, when you publish a post, the software automatically creates text links that fit right in with your website’s content.

Concerned about links appearing where you don’t want them? Here’s the level of control that you will have with Ucontext:

• Filters: Refine what Clickbank products are shown by gravity, commissions, etc.
• Choose how many links show on a page
• Add your own Tracking ID’s
• Click Reports: Find out what pages and keyword phrases are getting the most clicks and when
• You can exclude specific pages from receiving in-text links

How to set up ucontext

Setting up the ucontext contextual ad links on your site is as simple as downloading and installing a plugin, which is available for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. There is also a PHP library for those who want to create their own customizations.

While the plugin is free, membership to Ucontext and use of the API is billed on a recurring monthly basis, which can be cancelled at any time. Price points for membership range from an annual membership for either one website, the Pro level with five sites, and the Unlimited option for an unlimited number of websites.

Earn a referral income

Another way to generate revenues with Ucontext is through their affiliate program, which pays you a 20% commission at the first level and 5% at the second level.

With Ucontext you’ve got a cure for ad blindness, a fast and easy way to add highly lucrative contextual advertising links to monetize your website’s content and an easy to use plugin that makes it all very simple.

Alternative contextual advertising such as Ucontext is just one of the many topics that you will learn about when you visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog. Come check out the blog and discover lots of tips and strategies for Internet Marketing success.

If you are doing any kind of Internet Marketing and you are using the WordPress platform for you blogs and websites, then OptimizePress was created just for you. OptimizePress is a WordPress theme that was custom designed for Internet Marketing. With just a few clicks you have the power to create squeeze pages, sales letters, one-time offer pages and several others using a simple point and click interface.
Just like with WordPress itself, you do not need to be a software engineer, or graphic artist to be able to quickly whip up your own customized, high conversion pages using the OptimizePress theme. No longer do you have to suffer from the embarrassment of squeeze pages and sales pages that look hobbled together. Now you can have clean, professional looking pages that will attract and convert visitors to customers.
Let’s take a quick look at all of the things that OptimizePress can do for your online business:
Create Squeeze Pages
As an online business person, you know that building your list is one of your most important activities, but up until now, creating professional looking squeeze pages has been something that you either had to pay a web designer or graphics person to do, or maybe you patched your own together using a template.

With OptimizePress the process for creating a squeeze page has been completely simplified. You have a full range of ten templates to choose from, and these can all be customized. These templates have already been tested and optimized to bring you the best results.
Create your own sales letters and offer pages
OptimizePress simplifies the process of creating an effective and professional looking sales letter, by allowing you to format the content with just a few clicks. Just as with the squeeze page templates, the sales pages templates have been tested, so when you add your own killer copy you will have a winning combination.
With 20 color schemes to choose from, 5 different fonts, and a short code system you can easily drag and drop different page elements such as headlines, testimonial boxes, and order buttons in just a few clicks. You can also easily add video to your sales pages, and include a delayed call to action button that appears exactly when you want it to in order to maximize conversions.
Set up your own product launch funnel
Pulling off a successful product launch can be quite an undertaking. Using Optimize Press can help relieve that burden by creating a sequence of launch pages that will help you to gain a ton of exposure and make more money. In fact, you can combine the launch features along with the squeeze page features and the sales letters to create one seamless, branded experience for your visitors.
Create a membership program
OptimizePress also allows you to easily create membership sites in combination with the most popular membership scripts. It also allows you to deliver content to your members. You can completely customize the look and feel of your membership site, add downloadable content easily.

When it comes down to it, what you want is web pages that convert visitors into buyers, and Optimize Press is designed to deliver those results to you as simply as possible. For much more information about how you can maximize your Internet marketing success, visit, http://imsafelink.com/OptimizePress-article today.

The Amazon affiliate program, called, ‘Amazon Associates,’ provides a free, easy way for bloggers to monetize their Blogger blogs. Blogger, which is a free blogging platform, is owned by Google. It provides users with a free blog that they can use however they like.  You can create a blog for free on Blogger to blog about those topics that you are passionate about, and then add in some links to related products from Amazon that might be useful to your readers.

If you have already got a Blogger blog up and running, you would just need to join the Amazon Affiliates program, and then choose a mix of image and text ads for items that are relevant to your content and post them on your blogger blog.  Blogger makes it easy to create an Amazon Associates account directly from your profile  so that you can get up and running quickly.

Amazon associates can earn advertising fees when their visitors click on their special affiliate link, go to Amazon and make a purchase. These fees can range from 4% to 15% depending on volume and the kinds of products you are promoting. A good thing is that if your visitor clicks on one of your links and goes to Amazon, you get a commission on the product you were linking to as well as whatever else they purchased in that transaction.

Let’s say that you have a blog about chocolate. You write blog posts about what new offerings your favorite choclatiers have to offer, you might share recipes and sources where your readers can find the fine chocolates that you are raving about in your posts. On a blog like this you might link to books on Amazon that contain chocolate recipes, the various chocolates that they sell, kitchen gadgets that bakers might use, etc.

You have an array of options for displaying related Amazon products such as sidebar widgets, product carousels, gadgets that actually play mp3 clips, and Amazon search boxes, but you want to make sure that you integrate the ads tastefully and that everything you are offering is related to your content.  You do not want to turn your readers off because they get the feeling that all you are trying to do is push these products on them.

It is also important in light of FCC regulations to disclose that some of the links on your site are affiliate links, and when users click on them and make a purchase you will be compensated. You can post a site-wide disclaimer or identify which links are affiliate links. As an online business person you should familiarize yourself with the regulations related to Affiliate Marketing.

Posting book reviews and product reviews are a great way to pre-sell Amazon products from your blog. When you add your unique point of view—whether you loved the product, or found some shortcomings with it, people appreciate the value you add.

Amazon associates makes it easy and fun to monetize your Blogger content. It’s free to sign up and you can start making money with it right away.

There are lots of other ways that you can make money online with niche affiliate marketing. Check out, http://www.passivenicheprofits.com, to discover how you can generate passive income online today.

Media buying, according to Wikipedia, is, “. . .the procurement of the best possible placement and price of a piece of media real-estate within any given media.”  Given the massive scope of the media buying industry, which includes TV, radio, print and Internet, for the purposes of this article we are going to narrow our focus to online media buying with the goal of helping you, to get out from under Google’s thumb.

To simplify things at the outset, media buying is any form of paid online advertising. As soon as you start talking about the Internet and advertising in the same sentence, more than likely the discussion is going to begin to center around Google. They might be a major player, but, as veteran media buyer Scott Rewick says, “Google doesn’t own the Internet.” So, media buying is all about discovering and using the thousands of other advertising venues outside of the realm of Google so that you can get your product in front of as many buyers as possible.

Media buying involves working with the following traffic resources:

Ad networks

These are aggregators of media real estate that have benefits both for publishers and for the advertisers looking to purchase ad space in bulk.

Social Networks

Facebook’s 500 million members with profiles that are full of demographic information makes ad targeting so efficient.

Search Engine Marketing

Yes, there are PPC opportunities outside of Google that can send targeted traffic to your websites and your offers.

Mobile Marketing

With the explosion in popularity of smart mobile phones and tablets such as the iPad, mobile marketing is expanding quickly.

Email Marketing

Email marketing is still incredibly effective, and with the rise of such programs as Groupon, and other hyper-local  email marketing sites there are huge opportunities for ad buys in this space.

When it comes to paying for media buys, you will hear several acronyms being tossed around such as, CPC, CPM, and CPA. Here’s what those terms mean:

CPC: Cost per click. This is fairly self-explanatory. You only pay when a consumer clicks on your ad.

CPM: Cost per thousand.  This means that you will pay x amount of money for every thousand impressions your ad receives.

CPA: Cost per action. With CPA, advertisers state what they are willing to pay to get consumers to take a specific action such as filling out and submitting a form, or registering for a program.

If you have been focusing your energy on SEO to get free, organic traffic to your website, you have been bending over backwards to please a fickle taskmaster who can shut you down in the blink of an eye.  With media buying you are working with guaranteed traffic not putting all of your eggs in one fragile basket.

You can learn all that you need to know about being an effective media buyer for free by doing your research online reading the blogs and hanging out in the forums. There are so many myths associated with media buying, but the truth is that it’s a low risk, high reward activity, and you can get started for less than you think and scale upwards as you learn more.

To learn more about media buying and other Internet Marketing topics, be sure to visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog, and subscribe to our RSS feed. You’ll get a ton of information that you can use to make more money in less time and maybe even have some fun doing it.

Flipping blogs can be a fun way to make some extra money or even create a business, but there are a few common mistakes that newbies often make that can easily be avoided with the correct information. Let’s take a look at those three common errors and what you can do to avoid making them yourself, thus increasing your chances for making more money flipping blogs.

1.       Your blog is in the wrong niche

The popularity of certain niches ebbs and flows. Some niches can be strictly seasonal. Some may be based on a product or a topic that was once hot, but no one is really talking about them anymore. Regardless of the reason, if there are no buyers searching for the content of your niche. Then your blog is in the wrong niche and it will be challenging, if not impossible to sell such a blog for decent profit.

Make sure that when you are flipping blogs the niche and the topic are in demand with buyers searching for that topic. If you find that the popularity of your blogs niche has waned. You can make some revisions and change the primary keywords, and maybe some of the graphics before you try to flip that blog.

2.       The presentation is lacking

Another mistake that people make when flipping blogs is that they don’t pay attention to how the blog looks. First impressions are important both with buyers and with visitors. When flipping blogs you want the blog to look its best. Does the blog have a run-of-the-mill, free theme? Consider hiring a graphic artist to tweak a theme for you, create a nice, new, custom header image and buttons, or better yet, create a whole new, unique theme that is suited to that niche and topic. Go in and make sure that there are no broken links, out of date offers, or anything else that might detract from the site’s ‘curb appeal.’

3. Insufficient proof of the blogs statistics.

When a buyer is interested in purchasing your blog they are interested in learning about the blog statistics right away, so it helps for you to provide lots of clear documentation of the sites Alexa ranking Google page rank. Traffic statistics, and how much income the site produces monthly. If you have Google analytics installed or any other analytics package, you can supply screen shots to illustrate how much traffic the site receives now.

These are just three of the common mistakes that those who are new to blog flipping might make in the process of trying to sell a blog. As you become more experienced you will learn more about what makes a blog more appealing to buyers, and what kind of amenities you can add to increase the value and appeal of the blogs you are selling.

Another way to find out about what blog buyers are looking for is to research the ‘Just Sold,’ pages on Flippa.com. Look at the blogs that have sold recently. Look at the topic, what extras were included, etc. to get ideas to help enhance your blog flipping efforts.

When you are ready for even more tips and strategies for blog flipping, visit, http://www.nicheprofitblogs.com, to get more information about how to get started with niche profit blogging today.