Blog comment is the task for the day. Wrote, what I though, was a brilliant post to warriors forum only to see it removed without a comment 10 minutes later. Still, 2 new signups to the software. Need to do more blog commenting.

Also, got my article back from ezinearticles, rejected. Seems they didn’t like my english. A friend, Karen, offered to check it for me. So now its better and corrected.

Also, in the days between day 1 and day 2 (that sounds strange…) I managed to do a couple of minor fixes to the site-hype software after good feedback. The Twitter functions had a few graphical glitches and some spelling errors.

You want to earn money from your sites visitors, right? One easy way to do that is to put up some advertising on your web pages. You can sell your advertising space yourself but that takes time. An easier and better way is to join one or more of the available advertising network.

After you have joined a network and have been accepted you will receive custom html/JavaScript code to add to your web pages. When your web page loads the add-network inserts their advertising on your page where the custom code is. If your web site has traffic you will eventually get paid.

There are typically two ways people buy advertising on these networks, either based on the number of views of the advert (CPM) or based on the number of clicks on the link in the advert (PPC).

You probably already know about Google AdSense which is the largest network by far. But there are a lot of other smaller alternatives that are worth testing. Generally Google can pay you less since they are so large. There are also sites that AdSense don’t accept but are accepted by other networks.

Here are 9 advertising networks you need to test if you want to transform your visitors into gold.

7search.com
Google adsense
Clicksor
AdsDaq
AdBrite
BidVertiser
UggiTraffic
WidgetBucks
Snoork Ads

The amount of money you will make from your site is directly related to the number of visitors your site has. Subscribe to my free daily web traffic newsletter, and get free ideas on how to increase the number of visitors to your site. You can also implement the Site Hyping system.

I am writing this as my little girls are outside with their grandfather getting this years christmas tree. Last couple of weeks has been kind of slow here mostly because my Wife has completed her PhD and I have had to take care of the house and the girls. If you read this blog the last year i hope you have found some of the tips useful.

Next year i promise many more tips in this blog, i will add more tips to my web traffic tips ( http://YourTrafficTips.com ) and you will see the launch of site-hyping… Its going to be an exciting year!

Merry Christmas!

Fredrik Lönn

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Google just recently released a new cool search based keyword tool for keyword research. You can use it for free at:
http://www.google.com/sktool

The Search-based Keyword Tool generates keyword relevant and specific to your website. The result from the sktool is based on real searches on Google.

As usual with Google the tool is labeled as beta. Google always seem to put beta after everything they release even if its been tested by millions of users. Anyway, this tool is actually really useful today.

The sktool is created for Google Adwords users but anyone can use it for free. If you are logged into your Adwords account while you use the tool all keywords you already have in your campaigns will be filtered out. You can also specify your own filters to get more specific results. For example you can filter on a range for the bidding price. You can filter the results for a specific page by filling in the URL contains field with the name of your page (ie the part of your domain after the url).

Also note that by default the results are filtered on your billing region. In other words I got my results tailored for Sweden which is not what I wanted since my targeted market is really not Sweden. In the manage settings box in the left hand column simply change the setting to what you want.

When you do a search the tool tries to get keywords from your web site and the keywords you provide as a starting point for its suggestions. The results you get from the keyword search are always matched to the site you provide. Each search returns a list of suggested keywords with an estimate on monthly searched, how much competition there is and a suggested bidding price for the keyword.

Here is a quick roundup of 14 popular social sites. All these are nominated for the open web award. Most of these can be used to build web traffic in one way or the other.

Dotblu
dotblu is the place for friendly competition.

Facebook
Facebook probably need to introduction. If you don’t know what Facebook is, just visit the site.

Fast Pitch!
Fast Pitch is a one-stop shop for a business professional to network and market their business.

FriendFeed
Collect all your online activity in one place.

Koornk
koornk is your personal shouting place that lets you stay in touch with your friends via short, quick messages. It works the other way too. And all you have to do is tell your friends (and the world) what are you doing at the moment.

Multiply
Multiply makes it easy to create, share and discuss your blog, photos, and videos with more of the people you know, and fewer of the people you don’t.

MyHeritage
Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. Geni is another large alternative doing the same thing.

MySpace
Myspace is the social site that started the craze. Create your own space on the internet, very focused on music.

Netlog
Netlog is another really large social site similar to facebook.

Platinum Lounge
A community site where you earn credits for everything you do on the site that you then exchange to real money.
ShareNow
Meet new friends who share your interests.

sMeet
Come and watch videos, test your knowledge in quiz and meet new friends on sMeet without having to download or install. Take part in “Meets & Greets” with celebs, talk on the telephone and listen to live radio shows!

Squidoo
Create your own web site about a given subject.

Twitter
Let everyone know what you are doing now.

Image by kawanet via Flickr

Yesterday I wrote about 5 ideas you can use to cash in on your web traffic. The first idea was to use Google Adsense and to put Google adverts on your site to get paid per click.

When you signup for a free Adsense account at Google where you will get a small snippet of custom code to add to your html pages. The sniped of code is Javascript and will add html from Googles servers to your page.

Servers at Google deliver adverts from their database based on a secret equation. The equation factors in how much an advertiser is willing to pay, how relevant content he wants to drive visitors to and how high click through rate his advert has. For an advert to be displayed, your web page has to contain the keywords the advertiser is targeting for his campaign.

Another secret equation determines how much you will get paid for each person who clicks an advertisement. This equation factors in how relevant your content is and how much the advertiser pays to Google for the click. The relevance part of the equation is to prevent spam sites made just to get visitors for Adsense.

You can also use Adsense to add a custom Google search engine for your site. When people use your search engine they will also get adverts on the right hand side, just as on the main Google search engine. When they click these you will get paid just as for other ads.

So will you get rich from this? Well there are people today making a living on Adsense. It can be done but it generally requires a lot of high traffic sites ( You are signed up to my free web traffic newsletter right? ). You will also have to spend a lot of times optimizing your pages for Adsense to improve your click rate.

One big advantage with Adsense is that the ads are so very targeted. Most visitors don’t even see Adsense adverts as something bad, since they most of the time direct visitors to more relevant content.