The Money Makers 2009 Edition
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Just Relevant
The number 1 money maker for ThinkComputers is Just Relevant, our comparison shopping engine. We moved over to Just Relevant about 6 months ago and it has been great. The backend is very robust and it has many features other comparison shopping engines just do not have. We are on a flat CPC rate, which means if someone clicks on an ad we get paid, even if they do not buy it. I like CPC over commission because more often than not people are not going to buy the product, so if you are on commission you won’t make anything off the ad. If you have a large website and want to apply to Just Relevant please let me know before you sign up and I will get you application forwarded to the right people.
EchoTopic
EchoTopic, which is owned by Exponential, is a contextual ad service. Most of you have probably heard of Kontera or Vibrant Media. EchoTopic is relatively new into the game, but since they are backed by Exponential they know what they are doing. They invited me to the service since I was already a Tribal Fusion publisher. They offered me a flat CPM rate that was better than what I was getting with Vibrant, so I went over to them. They are the red double highlighted links you see on the ThinkComputers reviews. The service has been good and so are the paychecks!
Google
Google Adsense still makes me a good amount of money. We have quite a few ads on ThinkComputers, the one that makes the most money is the in-article 336 x 280 ad, mainly because it is actually in the review / article you are reading so more people see it and are more likely to click on it. Google Adsense is a great way for people starting out online to make some extra money, but you are not going to make that much with it.
Private Ads
Private ads is where I was really banking last year. We had quite a few private ads running on ThinkComputers throughout 2008, but most companies did not renew because of the horrible economy. We are hoping to pick up some more private ads, but I haven’t really pushed it as much as I really should have. That is something I’m going to be working on in the next few weeks.
Besides those 4 major money makers I also do some affiliate marketing, but nothing really major. Hopefully if I get some more time I will be getting into affiliate marketing a lot more.
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So who were you using before Just Relevant? Sounds good though. I put more stock in these kinds of testimonials than anything else. Also, can you say in percentage terms how much better it is? One last thing. Can you customize the look of it so it integrates the style of of your own site? Thanks a lot f you find time to answer all these questions.
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Google Adsense really doesn’t make much money haha. It took around 3 months to reach the minimum to withdraw. I have to knack that up to lack of content though. Personal blogs aren’t really that good of a way to make money unless you actually DO something with it. Never really meant to make money off it, but hey, at least I got $100 out of it.
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Toronto personal injury Reply:
April 24th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Yes right I don’t think that we can get good amount from Google Adsense.
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Mother of Pearl Beads Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 2:14 am
its like pay per buy right?
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Good way of making money BOB. I was wondering as to how is the performance of Echo Topic if you can give some idea about it ??
I would also like to know what is your inputs as to when one should put adsense on the blog ?? How to blend the adsense ??
I would also like to know how one should look after private advertisers who will advertise on my personal Blog ??
Ricky Peterson’s last blog post..Google monopoly unfavorable for web marketers
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