Make Money Online: Google AdSense, Your Business, and Online Writing Sites

Now this is yet another question I found on in the answers section of hubpages. In fact this is a really good one, they are asking how to make money, or to be more precise how can you make money online.

The answer is how fast can they make money using all the affiliate programs they can think of and then wonder why that does not work for them, or the fact doing so with the Google Adsense affilaite programs and the like isn't easy. The problem which they point out is that it is too much of a business.

Well, there are really only a couple of ways you can make money on hubpages. Like all online businesses, there are certain ways you can maximize your revenue. So Instead of saying how to maximize your revenue or improve your SEO, I'll go into detail on the ways that you can help yourself in this business, with Amazon, Google, eBay and Kontera.

The Most Important Thing about Making Money Online and On Hubpages:This is something that can make money for you. It is a business so work on it as such. Know the odds of making money, and yes I know about three hub writers who make money, and good money at that.

A Hub is NOT a blog, rather they are semi permanent websites. Like anything that can make money you need to follow the rules. If you write online, you need to understand that, for example people will follow you and some will even comment. Some will just look at your hubs and then leave and other might comment and do a poll or do some social networking, but it does take time.

One published hub or no published hubs means no money. I am sorry to say that some people still seem to think that. They will log on to hubpages, and then will ask questions, such as I've signed up and am making no money. Guess what? You need a hub. A profile on hubpages is not a hub.

I find some hub writers will write on hub, and then add to it, like a blog. This is not how it works, not even with the search engines but still I will not have much push to go an read a hub which is ever expanding. Edit them yes, if fact editing them is encouraged, but you don't need to add to them everyday, write a new hub and link between them.

If you get a message from hubpages, read it. It is not spam. I don't know how many hub writers complain on the answers section that their work is tagged as over-promoted or duplicate, and that they have an email from hubpages... read them they are important.

If You don't know about Google AdSense, now is a great time to learn about it: Everyone loves to talk about Google AdSense affiliate program, how to maximize it, what no one likes to mention is the time factor. Or for that matter a little thing called payouts, which seems to be the big thing that drives people nuts.

25% of ALL google publishers make a payout per month from the Google AdSense program. What this means is this if there are 100 Google AdSense publishers, only 25 will get a payout each month. So if you get a payout every other month or every three months, good for you. Sometimes it can take years.

What helps, sometimes, is learning about Google AdSense and about keywords. Some website owners will tell you to put high priced keywords in your text, but I don't agree with this. Quality counts, and yes if you don't know what your subject is just to get a high priced keyword, people will notice.

If you don't know about a subject you won't get much traffic, and you won't be able to deal with negative feedback or helpful suggestions. Google AdSense is based on Google AdWords, who provide the ads that you see on hubs or blogs or websites. This is where many people try teh keyword tool, which is based upon teh cost for adverts on Google Adwords.

They pay when an ad is clicked, and you get payed from that. So if you get a poorly preforming hub or blog or whatever, you might not want to put Google AdSense on it, simply because it will pull down your other hubs etc in the process.

Now remember: On hubpages 60% of the ad impressions are from your Google AdSense account ( use your publishers ID from Google to do this) and 40% is from hubpages Google publishers ID. Sorry that is the way it goes. You don't make money based on how many hubs you put up, so don't go doing that! Traffic and links and keywords and QUALITY content are the only ways to maximize Google AdSense. That takes time, and learning.

Amazon IS another which you need to learn about, but you need to understand a few things: Amazon is the online book store/ everything store we all know and love. Okay sometimes love to hate. Simply because of the rules it has, but if you read the TOS (Terms of Service) you'll know this, and you'll know you can make money, but slowly.

The biggest thing about amazon is this: the payout is low, only $10 in the US, via direct deposit, cheque of $100 elsewhere. Now, for all the complaining I tend to do about it, this is a good one to have, as it is fair for everyone.

Now I do find that keywords on amazon are good, but be careful with the words you use, a general keyword tends to be better than something with a more specific keyword. You make a percentage based on what people buy from amazon each month, every person who uses amazon starts at 4% until they sell 7 more more items then it goes up.

This happens each month, so remember this. The one thing I do like about amazon, which is why I have the capsules, is that when someone does make an order it helps and goes a long way.

Still for some there are ways to maximize revenue from amazon, but it is a bit more of a process than maximizing Google AdSense. The Content needs to relate to your writing, and it also needs to be something that someone will need.

If you look to your right, you can see that I put a capsule about Amazon, and I played around with it to get what I wanted, sort of I had to type in amazon.com for dummies to get that specific product. Of course you can call this a bit of Amazon SEO.

When think of the amazon business in this way, you can maximize your amazon revenue much better.

eBay is something similar to amazon, except as you may have noticed...:I don't use eBay, so I won't comment to much simply because I do not use it, but it follows the general idea of amazon.

The big thing about eBay is that their TOS (terms of Service) are quite strict, so to get in you need to read the contract and follow it. For some, this is their bread and butter. They will show many things that eBay "list-er" will sell, so it can make money.

Of course again maximizing the revenue from eBay is a learning process. Sort of like Google AdSense in that content and keywords are a must. Remember this is a business so learn all you can to have success, and of course money.

Kontera is the last of the four you can make money with: Again follow the TOS of Kontera. This means read the contract. Now if you are logged into hubpages you won't see anything in terms of Kontera, so be advised on this one.

It is like Google, that it scans your content and uses your content as the basis for the ads. You will find the ads as a double line under a keyword.

Again, the better the content, the better the chances for a click on your ads. So with Kontera, the content is everything. The terms of services are like Google you can not ever (don't even think it!) click on your own ad.

There is a payout threshold, and Kontera recommends not to sign up UNLESS you consistently make $50 or more on Google AdSense each month, otherwise you won't see success.

I am still debating the merits to Kontera, but for the most part, I think this is a good online business to think about once you've made money with Google AdSense.  Again you need to be making steady income from Google AdSense to consider this option.

One Last Word: I get to do this because it is my hub after all!

Still you need to begin to think like a business and you need to publish quality hubs with great content. Make sure you are interactive. Learn about SEO, and how to improve it. Learn all you can about the methods to make money on hubpages and online.

I believe that long term it is your content, and then your choice of keywords and SEO that will make a difference with how you will either make money or improve your earnings with any of these programs. That of course means a willingness to learn.

As always to your success.