A Guide to Affiliate Marketing in Australia

If you have been trying to find out ways of making money online, then you must definitely have come across the term ‘Adsense’. This is perhaps one of the most talked about terms on the web. Before we discuss how you could make money with Adsense, let us understand what Adsense actually is all about.

Adsense is a money making program created by Google. There are numerous webmasters fighting to find a place in the Google search pages. All of them strive to find a higher rank in the result pages. It is obviously a tedious task and the positive outcome is not guaranteed. Google, therefore, came up with another program for the webmasters called the ‘pay per click’ (PPC) program or the Google Adwords. With this program, the interested webmasters can have their website links placed in the Google search pages at a desired rank. There is a separate section for these sponsored links on the search pages. The webmasters will obviously have to pay good amount of money to Google for this service. Depending on the desired rank, Google charges the webmasters for each click on these links. This is, however, only half of the entire story about Google Adsense.

It is obviously not possible for Google to place all these sponsored links on the search pages as the number of sponsored links are very huge in number. Google therefore, publishes many of these links on its networked websites. This is where Adsense comes into play. You, as a website owner, can register with Google and have your website listed in the networked sites of Google. Once your website is part of the Google advertising network, Google will send you a set of links that you will need to add to the HTML pages of your website. Once done, your website will immediately display the Google Ads.

Every visitor of your website who clicks on any of these sponsored links will earn you a commission. As soon as a visitor clicks on the sponsored link, Google charges the link owner some amount of money. Google will then pay you some amount of money as commission. The amount of money you get paid is never revealed and is random. You may get paid as much as $0.2 to $0.8 per click.

You will have to apply for Adsense with Google. You will need to provide some of your details and the URL of your website. Only if your website gets selected can you get started with the Adsense program. Some of the points that you must keep in mind to ensure that your website gets selected are listed below:

1. Your website must contain unique and original content. Websites with plagiarized and duplicate content are never selected.
2. There must be no broken links in the content as well as in the web address.
3. The website should have a good number of quality, one-way, back links and a healthy count of out bound links. However, the inbound links count must obviously be pretty much higher that the outbound links from your website.
4. The average flow of traffic is important. More the flow of traffic, more are the chances of your selection for Adsense.
5. Your website must abide by the policies listed by Google. The policies are available at their site.

Google Adsense is undoubtedly the best money making program on the web today. You will need to be strategic in your approach and will need to make sure that you abide by the Google policies.

I enjoy buying a good domain name and building out a mini-site on the domain name and then receiving amazing amounts of traffic for very little of work done.

Maybe its the good SEO or the good process that I carry out. Its also has to do with the domain name and the competition that is currently there for the registered term.

1. First I either normally have an idea in my mind first for a mini-site and then use google keyword tool to find the most searched term that will provide targeted traffic for a physical product or services in the real world.

2. I also check with google.com.au or which ever tld google your website is going to focus on and to type in the phrase and see what the advertising is like. If there is three yellow sponspored adverts at the top then the advertising is strong and is likely that the content google advertising is strong. Google keyword tool has a feature to give you idea for advertising competition and also pay per click.

3. For a mini site to work I have had good success with domain names with a little over 100 hundred “exact” match searches per month. There is less competition for these terms and the sites rank easy for 1-2 in google. The more searches the better as whatever term you register its going to really help you rank well in google for that term. If you have a high exact search term there is also going to be direct navigation.

E.g laptopcomputers.com, appleiphones.com,

These are just for an example of the type of domains you want to register. Generic domain name. With exact search term over 100. Better if its over 1000 really. Do you research on the pay per click etc, the competition for the term. See what the website that is number one going for it, links, seo and decide how easy it would be to get your site ranked number one.

4. Using google adword keyword tool, I also use the “phrase” option to investigate the pages to produce for the site. As I belive having the keyword domain for the term is going to help rank for the phrase terms as well. So you should produce pages for these terms as you have the upper hand.

For example. hats.com; so you would have pages like hats.com/brown-hats.html, hats.com/pink-hats.html

5. I think 3 – 5 worded domain name is enough, not any more.

6. Once I register the domain, I add it to a resource/link page of a current website of mine to get into the search engines a.s.a.p. This can take 1-2 weeks to get into all the search engines.

7.Then using wordpress I build out the site.

8.Develop and write unique content for the site.

9. They send me the content ready to go or I get them to log in to my wordpress site to add blog entires for me.

10. Then its a copy and paste job for me.

11. Find some photos and you tube videos.

12. Remember to use alt tags, h1 , h2 tags. good meta tags all good seo.

13. The registered term for the minisite domain name. I use this in the meta description and the title. With the title of your index page. I find the first three words the most important in the title. For example if the site was Bridesmaiddresses.com

The title will be:Bridesmaid Dresses | Patterns, Plus-size, Maternity

Description for search engines: Bridesmaid dresses have come along way in the last year. Patterns, plus-size and matenity bridesmaid dress’s is availalbe now from our new online site.

14. I either add adsense to the site straight away or wait and try and do link building with related websites. (so it doesnt look spammy) and then add google adsense slowly.

15. I haven’t found google to effect my search rankings if I add the maximum adverts straight away. If you have at least 400 words per page and a photo or video its enought content.

16. Add Google anaylitics to check out the visitors etc and search terms etc.

17. Use google webmaster tools to register a sitemap with them.

18. Try to get into some web directories there are good and bad ones. Some give link juice to you.

19. When link building for your mini-site focus on the search terms with little competition. For example they may have only 16 exact search a month. This is a term you have a good chance of ranking number 1 for as you have the keyword domain. As your site matures etc you can go for more competitive keywords.

20. Even with a mini-site down the track you can look at selling advertising directly to an end-user.