There is a lot of advice available regarding success with pay per click advertising.

I have one ongoing campaign which makes $2.5 for every $1 invested (about $250/month gross). Nothing else has been successful from about a dozen campaigns.

Found a couple of posts today from “ShoeMoney” a very successful and highly respected member of the DP community.

His two posts speak volumes. To give you an idea of the success he was having here’s a quote from the posts:

“I budgeted $40,000.00 Of that $40,000.00 I was only able to spend $28,932.75 for a total gross return of $144,329.29 for the month of march from cj.com and azoogleads.com Ringtones affiliates.”

Here are the links:

The $10,000.00 experiment with PPC Part 1

I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

Here is a free blog type website which takes all the hassle out of the setup.

Heres how it works.

The organisation has setup a website where you can create your own “lens”. A one page website essentially. The layout has Ads already built into it. The revenue from the ads is shared with the “lens” owners. See notes below taken straight from their FAQ.

You can create as many lens as you like.

Here are the notes from the FAQ.
“For a while (as with most startups) we expect our overhead will be greater than our income stream. We still need to pay our fixed costs (like servers and tools and staff salaries) or else we can’t keep running and building the service. So, all revenue that comes in goes first to our overhead. Then we honor our 5% charity commitment.

Then, we divide it among lensmasters as follows:

AdSense revenue (these are the Google ads you see on every lens): This money goes into a pool, so as to avoide clickfraud. Half of the pool distributes out to lensmasters, on a PayRank scale that is based on a lensmaster’s average LensRank and traffic.

Affiliate revenue (ie, referral income–like Amazon and eBay and CafePress and SuperStore sales). This is directly attributable to the lens that generated the revenue, and is not pooled with the whole co-op. The lensmaster gets a straight 50%.

So, once we are at scale and overhead is being covered, if your lens sells 1 book and Amazon pays us $1.05 in affiliate income, we send a nickel to charity and fifty cents to you.

Every quarter, we’ll publish all our numbers so you can see exactly how much money was distributed to lensmasters and to charity.

We will also show your estimated earnings on your MyLenses page. This number will be updated daily.

We will also make an educated (we hope) guess as to what the maximum deduction for overhead is, and even if we’re wrong–even if our overhead is higher than we thought or our income is lower than he hoped–we’ll stick with our guess and take a hit. So you never have to worry about getting less than promised from your affiliate links.

If you’ve got suggestions for how to improve this plan, or how to explain it more clearly, please drop us a line here. ”

Looks like a good way to go if your getting started. No hassle setup and good ads with good placement already built in. Downside is you only get a share of the profits.

Heres the link http://www.squidoo.com/

More directories looking for links:

http://www.bestdirectory.net
http://www.forage.in
http://www.directory.art-ticlebox.com

Link building is a good way to grow SERP’s and to grow non search engine traffic. Directories are useful for both.

Another related method of generating revenue from your website is to sell the services of a text link broker.

There are a number of companies which do this and as always its hard to decide the best to work with. I solved this by looking at the ads on the websites with top listing in search engines. I also reviewd some of the most popular blogs at Technorati. Most carried ads for one company – Text Link Ads.

I’ve signed up (free) and have their banner on my Best Real Income site.

Nice site, good stats and a good range of buttons, banners and links to choose from. The color scheme works well on a good range of themes.

Heres the link to check them out. Text Link Ads

And finally here are a few new blogs:

http://homebasedbusinessblog.blogspot.com
http://writefromhome.blogspot.com
http://affiliateprogramblog.blogspot.com

If you’ve been searching for ways to keep visitors coming back to your blog, then I found something which may help

Enter:

Google to the rescue – they recently released Version 4 of their toolbar and added some awesome new features:

* Search Suggestions – When you’re typing in a search, similar searches are automatically displayed for you to choose from (Kind of like an intelligent autocomplete)
* Server-Side Bookmarks – Now you can save bookmarks and access them from any computer that has the (free) Google Toolbar installed!
* Custom Buttons – This is what I’m the most excited about (so is Matt Cutts of Google, coincidently) – these custom buttons will allow your visitors to stay up to date with your blog the easy way – automatically.

That’s right – automatically. All they have to do is click a link on your blog and your custom button will be added to their google toolbar. Then they will be able to easily visit your site, see what’s new via your RSS feed, and even search your blog – right from the toolbar!

To find out more go here WP Goobar

As part of marketing my home based business website, I keep an eye on my competition, and their search engine ranking.

For my sites the most profitable traffic comes from search engines. Traffic exchanges, purchased traffic, traffic off articles and that from links on other sites do not seem to be as effective. The other thing I like about search engine engine traffic is that the price is right – free!

As a beginner I’ve learned how to get good rankings with MSN. I’m working my way up the food chain now, looking to understand the “formula” for Yahoo.

This is a well trodden path – I guess everyone has to learn this as they develop their online marketing skills.

In the Digital Point forum I found a great tool today which has already saved many hours of work.

The tool is called Niche Watch. It compares the top listings for Yahoo with your site.

When I used this tool it was immediately clear that I need to work on my site title tags.

I am also weak in the text area for my keywords. Not sure what to do about that, so will look into this over the next few days.