Google Adsense is an advertising program put in place by Google. The idea is pretty simple, sign up for Adsense, and let Google serve ads to your readers. While the concept might seem simple, using Adsense effectively is actually a little more complicated than that.

First thing’s first, before you can effectively use Adsense, you have to understand exactly how it works. Once you sign up for Google Adsense, you’l have to pick out what type of ads to serve on your site. You can choose image ads, text ads, or both. You can also select a wide variety of sizes and shapes for your ads, as well as different color schemes for your text ads.  Try not to pick ads that are going to blend in to your site too well. You don’t want the ads to get lost among your content. Once you put the ads on your site, Google will examine your content, and serve ads based on what they think your visitors might be interested. Generally speaking, the ads will be directly relevant to your content in some way, which means your users will be more likely to click on your ads. If you ever see an ad appear on your site that doesn’t suit your content, you can always block it from showing up again from within Adsense. That way, you can ensure your visitors will always see the ads you want them to see.

Once you have your account set up, it’s time to put some ads on your site. Put your ads in highly visible places. It’s a good idea to put a large square ad at the top of your sidebar if your site has one, and another wide ad underneath the header.Once you have those two ads in place, think about the layout of your site, and try to find additional highly visible places to put ads. Bear in mind that Google has restrictions on how many ads a given page can have, and on what types of pages can have ads on them. For example, if you run a site with a login page, that login page can’t have any ads on it.

If you put your ads in the right places, Google will take care of the rest. They’ll index your site and show your visitors ads they might be interested in. If your users are seeing the right ads, then you’re more likely to make some money.

Facebook can be a great platform to market your business or products on if you do it right. The biggest thing to remember is that Facebook is a social network where two way engagement is important. People who spam Facebook with links, and information that looks like spam are going to be classified as such and potentially ignored or even shut down by Facebook.

The problem with Facebook is that you need to have a very engaged audience in order to be profitable through the social media part of it. That is what we are going to talk about today – the social aspect of Facebook, not the advertising platform.

On Facebook you have two real ways of marketing for free to individuals. The most prominent now is through Facebook Pages as they are called. The other is through Facebook Events.

Facebook Pages are the best way to promote and connect with your readers or fans online, except through mailing lists. Facebook pages are a great way to promote your content because you can easily share links to your website, interact with fans and hold contests and more.

It is important to remember that your Facebook page is only a compliment to your site, not your only site. Due to the interaction levels being so high, it can be easy to use Facebook Pages as your only source of interaction and content creation. Spread the love around to other social networks such as Twitter and see your brand grow even more so.

The best way I have found to get my Facebook page numbers up (right now it is around 1,400 for a pretty small community’s website) is to hold a “fan drive.” A fan drive is simply a plea to get people to “like” your pages in order to achieve a goal. My goal was 1,000 fans in one month and I would donate $150 to the local Hospice. Within two weeks my page had over 1,100 fans and I was writing a check.

Those 1,000 fans are worth so much more than $150, and the cost was well worth it.

Depending on your situation, there are other ways to get people to join if you are not working on such a local level. For example, giving away an iPod or something to a random fan is a great way to get people to join, even small things like books and gift cards are a huge motivator.

Be creative when using Facebook to market your product or page, but remember, don’t be a spammer or you will lose fans a lot faster than you gained them.

CPA stands for Cost Per Action.  CPA networks are becoming very popular for internet marketers to make money online because companies are paying high commissions for leads.

To give you an example i use a number of CPA networks which ill talk about in a minute that have a number of companies that will pay you commission for every lead you send them.  For example if you send your email lists/website traffic to the advertisers landing page and your referrel puts in their email address to receive whatever they are selling you can earn upto $15 just from your referrel putting in their email address.

I did an experiment the other day and put a link on my facebook status for anyone who wants to make $10 to fill out a free survey.  5 of my facebook friends clicked on the affiliate link in my facebook status and i made $50 just from them completing a quick 2 minutes survey on the advertisers website.

Big named brands spend millions of dollars a year on advertising and the reason they pay so much for leads is because once they have your referrels contact details they can then create a relationship with them and send them offers via email or even sell on their contact details to third partie companies which is a massive business.

I recommend the following CPA networks as they pay the based commissions.

CX Digital Media – Click Here To Register

Neverblue – Click Here To Register

When you fill out your application make sure to fill out the following:

Your complete address, contact telephone and email address that is registered with one of your domain names, e.g john@yourdomain.com , also one of your main websites that you will use to promote their CPA offers.  Make sure your website is upto date and looks professional and related to the niche your hoping to promote.  As your will go through a verification process before you can get accepted onto the network.

You will get a phone call to verify your account, which is normal.  Activation takes about 48 hours