We all know about how to bring in quality traffic to an online shopping website is important, as well as having good site layout and content that is supposed to make your visitors convert into buyers. We’ve seen many things about the reasons why so many people shop online and buy products from good online retailers. But what about those that leave a site without buying anything? There has been a few online surveys and studies on this topic and here are some of the most common responses given by online shoppers. Also, you will see ways to prevent this from happening to your visitors as well.

Site was slow/not working properly/not loading

This is actually one of the most common reasons as to why people abandon a website and move onto the next one. Having a site that is loading slowly, or is giving database errors all the time, or using a payment processor that’s giving customers trouble when checking out are all reasons as to why some leave a site without buying anything. Obviously, there are ways to prevent this from happening. Use a reliable hosting solution and an appropriate hosting type for your website. If you get thousands of visitors to your site a day, using a shared hosting account may not be the best. Make sure that all elements of your website work and use diagnostic tools that scour your website to make sure everything is in order.

Deceptive advertising/unclear promotion terms

When you advertise something that’s on your site, try to make the advertisement as clear as possible to prevent confusion. For example, putting “50% Off” prominently in an add and then omitting the fact that it’s only for orders of $200 or more is likely to make some visitors turn away, feeling that you lied to them. All this does is wasting bandwidth as many of these people who clicked on your ad would not have seen your site otherwise if they knew the promotion was only for orders of “$200 or more”. So make sure that your ads don’t mislead people into visiting your site. Doing so only generates bad traffic anyways.

Prices too high

This is a popular reason given by people especially those who are more conscious of their shopping budgets. To prevent this from happening, there are some simple steps that you can take. Look around the web and check out your competitors websites. See what products they have and what their prices are. This is a tactic used by many retail establishments as well as online commerce sites as well. If you see that a competitor offers better value, see if there’s something that you can do to beat what they’re offering.

Unclear product descriptions

If you’re selling physical items such as clothes, make sure you include high resolution, detailed pictures on your site. Also, for any product you sell, give all the details that are relevant, like sizes, technical specifications, uses and advantages of the product, etc. Visitors are more likely to buy a product if they have some information about it.

We’ve seen that you can use Yahoo Answers in order to get some free traffic to your website. But some people wonder whether it is the right place for them to get traffic for THEIR site. Let’s take a look at what types of offers or products that you can successfully promote using them.

Affiliate/CPA offers.

This is the main thing that online marketers do to earn money: push some affiliate offers. You can get traffic to your offers by using Yahoo Answers, but you need to do it the right way. First, don’t post affiliate links on Yahoo Answers. Doing so will rapidly get you banned, as remember, it is not a place to advertise, but rather to share useful information. Therefore, you will need to build a landing page and get a domain name for your site. A $0.99 .info domain will do here.

Now, what kind of offers will do well here? While some people have had success with offers that require a credit card or a purchase, I have noticed that offers which simply require the person to sign up for a site or fill out information do better.

For example, if you are targeting the “make money online” niche, you have some options. You could build a simple, one or two page site that gives information on various paid survey opportunities and insert your affiliate links there. When you answer the question, provide some useful information about how online surveys work and how they can make some easy money and then send the reader to your site in order to compare various survey sites. You could also build a landing page for a free biz opp offer and send the reader there. You get $2 – $5 for every person that fills out the form.

There are other niches for you to explore as well. Many people ask questions about how much car insurance costs or how to get a student loan. There are plenty of pay per lead offers which are related to these niches. Just answer the askers question, and then tell them that “you found this site” which lets them compare car insurance quotes or get proposals for student loans, etc. Try out various types of offers and see what converts best.

No matter what you do, do not simply spam your website link all over the place. You should appear as a genuine participant in Yahoo Answers. Ask questions yourself. Answer some questions in other niches without linking to any website.

You could do this in about 1 or 2 hours each day. But if you want to save time, you can always hire a freelancer to answer the questions and participate for you. There are plenty of people who would be willing to do the work for you for a small amount, such as $0.25 per answer they post on the site.

As we all know, traffic is king in the internet marketing world. No traffic to your site equals no money for you, since there is no one visiting your site. There are various ways that you can use to get traffic to your website, but many webmasters are looking for free traffic. Is it even possible? Don’t you need to spend money in order to make money? Well, thanks to the power of the internet, it is possible to get free exposure for your site and thus draw visitors to it.

Yahoo Answers is a very good way to bring people to your website. For those of you who don’t know, Yahoo Answers is a place where people ask questions about various topics and others give them answers. The good thing about this platform is that you can insert a link to your site in your answer. Also, the site gets a lot of traffic from all around the world. What makes it a great marketing tool is that anyone can see the questions and answers, not only the person who asked the question.

But in order to stay out of trouble and get the maximum benefit from Yahoo Answers, you need to conduct your marketing activities properly. Remember, this is a place where users seek information. They don’t come to Yahoo Answers in order to be bombarded with commercial advertisements. After all, if someone wanted that, all they have to do is to open up their “Junk Mail” folder in their email account, there’s plenty of ads there all right.

When you answer a question, be sure to state some useful information and not just say “Here go to this website NOW!!! (your link)”. For example, if someone asks whether online surveys are legit or a scam you would say something like “While there are a few scam sites out there, most online survey sites are legit and pay you either in cash or by giving you stuff like gift card, I found a list of legit survey sites that are free to join here: (your link)”. It is better for you to build a landing page, rather than insert affiliate links. This will seem a lot less suspicious to Yahoo.

To stay below the radar, vary your answers, don’t simply copy and paste the same answer to everyone, even if the question is the same. Give answers in different topics as well, without inserting any links. Even if the site you are promoting is related to online surveys, for example, answer some questions about other things such as dogs or computers or whatever else you may know about as well. This will make it look like you are a legitimate contributor, rather than someone who is just answering questions related to their niche to get clicks to their own site. You should give more answers without your link than those with it.

The traffic that you will receive may start slowly, but if you keep at it you will soon get enough visitors to make some decent commissions or sales each month.

Well to start, if you are already rich and making thousands a day, skip this post. If not, chances are you may be looking for some ways that can bring you a few more dollars at the end of the month. Once again, this is not something that will make you wealthy, but it might earn you a bit of “beer money”.

Here are two methods you can use. As you will notice, they don’t require much brain power and can actually be quite fun, so if you are just browsing the internet to look for funny videos or to chat with friends on MSN, why not also do something that can bring you some money at the same time?

First method: Online surveys.

You may have seen some advertising or gotten your email spammed about how you can supposedly make $50 – $100 an hour doing surveys. This is misleading, to say the least. Let me tell you, it definitely IS possible to make some money with online surveys. And you just MIGHT (and I say MIGHT) make $50 in an hour if you got selected for some high paying surveys. But you WON’T make $50 an hour x 8 hours x 5 days a week. To get started, simply do a Google search for paid surveys, and sign up for a few panels that you find. Remember, you a legitimate survey site will never ask you to buy anything or to give your credit card number. If you register for nearly all the panels, you probably will receive a few survey invitations a week, and the surveys generally pay $5 to $10 each.

Second method: Gamble… for free.

Here is a method that has made me a few hundred dollars so far this year. Many online casinos offer “no deposit” bonuses, where they give you a free chip worth anywhere from $10 to $100 just to download their software and register an account. You can then play some games at the casino and hope to come out a winner. There is a small catch: in most cases you will be required to wager the bonus amount around 20 to 30 times at most sites before you can cash out any winnings. Yeah, the odds aren’t really in your favor because of that… but who cares if you lose, it’s just bonus money that you lost and not your own. By simply doing a Google search for “no deposit bonus”, you will manage to find close to 100 different casinos that give players a free chip without depositing. Eventually, you will find one where you are lucky enough to meet the wagering requirements and withdraw your winnings. Just remember to read the terms and conditions regarding how many times you need to wager the bonus amount and which games count towards the wagering requirements. While, of course, this is not a guaranteed or reliable way to earn money, but if you have some free time and enjoy playing casino style games, then why not give it a try?

Times are tough, and everyone is looking for ways to bring in a little extra money. It’s tough to figure out which methods work, and which don’t, but we’re here to help you sort it all out.

Contrary to popular belief, you can actually make some money doing online surveys and responding to email promotion offers, just not a lot of it. Small tasks like this bring in small amounts of money, but if you’re just looking to spend a little bit of time every day working towards making some extra spending money, surveys are a great way to go about it. We highly recommend treating small tasks as something of a holiday fund. If you do a lot of surveys throughout the year, and put the money they bring in aside, you might find you have a nice chunk of spending money for your next vacation.

There are a lot of opportunities for an aspiring writer to make some money online. Many sites will provide writing jobs if you can show some proficiency as a wordsmith. You’ll usually have to submit a resume, or a writing sample, so be prepared to show some credentials. Once you’re in with one of these sites, they’ll provide gigs on a regular basis. The pay isn’t always tip top, but if you can turnaround the work quickly, it will definitely be worth your time.

Signing up for Amazon and Ebay affiliate programs can also bring in a nice chunk of change. You’ll need a little bit of web design skill for this one, but the investment in time is worth the yield. Set up a site with good information about a wide variety of products, and place Ebay and Amazon ads for those products on the site. For each person that buys the product, you’ll get a small percentage of the sale. This also works through a twitter account, just be careful not to come across as being spammy.

Setting up a full fledged affiliate site takes a lot more time and research than the above-mentioned Amazon and Ebay method, but the yield is worth the work. By doing some research on what companies have high paying affiliate programs, and what questions people have about their products, you can create a highly effective site that markets products to the people that are looking for them.

Some advertisers offer Pay Per Click programs, where (as the name implies) you get paid each time someone clicks on one of your ads. The pay out is usually small, and advertisers often have very specific terms and conditions dictating how you can use their ads. If you have a high traffic website in place already, PPC ads can put a little extra cash in your pocket, just make sure you’re following the rules.

There are other ways to make money online, these are just some of the more popular ones. Before diving into any of the above mentioned methods, or something we didn’t cover, be sure to do some research. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If you do your homework, and work diligently, you’ll find yourself with a full fledged second income in no time.

Making Money Online

There is a new buzz in the online money making scene, and www.PaidSurveys-Online.net is at the forefront of offering the average Internet user money for easy work and excellent payment plans.

PaidSurveys-Online.net specializes in offering surveys to Internet users, who are then paid to take such surveys. Each survey or offer is worth a certain amount of money, depending on the specific details of the offer.

Because PaidSurveys-Online.net has an established company base, it can offer a large amount of surveys and offers to consumers. Such a large database of surveys and offers essentially enables Internet users to make as much money as they want or need- as they can stop at any time and request payment.

For Internet users, retired individuals, and anyone else looking to make extra money without extra strings attached, PaidSurveys-Online.net is looking for just such people. PaidSurveys-Online.net offers such high payouts to individuals because they themselves get paid by advertisers- and in turn pass the profits onto the consumer.

Each month brings a host of new offers and surveys to complete, so consumers will never have a shortage of options in making money online by completing surveys.

Paid Surveys

A good idea to make some extra cash is to take an online survey which will pay your for you comments. One website in particular – www.paidsurveys-online.net have a list of companies that pay you to take a quick survey and in exchange pay you for you time in cash and rewards.

Another section they have on their website is cash back rewards which list all the companies that will pay you to shop. Everytime you buy online they will pay you a reward just for shopping.

So if you want to work from home try paid surveys as its an excellent way to get a second income