MySpace is the largest Internet community or social networking website where users can join to create their profile page and others can view the personal information about them in their profile page. However, the experienced online marketers found that MySpace can also be used for marketing and advertising products or services. But Myspace has its own rules and terms, so care needs to be taken when you are marketing your e-business on MySpace to ensure that none of your actions are violating their rules and terms.

Advertising on MySpace
Your MySpace advertising campaign will produce result so long as it is done correctly and not in a manner that is seen as spam by others. The effectiveness of MySpace arises from the huge number of users around the world who are using MySpace currently. This includes both existing members who networking with each other and nonmembers who only look for interesting profile pages. With so many people visiting MySpace every day it is likely that there are a specific group of visitors have an interest on the products or services you are offering on your MySpace page.

And the best part is that it is totally free advertising your business on MySpace. There is no fee associated when you create a MySpace profile page and include links to your ecommerce website or give more information about your products or services. To effectively advertise your business on MySpace, you are advised to follow the same rules that would usually be followed by online advertisers. This will include identify who your target prospect is and how to get their attention successfully.
Selling Products on MySpace
It will take time and effort to successfully sell your products or services to MySpace users. Most people who visit MySpace are not looking for product or sale offers. Their purposes are to network with others and look for interesting profile pages. So, you need to be an active participant on MySpace and take the time to meet others and making friends.

When growing your friend list. Look for those people who have an interest on your website topic. To make your MySpace marketing work, you should focus on making friends with those people who are interested to your website topic or subject.

There are two ways to market your products on MySpace. First, you can promote your profile pages to have as many friends and users to come your profile page. Those who visit your profile page find the advertisements on your profile page are interesting will click on it to your e-commerce website and consider making a purchase.

Second, you can send bulletin message to your MySpace friend list to market your products. As most of the MySpace users have no interest in reading product or service offers, so your bulletin message shouldn’t be directly promoting your products. What you can do is send a bulletin message whenever there is an update on your e-commerce site or business blog. Here are some of opportunities you can send bulletin message to your MySpace friends for marketing your products:

• When you added an interesting article on your ecommerce site or blog, you can tell them to visit your site or blog to read about it.
• When you hold a contest, you can invite them to visit your ecommerce site to participate your contest.
• If you offer free download of something, you can send them the link to your site for downloading your free gifts.

These are just a few ideas of using the bulletin tool to promote your products. There are more you can find if you take the time to explore new ideas of using the bulletin tool effectively.

The post that I published yesterday 'My 3 Day Experience with Kontera ContentLink' has been noticed by Kontera. I don't know how they find my post so fast. May be they accidentally found my blog when using Google or their system have automatically tracked my blog when I remove the Kontera ad code or some other reasons......

One of the staff of Kontera named Vered posted a long comment on the yesterday post. The comment gave detailed explanation about how Kontera operates and why I don't see my main keywords turned into Kontera content links.

Apparently, Kontera ContentLink ads are geo-targeted. This means visitors in different locations will see different Kontera keyword links and ads when browsing my blog. The earning for each Kontera ad click is also based on geo-targeting. Since the majority of the advertisers of Kontera are targeting the US market, the earning for the ad clicks that generated from US traffic will be significantly higher than traffic from other countries.

This probably is the reason why I'm getting 40 Kontera ad clicks but the earning is less than $1. May be most of the ad clicks aren't from US, that why I earn so little.

Kontera also told me that a 3 day testing period isn't enough to find out the earning potential of any ad network. They suggest me to give a longer trial.....

I now have more than 50% out of my total traffic from US. If the US traffic convert, I might get better Kontera ad revenue. So, I'm going to take their suggestion to have a longer trial on Kontera. You will see the Kontera ContenLink ads display again in MoneyMakerInfo.Blogspot.com soon.

If you have been thinking to try Kontera as well, do check out the comment of Kontera's staff posted on my yesterday post 'My 3 Day Experience with Kontera ContentLink'. You will understand more about making money online with Kontera reading that comment.

My 3 Day Experience with Kontera ContentLink

Posted by Alan Liew | 11:36 AM

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Pay per click advertising has been an effective way for this blog to generate income. Before Google disallowed me to display AdSense pay per click on this blog, I was able to make USD2,000 to USD2,800 per month depending on the traffic level.

Google stopped me from using AdSense, so I sought for some alternatives. Kontera is one of them.

Applying for a Kontera account has been easy and convenient. There is no review process I need to go through. I just have to fill out and submit the application form; and they will automatically send me a welcome email with an activation link that I can click to start accessing Kontera and use their Content link ads immediately.

I successfully generated the Kontera ad code and placed it on my blog. The Kontera Content links showed up on my blog with 24 hours. I saw the keywords such as pay per click, money making opportunity and some other unrelated keywords got converted into Kontera Content links. Non of my main keywords converted into Kontera links. Seem like Kontera is lacking ad inventory for my niche 'make money online'.

So far, I'm getting 40 ad clicks and guess how much I earn from this 40 clicks. Well, no even $1. The pay is so low. There is no way Kontera can compare with AdSense where I used to earn $0.35 per AdSense ad click in average.

I decided to remove Kontera. It is not for my niche. They actually don't have any ad that is relevant to my topic and niche. The keyword 'money making opportunity' which has been converted into Kontera link, when I point my mouse on it, a small box will pops up giving the ad description. The ad is actually promoting a dictionary, it is not money making opportunity of any sort.

It is no point to send visitors to the offers that they have no interested at all. So, I will stop using Kontera.

I think Kontera is more for topics like shopping, technology, electronic products...etc. Blogs with these content topics might earn much better ad revenue with Kontera.

Facebook has over 124 millions of registered users. It is a great social networking platform that can help you make money on the Internet. In this blog post, I will discuss four different ways to earn income online using Facebook.

Promote Your Own Products
Through your Facebook profile, you can market your products to other Facebook users. Since Facebook is a social networking website, you should only market products that are resonate with your profile, otherwise people will quickly see you as a marketer which will make you difficult to make new friends in Facebook. You should promote something that your Facebook friends interested. The product can make a difference in their lives or help them solve a problem. Example of products that sell well on the Internet are digital products such as e-books, music downloads, photographic content and reports.

Affiliate Marketing
If you don’t own your product, you may market other people product for a share of sale commission using your Facebook profile. Here again, you should only choose those affiliate products that resonate with your profile in Facebook. The simplest way to market your affiliate products is by posting your affiliate links in your profile. But, you need to limit the number of affiliate links included into your profile because too many offer links could make your profile look like a sale page and this will turn off people who come to view your profile.

Furthermore, you can offer a free gift or free resource on your profile in exchange for your target prospects email address. This way, you will gather their contact information legally and ethically where you can later send them your affiliate offers.

Offer Your Services
Facebook not just a good place to market products, you can also use it to sell your professional service. There are many services you can sell through Facebook. But, whatever service you are offering, make sure it resonates with the persona that you have built on Facebook. Some of the services you can offer are web development, freelance writing, consulting, one-on-one mentoring service, Internet marketing and so on.

Create Your Own Application
You can develop your own application for Facebook users to download and use it for their benefits of social networking in Facebook. One existing good Facebook application is ‘Introduce Me’. This application let people you know to introduce you to people they know in Facebook. This application is placed in profile. So, you can also contribute your unique and useful application and let millions of Facebook users to use it.

There are a few ways you can make money with your application. You can sell it immediately for a one-time profit. Or market it to have as many people as possible, and then monetize it to earn income. What are your choices of monetizing your application? Well, you can sell ad space within your application to potential advertisers, use the application to help sell your virtual items like ring, tones and etc; or promote your affiliate program for commission.

Developing your own application can be very profitable to you. However, you will need a group of experts to help you and you must have enough financial resources to back your project.