Recently, I set up a new affiliate website and added it to my Traffic-Bug account as usual to start generating backlinks. Then I realised it was coming up to Christmas so I wanted to grab some quality, relevant backlinks as quickly as possible. The method I always use to accomplish this is by blog commenting.

My only advice here is to keep your comments relevant and whenever possible, informative and not just “great post” “thanks” etc. If you add value then the blog owner will approve your comment and give you a backlink. But that is just a single backlink, if you can discover a relevant blog that’s maybe not too popular (i.e. it doesn’t receive tens of comments a day) and it utilises a widget that shows the last 5 or, even better, 10 comments in a sidebar widget then you will get multiple backlinks from that one blog as your comment/link will appear in the sidebar of every page on that particular blog! As those pages get indexed by the search engines, so does your link. Read the rest of this entry

Contextual advertising with Google Adsense is an extremely simple way for you to monetize your site. There are a number of Wordpress plugins that make it very easy to place Adsense ads on your Wordpress site, which has probably made this the most commonly used method to make some money with your website.

How it works

1) Advertisers from all over the internet sign-up up with the Google Adwords system. They then design small contextual adverts (of 3 lines + 1 URL line), and make monetary bids on specific search terms.

2) Publishers (you) join up with the Google Adsense system, and specify certain places on your website where you wish to display the contextual adverts that the advertisers created.

3) Google spiders the content of your page/post and gets a very good idea of what your page/post is about. They then display RELEVANT contextual ads in the places that you have specified.

4) If a visitor to your site clicks on one (or more) of the adverts, then Google pays you a percentage of what the advertiser paid to them for that click.

That’s it in a nutshell. Read the rest of this entry