Welcome to High Performance Affiliate Marketing. This e-book will show you everything you need to know about making money online through affiliate marketing. The format of this e-book is concise and to the point. I won’t waste your time discussing unnecessary details or bore you with useless statistics. This e-book is all about practical hands-on information that you can use right now to start making money online. Throughout the e-book, I’ll be pointing to a lot of third-party resources for further reading and learning. If you’re unfamiliar with a certain topic, I encourage you to follow the link and learn more about it. This e-book is not the encyclopedia of the Internet. This e-book has just one focus: To show you how to make money online, the easiest and fastest way possible.
How to Use This E-Book
This e-book doesn’t need to be read cover to cover like a traditional book. You can skip to whatever sections you think will provide you with the most benefit. If you’re new to affiliate marketing it may help you to follow the natural progression of each section. The sections are organized to build upon previous ones.
The Google AdSense Handbook Making money by adding Google AdSense ads to your websites
You’ve probably heard a lot about Google AdSense (which is actually more accurately known as Google AdSense V1), but you may not know just what it is. Well, for one thing, it’s a one of the hottest new ways to make money online without having to do a whole lot. If you’ve read Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” you know that passive income is the best kind of income to have.
Passive income is income that you get without having to work for it. I know this may sound like some kind of “pie in the sky” get-rich-quick scheme, but passive income is for real. In fact, every single billionaire on earth uses the power of passive income to keep money coming in while he or she jets off to parties and resorts and such.
The best example of passive income in the physical world is real estate. When you own an apartment building and hire a property manager and a maintenance crew to take care of it for you and collect the rents, all you have to do is cash the checks that roll in.
Of course, passive income doesn’t just happen overnight, or everyone would be getting it. In the case of the apartment building owner, it took money, time, and knowledge to set up an S corporation, find a building to buy, put up the cash to buy it with and get a loan for the rest, renovate it, then screen and hire the property manager and maintenance crew. But once that was all done, checks began rolling in with little or no effort.
Well, Google Adsense is the online equivalent of that. You’ll have to invest just a little bit of time in learning about it, but once you get it set up you can look forward to seeing those nice checks roll in. Or, if you’re totally online, seeing money flow into your PayPal account.
Google wants a slice of your traffic. And they're willing to pay big bucks!
For those who have been complaining of high traffic and low sales, there's simply no better way to cash in on those hard-earned visitors to your web pages.
AdSense makes it so easy!
There's no complicated software to install, no need to scout for affiliates, nothing to buy and no need to even have a merchant account. So…
Why isn't everybody doing this? More importantly, why isn't everybody making the most of it?
It's "Hidden Money"
"Seeing is believing", they say. Most webmasters love to obsessively track their visitors, earnings and CTR's several times a day. They love to see what's there, but they often miss what can be.
AdSense doesn't give you ultimate control over which ads are served, how the ads are rotated or what each click is worth. That's a good thing, because it's hands-free income. (It does give you some control though, and I’ll tell you how to use those controls in this book.)
But many webmasters still think that once you've stuck the AdSense code on your page, there's little you can do except wait and watch.
Nothing could be further from the truth! Google gives you a great deal of control over your ads, and especially their visual or graphic elements. By tweaking these elements to your advantage, you could easily — in as little as a few minutes — multiply your click-throughs many, many times over!