Saving Money on the WEB

I've been doing this over a year now and one thing that I think is a great deal are the new "COUPON" or "DEAL" websites that are popping up. Some of the more popular are "GROUPON", "LIVING SOCIAL" and "RESTAURANT.COM". I know there are more but my experience has been with these three and they seem to be very good at what they do.
The thing that many people are not sure of is "WHAT THEY DO" and "HOW THEY DO IT". So here is a small rundown of How Groupon and others make the deals they do. First take the name "GOUPon" a combination of Group and Coupon. So basically this infers that the make deals that consist of getting a GROUP rate on different purchases and because they are so big the companies give them the deal and then they wait for Groupon to meet the minimum number of people needed to get that rate. There is risk on the part of the company however it is minimal due to the fact that Groupon is LARGE and they have always been upfront and honest, at least in my opinion. The other thing they do is make the deals contingent on minimum purchases, some say buy this deal at this amount and you have to make a minimum purchase to get the deal which is what Restaurant.com does normally. SO a $2 gift certificate worth $25 is contingent on you buying a minimum of $50 or $25. In any case these are great deals and sometimes just reading the small print gives you the information to make a good decent buy. Read the Fine print, always read what the details are and lastly GO to the actual Web Site of the OFFERS deal and see what the cost NORMALLY is.
Checking on the normal cost will give you a better understanding of the deal you are getting and if in fact it is a deal.

Save money by USING REDBOX Online

Redbox raised their prices and your not happy about it BUT you can still get that $1.07 movie by going to REDBOX.COM and reserving your movies online. It's easy, you get the movie you want and you save some money. Another way is to join the REDBOX Text Club. Here is how you do it.
How to Sign Up:

1. Text the word SIGNUP to 727272. That's it!*
2. To stop messages at any time, just text the word STOP to 727272

now you will get text messages with free promo codes and other special offers. ALSO when you sign up at REDBOX.COM you enter your e-mail address and you can get Free movies the first time you sign up. SO go ahead Give Redbox a try and reserve your movie online.

WEB SITE Monetization

Do you have a small web site and want to setup your site to be monetized? Are you just not sure of how to do it? Let these guys know and they can show you a few ways to setup web monetization simple and fast. http://www.tampaweboptimization.com

Testing your ADSENSE Ads to choose which is the best Ad

How do you decide WHICH AD performs the best on your Web Site. One of the best strategies for using Google Adsense to monetize your websites is to find out which Ad performs the best return per click and use that ad. to do this you have to have a way to test different ads. To do this one of the easiest ways is to ad code to your site that allows you to rotate an ad randomly and see which one comes out ahead at the end of the day.
SO if you have two ads each with their own custom channel and you put them in a rotating script which shows each ad to users an equal amount of time you may be able to determine which google adsense ad performs better. Here is the code to do it.
<!-- google ads -->
        <script type="text/javascript">
        var random_number = Math.random();
        if (random_number < .5)
        {
        <!--
google_ad_client = "ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
/* ADS-TEST1 */
google_ad_slot = "8352240308";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//-->
}else{
<!--
google_ad_client = "ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
/* ADS-TEST2 */
google_ad_slot = "3075656559";
google_ad_width = 300;
google_ad_height = 250;
//-->
}
</script>

        <!-- google ads -->
This code rotates two different ads with different channels based on a 50/50 randomness. the rotation code is in blue, the RED are elements that are specific to your account and custom channels. Here are my results from Adsense.

 AD CHANNEL                             [Vies]   [Clicks]   [CTR]   [CPC]   [RPM]  [Earnings]

ADS-TEST1	AdSense for Content	(2,038)	(5)	(0.25%)	($0.22)	($0.54)	($1.10)

ADS-TEST2

AdSense for Content

(2,162)

(2)

(0.09%)

($1.30)

($1.20)

($2.59)

Some simple analysis can now show that two things happened here. 1. Test Ad #1 got more clicks BUT Test Ad #2 paid more PER CLICK (CPC).

Keeping at it - Making Money on the Web

For many of us making money on the web is just a matter of trudging along and hoping that someone will hit the ad links on our sites. This can and many times does work BUT if you truly think about it, this means that the person did not find what they were looking on your site SO they saw a glimpse of what they needed on the ads. THIS is a very good piece of knowledge to have. It means that if there are key words to items, subjects or other areas of interest that are mentioned in your blog entries or on your web site and you do not have ALL the information it may be a good driving factor in moving people to a new site and the way they may get there is through one of your ADS.

My advice. Keep at it! write your blog posts, give the information you have and provide the most accurate information and people will come and if they don't find what they are looking for maybe they will through your site. Good Luck and Keep Making Money on the Web.

Some of the Best Deals on the Web

The best deals on the web are available if you just look for them or when you hear about them write them down or bookmark them. This is an ongoing post that I will add to over time. This isn't really about Making money on the web BUT its just as good as making money on the web when you can save on things you were going to buy anyway. Here are some tips for saving money buying things you were going to buy anyway.

• Before you click "BUY NOW" research it on the web. A quick search may find a cheaper price.


• Look for Coupons on the web if your going in person to buy it at a store near you.


• The only reason you should buy something in a store local is if you need it right then otherwise the WEB will have the best deals.

These are just a few tips and look for more in later posts.

For this post I will point you to a web site that has coupons for local restuarants that you can print and as far as I can tell and what others have told me they have all been legit coupons and can save you a lot of money. http://www.Restaurant.com Try it out and if you think its great leave a commment.

How To Make Money Posting Links On Google

This is by far one of the largest Misleading ADs you could ever click on. Look at the template site Template Site Or look at this one that is more typical TEMPLATE SITE.
The reason I am posting this is because you don't make money just posting LINKS on Google. As a matter of FACT NO ONE CAN JUST POST LINKS ON GOOGLE. What a Joke. What they fail to tell you is that they are actually posting documents, Blog Entries or just plain Web Sites with a bunch of KEY words about things that people commonly search for. Then they sign up for a GOOGLE AdSense account and as people hit their site the "Google Adsense" displays ads that are based around the context of that particular Blog entry, Document or Web site based on the Key words or other words within the Blog Entry, Document or Web Site. It is as simple as that and they way THEY are making money is through you signing up for thier FREE software to tell you how to do it. BUT if you look through some of my previous posts I show you exactly how to do it for free. Oh and one more thing when you sign up to get your "FREE" software that tells you how to do it "all except the .99 cent shipping" they make sure in the fine print that you are subscribed to a Web Hosting provider (Probably theirs) and they are charging you $39.99/month for the rest of your time there. You may not even figure it out until its too late and by then they have "LEGITIMATELY" received at the very least one months fee and possibly more if you didn't pay attention.