Kakakku Tersayang

Pada suatu hari, aku melamun saja di sekolah. Aku ditanya oleh Shasa.
“Hey, kok melamun aja sih ada apa? Ayo main!” kata Shasa.
“Gak ah aku lagi gak mau main” kataku.
“Lho, kenapa?” kata Shasa.
“mau tau aja apa mau tau banget?” kataku sambil berlalu.
“Lho… lho. Kok begitu sih?” kata Shasa.

Setelah itu aku ke kantin untuk membeli makanan. Ternyata uangku hanya tinggal Rp.2000,- dan tidak cukup untuk membeli burger.
“Gak cukup nih neng. Harganya Rp.5000,- bukan Rp.2000,- neng.” kata bang Somad.
Tiba-tiba ada Shasa dari arah belakang.
“Nih, kurangnya cepet bikinin buat Cinta!” kata Shasa.
“Ya neng.” kata bang Somad.
“Gak usah kali Sha…” kata-kataku terputus karena Shasa mendahului.
“Sttt… udah jangan mikir begitu, tuh burgernya udah mateng!” kata Shasa.
Aku pun terkejut dengan katanya Shasa itu. Dan lalu Shasa menanyakan sesuatu kepada ku.
“Cinta, ada apa sih Cin?” kata Shasa
“Eh iya, kamu bawa bekel apa? Aku lupa aku bawa bekal hari ini.” Katanya lagi
“Aku gak bawa bekal. Tadi kakak ku sedang sakit
... baca selengkapnya di Kakakku Tersayang Cerita Motivasi dan Inspirasi Nomor Satu

Infolinks Review: Can it Make Money for your blog?

Infolinks is a name which you are likely to see mentioned when you are reading about monetizing your blog. I have used Infolinks for years, and in today’s post I will be sharing my review of Infolinks from my experience.

I started blogging in 2008, and the first advertising network I used was Google AdSense. Thereafter, I started looking for other blog monetization programs, and that’s when I stumbled upon Infolinks.

The first question that came to my mind was:
Can I use Infolinks with Google AdSense?
After reading various reviews, I decided to apply for Infolinks ad network and use it on my blog.

Infolinks review: works perfectly with Adsense!

One thing you will like about Infolinks right away is the fact that it is easy to set up, and once you have set it up, you don’t have to do much! Infolinks will automatically start showing ads on your blog, and you will start making money right away.

Now before you jump for joy and sign up, you should know that it takes time to earn any decent income from Infolinks. You need to have good search engine traffic, ensuring that you get traffic from countries like the U.S. and the U.K. in order to earn high CPM on Infolinks.
Here is a screenshot offered as proof of payment:



Infolinks minimum payout is $50, and payment methods include PayPal.
I found the Infolinks control panel to be a little outdated, but so far in my experience I have found Infolinks to be one of the best in-text advertising networks available.

At the time of the writing of this article, Infolinks is one of the biggest contributors to ShoutMeLoud’s earnings, after AdSense.

Infolinks is easy to integrate, and from the Infolinks option panel, you can configure ad color, number of ads, and various other options.
 
While there are hundreds of other programs which sound similar and promise to be one of the best advertising networks available, when it comes to payment, you will face numerous issues with other networks.
I can tell you that Infolinks is not a scam website, and they pay within the stated payout time. They offer various payment options such as PayPal, Western Union, and bank wire transfer. I personally use PayPal to receive my payments.

• Bank Wire Transfers – $25 plus 2% to receive your payment via your local currency
• PayPal – U.S. residents $1, everyone else 2% up to $10
• eCheck – $6 plus 2% for currency conversion
• Western Union – $15 minimum
• ACH and Payoneer – No fees

Infolinks also has an Android app and an iOS app, and you can use them to monitor the performance of your account from your mobile phone.
Based on my personal experience using this program, my opinion is that Infolinks is one of the best text link ads programs available to us today.
We will cover other legitimate advertisement programs for your blog in the near future.

 Sign up for Infolinks

Learn How You Can Make Money from Youtube & Facebook Using Famebit

Do you want to make money from your Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Vine or even with your Tumblr account? And... Yes, you don't need to have a blog to get started with this & what I'm sharing today will add a great revenue stream for you. Sponsored posts are nothing new & is a common term in the field of online advertising. Here at ShoutMeLoud, we get offers starting from $1000 for a sponsored post & now things have already moved to another platform. Now, one can get sponsored post for their social media channels & all you need is an active profile on any of the above mentioned social network with more than 1000 followers. I believe Twitter & Youtube would be the easiest one to get started with this. The new monetization technique which I'm sharing you with today is call Social media monetization & the network is call Famebit. What is Famebit & how you can make money from it? Famebit is a platform which connects social media influencer with brands. The cool thing is, you don't have to be the most popular person to be a social media influencer. I will explain more about it later, for now let me explain what Famebit is & how it works. Famebit helps you to get sponsorship for your social media channels & you can earn handsome amount of money using this platform. As a brand, you can find influencers to talk about your product on various social networking sites. This a self-serving marketplace& easy to get started with.  Famebit was initially started focusing on Youtubers & now it supports more social networking sites. You only need 1,000 followers on a channel to connect and start sending proposals. The very first thing you should do after signing up for Famebit is, update your profile. Write a compelling bio & link with all your social networking profile which has a minimum of 1000+ followers. Here is a video that shows how to utilize Famebit public profile feature: Here is how you make money from Famebit: Once you have created an account on Famebit (Free registration), you can access their marketplace instantly. Here you can browse the brands who are looking for influencers to talk & promote their product. You will find products related to almost all popular niche such as technology, gadget, Beauty, Fashion, Pets & many others. You can always sort the offer based on targeted social network, niche & pricing. You can click on details to see more about the sponsorship & from here you can contact the brand with your idea of promoting them. Click on Send proposal & share your ideas with the brand on how & what you would be doing. I will share smart tips on sending Famebit proposal in upcoming posts, for now here is just a sample rough proposal which I created for Fiverr. It's a good idea to include your past work, what brands can expect & some more data based details to get acceptance for your proposal. Note: This is just a rough draft I created for this article. I would suggest you to use something more creative & data driven in your proposal. This is how the brand would see your proposal. You can send the proposal to any number of companies & I would recommend use your template for sending proposals. Rather study the brand, come up with a unique idea & that can do wonders for you. Once your proposal is accepted, you work on the promotion plan & share the draft with the company using Famebit dashboard. Once that is accepted, you can go live with it Do note, once you submit the content on your channel, the company who sponsored your content is the copyright owner of it. They can reuse it for their other media campaigns. For the first timer, it's a good idea to read the terms of Famebit. Famebit charges 10% of the sponsored fees for providing this platform to connect influencers with brands. You can also download the official Famebit iOS app from app store. Payment is made via PayPal or check. Create account on Famebit Tip: On Famebit you also get physical product to try & review. So at times, it's ok to keep your proposal price low & get the review product for free. Overall Famebit is one of those monetization technique which is not limited to bloggers. Anyone who is active on social media platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter & few more can earn decent income out of it. Especially a Youtuber can earn anywhere between a minimum of $10 to $20,000. For Youtubers, I recommend using this 3rd party tool call TubeBuddy to grow their channel fast.

How To Make Money with Amazon Native Shopping Ads by Harsh Agrawal

Have you been considering to replace AdSense with something which pays you more? Are you tired of low paying advertisement & earning less from your blog?

Well, today I got something interesting which can make a lot of money for you. Especially if you have a niche blog & traffic from U.S.A, this new ad monetization network can do wonders for you. Amazon is always a popular choice among publisher for their Affiliate program & in recent time, they have launched many new ad types which you can use to monetize your blog. One of them is Amazon native shopping ads which you can show at the end of the article & start earning money from Amazon.

In this guide, I will share everything you need to know about getting started with Amazon native shopping ads. I would suggest you to try this ad type for two weeks upto a month & see how it's working out for you.

What is Amazon native shopping ads & how it works?

Amazon native shopping ads are similar to AdSense in terms of showing contextual ads.

It shows relevant ads based on the page where ads are being displayed. Once you place the ad codes on your blog (You just need to do it once), it automatically scans the content of the page & display products based on the keywords used within the article.

Unlike AdSense, here you will be earning money for actual sales. Do remember, Amazon also pays for other product purchased by your referred users. To make it easy for you to understand, let's take this example:

Let's say you have a visitor whose name is Pauk. Paul clicks on one of the ads (By Amazon native shopping ads) on your blog & goes to Amazon site. If he purchases the product which is worth $100, you will be getting a commission of 4%. In some cases, you will also be getting the commission up to 8%. (Depending upon the volume).

4% of $100: $4

This is a usual scenario. Now, if Paul decides not to purchase the product recommended by you but purchased 10 different products worth $1000, you will still be earning 4% of his total purchase.

4% of $1000: $40

In short, you are earning $40 from one referrals. In case, if you don't know, Amazon is the top e-commerce site in the world & their conversion is really great in comparison to most of the other sites.

In short:

[Tweet "Amazon native shopping ads is the #AdSense on steroids!"]

At the time of writing, there are three variants of Amazon native ads:

• Recommendation Ads: Allows Amazon to automatically recommend the best-matched products based on your webpage content and your visitors.
• Search Ads: Allows you to drive recommendations based on a search phrase determined by you or your visitor.
• Custom Ads: Allows you to specify the products from Amazon.com that you wants to promote.

Ads are responsive, so it would work with all screen sizes. One limitation is, Native products ads is available for only Amazon U.S. program, so you might want to use a geo-targeted ad server such as DPF to serve ads. (If you know of other solutions to show ads based on users geographic location, do let us know in the comment section).

Before you move ahead, you might want to spend 5 minutes reading FAQ about this new monetization offering from Amazon.

• Read: How to promote affiliate products on your blog?

Getting started with Amazon Native shopping ads:

In this section you will learn:

• How to create ad codes for native shopping adsTricks to make your ad more relevant.
• Tricks to make your ad more relevant.
• Implementing ad codes on your WordPress or any other website

If you have an existing Amazon affiliate account, you can get started right away. If not, you can apply for you.

Head over to this page & click on create ad code. You can select from three ad types & for this tutorial I have selected recommendation ads:

On the next page, you have to option to select categories from which you want the products to be displayed. This is an important step as if you show products relevant to your website content; you are more likely to earn more.

As you can see in above image, I have selected the categories which are relevant to my blog (Technology blog). Once you have done this, scroll down & configure rest of the options which are straight forward too.

Once this is done, all you need to do is place the ad codes on your blog. If you are using WordPress, you can use this plugin call Ad inserter. This is a free plugin & using it; you can place ads anywhere in your blog. Here is how I have used this plugin to place Amazon ads after content:

Another plugin that you can use is Ad injection WordPress plugin. When I placed the ad codes on my tech blog (ShoutMeTech), it started displaying ads instantly.

Note: If you are going to place Amazon display ads on the different website of yours, I suggest create tracking ID for all your blogs. This is going to be pretty useful to measure the performance of every blog.

Amazon Display ads landing page

Are you using Amazon native display ads on your website? How's it working out for you? Do share your review & feedback with us in the comment section below. Here are more articles you should check out to earn money from your blog:

• Best recurring affiliate programs: Earn money for life
• Four proven ways to make money in 2016 & beyond
• Affiliate marketing or AdSense: Which one makes more money?

You can use AdSense And Affiliate links on Same page?

Here at ShoutMeLoud I talk about Google AdSense and Affiliate marketing all the time, and keep getting questions related to the same. One of the most asked question is,

Can I use AdSense and affiliate ads on the same page. Will it be violation of AdSense policies?

This is the most common question by newbie bloggers who just started monetizing their website with Affiliate ads and have AdSense running on their blog. AdSense is a contextual ad network and they do not allow running any other ad network which mimic ads like AdSense.

 Can you have Amazon Affiliate And Adsense on same Page:

Let me take example of Amazon affiliate ads, as they are one of the popular affiliate program. You can replace it by anything like eBay, hosting affiliate or other affiliate programs you can think of.

Answer is "Yes" you can place Affiliate ads along with AdSense ads on the same page, and this doesn't violate AdSense policies. Here is a screenshot from official AdSense help page, which clearly says: "We do allow affiliate or limited-text links."

To add more to it, here is what you need to know to use any other ad network with AdSense. In simple words, Affiliate ad is also considered as different ad network here:

Before you jump with joy and start adding tons of affiliate banner ads and link ads on your blog, here are few important things which you should know.

• If number of ads or affiliate banner/links is more than the original content, this will put your AdSense account in danger. So limit the number of ads on your blog, and focus on adding value and quality of your website. I suggest you to keep an optimum limit of Ads on your blog, and place it in a way which doesn't hamper user-experience on your website.
• Your affiliate ads should not link to content which are not allowed in AdSense policies. Ex: Adult content. AdSense treats other ads (Ads from other ad network or affiliate ads ) on a page as part of the content, and it should follow their content guidelines.
• While using Affiliate links on your blog, make sure they are nofollow. This has nothing to do with AdSense, but using Nofollow tag is a good practice from SEO point of view. You can use this guide to learn how to add nofollow tag or better use Gocodes WordPress plugin.

Summing it up:

To sum it up; you can use Affiliate ads with Google AdSense on your blog. Though before you jump into the world of affiliate marketing, I suggest you to learn tricks of the trade and then implement ads. A good idea is to replace one of your low performing ad unit with direct affiliate ads of a product related to your niche. Once you start getting success in form of affiliate sales, replace more AdSense ad blocks with affiliate ads. If you select the right product to promote, you can easily earn minimum 2-3X of your AdSense earning via Affiliate marketing.

Here I have hand-picked few posts which will help you to get started with Affiliate marketing:

• What is affiliate marketing and FAQ?
• How to promote affiliate products on your blog
• The beginners guide to start with Webhosting Affiliate program
• How to select best affiliate program for your blog
• How Google treats affiliate links from SEO perspective

If you have any more question related to using Affiliate ads and AdSense together, feel free to ask via comments. If you find this post useful, do share it with your friends on Google and Facebook.

Watch out for next blogging tip!

by Harsh

Free Tag Assistant Chrome Addon: Verifies Google Tags Installation by Harsh Agrawal

Are you using Google analytics or Google tag manager or Adwords remarketing or all of them on your blog/Website? Even if you are not using all these yet, I highly recommend you to start using it. It was 2 years back when I started using Google tag manager to manage all the tags for every blog in my blog network.

Today, I was implementing Google Adwords remarketing tags & needed a way to verify if I have implemented all the tags correctly or not. This is when Adwords help page redirected me to Tag assistant chrome addon which I believe is useful for all digital marketers & bloggers.

This is a nifty chrome addon which would help you with following:

• Troubleshoot installation of Google Analytics.
• Troubleshoot installation of Google tag manager.
• Verify installation of various Google tags on your website or any other webpage on web.
• Shows which all tags are present on a webpage
• Shows any error & cause of the error ( very useful for debugging)

Here is a video that shows how this chrome addon works & I suggest you to watch it before you install this chrome addon.

You can download the tag assistant Chrome addon from here. Along with this, if you have not implemented Google tag manager on your blog, you should do that too. Instead of using a separate plugin or manually adding Google analytics, Facebook remarketing tags on your blog, you should rather use Google tag manager to manage all of it from one place. I have written a complete guide along with recommended free WordPress plugins to help you get started with this:

• The Beginners guide to configure Google tag manager (With screenshots)

Once you are done configuring Google tag manager {GTM} that usually takes about 5 minutes, you should check out the below video to learn about adding Facebook remarketing pixel on your website using GTM. If it's new thing for you, don't worry as this video is created for anyone with basic or intermediate skills.

Tasks to perform today:

• Configure Google tag manager for your blog/website
• Configure Google Analytics using Google tag manager
• Create Facebook pixel & add pixel code on your blog using Google tag manager

I know today you have few more tasks than usual, but once you start doing it, you would realize it's so easy to do. None the less, adding Facebook pixel today will help you to level up your digital marketing game in coming days.  If you are using Chrome browser, here are few more add-ons which you would love to try out:

• 5 best Chrome SEO extensions
• SEP experts sharing their secret browser SEO addon

3 Days with Amazon Affiliate (Income Report)

Hey guys, I have always thought that Affiliate marketing is a bunch of BS and you have to be a mastermind in order to really earn from it.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. I recently got into Amazon Affiliate program where I promote technology products. It has been 3 days to be exact with you. And I was really surprised by the amount of money I've earned from it.

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To some of it, this might be a little but while for others it will motivate you to get into affiliate marketing and it doesn't have to be with Amazon.
What do you guys think about my income report? Is this is good start for a beginner like me? Any feedback would be appreciated.

Exclusive AdSense Site Blueprint That You can Use

Internet is full of opportunities to make money, and blogging is one of the smartest and ethical way, to earn money. One big misconception about blogging is, you need to work day and night to make money. It's true when you want to create a name along with money, but if your goal is to earn money in shortest time and long-gain, then there are many shortcuts out there. For an example, a micro-niche blog.

In this newsletter I will share an example of  a micro-niche blog that is making $174 from AdSense/month for me and $100 on an average from Affiliate marketing with few hours of work.

 This is a blueprint for creating such micro-niche blog, and you can use it for any topic/niche you like. In my case, I didn't use any content agency, so I picked up a niche that I enjoy reading and writing about. So, instead of sharing a general post, I'm sharing the actual steps I followed to create one such blog, and after 40-50 hours of total work, this blog has made over $2000 for me in last one year.

Why start a micro-niche Blog?

First of all after so many algorithmic changes from Google, a niche website ranks higher in search engine. If you create a high-quality website on any particular topic, your chances of ranking higher is stronger than any existing authority website out there. Also, you don't have to work day and night on that blog, as once you have worked hard to create an evergreen niche blog, all you need to wait and see money-getting deposited into your account.

This is the blueprint of a micro-niche blog that I created. Do remember, this is the exact method I followed for my blog, and you can follow this to create one for yourself right away.

The Complete BluePrint to Build a Niche Website which makes money:

Select Niche and Domain:

The most important thing that you need to do is find a niche that you are most comfortable with. Make sure to think of commercial and popularity aspect of it.  Since our target is to make money from it using AdSense, you should pick a topic that is popular in countries like U.S. and U.K., and have commercial value (High CPC).

In my case, I picked a topic call "Cydia" that is a jailbroken tool for iOS device, and very popular among iPhone users. I chose this topic, as I was very comfortable with it and expiration time on this topic was quite high, and it has good searched in Google. For quick research, I used LongTailPro Keyword research tool.

For domain, I settled with Cydiaguide.com

Keyword research and content planning:

For content planning, I was clear about few things:

• Pick those topics that will last for long.
• Make this micro-niche site like a Wikipedia for the topic you are targeting.
• Pick the keywords that are driving traffic or CPC.

So instead of being particular about picking only high AdSense CPC keywords, I created a mindmap of content. Which was more like a FAQ of that topic. For example:

• What is [topic]
• How to use/install [Topic]
• Advantages and disadvantages of using [topic]
• Important Facts about [topic]

These were some of the basic ideas which I started before getting into detailed Keyword research, and later I used SEMRUSH to find more keywords. I picked few existing blogs that are driving traffic related to my target topic and used SEMRUSH to find all those Keywords. Also, competitor in organic search feature of SEMRUSH, gave me more options for similar websites, and thus more keywords. You can use this link to try SEMRUSH completely free for 15 days, which is valued at $150.

This way by the end, I had at least 20+ topic ideas for a micro-niche website. Next few hours I spent writing 4-5 blog posts, and one post daily for next couple of days. This way my content part was done, and I had 15 high-quality evergreen (2-3 year expiration) content.

Setting up the Micro niche blog:

Now, the rest part was very easy, as if you know how to create a blog on WordPress, you don't have to worry about much. Your content will do the rest of the magic. Here are exact tools I used to create and setup my blog. This checklist includes plugin, theme and other important details that you need to create your micro-niche blog.

• Hosting: Bluehost with one free domain (Only $3.95/month) ( Check this tutorial to learn how to install WordPress on Bluehost)
• Theme: SwiftThemes (Plug and play)
• WordPress plugins:

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast for site SEO.
2. EasyWPSEO for Keyword optimization. (Learn how to use EasyWPSEO plugin)
3. WPSocial for social media optimization
4. Akismet for preventing comment spam.
5. Auto post thumbnail for automatic generation of the featured image.
6. Digg digg for Social Bookmarking icons
7. Google XML sitemaps for creating sitemap.
8. Insights for helping me in inter-linking while writing post.
9. Jetpack by WordPress for multiple purposes including stats in Dashboard.
10. No Self pings to stop self-pinging
11. PushPress for faster indexing.
12. SEO friendly images for image level SEO.
13. Subscribe to comments plugin.
14. WP Smush.it for image compression.
15. WP Super cache for Caching.
16. Wptouch for mobile friendly WordPress blog.

Additional steps that I followed:

1. Made my blog on site SEO perfect.
2. Took extreme care of content quality and Keyword score.
3. Made few videos on Youtube and linked to my blog from description. This generated traffic and also earned decent quality themes.
4. Submitted sitemap to major search engine.
5. Submitted my blog to top 100 sites using IMT submitter.
6. Created a logo using free online logo maker.

The whole idea with this blog was to work less, and make it ready for earning. So I didn't invest much time on branding, as the goal was to drive search engine traffic, solve the purpose and make money from the niche blog. Here is the traffic report of this blog from starting:

Do remember, this blog have only 26 blog posts, and it's not updated from month. At this stage, I have to start preparing few more content to push the traffic again.

Few things that I should have done: (Things that you should do)

Created separate Social media page: Social media profiles are helpful in many ways, but in this case I skipped doing it. Reason being, I didn't want to create a new social media property. But, it's always good to add Social media profile and use social-media automation.

I use tools like Bufferapp and hootsuite to share content from this blog on Google plus, Facebook pages.

No back link building and no promotion:

I have not built even a single backlink, and no promotion apart from bit of social-media promotion. All traffic is organic, and purely due to quality of content. I have worked most on On site and on Page SEO.

Monetization:

For initial couple of months I used only AdSense, and later added one affiliate product related to iPhone niche, which generated extra income of $100/month on an average.

Over all if you consider all the aspects in nutshell:

With $60 investment and 40 hours of work I have made over $2200 till now, and blog is still making money. Moreover, I don't need to spend time on backlinks and other promotional stuff which takes time. The whole idea is to set few more niche blog like this, and create different sources for online income. An eBook explaining step by step guide will be on sale from next month, for now this micro-niche blueprint is good enough for any experienced blogger to start a money making site with few hours of work.

Cholil If you have any question regarding this Blueprint, feel free to ask me by replying.

Have a great time & see you in next email.

Sourse by Harsh