What You Should Know About the Author
Greetings – I’m Charmaine Denise Baker, a freelance writer that has been writing online for over a decade. I write under the pen names: Charm Baker and also Denise Baker. I’m an Expert Affiliate Marketing writer at Expert123, but the bulk of my published articles can be found at the Associated Content writer’s website. There, I have written on practically every topic under the sun. At the end of this section, you’ll find links to my Expert123 profile, as well as to the list of 100 plus articles I’ve had published at Associated Content.
Recent Online Writing Success
Recently, within the last few months, I I’ve really begun to experience some money-making success! The paying markets that I write for keep me checking my PayPal account daily. I alternate between writing for Associated Content, Demand Studios and Constant Content. They all have particular features that make me keep going back to them, even though I sometimes tend to get irritated over small editorial issues. The bottom line is, I get paid upfront payments for assignments and for requested “ghost written” articles. You can read my complete Associated Content writer's profile here.
I’m extremely grateful for the three sites mentioned above. Because of them, I’m actually an honest woman whenever I say I’m a paid writer. For so long, I struggled trying to live up to that title. When I first became determined to get paid writing online, I concentrated on doing affiliate marketing, exclusively. While I actually learned a whole lot in the very beginning, I made absolutely NO money. When I did start making money early on, it was with Google Adsense. In case you don’t already know, here is:
Working With Google Adsense
Google Adsense allows writers and marketers to make money by earning from page impressions, as well as page clicks. This means, they receive a certain amount from "x" amount of page views, and a certain amount when visitors actually click on one of the ads found on the page. Maximum earning comes when a visitor makes a purchase after clicking one of the ads on your page or the "linked to page".
a) Ad Impressions - Get paid for "x" amount of "page views" (when Traffic visits your pages)
b) Ad Clicks - Get paid when someone actually "clicks" on the ads on your article page
c) Ad Sales - Get paid when someone "purchases" something as a result of your ads
Taking A New Approach To Affiliate Marketing
Pros and Cons of Google Adsense
Your primary objective may be to promote affiliate products and services through Clickbank, Click2Sell, Commission Junction or a company similar to those. Even though that is the case, many article writers and marketers who do this still try to get in on some of that Google Adsense money. Although it is not the same as the above programs, it really does qualify as a sort of affiliate marketing. Technically, however, it is called contextual advertising, because the ads are generated as a result of the context of the article content. For many marketers, this has proven to be a successful income source. But don’t think for a moment that this is always the case. According to Blog Profits Blueprint, this may not necessarily be the case.
Blog Profits Blueprint was written by Yaro Starak, a successful internet blogger who currently averages between $10,000 and $20,000 s MONTH with his blogs and online activities. Under the subheading: The Trouble With Google Adsense, he writes this about Adsense and blogging: “The problem with AdSense is it doesn’t work for all blogs (it’s an awful performer on my blog – a few dollars a day at best) and despite how well it’s contextual matching is, you still don’t control exactly what is displayed on your blog.”
Obviously, if you are only using article writing websites or your own website to run Google Adsense, this may not affect you. You should, however, keep in mind that Google can be very stringent in their many rules and requirements. Some writers and marketers even find them to be very temperamental, myself included! (I had a run in with Google and had my account suspended for “questionable activity”. You REALLY have to watch the different traffic services and programs you buy out there!) The point is, you don’t want the whole of your marketing and online activities to be based on Google profits. For that matter, you shouldn’t be reliant on any ONE method for online marketing success.
Affiliate Marketing Involves Many Things
Affiliate marketing actually involves many things. There are a number of different online activities that are commonly referred to as affiliate marketing. When you promote companies like Google Adsense, Ebay, Amazon and others, those are actually affiliates. Programs are set up and differently and often vary in how they pay you. For all intentional purposes, when we refer to affiliate marketing, we’re generally talking about products found in the Clickbank or Commission Junction marketplaces. It is still important to know that affiliates come in all shapes and sizes, so as not to limit yourself.
