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A few days ago I signed up for a new affiliate marketing company MarketLeverage. I am quiet impressed by their service and offers till date. To start with, I would say that they are a lot different from any other company. I am in India and I got a call from these guys to confirm my registration. They asked me since when I am in this industry and how much do I make from affiliate marketing and PPC. This makes one feel good that you have been getting personal attention. I was also introduced to my Manager with his phone, email and chat details. The start itself seemed to be good.

Apart from the first welcome, you will get a large variety of offers to promote using MarketLeverage. Anyone can join their program unlike other programs where you have to be from the US. Like I said, I am in India and I am a member now at MarketLeverage. You have a good chance of warning 5% of whatever the person whom you refer to makes. You will be making this money till the program exists which means lifetime. Now this is some unique offer I have seen sometime now.

The biggest and the best feature of the program is the commissions. They have the highest commissions compared to any other program. For anyone who wants to make money online and is looking for a good Affiliate Network, I would definitely recommend MarketLeverage as they are the best in the industry now.

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Recently, I have been changing servers like mad. Lot of hosts promise a 99.9% server uptime but they really don’t do so. It is very difficult for anyone to know whether the site is up or not. Most of the times its a local ISP issue where the DNS fails to resolve the hostname. Lot of people have complained about my websites being down. On contacting the hosting providers, I get an answer saying the server is up and the next time I check it, its really up.

So how do we actually prove our point to the hosting providers and show them that the server was really down. No I am not talking about local ISP issues. Once you know that your server was down for sure, you need to supply some proof to your provider and ask for some discount and/or extra services free of cost. Some hosting providers will do it and many will ask for a proof. Once you have a proof, they are dead. They will have to compensate on the downtime.

While doing research on how do I prove my host on server downtime, I came across a service provided by ObservePoint.com which monitors my server every second. This service notifies me via email or phone whenever my server goes down. There are lot of additional features like monitoring each and every URL, monitoring redirects, improve ROI, improve performance etc.. They also provide reports and you don’t have to do anything. No need to install a software or script. Regardless of what your server supports they will monitor your website every second!!! The price is $100 per month which I feel is very cheap to ensure uptime of your 10 websites. This means you are paying just $10 per website. The best part is that you can easily get this reimbursed from our host if your website went down for some time. You now have a proof in form of reports provided by ObservePoint.

You may also try their service for free. All you have to do is visit this URL and enter your website address. I feel this is a must for every person who is into serious business of making money online with websites.

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Lot of webmasters and people who want to make money online get some idea about making money and quickly jump i to it. This generally is a bad practice and can end up giving you nothing but boredom. You normally get bored and move away from a website or blog of yours when its not making any kind of good money. The most important thing you need to do is ‘Research’. If you really wanna make some money, you have to be serious in your implementation plan. Research is the main key here.

I was recently reading an article on Jim Karter’s Blog where he talks about selecting a keyword for a website. Jim has definitely done a lot of research after which he has come to a conclusion where long tail keywords can be the key for your website’s success. I myself have been trying a bit in affiliate marketing and have been spending hours doing research on keywords, competition, Google’s search data etc. For a starter, a webmaster has to do lot of research in the niche, competition and his ability to share his own views in that niche to people’s interest. I cannot simply write a blog about loans just because someone said the keyword has high paying Google Ads.

Know your competitors:

Before jumping into something, do a lot of research on what competition due to have. If you are planning to start a website on iPhone, you need to search for terms related to iPhone on Google and check out the websites that rank high. You can check the quality and quantity of backlinks the website has. You need to then decide whether you can develop such backlinks. Will you able to spend as much as your competitor? If not, then try and look for some other niche where you have less competition, You obviously don’t want to land up in a ring of wrestlers who are experts and 5 times your weight.

Try and gather some revenue stats:

This is the most important but ignored part. Before starting a website in a nice, you need to check out the revenue generated by similar websites. This might not be a easy task but its not impossible as well. It is very much possible to find out what kind of income can be generated from a website with X amount of traffic. Some research on the revenue of websites in your niche can give you an idea as to how much you can make at the beginning and how much can the maximum profits go up to.

Know your visitors:

Knowing your visitors will definitely help you develop and advertise your website. You need to know your target audience in terms of their age, sex & geographic location. Your visitors will depend on the kind of content you have on your website. Having a website specific to a group and/or location helps a lot because you are not facing high competition. A website targeted to kids & teens can do well with PPC ads whereas a website targeted to people above 25 can do well with affiliate sales.

Apart from these major factors there are things like what hosting to go for, the physical location of the server, the domain name. Some older posts of mine will be of a help in case you are looking for a brief idea on choosing other aspects for a website.

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