I’ve got to say - for years, having my own online shop was something I always wanted to do, but I’ve not really liked most of the ones on offer until I just recently managed to get my hands on a fab little shop that takes just five minutes to set up!

I built my store by choosing a few products I liked from a catalogue of over three million items, and each time somebody buys something from “me”, I get paid a commission! This is just brilliant as it means I can create a shop from the biggest range of products probably in the world and present them all as “mine”.

This is all thanks to a fantastic service a friend put me onto, called Zlio - there’s no technical knowledge required, which is great, and you don’t even need to physically handle or store any of the products yourself (they’re all shipped directly from the merchant to your customer). Why don’t you have a go?

I think this is just what thousands of you have been waiting for … Zlio brings the quality and power of all the big merchants (Amazon, Gap, Best Buy, etc) to you and all you have to do is sign up (which is free) and then you’ve instantly opened your own free web store selling quality branded goods from those top retailers. Your own mix n match of products.

Benefits to You:

• It’s completely free
• You choose and mix n match products from all these top brand names to create a store of your own
• You pay nothing, you don’t hold any stocks
• You earn commissions on sales you make
• No customers to speak to.
• Just 100% pure profit in your pocket!

The beauty of Zlio is that across all these well-known stores, you can pick, say, from all their jackets to provide a store of your own that just sells jackets; or what about a store that brings together all the great handbags; collect just cool gadgets together in your own store - out of 3,000,000 products there’s a set of products you can sell that’s something you’re really interested in … it’s entirely up to you!

Simply search and pick products and tick to add them into your store. It couldn’t be any easier.

Join Zlio now

You don’t have to know anything technical whatsoever, there’s no installation or hard setup. Just signup, give your store a name and pick your products. Then just tell people about it, get the word out.

Use Google Adsense

You can make extra money with your Zlio store by having Google Adsense adverts on it too, if you wish.

Evaluation: Probably the best, easiest, most flexible and professional free store I’ve seen to date. Get yours now!

It’s also a 4-tier system, so you can get paid for introducing others up to 4 levels deep.

More:

• You choose your currency from US$, GB£ and Euros.
• You pick how your store looks.
• Create up to 99 different stores, all with their own identity, products and market appeal.
• Pick N Mix your store from all the products at these shops and more:  Argos | Dabs | Avon | Bonprix | Dell | Esprit | Hamleys  | Hewlett-Packard | HMV | Hotel Chocolat | JD Sports | Jessops | Laura Ashley | Nike | Pixmania | Tesco | Viking Direct | Waterstones | and more more more
• Choose your categories by merchant, or by type.
• Your store could focus on any of these top categories Music | DVD/VHS | Kids & Family | Computeres & Software | Sporting Goods | Health & Beauty | Pets | Clothing | Electronics | Books | Mobile Phones | Household Items, or just create your own Bazaar and mix/match products to match lifestyles and hobbies!

The only limit is your imagination!

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Maybe you’ve seen the phrase Adsense Revenue Share website, maybe it’s new to you. At first I wasn’t overly keen on the idea and couldn’t really seeing it being of any benefit to me, so I didn’t explore it - and I am now regretting that.

I’ve joined a few and not done anything with them, but there was one Adsense Revenue Share website that I joined about three years ago and posted a few articles, well, they were a few random pieces of advice/information and my favourite recipes. Then I kind of wandered off to do things like build this blog and tidy up my main website … as well as randomly building a few more sites and … well, you’ve probably been there. A LOT of work, little reward. I was working 15-16 hours a day trying to crack the secret, except all I was really doing was sucking up days/weeks of time with themes, plugins, investigating/researching, never having time to actually get to the bit where I promoted.

Well, meanwhile, something incredible was happening with my few random recipes … the money started rolling in. OK, it wasn’t a lot, these were a few basic recipes and a few bits of information about this and that … but it was right there, in my Adsense account. Then one day I had a spare 10 minutes and just wondered what it added up to - and I was shocked! Just ONE of those things that I wrote, that had taken me well under an hour to put together, had earnt me a cool £45 … and I hadn’t even noticed.

So I went back and had a dig around. Adsense Revenue Share … works if the site has a lot of traffic. I’d not had to do anything, just one hour all those years ago, and a result!

So, I’ve been testing it out. Just four weeks ago I logged on and started digging around. I wrote some more stuff - all stuff I knew, or I was interested in. I did some research, compiled some lists of information, read the forums … and after only four weeks I’d already made a respectable amount (not allowed to say due to Adsense TOS) .. and it was a decent amount of residual income, that I KNOW will grow as the articles I wrote “age”. There are definitely benefits to be had from the age of the article, so I figured I just have to be patient.

Now, I have a plan. And this is the plan: I will write my stuff, I have 100 articles there now, I will then sit on it for a month, looking at the stats, what is getting clicks, how much is that worth? Then I can see what’s making me money and not. If it’s not I can give it a quick rewrite, if it is, then I can give it a quick promotion on some free classified sites.

So, I’ve decided to get out my list of Adsense Revenue Sharing websites and compile it all in one big list. It’ll take me a few days to sort out and go through it all again, but then I’ll list it here. In the meantime, the site I’ve been earning this good, easy money - that will provide me with a residual income - is

Hubpages Adsense Revenue Share

What you get with Hubpages is a 60% revenue share of Adsense adverts shown on the pages you create. You create one page at a time, it can be about anything - and you don’t even have to stick to one subject, in fact the reason I created my first few Hubs was that I was just using it to dump down some random and unrelated bits and pieces that interested me.

You also get some Amazon and eBay modules to drop into your writing, so there are further chances to earn money from these. On top of that you can use your Kontera ID (I don’t tend to do this as I’ve not had a good return from it, but that might be because my traffic needs to be more).

In its simplest form, simply sign up, put your Adsense ID into the box in your Settings page and away you go…. just write about things. Beyond that there are a lot of layout options you can use, eBay and Amazon modules, you can add pictures and rss feeds.

The community is lively and helpful and just about all the help you could possibly need is already written.  There are some great motivators too, I joined the “30 hubs in 30 days challenge” to keep myself focussed on reaching 100 published hubs, I’m now on my second one of those as they give me a real buzz  when I’ve published another, it’s addictive and fun!

ADD AFFILIATE LINKS: if you mark your Hub as promotional, you can even put a maximum of two links in your hub, which go to your own website, or even an affiliate product. Yes, that’s right, you can use this to promote affiliate products, within the guidelines of no more than two links per hub. Another thing you can’t do is create hub after hub after hub all linking out to the same domain, but what you can do is create a group of articles, which all link into your main article that contains your affiliate links links.

DOFOLLOW: If you can keep your AuthorScore over 75 and your individual hub over a score of 50 (easily done), then your links are dofollow links! A great way to drive traffic to your product/website from a site with a good PR and good traffic.

GET AN ADSENSE ID: If you don’t have an Adsense ID already, then join up, write a few articles, then apply to Adsense and get your ID based on the writings you’ve made on Hubpages. Just ensure those first few are good generic articles and not overly promotional.

Overall: Hubpages is highly recommended.

Join Hubpages Adsense Revenue Share Site Now
It could be your smartest move this year!

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I’ve always believed the money’s in the list, until this morning. The elusive list was the mantra that Internet gurus spoke morning, noon and night. “The money’s in the list” they’d repeat… and people just like you and me would sit in awe at their 500,000 list of opt-in members and could only dream that one day we’d get there…

Many of us worked on the list, didn’t we. Many of us have a list.

But something changed this morning … and it’s brought something home to me.

I’ve always loved data, loved crunching those numbers - even when the number crunching was straightforward and simple, the fact is that data is information … data is information if it is the right data and the data is information and the data is in MY (or your) hands!

But where to get that data? What data?

It’s well been known that selling on eBay, for example, is the top selling organisation in the world. If you can get a product onto eBay and do well with it, then all you have to do is keep advertising and shipping your product.

So, the money’s in the data: but what data?

If I could give you a list of the top eBay sellers and how much they made in the past 12 months that would be information wouldn’t it. It’s data, but more importantly it’s information.

Armand Morin, a top Internet guru, has a mantra he repeats that stays with me “Success Leaves Traces”. This simple three-word phrase simply means that if you can find somebody who is successful, then you can look at what they are doing and how they are doing it - and simply copy it.

Get a Clear Instruction of: “Do This”

If I could give you a list of the top eBay sellers and how much they earned in the past 12 months, you could quite simply and easily visit their eBay shops and see for yourself: what are they selling? how are they selling it? what colours are they using? what words? what promises or guarantees do they make? what prices are they using? Then you could ask yourself ‘do I want to sell that?’ … and the minute the answer is “yes” you will know what you have to do.

Then, simply spend a few days tracking down good suppliers of those items at keen prices, use the tricks you copy from their listings and start to sell something that you are interested in that you KNOW is a good seller!

It’s the closest thing to being given a piece of paper and told “Do this” that you’ll ever get.

Great, so where can you get that list from? Well, I discovered it by accident this morning - and so have you now because you’re here. Get eBay Research Now

Cut Through the BS, Get the Facts

It cuts out all the guff.  As I see it, you simply have to run the research reports to find out who the top sellers are, check out their websites and go through until you find something you’re interested in.  After all, there’s no point trying to copy and match the top eBay seller if their selling baby clothes and you’re interested in football, but maybe 12th down on the list you’ll find somebody making $100,000/year selling something you DO love!

And the beauty of this is that you could just use this information to pick h ot selling niches to create your own website or online shop, if it’s selling well on eBay then it could be ported to your own business!

Get eBay Research Now and just find your niche for yourself today.

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If you’re new to using Google Adsense on your website, you might have rushed in without really reading the terms and conditions. In your enthusiasm you might have not even realised there are rules to follow - and tips that can make you more money.

If you’re an established Google Adsense publisher, you might have simply installed the ads on your blog or website and left them to it, intending to pop back and check the rules, but never getting round to it.

Here’s a simple list of the 20 biggest mistakes made by Google Adsense publishers, it’s worth a quick read to make sure you’re not breaking the rules, or missing a trick!

1. Never, ever, ever click on your own Google Adsense ads; also, never ask your website visitors or friends to click them for you - Google CAN tell - and they will ban your site. Once you’re banned that’s it, a lifetime ban - and a waste because Google Adsense will probably turn out to be the easiest way you can ever find to earn money from your blog or website. Make no mistake, you cannot be more clever than Google, no matter what complicated ways you could invent to click your ads, you WILL be found out. If you want to find out which ads appear on your pages, use the Google Preview tool.
2. Never change the code that Adsense gives to you. Simply copy and paste it - they provide you with the ability to change colours/fonts etc, when you’re building the ads, so stick to that and then copy/paste only. 
3. Never place more than three ad units and one ad links panel, or two Adsense search boxes on any single web page.  If you do this by accident, then adverts will not display, but you’ll be flagged up in the Google HQ and they’ll be watching to see if you did it deliberately. 
4. Google Adsense is a contextual ad system, you are not allowed to run other competitive contextual text ads or search services on the same site as your Google Ads.  The largest competitor is Yahoo! ads.   You should also never attempt to create link structures that look like your Google Adsense ads. There are plenty of other systems and links you can use, just double-check what you mix on the page with Google Adsense ads.
5. Google don’t allow you to disclose information about your account such as the CTR, CPM or how much you’re earning - although they have slackened off on this restriction in recent years, it’s best to just not share the information. They will now allow you to let people know the total money, but that’s all.
6. Only use the headings of Sponsored Links or Advertisements with your Adsense ads. They do not allow other (misleading) labels to be used.  You might see other sites using different words, that doesn’t make it right, it just means they’ve not been caught yet.  Other people will report you if they see what you’re doing and then you’ll be banned.
7. Do not set up your Google ads so they launch a new page when they’re clicked on.  Adsense ads should open on the same page. If your target tag opens in a new window, then change it now because Google do not want new pages opening from clicked ads.
8. You only need one Google Adsense account. Use one account no matter how many websites you are running ads on.  Use the channels feature to monitor your individual sites.
9. Only place Google Adsense ads on your content pages. The advertisers are paying for their ads to display on content pages and it is your content that helps Google decide which ads to display.  Put simply, this means you shouldn’t run Google Adsense ads on pages such as error pages, login pages or site registration pages, nor on thank you or welcome pages, parked pages - and especially not pop ups!  For parked pages, Google actually has a solution just for those, so check it out
10. Do not attempt to hide any parts of the Google Adsense block, for example, don’t make the link the same colour as the background.  You should blend your ads to match your site, but that is a different thing to actually hiding the links or other parts.  Also don’t hide  google ads behind pictures, tables or other elements on your page, to “con” people into clicking on them. 
11. Never ever put your Google ads links into an email. Never.
12. Adsense do not allow ads to be placed on certain types of content pages, so make sure you don’t use your code where there are things of an adult nature, MP3s, videos, newsgroups, or image results. Never ever put Google Adsense ads onto pages or sites that are illegal or racist or contain hate messages.
13. Don’t try to alter the results after ad clicks or searches.  Make sure you’re not altering the site which the user goes to after clicking the ads. 
14. Don’t put any Google Adsense ads onto pages that contain excessive advertising, or that use any keyword stuffing techniques. 
15. Make sure that Google support the language that your site is written in.  If your web pages contain a language that is not supported, then do not use the Adsense ads on those pages.
16. Do not specify Google ads as your alternate ads - it won’t work.  Instead, if you want to use an alternate url then check out our pages on alternate urls: Alternate URLs 
17. Do not place images directly beside your Google ads in an attempt to trick your site visitors to click on the ads.  In the past, many people have written to say this is a great tip/trick, but don’t do it - that was something that was banned a number of years ago and you will be banned by Google if you do it.
18. Keep on top of Google Adsense’s changes.  They don’t often change what is and isn’t allowed, but you do need to check every few weeks just to see if they have changed the rules.  If you haven’t tried tried any tricks/tips then you’ll probably find that year in, year out, your site will still always meet their conditions … the changes are just to stop fraudsters in their tracks.  If you’re sure you’re squeaky clean then just check every three months, if you’re a little black hat, then you need to check weekly!

Using Google Adsense to make money with your website or blog is THE easiest way there is, but make sure you learn the rules and stick to them!  If you spot that anybody is breaking the rules, don’t just report them (unless you know they are doing it on 2000 sites), why not drop them a line first and give them a chance to clean up their site - after all, we’re all trying to do the same thing here and genuine mistakes can happen!

Good luck!

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