One thing that people don't do often enough is promote their own ebay listing. I am guilty of it, as are most people. Only the true power sellers on ebay take full advantage of everything to help maximize the sale price of an item.

One thing that I have not done, but wish I did in the past was set up an ebay store and a separate website to go along with it. I reviewed a blog that was about ebay selling, and the author kept a section of all the items he listed and if/when it sold how much it sold for.

This seems like something silly to do, but it helped. The reason it helps is he was able to see what mistakes he made while selling similar items. Thus if he sold a game cube controller and listed it one way but wasn't able to get a good return on it, he would then look back and be able to try to figure out where he went wrong. It is a simple idea, and it works.

One of the harder ways to get traffic to your site is for someone to digg you. Digg is a social news delivery site where people submit content and then turn around and vote on it. If an article gets enough votes it gets to the front page where even more people will see it. It is a great idea, though there are people who scam the system.

So how does one get their site dugg as it is called? Well to be honest, I am not sure since I have never been dugg. It seems to take the right combination of a good well written post, someone else liking it a lot and submitting it, and then around 25 other people to like your site and digg it. Not every story that gets submitted actually gets to the front page, so if your site does get dugg, consider it an honor.

Based on the last article, it was pretty obvious the next one would be about selling text links. It isn't very hard to do. All you have to do is let people know you are selling space. Let people come to you. That is what a lot of sites do. So where to start? And how do you know who to take and well there are a bunch of questions so lets just get started on the different questions.

What's the best way to to let people know you have text links for sale?
Simple, set up an area where you will display the ads and put a "for sale" sign up basically.

Should I accept all offers?
If you are hard up for cash then yes, but if not, you can be picky. You don't want to just link to an adult site if you don't have to.

How much should I charge?
This is a tricky party. If you already have a bunch of text links you could try charging more. Or if you don't agree with a site you could charge more. The basic is look for similar sites and see what they charge. If you can't find a similar site that is willing to tell you how much, well then take a guess. You will have to start out lower, but as a general rule that I followed was once I gave someone a price, I stuck to that price for them. But on the same token, the next person in line would get charged a little more and told the same thing.

How should I handle payment?
I like to use paypal's subscription payments. They auto renew each month so you can expect to get paid without letting someone get extra days for free. Also you can set up all kinds of different plans to let someone "try it out" if you want or you can offer discounts for multiple months paid in advance.

Ever hear of the phrase You have to spend money to make money? Now how can that be possible with your blog? Remember those affiliate programs we talked about? The only way you are going to make any money off of those is if people visit your site. So lets take the following example.

You sign up to be an affiliate for a dog washing business. Your blog is all about dogs and products and that sort of thing. You even devoted an entire post about the dog washing site that you are an affiliate for. Only problem is that the words dog and washing are very common and you aren't ranking too high on Google. In fact you went through and found out that your site was the 473rd site that was listed in Google for that phrase.

Now you could take out an adwords campaign which we will discuss later, but for now you are more concerned with how you can get your site up from 473 to if you are lucky a top 30. Cause after all, 30 is a lot better and more likely someone will visit your site. So the trick is how does Google know your site is better than the previous 472 sites?

Well they have a massive algorithm. Many people have tried over the years to crack it, but to no avail. The only thing that we know for sure is that the content you provide on your site plays a role, as do people who link you, people who you link to, and people who link to the people you link to. Other things that might play a role are keyword density, if people click on your site for the search phrase, if the stars are aligned, etc...

So you can control a lot of the major factors: your content, who you link to, and who links you. Ok the last one is a bit of a stretch, but you can to some extent. Purchasing ad space on a related site will help you out immensely. Much more so than if you purchased advertising on a site devoted to Linux. It may take some time, so don't frustrated if it doesn't work over night, or even in a month. Building a website takes time, and patients, which is something we all need to work on.

Affiliate programs always look like a great way to add some extra income to your site. Simply place a link or an image on your site and when someone signs up with your referral you get money. For the most part - these are a good idea.

But there is a downside to them. You only make money off of them when someone signs up under you. All the other page views you get where no one signs up is free advertising for the program.

I think these programs are a good idea, but only when you are getting a lot of traffic. Most of your core visitors in the start up phase will not sign up for the affiliate program. Most might click on it, but probably will continue to come back to you for your product.

The other thing to remember is to get into an affiliate program that makes sense for your site. No reason to sign up for an affiliate program selling Florida citrus when your blog is about bowling. If your blog is about bowling, then find a program that lets you earn money from a bowling shop.

Google Adsense is probably one of the easiest ways that you can earn income on your website. Every time you do a search with google, there are ads to the right hand side of your search. Those are paid ads. Now google realized that people with similar sites might also want to earn some income. So they created the Google Adsense program.

It is one of the simplest things to do to earn income. All you have to do is sign up and then follow the instructions they give you. If you have multiple sites you can create channels to track which sites earn you the most money. You can even chose your own colors so that the ads blend in better with your site because lets face it, if I put ads that were hot pink and neon green on this site you wouldn't click on them. You might notice them more, but you definitely would not click on them.

So what are you waiting for? Go sign up and start earning some income today.


Update: Above is supposed to be a text link that says "Sign up for Adsense" but for some reason Google's own code is having problems with Blogger. They have been alerted to the issue, and will hopefully resolve this issue shortly. Until then, the generic url for google adsense is www.google.com/adsense - unfortunately if you sign up that way - I do not get a referral bonus.

Site Mojo started off as a way for sites to link other sites to help with promotion. Unfortunately the model wasn't a great one, and it eventually stopped working. People stopped wanting to do reciprocal links and just wanted to find one way links. From this, people started to figure out they could make money with their website.

Site Mojo is going to over time explain a lot of different ways to make money with a website and drive traffic to your website. Some of them will require little work, some will require a bit of work. But each idea presented can generate income. So let's start earning some money.