How to Make Money Selling Your Photos Online.

If you have a knack for photography, you can turn your passion into profits. There are many businesses, organization, and resources online who want to buy quality photos. Let’s take a look at how you can make money selling your photos online.
Research Your Niche
Most photographers have a niche. There is a specific type of subject or photograph you like to take. For example, Ansell Adams was a nature photographer. He took many popular photographs of America’s National Parks, including several notable ones at Yosemite. Other photographers specialize in portraits, cars, animals…the list goes on and on.
If you have a specialty, spend some time researching people, organizations, websites, businesses and publications that may need your specialty photos. For example, travel websites and publications are often looking for travel photographs.
Sell to Stock Photo Sites or Create Your Own
Stock photo sites are always an easy way to make money. You simply create a profile, upload your photo and you get paid every time someone downloads your photo. Some stock photo sites pay more than others. Do your research so you know what to expect.
You can also create your own stock photo site that caters to your niche. Generally when you sell photos on a stock photo website you sell limited rights to publish the image. This means that the customer can buy the photo at a reduced rate. However, you can also sell the photo an unlimited number of times. It’s not unheard of for a stock photo to have been purchased several thousand times.
Market to Website Designers and Graphic Designers
Partnerships or relationships with designers in your niche can be a great way to make extra money. For example, a website designer that caters to the health and wellness industry may be in regular need for photos and images for their client’s websites. Likewise a graphic designer tends to work with stock images when creating headers and simple graphics. Your photographs can help them develop original designs.
Create an Etsy Storefront
Etsy.com is a website that enables artists and vintage retailers to sell their wares. You’ll find many handmade items on the website. You’ll also find artwork. You can create a storefront at Etsy and sell your photos through the store.
Wallpapers
You can also sell your photographs as wallpapers for people’s computer monitors, mobile devices and tablets. Everyone wants to customize their electronics and your original photos may be exactly what they’re looking for.
There are many ways to sell your photos online. Begin by defining your niche and looking for opportunities within that niche. Don’t forget to market your photographs. A great way to do this is to participate in social networking and photo sharing websites. To your success!

Improving Your AdSense Earnings.

If you’re making a bit of money from AdSense but know you could be getting even higher CPMs, then read this article carefully. You’re about to learn a handful of powerful, proven tips and tactics for improving your AdSense CPMs.
Try Saying Sponsored Links
AdSense doesn’t allow you to tell users to click on advertising or to disguise advertising as non-advertising. However, AdSense does specifically allow you to place the text “Advertising” or “Sponsored Links” above an AdSense box.
As counter-intuitive as it may seem, a normal-sized sentence, bolded that says “Our Sponsors:” can often increase conversions. Test it out in your market.
Match or Contrast
There are two ways main ways to get high conversions in AdSense.
The first and most common is to make your AdSense format match as closely to your website as possible. The text color, font, font size, link color and AdSense borders should all match the layout of your site.
When you do this, it’s much more likely that someone will think the ads are part of your site or endorsed by your site and click on a link.
On the other hand, one less used but also successful tactic is to do just the opposite. Use contrasting colors or designs to deliberately make the ads stand out. Design the ad boxes in such a way that they literally pop out of the screen, drawing attention and possibly clicks.
Experiment with both methods to see how they work for you.
Always Split Test
Learn to use channels. Channels are at first a bit confusing, but once you get the hang of them they’re actually extremely powerful tracking tools. When combined with Google Website Optimizer, you can test a wide range of variables at the same time to figure out the best way to make the most money from your traffic.
Test everything you can think of. Colors, placements, ad sizes, number of ad units – everything. You never know what’ll work until you try.
Placement Tips
In general, you’ll get a higher click-through rate by having your ads above the fold than below the fold. A classical location is the large square ad in the upper left corner of a post.
Navigation bar ads are also another popular and successful option. Be sure to customize the settings so the navigation bar units look as similar to your actual navigation as possible.
Finally, placement near images or other eye-catching elements on your website tends to work very well. Make sure not to misrepresent the ad as being related to the image, or you’ll violate the terms of service.
These are a handful of proven strategies, distilled from the experience of many marketers. You’ll rarely have a very high CPM when you’re just getting started. Over time however, with consistent testing, you’ll find your CPMs rising higher and higher.