There are many ways to make money online by using your computer, such as building niche blog and make money with Adsense, selling products, affiliate program and etc. When it comes to affiliate program, there are a lot of affiliate program networks in the internet industry as well. All of them target different niche blogs, such as MMO niche blog, food blog, travel blog, hotel blog, product review blog, internet marketing blog, seo blog, etc. As you know, this is a Make Money Online niche blog, I could serve any affiliate program network that has the relevant niche, thus I can make more money from affiliate program.

Recently I found another affiliate program network that is targeting travel blogs as their partner, it’s Hotels Combined. In fact, Hotels Combined is a unique search engine that travelers can take the advantage of finding hotel availability and rates, it also compares prices and offers from multiple hotels. Besides of these, Hotels Combined has built the world’s leading hotel price comparison featuring over 200,000 hotels in 20,000 destinations across 195 countries. With that said, if you have a travel niche blog, you can take full advantage of their features and help your readers to get the best hotel deal.

Hotels Combined helps you to target potential customers from all around the world as their system is translated in 12 languages and 118 currencies. Hotels Combined Affiliate Program is definitely built for travel blog to make money online and benefit their readers. The commission rate for every lead is 70%, plus 12 month cookie ensures that you get paid for every lead from your repeat visitors. Addition, you also get paid 70% of the ad revenue everytime someone clicks an ad on their site.

Hotels Combined has a very good features which is the 24/7 statistics and professional technical and business support, for sure you can keep track your ad placement performance and optimize it to receive more leads. There are plenty of options for you to promote it in your blog, they have standard and advanced implementation methods including general and deep text links, static and animated banners, interactive search boxes, private branding (white label), XML data feeds, CSV data feeds and a XML search API. I personally like the interactive search boxes because it looks more friendly and I believe that people might prefer search with search boxes instead of clicking the banner ads.

Hotels Combined Affiliate Program Network pays via three methods which is international bank transfer, international cheque or Paypal. Thus you don’t have to worry about the payment issue. If you work well with this hotel affiliate program, be sure you’ll get paid on time every month.

My Thought

Make money online with affiliate program networks can be overwhelming, you might need to have some marketing strategies and you could make more money. I like Hotels Combined because of their statistics and the plenty of promotion methods. Again, Hotels Combined is working well for travel blogs, hotel review blogs and other niche blog that has relevant niche. If you have a travel blog, I do recommend you to sign up Hotels Combined Affiliate Program and make the maximum profit!

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Think about Bill Gates, Donald Trumph, Oprah Winfrey, Adidas, Nike, Levi’s and the list go on…What do you think? For sure the millionaire brands right? Like a product, we(human) also need brand to stand out form the crowd and show off. You need brand!

Brand will give unique perception to yourself because yourself is unique. If we look to successful person around us, they have their own brand.

In order to success in making money online you need to brand yourself as well as your blog if you want to make money blogging.

Take a look to these established blogger :

1. Problogger - When mention about problogger, everyone knows that his blog topic cover about blogging tips.
2. Carl Ocab - Everyone knows that this genius kidblogger know how to make money online since at 13 years old.
3. Shoemoney - With his tagline skill to pay bills tell us that he has large income stream.
4. John Chow - The miscellaneous rambling of a dot com mogul who make $40000 a month from a blog.
5. Retireat21 - He mention that he want to retire early because this young entrepreneur already has passive income online.

The list go on……

I give you guys one scenario…

In one company, A boss is finding someone to give promotion. Who will be boss choice?
A. Employee who has less self confident in communication, looks slow in his work, not dress up properly
B. Employee who work hard but not good in communication and always be shy when approaching a customer
C. Employee who looks smart, work hard, and have high confident in communication.

For sure the C worker. Employee C has show off his brand in a great way. While A and B show a weaker brand.
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Squeezing into Top 10 with the keyword of “Make Money Online” can be overwhelming, it’s not a week or a month job, it can takes you months or even years to achieve, it requires a lot of hard works and efforts. I’ve forgotten how long I’ve been optimizing for the keyword of make money online, it was a personal blog that shares about personal rant when it first launched, it turned to optimize the keyword of “Make Money Blog” and “Make Money Blogging” after a few months since it born. I was happy when I first got into Top 10 of Make Money Blogging, but it’s nothing for me right now. Ultimately, I decided to join the SEO war and compete with the most competitive keyword, make money online!

When I first optimized the keyword of make money online, I checked my blog ranking almost everyday, I just want to ensure that what I did was fine and healthy to my blog and its’ ranking. Eventually, I was squeezed into Top 10 in keyword of “Make Money Online”, it was standing in the Top 10 for almost a month, I believe that I could maintain and even improve it, Top 5 is my next goal. As you know, on-page optimization and off-page optimization are the most critical tasks you need to follow in order to win the SEO war. As it should be, I’d put a lot of efforts and worked hard on link building. I’ll be writing about what I’ve done to squeeze into the Top 10 in keyword of “Make Money Online” for this several months.

On-Page Optimization : 3 Common Strategies

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When it comes to on-page optimization, there is only a few things you can do to enhance your blog as on-page optimization doesn’t have a strong impact on the SERPS. Nevertheless, we still have to do it, we don’t pursue for 100%, at least we pursue for 99.9%. Here is a few little tips that I used to do for all my niche blogs :
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