With a major part of the business being conducted online these days, online advertising has also gained momentum. Google’s premium pay-per-click advertising program Google AdWords is really popular among advertisers to place advertisements in Google’s within network sites. These advertisements may be in the form of banner, text, image, video and rich media ads. Websites and blogs who look to generate revenue can place ads through Google AdWords if they are enrolled to the Google AdSense program. An ad serving application of Google, by enabling image, video and text advertisements on their website, website owners can earn revenue on per-click or per-impression basis through Google AdSense. A really popular mode of earning revenue and presently also the market leader; but contrary to the notions, there are several Google AdWords alternatives for business, which can let business owners, monetize their blog or website far more easily.Pay per click advertising
Pay-per-click ads are the best way to monetize a blog or website. Working as a publisher of ads with advertising networks and getting paid for each click on the ads placed on your website from the advertising network, pay-per-click ad programs like Google AdWords are a good source of revenue. But there are also several other PPC advertising networks and Google AdWords alternatives for business like Adbrite, Yahoo Publisher Network and Bidvertiser, which give you equally high returns.Affiliate networks
A rapidly growing avenue, through affiliate networks you can earn a lot of money by promoting products of other business houses. Every day with more and more businesses going online, the competition for attracting traffic has also increased manifold. Having a website or a blog built around a particular genre of products, good money can be made working as an affiliate. Joining affiliate networks and finding products related to your site, you can use your blog or website to put up affiliate links. By writing articles on the products of your affiliate site you can attract the visitors. And by clicking on the links, when they land up on the affiliate sites, the visitor’s activities are tracked. If the visit ends in a purchase, you receive a commission. Some of the popular websites that act as Google AdWords alternatives for business would be LinkShare, Clickbank, CJ and Amazon.Cost per action
Similar to a pay-per-click advertising, here too ads have to be placed on a website or a blog. But unlike in PPC ads, where you earn revenue when a visitor simply clicks on the ads, here the revenue is earned when the visitor actually performs the intended action, i.e. when a successful transaction takes place.In-Text Link Advertising
Websites and blogs with thousand unique visitors per day are far more suited for this kind of advertising. Two popular in-text link advertising networks would be Infolinks and Kontera.Hence, for those looking for some innovative avenues to monetize their blogs and websites, there are several Google AdWords alternatives for business owners to earn revenue from.
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Shoe Repairs And Several Other Things When I Was 7
Shoe Repairs And Several Other Things When I Was 7
My Dad repaired most of our shoes believe it or not, I can hardly believe it myself now. With 7 pairs of shoes always needing repairs I think he was quite clever to learn how to “Keep us in shoe Leather” to coin a phrase!
He bought several different sizes of cast iron cobbler’s “lasts”. Last, the old English “Laest” meaning footprint. Lasts were holding devices shaped like a human foot. I have no idea where he would have bought the shoe leather. Only that it was a beautiful creamy, shiny colour and the smell was lovely.
But I do remember our shoes turned upside down on and fitted into these lasts, my Dad cutting the leather around the shape of the shoe, and then hammering nails, into the leather shape. Sometimes we’d feel one or 2 of those nails poking through the insides of our shoes, but our dad always fixed it.
Hiking and Swimming Galas
Dad was a very outdoorsy type, unlike my mother, who was probably too busy indoors. She also enjoyed the peace and quiet when he took us off for the day!
Anyway, he often took us hiking in the mountains where we’d have a picnic of sandwiches and flasks of tea. And more often than not we went by steam train.
We loved poking our heads out of the window until our eyes hurt like mad from a blast of soot blowing back from the engine. But sore, bloodshot eyes never dampened our enthusiasm.
Dad was an avid swimmer and water polo player, and he used to take us to swimming galas, as they were called back then. He often took part in these galas. And again we always travelled by steam train.
Rowing Over To Ireland’s Eye
That’s what we did back then, we had to go by rowboat, the only way to get to Ireland’s eye, which is 15 minutes from mainland Howth. From there we could see Malahide, Lambay Island and Howth Head of course. These days you can take a Round Trip Cruise on a small cruise ship!
But we thoroughly enjoyed rowing and once there we couldn’t wait to climb the rocks, and have a swim. We picnicked and watched the friendly seals doing their thing and showing off.
Not to mention all kinds of birdlife including the Puffin.The Martello Tower was also interesting but a bit dangerous to attempt entering. I’m getting lost in the past as I write, and have to drag myself back to the present.
Fun Outings with The camera Club
Dad was also a very keen amateur photographer, and was a member of a camera Club. There were many Sunday photography outings and along with us came other kids of the members of the club.
And we always had great fun while the adults busied themselves taking photos of everything and anything, it seemed to us. Dad was so serious about his photography that he set up a dark room where he developed and printed his photographs.
All black and white at the time. He and his camera club entered many of their favourites in exhibitions throughout Europe. I’m quite proud to say that many cups and medals were won by Dad. They have been shared amongst all his grandchildren which I find quite special.
He liked taking portraits of us kids too, mostly when we were in a state of untidiness, usually during play. Dad always preferred the natural look of messy hair and clothes in the photos of his children.