Google Adsense

How to Boost Your Revenue

• If you're starting afresh designing a blog specifically for AdSense revenue, you'll want a simple design that makes it easy to paste Google's code into a horizontal or vertical space on the blog. For experienced webmasters, that's easy.
• To increase your click-throughs, design a simple, uncluttered page with the AdSense ads displayed prominently.
• Use white space, so that the AdSense panel catches the eye.
• Stick to only one topic per page – that should make it easier for Google to serve up highly relevant ads on your pages.
• Plain, bland pages with few competing hyperlinks should result in higher click-through rates on the AdSense ads.
• If you want to target certain high-priced keywords, use them in the file name, in the heading on the page, and in the first paragraph – in other words, use search engine optimization techniques.
• If you change those keywords, Google will change the ads that appear on your page.
• Watch out for cases where Google has guessed wrong, and is displaying ads that won't interest your visitors. Figure out which words are involved, and rewrite those words. Help Google by sticking closely to the topic.
• Don't worry about losing traffic via those clicks. If you can earn maybe 30 or 50 cents or more per click, you WANT to lose visitors!
• You'll also want keyword-rich pages, optimized to rank highly in search engines, so you can serve lots of pages.
• Where possible, use skyscraper ads, high on the page. They catch visitors' attention more than horizontal banner ads.
• One of the beautiful things about AdSense is that you can now generate revenue from informational blogs even if there are no obvious related affiliate programs. With 100,000 advertisers, there's a good chance that Google will find ads that match your pages, better than the big ad networks can.
• Build useful, interesting blogs. Google likes them.

GOOGLE ADSENSE

INFORMATION, HINTS, TIPS AND EXAMPLES Google's AdSense is a fascinating revenue-sharing opportunity for small, medium and large web blogs. AdSense allows you to serve text-based Google AdWords on your web blog and receive a share of the pay-per-click payment. AdSense ads are similar to the AdWords ads you see on the right-hand side at Google when you do a search there. GOOGLE picks up ADS with its ADSENSE technology to suit your webblog page content. Google uses their search engine ranking technology to decide what ads to show on your blog, and on specific pages on your blog. For instance on a webmaster blog an article about Flash might show ads for Macromedia products and an article about web hosting might show ads from different web hosting companies. This type of targeting is very effective and results in good click-through rates in most circumstances. AdSense is having a huge impact on the affiliate marketing industry. Weak affiliate merchants will die faster than ever and big ad networks are going to lose customers fast. If you're a merchant running a lousy affiliate program, now's the time to improve it FAST If you own a small web blog you can now plug a bit of code into your blog and almost instantly relevant text ads that are likely to appeal to your visitors will appear on your pages. If you own several blogs, you need apply only once. This makes AdSense much simpler than joining a bunch of affiliate programs.

Here's the background info: AdSense's advantages

• AdSense is simple to join.
• It's easy to paste a bit of code into your pages.
• It's free to join.
• You don't have to spend time finding advertisers.
• Google provides well written, highly relevant ads – chosen to closely match the content on your pages.
• You don't have to waste time choosing different ads for different pages.
• You don't have to mess around with different code for various affiliate programs.
• You're free to concentrate on providing good content and Google does the work of finding the best ads for your pages from 100,000 AdWords advertisers.
• It's suitable for beginners or marketing veterans.
• AdSense provides simple, easy-to-understand stats.
• If you have affiliate links on your blog, you ARE allowed to add AdSense ads. However, with your affiliate links, you must not mimic the look and feel of the Google ads.
• You can filter up to 200 URLs, so you can block ads for blogs that don't meet your standards. You can also block strong competitors.

So, please sign up and start earning...to making money with your blogs.

MAKING MONEY WITH BLOGS - 7 STEPS OF GIGA ADSENSE EARNERS

Everything you want to know about making money with blogs. Making money with blogs is not a dream. So many people from around the world has been success to make money online. They have systems in place that create blogs for them... people who build blogs for them... they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords.

While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do... many of them you can.

There are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success, one of them is Utilize the latest tools and software available.

How, and what the else steps? Read more on GoArticles about 7 steps of Giga Adsense Earners.

What is A Blog?

A Definition About What is Blog So what is a Blog anyway? This is a question I am asked every week via emails, conversation and Instant Messaging chats. If you’re reading this you may well be asking the same question. There are a number of ways I could answer this question ranging from the broad to the highly technical. Before I share my answer to the ‘what is a blog’ question - here are a few definitions from other much wiser people to get us started. More with Darren Rowse

Make Money from Blogs

How do bloggers make money from blogs? I’ve been reflecting this week about the amazing diversity of opportunities that are opening up for bloggers to make money from blogging. I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket. The wonderful thing is that this is becoming easier and easier to do 2005 has seen many options opening up. I thought I’d take a look at some of the methods that bloggers are currently using to make money through blogs. Read More on Darren Rowse at Problogger

Blogging Zoom - A New Traffic Source

A new Social Network Site - Blogging Zoom

Courtney Tuttle and Vic Franqui have developed a new and hopefully successful social networking site called Blogging Zoom.

Styled along the lines of Digg et al, it has one unique difference. This site does not penalize bloggers who post their own content. The site in fact encourages bloggers to post all your articles on it. What it does and how it works is described in great detail at Court's blog and I would encourage you to give it a read. I just signed up this morning (it's free) and I have received traffic already so it definitely has potential.

More on Grizz's blog

Niche Marketing

How to Find Profitable Niches In my last post I gave you a number of links to check out in order to show you how niche markets can be set up as well as the types of topics you can use. In truth you can find a niche for just about everything but finding a niche that can make money is the hard part. I approach niche marketing in reverse - I look for something that I can sell and then create the niche around it. I have four primary revenue streams online. Adsense, Affiliate Sales, Advertising and Lead Generation. Before I decide on a niche I make sure that there is at least one revenue stream that will work with the niche. Preferably two. In most cases a site set up for Adsense will also work well with affiliate sales. Advertising and capturing leads also work fairly well together. As a rule I don't usually have more than two revenue streams on a site as it tends to disperse traffic rather than channel it. More and More on Grizz's blog

Traffic for Your Blogs

How Misleading are Alexa's Rankings? Alexa's traffic stats are all the rage especially among the social network crowd or perhaps I should say only with the social crowd. As a niche marketer I have known for a long time that Alexa stats are not worth looking at as they can only tell you how many Alexa toolbar users dropped in - not how many actual visitors you received. The vast majority of people online do not use the Alexa toolbar and hence don't get counted. I have one niche site that gets over a thousand unique visits a day and it ranks over 2 million on Alexa. It is not a Internet Marketing related site or a tech site. IM'ers and techies tend to be the biggest users of the toolbar and social networkng sites. If you don't draw them to your site you will not have a very good Alexa ranking in spite of having a lot of search engine traffic. More on Grizzly's blog

Lets Making Money Right Now

How Adsense Give You A Lot of Money Since introducing Blogger Unleashed to my readers I have been inundated with several emails regarding Vic's methods and what my view is about them and why I do things differently. The email below best sums up most of the questions asked; (about making money, adsense, etc) Read More on Grizzly's blog

Search Engine Optimization Basic

How to Optimize your Blog for Google Search Listings Optimize your blog for making money. Search engine optimization begins by realizing that you don't want to optimize for the search engines (plural) - you really only want to optimize your blog for Google. I have gleaned from my comments and emails that a few of you are feeling a bit overwhelmed by information overload. You just started a blog for the fun of it and in due course you started learning a bit about this and a bit about that and before you knew it you have opened Pandora's box. You all want to make money with your blog. You have found out that it isn't that easy. What's the biggest single hurdle everyone blogging faces? How to Get Traffic. Sure this is obvious but worth emphasizing - without traffic your blog is pointless and has no hope of making money. Read More on Grizzly's blog

Google VS The Blackhatters

A pre-amble to Making Money with Adsense There is no doubt that Google has created a dominant search engine and the brains behind the funny name deserve credit. But it could be said that the blackhatters deserve a lot of credit as well. Without the blackhatters Google would never have developed into the engine that it has become. Relevance is everything when it comes to search engines. When someone asks a question your results had better be relevant or no one will use your service. Next - you have to be able to provide the relevant information in order of "most" relevant to "least" relevant. Users will leave never to return if you keep giving them articles that mention their keyword in passing. Users want exact information and search engines have to provide it. Google is the best at doing this, hands down. Google's strength and it's weakness is the pagerank system. By counting links pointing to a site, assessing the relevancy of the links and then the authority of the links Google is able to decide which site is the most relevant for any given keyword. In practice this system is fairly reliable when dealing with small/medium sites in niches with low to no advertising. There is little incentive to game the system in these niches. The accuracy of pagerank begins to breakdown as you get into niches that have a lot of advertising dollars to go around. If a person can make money... Read More on Grizzly'z blog

What is a Blog?

What is a Blog? By. Darren Rowse So what is a Blog anyway? It’s a good question to ask at the beginning of a Blogging for Beginners Series as it is a question I am asked every week. Here are a few definitions from other much wiser people on the ‘what is a blog?’ question to get us started (and once you’ve seen what they have to say on the topic I’ll share my own thoughts): "A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser." "A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links." "From “Web log.” A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger." "A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know. There are many guides to choose from, each develops an audience, and there’s also comraderie and politics between the people who run weblogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc." "A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly." "A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences." Confused yet? Don’t be - its really quite simple. To put it as simply as possible - a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. Have a look at the main page of my blog at here for an example. for a different example you might like to look at this one (another of mine). Ok - now you are a seasoned blog reader - you’ve seen two already at least. Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world. Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. Lets examine a couple briefly. Archives - You might look at the front page of a blog and think that there is not much to them. A few recent entries, some links to other sites and not much else. However its worth knowing that there is a lot more going on under the surface that might initially meet the eye. For example in addition to the main page of this blog - at the time of writing this post there are over 520 other pages or posts below the surface that I’ve written over the past few months. When I write a post like this one it goes to the top of the front page. As it gets older and as I add more current posts it begins its journey down the page until it disappears from it. This is not the end of its life however, because it goes into the ‘Archives’ of my blog. It sounds like a dusty dark place but its really just like a filing cabinet that is easily accessible in a couple of ways. You can read my ‘archives’ simply by looking on the ’sidebar’ (over on the left of this blog) at the ‘archives’ or ‘categories’ section. There you will see links to all my old posts which you can access either by category. You’ll see a category for ‘Advertising’ - click that link and you’ll see all my old posts on the topic of Advertising with the most recent at the top and the oldest at the bottom. Comments - Not all blogs use comments - but most do. This blog is not a monologue but a conversation. You can give me feedback on almost everything I write simply by clicking the ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each one of my posts. This will take you to a little form where you leave your name, email and a link to your own blog if you have one as well as your feedback, comment, critique, question, essay on why you love my blog, promise of money…. etc). Try it now. Scroll to the bottom of this page, click ‘comments’ and fill in the blanks with a little introduction to yourself. A great way to learn about blogs is to read a few. Leave some comments, ask questions and bookmark your favourites. An even better way to learn about blogs is to start your own. Ok - you might be laughing at me now - you think you are not web savy enough to have your own site? You wouldn’t know where to start? You don’t know how? My Secret Let me share a secret with you - three years ago I knew nothing about blogs, I had never used the internet for anything more than email, surfing and chatting to friends and I could only barely do any of that! But one day I discovered a blog and after surfing from one to another (blogs tend to link up to other blogs a lot) for a few hours I was hooked and wanted to start my own. I found that there are free blog services that almost anyone could set up in a matter of minutes. Really it is that simple. Literally millions of people blog from around the world. Its not just something for young people, or geeks, or cool folk, or Westerners, or even for people with their own computers - instead its something virtually anyone with access to a computer and the internet once or twice a week can start up.

Making Money with Blog, Blog for Money

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