Monday, February 27, 2012

5 Google AdSense Tips For Beginners

Tips:

1). Write interesting content and write every day.

2). Have more than one site. The more sites you have, the more ads have the potential to get clicked.

3). Set up channels and monitor your statistics across all sites. If one site is performing poorly, consider changing the content or the ad layout. Experiment!

4). If you're blogging, writingup.com has a list of profitable topics. They state that you don't have to write on those topics but you might give it a try or at least plug some of them in to the search engines.

5). Google different key words and phrases and notice how much and what kinds of content and ads you see.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Alternatives To Google Adwords

Whatever may be the reason, I am listing here the best adsense alternatives that pay high (based on my personal experience and a few inputs from other publishers).
  1. Clicksor: It’s one of the most popular advertisement networks and a good alternative to Google Adsense which is available for free on the internet. They allow you to earn through different ad-formatslike In-line Text Ads, Contextual Ads (banner and text) and more. You can earn up to 60% of the revenue share, depending on the performance the advertisers attain from your website placements and clicks. These ads seems annoying (pop-ups) to users but the earnings we gain are bit higher when compared to other ad networks.
    • Payment Procedure:Payments are based on net 15 terms on a bi-weekly schedule. You will have the chance to receive your payments either by check or Paypal and the minimum payout is $50.
  2. Adbrite: It is one of the oldest and most popular advertisement network that allows you to earn money from your web site or blog. Unlike other contextual advertising networks, AdBrite is specialized to sell advertisements on your web site by displaying a banner ad on your site. The visitor who likes to place an ad on your site can easily displays his advertisement. It is very easy to use for everyone, and it’s completely free! Best for US and UK related traffic.
  3. Bidvertiser:A professional contextual advertising network that Offers only contextual and feed advertisements. It is very similar to Google AdSense. Displays textual ads depending on content of your site [context related ads]. You will not get enough earnings until unless you get very good traffic. Best for high traffic blogs.
    • Payment: Minimum payout of $10 is offers. Offers both Check and Paypal Methods for payment.
  4. Chitika:A leading blog advertising company with a network of 1ooo’s of blogs and websites with brand advertisers and merchants. It also allows you to earn from affiliate program where we can earn up to 10% of what our each referral earns. Best option if you are writing a product blog.
    • Payment Procedure: Supports both PayPal and Checks system. Minimum payout for PayPal is $10 and for Checks is $50.
  5. Text Link Ads:This service allows you to make money by selling text and in-line text ads on your site or blog. You can choose price and sell textual advertisements on your site with this service. They offer 50/50 net revenue share for all ads sold on your site.
    • Payment Options: Supports Check, PayPal, Payoneer or TLA Voucher. Minimum payment for check is $25. Text-Link-Ads Prepaid MasterCard is $25. No minimum for PayPal payments.
  6. Kontera: These are in-line contextual ad networks that double-underline the keywords in our site. Some users may however find this annoying since the advertisement appears in a pop-up window. Best for content rich blogs.
  7. Infolinks:They’re specialized in In-Text advertising i.e., Infolinks indexes your page looking for keywords and phrases that are not currently linked and converts those words into advertising links. Best thing is that you can use Infolinks ads to compliment your other advertising programs.
    • Payment: They pay you either by Wire transfer, Automated Clearing House ($400 min) or paypal ($50 min).
  8. Luminate:Luminate Inc. (previously known as Pixazza Inc.), founded in 2008, is an online advertising program and currently the market leader in making the images more interactive, offering World’s first platform for image application. It currently serves more than 150 million users per month and 30 billion page views per year. This ‘first-of-its-kind’ platform gets operational when a user mouse-over’s an image, displaying the related products and information to that user. It takes into account the keywords that have been tagged with an image and then display the relevant ads accordingly.The minimum payout is $10 which can be received on a PayPal account or via Standard Cheque.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Friday, March 6, 2009

The Majic of Google Adsense

Since its creation, Google AdSense has created a new and easy way for many webmasters to earn money from their websites. There are many webmasters who make a living from AdSense alone, but there are also many who spend a lot of time trying to figure out the magic Google AdSense trick to earn more from their ads. Finding these Google AdSense tricks might seem like a difficult task but it is definitely not impossible.

Often times just putting the AdSense code on your site is not enough if you are attempting to use AdSense as your only source of income. One of the most important Google AdSense tricks is to experiment with a lot of different ad formats, placement and choice of keywords.

You should use the different formats to make sure your AdSense ads blend with your web pages. Google provides you different palettes to try font colors, backgrounds and borders. There is no point in placing an ad on the page which does not blend with your site because it will likely not be clicked by any of your visitors.

You should also take care when placing your AdSense ads. If you read through Google help on AdSense, you will find many tested Google AdSense tricks one of which is the heat maps suggesting the best locations for your adverts. It is a proven fact that, one place the visitors look first on the site is the top left position. Since this is the place that will have the visitor's attention, it definitely helps to place your AdSense ads there.

Another great Google AdSense trick is to place the ads on high traffic pages. You will be able to discover the pages with the most traffic on your site by looking at the logs or even your Google Analytics account, which gives you a page by page report of visitors that come and go from your site.

Whatever topic your site deals with, you should take care to build pages around this specific topic and include your keywords in the content as many times as possible without it becoming redundant. This is perhaps the best Google AdSense trick to assure that the ads placed on your page, are relevant and useful to the visitors on your site.

Yet another important Google AdSense trick that is often ignored by most webmasters is the AdSense preview tool. Google provides an excellent tool to help you preview the ads that appear on your page. This tool allows you to see the sample ads and formats, preview colors on your page, check the destination of the ads and even see how people in other countries will see your ads.

Besides using the above Google AdSense tricks, it is also vital to have a focus on what you want to accomplish. No matter how busy you are, you should always set aside some time to test your AdSense ads in order to improve your CTR. No matter what the experts say, following the basics is really the trick to getting the most from AdSense.

Friday, February 6, 2009

# 1 Patience And Persistance

The one big secret to blogging success is patience. Because it takes a while and will require a bit of attention to start generating leads and sales conversions, many 'would be' blog success stories quit before their blog has even had a chance to get listed in the search engines.

Anyone can create a blog. Having a blog and making sure it's up-to-date with the latest information about your specific niche is not hard. All you have to do is plan out what you're going to be blogging about, write your articles (or outsource them) and post regularly. It's totally up to you what you post, however, you want to make sure the content is compelling enough so your readers will want to read more and come back looking for more information about your specific subject.

Becoming familiar with search engine optimization (SEO) will serve you well. SEO will allow you to rank better in the search engines, and what that means is that more people who are searching for your specific niche will find your blog as a result. The basics of SEO are to find keywords and keyword phrases that people use to find your niche. Then write articles, blog posts, and various other content using those keywords and keyword phrases. The search engines will find the articles and blog posts, rank you for those terms, and then people will be able to find you in the search engines.

Other ways of promoting your blog involve exchanging links with other sites, guest posting on other blogs, commenting on other blogs and forums, and continuing to promote by writing more web content for your blog and your website.

As time goes by and you develop a readership, you may want to create a digital product to give away in exchange for an e-mail address from our readers. That way you will be able to start building a list that you can market to again and again.

Blogging to get exposure for your small business is not rocket science, however, it's something you need to do consistently and persistently. Don't give up, people will find you if you keep blogging and continue putting up interesting content that people want to read.

Does Adsense Work?

If you are anything like me your wondering how the hell are people making money of Google AdSense? I bet everyday your eager to check you stats but only finding disappointment. AdSense is a crock of shit in my opinion! Even if your the best blogger out there raking in six figures consistently...I can assure you that the money is not legitimately coming from Google AdSense. Don't get me wrong, you can make some money but nothing extraordinary.

There are many avenues for making a healthy income online, but Google AdSense is not one of them. This is my first blog on something negative, so hopefully you will learn from my mistakes and choose the right methods for making money online. I've tried almost every trick available and spent thousands of dollars trying to crack the code to making money online, so believe me when I tell you what works and does not work. There is enough cash to go around so don't worry, I'm not like the majority of money hungry mongrels that roam this earth feeding of the less fortunate like a parasite. My world is a world full of giving and sharing, not of swindling and deceiving. Just as history will tell you "to give is to receive" and your outcome is definitely determined by your intentions.

This site will be updated quite frequently, I am going to add a post once every three days so please subscribe or add it to your favorites. Your input is also greatly appreciated so please feel free to leave comments, suggestions or both.