Understanding your Opportunities with AdSense

As you’re working to increase your traffic with Webmaster Tools, did you know that you’re also able to monetize this traffic with Google AdSense? 

Google AdSense is a program that enables webmasters like you to display relevant ads on your websites and earn revenue. It’s free to use and gives you access to Google’s vast network of advertisers. After a quick and easy set up, AdSense is designed to help you start showing ads on your site that fit in with your audience, while allowing you to earn money from the unique content you’ve created.

A key factor in understanding the opportunities you have with AdSense is understanding the traffic you have coming to your site. Webmaster Tools and other Google tools, such as Google Analytics, provide you with the insight to identify who your visitors are and where they’re coming from. You’re working to bring more people to your site and optimize your most successful pages to boost overall traffic. You can use this information with Google AdSense to display ads that are targeted to your traffic and better suited to match the content on your most successful pages. For example, you can use Webmaster Tools to identify how often your pages appear within Google search results. Knowing these to potentially be your most visible pages, you can use AdSense to display optimized ads on these pages. 

Take a look below to see what different AdSense ads can look like.

Text Ad - Medium Rectangle (300x250)	Video Ad - Medium Rectangle (300x250)

Image Ad - Leaderboad (728x90)

Why use Google AdSense?

• Earn revenue from relevant and engaging advertising that enhances the user experience of your site.
• You’re in control, protecting your brand by customizing the size, location, and type of ads that appear.
• Gain insight with the powerful integration of Google Analytics and AdSense, helping you easily identify trends and factors that influence the earning potential of your website.
• Simple and easy to set up. Just add a few lines of code to your site and you’re ready to start showing ads.
• No risk. No obligation. There’s no minimum term of commitment. And it’s free.

Google AdSense automatically delivers ads that are targeted to your content and audience. AdSense also allows you to create Custom Channels that help advertisers target certain pages of your website, or even specific sections of these pages. As a Webmaster Tools user you have an advantage in understanding which Google search results guide traffic to your pages. You can use this information to provide more accurate descriptions of your custom channels for advertisers, allowing you to show even more relevant ads to your users. In turn, you can earn more revenue by displaying these more relevant and high quality ads. 

Sign up and monetize your website with Google AdSense.
You can also learn more about Google AdSense in the AdSense Help Forum.

Posted by Nathan DeOms, Google AdSense Publisher Engagement Team

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How to Create a Facebook Landing Page (HTML / iFrame Edition)

Please click here for the latest tutorials on the new Facebook Timeline Setup.

**Important Update to Facebook Landing Pages**

Please note that all Facebook Pages will be converted to the new “TIMELINE” version of wordpress, which you may have seen on your friends’ personal profiles lately. 

No comment on how they look, but there’s nothing we can do. On March 30th, all pages will be switched over.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEW FACEBOOK TUTORIAL I’VE CREATED for TIMELINE

p.s. it’s up to you, but I wouldn’t proceed with making a landing page on your site (i.e. read any further) because landing pages will be obsolete after the change.

There is yet another Facebook change around the corner, which is forcing me to create yet another Facebook landing page tutorial.

On March 11th (that’s tomorrow!) Facebook will no longer allow users to add new FBML applications to their Facebook page, which means the old way of creating a landing page (using the Static FBML application) will be extinct.

If you have an existing landing page using any FBML type application, don’t worry. Your existing page will not be affected. This change only affects those who do not have a landing page yet and want to create one after March 11th, 2011.

That said, even if you have a landing page setup for Facebook already, I recommend you check out how it’s done in the video below just in case Facebook changes their mind and decides to get rid of FBML all together, and because this new way of creating a landing page allows you to easily add HTML, so you can get pretty slick as far as what you can do and the things you can add onto your landing page.

I’m thinkin’ videos, opt-in forms, maps, and other dynamic things that were much harder to code in FBML before.

This is a good change, and even though this means a little extra work for me, I don’t mind as long as my work helps a few of you.

As a reminder, a landing page is a page that people who visit your Facebook Page will see first, which is important because you can then direct them to click on the ‘like button’ at the top, which isn’t so obvious if you just send people to your wall. Using a landing page can drastically increase your conversions and explode your Facebook fan count.

Below you’ll see a video explaining how to create an HTML / iFrame type landing page. The new application that I recommend, Static HTML iFrame Tab (by Jason Padvorac), allows you to add 2 landing pages: 1 for non-fans, and 1 for fans. Check out the video below to learn more about how you can utilize this application to increase “like” conversion and get the most bang for your buck.

There are other HTML / iFrame type applications available now too, but I like this one in particular because it’s free, easy to use and doesn’t ask for your email or any permissions like some of the other ones do.

(click here to watch How to Create a Facebook Landing Page – HTML / iFrame Edition on YouTube)

Note: Facebook may be slow to load these new applications as they make the change from FBML to HTML. Please be patient when installing this application. Thanks!

As mentioned in the video, I’ll also be including some resources and HTML code that you can use on your own landing pages. I will continually be adding to the list of stuff below as I learn more and as my VA codes things that I can share with you.

Showing an Image

If you don’t know HTML and/or don’t have the resources to hire or find someone to code HTML or you, you can do what I did in the video and just simply create an image file that is the size of the Page (520 px wide and however tall you want it to be) and add your own copy, calls to action or pictures, etc. to that image.

Below is the sample HTML code I used to embed the image into the application:

1	<img src="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/images/facebook/demo/non-fans.jpg">

Of course, replace the url in the example with the url of where your image is stored.

A Basic Link with Anchor Text

Here a basic code that you can copy that will create a link within your page:

<a href="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com">The Smart Passive Income Blog</a>

Be sure to replace the url between the quotations with your destination, and replace “The Smart Passive Income Blog” with whatever anchor text you want.

The ‘Like’ Button

You may want to add an image of the Like Button that Facebook uses within the graphics of your page. Simply right click on the like button below and “save as” to copy it onto your computer for your use.

Your Facebook Fan & Twitter Follower Counts

Here is a link (thanks to @adalpo_project for the find) to some html that you can use or tweak to show how many Facebook Fans and Twitter followers you have, which updates automatically for you.

Facebook Fan Count and Twitter Follower Count HTML

An Email Opt-in Form

If you’re using a service like Aweber to collect email addresses, you can simply add in the script that it gives you for your web form into the fields of the Static HTML application.

As I recommend in the video, I would reserve any sort of actions you want your user to takeother than clicking the LIKE button for your “Fan” landing page – the page people see after they click the ‘Like’ button. Again, the reasoning is that the primary purpose of the “Non-Fan” landing page is to get people to click on that ‘Like’ button. The more options you have the less likely that will happen. Again, it’s sort of like a squeeze page for Facebook.

More to come…

My own Facebook Page isn’t setup yet with the new HTML application, but I’m working with my VA now to code something cool and I’ll be sure to share that and anything else with you as I figure things out.

If you have something else to add, share or request please let me know and I’ll do my best to add it to the above resources.

And lastly, I’d really love it if you share this with your fans or followers today. All it takes is a simple click on the ‘like’ button below. Thanks!

Update: You can install up to 12 instances of this application so you can have more tabs than just the one for your landing page. Here is the link for that information. 

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How to add a comment form beneath your blog posts

Blogger have developed an inline (embedded) comment form which can be enabled through Blogger in Draft. This is probably the most requested feature for Blogger, and I'm sure many of you will want to use this straight away!

To enable inline comments for your Blogger powered blog, you need to log into your dashboard through Blogger in Draft. Then go to Settings>Comments and scroll down the page to see the new "Comment form placement" setting:

Check the radio setting for "Embedded below post" which will enable the display of the comment form below your blog posts.

If you have customized your template, you will need to make a small change to your template code for this comment form to display. But don't worry, it's a very simple customization to make!

Simply go to Layout>Edit HTML in your blog's dashboard and check the "Expand widget templates" box. Then search for this section of code:

Replace this entire section of code with the following instead:

Then save your template. Now when you view a post page in your blog, you should see the new comment form in place!

Update: As many of you have pointed out in the comments, not all templates feature the code I've described above.

Luckily, Is has offered a method which is much easier to use, and has worked for every template I've tried so far. So if my original method isn't working for you, try this instead:

Search for this line in your template code:

Immediately after this line, add the following line of code:

Then save your template. This method adds the required code for the comment form without having to alter the whole comment area, and is very useful if you have experienced problems using the original method Thanks for the hint, Is!

If you don't see your comment form, make sure you have changed this setting through Blogger in Draft and have added your code in the correct place in your template.

You can see this comment form in action beneath this post. Using this comment form allows readers to comment using their Google account, OpenID, Name/URL and all of the settings previously available when using a pop-up or full page comment form (depending on the settings you have chosen).

I am very happy to see that Blogger have listened to our requests and have added this great functionality to our blogs. There are also some other new features added to Blogger in Draft including an improved posting page and import/export features which you can read about in the Blogger in Draft blog.

Please let me know what you think of this new feature by leaving your comments below.

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Western Union Money Transfer for Indonesian Adsense Publisher

Great news from Google Adsense, for Indonesian Publisher. Now, money transfer can be done via Western Union [http://www.westernunion.com] in Indonesia. This is a great news, that using this services Indonesian publisher can attain their money faster than ever.

Currently fastest method [the only method available] for cashing Adsense balance available via check order. using this payment option, one’s can complete the cash out process in months [approx. 2-3 months]. Now, using WU, publisher cashout waiting time can be reduce to days.

As stated in the notification letter, the requested WU code will valid for 60 days, after that balance will be included in next months pay.

For me this is totally awesome, that my balance has rising to minimal checkout balance, nice !!

Article Source : Adi Nugroho Pratama

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Interested in pay-per-click ad campaigns, but nervous about taking the plunge?

Interested in pay-per-click ad campaigns, but nervous about taking the plunge? This article will give you a good overview of what's involved. It will lay out the benefits and introduce you to the top companies with which you can do PPC marketing. You will also learn what you need to know to make the most of your campaign.

PPC Overview

Pay per click marketing, with an estimated turnover of $1.1 billion per year and growing at 13 percent per quarter despite the economic downturn, has become vertically integrated into the Internet marketing arena.

Emerging from the banner ads and click through rankings of the early 2000s, pay per click saw initial innovation when Google introduced AdWords Select in early 2002. Google now controls about 50 percent of the PPC market share, followed by Yahoo at 25 percent. AdWords shows the selected ad near relevant search results, as well as on content and search sites within the Google Network.

Pay per click is an Internet-based advertising model used on search engines, content websites and advertising networks where advertising clients pay only when a consumer clicks though the ad to visit that client's website.

Typically the PPC ad is based on keywords to reach a designated target market. When the consumer enters a keyword or phrase into the search that matches the client's keyword list, the ad is displayed. The ads appear adjacent to or above the natural search engine results.

The largest PPC providers currently are Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft Ad Center. The minimum cost per click (CPC) varies based upon competition for the keywords and the search engine's standards.

Next: PPC Pricing Models >>

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Simple tip to increase your adsense revenue

Google Adsense program is a fast and simple way for publishers to monetize their web site traffic.

Surely the amount of profits depends on how much the advertisers are willing to pay in this niche. But even within the same niche you can do special steps to make more money with Google AdSense program.

Better focus on one topic per page.

By doing this you help Google to define the topic of this page and choose the ads of better relevancy. The better relevancy, the more clicks you are likely to get.

Use white space around your ad.

Perhaps, this is more of an issue of the psychology of the eye work, but by doing that you make your ad stand out from the rest of your page and visitors spot the ads better.

Play with the colors.

No big science, but you can try 2 approaches: either make ads look like the rest of the site or make them stand out of the site visual color scheme. You will see what works better with your visitors.

Test ad placement.

Today Google AdSense has a truly great feature of channeling each ad separately. Channeling provides separate reporting on each unit, which gives you a tremendous chance to see what ad on what page and in what part of the page is giving you more money.

That is why - test, test and test. Vertical and horizontal, large and small, fading colors and colors that stand out of the line.

Very soon you will come up to the ads placement that is ideal in terms of making more money with Google AdSense program.

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Create A Website For Free with No Annoying Ads

Having a website is necessary if you want to sell a product or service, run an online business, non-profit organization, or online newspaper. But, maybe you just need a website for a one-time event, to keep your club or organization updated about upcoming meetings, to post information about a wedding, baby shower or family reunion and you really don’t want to buy a domain name or pay for monthly hosting.

Setting up and maintaining a website can be a pain because you often need to have basic knowledge of HTML, PHP, Javascript, Flash, CSS, or Photoshop. It can also be costly to run a website if you buy a domain name and have monthly hosting bills. This is okay if you are planning on maintaining a website for business or for a long-term project but why pay when you can get it for free?

It used to be that the only option for creating a free website was using a service that placed annoying ads at the top of every page and gave you limited design options. And to get a really good website you had to pay a designer and spend a lot for hosting. Today we have more free web design options and here are a couple you should check out.

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Tips Using PPC Systems

Text ads are outperforming banner ads 5 to 1 times better because they are specifically targeting to the user that is searching for something in particular, plus they are easy and inexpensive to implement. One of the best ways of getting visitors is to use Google Adwords, you will write these short classified type ads, these ads will show up in the serps and visitors will click on these ads and become your potential customer. These ads are contextually aware.

When adding your keywords make sure they are tightly focused and when writing the top sales line make sure the header includes some of the keywords. This is true because the more keywords you find, the more visitors you could attract. Always use your keywords as often as you can in your Ad: in the Title, in the body and even in your domain name.

Before you start a PPC ad campaign to sell your products, you need to know the following 2 things. When purchasing PPC traffic and it doesn’t matter if your purchase from Overture or Google or other PPC Networks the most important thing you should do is track your traffic? The reason you want to track your traffic is because you want to make sure it converts into sales. The leaders in PPC are Overture and Google and they control 90% of the market, if you want traffic and you have the money you should consider using them if you want maximum exposure. Using Google and Overture will bring you targeted traffic.

The paid for ad system reporting the statistics is not in real-time, the delay on the results really don’t have an effect on what you are trying to achieve “getting traffic to your site” and when compare adwords to other PPC providers they are definitely beyond those other providers.

When choosing keywords make sure that you don’t choose general terms, the more specific the search term, the more targeted traffic you will receive and your click through rate will be higher.. Create campaigns with many search terms, make sure you do some research and you pick the terms that relate to your site. Example if you are an electrician then keywords like electricians, wires, electricity etc would be great keywords.

First, you will need to create an ad group, which means you design your ad, select your keywords, determine the maximum cost per click that you are willing to spend and define your bid amounts.

Write an attractive ad - you have a very limited space to write your ad so you need to make each word count if you want your visitors to click through to your web site or landing page. Since testing can produce a nearly constant improvement in your click through rate (CTR). Google’s pay per click system, or AdWords, maintained that standard for relevancy.

Let's face it, it's not rocket science and one can get plenty of ideas for advert style from looking in one's niche market, and there are plenty of keyword tools so building a list is a 10 minute job. This is a reason why niche marketing is the way to go. If you have a small niche to start with, then Broad Match will give you the most exposure.

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Tips For High-Speed Internet Access Faster

Welcome to the high-speed Internet corner. I want to share with you everything there is to know about high-speed Internet. Whether you want to know the difference between a high-speed and dial-up connection or if you want to know how to get a lower price on your monthly Internet bill you got the right corner.

I'm always surfing the Web to find what's hot and new in the high-speed Internet world. I'm hunting and gathering just the right information and you can bet I will post my findings right here for you to read.

Stay tuned for the latest in high-speed Internet news.

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Adsense in Blogger Tutorial

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Faster Fox make your Fire Fox Faster More

If your just aren’t satisfied with your current Internet speeds and can’t afford a faster connection at the moment, then the Fasterfox extension is just for you. Fasterfox uses a variety of methods to increase browsing speeds, including a unique prefetching system which uses idle bandwidth to load and cache the links on the webpages you are currently using. Fasterfox is fully compatible with all Firefox versions from 1.0 to 1.5.0.* and weighs in at a tiny 91kb.

Fasterfox allows the user to choose between 3 optimized settings or customize the settings to their own preferences and can be found from within Firefox’s Options (Tools > Extensions > right click on Fasterfox > Options). This extension also comes with a built in pop-up blocker which, in my opinion, is very handy.

Get Fasterfox here
[https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1269&application=firefox]

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the Need for Researching Keywords

Google Adsense Tips – the Need for Researching Keywords

Most web based entrepreneurs are of course familiar with the concept of keywords, and these professionals no doubt already know how important these focused words can be to the success of their business. When it comes to profiting from the Google AdSense program, keywords are no less important, and it is vital for all existing and would be program participants to do their research and choose their keywords carefully.

This is because Google will use the keywords included within the site as part of its criteria when deciding which types of ads to host on your site. Including the wrong keywords can cause the program to host inappropriate and less profitable ads, while using the right keywords can bring those targeted ad dollars right to your virtual doors.

Navigating the waters of keywords and their effect on Google AdSense is not easy, however, and one of the most common mistakes seen by web consultants is focusing exclusively on the highest paying keywords. These webmasters naturally assume that the highest paying keywords will naturally yield the best results but in fact this is not always the case. After all, it is not enough for a Google AdSense enabled site to merely attract visitors. In order to be successful and profitable, that site must keep visitors there long enough for them to review, and click on, the ads being hosted.

It is therefore, essential for all AdSense program participants to look at their sites with the eyes of a visitor. This can of course be difficult to do, but it is an essential part of the customer service process. It is important to look at your site as if you were encountering it for the first time. Take note of what the site has to offer, what it does well, and what could be improved. It may be helpful to have several others look at your site as well and provide their feedback. This kind of honest feedback can be invaluable in producing a truly useful, intuitive and user friendly experience for visitors.

As you review your own site, consider the type of ads you would most likely expect to see there. For instance, if your site focuses on the antique car hobby, you might expect to see ads for car restoration companies, car show promoters, car parts catalogs and websites and the like.

After you have determined which types of ads you would like to attract to your site, try to incorporate the appropriate keywords into your site. Using keywords that are both popular and profitable is a winning strategy when designing your site to maximize AdSense revenue.

There are of course many ways to research the relative popularity of keywords, some free and some not. If you have an account established with the Google AdWords program, you can check the statistics available at the site to determine which are the most popular keywords in your area of expertise. In addition, the site provides the Google AdWords Keywords Tool. This handy tool allows website owners to quickly and easily find alternative keywords to use on their sites.

In addition to the tools provided by Google itself, there area number of other programs and websites which allow users to research keywords and choose the right ones. These keyword tracking tools can be quite valuable when it comes to designing, tweaking and optimizing websites for maximum effect and maximum AdSense revenue.

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How to Display More Targeted AdSense Ads on Your Blog

In the past, your typical blogger would be content enough just having their own blog. But now, bloggers in general are becoming more knowledgeable with ways to monetize their blog and with the availability of free information on the web, they do a decent job.

For example, how many blogs do you read these days that actually don’t have some sort of advertising on it? Not many and for good reason. Why not try and make some money since you spend all this time writing and blogging, right?

Secondly, how many blogs have you come across where the AdSense advertisement is not at all relevant to the blog’s theme or content? Some of them are actually pretty funny if you read the ads. Here’s an ad that actually showed up on eBlog Templates next to one of the template pages.

Can anyone tell my who would be interested in buying “Birds Trees” (what are birds trees anyhow??) from a site that provides templates and other resources for bloggers? Now, if the template page this ad was on was related to nature or birds, then that would be fine. That wasn’t the case though for this page.

Showing irrelevant ads on blogs (especially newer blogs) these days is a pretty common occurrence. New blogs don’t have much (if any) content since their new, so Google isn’t sure what your blog is about. Since eBlog Templates is only a few months old, it’s one of the reasons you’ll see irrelevant ads showing up. After several months and a lot of blog posts later, Google should get a better feel for what your blog is all about and display more targeted ads.

But why not give Google AdSense some guidance now as to what parts of your page it should create these targeted ads from? Well, now you can with Google’s Section Targeting feature.

Google’s Section Targeting allows you to suggest sections of your blog posts and HTML content that you’d like them to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site’s content. By providing Google with your suggestions, you can help them improve your blog’s ad targeting.

How Does Section Targeting Work?

It’s actually quite easy and to implement Section Targeting, you’ll need to add a set of special HTML comment tags to your blog template code. These tags will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you’d like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.

The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:

You can also designate sections you’d like to have ignored like your navigation, sidebar, or anything that’s not worth targeting by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag:

Once you add these tags to your WordPress or Blogger template code, you won’t immediately notice a change. There’s actually nothing visual to see as well so don’t expect anything to show up. If you view your blog’s source code from your browser, you’ll see these new tags, however.

How Many Section Targeting Tags Can I Use?

You can use as many Section Targeting tags on a page as you like. However, just because you use several Section Targeting tags doesn’t guarantee you’ll get results. I’d recommend only using one or two on each page otherwise Google might just ignore them.

How Long Before Google Recognizes the Tags?

It can take at least 2 weeks before Google crawlers figure out the changes you’ve made and update your AdSense account. Some sites might not even notice a difference because the ads were already pretty well targeted in the first place.

Setting Up Section Targeting For Blogger

If you’re familiar with editing Blogger templates then this will be a breeze for you. If not, it’s still rather easy to setup since you’re only dealing with two new lines of code. Before anything, make a backup copy of your current template just in case you mess something up. Next, you’ll want to open your template code in something like notepad or any text editor. You can even edit it right in the Blogger html window but it’s small and harder to search for things.

Now you want to search your template for the tag. There should only be one in your entire template. This tag is very important as it prints out your blog posts. It’s the meat of your template code and without it, your blog wouldn’t really work. Next you’ll want to surround this tag with the Google AdSense code. Essentially, we’re telling AdSense whatever text is in your Blogger posts is what it should display relevant ads for.

Here’s what your updated code should look like:

Some people also want to setup Section Targeting for their blog post titles which is fine as well. You basically do the same steps shown here but for the tags. There are usually at least two so make sure you wrap them all if you decide to make this change.

Save your template code and load it back into Blogger. Look at your blog and view the page source. You should now see these Google AdSense tags in your code!

Setting Up Section Targeting For WordPress

For WordPress users, you follow the same steps as above but you’ll want to edit the single.php or index.php page. You’re looking for the tag which is equivalent to the tag for Blogger. Wrap the Google AdSense tags around the content tag and that’s it.

Here’s what your updated code should look like:

Now another trick I do is also wrap my comments with the Google AdSense tags as well. Blog comments are a great way to build up additional relevant content to an existing post. Most of the time your comments are very relevant to your post so why not give AdSense more text to use for ad matching? This works especially well if your blog post is short and you’ve got a lot of comments.

To make this change you’ll want to edit your comments.php file and look for the tag. The modified code should look like this:

Extra Tip - Ignore Sections of Your Blog

For any type of blog you can also use the ignore AdSense tag. This is great for sections that are static or don’t really tell Google much about what your blog is about. Like I mentioned briefly above, this would be things like your top navigation, sidebar, or some other advertisements you may be running on your site which are not relative to your blog’s theme and content.

Important Note

In order to properly implement Section Targeting, you’ll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. This means make sure your blog posts are a pretty good length otherwise insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or public service ads and it’s not worth adding these tags. It is also against Google’s AdSense policy to manipulate the ad targeting code to result in ads that are not relevant to the content of your pages. Don’t do it otherwise you risk getting banned from AdSense.

Conclusion

After you’ve made all these changes, you should start seeing improved targeted AdSense ads on your blog. It might take a few weeks before Google updates their system so be patient. Your AdSense earnings should also go up since more relative ads means you have a better chance of visitors clicking on them. Here’s to making more money from your blog! If you don’t already have an AdSense account, you can sign up for one for free.

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Free Online tutorials Google Adsense

After researching quite a bit to understand Google AdSense and how to best implement and optimize AdSense contextual ads for several Web sites, I'm not at all surprised to see that a major key to generating revenue with AdSense contextual ads is the critical importance of interesting, keyword rich content and solid search engine optimization. Great content helps to draw visitors to your site, which in turn brings in the traffic to help your site generate revenue. Optimizing your site for AdSense helps AdSense serve appropriate contextual ads. SEO, SEM, of course, can help your site show up on the first page of search engine results. They all work together.

The good news is that the Google AdSense section below provides annotated links to truly helpful information about Google AdSense, monetizing your site using AdSense, and how to make money with AdSense. Within this section you'll find links to official Google AdSense information, tutorials on optimizing AdSense and your sites for maximum results, helpful AdSense tutorials, AdSense for blogs, AdSense arbitrage, AdSense case studies, AdSense tools, such as blocking MFAs (Made for AdSense sites) and ad tracking tools, online forums on AdSense, and Web sites and blogs that cover AdSense and other affiliate programs.

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the preferred way for people to earn an income online

Google AdSense is fast becoming the preferred way for people to earn an income online. Forget eBay and multiple affiliate programs - Whether you are a work-at-home mom trying to make a little extra cash or an Internet entrepreneur with hundreds of monetized websites, AdSense is truly the easiest way to earn money.

Simply sign up for a free account, grab your ad code and paste it in your site. But here's the amazing thing - no matter how much money AdSense is making for you right now, a few simple tweaks can increase that amount considerably. And I should know, after learning about these tricks, I more than doubled my AdSense commissions!

The self-proclaimed AdSense gurus and experts are sharing this insider knowledge, for a fee. You can learn all these secrets from them, as long as you buy their e-book, sign up for their seminar or purchase their newsletter. But I'm going to share all their AdSense tricks for free. Here they are:

1) Color code your ads to match your web site palette *exactly*. Don't use frames around your ads. Instead, in the AdSense code generation interface, make sure you choose the same color as your page background for the ad frame and the ad background.

When choosing the ad heading colors, match them to the *exact* color of your page headings. Use the exact same ad background shade as your page background. Use the exact same ad text font and color as the text on your pages. You can see an example of this color-matching on my search engine advice blog notice the 4 link ad unit and skyscraper text ad unit on the left hand side under the headings Ads by Google as you scroll down the page? The link and text colors are identical to the color palette used throughout the rest of the page.

Near enough is NOT good enough. If you can't quite get the color matching right, use Google's built in color palette together with the RGB to HEX or vice versa color converter on this page. That handy little tool was a life saver for me.

This is probably the one single tweak that made the most difference to my commission levels.

2) Try not to use the traditional horizontal banner style or leaderboard image ads because people are blind to them.

3) Use Google's own AdSense optimization tips and visual heat map to assist you in deciding where on your page to place your AdSense ad code.

4) Research competitive keywords using a keyword research tool such as Keyword Discovery or grab a list of the most popular keywords from various sources and use them in your web site pages where relevant. This article is a good source of frequently searched keywords. Targeting popular keywords should trigger AdSense ads on your pages that utilize those keywords. The more popular the keyword or phrase, the higher AdWords advertisers are generally willing to pay per click for it so the higher your commission on those clicks.

5) Incorporate the AdSense code into your page so that the ads look like a regular part of your site. You can see an example of this on the Internet Dating Stories site where link ads are incorporated within the regular left hand navigation of the site under the heading "Feature Links".

6) Use Google's new 4 and 5 link ad units wherever possible. They seem to have a much higher Click Through Rate (CTR) than regular ad styles. You can view all the AdSense ad formats here.

7) Place arrows or images next to your ads to draw attention to them. You can see two different versions of on this search engine article library page at the top (where a pointing hand directs your eye to the ad) and the bottom where 3 images draw your attention to each of the three AdSense ads.

8) Use the full allowance of multiple AdSense ads on each of your pages - 3 regular AdSense ads, plus 1 link unit. Use careful placement of these ads so they blend into your site and don't distract from your content. Clever use of this allowance can be seen on this page about bad Internet dating stories where you see:

- 1 horizontal 4 link ad unit towards the top of the page under the first paragraph
- 1 vertical skyscraper text ad unit about halfway down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links"
- 1 vertical skyscraper image ad unit down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links"
- 1 horizontal text banner unit at the bottom of the page with images above each ad to draw attention to them.

You can also include 1 AdSense referral button in addition to the 3 other units.

9) Tailor your page content to a particular niche or focus. Page content that is tailored towards a specific theme is more likely to trigger AdWords ads that closely match the content and are therefore more likely to interest your visitors and inspire them to click. Don't create pages merely for the sake of placing AdSense ads. Visitors (and search engines) can see through this ruse in an instant.

10) Use custom Ad Channels for each of your ad placements, for example, "Top 5 Link Unit Blue Palette" or "Left Side Navigation Image Skyscraper" etc. Tweak, track and measure the success of each of these custom channels so you know what gives you the highest CTR. Some ad formats and colors will work better than others, but you won't know which until you test, test and test some more!

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The Secret of Success with Google AdSense

To be successful with Google AdSense, we must create a website or blog that meet the specifications and requirements AdSense. In addition, the website or blog we must have high traffic, have a specific target market, many potential visitors, who are really interested in the topics that we serve. Because the ads that Google AdSense is provided in accordance with the theme of our site, the most likely potential visitors are clicking AdSense ads, and these dollars will flow.

Continue what was the secret of successful site with Google AdSense, why they can be successful?

1. As a target market / market share certain
If we note the success of the eight sites on the topic earlier, they all have a certain target markets such as Plentyoffish bureau mate free marketnya target people who want to find a partner, Free Web Layouts marketnya target people who seek services for free layout of the website, Ask the Builder target people marketnya who want consultation on trade issues, Secret AdSense marketnya target people who want to track the success Joel Comm know the secret and success, etc..

2. Most of these sites provide services / products for free
Plentyoffish, Digg, Weblogs, Ask the builder, Free web layouts, AdSense Secret, Digital Point and the solution of free keyword suggestion tool provides all the services for free. How they can continue to generate money?

Because of free thinking more and more, such as the Free Web Layouts. In this site Google AdSense ads look to the site, ads that are displayed according to / the same theme, such as Free's website, MySpace Layouts, MySpace Profile. This ad is the first visible if we open this site. Suppose I or you are looking for a free service to the layout of the website we will likely click on the ad's Free Website is a Google AdSense. Although the owner provides a free service, but owing to the AdSense sac lot of dollars flowing to Web site owners Free Layouts.

3. Sites that provide tips, advice from the experts
For example, the site owned by AdSense Secret Joel Comm and Ask the Builder's property team Carter.

4. Provide products or services that many people sought
Free Web Layouts for example, provides free services to create the layout of the website, Plentyoffish provide services matchmaker, Digg social media that many Internet marketers use to optimize blog / website, etc..

5. Sites that have the comments / forum
for example, the Digital Point Solutions, which has All Other Tools Forum

6. Have ranked in the top search engines and higher Google PageRank
If we note the eighth site that success with Google AdSense is all have high PageRank, and if disearch with specific keywords, now ranked in the top search engines.
Most of us find something if information on the Internet often browse through search engines, such as Google and Yahoo. Often, though information about the keywords that we find thousands in number, we track the most up to 10 - 20 articles. For that if we want to popular sites and we have high traffic is the site optimization efforts in order to get a high PageRank, and now ranked in the top search engines.

So the secret if we want to make a successful site with Google AdSense is should we make a free site that offers a product / service / information with a specific target market, this site should be able to attract many potential visitors. For that we must choose a theme that we are in. (hobbies, jobs, skills, the secret of success), or themes that can provide benefits for us (for instance find niche market niche, find the topic that many people sought but still a few competitors). Then we must fix the Google AdSense well, put in place, should be visible to the site so that we somehow did not realize or visitors will be interested in clicking on the AdSense ads. In addition, we must be able to make this site has ranked in the top search engines, popular, and have a high Google PageRank. How? Perhaps there can add?

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Adsense: be hunted by the beginner, abandoned the Professional

Just I have no problem with contextual ads, like Google's AdSense program. Some time ago, the blog that I designed specifically for these purposes, generate at least $ 481 per month. The topic that I made the main issue is about real estate and property investment. In addition to Adsense, Chitika is also considered a big deal because it is able to offer more.

However, now, the problems start to appear because so many bloggers are beginners and blogs to take advantage of similar goals. Although slowly begin my possibilities income, plus lower ranking in search engines, indeed, I was not too memasalahkan it. Something called a "competitive business" is reasonable and normal.

From the little analysis that I do, it is working with Adsense only good for Web sites with approximately 30,000 page views per month to 40,000. However, when you can penetrate 1,000 page views per day, this is the time to put aside Adsense (or contextual ads, other programs) and switch to the major advertiser / sponsor that would pay for your site.

Psychological point of 1,000 page views per day threshold is the average in which the sponsors and advertisers interested in starting. The advertisers generally want to volunteer to pay $ 100 - $ 200 more to get at least 50,000 additional Impression. Therefore they certainly reluctant to deal with sites with small traffic normally, as this web site, for example. ;)

So, if you are a professional blogger, or you have a site with page views are stunning, why not try submitting bids and proposals to companies that could become targets if the buyer of your ad slots?

For Stardust, advertising can be based on the time-base. For example, you install a tariff for Skyscraper banner in the sidebar of your blog for 30 days. However, when there are many sponsors and advertisers, it's good you install the kind of ad-serving software, such as better phpAdsNew for example. Start time, the calculation of tariffs can be based on the base that is more accurate, for instance, based CPM.

And how the problem of the tariff charged? It's easy. Make a "simulation" in the bidding and proposal that you submitted. If you offer a fare of Rp 5 million per month and not many companies that are interested, do revision and immediately lower the tariff on the price level that is more reasonable. However, for example, you download rates up to Rp 1 million per month and there are so many companies are interested, it means you are not a few difficulties to raise fares and find the level that you most profitable. Of course, this adjustment process takes time and trial-error process that long.

Whether this is the time to split the bed with Adsense? Of course not. Both are complementary rather than substitution. However, such interviews are conducted to Jason Calacanis, mencharge $ 9 - $ 12 per CPM for the major advertiser is far more interesting than "only" getting $ 1 - $ 3 from AdSense. In addition, you make a late-in tire by Google, this method of becoming one of the alternatives are interesting. There is so much more money to be made out there if you take the time to look.

So, congratulations and good luck trying!

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