A Quick Guide To Help You Social Bookmark Your Blog Posts

Those that are currently using social bookmarking certainly understand the great benefits that it can bring if done correctly. Social bookmarking though is quite an enigma to beginners. Many new bloggers have heard the term social bookmarking but are not quite sure what it is or what it involves.

Let me first start by explaining what social bookmarking is and why it is important to social bookmark all of your blog posts. Quite simply stated, social bookmarking will bring your blog more traffic. As internet marketers, that it exactly what we are all after. Social bookmark sites allow us to share our favorite sites with others who might be interested as well as increasing our back links at the same time.

Every time you bookmark a post, that link has the potential to bring a good amount of traffic to your blog. As you begin to regularly submit your link to authority social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Twitter, and Stumbleupon, your blog will benefit greatly by moving up rank rapidly in the search engines for your selected keywords.

Now just a quick tutorial on how to easily social bookmark your blog posts.

First, what you need to do is find a list of some social bookmark sites. There are plenty around, just do a Google search or go to SocialMarker.com. Read more »

Improve Your Adsense Earnings In 5 Steps

If you want to monetize your website(s), the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are a lot of webmasters struggling hard to earn any kind of a decent income through their sites these days. But then some of the “geniuses” ones are enjoying hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from you is that they are essentially “thinking outside the square.” Read more »

Essential Niche Marketing Tips You Can Use

As an internet marketer, you need several things to happen for you to be successful. If you minimize your risk, you stand a better chance of succeeding. Marketing to a niche instead of the mass market is one way to achieve this. Let’s look at a few niche marketing tips that will help you maximize your profit.

Two niche marketing tips in particular will help you beyond measure. Choosing very specific keyword phrases and going deep into your niche will improve your results. Each of these tactics can provide better results than you would receive otherwise.

First of all let’s look at the benefits of specific keyword phrases. When someone types in a longer phrase, they are looking for very specific information. General phrases are much more hotly contested on the internet. The more specific you get, the less competition you will have for traffic. While there may be less visitors overall, you may get more visitors than if you went after a broad term. Read more »

Treasure Trove of Website Tips

Recently people have been asking for tips and “Do’s and Don’ts” for website design and content.

Whether you are building a new site or redesigning a current site, here is a collection of tips that you’d be wise to follow:

- Create your site with a clear hierarchy and interconnection of pages.

- Your most important pages should never be more than one click away from your homepage. Read more »

Three Easy Steps To Get Major Traffic To Your Blog

Traffic is the essential element to making money online. Major traffic is what you are going to need to be able to make a full time income using the internet. Here are three easy steps you need to take in order to get major traffic to your blog.

The first step to get major traffic to your blog is great content. It is so important that your blog stands out from the other blogs in your niche. Let your visitors know how your blog is different and better and what it has to offer that other blogs don’t. Read more »

How to Earn US$1,000 with Google Adsense each month

One of the most popular sources of income for websites and blog owners is the Google adsense program. Google adsense whereby you can put in Google advertisers on your own web pages and when your website visitor clicks on such advertisements, you will then earn money from Google. Read more »

I have been a Kontera publisher since last Summer, at first they refused my application becuse my websites did not have enough traffic for their requirements but I persisted and was finally accepted. This week I got my first paycheck from Kontera, because it took that long to accumulate $100 in advertising revenue. This is a very low clickthrough rate and low CPM rates. Compare that to my Adsense income and Google is paying about ten time more than Kontera. I am going to check all my Kontera optimisation when I get some time, but I have to ask myself whether it is worthwhile continuing to display Kontera ads. Read more »

3 Reasons Why Adsense Is Critical For Content Sites
To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is
to know first how this works.

The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The
publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a
certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java
script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program.
The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to
the content that is contained on the web page serving the
ad. If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster
serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the
advertiser is paying the search engine for the click. Read more »

Here are some words of encouragement for Adsense publishers, which are equally valid if your website or blog displays YPN or Kontera contextual advertising. There is also some encouragement from a number of Adsense publishers who have actually been watching their AdSense revenue go up recently. Many have cleaned the layout and focused on generating even better content. Part of the reason for drops in income is due to the fact that your visitors must now click squarely on the advertiser’s URL, rather than the area of the ad. itself. So placement – within Google’s TOS is even more important now.

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There seems to be an insatiable appetite around the world for coffee so why not make money from this boom with a successful Adsense site catering for a coffee niche? Think about all the various search terms that any reader interested in the money making aroma might be using. For example anyone who wants to create the authentic flavour of their favourite drink at home is likely to be in the market for a bunn coffee maker so you can serve up ads to help them find one at the right price. Remember, the person who is looking for a new bunn coffee maker just wants an easy life – if your site carries some reviews of the latest bunn coffee maker compared to other similar machines, useful information on looking after them plus links to the best merchants, they will be happy an they are far more likely to click on a couple of your contextual ads.

Google Adsense is a structured way to earn good money out of what Google makes from its advertisers on Adwords. The way it works is that advertisers pay top dollar to get their ads listed on Google. Google gets paid on every click that happens on the ad. By distributing the ads on your website and mine, they stand to gain more exposure, regain advertising funds quicker and also pay us good money!

Why you benefit
The reason Adsense has become so popular is because it allows websites like ours to earn good money from the commissions Google receives from advertisers. By just placing a couple of ads on the site, you can earn a good commission percentage. However, there are certain drawbacks that an Adsense program has.

What it can do for your site
One good thing about Adsense is its immediate ability to boost your page ranking and popularity on search engines. That way you tend to receive a lot of traffic to your affiliate site. Also, people with affiliate programs on their site can actually look at Adsense as an alternate way of supplementing their income. Adsense lets you monitor which ads are performing and earning you most income. They do this by placing some Javascript code into your site which monitors the performance. Most of the time the traffic that comes to your site will most likely not find what they are looking for, on your site alone. That’s where Adsense helps you. Even if customers don’t find what they’re looking for on your diet site, they can still visit the weight loss ads sponsored by Adsense and help provide you additional income. It basically provides you an alternate path to earn money online.
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I read some interesting debates about the perceived drop in Adsense earnings, which seems to have caused severe reductions in Adsense commissions paid to even formerly successful Adsense publishers of late. For once, Google as a company seems to be feeling some of the pain as well: the rate of growth in Adwords income over the last quarter was ‘only’ 30 per cent, as opposed to 45 per cent increase for the same period in 2006. As a result Google’s market price is also falling, as the company seems to be having trouble at YouTube. The Youth over there are not doing what Google wants: unlike the company’s other audience, they are failing to click on the ads!! The click rate on general sites is also down, the company has finally admitted – so it is not just a figment of the Adsense publishers’ mind.
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In case you have not heard, Google has decided to stop paying Adsense publishers in the UK and other countries for referrals of new Adsense publishers. They were advising publishers to remove any Adsense referral units from their web pages. But the referral facility is still continuing in many countries where Adsense publishers have readers, and they soon advised Google of the anomaly they had created. To their partial credit, Google have reconsidered their position and here is the latest advice from their blog:

The changes to referrals promoting AdSense will now depend on where your users are located, regardless of your location as a publisher. You’ll earn $100 for every user you refer to AdSense who is located in North America, Latin America or Japan when they generate $100 in AdSense revenue within 180 days and they remove all payment holds. You’ll no longer be paid for users you refer who are located elsewhere. These changes will go into effect the last week of January.

At least they have realised that the worldwide web extends beyond national boundaries but they still have not provided a reasonable explanation for taking another source of income away from Adsense publishers. Many Adsense sites have seen a huge fall in earnings over the recent few months and this is an unwelcome loss. Read more »

I am a big fan of Feedburner, all my feeds are channeled through the Feedburner site and that is the RSS address I submit to all directories and search engines. I have been hopefully waiting for the launch of FeedBurner site ads as an alternative source of income. Of course, Feedburner was then taken over by Google in the Autumn so I suppose it was inevitable that the ads served through Feedburner would be Adsense contextual ads. The new system is live over at Feedburner now, and makes it quite simple to start displaying Adsense for newbie bloggers. You can only run a300×250 or 468×60 size ads, and they will be set for text or image ads. I do not think this is the best option, I limit the ads to text only as my first choice. I was hoping that ads in RSS feeds would also be available but it seems like we have to wait a little longer for those.

If you have been asking yourself why your earnings per click appear to fall in inverse proportion to an increase in clickthrough rate, then here is a trite explanation from the Inside Adsense team:

Occasionally, we hear from publishers who are perplexed that their earnings don’t change despite an increase in CTR. This phenomenon can seem inexplicable, and when it happens, publishers may suspect that ’smart pricing’ has taken effect, or that Google is making revenue share changes. What’s really going on?

AdSense is unique because it’s designed to maximize eCPM for our publishers, taking into account both the advertiser’s cost-per-click (CPC) bid and the likelihood that the ad will be clicked. Some ads are attractive to a broad range of site visitors and will be clicked on more frequently. While this can be great for your CTR, advertisers are often bidding less for these kinds of broadly targeted ads. Other ads are attractive only to a small niche of users. Advertisers will typically pay more for these tightly targeted ads, but those ads are also less likely to get clicked.

Depending on ad inventory, you may see some days on which AdSense will show a lot of high CTR/low CPC variety ads. On other days, you may see the reverse. If you see this correlation in your own AdSense reports, keep in mind that we’re always working hard to maximize revenue for our publishers. One aspect of that is being able to best take advantage of the earnings characteristics of different kinds of ads.

Oh, so that’s all right then – now I have a nice Google explanation over why my Adsense earnings have fallen by sixty percent!