Posted on Mar 29, 2008 under Make Money Online |
What is AdSense all about and how can you really make it work for you? AdSense is an advertising program that has been developed by the people at Google. When you have AdSense running on your website or blog, Google places a number of text ads on your page. These are related to the content on your page. For example, if your website page is about car repairs, then AdSense runs ads about cars or auto mechanics- these usually appear along the side or at the top of the website. Every time someone clicks on an ad, you make money. This is fundamentally how AdSense works.AdSense is very tempting and looks easy to do. It means that your website starts generating money on it’s own. You just let the ads be and cash will be piling up for you. However, don’t get excited yet. More and more people are saying that they hardly get anything at all while there are lucky ones who generate an income of thousands of dollars a month from AdSense. So what’s the big secret? How did they do it?
The Secret Revealed: There is no secret! Those lucky ones just have a sharp understanding of how AdSense really work. Let me explain. AdSense is worked by keywords. And these keywords have their corresponding money values. One keyword can have a value of 50 cents while another is valued at 50 dollars per click. And those keywords with high values are the ones that are mostly entered in Google. Examples of high-paying keywords can be: diet, health, cars, loans, etc… Now, to gain big bucks on AdSense, you have to have these high-paying keywords on your website. The more keywords you have, the bigger the bucks.
Another thing to consider is the amount of visitors who will click those ads. You have to get those visitors to your website so they can view your content and those ads. So do your best to make your website look interesting, fill your space with content that is in relation to the ads you wish to run on your site, and sit back to see your profits grow!
Content and writing for AdSense keywords for your own site can be quite time-consuming. So you can either hire someone to write it for you, or post copyrighted content collected from other resources.
Posted on Mar 28, 2008 under Internet Business |
One thing that constantly bugs me about many of the products that get released is that they don’t tell you how to bring traffic to your site. You get a large e-book that tells you how to build an amazing site but not one chapter on traffic generationI don’t care how great a product is if it doesn’t show you how to generate good quality traffic then it’s almost worthless. If I was starting out again I wouldn’t spend money on any tools or e-books until I had mastered the art of traffic generation, and it really is an art of getting traffic to a site.
You can have the best looking site in the world, with the perfect keywords but if you don’t know how to firstly attract the search engine spiders and then real human visitors then the site is going to have no value. Try selling a website and the first thing you will be asked is “What is the Income & what’s the traffic” The income is not particularly important. If I am buying a site I actually want the income to be as low as possible as it will be cheaper for me. Given a choice of a site with an income of $100 a month and 1000 visitors or a site with $10 per month and 2000 Visitors I’ll always go for the visitors.
Take time to develop your own traffic delivery system and you’ll have one less thing to worry about. Take time to find out what works and what doesn’t. I created a video for my members yesterday about how to get a site indexed and start generating traffic and I found something that got a new site into Google in less than 18 hours.
Using that method was completely new to me and although it impressed me it might have been a lucky one-off. I used it on another new domain this morning and found that it only took 3 hours before my site was referenced in Google. 3 Hours! Now that is very impressive.
It’s not surprising that the method I used isn’t listed in any manuals or e-books. Search engines constantly change the weighting they gives sites. it wasn’t long ago that Squidoo was the most important place to have a link to your site, that’s not the case anymore.
One great method of seeing what services and sites are worth putting your links on is by looking at Internet marketing niches. Internet marketers have never been slow in finding the best ways of getting indexed. Look at what sites are ranking for various search terms. If you find a web 2.0 site or a blog site test it on your sites and see how it performs. If it gives you results add it to your list of traffic generators.
By planning your traffic generation using the tools you discover you can quickly start to dominate search engine listings. By careful manipulation of your linking strategies it is often possible to grab many of the top 10 listings.