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Here’s a potential way to make money from Google that is not AdWords or AdSense related.

You can sign up to help them test products through Google User Experience Research.

If they select you, you have an opportunity to make money by either traveling to them, or right from your own computer.

In the FAQ the answer to the question “Do I Get Paid?” states:

Yes – it depends on the type of study, but typically we pay $75 for each hour that you spend with a Google researcher, either in person or on the phone. Most studies last for one to one-and-a-half hours. We don’t pay for your travel time, or travel expenses, though. For online surveys, which you complete from your own computer, the amount varies, depending on the length of the survey.

I’m not sure how good your chances are at being selected, but if this sounds like something you might be interested in, you can check it out here.

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A number of publishers have asked us if it’s acceptable to place multiple publishers’ ad code on the same page or site. Often they’ll run into this issue when two AdSense publishers manage a site together and both want to display their ads, or if a site owner hosts content and ads from other publishers on the same page as their own.The answer is that yes, we do allow this. But before you place your ad code on the same page or site as another publisher, here are a few important points to keep in mind:The maximum number of products per page will remain the same.If you don’t own the site, you’ll need to receive permission from the site owner to display your ads on their pages.We’re unable to divide earnings between accounts, so any revenue generated will be credited to the account associated with the ad unit that was clicked or viewed.Any shared site that displays Google ads must also comply with our program policies.You’re responsible for the content of any page where your ad code appears. Before placing your ad code on another publisher’s site, we recommend reviewing the site for any policy violations. And one final tip before giving your code to another publisher — try using our Allowed Sites feature to monitor where your ads are appearing and keep your account in good standing.Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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With all of the different AdSense products we now offer, it can be tough to keep track of the maximum number of each type of unit that our program policies allow. To help you remember these important numbers, here’s a list.On any policy-compliant page, you can display:ONE…- video unit (currently only available in specific countries and languages, though we’re working to expand video units to additional publishers soon)TWO…- AdSense for search boxesTHREE…- standard AdSense for content ad units, and- 3 link unitsWhile you can place all of these on one page, please also keep the user experience in mind. We strongly recommend maintaining a balance between the number of ads and the unique, quality content on your site, which will keep your readers engaged and coming back for more. Also, the more text-based content you have on your site, the more relevant your ads will be.If you’d like help with generating ad code for additional ad units, feel free to review our Generating Ad Code video or our Quick Start Guide.Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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Many of you have probably heard that Google’s Keyword Tool has now added search volume. For those that haven’t this is a major upgrade and I am mentioning this due to the number of emails I get asking about what keyword tools to use. It seems that not everyone is aware of what Google has just done. In the past you could use the Keyword Tool in order to find related keywords in order to target your adwords campaigns. Google would provide a list of terms as well as show you how competitive each term was in the form of a little green bar - much like the PR bar. The problem was that this only told you a term had more or less competition than other terms. In other words it basically told you whether there were a lot of other adword campaigns targeting a keyword. This was fine if you ran adword campaigns. The shortfall has been the lack of actual search traffc numbers. Most of us don’t run adwords campaigns (PPC) but rather want to know how many searches a keyword gets each month in order to create Adsense blogs. We don’t need to know how many adword advertisers there are aside from knowing that a few exist. We want to know how many people are looking for the keywords we build our blog around.Now Google is finally releasing a monthly estimate of actual searches done. This means that you no longer have to buy a program like Keyword Elite to give you this info. This doesn’t render keyword elite useless though as it still has many other functions that are useful in regards to keyword research that isn’t available elsewhere for free. It does mean that beginners can finally access search data for free from a reliable source - the best source in fact. Google.I have compared a few lists between Keyword Elite and Google’s Keyword Tool and the numbers are significantly different - not a surprise though as only Google will have estimates that come close to reality.I ran the term “How to Make Money” through both programs and have posted the results below. I was always aware that the numbers provided by Keyword Elite were severely low in the past based on my own stats.Here are the results for last month provided by Keyword Elite.(Click to enlarge all images)I picked the term “How to Make Money” because it is a term that I rank number 1 or 2 for in most data centers. I know how many visitors I had last month searching for this term. My own stats added up to just over 9200 visitors for that term. Keyword Elite estimated the “Total” traffic for the term last month as 7450 searches. I don’t get all the traffic for the term but clearly I received far more than what the estimate states. I have long noticed this in regards to the estimates released by Keyword Elite and hence have known that the numbers are usually only a fraction of real traffic. I didn’t know how low the estimates were however but now I do.The image below shows Google’s estimate for “How to Make Money”.As you can see Keyword Elite provided only a third of the real traffic. Google estimates 22,000 searches and this makes more sense and jives with the traffic I see. Position 1 should capture at least half the total traffic and I do in a rough sense. It’s not exact as I bounce back and forth between the top 2 spots. I have compared several other keywords that I rank well for and the Google search results do appear pretty accurate which of course they should - who would know better than Google?The end result is that I encourage you all to take advantage of this resource. You can now know far better than before just how much traffic any particular keyword might be expected to produce. This is one of if not the most important factors to know before you start building your blogs. And it’s free.You can find Google’s Keyword Tool here.On another issue - let’s talk about Alexa. Have any of you managed to figure out what the hell they are doing. I am mystified by the results I get from them. I see huge swings from day to day and yet my traffic is pretty much stable from day to day; pretty much the same amount of uniques, return visitors and page views and yet one day I will rank 27,000 and the very next day 450,000. I have been assuming that the “new” sampling they use has a few bugs in it to account for these ridiculous numbers. Since I began the new MMO blog I am even more mystified. The new blog is averaging a few hundred daily uniques and this blog averages several thousand. So why is my new blog kicking this blogs ass in the Alexa rankings?The stats for yesterday for this blog.Same day stats for Make Money Online with Grizzly Just curious what everyone thinks of the NEW Alexa rankings. Do any of you find them accurate in relation to your own stats? Are you getting wild swings as well even though your traffic is stable? I was hoping that the new system would prove to be reliable if only because a traffic benchmark would be a handy bit of info to have especially for advertising purposes or when purchasing existing domains. At the moment I have to think Alexa is no better or more accurate than before. Let me know what you think.Cheers,Griz

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Today AdSense publishers (or at least some of them) received the following email outlining some recent ‘changes and improvements’ to the Google ad system.

These changes largely revolve around new features that they’ve added to AdWords to let advertisers target websites differently (more control).

One of the big changes is the introduction of ‘Ad Planner’ (currently in an invite only beta test) which allows advertisers to search for sites with certain demographics and interests. Advertisers can now also target sites with a combination of both contextual targeting (having their ads appear on pages with certain keywords) as well as placement targeting (targeting specific sites and ad positions on them).

Really there are no changes in terms of features for us as publishers - but it will be interesting to see how these changes impact the bottom line. It should advantage bloggers targeting specific niches and lucrative demographics (what those demographics are we’re yet to see). It’s also incentive to develop blog posts that target popular keywords to advertisers. It could hurt sites with more mixed topics and demographics.

Here’s the email from AdSense.

As one of our AdSense partners, we’d like to keep you updated on changes and improvements to the Google ads ecosystem. We’re writing to let you know about some recent developments in how advertisers can find and target your sites, which are intended to bring more advertisers to the AdSense content network. We hope that this will result in increased revenue for publishers like you while also benefiting your users with even more relevant ads.

We’ve recently launched Google Ad Planner, a media planning tool which will help give your sites more visibility and exposure. Using Ad Planner, media buyers can search for sites by demographics and interest. This will be useful especially for sites with niche audiences, since it’ll now be easier for advertisers to find sites that attract the types of visitors they’d like to target. As a publisher, you can also use the tool to gain insight into your audience and their preferences. We’re still beta-testing Ad Planner, but you can sign up for an invitation at http://www.google.com/adplanner/.

Also, we’ve recently made a change within AdWords to allow advertisers to target their ads through a combination of contextual targeting and placement targeting. Advertisers can continue to create campaigns targeted to your sites or ad placements, but can now also add keywords to those campaigns so that their ads appear only in the most contextually relevant placements. In addition, advertisers can now adjust bids by individual site in order to spend more of their budgets on specific sites which give them the most high-quality, converting leads. These changes may help improve the relevance of the ads on your sites, and advertisers who become more confident that their ads are reaching the right audience may increase their ad spend on the content network and on your sites.

With these improvements, we’re looking forward to expanding the number of advertisers who use the AdSense content network, helping them find your sites, and increasing the relevance of their ads on your sites. You can find more information about Ad Planner at http://adwords.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-google-ad-planner.html and the AdWords changes mentioned above at http://adwords.blogspot.com/2008/07/use-keywords-and-placements-together-on.html . If you have additional concerns, please contact your account manager. We’re working towards strengthening the relationship between our AdWords and AdSense partners, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted on these types of developments in the future.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

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If you’re an avid Inside AdSense reader, you know that we frequently post about the latest developments in AdSense and new features you can take advantage of. However, we’ve heard from some publishers that they want to know more about what’s happening in AdWords, and what we’re doing to bring more relevant, targeted ads to AdSense sites like yours. With that, we’d like to take a moment to give you insight into a few recent AdWords developments, and what they mean for you as an AdSense publisher. One of the main changes is the ability for advertisers to be more specific with their ad targeting through a combination of contextual targeting and placement targeting. As you may know, contextually targeted ads will appear on your pages if an advertiser’s keywords match your content, while placement-targeted ads will appear if an advertiser has specifically selected your ad placement or site. Now, advertisers can target your site or placements, but can also specify keywords for them so that their ads only appear in the most relevant pages. These ads will still need to compete with the available inventory of ads for a particular placement, and so only the highest-paying, most relevant ads will appear on your pages. At the same time, you’ll still be able to use your Competitive Ad Filter to prevent ads from specific URLs from appearing.What does this mean for you, as an AdSense publisher? Your users may see more relevant ads on your pages, and advertisers who become more confident that their ads are reaching the right audience may increase their ad spend — both of these can result in higher monetization for you. In addition, while advertisers previously could only change their bids for all ads running across multiple sites, they can now adjust their bids for individual sites. This means that advertisers can spend more of their budgets on the specific AdSense sites which perform well and generate high-quality leads for the advertiser.With these recent improvements, we’re looking forward to expanding the number of advertisers who use the AdSense content network and increasing the relevance of their ads on your sites. Not only will this increase your earnings potential through the AdSense program, but it will also strengthen the ads ecosystem that benefits publishers, advertisers, and users.Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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(To the tune of “Strangers in the Night”)”Publishers with websites, creating contentWondering about their sitesIf with their content, they could show some adsBefore the day was doneSomething in AdSense, was so invitingSomething about those ads, was so excitingSomething in our Help CenterTold them they must be onePublishers with websites, yearning for earningsThey were just publishers with websitesUp to the momentWhen they placed their first ad codeLittle did they knowRevenue was just a click awayA happy-user-generated click away and –Ever since that day, they’ve been monetizingNewbies at the start, they’re now optimizingIt turned out so rightFor publishers with websites.Newbie, newbie dooo, da da da daaaa da…”If my lyrical effort didn’t clue you in, and our Newbie Central resource wasn’t a big enough clue, let me come right out and say it: we care about new publishers. For the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing that caring every Friday, with posts especially intended for all the publishers who have recently joined AdSense, fresh and green like a newly mown lawn in the summertime.Now let’s see if we can apply that same spirit of new beginnings to your sites.Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support

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Since our announcement about retiring AdSense Referrals during the last week of August, we’ve noticed a number of questions in your blog comments and in our Help Forum. In this post, we’ll address some of the most frequently asked questions.When you say ‘AdSense Referrals’ are being retired, does this only mean the program where I refer publishers to AdSense?No, all referrals will be retired. This applies to referrals for AdWords advertisers, as well as for Google products.What’s the deadline for generating referral conversions once the program has been retired?In order for you to be credited for a conversion, the referred user must complete the required action by the last week of September 2008. However, please keep in mind that your referral units will no longer display after the last week of August.I have referral earnings in my account, but they haven’t been included in a payment yet. Will I lose all past referral earnings?No. If you’ve had successful referral conversions in the past, they’ll still be included in your earnings and future payments. As mentioned above, any additional conversions must occur by the last week of September 2008 in order to generate earnings for your account.Can I sign in to the Google Affiliate Network with my AdSense login information? At this time, no. You’ll need to create a new login and password on the Google Affiliate Network site at http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/ .Will my ad units and search boxes be affected by this Referrals change?No, AdSense for content and AdSense for search will still be available to publishers in our supported languages, and you can continue to generate ad and search code by visiting your AdSense Setup tab.Thanks for your feedback, and we hope this helps provide clarification. Feel free to visit our Help Center for additional details about the AdSense Referrals retirement.Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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As of a couple of days ago the link network Backlink Solutions became the latest casualty in Google’s war on paid links. The entire roster of BS blogs was de-indexed and effectively ends what was once a useful program for getting backlinks. If you belong to the program you might think about canceling your membership and cease using the blogs. I contacted Chad and Colin - the owners of BS, and alerted them to the problem and aside from “we are looking into this”, I haven’t heard back from them. I have waited two days to publish this in the event that it was just a temporary glitch in the serp’s (all blogspot blogs were de-indexed briefly a month ago but came back online a few days later) but this was more wishful thinking than anything else.For those who have been using the system you may want to track your rankings and see if there is any fallout. This is a good reminder of why you should never rely on any 1 program or system for creating backlinks. Speaking of backlinks I would like to thank everybody for the support I have received unveiling my new blog “Make Money Online with Grizzly“. I certainly didn’t expect 100 plus comments on a new site with just 1 post but you folks are amazing. I really need to thank some of my biggest supporters and urge others to take the time and visit some of these wonderful blogs.My thanks to; Frank and his make money review blog OpTempo.Costa and his make money blogging site Blogigs.Vic’s make money online blog - Blogger Unleashed.Denise and her make money at home blog - How to Make Money Online at Home.Lamach’s web site design blog - Lamach Web Site Design John who could use a hand promoting his cell phone accessories site - Z-TelIrene at her Internet marketing for small business blog - Strange DuckSteve and his make money reviews site - NoovyTerry at his make money blog - The Honest WayI will send out more thank you’s in upcoming posts to all those who have been kind enough to send luv to the new blog. Thanks again everyone. (If I miss anyone please let me know)Why create Make Money Online with Grizzly?Several of you have asked if this is the end of this blogger blog in response to the news that I have started a new MMO blog. Not at all. One of the constraints of this blog all along is that it makes money from adsense. This has meant having to optimize everything I write with consideration given to the Adsense bot rather than my readers. There are lots of things I would like to discuss but don’t simply because it will bugger up my SEO and lower my earnings. This site was built for search traffic. The new site is built for social traffic. I can write freely on the new site without having to concern myself with SEO as much. I say “as much” because I will still optimize the site for keywords but I can now post non-relevant topics as well.The other reason for the new blog should be obvious to those of you who have been following along with me for a while. Once you build up one authority site use it to build up more. And not just your own. Help your friends build up theirs. Create a network. I’m not talking spam sites - real legit quality content sites. I’ll be creating a page on the new site with a list of my friends online. These are people who all understand the importance of networking with others. If you are new here then these are the people you should visit and get to know them, leave comments, link to posts you like, become friends. They cover many niches - not just “Make Money Online” and we all know how hard backlinks are to find. Having friends makes this so much easier.The list will be on going and will take a bit to complete but if you want on it just send me an email. If you are a “pay it forward” kind of person we would love to have you join us.Cheers,Griz

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NerdyNews.com looks like a website that lists out current news articles and is an AdSense API partner. They basically offer you 50/50 revenue share for submitting a story to their site.

Thanks for the shirt guys.

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In addition to participating in the AdSense network, you may also be interested in having your site ranked in organic Google search. In this post, I’ll highlight some important points for search optimization. While there’s no a magic formula to make your site show up first on a search results page, there are some good practices when it comes to links, design, content, and the structure of your site.First of all, as a reminder, Google organic search and AdSense are independent of each other. Displaying AdSense ads on a site won’t change the ranking of the site in Google search in any way. So it follows that sites containing AdSense ads don’t receive special treatment in Google search. Ranking in Google search is based on many different algorithms, and optimization for search is a long, continuous process. For these reasons, and because the techniques might violate our guidelines, we recommend avoiding any techniques that claim to optimize your ranking very quickly or radically. If you have concerns or questions, you can consult other webmasters on a number of forums, including Google’s official forum for webmaster-related issues.We encourage you to monitor the quality of your site’s backlinks — links from any site directing to your site. To increase your site’s popularity, check if other sites that discuss similar topics or have a similar reader base are aware your site exists.Outgoing links are also important and should comply with our guidelines. When you create a link to another site, we recommend first asking yourself: “Is this link going to be useful for my visitors?” or “Is this link likely to be clicked by my visitors?”. Don’t participate in link schemes or buy/sell links that pass PageRank, as it is against our guidelines and may hurt your site’s performance in our search results.Here are some tips for structuring your site:Your pages should have a clear hierarchy and relevant internal links. We also recommend creating a Sitemap and using Google’s Webmaster Tools. These tools are useful, user-friendly and will provide information such as where your backlinks come from or which queries visitors used to reach your site.Use <title> tags that are explicit and useful for the user. For example, avoid a title like “Homepage” or “Welcome to my site”.For images, use ALT attributes to describe appropriately what the image is about. We’ve recently created a quick and useful YouTube video to further explain this topic: Also, adding original and compelling content on a regular basis may help Google crawl your pages regularly. It can have the added benefit of attracting links to your pages too. Finally, design your site with your users in mind, and be patient and consistent in your efforts. To attract quality backlinks and develop your optimization strategy, it’s important to keep a clear structure for your pages and regularly add organic content.Posted by Ambroise Fensterbank - Search Quality Evaluator

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What do you get when you combine the contextual advertising of Google AdSense with an interactive shopping widget that can offer some pretty good deals to the visitors of your site. In some respects, TinyMassive.com may just look like another shopping-based ad network, but over the course of doing this review, I came to discover that it has a few unique qualities as well.

Contextual Shopping Ads

When it comes to most shopping-based advertising networks, the ads that get served are based on you selecting a particular category or defining a set of keywords. For example, if you have a blog that talks mostly about home entertainment, it wouldn’t make any sense for you to have ads trying to sell patio furniture. You might provide keywords like television, speakers, and Blu-ray.

The shopping widgets offered by TinyMassive offer this kind of utility, but it is also possible to base the content of your advertising on the dynamic content of your site or blog. It’s contextual, spidering through your website just like how Google would. This way, if you happen to be talking more about video games these days rather than home theatre equipment, the ads can automatically reflect this.

Getting Started with TinyMassive

Before we go any further, it may be worthwhile to talk a little bit about the name of this particular ad network. When I first heard it, I immediately thought of a recent technology trade show that took place in Vancouver (Mini Massive). This probably won’t be a big deal in terms of branding, but it may have been better to have a more unique name for your network. Something a little more memorable and without a myriad of possible synonyms would be good.

Anyhow, there is no approval process to get started as a publisher with TinyMassive. You don’t even need to confirm your email address (not a good thing). All you have to do is fill out a simple three-page form and you are already set up with your first shopping widget. From there, you can proceed to the dashboard.

The user control panel is very simple, granting you “at a glance” access to your current conversion rate, recent stats, and a link to your defined widgets. The trouble is that the navigation is not immediately obvious. It would have been better if there was a clear navigation toolbar or list of links somewhere. Instead, they are scattered around the page.

Building Your Widgets, Checking Your Stats

Setting up your ad widgets is a three-step process, much like the original registration process.

In the first step, you can name your widget, choose its size (728 leaderboard, 250 square, 160 skyscraper, 125 button, or 160×280), and how you would like the widget to be filled with products. The content can be contextual, based on the most popular products from the network, or based on supplied tags. It is also here that you define the URL where the widget will be displayed.

When you are done, you can click on “get code” and the panel will shift to the left. A single line of Javascript is produced. For your third and final step, copy and paste this line of code to where you would like the widget to be displayed. Here is a shopping widget installed on my fighting games blog.

The widget comes with three areas of interactivity for your visitors. There is a rating for the displayed product (thumbs up or down), a product scroller (left and right), and a price/store slider. The least expensive price is with the slider all the way to the left. I’m not entirely sure what a star means.

Stats, Referrals, and Payment

Since I’ve been running the ads for such a short while, it wouldn’t be completely fair for me to judge the monetary performance of TinyMassive. Showing you my reports wouldn’t do you much good, but I did find a sample report in the TinyMassive blog.

You’d assume that they display the realistic-to-optimistic end of the money spectrum. It could be that the network is still very young, but this report doesn’t look all that appealing. The click-thru rate is pretty good, but the average CPC is only $0.01. The referral statistics are currently integrated into the main report, but they hope to separate them out at some point.

Regarding the referral program, you earn 10% of the commissions earned by the sites that you refer to TinyMassive. Yup, you get 1/10th of a penny for every penny that your buddy earns. At least payment (via PayPal) is reasonably easy, because the net-30 payment terms only require a minimum balance of $10.

I think the shopping widgets are pretty neat and come with some cool features, but until revenue levels improve, it’s hard to recommend TinyMassive. As it stands, the network offers tiny payouts… but hopefully a massive upside in the future.

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You must have head the word “Adwords Adsense Arbitrage” a lot in the past, where people used to buy clicks from Adwords, to some high paying niche, and used to make more money (then they used to spend Adwords) with Adsense on the site. So that was the time when some people have really made some huge money.

But have you ever thought of making money with link arbitrage? Well, what is link arbitrage?
Ok, as of today there was no such term as link arbitrage, but I have just thought of this term to describe a type of arbitrage where you sell links for more and buy links for cheap.

How does that work? How can we make money out of it?
Let me explain you this concept with the help of a real life example.

I have a desktop wallpaper PR4 site which has around 40,000 pages listed in Google. Most of the pages have a PR (at-least PR1). But it is a niche where advertisers don’t like pay good money. But still the site is famous and people do visit it a lot.

I have another finance related site which is not very old and has PR2 as of today. It has around 200 pages. I need back-links for this website. I also need back-links to the internal pages of the website.

So, I the concept of use link arbitrage. I sell links on my PR5 desktop wallpaper site through TNX. Per month TNX which makes make me around 460,000 tnx points (equivalent to $400+). I use TNX to sell links because it is really very effective is selling links on lower page PR sites (PR0 and PR1 pages).

Out of these $400, I use around $150 to get 500+ low PR back-links (Pr1 and PR2) to my finance site from TNX itself. Then I go to back links and spend the other $150 to buy “11 PR5 home page links” and “13 PR4 internal page links” from finance related sites.

Now in the process, I am getting 11 PR5 links, 13 PR4 links, hundreds or PR1 and PR2 links from finance related sites and also saving $100/month. What I am giving is 2 links on each page of my PR4 desktop wallpaper site.

For some of you who don’t have an idea about the relative values of PR Here is some info to help you:

1 PR4 link is equivalent to 166 PR1 links
1 PR5 link is equivalent to 16,803 PR1 links
1 PR6 link is equivalent to 92,414 PR1 links
1 PR7 link is equivalent to 508,277 PR1 links
1 PR8 link is equivalent to 2,795,522 PR1 links

Do don’t you think I am doing great by getting high PR back-links and also making money in the process? If you think this is great, than go and grab such opportunities (TNX & back links)before they are saturated. You can also use text link ads but its difficult with them to sell links.

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PPC Services like Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Bidvertiser, Clicksor pay you only when you get clicks on the ads hosted on your web pages. Its always recommended to use the most simple theme while running PPC ads on your website because KISS [Keep It Simple Stupid] logic works everywhere. Here are some of the reasons for the recommendations.

1. Visitors would move away from your website if you have a high graphics slow loading theme for your blog.

2. Simple & neat themes makes visitors to browse for a longer period on your blog and this in turns offers you more browsing time by the visitor and more page views. The more page views would mean more chances of clicks and more revenue.

3. When you check out the demo of wordpress themes like revolution news theme, you can get impressed by these themes because of nice graphics, layouts but when you implement ppc ads you can not expect more than 1% CTR on these kind of themes. Also the demo would offer 1-2 youtube on the best ads locations which when removed would make your theme look worst.

4. There are many simple wordpress 2/3 column themes and one more reason for this recommendation is that these themes are not more than 100kb in total size and would super quick and have the lowest coding making the page sizes very small and helping the pages get indexed more quickly in the search engines. The smaller page size is the better optimizations can be made.

5. High Graphics themes use mouse over effects, image resizing effects etc which are all supported using java and generally its recommended to ignore using java codes on your blogs.

6. Theme is not the only reason but your ads placement also effects a lot and generally 3 column wordpress are the best ones because on one column you can have the categories/recent posts, content in the center column and ppc ads on the other sidebar. If you have a complex theme it would be hard for setting up the adverts and also getting better Click Through Rate.

7. If your website has a high subsriber base then its recommended to use different ad layouts regularly to give a new fresh look and expect the same CTR/Revenue levels or else the ads placement would make them ad blind.

8. If your website gets visitors mainly from search engines or first time visitors then you can continue with the same theme because it wont matter much if you make any changes. In this case you should focus mainly on using wordpress plugins like Welcome Visitor! Reloaded to make sure they subscribe to your blog and continue their visits.

9. Use wordpress themes which offers you with easy customization because its recommended to avoid duplicate content on the blogs by removing the archieve pages and adding just a small part of your article on your homepage by adding a ‘excerpt’ using this code - <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

10. Limiting the outbound links because there is no point in having a blog with numerous outbound links which would pass out your internet page rank and rankings.

This Article is written by Amit Bhawani who offers Tech Support and tips for new bloggers who want to make money by blogging.

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This article will show you how a smart 15 minutes can double your ad revenue.

This guest post was written by Shaun Connell, the webmaster of Make Money, a free resource for individuals who want to understand the business theory behind making money online.

The bottom line of a business is profit, and the e-business is no different. Incredibly enough, sometimes we completely miss this simple concept. Given this, website oriented and designed to effectually increase profits serves the ultimate purpose of the website-based business, and is justified. Or, to be cliche: show me the money.

Beautiful but Stupid

Incredibly, there are often huge flaws in web design that completely ignores the proven ways of maxing profit without cutting into style. I honestly have no idea why this happens, but it’s incredibly predominant, even in “Adsense Optimized” web design. Even beautiful sites miss web usability. This costs thousands.

You can double your profit and make money twice as fast if you simply rework your design on basic principles of web-usability. Figure out what works best, then do it. Figure out where to place your ads, then place them there. It doesn’t take more than a few minutes, and can end up making you tens of thousands over time.

How Readers Read

Jakob Nielsen is a usability expert, or, maybe I should say he is the usability expert. He’s the foremost expert on making websites work. Literally. Getting visitors to stay longer, make a sale, subscribe to the newsletter, click an ad…this is who Jaokob Nielsen is. He wrote a report regarding a reading pattern study recently done, explaining some outrageously important findings.

Unfortunately, visitors don’t read all of our pages. They don’t read every word. They skip a lot, and scan for highlights. Visitors ignore almost everything. This means that some areas of the page are seen more than others, meaning that some places are better for advertisements than others.

It’s vital. And it tells us something that can be used to make money at twice the rate you were before.

In 15 minutes you could save up to 15% or more on your ad placements…

1. Middle Ads

Advertisements in the middle means outrageous amounts of extra clicks, and extra earnings. You can multiply your advertisement earnings by simply targetting the traffic in the middle, directly under your article titles. It works. It’s the best place for a single ad block.

2. Left Sidebar Ads

Incredibly, the biggest bloggers in the industry usually have a sidebar on the right with their advertisements, instead of on the left. The left converts more…way more. Money is literally being left at the table. This isn’t just about ads. Subscriptions, navigation links… an incredible amount of extra traffic and earnings is simply being forgotten because of the lack of fifteen minutes of preperation.

Do your homework, analyze the best places to place your ads, then do it. It only takes a few minutes of follow up, especially if you use wordpress. In 15 minutes, you could double your advertiser earnings.

Now go do it.

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