Monday, August 20, 2007

Get the Most Active Ingredient for Successful Blogging

I’m sure you had been around (months or years) surfing the net. Over time you have found your favorite blogs. These are the blogs you visited frequently if not daily. But have you asked yourself, what made these blogs your favorite? One prime reason is because they offer you fresh content, regularly and consistently. Offering fresh content regularly and consistently made you their regular reader and that made them too, successful.What will you feel if one of your favorite blog made no new post for a day? Maybe, you say - it’s fine. What about a week or couple of weeks? If you are like me, I will drop the blog from my favorite list if no new post will be made for two weeks. But most people will drop it in one week time.The same is true with your blog. If you made no post for a certain time, your readership will drop and that goes with your traffic. What is ironic in the online world is that, it is so easy to lose readership and traffic but it’s hard to build them.Commitment is greatly involve in writing fresh content regularly and consistently. And if you want your blogging to be successful, you must make the commitment to blog consistently for a stretch of time. It’s insufficient to blog regularly for few days and then stop for few weeks.If you’ve been convinced blogging is work and blogging makes money, then you must hurdle to overcome the notion that blogging is for the short term. In fact, to grow your blog, you need to write for the intermediate-to-long term to see some kind of return on your time.There are other great reasons for blogging regularly and consistently over a stretch of time. Having built a body of content allows Google and other search engines time to find you and get your blog out of the Sandbox, thus increasing your blog traffic from the search engine more. This will also allow you to prove to your readers that you’re in it for a longer term and you know what you’re talking about. Most of all, the time and commitment of blogging regularly and consistently will make your blog attractive not only to the search engine and readers but most especially, this will open new gates for your blog to multiple online stream revenues. Remember, build traffic and money will just come.So, how to possess the most active ingredient for successful blogging? Simple, write regularly and consistently.At the end of the day, the reality of blogging, is that to be successful, you’ve got to write regularly and consistently, and you’ve got to find the time to do it.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Top google adsense earners

While your blog loaded with Google adsense ads makes a miserly few dollars over the week, some top Adsense publishers are laughing their way the bank with thousands of adsense dollars per month… Have you often wondered who these top Adsense millionaires to be are?

John Chow has an article listing the top 8 Google Adsense earners. Top of his list is Markus Frind of
PlentyOfFish.com, a free online dating site which earns him $300,000 per month. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views per month and make over $10,000 per day for Markus, who runs the site from home. Look at his adsense cheque. And you thought dating and romance site were low paying niches due to low priced keywords. The ads there do not even resemble that of a premium adsense publisher.

Second on the list is Kevin Rose of the very popular Digg.com earning huge money with $250,000 per month. Jeremy Shoemaker is a search engine marketer at ShoeMoney who follows with $140,000 per month.

Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc. is earning $120,000 per month. He finally got his network of blogs making over $4,000 a day from Google AdSense. I remember he was making $2000 per day a year back and were on track to earn a million adsense dollars in a year!

Read the article to check out more adsense millionaires. I am sure there are many more top Adsense publishers who chose stay anonymous and quietly stack their millions of dollars in the bank. I wonder how much adsense income tax they pay…

100 Google AdSense Tips

Webmasters everywhere can participate in Google AdSense programme where Google will serve advertisements on the webmasters’ sites in exchange for some payment. If you are a webmaster and have not put AdSense, consider to do so.

Part 1.
  1. AdSense Earning = Impression-count x Click-though-rate x Cost-per-click x smart-pricing-factor.
  2. Impression count is basically referring to your traffic. It means the number of times AdSense block is displayed.
  3. Click-through-rate (CTR) is ratio of clicks per impressions. It can range from 0.1% to 30%, but most commonly around 1% to 10%.
  4. Cost-per-click (CPC) is the earning you get per click. While traditionally it refers to the amount advertisers pay for each click, it can also mean the amount publishers get for each click.
  5. Smart-pricing is AdSense method to determine how valuable clicks from your site is worth. If clicks on your site doesn’t provide good value to advertisers, e.g. from visitors’ geo-location that seldom translate to sales, you will only get a fraction of the supposed CPC.
  6. Apply for AdSense account via blogger.com for faster approval.
  7. Once you get your AdSense publisher code, you can put it any of your websites without requiring further approval.
  8. Read and reread Google AdSense Program Policies and Terms and Conditions.Don’t click on your own ads, or ask people to click, even if you are using proxies.
  9. Don’t use click-bots.
  10. Don’t encourage your visitors to click on ads. The only acceptable text is “Sponsored Links” and “Advertisements”.
  11. Don’t put competitor contextual ads on the same page as your AdSense, for example: Yahoo Publisher Network, Clicksor. Non-contextual ads are ok.
  12. Don’t put your ads on objectionable material, e.g. adult sites, gambling sites, mp3, etc.
  13. Basically, don’t cheat AdSense. Google will catch you, sooner or later.Viewing your on website will not get you banned. Just make sure you don’t click on the ads.
  14. However, repeatedly reload your page to jack up page impressions can get you banned.
  15. When in doubt don’t hesitate to contact the AdSense team. They are very helpful.
  16. Choose a high paying niche without too much competition.
  17. You can try highest paying keywords from cwire.org, but know before-hand that you’ll face very fierce competitions.Use Overture Bid Tool and Search Engine Keyword Tool to find suitable keyword.