Adsense Strategy for Blog
I might have titled this “Does Adsense work for blogs?” but I suspect it’s based on the blog (I know other US residents whose blogs create enough cash for them to retire someplace where the cost of living is low). For most new blogs, that’s probably not going to happen. Basically Ankesh uses Adsense to pick up extra dollars to pay for additional traffic but relies on other avenues to make better money as he discusses.
From his Blogclout Blog
On this blog, I’ve placed Adsense ads in three places:
1. Just above the Title of all blog posts.
2. In the Sidebar.
3. Above Comments in the single post pages.
Because of that, one of the most common questions I get (especially from beginner bloggers) is: should they place Adsense on their blogs too?
Should You Place Adsense Ads on Your Blog?
My answer:
* Yes place Adsense ads on your blogs.
* But not to make money from it.
* But to increase traffic to your blogs.
Adsense is not a good source to make money. The payout on average is $1 to $1.5 per 1000 page views. So if you receive 10,000 page views a month, you will earn a whooping $10! Maybe good for a pizza. Not something you can retire on.
So why use Adsense at all?
1. Adsense ads are the most “relevant” ads. I like Adsense over other ad networks or manual ad placement only because of that one reason: relevancy.
2. But the main reason to place Adsense (or any other ads) on your blog is: to increase your blog traffic.
Any money I make from Adsense, I pump back into promoting this blog.
Action Summary:
* Place Adsense codes on your blog. But don’t expect to make a lot of money out of it.
* Use the little money you earn from Adsense to promote your blog. (Read this blog regularly and I’ll share with you the best places to pay and promote your blog.)
How Many Site Should You Build to Earn Money?
How many blog do you have right now? Do you have blog more than 5?
Two basic question when I reading some post at adsense-id forum at adsense sub forum.
Why I’m asking about that? This article for you who monetize your site by google adsense, adbrite, TLA etc. I will present two opinion about ‘how many site should you build to earn money?’.
Opinion A :
Build as many as you can. If you can earn 1$/day from 1 blog, so you must create 20 blog to gain 20$/day and 600$/month.
Opinion B:
Just focus with small amount of blog but optimized it until you can get 20$/day only from one blog.
I will not judge one of those opinion is wrong. But I will write the pro and the cons from each opinion. So its your own decision to choose which one is the best or you.
Pros
Opinion A :
1. You only need to use copy and paste content to build so many blog at one time. It easier than writing unique content like what I do.
2. Some people said, earning will be faster come to your pocket even in small amount than if you focus in one blog. For example, with same blog status (Same age, same post etc), many blog will be earn more than if you only have one blog.
Opinion B:
1. You don’t need many time to post content. Even its difficult to write organic content, but only writing one article and post it will save your time (especially if you Dial Up user like me) .
2. You can make all your post at the top of Search Engine since you get attention with SEO for each post.
Cons
Opinion A :
1. Non original content might make your blog difficult to indexed by Search Engine unless you edit the content.
2. With handle so many site, you might ‘miss’ something. Not optimized tag, not be able to update daily etc.
Opinion B:
1. If you not good in optimizing it, you will not earning much.
Now… its my time to sharing my experiment.
Easy Step to Earn Money is my first blog that build last year (July 07). I’m focus with this blog until I have plan to make Video Blog to collect my Video collection at layartancap.com. And this Video Blog was build at August 07 and become useless blog since I only post base on my favorite video that time. If I’m lazy it neglected. lol No adsense at this site since video will break terms if it not come from youtube.
At first October 2007, I have idea to created Indonesian cosplayer Data and put it at some blog. So I created a blog that not only contain Indonesian photo but world wide cosplayer photo. Its surprising Sexy Cosplay Photo Blog is booming. I never promote this blog except to Indonesian cosplay forum, but majority visitor come from Search Engine.
Remember that Easy Step to Earn Money actually for SEO and Money making blog. But if I’m hiatus, my sister posting at this blog about her favorite game (She doesnt want to post anything about SEO). And surprisingly, SIMS 2 and Ghost Online reach the most viewed article. Some of my senpai suggest me to remove those category from my blog since it distract my blog topic. And then my sister suggest me to make BEST GAME REVIEW BLOG at June 08 and removing one by one my game post to that blog. Since I dont understand about game like my sister and now she hiatus, that blog neglected. lol
I still have another 2 MFA blog. But since it only my own hobbies blog and not optimized yet, I will not write here. Both site only for testing Opinion A. Weheheheh
I only focused with 2 blog. Easy Step to Earn Money and Sexy Cosplay Photo Blog. I can earn between 150$-250$/month only from affiliate. Another site only give me less than 10$/month.
So its your decision to create many blog to earn more money, or optimizing one to five blog to gain high profit.
How to Break Through SEO Frustation
Content
It’s all about the text.
Remember that optimization is all about the text. Search engines are text driven but there are still some basic HTML tags to keep in mind (i.e., h1, h2, meta tags, title tag). SEO helps improve search engine results but does not guarantee top ratings.
Patience and realistic goals will keep the frustrations low. Search engines have to crawl a site to determine what a site is about. This takes time, usually about a month, before crawls and indexing are completed by the various search engine spiders.
Take time to think (a lot) about the purpose of the website. Write down a lot of stuff in a word processing program even if it sounds silly at first. Then edit what you wrote. Edit some more, get some feedback and then start working on the keywords and keyphrases that identify the unique quality of your website.
Keywords and Keyphrases
Keywords used to be easy. Those days are gone. Keywords are highly competitive. Using two-word or three-word, maybe even four-word, phrases makes optimization less frustrating. A keyword phrase (keyphrase) helps identify the uniqueness of a website.
The keyword "game" will generate about 1 billion(!) results. The keyphrase "card game" will generate about 50 million results. That is a difference of approximately 950 million. The keyphrase "magic card game" will generate about four-million results. Time will need to be spent finding unique keyphrases but the benefits of narrowing the results, with multi-word phrases, provides a better chance of being noticed.
Stocks: What to Watch for in the Recession
Don't be surprised to see a new wave of consolidation as stronger players snap up weaker ones
Eventually, the crisis will end. That has investors contemplating what a post-crisis stock market might look like.
Predictions of a serious economic downturn are everywhere, and not just for the U.S. but for the entire globe. If the credit crunch lasts long enough, it could be the first truly deep economic pullback in a generation or longer.
Asked about the future, many professional investors and fund managers say they're far too preoccupied with the current crisis to make any long-term bets. That's why many refuse to buy stocks—the unprecedented global credit crunch has made solid predictions all but impossible.
"I'm going to wait until the dust settles," says William Rutherford, president of Rutherford Investment Management.
Glimpsing the Future
Still, investors will eventually have to picture what the new economic order will look like.
Arguably, a credit crunch or recession makes all of us losers. But even in a severe recession, some businesses survive and prosper—even if only on a relative basis, and even if they take years to muddle through.
"There's always going to be a winner out there," says Ryan Crane, chief investment officer at Stephens Investment Management Group.
Here are five trends that may emerge whenever the crisis finally ends:
1. The strong eat the weak.
In the financial sector, failing banks and brokerage houses have already been gobbled up by safer (if not exactly strong) rivals. Bank of America (BAC) bought up mortgage giant Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch (MER). JPMorgan Chase (JPM) absorbed Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC) battled over buying Wachovia (WB).
If the economic downturn is bad enough, expect the same trend to hit other industries, as strong players either buy or take market share from companies in financial trouble.
2. Fast-growing companies might not get the funding they need.
The credit crunch is cutting off the financing that helps businesses grow and create new jobs, says Michele Gambera, chief economist at Ibbotson Associates, a unit of Morningstar (MORN). Companies can't float issues on the stock market or sell bonds—investors won't buy them. And they can't borrow from banks, which are too panicked to lend.
If those conditions persist, it means trouble for new growth companies. "Who is going to make the next Google (GOOG) if there is no money to borrow to build the next Google campus?" Gambera asks.
3. Cash is king.
In a credit-starved economy, the advantage goes to companies with strong cash flow. Gambera cites cigarette maker Altria Group (MO) as a company famous for its strong cash generation.
A healthy balance sheet—without much debt—will also be crucial. "Given the fact that credit markets have totally deteriorated, it's a question of survival," says Gary Wolfer, chief economist at Univest Wealth Management (UVSP).
He believes survivors could include consumer staples and health-care companies that sell products their customers need and that generate lots of cash in the process. He cites Procter & Gamble (PG) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).
4. Don't bet on the U.S. consumer.
Wolfer predicts "an awful Christmas" for retailers. But for consumer-oriented companies, the problems aren't just short term.
For a generation, the U.S. has created a "quadruple deficit," Gambera says: a government deficit and a trade deficit, along with heavy borrowing by the financial sector and, finally, by U.S. households. Few expect Americans' reliance on credit cards and cheap home mortgages to continue.
In fact, many commentators see a fundamental shift in the U.S. economy, away from a reliance on both debt and the overstretched American consumer. "The era of the consumer-based U.S. economy is coming to an end," Wolfer says. "Our whole economy is going to be much more export-driven."
5. Don't bet on the global infrastructure boom, either.
Wolfer and others may be pinning their long-term hopes for the U.S. on exports. But there are lots of worries about one force driving global demand for U.S. goods: the building boom in many emerging economies around the world.
In a global slowdown, many are betting that demand for capital equipment, commodities, and energy are going to fall off.
Emerging economies, such as China and India, may not slip into recession, but their rapid growth will probably slow, says Chad Deakins, portfolio manager of the RidgeWorth International Equity Fund. "There are going to be different problems each country is going to have to address, [problems that will] distract them from plans to build infrastructure," he says.
Five years from now, however, Deakins expect emerging countries to start building again. "There are a lot of people in the world who want a higher standard of living and are willing to work for it," he says. "That's capitalism."
Internet Money - Do Not Miss Your Share And Get Into It Now
As the use of the internet increases, there are more and more ways being promoted to get internet money. Choose from some of these options to find the one that fits you best.
Blogging
A business blog is a relatively recent way of generating internet money. If you have a business web site, you can use a business blog to attract traffic to the web site easily and quickly. Thus, your business site will have improved page rankings from the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. When the page rankings improve, the search query results page returns the link to the page in a higher position than previously. Thus, it may appear on the first page of results rather than so far down the list that the searcher will take the time to scroll through other links and find your link.
EBay
Many people make use of online auctions such as EBay in order to earn internet money easily and quickly. You can sell products such as grandma’s antique kerosene lantern, but you can also sell information that will be of value to others. There are many related money avenues when you choose online auctions. You can open an EBay store to help others prepare, sell and ship their auction items. You can serve as a specialist in marketing and selling certain types of items for others. As an example, you may specialize in the sale of vehicles online.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is another method of gaining internet money easily. You form a partnership or affiliation with another person or business and help to market their product. For your efforts, you get a percentage of the revenue earned, or possibly a flat fee for each customer you sent toward the parent site. With affiliate marketing, you don’t have to set up the infrastructure of the business yourself. Often you just need to add a few lines of coding to your own web site. Other marketers use a ‘canned’ web page to promote the affiliate’s product.
Virtual Assistant
A virtual assistant is another way to take advantage of the opportunities to get internet money for yourself. A virtual assistant performs tasks of the same type as an employee with the same role. The difference is that the virtual assistant performs such tasks online. The duties involved may range from manning a customer service line to monitoring a forum or searching out good links for the boss. Payment may be through electronic means directly, or by a percentage of sales revenue or by other mutually agreeable formulas. Think executive assistant or secretary and you may gain a picture of the responsibilities of a virtual assistant.
Online Store
An online store can be another way to get internet money flowing into your bank account. If you already have a product to sell, you are ahead of the process, but even without a product, you can open an internet store and sell products that are produced by other people. If you wish, you can even arrange to have the product drop shipped to your customers so that you don’t have to deal with packaging and shipping tasks. The products that you sell can be tangible goods or information.
Make Money Online - How to Get JV Partners
Before I begin I first want to provide you a quick definition of JV. JV means joint venture partner. So if you have been hearing that word being thrown around like a hot potato you can consider yourself informed!
When you have a product to sell online, there are many different tactics you can use to help get customers. One great way is through Joint Venturing. A Joint Venture (or again, simply a JV) is when you partner with a person to help sell your product(s). While it is a great idea, it can sometimes be hard to find JVs. So here are some great ideas on how to find them.
The way you go about trying to find JVs actually depends on how competitive your niche is. If you’re in a niche that’s saturated (such as the Internet Marketing niche) then you will have to go about things a little differently. However, if you are in another niche that’s much less competitive then finding JVs shouldn’t be too difficult.
For the less competitive niches, all you really have to do is ask people if they’d like to JV with you. However, you have to ask the right way. The correct approach to asking a JV can be the difference between a 10,000 dollar launch or a 10.00 launch.
So you can do a Google search on your niche. Then write down the sites that come-up. Next try to find out a name for each site so that you can address each email personally. Then email the person who runs the site.
Introduce yourself and then tell them something you like about their site. Explain why you found it interesting and that you are interested in learning more. Here is the MOST critical point in seeking a JV. Ask them if there is something you can do to help the person out. Whether it is with graphics, writing, whatever you can do provide it shows good faith. Finally, if you have done the other things properly you will be able to tell them a little bit about your product and ask them if they’d like to hear more about a Joint Venture with you.
That’s how to get JVs in niches that are not too competitive. However, you need to take a slightly different approach on highly competitive niches.
In highly competitive niches you need to make yourself stand out from everyone else. There are hundreds of people who are looking for JVs in some of the most popular niches. So to stand out you want to approach potential JV partners and ask if you can do something for them. Whatever you might be good at, offer to help them with something that you are good at (creating a script, writing a blog, etc.).
Then once you do something for them, they’ll feel like they should so something in return. This is called the theory of reciprocity. What they may decide is something in return just might be a JV with you. Or, you might just develop a long-term relationship with a few people that will pay dividends for you far into the future (beyond just one Joint Venture).
Gathering JV’s can be a difficult process. It really depends on whether the niche is popular or not. For non-competitive niches all you really have to do is ask for people but for competitive niches you have to make sure you stand out to people who you want to JV with you. These partnerships are a critical component of being successful with your online business.
Make Extra Money At Home
There are many ways to make extra money at home. Some people who have a very imaginative mind and a good vocabulary write books, some stitch clothes, the ones who are creative and have an artistic bend make use of this talent to either paint or make creative items and then they sell them. But not everyone is a talented artist or writer. The computer and the internet provide people with plenty of ways to make extra money at home. All a person needs is a computer and an internet connection. He/she need not be an expert in computers. Basic knowledge of how to operate the computer and how to use the internet is more than enough. A little creativity and entrepreneurial skills would also help.
The positive thing about working at home to make some extra money is that you have flexibility of time, the freedom to work according to your convenience. There are many options available on the internet for making extra money at home. People have to weigh the different options and choose the ones which would suit them. The option they choose must be fruitful and help them make extra money at home.
One of the ways to make extra money at home is to do survey of products and write your opinion and views regarding that particular brand because a company spends so much money on research and advertisement so that they can reach out to the consumers and more over there is so much of competition in these fields among the various companies and each one tries to out beat the other ,hence it is very essential for the companies to know the tastes, preferences and requirements of the consumers so that they can cater to their demands in a more satisfactory manner. This is the main reason why companies pay people to survey the market and find out how consumers are reacting to their products.
Another way to make money is in case you are a creative person or say you are a seamstress and you design clothes or make quilts or related items then you can either use auction websites or start an online store which will enable you to sell your merchandise to anyone within your country or any where in the world. You can even start your own website and provide various services like resume writing, data entry and blog writing.
There are many more ways to make extra money at home. You can use the search engines to search for websites which provide work from home opportunities. Some companies pay good money to answer their e-mails. You can try that out if you feel up to it.
The internet provides a plethora of opportunities to make extra money at home. You can start your own internet marketing company with a minimal investment. You can also be a virtual landlord and charge others for using your website for selling their products. You can sell virtual real estate. You can also provide services like legal advice, medical advice and technical advice.
Are you looking to make extra money at home? Try Google Snatch. It could help you learn all the tricks and tips of the trade.
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