Adsense Blogger

There is so many Adsense packages, memberships flying about that it’s really hard to make a decision on what to buy. Unless of course time and money is not a problem for you. When choosing these current “hot” offers, there are several things I look at before typing my credit card information into the order form.

Here’s my checklist. Enjoy.

1. Read the sales letter. Make a list of the features it has.

2. Compare the features of the product to the existing ones which you may already have. Does it really provide something which you don’t have.

3. With the list of features jotted down, imagine what you can do with it and when you can use it. If you find that you won’t have time to use the membership or the features are similar to the products you have already, then stop. Don’t buy because it’s new and that it’s limited. There’s always a better product being produced.

4. Check the owner of the product. Are they well-known and respectable? If there are question marks then search the internet. You are bound to find some information on them if they have a rep.

5. Take a note if other well-known internet marketers are promoting the same product. These maketers do not promote just anyone as they have a reputation to live up to. Therefore they won’t recommmend something they haven’t tried before.

6. Study the bonuses. Sometimes the bonuses are better than the actual product. If you find some bonuses that you need then get it just for the bonus. eg. A one hour business consultation by Mr. Famous Guru.

7. Read the sales letter and then leave it at the side for at least 2 days. If you still want to buy the product then go for it. A lot of the times we buy on impulse and regret it later.

Do you feel as though you’re wasting your time on Adsense? So many internet marketers have gone through this Google Adsense miscomfort and then dismiss the money making possiblities as fake.
 
The problem is that you’ve probably only have one or 2 websites which have Adsense on them and you are hoping for a $10 day so that you can make $300 per month.

Well unless lots of people visit your website and continue to return, you’re not likely going to earn a comfortable living with Adsense using just 2 websites.
 
I think you know where I’m leading onto here.

Imagine if you have 50 websites with Adsense on them. If these websites have good content on them with well placed, blended Adsense then it looks every likely that you will earn over $10 a day right?

Adsense is a numbers game.

With 50 websites, it’s about $10 for each domain which is a $500 investment a year. A modest $10 a day will give you $3650 return. An absolute no brainer for this investment. Now what will happen if you have more than 50 websites????

What I’m implying is, first of all, not to give up.

Second, there is no big secret. An Adsense income requires hard work at the start. It is not a get rich quick technique.

Finally, create as many websites and/or blogs as possible. Put out good quality content and build it over time. The passive Adsense income will come.

Adsense income has its ups and downs. Acknowledge that it fluctuates and say to yourself “this thing works. I’m not expecting a miracle in a day but I know it works”.
 

I just came back from China, Guangzhou on a field trip learning about the importing business in China. It was organized by Brad Fallon with the likes of John Reese and Jason Potash tagging along. You can read the sales page for the trip at http://www.chinafieldtrip.com/tripdetail.html

The trip opened my mind to the amount of opportunities out there. There’s money to be earned everywhere, especially China.

Sharing the experiences with other entrepreneurs was itself worth the trip. Exchanging contacts, tips and experiences. There was one thing which I noticed with the majority of the successful attendees there.

They were all ACTIONers. They took action. It was no rocket science what they were doing.

Some were in their early 20s and were already earning comfortably with their own business. This may shock some of you. Not one of them had any special abilities or talent. At least they did not share it with me

All of them were down to earth people who learns, networks and works hard. I’ve seen this myself. There is no secret. Just learn and apply.

Some of you’ve been reading this blog for quite some time. I’ve recommended tools and memberships such as http://www.niche-empire.com to boost your Adsense income. It just requires action and persistence. There’s no rocket science to it - no secrets.

Are you reading and applying what you’ve learnt? Or just reading and then searching for the next topic that interests you?

I was especially surprised with Brad Fallon. He is a smart guy but very very down to earth. We went drinking with him and he’s just like any other normal bloke out having a good time. He really shared his experiences with us and didn’t hold anything back. Respect to you Mr. Brad Fallon.

Enough blogging for now. I’ve got work to do.

Feel free to forward the article below to people who you think will benefit. As long as they keep the resource box unchanged.

Article: Making use of your blog posts to boost your Adsense income

By Alan Cheng

You have a blog which you are posting everyday. There’s good
targeted traffic but it’s not enough. You cannot have too much
traffic. You can make use of your blog posts to increase your
exposure and drive your Adsense clicks through the roof.

One of the best techniques to leverage the resources you already
have is to categorize your blog posts. For example, during the past
month’s you will have around nearly 30 postings. Go through your
postings and sort them so that you have around 5 posting
for each category.

With these categories copy and paste the postings so that you have
one piece of article. YOu will need to write an introductory
paragraph and to explain what your article is about and then
modify the content of your posts so that you are explaining useful
points.

For instance, you could mention in the introductory paragraph that
you will discuss the problems people have with Adsense layouts.

Next you will give some good tips on design the best Adsense layout
to get the maximum CTR (Click thru rate) and how it has worked in
your testing.

These points are taken from your postings so there should be no
shortage of ideas. It will be a relatively easy article to write
as you already have the content written.

At the end write a short concluding paragraph and then write a resource
box which explains who you are and the URl of your blog.

What you have done here is make use of your month’s blog postings
and wrote an article with it. Now with this article you need
to submit it to various article directories and ezines.

After your article is submitted, you will see a spur of traffic
visiting your website. These are targetted traffic that is interested
in the information your blog or website offers.

Targetted visitors are most likely to click on your Adsense as they
are actually looking for the particular information.

Don’t forget, you should have 5 articles for your postings and you can
submit them weekly. You are marketing your blog weekly, and the good
thing is the articles will be driving traffic to your website for years
to come since they are out on the web.

I’ve always said Adsense is a numbers game. The more targetted traffic
you have, the more clicks you will get. And if you update your website/blog
regularly, the vistors will return. Do you see the power of this?

There are some points you have to note when using article marketing approach.

1. Your resource box has to be attractive. It is where people read who the
author is and what their website is. A good technique is to link the concluding
remark to your resource box.
For example, you can summarise by saying good software is essential to
creating Adsense sites continously. Then in your resource box, mention your
website and that there is a mini-course on selecting a good Adsense website builder.
This is very effective. If the person is interested in your article, they
will definitely check out your link and get more information.

2. Submitting your articles. There are lots of places where you can submit
your articles to that can give you exposure and backlinks. Actually there
is too many of them. Submitting to them by hand will take you several hours.
If this becomes your weekly task then you will quit shrotly.
There are tools and services which can help you to submit your articles
that are related to your niche. You can send an email to my autoresponder
adarticles@adsense-blogger.com for a list of recommended tools and services
which I use to submit my articles.

3. There is never the rule of having too many articles. The more articles you
have the more exposure you will get. This is the cheapest and most effective
technique I know of to drive traffic to your website. Bear in mind that the
traffic will be coming to your website in the long run. Some people will read it
2 years down the line. It is that powerful.

So put your writing hat on and get those articles out on the internet.
Don’t forget to read up on useful resources on Adsense because at the end
of the day, we want Adsense to give us a nice income on the side.

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Alan Cheng is the owner of www.adsense-blogger.com

The blog where everything related to making money with

Adsense is revealed.

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My cousin came over from the UK and had dinner with me tonight. Afterwards we went to a bar and caught up with each other on the latest. My cousin is trying to make money on the internet. He’s been working at it for 2 years. So we shared our thoughts.

Let me give you a bit of my cousin’s background. He had very good success with a blog directory which earned him several thousand dollars income in Adsense. He also had other websites which earned him a couple of hundred.

Something happened to his blog directory a year ago. Google banned him from the search engine results. Gave him a page rank of 0 instead of 7 and Adsense income is non-existant. It was such a blow to him, my cousin never recovered.

We were talking about making money with Adsense and he is now very negative about it. No matter what I say to him, he insists that Adsense has another 2 years to go before it ends just like the banner days.

I can’t disagree with him as I can’t predit things in 2 years time. But the fact is…yes. Adsense clicks could no longer exist and become a thing of the past. However, that is only a possiblity and what matters is at the moment, Adsense is bringing income to a lot of people.

Let’s learn a lesson here. My cousin totally changed his mindset because he had too high hopes with his blog directory. He thought it was going to make him well off. The phrase “putting all your eggs in one basket” comes to mind.

I don’t know what the reason is for Google’s ban on his website, but the fact is, these sort of things can happen to anyone. We need to create several websites instead of relying on just one incase the unfortunate happens.

Finally, the most important lesson we should learn in our life is that when the going gets tough, don’t give up. Persist. It’s quite sad to see my cousin, who I’ve known for many years, have changed. He is so pessimistic with Adsense income that he has totally given up hope on starting anything similar.

Just know the fact that this could happen to you so be prepared when it does occur. Have several websites each making Adsense income, have 2 Adsense accounts incase 1 Adsense account is banned and also have other sources of marketing incase Google kicks you off their search engine.

Have different income sources and when disaster happens, you’ll still be able to stand.

There are several Adsense formats which you can use and Adsense images are one of them. These are Adsense ads which show pictures and not text. I’ve tested these on several of my websites and…

They’ve failed pretty bad. Once I changed the images back to text such as Adsense leaderboard, the CTR (click thru rate) increased noticeably.

I’ve tested this with different websites and with different places. I’ve come to the conclusion that they look too much like banners and people ignore them.

Another reason is that it proves once and for all that text works better than pictures. I remember John Reese tested that having a graphical header actually lowers the number of sales compared to a web sales pages with no graphic header.

I suspected the result would be the same for Adsense but I had to test it. The results prove I was right. I’ll be interested to hear of anyone who has different results. As always, test things on your own website. You may be able to come out with a combination that works. Test, test and test.

First impressions count when we meet people. It determines if we like them, trust them or attracted to them. First impressions with Adsense websites are even more important. They make a big difference to your Adsense income.

When your visitors first land on your website either from an article you’ve written, search engine traffic or forum signature, the first impression of your Adsense website is put to the test straight away.

They either love the website, read it, come back or click away to another website quickly. So you have to make a good first impression when they arrive on your website.

First of all, the design of your website or blog, needs to be pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate. This will attract their attention and make them more willing to find out what your website is about.

Now that you’ve got their attention, you need them to stay longer to read most of your content so that they have time to click on the Adsense ads which interest them. The content on your website is what makes them stay. As long as the content is interesting, they will read it.

The next thing you need to work on is updated content. Whether it’s a blog or website, the content must be updated regularly. This will make the visitor return. This is so so so important.

You have managed to get a visitor to your website, don’t waste it. Make them return and become one of your regulars. This is why it is crucial to update your blog regualrly and use RSS feeds on your websites so that people will return to read what’s new.

And don’t forget, search engines love fresh content. The more traffic you get and the longer they stay, then the more chances of them clicking on your Adsense. Keep this in mind the next time you look at your website. Ask yourself “Is my website giving a good first impression?”.

Placing Adsense on your blog is easy. A simple copy and paste action and you’ve setup your website to make money. However, you need to know when to place Adsense ads and where to place them and how to place them. This is what divides the successful Adsense website builders from the not-so-successful Adsense website builders. You need to use Adsense cleverly on your website.

Here are my findings you can use which has worked well for me to increase your Adsense income.

There has been a lot of discussion of people throwing-up when they see Adsense on a blog. They see the blog as a vehicle to earn income from Adsense and the blog itself has no value. After seeing some awful blogs, I agree.

What you need to do is place Adsense on your blog which blends with your website. Take away those borders and change the colors. Make it look as though it is part of your website. This will lessen the preconceived notion others have with Adsense blogs.

Next, you need to post regularly to your blog. I have to admit that regularly means daily. I have tests that show missing a day or two with blogging, generally affects the traffic to your blog. So get some postings ready for times when you are busy.

With good daily updated content on your blog, people will not mind that your blog has Adsense on them. You have to understand that people are looking for information. If you give them what they want, they will return and click on some Adsense ads which are of interest to them in time.

Daily blogging with good content will make people forget your blog is built for Adsense income. They will appreciate that you are making money since you are spending so much time offering them content.

I find that using horizontal Adsense ads are very effective. These are called leaderboards which span across the website. I normally place these at the top of the website so that my regular readers will see them first thing when they visit.

I also find that ad links are very effective. These are Adsense ads that only show the category of ads and have no description. They look like menu bars. People need to click on the ad link, see a list of related Adsense and click on them again before you are paid.

Though it requires 2 clicks to generate Adsense income for you, I find that this sort of ad is very effective. The good thing is Google does not count ad links towards the number of Adsense ads you can have on your website (which is 3 by the way).

Next, if you’re writing a post on your blog, make sure that you place Adsense right after you mention an interesting point. It could be the revealing of a finding or some breaking news with your niche.

The reason is that people are drawn to your content at that moment and seeing related Adsense ads beside it will help the click thru rate.

For your last Adsense ad, I would suggest placing it on the left hand side of your blog. Preferably you will have a sign up box for a newsletter or mini-course there, and place your Adsense under it.

We humans read from left to right and from top to bottom. The top left portion of your blog is viewed the most when they visit your blog. Make use of this space.

Use these suggestions to place your ads and increase the Adsense clicks. They have worked for me. I suggest you test out a lot of these and see for yourself.

There are many membership sites that sell Adsense templates such as www.niche-empire.com that has good website content, step by step training and webhosting which you can start to use immediately for your Adsense business. Many of these are optimized with Adsense already so it will save you a lot of work. Learn how the templaes are structured and take action on your own blogs or websites.

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Alan Cheng is the owner of http://www.adsense-blogger.com Sign up to the 7-part mini-course on making money with Adsense by emailing ne-mini@aweber.com.

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It’s surprising that a lot of Adsense website builders are making less than a dollar per day with Adsense. It’s painful when you hear about how others are doing so well with Adsense easily.

So what’s that big secret you’re missing that is making your Adsense income stale?

Let me enlighten you - there is no big secret.
You just need to know some techniques which many people are using and work at them daily.

I see 3 areas which people fail in when they tell me they are getting virtually no Adsense income:

1. Picking the wrong niche.
If you pick a very competitive niche, you’ll need to work very hard to rank well in search engines. Having little search engine traffic means having little Adsense clicks. It’s a numbers game.

You can also pick a wrong niche if it is not competitive enough. For example, if your niche is on “tree leaves”, I don’t think you’ll get many Adsense on your website and not many people will search for it.

You need to pick the right niche and the right keywords to focus on for your Adsense. You can use Overture’s Keyword Selector Tool (http://inventory.overture.com) to find good keywords for your niche and use Google’s search engine to see the amount of Adwords for that keyword.

2. Choosing the right Adsense layouts
There’s lots of customization you can do on your Adsense layouts. These include changing the fonts, color, link color, border color and size of the ads.

Do not leave your Adsense layouts to the default settings. This is absolutely wrong. Change your Adsense appearance so that it blends with your website. If your website is blue then change the background color of your Adsense to blue and also the border color.

The point here is to make sure the Adsense don’t look like an ad. People love to read content but it is human nature that we hate to be advertised. If we see a blatant ad, we are less likely to click on it.

Additionally it’ll give the visitors the impression that you are putting up your website for the sake of displaying ads. The visitor is not very likely to return again.

Always test your Adsense appearance and its placement. This is called optimizing your Adsense. Placing the ad in some areas actually increases the number of clicks. You need to test this on your own website.

3. Getting traffic to the website
The final and most important reason why people fail to make a decent income with Adsense is their problem with getting traffic to their website. They find it hard to get traffic.

It is hard because it requires work. Too many people slap on some Adsense on their website and expect to make money by hoping that traffic will come. Life is not like that.

Getting decent traffic to a website is easy. To get lots of traffic, you need time to build it. There are lots of ways to get traffic to a website such as:

-          writing and submitting articles
-          basic SEO for the webpages
-          putting the website link on my email signatures
-          posting to forums and mentioning your website for comments
-          writing ezines
-          submit press releases
-          and more…

These are just some of the techniques I use. There are countless others. There’s too much for me to go into detail on how to use each technique. I’ve written about some on my blog at http://www.adsense-blogger.com which you can read up on.

My point is, creating traffic is not a one week job. It’s something an Adsense website builder should do continuously. We read that a lot of people are making $50 a day in Adsense. What me and you don’t see is their daily work in driving traffic to their website and the many months of hard work leading to this result.

These are the 3 main areas which I see people are not doing well which is affecting their Adsense clicks. I would suggest you to go to your website and see which area(s) you fit in. Understand that it is a continuous job to optimize and improve, and drive traffic to your website.

Let me ask you a question before I end this. What have you done today which has contributed to more Adsense clicks on your website?

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Alan Cheng is the owner of Niche Empire with everything you need to start your Adsense website business. You’ll receive 20 PLR articles, 4 Adsense websites, web hosting and training to give your Adsense income a full throttle head start. Read up on the membership at http://www.niche-empire.com

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You are free to distribute this article to anyone or anywhere you think it will add value to the person or persons. As long as you keep the resource box at the bottom intact.   

There are lots of PLR (Private Label Rights) articles available now which you can use on your website or blog advertising Google Adsense. PLR means that you can later the content however you want. You can also add your name to the bottom to say that you’re the author.

No matter how well your Adsense layouts are placed, how good an Adsense website builder you are and how many Google Adsense sites you have, you need good content for this business to work. You can’t argue with that statement.

You must not create Adsense websites especially for Adsense clicks. It’s against Google’s policy. Therefore, it’s a wise decision to also advertise your own products and affiliate programs. This will give you more income opportunities and also makes you a good citizen. So you have no reason not to do it.

Blogging is a very good way to make your Adsense income. This is because you can continuously post and therefore create a reader base so that they return and read your blog.

For normal websites, updating them is a little more difficult and therefore advertising them is harder. The key is not to give up and keep delivering good content for your websites. The search engines love websites that have regular updated content. Human readers also love websties with much updated information.

Therefore, you will get more traffic as time goes on. The more traffic you get, the more clicks on your Adsense you will get. It’s as simple as that.