Category: Blogging

Google Raises Mimimun Keyword Bids to $10

PPC hyperinflation reported on Google Adwords

Wow, Google’s Quality Score is really starting to bite hard on some PPC budgets. I’ve just taken a call from Auctioning4U, a UK-based firm that helps people sell goods on eBay, and they are reporting that average click costs have risen by almost 2,000% in just one week.

Read the Full Article
http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/361370/ppc-hyperinflation-reported-on-google-adwords.html

Google’s new landing page algorithm causing $10 minimum bids on thousands of sites!
Read the Thread
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=106546

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categories Adwords, Blogging, News | John Hocking | datetime 7/13/2006 1:05 pm | comments Comments (0)

Can WordPress Get Your Site Banned?

WordPress is of course an awesome blogging script but there’s a
serious flaw in its pinging system which can make your blog
banned.

In fact, if you are using wordpress blog for a long time then
your blog might have been banned and you don’t even know about
it.

I just found the Post Schedule Ping Optimizer Plugin for Word Press.

It will ping when you add a new post.

It will not ping when you edit or update a post.

If you future date a post, it will not ping until the post becomes active.

Download your FREE copy of Post Schedule Ping Optimizer Plugin right now!

John Hocking
http://www.lookwhatjohnfound.com

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categories Blogging, News | John Hocking | datetime 6/19/2006 6:32 pm | comments Comments (0)

How to Monetize Autoresponders for Google Adsense Income

By Jeff Mills

Let me share with you an idea….

Autoresponders work great at follow up, but have you ever thought of doing this one little change to make more money?

I recently went to one of the biggest internet marketing seminars last week in Los Angeles and one little tip they gave me, made a HUGE difference in my Adsense income in ONE DAY.

I am no expert when it comes to Adsense, but this one little tip increased my revenue 6 times in one day from what I used to make.

In one day, I matched the income I made in the previous entire month. Also the tip I am about to give you may take some time to implement, but mostly, it is a copy and pasting dream come true, with not much programming or html knowledge needed. It also helps if you have a large email list too.

If you don’t know, Google has an advertising program for people called Adsense, where you place google ads on your site, and when people click on them, you get paid. If people click on them a lot, you get paid a lot.

So my single tip for today is to MONETIZE your autoresponders.

If you use an email autoresponder for E-newsletters, ezines, or mini-ecourses, here is what you do.

Instead of sending the newsletter content ALL in the email, which can lead to deliverability issues, just offer the intro first paragraph in the email, as a teaser and point the reader BACK to your content website with a link to continue reading and consuming the content. Build a page there with the entire email located back on your website and you monetize the content with Adsense links.

Which kind of Adsense links work best?

Studies and tests have proven, over and over that the biggest way to get clicks is to make the Adsense text boxes blend in to your text and actually make it look like it is a part of the content.

So, make your titles Blue, like we see on clickable hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are blue and people are trained to click on blue links.

What is the best style of box to use?

The best box is the text ad unit which displays the 336 X 280 large rectangles with 4 or 5 links. A link may look like this:

Podcast Secrets Revealed < = Blue Hyperlink

Learn How to Podcast fast, with step by step <= Black Text

instructions, guaranteed. <= Black Text

www.podcastsecretsrevealed.com <= Grey text

Make the description text black and the bottom link a light grey color, but remember to make the top link blue, like a hyperlink color. Place these rectangles right into your content, right between paragraphs. You want it to blend in. You can place the rectangle 3 times on a page, so make sure you put it in spots that make sense, to maximize click behavior.

The Adsense robot will spider content, and offer appropriate ads which match content, so the person will click on the links, because of relevancy.

Also, if your site is colored differently, then just make the Adsense boxes match the themes on your sites, so the content still blends in, the clickable links are matching in color.

Doing this in one day put my Adsense income, which was hitting at .05-.30 a day… to $3.36 a day, with only one change. I know that is not much for one website… but what if you had 5, 10, 70 or 100 websites? Start thinking in terms of lots of websites and lots of autoresponder follow ups.

What if you had 10, 20, or 50 follow up messages. Now you can make money over and over again, and send your leads clicking through your content letter pages making your income explode.

If they were not going to buy anything in the first place, at least you are getting your money back for the possible cost of the lead acquisition, right? Now it becomes advertising that pays for itself and I like that!

Now do this for many websites, and it could be a huge difference in Adsense income. It might be a small bother to take the time to do it, but just sit down and do one or two hours of updating a day, and in no time, your monthly Adsense revenue could be as much as your regular job revenue.

Jeff Mills, known as the “Minister of Marketing,” is a former Youth Pastor of 9 years, who is now a full time internet information entrepreneur, book author, speaker, sales coach, and also an avid traveler. Jeff invites you to view his complete bio and read his powerful story where he shares how he generated over half a million dollars in less than two years, all on the internet at http://www.whoisjeffmills.com. Jeff is also the author of the popular Podcasting eBook, http://www.PodcastSecretsRevealed.com.

categories Blogging | John Hocking | datetime 4/29/2006 9:37 pm | comments Comments (0)

2 Surefire Ways To Maximize Your Adsense Earnings

For the last couple of months, Google Adsense has dominated forums, discussions and newsletters all over the Internet. Already, there are tales of fabulous riches to be made and millions made by those who are just working from home. It seems that Google Adsense have already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered the easiest way to making money online.

The key to success with Adsense is the placing of ads on pages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords. The higher the cost-per-click to the advertiser, the more you will receive per click from your site. Obviously, it does not pay to target low cost-per-click keywords and place them on pages that do not receive hits.

With all the people getting online and clicking away everyday, it is no wonder why Google Adsense has become an instant hit.

For some who are just new to this market, it would be a blow to their pride knowing that their homepage is buried somewhere in the little ads promoting other people’s services. But then, when they get the idea that they are actually earning more money that way, all doubts and skepticism is laid to rest.

There are two major, and clever, factors that some successful webmaster and publishers are learning to blend together in order to make money easier using Adsense.

1. Targeting high traffic pages on your website. If you check on your logs, you will discover that many of your visitors are taking advantage of the free affiliate marketing resources and ebooks that you are offering on your site. In simple words, your ads are working effectively and are generating more clicks. It also means more money for you.

2. Placing Adsense links on pages that are producing little, or better yet, no profit. By placing Adsense on a free resources page, you will reduce the amount of potential customers being lost to other sites. Tricky, but effective nonetheless.

When learned to work effectively, these two factors are actually a good source of producing a minimal amount of revenue from a high traffic page. Many people are using this strategy to pick up some extra and cash with Adsense. This is also especially rewarding to informational sites that focus their efforts on delivering powerful affiliate link free content to their visitors. Now they can gain a monetary return on their services.

With the many techniques that people are now learning on how to make the easiest money by their Adsense, it is not surprising that Google is trying everything to update and polish their Adsense in order to maintain their good image.

The possibility of adding is 2nd tier in Adsense is not impossible. With all the people spending more time in their Adsense now and still more getting into this line of marketing, there is no doubt about the many new improvements yet to be made. Imagine the smiles on the faces of the webmasters and publishers all around the world if ever they sign up for sub-affiliates and double or even triple the amount that they are already earning. The one particularly handy money-making feature that is available with Adsense now is the ability to filter out up to 200 urls. These gives webmasters the option to block out low value offers from their pages as well as competitors to their websites. Talk about taking only those that are advantageous and discarding the ones that seem “useless”.

With Google Adsense, the possibilities are limitless. Yet there is also the possibility of someone taking advantage of the easy money process that this internet marketing is doing. If you think more about it, these negative factors may force Google to break down and thrash Adsense in the process. If that happens, people would have to go back to the old ways of internet marketing that does not make money online as easy as Adsense.

For now, however, Google Adsense is here to stay. As long as there are people wanting to earn some easy cash online just using their talents, the future ahead is looking good. Besides with all the strict guidelines that Google is enforcing over Adsense, it will take awhile for the Adsense privileges to be spammed and even terminated.

About the author:

Discover how to Make Your Online Business An Outstanding Success with David Riewe’s FREE ezine “The Ultimate Marketing Tips” http://www.riewe.com

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categories Blogging | John Hocking | datetime 4/22/2006 2:13 pm | comments Comments (0)

$1 Million in Google AdSense Earnings

They are calling him the million dollar man. Jason Calacanis recently revealed in his blog that he is on track to earn a million dollars from AdSense over the year ahead.

And if that number doesn’t wake you up and have you sitting on the edge of your seat, consider for a moment that he reached this level in less than a year. His company only started using AdSense in September 2004.

Calacanis runs Weblogs Inc., a network dedicated to creating trade weblogs across niche industries. And he’s quickly proven that AdSense is a credible advertising partner.

As their network has grown, so has their AdSense revenue. In January 2005 they earned an average of $580 per day. In March it was $737. In May it was $1,585. One day in July, just before he made the blog entry referred to above, they earned $2,335. Remember that is just for one day. If they can take that daily average to $2,740 they’ll be earning a rate of $1 million for a year. And Calacanis predicts that reaching daily earnings of $3,000 or even $5,000 is quite achievable.

That’s quite an achievement. Keep in mind that Calacanis has 103 bloggers on the payroll and nine staffers. Even so, many webmasters would give an arm or a leg to have even a third of that.

Google’s AdSense has been revolutionary. It has become firmly established as the darling of the online advertising industry. Although rumors are heard of major competitors launching a similar service, AdSense’s premier position seems secure for now.

In essence, AdSense has made it possible for almost anyone with a web site or blog to earn some revenue from advertising, without having to employ sales people or spend precious time searching for advertisers.

AdSense works like this. Webmasters sign up for an account in just a few minutes. They receive a small snippet of code to include on their web pages. Google will then automatically serve advertisements that are relevant to the content on the webmaster’s pages. When someone visits the webmaster’s site and clicks on one of Google’s AdSense advertisements, the webmaster earns a fee. Advertisers can pay anywhere from five cents to a hundred dollars per click, and the webmaster receives a percentage of that fee.

Many webmasters are content with earning five to ten dollars from AdSense to cover the cost of web hosting. But many, unsurprising, have higher ambitions. At a popular WebmasterWorld forum, participants share tips and encouragement on reaching a goal of $300 per day from AdSense. So it is no wonder that Calacanis created quite a buzz when he made his million dollar blog entry.

Google have proven once again that they excel at designing innovative Internet services. If you are in the web industry and have not yet used AdSense, then perhaps you should try it out. Or if you are already using it, perhaps Calacanis’ impressive results will encourage you to track the performance of your AdSense units more closely, fine tune their positions and formats, and take your earnings to a new level.

Calacanis’ million dollar blog entry can be viewed at: http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000403051129/
About the Author

Scott Adams is an internet entrepreneur, and earns a living by marketing affiliate programs on pay-per-click search engines, including Google’s AdSense. He explains the remarkable system he uses in his book, Affiliate Adventure, which is available at http://www.AffiliateAdventure.com . To find out more about increasing AdSense revenue, visit: http://www.Altavado.com/AdSenseSecrets.htm

categories Blogging | John Hocking | datetime 2:07 pm | comments Comments (0)

$1,458,92 in 18 days with AdSense?

I had the privilege to interview a regular guy
(not a well-known ‘Guru’) who claims making more
than $200 a day with Google AdSense Program.

Here’s an excerpt from the interview I did for my
upcoming eBook – ‘AdSense Confessions’ – read it and
try to apply what you learn iniside, it should make a
difference in your AdSense income and profits.

—
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
—

My name is John Tulus. I was born in October of 1966
in Córdoba, Argentina, South America.

—
How did you get started to make money on the Internet?
—

I started with small projects like web sites for friends.

After some time of developing web sites for others, I knew
it was time to start to work on the ideas for developing my
own site, my own online company. I put all my ideas
together, combined them with the experience I had achieved
developing web sites for others, and put in motion the
creation of my site. Once the site was up and running, all
I had to do was start generating traffic and wait for the
money to roll in. I remember the first cheque I received…
what a rush!! $29. That motivated me to keep on with the
project of the life that I desired.

—
Do you prefer AdSense over Affiliate Programs promotion?
—

Yes, I prefer Google Adsense over any other affiliate
program because it has Google guarantee. Thousands of
websites are now applying Adsense to their sites. Not only
do you have the Google guarantee, but visitors to your web
site may also see it as having the Google “seal of
confidence”. In a certain way, having Adsense on your site
shows visitors that your site has been approved by Google.

Nevertheless, having Adsense on your site doesn´t mean that
you can´t have other affiliate programs combined with it.
You can actually have as many programs as you want, but I
prefer Adsense specially because the conversion rate to
money is much faster with Adsense.

No other affiliate program converts clicks to money as fast
as Google Adsense.

With Google Adsense I may need just 10 optimized clicks to
earn $20. By optimized, I mean clicks on a page that has
keywords that pay the most in Adsense. With other affiliate
programs I need at least 200 visits to an optimized site
with related content and optimized traffic to earn the same
amount of money.

—
What is the ‘SECRET’ formula for bringing quality traffic
to your Site?
—

In WMXP.COM I apply all my experience acquired during all
these years of investigation, using the best tools, the
best reports, the best products, to offer my visitors the
best of the best so that they have good reasons to return
and recommend the site.

Free tools for webmasters such as …

Check Pagerank (http://www.wmxp.com/tools/pagerank.php)
Search Engine Ranking Popularity
(http://www.wmxp.com/tools/serp.php)
Search Engine Saturation
(http://www.wmxp.com/tools/index.php)
Popularity (http://www.wmxp.com/popular.php)
Overture Keywords (http://www.wmxp.com/overture)
a complete directory full of free and non-free scripts
(http://scripts.wmxp.com) a classified ads system
(www.adsbe.com) a directory full of products of one of the
most important affiliate systems on the net (FREE CLICKBANK
STOREFRONT – http://cbmall.wmxp.com) … make of
www.WMXP.COM a site sufficiently interesting for
navigators that really work in the Internet.

—
How do you go about converting your Site traffic into more
Adsense Income?
—

If your Adsense is performing poorly, I have three tips
for you:

1. Decrease the number of Adsense blocks that you are
displaying on a page. I don’t know how others have
experienced this, but my income seemed to be less if I had
more than one block of Adsense ads displayed at once – and
your CTR is definitely less if you have more than one ad
impression at a time.

2. Change your link colour to blue. While I cannot disclose
my CTR I can tell you that this one little change more than
doubled my CTR. I know that there are others out there who
advocate that your link colour should be the same as the
other links on your site, but try it out for yourself for a
day or two. I think you will be highly surprised!

3. Set the URL colour to the same colour as the ad’s text.
This makes the URL ”melt” in and makes the link colour
stand out more, definitely making it more “clickable”.

—
What final words of wisdom would you like to pass on to
everyone who is reading this eBook?
—

To trust your abilities, to trust the project, to develop
your ideas fully and that in the end your efforts will be
rewarded.

About the Author

Codrut Turcanu is putting his final touch on ‘AdSense Confessions’ – an info-packed eBook containing 3 in-depth interviews with regular Guys (not ‘Gurus’) making TONS of Cash with AdSense. To be notified of this release visit: http://www.AdSenseConfessions.com

categories Blogging | John Hocking | datetime 2:05 pm | comments Comments (0)

Google: The “Big Daddy’ of the Blogging World

By Merle

http://MCPromotions.com

It seems like every time you turn your head these days you hear something about Google. Definitely a force to be reckoned with, Google is king online.

Although they’re known mostly as a search engine, they provide many other helpful services to today’s website owner.

Their non-search services include Blogger, Google Adsense,Adwords, Google Desktop, and more. If you use one or more of these services, Google probably publishes a helpful blog to go with it.

Let’s examine a few:

1) Google Adsense:

http://adsense.blogspot.com

Many website owners use Google’s Adsense to display ads on their websites and generate a monthly income in exchange for their efforts. This blog is a “look inside Google Adsense.” Who better to learn the ins and outs of Adsense from than from Google’s employees themselves?

You’ll pick up plenty of tips to help improve your click thrus and learn about many Adsense features you may not fully understand. If you’re an Adsense user, you need to subscribe to this page.

2) Google SiteMaps:

http://sitemaps.blogspot.com

Google created “Sitemaps” for website owners to supply information about their sites so that Google can easily crawl through and index their pages. A sitemap gives Google more complete information about your website that they may miss when doing a regular index visit.

This blog covers the “nitty gritty” of sitemaps, how they work and things you’ll need to pay attention to when creating your files. If you want to fully understand the program and how to use it to your best advantage, stop on over.

3) Google Adwords:

http://adwords.blogspot.com

Adwords is Google’s pay per click ad program. Your text ads are displayed both on search engine results pages and other websites when someone searches for the keywords/phrases that you have placed bids on.

If you use Adwords, you can really learn a lot about how to improve your conversions and get more for your dollars here.

4) Google Reader:

http://googlereader.blogspot.com

Google Reader was designed to make it easier to keep up with all of the information you like to read online. Using it can help you get all of the latest updates for your favorite websites.

This blog will keep you posted on the latest reader updates, any known bug problems and tips for getting more out of Reader.

5) Blogger

http://buzz.blogger.com

I love Blogger. It’s the fastest, easiest way to start your own blog at no charge — and it’s owned by Google, who publish their own blog to help you get the most out of blogging at Blogger. Read it for fun stories and news of the latest add ons and enhancements from Google’s Blogger team.

6) Google Video:

http://googlevideo.blogspot.com

Google Video allows anyone to upload videos to their servers and others can go and watch them.

This blog showcases some of those videos and upcoming special event videos.

7) Google’s Blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Google is like a small country and this blog will give you a glimpse into their culture. Posts are done by various employees in various departments.

You’ll learn a lot about Google’s products and other technology news. If you’re obsessed with Google, this one should be on your “must see” list.

8) Adwords API Blog:

http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com

This free Google service allows developers to engineer computer programs that interact directly with the Adwords server. You might say it’s for “tech heads.” If you’re a “geek” you’ll want to hang your hat here.

9)Google Desktop:

http://googledesktop.blogspot.com

Google Desktop is downloadable software you can use to quickly find files and other information on your computer. This blog will tell you about updates, available plug-ins and more.

10) Google Base:

http://googlebase.blogspot.com/

Google Base is a place where you can post all types of content and have it show up on Google.

This Blog will enlighten you on how best to use it, and even showcases others having success with Google’s latest service.

(t can be a full time job just trying

to keep up with them all the delightful services Google provides. By bookmarking their blogs, and/or subscribing to their feeds, you too can become an “expert” on all things Google.

=================================

Merle has been “working” the Net for over

8 years and has a Special Gift just for you.

Download my FREE E-book “50 Easy Ways to Promote Your Website”. Get your copy now at

http://www.WebSiteTrafficPlan.com/

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categories Blogging | John Hocking | datetime 4/4/2006 9:24 pm | comments Comments (0)

SimpleTags – A WordPress Plugin for generating Technorati Tags

SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need, so you can now easily generate tags with your preferred method of posting, be it by email, a blogging tool like w.bloggar or from WordPress itself.

John Hocking

http://www.lookwhatjohnfound.com

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categories Blogging | John Hocking | datetime 7:42 pm | comments Comments (0)

Talkr: Creating Audio Podcasts of Your Text Blog Entries

Talkr is a Web-based speech synthesizer that takes the texts of blogs and generates and MP3 file, with a computer voice speaking the text. For people who just want to visit their favorite text blogs and listens to them, Talkr works as blog management tool; you simply add your favorite blogs to your account, and it will create a computer-generated voice mp3 for each entry. Meanwhile, for all of you bloggers out there, Talkr lets you embed a computer-generatd mp3 into each of your blog entries, and supplies you with an RSS feed for them. This means that users can either come to your blog and click a link to listen to the mp3, or they can use iTunes or another podcast management tool to subscribe to the feed and receive each new mp3 file automatically.

 

 

categories Blogging, Cool Tools | John Hocking | datetime 4/1/2006 10:12 pm | comments Comments (0)

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categories Adwords, Blogging, Cool Sites, Cool Tools, Overture | John Hocking | datetime 3/21/2006 11:14 am | comments Comments (0)

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