The idea of Google Adsense is very, very simple: drop some codes on your web pages and when people click the ads, you, make money. But there are a number of important questions to ask when building sites so that you can earn the most money for your time and effort. The most important questions are:
1. How do I design a site so that it will get the most clicks?
2. What topics are the most valuable and will earn will earn me the most money?
3. How do I track the results of my efforts to see where I can expand and improve?
Those are the big questions. And there are good answers to those questions. I will discuss each one, one step at a time;
1. Designing a Site to Get the Most Clicks: Site design is very important in the quest to earn money with Adsense. If you put the wrong kinds of ads up, or put them in the wrong place on the page, you might get some clicks, but you will earn a lot less than if you know the best way to format your adsense ads and follow it.
2. Selecting the Most Valuable Topics: It is pretty obvious that some advertisements are worth more than others. The same is true with Adwords advertisers, for example, you might think that the keywords “sport cars” would be very valuable because sport cars are expensive. But among the group of people searching for “sport cars” are a lot of people who just want to see pictures of sports cars, or people who just have interest in sports cars but aren’t looking for one. On the other hand people searching for “sports car insurance” – they are looking to buy one. The value of clicks for the terms “sport car insurance” is almost seven times as much as the value of clicks for just “sports cars”. This means that it’s very important that you know what keywords to target before you build content for your web pages.
3. Tracking Your Result for Improvement and Expansion: So you have got the right page design and you are focusing on the high paying topics. The last thing is to test, test, and test. Test your websites, find out which pages have the most clicks, which subjects are drawing the most interest, and expand on those topics.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
HOW TO GET AN ADSENSE ACCOUNT ON THE FIRST TRY
To apply for a Google Adsense account click on www.google.com/adsense. When you get to the page you will see a big “Click here to Apply” button and you will be taken through the application process. You will need to already have a descent looking website to get an account. Yes, that is right. If you don’t have a website, don’t apply for an account yet. Or if your website is a personal home page or doesn’t look professional, don’t apply yet, you will probably be rejected.
There is a way to almost always get an Adsense account on the first try, and it is easy to do. Here are the steps to take before you apply:
Step 1: Setup a blog at www.blogger.com. Google doesn’t usually accept free websites into their Adsense program. The exception to that rule is blogger.com blogs. So if you don’t have a website yet or have one that isn’t very professional, but you want to get an Adsense account and get started, go to blogger and create a blog on the topic you want to make money with.
Step 2: Make some well thought out post on your new blog twice a day for three days. Go to your new blog and write a good informative post. If your blog is about modern cars, you might discuss some of the best tools for building the cars, or which companies create the best quality models, etc. If your blog is on health insurance you might make posts about how to get the best insurance rates, or whatever other topics you can think of on the subject. Get a good five or six posts on the blog a period of four days, and then go apply for an Adsense account using your new blog url as the website you submit on the application.
Step 3: Check your spelling and test your links. Since you are going to be partners with Google and hosting their ads, they are not going to want to team up with a sloppy site that has obvious typos and broken links.
There is a way to almost always get an Adsense account on the first try, and it is easy to do. Here are the steps to take before you apply:
Step 1: Setup a blog at www.blogger.com. Google doesn’t usually accept free websites into their Adsense program. The exception to that rule is blogger.com blogs. So if you don’t have a website yet or have one that isn’t very professional, but you want to get an Adsense account and get started, go to blogger and create a blog on the topic you want to make money with.
Step 2: Make some well thought out post on your new blog twice a day for three days. Go to your new blog and write a good informative post. If your blog is about modern cars, you might discuss some of the best tools for building the cars, or which companies create the best quality models, etc. If your blog is on health insurance you might make posts about how to get the best insurance rates, or whatever other topics you can think of on the subject. Get a good five or six posts on the blog a period of four days, and then go apply for an Adsense account using your new blog url as the website you submit on the application.
Step 3: Check your spelling and test your links. Since you are going to be partners with Google and hosting their ads, they are not going to want to team up with a sloppy site that has obvious typos and broken links.
TREAT ADSENSE LIKE A BUSINESS
People don’t like to hear that Adsense is a business because it sounds too much work is involved. And what we know is that people hate to work. They want to become rich with as little effort as possible.
After all, it sounds much better to hear me say you can easily make money by putting Google ads on your site or blog than to say, “You have to build a ton of content, learn how to optimize every page for the search engines, and market you blog seriously.
But the truth is the reason most people never make much with Adsense is they don’t realize that this is all about learning how to draw enough targeted traffic to your site or blog to make worthwhile money. And that’s purely marketing.
So while i would love to tell you that making money with Adsense is about quickly slapping some ads and publishing your website or blog. It’s so much more than that because without traffic, you will never make any money.
Treat this as your business, and remember business takes time and work to develop.
After all, it sounds much better to hear me say you can easily make money by putting Google ads on your site or blog than to say, “You have to build a ton of content, learn how to optimize every page for the search engines, and market you blog seriously.
But the truth is the reason most people never make much with Adsense is they don’t realize that this is all about learning how to draw enough targeted traffic to your site or blog to make worthwhile money. And that’s purely marketing.
So while i would love to tell you that making money with Adsense is about quickly slapping some ads and publishing your website or blog. It’s so much more than that because without traffic, you will never make any money.
Treat this as your business, and remember business takes time and work to develop.
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