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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

7 Steps Of Mega Adsense Earners

The Google AdSense program is like finding money in the street.

Kids in High School are making thousands of dollars a month with Adsense... Housewives, Retiree's, Mom and Pop's who've never made a dime on the Internet have created full time incomes by simply placing AdSense Ads on their web site or blog.

Then you have the "Super AdSense" earners. We have all heard of them... the Elite few who are on track to make half a million dollars a year or more promoting AdSense sites.

Do not be mistaken though... these people are not building like your Mom and Pop's do. They have systems in place that create sites for them... people who build sites for them... they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords.

While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do... many of them you can.

Here are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success.

1) Starting today... treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do.

Begin tracking what you are doing that works... as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems... most people do not know the reason(s) to their success or
failure.

2) Utilize the latest tools and software available.

The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are... but for the most part, they are regular non techie people.

They are smarter in one respect though... they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved with researching and creating sites. They use the latest keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their secret weapons.

3) Quit chasing the Mega Dollar keywords.

You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $80 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then... but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long
term.

4) Choose broad niches and break it down.

Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use computers for an example). From there... break it down into as many sub niches as possible.

Using Computers as the example... you could build sub niches/sites like laptop computers, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focused. Once you have exhausted every possible sub niche of that major theme... choose another main theme and repeat the process.

5) KISS

Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention. Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and to impress your friends... the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads, right? Then keep the site layout simple... dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and colored scroll bars... they are distractions.

6) What is the purpose of your web site?

Your web site cannot be everything to everybody. If you have a full fledged ecommerce site, with products for sale... links to other products, it is not a good site for AdSense. If the primary focus of the site is to sell products... let it do that.

Do not distract or confuse your visitor with to many options or choices. The best AdSense sites are AdSense only content sites that sell nothing. They are sites that "Tell"... not "Sell."

7) Be consistent.

This is not one of those deals where you build one site and you are done. Refer back to Step #4. You must continuously build in order to be successful.

Think of it as planting a crop that you will harvest in a month or two, and the sites you build are seeds. Once the seeds have grown and matured... you will reap the harvest. The more seeds you plant... the larger the harvest.

To sum it up... utilize the tools available to automate as much of the process of building sites - doing research and building keyword lists as you can. This alone will help keep you organized and on track. Be consistent in building... treat it like the business it is and you will reap the rewards of your harvest.


About The Author: Andrew Daum is the Publisher of the New Traffic Tools Newsletter. You can subscribe by visiting his web site at;
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

5 Simple And Easy Ways To Advertise Online

Advertising is everything some people say.
Regardless if you have a product, a service, a hobby website orjust want to share pictures of your wedding, you have toadvertise somehow to get the traffic to your site or blog. But not all traffic is equal. There are services that can help you drive tons and tons oftraffic to your site and it won't do you any good at allbecause it's not targeted traffic.
Take for example all of the many different 'surf for traffic'or 'traffic clicking' programs that are out there. If you havea website that is about your hobby, say model airplanes, thenwhat good is this traffic really going to do you? Who's usingthese services?
Webmasters and marketers that want traffic on their own site.
So they most likely won't spend any more time on your page thanis required by the little timer these services use and then theyare gone again. Even if your site is about these trafficservices (this is about the only time you will see very muchbenefit from using such a tool) you will still have to spend aton of time just surfing and clicking around to get a realbenefit from these programs. Once marketers realized that they switched gears. They startedpromoting all the different programs to a lot of othermarketers to get them in their downlines, so they could getsome traffic as a bonus and that was their new focus. Problemis that that is exactly what everyone else did, so not a lot ofpeople were surfing anymore. Bottomline is, you want traffic, but you need targeted traffic,so here are some tips on how you can generate exactly thetraffic you need and bring the visitors you want visiting yoursite to you instead of chasing after them.
1. Content
What is your website about? Do you just have a page with a lotof links and not much else? If that's the case, think about adding some content to yourwebsite that will be of value to any potential visitors. Youcould write articles or find articles at one of the manydirectories that you can reprint on your site.
2. Talk about your experiences with your subject matter.
You don't have to put up some kind of resume (although that canwork too), but rather try writing about what you are doing, asit relates to your topic of choice. Let's look at the modelairplanes again briefly, you could talk or write about thelatest plane type you built, how the last time flying yourplane went, what challenges you run into or perhaps even postsome pictures of your plane or of you flying it.
3. Forums and Bulletin Boards.
You could add a forum or bulletin board to your website whereyour visitors can interact with each other. There are a lot offree services available out there that you can use to eitherremotely host a forum for you, or even software you can installon your website's server. To find some of these, just head overto your favorite search engine and you will definitely findplenty to choose from. And while you are visiting the search engine, why not run asearch for any bulletin boards and forums that are already outthere for your chosen topic? You could visit those and interactwith the visitors there and since many allow you to post asignature or a profile, you could add a little line about yourown site with a link (just check the rules of the forum firstso you don't violate any of them).
4. Start a blog.
Blogs are very popular and search engines love them becausethey provide constantly new and fresh content. Your blog wouldbe a great place to talk about what you are up to that day. So if you spent some time today buying new parts for your planeyou could write about where you found them, how much they costyou, why you chose those parts, anything really goes. The really great part about this is that you can point linksfrom your blog back to your website, so when the search enginestops by to grab and index your latest content, it will alsostop by your website and you will start seeing very targetedtraffic heading your way.
5. Write articles.
Writing articles isn't hard and can be a great source of fresh,new traffic to your website. There are a lot of ezines on any topic out there and there arealso a lot of directories just to share your articles at. Basically what you do is to write an article and then add asmall resource box that links back to your website (just like asignature) and then let other ezine publishers know that you areallowing them to print your article in their ezine. And manypublishers go to the article directories to find new contentfor their newsletter and even their websites. And since thereare websites and ezine newsletters on any imaginable topic outthere, you can't lose. Write an article every couple of daysand post it in the directories (even one a week or every twoweeks will start getting you traffic) and you will all of asudden find new traffic coming from search engines, newslettersand websites. Best of all, these 5 simple tips will bring targeted traffic,meaning the visitors are coming to you because they areinterested in what you wrote about. So there you have it, 5 easy and simple ways to advertise anddrive traffic to your website at absolutely no cost at all.
About The Author:
Sandra Stammberger is the owner of InsiderScripts. At Insider Script's programmers are working around theclock to develop affordable, powerful money making scripts thatwill help you drive traffic to your business.http://www.insider-scripts.com