Adsense – Page 2 – Paul's Tech Talk

Understanding Adsense for the Beginner

PaulFebruary 7, 2009

So you have a website and you’d like the site to pay for itself. That can be arranged it however depends on your website performance. You see you won’t make a lot of money if you don’t have several things going for you. I thought I share with you my experience with making money through Adsense. As you saw, I made enough money to pay for the website for 5 years. It isn’t hard to make money it is however very difficult to keep getting the money. Most people don’t know the tricks to making money with Google’s Adsense.

I’m here to help you out a little with understanding it and getting even more money from your adsense. So here we are 3 months into to putting Adsense seriously on my site and let’s take a look shall we:

As you can see I started off quite slowly as I figured out how to best do it but gained momentum after that. First Month I made $17.19 and the Second Month I made $45.57, the last month I made $64.99 totaling $127.75 leaving me with 16.75$ from the few previous months that I tinkered with Adsense. So where do you start? I found that to be the hardest part, because of the complexity of where I could put the ads. I tried having strips breaking up the text in my blog post that really didn’t get me hardly any clicks. Then I started to incorporate the Adsense into the posts. I learned how to do it through a great blog post and I’ll talk about that later. Here’s what you need to know right now though:

Create good content — This goes without saying that if you don’t have good content people will never find your site. There are a multitude of ways to create content. Some of the most useful for me is How-to, finding a Niche, and Also just blogging about what you passionate about. These will often draw people to your website.

Gjaylaramieet people to link to your post — This will help with search engines because they do some math to figure out if your a real site and how trustworthy your site is on the internet.

Use Microblogging — It is well known people use Twitter, Friendfeed, and others a like to tell people what they post about. It can be great place to help promote your blog and get people to come more and more to your site.

Try not to annoy the users with Ads — This is the most important if you want people to come back to your site you should make sure you don’t send people away from your site. People will not want to come back if you annoy them to much. So it is essential that you keep them happy.

Find a good blog theme — A good theme helps bring people to your site by making it easier to read and find what they are looking for. You might also consider making a sneeze page to keep people coming back to your site. This will help your readers and make it more of your own. You might also want to buy a theme for your blog sooner or later.

With These tips and tricks you too could be on your way to having a great blog. I would be willing to bet that soon I will be triple that amount if I keep up with what I am doing. I hope you tell people about this blog and let people know how good this blog is for you. Remember only you can prevent virus infections.

Google Ups the Anti!!

PaulOctober 4, 2008

As part of our effort to protect the accounts of AdSense publishers, we have mailed a Personal Identification Number (PIN) to the payment address entered in your account. This PIN must be entered on the PIN Information page before any payments can be issued to you. In the meantime, your account remains active, and you may continue to show ads and accrue earnings.

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Well that came unexpectedly, Google actually is trying to protect our accounts now from getting phished and or/taken over by some malicious person. This is called two factor verification**, Something you know and something you have. You can also get verify through your Cell Phone. Here is what they said in my Email:

Hi,

In an effort to protect the accounts of Google AdSense publishers,
we've starting using automated telephone number verification to
ensure that your information is accurate and up-to-date. As a result,
you should see a Required Action on your Payment History Page to
'Please verify your phone number' after you log in to your account.
To initiate this process, lick the 'Please verify your phone number'
link and follow the instructions.

Keep in mind that you have 6 months to enter the verification code.
If you have not entered your verification code within 4 months, we'll
start displaying Public Service Ads (PSAs) on your web pages. If you
have not entered your verification code within 6 months, your account
will be disabled and any unpaid earnings will be refunded to the
appropriate advertisers. You can learn more about our phone number
verification process at
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=32055.

For additional questions about getting paid, please visit
http://www.google.com/adsense/payments.
If you prefer a video presentation of this information, we encourage you to watch our Payment
demo (currently available in English only), located at http://www.google.com/adsensedemo4 .

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

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So here’s my take, you don’t have to verify both of them just one or the other. It is going to be rather difficult that people get paid. I don’t think this will be a big problem for most people, but I am sure some are going to get annoyed having to enter their* pin every time they want to get paid. So what do you think? Is this a good upgrade or a bad upgrade you decide and leave your comments. I want to hear them.

(*) Thanks to the Diggers to showing me I had a mistake.

(**)Someone ask why I capitalise the two in so I changed it!

(The Google Letter) That text is from my email no changes have been made except line breaks, so if there is an error it comes from Google.

How to Get advertisers to come to you!!

PaulJuly 31, 2008

Lately in the past few weeks, I’ve had several Advertisers come to me wanting to advertise for there clients. I’d thought I share you some of my experiences, in the hopes, that you too can get advertisers to come to you so I’d come up with some steps to better help you;

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Don’t use Blogger.com — Yep that’s right, after recently moving from blogger to WordPress. I’ve found that after the move, I’d start getting more people coming to my site. I don’t know if it was something I did or if it was the platform that got me more business. I think most advertisers think blogger is for amatuers or people who aren’t interested in revenues.

Content is the Key — Having spent the last few months thinking how I can get people to come to my blog. I’ve found this out. If you make content that is specific to your area and not try to repeat what everyone else is saying you can get a high volume of people to come to you site. I’ve also learned that Google is your friend and you need to use it to you fullest abilities.

Social Media is the Key — That’s right find sites that are social media and use them for the fullest. Some of my favorites are: Friendfeed, Disqus, Seesmic, Furl, Technorati, Twitter, Youtube, Tumblr, Plurk, and Facebook. Although this isn’t the complete list this is quite a few and you will need to socialize as much as possible to get people to come to you site.

Don’t be afraid to get your own ads — Yes your are correct you don’t have to wait for them to come to do you. You can go to them. Find some ad-services that will work for you and sign up. Some of the ones I’ve checked out are Google Adsense, Crispads, and Commission Junction. Having ads are your site lets advertisers know you are interested in having ads.

Have an About me Page — Although this seems the simplest of them all. Having that will have them be able to get a hold of you if they would like to offer some sort of advertisement on your site. It does not have to be complete. It does however, have to have a way for advertisers to contact you in case they are wanting to communicate with you.

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There ofcourse is more to the story but this will begin your journey into the world of ad revenues. It is to be expected to have some bumps in the road, however hard or soft. If you can get past the first few months with your newly created blog, and you start creating content, you will start to get ads coming your way. If you have other suggestions on how to get ad revenues please feel free in leaving a comment and I’ll check it out.