09.21.2007 | 11:31 am | Getting Started, Search Engines, Site Building, Sitemaps, Tips, Traffic, Visitors
You have been creating this wonderful site with great unique content.
But nobody is there!
Now what do you do?
How do you get visitors?
Initially you are going to need to do a lot of foot work to attract visitors to your pages. It’s going to take time too. Ideally you would like your site to appear #1 for your sites main keywords in Google. This will drive free targeted visitors which means these people were looking for what you have or are talking about.
So you are going to need to do a little research on how to get this done and the first places I sugest stopping by is Google Webmaster Help Center. There is a wealth of information to read on the ideal practices to increase chances of your inclusion into Google.com’s Search Results, how Google crawls your pages, Ranks your pages, in addition there are links and tips on fantastic tools like Google Sitemaps, Google Anylictics.
- Have sites link to your site: It is best if these sites have similar topics as your site
- Submit your site to Google .
- Submit a Sitemap of your site. This will help the Google bot be able to crawl your site’s pages better
- Let other sites, people, directories know about your site.
- Follow Googles other suggestions given as Webmaster Guidelines
You should get tons of information from the Google Webmaster Help Center that you will be able to apply to your site and keep you busy for a while. :0)
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09.19.2007 | 6:14 pm | Beginners, Getting Started, HTML, SEO, Search Engines, Site Building, Tips, Traffic, Visitors
SEO is an acronym that stands for Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization is various techniques used to improve the ranking of a website in search engines listings.
SEO can also be considered as a subset of internet marketing as it provides a valuable service for your business. Search Engines provide new targeted customers who are looking for you and are ready to buy.
Creating a new industry, many coperations as well as small business websites tend to hire SEO consultants who undertake optimization projects on behalf of clients’ sites. But so much of it is pretty straight forward stuff that you can do it yourself.
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09.19.2007 | 2:27 pm | AdSense, Beginners, Getting Started, Google, Income, PPC, SEO, Site Building, Tips
If you are really wanting to make money with Google AdSense I think there are a few things that are important for you know or do.
Of coarse as always these suggestions are only my opinion. Please make sure you test what works best for your site . I can only tell you what is working for me take ‘m or leave ‘m but I tell you this same info made a big difference with my online income increasing.
- First off the most important thing I can recommend is to read Google Adsense’s Terms of Service. This is an agreement made between you and Adsense when you joined. It tells you a lot of information on what you can and can’t do while the ads appear on your pages. Not only do I suggest reading it once I suggest reading it so many times you could recite it by heart. It’s that important. Breaking Google’s rules can get you banned for life and nothing is worth that!
- Never EVER click your ads There is NO reason that its ever ok to click your own ad. There are always other options!
- Certainly don’t ask others to click your ads. I found out that the clicks will happen naturally.
- Play around with your ads colors.
- Try blending your ads background with your pages background color Remove ad border I.E. Blend border color with your background too.
- Use the same text colors that you have within your page. Maybe a slightly darker or bolder color for the Subject.. maybe your pages content links color.. color coordination is very valuable.
- Although many have found the border improves their CTR as well as making ads stand out more different colors than the page. Try. Test. Try. test
- Text is your best friend. Use it as much as you can. I could never begin to stress this enough. Google AdSense ads are created by the text found on your page as well as search engines use text to include you in searches.
- Use your META Tags. Be descriptive about your page in your title tag. Use Meta tag for keywords and pick out the best keywords from your page Use descriptive alt tags for images.
- Keep adding the code to more and more pages in visible spots. Don’t be shy with them. Higher in the page and close to content is best.
- Don’t talk with others (friends,family ect) about your ads or that you are or not making any money with it ect.
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08.20.2007 | 7:47 pm | AdSense, Google, Income, PPC, Statistics and Reports, Tips
Are you monetizing your website with Google AdSense? LOL
If you are you’re going to want to take a moment to set up alternate or default ads for your AdSense Ads. Alternate ads would be an ad that would replace the AdSense Ad when there are no available ads and instead a lovely PSA (Public Service Announcement) appears that when clicked will not result in any revenue for you (Example of a PSA RedCross.org). These ads, while helpful to communities and/or non for profit organizations, will instead lower your CTR (click through rate) as well as ePCM (Page View Value per 1000). I personally had no idea how simple it was to set up a default ad until fairly recently and wanted to take a moment to pass this valuable information on as it did increase my overall CTR and ePCM as well as created an additional source of revenue.
First, you will need an alternate advertiser and/or affiliate program. There are many to choose from like Chitika, Amazon ect. but I suggest a non contextual affiliate program since you are probably running more than one AdSense ad block on a page and you want to stay within the rules of the AdSense program.
Second, you will need to create a basic template page. You can use Note Pad or HTML-Kit or a similar text editor. You will need to make this page a .html, .shtml, .php or what ever page type you want. I prefer .php myself so I will create a page called google-default.php. I suggest keeping your HTML in this page simple but you will want to at least a 0 left margin in the BODY Tag.
Then in the BODY area of the page you place the code for your alternate affiliate source. Upload to your site in a location you can easily remember. You can use this text as your initial AdSense alternate ad HTML code if needed. (To save code : Right click the link and “Save Target As”)
Third, you will need to update your AdSense code. The best way to do this is to login to your AdSense account and visit the create code area. When updating ad settings for your pages ad you will need to place your default ads URL, or web address location at your site, in the box for the “Alternate Ad” and it will automatically ad the proper code. It will ad a line in the code that looks similar to this
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://mysite.com/google-default.php";
You will need to repeat this process for various sized ads so the alternate ad that appears is the same size as the original AdSense ad would be so the alternate ad will appear correctly on your page.
Origanilally posted (12-08-05) by me at another blog.
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11.25.2005 | 3:12 pm | Beginners, General, Payments, Statistics and Reports, Tips
Chitika, which is still in beta, has mad a few changes recently that have affected some publishers. While some report an increase or no change at all in CTR many publishers have reported a large CTR drop which, of coarse, affects the publishers overall income or revenue. In my opinion, …
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11.13.2005 | 1:59 pm | Beginners, General, Statistics and Reports, Tips
Looking for a simple hack to determine the top paying keywords for your site that is using Chitika eMinimalls? Well look no more! This hack extends your existing channel name(s) to include the name of prduct that was clicked. This will still give you statistics to track an interactive …
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11.10.2005 | 5:16 pm | Beginners, General, Payments, Statistics and Reports, Tips
Now that channels have been implemented in the reports area at Chitika tracking ad performance is now a big priority for me as well as many other publishers. Being able to track performance is very important to your overall success as a publisher so the fact that Chitika has this …
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10.30.2005 | 3:41 pm | Ad Networks, Blogs, Chitika, Keywords, PPC, Tips
With Chitika eMiniMalls starting to be a high focus of webmasters who want to generate more revenue from affiliate and Pay Per Click (PPC) programs along side with Adsense. Many publishers search for “Adsense high paying ad keywords”, so you can be sure the next hot topic will be “What are the Highest Paying Keywords for Chitika eMiniMalls?”
I have only recently implemented Chitika eMiniMalls and have started a little experimenting. Traking is not yet very easily done with out the abilitiy to track “channels” or pages/ads but I do know there will be channel tracking implimented soon. When that is impemented we will certainly be able to do more accurate research and have more detailed results.
My overal findings is that initially CTR is low with Chitika eMiniMalls but a good PPC. But as time is going by and I work with them more I am finding not aiming for those I feel are “High Paying keywords” but instead finding very site topic relevant items, and including as many detailed keywords strings as I can. So far I have noticed as result a large increase in CTR as well as keep a handsome PPC so far(need more time).
Here is the List of Keywords that may have high PPC when using them in your array code of Chitika eMiniMalls to get maximum results. I am sure these keywords will pay well for a while but if diluted may pay less in the future. Keep in mind keywords that are not relavant to your site and it’s visitors it will not convert very well. It is in your best intrest to find products that are similiar to your sites topic or theme so your users are interested in these items.
High Paying Keword Arrays:
Computers, Laptops, WorkStation, Desktops, Servers, Processors, Memory Sticks, Mobile Phone, DVD Systems, Televisions, Sound Systems, Plasma TV, Projection Tv,
Even keywords that are a little more defined to your users:
blackberry, canon pixma, canon powershot, canon eos, communicator, exilim, gps, hdtv, ipod mini, ipod nano, ipod photo, ipod shuffle, lcd, lcd tv, motorola razr, nintendo, nokia n90, pda phone, plasma, pocket pc, portable, sony t7, sony w800, tablet pc, toshiba, treo, tri-band, vaio, videophone
In Short Ads with the keywords related to higher priced High Tech gadgets are going to pay higher. Pretty basic. We love our electronics. 
I suspect that the default Keywords will pay the least per click on average.
If these are keywors you use I really suggest fine tuning them to fit your site visitors for higher CTR. Examples to target your array keywords to specific models/types/colors ect like:
Nokia 6600, Sony Ericsson, W800i, Dell Laptop, Xeon Server, View Sonic LCD
The list will go on there are a lot of products in the market related to Technology. You can get more of an idea of some topics that may convert better with your site at Chitika’s Catalog
The above results with ads are totally my experience it might vary from website to website. Find out for yourself and Sign Up with Chitika Yoday!
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