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Google AdSense: 7 Tips for making money with blog

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Google Adsense is one of the most easiest making money from your website or blog. It’s simple to join as it is completely free without spending a cent. Just create a blog (which is free) and start to write content. Once your blog approved, then you can run the Adsense into your blog.

When people come to visit your blog, read your articles and have a high probability of being interested in the targeted ads. Every time people click on an ad, you will get paid. It’s simple. Now, all you have to do is, design your blog well to maximize Adsense money!

Take a look at this 7 tips for making money with blog:

#1: Keyword Density

Before you place ads on your site, be sure your keyword density is good. You will want to be sure that the right kinds of ads are placed on your site. A free way to determine what the ads will look like on your site is to go to http://www.resultsgenerator.com/adsense/ and type in your keywords. You will then be able to see exactly what ads would show on your site.

If you don't like what you see, then you know that you need to make changes to your keywords! You can get keyword suggestions from Results Generator from Overture or from the free trial version of Word Tracker.

#2: Focused

Not only will the ads be based on your keywords, but they will also be based on your content. You definitely want your keywords and your content to match as closely as possible.

#3: Write Often

The more information you have the better. Why? Because the more content you have, the more visitors you get. Many people suggest that you write a new article every day since no one wants to come back to your site to find the same old messages!

#4: Choose The Right Format

AdSense allows you to choose many different ad formats. Research has shown that wider ads are more successful. The top three formats are:

" 336x280 large rectangle
" 300x250 medium rectangle
" 160x600 wide skyscraper

Additionally, the 468x15 horizontal ad link under the navigation bar is also a good bet.

#5: Color Counts

You have the option to create a Google AdSense ad in any color of your choice. The best thing to do is to make your ad blend well with your site color scheme. You should make the border color and the background color the same color as your web site. You will want your text color to either be black or the color of your main content.

When creating your Google AdSense ads it is recommended to use the color scheme and style of your website so that the ads blend in well. Ads without background color and borders perfom better than ads within borders with background color.

#6: Position Counts, Too

It is well known that visitors to a website scan the site to determine if it is worth reading. You definitely want them to see and scan your AdSense ads. Therefore, the best place to put them is in the top left part of your page or directly under your headlines.

#7: Increase The Number

AdSense allows you to use up to three AdSense units on a page, two AdSense search boxes, and one unit of ad links. Using all that you can increases the chances of earning money.

Keep these seven tips in mind when creating your AdSense site and you will find that your clickthrough rates increase, thus increasing your money making potential.



5 Best Free ways to Increase your Site's Traffic

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Traffic is and should be considered as the bread and butter of every single affiliate and internet marketer. If you think about it, if your site wasn't getting any traffic what really would the use be... it would simply be another number in the vastness of the internet.

So I figured it would be relevant that i compile this article telling you about the 5 Best and Free ways to improve your site's traffic.

5 Best Free ways to Increase your Site's Traffic:

- Article Marketing: This form of online marketing has been used for ever and is also referred to as Bum Marketing cause of the simple fact that it is so cheap, well actually it's free unless you outsource the article writing or article submission.

- Blogging: Blogging is a very important part of any affiliate marketers online endeavors whether you are a full time blogger or you only use it to pump traffic towards you main parent site aka main affiliate site.

- Blog Commenting: Blogging is a very social thing and if you stay active within your niche by commenting on other relevant and related blogs you will definitely be rewarded. Make sure to post good enticing comments to lure people through your link.

- Video Marketing: Some niches absolutely thrive on videos whether it's a review, rant or just a funny video about a product or service. The most important thing is that you make it your own, make it unique and keep it relevant to your niche or market.

- Social Media: This form of traffic generation comes in various shapes and sizes and includes the likes of RSS Feeds, Social Bookmarking and sites like Squidoo and hubpages which are all very powerful and FREE.




21 reasons why you are not get indexed by Search Engine

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After you have compiled your website and hosted it, your primary concern is that it should be visited by, more and more people. For this, you try various tactics to promote your site. One way of promoting your website is to submit it with various search engines.

At times, you have submitted your website to the search engine, but you find that you are not indexed or in other words, your site is not appearing in the searches. There could be many reasons for it. Let's look at some of these reasons:

1. Allocate adequate time - After submission, indexing a website is a time consuming process. Some people in hurry to be indexed, ignore this time period and start expecting their site to appear in the search results, much before the time lapses. Actually, this index time ranges from one to eight weeks depending on the search engine. Some sites such as AltaVista also charge extra if you want to get your site indexed faster.

2. Use Paid Domains - If you have hosted your site on a free domain, you may come across problems in indexing your site. This is because nowadays the search engines either don't index free sites or index only a limited number of free sites. Therefore, it is always better to host your website on a paid domain with a paid service.

3. Select creditable hosting service: It is very important to host your website with a good hosting service. This is because if at any stage the search engine visits your website and finds that it is not functioning then your website will be simply removed from their database. Therefore, make sure your hosting service is a creditable one, which keeps your website up and running most of the time.

4. Frame-based site - Having a frame-based website can also be a roadblock. In a frame-based site, there are different pages in the same page. As a result, it can happen that your text page is indexed but not the menu page. To solve this problem, you should ideally have a non-frame based website. If not then you can try optimizing your frame-based website for a better result.

5. Low Ranking in Searches - It is quite possible that you are indexed on a search engine but you are not aware of it. This could be because your site is getting a very low ranking in the search results. Most people expect that their site to come up in the first few listings. As a result, if their site does not do so then they don't bother to look further and assume that their site is not indexed. Matters are not helped by the fact that most search engines don't inform you after indexing your website.

To get a good ranking in the search results it is important for you to optimise your website according to the search engine guidelines.

6. In-complete Website - Before submitting your website ensure that your site is complete and there are no missing pages. Otherwise, your website may not get indexed.

7. Avoid complicated pages - Sometimes in an effort to have a very dynamic website web developers use complicated scripts such as JavaScript and VB scripts etc. However, the search engines don't always handle these dynamic pages well. As a result, your site could suffer and get a low ranking in search engine results. Therefore, it is advisable to limit the use of such scripts on your site.

8. Link pages from home page - Some search engines follow the policy that they don't show pages which cant be accessed from the home page. To avoid this kind of a problem you can try to limit such pages or submit them separately.

9. Limit page size: Take care that your website pages don't become so heavy that they take a long time to load. In such a case, the search engine spider will not be able to fully index your content. Generally, it is recommended to keep your web pages around 50 k and with images etc. around 70 k. This criterion has been set particularly in view of the users still using the dial-up connection.

10. Link your site externally - Another guideline which some search engines such as Google follow is that they don't index sites which don't have external links with other sites. At times, they even allocate you a time period of around 30 days to get the external links. If you are not successful then your site may get pruned. You can also take the help of a free service to check the popularity of your website links through http://www.linkpopularitycheck.com

11. Maintain quality: Make sure that you keep a quality control over your website. This is particularly important in cases where you are submitting your website to directory site like Yahoo, Open Directory, Looksmart etc. This is because, at these sites, they have personnel who carefully analyze the submissions, and omit any, which do not have a good quality.

12. Search Engine spider blocks - If your website requires forms, passwords or registration for access then the search engine spiders will not be able to index it. This is also the case with sites having a searchable database. In such a scenario, you can try to submit those web pages on your site which are simple and don't have these complications.

13. Sharing IP - Nowadays another problem that you can face is that sometimes the website hosting services give the same IP to multiple websites. As a result, if any one of these websites, using the same IP is involved in any illegal dispute then the search engine de-bars the IP itself making all the associated sites suffer. Therefore, make sure that you have an independent IP and are not sharing it with anyone.

14. Submitting within limit: Some search engines have limits for accepting submissions, for a particular domain, per day. Therefore, before submitting check that you are within limit prescribed for your domain or your submission will go waste.

15. Limit non-indexable content: It is important that you submit only the kind of content that the search engines can index. For example, search engines cannot index embedded text, content in media files, Java applets or in XML coding.

16. Submit link pages separately: Search engines don't take the trouble to fully index your
website. They will simply index, one or two links further than the page that you have submitted. Therefore, if you want some particular pages to be indexed it is advisable to submit them separately.

17. Avoid using spam - It is very important to develop your website with full sincerity. Spam, is very seriously looked down upon by the search engines. Make sure that your site is spam free and you don't use any tactic, which can be considered spam such as, excessive repetition of keywords etc.

18. Avoid redirecting: If your website is redirecting the viewer to another site then at times this can hamper your indexing process. This is because search engines are wary of being tricked by "cloaking" or IP redirection technology. If they find out that this is the case then you can be sure that they will not index your site.

19. Allow for fluctuations in index time: You will not believe it but there have been cases when the search engines, after indexing sites for some time suddenly stop doing so for months on end for no particular reason. They do restart the process after some time but the wait can get quite frustrating for the web developers. You can however, try to find out the real-world situation through http://www.marketposition.com

20. Technical errors: Besides all these, there are also some technical reasons because of which websites don't get indexed. These may include technical bugs and errors that arise from the sheer magnitude of the submissions and re-submissions that people make.

21. Submit limited pages: Most search engines have some kind of limits for the number of pages that they will index for each site. The quantity varies from engine to engine. However, if your website is very popular then the search engines stretch this limit for you.
Keep all these guidelines in mind while you are submitting your website to any search engine and allocate ample time for the indexation process.