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Adsense Tips and Tricks.

December 7th, 2010

With personal and commercial blogs, community websites, and social pages becoming the hot topic of the Internet in the last few years, many people have become more Internet-literate and are always looking for ways to make a few hundreds or even thousands from their websites.  This is when Google Ad sense comes into play.  Google Ad sense, unlike Affiliate Programs, is CPC (Pay-Per-Click) and the good thing about it, is you can still earn some bucks without making a sale.

As with any other things in this world, it takes time, effort and dedication before you could earn some decent amount from Google Ad sense.  And here are some of the tips and tricks to help you with your Google Ad sense journey.

Layout

  • Blend your ads to your website layout
    This could be considered as one the most important things which is often overlooked.  Instead of using predefined colors provided by Google, try changing colors of your ads to match the website layout.  For example, if your website uses white background with green text, make sure you use the same colors for your ads.
  • Do not display a border
    while you can’t get rid of the border around your ad, you can make it invisible by changing the border color to that of the background.  Researches have shown that ads without a visible border generate much higher clicks than those with one.
  • Choose the right ad formats
    there are a few ad formats which perform better than others.  Some of the recommended ad formats are Wide Skyscrapper, Medium Rectangle and Horizontal Ads Links.  However, these ad formats may not necessarily work for everyone, so choose the ones that work for you. Do not place your ads in normal spots.
  • “Content is the king”
    The fact that Google Ad sense is contextual advertising implies that the ads being generated are often relevant to the website content.  That simply means you will not get any relevant ads if the content does not focus on a certain topic or the content is not text based.  For example, if your page does not have any copy/text but an image, it’s unlikely to get relevant ads.
  • Pick a high paying topic
    It took a while to find out that some keywords are being paid more than others.  While Google does not tell you how much advertisers are paying for their keywords, it is pretty easy to guess.  For example, ads about credit cards, home loans and insurance are being paid more than those ads about free blogging tool, yellow pages, etc.   It is also recommended to pick a Niche topic and provide a narrow focus than to pick a general topic.
  • Update your website frequently
    Updating your website frequently enables you to get more visitors checking out your website which increases your page impression and the probability of ad clicks.
  • Do not click on your own ads
    Honesty is the best policy.  Be honest with yourself, and do not try to increase your Ad sense revenue by clicking on your own ads.  Google is really strict when it comes to fraud clicking, and before you knew it, your account could be banned and you could owe some money to the advertisers.
  • Link Building
    No matter how good your website is and how relevant your Adsense ads are, without a decent amount of traffics, you will only be making a small amount of revenue, if any.  It is not easy to achieve a decent amount of traffics, but it is not impossible.  Some of the most common ways to gain traffics to your website include Link exchange, Directory listing, participating in online communities and making use of social bookmaking systems.

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Clearing Your DNS Cache

September 18th, 2010

When you visit a website in your browser, your computer will store information about that site so that you do not have to look it up again. Unfortunately, sometimes that information may change and your computer may not have the latest information about the site.

You can use the instructions below to clear your cache, ensuring you have the latest information about all the websites you visit.

Windows® XP, 2000, or Vista®

  1. Open the Start menu.
  2. Go to Run.
    • If you do not see the Run command in Vista, search for “run” in the Search bar.
  3. In the Run text box, type: ipconfig /flushdns
  4. Press Enter or Return, and your cache will be flushed.

MacOS®

  1. Go to Applications.
  2. Go to Utilities.
  3. Open the Terminal application.
  4. Type: dscacheutil -flushcache
  5. Press Enter or Return, and your cache will be flushed.

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Things move faster in the Internet marketing world

April 21st, 2010

The arrival of Internet has revolutionized information dissemination and communication, and Internet marketing, which encompasses in it everything that is special about the medium of Internet, is a much faster business model compared to conventional marketing.

First of all, in the virtual world of Internet marketing, the advertising choices are wider, and its results are faster. With offline marketing, though there are several advertising methods, the advertisers will have to disseminate it through different media. The printed medium of newspapers, the audio medium or radio, and the audio-visual medium of television are different and ads have to be taken separately to each. As different from this, in Internet marketing, all forms of ads are managed through the same medium of Internet.

And these Internet ads that come in handy for Internet marketing span a wide spectrum as well. There are pop-up ads, which open in a new browser window when a web site is opened, and there are also pop-under ads, which open underneath the window that is being used.  Then there are banner ads displayed on the side or above a web page that has got good contents. Besides these, those doing Internet marketing use social media networking, blogging, email, pay per click ads, and audio recordings and video recordings to spread the awareness of their goods.

Besides the facility of using the same medium for all types of advertising, tracing results is also faster in Internet marketing. Since software is getting more and more sophisticated, analyzing the available data is done instantly, enabling the marketer to be up-to-date on market trends. In the same way, because of the facility of instant data analysis, it is easy for those doing Internet marketing to find out how well their marketing campaigns are working and which of the advertising methods are working better. With offline advertising, gathering data, and data analysis, takes much more time so that the continuity of advertising is often lost.

Making corrections is also easier and faster in the Internet marketing world. Editing text or adding or deleting graphics in an ad, based on customer feedback, is easily done in Internet marketing. Target marketing also works better here. While marketing offline, target marketing is more centered on geographic locations whereas with Internet marketing, identifying and accessing target markets based on race, ethnicity, socio-economic conditions, age, hobby, profession, gender etc. is easier.

In Internet marketing conversion is also faster. A customer, who needs a product or a service, can make an offer or an appointment pretty fast, with the click of a mouse. With offline marketing, customers have to go a more convoluted way of getting the address, making a phone call, and then making enquiries. In other words, with Internet marketing, reaching out to people, getting feedback, and clinching the deal are perpetually on a fast forward mode.

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