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Don’t Sell Links If You Want to Make Money with AdSense!

max — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:24:43 +0000

Well, this one is pretty simple but a lot of people do sell links on their blogs.

Why?

Well, to simply put it, if you want to make money with Adsense, you need Google search term traffic.

If you sell links, Google will eventually dump your blog and your Adsense traffic will drop dramatically to a point where it will affect your Adsense revenue.

Why bother selling links anyways when it’s unethical?

There are thousands of sites that help you sell links but I highly advise against it if you are serious about making money in the long run.

Of course, if you want to make some quick bucks and get out, that’s fine too. But remember all your hard work and all that search traffic might just be gone one day if you start selling links.

Why is it unethical?

Well, think about it this way. If you had all the money in the world, you could buy up all the links and show up first on Google. Now, that wouldn’t be fair for others who write original content, would it?

It’s really common sense. If you want to play the Adsense game, you need to stop and don’t sell links at all. If you want to play another game such as affiliate sales, then it might not matter as much. But the answer is simple.

I probably get at least 10-20 requests to buy links. They all end up marked as spam. I don’t want to be part of it, leave me out of it.

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Don’t Sell Links If You Want to Make Money with AdSense!

How to make money with Adsense on web traffic!

max — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:19:43 +0000

The most important thing about making money with Adsense is the fact that amount of money you make “ramps” up with the level of web traffic you get.

For example:

If your blog gets around 0 to 1000 unique visitors, chances are likely that you make somewhere around $0 to $5 per day.

But then, if your blog gets around 1000 to 3000 unique visitors, chances are likely that you make somewhere around $5 to $100 per day, depending on your niche market.

Now, if you look at the big spectrum of things, you will notice that the there’s almost 20 times difference between $5 and $100.

That’s right.

At a certain point, the number of your web traffic + number of clicks + CTR “ramps” up. I am not exactly sure how this happens but trust me, it does.

That’s what you should be targetting for, a steady growth of search engine traffic. Now, once you reach that “ramp”, you will suddenly start making 3-10 times more money.

If you are still struggling below web traffic of 1,000 uniques per day, it’s going to look REAL HARD to make a lot of money on Adsense. Once you get past 2,000 to 3,000 uniques, you might start actually making some decent money.

Well, that’s all for today folks. If you got some facts to point out, please use the comments form.

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How to make money with Adsense on web traffic!

Where is the Best Adsense Placement?

max — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:13:21 +0000

Sorry, THIS POST IS OUTDATED, SEE MY UPDATED Adsense Optimized Heat Map HERE!!!

If you have noticed, I’ve put on some Adsense ads finally on this blog.

Where is the best placement for the highest paying Adsense ad?

Well, it’s simple, it’s the 336×280 pixel size right on top of your post.

Although I’ve proved it to myself already, there’s also this blog post you can check out that shows which ad performs the best.

What are my goals?

Well, I will attempt to start making money on this blog, talking about how to optimize your ads to make more money from your blog.

Other things I’ve done to increase CTR

As you can see in the above screenshot, I took the motorcycle out. It’s because it takes up WAY too much valuable advertising space, which is the top-left corner.

With those changes and Adsense ads on top/bottom of post plus a 160×600 sidebar ad, we will see how much money we can make over the next year or so.

Mind you, I probably won’t make that much money with this blog as there’s literally not enough traffic.

On the next post, I will explain further how to make more money with web traffic and show you how it correlates to everything.

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Where is the Best Adsense Placement?

Best Type of Traffic for Ad Clicks!

max — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:58:46 +0000

A lot of people don’t know that fact about web traffic and the fact remains that you need a special “type” of web traffic to get the people to be interested in your advertisements whether that be Google Adsense or whatever.

Here’s are some facts about what kind of people are more likely to read and click on ads:

1. Blog subscribers are overrated, they are the worst type of traffic that’d click on your ads. Besides, most subscribers are subscribers because they see your blog through an RSS reader, thus they’d even rarely see the ad at all unless you had feed ads.

Blog subscribers are the worst for making money because they know your site layout already, they are “ad blind”, as they say.

2. Traffic coming from Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and social networking are worthless. Most of the time, they will steal your bandwidth and you pretty much don’t make any money unless you can “consistently” make the front page, in which case you will gain a lot of SEO, which is good for making money online.

Most people coming from the social networking traffic are too smart to even read your ads, don’t waste your time building up traffic this way. You might end up with 1000 more uniques per day but if that doesn’t convert, you are the one who end up wasting time. (Whereas if you only had 100 uniques from search engines, you’d probably make more money in comparison)

3. Traffic from Google search terms are the best for making money. People who click through a search engine more than often click out through Google Adsense ads. This is where the money is. If you can somehow increase the number of people coming to your site through Google, Yahoo, or any other search engines, you have the best type of web traffic, the people who read and click on ads.

So what’s the point of this story?

You need to spend 90% of your time blogging, consistently about your niche topic. Do not waste your time with too many social networks as they don’t give you “money” results. The social networks might earn you more readers and traffic but they simply don’t convert to money.

Also, don’t try so hard to get a lot of subscribers. Your subscribers should be subscribing to your blog because they are REALLY interested in keeping up with your blog news.

If you use contests and other methods simply to increase the number of subscribers, it doesn’t really help you when you are counting money at the end of the day.

Subscribers = The worst traffic for CPC advertising

Social Network traffic = Also worst traffic for CPC advertising

Random People who find your site through a search engine = This is your goldmine, if you can get the number of visitors coming to your site up to about 90% of total traffic, that is ideal for making money online.

Other people including blog experts might tell you otherwise but in my experience, this is what has worked and what is working for me. If you have further suggestions, I am ears are always open and you are welcome to comment.

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Best Type of Traffic for Ad Clicks!

Making Money Online Titles

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:36:18 +0000

Here’s a fun little titles for making money online sorta like boxing:

24+ Posts Per Day – Heavyweight Class

If you write 24+ posts per day, you are in the heavyweight class and you are gonna make some money soon or later. 24 posts per day means you are scheduling 1 post per hour. This will help Google to crawl your site every hour too.

Basically at 24+ posts per day, you are blogging about anything, everything about your niche blog topic.

5-23 Posts Per Day – Middleweight Class

With 5-23 posts per day, you are still puking out a lot of information out there and if you have very high quality content, middleweight class might make more money than the heavyweight players.

At 5 to 23 posts per day, you are still going to work like a dog for at least a year before you make some serious cash.

1-3 Posts Per Day – Lightweight Class

At 1 to 3 blog posts per day, you are definitely no match for any other middleweight or heavyweight classes. You might as well give up blogging here if you are trying to make money online. If you are on a long term 2-3 year plan, it might work but still, you will either need some of the “best content” in the world or you are already famous.

You need to set a goal of how long it will take you to make money online.

With super niche topic, you might get away with 1 to 3 blog posts per day. It will take you at least a year to get your blog off the ground though. (Meaning 2-3K uniques per day)

To sum it up, you really need to be able to spit out information as fast as you can and start running from 6am to 10pm daily until you start making money blogging.

If you thought blogging was easy, then think again.

Now, this is if you are really serious about blogging and you just lost your job, have only 6 months of rent left, AND you had a baby kid born just few weeks ago. (me) If you are living lavishly and you don’t really need the money, there’s simply not enough motivation for you to blog that much or blog even at all. Just let this information go through your left ear and flow out the right.

Why is this blog not getting updated?

Well, I try to focus my attention on sites that are getting a lot of traffic. Those are the real money makers. I put every other blog that’s not getting enough traffic back on lightweight class.

Here’s the middleweight blogs I’ve been workin’ on:

zedomax.com, keetsa.com, bedzine.com
Here’s my lightweights:

progolferdigest.com, ringoblog.com, laptoppimp.com

Here’s my no weights I really need to get back on lightweights:

sfoneofakind.com, sfblogg.com

I got about 10 more blogs under “secret” development right now but I can disclose them until they really “take” off.

Happy bloggin’ and if you ain’t postin’ at least 5 per day, forget it man. You get in the ring and even lightweights will knock you out in 5 seconds.

Life is hard and competitive. Be faster than the person next to you, otherwise you are gonna be stuck where you are.

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Making Money Online Titles

What is Niche Blogging?

max — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:03:16 +0000

So, you saw John Chow’s blog on how he is making 23K/month and you decided to start a blog…

Okay, what niche topic did you choose?

If you chose “Making Money Online”, you are in serious trouble.

You see, niche blogging is about finding a topic that no one else is blogging about.

You need to pick a topic that has the following characteristics:

1. No one else is blogging about it

2. The topic is “expensive”, meaning you are blogging about a product/service that’s “expensive”.

Why?

Well, the expensive products always have companies that can back it up with expensive Adwords campaign, meaning you will get more money everytime someone clicks on that ad.

What did I do lately?

I made RingOBlog and LaptopPimp.

There, I just gave you the secret to making a lot of money with blogs, but if you notice, I don’t have many subscribers.

I am not trying to give out secrets, only to the selected few like you.

Lol… enjoy, analyze, and you can make living online like me too.

And don’t tell anyone about this blog, because I give out my secrets.

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What is Niche Blogging?

To Make Money Online you need to be Passionate about Blogging!

max — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:25:59 +0000

As a blogger with 2 years of experience in many niche blog topics such as technology, home, and others, the one thing I can tell you is that you need to be passionate about blogging.

What is passion?

Well, when I get up in the morning, I can’t wait to do 50 blog posts on my various different blogs. There’s so much information and I want to tell the world about that through my blogs.

Do you have passion?

You need passion to make money blogging. If you don’t have it, it will show up on your writing and your readers will feel it too.

If you don’t have passion, the desire that blogging is one of the most fun things you can do to make money, you should go get a job and stop wasting time.

However, if you are passionate about making money, do 24+ blog posts per day. That IS a guaranteed stable way to build web traffic.

Go look at the top 100 blogs in the world, there’s not a single blog that does less than 24 blog posts per day. Some blogs even do like 30+!

I am sorry, but the truth and the secret is out there, you just need to blog, blog, blog, and blog about it.

If you are not willing or too lazy, forget blogging, you might as well work for some corporation who’s going to slave you away for rest of your life.

Yes, life is tough, blogging is tough. Stop wasting time, you should be able to write 2-3 blog posts in the time you’ve read this blog post.

Get serious now, take action, that’s all I can tell you.

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Get Rich with Niche Blogging!

max — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:09:26 +0000

Now, there’s a lot of money to be made online, especially with blogs.

Blogs are simply great for SEO, content management, and networking with other bloggers.

Blogs have proven themselves as the next communication medium to overtake newspaper, radio, and television.

Now, to make money blogging, what kind of blog do you need to make?

Well, as the old saying goes, “Get Rich with Niche”, you need to pick out a good “niche” topic for your blog.

That’s right, don’t think you can simply make a blog about making money to make money. You probably won’t as “making money online” isn’t a niche anymore due to John Chow’s blog and everyone who tries to copy him.

Instead, to make money with blogs, you first need to sought out a truly goldmine “niche” topic.

A great niche would be a topic that’s traditionally very offline yet there’s no one blogging about it. For example, I can give you something like “fly fishing” or “california camping” to name a couple.

So how to go about picking your “niche” topic?

First, find a “niche” topic no one else is blogging about. (or at least there’s not a major blog for it)

Second, get a catchy domain name.

Third, make a blog and custom design it.

Fourth, strategically place your Adsense ads so you will get the highest click rate and cost-per-click.

Fifth, blog like crazy about your blog “niche” topic and bring your traffic up as fast as possible before another person tries to copy you.

This is how you make real money blogging. John Chow started when no one else was blogging about how to make money online.

Now, follow my advice and you will be awarded in a year or two. Maybe earlier but in my experience, you need to blog 3-5 posts daily for about a year or two to make enough money to make a living.

(However this might be different if your cost of living is less than where I live, San Francisco. If you live in Thailand for example, you might only need to make $1000 a month to make a living. For me, I need to make at least $5000 to pay rent, gas, food, etc…etc…)

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RSS Subscribers, overrated?

max — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:18:56 +0000

Well, in a recent interview with John Chow, I did get some great secrets from John on how to monetize my blogs.

I went from losing money every month on server fees to making almost $6K per month in just a month.

Now, what did I learn from John Chow?

He did tell me that RSS subscribers are the key to making money with blogs.

But I beg to differ.

It really depends on “how” you are making money online. Let’s say you do that mostly through affiliate programs and CPA deals, you will probably be better off with lots of RSS subscribers.

Now in my case, I have low RSS subscribers on most of my blogs yet I do get some good traffic, total of about 30K uniques per day as a network.

I also did research on some blogs with very high RSS subscribers, around 10K-20K, and found out that high number of RSS subscribers doesn’t always equal high web traffic.

For example, my Zedomax.com gets almost 7,000 uniques per day yet I only have 900 RSS subscribers. 99% of my readers are super bouncers and I don’t rely on my readers to make money for me, I rely on the new people that come to the site to make money.

For me, I’ve built my blogs on a network model planned to drive up web traffic, not subscribers.

Because of that model, I get about 90% of my traffic from search engines like Google. Now, I don’t have many subscribers but I do get lots of new people to all the blogs as 90% of the web traffic is new people through Google search terms.

John Chow sells lots of private advertising and lots of affiliate programs with tiers.

Now, the secret John Chow told me personally was not the fact that I need to raise number of RSS subscribers, but he said to me, “Drive Traffic and Maximize Income!”

Well, I took that to my heart and started moving around Google Adsense ads. Within 4 weeks, I went from $1000 revenue to almost now $6000. (the check should be coming soon)

With more fine tuning and optimizing my ads, I am pretty sure I can get near $10K/month range by the end of this year. Not too bad for changing and moving around your ads.

RSS is not overrated, but it is overrated for people like me who build sites for traffic, not subscribers.

The great part about building natural search traffic is that those people who use Google to find your site are also the most likely people to click out of your site using your Adsense ads.

What I’ve learned in the last few weeks is that there’s never one way to skin a money making cat. The most important thing you have to do is to spend a lot of time to adjust and try different things until you can maximize the income from your blog.

That’s what John Chow did and I just proved it to myself AND told you about it.

Now go take my medicine and try it yourself and see if you can double, triple, or quadruple your income!

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