(Comparison of Zedomax.com and Mattresszine.com, Click to enlarge)

In a recent network study I did with Adsense ads all my blogs over in Zedomax Network, I found out that the most optimal position for your AdSense ads are to the top and left. Now above is a Screenshot of Mattresszine.com overlapped on Zedomax.com.

Why do I show you this?

Because the Adsense ads on Zedomax.com used to be at the way bottom. I started slowly changing the theme and moving the ads towards the top and to the left.

After the change, I did increase my CTR and CPM by 2-3 fold. (I am even thinking about moving it further to the top and left)

Also of the two Adsense ads, the left one performs better by 2-3 fold, weird isn’t it? (I am planning to even test out putting the sidebar on the left and put the ads there…)

I used to put my Adsense ads on the bottom of the post and on the sidebar. Uh oh, that is the worst place to put it unless you are experiencing some high CTRs. You might as well not put adsense. You need to put the ads where people would normally be reading the content, otherwise people will simply ignore the ads and you will make zilch.

You need to also think about the general population, over 50% of people still user 1024×768 pixel monitors in the world. That means anything outside that will not get many impressions.

After optimizing Adsense ads, I went from making just enough money to pay for server fees to being able to make a living on the internet.

That slight change can be costly, especially if you don’t know about how much money it can make you. It did cost me last 6 months of “how much could I have made”.

Now, depending on your niche blog topic, the ad placement perfomance could differ, but do try my advice if you ain’t making it right now. I am sure it will help.

You’ve probably seen bunch of sites that you can sign up for to sell text link ads on your site. I’ve personally tried Text-Link-Ads.com. Although I have made money through their system, I probably only made $200 a month at the most. The problem with these sites is that they take 50% of your sales! That’s a lot of money to give away if you ask me. Plus, they only sell on monthly basis, so you are not guaranteed a steady income.

The solution? Sell you text link ads on your blog as “lifetime” links or get your advertisers to commit to at least one year. That way, you get a large sum of money beforehand. Even if you sell one text link for $1000, you are better off putting that cash in your bank and not worrying about it rather than having to check every month how much you are making.

In other words, SELL your text link ads on your blog. Have a link to a simple explanation how advertisers can buy text link ads on your site. This keeps your life simpler since you only have to place the link once. Set it and forget it.

Here’s a guideline for selling links on your blog:

1. Offer any text links for $20 to $25 a pop. That’s very low for industrial average but you set it and forget it.

2. Offer “site-wide” text links for $1000 a pop. This site-wide link would be placed either on your sidebar or your footer. By offering a permanent links, you offer the advertiser a feature above all the other text link ad sites.

With this method, I’ve made more money within a week than all the money I made through Text-Link-Ads.com. I am not trying to bag on their policies but with the recent penalizations by Google, the best way to sell your links is to sell them directly to your customers and gain 100% profit.

Take control of your blog and monetize those text links that many many SEO companies are after. If you make money, make sure to ping this post by writing about it.

To sum up, think of how much money you can make if you sold 100 lifetime links for $1000. That’s $100,000 in your pocket and you can re-invest that money into advertising for your blog so you get more traffic and raise your PageRanking.

Don’t become a slave to one of those Text Link Ad companies that rip your money. (50%!!! Fu*k that. I will just sell my own links.) TAKE CONTROL of your blog today and MAKE MONEY ONLINE selling direct to your customers, readers, whatever.

P.S. I apologize for those text link ad companies, but I am telling the truth and you guys are selling text links off innocent bloggers who don’t know better.

Think about it? A text link ad company sells YOUR LINKS, not theirs. All they are did is setup a system to make 50% off your links. YES, again, YOUR LINKS!

After reviewing all the buzz about MillionDollarWiki and MillionEuroWiki, I’ve come to realize that you need to come up with an original idea for making money online utilizing the strengths of your website(s).

So to make money, I’ve setup a new website for all the websites in our network of blogs and social networking sites called Zedomax.Net.

Basically, we are going to sell lifetime permanent links on our websites. Instead of having to purchase links monthly, you (as a webmaster) can benefit greatly from buying “lifetime” permanent links. We are kind of mixing the idea of purchasing a permanent page with idea of purchasing a permanent link.

Check out the details here of buying “lifetime” links on Zedomax.Net.

Although this is just an experiment, my hopes are high that website owners are in need of such links. I have been getting so many emails from website owners to trade links but this might be a better deal since they can “buy” thousands of permanent one-way links.

Do you have a niche blog(s)?  Are you not making enough money from Google ads?

Do you want to join the Zedomax Network and share the money making benefits?

All we require is 3 RSS Feeds to be posted on your sidebar or footer.  (In return you will get RSS Feeds from at least 8 websites in the network)

We are still in development stages of what we are going to do with our blog/social networks, so join us before we have to close our doors!

Send inquiries to zedomax [at] gmail.com.

Check out DealDotCom for some cool deals on affiliate revenue. They offer 30%, which is better than most other affiliate programs at 5 to 10%.

There’s also a Wordpress Plugin you can download for automatically posting a sidebar banner ad. (via JohnChow) You’ve probably noticed I just put it up on this site.

I will report you back how much I make in the next couple weeks.

P.S. There are 2 ways to promote your DealDotCom:

It has been requested by a lot of you and we would be fools to not listen. You now have two affiliate links to use…

#1. http://www.dealdotcom.com/makemoney/####

This link will now point to the “Make Money” page… so for those of you that want to promote the affiliate opportunity with DealDotCom, this is the link to use. Make sure to replace the #### with your ID.

#2. http://www.dealdotcom.com/invite/####

This is the link to point to the product of the day.

Enjoy!