Archive for August, 2009

20 mistakes to avoid using Google AdSense program.

August 31st, 2009

I meet many of you guys that was telling me different stories that Google banned their AdSense accounts. Yes this happen, this is the practice that Google use if someone brakes his rules. That is why, what I am going to show you in this post,  is 20 different mistakes that you should avoid if you do not want to be banned and kicked out from the game.

Google set a very strict rules and regulations which you got to follow or get eliminated, it’s sounds like some reality show, but the fact is not everyone will compile to the terms of services which they should have read when they apply for adsense.

This may seems like some donkey years information but many people are still breaking the rules yet they blame Google adsense for giving them the boot out of the program. To stay with adsense, you got to play along with the rules and the rules are not meant to be broken with Google. Common Mistakes are always made by people, while they want to hitch a fast ride to making money, but it will never work! Be Internet
smart and avoid these common mistakes which will violate Google Adsense.

1. Never Click your own ads in whatever way
Coincidentally this is number 1, because i want to tell you 70% of why google adsense ban you is because you either tried to be fun to test the system by clicking on your own ads or you gave an accidental click on your site. For those who tried to test the system, good luck, as for those who gave an accidental click, there is a way to help you not get ban, give google adsense a courtesy mail and tell them you accidentally click on your own ads and they will help you in some ways. Remember how you own up when you did something wrong, your parents forgive you.

2. Do not place more than 3 ad units and 3 ad links or 2 adsense search boxes on any blog
Google gives a maximum of 3 ad units and links with 2 search boxes to be placed on 1 full page, even if you place a fourth ad, it will never appear on your page so don’t worry, once you busted the limit, it will not show, a safe pre-cautious that Google implemented.

3. Never Change or implement new codes in your adsense
When you have configured your adsense code, make sure you do not meddle with the script nor the ads codes. The only code that you may change are the color and banner size code, again i warn those who are not proficient in HTML to not try this, go back to the product and reset the configurations.

4. Open 1 Account for 10 websites
If you have 10 websites which you want to use Adsense, then 1 account is sufficient, there is no requirement for you to open another 10 more, even with 10 more a small mistakes can land all your accounts into the “publisher burying sections”.

5. Do not disclosure your secrets
This happens when you are showing off your Google adsense income report. You should always remember that you are only allowed to show the earnings column, cause adsense is sensitive on issues with showing your CTR and impressions.

6. Give labels like sponsors or advertisements only
Do not misled your ads to your audiences, that is one of Google’s principle, place labels like Sponsors, advertisements are fine but not “Click here for more” or “Great offers”. Don’t get banned by Google for such acts.

7. Never let your ads launch in a new browser
It is not advisable for your to change the coding in the first place and by adding a code like target ing ads to open in a new browser is against the TOS.

8. Do not run competitive contextual text ads or search services on the same blog
It is not advisable for you to run same contextual text ads services in on page, and Google only allows alternate services like auctionads , chitika or yahoo ads provided the ads do not resemble Adsense ads.Never try to create link structures resembling the adsense ads.

9. Never put images with Adsense ads
Images and ads will be a good attraction for others to click on your irrelevant ads, which Google dismay, and they only allow placing images with ads if there is a clear cut border between the ads and the images, otherwise it is against their TOS.

10. Do not join click farms that provide you click on your ads
They claimed that they’ll deliver clicks to your ads and all you do is to join and pay them by certain amount. Always keep in mind that using such methods to earn your clicks is highly prohibited. Don’t pay money for things that don’t return

11. Using 3rd party programs to improves impressions
Like how you should never use Click ads program, you should not use autosurf or paid surfing program to increase your impressions with Google, this will get you out of adsense program.

12. Be cautious where you place your ads with non contents pages
Placing ads in error pages, thank you or pages that have no contents but just ads and a sentence of word is not allowed. Chances are Google would have noticed of such activities and would ban you when the time is right.

13. Don’t stuff all your keywords in one article
Experts tells you to stuff keywords in one article, Google tells you not too. Who should you believe, the expert or Google who is paying you money for their ads. Writing a well contented article is what you should be looking out for and planting keywords of your choice would be advisable to hit targeted ads but avoid stuffing too much keywords, this might alarm Google to visit you when time comes.

14. Encouraging Clicks
It is not advisable that you encourage others to click on your ads, sentences like “click on mine ads and i will click on yours” or “click on my ads to discover more” is all prohibited and can cause your adsense account to be disabled.

15. Pop-up or pop-under ads are not allowed to work with adsense
Adsense discourages having both their ads with pop-up or pop-under ads from external services.

16. Do not use MFA Templates and AdSense Arbitrage
Don’t buy MFA(Made for adsense) Templates! Google have been banning accounts who used them since June 21st 2007. You basically earn lots of money with this adsense arbitrage method by navigating ads to get to where you want to view the content, the site owner might be happy but Google have since had enough and placed a stop to such acts.

17. 3 Referral Button and no more
Like the ads which have a maximum of 3, referral buttons can only have a maximum of 3 and recently they added a new feature which is the referral 2.0 which you can chose different referral product and have it as text links who looks like your normal content ads.

18. Never send your adsense ads out through email
If you are one of those who are trying to outsmart google, they beat you first. Using HTML emails and delivering your adsense is not going to work, it might just give you a slap on your own face and prepare for your adsense to be closed in the next few days.

19. Don’t place adsense ads as your alternate ads
When you display adsense in that fix place, you are not allowed to place alternate ads to overwrite adsense ads. If you need to place alternate ads, adsense does have a function to allow you to directly place in alternate ads instead of using their PSA.

20. Do not use directive methods to lure clicks
While placing images with borders to separate ads is not a problem, having images like arrows or other graphical gimmicks that directs others to click is also not allowed.

Make money with PPC Affiliate programs.

August 24th, 2009

Lets talk about another variant on the pay-per-lead model. This model is called  the pay-per-click affiliate program (PPC). Here the company running the program pays you whenever someone simply clicks on its banner or link from your site.

Although generally a flat rate of “x” dollars (cents is more accurate) is paid for each click, some Companies running PPC affiliate programs weight their payment rates in favor of those affiliates who send the most clicks. The more clicks you send the vendor, the higher rate per click they will pay you.

Some PPC affiliate programs take things even further and adjust your payment rate according to the quality of clicks you send them. That is the percentage of conversions (i.e. sales) realised from the total number of clicks sent. In this scenario you need to be just as confident of the merchant’s ability to sell as with PPS.

In any event, unless you have a lot of traffic in a competitive category, you’re probably looking at a paltry $0.01 to $0.05 per click… don’t spend it all at once!

For these programs to be worthwhile you really need a site with a highly targeted audience. If you then carefully choose products or services closely matched to their interests, from professional vendors (i.e. those that know how to sell) you can earn a reasonable amount. Providing that you have the traffic of course!

For anything other than a small website however, almost all PPC programs tend to require a lot of effort for not much return. Searching for relevant ads, getting the code, and pasting it into your pages all takes time. And many PPC ads don’t have a very long life-span (often because companies use them for special promotions or testing), meaning you have to keep replacing them.

One notable exception is the Google.com Adsense program, which although PPC, employs Google’s sophisticated search technology to automatically display ads that are relevant to your page content.

You no longer have to spend time searching for matching advertisers, or signing up for multiple programs, and one identical snippet of code is all you ever need to add to all your pages. You can literally “set it and forget it” knowing your website will always be showing ads related to the page content.

Automatic relevancy to content drives up click-through rates, not only for the most obvious reasons, but also because search engines and searchers aren’t perfect, meaning visitors often arrive at a web page from a search engine thinking the page contains something other than it actually does. That something else will be something related to the page content, and so it’s very likely that one of the contextually relevant ads will offer what they are seeking. This leads to a click on an ad for something that the webmaster would not have considered advertising.

These higher click-through rates and ease of implementation make contextual advertising the first choice in PPC affiliate programs today. Websites with many pages of content on popular search categories (where ads earn a high cost-per-click) can make a thousands of dollars a month with Adsense alone.

Different ways of using PLR content

August 20th, 2009

In any internet marketing business, the best and most efficient way of getting customers to buy from you is through the content posted in your sales page or website.  You won’t be able to show tangible products or actual books online, so the best way to give your customers an idea of what you are trying to sell is by writing about it.  High quality articles, blog posts, and e-books are just some of the most effective ways of selling online, but there are marketers who have the following problems:

•    They don’t have the writing skills to really wow their customers.
•    They don’t have the time and the energy to create their own articles, and
•    They can’t afford to hire a ghost writer to write their articles and blog posts for them.

So what’s the best alternative to writing your own articles?  PLR content.  PLR stands for Private Label Rights which allows you to use content from articles, blog posts, e-books, and the like written by someone else and turn it into unique versions of your own.  You will be given the right to rewrite the content in any way you’d like it to be and claiming it as your own by inserting your own name as the author.  What’s more, you have the right to sell or give away your own PLR content to others if you wish to use it to make profit or to help others, which is the main source of profit for internet marketers earning profit through the World Wide Web.
Here are some of the most effective ways to use PLR content that will not only increase your traffic rates and reputation as an internet marketer but also your overall sales as well:

1.    The first thing that you should do is post the PLR content, once they are ready, into your website or personal blog.  Your readers will instantly read what you have to say about your products and services.
2.    Once you’ve done that, you can try rewriting the content yourself or hire a rewriter to modify the content into something unique but with relevance to the original content.  You can then create an automated blog like PLR to Wordpress that will auto-post the rewritten content.
3.    One of the most effective ways to use PLR content is to use different kinds of article formats for writing them such as FAQs, How-to articles, 10-best lists, and the like.  This gives more variety to your work and at the same time makes it easier for your customers and readers to understand what you’re trying to express.
4.    Another good idea is bringing your content to a forum or a discussion board where you can start online intellectual and interesting conversations with people who are interested in what you have to say.
5.    If you want to boost your mailing lists, you can try using your PLR content as a free report and offer it as a bonus to your readers.  That way, they’ll be more likely to come back to you for more.