How much are you earning from your websites?

Many people will never get past $0.05 per day using Adsense as their primary income source.

With Google’s new systems, Adsense isn’t nearly as good an earner as say a year ago. The quick developement of thousands of “Made For Adsense” (MFA) sites which have no real value have forced Google to change their system to protect their Google Adwords customers.

To compound this many Adwords advertisers have stopped using the content network to advertise.

Adwords ads on the content network are now way cheaper than on the search network, so if you use Adsense chances are your earnings have plummeted in the last year…

The Adsense pot of gold is now a packet of pennies…
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Keyword research is one of the most overlooked aspects of building niche websites, perhaps because most people have no idea how to research keywords or how to use the results of their research.

Building web pages optimized for only one keyword or phrase is past history. The search engines have evolved past that point and now rank pages based on the relationship between the phrases used on a page. They also analyze the relationship between these phrases and those used throughout your entire website. They go a step further and analyze the relationship between the phrases used on your site and those used on the web pages you link to and those which link to you.

That is not to say you shouldn’t optimize a page for a particular keyword or phrase, rather you should (more…)

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The fundamental reason for keyword research is to find popular (regularly used) phrases people enter into the search engines to find information.

But it is merely a starting point…

The days of creating webpages optimized for one particular keyword phrase are pretty much over. As the internet has evolved search engine users have become savvier; they have learned to use longer search phrases to find the information they are looking for. This is in part due to millions of webmasters who have pretty much saturated the internet with junk pages optimized for short keyword phrases.

Add to this the latest search engine algorithms which seek to provide users with more relevant results, and pages optimized for only one keyword phrase are pretty much ignored.

Current search engine algorithms look at all the phrases on a webpage and try to determine the theme of the page. Search results are based on displaying webpages which match the theme of the search phrase.

In order to give your webpage a recognizable theme you need to use (more…)

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Today I sent an email to my list and it contained an affiliate link to a report by Joel Comm called The Adsense Traffic Guide. I took the link straight from the email Joel sent and never bothered to check it.

Big mistake!

The affiliate link contained the wrong domain and my subscribers ended up on the wrong webpage…

Always check your affiliate links before you publish them in an email or webpage.

Sending people to the wrong site hurts your credibility and not only will you lose the immediate sale, but quite probably subsequent sales. People can be very unforgiving when they put their trust in you and you screw up.

On the other side of the coin, if you rely on affiliates to promote your products, make sure the affiliate link you send to them to promote your product is correct. Once your affiliates lose credibility through your error, you stand to lose affiliates and a lot of sales!

One further point, once you realize you’ve made an error, correct it immediately. The longer you leave it the more you stand to lose.

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Buying pre-made Adsense Websites is one of the easiest ways of getting involved in building money making websites, but without proper modification and promotion they are virtually useless! No matter whom you buy them from (including from me)…

You can take a limited edition “off the shelf” pre-made website and make money from it (as it is) within days. Do it right, and you’ll be in profit within six weeks. The secret is in the promotion, but it’s worth pointing out that the effects of your initial promotion efforts will die out after two months or so.

Relying on your promotion efforts alone, is not going to keep a standard pre-made site earning continuously. If you keep skirting the issue of proper search engine optimization and don’t do anything to avoid duplicate filtering by the search engines, you will come to grief.

So what can you do to keep your pre-made websites earning after the first two months? (more…)

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