Think 'N' Earn - Really? » adsense http://www.thinknearn.com Discover your passions! Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:03:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How many websites do I need to start monetizing? http://www.thinknearn.com/2008/09/16/how-many-websites-do-i-need-to-start-monetizing/ http://www.thinknearn.com/2008/09/16/how-many-websites-do-i-need-to-start-monetizing/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:43:54 +0000 admin http://www.thinknearn.com/blogs/?p=142 Google has always stressed that it is not quantity of the websites that you have, it is the quality of those sites that will start help you making money. If you have just started a new website, it is highly recommended that you work on the original, unique and quality contents of your site. Write about the topics you are passionate about, or feel that you know a lot about. This could be your personal experience or technical expertise. Write as if you are telling a story or explaining a solution to a problem. Many people are looking for an answer to something, or entertaining resources.

Some of the Google must-haves are listed below that can help you track your website visitors, their origin, earning and stats:

  • Google Analytics: This free service generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. It can track visitors from all referers, including search engines, impressions, pay per click campaigns, landing pages, entry and exit pages, how long the visitors stayed etc. It is a powerful tool to help you assess where the traffic is originating from and where you can improve more.
  • Google Webmaster Tools: Google Webmaster Tools provides a free and easy resource to make a site more google friendly, how google bots crawl your site, top search queries, position your website showed up for certain keywords. It also gives detailed information on broken links, duplicate titles and description and any other issues with a website. It gives tons of information on how to make a website a successful venture.
  • Google Adsense: If you own a website, you must have heard about Google Adsense. It is probably one of the most popular revenue generating tools available online. You have to have an account in order to display google ads on your website. It is pretty smart to figure out the niche of your website and to display appropriate ads.
  • Google Webmaster Guidelines: Make sure to keep your website in compliant with Google terms and policies in order to keep using any of their services. Not all the websites are approved to run their revenue generating programs. Read them from time to time as the rules may vary with time. There are many adsense optimization tools that you can use to make google ads on your site more effective.

Remember, advertisers like to advertise their services and products on quality websites. Your earning potential goes up as the advertisements find that you are sending them high quality leads. Of course, this will take time, patience and lot of effort on your part, but if you keep doing it religiously, it will pay off.

]]> http://www.thinknearn.com/2008/09/16/how-many-websites-do-i-need-to-start-monetizing/feed/ 2 What is and how to set up Adsense http://www.thinknearn.com/2008/09/04/what-is-and-how-to-set-up-adsense/ http://www.thinknearn.com/2008/09/04/what-is-and-how-to-set-up-adsense/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:47:34 +0000 admin http://www.thinknearn.com/wordpress/?p=16 I wish I knew about adsense many years ago, when it was still fresh. People were making good amount of money from this program. I keep reading that people were paid 50% commission of this pay per click program. Well, I was introduced to the concept of Adsense by Joel Comm. I must say he makes it very easy to understand any program he is talking about. His ebooks and tutorials are specifically designed for newbies.  That was the first time I ever set up my very first blogger and adsense account. Let’s get into the details on how to set up the adsense account.

To start using adsense, you can create a blog using blogger. That is, if you do not own a website already. Create quality contents on that blog so that your visitors find them interesting enough to come back and read more.  Also make sure all your links are working and not broken. It will not leave good impression on your visitors or google.

Goto www.google.com/adsense and fill out the application form. You will be sent a confirmation email from google. So, make sure to give your correct email address.  They will review your site, and send you confirmation email if you are accepted or rejected.

I am assuming you will be accepted, so that we can move over to the next step.  Once you are accepted, you can login to your google adsense account. You will see various tabs on the top, click on “Adsense SetUp”. You can select any of the available links.

If you choose “Adsense for Contents”, next page you will see to set up the ad suitable for your page. You can select Leaderboard, Skyscraper, half banner or full banner. You can preview your ads on the same page by clicking on the link provided. If you are not on the google account, you can also preview your ads by using this Free Adsense Preview Tool.

Placement of ads on your website plays the most important part in monetizing your website. So, make sure they are at the spots where they are most visible to your visitors. Ads on the top of the webpage perform very well. If you place the ads on the bottom, it may not attract many visitors to click on your ads. Ads on the left hand side have been said to perform very well too.

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