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February 19, 2005
Priya Shah, Editor
http://EbizWhizPublishing.com
How To Skyrocket
Your
Adsense Revenue
It's that time of month again (no, not what
you were thinking ;-). Its newsletter time.
I was sad this month because I missed my
Goa trip. Our family (and the rest of the darn city) was down with the
flu.
Not been blogging a lot this month either.
Spent more time reading up about blogging instead.
Blogging is a passion for me. It's not much
of a revenue generator as yet, and I don't intend using it as one.
But I gotta eat too, so another thing I spent
time doing this month was boosting my Adsense revenue.
Google's TOA prevents me from making any
diclosures here, but I can safely say that I now make in a day what
I used to earn in a month, when (over a year ago) I first put up the
Adsense code on my websites.
I've been building new sites to boost my
Adsense profits this month, but it'll take a while for them to build
traffic and start pulling in the moolah.
Most of my revenue increase this month is
actually just the result of improved Adsense placement and some (long
overdue) re-optimization and tweaking to my sites.
Just making a few changes to my sites resulted
in a huge leap of traffic and revenue.
My (stupid, now in hindsight) aesthetic sensibilities
prevented me from utilising the earning capacity of Adsense to the fullest,
but I've rectified that.
Aesthetics begone... never to return. ;-)
When publishers like Robin Good (MasterNewsMedia)
and Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome) endorse the use of Adsense for publishers,
what was stopping me from making a killing all this time?
Just an unwillingness to see it as a significant
source of income, that's what.
And it was a dumb thing to do. Dumb, dumb,
dumb!
So don't you make that mistake, buddy.
If you have a site that's getting a good
deal of traffic, take the time to learn how to get the most out of it.
And Adsense is the lazy person's way to do
that.
But listen up now.
Because I'm going to tell you how to really
- and I mean REALLY make a killing from Adsense.
I cant reveal much because its only spoken
of in hushed whispers, but I know of at least one person (in India,
mind you) who makes a FIVE-figure income (and that's in dollars) every
MONTH from Adsense.
To become an Adsense Pro, you have to acquire
a whole new way of doing things.
Its not easy, believe me. It takes a LOT
of hard work and focus to do what these guys are doing.
And you have to be prepared for sudden, inexplicable
dips in income from time to time.
But the payoff is HUGE.
Here are some tips and tools to get you started.
It gives you the the keyword prices of the
20,000 most popular keyword searches, plus hundreds of high-priced keywords.
In addition, the database includes thousands of high volume, low cost
keywords on which you can advertise.
Advertise? To get Adsense revenue, you say.
Yes, indeed there are ways that you can actually
capitalise on the difference in bid pricing and pay peanuts to get clicks
on high-revenue Adsense ads on your own page.
All this is completely legitimate, but you
must know how to do it well.
2. Read the tips here to learn how to get your site accepted
into the Adsense program
Adsense
Tips
3. Pick up a copy of the Adsense Tracker
either here - Adsense
Tracker
or along with the Adsense Gold package here
- Adsense
Gold
The tracker will give you a more detailed
overview of how your sites are performing.
4. Pick up a good manual about Google Adsense
A lot of people have been recommending a
new Adsense
manual by Joel Comm.
It might be good. I don't know. I haven't
bought it.
But I did read a report by a guy named William
Charlwood and he shares a lot of very good information about Adsense.
He's the author of The "Definitive
Guide to Google AdSense" available here.
5. Ok now you have your information and tools. Get started building
your sites.
There are lots of tools that help you automatically
generate sites that help you boost your Adsense revenue.
My buddy Satya created two that do this.
Traffic
Turbocharger - This creates sites with RSS feeds that get
listed very quickly and rank highly in the search engines.
Read my review
of Traffic Turbocharger
Niche
Portal Builder - The gurus were charging a 5-figure income
for a seminar that supposedly taught people how to build the kind of
sites that this software generates. Worth a look if you're really serious
about your Adsense income.
Now here are some tips you won't get elsewhere.
If you're going to use website generators,
use them carefully and take the precautions here.
- Don't use them on your main domain.
Buy new domains and generate your sites there.
- Don't use them "out-of-the-box"
- it's very easy for search engines to spot (and ban) sites that have
been generated with these tools.
So tweak the templates, create new templates,
whatever, but read my lips: "Do not use
them out of the box."
Ok enough dire warnings.
The message here is - use these tools
intelligently. Make your sites look like more than the generated
garbage some people create with them.
In fact, the best way to make sure your generated
sites are around earning revenue for you in the long term is to "grow"
each site into a "useful resource" on that topic.
Sure, it does require more time and effort
than you would spend putting up hundreds of spammy-looking sites that
you can generate in as little as 15 minutes each.
It'll probably slow you down a bit.
But the revenue will last longer and you'll
be thankful for the time and effort spent customizing your sites when
Mother Google starts clamping down on the spammy-looking ones.
And she will. Its just a
matter of time.
So why do I recommend these tools at all?
Well contrary to what my buddy Satya claims,
I'm not some goody two-shoes "white-hat" SEO. I could play
dirty if I wanted.
But I don't. Why?
Because when you play dirty you had better
be darn good at it.. or know what the hell you're doing.
Me, I'm a really bad liar. Never been able
to lie with a straight face.
So I figure I'm just too dumb to play dirty.
Or maybe I'm not so dumb. What do you think?
;-)
But back to business.
6. Here's the real challenge - building traffic to your Adsense sites.
If you're good at SEO and know how to build
links and boost your Pagerank, you should'nt have too much trouble getting
traffic to your sites - generated or not.
Many of these site-generating tools can help
you target a wide range of keywords, and you should get good listings
for less competitive terms in a short time.
It might take longer however, for you to
build traffic for more competitive terms - and those are usually the
ones that earn the most revenue. :-)
Well I didn't say there wasn't going to be
hard work involved.
If you need a good SEO guide, pick up a copy
of Number
One In Your Niche
If you're an SEO beginner, Sean Burns' Rankings
Revealed is a good manual to help you cover the basics
that I skim over in favour of the meat and potatoes.
For more tips and articles on Google Adsense,
check out this new section on my website.
Google
Adsense Tips and Articles
Another parting tip:
Are you putting Adsense code on your blogs,
and hoping to earn from them?
Well, don't hope for too much, buster. Your
blogs will probably get you a cup of latte every month, not much more,
unless they get a LOT of traffic.
I'm sure there are people earning a good
income from their blogs. But if you wanna be an Adsense Pro, you need
a website.
Blogs are not very flexible and the most
effective Adsense placements can't really be used with blogs.
A notable exception is the way Chris Pirillo
has incorporated Adsense into Lockergnome
(which doesn't really conform to my definition of a blog).
In short, there are things you can do with
a website (like change the placement of ads and tweak stuff) that you
simply can't do with a blog.
This was a rather long issue, and you have
a lot of links to check, so I'll skip the article this time. And let
you get back to work. :-)
Warm regards,

Priya
Shah