Join us at the AdSense GetMo Exhibition in London

We’ve talked a lot recently on our blog about how mobile usage is rising at a rate faster than any other technology to date. To keep up, it’s important for your business to develop a mobile strategy.

If you’re located in the London, UK area (or are willing to travel to London!) we’d like to let you know about the GetMo Exhibition we’re hosting on Wednesday, 30 May. During this event, you’ll have the opportunity to learn more about mobile trends. You’ll meet mobile site developers from the GetMo site to hear how they can help you develop a mobile site with their offerings.

The agenda will feature sessions including:

• Mobile Industry Trends with Ian Carrrington, Mobile Advertising Sales Director
• A glimpse into the world of Android with Richard Hyndman, Developer Advocate
• Offerings available from GetMo vendors
• GetMo publisher panel

Spots are filling up, but if you’d like to attend the upcoming event, fill out our interest form before Thursday, 24 May. Although we won’t be able to accommodate all requests due to space constraints, we’ll do our best to include as many interested publishers as possible. We also recommend ensuring you’re opted in to receiving ‘Special Offer’ emails so we can reach you in the future.

We hope to see you in London at our GetMo Exhibition!

Introducing redesigned Payments pages

To make the payment process easier and more flexible, we’ll soon be introducing some changes to the “Payments” and “Account settings” pages in your AdSense account. At the moment, this new payments interface is available to a small set of AdSense accounts, but we’ll gradually roll it out to more publishers in the upcoming months. When the new Payments page is enabled for your account, it’ll look like this:

Here’s a summary of the changes and added benefits of the new payments interface:

1. Redesigned Payment summary and Payment settings pages
- Payment method is now called Form of payment.
- Unpaid finalized earnings is now called Current balance.
- Redesigned transaction history table shows you the latest activities at the top.
- New toolbar support allows you to filter, print, export, or download transaction information.

2. More flexibility with your payment settings
- New extended timeline allows you to change your payment information until the 20th of any month.
- You can choose any payment threshold greater than the default payment threshold based on your reporting currency.
- You can also hold your payments until a specified date.

3. Improved navigation of the payments interface
- Centralized locations to manage your Payment settings and Payee profile.
- Contextual help is displayed based on the pages you navigate to.

This is just a first step towards providing a better payment experience, and we’ll continue to add improvements over the coming months. For additional details, please sign in to your AdSense account and visit the Payments section in our Help Center.

Improvements to AdSense reporting features

  Google AdSense has recently made a few improvements related to AdSense reporting to help you find information more quickly and to address some of the most common asks we’ve heard from you. Good things come in threes -- so here are three recent updates to look for in your account:

1. View all-time reports

When selecting a date range for your reports, you’ll now have an ‘All time’ option to view all earnings, impressions, and clicks accrued since your first impression. If you used the previous AdSense interface, you may remember this feature -- it now has a new home in the current AdSense interface as well.

2. Quickly access reports from the My ads tab

We’ve added quick links to your reports under the My ads tab, eliminating the need to search for ad units or channels in your reports. When viewing your ad units, custom channels, or URL channels on the My ads tab, just click ‘View report’ below a specific line item to view performance data for that particular ad unit or channel. This feature is particularly useful if you’re looking for channel data that isn’t linked to ad units in the interface, and will help you save time.

3. Download CSVs in the correct local formatting

Just as the placement of commas and periods can change the meaning of sentences, the same is true when it comes to numbers and figures. As you may know, an amount written as $1,000.00 in the US or UK would be written as $1.000,00 in most of Europe and South America. Previously, only the $1,000.00 format was available for downloadable reports, which created difficulties for a number of international publishers trying to export CSVs to analyze the data. Now, based on your language preference, you can export CSVs with figures in the relevant format.

Around the world with AdSense in Your City

Since taking AdSense in Your City global earlier this year, our international teams have met with over 600 publishers in cities like Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne, Istanbul, and Mumbai, just to name a few. During these events, we’ve shared product updates and best practices for getting started with solutions like DFP Small Business and Mobile. In addition, attendees have had the opportunity to network with other local publishers and participate in one-on-one consultation sessions with our optimization specialists.

As our U.S. events take place, we’re excited to continue visiting international cities to meet more publishers. Some of the cities we’ll be stopping by in the next few weeks include:

• Week of May 7: 
• Dusseldorf / Hamburg / Munich, Germany (sessions in German)

• Week of May 14: 
• Auckland, New Zealand (sessions in English)

• Week of May 21: 
• Mexico D.F., Mexico (sessions in Spanish)

• Week of May 28: 
• London, UK (sessions in English) 
• Curitiba, Brazil (sessions in Portuguese)

• Week of June 4: 
• Sydney, Australia (sessions in English)
• Paris, France (sessions in French)
• Tel Aviv, Israel (sessions in Hebrew)
• Buenos Aires, Argentina (sessions in Spanish)

• Week of June 25: 
• Porto Alegre, Brazil (sessions in Portuguese)

If you’d like to attend one of these upcoming AdSense in Your City events, please fill out our interest form. Space is limited at each event so we won’t be able to accommodate all requests, but we’ll do our best to include as many interested publishers as possible. In the meantime, we recommend ensuring you’re opted in to receiving ‘Special Offer’ emails so we can reach you in the future.

Thanks to all of our recent AdSense in Your City attendees for taking the time to join us and share your feedback. We look forward to meeting more of you in the coming weeks!

On Mobile, it’s as much about the user as it is the content

For this Mobile Mondays post we’ve invited Netbiscuits to offer you best practices and tips for creating a good mobile experience for your users.  Netbiscuits is a leading cloud platform for the development and delivery of next generation web apps across all mobile devices and connected platforms.

Cultivating a user-focused mobile experience isn’t just about shrinking your existing website to fit a mobile screen. In a single day, a connected consumer interacts with your brand and consumes your content across smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and game consoles. To meet consumer demand for instant, optimized access, marketers must design engaging “connected experiences” that respond differently for each device as they each present unique size, capability, and content consumption challenges.

In solving these challenges, marketers need to focus on a responsive design that takes the multiplatform world into account and allows for a device-optimized “Content Centric” user experience. The layout should morph depending on the size and shape of the device’s screen ensuring the experience adapts as new devices are introduced in the marketplace.

Touch enabled devices have evolved the digital user experience by providing users with a “Parallel Response Experience” to their request as opposed to a “Sequential Response Experience” found in a traditional “Point and Click” mobile user experience.  Designing a “Parallel” mobile experience with many touch enabled features ensures a more natural flow of information which  dramatically increases site effectiveness. For example, instead of re-using a traditional website interface, many mobile commerce clients use a drag and drop interface for placing items in a shopping cart which has greatly increased sales on touch enabled devices.

Along with the design layout, responsive design must adapt a content centric approach to the user experience. Your users must be served content based on the topics for which they have shown interest as well as based on time of day, weather, or geographic location. A system remembering the items in your shopping cart has been an essential element of a cohesive e-commerce experience for some time. But this concept can be expanded upon by associating a broader range of content to the individual that results in the serving of an article that interested the customer earlier in the day or weather information for an upcoming trip. To foster a good user experience, this needs to be done in a streamlined, accurate manner that limits clutter.

One of the more challenging attributes of going mobile is the varying screen sizes of tablets and smartphones. When it comes to tablets, we advise clients to take a layered approach to designing and delivering a “one-page” experience. By embedding or layering a video or photo gallery on top of a page, consumer engagements and actions happen without forcing the user to leave the page.

Being responsive to the user’s device and serving appropriate content is done by using analytics. The insights gleaned from mobile, including device models, screen resolution, device capability, service provider, and preferred user language cannot be matched by traditional marketing activities. Compared against geographic location, savvy marketers use this data to define product offerings and regionalize discounts.

Once you understand these strategic points, you should also keep in mind these simple best practices:

• Mobile is not a channel. Mobile is an integrated solution where CMS, CRM and commerce updates should occur at the same time and in the same systems as updates to your traditional website.  
• Research! Engage your team, friends and family to get insights on how they use their mobile devices. Conduct a competitive analysis to learn how your competitors illustrate and deliver their product and services. 
• Design your site to solve the main problems or situations customers might find themselves in. Consider what features, tasks or existing site elements translate best on mobile and implement them.
• And finally, don’t simply duplicate your traditional website. Consumers want and expect a different experience on mobile.

Posted by Craig Besnoy, Managing Director, The Americas, Netbiscuits

Visit Netbiscuits.com to learn more about the Netbiscuits platform.

Adsense Tricks 2012 – How to Make Money with Adsense

There are some Adsense tricks 2012 that you can do to massively improve your Adsense revenues. You must do it the smart way, rather than putting in massive hard work that do not work out well.
In my previous articles, I had talked about how to Make Money with Adsense, sharing little-known secrets and tips regarding what kind of ads you should have, the size, placements, and even blog themes and templates so that you can Get The Most Out of Your Google Adsense Ads.
Many people merely earn a few cents per click and find that they are struggling to eke out a decent living with their Adsense revenue. They have put in massive efforts posting hundreds of articles, only to find that they are earning a mere few cents for those few clicks. Some people have even bought expensive software to churn out thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spam blogs simply to earn a few cents each blog. With this kind of massive efforts involved, many people are on the verge of giving up, wondering if Adsense was just a gimmick by Google in giving false hopes and getting people to put in that much effort and hard work, merely for a few cents. Others think that Google Adsense is simply not worth it without even trying!
For Adsense tricks 2012, you use a new Google Adsense strategy to turbo boost your income. This strategy is simple, yet rarely used by 95% of bloggers. Most bloggers blog about whatever they want, and then hope to see their income rise, but it really does not work this way.
The secret to having a massive income on Adsense, is to blog on high-paying keywords. Google Adwords Keyword Tool gives you a hint as to what are the high-paying keywords, when you click to see the Estimated CPC column. The Estimated CPC Column shows you the estimated price that advertisers are paying Google per click. From there, Google pays you a certain percentage as a publisher of the ads. (Google takes the difference.)
You can know that the higher advertiser pays Google per click, the higher Google will pay the publishers (you) per click. As such, you can already search out those high-paying keywords, and target them for your blogs and articles. Write a tightly focused, niched article or blog on that topic, and Google will do its best to match the relevant ads to your keywords.
Select those highly-paid keywords which are also highly-searched (see the volume of searches in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool), and then craft a theme around it (instead of your random writing). You will see a marked improvement in your Adsense income!

How much will I earn with AdSense?

There's no precise answer, because your earnings will depend on a number of factors.

• The type of ads appearing on your pages: By displaying ads with AdSense for content, you can display ads that are paid when users click them or when users view them. All ads compete in an ad auction, and our system automatically selects those which will generate the most revenue for you while ensuring a good user experience.
• The pricing of ads appearing on your pages: Not all ads are priced the same, so factors such as changing advertiser budgets, your specific content, and the ads your users choose to click will cause your earnings to vary even from day to day.
• How many AdSense products you use: You can earn from AdSense in many different ways -- by displaying ads on your webpages, by providing search to your users, by displaying ads in feeds, and more. Using more AdSense products will increase your potential earnings.

The best way to find out how much you'll earn is to sign up and start showing ads on your webpages. There's no cost, no obligation, and getting started is quick and easy. Sign up now.
Once you're a part of Google AdSense, you can see your earnings at any time by signing in and viewing your reports. You'll be able to see the total number of ad clicks, impressions, clickthrough rate, and your total earnings. This information will give you an idea of how well the program is performing for you and how much you can expect to earn over time in the program.

Tips for creating high quality sites

Here are some key suggestions on how to design and organize your website content with an overall emphasis on the quality of the site.
Don't create multiple pages or sites with duplicate content.
We encourage you to create high quality sites rather than a large quantity of sites. Focusing on one site and making it richer in information and authentic in content not only benefits users, but also helps you win more of them. When users are browsing online, they want to find what they're looking for quickly and easily without combing through endless multiple pages, subdomains, or sites with substantially generic or duplicate content. If you have pages or sites that are similar in content or template design, consider consolidating the pages or sites into one.

 

Provide content that gives users a reason to visit, and return, to your site. 

When you create content on your site, it’s important to ask yourself if the page provides substantial value or service when compared to sites covering similar subjects. It's worth the effort to create original content that sets your site apart from the rest. This will provide useful search results and keep your visitors coming back.
 

Provide the information or service promised. 

Some publishers create sites that appear to offer a product or service, but instead trick users into navigating through several pages and viewing ads. This results in a negative user experience, and causes your site to be perceived as untrustworthy. Use keywords appropriately and in context with your content and make sure users are able to easily navigate through the site to find what products, goods, or services are promised.

There’s no shortcut to success. Building high quality site takes effort and time. However, we’ve seen that publishers who focus on their users instead of using quick and deceptive techniques are the real winners and experience long-term revenue growth and success in our network. For more information, check out Google Webmaster Guidelines and the policy section of the AdSense Help Center.

What The Adsense Top Earners Are Doing To Constantly Increase Their Earnings

It is really frustrating, is it not, to log into your Google Adsense earnings and find that you've had yet another disappointing day. Another day of making nothing or just a fraction of a penny.
More so when you continue to read about those guys making five figure monthly incomes from Google Adsense every day. Google Adsense terms and conditions require that earnings are kept secret. Still some of these guys claim that they obtained special permission to spill the beans. One of them recently revealed that they had made $45,000 in just one month. Perusing through the statement, there were single days where they made as much as 800 bucks. Can you imagine that?
Sorry, it is not my intention to make you feel worse than you already are so I will stop there and get on with my findings.
This article is based on my investigative journalism skills. Yep, some of us are still using skills we acquired years ago from our offline days. My objective was to find out as much as I could about what these top earners were doing different from the rest of us.
High Adsense Earners Do Exist
But first I had to establish whether these high earners existed at all. After all anybody can get online and tell all sorts of lies about anything. My investigations started off trying to separate the hype from the facts which is an almost-impossible task these days. I have read several articles by sceptics which clearly state that most of these so-called high earners do not exist.
Well the truth is that despite the high number of hype peddlers out there, these guys are for real.
Without disclosing too much about some of my sources whom I intend to use in the future and can therefore not disclose, there are several pieces of evidence that point not only to their existence, but to their growing numbers.
The first is the amazing pace at which Google earnings from this business is growing. Check any top affiliate program and compare their figures to Google Adsense and you will begin to see what I mean. Google is a public company and their figures from earnings are widely available.
Adsense Keywords Do Matter
High traffic is important and effective online traffic tools are well known. They include for example PPC ads, including the very same Adsense ads. Articles are increasingly important because when it comes to traffic, the numbers are not enough, the quality of the traffic is also very important.
But the absolutely critical factor in achieving high Adsense earnings is not traffic. It is actually the keywords used. With the difference in earnings from a click ranging from a fraction of a penny to $100, you can begin to appreciate what we are saying here.
This is the reason why almost everybody else is selling those lists online these days.
My investigations unearthed evidence that those top earners are constantly researching new keywords. They spend a lot of time doing that (more time than they spend doing anything else) and to pay for some of their wasted efforts (every genuine research effort will have plenty of that) some of them are peddling the lists that they have graduated from or do not need anymore. Before you get upset please remember that this is standard business practice. A smart entrepreneur always minimizes on wastage of any kind.
Generally there are some keyword topics that pay more than others. To give you just two examples, health and electronics generally score much higher across the board than other areas of interest in terms of high earning keywords. The top earners are using this information
Hire an Adsense Expert
This is the most amazing aspect my research unearthed.

AdSense Success Stories

Learn about other publishers' experience with the program and see how AdSense has helped publishers grow their sites.

		Medical-Coding.net Medical Coding grew using Google AdWords to drive traffic to his site; Froogle, to increase visibility and gain customers for his software; and AdSense to display relevant ads to his visitors. Read more
		WrongDiagnosis.com WrongDiagnosis.com, one the top health sites to advertise in Australia, the US and the UK, grew its revenue thanks to high AdSense impressions, without the need for time-consuming ad management. Read more
		BecomeGorgeous.com BecomeGorgeous.com witnesses significant gains in revenue through AdWords AdSense optimisation. Read more
Education
		Spartacus Educational Based in the UK, Spartacus Educational founder John Simkin explains how AdSense is "a major part of business revenue" and how easy he found it to get started. Read more
		Businessballs.com BusinessBalls provides free educational materials, ideas, and inspiration. Thanks to AdSense, it is now self-financed. Read more
Entertainment
		Univision Google AdSense helps Univision monetise their site more effectively. Read more
		Concertboom Adding a new ad unit helps Concertboom boost revenue 400% while maintaining site quality. Read more
Finance
		Livecharts.co.uk A stock market data portal with an international focus uses AdSense as a major income source.Read more
		Finfacts.ie Finfacts.ie focuses on creating quality content and sees the results with AdSense Read more
Food & Drink
		Smulweb.nl Smulweb benefits from superior AdSense ad targeting, which translates into strong ad performance. Read more
Home & Garden
		Furniture.ie Furniture.ie makes optimal use of AdSense with wide ad formats, display ads, Analytics and DFP Small Business. Read more
		Gardenvisit.com Gardenvisit makes 85% of its overall revenue through AdSense and gains additional benefits through Analytics and DFP Small Business integration. Read more
News
		Earth Times Earthtimes is a content-rich online news resource that makes 80% of its revenue through AdSense. Read more
		Nooz.gr A major Greek news portal generates 30% of its overall revenue from AdSense, by ensuring good ad coverage and using display ads. Read more
		The Times Online AdSense helps The Times monetize high-traffic and quickly-changing content pages with minimal effort using highly relevant targeted ads. Read more
Real Estate
		Our Property A better website leads to bigger AdSense revenue for OurProperty.co.uk Read more
Shopping
		Skroutz.gr The biggest price comparison site in Greece uses AdSense as a key monetization partner.Read more
		i-do.com.au Top wedding site acquired big-name advertisers and earned incremental income through Google AdSense Read more
Technology
		Geekzone.co.nz GeekZone enhanced content site with targeted ads and became profitable.Read more
		ScienceDaily.com ScienceDaily.com earns 66% of its revenue from AdSense. Read more
		WiFinder.com How WiFinder earns reliable revenue through Google AdSense, allowing it to focus on business and product development, rather than tracking down one-off advertising deals. Read more
		Fring fring employs Google’s AdSense for Mobile Applications to monetise their service and establish a stable revenue stream through targeted high-quality, relevant ads.Read more
Travel
		Takeabreak.com.au Vacation planner TakeABreak.com.au gained revenue and optimised its sales team with Google AdSense.Read more
		Hostelworld.com Hostelworld.com is “Very satisfied with the returns to date” and impressed by the ease of implementation.Read more
		DirectHotels.co.uk Direct-Hotels.co.uk speeds up in a slowdown using Google AdSense.Read more
		BackPackers.com Backpackers.com increased ad clickthrough fourfold and achieved revenue of £1,000 a month with Google AdSense.Read more
		DirectLineHolidays.com Directline Holidays Find Major New Revenues With AdSense Read more

Top 2011 Google Adsense Earners

Here is what people have been waiting for. Do people actually make money on Google Adsense? The answer is yes. The following list shows that people are earning some serious money through Google Adsense.

So, how many sites do you need to make money with Google Adsense? Well, obviously only ONE. Stick with it, and push it all the way.

1. Markus Frind : PlentyOfFish.com : $300,000 per month
Markus is the founder of PlentyOfFish. Currently, he is generating nearly $300,000 per month. This is a staggering report. He built his site at his apartment all by himself (sounds like Bill Gates?). The site might seem very dull and cliche, but hey he is making some serious green.


2. Kevin Rose: Digg.com : $250,000 per month
As we know, Kevin Rose is almost a celebrity figure online. This is where everything is happening. Aside from everything, he is generating stinking $250,000 per month. That is $3M per year! Of course the site worth a lot more than this, but he is rocking the Adsense.


3. Jeremy Schoemaker : $140,000 per month
Mr. Shoemaker or ShoeMoney. I remember when this guy first came on Youtube, and gave alot of buzz. Once again, just from Google Adsense alone, he is making $140,000 per month. Currently, he is building his own cash empire with Affiliate marketing, and other cash generating residuals. Unlike most of the other Google advertisers ShoeMoney makes his money from hundreds of sites and thousands of domains.


4. Jason Calacanis : Weblogs, Inc. : $120,000 per month
Next to ShoeMoney, we have Jason Calacanis. He is the creator of Weblogs. Basically, his site allows other people to network with blogging. The site has been acquired by AOL in 2008.


5. David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard : FreeWebLayouts.net- $100,000 per month
Rank 5 is Mr. David Miles and Kato Leonard. I do not know much about these guys, but according to WP (Washington Post), they are claiming to make $100k a month from the site alone. FreeWebLayouts.net offers free MySpace templates. Of course, this was before MySpace recession.


6. Tim Carter : AskTheBuilder.com : $30,000 per month


7. Joel Comm : e-book : $24,000 per month


8. Shawn Hogan : DigitalPoint.com : $10,000 per month

How to make money from AdSense through Adwords?

Here are some eye opening stats of some AdSense experiments I did recently.

AdSense Experiment 1:

Website name: xxxxxxxxxx
PPC campaign duration: 28 days
Spent: $32.16
Earned: $82.39
Profit: $50.23

AdSense Experiment 2:

Website name: xxxxxxxxxxx
PPC campaign duration: 64 days
Spent: $75
Earned: $223.89
Profit: 148.89
I have a site that makes more than 14 times its Adwords spent in AdSense earnings - and it gets absolutely no SE traffic. Now you do the maths, if you have 10 such similar high quality, high paying websites.

Now great news for you: Google promotes this money cycle. No it’s not a fraud! And I have a solid proof for that - https://www.google.com/adsense/medicalcoding
The above case study will prove that. Google itself has published a case study of a publisher who bought Adwords traffic and is earning through AdSense.

I am going to tell you exactly how webmasters do it and make thousands out of it. And if you do it properly, sky is the limit to your earnings. Turn your mobiles off now, get some glue, and apply to your seats. I am whispering this only to you, don’t tell it to anybody else. It’s a great idea - how to make AdSense money through AdWords. First you will need to visualize AdWords as a traffic source (which is paid). For creating a cycle of making money from Adwords through AdSense, you will need the following ingredients.

1 – High CTR
2 – Traffic from AdWords
3 – High paying keywords
4 – Targeted Content
5 – SmartPricing explained: Never violate almighty Google
6 – The last and ultimate secret tricks
7 – Illegal stuff?

Now let me explain to you the quality and quantity of all the ingredients you will need to get the green cycle that gets you AdSense money through AdWords.

1 – High CTR

There is a reason why you should have high CTR. It should be NOT LESS THAN 10% even in the worst cases. Now, how did I reach at this figure? Suppose you are buying traffic for 5 cents per click from Adwords, and at the end of the day, you get 100 visitors. Now, out of these 100 people, if 10 people clicked your AdSense ads, then the payout of those 10 clicks should be more than $5 (that you spent on Adwords) to earn you any profit. Or you can say, EPC should be at least 0.50 cents.
Let’s use some more valuable stats. Generally, highly qualified traffic clicks are more on AdSense blocks, depending upon your content and placement of your AdSense blocks. I have managed to get up to 20% CTR on Content Websites.

100 visitors from Adwords
20% CTR
20 clicks
Spent – $5
Earned - $14 on a particular day
EPC average was $0.70

2 – Traffic from AdWords

Traffic from AdWords is easy to get. All of us know how to opt for an AdWords account. But it needs to be managed properly so that we may get maximum traffic with minimum investment.

Tip 1 – Include as many low paying keywords as possible. Get to overture, Get to WordTracker, or any other site you know. Get creative and make your own too. Keyword Country database can suggest you millions of such low paying keywords along with the high paying keywords.
Tip 2 – Don’t pay more than 5 cents to Google AdWords initially. No matter how much traffic you get, just do not pay more than 5 cents in the beginning. Wait for a few days. One week is the best time to draw the average of how much you were in profit. If you feel you can do better by increasing the CPC on AdWords, go ahead!
Tip 3 – Optimize your ads till they have the highest CTR. Use more and more COMMONLY known GENERALLY spoken keywords. Try including search keywords in the ads in such a way that Google shows them in bold when someone views your ad.
Tip 4 – Use suggestive low cost keywords to further boost the traffic on your website. This tip is a bit risky, so it should be wisely used. In certain cases, it can be a deciding factor - Double or nothing!

3 – High Paying Keywords

High paying keywords are the key ingredient of the entire recipe. It’s the heart of the entire system. Don't try this without High paying keywords. Make several web pages around a topic that contain high paying keywords, and link them with one another. Don’t try it on low paying keywords, as you will be spending away lot more on AdWords than what you earn from AdSense.

More the advertisers bidding on a keyword, higher will be your EPC - and of course, broader will be your smile. When I say "high paying keywords," I don't mean the ones with Higher CPC. It's a big mistake to judge a keyword as a "high paying" one just on the basis of CPC. Only Keyword Country lets you predict your earnings per click before even targeting keywords.

Try using keywords that have low competition with advertisers paying high on it. You can find thousands of undiscovered niche keywords in Keyword Country’s Database. Don’t worry much about the traffic, it’s the job of AdWords to send the traffic to your website. But don’t get too easy on that either.

4 – Target Your Content With High Paying Keywords

Here is how to target the pages for high paying keywords.

Internal Optimization : Internal Optimization includes Meta tags, Title Text, Optimization of content, and internal linking of your website. Here we will learn how to increase relevancy of ads and how to inject keywords that will help you get high paying ads. Internal Optimization has a high impact on the relevancy of ads and CTR.

External Optimization : This includes the web pages that are giving links to you (external profile of your website), anchor text being used to link your website, and many more variables that search engines use to evaluate the authoritative importance of a web page. External Optimization helps bring relevant traffic to your website and enables you to earn more by getting more CTR (Click Thru Ratio).



If you want to apply high paying keywords on existing web pages (already crawled by Mediabot), please don’t expect the increase in income the next second. Google takes time to refresh its ads (maximum 15 days).

So, don't just log on to adwords and start a campaign right now. Make sure that you are getting high paying ads, and that you have implemented high paying keywords correctly. Creating new optimized pages on the website can show you immediate results (if your website is being crawled by Google regularly). Keyword Country lets you predict your EPC (Earnings Per Click) before even targeting a keyword with its Average CPC. That's the best way to find out if the keywords are really high paying or are just artificially inflated keywords.

5 – The Last and the Ultimate Secret

Hold your breath. This is a never-told secret.

The whole reaction starts from AdWords. What is AdWords? – Source of paid traffic. You are bringing in paid traffic. But, is Adwords the only way to get paid traffic? BINGO! You got my point.

Discover other cheaper ways to buy traffic. There are many other smaller PPC engines that can collectively give you as much traffic (or sometimes more) as you want, giving you more returns than you can handle.

6 – Tackle Smart Pricing

You need to take special care of SmartPricing here.

Here is what Google says what SmartPricing is: “How smart pricing works
We are constantly analyzing data across our network, and if our data shows that a click is less likely to turn into business results (e.g. online sale, registration, phone call, newsletter sign-up), we may reduce the price you pay for that click. You may notice a reduction in the cost of clicks from content sites.
We take into account many factors such as what keywords or concepts triggered the ad, as well as the type of site on which the ad was served. For example, a click on an ad for digital cameras on a web page about photography tips may be worth less than a click on the same ad appearing next to a review of digital cameras.
Google saves you time and hassle by estimating the value of clicks and adjusting prices on an ongoing basis. With improved smart pricing, you should automatically get greater value for clicks from ad impressions across our network, all with no change in how you bid.”

The major factor: NEVER EVER TRY TO CHEAT GOOGLE. Don’t host content that your visitors don’t want to see. They came on your website in good faith that you will give them quality information, exactly what they are looking for. Just putting crap there, and stuffing the search results of a search engine is what Google hates.

If the visitors are given carp information, they will never be good buyers, or will become resistant to the convincing power of the advertisers where your AdSense code is directing them to. Google will sense that the traffic form your website is of poor quality, and you will get a shock of SmartPricing.

7 - Is All the Above Stuff Illegal?

Who said that? I happened to make a very informational site, and then to help bring some visitors to my highly informational site, I used the adwords to promote it. Of course, since this site is just sprouting, I don't have the capital to bid on the $X keywords, so I am starting out slowly, and bidding on terms with lower volumes of searches.
Currently, in order to help supplement the income of my informational site, I have chosen to use Google's excellent AdSense program while the site begins to show up in the search engines.... who knows, maybe I'll just keep on using Adsense and Adwords for the foreseeable future.

There should be no issue as long as your site is decent and does not say "click my ad." Google must have thought about this trick already and it must be silently happy to see the advertisers run such money loops. But Google can't shout it loud to the community. Webmasters who are buying ads from Google and boosting their AdSense are actually helping Google to make more money from high paying advertisers. It’s a win-win game for Google. Will you take action against a person who is paying to help you?

Yes, it is illegal if you bring Adwords traffic on poor content. Google will curse you with its SmartPricing phenomenon, and will limit your earnings. Google wants your help, but not at the cost of its own reputation. Never ever try to cheat Google.

Conclusion

Choosing such high value keywords on which you can bring paid traffic is quite critical in this entire trick.

Choose Keywords that have -
1 - High CPC
2 - High Number of Advertisers
3 - High number of Clicks
4 - High Average CPC

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How to Make Money from Google AdSense

Google’s AdSense is an attractive revenue making opportunity for small, medium and large web sites since a long time now but it’s against the rule of Google’s AdSense if you are running any website only for AdSense earning for which you need to include a few Affiliate links or sell your own product, too.

Googlehas a lot of forbidden practices when it comes to AdSense, and too many user are finding out they spoiled Google’s policies after the fact – because they never bothered to read the AdSense policies in the first phase.

Google AdSense is the Google program where you can host pay-per-click ads on your Website. When someone clicks an ad, you earn money. So if you are one of those people that don’t like the idea of paying for a site, this is an excellent way to earn your money back and then some.

How Much You Can Earn With AdSense?

The amount you’ll earn depends largely on the amount of targeted traffic you receive to your own site, how well the ads match your audience’s interests, the placement of the ads on your pages, and of course the amount you receive per click.

Ideally, you should create a site on a topic you know a lot about. That way you’ll have a much easier time creating a generous amount of content on that subject.

Determine a goal for what you want to earn using AdSense. Of course, you want to earn a lot, but make sure it’s realistic.

• Be realistic Forget about the fantasy story you read on internet about earning big money from Google. If you think of making a website and getting to be instant rich, it is likely to disappoint you. Imagine that if you build a small website with 100,000 page views per month with 0.5% CTR and 5c average payout, you will only get US$25 (100,000 x 0.5% x 0.5c). To achieve 100,000 page views a month, you possibly need 500-1000 users. By theory, your website can reach more than billions of internet users in the whole world, but there are also 100 millions of websites competing for users.
• Website promotion techniques especially search engine optimization and article marketing will bring more traffic to your site. You also need to have content that will attract the ads with the highest Pay Per Click (PPC) rate that are relevant to that content. Google is at least as interested as you are in having your ads perform well on your site and therefore provide the info you need to optimize your AdSense.
• Start building keyword-rich pages containing well researched, profitable keywords, and get lots of high quality links to your site. For example, if your site is about topics such as debt consolidation, web hosting or asbestos-related cancer, you’ll earn much more per click than if it’s about free things. On the other hand, if you concentrate only on top-paying keywords, you’ll face an awful lot of tough competition. What you want are keywords that are high in demand and low in supply, So do some careful keyword research before you build your pages.

How to Join AdSense:
Once you have pages ready for your website, go to http://adsense.google.com to apply.

When you are accepted, simply copy and paste the provided HTML code into any page that you’d like to show the ads. If you’ve done a good job of defining the content on your web pages, the ads that show should be relevant to the content of your page…increasing the chances of click-thrus by your visitors.

You can either display the ads vertically along side the page like Google does or in a banner-like formation horizontally across your pages. The placement is up to you. You can even customize the colors to match your site’s theme. Google AdSense allows you to specify up to 200 URLs for sites you want to bar from placing ads on your pages. The problem is that most times you won’t know the competitors are out there until their ads appear.

Google Money Making Tips on Succeeding:

• Create a website with your Don’t try to use a free web host because your site will likely have banners and pop-ups and get rejected because it looks unprofessional. A free web host will give you a website address like this:

http://www.thefreewebhost.com/yoursite/member1234/home.html instead of… http://www.yoursite.com Start by registering your own domain and then select a web host.

• Quality is the most important part of any web site. If your site does not contain the content of expected quality the visitor might not come back, if the main goal of your site is to make money with AdSense, be sure to choose a topic that you know a lot about so you can write lots and lots of content. A variety of size and shape ads for placing in your content are available. These can be text or image ads or both – you specify what you’ll allow. Ad units are full ads. Link units are simply a strip of text links that your visitors might want to click. Google allows you to put up to 3 Ad Units and 1 Link unit on each page of your Web site.
• Get traffic. Once your site is up and running you’ll need to learn how to get your site listed in the major search engines.
• Google AdSense for Search – This place a search box on your Web site. When a user enters a term and conducts a search, a search results page opens, that hosts more pay-per-click ads. You can customize the color scheme of the search results page to harmonize with your web site. Although Google doesn’t release exact details as to how they determine the ads to serve on a given page, they do say that it’s the text content of the page that matters, not the Meta tags.
• Google Referrals – You canmake money by referring visitors to use a Google product, like AdSense, AdWords, the Google Toolbar and other Google software. For example Google generates the code that you paste into the desired location on your web page. You can choose from a wide variety of buttons and text links of different colors. If someone goes to your site and clicks the link and signs up for an AdSense account, when that person earns a $100 from Google AdSense and receives a payout from Google, you’ll also receive $100 for referring them, if an ad dynamo happens to visit your site and uses your referral link, you can make money anyway!

Google AdSense Payments:

Google will not issue an AdSense payment until your earnings exceed $100. Unfortunately, there are loads of Google AdSense Forum entries about website operators who accumulated $90 or more in click through earnings only to get banned from Google and not get paid anything at all before they ever reached $100. This may be because Google doesn’t take a close look to see if you’re complying with their guidelines until it comes time to pay you.

Don’t's:

• Do not click your ads. If Google catches you, they will suspend your account and retain any earnings you might have. However, if you, by mistakes, click your ads for one or two times, Google will keep that earning but rather not to punish you as long as it doesn’t happen constantly.
• Google has a lot of restrictions on how the ads have to be displayed. One of the major reasons for account suspension is that webmasters tried to blur the ads and mislead others to think that it’s “content”. For simplicity, never attempt to use CSS to hide Google’s logo unless you’re authorized to do it.

Patience is key with Google. It can take a few months. Don’t create a hodgepodge site with topics on everything under the sun. Stay focused and make sure your site has an obvious theme.

Getting into Google is completely free and can bring in hundreds or even thousands of visitors per day. Then do the same with Yahoo, MSN, etc. All The Best!

How to make money from your blog: 5 Tips

Many people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too.
If you're interested in taking it further — blogging for bucks, if you will — here are five strategies that could turn your blog into a moneymaker.
1. Sell advertising.
This is likely the most common means of leveraging a blog to generate income. If yours happens to become a well-known blog, or one that is well-received in a particular niche, it's always possible to sell ad space on your own. For Bing Blogs and services such as Google's AdSense or BlogAds, bloggers can establish ad programs. AdSense's — which lets you select several ads that are consistent with the content of your blog — pays you based on how many readers click on the ads for further information. Even better, it's free. BlogAds, on the other hand, hooks bloggers up with would-be advertisers and levies a commission in return for any ad placements that result. "The nice thing, too, is that the ads are relatively unobtrusive," says Scott Allen, co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online.
2. Help sell others' products.
Here is another click-through opportunity. Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a conduit between readers and online sites offering various goods and services. One popular choice is Amazon.com. If, for instance, you offer book reviews or even just mention a book in passing in your blog, an affiliate program provides a means for your readers to click directly from your blog to Amazon to obtain further information about the book. If they break out the checkbook or charge card, you get paid as well.
3. Solicit contributions.
Not every blog-related income opportunity involves hawking goods or services. As Blanche DuBois said in A Streetcar Named Desire, consider relying on the kindness of strangers. Ask for contributions. If, for instance, your small-business blog supports a cause or issue in some fashion — say you repeatedly mention tax reform, health care or some other topic — you can always ask for reader support. Even if you've attracted a group of regular followers who simply enjoy reading what you have to say, they may be willing to underwrite their loyalty with a little financial help. Programs such as PayPal make it easy to establish a simple on-site contribution collection button. "There are lots of worthy 'cause' blogs that would qualify for donations from grateful members of the blog community," says Las Vegas communications consultant Ned Barnett.
4. Market your services in your blog.
Many people associate blogs exclusively with a cyberspace-based soapbox — a place to shout your opinions and little more than that. Granted, blogs are an ideal venue to share your thoughts with others, but don't overlook their capacity to generate new business as well. When appropriate, work in references to what you do and, in turn, what you may be able to offer any would-be client or customer who may be reading your blog. That can spread your opinion and your business moxie at the same time."Instead of short commentaries that begin a dialogue with readers, as many blogs do, I write the equivalent of journal articles that demonstrate my abilities, strategies and perspectives on specific issues," Barnett says. "When it resonates, it means money. Since starting this approach, I have generated three new paying clients and brought in about $10,000 on revenue — directly attributable to specific blogs."
5. Use a blog to deepen your existing customer relations.
Nor does any marketing material inserted in blog content have to be limited to bringing in completely new business. By using a blog to regularly communicate with existing clients as well as other readers, you can take advantage of the opportunity to fully inform them about everything your business does. That may expand your readers' understanding of the full scope of your products or services."My blog has helped existing clients determine the range of my skills and services," says Ted Demopoulos of Demopoulos Associates, a Durham, N.H. consulting and training concern. "One client who had only used me for training in the past was surprised at my range of expertise and is now using me for a consulting project. Another who only used me on technical projects is now considering me for a more business-oriented project."

Top Adsense Earners – 10 Sites That Earn In Millions

How much money can you really earn from Google Adsense? This is one of the common questions faced by bloggers and Internet entrepreneurs who wish to earn money from their website. If you have just started your website, you are probably aware of how difficult it can be to generate significant revenue.
Although Google’s Adsense is one of the most popular ways to make money from your website, its earning potential can seem limited to start with. In Spite of this, with hard work and dedication, it is indeed possible for you too to earn a decent income from Adsense.  There are many success stories of websites that earn millions in revenue every year from Adsense alone. These sites can be a source of inspiration for your efforts.

Here are ten websites that were started by individual bloggers like you and me and through their dedication and hard work have developed into stable revenue streams that they can rely on.

How does Adsense Work:

Before we start, let’s take a quick look at how Adsense works.
Adsense, Google’s advertising programme for publishers and site owners, is free to join.  Once you are accepted, you will be able to place Google ad units on your web pages, a maximum of three ad units per page. When visitors to your web site click on this ad, you will earn a share of the revenue Google makes from the ad.
The actual amount you receive per click can be anything from a few cents to a couple of dollars depending on how competitive your keywords are. If you have a lot of visitors and your click through rates are favourable, your earnings can easily add up. There are many ways to make money online. However Adsense is one of the easiest and most widely used methods.
In addition to making money by displaying Adsense on your own site,  you can also take advantage of other article sites that share Adsense revenue with publishers.
Here are ten top earning Adsense websites, not in any specific order.

1. Mashable

Mashable is one of the largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Mashable reports on the importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and inspires people around the world.

Founder – Pete CashMore
Adsense Earning – $6,00,000 Per Month
Launched – 2005
Monthly Page Views – 25 million

2. Weblogs

“Weblogs, Inc. is a blog network of about 90 blogs, covering a variety of subjects, from computers and gaming to the likes of food and independent film. It was bought by AOL in 2005 for $25 million.

Founders:  Brian Alvey and Jason Calacanis
Adsense Earning – $190,000 Per Month
Launched – 2003
Monthly Page Views – 25 million

3. Digital Point

Digital Point is one of the most popular discussion forums on the web related to search engines, including optimization, marketing, tools and other technical aspects.

Founder – Shawn Hogan
Launched – 1995 (under the name Data Point Solutions)
Adsense Earnings – $5,00,000 / month

4 . TechCrunch.com

This technology blog was started by blogger Michael Arrington. The site specialises in information for startups and technology.  High quality audience from around the world have made him one of themost influential bloggers in the world. in 2010 AOL bought it over for $30 million.

Founder – Michael Arrington
Adsense Earnings –  $2,40,000
Launched – 2005

5.Digg .com

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. The famous social news website was started by Kevin Rose Digg.com. He is valued at over $31 Million. Digg is another one of the high earning adses websites.

Founder–Kevin Rose
Adsense Earnings – $250,000.00 per month
Daily Visits – 1 Million Visitors a day
Launched –  2004

6. Perez Hilton

Perez Hilton was started by Mario Lavandeira who has earned a name for offering celebrity news and juicy gossips. He writes 25-30 post everyday. Blogging has made him a celebrity and he regularly gets featured on talk shows and events.

Founder– Mario Lavandeira
Adsense Earnings – $2,00,000
Daily Visits – 1 Million Visitors a day
Launched – 2005

7. Shoe Money

Shoe money is ablog that teached people how to make money on the Internet. The was started by Jeremy Shoemaker.
You may have come acrros the famous photo of him with a check for $130,000 (one-month earnings from Google AdSense) that became popular a few years ago.

Founder – Jeremy Shoemaker
Adsense Earnings – US$140,000 per month
Launched – 2003

8. Tweetmeme.com

Tweetmeme was a website that tracks conversations, stories and trends on one of the biggets social networking websites, twitter. The famous RetWeet button found on nearly a million blogs was initiallyu introduced by Tweetmeme. It was one of the fastest growing sites and rose to a global rank of 300 in just one year.

Founder – Nick Halstead
Adsense Earnings–  $2,25,000 / Month
Traffic – 385,000 unique visitors per month
Launched – 2008

9 .Plenty Of Fish

Plenty of Fish was started by Canadian internet entrepreneur Markus Frind and his girlfriend. In 2003 soon after starting his site, he was only making $40 a day from Adsense. However by 2007 on good days, his daily earnings had risen to as high as $30,000 a day from over 1 billion page views a month.

Founder – Markus Friend
Adsense Earnings –  US$300,000.00 per month
Launched – 2003
Reportedly, Markus Friend of Plenty of Fish.com earns an average income of US$300,000.00 per month.
UPDATE/Correction:   I would like to add that the above figures are average monthly earnings. As pointed out by Alex in one of the comments below, in some months Plenty of Fish have indeed earned more than US$300,000.
As an example, I am including an image of a 2 months cheque received by Plenty of Fish as far back as 2006 for over $900,000 as reported on plenty of fish blog on WordPress. This two month cheque alone shows an average of $450K per month. A big thanks to Alex for sharing a link to this cheque.

10. ClickIndia.com

And if you think only the big names can earn money via Adsesense, take a look at this site from India below.
Pankaj agarwal founded Clickindia 2 years ago and it zoomed up with classified ads posted by people all over india in alexa top 1k list. Adsense is clickindia only revenue model and thus they have optimised the site well for maximum CTR and for becoming the highest adsense earner from his country.

Founder – Pankaj Agarwal
Adsense Earning – $85,000/ month
Launched – 2007
Page-views/Visits – 5.5 million unique users a month
Conclusion:
There are millions of sites that use Adsense. However, a majority of them struggle to make even $1 per day, some even less. I have shared only the success stories above. I do not want to give you false hope that it is easy to generate revenues like this. In fact, it is far from it. Never the less, I firmly believe that it is possible to do so. And if you are willing to devote two or three years to write quality content for your website, your chances for making a full time income from your site are very good. If you think, you can achieve it without any effort then I suggest you look for alternative methods.
I have been blogging for just over two years now and will continue to do so as I am confident that it is possible to make a decent full-time income simply by blogging.