An increase in CTR can mean a lot to AdSense Revenue. To increase AdSense revenue, you have to either increase the traffic or CTR. If somehow, you manage to triple your CTR just by tweaking the Google AdSense code, you can get three times more traffic. Here are a few tips for increasing your CTR.

Topics Covered in this Guide:

- What Google AdSense Engineers say about CTR
- What Webmasters have concluded about CTR
- Traffic and its effects on CTR
- Experiments with CTR

What Google AdSense Engineers Say

- An email conversation with a Google Engineer:
“Due to the dynamic nature of Google AdSense, fluctuations in your revenue will occur. Your earnings will depend on a number of factors, including the types of ads being served to your pages, the cost per click or cost per impression of these ads, and your users' click through selections. Regarding ad placement - the best ad format varies from page to page. We've observed that, in general, wider ads perform better because of their reader-friendly format. We strongly recommend putting your users first when deciding on ad placement. Think about their behavior on different pages, and what will be most useful and visible to them. You'll find that the most optimal ad position isn't always what you expect on certain pages.”

- Google Optimization Guide:
For example, on pages where users are typically focused on reading an article, ads placed directly below the end of the article tends to perform better. It's almost as if the users finish reading and asking themselves, “What can I do next?” Precisely targeted ads are just like answering their questions.
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html

What Webmasters have concluded

Webmasters have diverse views on how to increase CTR. It largely depends upon the keywords you are targeting, look of your website, quality of its content, placement of AdSense ads, page optimization, and various other factors. Generally, AdSense blocks wrapped between the quality content works the best. For the websites having poor quality content, placing the Ads before the start of the content works well.
If you develop a poor quality content website, it will likely give you high CTR and clicks, but you will be getting low priced ads. Besides, nobody will like to add your URL to their favorites. However, if you have quality content that keeps the visitors glued, you may get low CTR, but you will be getting high priced ads and regular visitors.

Proper positioning of ads on your website has direct impact on your CTR. Change the location of the ads and watch the changes in your CTR regularly. Try to locate the area of the page where the focus of the visitor can be. Generally, AdSense ads near the quality content or other crucial areas like navigation bar tend to perform better. But it really depends upon the keywords you are targeting, and the traffic you have.  

The Traffic

AdSense comes after traffic. No traffic, no AdSense. Take good care of your traffic. Your visitors expect some valuable information from you. Make sure you are providing quality content to them. This will increase your visitors’ return back ratio. And only those visitors who are less targeted, will return to the content you are providing. More targeted users mean more CTR. 85% of my visitors add my website URLs in their favorites. And they do return.

Install a website stats monitoring software and regularly look at your web logs. Identify where exactly is the traffic coming from. Try to establish a pattern or relation between your AdSense stats and traffic stats. This will help you analyze the reasons for any marked deviations in the inflow of traffic. This will give you new ideas to develop traffic.

Experiments

Experiment and experiment a lot, till you are satisfied with the tweaks you have done to achieve the highest CTR. Track your page performance by making channels of ads in your AdSense Control Panel. Keep experimenting till you are satisfied with your CTR. Though, every such experiment will make you lose money for a day or two, as Google may take time to adjust with new changes, but it will be beneficial in the long run.

Here is a list of 100+ Content website sources.

Website URL	Alexa Traffic Rank
www.ezinearticles.com	1,252
www.goarticles.com	2,697
www.webpronews.com	3,152
www.articlecity.com	5,813
www.searchwarp.com	6,729
www.ideamarketers.com	8,865
www.submityourarticle.com	12,262
www.isnare.com	16,414
www.articlesfactory.com	21,247
www.storebuilder.co.uk	23,195
www.constant-content.com	26,901
www.allthewebsites.org	29,644
www.valuablecontent.com	31,574
www.womans-net.com	36,368
www.jogena.com	47,138
www.family-content.com/articles/submit.shtml	47,790
www.family-content.com	47,790
www.articlesubmissions.com	52,266
www.certificate.net	55,910
www.theezine.net/archive/add.html	56,054
www.zinos.com	59,058
www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml	78,457
www.freezinesite.com	86,829
www.linksnoop.com	100,445
www.articlefinders.com	124,459
www.authorconnection.com	140,274
www.businesstoolchest.com	152,254
www.connectionteam.com	172,067
www.e-zinez.com	173,582
www.uniterra.com/submit-article.htm	189,004
www.article-directory.net	199,038
www.internethomebusinessarticles.com	249,266
www.workathomearticles.net	265,687
www.sales-masters-world.com	285,315
www.smartbiz.com	294,152
www.ezypublisher.com/join.php	312,666
www.biz-ewomen.com	381,605
www.marketingpitbull.com	445,809
www.365articles.com/	500,833
www.TheWebContent.com	528,300
http://Ultabiz.com	698,564
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/business_articles	966,868
www.top-web-marketing.com	983,209
http://www.dietandhealthinfo.com	2,142,742
www.midamericapublishing.com	4,472,924
www.mega-success.com	4,826,415
http://ez-work-at-home.net/articlelib/index.html	5,146,264
www.promotezone.com	5,242,282

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The Top 16 Fatal Things to Say to Your Pregnant Wife
(Part II)

16. "Sure you'll get your figure back -- we'll just search 1985 where you left it."
15. "Keys are on the fridge, honey. I'll see you at the hospital at half-time."
14. "Sure, the doctor said you're eating for two - but he didn't mean two orcas."
13. "Honey -- Come show the guys your Brando impression!"
12. "Roseanne, what have you done with my wife?!"
11. "How come you're so much fatter than the other chicks in Lamaze?"
10. "Sweetheart, where'd you put that Victoria's Secret catalog?"
9. "What's the big deal? If you can handle *me* going in, surely you can handle a baby coming out."
8. "Hey, when you're finished pukin' in there, get me a beer, willya?"
7. "Why in the *world* would I want to rub your feet?"
6. "That's not a bun in the oven -- it's the whole friggin' bakery!"
5. "You know, now that you mention it, you *are* getting fat and unattractive."
4. "Oh, this is just great! Now, on top of everything else, child support."
3. "Yo, Fatass! You're blocking the TV!"
2. "No, I don't know where the remote is! Have you looked under your breasts?"

   and TopFive's Number 1 Fatal Thing to Say to Your Pregnant Wife...

1. "I know today's your due date, but Larry just got a 10 point buck and that's a reason to celebrate, too."

The Top 16 Favorite Movies of Jenna Bush
(Part I)

16.  I Know What You Did Last Weekend, and So Does the Rest of the Country, Including Your Parents
15. The Cider House RULES!!
14. Glenfiddich Glen Ross
13.  C.H.U.G.
12.  Falling Down, Drunk
11. A Fish Called Jenna
10. The Texas Braincell Massacre
9. The Beer Hunter
8. 101 Citations
7. The Legend of Drunken First Daughter
6. What Did You Do in the Bar, Daddy?
5.  A Pack o' Schlitz, Now!
4. Tanked Girl
3. From Beer to Fraternity
2.  Puking Tiger, Heaving Dragon

   and the Number 1 Favorite Movie of Jenna Bush...

1.  Dude, Where's My Lawyer?

The Top 15 Historical Spam Subject Lines

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Here is the ultimative guide on how you can get banned from the Google Adsense publisher program. Most of them will get you banned within a few days or maybe hours. Read the whole post, because tip number 20 is the most important one.

1 ) When you wake up, turn your pc on, open your website in the browser and start clicking on your own ads. The more ads you click, the better.

2 ) Write posts with a really big title where you ask your visitors to click on your Ads.

3 ) Make a video where you ask your visitors to click them.

4 ) If an Adsense block does not fit in your template, just modify the code.

5 ) Send out thousands of spam emails where you are asking to visit your website and to click on the ads

6 ) Hire some University students and tell them to click on your ads

7 ) Write a big post where you tell people about your Click Through Rate, your earnings per click and your impressions.

8 ) Partecipate in a click-ring (a group of people that click each others ads)

9 ) Use click-bots that will click automatically on your ads

10 )  Pay some Indian or Chinese clickers. There are really some people whose work is it to click on Adsense ads the whole day

11 ) Put a big “CLICK HERE” over your ads

12 ) Fill pages with ads and search boxes. You don’t need content, only ads.

13 ) Use pop-ups on your website

14 ) Register many different Adsense accounts and place ads from each account on the same page

15 ) Ignore emails you receive from Google Adsense

16 ) Put Adsense on pages with prohibited content (Warez, porn…)

17 ) Write Adsense support an email and tell them that you are cheating

18 ) Blend Adsense with ad relevant images

19 ) Display adsense on registration and “thank you” pages

20 ) Don’t follow any of the tips above or you will get banned for real . Immagine a “DO NOT” before each point.

As the name Bux.to implies, you make money by simply visiting websites for at least 30 seconds/visit. We will pay you $0.01 for each website you visit and $0.01 for each website your referrals visit. The best part is you can have an unlimited amount of referrals! To keep Bux.to from getting top-heavy you will only earn money from those that you directly refer. This gives everyone who participates in the program a fair advantage to earn the most amount of money because you have the potential to earn more than your sponsor! Payments are issued via PayPal. You must request for a payment to be processed. Once requested, your payment will be issued within 7 business days or less. You must earn at least $10 to receive payment.

A valuable benefit to both the members and the advertisers is the repeat exposure that the advertiser gets. Whenever you click and view a website, you can visit that website again in 24 hours as long as the visit cap hasn't been reached. That's right! After 24 hours you can click and view the website again. This gives the advertiser optimal exposure by using "repeat advertising" and it further increases the members earning potential. Earnings example (based on current averages) » You click 10 ads per day = $0.10 » 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00 » Your daily earnings = $2.10 » Your weekly earnings = $14.70 » Your monthly earnings = $63.00

7 easy steps to add AdSense inside your posts

I added AdSense ads inside the posts of two blogs that have not had a high click through rate. In a month or so I'll come back to this post and let you all know if it makes a difference. Google AdSense limits you to 3 ads per page so you'll have to knock off some of those other ads if you are going to do this.

1) Go to template -> Edit HTML -> check expand Widgets
2) Find the line: <p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3' />
3) Add <div id='ads'></div> on the next line
4) Go to AdSense and create your ad text
5) Remove all > and replace them with &gt;
6) Remove all < and replace them with &lt;
7) Paste the new ad text between <div id='ads'> ad text goes here </div>

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As most bloggers know, Google Analytics is a powerful (and free) way to track your blog’s web metrics. Unfortunately, it was designed with AdWords advertisers in mind, so it comes with a lot more information than most bloggers need. Cluttered as it is with campaign and landing page reports, you might be tempted to look no further than the dashboard.

Don’t be daunted! Google Analytics is a veritable goldmine of information about your blog. Here is a list of the reports that you may actually find useful (and where to find them).

1. Referring Sites (under Traffic Sources)

Especially important if your blog is heavy into social media sites like Digg and Reddit, this report shows you where your visitors are coming from.

2. Keywords (under Traffic Sources)

If your blog is blessed with (or engineered for) high rankings on a term, this report will tell you what that term is and just how many visitors it’s producing.

3. Content by Title (under Content)

We all want to know what posts are being read and this report will tell you. It’s worth paying attention to the “Time on Page” and “Bounce Rate” columns, since a short time on page and high bounce rate might indicate a page driving visitors away from your blog. A quick look at this report is also a great way to generate that “Most Popular Posts” list.

4. New vs. Returning (under Visitors)

Everybody wants to know if they’ve got fans, and this report tells you just that. Granted, it doesn’t tell you exactly how many people you have subscribed to your feed. Google’s got Reader, though, and it’s about to buy up Feedburner, so it probably won’t be long before there’s a subscription report, too.

5. Map Overlay (under Visitors)

You’ll probably have to drill down to the country level for it to be useful, but knowing where your readers are in the world can be important information. You may discover that your audience is more international or localized than you would have guessed, allowing you to better target the content and timing of your posts. Are all of your visitors in California? Time your post for 8:00 PST so it’s at the top of their feed readers in the morning.

Perhaps best of all, the new Google Analytics interface allows you to save these reports to your dashboard (using the “Add to Dashboard” button at the top left), so you can still be lazy without losing sight of potentially useful data.

Quick Apply Google AdSense Account

Your AdSense account application might have been rejected. To get the AdSense account approved quickly, apply via blogger.com

Here is step-by-step for applying AdSense account via blogger:

1. First, go to http://www.blogger.com and sign up for a new account. Do as normal registration. Fill in the details like username, password, etc.

2. Fill in your blog information

3. Choose a template

4. Now, your blogger account is ready.

5. Write a post. Preferably this will be useful content, with subtle indications of long-term survivability of the blog. For example, you can write “This is the first part of 10-part series optimizing AdSense. For more tips about AdSense optimization, visit again in a day or two.”

6. When you are done, publish the post. Write 2 or 3 more posts.

7. Now, it’s time for the AdSense account. Click “Template” tab on top of the page. It will show your current page template code.

8. Then, just below the Template tab, choose AdSense. It will now display the AdSense application form.

9. Fill in all the details and click “Create Account“. Probably, it will display an error saying “The specified email address is already in use.” That is specially if you used this email address on your rejected AdSense application. Apply using another email address. You can get a GMail invite here.

10. If everything goes well, you will see AdSense block on top of your page now.

11. Choose the ad format and color that match your template. Read the 100 Google AdSense Tips. Then, Save. Your pages will be republished, now with the AdSense blog.

Now, your job is done. You’ll get confirmation letter from AdSense team in 1 or 2 days.

There is really no doubting that there are amazing incomes currently being made on Google Adsense and the really interesting thing is that even relatively small sites and blogs are finding new ways to make money from their Adsense sites every day.

Actually there are a lot of increasingly creative ways to make money and maximize on Adsense earnings that are being discovered and also being put to use every day. And what’s even more fascinating is the fact that most of these tools being used don’t cost anything. They are actually free. Here are 7 of the most effective currently being used.

a) Ways to make money from Adsense by Distributing articles through ezine and article announcement lists

Some of the most effective methods ways to make money from Adsense clicks involve the simple step of just increasing the volume of targeted traffic to a site. One of the ways of doing this is by distributing interesting content to ezine lists and article announcement lists. It is not too difficult to quickly build a list that reaches a million or so email boxes and can thus give a lot of visibility and drive tons of highly targetd traffic to your Adsense site or sites. Probably the most popular place for doing this is at Yahoo groups, but there are a few others that you can find easily by using your favorite search engine.

Success here depends on three main factors. Firstly you should be careful to join article announcement lists and ezine lists that are as relevant as possible to your subject matter and offering. Secondly your headline has to be a killer headline that will grab readers by the scruffs of their necks and force them to open your email message amongst the dozens or even hundreds of others they receive daily. It goes without saying that the content must meet the promise of your sensational headline. Anything less will cause annoyance and leave all those potential visitors to your Adsense site feeling cheated. And believe me, you don’t want to cause this sort of reaction because it is definitely not one of the ways o make money from Adsense or any other program for that matter. Thirdly, you will need the sort of resource box in all your articles that will leave most of your readers with no option but to visit your Adsense site.

Within a very short of consistently applying this technique, my daily Adsense earnings increased seven-fold.

b) Ways to make money from Adsense by Distributing free articles to high traffic article sites Some people find the recent trends that have seen an increase in article sites surprising. I don’t. The net is primarily an information-seeking tool. Anything that will help improve the search and quality of information will greatly benefit the people making that effort.

Some of the older article directories receive very high traffic, mainly from web masters and site owners seeking quality free content for their sites. So apart from the immediate exposure these sites also guarantee plenty of future targeted traffic to your site, when folks find your articles useful enough to re-post at their sites.

The more new articles you release to these sites every week, the more targeted traffic your Adsense sites will receive. This is in fact one of the most effective ways of making money consistently from Adsense clicks. One of the reasons for this is that targeted traffic will tend to spend more time at your site or sites, and the more time they spend, the higher the chances that they will click one one of the Adsense ads posted there.

c) Ways to make money from Adsense by Using Articles And A Viral Marketing Website

Any online marketing technique that involves the use of referral marketing or viral marketing automatically has a huge chance of being a success. The net is ideal for viral marketing and in fact gives any viral marketer huge leverage. Viral marketing or referral marketing is one of the most effective ways to make money online. Just ask Bill Gates.

When Gates was trying to play catch up on the Internet after an earlier mistake of underestimating the future importance of the net, he launched his Hotmail free email service when rivals like Yahoo already had millions of users. He decided to use a simple referral marketing technique. Every Hotmail message that went out had a brief signature at the end requesting the recipient to sign up for their free Hotmail account. Within a few short months, Hotmail had millions of users. And there are many other amazing stories which viral marketing boasts of on the net.

There is one of the very simple ways to make money from Adsense by going viral. Sign up at a leading viral marketing site. You will automatically get your own viral site. You can then use some of your articles to point people to your viral site. The way these sites work is that anybody who signs up at your site will have to visit your Adsense site if you register it at the site. So within a very short time you will be driving thousands of visitors to your Adsense site.

Find more details on this at my blog whose address you'll find in the resource box below.

Admittedly this traffic is less targeted. Still the huge potential and possible numbers you are able to receive using this free tool more than makes up for this.

d) Ways to make money from Adsense With Your Email signature

People greatly underestimate the power and potential effectiveness of a simple email signature as one of the ways to make money online. Actually this is a viral marketing method because emails get forwarded all the time and are even copied to several other people sometimes.

Do not waste another minute. Go to all your email accounts right now and create a signature that points to your Adsense site or sites.

Writing effective email signatures is a skill that you will have to develop, but I have found that using famous quotes is more effective than a straight advertising message. Always remember that people hate to be advertised to online.

e) Ways to make money from Adsense By Asking Questions At Discussion groups

I recently had an interesting conversation with a young Internet and computer techie. He asked me whether there were quick ways to make money online by answering technical questions and helping people to solve their computer and web-related problems. My answer was that there were many discussion groups where participants would get these answers for free. I advised him that he had a better chance of making money by making use of this free advice available online rather than by trying to sell his own advice.

There are tons of online discussion groups where leading world experts will answer your questions and give you valuable insight for free. It is amazing why most people do not think of using these online forums to learn as much as they can about the most effective ways of making money from Adsense.

These forums can easily be found through you favorite search engine.

f) Ways to make money from Adsense By Bartering your online skills for valuable Adsense keywords

In the old days, before the invention of money, if somebody needed something, the first question they asked themselves was; “What is it that I already have that I can exchange for what I need? Barter trade seems to have been forgotten but it is a very powerful method of trading. More so online where people have plenty of skills but are slow to trust others enough to send them money for an item they need.

You can barter whatever it is you have, your skills, products or services, and exchange them for genuine valuable Adsense keywords. Valuable Adsense keywords are the most effective way for a small site with low traffic to earn big cash from Adsense. And you can do this barter trade on an ongoing basis so that you always have a constant supply of valuable Adsense keywords which you can use at your site or blog as one of the ways to make more money from Adsense.

g) Ways to make money from Adsense By Sending Teaser Emails

To Everybody In Your Inbox And Also To Your Opt-in Email List Most of us receive tons of email in our inbox every day. You’ll be surprised at the huge number of people you know by simply going through your email inbox. No matter how good your spam filters are, you are also bound to be receiving more than your fare share of SPAM or unsolicited email. All this is “gold” lying in your email inbox and there are ways to make money using these emails. All you need to do to process the emails into pure gold is to send out “teaser emails about the most interesting aspects of content at your site. The whole objective of teaser emails is to get people to visit your site. For instance if I were to send out teaser email on this content here is how I would construct it;

Subject: Free Tools Currently Being Used To Increase Adsense Earnings

Hello,

Just thought you might be interested in this subject, since so many folks online use Adsense these days. If not please accept my sincere apologies. Details are at my site.

www. your site's address .com

Regards, Chris.

I see threads here all the time from people who are either concerned with getting the "fraudulent clicks" letter, or they've gotten them and now want to know how to get back in.

I am one of a handful of people (that I'm aware of) who have had my account knocked out for invalid clicks and been reinstated a couple of months later.

So, here's a little tip guide primer on what to expect and what to do.

A few things first:

A) You will not receive any check that is currently unprocessed. Consider that payment forfeited (and don't threaten google with a lawsuit to recover it - it will just make things much, much worse).

B) Do confess to them any and all circumstances where you might have screwed up. If you didn't screw up and are genuinely baffled you will need your server logs to locate suspicious activity. I highly recommend getting click tracking software to monitor your ads for exactly this scenario. If you don't have server logs or tracking software, YOU are at fault by default.

C) The account disabling was both automated and then verified manually. Google examines the location of where clicks were coming from. If they see that too many clicks are from the same geographic area as where they send your check (or the ip you log in from) that sets off a red flag. Competitors clicking on your ads is something Google is well aware of and can track as well (they know their geographic area too)

To get your account reinstated:

A) Write google an apology and discuss steps you've taken so the situation won't arise in the future. Don't avoid blame, even if you knew nothing about what your friends were doing when they decided to "help" you by clicking on your ads. The fact is, by revealing information about how you make money to someone else, you are setting yourself up for this situation. I'm not being judgemental, just telling you how Google sees it. In your letter to them, recognize and admit this.

B) Offer to make good on any fraudulent clicks. They won't take you up on it, but they will know that you are genuinely sorry and want to keep their business.

C) Contact someone at google directly. Don't just send off a random email to adsense@google.com. Go to a webmasterworld conference. Meet someone in their company. Use that In when the conference is over. Worst case scenario, BUY an In into the company. Does someone you know have an In there? Offer to pay them to to speak to their In on your behalf. A big adwords spender with a personal ad rep is a good place to begin.

D) Seek out text ad competition immediately. Even if the ads aren't as high-paying as Googles (and they won't be), it will break the sting of losing all of your income until Google does come back around to review your case.

E) Be persistent, but polite. Send a letter (a new one) once a week. Keep reiterating your loyalty to their program and how you are prepared to write letters forever until they will understand you are committed to following their rules if they will reaccept you.

Now for the bad news....

None of this will probably help. To be reviewed for readmission, your site must be large enough that the revenue is worth a potentially risky business move.

If they don't answer your letters anymore and all hope is lost, you are now left with basically one recourse assuming you really want to be in their program: Change your domain name, bank account, IP address, ISP and site design. Wait two months, then take on a partner you trust. Reapply for the program under this new partner's name and address, (now especially possible given Google's automatic deposit program). Learn from your mistakes and never do anything that can potentially result in your ads being clicked on fraudulently again. So, really, get a partner you can trust will not click as well.

To anyone else who hasn't been kicked out yet and never wants to be:

A) Shut up about how you make money when talking to friends and family. Let them privately think you run a bestiality porn site or something. It's still better than them clicking on your ads :)

B) Disable ads for your own ip and local geographic region, if you have access to that data and it won't hurt your business. Ditto with your competition's ip address. If you don't know it, write him an email pretending to be a customer and look at his return headers.

C) Get click-monitoring software and check it daily. Be vigilant in notifying Google about what YOU think is fraud, even if they don't. Your notifications to them will come in especially handy should your account ever be flagged by them. You'll be remembered as honest.

D) Think of Google for the long term, not the short term. So you're having a bad month and think clicking on an ad you might be interested in anyway doesn't hurt anyone? You're wrong. This month might be bad. Next month will be good. Google revenue is about long term averages. Is a few cents click worth the loss of thousands of dollars in the long term? Definitely not.

Take it from me, I've been there, been put out on the street, and eventually been reaccepted (after a lot of hard work). It can and does happen to any of us. Just make sure the odds of it happening to you are as slim as possible.

10 Steps to Getting Into Google And Staying There

Everyday the Internet is becoming more and more reliant on Google and finding that you’ve lost favour with the big G can have very serious repercussions for both your website and your business.

Now it’s time to look at 10 ways to make Google love your site and feed it with all those fantastic visitors:

1. Getting Indexed

If you want to get into Google’s index in short-time you need to get as many authoritative links pointing at your site as possible. Forget about using the Google submission tool, just find some links from regularly crawled sites (sites that frequently update their content are usually crawled more frequently). With the right links pointing at your site you can get indexed in a week or less, so go beg, borrow or steal to get those links.

2. Give Some Friendly Directions

When you need to find your way you look at a map. Sitemaps are just as useful to spiders as real maps are to humans. In fact, sitemaps are also incredibly useful for your human visitors so consider creating both a html and an xml sitemap - the former for humans (and spiders!) and the latter for Google Sitemaps.

3. Don’t Stress Out the Googlebot

Where possible use well formed, semantically correct mark-up. I make sure that my pages validate over on validator.w3.org (well, I let the HTMLtidy plug-in take care of this).

I also spend a fair bit of time on the page title, the header elements, the text body and the internal link anchors. I try to ensure that keywords are consistent across these four page elements. This helps Google to identify what your page is about.

BTW the page title is quite an important variable used by Google when applying SERP positioning so make sure to get the correct keywords into each and every unique page title.

4. Avoid overuse of Flash

Search Engines have always had problems with Flash. For this reason Flash-based websites are notoriously difficult to rank well in Google.

If you must keep that cool looking Flash site you should consider offering a text-based alternative (not just for the SE’s, but also from a usability perspective). Failing that, you could try utilising the <noembed> or <noframe> elements to incorporate as much text into your pages as possible. If absolutely all else fails your last hope is probably the ‘Google Bomb‘.

While I’m on the subject, try to avoid using Flash for navigation - bear in mind that some people don’t have Flash installed and others (like me) block Flash from their browser.

5. Create Unique Compelling Content

Google loves unique content. But more importantly so do humans, and the best advice is to create your content for human visitors first and foremost.

Great content attracts attention and people show their interest by linking to your content. Every time someone links to you Google counts this as a vote for your content - the more votes the higher your SERP ranking. Oh, and just for the record, the converse of this also holds - Google hates copied content just as much as it loves unique content so don’t expect much love if you scrap other sites.

6.Better Links = Higher SERPs

The most important trick to getting those all important #1 positions from Google is to get great links pointing at your unique content. (Having a 10 year old domain doesn’t hurt also, but that’s another story.)

This is probably the trickiest part of getting Google’s love - if people cant find you how can they possibly link to you? Well my advice is to go for the low-hanging fruit first. Human edited web directories offer a great way to get some easy links.

If you have a bit more time you could also try some writing some quality articles related to your niche and submit these to the top article directories.

A quick note about link anchors:

If I can control just one single factor when looking for Google love then it would have to be the anchor text used in the backlinks pointing at my content.

IMO Google applies quite a serious bias to the anchor text used in your backlinks when determining the most appropriate SERP position.

Some link tools and other info

Most Search Engines allow the use of the link: operator to display the backlinks a website has. Generally I use Yahoo.com to check backlinks quickly, but be warned that the Google link: command NEVER displays anything other than a sample of your backlinks.

MSN have just recently released the LinkFromDomain: operator which shows you all the outbound links from a website (handy to check where a site is linking to).

7. Tell Google Where You Are

Google offers country-specific searches on all its search properties. If you want to appear in any particular ‘pages from [your country here]’ search you must fulfil one of the following conditions:

• Your site must be physically hosted in the targeted country (and the server IP must resolve to that country); and/or
• Your domain must use the ccTLD of the targeted country.

So if you want to target the ‘pages from Ireland’ search your website must be either hosted on a server located in Ireland (use this to test) or your domain must be a .ie ccTLD.

8. Remember the ‘Long-Tail’

Google indexes pages not websites so each page can target different keywords that apply to the niche you are targeting. The more possible ways people have of finding your site then the more potential visitors your site will receive from Google.

You should make use of keyword estimators (although bear in mind that none is flawless) to ensure that your pages and copy contain the keywords people actually search for. There are many free keyword tools that you can try.

You should also familiarise yourself with the advanced operators available from most of the major search engines. ‘inanchor:’, ‘allinanchor:’, ‘intitle:’ and ‘allintitle:’ are extremely useful for determining how competitive particular search phrases are, and these operators should form part of any serious keyword analysis.

It’s worth mentioning that the rapid growth of local search (e.g. appending place names onto queries) means that targeting particular locations is becoming more important. I personally see far more referrals come for localised search queries than from country-only filtered searches. (Note - I work on optimising Irish websites so this observation should be taken in that particular context.)

9. Learn just 1 important Apache module

If you want to really be best friends with Google then I suggest you learn 1 fairly easy Apache module:

mod_rewrite allows you to turn those ugly dynamic URLs into their pretty SEO-friendly static-looking counterparts.

mod_rewrite also allows you to redirect the non-www to your www website URL (or vice-verse). This issue, known as the canonical URL, is one of the most common causes of problems within Google’s index.

I also suggest getting familiar HTTP header codes, and in particular the 301 redirect which might someday save your relationship with Google.

10. Lucky!!!

The lucky is very important too.

The many ways to get wealthy online are as broad as they are exciting! Here are just a few steps that may help you jump-start your business and generate a steady stream of cash flow. Selling informational products will happen quicker and create more money for you if you follow these steps.

Step One: Find your Niche
The best way to create success with informational products is to give the people what they want! This means that you need to find a problem, figure out the immediate need and offer a product or service that fulfills the need.

High Search, Low Competition
Remember, a niche does not need to be huge, just lucrative. If you find a market segment of 500 people per month who need information or products then you have a great niche. If you can make $10 per month from each visitor you are earning $60,000 per year!

Step Two: Drive Traffic to Your Site
There are two cheap and successful ways to drive traffic to your sales site: article marketing and blogging.

Article Marketing
Article marketing is a great way to generate free organic traffic to your site. If you provide great information and are able to attract the attention of large search engines you will have a cascade of free traffic. Posting your information to the large article banks will direct readers from the article to your site. When they arrive, you already know what they are looking for and have it available for them to buy.

Blogging
Blogging is not a new way to generate wealth online but it is becoming the method of choice for many. Blogging is basically a continuous series of daily or weekly updates that you write for your readers on any topic. Target your blog to your niche then help people find they products they are looking for.

Other Methods
There are two other traffic generation methods that can be used to supplement article marketing and blogging. Pay advertising will generate traffic for your website; however, there are much cheaper ways to achieve your goal. Also, web directories are good places to post your URL and attract visitors but it takes a lot of time to show up on the list and is not effective in the short term.

Step Three: Sell Products and Make Money
Here is the meat of the method – making the money. Rather than focusing on making money on your site, we should focus on creating value for your customers. If someone clicks to visit your webpage, do not disappoint him or her with junk. If they trust your information, they will feel better about buying your recommended products.

Affiliates
One place to start is by joining an affiliate network for one, or many, different stores. An affiliate is an individual or company that sells a product for another and earns a commission from each sale. Most of the major online stores have an affiliate program so find the products you want and then find the store.

Pay Per Click
A second, and most common method is advertising with Pay Per Click (PPC) ads. Depending on the level of traffic you are able to achieve this can be a very important source of revenue for your business. Pay per click is exactly as it sounds. You place some code on your website, people visit and click on advertisements and you get paid.

The internet today is filled with a lot of online programs that promise to “help” you make dollars online without stress, but only few of them actually do.

Why? That’s because they never had the intention to help you make the so called dollars online in the first place!

But all that can change now….how? I’ll let you in on it!

Many a time you see websites telling you to pay certain amounts for promised benefits or services (which never come), and then after you have paid for it, they abscond with your hard earned money!

Now you can carefully avoid this if you can take the following steps:

1. Understand properly the kind of program being advertised.
Does it meet with your interest? Are you at ease with the program or doubtful about the program? If you are doubtful, please I beg you, log out from that page! You could get your fingers badly burnt my dear.

2. Contact the program administrator for enquiries.
This will help you know if they will respond in later times, and also help you determine their level of efficiency. If they don’t respond after one week, what else are you waiting for? Please forget about the site!

3. View their testimonials of users/members of the program.
You could check their testimonial page. Have their product or system worked before for others? And is it still working? Are the testimonials credible enough or just dummies?

4 How long have they been in that business/program?
You have to know how long that kind of program has existed by visiting their “about” page, or checking the footnote on the website page. This will give you a clue to how long they’ve been existing.

5. Finally, ask around for persons who have done it before in your location.
This is very important as you have to have proof from people around you who are involved with online money making to know if the program is genuine or just another rip off!

Lastly, pray God to give you wisdom to decide wisely. This cannot be undermined!

These 5 vital tips may not be fire-proof enough but at least it can greatly guide you as it did me in my early days of online investments.

Keep this in mind always: NEVER INVEST MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE!

I'm sure you know the traditional and often taught ways of getting much-needed inbound links. It's almost always the same: trade links with other websites, write articles for submission, and submit your site to as many directories as possible. These are all useful methods, and all have their purpose, but there is one method that is often overlooked that should form the cornerstone of your link-building efforts. In this article I'll show you exactly what to do to get the most effective links you can get: from authority sites in your niche.

1. Build your site up a bit first, fleshing it out with good content.

2. Look at a small subsection of your site, and brainstorm what type of site you think might be interested in that section of your site without being an actual competitor to your main site itself. For instance, if you have a site on "landscaping," and within your site you have a subsection about koi ponds, other sites that don't compete with your main site but may be interested in koi ponds would be fish hobbyist sites, or perhaps even sites that focus only on koi ponds.

3. In Google, search with the broad keyword of your subsection. With the above example, I would search Google for "koi ponds" and also "fish hobby." Click through to some of the sites that appear in the top ten.

4. Email the webmaster of EVERY one of these sites and offer to write content for them. Tell them that you'll taylor the article to their reader's needs, and that it will only appear on their site. Ask them what they need. Tell them that you only require a link to the related subsection on your website.

5. When you are ready to write an article, make it GOOD. Really do your research, and treat it just like an essay in high school. You're teacher will be grading you on the subject. If you don't think you can write it well enough, it is well worth it to find a good article writer and pay him. Don't spend less than $20 for an article of this importance.

6. At the bottom of the article, add a SHORT author biography. Briefly explain your site, and who you are and what you offer. Within this bio, make sure you have a link to ONLY the subsection of your site, as well as an anchor text link to that subsection. An example would be: "Mike is a landscaping enthusiast and has installed many koi ponds.

Here i have created a list of factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines.Most of the factors in the checklist apply mainly to Google and partially to MSN, Yahoo! and all the other search engines of lesser importance.

1. Tag Keywords in<"title"> tag
   One of the most important places to have a niche high paying keyword because what is written inside the <"title"> tag shows in search results as your page title. The title tag must be short of around 7 words and the the keyword should be near the beginning on your whole title.
2. Keywords in URL
   Keywords in URL gives you a better position on the search engine, keyword is "enter keyword" and this will eventually help in your ranking.
3. Keyword density in document text
   Ensure your articles has around 4-6% major keywords and not more than 12% or else it will look more like a keyword spam instead of a article page.
4. Anchor Text Linking
   Anchor Text Link with other user's site is a good way to improve your site's ranking too. Have top keywords for your chosen anchor text,this is regarded as getting a vote from this site not only about your site in general, but about the keyword in particular.
5. Keywords in headings (<"H1">, <"H2">, etc. tags)
   You can also apply your keywords on the heading tags.
6. Keywords in Tags
   Spiders do not read images but they do read their textual descriptions in the tag, so if you have images on your page, fill in the tag with some keywords about them.
7. Keywords in MetaTags
   Though google are more or less not using these to rank users, Yahoo and MSN still relies on these meta tags,so if you are optimizing for Yahoo! or MSN, fill these tags properly.
8. Getting High PR links
   This is by far the best way to get your site on the top when you get linked to a high pagerank site.Try to have your site link captured in directories or even other sites that ranks above PR4 to PR10
9. Backlinks from others
   Generally the more, the better. But the reputation of the sites that link to you is more important than their number.
10. Links from directories
    As said earlier, Being listed in Yahoo Directory and similar directories is a great boost for your ranking cause they are mostly PR 6 and above,do not waste time linking to Pr0 sites.
11. Socially bookmarked
    There are more than 50 over sites who are social bookmarkers, some of the highly used are digg, Technorati, Blinklist
12. Unique contents
    Have unique contents on your site is great and having it updated daily with fresh niche contents guarantees good ranking
13. Sector those long articles up
    Search engine favors more on shorter details with unique and relevant topic, achieve a better ranking by shorting your articles from 1 long page to 3 parts of a given article.
14. Site Size
    All search engine spiders love big and largely contented sites.so generally it is the bigger, the better. However, big sites become user-unfriendly and difficult to navigate, so sometimes it makes sense to separate a big site into a couple of smaller ones, for example you can have a site/blog/forum to separate your contents and comments on different areas.

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