Google AdSense program is a popular web advertising program which provides a good income source for many websites. There are well defined terms of service to strictly adhere to when participating in the program.

On my visit through sites and forums, I daily notice several instances of misuse of AdSense ads. So here a few helpful Google AdSense tips, probably many you already know, and few you might gain by knowing now. These AdSense faq are all picked from the Program Policies, Terms and Conditions and FAQ itself and presented in a simplified manner.

1. Never click your own AdSense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. You know this one very well. This is a surefire way to close you AdSense account. Never tell your office associates or friends to click on them. Keep a check if your family or children are busy increasing your income by clicking your ads and indirectly trying to stop your income. Don't even think of offering incentives for clicks, using automated clicking tools, or other deceptive software. AdSense is very smart to detect fraudulent clicks. Check the ads which appear on your pages by the Google Preview tool if required.

2. Never change the AdSense code. There are enough means of AdSense optimization & customizations available to change the colour, background or border to suit your needs. Do whatever you want to do outside the code, never fiddle within the ad or the search code. They know it when you do. The search code has more limitations to colour and placement, but you should adhere to the rules. The code may stop working and violates the TOS.

3. Do not place more than 3 ad units and 3 ad links or 2 AdSense search boxes on any web page. Anyway, ads will not appear in those units even if you place more ad units. But this is the limit they set, so it is better to stick to it.

4. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same site which offer Google AdSense competition in their field. Never try to create link structures resembling the AdSense ads. Never use other competitive search tools on the same pages which have AdSense powered Google search. They do allow affiliate or limited-text links. Update: Google has allowed you to run contextual advertising like Yahoo ads, Chitika etc provided the ads do not resemble AdSense ads.

5. Do not disclose confidential information about your account like the CTR, CPM and income derived via individual ad units or any other confidential information they may reveal to you. However, you may reveal the total money you make as per recent updates to the TOS.

6. Label headings as "sponsored links" or "advertisements" only. Other labels are not allowed. I have seen many sites label ads with other titles. Dont make your site a target in a few seconds gaze.

7. Never launch a New Page for clicked ads by default. AdSense ads should open on the same page. You may be using a base target tag to open all links in a new window or frame by default. Correct it now as they do not want new pages opening from clicked ads.

8. One Account suffices for multiple websites. You do not need to create 5 accounts for 5 different websites. One account will do. If you live in the fears that if one account is closed down for violation of TOS, believe me they will close all accounts when they find out. You can keep track of clicks by using channels with real time statistics. They will automatically detect the new site and display relevant ads.

9. Place ads only on Content Pages. Advertisers pay only for content based ads. Content drives relevant ads. Although you might manage some clicks from error, login, registration, "thank you" or welcome pages, parking pages or pop ups, it will get you out of the program.

10. Do not mask ad elements. Alteration of colours and border is a facility to blend or contrast ads as per your site requirements. I have seen many sites where the url part is of the same colour as the background. While blending the ad with your site is a good idea, hiding relevant components of the ads is not allowed. Also do not block the visibility of ads by overlapping images, pop ups, tables etc.

11. Do not send your ads by email. Html formatted emails look good and allow placement of these javascript ads. But it is not allowed as per TOS. You do not want impressions registering on their logs from any email even once. They are watching!

12. Keep track of your content. So AdSense is not allowed on several non content pages. But it is also not allowed on several content pages too. Do not add it on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results. Also exclude any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content.

13. Do not alter the results after ad clicks or searches - Ensure you are not in any way altering the site which the user reaches to after clicking the ads. Do not frame, minimize, remove, redirect or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Advertiser Page or Search Results Page after the user clicks on any Ad or Search results.

14. Avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing - Although the definition of 'excessive' is a gray area and is subject to discretion, yet Google AdSense with correct placement, focused content and high traffic will get you much more income than other programs, so excessive advertising is not required. Keyword stuffing does target better focused ads, but overdoing it is not required.

15. Ensure you Language is Supported - AdSense supports "Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, English, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and Turkish. In addition, AdSense for search is available in Czech, Slovak, and Traditional Chinese. If your web pages language is not supported, do not use the code on such pages.

16. Maximum 2 referral button per product per page - With the launch of the Google AdSense referral program, you are allowed to put only 2 referral buttons for AdSense referral, AdWords referral, Google pack and Firefox with Google toolbar referral.

17. Do not specify Google ads as your alternate ads. - Several services like Chitika eminimalls allow you to place alternate urls, when a targeted paying ad cannot be displayed. This involved creating an simple html page and putting the ad to be displayed instead. Even AdSense allows an alternate url feature instead of displaying public service ads. But never use AdSense ads as alternate urls.

18. Do not confuse with adjacent images - It was a common policy to increase CTR by placing same number of images as the number of text ads, which falsely gave the impression that the text ads represented an explanation to these images. Inserting a small space or a line between the images and ads is not allowed. Make sure that the ads and images are not arranged in a way that could easily mislead or confuse your visitors.

When you start blogging you might find that it is difficult to start it and maintain it. Many people find this because it does take up a fair amount of time and there are tons, almost too many, different models and methods you can use to have a successful blog. Blogging guides also exist where people will give you advice and details about blogging - how to start, what to do, where to find the best money making possibilities etc. Well after searching the internet and looking at tons of ways to make blogging profitable, there are in fact many good ebooks around for you to start off your blogging venture.

Here are 3 sure-fire success tips excellent blogging guides will tell you.

1. Hand holding - With many other blogging guides, you will find that there is a lot of hyped up information and details that are a bit too complicated for newbie's to handle. Well, there is some blogging guides which will hand hold you for every step you take. The ebook author, having discovered all the ins and outs of blogging and how to actually make a living from it, will share with you the dos and don'ts of blogging.

It is not just a hobby, as he will put it, but you must actually be passionate and committed to your blogging. You will need to post topics every few days and keep working to promote the site and encourage traffic through various forms that he describes.

2. Screen shots - What is so great about a good blogging guide is that everything is given to you exactly and there must be screen shots included so that you don't get stuck at any point when you are going through the setting up of your blog and joining various websites. Tips and advice must be offered by the expert blogger and they include everything you need to know from setting everything up easily without making the same mistakes to making your first dollar.

In the guide, you should be given step by step instructions when you want to start making more money from your blog and when you want to drive more and more traffic to it. If the book promises that you, if you follow all the steps, will make about $2000 - $3000 every month, he will show you how in his guide. He will show how he does it with his blog which should be about a subject that he is interested in and everyone can do the same.

3. Starting off right - I feel a good blogging guide author should emphasize the key point are that you must choose to start a blog about something you are interested in and not just because you want to make money from it. You will need to target a market and make it very interesting and useful for people. If you enjoy what you are writing about and use the techniques and methods that he gives, you can easily do what he has done, and start earning big bucks from something that starts out as a fun sideline.

If you are interested in writing and want to just put your ideas down for everyone to read you can actually make money from them and turn it into a good business for yourself. Just use these excellent blogging guides that are given to you, and you will be successful in no time.

Reading a few forums and blogs about Google AdSense tips lately, and thought it would be helpful to consolidate as many as possible in one place without the comments. I've also thrown in a few tips of my own. We start out with some of the basic general stuff and move to the more specific topics later on.When you're deciding to become a website publisher you will fall into one of two broad categories:

· Publish 100 websites that each earn $1 a day profit
· Publish 1 website that earns $100 a day profit

The reality of it is, most people end up somewhere in between. Having 100 websites leaves you with maintenance, management and content issues. Having one website leaves you open to all sort of fluctuations (search engines algorithm's, market trends, etc). You can adapt your plan on the way, but you'll have an easier time if you start out going in the direction of where you want to end up.

General or Niche

You can build your website around general topics or niche ones. Generally speaking niche websites work better with AdSense. First off the ad targeting is much better. Secondly as you have a narrow focus your writing naturally becomes more expert in nature. Hopefully this makes you more authority in your field.

If this is your first try at building an AdSense website, make it about something you enjoy. It will make the process much easier and less painful to accomplish. You should however make sure that your topic has enough of an ad inventory and the payout is at a level you are comfortable with. You may love medieval folk dancing, but the pool of advertisers for that subject is very small (in fact it's currently zero).

Once you've gotten the hang of how AdSense works on a website, you are going to want to dabble in some high paying keywords, you may even be tempted to buy a high paying keyword list. This does come with some dangers. First off the level of fraud is much higher on the big money terms. Secondly there is a distortion of the supply and demand relationship for these terms. Everyone wants ads on their website that make $35 or more a click, however the number of advertisers who are willing to pay that much is pretty limited. Additionally the competition for that traffic is going to be stiff. So, don't try to run with the big dogs if you can't keep up. If you have to ask if you're a big dog, then chances are, you're not.

When you're building a new site don't put AdSense on it until it's finished. In fact I'd go even farther and say don't put AdSense on it until you have built inbound links and started getting traffic. If you put up a website with "lorem ipsum" dummy or placeholder text, your AdSense ads will almost certainly be off topic. This is often true for new files on existing websites, especially if the topic is new or different. It may take days or weeks for Google's media bot to come back to your page and get the ads properly targeted. TIP: If you start getting lots of traffic from a variety of IP's you will speed this process up dramatically.I like to build my sites using include files. I put the header, footer and navigation in common files. It makes it much easier to maintain and manage. I also like to put my AdSense code in include files. If I want/need to change my AdSense code, it's only one file I have to work with. TIP: I also use programming to turn the AdSense on or off. I can change one global variable to true or false and my AdSense ads will appear or disappear.

Managing URL's and channels

AdSense channels are one area where it's really easy to go overboard with stats. You can set up URL channels to compare how one website is doing to another. You can also set up sub channels for each URL. If you wanted to you do something channels like this:

· domain1.com - 728 banner
· domain1.com - 336 block
· domain1.com - text link
· domain2.com - 728 banner
· domain2.com - image banner
· domain2.com - 336 block
· domain3.com - 300 block

While this is great for testing and knowing who clicks where and why, it makes your reporting a little wonky. Your total number will always be correct but when you look at your reports with a channel break down things will get displayed multiple times and not add up to correct total. Makes things pretty confusing, so decide if you really want that level of reporting detail?TIP: At the very least you want to know what URL is generating the income so be sure to enter distinct URL channels.

In addition to the general rules published by Google, you should be aware of the common sense approach to any advertising medium. In order to make money with AdSense , for example, you need to comply with the Google directive that mandates that you create web sites that sell products, not just web sites that sell Google ads. In other words, with Google, content is king. However, unless you have a website that is designed for shock value, red type fonts on a black background is going to be difficult to read. Set your general layout and appearance to blend with the theme of your web pages.

Do follow the Rules

As with any action, in order to make money with AdSense sense, you need to understand and follow the rules that have been published about using AdSense . Do take the time to read and fully comprehend what you are doing rather than wasting your time and efforts developing a web site with associated AdSense ads that is clearly in violation of the rules. Saying 'Click here to increase my AdSense revenue' is a definite no-no according to the Google rules. It is also a guaranteed way to turn off potential customers.

Do Concentrate on Content

Those publishers who make money with AdSense are the ones who take care to provide web pages that are rich in content. They make certain that the content includes keywords and synonyms for the keywords that fit the subject and that are used in the proper manner to convey information. If your web pages are those on a subject that you know a great deal about, you can compose the content yourself. If you aren't too certain about format, ask for professional help in optimizing the content.

Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

Some people who set out to make money with AdSense have been led to believe that you can set up one web site, place a few ads and within a matter of minutes, be earning income that will allow you to quit your day job and retire to Costa Rica. The reality is usually far different. However, don't make the mistake of thinking if one web site is good, fifty would be better. Especially when you are learning the ropes, don't try to do too much at once. You will end up doing a less than satisfactory job on everything.

Don't Reinvent the Wheel

Many good tutorials have been written about how to make money with AdSense. When you are just learning the ropes, take the time to understand why you are doing what you are doing. After you have mastered the basics, then you can tweak things to your heart's content. You can certainly find new and different ways of doing almost anything, that's what the spirit of innovation is all about, but you will probably get off to a better start if you take time to do things the standard way at least to begin with. As long as you continue to study and learn new methods, your revenue will continue to keep pace.

Google AdSense is one of the most talked about money making programs on the internet. Everyone knows the profits that are possible with this simple to use advertising program and most website owners understand that the greatest profits come from specific keywords with relatively popular, resulting in a higher payout. Yet, time and time again, these webmasters know the right keywords, they use them throughout their website, but they do not see the clicks nor the revenue they expected.

What is it that they are missing?
Publishing web pages with the right high paying keywords is only part of a successful AdSense program. The most important factor is bringing traffic to those pages and this is typically where people go wrong.

Your website must be easy to navigate and should direct your guests to these keyword pages. Analyze the paths your visitors normally take when they access your site. First, look at the pages that are landed on most often and look at where your guests usually go from there. Links and navigation bars that appear on your website allow visitors to move around through your website. The easier this navigation is, the better your earning potential with AdSense.

Most websites have links to the other pages within the site on each page. The key to drawing your visitors to these other pages is the wording used on the links. You want to create links that spark interest with your readers. Wording that includes free or download are often great attention getters.

Websites that have high traffic volumes but are not generating much of a profit can usually attribute this to poor site navigation. Create appealing link wordage to draw your visitors away from the pages with low earning potential to the pages with high paying keywords and profit capabilities. With the right navigation techniques, your high traffic, low earning website can turn into a genuine money maker.

The easiest way to analyze your own AdSense campaign is to perform a test within your website. You will need to first publish a few web pages with high earning potential. You will also want a page with lower profit capacity to compare your results. For the quickest results, you can begin with pages that already have a large amount of traffic.

Your next task is to create attention grabbing links to the high profit pages you want to direct your traffic to visit. Think of a unique way to label the page link that will generate interest in reading more. Creative and intriguing word usage in your links is one way to draw more traffic to your pages with large profit capabilities.

Images and graphic links are great ways to attract attention to your high paying web pages as well. In the quest to create a successful, money making website, there are no limits to the tactics you use to generate traffic and direct people to your site as long as you follow the guidelines Google has in place regarding the use of AdSense. Creativity and imagination are the keys to your success.

The location of your unique and descriptive page link is equally important. You want to place your link in a place that is highly visible, but also in a location that doesn't mar the appearance of your site.

Study the layout and link styles used in other websites to get ideas of your own and for ideas on things that may work for you. Many webmasters use words like "Hot Links" or "Must Read" to draw attention to their high earning pages, but these phrases are overused and becoming worn out. Try to avoid using strategies that you see on a lot of websites. Instead, use these ideas to create something unique and fresh.

The best way to conduct worthwhile testing on the methods that will result in the most earnings for your website is to try many different strategies. Test various words and phrases for your links and try placing the navigation links in different locations on your site, including the top, bottom, and sides. By studying the effects of several different link styles, you will easily find the most profitable methods to use. You will soon be on your way to maximized profits with AdSense.

An Alexa ranking rates the traffic your Blog receives against the traffic of other Blogs. Because of alexa's popularity with webmasters and advertisers, having a low Alexa ranking can increase the amounts of links as well as the amount of offers you may receive for having companies advertise on your site. Basically, the lower your rank number, the more traffic you are receiving.

Here are a few tips on how to increase your own Alexa rank :

Provide Quality Content

There are plenty of simple ways to get quick visitors on a daily basis to increase your rank. But if you want to build a solid base of regular visitors to your site, nothing helps more than providing quality content that people can trust and rely on. If people like what they see on your Blog, they'll keep coming back.

Post Links Wherever You Can

Go to blogs and forums related to your Blog and leave comments with your URL attached. Have you URL as part of your signature at the end of every email. Ask friends to review your site. All of this exposure not only gets you the immediate hits to your Blog the first time someone clicks your link, but it can potentially bring back new repeat visitors.

Set Your Blog as a Homepage to as Many Computers as Possible

Make deals with internet cafes to make your Blog their computers' home pages. If you run a business, make all of the computers have your Blog as a homepage. This gets you automatic traffic every time someone goes online.

Work with what's Popular

Research what content from your Blog is most well-received. The best material will attract the most visitors and entice potential repeat visitors. Also cater to webmasters, as they are most likely to post links for your site. Provide webmaster-related content and tools to attract visitors who can help boost your ranking and increase traffic.

Once a Blog owner puts up a site or blog, they will think of ways to increase web site traffic to their Blog, store, blog or lens.

There are tons of ways to increase your web site traffic.

Numerous articles have already been written, various techniques tested and weird suggestions put across on how to build a Blog, optimize it for the search engines and attract thousands of visitors.

I am not going to expound, come up with an earth breaking formula or show you how to beat the search engines at their very own game.

What I am going to do. No! Share with you is a list of 10 free ways that you can learn to practically incorporate and can help you to draw and increase your web site traffic.

My way is do-able, takes time and is social.

But here is the good part:

It will not cost you a dime! Yes it is totally free.

It is genuine. No tricks or goofy tricks to learn.

It is social. If you do it right! You gain trust, credibility and friends.

Aright, so much for the introduction! Get ready and here we go.

10 Free ways to increase Blog traffic.

Become a Digger.

According to digg's own words and I qoute:

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users.

Remember to digg only your best works, then invite your friends, colleagues or web visitors to digg it too. And do the same, digg other great stuff you find useful.

The more people digg your work the higher it rises in popularity and the more visitors you get.

Start a profile at Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube...

Open an account in any of these places the more the better. You can put a link here and there but please you will fail miserably if you start pitching sales letter in front of these sociable crowds.

Join in and get connected and be connected. The guiding principle is -- People buy from people they know and trust. That should be your work -- building friendship, trust and credibility.

Start a blog.

Self explanatory. Start a blog. Here is a hint, type the term "how to start a blog" on any of your favorite search engines, then work from there.

Register with Technorati, FeedBurner.

Register with Technorati and Feedburner. These are Great places with excellent tools to help you promote your work to the rest of the world. Why work harder when other are willing and ready to do that for you?

Squidoo lens.

You are missing really big!...very big! If you are yet to start your own lens. There is no need to waste more time here, rush to your web browsers and type squidoo.com.

I wish you new how much power or how terribly you are loosing without Squidoo.

Issue a press release.

Please do me a favor -- open another window, have you? Then go to google search box and type in with the quotes "press release". Good, thank you for following my instructions.

Now depending on your knowledge level, read whichever interest you -- how to write a press release, press release example, prweb, submit press release and much more.

Articles.

Right now I am writing an article on "how to increase Your Blog traffic" The reason I'm writing this article is because:

First, I hope it is going to help you learn a thing or two on how to increase your Blog traffic.

Secondly, I'm doing these to gain your trust, to rank higher with the search engines and to promote my work.

Lastly, this is a great way that I now find naturally pleasing to do, it is increasingly becoming more of a value connection thing that I am starting to love.

Before you write your article, ask yourself why and for what purpose -- a natural way to accomplish that which you set your self to do, for our purpose here -- increase Blog traffic.

Start another site, blog or lens.

Persistent is the key to success. What is more important is to stick with your goals and objectives but train yourself to test different ways to accomplish that.

Do not form the habit of doing the same thing over and over again. It might become annoying. Start another site, blog or lens and test and experiment with another strategy. You might succeed where others are failing.

Google Analytics.

Great! Good stuff. Take a moment to make use of google analytics. Use it to understand what is working 1-8 above or what is not working. Take care though not to become too number crumby.

Out of Box.

Put to work what I have said here. Do not take it to be the bible. Do not do things because others are already doing it. Never be scared to be bold enough to do what every one else is not doing.

Trust me there are ways you can increase web site traffic by doing something out of the box...and if you really succeed we will all follow sui

Blog Owners Will Get More Overall Exposure

If you need to increase online traffic to your Blog, you don't need to purchase traffic to increase your online promotion... Because it can be received for free! Of course, it will come with a price... YOUR TIME!

But if you have more time than money, it may be in your best interest to start grasping a few traffic opportunities. Especially since there are no SEO (search engine optimization) fees associated with working on your site independently.

A WORD OF CAUTION - TIP: If you must hire an SEO Firm to work on your site, be sure they have a solid track record (that is available for viewing) or come recommended by a viable source. Speaking from past experience, an SEO company may promise a particular ranking or traffic increase but the result may never be obtained. And this comes with a price!

ONLINE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

It is not as easy as some may claim. If done independently, it will require much learning and time. On the flip side, hiring an SEO Firm can be effective but at the same time costly. Also, it is crucial for you to know what the SEO Firm needs to be doing for you... so you know if they are working efficiently.

Traffic from articles has been a primary traffic source for many internet marketers, affiliate websites and ecommerce website owners. A major KEY to receiving article traffic is understanding the power of KEYWORDS. Keywords are simply searchable terms and phrases that people are keying in a search box on a search engine (Google,etc) while looking for things online.

Targeted Keywords are required for optimal traffic for ranking with articles.
For example, if you are selling treadmills and in-particular commercial treadmills, you want to target that. You don't want to create an article and make the article title: Treadmills. 1) You don't want to do this because chances are... a single keyword like treadmills, will likely be too competitive (to rank well using an article). 2) The keyword treadmill is not as specific or as targeted like commercial treadmill.

If a visitor lands on a website after searching Treadmills, what will they be looking for? It seems obvious but the KEYWORD is not as targeted as you may think. Visitors will be looking for treadmill parts, treadmill manuals, treadmill tips and many other related terms. The term commercial treadmill is more targeted as it calls out to a specific search term.

To increase online traffic, it is also recommended to do keyword research and find a keyword that is more targeted to your pages. For example, if you had a page about commercial treadmill reviews, then that page would be even more targeted for your visitor. Therefore, when visitors land on this page about commercial treadmill reviews, the visitor immediately finds the page highly relevant to what they are seeking.

KEYWORD TIP: Typically, the longer the keyword phrase, the more targeted the keyword will be.

So now that you have all of this information, you need to use it wisely in order to increase online traffic using articles. Start by creating an article with the Article Title after a KEYWORD --- that displays a little bit of search volume. Use a keyword tool by searching KEYWORD TOOL on any major search engine. Start with a small keyword (3-10 searches per day). This will be a confidence builder since smaller searched keywords OR long tail -- frequently rank very well in the search engines.

For even better search engine rankings, make the clickable words in the blue underlying link (anchor text) go back to your website... with the same article title keyword that you are trying to rank for. In addition, the keyword title should link back to a web page that discusses the keyword. To increase your conversion rate (website visitors into paying customers) on the webpage, have the same keyword in the title tag of your website. The topically related flow will dramatically improve rankings and your visitors experience!

Building a website is not all you need to do. Once you have a site you need to know how to drive traffic to the site. The following are 6 traffic weapons that you can apply to immediately drive targeted traffic to your website. Learn how to transform your site quickly and easily.

The key to succeeding in any internet related business is traffic. So then, how do you get visitors to flow to your site? Driving customers, clients, or readers to make your website a place that they regularly visit is really not hard to do. Driving traffic does not just happen on its own. You need to plan and execute the plan to make it happen.

1. Consider visiting other sites that are similar to yours. Visit the blog or forum of these sites and post a message with a back link to your site. A back link is simply the URL (address) or your site. Needless to say you need to put the back link in the context of a short sentence or message. If the site allows you to have a signature, then add a link to your site in your signature.

2. Create a blog with a RSS feed that notifies subscribers whenever you have updated information. Then create new content in your blog regularly. You will find that others will begin to link to you from their own pages and list you as a valuable source of information.

3. Start with Free traffic techniques and then graduate to paid traffic. Makes sense? Common sense will make you successful sooner! Traffic exchanges can quickly bring in a lot of traffic. There are plenty of good free traffic resources. Consider using Traffic Swarm. Open a free account or sign up as a pro. I started with a free account then graduated to pro. Pro will allow you to gain more points sooner and benefit from your downline.

4. SEO mean Search Engine Optimization and is one of the best things you can do for your business. SEO will help you generate targeted traffic for your website. Targeted traffic means that the people that visit your website will actually be looking for what you have to offer! Techniques like keyword density within paragraphs as well as keyword placement within the title of the webpage, Meta tags and the bolding, underline and italicizing of keywords within the webpage are a few of the SEO techniques that will impact traffic to your site. You may learn more about this at enlightenedsource.org

5. Use safe linking practices. Set up linking arrangements that appear natural. You only want to link to site related to your keywords and target market. Just having links is not what you want to do. In fact you will be penalized for just having links. It is not the number of links that matter. What matters is if the sites you link to be related to your site and that those site you link to have a rank of 3 or higher.

6. Good site content is very important. Search engines love content, and so do your visitors! Fresh content will keep your visitors coming back to your website at their own will and you’ll naturally get higher results at search engines

I’ve heard it said, and even seen it written, that blogging is better than SEO for getting traffic. Are blogging traffic or SEO traffic generation techniques better for you, or does it not really matter?

Actually, a lot depends on you and which you like best: blogs or traditional websites, and also what you want the traffic for. I also wonder why the distinction is being made, since anybody serious about internet marketing and getting plenty of traffic, will use both. There is really no need to choose one or the other. However, when I hear such arguments I get the feeling that it is more academic than which provides the more traffic. Feelings, however can be wrong, so it is worth discussion.

When you think about it, the type of traffic you get from a blog could very well have different needs and interests to those that reached your site after carrying a search on Google or Yahoo using specific keywords. OK, you can get to blogs from search engines also, and through the use of keywords, but if you are looking to buy something you wouldn’t normally log onto a blog, would you?

Let’s say you wanted the best price for a gross of Titleist golf balls, you wouldn’t visit a blog site. Similarly if wanted to discuss their benefits, you would go to a blog or a forum. Sometimes it gets difficult to tell the difference these days, since blogs are becoming increasingly more interactive, but you get my general drift. I hope!

With a blog you can advertise whatever you want to, and the same is true of a website. However, you are more likely to make a direct purchase from a website, and to seek information from a blog. Hence, the traffic you get on a blog are information seekers and those on your website may also be looking for info, but might also be wanting to make a purchase. So right away we can kind of separate blog readers from website visitors.

It’s not a well defined separation, but bloggers tend not to be looking for something different to what a search engine user is looking for. If you have a blog on your website, your blog page will be likely to attract prospects that will tend to be more regular visitors than those that are checking out your website. If the latter don’t respond to your opt-in form, you will be unlikely to see them again, but a visitor to your blog page might return frequently.

However, to return to the question: what is better, blog traffic or SEO traffic, as long as each is free it doesn’t really matter I would have thought. I suppose that it could be argued that the SEO traffic is more focussed because they have used your specific keywords to get to the page they landed on ,and blog traffic could come from ezines and other sources that are perhaps not specific to any product you are selling. Me, I would accept any traffic no matter where it came from, and quite frankly once the traffic gets to your webpage it is up to you to convert it to sales.

The difference between the two is that if you don’t make an immediate impact with the SEO visitors, you could be struggling to keep them returning to your website, but you are likely to have more time with the bloggers, since they tend to keep coming back to the blog. The SEO visitors might register with your opt-in page, but that only allows you to keep in contact with them, and you still have to try to induce them to return to your website.

On the other hand, the blog readers need no such inducement, since they visit your site each time you publish a new posting. That is assuming that your blog is on your own website, and not on the blog server as many (perhaps most) are.

Perhaps I am completely on the wrong track, but I will keep tabs on it and report on my website what my findings are regarding blog traffic and SEO traffic, and whether or not one tends to buy more that the other. It is useful to know, since for a website that is designed to sell products it can determine whether or not it is worth having a blog on your site or keep trying to improve your SEO.

That is a big decision to make, and if it could make the difference between success and failure then it should be determines mathematically and scientifically rather than by conjecture and opinion. It is scientific testing that frequently makes the difference between those that are successful in internet marketing and those that fail.

So, is blogging traffic or SEO traffic generation the best? Who knows? I hope to know shortly though, and I will share it with you on my site when I finish my testing.

Being that viral marketing is all the rage and highly effective at passively spreading the word on your opinion, or for promotional purposes, article writing has grown in popularity amongst internet marketers. Considering the amount of time and 'labor' it takes to research, organize, and compose an article, the million dollar question here is how to 'maximize' the return off your efforts. Plainly speaking, how can you use an article you toiled over for not only 'publication purposes' via RSS but also for your own blog post and side step the duplicate content policies?

Well one approach you can follow without violating any policies would have you make a blog post first and assuming that you've pinged all the directories, wait 24 hours and then submit your article to as many directories as you wish. This way the directories would already recognize you as being the author.

Another approach would be to include the url of your blog in the resource box, (about the author) of your submission to the article directories. With this back link to your blog , the original content is now being referenced and you're 'covered'.

At this point lets 'step back' and look at yet another approach which, in my opinion, would address exactly what it is we're trying to accomplish.

When submitting to article directories, there's a certain protocol that needs to be followed or your article will not get published. The length of your article is one factor directories consider. Referencing other sources of information such as websites within your article is also a negative factor that directories will frown upon.

When making a blog post you can make it as long or as short as you please. Adding personal insights or url's is also your choice. It is after all your blog. If you are so inclined and feeling passionate enough about your posting you can even go into a 'Dennis Miller' rant.

My suggestion is this: compose the post for your blog first with all the 'personality', insight, and references you may want to add. Then after allowing the 24 hours for your post to 'circulate' submit to the article directories a 'recomposed' version of your post. This 'new' version may mean 'cleaning up ' the posting by removing any included references, altering it length accordingly, and rewording it to make it more appealing to the more mainstream readers you encounter through article publication as opposed to readers of your more personalized blog.

Adopt the mindset that one is a casual blog posting while the other is an article which generally is more structured.

Reworking your post should take minimal effort since you've already got the content laid out and the end result will be that although the general content of both will be similar it's doubtful that it would be viewed as 'duplicated' content. With a minimal amount of effort you've insured that both your blog post and your article are appealing to their respective targeted audiences getting you maximum results for your efforts!

Blogs are sources that provide information and news, regarding different topics. The term 'blog' is a more casual and popular term for 'Web log'. There are various types of web logs, depending on the kind of information, they provide.

Blog writing or blogging initially began in the form of diaries. These blog types provided personal information as in an autobiography of a person. This requires conscious writing and highlighted important aspects of a person's life, which most people would be keen in reading. This trend highly popularized the practice of blogging.

Blog Post Types:

1. Interviews: Writers often use interviews to learn more about a particular topic, they are working on. Thus, it may not include relevant information, but a general opinion of the public regarding a specific topic. Mostly, one or two questions are asked to get an overview of different responses.

2. Case Studies: It is one of the most popular types of blogs. Web sites include case studies, usually as review posts, where they add certain content information regarding their sites. Many web sites use case studies as a medium to generate income.

3. News Media: These are blogs which display illegal, incorrect, or inaccurate information. Sometimes, they take the content from a media source and make unintentional modifications and omissions.

4. Reviews: Usually, every online product or service has reviews along with it. They contain personal opinions or experiences regarding a particular product. This helps the readers to make a fair choice.

5. Corporate: Business entrepreneurs use corporate blogs to advertise their products and business processes. They update readers regarding recent projects, or services or any other modifications in business.

6. Rants: These are likely to trigger serious discussions and debates. Topics can range from political to ethical values and there are immense differences in opinions. Hence, they sometimes cause controversies, but are highly informative.

7. Spam or Splogs: Their basic purpose is to advertise commercial companies. They contain large number of links to enhance search engine results. Hence, they make use of repetitive text and keywords.

8. Critique Posts: Often mistaken as 'Attack Posts', they are aimed to criticize a particular aspect of a topic the site is advertising. However, critique blogs are mostly a result of criticism.

9. Personal: Teenagers usually, make use of personal web logs to post their anger or share some of their crucial moments and problems with distanced friends. Visitors have an access to such content and can post their opinions or suggestions on the tagboard.

10. Culture Blogs: A social organization designates bloggers to display content regarding the social aspects of a culture or cultural ethics. Here, the content is highly informal and a visitor can post an opinion, without offending any religion or culture.

Business organizations use branding, sales, relationship, collaboration and knowledge blogs, for different commercial reasons.

Inspirational, humorous, cultures, collation and problem posts are not so common types of web logs, but can bring a desirable change in thinking patterns, if used effectively.

Your blog needs traffic. With traffic, you have readers, and if your aim is to make money, an income. Discover how to attract visitors to your blog, the easy way.

Traffic is the holy grail of bloggers. When I read online forums in which bloggers talk about traffic generation however, most bloggers make it more difficult than it really is.

So let's look at five easy ways you can get traffic.

1. Keep posting to your blog - you need good content, and a lot of it

A blog isn't a blog without lots of great content. The more posts you have, the more readers will find you. It really is that simple; you must generate content that people want to read.

2. Use social networking tools, like Twitter

Once you have good content, you need ways to turn casual readers into regular readers. Social networking tools like Twitter help. You can update Twitter when you write a new blog post, and when you have something to share with your readers.

3. Promote your RSS feed

Encourage readers to subscribe to your RSS feed. Most of your visitors are unfamiliar with RSS, so you'll need to explain what a feed is, and how to read news feeds.

4. Visit forums and promote in your signature file

Forums are fun; not only will you interact with others, learning more about blogging and your niche, you'll also win traffic.

Share your blog's URL in your signature file. Most forums allow this. Ensure you know what the forum rules are, so you don't break them.

5. Use the free classifieds sites

There are many online classifieds sites, and many are free. Why not advertise your blog?

You'll get more readers, and you'll get those readers who are unfamiliar with blogging. There's a big wide world of readers outside the blogosphere, and your challenge is to get them to your blog. Advertise, and they will come.

So there you have five easy and fun ways to get traffic to your blog. Get started putting the methods into action today.

More and more people are establishing blogs every day. Blogging provides an easy way to get a web site online to start an online business without any knowledge of html or any other computer language. But one thing every blog has in common is the need for traffic. Regardless of whether you use a blog or web site, you need traffic to be successful.

Use these 7 easy steps to increase your blog traffic:

1. It is very important to confine your blog posts to one specific topic. This is called your niche. By writing on a single subject, you will acquire loyal readers who are looking for fresh information in that field. If your log posts talk about everything under the sun, you will not gain many loyal followers (unless your blog is very entertaining or funny).

2. In addition, the search engines will reward your site if all of the information it contains is on one single topic. This alone is a very powerful reason to select a niche. Search engines can bring you a significant amount of traffic and are definitely worth courting.

3. Add fresh exclusive content to your blog on a regular basis. Post new information as often as you can and try to do it on a consistent basis. It is better to post one article every other day than to submit 15 articles once a month. By doing it every other day, the search engines will visit your blog on a regular basis and give your site a higher ranking. This will increase your site's visibility and bring your blog traffic.

4. Submit you blog to as many different blog directories as possible. There are a number of services that will take care of this tedious work for you, but it is an important step in getting traffic, especially when the site is new.

5. You should also submit your site to the rss feed submission sites. Rss subscribers represent a significant following for the largest blogs and can bring you a significant amount of traffic and income. This is very important, don't skip this step! In addition, this is another good way to build up one way links to your site and, as mentioned above, the search engines love one way links and will reward your site with traffic.

6. Use the social bookmarking sites for every article you post. There are a number of free sites that will do this for you. You can find them by doing a search, but I recommend onlywire dot com. They will submit your post to 22 other bookmarking sites. By effectively bookmarking your posts, you can instantly increase your blog traffic.

7. Develop partnerships with blogs in the same and related niches. Comment frequently on other blogs and leave a link to your own blog in your signature. Set up strategic partnerships with other blogs and use small ads in visible locations to refer readers to each other's site.

Use these 7 easy steps to increase your blog traffic and start making money online.

As a new blogger I'm constantly on the look out for simple proven methods that will increase the amount of traffic that my blog receives. I will progress onto the more complex methods once have mastered the basics. These 3 tips outlined below are the basics and if they are done correctly I'm sure your readership levels will gradually increase. The best thing about them is that you don't have to spend a penny on them, all you need to do is use a little bit of time and energy, and if you aren't prepared to that do build up your blog, give up now.

Leaving Comments on Other Blogs - leave at least 10 comments on blogs you have never commented on before, every day. Do not just respond with only one line, write something that shows you have read the article and make it reasonable intelligent.

Submit All Your Article to the Following Social Sites - It goes without saying that the articles, which you publish on your blog, are of a good quality. Submit all your articles to the following' Deli.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Technorati.

Write One Controversial or Celebrity Based Article Every week - I would recommend writing about something or someone that has been in the news a lot in that particular week.

Don't expect the world too soon, what's the rush, if you preserve and work at it, and constantly evaluate and learn, you will succeed with your blog.

The correct answer as to why you should leave comments on a blog, is obviously because you have an intelligent answer that you would live to give relating to the article you have just read. It is also helps the blog site owner where the article appears, to judge the success and public opinion towards what they have published. For me these should be the primary reasons as to why you leave comments on someone else's blog. Well for me they are!

As a relatively new blogger its, coming up for my second full month of my journey towards becoming a successful and profitable blogger. It has become obvious to me, that you get plenty of people out there that leave comments on blogs for the sole purpose of kissing the ass of the superstar blogger. They leave second-rate comments or they can only agree with every word written by the well-known bloggers.

I suppose people that don't have a mind of their own and are spending every waking minute wishing they could be just like their hero, will never become successful. I think the reason why people like Yaro Starak , Darren Rowse, Shoemoney have become so successful is because they are original, they never had anybody to copy to mould themselves upon, to look too for ideas.

The only way we can become successful is to carve our own path, and for me that means I have drastically reduced the amount of time I spend reading the big blogs. I don't want to subconsciously or purposely, for that matter copy them. There is so many good new up and coming blogs out there in blog land which I feel will one day surpass the great well known bloggers of today.

The number 1 reason I feel why comments are left on blogs is link building and building traffic. Nothing wrong with that, but when it is obvious that the person hasn't even read the dam article and is leaving their mindless comments for the sole purpose or I should say vain hope that someone visits their own site. Why the heck am I going to visit your site when you leave a comment such as, "well written article, great stuff, keep up the good work". I feel that any blog owner should be proactive and delete such comments that are clearly a waste of time.

Why do you leave comments on blogs, be honest, do you even bother to read the article? Or are you one of those, who is petrified to leave constructive criticism on a well known bloggers blog.

I conducted a new business seminar for an ad agency yesterday. One of my recommendations was to use an agency blog as a new business tool and a positioning tool. They've committed the next 90 days making this a priority.

Why would I recommend a blog as one of the most important tools for ad agency new business?

Having an agency blog is well worth the time and effort. It provides many great benefits. Below are some of the important lessons I've learned through blogging and the ten reasons why your agency should have a blog:

1. Communication that Connects. The most important lesson I've learned, "you don't know what you know until you write it down."I've been associated with great writers, I know that I'm not one of them! But blogging has been an great tool for me to better communicate my thoughts.
2. New Business Paradigm Shift. New business for ad agencies is undergoing a paradigm shift; instead of hunting for clients it's now more important for your prospective clients to find your agency. Blogs make it easier for your prospective clients to find your agency. They'll even initiate contact when they are ready to engage.
3. True Expertise. Clients want leadership not partnership from their agency. In the early days of television, programs were produced by ad agencies, leading the way utilizing new technology. Today, when they should be leading, they are woefully behind in Web 2.0 marketing expertise.
4. Prominence of a Blog. It use to be said, "every business needs a Web site." Today, it's, "every business needs a blog." A blog will become the gateway to your agency, make your agency easier to find and provide a reason to visit online often. Your agency's Website becomes more like your agency's brochure. That's good news for the majority of agencies that know how difficult it is to redesign and update their Website!
5. Learning is Doing. It is difficult to learn to use Web 2.0 tools, such as blogging, through a conference or seminar. You must experience it and discover the potential benefits it has for your agency and your clients.
6. If its Good Enough for Your Client It Better Be Good Enough for You. Blogging is an excellent tool for new business. Demonstrate how these tools have helped your agency by practicing what you preach. It makes for a powerful illustration when you actually use the tools you recommend to your clients. Also be sure to point out that your competitors aren't using it.
7. Personal Enrichment Tool. Blogging will enrich your professional life, keep up to date with the latest thinking and be aquainted with the latest and best new trends. That will be good for your clients, positioning you in their minds as the expert that you are.
8. Positioning Tool. Most ad agencies struggle with narrowing their focus and thus have great difficulty in positioning and differentiating themselves. Blogging is an excellent tool to help ad agencies discover their positioning. A good example is the She-conomy blog, positioning a small ad agency as an expert marketing to women, who make 85% of all brand purchases.
9. Focus on Client Benefits. Blogging keeps your agency focused on what is important to your prospective clients. It forces you talk to their benefit instead of talking about your agency.
10. A Passion to Assist. Blogging isn't for every agency. If your agency doesn't have a culture of passion to help your audience succeed you wont succeed. As soon as you start to "sell" your agency, brag about your credentials and awards you will lose your credibility and your audience. Provide rich content that helps your prospects with their marketing challenges, build trust and new business will come.

Ultimately, a blog can be your most highly effective, powerful and low-cost new business marketing tool.

As you know Google AdSense is the best way to earn extra income online. Many webmasters and writer have joined this program but earning very low income from AdSense. 99% of AdSense Publishers are earning less than $ 10 per month, this is the fact and every one is trying to increase their AdSense Revenue by one or another way. Many experts are in this field, are ready to open their experiences to increase the AdSense earnings. It is true that AdSense revenue can not be increase in a day or two. This requires your dedication & some time period.

During the research of AdSense Revenue increasing method, I found some simple but most useful tips, which might help you to increase your Google AdSense revenue. You can add more tips, if you have, by comments.

Show your Ads at top of the page:-

Put your block of Ads at top of the page, when ever any one visit your page, they can see the Ads easily and if some thing finds of their interest, they might click on Ads. Do not try to hide your Ads. Put one block of Ads at top left and one at bottom of article. This way you can attract attention of your visitor towards the Ads.

Blend the Ads with content:-

This the fact, that no one like to click on the matter which looks like Ads. You should have to blend your Ads with content so, it look like the part of content. What I think, people don't mind to click the Ads which are the part of content. By doing this you will increase the value of your Ads in the mind of visitors.

Use large rectangle:-

Google AdSense allows you to choose different Ads format. Mostly publisher use the leader board (728x90) or wide skyscraper (160x600) style Ads format. This format mostly look like Advertisment, any wise visitor will know at first look to your page. Try large rectangle (336x280) at top left on your page. This will increase your clicks.

Remove the border:-

If you use your AdSense Ads in a border, that will highlight the Ads but same time it shows that these are Ads and not the part of content. Your AdSense revenue will increase if you remove the border of your Ads and show it as the part of page. Don't use odd colour and fonts of Ads.

Don't populate your page by Ads:-

People will search on internet for the useful information, not for the Ads. Your first intention must, to give valuable information to your visitor. If people like your article, they will spend more time on your page and if your page look clean & neat, the Ads will highlighted very well, hence there are chances of more clicks. Put one block at top left, one at bottom left and one link Ads at bottom of post. That is more than sufficient.

There are some other technique to increase Google AdSense Revenue, but keep in mind that, these technique will produce different result from publisher to publisher. You have to be always in experimental with AdSense.

This article is about sponsored blogging. Are you familiar with it? In case you're one of the hundreds who's answer would be no, I'll explain it to you.

Sponsored blogging pays you to blog...it's a fact...you get paid from companies, your sponsors, to post articles about their news releases or their press releases on your blog. The writing is varied, you will be writing about a seemingly unlimited number of advertisers websites, products and services.

You are paid per posting, hence the term "pay per post". Many of the sponsored content marketplaces prefer that you disclose the fact that you are providing a sponsored posting within the article, some require it.

These are regular steady blogging opportunities offered by advertisers every day to independent bloggers. Advertisers need bloggers because of their ability to create buzz about upcoming projects or products.

Bloggers also help to build traffic to the advertisers website, complete with valuable backlinks. Bloggers also provide quality and usability feedback on the advertisers products and the list goes on and on.

There are some requirements for the prospective blogger to sponsored blogging.These requirements begin with traffic, advertisers like to see regular traffic to your blog. Of course, there is the regular no adult material, racist or hateful material, that should be an easy one.

You must be indexed by Google and Yahoo before you're eligible with some marketplaces. Some require being live for at least 3 months. You get the idea, the advertisers want to see traffic to your blog so someone actually sees your postings about their products.

If you are interested in sponsored blogging but you feel deficient in the area of traffic, start now to improve your SEO, do a giveaway, but get your traffic numbers up. Believe me if you have good traffic to your blog, the rest is easy.

Each link has a weighted value depending on the search engine and how they deal with link valuations. As a general rule some of the following come into play;

1. Age of the link (how long it has been around) 2. Topic and/or Title of the page the link is on 3. Relevance of the content of the page 4. Freshness of the page (has the page it is on been updated) 5. Number of links on the page (some ranking systems pass a ratio of accrued value) 6. Trust (is the link from a trusted page or a suspect domain)

Link Profiles - to expand the concepts a search engine also looks at the entire portfolio of incoming links to create what we call a 'Link Profile' - with this larger global view of your backlinks they can valuate it and even apply temporal metrics such as;

1. when links appear or disappear, 2. the rate at which links appear or disappear over time, 3. how many links appear or disappear during a given time period, 4. whether there is trend toward appearance of new links versus disappearance of existing links to the document, etc.

By doing this they can assess trends and potential attempts to game the search engine by artificially inflating one's profile. Temporal factors are also important in assessing the current popularity of a site on a chronological scale.

Of course, the view on the other side of the fence is a little bit different. Many people clam up when they face the blinking curser and a blank white page. But a little bit of momentary fright is no reason to think you too can’t be a professional blogger . All it takes is some determination, some careful planning, and a willingness to share your thoughts and opinions with the world. Here are a few suggestions for jumpstarting your new career as a professional blogger.



Schedule Your Day

It might be tempting to wake up late in the morning, eat some leftover pizza and start penning your memoirs for all to see, but most professional bloggers who don’t stick to a schedule find themselves overwhelmed and distracted. Try setting specific blocks of time aside for writing. For example, if you’re a night owl, block out two hours in the evening that will be devoted to just writing, with maybe an hour before for research and an hour afterwards for final edits and revising. Any time of day will work, but a professional blogger won’t get very far if they can’t stick to a schedule.



Get Out Of The House

Don’t think that being a professional blogger means you get to sit in your underwear all day while the money rolls in. Many bloggers find they get distracted and lazy if they don’t have an office to go to, somewhere without the comforts of daytime television or repeat trips to the fridge. Finding a space designated solely for work can help you focus on the task at hand. A coffee shop or bookstore is perfect for the professional blogger because of their relative comfort, access to beverages and snacks, and free wireless Internet access.



Do Your Research

The difference between an amateur and professional blogger isn’t just the money made from blogging or the time spent writing. It’s also important to make sure you do your homework. Professional bloggers take the time to study up on their topics, reading arguments from both sides, exploring what others have said about their topic, and doing countless amounts of Google and Wikipedia searches. When you blog for a living, the worst thing you can do is get your facts wrong.



Don’t Avoid The Deadline

You might think that the life of a professional blogger is footloose and fancy-free, a life without cruel overlords demanding finished TPS reports by noon. But the truth is that professional bloggers have to live and die by the deadline, or their blogging days are numbered. Some writers handle deadlines better than others (Douglas Adams once said, “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by,” while professional blogger and copywriter Ainsley Drew loves deadlines, “'Cause I like to complain and they give me a reason to.”) but they’re an unavoidable part of writing. Keep your deadlines organized and always in sight, then meet them. The worst thing a professional blogger can do is blatantly miss a deadline and still expect their client to pay.



Just Write!

You’ve found a coffee shop to call your office, color coded your organizer for each important deadline, done your research and started the clock. What now? Now it’s time to put one word in front of another and write. Don’t let the blank page psych you out. You’re a professional blogger. Get writing.

In this article I am going to tell you about a website promotion software called Seo Elite. That will help you to shoot your site to the top of the search engines.

SEO Elite is a fantastic tool I use to get my niche sites high in the search engines. Nearly all of my sites are ranked in the top 10 on the search engines, and I get them all there with this tool. Today I'm going to tell you about some of its features that will help you get your site to the top in less than 30 days.

Get Authority Links

With this website promotion software you will be able to analyse and obtain authority links to your website. Seo Elite will search the internet for high ranked websites with the same keywords to your site. You will then be able to email them from the software and request that they link to your site in exchange you will do the same for them. This is great because the search engines already love that site so they will see the link to your site and your site will get instant credibility and shoot up the rankings.

Get Massive Links

SEO Elite will find your site's competition and will find out who is their link partners. You will be able to email your competitions partners and request link backs from them, afterall if they are willing to link to your competition they will more than likely link to you. The software will allow you to email upto 1000 site owners at a time! Now if you do that for all of your keywords from your site, then you will have thousands of links back to your site from other relevant sites. The search engines will see all of these links pointing to your site and you will shoot to the top like crazy.

Moniter Link Partners

So imagine now that you have done the above and have created your link partners, but how do you know that they are all holding up their end of the bargain? are you willing to got to the thousands of your link partners sites too see if they have your link up? This could take months. SEO Elite will do all of this for you in minutes and will tell you the sites that are letting you down. You can then email the site to request they put your link back up or you can in exchange take their link down from your site.

Moniter your Website Ranking

With this software you can find out where your site is ranked for your keyword in seconds! All you do is enter your sites url, and your sites keywords and it will tell you where your ranked for each search engine.

Article Submission

So you have created an article with a link back to your site, do you really want to spend hours and hours or pay someone to submit them for you? Or would you like to just click a few buttons and have them all submitted un minutes? SEO Elite will let you Submit your article to article directories with a few clicks of a button. This will create hundreds of 1 way backlinks to your site!

These are some of the features of this website promotion software. I use this everyday and it's so simple to use. Did you know that for all SEO Elite does you could pay a person to do the same for upto $5000 dollars a month for 1 site!!! With this software you can use it on unlimited sites forever all for a small price compared to the future riches you will get from having a high ranked site.

Blogging is the new age online mantra for getting higher visibility and writing one's own mind. But did you know blogging can be a profitable option over the internet? Well! Not many people are aware of this but you can earn money by spreading your blogging interests over several revenue streams.

There are different options through which you can generate revenue in blogging and one of the most popular one is the affiliate program. Affiliate programs are quite a hit and if you are able to tie-up with affiliate programs offered by the big fish like Linkshare, Amazon, Commission Junction, and Clickbank apart from many others then you will be able to generate high revenue through your blog. All you have to do is promote different products of Amazon or Linkshare and add their link on your blog. If someone reads your blog, clicks on the link and buys the product from Amazon then you get to keep the commission. This is not a "make money now" type of program and will drive higher profits over longer periods.

Affiliate programs deliver profit over a certain time period and hence can be stated as time driven revenue opportunities. But if your blog is interesting and informative and is able to draw a lot of visitors then you will be able to make a higher profit within a short period of time. To make that happen, you need to work hard on providing high quality and relevant content with images that have visual appeal as well as relevance on your blog.

Blogs are one of the most powerful tools of self expression as well as advertising over the internet. You can do just about anything in your blog: write high quality content, provide audio or video attachments and add attractive images or graphs to make your blog post look appealing as well as keep it relevant. Over the years, blogs have also become a good source of indirect income. There are plenty of ways through which, you can generate revenue through your blog and some of them include RSS advertising.

RSS advertising is still in its nascent stage although; it has grown in leaps and bounds in the last 12 months. As compared to the other advertising options, it is not as profitable as yet but since these are early days, it will be tough to predict an outcome in the years to come. But most internet experts feel that use of RSS advertising in blogs will bring in handsome returns. Another area of earning money through blogs is sponsorship.

Apart from the various advertising programs available for bloggers, sponsorship is another in the queue that will not only add value to your business and blog but also provide the opportunity to generate income through direct advertising on your blogs. One of the recent examples of such campaigns is the ones that Adobe and Ricoh did with some of the bloggers. The only drawback is that sponsorship is available not on your blog but on a particular post and hence the income earned will only be on a post to post basis.

While improving your blog may seem like a daunting task, I will show you 6 easy tips that will improve your blog in no time at all. These are just a few of many that can accomplish this task, but are ones that I use to improve my blogs and they will work over and over again. Comment at related blogs - This is probably the biggest thing you can do to improve and promote your blog. It is very simple. Just make comments on other blogs that are related to yours. When you make a comment, it is standard to leave your name and URL. If you leave a relevant comment, maybe even with some free advice, other readers will visit your blog to see what you are all about. Write a weekly "best of" post - It is fairly simple to do. Make a weekly post that spotlights the best posts that you have read on other peoples blogs. By linking directly to the post, you create trackback links on other blogs and this will result in new readers to your blog. This is sort of works like a backwards blog comment. Be sure to link - A very important persona of your blog is the links that you provide. The more link outs you have the more your readers perceive it as more authoritative and valuable. It also shows that you are not trying to hide something and also show that you put credit where credit is due.

Improve your blog's look - Why use the same templates and designs that many other blogs are using? Use a design that is totally different than everyone else and people will remember "that cool looking blog" that they had seen earlier and come back to it. If you can not find a unique template or don't know how to change your design, consider outsourcing to have it done. Know your readers - Just because you have a blog, don't put yourself on a pedestal above everyone else. Get to know your visitors by responding to their comments, become friends with them and in return they will spread the word about you and your blog.

Create reader friendly content - Make sure that your content speaks to all of your potential audience. Make it entertaining and interesting for all to read. You want your content to be shared, if it reads like a tech manual, readers are going to give up on it let alone share it.

Remember that blogging is supposed to be fun, for you and your readers. I hope this will help you improve your blog and take it to the next level.

Website owners involved in click fraud are having their Google AdSense account terminated, sometimes wrongfully. This kind of fraud is normally present where there is money to be made easily, especially in the click for pay online business.

This fraud is the act of clicking on AdSense ads for the sole purpose of earning from Google by way of having the advertiser pay for fictitious leads. This is the huge problem that AdSense is facing today.

You can become proactive and help google to control the situation by forwarding your access logs, if you believe there is suspicious activity at your site, they will be able to spot this fraud even better than you could, which is just showing that you want to help.

You could also install a free click monitoring software to monitor activity at your site and turning this information over to google once a month. This is simply showing Google that you too are totally against click fraud. Check all your logs for any suspicious activities and report your findings in a timely manner.

Consider disabling ads from your IP address through the htaccess to prevent any mistakes in clicking AdSense ads on your site.

Don't put your AdSense code on sites that use pop up advertising, illegal content, gaming or adult information. If you accidentally or intentionally click the ad to see what your viewers are seeing when they click, contact Google and tell them what happened. If you don't do this and google finds out, it means account termination for sure.

No family member should be using your computer to access your website. Chances are they may start clicking on AdSense ads indiscriminately, not knowing the grief they will be creating for you. In this case your best bet is to password protect access to your computer.

If family members accidentally find your AdSense, be sure to explain why they must not click on those ads under any circumstances. You should teach them about AdSense and what to do and not do with them.

Many pay per click networks use various security measures to protect website owners against click fraud. Most search engines will track many data points, IP address, user session information etc. They can also detect fraud using special security systems plus their specialized monitoring teams to help advertisers stop click fraud.

Fraud is Fraud, You could be prosecuted, Don't do it.

This is how one can become a Google AdSense participant.

Google AdSense is a program for web publishers that allow them to generate revenue from content they publish on the internet. Webmasters paste some JavaScript that Google provides into their web page and after the Google mediabot crawls the page advertising that is relevant to the content on the page is displayed.

The publisher is paid each time a visitor clicks one of the AdSense ads. Advertisers pay Google each time their ad is clicked and a percentage is paid to the publisher. The side of Google's advertising business that advertisers belong to is called Google Adwords.

Google publishers are paid at the end of each month if their account balance exceeds $100.00. AdSense publishers can choose to receive a check or direct deposit. What makes Google AdSense work for most anyone is the simplicity. Google publishers only need to get content up on the internet and Google does the rest.

How To Get Started With Google AdSense?

Before you can apply to be a Google AdSense publisher you must have a web site. Once you've created a basic web site you can visit www.google.com and apply to be a Google
AdSense Publisher.

The internet is very competitive when it comes to marketing your product or service. The king of connecting buyers and sellers happens to be Google.

The search engines drive buyers to sellers and helps sellers find buyers. The amount of traffic directed by Google and Yahoo is incredible. The trick is to figure out how to drive some of that traffic your way.

To get the best placement on search engines companies employ what is known as SEO tactics. SEO or search engine optimization works to get your site listed in the first two search engine pages.

Maximizing your rank and placement is what SEO is all about. The higher ranking in the search engines the more prospects that see you.

You need to legitimately work at improving your web page ranking by adding pertinent site content, usability, linking to other pertinent sites and using other tools to increase ranking.

The search engines have started using complex algorithms to keep ahead of the people that abuse the system. The giants such as Google and Yahoo will continue to improve to combat the SEO users that illegal try to obtain favorable rankings.

Entering a keyword will result in a search page that has information relevant to that keyword. The best way to drive traffic is by having your website appear on the organic search. Jupiter Media has calculated that 5 out of 6 purchases through the search engines come from organic versus the online ads.

Obviously this has made SEO very important for businesses to master.

Here are a few tips on improving content for a much more improved result in organic searches:

1. Expertise. When you set up a website make sure you are an expert. People can sense if you have no clue about what you are talking about.

2. Site Design. Have a web page that loads quickly and has an easy to use design.

3. Study the Competition You need to know who is doing what and what works, so check out the competition. Communicate with people in forums and see if you can get feedback about your web design.

4. What keywords are you going to use. When designing the web site include keywords in the metatags, copy page, page title, and file names.

5. Search engines can help you. Work with the search engines to get your site listed and ranked.

6. Keep focused. Each web page should focus on one topic.

7. Directories may be good. Directories have a lot of information stored in them and is done by a person. Joining the right directories may help you with the search engine rankings.

8. The most important aspect is linking. You will have to have links back to your site from other websites. Linking to non relevant sites will not help your ranking long term. Search engines look at how many sites link to you and will base part of their ranking on that relevant information. Do not just link to any sites make sure they are relevant to your subject.

9. Keep doing it. This is an on going process and you must continually work at improving your ranking every day.

Content is king in the search engine world so make sure the information is relevant and looks professional.

You want visitors. Visitors mean leads! Why aren't you getting them? There are lots of answers. The lack of an audience is not one of them. If the Web has demonstrated one thing, it's that there's pretty much no topic that doesn't have its share of devotees.

If your site's about a competitive topic (as it is for most businesses), it's more challenging to rise above the pack, but more rewarding, too. That's why you have to be extra careful to avoid these seven common mistakes:

Bad Coding: Your site uses outdated HTML or generally wacky code. Examples include using the bold tag instead of the strong tag, visible HTML tabling, frames and anything else that makes the site look bad. Half the problem comes from search bots failing to properly index your site, since they're guided by your coding. The other half comes from the fact that bad coding makes your site ugly and slow to load, so people won't want to stick around.

Bad Titles: Search engines display your titles as links back to your site. If the title says "Index," that doesn't tell anyone a thing. Why should they click through? Search engines also give titles a great deal of weight when judging keyword relevance. Don't stuff your titles with keywords but don't avoid using them, either.

Black Hat SEO Nonsense:Invisible links and keywords! Keyword stuffing! Auto-generated doorway pages! They all suck; Google likes to kick offenders several hundred positions back, if not ban them entirely. Nowadays, major search engines have very smart bots, capable of identifying human-generated content and appropriate keyword density. Don't annoy them.

No Web 2.0: If your site doesn't have any social media tools or connections, it's automatically at a disadvantage. Get a blog, at least. Add buttons that let your visitors report interesting content to social aggregators like Technorati and Digg.

Too Much Flash: Bots can't read Flash. Maybe they'll be able to some day, but for now Flash is programming code (as opposed to simple markup) that doesn't display its content (what you see) in any bot-readable fashion. For SEO purposes, using Flash on a page is like tossing it in the trash - most of the time. This article shows you a workaround that adds readable content to a flash page. (Hint: The solution is basically, "Put HTML on the same page.")

Your Content's Boring: You can have the most technically search-optimized site in the world, but if real people don't want to read any of it, it will never improve by much. Search engines want sites that people want to visit. Ethical SEO is as much about increasing this "organic" appeal as good coding.

You Copied Your Content: Search engines prefer original content. If bots see virtually identical blocks of text they credit whatever page they think was the original and downgrade the rest. The black hat technique known as "scraping" steals other site's content, but it never works like the original. You don't have to be a scraper to make this mistake though. If you bought most of your content from a prefab source or through an affiliate scheme you'll suffer the same problems. This isn't just for text, either. Copied design elements aren't rated as highly either.

Malcolm Sheppard is a writer and researcher for GILL Media, an SEO and Intern

Whether you have a business with a physical location and a website both or yours is a business existing only in the online world, you need to take advantage of search engine optimization to maximize the potential of the web for your business. The internet is a vast place, which is why search engines like Google are needed to get around. To find the information you are trying to find online, you need these search engines. You want to make sure that search engines can find your site easily, you need to use search engine optimization so that those looking for what you have to offer will find your site and not the competition.

What is Search Engine Optimization?

Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) is a way of making your site show up higher in the search results returned by the search engines. This is done through keyword optimization, relevant content and link building. Search engines use various standards to determine the ranking of pages in search results and having yours on the first page means you will have a lot more traffic coming to your site than if your site shows up 10 pages in.

The Benefits

Given that search engines are the number one way that people search for information on the internet, it should not be too big of a surprise that most of the purchases made online happen after the buyer finds the product via a search engine query. A lot of people simply click the first link which comes up in their results and look no further. This is why your business needs to show up as high as possible in the search engine rankings. Your site could easily be lost in the ocean of other sites, which means you must use search engine optimization in order to get your website noticed.

Website Optimization

There are a few steps you can take to make sure that people who are searching for products or services that you offer find your website. One is keyword optimization, your content should reflect closely what you are offering to the public, with enough content there to be noticed by search engines. If you create content which is relevant to your industry, you greatly increase the odds of your site being found.

Link Building

Another way to get your site noticed by search engines is link building. Part of the criteria search engines use to rank sites is the number of links to your site on the web. You can increase this number by submitting articles to directories (each of which will contain a link to your website in the resource box), listing your site in industry specific directories and using your URL as part of your signature when you post on web forums. The more links to your site that exist, the more relevance search engines will ascribe to your site.

Search engine optimization is vital to the health of your online business. There are a lot of advantages to being seen as any business owner will tell you to make sure that you are seen online as well.

Visitors to your Website are not only browsing information and articles, pictures, or videos, but they will find an assortment of AdSense links to click through. Your AdSense revenue will depend on how valuable these links are, and how strategically they are placed on your site. Even when visitors to your site are just browsing, adding the convenience of a search engine directly on the site can help them stay longer and find more information. Your visitors can find a significant amount of information by clicking on your advertiser links; by adding a complete search engine right on the site, you can improve and increase your traffic simply. Your Google AdSense account can help you take part in the Google Co-Op program in just a few easy steps.

Boosting your AdSense revenue is easy and profitable with the help of a Google search engine. When visitors on your site use your own unique search engine to find more information, any click-throughs from the results can mean revenue directly to you. All you have to do is log in to your AdSense account and copy the code for a search engine box. It's that simple. Your Google Co-Op Website can help you create a customized search engine box that will fit best within your site. Since it's customized, you'll still benefit from keeping things consistent on every page of your Website.

Search engines on your site give your visitors a chance to refine the niche you've targeted, and help you create some strong individual ads that might generate leads. The program is a development of the Google Co-op program, allowing users to create a customized search engine that restricts results based on your own parameters. Because of the customization feature, the ads that are produced and revealed have a much stronger contextual presence.

Capitalizing on the basic search engine function is easier than ever with Google's customized search engine and the Google Co-Op program. You'll find a higher chance of visitors who can make use of your site; they might even stay longer! The power of Google's community-based program naturally creates a network of links and advertisers. Signing up is easy through your AdSense account, and there are plenty of options to create customized colors and layouts to stay consistent with your site's design. Your visitors can stay on your site for longer than usual, because they have something else to browse and research. Any click-throughs from the resulting search page are credited to you; the Google search box is a valuable feature for almost all AdSense-based Websites.

Seth Willis Jr. is the webmaster for an experienced internet marketer and has a lot of expertise with AdSense." I created AdSense school so that I could help others who are starting out and needed a resource and tutorial site to get started, the school is completely free and there for anyone with a desire to learn how to make an income using Adsense."

- Start with the 336 x 280 large rectangle. For most people it gets the most clicks!

- The second best is the 300 x 250 rectangle (test each one for one week and monitor your results)

- Try a banner for a week and replace it for a half banner (234 x 60) the following week and compare results

- A half banner works better in the middle of the page and fits in more spaces.

- For the most part, a half banner is effective at the end of articles and the bottom of blog entries

- Generally, avoid the 468 x 60 banner ad block. Unless you place text around it and no borders so it blends.

- Place ads right after an article link so that the ads look like part of the site.

- If you like rectangles, place them at the beginning of articles.

- Wrapping the text around the ad works because it compels the reader to look at it if he wants to read the article.

- Try placing two rectangular ads right at the top of the page. Many times this brings more earnings.

- Buttons work really well when placed in side bars. (i.e. at the end of your menu)

- Wide skyscraper, text-only ads invariably, work better on the right hand edge of the screen. Testing has also shown that ads on the right perform best.

- Placing relevant quotes using highlighted text just below the heading and above a 336x280 ad is extremely effective. Highlighted text requires an HML code. You can find it at w3schools.com

Proper Ad Format

- Get rid of borders and pick a matching background color for the ad.

- The text size, font, color and the color of your ads must match the same text elements on your site.

- Always keep the AdSense title in blue text.

- Your URL must match the text description color.

Monitor your ads frequently and try different placements until you find the one that brings you more revenues.

Made for your Online Success

The Google AdSense program is an easy way to generate loads of income through a web site. People need to sign up for the program and within a few days, if Google accepts their application, they receive an email with login information.

The simplicity of the Google AdSense program lies in its strengths and weaknesses. All that aspirants need to do is to simply get the HTML code from their account and assign it into the web page. Once they do this, content AdSense ads begin to pop on their web site and every time a person clicks it, they receive a commission. The amount of money that a site owner makes depends on the particular ad clicked by visitors.

The proper way to make use of the Google AdSense program is to establish a web site with ample information with tactically placed AdSense ads, so that it brings in money whenever visitors click on such ads. When a site owner's account reaches $100, Google sends a check to the owner within 30 days.

How Does Google AdSense Work?

Web site owners receive a commission from Google when visitors click on their advertisements, placed on the web pages containing text. For instance, if a web site is all about lawn mowing, then it is more likely to have ads from lawn mowers or retailers on that web page. When a visitor clicks on those advertisements, the advertisers pay Google, who compensates to the web site owner. Google AdSense proves beneficial to advertisers, site hosts as well as site visitors and is an ideal sample of virtual marketing.

However, Google follows an extremely strict process. For instance, site owners do not have any rights to click on their own ads. If they do so, Google can terminate their AdSense account permanently. Similarly, site owners cannot ask other people to click on their ads. The best part of Google AdSense is that, site owners do not need to cheat, since it is easy to make money by simply following the AdSense rules.

In addition, if site owners wish to have more money in their pockets, from the Google AdSense Program, they should invest a little effort into learning all they can about Google AdSense and they should promote their site, for instance, writing quality content articles makes the search engines drive more targeted people to the web site. For this, it is necessary to have effective keywords and phrases, so that whenever visitors type in keywords, the intended site pops up. When site owners have ample of reliable information in their article, they are more likely to gain confidence of readers and eventually, readers tend to click on the ads placed in these web sites.

Overview:

Success of the Google AdSense program depends on the site owner's content and their knowledge of Google AdSense and a little hard work through site promotion. In addition, it renders text-based advertisements rather than banners. Google enjoys a vast amount of brand loyalty and creditability and hence, its AdSense program continues to beat other prevalent advertising networks enormously. If site owners with AdSense on their site wish to gain as much revenue as possible from the program then they should consider learning all they can about AdSense, they should consider becoming an AdSense Expert.