Saturday, September 30, 2006

Made a topsites like Wissam tip says

Over on Human-01 blog Wissam talks about making a top site, he has made one for Anime and I've now made one for Lottery (Lottery Topsites) , I had to search quite a bit to get the buttons to update properly but now I've done it with some small code that forces the browser to not cache the php page for the button so all is good again.

Adsense earnings are up again! I've been told not to reveal my earnings on the web but I am allowed to say it had it's first day of going over 1 dollar yesterday! yippee, maybe I'll get to the 100 dollar payout limit within the year hehe.

This is quite good fun though, finding out new things and the best ways to earn with adverts. Once I am more comfortable with ad placements and site creation I will be able to put all I learn into a lot more new sites. Hell, if I can get 50 sites all earning a dollar a day that'll be 1500 a month!

total adsense earnings : more!

Friday, September 29, 2006

Interesting video about keyword ranking and SEO

I haven't bought the Michael Cheney videos (yet) but I did subscribe to his free lessons and the first one (albeit slightly hypey) did mention a good point about how to get your site noticed for particular keywords.
It's something I have noticed myself over the years and also something I've noticed that not many people do.

It's all to do with how you link to your site, if you ask people to use the words "Kerbuple fift" as the text of an html link (Kerbuple fift) then when that term will be linked to your address, if you have many links out there all saying visit Kerbuple fift then you will better your position in the search engines for that term!

I did the same sort of thing a while back but with a photo, a lot of my friends call me gay so I engineered this to happen on a Google image search for "not a gay guy" (here is the full page of not a gay guys! the first picture is me!)

My adsense on my VWD elottery blog is the best performing so far, yesterday it had 3 clicks for a massive 30c ,only 10c a click but after I used the competitive filter to remove certain sites from the adverts it seemed to go up, today I have already had 2 clicks for 59c ! yey! is this against TOS to reveal these numbers?

Google analytics hasn't shown any keyword searches for my Xbox 360 Videos video blog yet but at least it knows the site exists so it will only be a matter of time. I've blogrolled it on my PR5 blog so that will help the process.




Adsense Earnings: $18.47

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

OMG I dreamed about the secret adsense code that makes you thousands

Grrr. this adsense malarky has infected my brain. It's all I can think about recently, "what site shall I make next?" , "what keyword shall I build around" , "what..." and so on.

Last night I had a dream that I found some secret adsense code that would make me tons of money from small clicks, it also had something to do with a 486x60 banner that did something magical! oh dear!

I've been searching around for adsense ebooks and videos to fill my brain with new info and I've been reading a lot of posts at the Digital Point forums. I did see one rather large page advertising some videos by Michael Cheney who apparently makes 19k a month with his adsense sites. Only $97 to get access to all that information but is it worth it?

I can easily afford the $97 and I'm happy to pay that kind of money to save myself the trouble of actually going out there and finding all the information myself (something I did with my lotto site). But, even if I can afford something, it pisses me off when it's a complete sham or waste of time when I receive it so I am still umming and arring over going for it.

On a more informative note... I added this and my other sites to Google analytics and they are starting to collect data now. This site here has already been visited by 7 different countries and I haven't done anything to promote it yet!

more later if I decide to purchase the videos.

Current adsense earnings : $17.73

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Another day of adsensing today, I think I'll keep a running total of what my adsense earnings are as I do this.
Yesterday it was $17.51
and this morning when I woke up it was $17.58 !! 7c for going to sleep. hehe it doesn't sound like much but I only started this less than 24 hours ago. lol

I don't know where it came from so I guess I'll go off to google and have a read about channels and see if they can make a difference....

OK, so it seems that there are 2 types of channels.

URL and Custom.

The first one lets you track the clicks from individual sites (or pages) and the other needs you to put custom adsense code on the site you want to track and seems to be more work but probably more powerful. For now, I will use the URL channel feature and track the performance of ads from the 3 different sites and see which ones are performing well.

To create a URL channel:

1. Log in to your account at https://www.google.com/adsense
2. Click the Channels link below the AdSense Setup tab.
3. Choose the AdSense for content sub-tab and click the URL Channels link
4. Click Add new URL channel, and in the resulting text box, enter the URL that you would like to track.
5. Click Add channels.

The new URL channel will begin tracking data almost immediately.

To track a single page : enter the full path of the page in step 3 above:

Example : example.com/sample.html

If you have a script that generates your pages, like a blog or ecommerce site then you just put in the path to the script without the ? part.
ie. if you had http://blog.teamplaylotto.com/index.php?post=blah
then you would put
http://blog.teamplaylotto.com/index.php

I'm off to do that with my different sites too.



Current Adsense Earnings : $17.58

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

My Adsense Journey starts

I'm in the mood for blogging..lah la la... :-)

Here I am again making another blog! I've got 3 on the go at them moment, my lotto blog [link] , my xbox 360 videos blog [link] , and my little used Glytch Blog [link].

This one is all about my wish to make some money with adsense, I have been fiddling around with blogs and web design for quite a while now and I've always wanted a little fiddle with googles adsense code.

My journey started when I noticed a site by guy called Wissam [link] and thought it was a nice personal site rather than the pseudo-corporate sites that most other adsense earners make so I left a comment and now after an email or two and some Skype chatting I have entered the world of adsense income!

Wissam helped me out a bit by recommending Swiki [link] which will create a cloud of keywords on your site that is customisable by you and even the ability to add your own adsense code to their results which is useful for indexing because of the keywords.

Now all I have to do is create some content rich sites that can get indexed and get some traffic. My first one is the Xbox 360 Videos site and I've added adsense to the top and right side bars.

I've also added some google refer buttons on my lotto blog and now I'm going to add some here.

I used to have an adsense account before but I haven't logged on for months and months so it was a nice surprise to see it already had 17 USD in it! sweet. now only 83 more to go to get my first payment! (which should be electronically after I set it up with adsense)

Oh and also on my first day, I bought a list of the 2000 top keywords used by google which seems to be filled with references to insurance and equity/mortgage/secured loans. Hmmm don't think I'll be making any exciting sites about them!! There are some useful ones in there though and I'm sure some peeps may be able to get some use out of it. want it for free?

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