Make Money with Adsense The Basics

Make Money with Adsense The Basics
By: Darren Yates

Adsense is probably one of the quickest and most powerful roots to website profits with the easy implementation of a simple snippet of code. If used properly it can generate a great passive income for any site. But that's the crux if you're not placing the right Adsense code in the right style and in the right position on your pages then you're actually loosing money.

Apart from the ease of implementation the results you can achieve are fast and they can also be surprising and exciting.

The first thing to do when considering Adsense is to research your keywords. Research your market if you're adding Adsense to an existing site or explore niche markets if this is a new site. Examine keywords and keyphrases from the market that get the most searches on the search engines. There are a number of sites and software tools that will allow you to do this some of them even giving you the click costs, essentially how much you will make per click on an ad.

Select say 10 keywords or keyphrases and then consider your site content or for best results create new content. Unique and keyword rich articles related to your site theme work well. Use your 10 keywords to choose an article theme and then create an article for each keyword. Aim to have around 3% keyword density for each article. Keyword density is the number of times your keyword appears in relation to the number of over all words in the article.

Be sure to make your article informative and grammatically correct. Badly written articles, focused on SEO only, will do you no favours and often turn visitors away and maybe pop up on the search engine radar, which could mean a slip in your site rankings. Think long term here. There is no reason that, once set up, your Adsense site wouldn't continue to bring in a passive growing income for years to come.

Once you have your articles build your site.

Now before you insert the ad code you should consider two things, the styling of the ads and the positioning. The styling is possibly the most important. A badly styled ad in the perfect position on your page will get a poorer click through rate than a well-styled ad in the same position.

The best click through rates, when it comes to styling, have been proven to come from removing the ad borders and setting the background colour to match your page background colour. Essentially blending the ads into the page and getting them to look like part of the page content. You should also have the colour of the links on your page match those of the ads.

Next consider the positioning of your ads. Place your ads where site visitors are most likely to click on them. Research shows that the top left of the page is the first spot to draw the eye and in turn get the most clicks. The new format 'Ad Links' work well here. The other hotspot is directly within the body of your content. The square formatted ads at the top right of your body copy work best here.

The correct styling and positioning of your ads is crucial for better click throughs and higher payouts.

You will get clicks on your ads almost no matter where you place them if you have enough site traffic. But styling and positioning them properly from the start can triple or more your click through rates.

Adsense has good tracking statistics that allow publishers to track their results across a number of sites on a site-by-site, page-by-page basis. You should make the most of this facility to learn which ads are performing the best and fine-tune them accordingly to improve your results.

Finally, you have the option to use image ads instead of text only. But, the average Net user is sophisticated enough now to ignore image based ads. They're now almost universally blocked subconciously by Net users as advertising. Stick to text ads only. Be sure this is set in your account you can do this in 'My Account'.

To really start making money with Adsense, you should have a definite focus on what you want to achieve and how you will go about achieving it. Set income goals day by day and work to increase your income by tweaking your pages and adding more keyword targeted content.

Consitently improving your site and introducing new content will see your Adsense profits grow.

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Darren Yates is the developer of Ad Injector. Brand new software that places your Adsense code directly into your unique content across hundreds or thousands of pages fast.

Useful Jobs For Your Holidays

Useful Jobs For Your Holidays
By: Ken Morris

If you are one of the lucky people who has managed to see practically everything there is to see around the world, then for your next vacation you may be wondering what you can do. Well, if you are looking for something different then why not consider holiday work?

A volunteering vacation may be just what you are looking for. It allows you to help out those in need and it gives you something worthwhile to do. There are plenty of useful jobs you could partake in and it really could help you to have the best holiday possible.

Why Consider a Working Holiday?

It might not sound much fun working on your holiday, but volunteering vacations are not really about hard labor. They are more about helping out others and repairing communities. There are so many different communities around the world that need your help and so it is possible to travel absolutely anywhere and see new sights whilst at the same time you are really making a difference. There really is nothing better than helping somebody else to live a better life.

No matter what your skills there will always be something to suit you. Perhaps you are good at teaching for example? If so you may want to try going to a country such as Africa and help out teaching English to the children and adults? If you are better suited to building then there are many countries you could go to help with building work such as in poorer countries you could help to build wells and schools. Or maybe you would prefer to help to care for the elderly or work with people who have disabilities? Whatever you want to do, you will find an opportunity abroad to suit you.

In recent times natural disasters have truly rocked the world and in the areas which were most affected, volunteers are constantly needed to help to bring some kind of order to the country again. Cleaning up still needs doing and debris needs moving. Rebuilding of houses and buildings needs doing and there are still so many people who have to live without any shelter. There really is so much that can be done and lending a helping hand really can help out so many people.

Perhaps you would prefer to help wildlife instead? If so there are also plenty of wildlife volunteer groups who go all around the world helping sick, injured and abused animals. There are groups helping penguins, tigers, monkeys and whales and dolphins to name just a few. So do a little research and see whether there is anything that you could do to help out.

Overall volunteering holidays are definitely worthwhile if you want to try out something different. So have a look at what skills you have and how you could help out and then see what is available.

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Ken Morris frequently edits publications on news relating to Costa Dorada and Spain. His writings on Costa Blanca are found on www.alicante-spain.com/costa-blanca.html