Money-Making From a Google Adsense

The key to making money with Google‘s Adsense is easy in theory, but requires some hard work and dedication:

1. You either need lots of traffic by having a site that is narrowly focused on potentially popular keywords that haven’t been dominated by the big blogs, or
2. Lesser-traffic but high-value keyword subject matter, such as certain retail goods. Cameras and shoes have been successes for bloggers seeking professional status.

To grow that traffic, you’ll need to make sure that you are creating quality content — not just slapping keywords onto a page — because you’ll want people to come back to your site and to tell their friends about your site. If people like the content, they’ll link to it from their Facebook pages and other places on the web. Think about what you’d like to read online and aim for that style of writing. Be passionate about your subject matter so that your enthusiasm shines through and infects your readers.
Also, write or create subject matter that attracts links (“link bait”). Top ten lists always are popular as are new and unique creations such as the first creators of LOL cats, etc.
Use photographs with your blog posts since people love to skim online and a picture can focus attention in ways that paragraphs sometimes can’t. Another advantage to using pictures is that if you use the ALT tag, Google will index your photos in its directory. Just make sure that you have the rights to use whatever photos you are posting since you do not want to risk having Google yank your Adsense earnings when it gets a DMCA take-down request. You also don’t want to get sued for copyright violations.
Blogging isn’t always just words and pictures, but also includes some of the things that go on behind the scenes. If you use WordPress, you can find plug-ins that will create site maps and will do some search engine optimization (SEO) functions automatically. Other things that you should plan to do are: 1) Refreshing old content by rewriting it to make it new and useful again for readers who might have missed it the first time around. 2) Linking to content within your blog. 3) Testing links within your blog to make sure they all work since Google likes links that always work. Google Analytics will do this for you. 4) Making relevant comments on other blogs since community is where the power is, plus it can be helpful in exposing your blog to new readers.
You’ll also want to examine which ads make the most money for your blog and which ones don’t. If an generic ad for a certain site earns your site less money than the ad from another advertiser, you might want to block the lower revenue ad using the competitive ad filter. Read Google’s Adsense documentation to learn about the tools you can use to figure out how to get the ad information needed to add the URL information to the ad filter. You might want to check for lists of low paying advertisers as others might know which advertisers are best to block to increase revenue.
Test all the time to see what layouts work the best for ad revenue. Could smaller ads above the content be better? Or, could a big text box below content do the trick? Maybe link units can be the money maker? Could changing ad colors (blending or contrasting) increase profits? Does your site earn more money if the ads only show for single posts, rather than on the main page? Are you running too many ads and reducing your revenue potential? The only way to know is to test to see what works the best with your blog. Always check your Adsense statistics to see if you’re moving in the right direction.
They key to blogging is to have passion for your subject matter so that you can keep writing during those times when you aren’t making any money and when it seems nobody is reading your blog. If you’re passionate about your topic and write about subjects people want to read, you’re well on your way to making some money with Adsense.

Google-powered laptops to go on sale June 15

AN FRANCISCO: The first laptops running on a Google-designed software system will go on sale in the US and six other countries next month.
The June 15 release date announced Wednesday means the lightweight laptops will hit the market nearly two years after Google Inc. began working on an operating system based on its Chrome Web browser.
Since then, Apple Inc.’s iPad and other tablet computers have become hot sellers. The growing popularity of tablets has raised questions about how interested consumers will be interested in buying Google-powered laptops specifically tailored for Web surfing.
Samsung Electronics Co. and Acer Inc. are making the first Chromebooks. They will sell for $349 to $499 at Best Buy and Amazon.com Inc. in the US. The cheapest IPad sells for $499.
Acer’s Chromebook, at $349, will have an 11.6-inch screen display and up to six hours of battery life. Samsung’s version, selling for $429 to $499, will have a 12.1-inch screen and up to 8.5 hours of battery life. Both models will have keyboards, but no hard drives for storage. The machines will be like computer terminals dependent on a connection to the Internet. The laptops come with 16 gigabytes of flash memory – the kind found in smartphones, tablet computers and some iPods. They have slots to plug in other storage device you buy separately.
The Chromebooks also will be sold in Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Spain.
Chromebook’s long-awaited debut will intensify Google’s competition with Microsoft Corp., whose Windows operating system remains the foundation of most personal computers.
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long felt that Windows computers took too long to power up and were too clunky to operate. They believed that Windows’ drawbacks were discouraging people from spending even more time online, where they could click on ads sold by Google.
To address the perceived problem, Google announced its plans in July 2009 for a Chrome-based operating system that would enable computers to turn on in a matter of seconds and encourage more Web surfing.
”The complexity of managing computers is really frustrating for users out there,” Brin told reporters Wednesday at Google’s conference for software developers. ”It’s a flawed model.”
Besides attacking Microsoft’s Windows franchise, Google’s Chromebook also will represent another challenge to Apple, which makes Mac computers as well as iPads. Google and Apple have been engaged in a fierce competition in the smartphone market for the past two years.