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5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see what result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

Free SEO Research Toolkit - lot of tools

I have a bookmark folder in my browser. I have a collection of links on it. I have named the folder as “SEO Research Toolkit”. It has some SEO and Research related toolkit which I use to create, manage and track my websites and competitors. I just thought that I will put them on my blog so that people can also get benefited from it. I will add some comments from my side

So here is the list:

• Google Adwords Keyword Tool - The most famous and most used tool to find keywords and the number of search for the keyword.
• FREE Wordtracker Keyword Suggestion Tool - I use it with Adwords Keyword suggestion tool and Overture keyword suggestion tool to find more keywords.
• Keyword Ranking Monitor - I use this to monitor rankings for ALL of my sites on Google for various keywords.
• SEOBook Keyword Tool - A great tool to find related keywords and competition on it.
• Search Engine Spider Simulator - I use it to see how search engine spiders see my site. I use this to see whether I am using the right ratio of HTML and text in my page.
• SpyFu - This tool can help you spy on your competition. I use it to see how many advertisers are available for each keyword and how much they are willing to pay.
• Copyscape - I use this tool to verify that nobody is copying my content. Also to verify that the article writers I am using are not copying the content from any other website.
• Google Trends - To find the latest keywords to create websites on.
• Google Zeitgeist - To find recent host topics to create websites on.
• PR Calculator - Quite old but still useful. I use to while building links to get approximate idea of how much links I need to build.
• Domain Pop BackLink Checker - I use it to check my backlinks.
• Dead Link Checker - To verify that there are no dead links on my site. I also regularly check my awstats to find any dead links on my site.
• Top 500 Search Engine Keywords Of The Week - They recently stopped updating it, but it was a good resource to find out what is being hot in this week.
• SEOMoz Page Strength Tool - I use it while buying new websites.
• Keyword Density Checker - I use it to check the keyword density on my web pages to see that I comply

I hope this list if of good use to you. Is there any other tool you use (other than your own site ) then post in the the comments. I would love to add it.

22 Top DoFollow Social Bookmarking Websites

For last couple of year, I’m taking active part in different SEO forums. One of the most common asked question is “How can I get quality backlinks?” or “Why I can’t find my backlinks?” etc etc. Anyway, I’ve come across a list of “dofollow” social bookmarking website lists. Hope none need any introduction with “dofollow” and “nofollow” link attribute.

According to Wikipedia, nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.

Here is the list of “dofollow” social bookmarking websites (updated on 31st May, 2008):

WordPress Search Engine Optimization Server Side

WordPress is ready and willing to be your partner in search engine optimization. This new series will focus on the best ways to optimize your WordPress installations. It is going to be broken down into 2 parts:

1. Server Side WordPress Search Engine Optimization - these articles will deal with the backend, management dashboard, plugins and themes. We will be exploring the proper use of the robots.txt file with WordPress as well as other server-side technology to best optimize your blog and feeds. We will also look at the installation of analytics tracking, setting up specific blog oriented goals and getting your blog ready for submissions and planting.
2. Front End WordPress Search Engine Optimization - these articles will deal with how to optimize your content, obtain trackbacks, submit your blog, submit your feed and plant your articles. We will also be looking at the front end of Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Center, Yahoo Site Explorer, FeedBurner and powerful services such as Technorati, Del.iso.us and mag.nol.ia.

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How to find the best keywords for your website

Alright, so after sometime doing research on the internet and lurking on some webmaster forums such as DigitalPoint, Webmasterworld,… I now can have some experience with SEO would like to share with everyone. If you like it any find it helpful please feel free to link it, but please leave the link to this site too. Here we go.

The basics: Why is it important to invest some time to find the best keywords?

If you target the wrong keywords, your website promotion efforts will be in vain and you will waste a lot of time and money. 

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18 Top Tips For Backlinks - All You Need To Know

18 ways to get links

1. Create them yourself. The strength of this method is that it’s completely under your control. You don’t need to wait for others to create links because you’re building them yourself. You can place links in comments, a forum signature, an email signature, exchange sidebar links with other bloggers, add links to your social media profiles… the list continues. You can create a lot of them in a relatively short period of time.

2. Create a meme. Ever seen those post formulas repeated by several bloggers, who all link to each other? These are usually called blog memes, and they’re quite easy to create. The most basic meme model involves answering a few defined questions and ‘tagging’ a number of other bloggers for whom you think the questions would be relevant. This is done in the hope that they’ll answer the questions on their blog and link back to the originator of the meme. The key to success with this method is that your meme results in a relevant and entertaining post. If so, other bloggers will be happy to participate. Another tip: don’t tag really big bloggers, as they rarely, if ever, participate in memes. Instead, tag bloggers you’re friendly with, and make sure your meme is relevant to the audience of every person you tag.
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Comprehensive SEO Guide to Increase Your SE Ranking

Comprehensive SEO Guide to Increase Your Search Engine Ranking
By: Jason Miller

Things that this article will cover which search engines use to determine your positioning are:

• Domain Maturity
• Anchor Texts
• HTML Attributes
• Site Popularity - Linking Strategies
• Title Tags and Headings
• Lists (Ordered and Unordered)
• Content Formatting (Bolding and Italics)
• Site Layout and Design
• Keywords
• Keyword Density
• Content & Content Placement
• Page Doctypes
• Geo-Targeting
• Meta Data
• Code Bloat Reduction
• XML Site Maps
• Website Log Analyzation
• 404 Error Handling
• Robots.txt
• BlackHat Techniques to Avoid

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