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Copyright 2005 Richard Keir

There's a lot of buzz around about how you can make a quick and easy fortune using this AdSense course or that tool or this book.

And they show you their incomes from AdSense too (though not necessarily THIS month). Now, is it just me or is something a little odd in all this?

Say, I'm making $5000 - no make that $15,276 a month from AdSense on my sites. And now I'm going to sell all my secrets on how to do that for $67 or $97 or whatever.

So what happened, did I get all bored with my filthy riches and decide to become a philanthropist and sell stuff that makes me 15K a month for a pittance? Or is it something else?

Am I saying it's impossible? Certainly not. I know people who make that more.

But a little reality. Those people don't have 5 or 6 or 50 sites. They have maybe 500 or 3000 or more. Few sites make 20 or more a day. Very few. Average income is probably less than a dollar a day. So with 500 sites at a dollar a day, you've got your 15K a month.

Now the domain names cost you maybe $3500 to $4500. Then you need hosting and somehow you've got to build the sites and get traffic to them. There are excellent tools but the ones that will let you do this kind of thing in a reasonably short time are also very (very) expensive.

And you are continually dealing with sites that don't get indexed or get de-indexed or even get banned. Traffic today, gone tomorrow. Plus, if you're not real careful with those tools you may get an unpleasant letter from Google about a DMCA copyright infringement which could cost you your AdSense account.

You can make money, you can build an empire. But it isn't easy or quick no matter what you hear. And it really isn't a business. It's not a long run proposition, it's not stable. You need to keep creating more sites as older ones fail - or you need to be smart and use those AdSense revenues to build an enduring business.

You put up with this down to here, so here are the real 7 "secret" keys to AdSense.

1. The best performing AdSense type is the large rectangle. This has been tested over and over.

2. The best colors are blue for the link - surfers know that blue means click me. And darkish almost black and grey for the text and url. No borders. The same background as your page. Will it merge into your content? No, that's bogus. There are maybe 4 surfers in this galaxy who can't tell a Google ad when they see one. They are not going to believe it's part of the text. Wake up, OK?

3. Another format which is being reported to more or less work is the full wide banner type layout with text ads and images directly above the links. Try it and see if it works for you. Maybe it's a fad.

4. Keywords and related content are critical if you want targeted ads. If you want high paying clicks you need to target the costly keywords AND have content that supports the keywords.

5. You need traffic interested in the ads. Which means your traffic generation techniques have to be targeted not scattershot. You might hear that 1% or 1.5% clickthrough rate is OK and 3% is good. Nonsense. Really successful people get CTRs that are often well above 30%. Even with modest efforts you should be getting an average 6 to 15% CTR (per ad impression, not pages).

6. You have to track what you're doing and you have to test variations in ad layout, placement, color and related content to optimize your income. No one can tell you how to do it except the traffic coming to your site. If you don't test and track, you're flying blind.

7. You need to keep building new sites.

You are now a member of the AdSense Illuminati. Quite possibly you already knew all that. So why are you looking for something else? Really. This is all you need to start doing it.

Probably any course or book can help you if that's what it takes to get you moving and doing. Ultimately, no one can really show you exactly how to do it. You're going to have to learn the ropes and put in the time.

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I had the privilege to interview a regular guy
(not a well-known 'Guru') who claims making more
than $200 a day with Google AdSense Program.

Here's an excerpt from the interview I did for my
upcoming eBook - 'AdSense Confessions' - read it and
try to apply what you learn iniside, it should make a
difference in your AdSense income and profits.

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Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
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My name is John Tulus. I was born in October of 1966
in C?rdoba, Argentina, South America.

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How did you get started to make money on the Internet?
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I started with small projects like web sites for friends.

After some time of developing web sites for others, I knew
it was time to start to work on the ideas for developing my
own site, my own online company. I put all my ideas
together, combined them with the experience I had achieved
developing web sites for others, and put in motion the
creation of my site. Once the site was up and running, all
I had to do was start generating traffic and wait for the
money to roll in. I remember the first cheque I received...
what a rush!! $29. That motivated me to keep on with the
project of the life that I desired.

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Do you prefer AdSense over Affiliate Programs promotion?
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Yes, I prefer Google Adsense over any other affiliate
program because it has Google guarantee. Thousands of
websites are now applying Adsense to their sites. Not only
do you have the Google guarantee, but visitors to your web
site may also see it as having the Google "seal of
confidence". In a certain way, having Adsense on your site
shows visitors that your site has been approved by Google.

Nevertheless, having Adsense on your site doesn?t mean that
you can?t have other affiliate programs combined with it.
You can actually have as many programs as you want, but I
prefer Adsense specially because the conversion rate to
money is much faster with Adsense.

No other affiliate program converts clicks to money as fast
as Google Adsense.

With Google Adsense I may need just 10 optimized clicks to
earn $20. By optimized, I mean clicks on a page that has
keywords that pay the most in Adsense. With other affiliate
programs I need at least 200 visits to an optimized site
with related content and optimized traffic to earn the same
amount of money.

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What is the 'SECRET' formula for bringing quality traffic
to your Site?
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In WMXP.COM I apply all my experience acquired during all
these years of investigation, using the best tools, the
best reports, the best products, to offer my visitors the
best of the best so that they have good reasons to return
and recommend the site.

Free tools for webmasters such as ...

Check Pagerank (http://www.wmxp.com/tools/pagerank.php)
Search Engine Ranking Popularity
(http://www.wmxp.com/tools/serp.php)
Search Engine Saturation
(http://www.wmxp.com/tools/index.php)
Popularity (http://www.wmxp.com/popular.php)
Overture Keywords (http://www.wmxp.com/overture)
a complete directory full of free and non-free scripts
(http://scripts.wmxp.com) a classified ads system
(www.adsbe.com) a directory full of products of one of the
most important affiliate systems on the net (FREE CLICKBANK
STOREFRONT - http://cbmall.wmxp.com) ... make of
www.WMXP.COM a site sufficiently interesting for
navigators that really work in the Internet.

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How do you go about converting your Site traffic into more
Adsense Income?
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If your Adsense is performing poorly, I have three tips
for you:

1. Decrease the number of Adsense blocks that you are
displaying on a page. I don't know how others have
experienced this, but my income seemed to be less if I had
more than one block of Adsense ads displayed at once - and
your CTR is definitely less if you have more tha

 

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