Top Money Making Programs

I have been earning online for the past few years. I have joined many programs, but only some gave me considerable earnings. Before you join any new affiliate program, you need to go through the earning potential of the program which depends on your blog visitors too. Program like Google Adsense do not work well for me on  this blog, but it works the best for some of my other blogs. I always track my earnings using Google Adsense Channels feature and Google Analytics to analyze my earnings as I have only one Google Adsense Account. I use Google Ad Manager for serving ads on my blogs and it has excellent features to track the ads.

Google Adsense – This is the top earning programs for me still. Even though top bloggers like Darren, John Chow don’t use Google Adsense. Google Adsense will not work for blogs with visitors who use Google Adsense, that’s what my experience says. Amit of Digital Inspiration uses Google Adsense and he earns a very high figure from this program because he has very high page views and most of his visitors are coming to his blog from search engines and are looking for technology related information and not bloggers like us. I had written a post related to Google Adsense Revenue, you can check it.

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Free Home Jobs Launched

I had been working on launching an Socio Affiliate Program for a long time and finally I have done it. I had been testing it for sometime and now its ready for public use. The concept is to maximize the user of different tools and generate traffic and sales. If you have a blog or a website, this is a perfect program to try. You do not have anything to lose as the program is free to join.

How do you earn?

You get paid referral commission for referring your friends in two levels. You get paid for doing assignments like reading emails, browsing websites, subscribing to newsletters and many more. You also get commissions for all the sales you generate.

In addition to the above, you have benefits like you get 70% of Google Adsense revenue from your profile page. You can multiply your traffic by using your profile page, your blogs latest posts are displayed on your profile page and your profile with all the links like link to your blog, your digg profile page, twitter page, Stumbleupon profile is displayed on the profile page of all your downline. Suppose you have 100 members under you, your traffic is multiplied at least 100 times. Other advantages includes, increasing your presence at Social networking sites, you can increase your twitter followers and much more.

You will be provided with a dedicated Affiliate panel with lots of tools which will help you in earning money from your blog or website.

If you are interested, you can try now. Just go ahead and sign-up now.

Create multiple 125 x 125 Image Ads for your blog using Google Ad Manager

I just finished setting up my ads for this blog using Google Ad Manager. Its very simple, and I would like to share this with my readers.

First you need to activate your Google Ad Manager Account, every Google Adsense account has Google Ad Manager enabled by default now, so just login to your Ad Manager Account.

Create Your Ad Slots

Suppose your are planning to to display 4 125 x 125 px image ads, you need to create 4 Ad-slots. For this you need to go to the inventory tab of your Ad Manager and click on “Create New Ad Slot”. Give a name like I have given the name “Asokans_125×125_1” for my first Ad Slot. You can give any name which is meaningful. Please note that there should not be any space in the Ad Slot name. Next select the size as 125 x 125 , next you should uncheck the Adsense Ads. You should also enter a description for the Ad Slot.

Follow the same procedure and create another 3 Ad Slots in the similar way, namely, Asokans_125×125_1Asokans_125×125_2, Asokans_125×125_3, Asokans_125×125_4 with the same settings, except the description.

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Google Ad manager for all Adsense users

Google yesterday announced that Google Ad Manager is enabled for all Google Adsense users. Earlier Ad Manager was only open through invitation. Google ad manager is useful if you are selling ads directly to your advertisers. The advantage is that if you do not have any ads booked for a particular slot or if the advertisement booked is expired then Google Adsense Ads will be displayed automatically if you enable this feature. Other biggest advantage is that you will be using a hosted ad manager on the Google server which should me reliable and your server does not need to bear the load of traffic. I had been using OpenX for a while but this was really slowing down my site. Now I am using Google Ad Manager as I had got an invitation for this earlier in March 2008.

If you have a Google Adsense account, you can sign-in here or you need to apply for a Google Adsense Account

Adsense For Feeds improved Google Adsense Revenue

Google Adsense has introduced Adsense for RSS Feeds. JohnChow today posted an article regarding the earnings from Google Adsense for RSS Feeds where he says the earnings are excellent. Blogs with high number of subscribers are really going to see a great change in the Google Adsense earnings from this new feature.

If you have not activated this feature, go ahead and do it and try to build up your subscriber base. To set up this feature, you need to go to Google Adsense set up and select Adsense for RSS feed and provide your RSS Feed URL. The rest will be done by Google. It may take some time to get this feature running. I have activated for some of my blogs and just waiting to see the earning growth

Google Adsense Revenue Generation trends

I have been using Google Adsense for my different blogs, but the revenue is different, the CTR is different for every blog, Reasons Explained

What is a good CTR for Google Adsense?

I have been using Google Adsense for some time now and I find my CTR has improved these days. I have no much gain in traffic but the income from Google Adsense has gone up which means that the CTR or the click through rate of my Google Adsense has improved very much. I was googling around to find out what is a  good CTR for Google Adsense. Mine is around 5% and earlier it was just less than 1%.

I found a post at Darren’s Blog which says for blogs its around 2 to 5% which keeps me happy that my ads are well blended and placed well. I was just doing some calculations about my Adsense revenue and found that I can earn handsome if I have good traffic. If I have a traffic of about 1million pageviews a day, I can earn about 2,000 $ a day, which is a good revenue for a blog. I know that I cannot do this for 1 year atleast, but I find my traffic growing good and surely I can get to that spot.

All I need is to create good content and increase the number of posts on my blog.

If you do not use Google Adsense, just try it, its the best source of ads and revenue for your blog. Google adsense inventory never run outs of ads for any of your blog pages and it shows relevant ads which increases the CTR and finally your revenue from the ads.

Will Google Adsense Work for your blog?

This is a question which I have been asking myself and analyzing the revenue income from Google Adsense. I have been using Google Adsense for this blog and studying the income using the channel feature of Google Adsense. I use Google Adsense for 13 different website and I did a detailed study on the income from my different websites.

In my case Google Adsense does not work well for this blog. I get more traffic and even I have got good loyal visitors, but the clicks on this blog is very low when comparing the CTR with other websites . I have about 185 Feed subscribers which I do not have on any of my other websites, but still the clicks generated on this blog is low when looking into the impressions and traffic of this blog.

What could be the reason?

Visibility and blending of ads – The ads are placed well and well blended according to my knowledge and experience. I have used the right color and placed above the content as well as the sidebars.

Possible reasons

Do you own a blog? If yes, do you use Google Adsense? If yes, do you click on Google ads on other blogs or websites?

If I am to answer, I say NO, I very rarely click on other blogs Google Ads.

Reason – I am very scared to click on Google Ads as I do not even want to click on those and I have made an habit to always stay away from these ads. I know that I do have any problem clicking on Ads on other sites or blogs, but I am not willing to develop the habit of click on Google Ads. If I do that often, I am scared that I may click on the Google Ads on my blog too and I do not want to get my google adsense account banned.

Now how is this related to my blog Adsense CTR?

Most of my blog visitors are blog owners or bloggers who want to make money online. I do write only on this topic on this blog. Most of the visitors know what Google Adsense is and they do not want to click on these ads. I had run Google Adwords campaign two months back for about two months and my Google Adsense revenue was very high. I was getting most of the visitors who came clicking on a Google Ads and come to my blog go through some pages and again they click on one of the Google Adsense ads which they find on my blog and they go to the Advertiser’s web page. These visitors may not really know what Google Adsense is and they don’t know if this is an ad severed by Google.

My other websites, which are on different topic like  web directories, Online Encyclopedia, has very good CTR. The type of visitors on these websites are different from those I get on this blog. They are on an aim to find what they want and they do not hesitate to click any link which has a title that is similar to what they are looking for. So I get a better CTR on these websites.

I am sure that most of you who own a blog with Google Adsense, will be very hesitant to click on Google Adsense Ads even on other websites. Am I right, your comments are anticipated

Another tool for managing your blog’s advertisements

Google Ad Manager is another tool to sell your advertising slots and serve ads on your blog. The problem with Google Ad manager is that you need to request for an invitation for Google Admanager and once Google send you and invitation, you can login and use the tool. I have just started using it and the Ads served on this blog is using Ad Manager. The advantage of this tool is that you can opt to serve Google Adsense Ads to the slots which are vacant or it has the feature to compete with the purchased ads. Other option is that you can override the Google Adsense properties by adding some tags to your blog <head> tag and bled the ads as you can do in the Google Adsense control panel.

If you have still not applied for an Ad Manager Invitation, just do it and try it. They are constantly upgrading the features and I feel on a long run, it will be helpful. The biggest advantage of using a third party Ad server is that you do not need to give load to your server and I feel Google servers are very strong and can cater the ads efficiently.

Your Blog’s a money maker

This was the title for John Chow ‘s  Google Adwords Campaign. I was seeing this ad very often on my blog very often and now I see the same from Googlelady.

This is a screenshot from my blog,