Automatically populate your blog with RSS Feeds – Wordpress Plugin

If you are looking to run a blog without spending time writing your blog post, then there is something interesting for you. There is a plugin which can do the work for you. This is an automated RSS Feed fetcher for Wordpress blogs, which will crawl the RSS Feeds and fetch content for your blog. This is called Auto Blogging which is a normal Wordpress plugin. You need to install the plugin and do the settings and the add up the RSS Feeds that you would like to monitor. You can even customise the posts templates, the values to be fetched. It has some great features like image and video support, smart tagging, custom post templates, creating thumbnails of images, overriding feed data with defined values and many more.

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Do you use Chitika, best PPC program

Chitika is a PPC program, which has very high payment rate. This program is highly recommended by me and is one of the best revenue generator. Earlier it was very difficult to get an account from Chitika, but I think now they are bit liberal. The payments are very prompt and you can get paid by paypal unlike Google Adsense.

There are different Ad formats available for this program and will surely suit your website does not matter what kind of posts you do. The support is excellent and you get paid 10% of the revenue from the people you refer for the first 15 months.

This program will be very more revenue generating for websites which have US traffic, but not to worry if you don’t have US traffic, I can  assure you, 75% of my revenue of Chitika is from non US traffic. I have been using Chitika for the past 6 months and now every month I get a payment. You can surely use it with Google Adsense.

If you are interested You can signup for an account 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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Fair Ads Network / FAN for Advertising and earning from Ads

I had registered for this program long time back and never tried this program. I used to the latest updates by emails but never tried this program. Today I got an email and I thought of going through the program and let you know how this program work. I do not believe in using more number of advertising programs so I did not try this.

Fair Ads Network was launched recently on April 29th 2008 and the person behind this is Kevin Lam who is the CEO of FAN. FAN has features like Impulse Ads, Master Marketer Features. Any person can join this program as a publisher or an advertiser. Payments are processed by Paypal, E-gold and business checks. There is also a paid membership available called the Master marketer membership which has a subscription fees of US$ 19.95 per month.

The payments are done on a monthly basis and the minimum payout is US$50. You can  only display 2 ad blocks, 1 link ad, 1 rich media and 1 referral button.

If you are interested, You can sign up for a free membership

Chitika earning potential

I had requested for a Chikita account long back. I had got a reply saying that my traffic does not qualify for their publisher program.

Recently I got an email for reapply for the program and I got my account activated. Interesting fact is that I find the earning potential good. Its working good for some of my websites as I have some good traffic from the US.

There are different earning options and the integration with a website is easy. The biggest advantage is you can receive the payments by Paypal and cheque. The minimum payout by Paypal is US$10 and by cheque is US$50.

It has excellent reporting system and the user interface is good and easy.

If you are interested in signing up as a Publisher, you can do it now

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

How different bloggers earn money from their blog

You know what is a blog and there are many people earning good from their blog. How do they earn so much money and why can’t you earn as they earn. This may the question that might be moving around you. Well, we need to check how do they earn so much of money and can we adopt these techniques or tricks.

Let me give your some clear and common fact these bloggers follow

Time and Age of their blogs

This is something you need to think. How long have you been blogging sincerely? How much time do you spend for your blog. How much posts do you do everyday?

If you are blogging once in a while, forget about earning, If you are busy with your daily work or your full time job and you are not able to make blogging as a high priority task, then its difficult to earn. If you have just started blogging, then hold on and carry on, it takes some time to get good traffic, loyal visitors, improve your bounce rate, improve your search engine ranking, branding yourself, high Google pagerank, good number of subscribers, creating news letters, all these take its own time.

John Chow earns money tell people how much he earns, this is really interesting. He has good number of subscribers, had good pagerank, heavy back links, and he has good number of advertisers. Can you imagine, he charges US$ 500 to write a paid review. He made this happen after he was working hard for some time. His blog is now more than 2 year old.

Darren Rowse says he earned very less from Google Adsense, which was just US$ 400,000. Can you even imagine to earn this from your blog? Yes you can earn, but let me tell you Darren started blogging in 2002, its now about 6 years. So you need to wait to reach some heights. These are the people who made people realize that you can earn money through blogging and you do not need to sell anything.

Amit Agrawal the first Indian Professional blogger earns around US$ 1000 from Google Adsense and he knows how to maximize Google Adsense Revenue. He has a technology blog where he posts information which are really worth reading and you will find all his posts with great information. I read his blog every day. He has been blogging since 2004

All these bloggers generate revenue from different affiliate programs and advertising program. They get paid because they have loyal visitors, good traffic. Traffic is the power which really monetize your blog and for traffic you need good posts, and keep your blog fresh with new posts consistently

Tyroo, Indian Pay per click program

Just thought of writing a small post on Tyroo, which is another pay per click program. Its totally an Indian site and dedicated to Indian websites. I see most of the advertisers are Indian websites and companies. I used this program for few days and just removed it, but the earnings are good. I removed it only because, I was happy with working with Google Adsense. Tyroo shows ads for the category that you select. Its a good one as the earnings are good. Payments are done in Indian rupees and by cheque.

You can try this and check how it works for you.