Ever since Google bought Feedburner they have been working towards placing Adsense on the Feedburner feeds. No surprise there as G needs to keep growing and Adsense/Adwords is what feeds the beast. A few months back Feedburner made Adsense available and I attempted to try it but for what ever reason it didn't work. No doubt I screwed things up - not a surprise either as most of you know I am not technically gifted and spent about 5 seconds trying to figure out what went wrong before ditching the whole works.
Long story short - a few days ago I noticed a new link on my Adsense Overview page (see image below) which is entitled Adsense for Feeds. Of course it may have been there for a while and I just didn't notice it until now.
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Needless to say I clicked the "Get Started" button. I was taken to the following page.
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Naturally it told me that I had no feeds in my account and gave me a link to "View our Account Migration Guide". Apparently you will have to have Google migrate all your feeds from Feedburner to Adsense. Turns out this isn't complicated.
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In fact Google will do it for you. This is right up my alley - anytime I can get someone else to do the tech stuff suits me just fine. Just ask my good friend Terry! Just give Google your Feedburner username and provide your Adsense email address and they will do the necessary steps for you.
So I did and am waiting to see what happens next.
Now I'm telling all you folks this because should things work out all of my feed subscribers will be snarling and nashing their teeth as soon as the Adsense ads start appearing on my feeds. Before you all hit the unsubscribe button please hear me out.
This whole Adsense on Feeds thing has me more than curious as it just doesn't fit in with Google's current policies. How are they going to assure quality clicks for the Advertisers? At present they frown on too many clicks coming from the same IP. One of the things you have to be careful of is that some of your readers may try and help you by clicking your ads repeatedly. This doesn't help at all and can get your account banned. Clicks have to be natural and repeated clicks from the same IP is not natural.
However, if I have Adsense on my Feeds then I am only going to get clicks from my readers. Search traffic will not see these ads. Presumably G wants my readers to click the ads - if not then why offer the service. So does this mean that they won't mind the same people clicking ads on a more frequent basis? They can hardly penalize me for repeated clicks when my pool of readers is limited. This, in a nutshell, is what I want to find out. In one sense my readers are highly targeted for my keywords and Google likes that. I suppose they feel this will benefit the Advertisers - maybe it will. On the other hand this just seems ripe for abuse and I am curious as to how G plans on counting clicks. Which will they consider valid and which will be considered suspect?
I am asking you dear readers not to get all un-subscribe on my ass when the ads appear as I simply want to see how this program is going to be monitored by Google. I will certainly keep you abreast of my findings. I should also say that this is not a call to entice you to click those ads. Please, please, please... don't unless it is something you really are interested in. I have no wish to game Adsense in any way and you shouldn't either. I suspect that my readers will ignore them in the same way they ignore the ads on my blog - just background noise that bloggers tend not to notice. I understand why search traffic clicks ads - I don't understand why targeted feed subscribers ever would though. And I don't understand why Google thinks they would either.
In any event you now know up front what I'm up too and I hope you will not get offended when you see the ads. Just another little experiment and I'll fill you in when I get some results.
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Now there are plenty of wonderful money making ideas out there to try, but you should also know which ones to avoid. You see, everyone wants your hard earned money, and they will say & do anything to get it. I call those people scammers. Chances are you have bought an E-Book online that didn't really help you much.
You are not alone. I was scammed a lot myself when first starting off in internet marketing. I bought a lot of those E-Books that promised me I would make at least 5k per week ( Yeah Right). The sad truth is that a lot of people fall for these tricks simply because they need money. And it sounds good when someone says, " Buy my E-Book for $29.99 and learn how to make $200 per hour"
Now I am not saying that every single E-Book ever created is a waste, just most of them. So please avoid getting scammed by these people. I would hate for you to be spending your money on things that are not going to help you much in internet marketing.
Also try to stay away from paid surveys, even though I know a few people who have made some decent money, I still wouldn't recommend you doing paid surveys. Why? because this entire niche is full of scammers. Again not every single site is a scam, but the odds are not on your side.
So, I just wanted to give you a quick heads up of what kind of things you need to stay away from. You can still try these money making ideas just make sure that you also understand the risk involed
First off, I would like to apologize because of delaying the idea frenzy. I said I was going to be updating this blog with tons of money making ideas for you to try. Well, as always in life, things never go as planned. I wasn't on my computer at all for the last couple of weeks because I took a trip to the lovely oral surgeon, lets just say It was not fun.
Anyways because of this I was really just unable to do any type of work on my computer. I am still not back 100%, it might take another few days, maybe even a week for me to be back working. I know a lot of you really need some quick money, and I will try my best to put some posts together for you guys.
What I was thinking of doing was to add a section for quick money making ideas and another for long term money makers. That way I can help both sides. I will say this though, long term money makers are always better then quick ones, but I understand that sometimes we just can't wait. So give me just a little more time to fully recover and I will be back with tons of money making ideas!
So let me introduce to you "
The Idea Frenzy". From time to time, I will have an idea frenzy. What does this mean? Well, I will be updating my blog a lot with cool money making ideas for you to try. During the idea frenzy, I won't be going into great detail about each method, but rather try to put out as many money making ideas out there as possible. My goal is to get your "Idea" motor going.
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Posted by Alan Liew | 10:05 PM
Guest post by Corry Cummings from http://www.dropshipstrategy.com
With so many different online money making opportunities out there, it is extremely difficult to tell which ones are real and which ones are scams. There are a lot of different people on the Internet telling you all sorts of different things about making money online. Some of them are probably telling you the truth, while many are just simply trying to make money themselves. In fact, most of the people telling you how to make money online have never even made any money online. With that said, you can be confident that along with the many different opportunities that this blog brings you, comes a very true way to make money online. The opportunity is drop shipping.
For those who are not aware of what drop shipping is, the first thing you need to know is the meaning. There are many different companies out there that we like to refer to as dropship companies. These companies have two things that you need to make money easily on the Internet. They have products and they have services that allow for you to not have to worry 
about shipping and packaging these products. When you sign up for a membership with a dropship company, you are getting instant access to millions of wholesale products. On top of that, the company packages and ships out the products that you sell to your customers. It is that simple.
Making Real Money with Drop Shipping
Now that you have an idea of what drop shipping is, you will need to know how to turn that into a money making opportunity. There is quite a bit to know about drop shipping, however there are a couple of tips that could really get you a long way. To keep this post straight to the point and valuable, I will get right into those tips. First of all, understand that drop shipping takes hard work and a lot of time. There is really no way around that, so you first must be okay with both of those two things. Other than that, you will need to be willing to make a very small investment to get things going. Remember, this is not different then any other business. There is just a lot less risk and a lot less money to fund.
If you are going to make real money with drop shipping, you are going to need to build a website. The best way to make money with drop shipping is to have your own site to sell products on. Sure, eBay and Amazon are great for starting out but you will never get rich by selling through the auction sites. There is far too much competition and people go there looking to spend the least amount of money. You will be forced to sell for prices that cut your profit down way more than you want. Instead, you want to reach the buyers who just want to find what they are looking for quickly and then purchase it and be done. With your own website you can accomplish that.
You can scale this thing out as big as you want. The important part is that you pick a specific market to build your site around. For example, you might want to have a site that specializes in selling cell phone cases. You would never want to have a site that sells everything and anything. The more specific your niche is, the better. When you are ready you build more sites. The more sites you have the more money you make. There are several good dropship companies out there to work with. All you have to do is put all the pieces together and get ready to work hard. It will all pay off in the long run.
Posted by Alan Liew | 9:07 PM
Affiliate marketing is one of the quickest ways to earn money through the web. This is due to the fact that, when you engage in this business as an affiliate marketer, you will not have to start from scratch in terms of creating a product and developing promotional materials. You don't need to create your own website and you don't have to shoulder fees associated with capital, storage, or shipping. The owners of the affiliate businesses are responsible for all the tedious (and expensive) work while all you need to do is promote the products and make sales.
However, like any other business venture, you can fail in affiliate marketing. To significantly lower your chances of failure and to make it big in this field, read through the tips below:
1) Find a Lucrative Niche
Among the best things about getting into affiliate marketing is that you simply have to choose from all the available programs. In order to choose the right one, you first need to find a lucrative niche and then, later on, check out the programs available within that niche.
To help you out with your efforts, you can check out websites such as Amazon and eBay. Check out the most popular products as well as the most successful sellers. Chances are, whatever niches are most popular in those websites are best to engage in.
2) Select the Right Product
Be careful when making the choice between all the available products in your chosen niche. Study the pros and cons of each product you consider and choose only those that are in high demand within your target market or those that provide solutions to common problems. If it is possible, choose affiliate products that are already established as best-sellers or already have good reviews. It may cost you more but keep in mind that the better the product that you choose, the more sales you can generate.
To help you find good products within specific niches, try checking out affiliate marketing sites such as Clickbank. Sites like that provide categorized programs and listing containing all the details you need to know to make a good decision.
3) Promote Intelligently
Once you've already chosen an affiliate marketing program to get into, you will need to promote your business intelligently. Promotion is one of the hardest things to do in this business mostly because competition is high. Study all the platforms that can help you gain as much targeted website traffic as you can and advertise your products in forums, classified, and blogs. You can also run your own email marketing campaign. Just keep in mind that the more traffic sources you have, the better for your affiliate marketing business.
There are many things you need to keep in mind to make it big in this field of business. The three steps above are those that have been tested by affiliate marketing leaders. Follow the tips and you can be among those leaders soon enough.
Posted by Alan Liew | 8:43 PM
By Chad Timms
When it comes to making money on the Internet many people assume you can just sign up for some program or opportunity that promises you the world and sit back, relax and wait for the money to start rolling in.
Well making money online is much like making money doing anything else except it can be a lot funner and once you become good at it. You can give yourself a raise almost everyday if you are willing to learn how to do so. Tissa Godavitarne has put together an excellent way for people to make money online. His program consists of seven income streams and a few of these income streams are residual or recurring ways to make money. How would you like to get paid over and over again from the same customer?
Tissa Godavitarne also provides excellent training and resources so you can become an expert at building a home based business for yourself. He holds webinars almost daily and has just built a forum to help all his users get answers to all the questions they may have.
Tissa Godavitarne built his system around a huge niche that receives nearly 20 Billion searches monthly. That is 1/3 of the traffic on Google & Yahoo. He also has built another program around the make money online niche. So he has built a program around 2 HUGE markets on the Internet. You can promote both of them and send relevant traffic to the Websites he provides for you or you can just focus on the one you are most comfortable with. Many so called “Guru’s” sell you a program and then after you have purchased this program they are nowhere to be found. Not Tissa Godavitarne. You can hop on any webinar from anywhere in the world and speak with him personally to find out how to best make money online with his systems.
So why is Tissa Godavitarne willing to give you the same websites and share with you how he uses these sites to make money?
Because and I quote from Tissa “Because the more money you make with YOUR niche search engine, the more money I will make”
So what you will get here is the exact same niche product Tissa Godavitarne has made millions with in Affiliate Commission. He is giving you a proven system that you can use to make yourself money online. Like I said there are seven income streams available with this program.
So here is what you will be getting:
• Your OWN Income-Generating Niche Search Engine
The SAME search engine that costs Tissa Godavitarne $25,000 a month but generates MILLIONS of dollars in affiliate commissions!
• FREE Pay-Per-Click Advertising in Google and Yahoo
Tissa will advertise YOUR search engine in MY Google and Yahoo ad campaigns so you can start PROFITING immediately!
• NO eBooks to Download and NO Videos to Watch ;-)
He leaves that to the gurus. The only people making money on those crappy info products are the ones selling them to you.
Oh I almost forget to mention…When you sign up today Tissa will credit you $125 in commissions after you have completed all 3 steps for your niche search engine. This is how confident he is in his own program!
Now I want you to find out for yourself that you can make money with Tissa Godavitarne. Click Here to see my Actual Earnings from Tissa Godavitarne’s Program and Sign Up Today!
As long as you have the necessary skills, being a graphics designer can be a wonderful opportunity to make money online. As a freelance graphics designer, you can work from home or make money from wherever you please.
In order to excel in this field, you will need the skills and passion for making art. Whether your interest is in designing tattoos, logos, sketches, drawings, or grand paintings, your love for art can pay off in this exciting industry. All you really need is to have a good program like Adobe Photoshop and learn everything there is to know about it. The rest will be up to your creativity and skills.
There's much money to be made as a freelance graphics designer. People hire graphics designers because they don't have the skills to create designs themselves. Whether the need is a logo for business cards and letterheads, a cool background for websites, or whatever else it may be, every company out there has needs for design services. It doesn't matter whether your clients are sole proprietors starting up small businesses or huge enterprises that need fresh designs. You will surely be paid well for your services.
If you already have the skills and knowledge necessary for graphics design, you will want to develop some samples for your portfolio. Once you have done this, you can start promoting your services through freelance websites or forums. As you gain more and more projects and earn more and more money for your services, you may want to develop your own website. This website should show off your talents and allow its visitors to see why they should hire you. Having a website will make your service look more professional and you can use it to improve on your internet marketing efforts.
Once you've gained a good set of regular clients and have developed a good reputation online, you can surely gain a good and steady income for your creativity and talent.
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The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is perhaps the most widely used indicator of economic growth and well-being. The World Bank has called it "the main criterion for classifying economies." According to conventional wisdom, what is good for the GDP is good for the nation; as the GDP rises, so do our fortunes. But what does it actually measure?
Simply put, the GDP is the total value of all products and services bought and sold, a measure of money changing hands. It is a misleading yardstick of true progress for many reasons, most of which fall under three major categories:
- The GDP makes no distinction between productive and destructive activities. While a realistic measure of progress would separate costs and benefits, the GDP places a positive value on all transactions and adds them to the total. Illness, crime, and natural disasters all cause the GDP to increase, as money is spent to treat the sick, jail prisoners, and repair the damage. In this way the GDP rises even as the quality of life declines.
- The GDP has no way of assessing the value of natural resources until they enter the monetary economy, or in other words, are consumed. The trees in an old-growth forest that provide numerous services to humans and animals alike are worth nothing to the GDP until they are cut down for timber, at which point the GDP has no way of accounting for the loss of their services. By celebrating consumption rather than conservation, the GDP encourages the unsustainable depletion of finite resources.
- The GDP completely ignores all activities and services that have no price attached to them. Essential functions performed by the family, community, and volunteers, such as housework and child care, don't count in the GDP. When these services have to be paid for because people no longer have time for them, the GDP goes up -- putting a positive value on the erosion of the social fabric.
In short, the GDP values growth at all costs over the things that really matter to people, such as clean air and water, a healthy and safe community, and the free time to enjoy them. The continued rise of the GDP is no longer something to cheer about, and it is past time to establish a new way to measure our progress.
If the GDP is up, why is America down? (requires subscription to The Atlantic)
If you read only one thing about the failures of the GDP, read this. A pointed and well-written article by the staff of Redefining Progress, a San Francisco-based organization that concentrates on issues of growth and sustainability.
Redefining Progress
More information than you can shake a stick at, including in-depth analysis of the GDP and the details on RP's own Genuine Progress Indicator, which attempts to correct the flaws in the GDP and present an alternative assessment of the economy.
Friends of the Earth
This UK site has more information on GDP alternatives, including a program to help you design your own method of measuring progress.
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Since the dawn of the internet, more and more people have turned to it for everything from communicating with friends and family, find old schoolmates, and academic research to marketing products and services and expanding and growing businesses. Now, many people even rely on it to make money. Just over the past five years, the internet has bloomed with tons of ways to make money at home. This opportunity presents people with a wide array of options. However, for those who aren't too familiar with the internet and how to utilize it to make money, things can seem a bit tricky.
Today, more websites are growing and with that growth comes a number of different opportunities. The best thing about it is that even those who aren't internet savvy can easily take advantage of those opportunities as things are either very easy to use or a number of different resources are available to help them understand everything they need to make money online. Even better opportunities stem from the fact that large companies are tapping the internet now more than ever to market and advertise their products. This is because only the World Wide Web will allow them to easily and relatively inexpensively tap different markets across the globe. Corporations do not even need to fork out huge sums of money to pay salaries and benefits to actual employees to handle marketing and advertising online. They tend to prefer hiring freelancers or contractual agents online. This presents a huge opportunity for people who are looking into online money-making activities.
Also a huge opportunity to make money online is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is becoming very popular because it doesn't require a lot of work to manage or a lot of money to start. Once it starts growing, any affiliate marketing business can also become a huge money-maker.
Paid surveys is another opportunity to make money online. The companies always in need of consumer insights and opinions on their products. So they hire market research firm to conduct online survey and pay anyone who participates in their online survey. While online paid survey isn't offering full-time income potential but it can be a great source of extra income.
For those who enjoy writing and have the skills for it, there are already many different sites and platforms that offer great opportunities. Most of them involve article writing and content creation. Blogging and e-book writing are also great ways to make money online. Blogging can be fun as you can write in a informal way and share your stories. When your blog attracted
Apart from writing, there are many other things that will allow you to earn a decent income online. No matter what your current set of skills and knowledge contains, you can surely find a good opportunity for you. The World Wide Web is really a fantastic place to earn a good income and have the financial freedom that many dream of having. Of course, you have to be smart and be wary of scams. Although it may sometimes be difficult to tell whether an opportunity is a scam or not, most of the time all you will need is common sense. By taking advantage of the opportunities that are already available online, you can easily achieve the work-life balance you've always hoped to have.
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Labels: AdSense Tips, Feed Optimization
One of the most popular (and recurring) questions our publishers ask is, "How do I maximize revenue for AdSense for feeds and ensure my subscriber stats are as accurate as possible?" Some of you can recite the answers to these questions backwards and forwards (though we find typing it backwards is quite difficult, so we'll leave you to say that aloud). But for our many new publishers that are just tuning in, here's the recap.
Just setting up AdSense for feeds ad units in your AdSense account is not enough to start seeing traffic and revenue to your feeds. It's critical that 100% of your feed traffic be directed to the feed(s) you created in AdSense for feeds or your FeedBurner account. Luckily, this is fairly easy to do via two standard methods.
- Redirect your original feed. This is the recommended option for all publishers, but especially if you have an already established blog or feed that already has subscribers. This option ensures that all traffic gets funneled to the version that has both advertising and subscriber tracking enabled. We've detailed this process in this Help Center entry.
An added bonus: a plugin for self-hosted WordPress installations and feed-specific features within Blogger and TypePad make redirection much easier on these two publishing platforms.
- Promote your feeds.feedburner.com feed. This is recommended only in the cases where you are setting up a new blog, or have an existing blog or feed that has no traffic. For example, if your feed is found at http://feeds.feedburner.com/toastforbreakfast, you would change your blog template to link only to this version of the feed. Note you have to make sure to change it not only where you promote your feed directly, but also everywhere you have feed autodiscovery links in your template. (One other place to keep in mind: BrowserFriendly.)
Hopefully, this reminder will help everyone get on firm ground with how to maximize traffic to their feed and revenue from it, too. In future posts, we will be covering how to
increase traffic and subscribers to your feed, so hang on to your hat!
Posted by Steve Olechowski - Product Manager, AdSense for feeds
Labels: Announcements, Feed Placements
Along with the
clarification regarding the doubleclick.net domain we posted a few weeks ago over at
Inside AdSense, we thought we would mention that we have made similar changes to the AdSense for feeds ad tags that are being placed in feeds. By changing our ad serving to the doubleclick.net domain, we are now allowing advertisers to more easily create campaigns that span all media platform types on the Google Content Network, including sites, feeds, and mobile.
By making it easier for advertisers to buy ads in your feeds, and by supporting the exact same features and ad formats that are accepted on websites, the competition for your ad space should increase to help ensure that you're maximizing your earnings potential.
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If you use
link units, you may have noticed a small addition to the page users see after clicking a link unit topic. We recently added an image ad to the bottom of each of these pages, after our testing showed revenue improvements for many publishers.
These image ads are contextually targeted, based on the link unit topic users clicked to reach the ads. If no image ads are available for the given topic, we'll only show the original text ads -- in other words, we won't show a PSA or insert a blank space in place of the image ad in this case. Advertisers can bid on these image ads on a cost-per-click (CPC) and cost-per-impression (CPM) basis, so you'll generate earnings for valid clicks and impressions. You can review the performance of image ads on your link unit pages by generating a
link unit report on your Advanced Reports page.
If you aren't using link units on your pages, we encourage you to
give them a try. They don't take up much space and can help add to your AdSense revenue -- learn more in our
Help Center, or visit your
AdSense Setup tab and select 'AdSense for content' to get started.
Posted by Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team
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