Google Adsense Referrals is Retiring

Google is retiring the Adsense Referrals program with effect from the last week of August 2008.

Google said their Google Affiliate Network will permit publishers to apply for advertiser programs but get paid based on advertiser-defined actions, instead of clicks or impressions.

For those who are currently displaying Adsense Referrals program, the publisher is to replace them with Adsense for Content ads instead before end of August 2008.

If you are currently running a campaign, you may want to save all referrals reports on your desktop soonest possible before they are removed from their system.

Google said they want to focus on improving Adsense and drive better monetization results for their publishers in the long term, so they are retiring the Adsense Referrals program.

Tags: adsense referral ads, Google Adsense, Google Referral Program retiring

Wordpress AdSense Blogging Workshop News Ads

I am pleased to show you the advertisement that I would be putting up on The Star Metro issues on 20 June, 26 June and 2 July 2007 for the Wordpress AdSense Blogging Workshop in Malaysia.

We hope some of our readers here would be able to support us and hope to see some of you at the workshops.

To Your Success!
May Ong
Online Marketing Coach

Tags: malaysia, newspaper ads, star metro, wordpress blogging seminar

Link to 2 PR4 Websites Review Exercise for Wordpress Adsense Blogging Seminar

My new blog site, Wordpress Adsense Mastery required back links, so I offered this link to 2 PR4 websites review exercise on certain keywords we picked.

I was referring to the recent project by my friend, Gobala Krishnan on his Internet Home Business Site Linking Project.

I just spoke to Steven Wong last week about this and my idea to build back link for our new JV – WPAdsenseMastery.com and he agreed to my suggestion here, to offer Wordpress AdSense Blogging Seminar Review linking exercise.

Very often people looking for back link from high PR & traffic site. If you review my new project site, you will instantly get 2 link back from PR 4 blog (Yes 2 PR4 site, not one - InternetOn9.com & OnlineInternetMarketingTip.com.); get more free traffic to your site and get better search engine ranking.




It is very simple to qualify for this, just follow the step-by-step instruction below:

Do a 50 – 100 words review of WPAdsenseMastery.com on your blog or website – say anything related to the workshop. You can find more about this Adsense Blogging Seminar.
Write your review on a new blog post that is composed from your blog software (either Wordpress, Blogger, Blogspot or Typepad).

Link back to WPAdsenseMastery.com using the anchor text “Adsense
Blogging Seminar” or “Wordpress Adsense Seminar“.

Complete the contact form with your blog post review URL, your targeted keyword and website URL, and I will link back to your blog in my post.

This is the example blog post on how you can write about: WPAdsenseMastery.com offers workshop that teach you on how to get started blogging. In this Adsense Blogging Seminar / Wordpress Adsense Seminar, Steven Wong & May Ong will show you how to use powerful Wordpress Blogging as a platform to make money online.

To use Adsense Blogging Seminar as Anchor Text just copy and paste the following codes to your blog post:

To use Wordpress Adsense Seminar as Anchor Text just copy and paste the following codes to your blog post:

You can post your review in as many websites / blogs as you like, as long as you own it. However, the following websites / blogs are not accepted.

Adult / Porn content websites / blogs
Gambling websites / blogs
Spam / syndicated websites / blogs – means you didn’t create content your own, but only syndicates other people website contents / RSS feeds.
No flash or image linking - means you can’t use flash or images that link to our website. All must be written in specific instruction as stated above.

Note: Limited back links from 2 PR4 sites only, please review us and submit your link before we stop this offer to get free back links from 2 high PR sites.

Thank you.
May Ong

Tags: linking exercise, website review

How To Make Money Adsense Formula Exposed

Many beginners online marketers would like to know how to make money using AdSense formula. My simple Adsense formula has been exposed below in a formula that any online marketers should know.

Money = sum ( [Price Per Click] X [Number of Clicks] )

Logically speaking, if you want to make some Adsense money, you have to either increase the number of clicks or the price per click. If you do one or the other, per the formula above, you can make more money from the program.

A. Increase the Number Of Clicks to Make More Adsense Money

Increase the number of clicks on your ads is the most obvious strategy that will make more money for you. You can look at two successful methods to boost the number of clicks:

1. Driving more traffic for your web site,
2. Make your ads more clickable and position them at the right place.

Driving traffic takes time and efforts. It‘s also a lot of hard work. There are several techniques that you can use to generate more traffic to your web site and hence make more Adsense money. I reveal several of these techniques you can use below:

* Submit your web site to search engine and optimize your web site for search engine.
* Increase link popularity by link exchange, article marketing, directory submission and press release.
* Paid Advertising through classified advertising, banner advertising or search engine advertising.
* Participate in forums/groups related to the content of your web site.
* Add comments to other blogs.

B. Make your ads more clickable is another method to increase your earnings.
This is relatively easy to achieve because you can adjust your ad format almost immediately. I suggest you do the following adjustments to your ad format to improve your click through rates (CTR):

* Make them more noticeable by positioning your Adsense ads on top of your Adsense page.
* Google states that the most effective ad formats are 336×280 larger rectangle, the 300×250 inline rectangle, and the 160×600 wide skyscraper. However you are advised to choose the best ad format that works for your web site. This requires tracking and testing.
* Create a custom palette that best suites your web site. In general, you can follow the following settings:

% Border color : no border or background color of your website
% Background color : background color of your website
% Link color : color of your links
% URL color : black
% Text color : black or color of your main content

C. Target the Higher-Paying Keywords To Make More Adsense Money

You can create unique, relevant and quality contents that target at the higher-paying keywords to increase your average price per click (CPC). Higher CPC means that you can make more money even the CTR remains unchanged. You should find out which keyword variations for a topic pay more. Often the more specialized variations and phrases pay more than the generic terms.

You can increase your CPC by reducing the occurrence of lower-paying ads. You can use Adsense competitive filter mechanism to filter out the ads that you don’t want to be shown on your web site. It is suggested by others that showing fewer ads on a page will result in higher-paying ads displayed on your web site. Many publishers reported that they make more Adsense money if they remove ads completely from pages with few or no clicks. Again you have to test whether this strategy works in favor of you or not.

As you can see, it involves a lot of hard work if you want to make extra Google AdSense money. You need to put in your time and effort to make it happen. Your patience in the long run will bring in the extra $$$ you want for your website.

Find out more about Wordpress Adsense Workshop here, to learn the skills.

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Understanding Adsense Jargon

Page Impressions

An “impression” is how many times your web page loads onto a real computer screen. If 30 people looked at your page on their computers, your Page Impression is 30.

Clicks

The actual number of times someone clicks on your ads.

Page CTR

CTR stands for Click Through Rate, a common measurement index for internet-based advertising. CTR is the ratio of people who clicked on your ads to the number who did not, and is calculated using the two set of data:

CTR = (Clicks / Page Impressions) x 100

Page CPM

CPM is used by older internet-based advertising models, in which you pay an advertiser a fixed sum of money for showing 1000 impressions of your ad. The reason why this is included in your Adsense reports is because some advertisers still use the CPM model, and you can compare your Adsense performance with this figure to determine if you are better off showing CPM based ads instead.

Earnings

This tells you how much money you just made today.

Make Money from Google Adsense

Armand Morin told us once that one of the fastest ways to make money online for newbies or beginners is to put up a Blog and apply for Google Adsense, to make money from advertisement when visitors click on them in their web page.

I did not even think of giving second thoughts. I went ahead and bought one particular e-book to learn how to make money from Google Adsense. A good friend of mine told me he makes $10.00 on average a month from each of his blogs and he has more than 10 blogs and building more. This system has worked for him.

I tested out the system, and it worked. I am on my way to receive my first check for $100.56 from one of my blogs last month.

Don’t believe me? Try it out for yourself to prove me wrong. For more info, go to Get Google Adsense.