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Well I’ve decided to test my luck in 12DailyPro again, this time with the house’s money. I am redepositing the $110 profit made from my first two rounds and will take back my initial investment. Now that it’s risk free, I’m going to see how long I can ride this hundred bucks.
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Firefox | 58.4 % |
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MS Internet Explorer | 28.3 % |
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Safari | 5.9 % |
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Opera | 2.8 % |
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Mozilla | 2 % |
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Unknown | 0.9 % |
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Netscape | 0.4 % |
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Konqueror | 0.3 % |
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Camino | 0.2 % |
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NetNewsWire | 0.1 % |
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Others | 0.2 % |
It can clearly be seen that usage of Firefox dominates over all other browsers. If you haven’t made the switch yet, go download Firefox. If for no other reason than to see your website as your visitors see it, and make sure nothing looks ####’ed up.
Now that your blog is all configured and online, it’s time to start building some content for your site. It might be tempting to try to attract traffic at this point but it is best if the site remains private for a little while. Build your content until you have four or five well written articles online and feel confident that if a user visits your site that they will come back.
Remember, your viewers expect quality content and they always expect something fresh. You want the bulk of your traffic to come from repeat visitors. If someone visits your site and it is lacking content, it will quickly be dismissed and worse, not bookmarked.
Once you have built your site to a level which you are confident will be a success, then you can start to promote your site. I suggest following some of the techniques listed in my Traffic Generation section.
So you’ve now thought of what to write about and are all set to make your millions, right? Not so fast. If you truly want to run a “professional” blog, you’ll want to stay clear from the public blogging websites. These include the blogger.coms, livejournal.coms, etc. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using these sites, but you want to find a way to stand out from the croud. Go buy a domain, they’re cheap and will give you a bit of an edge from the 30 million other blogs online.
The next step will be to setup hosting for your blog. I personally use Blue Host for a number of my sites and have found them to be excellent. A nice bonus is they come with a free domain name, and WordPress (which we’ll discuss next) is pre-installed and ready to go.
Now that you have a domain name registered for your site and have hosting set up there is only one setep left. I strongly recommend you install WordPress on your server for your blog. It’s extremely easy to get going with, especially with their famous 5-minute install.
That’s it. Start blogging already.
It’s not uncommon now to hear about people quitting their secure full time jobs to blog full time. With 30 million blogs on the Internet, it’s a fad that is catching on quickly. If you’re in it only for the money, you probably won’t be able to quit your job, but if you work hard enough, you might be able to pay the lease on your car.
In this series I will step through the basics of setting up, maintaining, and drawing traffic to your blog. This blog has been public and online for 11 days and has received 69,010 unique visitors at the time of this article and I’ll explain how I did it.
Lesson One: Nobody wants to know what you ate today, who you have a crush on, or what movies you think totally suck.
You want to make money right? In the Adsense game, traffic = money. Unless you are blogging about your experiences being the head of a large corporation, no one will visit your site. Think of something unique to write about — find the niche your blog will fill. This blog for example, is specifically about making money online. Find something you’re good at, or know a lot about and write about that.
Once you have found the topic of your blog, sit down and think for a couple of hours about potential articles for your site. Remember, what makes blogs different and interesting is the fact that they are always fresh with new ideas and content. To have any hope for success you’ll have to have two or three new articles a week. Can you sustain a constant flow of new articles on this topic, or is there only so much you can think of?
Before anything else, do yourself a favor and follow these steps. Laying the proper foundation is the start to any successful venture.
This is the Digg effect to the extreme. My server is having trouble handling all of the incoming traffic and am considering switching to a new host.
This site has been up for about two weeks and has already received 38,000 unique visitors.
I sometimes will come across sites that just make me cringe the way they are using Adsense on their pages and wish I could reach out and help them. Here are my top 10 ways to maximize your Google Adsense earnings.
1. Use text ads only. It has been shown that text ads are more effective than image ads. Personally, I don’t use any ad-blocker browser plugins, but in my mind, I automatically block out anything that looks like an ad. That’s the beauty of text ads, they blend so nicely with your content, your reader may really think it is another of your links.
2. Blend your ads. Take the time to use the color palate in Adsense to blend your ads with your current site style. Your users will thank you for this and so will your wallet. Take the time to make the ad link colors the same as your page’s.
3. Display only one ad block per page. Remember, without traffic there is no revenue. Your visitors are there for your content, not your ads. If you are running a blog, try to space out your ads between articles. CyberWyre inserts one Google ad every other article.
4. Remove unnecessary links from your page. Remember your visitors are there for your content, and you want them for their ad clicks. Any link to an external site is a potentially wasted ad click. Try to remove superfluous links and focus your visitors attention firstly to your content, and secondly on your ads.
5. Use channels to track your progress. Actively use Adsense’s channel feature to track different campaigns you may be running. Experiment and compare your results over time.
6. Put at least one ad block above the fold. “Above the fold” is the first portion of the website which is visible to the user, without needing to scroll.
7. Use section targeting. If your pages are very long and contain various different topics, Adsense sometimes has time determining which would be the correct ad to place on your page. Remember, we always want our visitors to see the most relevant ad to what they are currently reading. Use section targeting to divide the different topics on your page. As an example, section targeting could be used to partition off different blog articles on a home page.
8. Use Google’s Heat Map. Read through Google’s article on their heat map and try to follow by example. They know their own stuff best.
9. Use high paying keywords. If possible, use high paying keywords in your site. If there happens to be one portion of your site which is focused on a high paying keyword, refer to tip #7 and apply section targeting around that area.
10. Increase your traffic. Adsense is a numbers game. Simply put, more traffic equals more money. Refer to my traffic generation pages for tips on this.
Never underestimate the power of Digg. Incase you haven’t heard of this website, it is somewhat of a social bookmarking page. If you like a site, you “Digg” it, giving it a point. The higher the score, the more visible it is on the site, eventually making its way to the home page, where thousands upon thousands will see your link.
My site was recently featured on Digg and moved its way to the home page. Within 24 hours the site had over 20,000 unique visitors, and was written up on many blogs in four or five different languages. After only two weeks, this site has now seen nearly 22,000 viewers.
If you haven’t tried it before, Digg your own site and see what happens. Remember though, without content that others find useful, your ‘Digg’ing won’t lead anywhere.
Inline with my earlier post, I have placed a buy order for INTC at the market price of $25.56.
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