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The internet is brimming with articles, ebooks and hype about using blogs in conjunction with Google’s Adsense program as a means of generating revenue. The formula for success, it seems, is simple. You blog, you place ads, you get traffic, visitors click on the ads and you get paid. The question many people have about the whole process is whether or not the end result will really be profitable considering the time and effort that is required to implement the strategy.

This question has been difficult to answer, in large part, because of the Google Terms of Service for Adsense users. Although the terms have recently been loosened somewhat, users were long prohibited from sharing personal information regarding their success levels and other key statistics that might have provided prospective for-profit bloggers from developing a clear perspective on the profit potential available.

If you are curious about whether or not you can make blogging with Adsense a legitimate moneymaker, it is worth conducting this relatively simple exercise. The results can give you an idea of whether or not it is worth your time.

First, determine how long it will take you build your blog. Consider the set up time and the time necessary to do initial promotion and to write at least ten to twenty starter posts. We can term this variable ST, for “start-up time.” For our hypothetical, we will say our ST is twelve hours.

Second, estimate how much ongoing time it will take on weekly basis to do additional promotion and to add at least two new posts. Multiply this figure by 52 (the number of weeks in a year). We will term this variable MT for “maintenance time.” For this example, we will set MT at 104 hours (2 hours per week).

Third, add ST and MT. This will give us an idea of the total time required (TT). In this case, TT is 116 total hours.

Fourth, investigate the average value of an ad click in your niche. You can use the Overture bid tool, easily found online, to get a reasonable idea of the value of each click. In order to make your projection “safe,” reduce that number by half. This yields PPC, or “pay per click.” Let’s say the bid tool says clicks related to our keyword are worth about fifty cents. Our PPC is .25.

Fifth, determine how much your time is worth. Do you feel your blogging time should generate at least $10 per hour? $20? This is a matter of personal preference. We will term the resulting variable DR for “desired rate.” We will assess the value of our time at $15 per hour for this exercise.

Sixth, assume a click-through rate of five percent. This is a low figure, as many blogs can generate click-through rates approximating 25%. Click-through rate is expressed as CTR.

Now it’s time to perform the critical calculation. One needs to determine the required number of visitors necessary to produce enough money to make process worthwhile. If we express that number as V, the equation will look something like this:

V x PPC x CTR = DR x TT

This translates to:

V x .25 x .05 = 15 x 116

Or
V x .0125 = 1740

Thus, V must be 139,200. In order to make the process pay, you will have to drive 139,200 visitors to the blog over the course of one year. That translates to approximately 391 visitors per day, on average. Obviously, that is a very “doable” number based on the amount of time we have set aside for the process.

So, for our example, blogging for bucks with Adsense is a winner.

Perform these calculations based on your unique circumstances and you can determine the viability of earning money with a blog and Adsense.

Learn more about blogging at http://www.blogging.internetdiscussionforum.com

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David hobson

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The items covered here are:

1) Don’t Wait before Blogging.

2) Using Blogs to get your site found quickly.

3) What have Blogs and PR got to do with Indexing.

4) How to get your large sites pages found quickly.

5) If you’re using Adsense on those Pages - learn from this.

6) If you’re selling Clickbank products - you need this.

1) Don’t Wait before Blogging.

If you’ve been looking at creating a blog but don’t know how or why to do it, stay tuned for a new product announcement that’ll help you out.

Just to show you how quick and easy it can be, I’ve created several new blogs and fed them all through ‘feedburner’ to add tracking facilities and I’ll be conducting some tests and giving you the results when I’m done.

I now use Blogger for 30 different blogs. It’s easy to use, you can include Adsense within their interface easily, you can have it ftp the files to be hosted automatically on your own website etc. etc.

If you want tracking, whether you host the blog your self or not, you can go to Feedburner and ‘burn’ the feed. This will not only giving you tracking stats but also let you tweek it to be more compatible (Bloggers default output format is .atom) and also add other revenue streams to it.

I’ve blogged an introduction to RSS which I believe is currently the best free information around Here , and the ‘burnt’ version is: Blogging

Video tutorials for setting up a blog, configuring the blog, pinging, ‘burning feeds’ etc. are available here:
http://pheedcentral.com/blogandping_offer.html

2) Using Blogs to get your site found quickly.

If you’re struggling to get new websites found by the Yahoo Search Engine, here’s a little tip you might like.

Set up a Blog with whichever service you prefer (I like Blogger.com)Go over to Yahoo.com and setup a ‘MyYahoo’ account. It’s free.

Then on your MyYahoo homepage and goto the section that says ‘choose content’ and then tick the box that says RSS Headlines (BETA).

Add your feed url(s) to this, so that they are shown on your MyYahoo page.

Yahoo will be around with 48 hours. I’ve created videos of this that I’ll release very soon.

3) What have Blogs and PR got to do with Indexing.

The reason that Blogs and PR are linked to getting indexed is this:-

A) When you setup a blog it’s not quite the same as having a new website because there’s one major difference - Even if they don’t have the facility built in, you can effectively ‘announce’ the presence of your blog (and any new content you add to it) by ‘pinging’ (sending an announcement to) several large blog directories. In effect, this is like doing the ‘add url’ on a search engine, except that blogs get visited Very quickly whereas it could take ages for your site to get indexed this way.

If you use Blogger then there’s a tickbox labelled “ping Weblogs” which if selected, will announce your new content to the Weblogs.com service whenever you post new material - this has the effect of getting the Googlebot (not mediabot) to visit your blog sometimes within minutes. Thus, if you’ve linked to some new pages on your site (some deep pages) - they usually also get a visit pretty quickly.

It’s like getting a link from somewhere you know gets spidered regularly - except you can cause it to be spidered. (which is nice).

If you want Yahoo to come and see you quickly too, whether you’re using Blogger or a different blogprogram, you can create a free MyYahoo account and add your feeds to it - that’ll have the effect of ‘announcing’ them to Yahoo.

Again, the reason for this isn’t to make your blog rank well - it’s to get the links to your actual websites new pages to get spidered quickly because you’re using the blog to call the bots for a visit and linking from the blog to your new pages.

B) The Page Rank comments - These are a reflection of the fact that in general, higher page rank sites get visited by the bots more frequently (since you can have a high PR from good internal linking and a few high PR incoming links from sites without much traffic - this is a generalisation and NOT a rule), so it’s more likely that if you’re not blogging and pinging that a few high PR links (from traffic heavy sites) will be a good alternative.

If you want even more, here’s something I wrote on another forum recently (and in my blogs) about getting a high page count site indexed quickly:

4) How to get your large sites pages found quickly.

No-one can guarantee that your site will be indexed in 24 hours since the only person with ultimate control is Google.

However, the key to getting a new site fully indexed is deep linking.

If you were to just leave the site and get links to the index page, you could end up waiting 9 months to get it all in.

Have you created a site map(s).

Depending on your site, it may pay you to create several site maps for different parts of your site.

The basic principle is this:

The Search Engine Bots will investigate pages that they find links to from pages that they’re already visiting (you know this since you mentioned blog and ping).
When they do this, the work on a portion of the pages they’ve found about about at a time, so the more pages and the deeper the links to those pages - the longer it will take and the more times the bot will need to come back to get more.

So, the most effective thing you can do is: Create several site maps which cover lots of pages that have fairly shallow linking the get to them all (normally 2 levels max).

So rather than having 1 huge site map that lists every page. Create 5 site maps of 1000 links, or even more.

Then - Get links to these separate site maps aswell as your main index page. From as many different, high quality, high traffic sources as you can.

Blogs, RSS, Forums, Directories are all good examples of these.

If you get desparate you can buy links from high PR sites, but there’s no need.

Any of the large, popular forums probably get visited by the bots every day (my own site does).

If you’re not sure where to find directories to submit to, I’ve put together a huge list here: http://www.moneyandmotivation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=162

If you want places to submit your blog/rss feed, I’ve put together a good list here: http://pheedcentral.com/weblinks/Submit_Your_Own_RSS_Feeds/

Jason Bradley has a product called IndexTracker that you can use to track indexed pages across all of your websites. I use it a lot.

Blog and Ping tutorial videos are available here:
http://pheedcentral.com/blogandping_offer.html

5) If you’re using Adsense on those Pages - learn from this.

Improving Adsense click through rates is something that any ppc advertiser should be interested in.

Well, I’ve spent some time now looking at all the various keyword research tools for selecting the most profitable keywords to target with Adsense.

To my delight, I also stumbled upon an ebook written by a guy called Jonathan Legar that covers it all. He also provides you with a huge list of profitable keywords (including some that are as much as $100 a click - yes you heard me right)

I just had to tell you about this amazing resource.

I know you’ll just love this resource.

http://hop.clickbank.net/?techtrader.astracker

When you see that Jonathan is also going to let you reprint over 11,000 article - this is a Must Have for any website owner or PPC advertiser.

Have fun with it.

6) If you’re selling Clickbank products - you need this.

If you sell Clickbank products, you’re probably aware of the fact that the Clickbank Marketplace is updated regularly, and as an affiliate it can be difficult to remember what products you’re advertising and whether there are any more in that same category of CB yet.

Well, now you can forget about the hassles of keeping up with the product in Clickbank, or buying tools to let you search Clickbank, and then working out how to advertise those products on your web pages. You know it sounds simple, but it can be a real pain to get setup and maintain.

If you take a look here: http://www.imvisionary.com/cmd.php?af=186978

You’ll find a new tool - It’s only just being released (not yet in the open) and you’ll see that it gives you an really easy, cheap and quick way to market ClickBank products.
It’ll synchronise with Clickbank Whenever you want and you can even search for products to promote.

I’m not going to give you a sales pitch here, just go and take a look at it.

If you’re not sure how it might work and you want more - I’ve even created a 6 minute video walkthrough of using it.
(It was 1am and I was tired, but you’re worth it)

If you followed everything I wrote above - you’re in for some happy days

Your friend,
Andy Henry

Andrew Henry is an Internet Marketing consultant and online web business owner. Helping individuals and small businesses learn how to reach their goals on a daily basis.
Andrew is now educating people on the subject of RSS and Blogging via his site at http://www.pheedcentral.com which offers both free introductory advice on RSS and Blogging and supporting video tutorials.

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If you read my last article, you know about Chitika and the new eMiniMalls that are popping up everywhere on the web. You can serve up relevant product ads to your users, and let them search for other products without leaving the comfort and safety of your web page. I was asked recently about how to add Chitika ads to your Blogger blog, so I thought I’d take some time to write up exactly how this is done.

In case you haven’t seen my previous article, I’ll give a brief rundown on how to get set up. First, you’ll need a Blogger blog if you don’t have one already. This is quite easy to set up. Just go to Blogger.com and click the giant “Create your own blog now” button. You’ll create a username and password, name your blog, and choose a template. This should take you all of about 5 minutes.

Once you have your blog set up, you need to sign up with Chitika. You need a running web site to get approved, so post a couple of short items to your blog before applying. It will take you about 5 minutes to fill out their application, and you’ll be approved in the next day or so. Note that you don’t actually have to be approved to continue on to the next step. You can insert the eMiniMalls code onto your web site, you just won’t make any money until you’re approved.

See www.workfromhomespot.com (link below) for info on signing up with Chitika.

Now that you’re all set up, you need to insert the Chitika code into your blog. Chitika will send you instructions on how to generate the HTML code to create eMiniMalls on your site.

The javascript code looks fairly scary, but you don’t have to worry much about it. You can customize the size and colors on the Chitika web site, without needing to touch the code yourself.

Once you have the eMiniMall looking the way you want it, it’s time to insert it into your Blogger template. Blogger, unfortunately, doesn’t allow javascript inside individual posts, so you can’t customize the products to each post. Actually there is a way to do it, but I’ll write more about that a bit later. For now, we’ll just insert the same eMiniMall code before each post. Note that this doesn’t mean the same product will be shown over and over again. The code will pick a random product from the list for each eMiniMall.

Log in to your Blogger account, and select your blog from your “dashboard” screen. Click the “Template” tab at the top of the next page. Click “Edit Current” if it’s not selected for you already. Scroll down, probably about two thirds of the way, until you find the Blogger tag. This is where the actual posts are in the template. Scroll down just a bit more, and you’ll find a tag that looks like this: $BlogItemBody$. This is where the body of each post is inserted. Just put your eMiniMall code directly above (or below if you prefer) this tag. Click “Preview” to see what it will look like. You may find you need a couple of < br > tags before or after the eMiniMall code to separate it from the post body.

Once you have the preview looking roughly the way you want it, click “Save Template Changes”. Click the little “Republish” button to republish your blog to the live site. That’s it, you’re now set to start making money from Chitika clicks on your site. You’ll find that on average, Chitika pays more per click than Google does for AdSense. Using both is even better. Just remember that you need content in order to get people to come to your blog in the first place.

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Gary LaRock runs http://www.workfromhomespot.com, your source for information and ideas about working from home. He lives in Thornton, CO, with his wife and son, where he has worked exclusively out of his home since 2003. Work From Home

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