Optimizing For High Paying Adsense Keywords Doesn’t Work
If you’re optimizing your pages for high paying Google Adsense keywords, you may have to rethink your strategy.
Here’s just a quick intro to this topic for those unfamiliar with it…
Let’s say you’re building a site about tennis and you run the keyword tennis through the Adwords tool to see which keywords pay more per click than others.
In the example above you see that “atp tour tennis” keyword pays roughly 3 times as much per click as the keyword “andy murray tennis”.
So you assume that if you wrote a page about “atp tour tennis” you would get paid much more than if you wrote a page about “andy murray tennis”. Read more
Best Adsense Placement Tips Post Google Panda
If you’re looking for the best adsense placement tips you need to take into account the the Google Panda algorithm change which first went into effect in February 2011.
While it’s not spelled out obviously that ad-to-content ratio can be a problem, keep in mind that the Google Panda / Farmer update was designed to combat content farms – which in most cases make money with Adsense.
If you look more closely, you can find this question among many others that are behind the Panda algorithm:
Does this article have an excessive amount of ads that distract from or interfere with the main content?
Vanessa Fox also mentions ad-to-content ratio as one of likely factors behind the Farmer update. Read more
Pros And Cons Of Creating Your Own Digital Products
While websites have been torched in the past by Google for black hat linking, cloaking and all sorts of other tricks, most regular webmasters never experienced any Google slaps – until this year.
It reminded many webmasters that the Internet business is not as reliable as it seemed to be –and that content website model that relies on free search engine traffic is extremely dependent on Google.
I think the large content website model is here to stay for a very long time – it just needs to be done better than 4 years ago.
But there is another option of getting traffic – creating your own digital products and using advertising and / or affiliates to create traffic. Read more
How To Deal With The Constant Change And Problems Of Internet – And Life
As we all know – the only thing that’s constant is change.
It’s really annoying that this is the reality but unfortunately it is. We’d like things to be easier but they are not.
Today the Sitesell.com’s page on Facebook has been removed without any warning.
If you’re an SBI-er, then you know how long and how hard Sitesell team has been working on their page.
Basically every newsletter they sent in the last 6 months had something related to Facebook. They became experts on getting Likes and traffic on Facebook and taught all of us along the way.
And yet the reality of Internet and life is that bad things happen. Read more
How Did Cyber Monday Work For Your Online Business?
As you know, Cyber Monday is the day where most online stores offer massive discounts and people are more and more familiar with the online version of the Black Friday.
This weekend from Black Friday until the Cyber Monday is also the best earning weekend of your online business in the whole year if you happen to sell or promote products. Read more
Final Details On The London 2011 Advanced IM Conference
The spots for the Advanced Internet Marketing seminar in London are still available and I’m posting this in case any of the SBI-ers has missed the forum thread and in case any of you non-SBI-ers follwing this blog are still interested in attending.
Since non-SBI-ers cannot access the forums I’d like to share here more details on what Stuart and I will be presenting in London from 17th to 18th of February 2011.
Here’s what I’ll share:
1. Mindset for success
I’ve been working with tennis players for 15 years on their mental game and it’s remarkably similar to the mental game of the webmasters. 
Here’s are just some of the topics we’ll discuss and how they affect your success:
- self esteem issues and the difference between opinions and facts
- perfectionism and how it hurts your success and how to make the best of it
- mistakes and how successful people view them
- and other interesting but crucial things to be aware of: self discipline, shortcuts, time management, motivation and others Read more
What’s The Average Income Of Your Site After 1 Year?
One common question that I get asked often is how much can you expect to earn after 1 year of starting an online business.
When I talk to my friends and people contacting me about starting a home based online business I do manage to convince them that this is a very slooooooow system of earning money but that it becomes almost 100% passive after some time.
While they manage to swallow this hard fact down (they would rather start earning $1000 per month is 3 months ), they still want to know what to expect (on average) after the first year online.
I’ve checked my stats and here are my traffic and earnings of 3 sites exactly 1 year after starting: Read more
Afraid of Failure When Starting Your First Website?
A friend emailed me recently with her doubts and fears about starting her first (SBI) website. I thought our Q&A could be useful for someone else too…
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I’m so worried that all these other sites are so much better and way ahead of me, but I am in this for the long term, I want to fire my boss so bad. 
I don’t have your confidence level, or skill with computers and websites, but I do have the burning desire to be free.
How can I keep the fear of failure and fear of the competition from beating me? Actually fear is part of my motivation: fear of having to stay at my day job. Does that make sense?
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Planning An Advanced Internet Marketing Seminar In February 2011 In London – Wanna Attend?
I’ve attended two internet marketing seminars in the past – the first was the so called SBI cruise and the second one was the SBI conference in Barcelona.
I’ve learned a few good tips, met great people and also realized the different levels of knowledge and understanding of participants.
I met Stuart L. in Barcelona and we found out that we share similar ideas about internet marketing and that we both like to delve deeper into more advanced stuff.
The result is that Stuart (the wizard of stocks) and I have decided to put together an advanced internet marketing seminar.
Our intention is for it to be in London, in February 2011. We have not yet picked a week, but if there is enough interest, we shall. We anticipate that it will be a 2 day event. Read more
What’s Your Favorite Income Source?
I find it quite interesting that I find some income sources more exciting than others. In fact, the income source where I make the least amount of money is the one that I find the most exciting.
It’s when I make the affiliate sale of SBI. The money earned from promoting SBI accounts to around 1,5% of my monthly income – and it’s exactly because it’s so difficult to make a sale that I find it so cool.
My second most exciting income source is Amazon. The reason for Amazon and why I like to check my earnings every day is because it’s so unpredictable. Read more
