Article Topic: Kontera ContentLink http://www.kontera.com/ : A contextually relevant keyword that is discovered in real-time on a web page from within Kontera’s vast network of publishers, and is automatically turned into a link to the most relevant ad from among Kontera’s thousands of advertisers. When a visitor clicks the link, you get paid via check as soon as your total reaches $100

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The Holiday months can send any blogger scrambling to scrape a few extra dollars out of their blogs. Doing impulse buys and gift shopping sends even the most level headed book keeper into the red.

With most revenue making opportunities on the web, you can’t just make money over night. It takes years of building a system and then about the same time promoting it. There are short cuts but a sustained income source takes a while to build. Here is where Kontera text ads come into the picture though. Continue Reading »

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I just wrote a post about everyone else making so much google adsense revenue the other day and lo and behold, I break my first $100 day with google adsense!

Its so bizarre but maybe there is a hidden message in there somewhere. The power of intention maybe? If I keep going this route though I’ll be stepping into steve pavlina territory, so I leave that to him. Check his site out if your getting into the thought/matter “think and grow rich” sort of stuff. It’s a great site.

Actually I signed up for his million dollar experiment a while back.

Back to the google adsense revenue. With this last day happening, I am almost frozen. The problem is, I have not done anything different than usual. What that means is if I do not know what caused the spike in adsense revenue, I cannot duplicate it or increase it on demand. That’s a terrible business model. If you don’t understand why then you should be reading the James Brausch blog. He is all over systems and I learned a lot from him. I’m sad to say that I actually was not ready at the time for everything that man new. So I backed off. Unfortunate.

So if your making $20 a day from the adsense program your probably looking for some adsense tips. Well guess what? I used to spend a lot of time looking around the net for adsense tips too and this is what I have chosen to use on my sites.

• Lighter url color than main ad

This is something I learned in the google adsense video series.

• The wider the ad the better

There is more text to read and so I believe the reader can see the information they want is only a click away.

• Large rectangular block
• Ad inserted into the content and not on top.
• If it doesn’t affect the reading experience, place your high paying keyword into the title tag.
• Keep trying to boost traffic. This is the biggest thing. Yes conversion is important but without traffic you get nothing. Nothing to measure, fix, adjust or make money from.
• Give people what they want and they will come back to read more, and click.

Another thing you want to keep in mind is that if you can find a high converting product that tightly matches the theme of your website, it will pay better than adsense. If you get 400 clicks at fifteen cents each you have made $60 in google adsense revenue. However if you have found something that converts at 2 percent and sells for 35 dollars then you can make 280 dollars a day.

Finding the product and losing the google adsense revenue while testing is the hard part!

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You know sometimes you just dont know how good you have it. I was out looking for google adsense alternatives because I thought I wasnt making any money, or not as much as I wanted at least. Then I come across people bragging about making $1400 a month in adsense . According to problogger over 50% of adsense publishers make less than $1000 per month. There is a chart there you can look at also.

I dont know how long most of those site have been on the web but the site that I make my money on has been online for about 5 years now. All I have done is write about what I love which is fitness. Most people that would read this article have done thier cost per click research and know that fitness is not the killer cost per click that some other topics pay out at but that doesnt matter. I couldnt write the content that I wrote over a 5 year period on something that I didnt care about.

Making money with your website starts of as something to do, not survival. If it was survival, you would starve to death before you made any money. To make money with adsense or any of the google adsense alternatives you have to have traffic and traffic takes a while to build. If you have nothing of interest to read about on your site, you simply will never build any traffic. This is why your site should be about something you love. Something that you need to put down and get out of your system. That way even if the money doesnt come, you are still fullfilled. If you invest time writing for an google adsense topic that pays out well but you despise, then you are going to fizzle out before the money pours in.

Now in my travels I also ran across weblogs. These guys are making $600 a day through google adsense?! WOW. Now that is what I call passive income. They have been using adsense as a revenue source since 2004. That was a kick in the pants for me seeing as I’ve been using it longer and am not making half that. Of course I dont get a million page views either, so there in lies the secret. Worthy content, leading to lots of traffic and tons of clicks on your ads.

I need more traffic and then I can write a post about making $200 a day in google adsense and everyone will link to me! GOAL: Increase traffic by 50% to play with the big adsense dogs!

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