I finally made it to page 1 of google's search engine results!

*Unfortunately it is a violation of Adsense's Terms of Service to post screenshots of Google's Search Engine results

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Is Your Blog or Website

On Page 1

Of Google's

Search Engine Results?

Well Mine Is!

My Search Engine Results and Rankings

On Thursday, August 9, 2007 I found out that my adsense consulting blog showed up on page one of Google's search engine results when the term "adsense consulting" was typed into the search box! Again, for my blog being only 4 months old I thing that this is a very good accomplishment!

If you want your blog or website to show up in Google then you have to do the work!

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I checked my search engine results today and.....

August 7, 2007

My blog is moving up on page 1 of Google's search engine results when the search term "adsense consultant" is typed into Google's search engine!

My blog still appears on page 1 of Google's search engine results when people are looking for adsense consultant and so far each time I have checked, my blog is moving up the page on Google's search engine results.

I want to remind all of you that I have done this by not manually submitting my blog to the search engines. So far my search engine results have come completely from my working with my blog, adding new content to it and "networking" around the Internet.

You have to remember that there are always ways that you can work with your blog to have it appear high in the search engine rankings - you just have to work at it!

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August 4, 2007

My Blog Link Is On Page 1

Of Google's Search Engine Results!

Now a link to my blog appears on page one of Google's Search Engine Results!

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August 3rd, 2007- Search Engine Results For My Blog

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Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

I made it to page 1 of google's search engine results!

Not only does a link to one of my feeds show up on page one but also there is a link to one of my posts about "invalid clicks". If you click on that link then that will take you to this blog! So that's 2 links to my blog that appears on page 1 of google's search engine results.

Type in the words "adsense consultant" and see for your self!

I'm back on page 1 again!

Of course since I do SEO consulting I also know that I will continuously have to work on my site(s) so that they still show up high on google's search engine results.

Now I can work on optimizing my clients blogs for the higher search engine results.

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Why Do You Charge A Fee To Review Blogs?

Obviously you just don't know how much people are charging for a blog review.

Oft times people willl pay for their blog to be reviewed because they will want to know why their blog isn't getting traffic or how does their blog look. They want to know why they don't get comments, how well placed are their adsense ads, etc.

Now there are lots of free sites on the Internet that give very helpful advice but its really up to the person who wants their blog reviewed.

I just let my work speak for itself.

Plus this is a very good lesson for those who are still new to adsense and earning money online. No matter what it is you want to do to earn money - someone is always going to put you down. It's what you do next that counts!

WTF - Both Blogs Out Of Whack!

Well it looks like my 2nd blog is under reveiw from bloggoer. It has been tagged as a

spam blog

and is currently under review!

I have sent Blogger the contact form and now have to wait for 2 business days for them to contact me.

This had also happened to this blog. This blog was locked. I sent them the email and they got back to me the next day and my first blog was unlocked.

Now it seems like I have to go through this again with my 2nd blog.

I don't know what it is but I kind of look at this as a compliment. The "robots" think my blog is a "spam blog" when clearly it is not.

Hopefully my 2nd blog will be unlocked soon.

Now if you are wondering why I have 2 blogs that are called

The Adsense Consultant

it is because my first blog - for some reason that I don't know of - got its adsense ads taken away. Now while I wait for Adsense to get back to me as to why they took the ads off of this blog, I created a 2nd blog!

So now I'm awaiting word on the status of BOTH blogs!

Does this stop my from continuing to be an Adsense Consultant? I think not! What kind of Adsense Consultant would I be if I couldn't solve my own Adsense problems!

"What Can I Do About Sabotaged Invalid Clicks?"

Unfortunately it has been posted about people that have tried to sabotage another person's adsense account by constantly clicking on the ads that appear on a person's site.

When you log on to your adsense account and you see any suspicious activity like a very high click-through-rate then you should report it to adsense as soon as possible. Here is a link to the site that has the form that you should fill out:

Adsense Contact Form

Once you fill out the contact form as best and as detailed as you can send it in. Adsense says that they will get back to you within an average of 24 hours but if they are experiencing a high volume of emails then it may take them longer. But the sooner you send in the form - the sooner Adsense will know about it.

So send in the form as soon as possible!

Client - Hamming It Up - Earned Their First Adsense Earnings Today!

My newest client, Hamming It Up received their first Adsense earnings today! Of course I won't reveal what that actually earning was - client priviledge and need their permission don't you know!

But here are some things that I will say though. It took about 5 days from the time that I added the adsense codes to the client's blog for them to get their first adsense earnings!

I most certainly have to toot my own horn for this! Toot, Toot!

It was always good to see that the cpm rate was over $50! This means that the keywords that were crawled on the client's blog brought in higher-paying keyword advertisers!

Another adsense millionaire in the making!

The Adsense Consultant Is Having A Problem With Adsense? - No Ads Appearing?

Imagine my surprise when I viewed my blog today and found that there were no adsense ads on it! Immediate panic! Well one of the first things that I did was to check my other site and my clients sites to see if the adsense ads were there - THEY WERE. Whew!

But now I'm back to the problem of finding out why the adsense ads aren't appearing here. It took me a while to find out how to get in contact with Adsense. Offhand I can't see a customer support phone number. I finally found where you can contact them via email so that you can describe the problem that you are having. I sent in the form and their site says that they will get back to me in 24 - 48 hours.

You can't imagine the panic I felt when I didn't see any ads on this blog!

I will let you know the results of this problem when Adsense emails me back.

"I Created My Blog. Now What?"

Okay. You created your blog now you are ready for the whole world to see it! The only problem is that you don't know how to get the whole world to see it!

Of course one of the first things that you should do (and it should be one of the easiest things to do) is to TELL EVERYBODY YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR BLOG! Sounds simple doesn't it?

Take for instance if you have a professional blog like one of my clients, The Computer Brother. If your blog is going to be a professional blog then one of the things you should do is to include your blog's address on all of your professional paperwork - including your business cards. Remember the point of this is to promote your blog.

Another thing that you should do is to optimize your blog for the search engines. I read somewhere that 50% of a blog's traffic comes from the search engines. So when people are looking for relevent content you will want your blog (or site) to show up as high as possible on the search engine results.

I have made a few postings here about how a link to my blog is currently on page one of Google's search engine results when certain search terms are typed into the search engines. So far I have managed to accomplish this by working with the content of my blog. While a lot of the search engines have links to where you can add your blog or site manually, that's something that I haven't done yet. But that's not to say that you shouldn't do it - by all means manually add your site to the search engines. However you should know that this won't result in your site showing up right away. Some search engines can take a few months before they get to your site to manually add it.

Another thing that you should know that besides my blog site showing up on page 1 of google's search engine results, I have noticed that a lot of "indirect" links to my sites show up as well. One of my feeds shows up in the search engines as well as a few comments and replies that I have posted elsewhere on the internet have shown up too.

So tell everyone you know about your new site and watch as the traffic grows!

PS - Don't forget to add a counter to your site so that you can track your site's traffic. There are a lot of free ones available on the Internet.

Client - The Computer Brother's Blog - Blog Progress

The Computer Brother has become quite involved in his blog. He is adding more and more longer posts into his blog. And he is also getting more familiar with how to add entries to his blog. He has now started to post entries to his blog via email. While he gets comfortable with working on his blog on a regular basis there are still some things to do to his blog.

As I posted before The Computer Brother's blog was approved for Adsense just this past weekend and you can sss that the adsense ads are now appearing on his blog. His adsense account has been created and now he will be able to check his earnings daily.

The next thing that has to be worked on is on the blog itself. As you can see on his blog while he has long posts on the left side, the right side of his blog has a lot of empty space on it that should be filled up - but not to the point where the whole blog looks crowded.

You want to have your blog look as finely tuned as possible. By that I mean that you don't want to have too much empty spaces on your blog. Just fill it up a bit so that it looks nice and pleasant.

So that is the next thing to be worked on.

Stay tuned and watch as The Computer Brother's blog progresses.

Are You New To Adsense? Need To Know More About Adsense?

Well the basic thing is first that you have to have a website or blog that is already on the Internet. If you don't have one already then you can get a free blog at blogger.com - blogger.com encourages you to add adsense to your blog so having adsense won't be a problem with blogger.com

You have to apply to adsense and your website or blog has to be approved by them first.

After you get approved then you can go through the steps to choose the size and color of your ads. You get the codes for the ads, copy and paste them to your site and when a visitor to your site clicks on the ads then you will get paid.
How much you get paid depends on the content of your site and which keywords the adsense spiders get when they crawl your site. There are ads that pays as little as $1 (some even less) and I have seen (and had on my site/blogs) rates of $1000! It's really hard to pinpoint just what will bring your site higher-paying keywords.

But the thing of it is is that most people advise that your site or blog serve a specific niche or theme or subject matter.

In order to get a payment from adsense you have to have earned at least $100. Since this is August 1st, I checked my earnings for the month and I made it! Which means that I at least earned the minimum of $100 in July 2007. The actual payment shouldn't be expected until around the 25th of the month (which just happens to be the weekend during August 2007 - so it may be later or it may be earlier). You can either get paid by regular check or by bank transfer.

So if you're really talking about earning enough adsense money to support your family you are going to have to first determine how much minimum per month you could support your family with.

Simply put the best way to make more money with adsense is to either increase the traffic that is coming to your site (so potentially more visitors will click on the ads) or you incorporate the higher-paying keywords into your site so that you will earn more per click.

While I have seen some say that they have made as much as $1000 per month, I'm thinking an average of maybe $500 a month is more acceptable. Mind you I say average!

Well Another Month Has Come And Gone!

Well the month of July 2007 has come and gone and according to my adsense earnings for the month of July I reached the minimum amount needed to get an adsense payment. The minimum amount that you need to earn to get an adsense payment is $100. If you don't make $100 for the month then the amount that you did make will be rolled over to the next month and it will continue to roll into the next month until your adsense earnings reach $100.

So far this year I have managed to make the minimum amount necessary to receive an adsense payment. I have been able to do this every month this year so far. And my payment for my July 2007 adsense earnings will be my highest payment yet! That means that besides this being my highest adsense payment it also means that my earnings are growing on a continual basis.

I do want to stress here that my adsense earnings are coming from this blog and my first blog and a few of my websites.

I want to stress this because a lot of people seem to think that you have to have over 100 websites or blogs or be a big company in order to make a good amount of adsense earnings. With my websites and blogs I have managed to make the $100 minimum each month so far this year. For the last 2 months I have used my adsense payment to splurge on getting take-out - usually pizza and I pay some of my bills with the rest of it. My adsense goal is to make at least $2,000 a month. That is my immediate goal. Once I reach that I will set another goal of $5,000 a month.

But I want to emphasize here that you don't need a lot of blogs or websites to earn adsense money. I have seen people posting saying that they have had adsense for a year and haven't earned anything! It took me 2 months to get my first adsense payment. Actually I was disappointed because it took me that long to get my first adsense payment. But when I talked to others online I found out that they said getting a payment after your first 2 months was good. And since then I have read a lot of posts from those who say they haven't earned any adsense money even though they have had adsense ads on their site for over a year!

I became an adsense consultant because I have seen that so many people are having problems with their adsense account. I think part of the reason is because they are excited about being able to earn legitimate money online that they try too hard and then get easily frustrated.

A lot of people think that since they haven't earned any money with their blogs by using adsense that they won't be able to earn any money with their blog which is not true. You have to remember that there are many different types of blogs out there earning adsense money. You just have to know how to optimize your own blog to earn as much adsense money as you can.

At least that is what I'm doing with my blog.

Continue to watch my counter as the numbers grow and I will continue to tell you about the adsense progress of my blogs and my clients blogs as well!

A Little SEO Experiment

I posted a while back about how well my blog ranked when the search term "adsense consultant" was typed into google's search engine. Usually my blog will show up on page 1 or page 2 of google's search engine results. Well I did another seo check of the term "adsense consultant" and while a link to one of my posts showed up on page 2 of google's search engine results, my actual blog didn't show up until page three! So a little more work is necessary.

When you are trying to optimize your website or blog for higher rankings in the search engines remember to use the keywords that you want to associate with your site. In my blog's case it would be:

adsense consultant

adsense consultants

"adsense consultant"

adsense help

help with adsense

Of course there are other keywords that people have used that led them to my blog but for now I want to concentrate on some of the main search terms that I want to have associated with my blog.

If you have a new website or blog and you want your site to show up in google's search engine results as fast as possible, you're going to have to decide what keywords you want to associate with your site and then do the work to incorporate those keywords into your website.

Since I am an adsense consultant then I want to target my blog to those that need help with their adsense. It doesn't matter whether they are new to adsense or whether they have had adsense for a while. People still need help with their adsense accounts. They want to know how they can optimize their adsense earnings so that they can earn as much as they can. They want to know how they can get their website or blog to show as high up on the search engine results or rankings as possible. They want to know the higher or highest paying keywords so that they can earn even more money with their adsense. They want to know how they can increase their website traffic so that they can get even more adsense earnings.

On and on people have a lot of questions about adsense. They want to know how they can make a lot of adsense money.

That's why I'm an adsense consultant.

The Computer Dude Is On Page One Of Google's Search Engine Results!

Since The Computer Dude is one of my clients, I checked where some of his traffic is coming from today.

Someone did a search for "computer dude" and my client's blog address came up on the first page of Google's search results! That's good for him and good for me because it lets me know that I am doing a good job as far as the client is concerned as far as optimizing his blog for the search engines!

I read somewhere that 50% of a site's traffic comes from the search engines so optimizing your website or blog for the search engines is a DEFINITE MUST if you want to optimize your site to earn as much as you can from adsense.

Client-The Computer Brother Has Been Approved For Adsense!

The Computer Brother's Blog has been approved by adsense and now the adsense ads are up!





Like I said before when you first sign up for adsense your blog or website has to be reviewed by them. In this case it too adsense just 2 days to send the email to my client saying that their blog was approved. After getting the news I immediately added some adsense ads to my client's blog.

If you take a good look at The Computer Brother's Blog you will see that the adsense ads match the content of the blog.

Now since the adsense ads were just added last night there aren't any numbers to report as to how much the client has made so far. And since this is July 30th and there is one more day left in the month of July their numbers may be small.

But the client is excite and I am excited too!

We're both anxious to see how soon those adsense numbers start adding up.

The next thing to do is to work on The Computer Brother blog's traffic! I have a good idea in mind to help with that process but I will have to implement it first before I post the results here!

In the meantime, if you'd like to see the kind of work that I do then just visit The Computer Brother's Blog. Look at the adsense ads. Take a look at the counter and note the traffic so far and look and see how well the adsense ads blend in well with the layout, look and color scheme of the blog.

Don't Give Up On Your Blog!

I see a lot of posts from people who talk about how they have had their blog for a year and have yet to make at least the $100 minimum to get an adsense payment.

First let me tell you that I reached the $100 minimum earnings in my 2nd month! And this was before I started this blog!

Almost any blog (or website) can be worked to optimize it for more adsense earnings!

One of the best ways to optimize your blog (or website) for more adsense earnings is to think of your site as a learning manual. It almost doesn't matter what the subject matter is as long as there IS a subject matter. It is very important that your site have a theme or niche because that is one of the best ways to get the right kind of targeted advertising.

Take a look at one of my clients, The Computer Dude's Blog. If you take a look at the ads on the right you will see that the ads match the content of his blog. It may surprise you to know that one of the keywords that adsense crawled for on this blog resulted in a cpm rate of over $100!

You would think that a site that talks about computers would get a low advertising rate because there are so many other sites online about computers. But it all has to do with the kind of content that you put on your site. Now if this kind of stragedy can work for a blog about computers, you can apply these same stagedies to a blog about being a single woman, a blog about your life or even a blog about fishing - YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO PROVIDE THE RIGHT KIND OF CONTENT IF YOU WANT TO MAXIMIZE YOUR ADSENSE POTENTIAL AND MAXIMIZE YOUR ADSENSE EARNINGS!

Here is a link to a previous post about how much some people are making using adsense:

A List Of Blogger Earnings!

If you take a good look at this list you will see that there are many different types of blogs and many different kinds of sites that are earning a lot of money via their adsense earnings. And its not just big sites that are earning good adsense revenues. There are a lot of individuals that are earning $2K and more a month using adsense.

So you don't give up on your blog! For one thing your blog has already been established and it will take you more time to build up a new blog and optimize it for adsense. Secondly if you take a look at the list that was mentioned above you will see that all different kinds of sites and blogs have been able to earn good adsense money - why would you think that your blog couldn't do this too?

As long as your blog or website has a theme or niche it has a good adsense earning potential!

The Computer Brother

Well The Computer Brother has his blog up and ready and recently applied to Adsense so that they could join Adsense. This was just done yesterday and we are both awaiting work on whether or not his blog has been approved for adsense.

Once approved then the ads can be added to his blog!

It's Nice Being Called A "Pro" - But Don't Try To Take Advantage of Me!

I got an email from someone that wanted me to work on a commission basis - which is something that I do NOT do!. The emailer wanted their adsense earnings to increase to over 200%! They didn't mention a span of time that they wanted this to happen. However they did mention that I would be paid if and only if their adsense earnings had reached that amount.

What do you think of this kind of offer?

I told them that I was definitely not interested in such an offer!

The services that I offer include adsense consulting, blog reviews, content provider and search engine optimation. I think that it is unrealistic to expect a site to increase their earnings by over 200% in a short length of time. I think that it is realistic to expect a significant increase in one's adsense earnings if they do more to optimize their site and provide better and more relevent content. But the work does not stop there. You have to constantly look at your numbers to see what can be done to increase your adsense earnings. You have to bring in more traffic. You have to provide content that includes higher paying keywords so that will bring you higher/more earnings.

I was looking at the adsense numbers for The Computer Dude today and found out that one of the keywords crawled from Adsense's spider generated an advertiser with a rate of over $100! That is what I mean when I say that you should optimize your site for the higher paying keywords! And don't think that just because your site or blog is about something that you don't think will generate higher paying keywords - you would be wrong! You just have to know how to provide the right kind of content and how to incorporate that content into your site or blog.

So no I do not work on a commission basis!

The Computer Dude Is On Page 1 Of Google's Search Results!

Imagine my surprise! I didn't think that The Computer Dude's blog would show up so soon!

How amazing (at least I think so) for a blog that is just a few months old!

Remember when I said in my last post that the next thing that I would have to work on for my client was to help increase his traffic? Well I think that this is a great start!

Here's An Interesting Poll - How Much Money Did You Make With Adsense Last Month?

I have added my comments to this poll but it's very interesting to see what others had to say.

Some have made less than $30 a month and some have made even more with their adsense.

It would be good if you clicked on the link just to see what others have been earning with their adsense - if for no other reason - just to compare what they have made with what you have made.

Blog Review - The Computer Dude!

A while back I mentioned that I had my first (paying) client (besides myself of course). This client was totally new to blogs and blogging. Of course he had seen blogs all over the internet but he just thought that he would never have one. Well I changed all of that! Now The Computer Dude has a blog of his own! As you can see he is into computers and computer repair. He has told me that he doesn't seem to get much business mostly because people don't seem to want to pay anything. I have told him that I have had potential clients like that and I am sure that this is true in almost every profession there is out there!

I explained all the advantages to him about having a blog. The most important of which is that people all over the world will be able to see his blog, find out more about him and even be able to ask him questions! It also gives him a good business identity. He can put his blog address on all of his business materials including his business cards and any other promotional material that his business has.

Take a good look at his blog. I chose one of Blogger's layouts but of course the layout can be changed to almost any way that he wants. There are many different websites that have Blogger-type layouts that one can use.

The adsense ads have been added to his blog and I incorporated the adsense ads so that they blend with the color scheme of the blog.

Still in it's beginning stages, the blog lacks content and I would recommend that he (and any other bloggers) add at least 2 entries per week. Even more would be better but if you're new to blogging, adding 2 entries a week is a good starting point.

I would also like it if the blog had more content on the right side of the blog just to fill it out more. Depending on your style, interests, etc. there are widgets out there that you can add to your blog to make it look more like your blog (plus it helps to fill some of the empty spaces). Don't have your blog look too bare but don't have so much stuff on there that makes it look crowded.

I have also included a counter and a stats tracking code so that the blogger can track his traffic and see where his traffic is coming from.

Since I am giving this client the full-blown treatment, the next thing to work on is increasing his traffic.

I will post more on the progress of this client here on my blog.

I think I did a pretty good job so far, don't you?

Question - How Much Will I Have To Pay To Join Adsense?

How Much Will I Have To Pay To Join The Adsense Program?

In a word you don't have to pay anything to join adsense. If you did then they must have let me slide when I joined.

The only real thing that you need to join Google's adsense program is a website or blog. Of course that website or blog has to be approved by adsense first. They don't accept sites of an adult nature, gambling or otherwise illegal sites.

But when your site is approved then you will be able to go through the process of picking your adsense ads to put on your site.

Oh For Joy! Payment In Progress!

As you can see the "Payment In Progress" line has appeared! Oh for joy!

Now it's just a matter of time to see how long it will take before I get the payment! I remember reading somewhere here on the internet where some had said that Adsense waits until the banks are closed before they start the process of sending the payment to the banks (if you chose the EFT option). I noticed the "Payment In Progress" line on my account around 7:15 pm - Eastern Standard Time. I know that Adsense doesn't operate on the same time schedule as eastern standard time and it kind of gives me a headache trying to figure it out. According to my brain matter it would have been around 4pm Adsense time when they processed this.

I was so hoping to see the payment in progress line today (actually I was hoping to see it during the weekend!) but as most people have said the process doesn't usually start until Tuesday!

So I'm glad that I have the above picture! Hopefully its not a mirage!

Let's hear it for wishful thinking!

I Do Not Review Websites/Blogs For Free

There is a wealth of free information online about blogs including how you can increase traffic to your blog, how to optimize your blog or website for the search engines and much, much more.

I charge a minimum of $100 to review a blog. Why? Because when people ask you to look at their blog they are looking for detailed criticism. They want to know exactly what they can do to improve the look of their blog, how they can increase traffic to their blog or how they can make their blog show up in the search engines. And like I said in the above paragraph there are lots of sites that offer this kind of information for free.

I am an Adsense Consultant which means I charge a fee for helping people with their adsense account(s). I also have a service where I will help start up a blog for you. You can see my client's The Computer Dude's blog to see just how my services look. What qualifies me to be an Adsense Consultant? I started getting my adsense payment the second month that I joined adsense. While I'm wary of revealing just how much I make with Adsense, I will tell you that I have been able to get an adsense payment every month since that 2nd month which means that I have at least been able to earn the $100 minimum each month.

It also seems that I am also becoming a blog consultant. Even though blogging has become a very popular topic there are still those that don't know a lot about blogging but what they do know is that they would like to start a blog of their own.

Lastly I am also a SEO consultant as well. SEO stands for search engine optimization and what that means is that you want to optimize your site for the search engines - meaning that you want your site to show a high ranking when it appears in the search engine results.

What qualifies me to be a SEO consultant? Type in the search term "adsense consultant" and see where my blog is listed. Usually my blog will show up on page 2 of Google's search engine results. Sometimes it shows up on page one. I have managed to do this with my blog being only about 4 months old. I haven't submitted my blog to the search engines and I believe that I got the search engine rankings I did was because of the content that I provide on my blog.

That is exactly what you have to do if you want your site(s) to show high in the search engine results. You have to decide which keywords you want your site to be associated with and you have to see where your site ranks on the search engines. If your site isn't ranked as high as you want it to be then you have to work to get the rank results that you want and you have to keep working on it constantly. Every day new websites and new blogs are added to the Internet - which is another chance for your website or blog to be "knocked down" on the search engine results - which means you have to constantly work on the content of your site.

Question - What Kinds Of Sites Are Accepted By Adsense?

You can click the link above to go to Adsense's very own help site. There you can read Adsense's official policy towards the kinds of sites that they will and will not accept for their adsense program.

I do know that adsense doesn't accept gambling, illegal and adult sites. Although some people have said that they have seen adsense ads on adult sites I wouldn't risk it! And neither should you!

"My Pet Hamster"

I read someone saying that if you started a blog about your pet hamster that you could forget about being able to make money with adsense. I don't agree with that statement. First of all I have come to realize that almost anything is possible! Furthermore I also know that the pet industry is a billion dollar a year industry and that just goes to show you that people love their pets and are willing to spend a lot of money on their pets.

Now how does this relate to you and your blog about your pet? If you talk about your pet on your blog then you are going to get adsense ads about pets (if you word your content right). Putting up pictures of your pet also helps because people like to look at other people's pets. Others may even have "pet" blogs of their own and you and them can link to each other. Let people leave comments on your blog and you leave comments on other people's blogs.

Don't let people dictate to you what kind of blog you should have. The only real advice that should be followed is that your blog have a theme or niche. Having a blog about your pet hamster is a pet-related blog and falls under the heading of your blog having a theme. So don't let people tell you what kind of blog you can have.

You can have a money-making adsense blog about your pet hamster. You just have to know how to word the content of your blog so that you get higher paying advertisers!

$300?

I actually saw where someone was advertising for an

Adsense Consultant

and they were offering to pay them between $100 and $300 to set up a "few" websites. I think that this is an incredibly low-ball offer but there have been bids on that ad.

This reminds me of the talks and discussions from webpage designers who talked about how clients - or should I say potential clients - wanted to pay far less than what the webdesigners were willing to work for.

And just like some of webdesigners did I'm sure that there are a lot of people that would jump at the chance to take on that job for that amount of money. But you know what? I'm willing to bet that the job is going to be far more work than was thought for the one that takes it. There were no specifics mentioned about what the work involved - only that some websites were needed. Does that mean that an Adsense account had to be created? Whose name will it be in? Will both the freelancer and the client have access to the Adsense account? How much content will the client provide? How much content will the freelancer provide? What about the work involved in driving traffic to the website? What about search engine optimization?

All of that for just $300? I don't think so!

Keywords!

In order to have your site at the top of the search engine rankings you need to decide which keywords will bring you the best results! Now I did some work and found out that the term "adsense consultant" showed my page on page 2 of Google's search engine results.

However to help my blog go even higher in the search engine results, I found that these keywords were the ones that I should concentrate on:



As you can see these keyword search terms relate a lot to what my blog is all about. Once I start implementing them into my sites, my sites should show an even higher result in the search engines!

Now this is exactly what YOU have to do if you want your site/blog to appear high on the list of search engine results.

You Work Hard For Your Adsense Money!

Interesting post from the Adsense blog.

I especially like the part where they mentioned that they were getting nearer to the end of the month and that they know that people were anxiously awaiting their adsense checks.

I often wondered about the process that was involved in issuing the payments (to be more precise I wondered why it takes so long!!!!!!.

It seems that Adsense has to verify the amounts they issue before they actually send them out and that this process can take anywhere from a short amount of time to a long amount of time. It also brings up the issue of just how many Adsense publishers out there have to be processed by adsense every month?

Another good question that they answer is the question of whether or not one gets their payment faster if they chose the electronic transfer as opposed to getting a check sent to them. Adsense's answer is that the processing time is the same for both options but the electronic transfer is faster than a check going through the mail.

What's The Earliest Date That I Got An Adsense Payment?

Well a few days ago just out of curiousity I checked my adsense payments for the last year. Although my adsense payments averaged around the 24th of the month, I did notice that for November of last year my adsense payment was issued on December 20th. Now I checked back on my calendar and found out that date was on a Wednesday and for some reason I seem to remember getting that payment before Christmas - although I can't explain how.

Today is the 19th of the month and I'm sure that starting tommorrow the monthly mad frenzy of getting your adsense payment will begin!

Are You Addicted To Adsense?

I hope the above link works. It's a link to a myspace blog that talks about being addicted to Adsense. When I saw the title "addict" and "adsense" it occured to to that I am addicted to Adsense. One good thing about that is that since I am an Adsense Consultant at least I have a good reason for being addicted to adsense.

But some of the "symptons" really hit home for me. One of them was "Do you check your adsense earnings more than once a day?" - for me the answer to that is a great big fat

YES

What is also interesting to note about the blog entry is that the author feels that since so many people now belong to adsense that the potential to make a lot of money using adsense has decreased. Personally I don't feel this way. I still think that there is a lot of earning potential using adsense. But I would be curious to see what other seasoned adsense publishers have to say about this.

My Blog Was Locked!

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Your blog is locked

Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on July 17, 2007. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

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The next day, later in the afternoon I got an email from them:

Hello,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that
it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and
sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your
patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

What a relief!

Ask Your Questions

As you can see I have provided an option of you being able to ask me a question. Your question can be about Adsense, blogging, or general questions about optimizing your blog/website for the search engines - getting your site to have a higher search engine ranking.

There are 2 sets of questions. Paid and free. You can ask a free question either by sending me an email or posting a comment to this blog. Your question will be answered in 7 - 14 days.

Paid Questions - Paid questions cost $10 each and you can make your payment via Paypal. Once you make your payment, you will be provided with the option of sending me a message with your question on it. Please don't forget to leave a link to your blog/site's url. If you post a paid question via commenting on my my blog, your comment along with the url to your site (don't forget to include it) will be added to my blog. Paid questions will be answered in 48 - 72 hours.

There are some things though that have to be made clear!

• I will not review your blog for $10. Blog reviews cost $100 per blog and you will get a full review of your blog emailed to you. You can find out more about the other services I provide by going to my adsense page
  
  
• Do not ask me for specific help as regards to increasing your site's traffic or increasing your site's rankings in the search engines! That requires much more work than I am willing to do for just $10

So far I have had some good results with the questions and you can view them right here on this blog. Who knows? Maybe your question will already have been answered here on this blog!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Consultant

What does a search engine optimization consultant do? They help you get your website or blog a higher ranking in the search engines. Why is my fee so expensive? Obviously you haven't seen what other people are charging for this kind of service.

Adsense Consultant

Search Engine Optimization Consultant

If you hire me and expect your site to be on page one of the search engine rankings then I am going to return your money!

Your website or blog has to be analyzed first!

If you have certain keywords in mind you will also have to include that information in the information box that comes up when you submit your payment.

Do you even know where your site ranks as far as the key words that you want? If you don't know then someone has to do that - and that would be me! That is going to involve a LOT of work!

How is your site's traffic now? Does your site have a counter? Does your site have a stats counter to track your website visitors?

A lot of this is going to involve the content of your site. Is the content on your site optimized for better search engine optimization? If not new or modified content will have to be added to your site.

Last but not least your site's results will have to be monitored to see how well the process is working.

So many people want their sites to rank higher in the search engine results but so few of them are willing to do the work that is necessary.

So far my page rank is pretty good. My blog shows up on page 2 of the search engine results for a specific set of keywords. I think that's pretty darn good to be on page 2 of over 2 Million listed results!

How does YOUR site rank?

Search Engine Optimization - SEO for short

What is search engine optimization? It means that you are optimizing your website (or blog) so that your site's url shows up on the first few pages that the search engines list. Of course the ultimate that you would want to achieve would be that your site shows up on page one of the search engine results. But you have to realize that the internet is constantly changing. New websites (or blogs) are being put up on the internet every day!

So how do you increase your site's rankings. And a lot of people would like to know how you can do this kind of thing for free!

The first thing you should is to let everyone you know know about your site (or blog). Tell them, send them an email and make business cards with your site's url on them! Heck why don't you make a flyer to announce your new website (or blog!

Now my blog has a pretty good counter/visitor number (which reminds me that you should also include a counter on your site - that way you can monitor how much traffic you are getting. If you get the right stats tracker you can also see where your site's visitors are coming from).

Any and all advertising that I have done has been free!

Since my blog is about being an Adsense Consultant then my target market is those people that are new to Adsense and need help with it. And that is to whom I market and advertise to. I let my counter number speak for itself as to how successful I have have been so far.

Another piece of advice for optimizing your site for the search engines is that a lot will depend on what your site is about.

You have to ddfine who your target market is - who is most likely to be interested in your site - your answer to that would be your target market and those are the people that you will have to go after.

Another thing that I forgot to mention about optimizing your site is that a lot of visitor traffic comes via the search engines. So you want your site to show up on the search engines as high as possible. Let's take my blog for example. Even though my blog is a few months old I am already on page 2 of search engine results for the key phrase "adsense consultant" - which I think is very good for a blog that is about 4 months old! How did I do it? A lot of it has to do with the wording and content of my blog. A lot of times I have been quite lucky (remember the Internet is always changing with adding new sites all the time!) and a lot of times it is the result of the work that I put into the blog.

While getting to be on page 2 of the search engine results is a good achievement of course I am working on getting my blog to page 1!

Those "Pay For Surveys" Sites

I'm getting kind of dis-heartened with them. There's only 1 that I see some promise with but it's still too early in the game to give it a complete "thumbs up"!

Have you heard the saying "don't put all of your eggs in one basket"? It kind of alludes to the fact that one shouldn't just rely solely on their Adsense Income. But I think that if you're not sure of the validity of the other affiliate programs that are out there you shouldn't join up with them - at least not until you are sure.

People have made some astounding amounts of money using Adsense - let's say for the sake of argument a general monthly total of at least $3,000. That would be a good and decent monthly amount to be able to live on. Of course I'm sure that you'd want to make more and you would keep trying to make more but at least knowing a monthly amount would help. Unfortunately its kind of hard - if not impossible - to predict how much one will make using Adsense. There are just too many variables involved with this. You have to keep looking at your account to see what's going on ie how much traffic you are getting, how much you are earning per click and the percentage of hits vs clicks. And even then you never know when your pages' traffic will "spike" or hit an all-time low - so you can never really fully estimate how much Adsense money you will make.

However Adsense is a lot more trusty than some of the other affiliate sites out there. I'm currently looking at others and there are a few that look promising. I will add them here after I have had a chance to review them.

Can You Change The Font That Appears In Your Blog?

Here's an interesting little question: Can you change the font that appears on your blog?

In a word yes you can but the problem is that whoever is viewing your blog must have the same font. So if you put in a font like Antique then the person that is viewing your blog has to have the same font installed on their computer.

Actually this is a lot of fun but it does require you knowing a little bit about html coding.

It's fun to experiment with different kinds of fonts and colors and sizes

But remember the person that is looking at your blog has to have the same font installed on their computer.

Why Am I Only Getting PSA's On My Site?

Well there could be a number of reasons why you are only getting PSAs on your site instead of adsense ads. For one thing your site may be newly approved by adsense and their crawlers haven't had a chance to "crawl" your site's contents yet and that is why you are getting PSAs instead of ads. According to Google's official adsense help site they say that it could take 48 hours or more before your site has been adequately searched for relative content for the adsense ads.

Another reason could be simply that Adsense can't access the page/url that you gave them. If such is the case Adsense will notify you via your adsense account page.

There may also be a problem if your site has frames.

If you have modified your adsense ad code then that may be another reason why your site is only showing PSAs

Here is another interesting reason why PSAs may be showing on your site - If your site has "refresh" html coding added to it that may be another reason why you are getting PSA's

A. W. Surveys

Here is a affiliate/survey website that I found online. It seemed tempting because you get $6 upon signup but I found some very interesting things about this website and this company.

First it's a site where you get paid to take surveys. You can get paid anywhere from $4 to (they say)$25 per survey. Once your account reaches $75 you can cash out. You have 2 options to cash out. You can get a check mailed to you (it will take 4-6 weeks to get it) or you can get paid via your Paypal account. HOWEVER IF YOU CHOOSE THE PAYPAL OPTION $25 WILL BE TAKEN OUT AS PART OF AN "EPEDIATED" FEE (whatever the heck that is!). This means that if your account reaches $75 and you want to get paid via paypal, $25 will get deducted from your balance so you will only get $50. If you choose to get paid by check then there is no fee deducted and you get the whole amount).

Now this is one of the things that I didn't like about this site's program. Why would they take 1/3! But if this doesn't sway you from wanting to join the program just click the link above and register for a new account. It doesn't cost anything and its free for you to sign up.

Now I did a little researching online about this site and its program and what I get is that opinions run half and half. One of the biggest arguments is that if we are considered so important as consumers then why does this site have so few surveys for us to fill out? - meaning in other words it will take a while to accumulate the minimum cash out value of $75 if there aren't a lot of surveys to fill out.

I have read that some people have used it and got paid - so time will tell. I just joined this site yesterday and have already accumulated $27 in my account - so I still need another $48 before I can cash it out.

This site also has an affiliate program included along with the taking of surveys. You get around a dollar for every person that signs up via your referrel. Like I said I have only been with this program since yesterday so there aren't any conclusive numbers to report yet. Like most affiliate programs you can get the codes to paste to your site so that others can click on it to find out more (and hopefully join) about the program.

I don't have a conclusive review as of yet because like I said I have only been with this program since yesterday but I do have some thoughts on this program.

• I think that $25 fee that they charge for the option of cashing out via Paypal is ridiculous!
  
  

• The number of surveys that they offer are not many. The first day I joined there were 4 surveys that I answered. Today I checked and there were none - but in their defense maybe its just too soon to say.

I will let you know of my progress using this survey/affiliate program.

"How Do I Add The Adsense Codes To My Site?"

This question seems to be asked a lot. The most simplest answer is that you add the Adsense codes manually. If you have a blog on Blogger.com you have the option of them adding the Adsense codes for you. But if you want to do this yourself then you will actually have to go in the source of your site and add the adsense codes yourself.

For instance, take a good look at my own blog - The Adsense Consultant - and you will see that I have Adsense codes on the right side and after each blog post. How did I add the codes? Once I went through the process of deciding which sized ads and what color I wanted those ads to be I got the code for the ads. I copied and pasted them into the template of my blog. Of course it may take some trial and error of getting the adsense codes to look just right but seeing since you want to make the most of your adsense ads' placement then going through a little trial and error won't hurt. In fact it may even help you for when you want to tweak your Adsense ads for better earnings potential.

Now I do have Adsense ads on some webpages and the basic process is the same. After I have gone through the same process that I mentioned above I just copy and paste my adsense codes into the website at exactly where I want the Adsense ads to appear.

Now I'll let you judge for yourself - How do the Adsense Ads look on my blog?

Adsense Doesn't Approve "Free" Blogs

I don't know where this myth came from but it is not true. Blogger.com has always been suggested as a good place to start one's own blog. Blogger is free but more importantly Blogger encourages you to add adsense to your blog.

So go ahread and start a free blog on Blogger.com

Getting More Traffic To Your Site (or blog)

"How do I get more traffic to my site?" is an often asked question. First you should understand that you not only want more traffic to your site but you want the RIGHT kind of traffic to your site. If we're talking strictly getting more clicks on your site then you have to get more visitors who are interested in your site and what your site has to offer them. To put it more simply you have to define your target market. Your target market is the group of people that your site would most benefit.

Let's take my blog for example. My target market (or at least one of them anyway) are people that are new to adsense and want to know more about it. I want to educate them more about adsense and hopefully drum up some business for myself. As you can see from my counter that is at the bottom of this blog my traffic numbers are good and growing! I do no paid advertising and I work at getting more visitors to my site.

That is the same thing that you will have to do if you want to increase the number of visitors to your site who will (hopefully) click on the adsense ads.

Once people get a taste of earning that adsense money they start to do more and more to increase the number of visitors to their site. There are a lot of free things that you can do to increase the number of visitors to your site. In fact there are a lot of sites out there that have a lot of helpful tips for doing just that!

Getting more traffic to your site will require some effort on your part but just think of those added adsense rewards!

Say "Hello" To My Newest Client - The Computer Dude!

"The Computer Dude". If you take a look at his blog you will see that it is just getting started. Some of the content was added by me so that gives me another professional title of "Blog Content Provider". Also take a good look at how I blended the Adsense Ads so that the color of the adsense ads blend well with the blog's layout.

As the days go by I will continue to tweak this blog more and more. The client is new to blogging and a good reason why I suggested Blogger.com to them was because Blogger gives you the option of adding your entries by email. There is also a new counter that has been added to the bottom of the page and one of the next things that I am going to add is a stats tracker so that I can see where this blog's visitors are coming from.

Since this client is new to blogging I am also going to suggest some sites that they can go to increase the number of visitors to his blog.

As of July 2nd his current number of visitors is 10.

AS of July 2nd there are no adsense earnings to report because the adsense ads were just added within the last 24 hours.

I will keep track of this client's visitor rate as well as the progress of their adsense earnings, click-thru rates, etc.,

If you would like to hire me as your adsense consultant or want to view a list of my services and the basic package prices just visit my Adsense Consultant Page.

Checking Your Adsense Earnings

One of the first things I do when I turn on my computer is check my adsense earnings for the day! As a matter of fact I will check my adsense earnings more than once a day if I'm online for a long period of time.

If you're new to Adsense you will probably be doing the same thing too. As a matter of fact I know that a lot of the seasoned Adsense publishers check their earnings daily too.

I even remember reading a post from an Adsense publisher saying that he was checking for the "payment in progress" line at least 30 times during the span of a few days!

So don't think that you're alone if you check your adsense earnings frequently. Believe me you are NOT alone!

You Can't Predict Your Earnings Daily - It's Impossible!

I checked my Adsense earnings for yesterday (Saturday) and found that it was one of my highest earning days for June. However what's striking about this is that it wasn't one of my highest impression days. You would think that the more visitors to your site the more click-thrus and thus the more money you would make. Not so in this case.

Some of my cpm's were very high for that day. One was for over $400! I have had cpm's as high as $1,000 but not very often.

So it's really true what they say and that is for you to concentrate on the content of your website or blog as opposed to trying to get the highest paying keywords. I know its slower this way but it is for the best!

Well My Adsense Payment For May 2007 Finally Came And.....

I went on a mini shopping spree! (I didn't spend all of it however). But here I am back now.

Since this isn't the end of June I still have a few more days to go before the month tally for June is complete.

A lot of you that are new to Adsense will probably do this kind of thing too - especially if you're anxious to get to that $100 mark that assures your Adsense payment. You will keep checking back to see how well you have done and how much further you have to go.

One thing I will say that this month my daily earning average has gone up a little and I suspect that the longer my pages have been up the more earnings I will get though it doesn't always work out that way. There is no sure fire way to predict how how your earnings will be affected. Your earnings may go up or down with no way of you possibly knowing how it happened. Even though there seem to be a lot of so-called Adsense experts out there no one can predict the future. So one of the best things that you can do is to remain true to your blog or website and provide very good content.

The Agony Is Almost Over!

I was never so happy to see such a line in my life!

After all the agony that I have felt and have poured out here in this blog I finally get to see the Adsense "Payment In Progress" line!

Now the only thing that I have to do is wait for the payment to show up on my account! Knowing what I do about these kinds of transactions I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

It can be a terrible thing waiting for your Adsense payment! In the last few days I have been surfing all around the Internet trying to find out if there was any news about the payment for May 2007's earnings. While I found no official reason from Google or Adsense, I did find some interesting information from other Adsense publishers - mainly the one coming from someone who mentioned some specifics about how Adsense processes and posts payments. And in this case he was entirely right!

I remember a while back that I posted in this blog about how I thought that I had seen that May 2007's payments were going to be finalized by June 10th? Well if you take a good look at the picture above a similar line has been posted for June 2007's earnings. If I was right in my assumption that May 2007's earnings were finalized by June 10th then wouldn't the payments be processed sooner and we would have gotten paid sooner?

So Now It's The 25th Of The Month!

and still no Adsense Payment! We're just getting off of the weekend and I thought for sure that I would at least see the "payment in progress" line on my account but it is not there!

It is just agony waiting for that adsense payment!



Here is a quote from Adsense:

Why am I paid on a different date each month?

Your Payment History page may show different dates each month for payments. All earnings are reviewed and audited before being processed, to ensure that publishers are paid correctly for their participation in the AdSense program. We process all qualified payments as quickly as possible within approximately 30 days of the end of the month. However, as the audit process may take longer for certain payment cycles, we cannot guarantee a set date each month on which your payments will be processed and sent.

Here is another related comment:

Usually about 7:00 pm eastern time (4:00 Pacific, just after the banks close) on Tuesday of the last week of the month.

"Payment In Progress"

"Payment In Progress" is the line that you are supposed to see in your Adsense account's "Payment History". As I have mentioned in other posts the payment date is usually around the 25th of the month.

Of course I am anxiously awaiting my payment and for some reason it seems that it is taking longer this month! Remember when I said that the payment usually comes around the 25th? Well of course I was hoping that it would be earlier because there have been times when I have gotten my Adsense payment before the 25th of the month. It is now the 23rd and it's also a Saturday. Tomorrow the 24th will be a Sunday and just in case you are curious I have never seen a "Payment In Progress" line on a weekend! So I guess that means that I will have to wait until Monday which is actually the 25th.

It is agony waiting for that Adsense payment!

I Have A New Client!

Yipeeeeeeeeee for me 'cause I have a new client!

This client is new in every sense of the word! First a blog has been created and set up for them. Since I just created this blog today I won't post the address until a few more entries are added. Before you can use Adsense you have to have a website or blog set up first and this is what is being done.

These first few entries will have content added to it to help optimize the earning potential of the Adsense ads. Now that Adsense is tightening their rules about who can and can't join the appropriate steps have to be taken to make sure that this blog will be accepted by adsense.

So besides adding some entries to this blog I have also added a counter to help track traffic. In the next few days I am going to add a stats tracker so that the traffic can be monitored and analyzed.

If you would like to become a client of mine just visit my Adsense Consultant page for more information.

Adsense Success Stories

Want some more motivation and inspiration? Check out the link above to read about some of the Adsense Success stories! People like you and me who took a single interest and turned it into a money making success story.

Don't feel bad if you are only making pennies per day using Adsense. Hopefully it will help you to know that lots of people have made even less when they started using Adsense. I even read somewhere where someone said that you shouldn't count on making anything for the first 5 or 6 months of using Adsense.

Now if you have been using Adsense over a year and haven't made anything yet then its time to consider finding out why your Adsense ads aren't getting clicked. Ask people to look at your site and give honest critique of your site. Find out what others love or hate about your site. If need be hire a professional adsense consultant (like me) who can analyze your site to see how it can be better optimized for your adsense ads.

Today is the 20th of the month

Normally you have until the 15th of each month to let Adsense know of any changes that you want to make to your account. If you wait until after the 15th of the month then your changes won't take effect until the next month.

I did a little checking with my payment information and I noticed that it (on the average) takes 9 days from the 15th of the month before you will see that "Payment in Progress" line on your payment information.

I have also noticed that as the months go by my payment date moves up a day or so. I'm wondering if this has to do with the number of adsense publishers and whether or not as those numbers decrease that the rest of us get "bumped" up in the payment date?

So here it is the 20th and according to my calculations I still have 4 more days before I see that "Payment in Progress" line

Clicking Your Own Ads? Accidents Do Happen

Adsense made a very interesting and useful comment in their blog. The title of the post is Accidents Happen.

Adsense says that they can understand the occassion "accident" when someone clicks on their own ad. Some of the publishers even notify Adsense when they accidently click on their own ads. If you have done this Adsense wants you to know that you contacting them is very much appreciated and they can understand the occassional accidental click. These accidental clicks will not be counted towards your earnings. However anything more than the occassional click will definitely rouse Adsense's suspicions!

So you want to keep your accidental clicks down to a minimum!

Don't Try To Trick The Adsense People!

Adsense has rules as to how many adsense ads you can have per page. You can have 3 text link ad blocks, 3 links blocks and 2 refferals.

If you try to put more than this on your page you will only get the number of ad blocks allowed per page. I don't know what kind of software or coding Adsense uses but it is very astute and it will know if you place more ads than is allowed per page.

One very good example that has been brought up a lot is the fact that a lot of people would like to put their Adsense ads between the posts in their blog. Well since you are allowed only so many Adsense ad blocks no matter how many times you put the coding in you will still only get those number of ad blocks that are allowed.

I know that its very tempting once you start to get a taste of that Adsense money coming in to do things to increase your revenue but you don't want to run the risk of being banned from Adsense and being banned from using the Adsense program!

You Have Until The 15th of Each Month.....

You have until the 15th of each month (generally speaking) to let Adsense know of any changes that you want to make on your Google Adsense account. This includes changing the way you get paid and/or any address changes that have to be made. If you don't notify them of these changes before the 15th of each month (generally speaking) then it could take another 30 days before you receive your payment for the past month.

Now I say "generally speaking" because on Adsense's payment information page are some diagrams showing how and when the payments are processed. Your month's total earnings are processed the first week of the next month. Once they are tabulated then your account is checked to see if there are any "holds" on your Adsense account. If not then your account is cleared for the payment process to begin. Usually speaking the payment arrives somewhere around the 24th of the month. Now since this month the 24th falls on a Sunday that means the payment could be earlier (which is what I'm hoping)

or your payment could be later (which is what I'm not hoping)

Adsense Playing Tricks With My Mind?

Actually I think its my fault! I could have sworn that somewhere online I saw that Adsense was announcing that they would have all the totals calculated by June 10th, But now I can't remember where I saw that or if I really in fact did see it or was it just my mind playing tricks with me?

You see if Adsense finished their calculations for everybody by the 10th of this month then that means (hopefully) that we all would get paid like a week earlier than usual. (Usual Adsense payment date is around the 24th of the next month).

But since I haven't seen this information anywhere for a second time, I think I just made it up in my mind but what can you expect from someone who is anxious and ready for that Adsense money!

How Do I Increase My Website Traffic?

The best way to increase traffic to your website or blog is to let as many people know about your website or blog as possible - that is a good and very basic way to increase traffic to your site.

However to get increased CLICKS on your site you should let as many relevent people know about your site! - What does that mean? It means that you should define the target market of your site. For instance the target market of my blog is those that are new to Adsense and those that want to know more about Adsense. As you can see from my counter below I have managed to get a good number of visitors so far. And so far I have done this without spending any "marketing" money.

You have to realize that there are a lot of free marketing things you can do to increase the number of visitors to your site.

So to increase the number of visitors (and the number of clicks) to your site define your target market first and then go after them!

When Adsense Pays...

I know those that are new to Adsense want to know when they get paid. Here is the answer. Adsense gathers up all the data containing the information about all the "clicks" that your account has received. Since they do this monthly don't expect a check or bank transfer on the first of the next month! For example today is June 9th which means that the month of May's total clicks are over. I reached the minimum balance last month so I will be receiving a payment for the month of May but I won't be expecting that payment until somewhere around the 24th of this month!

Why does it take so long? Well to be quite honest I wondered that very same thing at the beginning only because I was sooooooo anxious to get that adsense payment. I'm assuming that it takes that amount of time because for one thing there are so many people (and businesses) using Adsense so that means that they have a lot of accounts to calculate and for all of the accounts that Adsense does have I'm impressed with the fact that they can make payments within 30 days (sometimes less).

So you will have to be patient in order to get that Adsense payment?

Adding The Adsense Codes(s)

To be quite honest I add the adsense codes manually by using the "Notepad" program. I have been creating and editing websites for so long that I don't need a big program to do minor editing.

In the case of my blogs it has to do with how my layout is set up. If I have the older template version of my blog then I can just go in and add the codes manually. But if I have Blogger's new template version then that gets a little bit more complicated. But to make a long story short I am still able to add the codes after I go through a few steps.

While others may feel comfortable with letting Blogger add the adsense codes, I'd rather do it myself manually.

Remain True To Your Blog!

I know that once you get a taste of that Adsense money coming in you may try to find a way to "speed it up". Thus the onslaught of blogs that don't have too much content but what they do have is minimum content and sometimes these sites look like they just have lines of text containing words that they think will bring in the bigger paying keyword phrases. So you get a lot of blogs (and websites) with a lot of gargled content on them.

I hope you resist the urge to do this. Some of the more successful Adsense publishers managed to earned a good deal of income while remaining true to the contents of their site(s) and you could do the same thing too! The most important part of this - I think - is having a theme to your blog. No matter how insignificant you think your subject matter might be there are probably a good number of Adsense advertisers that will appear on your site.

Remain true to your blog. If you add your content the right way you will increase both your traffic and your click through rates. There are a number of profession content providers out there and I am one of them. We provide content to your blog or site that will help increase your Adsense revenue by providing relevent content to your site. Say for instance you have a post that you are ready to add to your blog but you want to optimize it for better Adsense revenue - you can submit your posts to one of us professional content providers and your content will be re-worked to provide better optimization and still keep with the purpose of remaining true to your blog.

So many people have posted saying that the ads that show on their sites aren't relevent to the content of their sites and all that they have to do is re-word that content so that the ads that do show will be relevent to their site. It may seem hard at first but once you get the hang of it it will prove to be quite fun!

Adsense Cheaters..................

Of course it shouldn't be surprising that there are adsense "cheaters" around. Groups have been formed wherein members click on each other's adsense ads to generate more clicks thus creating more earnings.

Although I'm beginning to find more and more of these groups I can't condone participating in such groups. All Google's Adsense has to do is be notified of these groups, note the members (and this wouldn't be hard because the member list can be easily seen by almost everybody) and take the necessary action.

It's such a shame that there is a legitimate to make money using your blog or website and then something like this comes along and may possibly ruin it for those of us that adhere to the rules of Adsense.

Click Through Rate

I'm striving for at least a 10% click through rate with my adsense ads. Sometimes I have gotten as high as 50% but 10% is what I want to at least average and I think that 10% is a good starting goal for those that are new to adsense.

That means for every 100 visitors to my pages at least 10 of them will click one of the ads.

I have got some surprising results such as one visitor clicking on more than 1 ad and then my stats showing that my click-through rate was more than 100%!

One thing that you're going to find out when you're looking at your adsense statistics is that you're likely to get different kinds of stats. For instance the Memorial Day weekend proved a little bit disappointing as far as my Adsense clicks went but there is no truth to the rumor that you won't get any visitors during a holiday weekend! On one of my pages I have this widget that says how many people are online and the number is something like 2 BILLION! That's a lot of people on the internet! And that is a lot of potential visitors to your website or blog!

Other Affiliate Programs?

There are some sites that Google's Adsense Program will not approve. These kinds of sites include sex-related and gambling sites. However there are other affiliate programs out there that are specifically geared towards sex-related websites. I'm currently finding out about one in particular but I don't want to post about them until I do know more about them.

Niche?

It is to your advantage that your website or blog have some kind of theme going. It can be anything from about where you live to about your pets. For instance my first blog is about interesting things that I have found on the Internet. This blog that you are reading now has one theme in mind and that is Adsense.

So give your site a theme. It's a better way to make the most out of the Adsense Program.

My First Adsense Check!

I was reading on another blog about someone who was talking about how it was when they got their first Adsense check and it made me think about the first time I got my first Adsense check. So here's my story about my first Adsense check.

I was so excited when I first joined Adsense. I was a little skeptical at first but the thing that finally made me decide to join Google's Adsense was because Google was behind it. I mean you get kind of nervous and wary when a website asks for certain information but the fact that it was Google made me go ahead with the decision to join Adsense. Well after I got over that nervous hurdle I had to make sure that my (first) blog was approved by them. (I was nervous about that too!) Well after I received approval the time came to get and add the codes which I did but it wasn't an easy process - probably because I was nervous! Well I added the codes and checked to see how they looked and then I wanted to blend the ads to match the layout of my blog and I got that done! Now it was time to check and see how many clicks I was getting. In hindsight I should have known that I wouldn't get any clicks in the first few seconds of having the Adsense ads on my blog but hey I was 'rarin to go!

To make a long story short I didn't make that first $100 the first month. The first month I made something like $50 and I was so disappointed now I had to wait to see what the next month would bring! So I was on pins and needles during the 2nd month. I only had to make $50 more to get a check for that 2nd month since I still had $50 from the first month. So I anxiously kept checking my clicks and slowly but surely I edged up to make enough to get my first Adsense check during my 2nd month! Ohhhh how good it felt to get that check! And oooooh how good it felt to SPEND it!

Top 5 Adsense Boo-Boos

I found a very interesting article about the "Top 5 Adsense Boo-Boos"

Some of them seem so obvious but maybe that is just me!

If you don't know it by now Adsense treats clicking your own ads as a no-no and they will cancel your account if they deem that you are getting invalid clicks - so you want to avoid that at ANY cost!

But I suggest that you read the article because it can go a long way in your keeping a good standing with Adsense (and your Adsense account).

How Much Does It Cost To Join Adsense?

How Much Does It Cost To Join Adsense?

The answer to that is it doesn't cost anything to join the adsense program.

But before you can join the adsense program you will have to apply.

Once you apply your website or blog has to be reviewed by Adsnese and then it has to be approved. But once adsense has given their approval then you can start to go through the process of adding the adsense ads to your site.

Just What Is Adsense?

The more I see the name "Adsense" I realize that it could be interpreted as "ad sense" meaning putting "sensible" ads on one's site.

It's very simple (and sometimes not so) really. You put ads on your site be it a website or a blog. First you have to apply and join adsense but that part is free. You have to submit the url of your site and adsense has to review and approve it. Once your site is approved then you can go through the process of picking the size and color of the ads that you want to appear on your site. You can't pick the specific/exact ads that appear on your site but you can filter some of them. The ads that appear on your site will depend upon the content of your site.

For instance I'm having a problem with the adsense ads not showing up on my blog but they are still appearing on my website

Everytime a visitor to your site clicks on the ads you get paid. Of course there are some ads where you get paid when the ad appears on your site and the visitor to your site sees the ad(s) but you can't pick when that option appears.

Now you don't actually get paid until your earnings reach $100 during the month. If your earnings don't reach $100 during the month then your earnings will be rolled over into the next month until your total reaches $100. Once you reach that $100 you can either get paid via regular check or by bank transfer.

I have to say this as a caveat though because it is happening to me right now.

You have to be careful and not violate Adsense's terms of service and you have to be careful about invalid clicks. I don't know what the issue is with there being no adsense ads on my blog right now but I have contacted Adsense via email and I'm supposed to get an answer within 24 - 48 hours.

Do You Have G.A.S.S.?

It is short for Google Adsense Stats Syndrome!

The Google Adsense Blog talks about it and it kind of sounds like what I went through during my first few weeks with adsense.

I couldn't wait to check how much money I had made and I would check like once every hour! I know - crazy isn't it? Well after a few months I have calmed down a little bit - now I check like every 4 or 5 hours - LOL!

Question - How Many Adsense Ads/Units Can I Have on Each Page?

How Many Adsense Ads/Units Can I Have on Each Page

• 3 Adsense for Content units
  
  
• 3 Adsense for Search boxes
  
  
• 3 Link units
  
  
• 3 referral links

Blending Your Adsense Ads

I want you to take a good look at the Adsense Ads that appear on the right side of my blog. They blend in perfectly with the rest of my blog's layout don't they?

One of the services that I provide is providing you with the right hexi codes that match the color of your blog or website. I provide the color codes for:

• your site's background

• the border color

• your text color
  

• your title color

• the color of your url/link(s)

I charge $49 for this service and you can make your payment via the PayPal button on this blog or on my Adsense Consultant page

If you're wondering how well I can match the color of your site all you have to do is look at the Adsense ads on my sites and judge for yourself! However I do want to point out that I only provide this service for solid colored backgrounds! Although I'm working on a way to be able to blend an Adsense ad into any type of colored background I'd first have to check with Adsense to see if they allow this kind of thing.

Security Breach!

Adsense has to be very, very careful about their eagerness to help those people that are still trying to learn Adsense. There is an Adsense Blog, Adsense Question and Answer forums and even help information on Adsense's main page. Don't get me wrong though because Adsense provides a lot of resources to help people to better learn Adsense. But as I was surfing around and checking some related information I found a site of Adsense's that inadvertently let slip some information about one of the ways that they use to determine invalid Adsense clicks! Whoa! Do you know how valuable knowing this kind of information would be!

I don't think that Adsense is aware of it or they might not have given it another thought! But can you remember a time when you were just trying to be helpful and you let something "slip"?

Invalid clicks has been the most often cited reason why an Adsense account has been banned. Even though I have read the message forums where people have posted about their Adsense accounts being banned because of invalid clicks and them saying that they did nothing of the sort, I now know one of the ways that Adsense determines invalid clicks and I have to tell you that this method is a very good indicator that invalid clicks are being made.

Updated Payment Announcement!

I was at the Adsense page today and there is a note there that says that if you haven't received your April 2007 payment by May 25th (3 days from now) then you should contact Adsense to find out why.

Just How Much Money Can You Make With Adsense?

Of course the amount of money that you can make using Adsense will vary but just in case you're curious as to what other people are making with Adsense here is a link to a post:

Adsense Salaries

As you will see there are people that have made over a million dollars just with their Adsense revenues alone!

Adsense Consultant

I figure that since I'm going to become an Adsense Consultant that I might as well start a blog about it. I mean that's how a lot of people are making money with Adsense isn't it? Of course there are many Adsense-related blogs out there but since I'm a consultant then there is no better way to show it than to have an Adsense blog of my own!

So why did I decide to become an Adsense Consultant (and add yet another blog to my work load) - because I have seen sooooooo many questions posted by people that either have or want Adsense but are just having so much problems with it.

When I first started using Adsense I was nervous and scared and signing up for it and waiting to get approved was nerve wracking!

But of course the thought of actually being able to make money with my blog or website kept me going! After my site got the OK from Google's Adsense I went through the process of adding the codes to my site and anxiously waited for the ads to appear! Once the ads were on my site I was ready and 'rarin to go to make money! I kept watching my statistics almost every hour by the hour (sometimes more frequently) and then the pennies started to trickle in............I kept watching and then a few more pennies started to trickle in...I was excited and nervous and waiting for the second that my statistics would show that I made a million dollars! But it didn't happen that way (at least not yet).

I have come to learn that you really have to work at it. Some people are lucky in that as soon as they put the Adsense ads on their site they start making a lot of money but for me it is a constant learning experience - one that I am going to share with you!