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7 Important Tips to Prevent You From Getting Banned from Adsense 2007-10-25 02:57:33 I know that reading long program policies may be boring. Don’t worry, BloggerDollar is here to let you skip the boring part and dive in to earning cash.
However there are some facts you need the know about your most reliable source Adsense
. If you don’t want to get banned from Adsense and spend rest of your life looking for a subsitute, keep some important facts about Adsense in your mind:
1. Invalid Clicks
Google has a strong policy to prevent invalid clicks to keep their advertisers pleased. Don’t forget that Google guys are propably smarter then you so don’t even bother creating artificial traffic/clicks.
2. Own Clicks
Don’t ever click your own ads. Even if the ad actually interests you or you just wanna check out if the ads work. Google has the magical powers to sense you clicking your own ads so be careful. If you click your own ads by mistake inform Adsense about the situation. 1 or 2 clicks won’t get you rich so it isn’t worth the risk. Read more:Banned
How to Sleep Less Time, Work More Time 2007-10-24 06:26:53 Are you concerned about sleeping too much or not having a regular sleeping schedule? If you aren’t earning enough money from your blog to quit your day job and you want to keep on blogging then you desperately need time. Since there is no boss in the world to let you decrease working hours, people usually decrease sleeping hours. Is it possible to sleep 5-6 hours a day without turning in to a walking zombie??
If you have sleep related problems; you sleep to much, you can’t get a regular sleeping schedule and you don’t have the hope that you can live with less sleep; believe me YOU CAN. I am a live subject of transition from disordered sleep to a regular sleeping schedule with 5-6 hours of sleep a day. While I was student (good old days), I usually slept 10 hours a day and some days with no sleep some days with all day sleep, I was like a statue of sleep disorder. My awake hours of day always shifted. For a week I was awake during day time another week I was awake duri Read more:Sleep
Designing your blog 2007-10-23 02:49:02 Default wordpress theme is eye candy and you may be loving it but you need to personalize your blog’s look. Even if the last design you made with your computer was painting a house and a tree with paintbrush at the age of six, don’t panic! Wordpress has a huge source of free themes in the internet. If you make a few Google searches you can find many free themes for your blog. (I will make a list of good free themes later) First let’s get an opinion about basic structure of wordpress themes.
The classic wordpress theme consists of a header; 2 columns (main index page and sidebar) and a footer. Before searching for themes make clear what you want. Do you like a blog with 3 columns or 2 columns, do you want the sidebar on the right or left. If you don’t want to get lost inside themes design your blog layout on paper and choose from themes which fits your blog best.
Personalize your theme: If you found the theme matching for your layout design but the images are ab Read more:Designing
Let the Cash Flow 2007-10-18 07:17:34 Not so fast.. Here is the deal; you start advertising other websites or help them promote their products from your blog. The most reliable and the perfect start for advertising is Google Adsense (as you probably already know). After opening your account in Google Adsense, you create your personal Ad Code by entering Adsense setup menu and following the instructions.
Adsense offers several types of ads to match your blog. You can check them here. I used Banner and vertical banner in my blog (As we change our blog design we can try different options). While choosing the banner color you can try to find suitable combinations to match your blogs theme. Most bloggers claim that their incomes remarkably raised when they optimized the ad colors to their blogs.
When you generate the adcode, you have to implement the code to your blog. You can try out several plug-ins to implement the code automatically (I will review a few of them in the following days). For start you can try to implement code
Ladies an Gentlemen, Start Your Engines.. 2007-10-18 03:35:07 Okay here is the deal, the first thing we got to do is start up our blog. (A crucial suggestion)
The mostly known, open sourced, free and easy to start blog is Wordpress. You can download the necessary files from the Wordpress and actually start blogging following their “Famous 5-minute install”.
For installing our blog we need a host which supports a Mysql and PhP. You can choose from a variety of free hosts but bear in mind that they can include their own ads in your blog and they can cause problems as your traffic goes up. Also owning your own domain name at first is a good idea because you wouldn’t like to change your address while your traffic is going up. After some research I decided to use bluehost which can be considered cheap and reliable. They also register your domain name with hosting for free. The total cost is approximately 95$/year. So you can choose to spend some money for hosting and domain name from the start and prevent the problems later on or you Read more:Start
Zero Point 2007-10-18 03:11:20 BloggerDollar is an online experiment of making money from blogs. This blog is in the search of an answer to the holy question “Is it possible to earn a million dollar from my personal blog?”
This blog is starting the journey from the same point with you; “Zero Point”. I haven’t earned a dime from internet before, don’t have any knowledge of promoting blogs, earning money, SEO stuff or a huge capital to cover for all this experience. You will explore the evolution of the blog from scratch. I will explore the ways of promoting blog, implementing new methods of earning cash, improving design, expand context and share the community outcome of each action taken.
This blog is totally transparent. When this blog starts raising cash then you know the steps to take for earning money.
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Beginners Guide to Driving Traffic to Your Blog 2007-10-30 16:08:48 It’s been 15 days of blogging; building content, improving design and mostly trying to get some traffic. Even if you find and write down the solution for “World Peace” you won’t get any visitors without some effort. There is lot of “what to do” lists to drive traffic and I applied most of them (trying to stay away from spamming) and will review the short term results.
Social Bookmarking Services
-StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a toolbar which you can use to stumble through web pages people liked and it will drive traffic to your page if you have a good content. StumbleUpon is the source of the most traffic to my blog. It is superior than other social bookmarking services because it can’t be spoiled. Most of the social bookmarking services depend on you to promote your link and ask people for votes. StumbleUpon prevents such actions because it bans your account if you submit your own pages too much. If you have a good content people will favor it by Read more:Guide
, Driving
, Beginners Guide
How to Save Your Blog From a Cheesy Look - Using Colour Palettes 2007-10-29 07:02:41 In one of my latest posts I tried to explain how to change a free wordpress theme in to your personalized wordpress design. Actually it is nothing more than changing the background colors of the images used in your theme but there is more than that. You try to play around with colors for your theme and your blog still looks cheesy. (You can check my blog’s previous designs from evolution page). That’s because you don’t have an artist’s eye (It is something however, there are many bloggers who can’t even understand their blog looks cheesy). You have to look for more if you want to give your blog a professional design. You have to know how the colors interact with each other and how they will look as parts of a whole piece. Don’t Panic! There is an easy way to do that also.
If you don’t have an artist’s eye, you have to seek for an artist willing to share his/her perspective with you. Thanks to internet we can easily find many artists willi Read more:Cheesy
, Colour
7 Reasons to Hate Your Day Job 2007-11-05 06:12:11
Getting Up Every Morning
There are some days when you wake up and don’t ever want to leave the bed, sit all day watch cartoons. Especially when there is a storm outside and you are feeling like you are chained to your warm bed. Too bad you aren’t at school anymore and you gotta hit the storm. Every frakking day. (Our thanks to Battlestar Galactica for this lovely word:) There is a new social organization in Denmark which describes themselves as “Morning Haters” and called B-Society which push companies to allow B-society to start work after10-11 a.m. I hope they help all the worlds B-society.
Time
The time passes by quickly. You turn the speed up by going to the same job everyday and living the same day over and over. You start to lose your sense of time and when you look back you see years left behind. A quote from Rumble Fish (to make you more depressed):
“Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you’re young, you&rs Read more:Reasons
A New Text Link Ads Approach - Google Approved 2007-11-01 08:30:20 You know all the buzz going about Google
Pagerank penalty for text link ad users. There is still too much discussion going about why and how but marketing people stopped discussing and provided a solution which is approved by Google Judges.
ScratchBack is a new widget developed by text-link-ads to provide a solution for the Pagerank related problems. The problem with text link ads was Google started to see that as a fraud which provides people high pagerank links for money. ScratchBack solves this problem by creating this javascript widget which provides nofollow links. Which means that Google spiders won’t follow those links and it’s not a danger to pagerank system. ScratchBack says that they got approval from Google for this new system.
Google created such a fear for text links that ScratchBack use the term “tip” instead of “ads”. The system works as follows:
You place the widget on your blog and people can place their links for ad purposes or ju
Blog World Expo on It’s Way 2007-11-09 01:24:46 There is a blogging expo going on for two days in Las Vegas. If you are a blogger living in Las Vegas or nearby I hope you stopped by to pay a visit. I haven’t earned enough money to buy myself a Las Vegas ticket so I am watching the news online. There are lot of big guys showing up in the event and if you have been there you had the chance to see the most money making bloggers together. (John Chow and Shoemoney)
If you didn’t have the chance to visit at least take a look at :
BlogWorld
Expo
JohnChow
geeknewscentral
b5media-blogworldexpo
Technorati
Some info on blogging from BlogWorldExpo :
Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
Over 57 million Americans read blogs.
1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
6% of the entire U
Google PageRank Increase 2008-03-05 06:00:36 After 5 months of BloggerDollar’s birth Google
Gods have awarded BloggerDollar with a PageRank
of two. This blog has been built from scratch and I don’t have any previous blogging or online money making experience and seeing that this blog has been given a PageRank in such a short time is great inspiration. The Pagerank doesn’t [...] Read more:Google PageRank
Monthly Earnings Report - February 2008-03-04 01:11:00 February has been a good month (I still don’t earn any reasonable money but I am getting a good curve so there’s no reason to be pessimistic). At last I’ve passed the 15$ mark with Adsense earnings and I’ve passed 50$ on Grand Total. Google team have sent me my PIN code after 40$ so I’m [...] Read more:Monthly
, Earnings
, February
The HubLove Contest 2008-02-14 06:16:09
My favorite writing platform Hubpages is running a contest starting from Feb 14 and will last until Mar 15. The prizes for the contest is worth nearly 5000$ and winner gets all.
MacBook Pro: 15-inch, 2.2 GHz (MSRP $1999)
iPod Touch: 8GB (MSRP $299)
Digital Camcorder:Sony Handycam HDR-SR5 (40GB) (MSRP $920)
Digital SLR camera: Canon EOS 30D with 18mm-to-55mm [...] Read more:Contest
Best Keyword Tools 2008-02-02 09:56:16 For maximizing your earnings you shouldn’t just go on and write whats on your head. You should go for the keywords inside people’s minds. The keywords you choose determines the traffic. You don’t need to sign-up for high cost SEO services for finding your path. The best tools you need are already at your service [...] Read more:Keyword
, Tools
Monthly Earnings Report - January 2008-02-01 02:26:54 This month I’ve focused my attention to Hubpages. (You can check my review of Hubpages) Regarding that I don’t have so much time from my day work I choose Hubpages because it offers good organic traffic without any effort at all. It also gives me the freedom to write on any topic. This month I [...] Read more:Monthly
, Earnings
, January
Monthly Earnings Report - December 2008-01-02 01:19:21 December has been an awful month in terms of earning money. At the first half of December I couldn’t actually deal with my blog or write on Hubpages because of my day job. Anyways I couldn’t create much content but I surely learn a lot of stuff in terms keyword targeting and SEO. I focused much [...] Read more:Monthly
, Earnings
, December
How to Create More Time for Blogging 2007-12-14 07:35:20 I’ve been working at my day job which requires many travelling and I haven’t been able to find time for blogging lately. I was thinking of buying a laptop for using those times I spend on roads. I am spending at least 3 hours a day from my house to job and job to house [...] Read more:Blogging
Agloco Ship Sunk at Last 2007-12-11 02:59:31 I don’t like to say “I knew it was coming” but I knew. I’ve written a post weeks before Agloco - Dead Already??? I was questioning how people could fall into the idea of getting rich by doing nothing. The real question to be asked was how did the big guys like John Chow got into [...]
Monthly Earnings Report - November 2007-12-03 08:20:03 This is the first month my blog is published and I have started monetizing my blog. In the first month of the blog I wasn’t expecting any income actually because of the low content and no regular visitors at all. I have started this blog with 100$ spending (for my hosting and domain name) and [...] Read more:Monthly
, Earnings
, November
Hubpages - A Writing Platform You Can Make Money 2007-11-27 03:47:49 Hubpages is a multi user writer platform where you can create hubs (similar to blog posts) and publish. The first question you will ask is “Why should I publish my articles in Hubpages instead of my own blog?”
There are numerous answers to that. You can (and should) use Hubpages if you are an amateur writer or [...] Read more:Platform
, Money
How to Get High Traffic With StumbleUpon 2008-03-27 14:30:30 I am using StumbleUpon
for a while now and I found it a reliable source for traffic especially a boost up traffic at the first times of the page. Although StumbleUpon provides a long term traffic I never managed to get a high volume of traffic, the peak traffic I received for a page was [...]
Monthly Earnings Report - March 2008-04-02 03:55:21 This month I’m writing my monthly report with a smile on my face (at last). Thanks to major design & ad placement changes at Hubpages the CTR’s for adsense has gone up dramatically and I’ve managed to earn some reasonable amount from Adsense. I’ve just missed the 100$ in total with a buck and I have [...] Read more:Monthly
, Earnings
, March
PageRank Traffic Relationship 2008-04-24 06:22:30 As you may have noticed from the PageRank
indicator on my sidebar, I have received Google PageRank 2 a month ago. I was really excited over the PageRank considering all those months without a PageRank and reading from other bloggers about the importance of the Google PageRank.
When I received my PageRank I really expected for [...] Read more:Relationship
Monthly Earnings Report - April 2008-05-02 12:38:26 Once more beginning of a new month and time for monthly earnings report. After a boost up at earnings in March, I was a little a fraid to see the earnings go down and lose my excitement. Actually my earnings are nearly the same when compared to March. Last month I had very good eCPM [...] Read more:Monthly
, Earnings
, April
Amazon MP3 Clips Widget 2008-05-15 11:21:03 Amazon Affiliate Program announced a new service which can be considered as a revolution in their services. Now Amazon is offering MP3 sales and let their affiliate partners to sell MP3 products through widgets. The new service will be a good income for music blogs for sure. Amazon offers you a variety of options with [...] Read more:Amazon
, Clips
Google AdSense Introducing Third-Party Ads 2008-05-23 03:22:11 Google AdSense Team sent an e-mail yesterday informing the publishers that AdSense have enabled third-party ads from now on which means that we won’t only publish Google AdSense Ads but also ads from other Google approved ad networks. The third-party ads will be in English and only in image format for now. The official announcment [...] Read more:Google
, Introducing
, Party
Adsense Pay Day 2008-05-30 02:06:28 After looking for numbers and charts at Google Adsense
page for a long long time, those numbers came into real cash at last. I have hit the 100$ barrier at the end of April and the hard earned dollars are at my bank by this day. Talking and writing about money doesn’t give much inspiration [...]
Monthly Earnings Report - May 2008-06-03 02:25:49 This month has been a inspirational month cause I’ve received my first AdSense payment. You get the feeling of earning money online when you start spending it. I’ve received my first AdSense payment after six months so now I have to set up my goals to receive AdSense payment each month.
My main source of income is [...] Read more:Monthly
, Earnings
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