Adsense Ace

Adsense is one way that Google makes money. Adsense allows website owners to share in Google’s advertising revenue by showing ads on their own sites. Google gives the content of the ads. Often, website owners wonder which ads will appear. The specific ads which are displayed are dependent on the keywords and the content on the website owner’s site.

For many website owners, the Google Adsense program is a big part of their advertising arsenal. Adsense’s popularity can traced to at least three factors. Ads in the Adsense program normally do not disrupt the flow of reading as do similar ads which people are used to interacting with online. Not to mention relevance; due to Google’s system for matching ads to the the specific content on websites, the ads can be expected to closely match the theme of the page on which the ad is found.

Website owners generate advertising revenue when a visitor to their site clicks on an ad on their webpage. The amount earned depends on the ad. The revenue might be just a few cents or a dollar per click, or even more. Adsense ads originate from the Adwords network of advertisers.

You might assume that owners of websites would be tempted to click on advertisements on their own sites, knowing that each click earns them revenue. Its is not surprising to learn that Google takes click fraud very seriously and knows how to determine when it happens. When they catch someone committing click fraud, usually the guilty person is banned from ever using Adsense again.

Websites encourage clickthroughs by three strategies:

Using many types of traffic-generating methods to increase website visitors.

Improving the content on their website, so more valuable ads get shown and clicked on.

Effective sales copy which moves visitors to click on ads. Common phrases include “Sponsored Links” and “Advertisements”. As you might expect, Google’s Adsense terms do not allow such statements as “Click on these links”.

Making money from home might sound like a far off dream if you don’t have much experience with the internet. No one wants to spend their days cold calling people at home and trying to sell some worthless multilevel marketing scheme. Today there are so many great opportunities to work online you can choose the one that will best fit your life. The easiest and most fun way to make money is to open your own online store.

First you must know what an affiliate website is. An affiliate store is a store that allows you to sell someone else’s products. You must first create an affiliate account with the different affiliate networks like clickbank or linkshare. Once you belong to the network you must apply for an affiliate partnership with each retailer that you wish to be an affiliate for. Many retailers will want to see a functional website before approving your affiliate status. An easier way to go is to create a niche affiliate store using one large affiliate program like ebay or amazon. Both of these websites offer a turnkey affiliate store program.

If you are new to the web then a turnkey affiliate store is the best way to go. A turnkey affiliate site is that is easily set up using a template. You then tell the retailer about your niche market and they automatically feed your store with related products. Some Turnkey affiliate store programs will offer SEO optimization for a fee which will create content in your store that will improve your ranking in Google.

Creating an affiliate store is the easy part. Poor marketing is the main reason affiliate stores Fail. Your marketing plan will be your key to success. You can start by setting up a blog about your market. You can introduce your store to people in forums related to your niche market. The best thing you can do to really boost your web presence is to start an email marketing campaign. There are several companies who can provide you with targeted email lists and some will even sent the email advertisement for you.

It is not free to set up an affiliate store. Depending on the program you decide to go with it can cost up to $200 to get started. It is not huge amounts of money with little to know work either. The amount of money you make will directly reflect the energy you put into marketing. You can make money from home. With time, effort and a little bit of startup capitol you could be running your own turnkey affiliate website in no time at all.

Flixya 2.0 is a popular social networking, online video sharing community which just re-launched. Version 2.0 is bigger and better. Their motto is simply “Share Everything”. They certainly live up to that as the latest version not only includes video sharing, but also incorporates blogs, and photo sharing into the model. Instead of the previous 50% revenue sharing, Flixya now gives 100% of the ad revenue generated to its users. (Note: You do need to sign up for your own adsense account for the revenue sharing).

Flixya billing itself as the only social-networking website that pays you back 100% of the advertising revenue generated on their site from the ads placed around the content that you add. You can creat your own blogs, upload your photos, and create blogs about your life.

How Much Does It Cost To Use Flixya?

To the contrary- Flixya pays YOU.

What Is This Revenue Share Thing?

With Flixya, the users receive 100% of the ad revenue generated from the ad impressions that are shown on the pages with their content (photos, videos, blogs etc.). Google’s Adsense(tm) powers the ad program at Flixya and does require you to sign up- to be able to collect the ad revenue, during registration. You can also do this on the ad settings page which is visible when you are logged into the site.

How Do I Collect This Ad Revenue?

You get paid whenever someone on your site clicks on one of Google’s AdSense ads.

How Do I Share Videos?

Flixya encourages you to share or upload your videos from other popular online video sharing sites. These include Daily Motion, Google Video, YouTube, Revver, as well as Livevideo, Bolt, and MetaCafe. I’m sure there will be more very soon. Flixya has just released a highly addictive addon for FireFox called “Flixya Video Publisher 2.0″. You can also vote on videos you like or don’t like by voting up or down. Popular photos and videos will appear on the homepage.

Share Your Photos For Free?

Flixya- as one of the best online photo sharing sites, will let you share your photos with your family, and friends, and also offers unlimited ebay auction image hosting.

Personal Profile

Flixya allows you to create your own personal profile where you can link to and share your personal interests, friends, videos, photos and blog posts.

And I can Blog?

Yes, you can create your own blog. A blog is short for “weblog”. A Blog is a type of online diary or chronological listing of what you are thinking. These are usually maintained daily by you and reflect your own personality. You are encouraged to create your own blog(s) and you can promote yourself and/or add other content. You get to collect 100% of the money that is derived from the content surrounding your blogs, as well.

Social Bookmarking

Flixya has things pretty well covered. Alot more than I have room to write about here.

There is much more to do at Flixya than I can cover here.

If you want to pay less for your adwords campaigns you should keep a close eye on your conversion rates. By tracking your conversion you will gatter important information about your adwords campaign performance thus allowing you to tweak it when needed.

A conversion rate is defined as the percentage of people who actually purchase your product or service compared to the number of people who came to your website by clicking on your Adwords ad. This number is the conversation percentage and the higher the percentage, the more effective your ad campaign. If you have extremely low numbers, you need to do something to increase those numbers such as refine your ads or choose better keywords or websites for displaying the ads.

Google provides inside the Adwords application a tool for tracking conversions for each campaign and each ad you run. This allows you to learn what your rates are and see which ads are doing their job well. If one ad or a whole campaign isn’t doing well, then you can look for patterns that can clue you in about how to change and make the campaign more effective.

Adwords conversions are driven by many factors. It is not sufficient of your ad to get the user to click through to your website, although that is the first step. The ultimate goal is to make a sale or create a valid lead that will bring in a future sale. Whether you goal is to get the visitor to sign up for a newsletter or to purchase a product or service, if that visitor fails to do what you wish, then you have not converted that visitor. How many convert once they see your website is controlled by you. How attractive is your website? Is it truly compelling, making the visitor believe they simply can’t live without the product or service your offer? Is the website easy to navigate or is it not very user friendly? Are your sales claims believable or do they seem to be unrealistic? Do you have data to support your claims? These are all factors that are within your power to control.

Don’t offer free stuff in your ads if people visiting your site have to pay to get it. Your offer must reflect exactly what people will get when clicking the ad. An ugly site with poor navigation and difficult to use will not help you getting high conversion rates no matter how effective the ads are you created for your campaign.

When choosing adsense for your website one of the things you will need to know is the right ad format. Not al formats convert the same or even work on your site. The adsense ads are best dominated by testing and learning from trial and error. Ad formats depend on the placement on your website

If you want a large ad unit on top of your site or in the page footer than you will most likely go for the leaderboard. The leaderboard is a very popular ad design and adsense places 4 ad units in the leaderboard. The size of a leaderboard is 728 x 90 pixels. The leaderboard design converts well on most sites that use this format in the header

The next banner ad layout is the 468 x 60 pixels ad. This is a typical banner design that can be placed almost everywhere. This ad displays 2 ads one alongside the other. The half banner obviously is half the size of the full banner and it’s format is 234 x 60 pixels holding only 1 ad. These are the horizontal banners but adsense also has some vertical designs the first one being the 120 x 240 pixels

If you want to show a single ad in a very atractive way than take a look at the square 125 x 125 layout. You can mix the ad colors with an eye-catching background to make it stand out and you will surely draw a lot of attention to this ad

A great converting unit for side display of adsense ads is the skyscraper. The skyscraper unit comes i 2 diferent formats. The regular 120 x 600 pixels to show 3 or 4 ads and the wide skyscraper with a size of 160 x 600 holding 5 ads

The Small Rectange is 180 X 150 and holds one AdSense ad very well. The Medium Rectangle format allows three or four ads to be placed inside a 300 X 250 rectangle. The Large Rectangle, perfect for placing four ads inside, is 336 X 280. The Square measures 250 X 250 and holds up to three AdSense ads well.

If you use image-based Adsense ads, you can choose the Leader Board which you will find placed across the top of many websites. It measures 728 X 90. The Banner is a smaller ad that measure 468 X 60. The Sky Scraper and Wide Sky Scraper are also choices for use on the sides of a webpage. Or you can choose the Medium Rectangle format. All of these image ads hold a single image.

There are also various layouts for displaying Link Unit Adsense ads so that they will fit well into your website also. They can be stacked, lined up across the top or bottom and allow just as much variety as the text and image ads.